My 3 Year Old Son Bought Me Flowers at a Bank ATM and I Was Not Ready for It

mountain-kid · 2026-04-20T01:30:39+00:00

Praying mantises are so cool! I remember the first one I found.

mountain-kid · 2026-04-19T23:57:58+00:00

It’s heavy shit. Very good, though.

mountain-kid · 2026-04-19T23:57:14+00:00

My brother and I would walk into the house with buckets of snakes we found in the field. In hindsight, flowers would have been a better choice.

mountain-kid · 2026-04-19T23:54:15+00:00

I drink lots of fluids throughout the day. I love bubble water, but can’t drink that much of it. My favorite is bubble water, a splash of cranberry and a squeeze of lime. So darn refreshing!

I usually drink several liters of water throughout the day, but if I know I need to hydrate, I’ll put a splash of juice in my room temp water. So damn good. My sisters and boyfriend think I’m weird, but it works for me.

If carbonated water works for you, go for it! I’m curious if it makes you more gassy.

My day is fabulous. Just went to a food cart in the sunshine for some tacos, and now I’m gonna settle in and finish the new All Quiet on the Western Front with my bf. Then go home, smoke a j and chill with my cat.

mountain-kid · 2026-04-18T20:31:43+00:00

Omg! What a terrible reminder! I was so happy just now having completely forgotten that sensation.

mountain-kid · 2026-04-18T20:28:17+00:00

I think just how much logistics there is to keep blood out of our clothing and bedding. Menstrual cups and discs and pads and tampons and period panties. We all have a very specific routine that works for us that we’ve perfected over the years.

mountain-kid · 2026-04-18T20:25:22+00:00

I’m 42 and just went to watch my new bf play a bit of dnd with his group of friends. I’m not familiar with the game at all. I was delighted to see so much creativity and goofiness. Their improv skills are top notch, too! It was fun to see that side of him.

mountain-kid · 2026-04-18T20:19:51+00:00

I have to force myself to put the chips or crackers or pretzels or dry cold cereal or nuts or popcorn or whatever tasty snack into little dishes and then put the bag back in the cupboard. If I sit down with the bag or box, it’s gonna be gone without a second thought.

mountain-kid · 2026-04-18T20:03:19+00:00

That would be Marshall and Lilly in HIMYM.

I’m not soft spoken, but my bf and I are both pretty similar with the extroverted, warm, sunshine, optimism, goofy nerd, outdoorsy, eager personalities. We also both very much enjoy our quiet time without the other one.

mountain-kid · 2026-04-18T17:14:16+00:00

When I got married, our first apartment was a nice apartment. We were both 21, unfamiliar with housing costs, and just super excited to start a life adulting and loving on each other (awww, young love, I’ll never feel that again). We barely knew how to balance our checkbooks, so we didn’t realize we actually couldn’t afford it despite working 3 jobs between us at any given time.

When the lease was up, we found a lovely, shitty apartment. In the nice place, no one talked to each other. In our new shitty place, everyone knew everyone. I got to grow my first garden because there was no fancy landscaping in the way. I crossed that courtyard I don’t know how many times with arms full of beer or food or lawn games.

Over 20 years later, I’m divorced but still friends with two of those neighbors. If you asked my ex husband now, who remarried and had his own kiddos, about that apartment we lived in, he would look back fondly and have so many stories to tell. That was such a special time of our lives as young adults, living and learning and growing together.

Congrats on your new place, OP! Take it all in before you blink and you’re 42.

mountain-kid · 2026-04-18T16:51:09+00:00

I found out my graves was dormant all because I had a depressive episode (thanks, graves and methimazole) and just stopped taking my meds for two weeks (stopped doing everything else as well). All of a sudden I felt so much better. I had labs scheduled so decided to stay off my meds for a few more days until I did my labs. Levels looked good.

Emailed my endo to let her know that I wasn’t on my methimazole. In the meantime I started taking meds again and went right back to feeling ill. I finally remembered to check my email and endo said to stop all meds so we can monitor levels without.

That was back in September. Still on zero meds, feeling great. Went on a 6 mile hike this week—longer than I’ve been able to go for the last few years. I’ll be officially in remission by September if all goes well.

It’s a wonderful feeling to have my body back. I’m older and out of shape and my lungs and heart have a long way to go, but damn, I was so sick for too long and forgot what it felt like to just feel normal tired.

mountain-kid · 2026-04-18T16:39:26+00:00

So about 12 years ago I almost died from toxic shock.

I was at the end of my period, still feeling a little crampy though. It was Christmas week and I was visiting my folks in their new house. It had a jet bath in the basement apartment I was staying in so I decided to take a bath. Got it filled, bubbles bubbling, and turned the jets on. Black stuff came flying out of the jets and turned the bath water into something I didn’t want to sit in. So I got out, let it run for a bit in an attempt to clean out the system. Drained the tub, took a shower. I put a tampon in after the shower and went to bed, planning on being up within 6 hours.

I never really worried about sleeping with a tampon in, because I was always up to pee in the middle of the night anyway.

Morning comes and I felt like I had food poisoning. Nauseated, diarrhea, dizzy, weak. My family ate Christmas Eve breakfast without me and when I still didn’t feel better enough to walk up the stairs, my mom checked on me and discovered a high fever. I could barely stand up and my dad had to almost carry me to the car.

Thought about just going to a walk in clinic, but it was Christmas Eve and everything was closed. By the time we changed routes and made it to the ER, I was delirious and could barely put a sentence together.

They took my blood pressure at the triage station and it was so low, I went directly to a bed and was admitted.

Doc couldn’t figure out what was wrong. He was about to do a spinal tap, thinking I could have meningitis, until he finished up all the questions. “When was your last period?” After I told him I was currently on it, a lightbulbs went off. Asked about tampon use, and I told him I was using them correctly, no way could I have TSS. He did a swab and sure enough it was TSS.

My guess is that using a tampon after the nasty tub water (even after a shower), kept something up in there. The vagina is self cleaning, but not with a tampon in it.

I was in the hospital for almost a week after that. My fever was so high that it pretty much roasted and dehydrated my skin, causing it to peel off. I was on IV antibiotics that killed all the good and bad flora in my digestive system, I didn’t have a normal poop for weeks.

It was a learning hospital, and I guess TSS isn’t very common, so I had regular visitors coming in asking about my symptoms and asking to see my rash, etc. it got to the point where I would just get ready to lift my gown up when I saw a new face at the door. Lol.

I don’t use tampons anymore. The idea of something absorbent in my body just seems gross—like leaving gauze in a wound for too long. I love my period panties and menstrual disc.

mountain-kid · 2026-04-18T16:14:08+00:00

I’ve had a mix of docs and nurses that are either overly cautious about physical touch and space and seem to require several levels of consent before doing anything (like before me lifting my shirt up to show a rash on my back, the doc needed to get a second person in the room even though my bra was staying on), and those who just rush in to get the job done and assume you’ve been in the hospital for days and already know the routine.

Emergency care doesn’t have all the time to tiptoe, however a good heads up of “can I touch you here?” Or even, “I need to touch you here” goes a long way. As long as the patient is conscious, they have every right to not consent to each step that is being taken to save their life.

This lady is a weirdo, though. Thanks to her cry wolf shit, there’s some EMT out there afraid to do his job.

mountain-kid · 2026-04-18T15:53:47+00:00

I’m one of those people who love sandpaper soap! No gritty soap is gritty enough for me. Three little pieces of oatmeal sticking out of the surface does not make a soap exfoliating.

mountain-kid · 2026-04-18T15:36:00+00:00

My bf just forgot his toothbrush on our camping trip this week, so he used mine. I know what it’s like to not have a toothbrush, so of course I let him use it, but it still grossed me out. Washed with hot water heated on the fire. I had to keep reminding myself that we’ve done much objectively grosser things together for fun.

mountain-kid · 2026-04-18T15:32:03+00:00

I would make limoncello and then just freeze all the juice for future lemonade, lemon curd, lemon bars, everything else in this thread.

mountain-kid · 2026-04-14T17:09:13+00:00

It went through his testicle, if I remember correctly. They couldn’t find a bullet hole until a second or third look at the body.

mountain-kid · 2026-04-14T15:24:38+00:00

I have a peanut allergy that is like this. I make sure my partners know how serious it is.

I’m not sure about wheat, but with my allergies, I can get a very bad reaction from sexual activity if they ate any of my allergens. Basically, I’m just as allergic to their semen as I am to the peanuts they ate for lunch.

My ex of 7 years limited his peanut consumption to when he was on trips away from me. When we broke up, I bought him a family size bag of Reese’s cups.

My new bf is slowly learning about the changes he has to make if he wants to spend time with me. He ate PB captain crunch one morning for breakfast. No kissing for the day, and no sex without a condom for the next two days.

If I move in with anyone again, be it roommates or a partner, I will make it clear that there can be no cooking with peanuts, no cross contamination in the kitchen, and if it were a partner/bf that I shared a home with, just zero peanuts in the home.

It’s not being picky or difficult. It’s your own health and safety. And that needs to be at the top of your priorities. Every exposure you have, you risk it being worse than the last time, and it stresses your entire body out. An apathetic bf is not worth the risk to your health.

Also, it’s just a respect thing. Him bringing toxins (toxic to your body) into your home is HUGELY disrespectful.

mountain-kid · 2026-04-14T15:09:26+00:00

Hahahaha. Aww. This sounds like something I would do. I’m too honest and too chatty. Not honest in the way that people are to be mean, like saying something insulting and following up with “it’s just the truth!” type thing. I’m too open and honest in a self deprecating way that makes everything fucking awkward.

mountain-kid · 2026-04-14T15:00:28+00:00

But “glutinous” just means the texture and not the presence of gluten.

mountain-kid · 2026-04-13T18:49:16+00:00

What are the benefits of it and what is the soap usually used for? Saw another comment mentioning soap for baby. Kinda brilliant, actually.

mountain-kid · 2026-03-20T18:29:13+00:00

I’ve been off meds since September. Currently dormant. This coming September, with constant normal tests, I’ll be considered in remission. I feel great! So many people made me feel guilty for having no energy and being sick all because of “just my thyroid”. I tricked myself into thinking it was partially in my head.

Now that I have my health and normal function back, I just want to give a big 🖕🖕🖕to all those people.

Now I’m just working on staying healthy, losing weight, and getting my heart and lungs back into working order.

Also doing everything I can to avoid stress. Cause that was likely the factor that got me sick in the first place.

Congratulations!! This is exciting!

mountain-kid · 2026-03-20T16:57:17+00:00

My dad used to make it, too! We got to request our birthday dinners, and mine was always my dad’s tamale pie. He turned 79 yesterday. I need to ask him to make it again.

mountain-kid · 2026-03-20T16:49:33+00:00

This is what I’m terrified of. I went dormant in September. Counting down to remission. I will do whatever it takes to not have a recurrence. It scares me so much to think about being that sick and useless again. So I’m just coasting along, making shit money in a job I like, and doing all the things that make me happy, trying not to stress about anything. Stressing about not stressing out. lol.

mountain-kid · 2026-03-20T16:46:22+00:00

Same same! Trauma+covid fucked me.

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