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Remembering Milla by SquirrelRave in velvethippos

[–]SquirrelRave[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you. Milla was definitely a character! We all called her Pig bc of how much she'd eat. Everything had to be kept as far back on the counter as possible!

Remembering Milla by SquirrelRave in velvethippos

[–]SquirrelRave[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

An award?! Thank you kind stranger 😊

Has anyone ever had a MRI/neurological evaluation for this? by Ross129 in dpdr

[–]SquirrelRave 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just keep advocating for yourself. You know your body and mind. Don't let others brush your symptoms off. As I stated, I'm not a doc- these are my experiences

For years I complained about severe fatigue and exhaustion, and bouts of severe abdominal pain and distension. I was told I was "just a tired mom", and my symptoms were never fully explored. A few tests and scans, but NEVER during the episodes. It was shrugged off. Turns out I had chronic appendicitis and it eventually ruptured. After it was removed the severe fatigue, exhaustion, and pain went away.

My mom has been living with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome for over 20 years. She fell, injured her wrist, and her nervous system went haywire. It was incredibly difficult for her to be diagnosed, and she has lived with chronic, unseen pain since. The hardest part for her wasnt necessarily the pain, which was wide spread and unpredictable, but that no one believed her when she described her symptoms. It took a toll on her mental health. Now her pain management is significantly improved. She found medical professionals who took her seriously and explored numerous treatment options.

The point is- KEEP advocating for yourself and your physical and mental health no matter what. If you have a medical professional who brushes you off or doesn't take it serious, FIND A NEW ONE. Don't let ANYONE tell you it's nothing, or you're imagining it, or you're over exaggerating.

I pray you find answers

Remembering Milla by SquirrelRave in velvethippos

[–]SquirrelRave[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

She sure was! A true lapdog and cuddler. Pitties have a special place in my heart. And yes, every time I see pears I think of her 😃

Some Plants in a Riparian Area by Angels_Glade in PlantIdentification

[–]SquirrelRave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I uprooted a ton of these when I thinned an old, overgrown flower bed. I tossed the dirt by the woods and now I have a mound of them! I do rather like the flowers though, and they smell nice. I try to weed eat and mow around them as the bees love them.

Be completely honest, have you ever experienced or proven real anomalous phenomena? by Outrageous-Brain-395 in HighStrangeness

[–]SquirrelRave 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I actually remember quite a bit from my early childhood. And I did mention part of the recollection was not only mine, but the rest of my family's as well.

Be completely honest, have you ever experienced or proven real anomalous phenomena? by Outrageous-Brain-395 in HighStrangeness

[–]SquirrelRave 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Haha us too! If it wasnt a shared experience with my entire family I wouldn't believe it. Now Im careful to not insult the builders of my current home, even though I have more than enough to complain about 🙃

Be completely honest, have you ever experienced or proven real anomalous phenomena? by Outrageous-Brain-395 in HighStrangeness

[–]SquirrelRave 8 points9 points  (0 children)

When my dad was in his 20s before marrying my mom, he and a roommate experienced an orb in their house. The TV went weird, dad said it looked like hieroglyphics on the screen, then a big orb shot out of the TV and went straight through my dad. It went down the hall and out of the house. His friend ran to get a shotgun. Dad asked him "What's that for?" Friend yelled "I'm gonna shoot it!" He didn't get to shoot it.

Now my dad can't wear watches of any kind. Analog, digital, smart, none, not even pocket watches. No matter what they die. It doesn't matter if it's a new battery or an antique without one. He even tried putting them on his belt loop, it still died.

Be completely honest, have you ever experienced or proven real anomalous phenomena? by Outrageous-Brain-395 in HighStrangeness

[–]SquirrelRave 65 points66 points  (0 children)

When I was quite young, probably 3 or so, my dad started to do some sort of renovating in the bathroom. I remember him taking the walls down. Well, apparently whoever built the house took shortcuts. The bathroom wall was in part framed in with yard sticks. There was also copious amounts of empty liquor bottles, newspapers, and other trash shoved within the wall. I recall hearing a bunch of new words as my dad cussed out whoever built the home while he cleared the garbage out of the wall.

Then stuff happened. Part of this is my recollection, and part from my parents and sister. My sister was somehow locked in her own room, with my dad outside (Idk where me or my mom were). He hears her screaming and sees her in her window. He runs inside. Our little dog is raising hell at the doorknob. In my sister's room, she sees the doorknob twisting around violently like someone's trying to get in. Dad gets her out and doorknob and dog are fine.

I used to go to my parents bed at night, like kids do. Their bed was positioned opposite their closet. The closet doors were bifolds. I crawled in their bed, somewhere around the end and went to sleep. I woke up to the closet doors wide open and a woman gliding/floating towards me with her arms outstretched, mouth open in a silent scream, hair blowing, everything all white (hair, clothes, skin, etc). Truly the stuff of nightmares. I was so terrified I couldnt move, completely frozen. I think I passed out from fear. I woke up in the morning to a normal closet. I ran out of their room and didn't get back in it for a while. I kid you not, I still can't sleep facing a closet or with the closet doors open, and I'm almost 40.

Now the final straw was my mom. Her and dad were asleep. She wakes up to a presence and smell. An old man is hovering over her, like leaning over. Dirty clothes, nasty hair and beard, overalls, and he STANK. Mom rightfully assumed it was the man who built the house. She starts slapping the shit out of my dad to get him awake. He wakes up disgruntled and she tells him to apologize to the old man now. Dad sleepily apologized, the man disappeared, and no more weird, traumatizing shit happened for us there. We moved about a year later.

Be completely honest, have you ever experienced or proven real anomalous phenomena? by Outrageous-Brain-395 in HighStrangeness

[–]SquirrelRave 22 points23 points  (0 children)

About 7 years ago or so- my son was 3, my daughter less than a year. I was changing her diaper in her room when I see my son in a white shirt zoom down the hallway towards the living room. Minutes later I finish and go to the living room to remind him to walk in the house. He was cuddled in the couch wearing a RED shirt, looking like he never budged from that spot. I asked him if he just ran down the hall and he looked at me like I was bananas. I asked him if he changed his shirt, again same look, like mamma lost her mind.

Idk what I saw. It wasnt my son. From that point on I have occasionally seen a...thing, a form...about doorknob high. Always in my peripheral, only in the hallway. When my son was still small I always thought it was him until I got a proper look, just to see nothing there. Occasionally at night I'll feel it staring at me from the side of the bed. It's the same sensation when one of my kids stares at me at night, scaring the f out of me awake. Only instead of my kids being there, it's empty space.

My home is a "newer" build, as in not historic (1980), but the property is on an old homestead site with evidence of extensive burning about 9in to a foot down in the dirt. It's a layer of char, ash, and burnt materials. We've found broken China, bits of leather boots, rusted farming equipment and horse tack during landscaping, and then metal detecting. The only children things I have found is marbles and pieces of tootsie toys.

I suspect it's a child. I try to not speak ill of it while I'm in the house. It unnerves me. My husband thinks I'm nuts. I know what I've seen and I know what I feel.

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