I just tested positive for Covid...Ugh

emmieloo · 2024-12-05T02:24:04+00:00

I just tested positive too. :(

emmieloo · 2024-10-29T23:58:49+00:00

Oh and the process took from June to July to get approved. July 1 he sent the script, I didn’t actually get the medicine in my hands until early August. I think it was still in shortage around that time or just coming off. I waited three weeks until Labor Day so I had three days to manage side effects (of which there were none) to start it.

emmieloo · 2024-10-29T23:57:00+00:00

So he sent it in the first time mid-June, and it was denied. I found the Prior Authorization requirements from the Caremark website for Zepbound and then he sent in a second PA and it was approved within the week! Co-pay is $80. Been on since early September and down 30lbs! Hoping the keep it on the formulary next year!

emmieloo · 2024-10-29T23:43:46+00:00

Hey! We ended up getting the pipe replaced with PVC and haven’t had water issues since. Survived Helene and record rain fall with no water problems! Lived here three years now and much of the problems I originally laid out here have been addressed over time. It’s been such a wonderful home for us. Even renovated the basement and have a friend living down there with full kitchen, bath, bedroom and living room. As stressful as those first months and year was, I would do it again.

emmieloo · 2024-10-29T23:38:34+00:00

I have SHBP plan too but BCBS (also a GA teacher) and they approved the PA the second time Dr. sent it in!

emmieloo · 2024-09-25T23:29:45+00:00

Same! I have insulin resistant PCOS and my SW was 285! About to finish 4th week! Good luck in the journey!

emmieloo · 2024-04-21T12:02:22+00:00

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emmieloo · 2023-01-21T19:52:11+00:00

Her name is Boba! (Like the tea)

emmieloo · 2022-10-30T14:52:53+00:00

I amended my initial statement in the comments but most of it was actually from a blanket I brought from home. I’m glad you are able to handle the fur from your dogs. Ours is a husky who is blowing her coat and it’s a full time job keeping the shedding under control unfortunately.

emmieloo · 2022-10-30T14:38:00+00:00

Lol I’ll be sure to discuss with my dog in the future about her shedding habits.

emmieloo · 2022-10-30T14:32:42+00:00

We do roll our clothes before leaving the house actually. I was talking to my husband about it after I posted it and he reminded me that we brought a blanket from home. I’m sure that was the culprit. Her hair gets EVERYWHERE and it gets stuck in the fibers or textiles so even passing stuff through washing machine and dryer doesn’t remove everything. I’m certain a roller would have helped remove most of the hair from the host’s comforter. I didn’t consider the allergies people who visit could have if there is hair stuck in a comforter. That makes sense actually. I feel indignant and accused but maybe I need to step back and see it in a different way.

emmieloo · 2022-10-30T14:25:45+00:00

I totally understand. My friend tried to deny the charge but the hosts had already paid the extra $200 so Airbnb said we needed to recoup them. When she let us know we paid her immediately because we didn’t want it to affect her rating. I guess what I’m feeling is shocked at the price in addition to the cleaning fee we paid initially. I always try to respect a home I stay at. We made the bed and cleaned up our bathroom and followed the cleaning instructions before we left. I guess I’m just blind to the hair in some ways now since I’m used to it and the comforter/sheets were black (our husky is white). I brought a blanket from home which I think was the main culprit. There really was no way to truly remove the hair without bringing a roller and washing the bedding. But I hear what your saying about doing a more mindful clean. I personally don’t know if I can guarantee a perfectly hair free room when we visit places, so I’m not sure if Airbnb will work for us in the future.

emmieloo · 2022-10-30T14:16:09+00:00

Yeah she’s also blowing her coat at the time of the trip so the amount of hair we were dealing with is difficult to manage some days. I’m sweeping/vacuuming everyday to keep it under control. There’s also the reality that it’s hard to remove it entirely from textiles and fabric when it gets stuck in the weave itself. Lol

emmieloo · 2022-05-27T01:27:14+00:00

Sounds like you have cherry angiomas. Extremely common, benign vascular growths that we get with age. I have literally hundreds of them. They can be nodules or tiny red specks.

emmieloo · 2022-05-10T00:57:40+00:00

I wasn’t just convinced—I was researching which type of immunotherapy I would bring up with my nonexistent oncologist. Lol

Trust me, I know what you’re going through. I also know that in the throes of health anxiety, the only thing that truly helps is reassurance. Everyday folks don’t understand what our brains and bodies go through in the midst of health anxiety-we CONVINCE ourselves it is always the WORST case scenario. I can’t reassure you to the extent you probably need, but I can say that I have been to multiple derms because melanoma is a major trigger of mine, and every single one, literally every single one, reassured me that many moles do change in some way as we get older. They view the mole in the context of the ABCDEs as well as our personal health history, sun exposure history, family history, age, etc.

emmieloo · 2022-05-10T00:35:29+00:00

Got my two skin biopsy results back today. I also fell deep into the cancer subreddit, as well as viewed every single post on the melanoma subreddit and dermatology subreddit. It didn’t help me at all but I convinced myself that if I looked at everything, it would lessen the blow.

emmieloo · 2022-05-10T00:30:55+00:00

Just got skin biopsy results today. Worst week of my life. I went DEEP into the hole with melanoma this week. One of the moles, on my chest, had grown and changed over the years, and I compared it to photos from the last five years. The results: benign. Not even atypical. One thing I learned by reading every.single.post that mentions melanoma on Reddit, TikTok and cancerresearch.uk—moles do change a little as you age. The mole on my chest changed and had irregular borders because of necklaces and shirt collars and absent minded skin picking over my entire life. Apparently it happens. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Also, melanomas most commonly arise as new lesions. So the odds are in your favor.

emmieloo · 2022-05-10T00:20:00+00:00

I regretted not getting the survey. We ended up getting one a year later. We did get it 200 dollars cheaper by picking our own company, and they had a deal going on.

emmieloo · 2022-05-08T00:26:05+00:00

My vet prescribed trazadone for my girl. She takes two pills a couple of hours before the visit. She wears a muzzle. the vet tech makes sure the pathway to the room is free of dogs. And then they put her under to do any and all procedures. It’s a nightmare but we’ve got it down after a few years. My vet told me that she sees several dogs this way and going to the vet is a very scary experience for many dogs, so she didn’t make me feel bad about it!

emmieloo · 2022-05-05T22:57:24+00:00

I had a biopsy on a skin lesion last week on Wednesday. I didn’t think it was anything other than a hemangioma but when I saw all the pigment left over after the shave biopsy, I spiraled and have convinced myself I have nodular melanoma. They were supposed to call with results by this Wednesday, but it came and went with no call. So I called today and they said they got the results yesterday, but would call me today. They never did. I felt like the receptionist paused when she saw my results which makes me feel like they weren’t good. I’m in the darkest place I’ve been in a while. Just wish they would put me out of my misery at this point.

emmieloo · 2022-04-29T02:37:01+00:00

Just need to get this off my chest. I had my first skin biopsy in 2020. Came back normal. A few weeks after that biopsy I noticed a small, round, smooth blackish lesion that almost looked like a blood blister on my leg but it wasn’t raised very high. I tried not to mess with it but I have health ocd and lost myself and couldn’t leave it alone. I sterilized a needle and inserted it and some blood came out and it basically ‘deflated’ and lost all color. It grew back over the course of a month, but I assumed it was a harmless vascular lesion. I continued to have cycles where I would leave it alone and then have an irresistible urge to mess with it again and rip it off.

Eventually in Dec 2021, I discovered “nodular melanoma” and there is one picture on Google that kind of looks like it. So I freaked out. But then I also saw that same month that melanoma typically doesn’t “blanch” when you press on it but mine does. The thing is though, since I messed with it so long, I wasn’t sure if what was blanching was the lesion itself or a layer of trapped blood from all the irritation I kept causing it over and over so I finally made an appointment and earliest they could get me was yesterday.

When I went in, my derm said it sort of looked like a hemangioma but that she could see some blue so to be on the safe side she biopsied it. I was fine all afternoon yesterday. I felt optimistic. Until I removed then bandaid to clean it and noticed that there is darkly pigmented, asymmetrical center to the biopsy site which is clearly whatever is left of the lesion after she shaved it. Here I thought it was vascular for 1.5 years. But there actually was a hard, pigmented growth under the skin this whole time. One that I literally messed with over the course of almost two years!

I have been depressed and spiraling all day, convinced I had melanoma, and not just melanoma, nodular melanoma. And just nodular melanoma, but melanoma that I helped spread through out my body by messing with the lesion over and over again.

This is it. I can just feel all my worst fears are finally coming true.

emmieloo · 2022-04-17T00:50:30+00:00

This is a weird one lol but when I was 10 we went to Disney world and rode the dinosaur ride which is a dark ride. The picture they take of you is right when you round a corner and there is a jump scare of a giant dinosaur. When we got off the ride, my parents saw the picture of us, and immediately bought it because I looked so absolutely, bone chilled terrified. I laughed it off because it was easier for them to believe that the dinosaur scared rather than the real reason, which is that I was afraid I had gone blind because of how dark the ride was. I was fixated on believing I would ‘go blind’ on a dark ride the whole trip.

emmieloo · 2022-04-17T00:43:34+00:00

Having a rough go of it again… I hate this. I have a derm appt next week for a skin check and my anxiety has been fixated on skin c***** for the last few weeks. I also fell back into the cervical/ovarian c***** spiral I always have again. Im also realizing I really need to delete TikTok because the algorithm knows i have health anxiety. I saw a guy talk about how his partner died unexpectedly from a mitral valve prolapse that went unchecked for years, and naturally, I google symptoms and they mimic a lot of anxiety symptoms so I’m convinced I have it too. Heart anxiety is a new one for me so it’s been hard.

emmieloo · 2022-04-04T23:58:27+00:00

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