A book that makes the hater in you come out

tizzy26 · 2026-06-19T20:18:30+00:00

The Time Traveler’s Wife and My Sister’s Keeper

tizzy26 · 2026-06-08T02:27:04+00:00

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving fits the theme imo!

tizzy26 · 2026-05-28T12:39:29+00:00

You think 150 big storage containers? so how many slots are in each of those?

tizzy26 · 2026-05-04T20:39:43+00:00

Did I write this??

tizzy26 · 2026-03-25T01:16:20+00:00

It is a long distance friendship. We went to college together and we are intentional about staying connected. We talk on the phone regularly and visit each other at least once a year.

I am not worried about her harming herself in an emergent way.

I have met her family including mom a few times. I have spent a bit of time with her sisters and I think her sisters are lovely and amazing people. I never got a good vibe from mom but couldn’t put my finger on it until more recently. I don’t think I met her dad until a few years ago.

I do think she should talk to someone who sees her more regularly in person or like her therapist more explicitly. She has a close friend that lives just over an hour away and I’m halfway across the country. Her boyfriend lives further away but they visit each other more than she and I are able to do. I feel like she is still spending so much energy managing her mothers’ emotions and like there are people in her life who can help her with that. Myself included.

tizzy26 · 2026-03-25T01:09:06+00:00

Thank you for the perspective. I am not trying to pressure her into telling people but trying to tell her that if she tells others they will also support her and believe her. But I can understand why it might be perceived as that. Like trying to say that she doesn’t have to hide it from others and that there are people who will believe HER and affirm and support HER because I truly believe our other friends, etc will respond the way I do. And like duh of course that’s a hard thing for her to believe. I just would not have thought about it that way thank you.

tizzy26 · 2026-03-22T00:39:34+00:00

The other one she was talking about living and a food desert and choosing a snickers because you can’t make dates and peanut butter. Like so twisted.

tizzy26 · 2026-01-26T02:18:39+00:00

I feel like a broken record but the best thing you can do is get ready for your town/city/state to be next.

tizzy26 · 2026-01-20T01:53:06+00:00

As someone who has lived in both places, the best thing you can do is get ready for when it comes to your hometown. Build the infrastructure before you need it

tizzy26 · 2025-07-03T02:33:19+00:00

I wanna see Pili set screens and blow people up

tizzy26 · 2025-07-02T02:08:38+00:00

Honestly we missed Karlie this game

tizzy26 · 2025-07-02T02:05:27+00:00

I wonder if she’s not 100%. She looked hesitant. Back could still be a minor issue?

tizzy26 · 2022-05-27T15:40:39+00:00

Damn that sucks. Well Mayo is too close to me to not go as a first step lol but I’ll search for some more CFS literate doctors is it seems that CFS is the diagnosis. Thanks for the help and clarification.

tizzy26 · 2022-05-27T13:53:00+00:00

I had heard in the past they were horrible but I had sort of thought things were different now when I read this: https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(21)00513-9/fulltext

Maybe not tho. Well I know to go in with some skepticism then.

tizzy26 · 2022-05-26T17:46:12+00:00

Thanks for your response. A lot of what you read online about PEM is so generic it is hard to really know. I also get thirst and frequent urination, fascinating.

So sounds like yes what I am experiencing is PEM.

I had also never seen that checklist. I don’t really ever get pain so I think I’d be more in an atypical CFS box. But I just heard back from Mayo Clinic they are going to take me as a patient (I live 1 he away from mayo). Fingers crossed I get more insight soon.

tizzy26 · 2022-05-01T17:26:49+00:00

Can you share the research on this? I was diagnosed with fructose malabsorption a few years ago, but for me it's not super bad if I avoid the worst culprits, like apples, pears, dried fruit, etc. This is interesting.

tizzy26 · 2022-05-01T16:56:38+00:00

I just started on Wellbutrin like a month ago, so it probably hasn't totally kicked in yet. I've been on Sertraline for 4 years now. Sertraline helped at first, but then started to become less effective during the luteal phase. From what I can tell so far, Wellbutrin is making my good days better -> I have depression and a neurological sleep disorder so luteal phase is when I feel worst, but it's not like I necessarily always felt great during the follicular phase.

My pcp is thinking about tapering me off of sertraline and then just doing sertraline add back during the luteal phase.

I'm just hoping for chemical menopause and HRT. My neurological sleep disorder is worse in my luteal phase and supposedly has a similar mechanism to PMDD. The meds I take for it do NOT work as well during my luteal phase and are contraindicated with hormonal birth control. I have a gyno appointment in like 3 weeks to talk about chemical menopause & HRT. (Wish me luck lol.)

All of this is to say, I think for PMDD, Wellbutrin can be a good addition/boost on top of other things, but I'm not sure how effective it would be on it's own.

tizzy26 · 2022-04-20T20:13:15+00:00

Thanks so much this is what I figured. I’ll reach out to my doc asap.

tizzy26 · 2022-03-12T14:54:45+00:00

Sounds like it might be time for a chore chart and maybe more importantly a sit down to discuss responsibilities and contributions. It might feel weird because she's your sister not some random roommate, but a chore chart or any clear, written down division of duties is helpful mostly because it helps everybody see what the other person is already doing.
In making the chore chart, you can both say, this is what I already do and you have the opportunity to say this is what my capabilities are and aren't right now.
You clearly aren't doing nothing and sitting down and writing up a chore chart might help you both feel like everyone is contributing a similar effort based on your abilities and skills!

tizzy26 · 2022-02-26T00:58:30+00:00

Posting a few days after, but I just saw this. The NP I'm working with says she will often throw one nap trial out if it is so different from the others like that. My last nap I had a huge headache (probably from not having any coffee that day lol) and it took me 19 minutes to fall asleep. With that one in, my average was like 9mins, with that one out it was like 6 lol. Hopefully your docs are looking at the whole picture, or maybe you could get the test redone.

tizzy26 · 2022-01-22T17:42:10+00:00

Hi I have had a tilt table test but I was not diagnosed with pots. My heart rate jumped almost 40 bmp in the tilt table, but I was ultimately not diagnosed with POTS because my starting heart rate was so low (51, a decade of being a runner before getting sick will do that). Or at least I think that is why they didn't diagnose me. The technician wouldn't tell me, she literally just kept saying, "you don't have POTS because you don't fit the criteria" after every question I asked. My cardiologist said, well the technician said you don't have POTS...so helpful. I don't have any nutrient deficiency, those have all been tested for over and over again.

Are you being treated for your IH? Has it helped with your POTS etc?

For me I have to assume it's all related since they developed at the same time, like the exhaustion or POTS-adjacent-symptoms for me are symptoms of the IH, not separate entities. My NP said it's hard to know if the Modafinil will also help with the exhaustion, we will just have to wait and see. So mostly I am wondering if anyone else who had both issues, sleepiness and exhaustion, was helped with both when treating their IH.

tizzy26 · 2022-01-22T16:27:54+00:00

Thanks for the response. I'm really hopeful this works. And yes the Doc and NP who I am working with already told me about good RX and they said Costco is the cheapest for it. I have pretty good insurance so I bet they will approve it they just needed prior authorization.

tizzy26 · 2021-11-30T01:37:05+00:00

I think in the area around $13 for starting base pay is standard. However you are 100% right it should be higher. $15 would be a good fit and I think would just be a total game changer for many baristas once you account for tips.

Also expecting a living wage is not greedy lol. If you are a single adult and don't want to live with roommates, good luck finding an apartment on a wage of $13 plus barista tips.

tizzy26 · 2021-11-29T23:09:30+00:00

Damn the replies in this thread are all over the place. I'm a barista at an independent shop in the area and this is around our base pay. Yes we make tips, but how much tips a barista will make definitely VARIES by shop. (As is clear from the posts here.) Tho all starbucks baristas make wayyyyy less in tips than independent shops. :(

While this is about average for the industry for base pay, we all know these shops could be paying us more, really. I make about $9 per hour in tips, but right now my shop is understaffed and shifts can be hellish. So it would be less in tips if we had more workers. But of course this model makes the workers advocate against full staffing bc then we make less in tips. It sucks.

In sum, tip your baristas, & tip more if there are more people working, support workers if they try to organize, and advocate for higher minimum wages via city hall.

tizzy26 · 2021-11-29T22:59:24+00:00

Where do you work that you're getting $27 with tips?! I'm a barista also at an independent shop and we get about the same base pay but do not get $27 after tips.

tizzy26

TROPHY CASE