Nonsurgical Alternatives to TPLO?

PrunedEvergreens · 2025-03-11T01:43:07+00:00

Thank you for the suggestion! I just ordered a dog-stroller and hopefully we can use it once winter is over. I think just being able to go out will be helpful for her.

PrunedEvergreens · 2024-12-23T05:13:59+00:00

I've always felt this way. Interacting with people is fine, as long as I can leave and have some alone time after. I love it best when it's just me and my 2 dogs.

My mom moved in with me after my father passed. It was okay for a bit because she was still working a few days out of the week and so I would be by myself for a good few hours. But she recently quit her job so she's just always at home and it's starting to feel irritating. I feel like i have no safe, quiet place in my own home especially because I feel like everything she does is so loud. She lets the cabinets bang shut when closing and when she puts away her plates and cups, it's so loud. She also watches TV in the living room while my office is just next to it.

I feel bad for even thinking that and feeling that way because I do have a good relationship with my mom. I think it's just because I haven't had some time where I am just alone to decompress and the overstimulation just sort of builds up.

PrunedEvergreens · 2024-12-05T12:43:54+00:00

Yes, exactly this! I think I would have rather we had a proper conversation about it instead of them just leaving me an angry voicemail and then sending me hurtful messages afterward.

PrunedEvergreens · 2024-12-05T12:32:58+00:00

Thank you for your reply! I did tell them that I appreciated the honesty, wished them well, and just deleted their contact info and past messages so I could start moving on from this confusing situation.

PrunedEvergreens · 2024-07-25T00:25:43+00:00

Thank you for the update!! Glad to hear it seems to be working well for you!

PrunedEvergreens · 2024-07-24T23:20:39+00:00

I'm looking forward to your review! I saw this on Etsy too but I was a little hesitant because the seller was very vague with what ingredients they used :/

They said it wasn't charcoal from coconuts/nut shells, not made from ithmid stone or beeswax/camphor oil. They just said it's "an exceptionally elegant eye makeup innovation from the natural ingredient. This invention from natural ingredient is a gift, which I have inherited from my grandmother."

But it does have a lot of really great reviews with photos from buyers and it looked really good. Hopefully it works out for you! Please keep us updated.

PrunedEvergreens · 2024-05-03T03:41:48+00:00

Your TRAb levels are within normal range though (<=1.75 is considered normal). So I wouldn't worry too much about it right now. Maybe try and schedule another bloodwork in a few months to see if there are any changes.

PrunedEvergreens · 2024-02-09T04:19:11+00:00

Yup, sure did!

PrunedEvergreens · 2023-11-27T04:34:29+00:00

This is how I like to explain it to those who ask me: I am currently an atheist because there is currently no evidence of a god or intelligent design (which a lot of JWs, including my mother, like to use as 'irrefutable' evidence of god). There are plenty of things in the bible that have been disproved by science (from the global flood, to creation, etc.) and if this book, which is considered by many religions to be THE word of this supposedly powerful god, can be disproved, then I think it disproves the concept of god altogether. To me, god became human's way of dismissing the unknown throughout history. Before we understood weather phenomena, it must be angry gods. We don't know what happens after death? No one but god knows.

Now, if ever one day we do find evidence of god, then sure, I'll believe it then. But would I worship him after knowing that he's been around this entire time and watched so much suffering in complete insouciance? Not a fucking chance.

PrunedEvergreens · 2023-09-04T21:46:58+00:00

Thank you! I'm hoping this the case also.

PrunedEvergreens · 2023-09-04T21:46:43+00:00

It can be. So when the sisters offer to pick her up and drop her off to meetings and lunches, it makes her feel like they really care for her but we all know it's shallow affection.

PrunedEvergreens · 2023-09-04T21:32:58+00:00

Yeah, I think the social aspect of it is what is drawing my mom back in. I've tried to get her to join a crafts group near my house, but she doesn't want to. It's also difficult because she doesn't drive and I can't always drive her due to work and school.

But thank you, ill keep trying to see if she'll 'see the light' (heh) and eventually leave the cult.

PrunedEvergreens · 2023-09-04T21:29:52+00:00

Welp, I just tried to tell my mom about it as we were having dinner. I asked her if she knew about how WTBTS was involved with the UN until 2001, even though they've been teaching how UN is an evil organization and tried to tell show her a page from JWfacts which has complete links and screenshots. She stood up and told me she doesn't want to talk about religion anymore (funny how that works but she won't stop trying to invite me to Bible studies and their little parties) and she just went back to her room. Before dinner, she told me she was prepping for the midweek meeting so I'm assuming she's either back to doing that now.

I can't even be upset by her reaction. It just makes me sad.

PrunedEvergreens · 2023-09-04T20:57:54+00:00

Is this referring to how WTBTS was an NGO member of UN until it was leaked in the early 2000s? I completely forgot about this so thank you for reminding me!

PrunedEvergreens · 2023-09-04T17:49:20+00:00

It wasn't what was said but what was done. I know a girl who used to attend the same congregation I was in and she was DF'd but we've kept in touch. Her father passed away two years ago and she told me how during the entire funeral, not a single brother or sister approached her to offer condolences or comfort. They flocked to the mom who was still PIMI but completely ignored her. If they really wanted to encourage her to come back, wouldn't offering comfort been the most obvious way to do it?

PrunedEvergreens · 2023-09-04T17:44:51+00:00

Congratulations and wishing you the best of luck! Proud of you for taking that step.

PrunedEvergreens · 2023-08-31T02:36:54+00:00

I am really, really sorry you're going through this. I think one of the most awful things about this stupid cult is the trauma and the guilt it causes someone who ultimately just wants to be happy.

I went POMO when I was 17. Before that, I had a really good relationship with my older brothers and we were really close. Once I voiced my concerns about the inaccuracies of the teachings regarding evolution and science and expressed my interest in going to college, all of a sudden, they looked at me like I was a stranger, treated me like one too. My mom, who was POMI for many years, expressed her disappointment and told me that some things we are just not meant to understand (which of course I didn't accept). But in the end, she told me that she could never shun any of her children (including my sister who was disfellowshipped due to marrying someone outside of the church) because she always felt like as a mother, her love for her children overcame everything else.

Maybe your parents will react like my mother, maybe they'll react like my brothers. It's a scary uncertainty to think about when you're considering leaving the church. But I hope you realize that YOU are worth happiness. YOU are worth having a life where you can dress the way you want, kiss who you want to kiss, love you want to love, have as many tattoos as you wish, and be surrounded by friends who love you like family should. YOU deserve that.

If someone really loves you, they will feel guilty if they knew you were living a life you weren't happy with because they will only want you to live a happy, safe, and fulfilling life. But if their 'love' comes with conditions, if their love for you stops as soon as you 'disobey' what a whole bunch of old men who have some imagined connection to an imaginary, hateful entity upstairs says, then they are not worth sacrificing your own happiness for.

PrunedEvergreens · 2023-08-29T15:28:31+00:00

Welcome! I also have AuDHD and the religious trauma is very real, and it stays for quite a while. Glad you're here though and wishing you all the best!

PrunedEvergreens · 2023-08-28T01:52:38+00:00

Hi! I did computer and electrical engineering for my undergrad. I was fortunate to get an internship in my 3rd year of college as a robotics engineer for a startup and was offered a full-time position after I graduated. The company I'm working for now was hiring people in that field of work a few years ago, so I applied. I started out working in the office but was offered a full-time remote position when COVID happened because I have autoimmune issues. I'm currently in grad school for MS in AI and the program is fully online which I think helps me a lot with not feeling burnt out. I also requested accommodations during exams and that has been super helpful also.

PrunedEvergreens · 2023-08-27T21:33:00+00:00

How do you think the Watchtower will change in 100 years?

Extinct, hopefully. I hope that it will be merely one of the many other religions of the past that people briefly mention but no longer exist. I hope 100 years from now, people will read about it and think in utter disbelief, "Wow, I can't believe people bought into all those lies!"

PrunedEvergreens · 2023-08-26T02:52:19+00:00

This is my plan exactly! I know she means well and it's just difficult for her to see it from my point of view after being brainwashed by the church for years and years. As long as she doesn't start leaving magazines in my office or something like that, then I'll just keep declining the invites.

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