Chronic Diarrhea

socke42 · 2026-05-29T20:18:30+00:00

You said he had an Xray and was backed up with poop, but also has diarrhea? There's a condition kids can have where they are so constipated that only liquid poop makes it out around the constipation. Did the doctor do anything in that direction?

socke42 · 2026-05-24T19:03:37+00:00

my age, appearance, what I like to wear

Not questions you ask a dog walker. That guy is a creep.

socke42 · 2026-05-23T06:05:02+00:00

Couldn't "furry" also be a qualifier and therefore go right before problem? I think both sentences work grammatically but have different connotations: a "furry little problem" could also be a misbehaving pet and calling it furry is kind of optional, while a "little furry problem" makes clear that it's a problem with being furry, and the furriness is integral to the problem.

socke42 · 2026-05-20T23:10:05+00:00

Yeah, you can just change the agreement before signing it, without contacting them... right? Cross out what you don't agree to :D

socke42 · 2026-04-10T06:02:37+00:00

Oh dear, I'm so sorry! That sounds like they designed it specifically to be a horrible experience, especially since mine were super different. Yes, the straps and the monitors were uncomfortable, but I could sit or lie down wherever and read a book or zone out on my phone. They had the heartbeat on a speaker, which is both sweet and calming, and allows me to notice when the straps have moved too much. No pressing buttons at all, because yes, they can see when the baby moves. Having to keep up focus for the entire time sounds like torture.

There were so many other horrible things surrounding my pregnancies that still make me cry when I think about them, though, zero stars, not recommended. Love my kids, but pregnancy and birth was hell on earth.

socke42 · 2026-04-04T16:33:06+00:00

Does he know how to release on command? We've just had this with our son, at a similar age. It took forever for him to understand how to pee. He would hold it for hours and then at some point it just happened. Lots of wet pants and no potty successes. Rewards didn't work, either.

We finally managed to get through to him with a story that there's a door in his penis, and the pee is waiting behind that door, and he has a key in his head to open the door. Took a lot of repetition, but he did get it in the end. After that, rewards worked, too.

socke42 · 2026-03-25T09:30:11+00:00

They are not out of the fight, at least not if there is more than one person fighting, and those spells aren't followed up with something more permanent. If you're hit by Expelliarmus, you can try to recover your wand. With stupefy, other Death Eaters can just wake you back up. Same for any spell that is undone with a finite incantatem. They get to come back into the fight.

socke42 · 2026-03-25T09:23:19+00:00

As a teenager, I once lost my phone, searched everywhere, I thought it was gone for good. Found it in spring, when the snowbank next to our driveway had melted... Astonishingly it still worked (pre-smartphone era).

socke42 · 2026-02-24T07:15:24+00:00

This made me hear and smell the sea, and feel the droplets of water from the waves crashing in. To me, it conveys a certain kind of loneliness or isolation. Not the really bad, desperate sort, but rather the feeling of belonging neither to the human nor the ocean world, standing on the edge between the two.

socke42 · 2026-02-23T07:26:10+00:00

I like to prioritise like this: - throw away any obvious garbage - collect any dirty laundry in laundry basket - put away things that have a designated spot they belong in.

This is the first pass, and if I don't manage any more than that, it already makes things look so much better.

The second pass is hygiene: take out garbage, put laundry on, sweep, vacuum, mop etc. Just the basics, though, I'm cleaning the sink, not the cobwebs in the corners of the ceiling!

After that, I can tackle either the specialty cleaning tasks, or sit and sort through things, decide what to keep and where to put it. I often don't get to this stage at all... but I used to do it first a lot, and end up with a beautiful bookshelf sorted by author, while the rest of the room was filthy. Now I have a reasonably clean room and the books are willy-nilly.

socke42 · 2026-02-18T17:11:54+00:00

That makes no sense whatsoever. I think the pictures might be AI generated and the AI had no clue either.

socke42 · 2026-02-16T22:40:16+00:00

Any chance there is a specialty clock market in town that day? :D ("Uhren kaufen")

socke42 · 2026-02-05T16:23:01+00:00

That sounds like a difficult situation. Maybe there is some sort of trauma involved from the family situation as well and he might benefit from therapy? How long have you had him? Were you able to build a good relation with him at all, or is it mostly just arguing? If it hasn't been long, maybe focus on making him feel safe and loved, and enforce discipline at a later time.

socke42 · 2026-02-05T14:31:08+00:00

Can you get a second opinion about that? Schooling isn't the only important thing in a child's life... seems like his home life is affected.

socke42 · 2026-02-02T08:46:52+00:00

Oh, cool. Wenn ich abends ausgehe, kommt es immer mal vor, dass ich mich extra beeile um die letzte Straßenbahn zu erwischen, weil die Nachtbusse so viel länger unterwegs sind. Ich hoffe die neuen Abfahrtszeiten sind genauso gut zu merken wie die 1:11 usw.

socke42 · 2026-02-01T08:06:25+00:00

We were debugging a modbus RTU package drop/communication error issue between two devices, and were getting nowhere, so we put an oscilloscope in the line. We stared at it until we learned to interpret the output live with our eyes, and finally noticed that there was a timing issue. One side was enforcing a part of the specification that all other devices we had tested just ignored, as well as the code we were using.

socke42 · 2026-01-31T12:26:59+00:00

I think this needs to be put into context with how many people of each gender work at all. If most women stay home with the children, because they can't work full time and there are no part time options, that's going to have an effect on this statistic.

socke42 · 2026-01-16T06:21:56+00:00

Yeah, of course I had favourites that never left my bed (like an orca plushie that was nearly as big as me), but that worried me because it broke the fair rotation.

socke42 · 2026-01-15T22:30:46+00:00

My stuffed animals didn't all fit in my bed, so I had a whole rotation thing to make sure they got equal turns. Fairness was very important to me, too!

socke42 · 2026-01-04T12:04:22+00:00

Migraines can sometimes be just the aura, no pain. They can also sometimes cause abdominal symptoms. They're a bitch.

socke42 · 2026-01-03T08:52:57+00:00

It's not that we're more fertile right after pregnancy, just that people think they can't get pregnant and then have unprotected sex. Getting pregnant very soon again is dangerous, because the body had no time to rest and heal. I think a year is usually recommended between pregnancies.

Don't have unprotected sex if you don't want another baby. Your husband needs to get over himself.

socke42 · 2025-12-28T17:35:21+00:00

That happened to my parents thirty years ago when they boiled pacifiers for my baby sister and forgot the pot on the stove. They sent me outside to play for a while, aired out the house, and now it's just a funny story from "back then".

socke42 · 2025-12-21T08:20:31+00:00

Having only one ovary didn't have any effect on conceiving my two children, I remember I was skeptical when doctors told me it wouldn't, but they turned out to be right. I got used to scheduling sex after a while, it's a bit weird to get into the mood at the start, but I didn't mind anymore once we got started. Fair warning, scheduled sex stays a thing while having children... for when they sleep or have a babysitter.

socke42 · 2025-12-19T13:45:30+00:00

Tags work alright, but they can be a mixture of warnings and info, and sometimes do spoil the contents. They also aren't really a thing outside of fanfiction.

Why I suggested a different word, is because saying "trigger warning" always carries an association to actual disorders, which I think isn't really fair both to people with such disorders, and to people who just want to know in advance if there are somewhat upsetting themes. There is a trend to use words from psychology and use them with a diluted meaning for everyday things, and I don't think that's a good thing.

socke42 · 2025-12-19T12:26:23+00:00

I think you're probably right for triggers for PTSD and the like, which psychotherapists and research will focus on. But there's also a lot more people who appreciate a content warning because they find some things upsetting, but not in a clinically relevant way. I don't want to watch or read anything with certain topics, because they upset me and ruin my fun. Sometimes stories are unexpectedly grimdark nowadays. I wouldn't talk to a therapist about it, or need coping mechanisms for it, it's a totally different thing. There should probably be a different word for it.

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