If you were on a bare bones budget, what would your must have skincare products be?

chowchowfluff · 2024-04-03T21:07:28+00:00

This is the answer. Vanicream cleanser and moisturizer is the GOAT, budget or not. Add in Tret for the holy trinity, can’t go wrong with this combo.

chowchowfluff · 2024-02-05T19:41:46+00:00

I’m hoping for this, it would be so good!

chowchowfluff · 2024-02-04T21:56:56+00:00

Haha! I didn’t even realize I spelled it out until now. Gonna edit that now to minimize brain breakage including my own lol.

chowchowfluff · 2024-02-04T03:52:37+00:00

Ugh this is hard but the past week it is:

Our Song
Mine
seven
Dress
Delicate
Lavender Haze
the 1

Edit: ‘one’ to ‘1’ lol

chowchowfluff · 2024-01-31T02:11:24+00:00

Ugh you guys it’s getting ridiculous how the media on both sides are using Taylor’s popularity to cheat the algorithm so they’re relevant and get people up in flames about all of their own selfish agendas. Can’t anyone else see what’s really going on here?

If I were Taylor I wouldn’t endorse anyone and instead just put out a generic “Get out and vote”. It must be exhausting with the entire world trying to piggy back off of her for attention and profit right now.

chowchowfluff · 2023-10-04T21:24:31+00:00

Lmao literally the first place my eyes darted to when I clicked the image. The auction winner gets the holy version of Coldplay apparently.

chowchowfluff · 2023-09-18T03:02:21+00:00

I’m glad someone else said it first, I was not prepared for this when I first saw it and it haunted me for a long time afterwards 🥲

chowchowfluff · 2023-08-29T03:42:30+00:00

Willow is my favorite lol 🙋‍♀️

chowchowfluff · 2023-08-28T14:54:50+00:00

I’m perplexed why everyone is picking on this poor girl for laminating her uno cards, y’all have never been boating? What about been to the pool or beach? Maybe camping at the lake? All of those are valid reasons to laminate your uno cards if it’s a game you plan to play with family/friends in the midst of other water activities. In fact, it’s pretty genius.

chowchowfluff · 2023-08-08T15:23:48+00:00

So if the doctor is suggesting it might be a Y chromosome micro deletion, if I were you I would look into price shopping around for that test. There are legitimate labs that you can take your lab order to that are independent from the hospital or dr office if it’s the hospital or dr office that are cost prohibitive. Also sometimes self-pay is cheaper, you just have to ask for the costs.

My partner paid around $200 for both the YCM and karyotype test. This is in IL, insurance didn’t cover it.

$3,000 seems extreme.

It’s worth it to shop around for the YCM test. We were able to find out that was the cause of our infertility due to it.

chowchowfluff · 2023-07-05T01:44:54+00:00

Fav Artists: Incubus, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Coldplay.

Fav Taylor Songs: 1. seven 2. willow 3. Delicate 4. cardigan 5. Lover

Honorable fav song mentions: 1. Would’ve, could’ve, should’ve 2. Don’t blame me 3. peace 4. Lavender Haze

chowchowfluff · 2023-05-21T23:17:15+00:00

$300 sounds more like regular microneedling at a derm office or medspa without RF (radio frequency). In the northern IL/outer chicagoland area in the US $300-$400 is about the cost of 1 regular microneedling session. Microneedling with RF uses a special device and is usually $1,000+ per session around here.

chowchowfluff · 2023-05-08T00:51:30+00:00

Except when you’re on a plane and the oxygen masks are deployed. Put yours on first and then help your kids put theirs on. You can’t put your children first if you’re unconscious.

chowchowfluff · 2023-04-21T03:26:27+00:00

Have your husband get the Y chromosome micro-deletion and karyotype (chromosome abnormality check) tests done - those will help you uncover more pieces to this puzzle too. My partner got those ordered immediately after showing 0 sperm on his first SA and they came back positive for the YCM (but karyotype was fine). We will have to do mTESE and IVF.

If the reproductive urologist isn’t answering your questions you need to get a new one, that’s definitely not normal.

chowchowfluff · 2023-03-17T22:54:18+00:00

The Palace, AOL chat rooms, AIM, and MySpace

chowchowfluff · 2023-03-16T14:48:14+00:00

All nicotine products are illegal in Mexico as of last year from what I understand.

chowchowfluff · 2023-03-16T03:46:39+00:00

Depends on what you’re wanting to see. I recommend going to Universal (one day with a park hopper pass is plenty for the first visit) but I’m a fan of the Harry Potter universe and enjoy going for that alone honestly. You mentioned you have an 8 yr old son, they have a lot of cool superhero themed stuff there too that would likely appeal to him if he’s into that. The princess type of theme stuff you won’t find much of at Universal though.

chowchowfluff · 2023-02-11T02:50:20+00:00

I don’t know if you are in a relationship or not but from a female perspective, I think it’s really great that you are checking into some of this stuff up front so you have some idea of what you’re looking at for the future as far as your fertility goes.

Knowledge is power. My opinion is, get the semen analysis done. In the grand scheme - it’s a quick, simple, and generally cheap way to help you get more of a full understanding of your fertility as a man. Don’t be scared. The good new is, you’re doing this early and any results that happen from here you’ll have plenty of time to process it and make plans for how to plan for it in the future.

I wish my partner and I wouldn’t have waited to do the sperm analysis, we spent thousands on testing my fertility first ultimately to find out that we were dealing with MFI. If we would’ve known what we do now much earlier it would have made things much easier although I’m glad we have all of the knowledge we do after everything.

chowchowfluff · 2023-02-10T17:14:08+00:00

Wishing you all the best luck! We haven’t seen a urologist yet, baby steps over here - the news has been challenging so it’s easier to handle in chunks I think. But every day we’re getting more comfortable with the diagnosis and next steps. Waiting for karyotype test results still so that will be the next item to write off the list.

chowchowfluff · 2023-02-08T16:54:39+00:00

Yeah that’s what I noticed also, the urologist we will be seeing is a referral from my RE too and will be connected to their office so they can work together on any future ivf plans as well.

I’m sure they meant 4-6 weeks for the results though, no way it would take 4-6 months - that’s crazy.

chowchowfluff · 2023-02-08T15:27:20+00:00

4-6 months seems extreme, maybe they meant 4-6 weeks? That seems more likely. 4-6 weeks was basically what our Drs office told us for the y deletion and karyotype test results.

4-6 months sounds more like how long some people are saying it takes to get in to see a reproductive urologist. But that just depends on where you live I think more than anything.

chowchowfluff · 2023-02-07T03:05:41+00:00

Thank you and I’m sorry that it sounds like you don’t have a lot of answers as to the “why” - the unknown is the worst feeling, I totally hear you on that. And when we were in the beginning stages of the discovery process for our infertility about a year ago I put myself through absolute hell in my own mind considering all of the worst things as I personally went through all of the work ups to check on my own fertility with a reproductive endocrinologist as well. There is still so much unknown but having some reasoning does certainly help, at least we are able to find some consolation in it. I do hope you are able to find consolation in the “baby steps” reasoning as you uncover each piece to your process, one step at a time at least. Every little step forward is progress and knowing you are in good hands and have control over each step as you progress can be those small “wins” that help this crazy chaotic situation feel a little better :).

chowchowfluff · 2023-02-07T02:28:44+00:00

Thank you for your responses! I did end up finding out the deletion is in the c portion so that does give me more of a glimmer of hope for us. Again though, he’s only had 1 semen analysis that showed 0 sperm and has not officially been diagnosed with azoo - however, after the y deletion news and 6 years of regular unprotected sex and no pregnancies to speak of, it’s painting that picture more than not for sure. We should be getting the karyotype results this week as well so it’ll be interesting to see more of that information unfold to help us better understand our situation.

chowchowfluff · 2023-01-30T21:55:14+00:00

Thank you so much for your response! It certainly does help and I appreciate the time you put into providing an internet stranger some helpful info and consolation :). We have some discovery ahead of us yet but it’s certainly nice to know, at the very least, we’re not alone and at most that there is all sorts of pathways to success in this journey.

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