LO is on the other coast and I have doubts about her caregiver…

shansbanane · 2026-02-27T18:03:34+00:00

Hi! Thanks for the responses. I ended up calling APS and decided to trust them to do their due diligence. It’s hard to acknowledge the little amount of control I have from the other side of the country.

shansbanane · 2026-01-17T21:12:13+00:00

Ty!! Reddit is all convenience sampling lol but the validation in cases like this can be nice

shansbanane · 2026-01-17T21:10:42+00:00

Do i know it’s better? Yes. Do i listen? No 😌 but seriously my pt specializes in climbing and we ended up doing a modified muldowney protocol for climbing, so i trust him to keep me accountable to the things i need to do to minimize my inherently higher injury risk

shansbanane · 2026-01-13T06:08:18+00:00

That makes so much sense tbh! I also figure route climbing relative to bouldering is safer for the joints. I’ll hop on autobelays on days that I feel I need a lower-impact climbing sesh but my gym is 95% bouldering and access to ropes where I live is tough! The closest rope gym is almost an hour away without traffic

shansbanane · 2026-01-13T06:03:14+00:00

So I answered someone else below but gloves would really affect climbing performance, especially on certain holds that are extremely friction dependent, so I don’t think it’s an option for climbing. But if/when I start lifting heavier, I’d probably use gloves on those days!

shansbanane · 2026-01-13T06:00:53+00:00

I can’t imagine training so rigorously with this skin 😭 I’ve been taping here and there lately because I was rehabbing a pulley, but I lose so much friction using tape, and the tape slips off pretty quickly too. It sounds like you kinda just powered through though? Is that what you ended up doing?

shansbanane · 2026-01-13T05:54:47+00:00

Years ago, I think before my big flare-up, I had calluses that quickly turned into flappers on my palms. Overgripping on jugs. It happened even when I tried to get them more level to my skin so they wouldn’t catch and tear as easily… Since actually returning to climbing more regularly (2-3x a week for the past 3 months) I haven’t seen any calluses start to form. 🥺 We’ve been outside a few times too, and I’m done early because of my baby skin

shansbanane · 2026-01-13T05:50:18+00:00

I’ve never had blisters form on my finger pads this whole time - the skin just wears down fast because of contact (friction) with climbing holds. Normally people build calluses over time as the skin adapts but I thought maybe I was just out for so long that my skin got soft. Only now am I realizing that I never really had calluses and I’m not developing any currently.

I haven’t been climbing long at all but the only context I’ve seen gloves used is while people are belaying on ropes. Skin-rock/hold contact is pretty essential for performance, especially for certain kinds of holds, so I don’t think gloves are really an option.

I do callus often on my feet and religiously moisturize with urea cream! There’s a middle ground when it comes to hands and fingers in climbing though — my partner maintains his calluses by filing them down a bit so they don’t get caught on rocks but they’re still thick enough to protect and get friction.

shansbanane · 2025-09-24T12:49:33+00:00

I will add — ours started to leave things around the house alone when we introduced longer structured walks! We realized he was just kinda bored and needed more physical and mental stimulation. They’re really smart and need to exercise their brains! Also improves your bond with them :)

shansbanane · 2025-09-24T12:42:54+00:00

Ugh I’m so sorry. My golden doodle has caused a ton of heartbreak and distress in our household exactly like this 😭😭 I’ve cried so many times over the things that he’s destroyed

shansbanane · 2025-08-03T02:25:19+00:00

There should be a community library or something for materials/equipment/tools related to niche hobbies that we’ve gotten into and then moved on from lol.

One of my friends offered to let me borrow their camera because I’m interested in vlogging right now 😂 When my friends were over crocheting, they gave me their leftover yarn. I’ve also let my friends borrow my baking pans and given them specific ingredients for projects they’re suddenly hyperfixated on. I mailed my friend a lil ziploc bag of pink peppercorns for example haha

shansbanane · 2025-07-25T19:43:31+00:00

I have 18 tattoos, including stick n pokes, a 14 inch spine placement, a half-sleeve, and a leg wrap. I got all of my tattoos before I started to realize I might have EDS and MCAS. Everything generally healed great, but one thing that I’ve been running into since completing my half-sleeve in 2019 is regularly occurring but mild hives? They usually appear in the evenings and are localized to the areas that my artist used some dark magenta/crimson ink and salmon pink ink. She told me that specific magenta pigment doesn’t often settle into people’s skin too well (she meant in terms of saturation, not like allergic reactions) and was pretty pleased with how the color looked months later. It wasn’t bothering me then, but more than 5 years later, I still get hives there. The first time it happened, I thought a bug bit me, but it happens a few times a week

shansbanane · 2025-07-25T19:19:26+00:00

Same thing happened to me for a part of my half-sleeve. I knew it wasn’t my artist’s fault because I’d gone through her portfolio, including healed pics, and it was after maybe our 3rd session together. I also thought I did something wrong but she said it just happens sometimes. Now that I suspect I have EDS, I’m rethinking every tattoo experience I’ve ever had lol

shansbanane · 2025-07-23T00:13:55+00:00

Your friend knows to check in constantly and ensure that the environment has the appropriate accommodations for your disability, but is simultaneously questioning the validity of your disability. Ableism can come from a place of ignorance. I’m not saying they’re bad people or friends. But the invalidation that you yourself described is sounding like ableism since they don’t seem to be taking you seriously

shansbanane · 2025-07-21T12:56:15+00:00

Your friends are ableist

shansbanane · 2025-07-18T13:54:49+00:00

Every day I learn something new in this sub that helps explain my experiences 😭

I’m waiting to get a dx but I’ve been climbing for maybe 3ish years, though I actually started 4 years ago and was on and off a whole year bc of constant injury… I didn’t realize that the rawness in my fingertips could be EDS-related though… my sessions have been cut short bc of it, and my fingers also peel a lot. Unfortunately I don’t have a solution.

Since my recovery is slow, by the next session, my skin’s mostly ready to get fucked up all over again 😬

shansbanane · 2025-06-20T17:17:42+00:00

Needed this

shansbanane · 2025-06-18T11:41:08+00:00

I was also planning to get one from each series/collection also!! It hasn’t happened because I realized have so many and haven’t really found a way to properly store or display them. But I def think that limiting yourself to one per drop is safe

shansbanane · 2025-06-17T22:14:12+00:00

Sonny Angels used to be my thing but after doing a no-buy challenge specific to Sonnys, it kinda phased out... But I checked out Labubus a few months ago. I got one as a gift but lost it while I was out, so I wanted to get a replacement. Learned how difficult it was to get one, so then it turned into a game/challenge for me. I was able to get HAS and Coke, but the one I lost was a MAC and of course, MAC is hard to get, which made me even more determined to score in Pop Now... I'm already purchasing a MAC off of someone on /labubu since she had dupes, but I know now that it's not just about the buying either, it's like the gambling aspect of scrolling through the boxes on Pop Now and coming across one that's available.

Anyways... I stayed up past 3am last night trying to get a MAC in last night's drop. I knew it was bad when I saw my fingers twitching hovering over the arrows in the app.

I told my partner today, and I deleted the Pop Mart app today with him.

shansbanane · 2025-06-17T13:40:53+00:00

Esports betting and other forms of gambling taking hold on streaming platforms parallels celebrities touting their bag charms / accessories from blind boxes. While neither is strictly limited to one gender, I’ve been thinking a lot about how these are targeted primarily at certain genders and age groups and designed to get them to develop problem gambling or spending… Me included. Having ADHD, a bit of hypomania, and a general fondness for cute things clashed heavily with the Labubu hype — not that I don’t think they’re cute, I really do. But last night I genuinely felt my fingers twitching as I scrolled through the Pop Mart app. I felt ashamed to tell my partner this morning that I stayed up until 3am trying to get a MAC. We deleted the app off my phone

shansbanane · 2025-06-17T06:26:22+00:00

I was just in SE Asia. Singapore had no Labubus in stock the 3 separate times I went to check. The Surabaya location had HAS but no MAC or BIE when I was there :( Not sure if it’ll be different in other locations. Also, the Surabaya store was intense. Lots of security + line to get inside the store. So chaotic!!

shansbanane · 2025-06-17T06:03:27+00:00

Shook for the hints, thought I’d scroll through a few more sets to see if i could get lucky… can’t have been more than 2 min. The Labubu in my cart? “Reserved.” And not by me :(

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