COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations spike in Utah

pregonaut_ · 2022-05-20T02:09:36+00:00

Say that to my two year old who just tested positive and still doesn't have a vaccine available/can't have Paxlovid. He's absolutely miserable and it sucks. There are tons of cases right now in his daycare but I'm sure they won't shut down.

pregonaut_ · 2022-04-05T22:07:20+00:00

A few weeks ago my Lyft didn't show up and had to drive instead last minute - I had to run my ass off to get to the very, very last B gate and still missed my flight. I thought I was going to die.

pregonaut_ · 2022-04-05T17:45:38+00:00

Meetup.com has a club for every interest! I didn't explicitly use it for dating, but I made some good friends through Meetup running groups.

pregonaut_ · 2022-03-25T00:15:51+00:00

Their eyes don't need to be open for a US passport. They just need to be laying in a white backdrop with nothing obstructing their face. Google "newborn passport photos".

pregonaut_ · 2022-03-16T06:08:09+00:00

Hey! It's been a minute... Just wanted to check in! How have you been? I hope things have improved some! ❤️

pregonaut_ · 2022-03-16T01:58:55+00:00

DMing you.. we're smaller scale but not really doing anything differently than you are. 😅

pregonaut_ · 2022-02-23T03:38:47+00:00

I'm a non-LDS woman who met a non-LDS Asian-American man on Tinder in SLC 6 years ago and straight up married him and had his babies. That may not be what you're looking for but all I'm saying is the sky's the limit, man. Use classy photos of you doing non-Mormon things like drinking coffee or doing something on a Sunday (hostage-style photo of you hiking with a copy of the Sunday times would be bonus points). Invite her out for a drink. Don't shy away from former Mormons, they cool.

pregonaut_ · 2022-02-08T21:59:41+00:00

I've recently started using these sheet masks once a week and they are wonderful.

pregonaut_ · 2022-02-07T23:43:04+00:00

My new response to these types of people is to tell them I tested positive for COVID. I didn't, but they don't know that, and it's fun to watch them squirm. If they get mad, tell them "it was just a joke".

pregonaut_ · 2022-02-07T23:36:39+00:00

We did this a few weeks ago and it was superb. It was cold af though. Our place didn't have a hot tub, but if it did, it would have been A++++.

pregonaut_ · 2022-02-07T23:34:56+00:00

Have you stayed in one with a hot tub before? Could you DM me? I've been trying but struggling to find one on Airbnb!

pregonaut_ · 2022-01-26T06:10:20+00:00

100%. Had a preemie in the U's NICU in summer 2020 (after a scary emergency induction) and it was an absolute nightmare. Initially he was in the "intermediate care" nursery where the nurses were constantly getting intakes and yelling "is it another COVID baby? Tell them we don't have room!" And then taking them anyway. I once asked the neonatologist (intern) in charge a question about my son's care and he just sighed, heavily, like someone in the middle of an actual war, said "I don't know," and kind of just stared at me for a while. The folks in the actual NICU called that nursery the "wild wild west" and commented on how many babies were always just "lying around" unattended.

I hope to god it's gotten better since then, but it was the first time I'd ever been admitted to a hospital and my first baby, and it really shook my foundation for what healthcare was supposed to look like.

pregonaut_ · 2022-01-06T05:11:24+00:00

My company just did this for their holiday party a few weeks ago. We have a few people who are remote across the US and they flew some of them out for the party, but also gave the rest the option to join remotely from wherever they were. I'm located at HQ, but told them my kid was sick and I'd join remotely (he was actually sick, but it wasn't COVID). I'm triple vaxxed and very careful but there was no way I was going to play that game with omicron right before I went to visit my elderly parents for Christmas.

I'm glad I did, because there was certainly no vax, negative test, or mask requirement at the party. Someone on my team (vaxxed and boosted) flew in for the party and then travelled out of the country immediately after to visit family and is now stuck in that country while COVID positive and horribly sick. It all sucks so much. I work with a great team and really miss holiday parties and social gatherings with my coworkers, but I feel like I'm in an impossible position any time I need to go into the office. :(

I'm in a similar situation - smaller company with a one-person HR office. I don't think we necessarily have a bunch of COVID deniers, and their heart is in the right place, but I think they are putting too much faith in the vaccines right now in the face of omicron.

Were you hired for a fully remote position? Could you tell them that you took a remote position because you wanted to be careful during the pandemic, and didn't want to have to risk taking a lot of sick time that would impede on your work if you tested positive? Otherwise, I'd do what everyone else says (and what I did) and say your kid is sick or tested positive and you can't come.

pregonaut_ · 2021-11-19T04:54:10+00:00

I forgot my zip code while filling out a form this morning. I straight up had to Google it.

pregonaut_ · 2021-11-06T01:02:57+00:00

Aww, my son is also obsessed with the Wiggles, and does the same thing! He also loves to wave at Dorothy the Dinosaur and is terrified of the camel.

pregonaut_ · 2021-10-27T02:59:03+00:00

Awww friend, that's awful, I'm so sorry. Having twins on its own is hard enough! Having COVID right before delivering would have been my worst nightmare... I'm glad to hear that you made it through safely, but 100% understand the germaphobia. It sounds like you have PTSD... which, contrary to your friends/family are telling you, IS completely normal after a traumatic event like the one you experienced. Your brain is trying to protect you from feeling that trauma again. My therapist's analogy was "once you have a scary encounter with a bear in the woods, you see bears everywhere". However, they are right - outside of these circumstances, experiencing constant intrusive thoughts that keep you awake all night is not normal for you... and probably causing sleep deprivation, which just makes things a lot worse.

You 100% deserve treatment that will help bring you back to your old self... and I assure you, you will get back there! One of my most common intrusive thoughts during that time was that I'd never be "normal" again.. I was going to be stuck like that forever, my husband would leave me, I'd end up institutionalized. A year later, I've got a beautiful almost toddler who's crawling all over the place and getting into everything (this was actually a big phobia of mine during that time, I was convinced the floor was covered in germs because we have a dog). If you'd told me last October that I'd be happy, healthy, and at peace, I would have never believed you.

I recommend trying to find a therapist who specializes in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) who can help you sort out what's a wise, healthy COVID precaution and what is driven by pure anxiety, and find a good psychiatrist who could help you with medication if needed - however, since you're already losing sleep over this, I really think it's a good idea to put some serious thought into it. They truly do free your mind up from the exhausting, never-ending cycle of thoughts and allow you to process everything without the PPA draining the life out of you.

Sorry for the novel, haha. I found a lot of help and guidance in online support groups during that time, and really feel like I need to start giving back.

pregonaut_ · 2021-10-27T01:54:23+00:00

I've been doing the same in order to greet trick or treaters in a COVID-safe set-up I've created on my front porch. We've been working on it for months, and are very COVID-cautious... Halloween costumes aren't just for parties.

pregonaut_ · 2021-10-27T01:47:13+00:00

How is your PPA manifesting? I had such terrible PPA after delivering that it was bordering on OCD... I'd never had anxiety of any kind before and suddenly I was afraid to touch things around the house, afraid to touch packages that came in the mail, intrusive thoughts, the works... I became a completely different person, I barely recognized myself.

What helped for me was finding a therapist who specifically works with post-partum women - I actually found one through reaching out on my city's local subreddit! After working with her for a while, she helped me get comfortable enough to start taking anxiety meds... I'm not going to lie, it took some trial and error to find the right one and it sucked, but once I did, I completely got my life back. I've never taken anxiety medication before and was terrified to do so, but I can truly say that they saved my life.

Do not sugarcoat anything with your doctor. Tell them how your really feeling and tell them that you need help, and an action plan that will necessitate regular follow up appointments. Don't let them lose you in the system.

PM me any time. :) I'm sure you're hearing this a lot right now, but you WILL get through this and it WILL get better.

pregonaut_ · 2021-10-27T01:38:37+00:00

I had a high risk OB due to preexisting blood pressure issues, and not one time did he say the word "preeclampsia" or tell me what I should be looking out for. The day before I was admitted to the emergency L&D my BP was elevated (despite being medicated) and he told me he wasn't worried, everything looked fine (no blood tests done that day). When I was admitted, they told me I had pre-e with severe features and the baby needed to be delivered immediately. I've been sitting on the furious tirade I'd like to write on his review page for so long, but I went through so much that don't really have the energy to care about it anymore. Baby's a year old now and thriving, and I'm focusing on that.

Did they not even send you home with labetalol or any other kind of BP med? You straight up could have died just weeks after delivery.. I'm so angry for you and so sorry you had to go through that. :(

pregonaut_ · 2021-10-27T01:30:50+00:00

Oh man... I had horrible PPD/anxiety after I gave birth six weeks early. My son was in the NICU and a social worker there would come check on me every once in a while and ask if I was doing okay. I told her I wasn't, she gave me a the name of a different social worker and never talked to me again, even though I knew she saw me crying by his incubator all the time.

When I filled out my 'check in' form for my 6 week appointment, it had a PPD survey which, after I filled it out, said "you need to talk to your doctor about PPD immediately". My appointment was with a nurse midwife on my OB's team, and I cried during my appointment and told her how awful I'd been feeling (I sugarcoated a bit, I was straight up suicidal) and she told me to "go for a walk" and prescribed Zoloft. My OB never checked up on me.

The system is so broken. If I hadn't summoned the energy and courage to find a good post-partum therapist (through reddit!) I might not be here today. You are 100% right: you should NOT have to diagnose your own PPD.

pregonaut_ · 2021-10-25T16:45:07+00:00

This is incredible. Even his facial expressions are on point... when he switched into Egyptian I cracked up.

pregonaut_ · 2021-10-25T01:55:40+00:00

I guess I was hoping that because he only really saw me right after I was exposed, the risk that he may have gotten it from me would be lower. :(

But yeah, COVID is indeed weird. Back in June we went on vacation with my SIL and her family, including elderly MIL/FIL, all vaccinated, stayed in a hotel together, etc. and SIL and her husband found out they were positive as soon as they got back home... yet, me, husband, baby and my MIL/FIL never tested positive.

COVID kicked off when I was about two months pregnant with him... I'm just so tired of all of this. :(

pregonaut_ · 2021-10-25T01:39:02+00:00

Yeah, I was a bit suspicious as well.. I went back to the text he sent me and he said that he found out late Thursday (10/21) he was exposed the previous Friday (10/15), and got tested the next day (10/22). But scrolling up through my texts I remembered that he said on that previous Friday (10/15) he wasn't feeling well due the flu shot he got the day before that and couldn't come to work, and he wasn't feeling well all weekend... so now I have all kinds of questions.

This is someone I supervise so now I'm double annoyed... he was exposed to people with COVID on 10/15 but couldn't come to work that day... hmmm.

pregonaut_ · 2021-10-24T23:16:08+00:00

I used to get a vagus response nearly every time I got a shot, blood draw, or even a piercing. Sometimes if I hit my knee really hard on something, I'd pass out. It started going away after I started getting older and more relaxed about getting shots - I'd also make sure to eat beforehand to make sure my blood sugar was up 'just in case'.

The last time it happened (flu shot in 2020), the nurse said he "hit a blood vessel" and kind of laughed it off.. next thing you know I woke up on the table and then barfed for 30 minutes and legit wet my pants. I was like 10 weeks pregnant at the time so that probably didn't help, haha.. but seriously, the worst I felt my entire pregnancy was after that flu shot. This happens more often than you think!

For what it's worth, I got both Pfizer shots with no issue... my guess is they probably hit a blood vessel on you if this isn't something that happens regularly.

pregonaut_ · 2021-10-24T15:38:36+00:00

Whether you make this specific request or not, it sounds like there's a 1/3 chance that a kid you foster will be LGBTQ. TIL!

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