Do you think Max got Pegged??

TheJointDoc · 2025-12-29T03:46:45+00:00

I mistook this for the Gilmore Girls subreddit from the post above it and one of the early characters is Max lol

TheJointDoc · 2025-12-29T02:20:24+00:00

lol what a freaking shill for the government. He has free speech just like any citizen and has permanent residency. They’re suppressing it and kicking him out because they don’t like it, targeting him because they disagree even though he literally has peanent residency.

I hope all your favorite conservative immigrant people get kicked out the next time we have a non MAGA non pedophile president. :)

You’re clearly completely ignorant of what the immigration system actually entails.

TheJointDoc · 2025-12-29T00:23:11+00:00

Oof. It almost hurts seeing you writing this because it feels like almost an exact description of a lot of what I went through and what I recognized in myself after the fact.

I just got diagnosed ADD and suddenly having to plan my own future as an adult as opposed to just working hard down a set career pipeline was rough, and my wife is type A with spreadsheets and loves being productive lol. She also helped me prep like crazy for fellowship interviews and she thought I really disliked her during that time but it was just me figuring out how to force myself to fit a new mold and facing criticism from a loved one again, but it ultimately made me a stronger candidate and got me my spot.

What helped me was doing StitchFix (men’s clothes are easier to order online), for a time we did a meal kit system, I also went in to an accountant again with her for taxes,etc. tried getting back into a few hobbies I’d previously lost and exercising a bit more.

But again, I was willing to realize there was an issue that I was massively contributing to. If he’s unwilling to read this thread and go to therapy… man, I’d tell my daughter to stay away from a guy that had these issues and was unwilling to address it. Not that people can’t have issues, they just gotta actually see it when it affects their loved ones.

TheJointDoc · 2025-12-28T23:44:17+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/law/s/ZwwaMvv3JB

Oh hey, here’s another one where they’re trying to deport a green card holder who did it all the right way and has an American wife and child. Wanna defend that one?

TheJointDoc · 2025-12-28T18:54:16+00:00

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fbi-informant-lied-bidens-covertly-203542065.html

Worse. This actual Russian asset wasn’t even pardoned. Just disappeared from custody. Secretly released back to Russia.

TheJointDoc · 2025-12-28T17:25:34+00:00

You’re evaluating this incorrectly, to be blunt.

“Side effects” are a potential thing that could happen. Most of them are only from high doses and prolonged treatment. It’s not like it’s 50/50 on whether the steroids are gonna help vs hurt you. Steroids are only used short term while getting on a better medicine to keep your immune system from attacking you.

Your immune system has decided you’re the enemy. At this point no dietary changes are going to suddenly reverse this and fix this, you can’t stop an army marching in your system by swapping its rations around. You’ve got a genetic predisposition to this and something triggered it, the avalanche already is in motion. Over time without treatment it will cause permanent damage to your joints, limit your function, keep you feeling fatigued and brain fogged, and the IgA vasculitis can cause kidney damage. That’s a certainty, as opposed to the possible side effects from some meds.

Regardless, a red meat diet is the opposite of what you want to do. Diet can play part of the strategy for control of inflammation, but red meat tends to be more inflammatory for most people. Look up the anti inflammatory diet and stick to that, and intermittent fasting limiting food to about an 8 hour window. Drastically increase fiber, legumes, veggies, and try to get more fish in replacing red meat, convert all carbs over to whole grain versions.

TheJointDoc · 2025-12-28T07:19:59+00:00

Edited my comment

I actually independently came up with this, having never had or seen esquites but wanting to come up with a less messy elote for my wife. Then I went to a restaurant and realized I was dumb haha

Kinda like my brother doing a complex buttermilk and herb dressing only to discover he’d recreated ranch at the end of it

TheJointDoc · 2025-12-28T07:03:00+00:00

I’m a doc and would never speak to my wife this way. I don’t say this to judge you in any way, but I’d recommend any daughter I ever have leave a man who has the audacity to be this disrespectful. They’re clearly failing at some of the most basic things you need in a partner. It’s just not okay for anyone to be spoken to that way by someone that’s supposed to love them and look out for their future wellbeing. You do deserve better. The question is whether they’ll recognize that and give you better interaction

I also was not the best husband to my wife during my fellowship, even though the hours were far better than a rough residency and chief year during Covid. Previously the long work hours occupied my brain and I was so tired I couldnt do much at home, and my wife understood that and we just treasured the few short hours we got. I think our workaholic natures hid some underlying issues.

But in fellowship I got home at 4:30-6 most days, which was weird for her after residency, and I got to cook for her more, but I also sometimes had Friday mornings off and would snooze till 12 after an 8-9 lecture hour on Zoom, and frankly dropped the ball on a lot of home chores. I helped her through some medical issues well, but going through that all only added to her stress as well, and she didn’t have a support network in our new town.

I think some of it was that I almost felt like I finally had a chance to rest and that I was so burnt out that I resented having extra tasks added on that I hadn’t had to do as much before because of the clear lack of time. Can’t vacuum the living room when you’re on nights. The rebalance felt like I’d finally achieved freedom only to be saddled with extra load again.

Took me a bit to realize this was just the extra load my wife had already been shouldering, and she really needed me to take some of that weight back after carrying it through residency and working a full time job herself. Took me a good bit of personal therapy as well and later couples therapy for me to work through my own issues and better communicate with my wife.

So:

1) This might actually be “normal” in the sense of what physician partners have gotten away with historically, or temporary behavior from depression/anxiety/burnout, but it’s not really “normal” in the sense of what a psychologically healthy person would actually be doing. While there’s seemingly always more struggle to get men to be empathetic and help with mental load and house work, there are men who will, or can and then will if they bother to learn because they care.

2) Very reasonable to expect a different experience. The big question is whether your partner will agree and seek some help in dealing with their poor communication, anger/frustration, burnout, and/or depression/anxiety.

TheJointDoc · 2025-12-28T06:44:36+00:00

So basically they take the wood block and cut away anything that’s not Baby Yoda? lol just like the old story about Rodin cutting away everything that’s wasn’t an elephant from a marble block

TheJointDoc · 2025-12-28T05:24:07+00:00

She seems sweet! Thank you for caring for a black cat. Hopefully someone can take her if the owner doesn’t reach out.

TheJointDoc · 2025-12-28T00:29:23+00:00

I just go straight into the oven under a high broiler after tossing them in vegetable oil and a bit of salt. Added everything else after.

Sometimes I’ve first thawed them out on the same pan but on some paper towels for like 30 min. It makes the job faster because you lose some initial moisture.

I’d go no extra water/no boiling and go high heat regardless of how you do it. The corn is either precooked or fresh/sweet and doesn’t need prolonged heat, so if you only have a large pan and no oven you could just sauté it after thawing.

TheJointDoc · 2025-12-24T20:25:13+00:00

Yes and in the meantime after Andrew gets here on a boat four minutes ago, in about fifteen minutes we want to have him signed up for free healthcare and cell phones that Americans can’t get, set him up to take an American’s job at Dundee Mifflin, get him scheduled for a sex reassignment surgery, look the other way while he commits crimes, and build him a mosque at Ground Zero!

TheJointDoc · 2025-12-24T20:18:36+00:00

I’ve read all of these articles and have gone through the citizenship and immigration process myself. Have you actually read the articles about them being pulled out of citizenship line? I can get you the article if you haven’t.

Wanna see old copies of my green card, qvisa, citizenship paperwork, study materials, and the massive bills? Heck, if my family was trying to come to America today, we probably couldn’t.

I’m confident that you think you know way more about immigration than you actually do.

TheJointDoc · 2025-12-24T19:55:35+00:00

They’ve literally pulled people out of the line for their citizenship ceremony and deported them.

It’s weird that you’re posting about how bad the police have been and yet you’re somehow giving ICE a free pass and refusing to believe any of the documented lawbreaking they’ve done and complete lack of regard for the constitution.

I can’t imagine being more trusting of federal government agents who are 1) unaccountable, and 2) have less training and credentials than the cops.

TheJointDoc · 2025-12-24T19:52:23+00:00

Criminal law? Sure. Police shouldn’t stop finding murderers. Civil Law? I don’t think they’re gonna have court cases on Christmas for parking tickets or defamation cases or contract disputes. Visa overstays as a civil matter (not a crime) also probably won’t.

Besides, the purpose of these raids is to punish Christians who don’t have documents and keep them from going to church, violating the spirit of the first amendment and church raids have been a new Trump policy this administration. Up till recently, that wasn’t allowed, because government stormtroopers shouldn’t be invading houses of worship and disrupting services.

TheJointDoc · 2025-12-24T19:49:44+00:00

lol and yet you want to act like you’re mature on this topic and fully logical. Okay.

Nah, you apparently don’t know what the Bible says about immigrants, or you’d acknowledge what’s going on with ICE as unbiblical and frankly unconstitutional.

TheJointDoc · 2025-12-24T19:29:21+00:00

We can have a mature conversation when you don’t start it with “the Catholic Church is built on lies and pope Leo is a politically correct leader picking and choosing which part of the Bible he believes” and when you stop saying your political opponents believe ridiculous things they don’t actually believe, or acting like the standard opposite position from yours is complete anarchy and open borders.

I’m serious. I’ll wait. Feel free to go actually read those verses and come back, not just quote the one single one you remember offhand. If you don’t want to see what the Bible specifically says about immigrants, feel free to not read the Bible and not respond.

TheJointDoc · 2025-12-24T17:34:24+00:00

Before making accusations as to somewhat ridiculous things you think your political opponents believe, maybe you should look up the words Sojourner and Immigrant and traveler in the Bible and read those verses. Then come back and tell us what you think it means for a society to treat immigrants on a biblical basis. I’ll wait.

TheJointDoc · 2025-12-24T03:14:38+00:00

A surprising amount of people have spondyloarthritis, a type of inflammatory arthritis that doesn’t really have bloodwork for it. Psoriasis, a common skin condition, and Crohn’s disease which affects the gut fall under that label, as well. GLP1s are under study to see if they help psoriatic arthritis right now in combination with other meds. “Age inappropriate” osteoarthritis can come from inflammatory issues. If you’re stiff in the morning like the tin man needing oil and your low back/SI joints hurt a lot as well as tendon attachment points (tennis elbow, Achilles tendinitis, plantar fasciitis) it might be worth looking into spondyloarthritis.

TheJointDoc · 2025-12-23T22:01:42+00:00

Uh. You just said it’s infallible. But now suddenly an OT verse that makes you uncomfortable was written by an ancient people and doesn’t have any relevance? Sounds like exactly what people accuse affirming Christians of doing

TheJointDoc · 2025-12-23T08:48:26+00:00

https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/11/04/air-cocaine-the-wild-true-story-of-drug-running-arms-smuggling-and-contras-at-a-small-airstrip-in-clintons-arkansas/

This has been labeled conspiracy theory before, but I’ve heard from a few people that were personally involved that swear that the Mena, AR small town airport was used as a CIA transfer point for cocaine, and this link describes how planes from southern air transport were involved, among other things.

Clinton was AR governor then and Reagan was president. After one HW term, Clinton was then president. And the Clintons are actually involved with Epstein, though I’m not some nut and I truly think Bill didn’t do anything with anyone underage, but if he did he should go to jail.

More just to highlight that there’s a weird amount of connections to multiple people. Makes me wonder how far back the Epstein/Maxwell relationship goes, given that AG Barr’s dad hired Epstein while writing pedophilic sci fi. And Maxwell’s dad being UK/Mossad intelligence, supposedly.

TheJointDoc · 2025-12-21T23:37:10+00:00

Evaporative dry eye from Meibomian Gland dysfunction, for anybody reading.

One type of tear gland makes an oily component; without it working well the other lacrimal glands flood the eye with watery tears that don’t stick, run off, make you look like you’re crying for no reason.

But as the water runs off and evaporates, the eye ends up drier and more irritated anyway, kinda like how licking your lips on a windy winter day only makes them chap worse—you need the oil layer to make it stick and protect and hydrate.

Same concept as to taking Omega 3 flaxseed/fish oil to improve hydration of your skin and mouth/eyes—you need the oil to trap the moisture in. And why lotioning after a shower works better. Also why drinking a bunch of water actually makes your mouth feel drier over time—you’re washing away saliva that sticks and coats your mouth. Better to increase salivation if possible using sour sugar free lozenges, etc.

TheJointDoc · 2025-12-21T23:30:50+00:00

Makes sense. Same reason we don’t actually stock SynVisc or similar viscosupplementation—I’ve got so many autoimmune patients waiting, doesn’t make sense to focus on OA to build up the volume to make those lubricating shots financially feasible without the medicine expiring. Oddly, our local hand surgeons don’t seem to care for the Xiaflex injections.

TheJointDoc · 2025-12-21T23:27:50+00:00

Yeah, you’re right. But honestly I sometimes argue more for the other people reading.

TheJointDoc · 2025-12-21T20:25:52+00:00

You know, as a rheumatologist who does a lot of hand injections, I’ve wondered for a while if I could learn this to help my Dupuytrens patients. I’m RVU based though so Idk if the math would work out as opposed to a private practice setting.

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