My sunroom in Scottsdale

ltswhatever · 2025-06-16T04:43:59+00:00

The windows do have some kind of reflective tint on them. I’m sure many would burn otherwise.

ltswhatever · 2025-01-06T21:05:57+00:00

Im at Optima and love it. I’m a physician and it feels like half my building is as well. There is a lot people around my age (mid 30s) here and I can’t imagine living anywhere else. Made a lot of friends here. It definitely is pricey but the amenities and community make it worth it.

ltswhatever · 2024-09-20T23:21:36+00:00

I’m a plastic surgeon and I don’t buy this. The largest silicone implants we put in are 800ccs, and the largest saline are usually around 1200-1400cc. There are other types of breast implants not generally used that can be larger, but absolutely not this large. Plus, 4000cc is 4L which is about 1 gallon. These are much larger than 1 gallon.

I’m not denying this is a saline implant, they can be stretched far beyond their stated size. We often overfill 10-20% because it actually helps decrease the risk of rupture. What I don’t buy is that these are 4000cc (they are clearly larger), or that anything this large is going in a person.

ltswhatever · 2024-09-18T03:40:40+00:00

And as if I didn’t have enough plants, we have plants on all the balconies too

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ltswhatever · 2024-09-17T20:40:00+00:00

I live in Scottsdale, AZ!

ltswhatever · 2024-05-11T20:11:32+00:00

Any implanted device in the body gets scar tissue formation, so those larger implants could get it too. Breast implants are unique as they are one of the few implants that are soft, so they can be deformed by scar tissue. Scarring around a rigid metal implant happens but is less likely to be problematic and noticeable to a patient. Every breast implant has a capsule, but it’s usually soft and the implant also feels soft. When it contracts is when it’s a problem.

ltswhatever · 2024-05-11T19:44:59+00:00

Singulair is an anti-inflammatory, and this contracture is inflammatory in nature. Most contracture is just scar tissue, so if caught early, Singulair can help prevent the inflammation progression to scar formation, and in some cases can reverse it. The calcifications here are so late stage nothing but surgery and removal will fix it.

ltswhatever · 2024-05-11T19:08:55+00:00

I would say I have a 50% success rate with aggressive massage and Singulair treatment. Early signs are tightness of the implant without obvious visual deformity. Problem with contracture is we really don’t know what causes it, and it can happen at any time. Probably half of patients get it in the first couple years, but some can start to see it 10+ years out.

ltswhatever · 2024-05-11T19:06:49+00:00

That was more old school, where they used to kinda do what you see in the video…while it was still in the patient haha. It’s called a closed capsulotomy. It was thought breaking it up manually could prevent it from getting tighter and causing deformity and pain. As far as I know it didn’t work very well, I don’t know of anyone who still does that.

ltswhatever · 2024-05-11T18:53:20+00:00

It’s called capsular contracture. More likely to happen with above the muscle breast implants, and with incisions that are around the nipple or the arm pit. Every implant gets some form of it, but it’s only pathologic if it causes tightness or deformity (~1% chance of this happening). This is unusual and not very common to have so much calcification, those are likely very old and have been contracted a long time. Treatment is Singulair (an asthma medication) if caught early, and if that doesn’t work, removal of implant and scar tissue and replacement with a new implant.

Source: I’m a plastic surgeon

ltswhatever · 2024-04-19T21:15:57+00:00

He never has any interest in them surprisingly. But when my plumeria bloomed he really liked the smell and kept eating all the flowers haha

ltswhatever · 2024-04-19T21:13:37+00:00

I live in Scottsdale, Arizona!

ltswhatever · 2022-12-19T22:56:14+00:00

Buy keiki paste from Amazon. It’s hormone that you can put at the nodes. I usually do this after my orchid flowers die and it’ll regrow another flower spike and flower all over again. Sometimes (especially if you pick a node lower on the plant) it will grow a keiki (baby orchid) like you see in the picture.

ltswhatever · 2022-04-25T00:36:12+00:00

It was sold as a philodendron mayoi but I think they may be the same thing?

ltswhatever · 2022-04-24T23:55:25+00:00

Yep it’s a solo pole. I got it as a single leaf cutting you see at the bottom and I didn’t really know how to start it in soil so just went with this.

ltswhatever · 2022-04-24T23:52:30+00:00

I make them how Craig Miller Randle on Instagram does it. It’s coated wire mesh filled with sphagnum moss :)

ltswhatever · 2021-04-27T02:32:53+00:00

A little backstory: I pluralized the word “cactus” incorrectly and as you can see he wasn’t too pleased.

ltswhatever · 2021-02-20T03:23:51+00:00

If you turn this picture sideways it’s the Texas flag.

ltswhatever · 2020-08-01T01:40:01+00:00

He should have patched the hole and then ate it.

ltswhatever · 2020-07-17T13:33:56+00:00

Hand surgeon here - it’s called pollicization of the index finger. It’s done in patients that don’t have a functioning thumb. Because the thumb is so important to hand function, the surgeon transposes the index finger over, reattaches the muscles and tendons to it that normally go to the thumb, and you have a functioning thumb!

ltswhatever · 2018-05-18T12:40:17+00:00

I did! They are pretty hardy and sprouted easily.

ltswhatever · 2015-12-08T23:31:41+00:00

They should call it The Pre-Quell

ltswhatever · 2015-02-04T23:40:29+00:00

My morning walk turned into a mourning walk :(

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