axolotlskitterways.bsky.social
History nerd - girl gamer - amateur seamstress - American refugee living in the heart of Europe - Lupie - ADHDer - mom - wife
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds”
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I hate how the GOP will take advantage of this horrible story that happened in Georgia (the country) to try to outlaw fertility treatments. I just know they will…
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The same goes for fibromyalgia. I was diagnosed in 2012 with it, and this past year, I FINALLY got the right diagnosis of lupus. I know my rheum back then didn’t even try to figure out what was wrong with me, or he would have given me the lupus diagnosis instead.
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I looked in this one and there’s nothing there with your name. I’ll check the next one. They usually arrive every Tuesday.
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This magazine?
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I don’t shop there a lot (I’d rather go to E LeClerc or Intermarché) but I can go specifically for it. We prefer Coop to Migros (the CEO of Migros is an asshole!) Just tell me when!
Is it going to come in their mailer or in a magazine at the store? Their mailer comes weekly to our mailbox.
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Rubio looks like he’s using every ounce of willpower and concentration to hold in a terrible bout of explosive diarrhea!
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I can look here in CH too. We tend to get all the French and German magazines and newspapers here at the tabacs.
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I’d move back in a heartbeat if this went through! I loved living in California!
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Well, I learned that tweed isn’t easy to work with… I was glad I picked the pattern I did because I’d already made it several times, so I knew how to make it. But yea… Tweed sucks to work with! And it fills your machine with lint. LOL It’s almost impossible to keep it lint-free when sewing tweed.
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Hey, BTW have I showed you that Chanel-inspired tweed dress I made for Valentine’s Day? It was the biggest PITA and I have a bit of PTSD from that tweed bouclé fabric, but I fucking love the dress! Here’s my beautiful tweed dress.
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I’m sewing my things because I’m tired of the shit quality of store-bought versions. If I don’t zigzag the edges, I use French seams, and sometimes, if the fabric is that iffy (like tweed), I do both. I also do not have a serger. I want to get one eventually.
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I always start each project by zigzagging ALL edges. Even with my electric machine, I’m tired and over it for the day by the time I’m done. I can’t imagine peddling for all of that.
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I find the very idea exhausting. I’m very happy to live in the age of electricity.
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Our Mexican neighbors (yes, in Switzerland,) have a working antique Singer. It’s the pre-electricity version, with the peddle wheel. It’s absolutely beautiful.
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My Singer didn’t have this option. It was all or nothing. Like I said, it was a cheap POS.
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Agreed. They’re riding the coat-tails of the old Singers, but they’re not even the same company anymore. IIRC I read they were bought out by venture capitalists and the company has been stripped down and cheapened to the limit. I won’t buy another Singer because of this. My Brother is made in Japan
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Happily using a Brother with a drop-in bobbin and upright spool spindle. And my Brother machine allows me to regulate the speed by the pressure I put on the peddle. For the same price as the POS Singer. I’m now a Brother convert.
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Her’s was a Singer. I want to say part of it was that ugly 70’s pea green IIRC. It was a beast! When we moved to CH I bought a new Singer for myself. Imagine my disappointment when it broke after a year. The other two things I hated were the sideways spool spindle and front-load bobbin. I’m now
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I’m jealous! If I want tamales, I have to make them myself because we don’t have a tamales lady/man. I miss living in SoCal for this very reason. We had a tamale man and an elotes man. They were treasured more than the ice cream man!
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My mom’s machine was older than I was (born late 80’s) and it was plastic, so no, vintage=/=metal. It was a beast of a machine, and handled 3 girls learning on it with zero problems ever. I kinda miss it. No fuss. It just worked. Always. The new Singers are POS compared to the old ones.
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Ahahahah this is so accurate! Or, like “I just had that in my hand so where the fuck is it now???”
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Nope.
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heal. It was one of the most painful experiences of his life. But, the only way to get a staph sore to clear is to dig out the hard yellow center and completely “disinfect” the rest. I packed it with salt, flushed it with alcohol, and even wiped it out with a q-tip covered in tea tree oil.
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Oh my god that sounds so painful! Luckily, I haven’t had to set broken bones. We’ve managed to avoid those. My husband used to get bad staph sores because the apartment above ours at the time kept flooding their toilets (college kids.) I had to debride those for him and clean them out so they would
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BTDT… I became “Dr Mom” as my husband calls me because of the abysmal healthcare disaster in the US. I’ve even done small operations on myself and him because of that. On the plus side, I know more about a lot of medications than some doctors do. My GP didn’t know I’m not supposed to take ibuprofen
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IDK about other sulfa drugs because that’s the only one I’ve taken, but I have it listed as sulfa drugs on my allergies.
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OMG I would be livid. Like, hell-hath-no-fury livid! But yea. Ive been told all my problems are either psychosomatic, fibromyalgia, just a normal period, etc. I think the main thing I’m pissed was glossed over was my Bactrim allergy. That’s almost exclusively a lupus thing. 🤯🤬 That happened in 2007.
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I had never been tested, despite the pathology report in 06 for my son’s placenta stating they suspected “a form of thrombophilia”. And despite me having so many episodes of flares that when I listed them all out for my new Dr it took two full A4 pages at 12 pt font… I’m kinda mad about that NGL
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Yep. Now that I’m diagnosed, I’m starting to connect the dots between all of my weird health problems over the years. Like, these small, scaly red rashes that randomly pop up on my face or arms… Lupus. Or the 6 mo in 2008 I slept for 23 hr/day and couldn’t even bathe myself? Lupus.
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God do I know that feeling, too. That was me basically all day today.
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For clarification, I was diagnosed last summer after autoimmune testing that was triggered by my miscarriage in January. If I hadn’t miscarried, I’d probably still be undiagnosed. But, now I have an APS and a lupus diagnosis… 😖
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I’ll find out on Wednesday. This will be the first time I’ve seen him since diagnosis for a flare. Before, I’d just end up at my GP begging for pills. I’ve had lupus for 20 years, but this is the first identifiable flare since I got diagnosed. And it took me all week to realize it was probably lupus
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Yea, that’s me, too. I don’t even pop a Tylenol when I’m just at a 5. But I’ve been hovering between 7-10 this whole past week. Day 1, it was an 11. Today, it’s a 9. Yesterday was a 7. I have realized that one way a flare affects me is it loosens my joints. This time, it’s a rib behind my shoulder.
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I don’t like to, either, because I lose an entire day every time I do, but my pain has been THAT bad this week. And Voltaren just ain’t cuttin’ it! 😭
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I feel you! I haven’t had prednisone since 2011, but I have an appointment on Wednesday morning for it because I think the operative hysteroscopy I had on the 30th sent me into a lupus flare. I have spent this whole past week in so much pain, and because of Plaquenil, I can’t take Tramadol anymore…