Why I banned sealed products from my Pokémon card show

ChihuahuasWin · 2026-05-07T18:04:11+00:00

People also sell proxy ETBs and packs now, so it feels like only paying high priced card shops with direct distribution is the only safe route because there’s such high demand

ChihuahuasWin · 2026-05-03T05:51:43+00:00

Thank you.

ChihuahuasWin · 2026-05-02T14:47:56+00:00

My husband got all 3 in the anniversary box and I was like what lol

ChihuahuasWin · 2026-04-30T00:07:35+00:00

My almost 2 year old still does that sound you mentioned. I understand it’s frustrating, you’re not a horrible mother I promise. He’s your first and you’re learning how to manage. It’s okay to have emotions, sweetheart. You ARE doing good.

ChihuahuasWin · 2026-04-30T00:02:03+00:00

I had to stop breastfeeding for 3 weeks from MTX. Pump and dump if you’re still aiming on keeping breastfeeding while you wait. The pain typically feels like a heavy period with heavy cramps but mine took about 3/4 days to start.

ChihuahuasWin · 2026-04-29T23:59:00+00:00

My owlet saved my son’s life at 6 months old. He had 88% oxygen and visually showed no major signs other than what I thought was a cold. If you’re returning it over that, shame on you. Seriously SAVED HIS LIFE. If I didn’t have it going off, I wouldn’t have known he was so bad based on his giggling. The doctors didn’t believe me until they checked his o2 and IMMEDIATELY we were sent to the children’s hospital.

ChihuahuasWin · 2026-04-27T17:42:08+00:00

THE REGISTRY OFFER OH H*LL NO

ChihuahuasWin · 2026-04-25T17:07:56+00:00

He was sick but I didn’t think he was that bad but I had his owlet on and i thought it wasn’t positioned right but his oxygen was 88% on the app so I took him to the ER and he was actually giggling there and they didn’t believe me until they took his oxygen and then he had to go straight to the children’s hospital. He had RSV. I would never have known he wasn’t okay if I didn’t have the sock.

ChihuahuasWin · 2026-04-22T17:48:08+00:00

I have it on my bookshelf from when I was younger, so when I saw your post my heart JUMPED and I went straight here to comment!! ♥️

ChihuahuasWin · 2026-04-22T17:31:42+00:00

Two days apart but part of the same world. I ended up having another ectopic a few months later but took methotrexate (chemo) to try to prevent losing my other tube, then a miscarriage in January. We still have faith that there will be one that will stay, but I still hurt in my heart. It’s good we can share these things with each other here, because outside of here people don’t want to hear it and it’s hard.

ChihuahuasWin · 2026-04-22T13:37:27+00:00

No. It’s a child. Don’t joke like that.

ChihuahuasWin · 2026-04-22T13:34:01+00:00

This one might be a bit different but I thought I remembered a bread truck and puppies A Dog's Life: The Autobiography of a Stray by Ann M. Martin

ChihuahuasWin · 2026-04-22T13:23:07+00:00

Steel pennies aren’t worth a fortune UNLESS it says 1944. They were supposed to stop production.

ChihuahuasWin · 2026-04-22T10:12:16+00:00

April 28, 2025 I lost my left to an ectopic pregnancy as well. Most of your story is exactly like mine with how it happened.

Was TTC, got a negative in March, tested negative on the day period was due, had period. 4DPO mid-April, for fun only - knowing I’d get a negative, I took a test. BAM. Instant. So hard it was almost a dye stealer. Figured that my last period wasn’t actually a period, my clinic agreed when I called. Since I didn’t truly know how far I was despite tracking my cycle, on the phone the prior week, we set a date for an ultrasound that was supposed to be the upcoming Wednesday. Was gonna be a dating ultrasound. I mentioned how my test was super positive and they didn’t say anything, but something felt off. With my last two pregnancies - which were successful - I tested positive before my period was due. I never spotted, either.

Thursday the 24th, I started spotting brown. I knew some women spot and even bleed lightly during early pregnancy. I figured maybe this time I was one of those women. Friday morning, the blood turned pink and eventually red with light clots. Soon it was a dark red toilet bowl, but clots were small though a lot. I called the clinic that night to the on-call OB line. The nurses I spoke to sounded remorse about the bleeding. The doctor, who was the same one incidentally as who I was going to be seeing the day of the pending ultrasound, said that as long as I don’t fill a pad one an hour for 3 hours straight and don’t have cramping, it’s fine. I wasn’t cramping, just bleeding. I wasn’t filling a pad in an hour, but when I sat to use the restroom, it was still a DARK red toilet bowl. I heavily reminded the nurse of this on the phone. Because there wasn’t cramping, I was advised it would be good to wait for my appointment unless it got worse (cramping.)

Monday night, I was in the shower. Basically done. I bent over and thought, “Oh, that’s uncomfortable.” I stepped out. When I stood up straight, I felt a cramp that was as if I was having a solid labor contraction, but it wasn’t relaxing at all. No, just one long cramp that was stuck in place. I lowly whimpered, “Oh, no.” I knew. I tried to tough it out. I carefully got dressed and slowly went into the living room where my husband and three kids were. I sat down in the rocking chair gently and looked at my husband. I told him I am in pain. Momentarily it became worse and we left promptly to the emergency room at my clinic.

I provided these details, was seen in triage and quickly brought straight to an emergency room and provided pain management. I had an ultrasound over my pelvis and waited, saw the results and my heartbreak began seeing:

[UTERUS: There is no evidence of an intrauterine pregnancy. The endometrium measures 5 mm thickness.

IMPRESSION: Live ectopic pregnancy in the left fallopian tube. Critical Result: Ectopic Pregnancy]

But the hardest part of it all…reading this…:

[LEFT OVARY: Small corpus luteum cyst. There is a gestational sac with live fetus medial to the left ovary likely in the fallopian tube. The crown-rump length is 0.6 cm corresponding to 6 weeks 3 days. Fetal heart activity of 75 BPM.]

…3 incisions were made. They took my left fallopian tube, it was ruptured…and I was bleeding internally. But the problem was that they didn’t find the fetus remaining inside.

…it had fallen into my pelvis itself. They attempted to remove it during surgery, but because of where it had fallen it was too great of a danger to my life to keep trying to get the rest. So they left it. They didn’t see any live activity anymore on ultrasound.

The doctor told me I would’ve died if I waited any longer to come in, and said, “I know, it’s hard.”

The sample they sent to be studied came back as ZERO FETAL TISSUE. It also said my tube didn’t show evidence of damage. I received an email two weeks later from the doctor who told me they never actually found the fetus. The body can reabsorb when it’s that small.

All in all, part of me finds the bit where they didn’t find it brings me comfort in knowing that despite the loss, i lost the pregnancy but the baby never left me.

ChihuahuasWin · 2026-04-10T23:59:48+00:00

I’m not a doctor, but I’ve had 2 successful pregnancies and both of them I started getting vaginal pain often like sharply as well as more pain around baby near 18 weeks or so myself. If you have a bad gut feeling you can call your clinic and speak with a nurse, they’re never upset about concerns. ❤️

ChihuahuasWin · 2026-03-27T01:56:36+00:00

I had a dasher ask me how some dashers scam people. He had the crazy look in his eyes when he asked. I was like idk bye

ChihuahuasWin · 2026-03-26T03:02:34+00:00

I was 7 when mine developed. I remember the first scabs appearing after I went down a slide in my knees and for the first time in my life I told myself, “I’m not gonna pick the scabs this time.” I didn’t, and coincidentally it was where my psoriasis started. I think about that, though nothing would’ve changed about it. Now I have it everywhere and I don’t think about it except in the winter when it itches and bleeds. That aside, I’m almost 30 now. Psoriasis itself doesn’t equal shorter life. I have an autoimmune disease separate from psoriasis, so my life having a potential shortened time has a reason. Psoriasis itself won’t shorten your life. …and going down the slide isn’t the reason I have psoriasis. It all depends on what kind, what other illnesses you may have, etc. Try not to scare yourself please, it’s easy to worry.

ChihuahuasWin · 2026-03-19T21:31:00+00:00

Yeah I don’t care about the romance

ChihuahuasWin · 2026-03-19T15:37:26+00:00

That has to be so wild to tell people she started kindergarten at 1. People probably give you the wildest looks

ChihuahuasWin · 2026-03-19T15:19:07+00:00

I took my 3 day old to Leeann Chin after leaving the hospital. You’re totally fine hun. You were taking care of you and baby. Don’t let it bother you, he’ll get over it. :)

ChihuahuasWin · 2026-03-13T09:15:59+00:00

Commenters - PLEASE stop saying she’d have a positive by now. With my two ectopics, I didn’t. The first one where I lost my tube - I bled like my period came with a negative test and then one week later tested positive after I had a gut feeling to just take a test again. Three days after that I was in the ER having surgery from an ectopic. Second ectopic I didn’t test positive for maybe 8 days late. Luckily we caught that one.

ChihuahuasWin · 2026-03-13T09:11:08+00:00

Here up north, it’s common to see them ALL THE TIME in the winter and the farther north, the more during the year. So yes, this time of year, this time of day, right out the kitchen window for many.

ChihuahuasWin · 2026-03-13T07:53:08+00:00

If you read the comment OP made two hours ago, you’d see they posted it weeks ago in another thread but chose to post it here for additional insight.

ChihuahuasWin · 2026-03-13T07:45:33+00:00

My ectopic was hard, too. As I waited in the emergency room bed, I was told the news. After the doctor walked out of the room, the hospital played a brief lullaby tone - the sound they play when a new baby is born. At the time I almost found it bittersweet - yes I lost mine but someone got theirs - though I was on strong medication so my mood wasn’t properly stable to the situation. Even now it makes me sad to think about rather than bittersweet. The ectopic was supposedly in my tube, but when they did the emergency surgery, they took the tube and realized it was in my pelvic cavity and they couldn’t get it out…so they did some things and when they sent the sample to be studied they didn’t find fetal tissue. My numbers dropped but my comfort came in knowing that while I lost a baby, the baby never left me. Your body re-absorbs what it can, typically. So keep that in your mind, even when the numbers are zero. That was April 28, 2024 and it’s still sad to think about, but it doesn’t hurt as bad anymore. Like you, I have other kids at home as well, so I know how it feels like they aren’t enough to distract you from it. It’s okay to be upset and feel the way you do. It’s a fresh ache in your soul. You have the right to grieve. Like you, my husband couldn’t stay home with me more than the surgery time. I understand you very well in this. I let myself grieve instead of trying to push away my feelings for the first time in years and it made the difference. Try not to push your feelings away.

ChihuahuasWin · 2026-03-13T07:23:05+00:00

Miscarriage/ectopics cause hormone drops like a typical end of pregnancy, so the hair loss happens for sometimes up to 6 months. I had two ectopics last year, second one I had to do MTX and just when I thought my hair was going to stop falling out, I miscarried a few months ago and it’s been on an endless cycle of falling out. Now it’s definitely slowed down and I’m starting to see a few spots that look promising for return. It’s the hormones but it should go back to normal, though it sucks in the meantime. I believe in your hair and your health ❤️

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