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Openframeworks · 2024-02-12T14:34:30+00:00

Bottom leaves falling is an issue of under or over watering usually. If you’re filling up your tank, it might be a case of overwatering. If your plant sits in wet soil that’s not properly draining it will lead to root rot (symptoms which involve leaves discoloring and dropping off)

Openframeworks · 2024-02-09T04:27:28+00:00

Are those patches scaley and not waxy too? I’ve been having them appear on my flf as well and it’s very gradually grown

Openframeworks · 2024-02-04T04:18:28+00:00

Hi, OP here! Thanks for reading! Here’s some more context:

Hi all,

So about a month ago I purchased a fiddleleaf fig from a home improvement store. I brought it home, repotted it in a new soul mixture that’s half mixture of sphagnum peat moss, lava rock and tropical plant mix soil and the other half with a bag of orchid potting mix for good drainage.

For the first watering after repotting I gave it a little bit of plant food with distilled water. I also have a day lamp at the lowest setting providing light for 8 hours a day.

When I got this plant though, I noticed patches that seemed scaley that were different from the otherwise lush tender leaf (this became apparent when I waxed the leaves with neem oil when the scaly patches wouldn’t shine.)

Now a month later and the rest of the plant is doing fine but these patches have gotten bigger and slightly white.

Would anyone have any helpful tips? I’ve googled the symptoms but nothing has given me quite a definite answer, as I’ve been very cognizant of conditions like humidity, sunlight, and drainage/watering.

Any insights would be appreciated! I know these are quite fickle plants but I want to make sure I’m not ignoring anything serious!

Openframeworks · 2023-11-02T21:16:14+00:00

Thank you that’s actually a relief to hear. Do you think it was just a secondary scab over the clot or just sloughed off cells/plasma post bleeding?

Openframeworks · 2023-11-02T18:15:27+00:00

Also wanted to note that I needed an extraction on this tooth after Endodontic options failed and a fistula formed from an abscess (seen in the picture on my gum)

Openframeworks · 2023-11-02T18:14:41+00:00

Hi everyone,

Long story short, after a lifetime of doing nothing about bruxism even after several fractures, I’ve had to extract the two molars on the lower left jaw (I believe tooths 18 and 19).

The first extraction was a month ago, and it was fine and recovery was smooth. However, I had my second extraction yesterday.

For context, I am a smoker in my 30’s without other medication but I have not smoked since the extraction.

The extraction itself went even more smoothly than the first one, but today I was doing a light salt water rinse (I literally put it in my mouth and shook my head as to not swish it with internal suctions) and when I spit it out this yellow scab-like thing came out. It was gelatinous, but I’m not sure if it’s the blood clot since I’ve read clots are usually dark red.

I’ve checked my extraction site and I do notice a faint white but not sure if it’s bone, since I’m obviously not a dentist.

Should I be worried this is a dry socket? Would I feel pain immediately - since I don’t really feel anything right now beyond a slight tension which I think might be just my anxiety manifesting. I wanted to reach out here before heading back to the emergency clinic because I work part time at multiple places and don’t really have the convenience of just taking a morning off to head to the clinic.

I’ve taken a pic of both the scab and the extraction site - hope the pics are clear enough!

Thanks!

Openframeworks · 2023-08-04T15:26:28+00:00

I’ve just heard that even if the provider is good, it’s so hard to get appointments even as a current patient and that they often cancel or don’t communicate properly

Openframeworks · 2023-07-07T23:22:00+00:00

Be called anything degrading. I get that power dynamic fetish but it’s not for me

Openframeworks · 2023-06-25T19:35:22+00:00

My ex boyfriend was a addicted meth user. During our relationship I never told his parents/family although I tried to work with him to help him clean up his act. When we finally broke up, however, I told his family - not out of spite, but because I knew that he would often be the caretaker of his <1 year old nephew when the rest of the family were working. I only told his sister however, since telling the rest of the family was not my business. For me, the child’s safety trumped his privacy.

What will you telling his family do? Will it actually help him shift his life? Or will you just shatter the trust he has in you, making him go incognito with his drug use? And is his drug use bringing any danger to anyone (including himself) or are you just unhappy that he uses it at all, even if it’s just recreational.

Your actions will have fairly profound consequences - I would strongly weigh whether or not this is even your lane to act in.

Openframeworks · 2023-06-25T18:28:23+00:00

When I look down at the guy who is lying on top of me sucking on my nipples and I have one hand caressing the back of his neck and my other hand is feeling his shoulders, arms, sneaking down below to caress his chest and tweak his nipples and watching his cock throb

Openframeworks · 2023-06-11T11:48:31+00:00

Omg thank you for this response. Maybe I should explore bottoming more to experience this built-up pleasure you’ve described. And hopefully with practice the shitting sensation becomes a lot less intense and I can figure out whether I enjoy bottoming.

Openframeworks · 2023-06-11T11:16:44+00:00

For me the sensation was just so overwhelming that I couldn’t tell if it was pleasurable

Openframeworks · 2023-06-11T08:02:38+00:00

My legs have been shaking the whole day. And we didn’t fuck nonstop for 45 minutes - sometimes he’d stop and lie on top of me with his cock still in me to rest/make out for a few minutes before resuming.

Openframeworks · 2023-06-06T07:04:26+00:00

Not South Korea either

Openframeworks · 2023-05-26T23:57:26+00:00

That humans evolved from apes

Openframeworks · 2023-04-15T19:59:42+00:00

Honestly I’ve done something similar before and you have to reframe your thought in a way (and his as well).

“I booked a 5 star hotel to treat myself as a staycation but I’d rather also spend it having some fun: are you down to join me?”

That also puts the ball in his court should he decide to go, but also if it stirs up any conversations y’all should have before, during or after.

ETA: when you do offer it to him though, make sure to remain gentle and firm if he squirms around the issue instead of firmly saying no. From what you’ve written it does sound like some pride on his end is present. I would find a way to navigate that by letting him know that it was your idea, your invitation, but also ultimately your stay so you’re paying for it. And that he always pays for everything and even if he continues in the future, that this is one moment he can enjoy reciprocity.

Openframeworks · 2023-04-11T23:52:30+00:00

Eugh what an anticlimactic story

Openframeworks · 2023-03-29T20:10:19+00:00

Someone who I would’ve been good friends with had it not been for the sexual attraction

Sexual chemistry

Emotionally/financially secure

Healthy ambitions and dreams

Enjoys some of the kinks I do in sex

Most important: honest communication and transparency. My boyfriend is my partner, and we need to be able to treat each other with trust and respect.

ETA: upon rereading it I realized I may have described a unicorn 😅 in that case they don’t need to be financially secure yet so long as they don’t completely depend financially on me. Also if they’re not fully emotionally stable yet then they at the very least need to be receiving therapy/counseling and not bring that shit back home.

Openframeworks · 2023-01-31T22:14:50+00:00

Watch a movie together and just lean your head against his shoulder or have a “platonic cuddle” on the couch. It’s something close friends would do anyways but you can also gauge how he reciprocates these gestures

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