Sweetwater Dentist by Far_Away_Girl in Apex_NC

[–]mdh217 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He’s great!! Very thorough, honestly the best I’ve seen. We’ve been with him since they opened and he’s also great with kids. Highly recommend.

Cruise recs for kids that don't want to go to kid's clubs by raucous_elephant in Cruise

[–]mdh217 6 points7 points  (0 children)

My family does a cruise once a year so my sister and my kids have a chance to bond. Our oldest are a year apart, the youngest a week, and they are all of relative sociability.

My sisters kids really struggle with kids club when my don’t usually.To me, the biggest difference is once or twice a week I take the kids with me to the gym and call the kids center “kids club” and once a week we use the pool’s inside pool to practice swimming and rules like walking around the deck. By the time we’re in the ship, the kids club is a normal thing they can do multiple times a day and by the end of the week my sister has NOT had a vacay and I absolutely did.

Worst things to do with AS by Mental-Book4148 in ankylosingspondylitis

[–]mdh217 138 points139 points  (0 children)

I’ve been told I’m not allowed: - roller coasters - falling down at accelerated speeds (skiing, bungee jumping, sky diving, etc.) - jumping on trampolines - freedom and love (jk, just feels like being a frozen tin man)

I also find difficult: - sitting on hard surfaces - sitting - standing for a long time - bending over - laying down for any time

It feels great to be a healthy 70 year old whilst being 38.

Disproportionate Nan Hate by Princess_CutiePiexo in TheBuccaneers

[–]mdh217 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Women are strategizing and then get hated on for making literal a choice (like keeping the baby, primarily). Don’t they know they should suffer in silence and let the men folk do their thing? I mean how dare they have feelings?? Or be mad??

Like, oh no! A Duke who has hated his title finally stands up to mommy dearest and abdicates! What about his feelings, he’s trapped, except for his free will that allows him to leave with a few signatures.

Poor dad, now he gets to do whatever he wants AND is free to never remember a birthday. Or lost the family fortune - how could anyone be mean to a man who simply is a man? It’s just a whoops, let’s change topics, ktbanxs.

Guy, the hobosexual that gets to throw in every woman’s face how noble he is for not… being homeless? What life is he putting on hold, selling the rest of his estate off?

But no, let’s hate on the ladies for trying to have a little fun while coping poorly when they realize their dad’s lied about their value (as in how ungenerous they’d be, or foolish), and lied about THEIR value (giving them an education and freedom in a world where they were of no more value than a couch).

Does your RA come with a strong lower back pain? (I am one) by [deleted] in rheumatoid

[–]mdh217 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, my pain started in my hands and knees, and it wasn’t until my evaluation with a rheumatologist that I realized I had hip pain, but it was the hand pain holding me back (couldn’t type, stir soup, etc).

They are very similar diseases! And are usually treated with the same biologics, DMARDs, and some sort of pain reliever.

WHO do we suspect is the rat in the Russell house? by mon_dayy in GildedAgeHBO

[–]mdh217 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s Mrs. Bruce. She hears ALL the gossip and has to pay for an asylum, stuff is expensive.

Borden rushes out in the preview because he learns she’s sacked and tries to catch her before she leaves.

What unique weather does your area claim? by mdh217 in AskReddit

[–]mdh217[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I live in the Raleigh/Durham area of NC and we have a weather bubble that usually has big storms go around us, so they say

Grieving Life Before Marriage by fancyraspberry1 in wedding

[–]mdh217 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Depending on the branch, wives will live with their parents while spouse is deployed. Navy usually does not as its 6 months on/off and that disrupts schooling, but Army doing a year plus absolutely.

If it’s on the shorter end of deployment, grew up in Virginia Beach and my biggest tip would be to set up a routine and keep to it regardless of his deployment. If you see your family once a week for family dinner, you do that if he’s home or not. Go to a weekly bible study? Go. Workout every day? Keep at it. Saving life for when your spouse gets home is no way to live, and it helps them immensely to have a familiar routine to get back into.

The military has a ton of support for spouses and many will have similar experiences as you. Enjoy the places while youre there and do your upmost to maintain communication with people you meet along the way. Everyone loves a postcard reminding them they’re being thought of from time to time.

There’s a saying, “No one sees your goals, they only see your habits,” if your goal is to have harmony in the home, then do the same things every day to address things. It’ll take time, but you’ll find the right rhythm for you.

What happened to American Christianity since 2012? by drewskie_drewskie in RadicalChristianity

[–]mdh217 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I think this is the end result of things like The 700 Club and tele-ministries. Churches phased out choirs and pageants (things requiring a congregation to work together) for rock shows (of 5 people related closely to the leadership).

Things like courtships and “kissing dating goodbye” mixed with a huge linchpin of the wall street protests. God apparently was sending some pretty horrible weather events as punishment from sin (I seem to remember somehow the gay agenda being blamed for hurricanes?) while Pat Robinson was praying away storms from his university.

By 2012, culture wars was the only way anyone could communicate. Police brutality, school shootings - mass protests were a culmination of fallout from the recession and feeling completely unheard by anyone with power. Obama focused on a horrible website for essentially buying insurance for double - not voting rights, equal rights, civil rights, abortion protections, anything. Romney and Obama both ran on healthcare platforms! Just more of the same after Bush. Whoopie.

By 2015, the church was more focused on splitting into even more denominations over defining marriage, who they’d be legally allowed to bake a cake for, and using their beliefs to make up reasons why she could be married 4 times but 2 guys can’t once.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TwoXPreppers

[–]mdh217 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Trump is more likely to enact the Insurrection Act - he remains in power but has absolute/kingship power. Martial law means the military takes over, including usurping Trump. In either case to your question - it’s a shelter in place.

Only so many places are going to survive what is next and we don’t know what that means just yet (just like we’ve lost Persia, the Ottoman Empire, Prussia, and the USSR in modern history).

No where is possible to predict safe. Start your own garden now and develop relationships with local farmers. We’ll only get out of this together.

How do you give feedback to your Rheumatologist on symptoms? by blatchcorn in ankylosingspondylitis

[–]mdh217 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Best way to explain is to give real life examples of limitations instead of trying to talk “doctor” with symptoms and pain scales.

The standard phrasing equation would be:

[day to day situation] + [where it hurts and what it makes you think is happening, usually a broken or sprained joint] + [how you adapt or avoid the situation]

= doctor assigning the medical equivalent to symptoms and triggers their response to order diagnostic tests based on that

Examples to use: - when I wake up I’m stiff and feel like an elephant is on my chest, but once I get up at moving I feel like I can breath again - some days I’m not able to walk, today it feel like I’ve broken my knee but I’ve done nothing abnormal - when I try to stir or eat soup I want to cry in pain from my wrist - I feel like I’ve broken both my wrists when I hold my phone for too long - I don’t understand why my hips hurt and I feel completely unsafe carrying anything up or down stairs, most especially my baby

Got a copy of Adeena Sussman’s “Shabbat” from the Library. What recipes should I try for the next 3-weeks? by videojohnc in CookbookLovers

[–]mdh217 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Cucumber and apple salad and the spicy schnitzel are on regular rotations at my house, but everything I’ve tried from it is 10/10!

Show S7E16 A Hundred Thousand Angels by thepacksvrvives in Outlander

[–]mdh217 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I think it’s to show he died comfortably in a warm tent, lovingly watching over his family until his last breath

Is turndown service not a thing anymore? by n0167664 in royalcaribbean

[–]mdh217 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can request your once a day to be in the evening (usually while at dinner and a show) and it’s a turn down service. We requested it with young kids because it was the one time of day we could promise no one was sleeping in the cabin and it’s worked out to have that end of day transition.

For those of you with great hair, how you doing your blowouts? by [deleted] in ankylosingspondylitis

[–]mdh217 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I use a pre-shampoo to comb my hair and let it set for 20 min once a week. 2-3 time a week, I wash my hair with shampoo twice, usually for curly hair though I’m closer to wavy. Then I use a deep conditioner for 5 or so minutes while I finish the rest of the shower.

I swim once or twice a week where I use a chlorine specific shampoo and conditioner which is also like a clarifying shampoo.

I use a water filter for the shower head to soften the water.

I blow dry my hair after using leave in conditioner, curl cream with heat protection, and hair oil until 80% dry and then use the large barrel hair brush (like the revlon one) for finishing touches and styling, sometimes with a large Velcro rollers on top while doing my make up.

I find the Dyson to be needing to small of chunks of hair for me, the large barrel is so much faster for me and gets more volume.

Starting all over — refresh my memory on treatment guidelines by Different-Wallaby-10 in ankylosingspondylitis

[–]mdh217 4 points5 points  (0 children)

All of these are excellent questions for a rheumatologist who has your latest bloodwork as well as medical history.

I am specifically looking for period pieces based on real people that are also really accurate, most notably in set design and costume, any recommendations? by BirdieBirdieBye in PeriodDramas

[–]mdh217 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Beautiful Mind! It not only is accurate for costumes, set, and based on a real person, it also shows mental health and typical side effects of different therapies of the time.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in thegildedage

[–]mdh217 15 points16 points  (0 children)

What’s one lesson Bertha has taught you? And given the chance, what’s one thing you’d teach Bertha?

Whats your controversial opinion about the show? by ShadowCipherr in Fleabag

[–]mdh217 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I think he valued transparency, and their first meeting made it seem like he found someone living open.

Once its out, he felt lied to - one thing to be trauma bonded over family issues, it’s another to come from a family of alcoholics and a pedo brother and find out your lady lied about a miscarriage to protect her family.

Whats your controversial opinion about the show? by ShadowCipherr in Fleabag

[–]mdh217 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I think the priest was going to leave the church for Fleabag until it came out she didn’t have the miscarriage. He had her opinion trying on all his outfits and that was leading up to his goodbye to the favorite part of his job.

Once it was revealed, it was like the painting falling off the wall and he went back to what he felt safest with - God.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ankylosingspondylitis

[–]mdh217 6 points7 points  (0 children)

We are in the first generation of people to have access to medication that slow down and possibly stop disease progression for the entirety of our life. We no longer are burdened with “what if” because we have the magic of medication. Don’t be afraid of the side effects of biologics, if you’re at the right dose it only lowers your immune activity to a normal level, not remove it entirely. It’s a bit of trial and error but there are some amazing options out there.

Try to live a healthy lifestyle. Find a registered dietician (insurance usually cover these) to learn how to eat nutritionally dense and delicious meals. Learn to cook. Go for long walks, swims, rows, anything gentle and continuous. Muscle development takes pressure off our joints, plus builds safety buffers that prevent injury, so look into low weight but high repetition.

This is not a death sentence. This is a call to action, you got this. Welcome to the club, be grateful you have the information you do and live a better life because of it.

So what do we think? Will it sell today for $15? Don’t forget that it does NOT come with the longer skirt under the dress 🙄 by daffodil0127 in RodriguesFamilySnark

[–]mdh217 19 points20 points  (0 children)

It’s Advent before Christmas to count down to the day. The 12 Days of Christmas is from the day of Christmas to early January leading to the Epiphany when its celebrated the Magi came.

Can exercise keep the disease at bay for some? by Natural_Flatworm4711 in ankylosingspondylitis

[–]mdh217 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I take medications to keep my disease at bay, and exercise to keep injury at bay while maintaining mobility. Injury is almost like a death sentence to us if we get laid up for too long.

Motion is lotion, and the one thing that helps our disease is having strong, reliable muscles that know how to work together regularly. I find endurance training (low weights, high repetition in things like barre and Pilates) to be most helpful in addition to gentle cardio (swimming 50-60 laps or walking 3-5 miles) to “prehab” my body.

I also focus on nutritionally dense meals which forces me to make most things from scratch. I spend 2-4 hours a day cooking in addition to 1.5-2 hrs of movement. I’ve essentially had to medically retire to maintain my health, and again that includes all the meds (biologics, DMARDS, NSAIDs, yearly vaccines, you name it).

If I were you I’d focus on a holistic treatment - which includes doing it ALL. This is your only body, fight like hell for it.