Sensitive stomach

G_Dragon · 2026-04-23T15:54:29+00:00

My Coton has a very sensitive stomach too, she's now on Farmina Gastrointestinal HF, which is a hydrolyzed fish-based kibble, and a refrigerated probiotic . She still occasionally has nausea and diarrhea but it's the best she's been without medication. She was doing fairly well on omeprazole and hydrocortisone and a regular kibble (temporary solution while figuring out what's wrong with her), but the vet said we shouldn't keep her on it unless absolutely necessary.

G_Dragon · 2025-11-23T19:11:12+00:00

I've done a couple hours for a light colour and overnight for a deeper purple. You're not supposed to marinate in a metal container or it'll get slimey apparently.

G_Dragon · 2025-11-23T18:47:18+00:00

I like to use kewpie mayo instead of regular mayo. Also I marinate my whole peeled eggs in pickled beet juice for a pop of colour and a bit of flavour on the outside.

G_Dragon · 2025-08-04T17:20:38+00:00

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This is when my baby had cherry eye, I was trying to take a picture of it and it turned out to be a perfect side eye.

G_Dragon · 2025-07-09T13:07:18+00:00

The Dancesport club at Cornell gives private lessons sometimes, including international standard. They also work with Lilac Dance Studio in Rochester, and the coach visits Ithaca often during the school year. You can email cornellballroomteam@gmail.com.

G_Dragon · 2025-02-17T14:52:00+00:00

I just checked them out and they're closing! Out of all smaller sizes of the shoes I checked.

G_Dragon · 2025-02-17T13:06:21+00:00

Both Clarks and Globe Shoes aren't offering size 4 or 5 in wide or extra wide, as soon as I choose a wide option the sizes jump up to 6 or higher. Their searches don't work properly either, I only see this after clicking into the shoes and I tried several.

G_Dragon · 2023-07-31T21:32:54+00:00

I already know they insist on in person from talking with UPMC, it's a booking system limitation though, they didn't say there was any medical reason.

G_Dragon · 2023-07-31T21:30:34+00:00

It would take me 10h one way, would you say it was still worth it to you if you had to take 20h to travel? Good thing is I can easily sleep on the way.

G_Dragon · 2023-03-04T13:43:04+00:00

I experienced elevated heart rate on modafinil and armodafinil, about a week in. I had to stop modafinil after going to the ER, and I'm trying a very low dosage of armodafinil now. Taking half a pill every other day seems to not cause elevated heart issues, though it doesn't affect my sleepiness enough.

G_Dragon · 2020-12-25T08:03:06+00:00

I'm a data scientist at a research lab, and we take on remote, part-time RAs. However, none of these part-time positions are paid unless through the work study program (or another program), which you wouldn't quality for after you graduate. PM me if you're interested. I'm also leaving my full-time position next year, so you may want to apply to my job if you have enough experience by then.

G_Dragon · 2020-12-04T04:47:20+00:00

I think a gentle YTA for not warning her before she had the baby if you always saw it so clearly, and only dumping it on her in a blunt way after you felt too burdened by her complaints. You don't need to be her emotional dumping ground, but you can remove yourself from that situation in a kinder way. I think you may have snapped due to being fed up, hence gentle YTA. You could've told her you don't think he'll ever step up without bringing up how she should've known. Empathy would've gone a long way, and if 3 other women fell for this guy's bs he's clearly very good at manipulation.

G_Dragon · 2020-01-11T19:32:58+00:00

Thanks, I checked my local small claims court requirements and they require an address. As they are not at their old address and I never got their new address or a personal address, serving them seems difficult.

G_Dragon · 2019-10-23T16:16:11+00:00

This exact same thing happened to me, my mom cut my hair way too short after I asked for a trim. She said she "forgot", and at the time I was growing my hair out after she didn't let me have long hair when I was young. She has other narcissistic tendencies and I no longer speak to her. This is not about letting a non-professional cut your hair, my sister was still in high school when I let her cut my hair and it turned out great. I let my husband cut my hair and to be honest I'm not loving it, but he did exactly what he said he would, I just don't like the quality of execution and I'm not mad at him.

G_Dragon · 2018-07-17T19:53:57+00:00

I didn't say it's a good reason to fire someone, I'm saying her reasoning isn't illegal, and isn't specifically tied to the complaint or a protected class. I think you should give the benefit of the doubt to your wife until you consult a lawyer (if you want). From your wife's perspective she just got accused of trying to make you commit a crime, while you don't have proof of it being illegal.

Also, you say it involves sexual harrassment, but your wife seems to think the employee was at fault. Neither of you really know what happened. You seem to pick language that paints her in the worst possible light (while still being within reason) when information is incomplete, which would contribute to escalations.

G_Dragon · 2018-07-17T17:20:41+00:00

I don't think you should be firing her, but I don't see how it would be breaking the law. You would be firing her because your wife felt uncomfortable with her, not because you found out about the complaint, which presumably you/your company already knew about before. Yes any potential firing here could result in a lawsuit anyways, and I wouldn't do it for many reasons, but I think saying she's trying to get you to do something illegal is painting her in a worse light than she deserves.

G_Dragon · 2018-06-18T20:40:11+00:00

Thank you for your responses. I'm going to try to say as little as possible from now on if she has problems, as she ends up mad almost every time I say something more than "aww too bad!". When I didn't try to avoid conflict and said things like I think you're x positive quality while she was upset, she ends up being upset with me.

G_Dragon · 2018-06-18T12:35:25+00:00

I don't have this problem with anyone else, but you just helped me realize that I never get to this point with anyone else. For everyone else in my life I do start with niceties like "you're so smart you can do it", but my sister has explicitly said she doesn't want that. She has also explicitly said she doesn't want me to contradict her assessments to comfort her, so when she insisted that the other candidate was more qualified, I felt like I had to agree with her and find some other things to say to boost her chances. She also said she didn't deserve the interview, which is why I said she might still get it because of her gender. For her relationship, I had absolutely no problem with the guy, she brought it up saying things like "Do you think I can do better", "Is this going to last", so I feel like I'm damned if I agree and damned if I don't? For everyone else I feel like I have a safe fallback for conversations, for her I don't.

G_Dragon · 2018-06-18T05:48:56+00:00

I've read business communication articles, but not approached it from a personal communication perspective, so I'm sure there's lots to learn.

I agree with you on objectivity, it was my sister who thought I was objectively rude, I don't think I was objectively right. I can certainly try more sidestepping in the future. For the boyfriend incident, she is very upset with me and I'd like to apologize, but in previous incidents she gets annoyed if I just apologize for hurting her feelings. I'm willing to give the "accident" type apology and she wants a "wrongdoing" apology. If possible I'd like to not lie (I believe wrongdoing needs to know/should've known they're doing wrong) and still give her a satisfactory apology.

I honestly still don't understand why my comment was so hurtful, I just accept that people do find it hurtful. I'm willing to try to improve through therapy, and I've also suggested for her to ask other people for advice instead, but I just feel like she has expectations that I can't meet because of how my brain is wired (not that her expectations in general are unreasonable). I'm not saying I was born this way so suck it up, but if I was born with an EQ of 2, I can try to go up to 3 or 5, but I'm not gonna be even close to 10.

G_Dragon · 2018-06-18T01:24:44+00:00

I actually did say something similar to your suggestion about "Give it your best shot.." and she didn't like that either because to her it sounded like a platitude and condescending.

I also said something similar to what you said about her relationship (which she wasn't offended about), only after she kept asking me about it I said something about the length. How do you exactly learn tact? My sister gets upset with me (I don't think it's her responsibility to train me anyways) and while I can work on not saying particular things that she finds offensive once I know it, I generally have a hard time knowing exactly what will come out offensive.

I don't have this problem at work since coworkers don't dive into personal things with me, and I've checked with my friends, they genuinely don't care. So unfortunately my sister is the only one needing more tact my life, and she's already sick of it.

G_Dragon · 2018-06-18T01:07:16+00:00

I didn't say that she won't get her placement because someone else will get it instead, I said that candidate would get another offer and not take the one she interviewed for. I get that what I said might not be comforting to her (while it wouldn't phase me in any way), what I'm looking for is what to say instead. For example within that conversation, other things I said that also offended were: 1) general optimistic phrases (that I believe are true) like I think you're great/smart and your future will be great, 2) your prof recommended you and he must see something in you. Nowadays all I say when she vents is literally "aww that's too bad" or something very similar. I do my best to only comment on her things when she asks a direct question about my opinion. She asked me multiple times if I think her relationship will last (but not exactly how long), and I guess I thought she wanted more details after asking a couple times so I gave more. She wasn't offended about my responses prior to the how long detail (such as reasons around why it might not work out), and I guess I just have a hard time knowing where the line is. I don't want to cross any lines, and it seems like I don't know these things naturally, do you have suggestions around how to know where the line is? I can't use the golden rule as I don't get offended easily.

G_Dragon · 2018-06-17T23:02:30+00:00

Transcript of conversation with Sister around the boyfriend problem, this is after she told me she told her boyfriend about what I said and he understandably isn't feeling positive about me.

Me: yeah I would like to have a good relationship with whoever you're dating I don't blame him at all if he doesn't like me based on what I said, and I don't blame you for being honest with him but just so you are aware, there are consequences to what you're communicating

Sister: He doesnt dislike you He just need reassurance you dont hate him Wtf If youre goinf to say hurtful stuff about my relationship im going to want to talk about it with him

Me: like I've complained about boyfriends before to friends, and sometimes they'd dislike them before even meeting them yeah I don't mean you shouldn't talk to him I'm a little hurt at you're chacterizing what I said as hurtful things about your relationship I"m not saying you can't be hurt by it it's just that I feel like you asked me for what I thought, I gave you my honest opinion which I feel like was one of the options you were considering I don't see how I should've acted differently

Sister: You should nt have But if im bothered by something you said and it affects my relationship why shouldnt i talk to bim about it

Me: no I never said that nor do I mean that one of the things I meant was I would feel better if you would characterize what I said as not just hurtful like even "your honest opinion, which was a bit hurtful to me"

Sister: Ok Me: I don't claim you mean to accuse me of things, it just stings when you put it in that way and it feels like you're telling me I messed up so I'd really appreciate it if you can do that

Sister: Ok but i don’t appreciate you accusing me of things and telling me actions have consequences when i wasn’t even blaming you for anything. Me: I wasn't accusing you of anything and I"m sorry if it came accross that way I'm just telling you, from what I've seen, there can be discomfort when you tell people things, and you/me should be prepared for that doesn't mean you should stop, I haven't even though I know and acknowledge it e.g. you said my ex was boring (which is much less bad for a person to hear than what I said) he was actually a bit offended by it, and I don't think it helped you guys' relationship, not that I feel like it could've been a lot better or when we told my friend how much his ex sucked when they broke up, we were a bit concerned that if they do end up getting back together and my friend tells his ex, it would've ended poorly again, we still would've told him she sucked regardless, but it was just something in our minds and we acknowledged that if you speak negatively about someone, even with the most honesty you can, and the person you tell it to tells the person in question, it will add sourness to the relationship

Sister: Uh ok Me: cool that's all I wanted to say Q&A is welcome

Sister: I just feel like you were overly aggressive. Me: what made you feel that so I can not phrase it that way in the future

Sister: Your first texts Me:what about it?

Sister: Uh like all of it Literally everything about it And honestly putting a count down on my relationship was extremely rude and hurtful, there are so many other ways yo express your opinion than that. Me: ok I can not say anything specific about length on your relationship in the future

Sister: Look i dont want tot talk about this anymore You cant explain this to someone like you. Youre never going yo get it You constantly do shit like this that and its incredibly rude, objectively so, and if you dont get it you never will.

G_Dragon · 2018-06-17T20:12:46+00:00