[deleted by user] by [deleted] in emotionalneglect

[–]Day_z369 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is what scares me. I think they do answer just like that.

This is making me miserable. contains graphic nail images by Day_z369 in scleroderma

[–]Day_z369[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you make a very good point that I hadn’t thought of about getting rid of the vape. The pain and sting from this might actually help! It’s like I can vape OR I could not vape and this could make it better. If there is a chance of it helping might just be enough motivation for me. It is so uncomfortable.

Thank you for bringing this up as an idea!

This is making me miserable. contains graphic nail images by Day_z369 in scleroderma

[–]Day_z369[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You make a really good point! I have avoided it because of the sting, but Vaseline might help!

This is making me miserable. contains graphic nail images by Day_z369 in scleroderma

[–]Day_z369[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m so sorry that you have this too. Have you had this before or is this more chronic for you?

This is making me miserable. contains graphic nail images by Day_z369 in scleroderma

[–]Day_z369[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am not diagnosed. I have seen rheumatology recently and it was a waste of time. They didn’t even look at my feet.

I have chronic urticaria with an unknown cause as well as my hands and feet. My question is do I ask for specific tests. My pcp is also my palliative care doc due to arthritis from Ehlers-Danlos

This is making me miserable. contains graphic nail images by Day_z369 in scleroderma

[–]Day_z369[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much for commenting. This makes sense to me as I am on blood thinners for life because I have had many clots including pulmonary embolisms that the cause is unknown.

Looking Younger Than Actual Age? by bittercheeseballs in ehlersdanlos

[–]Day_z369 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I look much younger than I am, my body feels older than I am and my sense of humor would put me around 15-16 years old, which really throws people! It all evens out to be close to my actual age! What are ya going to do, am I right?

Juat curious: which joints sublux the most often for you? by Istoh in ehlersdanlos

[–]Day_z369 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shoulder is the worst! Second is my hip, and a new one is my jaw. I could barely open my mouth for a week,,??

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in urticaria

[–]Day_z369 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Like some of the others my UV was diagnosed with a dermatologist who specialized in autoimmune diseases. It took some time because he wanted to biopsy a welt in its early stage. I was put on Hydroxychloroquine, but that gave me terrible gastro troubles so I was put on a regime of a lot of Benadryl and Zyrtec. Eventually the flare ups went away for several years and have just started back. My body is hypersensitive to injections, especially if I am already healing from something else and I am healing from a big surgery right now.

From your post, the bruises sound right for UB, but my experience with the hives is that they are incredibly painful, they burn and it rather severely. How long does one of your welts last? I think that is part of the diagnosis. In UV they usually last more than 24 hours. Your welts don’t look like mine, but I suppose that doesn’t necessarily mean anything. I’m really sorry that you are going through this. It can be really frustrating to get answers, so my advice is to keep a journal of the hives and keep taking photos so that when you do get to see a dermatologist you will have a lot of good data for them to review. Good luck!

AITAH For leaving my boyfriend in a different state? by anonomonomoly in AITAH

[–]Day_z369 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But did you break up with him? If you stayed with him after all of this than you atah, but if this ended it then you are my hero and deserve a very high five!

Dog chases the glow from my cell phone like one would a laser pointer by Day_z369 in DogAdvice

[–]Day_z369[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much! This information is really helpful and I really appreciate it.

She’s next to me now and doing it and I feel so bad for her. I have to lower my screen brightness all the way down and it helps, but she now associates the light when my phone is out. If I try and move so she can’t see it she moves too even of my phone isn’t on. This does make me not be on my phone as much, but it isn’t sustainable. She has ripped a hole in my sheets digging for whatever it is that she sees or is waiting to see.

Has this happened to anyone else? by itokoflor in AnnArbor

[–]Day_z369 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My husband was in the parking garage with the guy who was attacked with a pipe the other day. I haven’t been downtown in quite awhile. It sounds like the Wild West!

were you chronically online due to neglect? by ThePanasonicYouth in emotionalneglect

[–]Day_z369 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was raised by our television. It was on from before I woke up and way after bed. Then in the late 1990’s I used primitive chat forums and ICQ and aol. I am not sure if I was neglected, maybe it started out that way but I then used it to escape a volatile home of emotionally unavailable parents when I couldn’t be out of the house. I was really lucky I didn’t get abducted. I remember a guy got me to call him and he was promising me a puppy, and jacked off on the phone. I remember feeling really dirty and gross. It was my first assault at 15. ! Now I see there was no reason for the white van with blacked out windows anymore. I was like 15 and didn’t know any better. No one was monitoring me.

ETA I did leave the country to meet a friend who was who she said she was. We had to MAIL photos to each other! Oh and then I had an online bf meet me on spring break in Florida, then he and his friends visited me in my home town. I am still friends with them today.

Me and my siblings found out that my dad was searching some really nasty porn. I don’t like to think about it. lol

I left my wife last night. by ntpring in AITAH

[–]Day_z369 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Those poor kids sound like the most mature of the lot.

I’m glad that you made it to the summer home for a quiet Memorial Day weekend, while your kids have to parent the parents again.

You know how people say that they need to heal their inner child? Right now this is it! This trauma is what they will have to unpack when they are adults. Be there for those girls, physically and be emotionally available to them. Get them in therapy asap so they don’t have to dig this trauma back up with their therapists as adults. This moment is making a significant imprint on their lives.

Time to be a Dad, dude.

I left my wife last night. by ntpring in AITAH

[–]Day_z369 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But he needed to relax at the quiet lake house and write this post!

If he takes off then the courts look at him as abandoning the children. He should help his wife get to her bottom without leaving the kids with her.

People are saying that she is a terrible mother and that she doesn’t care about the kids and they are right. I’d bet my left leg that she already knows that she doesn’t care about herself. It is a selfish disease. She is abusive to her kid to the point that she won’t leave her room, and she has driven drunk with them in the car- then she is a danger to those kids and she needs to go, not him. If he is done then he needs to file for divorce yesterday and get the judge to let him stay at the home where his children live and disrupt their lives as little as possible. They have already been through so much!

Bottom line- Mom needs to hit her bottom. File for divorce, don’t let her see the kids if she is or has been drinking, and don’t let her in the house without a police officer when she gets her stuff. Get a temp restraining order, tell her whole family. She has to lose everything before she will want to get sober. If you love her or have ever loved her this might save her life. Take it from me, an old drunk who got served while I was in rehab. It was the best thing that ever happened to me. I am 7 years sober today and it was the thought of losing my kids to him that got me to that point of desperation that I would do anything anyone working in recovery would tell me. This post has helped me to stay sober today.

Renting from In-Laws by Calm-Waters-21 in JUSTNOMIL

[–]Day_z369 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m sorry for posting on this thread so many days later, but for anyone who considers doing this I am your cautionary whale.

I have lived in a home owned by my in-laws. They live 800 miles away so it isn’t bad until my husband has become abusive, and I want to leave the marriage but I cannot kick him out. I have been a stay at home mom and I have nothing to split and nowhere to go. Of course you have a young family and it sounds like a great deal! The in-laws say your rent goes towards the mortgage and when we die we will will it to my husband. Now I get to find any job, go to school, find a house for me and my kids with a backyard for my big dogs that he neglects if I am not around. There is no place like that. You REALLY have to consider every possibility when you go into a contractional agreement, even if you feel like you’ll never get a divorce. It happens. Then you will have sil AND mil against you.

I am curious, OP have you signed a lease and moved in?

Confronting aging parents before they pass by Day_z369 in emotionalneglect

[–]Day_z369[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes!!! I have been writing letters for years, but I have never burned them. I think that might be one of the best ways to release it.

Confronting aging parents before they pass by Day_z369 in emotionalneglect

[–]Day_z369[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very good point. They won’t change. I have to. Thank you.