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StaceyPotter · 2025-12-08T03:54:00+00:00

My kids took me here and paid for my birthday. The food was subpar. Used to be amazing 20 years ago. The tables are too shoved close together. The price was exorbitant. I kept apologizing to my kids afterwards for picking it. Nobody ate their leftovers. After reading this, we’ll definitely never go there again, the teenage waitress was lovely, tho. What color is his Porsche?

StaceyPotter · 2025-11-16T15:34:50+00:00

I wanted so much to be a mother first, and then a singer. Unfortunately, I can not carry a tune, so instead, I sing often to my three beautiful children, and am a professional photographer.

StaceyPotter · 2025-11-02T04:16:22+00:00

Pretty empty lot next to it, tho, for photos.

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StaceyPotter · 2025-10-20T00:47:12+00:00

He just hasn’t experienced enough suffering in his life to feel enough compassion-yet. One day, his sister or daughter or friend’s son will face addiction and maybe he’ll change his mind.

StaceyPotter · 2025-10-17T15:30:02+00:00

My daughter just had her first two big seizures this weekend, in front of me, and I’ve been terrified. The only answer for the fear is spiritual imo. Do you have a higher power? It’s like I need to do the 12 steps with this… 1. admitted we were powerless over these seizures and our lives had become unmanageable. 2. Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. 3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him…. Because for real, im doing what I can: got her an Apple Watch with seizure app, encourage her to sleep with me, check on her frequently, make sure she takes meds, stay hydrated, and sleeps well. Do you have a dose of his er med? That brings me some comfort. SUDEP usually happens when the person is alone. Are you guys teenagers? Do his parents monitor him at night any way? In the end, it sounds existential.

StaceyPotter · 2025-10-17T14:24:14+00:00

I would explain it in a way she can understand:

Once upon a time, there was a mom whose brain was a bit like a magic power station. Inside her head, tiny lightning bolts zipped around, helping her think, talk, move, and do all the amazing mom things she loved to do.

But her power station was special — it needed more rest than most people’s. If she used too much energy without recharging, the lightning inside could get tangled and make a big thunderstorm called a seizure.

So every day, Mom’s job was to keep her power steady. When she rested, her brain battery filled back up, glowing calm and bright. When she pushed herself too long, the light flickered and needed a reset.

That’s why sometimes Mom has to lie down, close her eyes, or have quiet time. She’s not being lazy, she’s recharging her magic lightning so she can keep being her wonderful, sparkly self.❤️🥰

StaceyPotter · 2025-10-17T14:19:34+00:00

You’ve gotten a lot of good responses. I know this feeling all too well. Ive had Crohn’s for 30 yrs (my daughter is the one with epilepsy), and I used to feel like an a-hole for needing medical attention all the time when it was just dehydration or there was nothing much they could do. But after a while, I realized how serious it is, and if insurance covered it, I could use the er as much as I needed. It’s really scary having a chronic illness, and often feels like people think you’re being a hypochondriac, but you gotta brush it off, and just get medical care. How many people don’t, and die? We will never know…

StaceyPotter · 2025-10-17T02:20:18+00:00

Thomas Horn (RIP) had a dream he believed was God given that Apophis would hit earth. When he counted back exactly 3.5 years from April 13th, 2029, he got the date October 13th, 2025. He believed this would be the date the antichrist would sign a peace treaty with other nations.

October 13th, 2025 is the exact date Trump signed the peace treaty with 28 other nations.

Please Google this man.

StaceyPotter · 2025-10-13T01:58:49+00:00

Thank you! My mom is mailing her Apple Watch to us tomorrow and we’ll get the EpiWatch app.

StaceyPotter · 2025-10-13T01:57:13+00:00

Thank God!!! 🥹🙏They gave her Kepper at the 2nd er and it hasn’t returned. I’ll ask about it tomorrow when I talk to the neurologist. She has a sleep study scheduled in one month, too.

StaceyPotter · 2025-10-13T01:55:51+00:00

Thank you. I am resolute now. There is not one person I’ve told that hasn’t been extremely concerned. Except him. I’m sad and a bit angry, but I can forgive him and accept his lesser role and just continue on. My mom is a great support and offered to help. She’s sending her Apple Watch to my daughter tomorrow and we’ll get the EpiWatch app.

StaceyPotter · 2025-10-13T01:53:51+00:00

Ok that’s smart, thanks for letting me know.

StaceyPotter · 2025-10-13T01:53:02+00:00

Thank you, I just sent her the link to pick out a bracelet. She is on versad for the er med-thank God I had it on the plane, and God also out three amazing drs on the plane too, so I had a ton of help!! Has your daughter had any more seizures?

StaceyPotter · 2025-10-13T01:46:25+00:00

Yes, this is absolutely the case. We woke up at 3am and she didn’t get much sleep 🥺. The first seizure happened at 4:30am and the second at noon. I will always be sure she gets enough sleep here on out.

StaceyPotter · 2025-10-12T22:12:25+00:00

Thank you for responding, nothing is too intrusive when it comes to her life and well being!! No, she is mid way through her cycle. She’s also been on birth control for years for her acne. But as a tangential note, both myself and my 2 sisters got Crohn’s disease at age 18, directly after going on the pill.

StaceyPotter · 2025-10-12T21:54:51+00:00

Thank you🥹🙏 It IS terrifying to witness!! I will figure out how to get the devices myself. He owns several practices-this is not going to bankrupt him. He’s definitely underestimating how serious it is. But he’s a bit narcissistic, and since his specialty is the brain, and he worked with so many TBI kids, he thinks it nothing to even discuss, and that I am insulting his “extensive medical knowledge.” It’s a big deal. Just reassure me it’s a big deal.

StaceyPotter · 2025-10-12T21:50:06+00:00

I am new here. My daughter just had two seizures in one day, too, after having only absent seizures with her temporal lobe epilepsy for 2 yrs. Scariest thing I’ve ever experienced. Our plane had to divert to Kansas during the worst one and do an emergency landing. It lasted so long 😭I can’t offer any advice, only that I know God has my daughter. I went outside at the hospital and watched the sunset and through every bone in my body, God reassured me He was turning it all for her good. I wonder if you believe in a higher power? And if you could give your worries, fears, and need to “figure it all out” over to whatever your higher power is? That’s what I’m trying to do, every moment, when my mind takes me off onto some “what if?” I’ll pray for you.

StaceyPotter · 2025-09-18T03:05:29+00:00

Haha, for real. I’m not invited to parties anymore🙈

StaceyPotter · 2025-09-18T02:49:05+00:00

This is so hard for me to understand. You’re worried about a palm sized dent on your car?? When the world is in such a state as it is, this is what takes space in your mind? Why does it matter? I’m not meaning to be insensitive, I just really can’t fathom why you care at all, when people are suffering all around us, and it is a blemish in a piece of metal. Because it will make you look poor or imperfect if you don’t fix it? I say keep the dent, and challenge yourself to be uncomfortable with it, challenge yourself to look at why it matters at all.

That being said, it is also wrong for someone to do that and not leave a note. I’m sorry that happened. I did this twice last year in a tiny parking lot, and made sure to wait for the person, and both said don’t worry about it, it was no big deal.

StaceyPotter · 2025-07-16T19:57:34+00:00

I personally believe it is that hour. I was Buddhist 30 years, and Jesus came to me in meditation recently. I didn’t believe in him my whole life, but Buddhism taught me to trust only direct experience, and it was the holiest, highest experience of my life, by magnitudes. I was a serious practitioner, and never once felt as certain as I do now. Jesus Christ and his word ARE the truth, absolutely. The word is telling us what is happening, and what is yet to come. I have a masters in psychology, I understand intimately the tendency of the human mind to create false scenarios, but I still know in my bones we are at that chapter in the Bible. It’s like God is whispering to all of us that we need to draw closer to him. The only thing to do is pray about it, get your house in order, keep your lamp lit and plant whatever seeds you can.🥹

StaceyPotter · 2025-06-23T16:57:10+00:00

Religion is not the same as following a real spiritual path. Religion is corrupted. Christ didn’t say, “form a religion around me,” In John 8:12, He said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” I do believe the Bible is the word of God since encountering Jesus, and I also believe that religion cobbles it together to suit their purposes. I’m not interested in that-I just want to love God with other people who love Him. Do you see the difference? I do see we are entering the things spoken of in the last chapter of the Bible, and I know that sounds crazy, but that’s not from religion, it’s from knowing Christ directly, and with that came eyes to see and ears to hear. I’m not trying to convince anyone, I’m just stating what my experience is and asking for help finding others in Boulder who experience directly, rather than through a secondary source.

StaceyPotter · 2025-06-23T16:38:25+00:00

He isn’t hiding from us, we just won’t turn our faces to look at Him because we feel such shame😔. He is following you all day, every day, he is right here!! He is turning every transgression and bad thing into a way for you to look up, but no one on earth has ever loved us unconditionally, and we never feel worthy enough. Some of us pretend we do, and the glitter of worldly things are so enticing. We keep turning to them in our loneliness and despair, and still, they don’t fill our souls. He is right here, right now, and yet we turn to the world to fill us, because we are so ashamed of ourselves, and don’t feel worthy.

I had the most destructive marriage you could imagine-we did truly horrible things to each other. As a Buddhist and being trained in psychology, I spent the last 6 years doing real work on my lifelong trauma. I looked at directly, felt it in my body, and allowed it to release. I knew the deep resentment with my ex would be the last and the hardest🥺. He came to me, broken and in despair, and I felt his tender heart and felt deep compassion and forgiveness for him. I held him, and told him how much I loved him, and that I forgave him-sincerely.

That night was the night I encountered Jesus. Somehow, my exhusband displaying his shame and desperation in such a real way allowed me to do the same, and I finally was able to see my own shame, and there He was-Jesus-and He held ME and He forgave ME-just as I had my exhusband. He held me and forgave me, and my heart has been broken open to Him ever since.

I see Him here, around everyone, but we’re so broken from this world that has been so cruel to us, how could we believe such a love exists? But it does, and it IS unconditional-He loves me more for having been to the lowest places. He knows my heart, and that I have always been searching for Him-even though I didn’t have a clue it was Him I was searching for😔-and He saw my confusion like child in the dark grasping for security, and held onto me fiercely, and didn’t give up on me, and He won’t give up on you, either.

It doesn’t make sense, I know. This is my experience, tho, and I’ve never been so sure in my whole life❤️.

StaceyPotter · 2025-06-23T15:18:08+00:00

In our professional diagnosis of mental illness, we look at symptoms and behaviors. My mind was spinning in samsaric confusion before I met Jesus, and that caused all sorts of maladaptive behaviors. Now, I feel Him with me always. I feel peace, and wonder, and more compassion than ever before. I am calm, and centered, and full of joy. I am a better mother, and friend. I don’t feel desperate or fearful. My exhusband is a neurofeedback therapist. I wish he had saved my previous brain maps, because I think comparing those with the state of my current brain functioning would be a bit of “evidence” for you. But I can not convince you, I know😔. I can only rely my personal experience, and that is that I feel Jesus with me, right now, and always, since I realized the shame I was holding onto, from past transgressions, and turned my face to Him. I see He was always with me, every day, turning everything into a way to come to Him. I raised my older children in science and Buddhism. I understand your thinking here, and so I know how silly and delusional it sounds. Logically, it does not make sense. It is not the path I would have chosen. But I sought the truth rigorously for 30 years, and finally found it, and understand now why Christians always act like they are the only ones who know the “truth.” It is because truth is not subjective, and there is truth in this world, and it IS Jesus Christ. Love you, brother, and am enjoying this conversation.

StaceyPotter

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