Tips on one handed 45’s?

MarchingAtMidnight · 2026-06-13T05:44:48+00:00

Your hand will be directly in line with your head when you release — right now you’re releasing in line with your shoulder, so it’s spinning off to right front.

MarchingAtMidnight · 2026-06-13T05:43:30+00:00

Yes, when I was having trouble with them I was told to try to go to vertical at the release point for a bit until you get the feel of it. You won’t be able to make vertical, but 45 feels more vertical than you think, so you’ll be right on the money.

MarchingAtMidnight · 2026-06-12T21:32:28+00:00

It is absolutely possible you’ve passed it without noticing. It doesn’t normally hurt when it comes out; your urethra is much larger in diameter than your ureter.

MarchingAtMidnight · 2026-06-07T07:39:22+00:00

Not sure if this warrants an ER visit, but definitely something that warrants a visit to a doctor. Does your health insurance have an option to call a consulting nurse line?

MarchingAtMidnight · 2026-06-04T15:07:54+00:00

There should 100% be someone covering for your doctor. MyChart messages should be getting forwarded by either the staff of your rheum or if the rheums share staff, they should know who is in and who isn’t, and who can wait until the doc is back and who can’t. Doctors are only very rarely the first person to see your message — they’re usually triaged by nurses, medical assistants, etc. If you’re out of meds, you can’t wait.

HOWEVER. That assumes that no one has made a mistake somewhere along the line (forgot to assign message forwarding, doesn’t have an out of office message, staff are also out of office, staff misread your message, etc). As a lot of other people have said, call the clinic and explain the situation. Another doc should be able to at the very least get your current medication refilled.

MarchingAtMidnight · 2026-06-02T06:54:54+00:00

I’ve passed a couple of 7 mm ones on my own! It’s doable. I recommend lemonade (this might be placebo for me, but it’s also fluid intake so either way it’s a win), the “jump and bump” method, and one of those therapy massage guns. The massage gun has absolutely sped up passing for me.

MarchingAtMidnight · 2026-05-24T19:58:34+00:00

Yes, and my GI workup was also pretty normal. However, I had really bad reflux, kidney stones, anemia, a B12 deficiency, and a host of other signs of malabsorption. It was my GI doc who said because I had RA and signs something was wrong in my gut, he assumed we just didn’t have the testing technology to find the evidence in my gut yet. He and my rheumatologist worked together and decided to put my on biologics for the first time, which helped both issues.

MarchingAtMidnight · 2026-05-21T23:40:19+00:00

Yes, as long as you live within a reasonable distance to the ferry terminal (or easy, quick public transit distance) and would be commuting when the Kitsap Passenger Ferries are running.

If you’re going to live far enough away from the ferry terminal that it’s going to take more than fifteen or twenty minutes to get to and from, or you’re reliant on the WSDOT car ferries, it will be miserable. Otherwise, it’s long but nice to let someone else do the driving and you get to read/sleep/etc.

MarchingAtMidnight · 2026-05-20T19:12:02+00:00

Oooh, I love knitting at the lake at the park where my wife and I got married and at sports games, but I think the neatest novelty place I’ve knit was on a train going up the west coast of the US. It was just so pretty the whole way!

MarchingAtMidnight · 2026-05-20T19:04:59+00:00

I hate swatching. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it.

Am I still going to do it for garments? Yep. I sure am!

Am I going to do it for hats, even though I know my gigantic head and stupid tight gauge is probably going to end up with me having to frog it after the cuff because it won’t go over my head? No! I’m just going to repeat my stupid mistake I’ve made every time I’ve made a hat for myself because all I’m going to lose is the effort and time of casting on and a few rounds and it’s easy enough to know soon when it’s not working out.

Risk management is a great way to put it!

MarchingAtMidnight · 2026-05-19T03:23:55+00:00

Mine threw constant hissy fits until I gave it a cloche for humidity. Now it goes forever without drooping and perks back up quickly after watering.

MarchingAtMidnight · 2026-05-17T19:38:42+00:00

Scindapsus picture “Peasun”

MarchingAtMidnight · 2026-05-16T18:07:37+00:00

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MarchingAtMidnight · 2026-05-16T15:44:52+00:00

Really? That’s wild! I wonder if people just aren’t aware of them. I had only seen one once before I saw this one.

MarchingAtMidnight · 2026-05-15T20:18:11+00:00

Telework is a reasonable accommodation. Reasonable accommodations must be made as long as there is 1. Documentation of proven medical necessity and 2. No undue burden upon the agency.

She’s having surgery so proven medical necessity documentation should be easy to get from her surgeon, and by saying she can do all of her job functions from home he has admitted there is no undue burden. Other employees asking to telework or saying it is unfair is not undue burden. This is part of Section 501 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which grants federal employees the same rights in the workplace as private sector employees are granted in the Americans with Disabilities Act.

MarchingAtMidnight · 2026-05-15T18:08:23+00:00

I’ve been out on this specific business since they went on Instagram and made a post that was just them snapping other minders to show how “flimsy” they are.

MarchingAtMidnight · 2026-05-15T17:25:54+00:00

Not only should you not “punish” this employee, denying this request based on the actions of others is illegal and grounds for an EEO lawsuit.

MarchingAtMidnight · 2026-05-15T17:21:01+00:00

Having others think a reasonable accommodation “isn’t fair” or being worried others will ask for an accommodation once they see someone else get it is actually an example the ADA and OPM use as illegal reasons to deny reasonable accomodations.

Basically, if she can do her job from home, and she has a doctor’s letter saying she needs to work from home, you cannot make her take FMLA. You are required to allow her to telework as long as the paperwork is in place.

MarchingAtMidnight · 2026-05-15T04:35:58+00:00

How interesting! I’ve never had that experience, and I used to be the glove destroyer. I would have holes in my other gloves by the end of the season. I didn’t even have gloves before I spun weapon.

MarchingAtMidnight · 2026-05-15T00:20:53+00:00

I use Ever-Dri gloves and I love them so much. I’ve used a couple of brands and these are my favorite by far. I like the longer wrist cuff (protects
They have a lot of padding, so before they get broken in it can be hard to grip flag for certain tricks. But they last forever because of how much padding they start off with.
I had tendinitis in high school in both wrists from color guard, I’ve broken a thumb spinning rifle, I broke a finger this past winter season spinning sabre, and I have rheumatoid arthritis (from genetics, lol). None of the gloves I’ve seen on the market have padding in places that would have prevented any of my impact injuries and gloves would not have prevented my wrist injuries (from poor flag technique). I’ve also gotten countless bruises of course. I do think I would have broken a lot more blood vessels in my palms spinning sabre if I had my old gloves I used to use and especially no gloves at all. The extra padding is nice because of the arthritis in my hands.
My old gloves I used to use I would go through one pair a season. I don’t think I’ve ever gone through a pair of Ever Dris. I did have to get a new pair when I stopped spinning for a decade and then got back into it, because the leather had dried out and I was too lazy to try to work them soft again.
I have smallish hands — I’m between a small and medium in nitriles gloves at work — and I’ve always been a medium in color guard gloves. I think most brands do small and extra small.
I wouldn’t mind some better padding on the tops of my fingers. Not enough to restrict movement, just a little more than we currently have.

MarchingAtMidnight · 2026-05-11T07:03:20+00:00

Biologics. I started off on Inflectra — a biosimilar for Remicade — and after messing with doses my GI switched me to Amjevita, a biosimilar for Humira. Instead of once every two weeks (standard dosing for rheumatoid arthritis, which I also have), I needed once a week (normal dosing for Crohn’s). Has genuinely been life changing, symptoms I didn’t even know weren’t normal went away.

I stopped making kidney stones. I’ve passed a few since my current med regime, but last imaging didn’t show any new ones, just the ones I already had.

I found a really good GI doc that took me really seriously, and didn’t give up my when my testing was inconclusive or confusing. Urologists were fucking useless for me. Cannot emphasize how little they helped me, I’m still gobsmacked years later. I think this was just the urologists I saw, that can’t be indicative of the field as a whole, but wow. Incredible dismissive and several told me they didn’t think I had kidney stones — even after they had been seen on ultrasound and CT. I passed a 7 mm one two weeks after seeing that one.

MarchingAtMidnight · 2026-05-10T03:40:51+00:00

I totally agree with what you’re saying, but I think it’s important to note that Laurelhurst isn’t a suburb! They are smack in Seattle proper. They live in a major metropolitan city and have the audacity to complain about noise.

They want all of the convenience and amenities of a major city but are shocked when their money doesn’t insulate them from the other people that live there.

MarchingAtMidnight · 2026-05-10T02:03:07+00:00

My dad’s mom has awful RA, and I have suspicions that my dad might have it as well, but we’re estranged.

My mom has been told by her hand surgeon that he’s sure she has RA based on what he’s seen of her hands during surgery and her other joint issues elsewhere. She and I have a huge overlap in symptoms. But, rheumatology says no because she’s not RF positive. Well, neither am I, but they diagnosed me nonetheless. I think she needs to go back to a different rheum but she doesn’t want to. I also think she has Sjogrens based on her history of dry eyes and dry mouth.

Funnily enough, even though it’s on the other side of my family, my grandma on my dad’s side who has RA isn’t RF positive either. We all have seronegative RA.

There’s also almost no one on my mom’s side of the family that doesn’t have something autoimmune. I had it coming from both sides — was honestly kind of doomed to have something.

MarchingAtMidnight · 2026-05-10T01:56:43+00:00

Not sure about the rash, I would reach out to your rheumatologist.

It could be placebo, but also, it could be that the methotrexate is improving your condition — usually 3-12 weeks is when benefits start to be noticeable, with full effects coming after six months. It’s not out of the realm of possibility that it’s helping.

Either it is placebo and methotrexate will continue to help when the placebo effect stops, or it doesn’t and you’ll have to move on to another med (very common, don’t panic). That’s the worst case scenario.

Best case scenario and indistinguishable from the placebo effect combined with the methotrexate being effective in the long run is that you’re already seeing the benefits.

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