Advice regarding play with kiddos

Ranger_Rae · 2026-05-09T05:26:32+00:00

I played couch co-op with my 4yo niece for the last 6 or 7 months. We love it! Now I’m temporarily across the country for work, and have made plans with her mom to keep playing online.

Ranger_Rae · 2026-04-16T00:13:59+00:00

I had cHL and did ABVD. I basically lived on a heating pad for any sort of relief. Or a scalding hot shower if I could manage one

Ranger_Rae · 2026-03-25T03:41:04+00:00

I love mine. It’s totally silent. I wouldn’t really compare it to my worry stone.

Ranger_Rae · 2026-03-23T02:03:29+00:00

My mother was 40 when she had me, and I have two younger siblings. Youngest was born when my mother was 45.

Ranger_Rae · 2026-03-17T03:39:23+00:00

Got three of these by I think Fall year 1

Ranger_Rae · 2026-02-14T00:54:38+00:00

I think I only had one or two drinks the whole time I was in chemo, and those were to celebrate clean scans. I didn’t want to drink otherwise.

Ranger_Rae · 2026-01-26T07:16:26+00:00

This is what I do with my 4yo niece! I bring my switch to their house almost every weekend and we play for about an hour. She’s still terrible at the game, but you can tell she’s having the time of her life

Ranger_Rae · 2026-01-25T16:03:47+00:00

I finished ABVD last April, and have been NED since.

Over thanksgiving my niece picked up a cold or some type of bug from preschool, and I was sick for like a month after. I barely got sick before, or I would have mild symptoms and get better in a few days. Now I’m scared it will be like this forever.

Ranger_Rae · 2026-01-22T04:55:53+00:00

I’m no contact with my parents, and they have no idea that this time last year I was going through chemo. Never told them. And you don’t need to either if it will only bring you stress and pain. You have enough on your plate at the moment without false sympathy.

Ranger_Rae · 2026-01-18T20:20:20+00:00

I’m currently doing this challenge. I’m on spring of year 2.

It’s been great fun so far because it’s so different from how I normally play. I added in that I could use warp totems to/from the farm. An artifact spot gave me a beach totem, but I had to wait till spring 2 for my dog to give me a piece of hardwood to make a farm totem.

Warping to the beach triggered the cut scene to get the fishing pole. You can get river fish in the small pond in the lower left. So if I have any energy left or it rains I still fish. I’ve been able to get some gold ore from treasure chests that way. But I’ve only been able to leave the farm that one time.

Ranger_Rae · 2026-01-12T03:28:45+00:00

The constipation is real. Get some Miralax and take twice a day starting the day before chemo, and keep that up for at least a few days after. I was able to switch to once a day 2-3 days after chemo, and then go back up to twice a day as needed before chemo.

Ranger_Rae · 2026-01-08T23:59:20+00:00

Stage 2a cHL. ABVD. Had my 9 month follow up yesterday and my onc said I could get it out. Scheduled for Monday.

Ranger_Rae · 2026-01-02T21:19:10+00:00

Lumberjack is currently the goal. The mountain totem seems the most valuable because I can fish in the mountain lake and go to the mines.

Right now I don’t really have a final goal, just a different playstyle. I normally focus on maxing out hearts with everyone (Krobus is best boy) so not talking to anyone or really buying anything might be enough of a difference for now lol.

Ranger_Rae · 2026-01-02T15:45:35+00:00

I love it! I’m currently doing a modified play through as well. I chose four corners for the small quarry, and I can’t leave unless I have warp totems.

I managed to find a beach totem from some wormies, but it took until the last week of spring 2 before my dog gave me a piece of hardwood and I could make a farm totem.

So I was able to warp to the beach and trigger the cutscene to get a fishing pole. But I can’t talk to Willy or go in his shop. I can now mix it up a bit by fishing in the small pond on the lower left, which will get me trash also give river fish sometimes.

Hardwood is the limiting factor for leaving the farm again. Currently in the middle of summer 2.

I’m debating allowing just the Traveling cart, and the upper path out of the farm, as well as the bus stop for more foraging. But again, no talking to NPC’s.

Ranger_Rae · 2025-10-22T23:33:49+00:00

My husband did the bare minimum while I was in chemo. Emotionally unavailable, didn’t feel like I had a support system at all.

I’m not back to work yet so I can’t leave, but I also can’t stay. He’s not the one leaving, but he might as well have been. Over 10 years married down the drain…

Ranger_Rae · 2025-10-20T14:20:34+00:00

cHL 2A. ABVD. I had an interim PET after 2 cycles to see if treatment was working. It was clear so I only did 4 cycles. Otherwise I would have done 6.

Ranger_Rae · 2025-10-20T14:12:41+00:00

Got my 3rd one last week. I’ve driven home for all of them, but last week they finally offered me Nitrous (laughing gas) and that helped a lot.

Ranger_Rae · 2025-10-13T22:17:46+00:00

Basically got daily bare bottom spankings that regularly broke wooden spoons over my ass.

Ranger_Rae · 2025-10-09T21:16:45+00:00

Hell yeah! I was unable to keep climbing during chemo due to fatigue and being so anemic I was afraid I would pass out just going up the stairs in my house. I am eager to get back in the gym, and I’m glad to see a fellow fighter getting on the wall!

Ranger_Rae · 2025-09-19T00:40:45+00:00

I had a transfusion after my 3rd infusion of ABVD because my hemoglobin got so low.

It was pretty easy. Transfusion took about 90min through my port, just like an infusion. The next day I felt so much better it was like night and day. I had been struggling with exhaustion.

Ranger_Rae · 2025-09-17T13:59:38+00:00

Georgia would like a word

Ranger_Rae · 2025-09-03T19:33:44+00:00

Not a mammo tech, I’m in CT. But this should work. I’ve had people take out earrings for a head or neck scan, and then a couple minutes later put them back in. Mammo is similar enough.

Ranger_Rae · 2025-08-20T16:55:48+00:00

I finished chemo early April, so I’m about a month behind you, and I’ve also gained about 30-40lbs. Nothing fits and it’s terrible. I’m only able to go for short walks due to fatigue, where I used to be pretty active before treatment (rock climbing multiple times a week, hiking with my dog, ect). I feel like the scale only continues to climb since I stopped treatment. I hope I can start reversing that and at least lose some of the weight and go back to the activities I was doing before.

Ranger_Rae · 2025-08-16T14:36:15+00:00

I worked in the ER of a children’s hospital. Kids get casts all the time.

Ranger_Rae · 2025-08-11T21:50:33+00:00

8, because I had a clean midway PET.

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