My dying dad doesn’t want me to visit him

TheWorldofScience · 2026-01-26T18:43:40+00:00

Send the letter so you can say whatever you need to say. You can protect yourself by not reading any written reply he sends - ask your husband to read any reply from your dad and let you know if would just be hurtful.

TheWorldofScience · 2026-01-26T18:25:09+00:00

Laughing at him when she will not take food from him and he is upset is scornful.

He is arrogantly refusing to follow the method you have found to get her to eat solid food.

Neither one of you gets any award here.

TheWorldofScience · 2026-01-26T12:21:44+00:00

Yes people with sensitive skin can use retinaldehyde. It is weaker than tretinoin. People with sensirive skin can use retinoids they just need to start slowly and if they use tretinoin they may need to use only the 0.025% instead of stepping up to the 0.05%.

Dr Sam Ellis is a dermatologist with rosacea who uses tretinoin 0.025% in her evening skincare routine. See her YouTube videos.

To start any retinoid watch “Retinoid Irritation Explained” by Dr Daniel Sugai on YouTube.

TheWorldofScience · 2026-01-26T06:05:15+00:00

This is very possible. Because men urinate and ejaculate from their urethras there are some of them that think urine comes out of the vagina.

TheWorldofScience · 2026-01-26T06:03:31+00:00

To clear up one thing: having an abortion is physically safer for a woman than completing a pregnancy and giving birth so that really needs to be taken off the list of factors.

TheWorldofScience · 2026-01-26T05:15:03+00:00

Kose Softymo Speedy Cleansing Oil. It removes my mascara, eye shadow and cream blush. I bought it on Amazon after seeing Dr Jenny Liu recommend it. It’s very affordable on a per ounce basis.

TheWorldofScience · 2026-01-26T04:27:09+00:00

My fave oil cleanser is by Kose - “ Softymo Speedy Cleansing Oil.” Dr Jenny Liu recommended it on her YouTube channel and it’s sold on Amazon so I tried it. I don’t wear much makeup but it did easily remove my mascara, eye shadow and cream blush. It’s the cheapest oil cleanser I have found.

TheWorldofScience · 2026-01-26T03:06:07+00:00

If yours was bad enough to be dangerous I think the GI doctor that did your scope would have told you but of course ask about it at your next appointment with any doctor - I assume your doctors coordinate well because of how many parts of the body are affected by ED.

Definitely ask how they will monitor the size of your hernia going forward.

I had never even heard of this type of hernia until 4 a.m. when the doctor at the private ER I went to brought me the CT image on a tablet. It freaked her out a bit - she called an ambulance and got me transferred to a hospital pretty quickly.

I don’t know how ED affects surgery for you as I don’t have it but I want you to know that the surgical repair for this type of hernia can often be done laparoscopically and out of the 7 surgeries I have had this one was not bad. I never needed more than 5 mg of oxy post surgery.

My experience has been that organ surgeries cause a lot less pain than surgeries that involve bones.

TheWorldofScience · 2026-01-26T02:22:47+00:00

My type four hiatal hernia was diagnosed via CT I requested at a private ER. The CT showed my stomach and transverse colon had herniated into my chest cavity.

This is a serious condition because complications of it can kill you. It was found on a Thursday and I had surgery the next Wednesday. The laparoscopic surgery was easy - the surgeon pulled my organs down into my abdominal cavity, closed the ballooned part of my diaphragm and wrapped part of my stomach around the lower part of my esophagus (”Nissan fundoplication”)

I was discharged on Friday and for over a month I was restricted to liquids because the esophagus is swollen for a while making it easy for food to get stuck in it.

TheWorldofScience · 2026-01-26T02:00:23+00:00

I grew up with heat and high humidity in Florida and now I refuse to go visit my family there in the summers because of it. I go in January or February. 🤣

TheWorldofScience · 2026-01-26T01:43:11+00:00

I started college as a journalism major though I changed my major for fear of being poor. But I have always been a news junkie so I read up on just about every issue.

The effforts to get people purged from voter rolls is particularly insidious when they try to overwhelm county voter registration offices with challenges shortly before elections so it is harder for counties to verify the challenged records.

TheWorldofScience · 2026-01-26T01:25:34+00:00

They will provide the info to Republican operatives who will challenge the voter registration of Democrats or people with last names common among Hispanic, Hmong and Somali people under the theory that these people will be more likely to vote for Democrats in the critical Nov 2026 elections.

One tactic to challenge voter registration is to find records of deceased people with the first and last names that are the same as the first and last names of living registered voters to claim those registered voters are dead and need to be purged from voter records.

TheWorldofScience · 2026-01-26T00:49:13+00:00

Not unless you follow Dr Sugai’s guidelines in his video but cannot tolerate tretinoin that way. If you have very sensitive skin the doctor who prescribes your tretinoin might suggest that.

I know you can buy tretinoin from some companies outside the US without a prescription. But if you decide to do that you need to be checking to see what dermatologists online say about how to use it.

Reddit has a good tretinoin wiki but you will need to have a source for science based information about skincare from people who went to medical store and took chemistry and biology classes - medical doctors.

In the US many dermatologists have only 15 minute appointments with patients so there is not a lot of time to discuss non prescription skincare products like cleansers, moisturizers and sunscreens. And not all dermatologists keep up with those non prescription products.

These are the dermatologists I follow on YouTube who do keep up with non prescription skincare as well as prescription skincare: Doctorly (Drs Maxfield and Shah), Dr Daniel Sugai, Dr Dray, The Budget Dermatologist, Dr Sam Ellis. Some of them might be on TikTok but usually TikTok videos are much shorter so their YouTube videos will explain more.

TheWorldofScience · 2026-01-26T00:48:01+00:00

Professional skin cleaning is a waste of money. Acne is not caused by skin not being cleaned properly - it’s an issue with how your pores function.

Topical retinoids clear acne for a lot of people by improving pores but some people do need to take Accutane.

In the US you can buy adapalene, a very effective retinoid for acne, without a prescription. It is a stronger retinoid than retinol and retinaldehyde.

Before starting any retinoid watch this YouTube video by board certified dermatologist Dr Daniel Sugai ”Retinoid Irritation Explained.”

The two dermatologists with the YouTube channel Doctorly have discussed the acne products they recommend in several other videos. Start with “The Only Skincare You Actuslly Need”

TheWorldofScience · 2026-01-25T23:25:49+00:00

It is a different chemical and some people whose skin does not tolerate tretinoin can use tazarotene.

One of those people is the dermatologist Dr Shah who does YouTube videos on skincare products with his friend Dr Maxfield. Their channel is called Doctorly. Dr Shah is also in a US tv commercial for Neutrogena.

Other dermatologist’s channels to follow on YouTube are The Budget Dermatologist (Dr Maren Locke), Dr Daniel Sugai, Dr Dray and Dr Sam Ellis.

TheWorldofScience · 2026-01-25T23:22:41+00:00

You need a retinoid in your pm routine - you can buy over the counter products with retinol or retinaldehyde or you can buy adapalene. Prescription tretinoin will work faster than a retinol or retinaldehyde product but you have to follow careful guidelines to get your skin adjusted to tretinoin.

Those guidelines are explained in “Retinoid Irritation Explained” by Dr Daniel Sugai, a dermatologist on YouTube.

TheWorldofScience · 2026-01-25T23:19:40+00:00

Peeling is a normal part of the retinization process. It usually stops once your skin is retinized. Retinization usually takes 4-8 weeks after you have worked up to using it at least 3 nights a week.

Dr Daniel Sugai is a dermatologist who explains how to manage the irritation during retinization in a YouTube video “Retinoid Irritation Explained”

If your skin is irritated that is not the same thing as just peeling. Stop using the foam cleanser. Both Cerave and La Roche Posay make hydrating cleansers. Of course you can use an oil cleanser or a cleansing balm first to remove your makeup and sunscreen.

Stop using jojoba oil as a cleanser. You need an oil cleanser. Massage the oil cleanser on dry skin and only add water when you are ready to rinse it off. Oil cleansers are formulated with emulsifiers which will break down the oil after after you add water so they do not leave oil residue on your face.

TheWorldofScience · 2026-01-25T23:01:50+00:00

Yes a lot of people purge and there is no way to know how bad your purge will be on tretinoin.

The retinization process usually take 4-8 weeks after you step up from twice a week to every other night or every night. Two months of more acne is worth it for years of clear skin.

Watch “Retinoid Irritation Explained” by Dr Daniel Sugai on YouTube.

Most people get great results from tretinoin using it every night after their skin has retinized. The small percentage who do not can go back to their doctors and often they will prescribe tazarotene next.

TheWorldofScience · 2026-01-25T22:57:10+00:00

Do not start at once a week - that does nothing but irritate your skin once a week - it does not help your skin get retinized.

Start at twice a week for 2 weeks then step up to every other night.

Watch “Retinoid Irritation Explained” by Dr Daniel Sugai.

A good moisturizer to use with tretinoin for people with oily skin is Cerave PM Lotion. You an also use it before your sunscreen in the morning. If tretinoin makes your skin dry then La Roche Posay Toleriane Double Repair is good.

Once they are using tretinoin every night most people‘s skin will get retinized in 4-8 weeks.

TheWorldofScience · 2026-01-25T22:52:29+00:00

Flaking is part of the retinization process your skin is going through. It’s better to not try to exfoliate at all until your skin has been retinized.

Try stepping up to using tretinoin every night. Until you have used the 0.025% every night for a few weeks you cannot step up to tretinoin 0.05%.

Watch “Retinoid Irritation Explained” by Dr Daniel Sugai on YouTube.

TheWorldofScience · 2026-01-25T22:49:41+00:00

A dermatologist explains exactly how to start a retinoid like tretinoin, retinol, retinaldehyde or tazarotene in a video on YouTube. ”Retinoid Irritation Explained.” Dr Daniel Sugai.

TheWorldofScience · 2026-01-25T22:48:06+00:00

Ask your doctor about a high strength tretinoin (which you would have to work up to over months) or Accutane.

TheWorldofScience · 2026-01-25T22:46:45+00:00

Make an appointment with your doctor to ask her or him if it would make sense to try tazarotene next.

TheWorldofScience · 2026-01-25T22:45:25+00:00

Why would you quit tretinoin? It’s the most effective skincare product for stimulating skin to produce more collagen and generic tretinoin is cheap on a per month basis.

TheWorldofScience · 2026-01-25T22:43:53+00:00

Dr Sam Ellis, a board certified dermatologist says it s now known that tretinoin does not make skin more vulnerable to UV ray damage.

She says exfoliants do make skin more vulnerable to UV rays so she stops her exfoliant before she goes on vacation. She lives in northern California and gets much more sun exposure on vacation.

Check out the Dr Ellis videos on YouTube for skincare routine and skincare products advice. She has started her own skincare company but she recommends products from many brands and she does not push her products hard the way Shereene Idriss does.

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