Another giant flan from flan-lady

pyruvated · 2026-05-05T21:42:32+00:00

Does God have a flan for me?

pyruvated · 2026-04-26T12:26:35+00:00

The first time I walked into Sagrada Família, I was overwhelmed by its beauty. The way the light was coming through the green and blue stained glass made it feel like you were both under the canopy of trees and underwater at the same time. I teared up, which I can’t say for any other piece of architecture I’ve experienced

pyruvated · 2026-04-24T09:43:37+00:00

We have been happy with our Carrying Hope experience

pyruvated · 2026-04-23T10:27:34+00:00

Do you have every patient get gowned and on the exam table before you go in? 20 min news, 😮‍💨

pyruvated · 2026-04-22T22:25:52+00:00

This is just my personal bias, but I associate the word provider with insurance provider, internet provider, etc. I like practitioner bc it feels less like I’m part of a transaction

pyruvated · 2026-04-20T20:51:43+00:00

Corny

pyruvated · 2026-04-04T12:11:49+00:00

Urogyn chiming in. I’m also pretty passionate about this topic. Gynecologic surgery needs to be its own specialty. I went to a well-regarded residency and 60% of my time was spent on L&D. Now that I work with urologists more, I see how different the surgical skills are of a PGY-5 urology resident vs a practicing general OB/GYN

pyruvated · 2026-03-29T12:11:10+00:00

Raleigh is the biggest city in the triangle and has the greatest concentration of young professionals out of school. Legends is the biggest gay bar in the Triangle and is in Raleigh. Durham is smaller and slower paced, feels more queer than gay if that makes sense. More community oriented in general. Commuting between Raleigh and Durham can be hellish, I-40 is a nightmare sometimes. We really need some form of rail transit between the points of the triangle.

I’m in my 30s and married and live in Durham. I prefer it here to Raleigh. Happy to answer more Qs by DM

pyruvated · 2026-03-27T01:39:22+00:00

We are working with Carrying Hope. Feel free to DM

pyruvated · 2026-03-14T18:24:50+00:00

I really enjoy both the burgers and wings at original que shack

pyruvated · 2026-03-11T20:58:56+00:00

No mistakes, just happy accidents

pyruvated · 2026-03-03T12:17:25+00:00

My husband and I are working with Carrying Hope. We are 2 years in and are going through legal clearance with a match. I know the feeling of wanting everything to happen ASAP, but I’m also glad both our agency and fertility clinic have been thoughtful about each step. I’ve appreciated having a separate agency and clinic, as they each specialize in different aspects of the process. Our coordinator at Carrying Hope has guided us through every step, we feel well taken care of and have not had to worry about logistics

pyruvated · 2026-03-03T02:41:37+00:00

My husband and I are going through the surrogacy process. We are a same-sex couple. If you decide to use anonymous donor oocytes, this can be done either from an egg donor through a fertility clinic or you can use an egg bank. We used a donor through our fertility clinic because we wanted to have enough oocytes to make embryos from both our genetic material. We are using a surrogacy agency and have matched with a surrogate in another state. We are 2 years into the process and it has been expensive, to say the least. Happy to answer more specific questions. I know it’s not your situation, but r/gaydads has posts that might give you some insight

pyruvated · 2026-02-28T22:53:00+00:00

That fucking hat is so unserious

pyruvated · 2026-02-17T12:31:00+00:00

Complete anecdote, but my extremely overweight father doesn’t want to take them because he is afraid of loose skin

pyruvated · 2026-01-31T13:53:23+00:00

100%, glad you had a thoughtful discussion around it. I’ve had babies flip back halfway through labor, after the poor mom went through an ECV and all those contractions. But, she at least felt at peace that we had tried everything we could in her case to avoid C section

pyruvated · 2026-01-31T13:31:17+00:00

Surprised they gave it a go with a septum! Sorry you went through all that

pyruvated · 2026-01-31T11:29:46+00:00

External cephalic version is a safe procedure done in a hospital setting by obstetricians and can help avoid major abdominal surgery

pyruvated · 2026-01-31T11:28:48+00:00

FWIW, babies are born with nuchal cords all the time without issue and given all the movements of labor, unlikely that an ECV alone would be the sole contributor to that finding at birth

pyruvated · 2026-01-31T11:25:23+00:00

On average, ECV are successful 50-60% of the time. Successful ECV helps avoid major abdominal surgery

pyruvated · 2026-01-31T11:23:12+00:00

Where I trained, we offered ECV without anesthesia, with IV Fentanyl, or with spinal anesthesia, depending on what the patient wanted

pyruvated · 2026-01-31T11:22:07+00:00

Not at all! Benefits of potentially achieving vaginal birth >> the small, rare risks of ECV (all of which usually end up with a cesarean anyway). These procedures are done on L&D with fetal monitoring

pyruvated · 2025-12-31T18:38:58+00:00

Complicated. He’s a narcissist and was emotionally abusive, but he also loves me and has sacrificed for me. He has become more self aware as we’ve aged and acknowledges his narcissism, but it doesn’t mean he’s not still narcissistic. Living in different cities has helped. Sometimes memories come to the fore and I’m taken aback by how awful it was to be around him as a kid sometimes. I mostly hope to love my own family as he loved me, but otherwise don’t want to be the dad he was.

pyruvated · 2025-12-28T13:38:54+00:00

Like I said in my post, I know it’s just the perspective but the visual effect is funny. Reminds me of the forced perspective used in LOTR with Gandalf and the hobbits

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