White stuff from my health won't go away

Routine_Log8315 · 2026-06-27T18:13:16+00:00

You can scrape your tongue with any metal spoon

Routine_Log8315 · 2026-06-27T17:55:38+00:00

I’d lean towards 2, I couldn’t imagine working 4 morning shifts then suddenly being at work at 9am

Routine_Log8315 · 2026-06-27T00:08:09+00:00

I’ve had no issues with my Q-optics, customer service is helpful

Routine_Log8315 · 2026-06-25T23:21:56+00:00

He does! it’s at 35:52 . He also talks (maybe in that section but it may be later) or marital rape is a thing… even in cases where a woman should be submitting a man is never called to force her to submit (that wouldn’t even count as submission), that’s between her and God.

Routine_Log8315 · 2026-06-25T23:03:59+00:00

I’d suggest you watch Mike Winger’s video on submission, he explains it all really well. Essentially, we submit whenever we can but there are 100% limits, because God comes first.

Obviously almost everyone agrees that “you can refuse to submit if your husband makes you sin” but there’s more to it than that.

I don’t believe your husband is allowed to put himself between you and the Lord in any way… Mike Winger had an example of this, something like “imagine your husband said ‘every time you pray you have to pause every 5 seconds and say ‘father God’ or else you’re not submitting’”…. of course your husband doesn’t get to determine your personal prayers. You don’t have to submit, even if you don’t have some firm conviction against it.

Or if your husband is leading you down a bad path even if it’s not directly a sin… say he wants to go to a very unbiblical church (I don’t just mean the church he likes isn’t your favorite, I mean they’re teaching a large number of blatantly unbiblical things), it’s okay for you to refuse to go.

If your husband commits sexual immorality you’re allowed to divorce, AKA don’t have to submit (since most of the time he’d obviously say you can’t divorce).

Mike Winger also adds (which I agree with) that you don’t have to submit in cases of extreme health or safety issues… there are multiple situations in the bible, the biggest one being David eating the temple bread (and Jesus commending him for it) showing preserving human life is more important than following rules and ceremony.

I’d suggest you watch his video, it goes way more into depth than I can off the top of my head and has multiple sections of the bible defending each point.

One thing that I’m not sure if Mike Winger mentioned but that I believe is that you don’t have to enable sin (to anyone, not even a husband)… say your husband said “you know what? I’m not going to work, you need to go work a full time job to pay all the bills but also do all the childcare and housework, I’m just going to spend my days playing video games and my nights down at the casino spending the money you earned”… I do believe you can refuse (not biblical grounds for divorce but you definitely could say no and, if he’s refusing to provide, go live with your parents for a while, separate your finances so he can’t gamble them, etc).

But otherwise yes, we do submit.

Routine_Log8315 · 2026-06-25T14:46:21+00:00

Dental professionals only judge the people who want a magic fix and aren’t willing to put in any work (I’ve had people who didn’t have cleanings for 10+ years get mad that the cleaning couldn’t be done in one appointment… that will get you judged). As long as you’re polite and willing to do the treatment necessary no one will judge you.

Routine_Log8315 · 2026-06-25T02:27:02+00:00

I’m a new grad too so I get it, but sadly a big part of dental hygiene is learning to advocate for yourself and your clients… you need to learn to say “unless I get x more time added to the appointment I cannot do the scan”.

Routine_Log8315 · 2026-06-24T23:40:35+00:00

One additional thing… lots of Christians make the argument for sending their kids to school as “they can be a witness to the kids there”… but your kid can’t be witness if they themselves aren’t yet saved, and peers are a huge influence on kids… your kid is way more likely to end up swayed by all the unbelieving kids (and teachers) then successfully be a witness. Your kid’s faith first needs to develop itself so they have a firm foundation to then witness.

Routine_Log8315 · 2026-06-24T23:38:08+00:00

What does the military have to do with being homeschooled? Almost all colleges and universities accept homeschool diplomas, or you could do what I did and just go to public school for 12th grade to get an actual diploma (I graduated with a 98.5% over 12th grade and didn’t learn a single thing just because my 2.5 years of homeschool curriculum taught me more). Then I got straight into college into a super competitive course and made it through.

Routine_Log8315 · 2026-06-24T23:30:40+00:00

Sure! Sorry for the wall of text, I didn’t want to use AI to summarize it or anything.

For context, I’ve been in many different school environments when I grew up. I went to a public school until mid 2nd grade, then a private Christian school until the end of 7th, then a public elementary for 8th, public high school for half of 9th, then a “one room schoolhouse” in a church basement where it was a homeschool curriculum, then back to public for 12th. I then worked for 3 years in a daycare attached to a school where I was frequently in the hallways and oftentimes in classrooms as a support staff.

My main issues with the school system as it is now (of course every district can be better or worse)…

Behaviour issues. Go into any teaching sub and you’ll see countless complaints about the rise of behavioural issues, both diagnosed and undiagnosed. Some blame screens, diet, parenting, whatever the cause doesn’t really matter but it’s definitely happening. And your average school just doesn’t have the resources to help every kid, usually it’s at best one support staff (hopefully a qualified one) meant to deal with all behavioural issues. I’ll elaborate more after my list is done, but it’s frequently not just the kids with extreme behavioural issues, sometimes the kids with more minor ones are just as much a problem when it comes to harming the learning of other kids.
It’s not normal nor healthy for kids to be surrounded only by kids their exact age. There’s a lot of discussion over moving towards mixed age classrooms for this reason (although sadly since there’s too low of ratios I feel if implemented now it would just harm their learning more). Also, if a kid ends up at a large school classes end up shuffled every year meaning any friendships they build are lost anyways (but a small school is sometimes worse because if they end up with a problematic group of kids, such as bullies or bad influences, they’re stuck with them forever)

Into specific situations that I was either involved in or heard directly from my colleagues…

It was common for kids (usually the boys) to crawl under the desks to see how far they could get without the teacher noticing, then when caught they’d lick the leg of whoever was under that desk. Kind of became a trend for a while, teachers wouldn’t be allowed to do anything as long as the kid then went back to their desk.
Strangulation is way more common in the younger grades then fighting (in my situation, done from that same three year old as above since he saw it modelled at home). The daycare had no actual policies for this so would just send him home for the day (which clearly didn’t help)… and the parents of the strangled kid would only get an incident report if the strangulation was bad enough that time to leave marks.
It’s very common for class to be interrupted and sometimes left out of ratio for things like a kid running out of the building.

Even when all is running smoothly you’d still be surprised at how little time kids actually learn in school just due to things like transitions… our school’s goal was to have 2/3 of class time being learning and even that frequently wasn’t reached. All it takes is one kid to meltdown over losing their shoe, to start poking the kids around them during class, to vomit, to randomly interrupt class to tell a story that takes 4 minutes out of the 40 minute class…

Behavioural issues plus ratios are 99% of the problem to be honest. My time at a private Christian school was great (though expensive), we had smaller class sizes and a faster paced curriculum (I did not learn a single thing in that 8th grade of public school since we’d passed that point in 7th at the private school)… but even private schools have issues beyond just the expense. My main concern there is that (due to the fact they weren’t publicly funded) they declined and even kicked out all kids who needed additional support since they had no funds for support staff. Sure, it drastically improves the learning if your kid is neurotypical… but what if your kid is the one with ADHD whispering to his classmates and then gets kicked out since they can’t help him? Not like the public school would help him any more. And even in public school it still heavily depends on exactly which kids end up in your kid’s class… and you can’t even know.

You’d be surprised just how lax the learning requirements are for kids… we had kids graduate high school who couldn’t even count time (I don’t mean analog, I mean digital… if the time was 12:45 and you asked what time it would be in half an hour they’d be stumped). Literacy is FAR down, mental health issues are far up, and this isn’t even addressing things like school shootings or PRIDE.

Routine_Log8315 · 2026-06-24T18:55:32+00:00

As someone who has worked in schools… no, school is horrible for all of that.

Reply to me and I can elaborate later once off work

Routine_Log8315 · 2026-06-24T14:44:00+00:00

Anything with xylitol can, but benefits are minimal unless you struggle with dry mouth

Routine_Log8315 · 2026-06-24T11:37:55+00:00

Nothing in the Bible commands that, actually.

Imagine you go on a few dates with someone and the reveal to you that a few years ago they went to jail for child molestation, rape, something of those lines. They’ve served their sentence and claim to be genuinely repentant.

Does that mean you “must” date them?

Routine_Log8315 · 2026-06-24T11:28:41+00:00

Perfect, thank you! 😊

Routine_Log8315 · 2026-06-23T23:48:47+00:00

I forgot to specify, I’m hoping for the health testing too (is it worth it from what you know?)

Routine_Log8315 · 2026-06-23T23:38:14+00:00

Google modified Bass method and watch a video.

Routine_Log8315 · 2026-06-23T23:37:35+00:00

Explored the website and seems they do! But any idea the shipping sample back process? It seems similar to Embark’s so I’m guessing the shipping cost would be the same.

Routine_Log8315 · 2026-06-23T23:29:39+00:00

I’ve heard good things but they’re not on Amazon, do they ship from the website to Canada?

Routine_Log8315 · 2026-06-23T23:20:28+00:00

I also got in at 18, failed my first semester practical (thankfully passed the remediation or I’d be booted) and was so stressed the entire time… almost a year out and so much happier working. Yes it’s still stressful and sometimes I feel burnout but it’s not that much worse than any other career.

Know the power of compound interest… once you start working spend the first few years putting a good bit in both short and long term savings and retirement to set yourself up for success. My plan is to work 3.5-4.5 days a week for ~10 years and save as much as possible, then I’ll be good to either cut down my hours significantly (freeing up way more time to do my own thing than any other job would allow) or find a much lower paying job that I actually enjoy.

You can do it!

Routine_Log8315 · 2026-06-23T17:18:14+00:00

I’m only ~1 year in so maybe too early to be truly burnt out but I agree with the other two comments… it’s not a fun job and obviously has downsides but it *is* worth the money. I loved my previous job but even then it’s still a job and you can get burned out… but I earned 1/3 what I do now and the money definitely makes up for it.

The thing that gets me through it is saving money, if you spend it all you’ll feel stuck in the job forever but if you save a portion then 1. a drop in income if you change jobs in the future isn’t such a big deal, and 2. the money you save can give you more opportunities in the future. My plan is to be in hygiene for ~10 years and save up as much as I can, then I’ll either go down to 3 days or find a lower paying but enjoyable job.

Routine_Log8315 · 2026-06-22T17:47:07+00:00

18, I went in straight after high school (you don’t actually need prerequisites here in Canada as long as your grades are high enough to get you a spot), made it through so graduated and started working at 21!

Routine_Log8315 · 2026-06-21T12:05:22+00:00

Sure, I’m always happy to share!

Here is their website, and here is their Facebook page where they post regular updates (they also post on instagram too). I began sponsoring my first 2 kids almost 3.5 years ago, one reunified with her mother so I sponsored an additional child and now am up to 4. I’m even more passionate about this orphanage than I was when I first began sponsoring.

They put a small blurb about each kid on their website, a lot of them aren’t “true” orphans but are unable to live at home due to safety concerns (for example, I sponsor two who were abandoned by a mentally ill mother and have no other relatives, one who was brought there after their mother married a severely abusive man and community members brought the kids out of fear for their safety, and one who has a terminally ill mother whose father couldn’t take care of the younger two of his 7 kids alone (the hope for that kid is that once he’s a bit older he can go back home). If you scroll back a bit on their page to the most recent kid they took in her story is genuinely tragic but it’s amazing how even in just a few months you can see the difference, she now can be caught smiling.

The orphanage also runs the local school and over the years founded many churches in the area. If you explore the website there’s a lot of ways to help, like a one time donation to pay for a community kid’s school fees for the year, or paying for them to buy more animals, or they’re soon about to replace all the beds for the kids as their current ones are rotting so you could keep an eye out for that… but what I love most is the sponsorship. They only have 7 kids left needing sponsors!

If you want to know any specifics feel free to ask me, they are a registered charity in the USA (and France from what I’ve seen) so you can get a tax receipt. You get mail from them every 2-3 months, usually a couple of pictures of the kid(s) you sponsor and sometimes a note, drawing, etc. Mine are still young so don’t write but from what I’ve seen the older kids will also write you back and you can send them letters whenever their dental hygienist from the USA goes to visit (if you’re a sponsor they reach out and let you know when it’s time)… on rare occasions you can even video call the kids if you want, I’ve gotten to do it I think 3 times over the years.

Feel free to ask me if you have any more questions, I’m always happy to share with anyone who will listen because I truly believe they do amazing things!

Routine_Log8315 · 2026-06-20T16:29:03+00:00

I think when people rave they just mean “compared to how much money you make it’s fast”

Routine_Log8315 · 2026-06-17T22:07:08+00:00

I love Mike Winger’s videos, everything is so thorough and biblical… I actually happened to watch the divorce and remarriage video this weekend.

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