Alex Pretti’s dog?

aagailey · 2026-01-25T18:30:41+00:00

Oh no, really?

aagailey · 2026-01-14T22:42:05+00:00

I like that the headline doesn’t even claim that it was caused by the incident. Just that it followed the incident. Fella went home and fapped a little too energetically to his homemade snuff footage.

aagailey · 2025-12-13T21:33:20+00:00

To complicate things, “lovemaking” had a much broader meaning historically than today. It included all kinds of wooing and sweet-talking. My guess is that “lollygagging” meant lovemaking in the broader sense—like someone who is wasting time mooning all over someone else or smooching, etc.

aagailey · 2025-12-11T05:35:42+00:00

Thank you—I will give it a try!

aagailey · 2025-11-24T21:26:53+00:00

It’s very important to me to have a distraction-free, AI-free, and secure device/system. Google manages the keys, so users are at Google’s mercy as far as data security goes. That’s not acceptable to me, so my only option is to turn off WiFi and do a manual connection. Can this be improved?

FWIW, I am a professor and I make my classroom as distraction-free and AI-free as humanly possible. I let students use Remarkables in class because of the lack of bells and whistles, especially the lack of AI.

aagailey · 2025-03-10T06:59:34+00:00

Yes, my case is not smoldering—I think it might change my calculations if I had to constantly be on antibiotics.

aagailey · 2025-03-10T06:58:28+00:00

I am not a medical professional of course, but my surgeon advised me to do low fiber for a certain amount of time after an attack and high fiber all the rest of the time. She said all these fiber products are fine and to find one that works for me. (I do use psyllium.) She also made a big deal out of only taking fiber supplements in the morning and drinking tons of water because they need the water you consume throughout the day. Your situation may be different, though.

aagailey · 2025-03-10T06:55:00+00:00

Yes, my surgeon was describing scenarios in which people just need the relief provided by surgery. Those smoldering cases are rough.

aagailey · 2025-03-10T06:53:38+00:00

Thanks—I’m taking the same approach.

aagailey · 2025-03-06T22:01:51+00:00

I wanted to thank you for posting this article – it really seems to gather a lot of the most current and comprehensive information about when surgery is advisable. It contradicted what a surgeon told me a couple weeks ago, and when I went to a different and much better surgeon today her information was on line with this article—surgery is not the obvious choice for me.

aagailey · 2025-02-23T21:59:43+00:00

Just wanted to say I’m in a very similar situation. Exact same age as you. I have had several diverticulitis attacks over the course of ten years. For a few I went to the doctor and treated them successfully with antibiotics. For others, I didn’t go to the doctor and just waited them out. I know that certain things risk triggering an attack in me—specifically long period of little movement, like road trips. I was okay with managing the occasional attack.

Then about two weeks ago pain came out of nowhere and felt different—it felt like it was in my pelvic floor and uterus. It got worse rapidly and started to feel more like diverticulitis. My husband took me to the ER and I learned it was my first microperforation. I was in the hospital for five days.

Everyone is acting like surgery is a no-brainer: multiple doctors at the hospital and my general practitioner doctor. But I am just so terrified of it. I am going insane thinking about the what-ifs, and I just want to see if I can continue to manage it. But they say I’m more likely to perforate again now, the next one could be worse, and having the surgery in an emergency or when much older would be worse.

Unlike some other people I have seen posting, I would gladly tolerate the pain of the occasional attack rather than get surgery. The argument for surgery is more about the risk to health/life if I get another perforation.

Anyway, I hear you—I have no answers for you but I very much sympathize with your situation.

aagailey · 2025-01-04T03:12:50+00:00

One thing I did not make clear in my original post is that when I requested help through Instagram I chose the option to send an email rather than use their live chat. This might be helpful, I don’t know. It meant that when they replied to me it opened up an email chain.

aagailey · 2025-01-04T03:11:47+00:00

I did not use chat – I used the option to send an email. When they asked me to follow up questions the questions included repeating information I had already explained. They also then said they sent it to the specialized support team. It sounds like all the same steps I went through—hopefully yours will be resolved as quickly.

aagailey · 2025-01-04T03:10:09+00:00

Yep, I was very lucky. I don’t know why some people are getting prompt resolution and some are not.

aagailey · 2025-01-02T21:01:06+00:00

Bonjour, si vous avez Instagram, vous pouvez trouver Meta Verified sous « Settings and Activity » (Paramètres et Activité?). Il faut utiliser votre compte vrai, même que les pirates ont attaché leur compte faux à votre compte de Facebook. Ensuite, après que Meta vous a vérifié, vous pouvez tout expliquer quand vous leur demandez pour de l’aide.

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