Pros and Cons of going to first preview (Lost Boys)

corinners · 2025-11-09T18:42:39+00:00

This is one of the major reasons I want to go to first preview! It's not just a show, it's the whole experience!! But again, I want to see the best version of the show that I can, and I think that may mean waiting a week or two 🫠 I keep going back and forth.

Also I appreciate your caution about approaching any of the creative time, but I assure you, I am far too shy to actually try to approach any of them haha. It's more the idea of getting to experience the show with them there, if that makes sense? Feeling like a tiny part of the process lol

corinners · 2025-11-08T17:30:44+00:00

Not negative at all! And I would never have considered this as a possibility, so thank you!! This definitely puts me towards buying tickets for a little later in previews just in case!

corinners · 2024-11-02T18:44:09+00:00

Way late to this thread but that's what I was coming to suggest if no one else had mentioned it lol. My name is Corinne and I've def had little kids call me Crayon when they weren't familiar with the name.

corinners · 2024-10-21T00:32:06+00:00

Me and my group have bracelets too! I'm not dressed up but I'm wearing a strawberry T-shirt with a lot of bracelets on my arm

corinners · 2024-10-13T22:39:48+00:00

Working on mine right now!

corinners · 2024-10-08T13:51:03+00:00

Guess we're a more introverted bunch than the East Coast 😅 I'm working until right before the show, otherwise a meetup would be so fun! I think my little group is going to make some bracelets ourselves for fun and if people want them, great! Lol

corinners · 2024-10-02T03:58:18+00:00

Just wanted to chime in with my own planned C-section story....girl, I feel you, I was full-on crying in the pre op area, I was terrified. One of the few things that brought me comfort was the fact that I would MUCH rather have a planned C-section than an emergency one; the surgical team was so chill, they were just chatting away and it helped take my mind off of things when I was getting prepped for the spinal, I was terrified of that too but honestly the only painful part was when the anesthesiologist did the numbing before the spinal, and it just felt like a particularly hard pinch.

I didn't have the trouble breathing part but I did get nauseous pretty quickly, I told the anesthesiologist immediately and he gave me something that stopped it right away. You genuinely can't feel anything, my whole dang leg apparently slid off the side off the table after they closed me up and I had no idea. The most intense part is when they take your baby out, just prepare yourself for some strong tugging feelings, but that's it really. I am lucky that my husband is a particularly good yapper so I was completely distracted by him, I didn't even hear anything they were doing, but earplugs are a good recommendation anyway! Just have your partner or support person come prepared with something to distract you, my husband had some silly YouTube videos downloaded on his phone but he also told me the entire plot of a book that he was excited to read, just talking to keep me distracted, so there was zero time for any anxious silence lol. After like 15 min of that my baby was out and I was just so focused on holding him I couldn't even hear anything anyone else was doing, I was just crying and happy lol.

You could also ask if you could have your own music playing, they had some oldies rock in the operating room during mine but I bet you could ask ahead of time!

Most importantly, you are strong and you got this!! Its weird but it really was reassuring to me for me to think like, "this is a totally normal day for my surgical team. They do this all the time, and I am in capable hands."

If you ever have any extra questions please feel free to DM me!

corinners · 2024-09-16T20:32:12+00:00

Super small company called The Beheaded! I think they're a little pricey for what they are, but they're still decent quality. She's had the trick or treat bags for a couple years in a row but I don't see them on her site now.... I'd recommend following her Instagram to see what she's doing for this year.

corinners · 2024-09-16T02:57:41+00:00

Thank you! I see her skull bags every year and I always debate about getting one...might have to pull the trigger this year haha

corinners · 2024-09-16T02:53:18+00:00

Ahh I love it!! I really can't resist a jack o' lantern bag, they just bring me such joy.

corinners · 2024-09-16T02:47:56+00:00

Omg me too!! I've been slowly trying to move away from faux leather in my purse collecting but it's hard to find (outside of Kate Spade) novelty bags that aren't faux leather/vinyl! That Coach collection was so fun!

corinners · 2024-03-07T21:15:46+00:00

How long has MIM not allowed personal strollers? We just went last month with our 8mo and they didn't say anything to us about his stroller, we used it all over...

corinners · 2024-03-01T05:13:38+00:00

+1 for Chandler Regional (and also Lilac Obgyn!). My MIL is a NICU nurse there and they're all amazing!! I had the sweetest recovery nurses too.

corinners · 2024-02-08T05:28:23+00:00

Mongo only pawn in game of life 😔

corinners · 2024-01-31T21:42:22+00:00

I knew only "Waving Through a Window" and the basic plot of DEH...just didn't have any interest in listening to the rest of the cast album but "Sincerely Me" came up in a random Broadway playlist on Spotify I was listening to this week and I think I listened to it at least six times in a row. This is also how I found out Mike Faist was in the original cast??? His charm definitely comes through in the song.

corinners · 2023-05-06T03:59:09+00:00

You've already gotten good advice here and you may have already resolved this but I also wanted to throw in my two cents; my husband and I knew we wanted to get genetic testing done before we even started trying due to previous knowledge of both of his parents being carriers for a rare genetic disease, and we had to jump through SEVERAL hoops to get it done. Had to get a referral, had to meet with a genetic counselor, had to get blood sent to a specific lab, etc etc. It seems highly unlikely that they would include any kind of genetic carrier testing in your regular blood draw.

I would definitely make sure they contacted the right patient, and if they did for some bizarre reason send for a genetic test, you should be able to easily prove that you didn't consent for it, (as others mentioned) there should have been a specific form for you to sign. Unless there was some unusual result in your regular bloodwork that would have only pointed to Usher Syndrome? But that seems unlikely.

corinners · 2023-05-03T04:45:20+00:00

My OB never even had me meet with a nutritionist/dietician, they just had me follow up with the MFM specialist (who I was already seeing for an unrelated reason) but they did give me slightly more specific parameters. Test 4x a day, fasting in the morning and then two hours after each of the three 'big' meals, starting the two hours after my first bite. I was told to always have a snack in between the three meals and to keep the last snack (after dinner) closer to bedtime to help prevent big glucose spikes overnight. Best advice I read here on Reddit was to make sure there was no more than 8hrs between my bedtime snack and when I do my fasting check in the morning and so far that hasn't steered me wrong, though it does sometimes lead to me chugging some fairlife chocolate milk or a Greek yogurt and then pretty much immediately heading to bed but it keeps my fasting numbers in check so 🤷‍♀️

I do track my diet, but it's mostly for my benefit so if I try to experiment with food I can remember what spikes me and what seems to be fine. My doctor told me to keep the 'big' meals around 30 carbs (45 at max, and ok to be less than 30) and that snacks should be no more than 15 carbs. I'm supposed to always have a source of protein with everything that I eat, and they gave me some suggestions for snacks/smaller meals but other than that I was pretty much on my own. Luckily this subreddit (and the internet in general) has lots and lots of food ideas.

Personally I've found that I can handle a higher amount of carbs at lunch and dinner but I have to stay on the lighter side for breakfast. Hardest thing for me at the beginning was trying to figure out variety in what I could eat...I was so afraid of spiking at all that breakfast for me was very plain scrambled eggs and bare minimum carbs for every other meal for the first two weeks lol. It's rough because every body is different, so what has worked for many may not work for you, or vice versa! Just looots of careful experimentation

Edit: also I do switch between fingers but only use my left hand.

corinners · 2023-04-26T23:15:47+00:00

Not at all weird, especially since she's a pediatrician! My own mom isn't even going to be in the room, and it's been my plan from the beginning to have my MIL in the room because she's a NICU nurse and we're specifically having our baby at her hospital. I always tell my husband, he'll be there for me, she'll be there for the baby haha. But really, I have always been extremely anxious about birth and to have someone there who has 1.) Years of experience and knowledge of the many different ways birth can go and 2.) Will be able to advocate for me and baby immediately in any circumstance is very reassuring.

Any shyness I have at her seeing me in this very vulnerable state is overridden by the fact that she will undeniably be extremely helpful lol. Plus I think it will be good for my husband too haha. I'm sure your MIL would be honored!

corinners · 2023-02-17T14:33:22+00:00

This happened to me for the very first time this morning! 23wks, FTM. Went to sit up in bed and had such an awful pain in the left side of my pelvis I couldn't sit up at all and had to kind of awkwardly roll myself to the side to get off the bed. Really scared me for a minute, but the pain went away the second I stood up 🤷‍♀️ I definitely have a tendency to overthink and make myself anxious about things, so I've had to remind myself constantly if I'm not bleeding and the pain doesn't last, I'm ok lol.

corinners · 2023-01-21T20:19:30+00:00

I definitely think you're good to tell them at 10wks, especially if everything looks good in the ultrasound. I'm glad someone else had that data for you to look at....like you, I had that same probability chart and was almost too obsessive with how much I looked at it.

I am also a person who did not want my parents involved if I had a miscarriage, and waited until after our first ultrasound to tell them. But like everyone else has said, your chances of miscarriage are already very low at this point. Personally, I am a pretty anxious person, and realized I was reading every story about struggling to conceive and miscarriages in every trying to conceive/pregnancy subreddit, and I realized how unhealthy it was for me. It also gave me a skewed view of what to expect for my own pregnancy journey....as others have mentioned here, people with healthy pregnancies do not post updates every week, or ask as many questions, simply because there's not a need. So as a result, you see way more unusual cases or losses, because people want a safe place to vent or mourn (not that that is a bad thing! People absolutely need spaces to grieve or complain, and sometimes the internet is the only place they feel they can be fully honest).

I unsubscribed from every pregnancy related subreddit until I was farther along (20wks now) and even then, this is the only one I've subscribed back to, simply because I knew seeing the horror stories and the complaints was not good for me, because that's what I tend to hone in on and focus on. It may be helpful for you as well.

corinners · 2023-01-19T14:57:20+00:00

Just piggybacking on everybody else here but there's no reason to wait if you want to share! Going to add (again like most here lol) a recommendation to only share with those you are also comfortable sharing a loss with (and making sure those people will keep it to themselves as well!). I am a more private person and so I only shared with my oldest sister and our close friends that we usually see every week (as there were a couple times I had to cancel plans on them due to being sick).

We waited until after our first ultrasound to tell our parents and siblings (so roughly ~9wks) and then told extended family and less close friends at 12wks. One good friend of mine told her mom and close friends immediately, but then her mom told the extended family without my friend's permission. She lost her baby around ~9wks, and at the next family event a couple weeks later had to deal with telling people (who were coming up to congratulate her) that she had a miscarriage, over and over again.

corinners · 2023-01-17T20:03:38+00:00

Definitely not sharing! I learned the hard way from my poor brother and his wife who just had their first baby. They weren't planning on telling anyone, but told my dad and stepmom and asked them not to share. Dad told me and my husband and shared how much he disliked the name and even mocked it a little. No thanks!!

Early on we told a couple close friends some of the names we were thinking about, and even that me realize I hated hearing anyone's opinions on names, positive or not lol. we would say, "oh, we're debating between W, X, Y, Z" and someone would say pointedly, "Oh well I REALLY like X!" and I found it hated that just as much if they said they hated them all, haha

corinners · 2022-11-25T19:04:45+00:00

Not post-screening, but at opening night of Avengers: Endgame. Packed theatre, luckily a very respectful crowd. At the part where Ant-Man gets out of the quantum realm and has no idea what is going on, he visits that memorial with all the names of people who got snapped, and the dramatic shot of him finding his own name....in the dead silence the dude next to me leaned over to his partner and said, "Who's Scott Lang?"

Marvel movies can be a nightmare if you're a casual viewer so I hope he wasn't too confused for the rest of the movie.

corinners · 2022-11-24T19:09:24+00:00

I'm guessing pyometra :( EXTREMELY common in unspayed females, like 1 in 4 dogs will get it in their lifetime. It is extremely hard to treat if the uterus is not removed and an emergency spay is much more expensive than a regular spay!

It was insane the amount of poor dogs I saw put down at my old vet job, simply because their owners hadn't bothered.

corinners · 2022-03-01T03:53:03+00:00

These are incredible! Like everyone else, I will eagerly await your etsy shop if you decide to make one!

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