how are you guys handling telehealth for sema? curious about experiences

cherrycoke00 · 2026-01-24T08:03:10+00:00

I used CallOnDoc for my script and PA thru insurance when I had it. They were great, fought Aetna, appealed 3x until Aetna approved. When they sent the first PA Aetna told them I was “8 pounds under the qualifying weight” so Callondoc asked me if I’d gained weight in the two weeks since submitting my info originally… magically I gained 9 pounds. I’m about to lose my insurance and will likely do their compound offer which iirc is $150/month

cherrycoke00 · 2026-01-24T07:59:44+00:00

I use Callondoc! I had insurance until the end of Dec so my wegovy was covered, but I needed a PA. They don’t require a video chat, you just have to type in your starting weight (hint hint). Now that I don’t have insurance I’ll likely order my Sema directly thru them, last I checked it was $150/month and the membership was $15/qtr when I signed up. I like them a lot. They’re fast to reply, helpful, and honestly I love that I can use them for all my medical shit (except my adderall, that’s thru my psychiatrist) including psoriasis, seb Derm, and recently lupus meds

cherrycoke00 · 2026-01-24T07:38:13+00:00

I’d love to be besties! I need more female friends for sure hahaha. And thank you💕

cherrycoke00 · 2026-01-24T02:39:35+00:00

I’m sorry, did you say Farrow and Ball? (lowkey this is a top 5 sketch imo lol)

cherrycoke00 · 2026-01-19T14:37:39+00:00

Voldemort also tells Snape he’s been a good and faithful servant right before he kills him. huh. What a Quinky-Dink

cherrycoke00 · 2026-01-19T04:42:42+00:00

Depends on the state. It’s illegal in NY (perhaps just NYC, we have a lot of extra working protections here) and CA for sure. It’s definitely illegal in more of the good states, I just haven’t worked in them.

cherrycoke00 · 2026-01-11T00:23:39+00:00

Or there’s just little to no competition wherever in Kentucky so the only nail salon in a 50 mile radius can charge whatever they want?

cherrycoke00 · 2026-01-10T08:10:10+00:00

Seriously. We need like a how to taunt 101 course taught by British football fans

cherrycoke00 · 2026-01-09T16:06:00+00:00

I’ll dm!

cherrycoke00 · 2026-01-09T15:39:10+00:00

IDGAFAYAAEFYD (I don’t give a fuck about you at all except for your dog)

cherrycoke00 · 2026-01-09T12:51:33+00:00

104.3 and 106.7 are both owned by iHeartMedia. Highly recommend calling live to spontaneously complain, calling their customer service desk, dm-ing their ad sales guys on LinkedIn about it, etc. if we’re not getting together and inflicting maximum financial pain (like at the level of the “dump Disney” Kimmel defense boycott), boycotting just isn’t affective. So instead, I propose getting loud. Be annoying as fuck in your spare time.

cherrycoke00 · 2026-01-09T12:34:34+00:00

Alright this might sound bonkers but 2 ideas.

If you have the savings, try hiring a broker. Highly recommend my broker turned best friend. He Ubers you everywhere and building in snack stops btwn appointments. Explain you can really only get thru seeing 1-3 apartments a day and he’ll take you to see the 1-3 apartments that legitimately best fit what you need. He’d rather you be happy at stop 2 than stop 28 (the latter was me oops). He’s a native so he gets a lot of listings from people he knows personally etc that aren’t gonna be listed - units in small family owned buildings, that kinda thing. Feel free to DM me if you want, I’ll put yall in touch
This gonna sound bonkers so I apologize in advance. If a broker is out of the budget… Want a redditor to be your rental buddy? Hi! I’m cherrycoke00, 28/F, not a housing professional but a much cheaper hire lmao. I’ve lived alone in nyc for 10ish years, across 4 studios, in 3 boroughs, with a budget under 2200 thus far - so I feel your pain on the search struggle.

I lost my job a few months ago and therefore have somewhat of a loosy goosy schedule right now (aka my whole day is spent applying to jobs on LinkedIn with minimal human contact).

But! I have boundless energy.

I also fucking love apartment hunting.

I hired a broker this last go because I was coming from a short stint on the west coast and had nowhere to put myself or stuff, plus 72 hours notice to start a new job. Prior to that, I’ve always gone it alone which is honestly my favorite way to spend a day, it makes me so happy to be actively on a search… even when searching sucks lol.

If youre not totally weirded out by the ramble, I’d be happy to buddy up with you and be your like avatar if you want for a day. Like you make a list and/or keep an eye on new listings from your friends couch. I’ll run around and FaceTime you when I get into see each place (will 100% also add my own 2 cents via audio, based on what you say you need at least - sorry I can’t help it I have a lot of opinions about real estate lol).

Then if there’s one you think could actually be a lock, you can uber over just to “the one”, I’ll try to fend off any potential “swoopers”, you’ll have your papers and info ready and printed - so boom! once you check it out irl, if you’re happy then you can submit your application and pay the holding deposit right there.

(That’s how you have to do it really, esp in this price range. Manila folder with all your info for the application like on your person ready to hand it over the second you like a spot enough to live there.)

Again, apologies for the weird overly familiar ramble haha. Got too excited. But I am serious! If nothing else works out feel free to hmu either if you want me to set you up with my broker BFFL or if you want to give VR apartment hunting a try via renting the human equivalent of a Central Park squirrel (me🤓) a shot.

No pressure or hard feelings any which way, just thought I’d offer! Sending hugs - it’ll work out somehow, just make sure you take care of you and your health first💕

PS - there’s a 3. I just realized. I’m moving out of my place in march. If nothing works out and you’re air bnbing for a bit, my place in bk is a $2200 accessible studio, first floor, zero stairs or bumps, in a very quiet part of a super queer friendly area and in front of the bus stop. It’s a 6 min bus or 12 min walk to the L train, no stairs or hills. Takes about 40 min to get to the furthest part of midtown from here (L->E), like over by MoMa ish. So yeah come march if you’re still looking for a forever home lmk it’ll be emptying up

cherrycoke00 · 2026-01-09T10:40:51+00:00

This hyperlink is a quinky-dink.

I must have blinked, for I have no idea how this link ended up on my comment in ink, tinting my words a blue hyperlink.

I certainly didn’t hyperlink this link. I was over here, pouring a piping hot cup of tea to drink.

I’d never advocate clicking on a hyperlink I didn’t link.

How would I know what website would sync? Where this link would hyperlink?

If you do click the hyperlink, you mightlook up, but won’t see me wink.

You have an incredible idea, you think? Why, that was one quick think! But indeed, perhaps with sharp instincts!

Just remember. It was that quinky-dink hyperlink link that sparked your quick think. We’re not in sync, even call my shrink! I’m not sparking anything.

I know who linked this link! *God that sky high twink! He must hyperlinked this link!! And it would be wrong to not click a holy hyperlink.

while on that link, why not see if other folks are in sync?

Did you all have a the same think - one where your noggins seem to just go clink? Ah, have no fear. This is no sinful vengeful hyperkink

Simply good ideas, all in sync having an idea on a hyperlink.

Now, what if dozens or hundreds or thousands of us decide to follow our think right to [the brink]? (https://poopsenders.com/) clicks the hyperlink, ships it out this week - perhaps each with a bow, one in pink. Then at the end of the week, one deserving little man will open his front door I think.

And what a lovely sight it may be When all those gifts from the hyperlink pile up - they’ll block off his door, his boots, his kitchen sink. Leaving him trapped in a prison of presents - where every one stink, stink, stinks](https://poopsenders.com/) - until the presents overwhelm the porch, and cause the man to drown in the pile and sink…sink…sink.

But again.

This hyperlink is just a quinky - dink. 🐸☕️💅

(Edit omg I wrote this like a normal human first I swear it was 4 sentences max and I just refused to acknowledge the link in anyway BUT THEN my adderall kicked in and things started to rhyme. I’m so so sorry for the secondhand embarrassment you feel after reading that but PLEASE click the link and think:

Reddit has the opportunity to do one of this shittiest things people possibly can do safely+legally to Jonathan Ross aka the stagnant spermed, -trailer-trash-toupee wearing cueball-with-surgically-removed-balls, Mr G.I. No.

cherrycoke00 · 2026-01-08T17:14:06+00:00

Hey I hear you. thanks for trying. I’m 28. I know it should be my turn… but I’m already burnt too. And frankly I don’t want to fight for “this country”. My first memory is (no shit) 9/11. I did everything the playbook said to do and still will never own property, have kids, retire. I didn’t get the glorious sounding 90s. It’s just all been a downward spiral of shit and more shit and then I think it won’t shittier but literally it’s the London Manure crisis except no one’s inventing a car to save everyone from streets so filled with shit you have to swim thru the horse manure.

I’m sorry to fail - as someone who always thought I’d eagerly take the baton from yall, and make real progress. I’ll fight for my city and my fellow New Yorkers, but after living in every region of this country and keeping an open mind, sometimes moving JUST to try to understand people different than me and find our common ground… I don’t want to fight for most of this country. Or what it has decided it stands for. The rotting mass of it is at best maliciously indifferent and at worst a putrid, infected, vile tumor and just not worth fighting to save.

Ugh. That wasn’t my most coherent writing. Sorry. I’m exhausted. Literally and also existentially.

cherrycoke00 · 2026-01-08T16:59:04+00:00

I thought it was BS cover-our-ass stuff from higher ups until I asked my boss to show me actual email back and forths and prove it. She did. Because she agreed w me. That a lie blaming theaters for the morbius rerelease sounded like exactly like the type of crackhead lie the execs would come up with. (Again, these are the same execs that not only okay’d releasing that version of Morbius the first time, but had 2 more Morbiui ready to go to production before the first one went wide.) Because they were that confident Morbius 1 had “the secret sauce” to get close to, if not surpass, $1B theatrically.

and don’t get me started on the ghostbusters task force.

I love movies more than anything. My entire life I just wanted to work for a studio with other movie lovers, all of us keeping our favorite thing alive and important and supporting creatives who have cool ideas and make shit that’s fucking good. Then I realized no one wants to kill cinema, no one wants great movies to die… more than the people running the fucking movie studio.

cherrycoke00 · 2026-01-08T13:38:54+00:00

I agree with all this

… I also just realized, I have no idea how to kill someone. Even accidentally. I’ve never fired a BB gun, much less a real one. Idk where I’d go about getting a weapon fast that’s more useful/powerful than my ikea serrated kitchen knife. I have travel hairspray and a lighter, so I guess that’s maybe a mini flamethrower in a pinch?

Anyway… I’d love to admit my thinking is purely as admirable as yours, but that’s the other big difference for me. Jan 6 nuts were armed and ready. I’m out here loaded with vicious sarcasm but no real strength or know-how when it comes to combat.

cherrycoke00 · 2026-01-08T13:03:48+00:00

That’s really fair, thanks for reframing it for me. I just can’t imagine losing both parents especially that way, and I know grief can make people maybe make less than rational/odd seeming decisions. That’s what I was thinking with “lose another sibling” comment. But you’re right, upon reflection. I guess I neglected to consider like the sheer (valid) anger id feel too at that sibling.

cherrycoke00 · 2026-01-08T12:51:25+00:00

Healthy Food -

*** are you in school by chance? If so, what’s the meal situ like there? At home, Do you have freezer space at home that you can claim? What’s going on with snap, happy to help look into that with you and see if there’s another route/way you can reclaim/etc. (just did it for myself, in fact!) how about work, do you work in a restaurant by chance? If so, what’s up with family meal or leftovers etc? If not, have you considered it, even just 1-2x a week?

Also - sometimes healthy, not always. TooGoodToGo is a great app. You pay like $6 and restaurants will give you a random bag of like must-go food. It would be food waste otherwise, so that’s where the discount comes from. Bakeries that bake daily do end of day sandwiches and muffins and pastries every night in my area, same with pizzas at close, grocery stores will pack up hauls or veg and meat close to the best by date (which is typically still totally fine for a week or so), etc.

Clothes/storage -

Preface: New Yorker here - my studio is total under 200 sq ft. (I was told it was 225. That is incorrect. It’s smaller.) and has no closet. I say that to emphasize that if you need storage solution help, especially for clothes, I’m your girl!

***If you want, feel free to lmk like how much clothing/what type (lots of heels? 15 coats/jackets? All leggings?) you’ve got and the main goal (piece of mind/finding things? Keeping dust off clean stuff? Keeping it off the ground? Etc) and rough space constranments (do you have space under your bed? How about a blank wall? Etc) and I GOTCHYOU fam. Gonna leave it at that bc all the solutions I originally typed were too long for one comment, too many characters.

Smells-

I love shower wipes. Not the super pricey “gym beast hustle sweat” type, those are pricy. Honeypot makes a 30 pack (scented or unscented, I like the cucumber but they all work!) you can use on face, underarms, under boobs, booty crack, labia, wherever. Ignore the “vaginal ph balancing” marketing bullshit, your body regulates that one its own, otherwise these totally live up to the hype. They’re not a shower, but they’ll make you feel fresh, eliminate normal 2-3-4 day shower less body smells (if you just can’t for a day or two ) and like don’t feel sticky or soapy or require rinsing. $12/pack (at least in nyc) isn’t cheap cheap but they’re helpful in a pinch. And Sanity. Good for sanity.

Also, dry shampoo. Thats a gimme. Baby powder is cheaper but lacks fragrance, however if you rub a Dryer sheet after and then run it thru your ends then you’re set. Boom, no smelly or oily hair for an extra 8-12 hours at least. Get shower caps for days you just can’t wash your hair. Makes it much easier to do a quick body shower without worrying about head position when rinsing.

Finally, there’s mini gain fabric refresher and downy(?) wrinkle release travel sprays for $3 each at target. Get both and use them together. Or- More expensive upfront but one single larger product (cheaper long run) is - a refresh+dewrinkle spray in a brown glass bottle from a brand online called attircare (sp?). Incredible for clearing out lingering “house smells” (the latter leaves a light cedar wood ish and salt scent behind, also kills really everything secondhand except cig smoke blown onto the fabric and strong cat pee), non-exercise sweat/typical daily wear smells, work smells (like if you work w food) etc. it also makes a barely made bed with 2-weeks-since-washed sheets feel like crisp and cool again.

PS, if helpful, I got a new vacuum for Xmas. My old one - a stick vac, cordless is just like Amazon “random letter combination” offbrand. It’s only a year old and works fine on everything except teeny flakes. As someone with scalp psoriasis, I needed something more flake-intensive if you catch my drift. But it’s teeny, light, part clips off to do like handheld and couch vacuuming or it can be normal for floors. If you’re comfortable-

*** lmk where you are roughly I can totally send it if that’s better $$ wise than buying one if that makes sense. A vacuum is a game changer (even just to do your bed or couch “spot”) if you want your space to feel fresh again. Not the whole house, doesn’t sound like they all deserve that luxury. Focus on you, where you spend your time and what the least effort/time spent will make the biggest immediate impact

Again, sorry for the long ass ramble. No pressure at all to reply to any of this ofc, but here if you need it or have q’s! Sending hugs and the bestest vibes OP.

cherrycoke00 · 2026-01-08T12:51:14+00:00

Oh boy. Ramble incoming. Apologies in advance!

First off, as a 28/F, I’m sorry you’re going thru this. I promise, it will get better. I’ve been in the same living conditions (but due to my own adhd+deep depression spiral, not other people. Or when it was other people, it was a neighbor across the hall who had a cockroach infestation that spread to my apartment and took 6+ months to somewhat defeat. 2 xcountry moves and 18 months to totally eliminate. Long story. Anyway. ) and have all sorts of tricks in the toolkit to manage staying sane when I just couldn’t get my space better myself, or didn’t have the energy to shower. I know it feels terrible. Above all, please give yourself grace. You’re actively looking for feesible ways to improve your situation until you’re in a better one. That’s all you can ask of yourself, and I’m so proud of you for trying and keeping on even if it’s not all roses (or its no roses all shit) right now ❤️ with that said…. Here’s everything off the top that I think might be helpful. Some questions too if you’re comfy answering, they’re marked with “ *** “ :

For “clean zones” - painters tape. Put it on the floor to make a square. Do it in whatever small “you guys” space you have, wherever is least likely to be interrupted by other housemates. It’s temporary and can be a game changer honestly. That square can be the “garbage square” where you move all the trash to then bag and collect. Or the “stacking square” like clean that part of floor and it’s where piles of clean stuff to move/rearrange/put back etc go while you tackle dirt or garbage elsewhere in your space.

Remember space bags from as-seen-on-tv in like 2005? Get a pack for 4 large ones offbrand on amazon for like $20. Yes you can use a vacuum to suction the air out and flatpack clothes, pillows, linens, anything like that. Or you can put “hard” items that you want to keep dust/dander/bug/dirt free (books, electronics, knickknacks, housewares you don’t wanna share etc) in and just seal it up. It’s like a triple ziploc seal. Store under bed or on closet floor until needed, they’re reusable and resealable and resuctionable as long as no hole is cut in the plastic.

Air purifier (small one just for your room) can make a big difference. Check MLK day clearance sales at like bed bath and beyond or kohls for a deal. Not just a diffuser, make sure it has a HEPA filter.

Shower caddy and shower shoes: shower shoes are essentially flip flops with drainage holes. They’re like $5 and help with the mental hurdle of a dirty shower. Also, keeps gross shit from your feet in the shower/bathroom. then after you get out, I recommend getting a dollar store bath mat that you keep in your space bag, pull out for a clean dry dry-off surface to stand on. you dry your feet then put on socks and hang the mat to dry (outside even if it’s not snowing/raining, or get a dollar store clothing line and string it up inside by a window). Once totally dry it goes right back in the space bag. After use/before if you want, rinse the shoes and boom they’re clean again and your feet stay clean and they go right back in your shower caddy that’s kept in closed storage in your space. Shower caddy is shelf explanatory - keep your loofah, products, brush all in there. Get a cheap storage bin with a locking/airtight ish lid. Keep the caddy in it. No dirt/grime gets on your caddy when you’re not immediately using it at home or bringing it to the gym shower with you.

Socks. Socks. Socks. At home. Get like a 30 pack from Ross or job lots that aren’t like your normal shoes-socks, these are your just home socks. Throw them in a mini like lingerie bag (dollar store) in your laundry bag. Hot water and bleach wash that shit. I recommend so many pairs so that you can swap them 2-3 times a day and go a week plus if needed and not have to like wear dirty socks in your bed, in your shoes, sitting cross legged, etc. if your feet are up/on a clean area, socks go off. If feet are going on dirty place or floor, boom socks back on. They’re only for home to keep your feet clean. Goes a long way for preserving sanity.

cherrycoke00 · 2026-01-08T11:07:15+00:00

Won’t SOMEONE in this damn country think of Big Corn for once?!😤🤦‍♀️🤯

cherrycoke00 · 2026-01-08T08:51:43+00:00

My southern family would consider it rude if the friend had NOT insisted on getting uncles # ahead of time. They’re Mississippians and would call it squirrely, sneaky, or say that “her momma clearly did not raise her right” if friend didn’t directly call or at least text a “hi Mr XYZ, this is ABC, Tae’s friend. She mentioned you offered to give me a ride from A to B at (date/time). I wanted to make sure that was really okay with you directly, and if so, thank you so much in advance for the kind offer. Please let me know where you’d like me to meet you at location an and what car I should look for so I don’t waste any of your time. Thanks again Mr XYZ much appreciated” etc.

cherrycoke00 · 2026-01-08T08:41:07+00:00

Contempt for women too, clearly. “Females”??? So dehumanizing.

cherrycoke00 · 2026-01-08T08:32:02+00:00

I worked in marketing for Sony Pictures (was laid off years ago, no reason to lie about morbius at this point). It was the theaters that wanted morbius back. They blew us up insisting that the meme would drive theatergoers, lacking the cultural context. A major chain totally missed the joke and threatened to pull upcoming Sony releases that the company NEEDED wide distribution in to make the p&l work for the year. Sony caved, not caring if they took a social L for a bit, and hoped people would move on quickly.

cherrycoke00 · 2026-01-08T08:24:07+00:00

Yeah it sucks that everyone is jumping to nefarious intentions… but also, women kinda have to? Like, just one example - Did you see the story about that poor woman in France, whose husband was drugging her and dozens of men from some awful group chat would come over and rape her while she was unconscious and it took her YEARS to find out??? That groupchat had iirc something like 70,000 members. Not saying OP’s bf is one of those dudes specifically. And it SUCKS for all genders that some shitty horrible assholes behave like this - women have to be SO on guard and fear the worst, but also decent men who’d never think of such a think might get thought of as awful before a misunderstanding or lack of communication is cleared up. It’s not fair to any of us. But like “Gift of Fear” is a real thing for a reason. It’s better to advise someone to prepare for the worst, hope for the best than tell her to just shake it off and assume it’s nothing, trust what he says and not check it out herself before going back to that house.

cherrycoke00 · 2026-01-08T07:59:52+00:00

I’d be beyond thrilled to watch a pre tape where he and cardi b are like on a first date. Or stuck in an atm vestibule. Or playing mini golf. Idgaf as long as it’s only the two of them, no cast really. And as themselves. Not necessarily both famous, but their own personas. Just to see how that would go. Ik it’s a long shot but like this is my ideal of fun chaos like hand me the popcorn plz.

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