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  2. Comment on Why do I get sick every time I visit my parents? in ~health

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    I appreciate that. I'm home now, back to a climate and lifestyle that suites me well. My greatest stress at the moment is my batteries for my solar need replacing, and that will be happening in...

    I appreciate that. I'm home now, back to a climate and lifestyle that suites me well. My greatest stress at the moment is my batteries for my solar need replacing, and that will be happening in the next day or so. Life is good.

    1 vote

  3. Comment on Why do I get sick every time I visit my parents? in ~health

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    No, it was too much of a rush to get going that it dropped from my list...it was a very stressful visit.

    No, it was too much of a rush to get going that it dropped from my list...it was a very stressful visit.

  4. Comment on Why do I get sick every time I visit my parents? in ~health

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    Yeah, I wonder if it's tied to a trauma response. I'll be bringing my own water when I visit over Thanksgiving, we'll see if that makes a difference.

    Yeah, I wonder if it's tied to a trauma response. I'll be bringing my own water when I visit over Thanksgiving, we'll see if that makes a difference.

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  5. Comment on Why do I get sick every time I visit my parents? in ~health

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    I'm home now, and feel back to normal. I'll be visiting them Thanksgiving and buying my own water and sticking to that. We'll see if it makes a difference.

    I'm home now, and feel back to normal. I'll be visiting them Thanksgiving and buying my own water and sticking to that. We'll see if it makes a difference.

  6. Comment on Why do I get sick every time I visit my parents? in ~health

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    He's an amputee (left leg below the knee) and has recently started mentally declining. I live in a very remote and not very accessible place. Not only can he not travel really, but he definitely...

    He's an amputee (left leg below the knee) and has recently started mentally declining. I live in a very remote and not very accessible place. Not only can he not travel really, but he definitely can't come here. The access to any kind of care were something to happen is simply unavailable here.

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  7. Comment on What did you do this week (and weekend)? in ~talk

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    Thanks for the kind words. Logically sound, but I have the will power the size of a gnat apparently, and the self respect to match. It's such a small fucking town that there's no avoiding each...

    Thanks for the kind words. Logically sound, but I have the will power the size of a gnat apparently, and the self respect to match. It's such a small fucking town that there's no avoiding each other. I may just have to put myself in house arrest for the foreseeable future. I was a perfectly content sexless person for YEARS, and now my brain breaks at the mear thought of this person. The most fucked up part is that I've enjoyed plenty of casual sex in the past with zero internal conflict, but now I literally have zero interest in anyone else and I'm emotionally comprised. It's disgusting. I thought after two months on the road I'd come home with a thicker skin and better resistance, instead I had one no in me that didn't even last 24hrs.

  8. Comment on What did you do this week (and weekend)? in ~talk

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    I appreciate the sentiment. It's just all rather pathetic. I'm finally back home, and so happy to be back with my friends and community, but apparently I just had to poison the well by once again...

    I appreciate the sentiment. It's just all rather pathetic. I'm finally back home, and so happy to be back with my friends and community, but apparently I just had to poison the well by once again sleeping with a person I should definitely not be sleeping with. At least this time I don't feel gut wrenched, I just feel numb.

    2 votes

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  10. Comment on What did you do this week (and weekend)? in ~talk

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    I said no to an unhealthy temptation. I don't feel great about it, but I'm keenly aware how much worse I would feel had I said yes.

    I said no to an unhealthy temptation. I don't feel great about it, but I'm keenly aware how much worse I would feel had I said yes.

    8 votes

  11. Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books

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    I found a stand alone copy of "In Watermelon Sugar" by Richard Brautigan. It's just as weird and delightful as I remember it.

    I found a stand alone copy of "In Watermelon Sugar" by Richard Brautigan. It's just as weird and delightful as I remember it.

    3 votes

  12. Comment on What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking? in ~food

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    I made fancy ramen for my friends last night. Beef broth with garlic, ginger, scallion, and mushrooms, plus a bit of white wine, rice vinegar, and soysauce. Garnished with stir fried onion,...

    I made fancy ramen for my friends last night. Beef broth with garlic, ginger, scallion, and mushrooms, plus a bit of white wine, rice vinegar, and soysauce. Garnished with stir fried onion, asparagus and carrot, and a perfectly soft boiled egg. Top that with some toasted sesame seeds and green onion. It was beautiful and delicious!

    2 votes

  13. Comment on What did you do this week (and weekend)? in ~talk

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    I'm visiting friends in Colorado. Yesterday I played an open mic, it went ok. It was good to play with my friend. Today we're packing to go camping so that tomorrow we can wake up and go to...

    I'm visiting friends in Colorado. Yesterday I played an open mic, it went ok. It was good to play with my friend. Today we're packing to go camping so that tomorrow we can wake up and go to habitat for humanity. I'm getting electrical stuffs, a door and windows for the house my friends are coming to build me this winter! I'm going to have 4 walls! It's very exciting. Making fancy ramen for dinner tonight and sleeping under the stars.

    3 votes

  14. Comment on Why do I get sick every time I visit my parents? in ~health

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    I don't get these symptoms when I talk to them on the phone, at least not that I've noticed. But I'll think about that next time I do and see if there's a corelation.

    I don't get these symptoms when I talk to them on the phone, at least not that I've noticed. But I'll think about that next time I do and see if there's a corelation.

    2 votes

  15. Comment on Why do I get sick every time I visit my parents? in ~health

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    Good thought, but no, they don't smoke but I do. No less or more than when I'm not here.

    Good thought, but no, they don't smoke but I do. No less or more than when I'm not here.

    2 votes

  16. Comment on Why do I get sick every time I visit my parents? in ~health

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    You're awesome, thank you. I'll definitely pay attention to and look into the things you mentioned. Some I already do and have, but as you said the list goes on and on.

    You're awesome, thank you. I'll definitely pay attention to and look into the things you mentioned. Some I already do and have, but as you said the list goes on and on.

    1 vote

  17. Comment on Why do I get sick every time I visit my parents? in ~health

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    I wish that were true and I would never have to experience even a modicum of deep winter again, but alas no. I'm her at least once a year if not twice, and it could be any season.

    I wish that were true and I would never have to experience even a modicum of deep winter again, but alas no. I'm her at least once a year if not twice, and it could be any season.

    1 vote

  18. Comment on Why do I get sick every time I visit my parents? in ~health

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    Ha! It's so accurate that you bring that up. I mentioned it briefly at the end of my OP that my rheumatologist didn't really say much to it today when I brought it up. I've been super stable for a...

    Ha! It's so accurate that you bring that up. I mentioned it briefly at the end of my OP that my rheumatologist didn't really say much to it today when I brought it up. I've been super stable for a number of years, but have been very much on top of it with stable meds and body awareness and work, and just a lot of listening to myself...definitely could just be that the north gives me pre flare up symptoms that then get circumvented because I spend more time in my more habital environments of the year than the less habital ones. Is that how this shit works? Idk, I apparently got markers for both rheumatoid arthritis and lupus, but im on paper under the umbrella of "inflammatory arthritis." My one MAJOR flare up made me bed ridden (no joke) for almost a year. That was 6 years ago and nothing to that extent has happened since. Inflimation in my joints is a real thing down to the daily comparison tracking, but the main thing that my disease activity eats at is the traumatic injury from 20 years ago on my left side focused on my shoulder....as you know auto immune shit is a weird murky bog of unknowns...oof

    5 votes

  19. Comment on Why do I get sick every time I visit my parents? in ~health

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    Also, what did it smell like? And, do you know what exactly caused the problem with the water heater?

    Also, what did it smell like? And, do you know what exactly caused the problem with the water heater?

    2 votes

  20. Comment on Why do I get sick every time I visit my parents? in ~health

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    Whoa, that's so crazy to think about. Good to know that that happens, for sure. Weird. But they replaced their water heater like a year ago?...yeah my mom's on top of most all things.

    Whoa, that's so crazy to think about. Good to know that that happens, for sure. Weird. But they replaced their water heater like a year ago?...yeah my mom's on top of most all things.

    5 votes