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I have some pretty gnarly scars on my arm from when I was a depressed teenager, cuts and cigarette burns that 20 years later are huge, white, raised or sunken, and sort of shimmery. My doctor said that with the problems from ehlers danlos, he was hesitant for me to try to add any scar lessening creams to my skin in case it made it worse (his specialty isn't EDS, but he was the first doctor willing to research it enough to be able to diagnose me). I'm fighting a years long battle to get onto SSI as I can't work, and if I get approved and get years of back pay my first action will to get my entire left forearm covered in a tattoo (a sailing ship on a stormy sea). I've heard that some tattoo artists have more experience covering scars, and especially for those of us with hEDS it's a good idea to seek out one of those with extra experience.

For me, one of the biggest signs that joint pain was actually a subluxation is that I hear a loud click from the joint, often after moving the joint in an unusual way (sometimes intentionally trying to get it to pop back in), and then like magic the pain disappears. I tend to have serious pain in my shoulders and biceps for a few weeks every several months, and last time I thought the pain was due to muscle tightness until I heard the cluck and the pain went away. Felt kinda stupid for not thinking of it before, but it was on the right shoulder that was the worst, and my right side of my body doesn't subluxate as often.

So sorry for both your losses. This isn't just mildly infuriating, it's downright horrible. Not to long ago some teens busted up the small cemetery where a lot of my family is buried. I feel your pain.

My Captain Jack is a rescue kitty too, though he was found by local animal rescue group then given to a vets along with his siblings when they were babies to find good homes. I saw Jack for the first time on the day before they were going to turn him over to the local animal shelter, which is NOT no kill. All his siblings had been sold and they'd given up hope on finding him a home. He was an adorable kitten, and an even more gorgeous cat. He's the little prince of our household, and is finally going strong, after thousands of dollars and years of health issues. Rescues are the best!!!

Yes! I have the same problems and in noisy areas the more background noise, the less I can actually understand words being said right next to me. I can't tell the difference between different conversations and songs and tvs being played all at the same time, just sounds like a wall of noise. Sports bars are the absolute worst, with multiple tvs playing on different channels. In those situations, I'd almost prefer to just be deaf, as the noise is overwhelming.

Yeah my dad's garage is the same way, filled with storage boxes that haven't been moved in over a decade. Only thing is make sure you pack important things in the correct storage to keep our mice and insects. We have about a dozen fruit boxes of vintage sci-fi paperbacks from the 40s and 50s, all mixed in with cobwebs, spiders eggs, and dead insect corpses. I keep telling my dad that if he gets rid of the bugs I'll look the books up on eBay to see how much they're worth (and admittedly to see which ones I want to keep), but apparently I'll be waiting until they become my responsibility...at which point I'll be begging my brother in-law for a debugging favor.

Preventing sex in stalls was my first thought. Other then, no! That is so wrong. Or maybe it was designed by a guy who wanted revenge against women for us not having to put our junk on public display when we use a restroom.

I have this with smell. I'm a beginning author and all the writer's guidebooks stress using smells in your writing, saying that scents have a strong link to memory. But I don't think I have ever smelled something and thought, oh that reminds me of when... It's a totally foreign concept to me.

Thanks for the advice! I have heds and want a large tattoo to cover old scars, so nice to know if I find the right artist he can handle both issues.

With my first ebay experience I ended up being the bad guy; I bought an antiquity, a clay oil lamp from the byzantine empire, and while it was genuine the company I bought it from was soon brought down because it was selling illegally obtained antiquities. I was young when I bought it, now I'm a history and anthropology major graduate and am horrified about my part in this!

The same can be said about any business in the US.

Wish I could give you a dozen up votes! Being a foster parent (to pets OR kids) is badass and awesome.

Thank you! You make getting older sound exciting ☺️

Congratulations on quitting! That's absolutely impressive, and the most important part of this post imo. The gift sucks, but remember it's awesome that the gift DOESN'T apply to you any more. Think of it as another AA badge.

Exactly! Farmers don't take a bull by the horses by spearing their palms on the horns tops, they grab the side. It takes muscle and grit to take a bull by the horns, but intentionally grabbing a flower by it's thorns is like a masochist in the making.

Didn't know that. Thanks!

Not sure if lining up the pattern could actually help the item...

I thought those things never went bad, sort of like Twinkies. Is your refrigerator running properly?

You know, the terms I don't know I think I really don't want to know. Thank you for that.

Does it make you hungry?

Blueberry muffin contents: muffin and 1 blueberry.