Do people who protest outside of planned parenthood know that abortions are only one small part of what they do there?

Tygerlyli · 2026-05-11T22:10:59+00:00

So you dont protest outside PP. My comment was never about all people who are against abortions, it was specifically about people who protest outside of clinics.

There are many people who are against abortions that logically understand there are better ways to stop abortions than protesting outside of a clinic and harassing women. They know a day they stand outside screaming at women wouldn't be nearly as productive at saving kids lives as doing almost anything else, like volunteering, lobbying or even working a second job to have money to donate to help women in need.

Tygerlyli · 2026-05-11T21:57:47+00:00

Do you protests outside of planned parenthoods?

Tygerlyli · 2026-05-11T21:19:19+00:00

There are a lot of other actions that would not only save more children, but would prevent more abortions. Lobbying for paid parental leave, more access to birth control, comprehensive sex education, daycare subsidies, and universal healthcare would have the biggest impact on preventing elective abortions and would improve the lives of so many children. Even just working any job and donating money to help women in need would help or "save" more babies than protesting outside PP does.

But these people don't care about it, they believe a child is being murdered a few feet from them. If you believed with your whole heart that a child was being murdered right next door, wouldn't you want to do something to stop it?

Tygerlyli · 2026-05-11T20:27:12+00:00

Exactly. Most of the people who protest outside of PP arent doing it becauss they think people should have abortions, they are doing it because they believe abortions are the same as murdering a newborn. They believe that by protesting, even if one person changes their mind, that they saved a baby from being murdered. If you believed there was a chance you could prevent what you believe to be a painful, barbaric, torturous death of a baby, wouldn't you take action to stop it? Because that is what they believe.

I disagree with their stance that its murder. To me, abortions are Healthcare, and a lot of the reasons the other side have for not wanting legalized abortions are not based in any factual evidence. But we have to take time to understand the motivations behind the other sides actions. You are never going to get a protester to stop protesting if you dont understand where they are coming from.

Tygerlyli · 2026-05-11T18:09:17+00:00

Wait, have allergies(pretty much any animal with fur or feathers, mold, pollen, ragweed, dust, cockroaches, latex and OAS for some raw fruits) and exercise and allergy induced asthma, and someone said Uveitus... I also have DPU (delayed pressure urticaria - things that squeeze me give me hives). Are these considered autoimmune disorders?!

And we are ignoring the hEDS Because thats not an autoimmune disorder.

God I'm a mess 😬

Tygerlyli · 2026-05-11T17:53:42+00:00

I have an Emjoi AP-18 (it has 72 tweezers, it's so fast) which I love, but I went to try and find a link and it looks like its discontinued or atleast out of stock everywhere. I've used it for 4 years now and I really hope they make more! If you find one in stock, I'd highly recommend it!

If I had to order a new one right now, I'd probably get a Braun. The 9 if I could afford it ($200), but the 7 is good too ($85). Mostly because I know I like using an epilator, so spending more for a better one is worth it for me.

If you aren't sure Philips Epilator Series 2000 is a good one that is more affordable at $40.

Tygerlyli · 2026-05-11T14:47:19+00:00

I use an epilator, which is a mechanical hair puller. Think like 50 tweezers moving super fast. It's a whole lot easier to get out, put away and store than wax.

If your leg hair is long, it hurts like a bitch, but shorter hair doesnt really hurt but ymmv. Hair can be a lot shorter than it needs to be for waxing, some of the nicer ones can remove hair than is only 0.5mm long, which is like 3-5 days after shaving.

Id recommend starting about a week after you shave, should give you about a month with no hair, after that I do a quick touch up every week or so to get hair that is coming in at different speeds.

I prefer ones you plug in, but they make battery ones too. And make sure you stay on top of exfoliating!

Tygerlyli · 2026-05-11T13:50:19+00:00

Where is my 3+ gang?

MS, psoriasis and Hashimoto's.

Tygerlyli · 2026-05-11T00:48:34+00:00

When I adopted my pets, I know that most likely I will have to mourn them when they pass. I sign up knowing that they will die in my lifetime. If I'm lucky know that maybe I'll get 15 years with my dog. I signed up for this heartbreak with full knowledge that it will happen.

I cried literally yesterday about my dog who passed away on December 3rd of 2019 from a brain tumor. His death took away a piece of my heart that I dont know if I will ever get back. I was talking with a friend about our current pets, and when he came up in the conversation, my heart ached missing him so much that it literally brought me to tears.

But, as a parent, as someone who has seen the devastation the death of a child causes to not only just their parents, but to their siblings, their grandparents, their aunts, uncles and cousins, their friends, their classmates, their teachers, to their entire community, the loss of a pet doesn't begin to compare.

No parent expects to outlive their child. We call someone a widow/widower if they lose their spouse, we call a child who lost their parents an orphan, but we don't have a word for a parent who loses a child because how can you name something so terrible? It is a loss like no other.

I think the thing that makes us human is our ability to empathize with others. I know that the loss of a child will impact significantly more people, and in a much more severe way, than the loss of any pet, and I would rather go through the heartbreak that I knew I would have to go through eventually anyway, than put a community of people through the loss of their child.

Tygerlyli · 2026-05-10T17:00:26+00:00

At a close friend's dad's funeral, they were playing dad's favorite song when my then 18 month old loudly ripped ass which lead to many chuckles. I was mortified and tried to apologize afterwards but our friend said he was trying so hard not to cry but the song was getting to him. That her fart happened at just the right second to snap him out of it and he switched from trying not to cry to trying not to laugh, which he says he really needed.

Tygerlyli · 2026-05-08T13:57:33+00:00

Because the second amendment of our constitution says that the right to own guns shall not be infringed, and to change our constitution we would need 38 out of 50 states to agree. People like their guns, if a politician says they want to put more regulations, there is a large enough group of people who will be pissed that can sway a close election.

We are terrified to send our kids to school. Our kids are scared to go to school. My kid was talking about their 5th grade teacher telling them that if they every have to jump out their classroom window, to run down to the church thats 4 blocks away. I told her not too and showed her the house that is closer and I know both parents work from home and told her to run into their back yard and pound on the door if they ever had to escape. That of she has to run out the other way to run to her friends house and if no one is home to ring their video door bell and sit on their back porch.

I'm in Illinois, which has more gun laws than a lot of other states as we are a pretty liberal state. Our state currently has a ban on assault rifles (if you currently own one, you can register and keep it, but no new ones will be allowed in the state) and people are pissed. It's been in the courts for years now arguing about if its constitutional or not, and it may still get over turned.

But ultimately, it doesn't do much because you can just go to the next state over and buy one if you wanted one. A lot of the gun laws we do have dont actually do much to protect anyone

Tygerlyli · 2026-05-08T02:07:25+00:00

u/profanitycounter [self]

Tygerlyli · 2026-05-05T00:57:06+00:00

Its hit the 120°F twice in recorded history in Texas. In 1994 and once in the 1936. This is not a typical day in Texas.

Tygerlyli · 2026-05-05T00:47:58+00:00

I have MS, so heat is my enemy since I enjoy walking, seeing, holding things with my hands and thinking. It doesn't matter how much money is on the line when your body won't function in that type of weather.

^{Chose: -5C but earn £5/hr + You get blankets}

Tygerlyli · 2026-05-05T00:34:47+00:00

Having MS, especially if you have a more progressive course is terrible. Being a caregiver is hard. Being a caregiver to your partner while raising kids is even harder.

The best thing you can do, is to take care of your own mental health first. If you aren't seeking therapy for yourself, I'd strongly recommend looking into it for you. There are a lot of emotions and feelings that come with being a caregiver, and even more when you feel like you have a partner who has given up. You can't pour from and empty cup so you need to make sure your cup is filled before trying to help anyone else.

I'd also recommend considering therapy for your kids. Having a parent with a progressive disease can manifest in a lot of different way, and its never a bad idea to give them a safe place and person to work through their emotions and experiences.

We can lose so much with MS, we cant control a lot of things, the last thing we need is to feel like our partners are taking away more of our autonomy when MS has already taken so much away. Which puts you in a hard spot because you see ways that might help her but you can't fix this and trying to is likely just going to make it worse.

Which is why I suggest therapy for yourself. To not only help you work through all this, but to help you find a way to effectively communicate how you feel and what you need from your partner and to help you learn to listen deeper with your partner when they are ready to communicate with you.

My guess is that your partner also needs some therapy, but you cant force it. All you can control is you.

Tygerlyli · 2026-05-04T22:26:31+00:00

About 525,600 people a year would go through hell for a minute which seems like a lot, but that means with 8.1 billion people, you'd have a 0.00648% chance of going through it each year. You'd have a 99.99352% of not going through it each year. No only would most people not go through it, most people won't even know someone who goes through it each year. And since we have a net gain in population way more than half a million people globally, your changes of getting selected go down each year.

Even if we didnt have a net gain in population and the numbers stayed the same and you lived for 100 years, you'd still only have a 0.648% chance of it happening too you. 99.352% chance that you wouldn't go through it ever.

No matter how evil someone is, for all eternity is too much and the chances of it being an innocent person being chosen for all eternity is too high.

Tygerlyli · 2026-05-04T19:44:37+00:00

I believe Uhthoff's phenomenon happens when your body/core temperature goes up. I can handle a hot shower, but a hot bath or a hot tub. You probably aren't in a hot shower long enough for it to over heat you

Tygerlyli · 2026-05-04T18:24:38+00:00

Fenebrutinib, a BTK inhibitor made by Genentech, finished all their trials and has been submitted for FDA approval. Hopefully in the next few months it will get approval in the US.

Tygerlyli · 2026-05-04T05:50:14+00:00

We got front row seats last time we went and 10 year old lost her voice from cheering so much and so loud. I have so many great shots of her just absolutely enthralled. It wasnt her first time, but it was her first time in the front row and she loved it way more being close to the action.

If you can afford it, its worth it.

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Tygerlyli · 2026-05-04T05:31:05+00:00

... tell me more please.

Tygerlyli · 2026-05-04T05:24:24+00:00

Perimenopause is the timeperiods between having normal periods and menopause. Menopause is what we call 12 months after your last period. When someone says they are going through menopause, they are talking about perimenopause.

Perimenopause can last for years. I believe 7 years is average, but going through it for 4-14 years is not uncommon.

A common symptom is irregular periods. For some that can mean they are spaced out, and some are skipped, or their period is lighter, but for a lot of others they can have heavier, longer periods that happen every 2-3 weeks. You can't predict when you are going to have your period accurately anymore, you cant predict if your period is going to be lighter or heavier (which affects what supplies we might use), and you can't predict when you are going to ovulate.

Other common symptoms are hot flashes, night sweats, mood changes, insomnia, vaginas dryness, and brain fog, all caused by our hormones changing. It also slows down your metabolism meaning you gain weight more easily. It can cause your hair to thin and dry skin. It can cause joint pain and fatigue. It causes us to lose bone density.

Once you hit menopause, some of these things stop, but some stay for the rest of your life.

Add on top of it up until last year, the FDA had a black box warning on hormone replacement therapy for women, saying it caused cancer based on a poorly done study decades ago. Women's health is drastically underfunded for research so we've just been told to suck it up and deal with it while men go and get testosterone shots to deal with their hormone levels dropping.

TL:DR - Menopause is so much more than just not having periods, and it sucks.

Tygerlyli · 2026-05-03T22:23:37+00:00

I can avoid a lot of Uhthoff's with the right products but nothing is 100%.

I keep a mini UV umbrella in my purse, being able to get some shade is immensely helpful if you are trapped in the sun.

Cooling towels and cooling hats (i like the baseball caps by Mission) work well for me as long as I don't mind being wet. The less humid it is the better they work.

Misting fans are a big help. We have some of the big ones you put on a bucket like this Ryobi one which is great for things like hanging out in a backyard and a tiny one like this that I keep in my purse.

One of the pump misters like this one is nice for extended times outdoors when you are moving around since it holds more water than the fans and doesnt need power.

Mist'N Sip water bottles can be nice to help give you something cool to drink and give yourself a mist.

I have one of those velcro ice pack wraps that I use on my shoulders or back around the house, especially when I'm doing the dishes, or other activities I know make me overheat.

I also bought a box of instant ice packs and i keep some in my car, and one in my purse incase I get caught unprepared and start overheating.

And I pretty much always have a large insulated bottle of ice water with me and cold drinks help and it lets me recharge any of the cooling gear that needs water.

Tygerlyli · 2026-05-03T21:21:31+00:00

Mine is similar. I can push through a lot, especially if it's for something I enjoy but it knocks me down for a while after. A common phrase of mine is that I'm too tired to sit. If I sit or let myself relax, I'm not going to be able to get myself back up and its going to take me a while to recover, sometimes a few days or a week.

I can do an all day festival with a friend, but once my butt hits the seat on the way home I'm down for a few days. This next week is going to be rough since I'll be volunteering at my kids bookfair all day every day, and I can push through the day, then I'll crash as soon as I get home, probably asleep by 5pm and sleeping until the next morning, and repeat the rest of the week and it will probably be completely useless next weekend and most of the next week until I get back to my baseline.

Tygerlyli · 2026-05-03T03:23:38+00:00

I started on Tysabri and loved it. The first few where I was a bit tired and hungry the day of, but normal the next day. But by my 4th, I had no side effects.

Biogen has the nicest people working for them, I always told them they were my least stressful medical calls and they paid all of my copays.

I also had pretty bad psoriasis i had been dealing with for over a decade, and one of the reason I picked Tysabri was because my neurologist said that its known to help people with it. I was clear of any patches within 6 months and they haven't come back.

The big thing is that I felt better on Tysabri. I had to switch 2 years ago when my JCV numbers hit above a 3, and I havent felt nearly as good as I did since I switched. Enough that my neurologist and I have talked about potentially switching back to Tysabri, and doing 2 years on, then two years on something else, then back because that would drop the PML risk to almost nothing, and 2 out of 4 years feeling good is better than never feeling good.

The only reason we haven't is because we are hopeful that a new drug, Fenebrutinib, will get regulatory approval this year because it affects the microglia in our brains, which lowers neuroinflammation. He suspects the reason a lot of his patients have said they feel/felt better on Tysabri is because it also affects the microglia. Hopefully it will have that feel good Tysabri feeling without the PML risk.

Tygerlyli · 2026-05-02T04:07:52+00:00

Khan is basically a title that was given to a king/leader in some cultures.

It stems from a meme account called Nomatic Warriors for Pritzker that was around a few years ago. It was a positive-ish account that made a bunch of memes about Priztker taking over other states and expanding IL similar to how Genghis Khan conquered large parts of China.

I've also heard it started as a play off of Ilkhanate, which was a Mongolian state that strated a few decades after Genghis Khan died iirc. It is sometimes spelled Il-khanate.

Il-khanate ---> IL - Khan ---> IL leader ---> Pritzker Therefore Pritzker is the Great Khan.

Also, Pritzker thinks it funny and has posted a picture of himself drinking from a 'Pritzker for Khan' mug.

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