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Posted by12 hours ago

Background: I am a member of a Native American tribe, and therefore I get free basic dental and medical care at certain Indian Health Clinics. I do not have any documentation proving that I am a tribal member as I lost it years ago, but my dad does and he is located in San Diego.

I have severe GERD and it does serious damage to my teeth. Brushing and flossing can only do so much to help when constant acid is rising from my esophagus. I don’t have insurance and it’s not easy for me to get care so I have kind of just been using daily tums and hoping for the best. However, a few months ago all my teeth started falling apart. At least 2 of them have chipped and I have multiple painful cavities all over my mouth (like more than 10) and my mouth hurts excruciatingly whenever I chew anything. Maybe I need root canals Idk. Not wanting to surrender to dentures, two months ago I called the Indian Health Clinic near my dad and they said they would accept my dad’s tribal membership as proof of my own and I scheduled the nearest appointment out, which was for this afternoon. The way it works is that if they do an initial examination and it shows emergency work is needed they can schedule me to come back in the following days and I won’t have to wait 2 months in between.

So I booked a non refundable hostel for a week and a plane flight for spirit airlines to get me there several hours before my appointment. This was the fuck up, but It was the cheapest option and the trip was going to take all of the money I could spare. If I had paid a little more with a different airline or to get there a day early this wouldn’t have happened.

I got to the airport at 4 am, checked in, and sat at the gate. Right as everyone was preparing to board, the spirit employee behind the counter at the gate suddenly announced the flight was cancelled with no explanation. People were saying it was because the pilot didn’t show up but I have no idea if that’s true. After waiting in line to talk to the spirit employee, they have no flight they can rebook for me until tomorrow, well past my appointment. She told me she could give me a refund on my $120 ticket that I could shop around at other airline counters with, but those tickets were for $500. I decided to get it on credit, but the travel app wouldn’t sell it to me because I had “another similar trip leaving at around the same time” and when it finally let me confirm I wanted it anyway, it had “just sold out while I was booking”

The remaining tickets are now $1,200 and I can’t afford that. There is no way for me to get to my appointment and save my teeth. By the time I could do this again in several months it will definitely be too late.

TLDR chose to fly spirit and now I lose all my teeth and continue living in agony.

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Posted by17 hours ago

This weekend I graduate from high school. Saturday night we partied hard at my best friend John's house, until we slept over. In the morning, only 3 people were still there: John, me and this guy JR. I barely knew this guy but I knew he was pretty popular and well liked, he was a bit weird cause all he was talking about was how many guns he had in his house and he wouldn't stop playing with Johns bb guns, but I didn't think anything of it. We were smoking and drinking all last nite so I just thought he got too fucked up. This morning, we go out to buy a new bong. In the car, i was in the copilot when he jokingly pretended to choke me from behind with a string, again i didnt think anything of it, i just thought it was a joke. When we got there, literally the first thing he did when we walked in was buy 2 big ass retractable knives in there and he showed us. I saw him checking out the zippo lighters too so I started talking to him and out of nowhere he offered to get me one, I hesitated but accepted none the less. At this point he was setting off the alarms in my head. I started telling myself this is too good to be true and I started thinking if he would do something. So we get back to John's place to test out this new bong. We were smoking on the roof having a good time but all I could think about was him. He was getting creepier and creepier and that bad feeling in me grew stronger and bigger. Sometimes he would just start staring at you and not say anything which really creeped me out but the whole time I played it cool. When we finished smoking and went back inside, me and John sat on the couch and he sat in a desk chair behind the couch, right behind me. When I look back I noticed he had one knife on each side and he was holding a big ass airsoft gun. So I started trying to talk to him, keeping an eye on the knife closest to me, making sure it's within reach. Almost forgot to mention the snaps he was taking. Just giving his best Jack Nicholson stare into the camera and posting those on a group chat I'm in with him. John pulls up mariokart or smth and I get distracted and drop my guard. When suddenly he comes up from behind me, puts the blade up to my kneck and said "what if I just fucking killed you right now" with his other hand on my shoulder. I laugh it off and we all play it off like a bad joke. But I text my brother right away and I'm out of there in 5 mins. Unfortunately I couldn't leave John alone with him so we ended up giving him a ride home. I just wanted to get out of there and I wasn't trying to set him off by arguing too much. I don't get what kind of sick joke he thinks he was playing but that shook me to my core. I can't stop thinking about it. About how I saw it coming, I knew we would try smth and I let him do that. I was telling myself the whole time that this was it, this is that gut feeling to get out and i still ignored it. I feel so dumb and I'm angry at myself for being so vulnerable. If you ever get the feeling that something is wrong, YOU HAVE TO ACT. I got the feeling and I knew what it meant but I didn't act and that really could've been my death.

TLDR; I was hanging out with a psycho who put a knife up to my kneck and threatened to kill me. And I got the gut feeling it was gonna happen before that but I couldn't avoid it.

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Posted by20 hours ago

I am not a very flexible guy, I was never even close to touching my toes and I have been this way for most of my life. So I have just learned to live with it. I am also a pretty strong guy and do a lot of heavy lifting/ pretty physical jobs as well.

So I usually get a sore back or sore muscles that I take muscle relaxers to help was the pain until it goes away. Never really stretching to help ease the pain.

This never really caused any issues until about 2 years ago when it started getting painful around my waist when ai wore a belt. I didn’t really do anything about it just learned to deal with it by not putting my belt on as tight around my waist.

everything was ok for a while until the muscles in my stomach started to really hurt for no real reason. My 2 year old daughter had jumped on my stomach recently and I just thought it was because of that. Still I did nothing about addressing the issue.

Then my lack of maintenance on my body finally caught up to me last September, right before I moved into a new house. It felt like every muscle on the right side of my body constricted and made it extremely difficult to walk, put on socks or even turn in bed.

Even feeling this way I still just worked through the pain, not addressing the issue for a month thinking the pain will just go away. I had to use the muscles in my legs in order to lift my leg up and down to walk, making the muscles super tense. And when ai went to bed, those muscles twitched a lot as they relaxed. There was also a muscle behind my leg right below the glutes that made it feel like someone was taking a hot iron two the back of my leg, making it almost impossible to sleep.

So after a month of this I finally go to see a chiropractor auto see if they can fix the issue. And after some very painful tests she said my glutes were so tensed up that they were useless. And the muscles in my leg were trying to compensate for them. So she released all three glute muscles which gave me instant but not complete relief.

I next went to a physiotherapist to help further with my recovery. There she helped release more tensed up muscles until it wasn’t too bad to walk anymore.

Here’s the thing, for the last 9 months of my life since It first became incredibly painful for me, there are still muscles giving me pain. However I have figured out a solution. I have to twist my leg/ body in a certain way to get that specific muscle to stretch. And once I get that painful feeling I just stretch out that muscle aggressively, working through an immense amount of pain until that muscle is no longer painful.

I have had to do that with every single muscle on the right side of my body, because I still get pain. I am getting to the point now that it isn’t as painful anymore and I see a light at the end of the tunnel. But it has taken a lot of pain, effort and stretching to get me to this point.

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Posted by6 hours ago

Hello all! I’m on mobile, so excuse the formatting.

I (20 F) am a huge Legend of Zelda fan, so when the new game was announced I was ecstatic. When May 11th finally came I rushed from work early, a coffee shop, with drinks in hand for my friends and I to wait until midnight release. We went over to our lovely GameStop early, and in one swig I chugged my iced coffee on an empty stomach.

The excitement was really, truly starting to build within me as my friends and I waited for the games release. I just needed them for emotional support because I knew I would start crying in a moments notice. However, I realized that coffee wasn’t sitting right. I just blamed it on the excitement and the amount of sugar I had consumed. When we were allowed inside, I realized the led lights within the store seemed a bit too bright. I was starting to feel cold and clammy as well. I, again, chalked it up to my excitement. My heart was pounding and I was absolutely buzzing to get my hands on this game and go ham in my dark basement.

That’s when my body gave me the signal. The “oh no” signal, when all the blood rushes from my head to my stomach and I start salivating. I looked at my friend in horror, as GameStop doesn’t have a bathroom, and shoved my purse in her hands. I took my car keys and ran out the door, the nearest bathroom a gas station down the road. It was too late, however, as I went to get into my car disaster struck. I gagged.

I could feel the excitement and the coffee coming up and so I did the only thing I could do. I hid behind my car, kneeled down and puked. I took a moment to take a breath and vomited again, looking up to see headlights directly in my eyes. I awkwardly waved as this person proceeds to park right next to my car, and my spit up. I slowly stood, realizing I had gotten vomit on my knee, and waddled into my car. I sat there and contemplated whether or not to go back inside after I had just literally puked my guts out from being so excited. But! With my body feeling much better after the release of emotions, I hopped in and realized my friend who had parked beside me also was inside. And he did NOT want to be near me.

The employees heard what happened and thought it was hilarious. My friends took a picture of me next to the vomit with my game in hand.

I start my first shift at that GameStop today, lol.

TLDR: Got so excited for the TOTK release I puked in the parking lot. Twice.

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Posted by2 days ago
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So my partner and I have been together for almost 4 years, and of course I love her, she is the woman I am going to marry and the only person I wanna be with. Also, not that you’ll believe me, but I am straight. While I consider myself an ally, I am not gay, I’m not opposed to the idea of bisexuality, but I’m just not into dudes like that so I don’t think I am. I just had a really great dream last night.

Last night I had an epic romantic dream. It was some forbidden love where I was in love with a man, the dream was seriously like a movie. I mean it was awesome! Nothing nsfw happened either … well unless you count passionate kissing as nsfw, but it wasn’t a dirty dream, at all. It was just romantic and epic. And I should be allowed to enjoy when my brain serves me movies at night.

But where I FU is that I apparently said the man’s name out loud. I’ll be honest didn’t even remember the dude’s name. But my fiancé sure did. She asked me about “Julio” and why I kept calling for him last night. I thought it’d be funny if I said “the man of my dreams” cause I mean technically true. But she did not seem amused, so I down played it a bit and didn’t mention how much I enjoyed the dream. She didn’t even like that joke, how would I tell her that I had an affair with a man in my dream?

She then accused me of being closeted and said I needed to sort my shit out. Because “dreams are what the subconscious wants or thinks.” And insisted that it didn’t sound like an innocent dream. Which again, nothing sexual happened, other than passionate kissing, and also it was only a dream. And like I told her I’ve had dreams where I am an actual elephant, I don’t want to be an elephant. Idk what her deal is, man. I hope she gets over it soon, cause Julio WILL sweep me of my feet lmao

TLDR : I’m straight but had an epic gay romance dream and called the guy’s name out in my sleep. My fiancé thinks I am closeted now.

Update: ya’ll I had so much fun reading these couldn’t get through all of them, there is a lot

I was prepared to not even bring it up again, cause I figured maybe she needed to deal with something, since that reaction was very out of character for her. But she came up to me and apologized for over reacting. Turns out her first long term relationship (3years) was very similar to ours and the guy had even talked about proposing to her and having kids with her (but never did.) He was in the closet for a good long while. She explained that near the end he would talk about a guy non-stop and mention his name while he slept, and would drop everything for the guy, even when they were out together. He eventually told her that he realized he was gay, that it was over and that he had been cheating for months with the guy. She stopped dating seriously after that, until we met. She said that last night freaked her out, because even though she hadn’t thought about what happened in years, she wasn’t ready to go through it again. I reassured her that even IF I was attracted to men, I would never step out of the relationship for a man or a woman cause she is the only person I see a future and life with. She is after all the love of my life and Julio is just some interesting himbo my brain created. But something great came out of it. Today we started talking about our past relationships which we never had really done, it was a lot of fun getting to know that side of her. And once the waters were cooled down and we were joking I threw in a couple of quick jokes about my ex “Julio” and our epic adventures. We’ve laughed so much it’s been a great Sunday

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