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I tried to vote. It said the limit of voters was reached.
Oh also re: multiple shots at once. Pre-pandemic, when the husband and I were prepping for our Kenya/Tanzania safari, we had to visit the travel center and go over proper vaccinations. We needed to get a yellow fever vax and malaria pills. We also had to get one of the hep shots, whichever we didn’t have. The dr. asked about the flu shot. We hadn’t received yet, but she said we might want to wait a week or two since we were getting all the other crap. She would have given them all to us though.
We still need to go back for our second hep shot. The timing worked out that it would have happened right at the height of first wave. No thanks. I asked my primary care and she said we can get it any time now, it just had to be a certain amount of time after the first.
In Kenya, while out for the morning watching hippos and lions, monkey’s broke into our tent and stole one bottle of malaria pills and our my shampoo. Monkey’s knew how to unzip the tents! Luckily, they dropped the malaria pills a few feet outside our tent. Guess they couldn’t open the container. However, there was one very clean monkey roaming around 🙂
@List, I was a late bloomer too. Re: chicken pox. I was in 7th and my younger sisters and I all got it at the same time. It was HORRIBLE! The middle sister and I did have a super mild case when we were young, like three or four pox.
We (the husband and I) got JJ. I (we)haven’t decided what we’re going to do yet or when. Need to do a little more research first.
Good luck @cleoprata_30!! With moving and with your Masters.
I’m TERRIFIED of spiders, bugs, worms, etc. Like you, @kate, I won’t get close enough to kill, or put something over them. Before the husband and I moved in together, I would Raid the shit out of all things creepy/crawly. Yes, I was probably also poisoning myself, but that’s truly the only way I could deal with them. TERRIFIED.
During high school, I worked at a car dealership. I would often help set up and take down the Christmas tree. One year, as I was taking down the ornaments, I saw hundreds of baby spiders crawling all over one side of the tree. I backed away. The office manager tried to tell me that they were just spiders and to please finish the task. I couldn’t. I was immobilized.
We’re in the same boat as you both. We’d get one of it was highly recommended, but I think we’re good in the meantime. We’re both healthy adults with no immunodeficiencies.
I am excited for vaccines to open up to kids. I know my sis will get her 5 year old one as soon as she can. The other turns 2 in March, so will have to wait. My other two nieces have theirs. One is 12 and the other 16.
1. The husband has been reading everything he can on boosters and I’m not sure if healthy people actually need them. More people need to get the vaccine over boosters.
2. From the data, JJ doesn’t seem as bad as everyone thought. The whole pitting vax’s against one another was ridiculous and hurt the public in the long run.
3. Using BMI as a health indicator is also ridiculous. Bodies are a lot more nuanced than that. Muscle weighs more than fat. Healthy, fit people will have a higher BMI.
The timing of being physically intimate is a red herring. That was what, quite a few years ago? There could be hundreds of reasons the couple of woman it happened with didn’t want to continue dating. Further, it has nothing to do with why Robert isn’t getting a second date now or for the past few years. We’ve all speculated why Robert can’t seem to get a date, but really, nothing is going to change unless he does serious work and actually WANTS to do the serious work on himself.
There’s not any explanation that a woman can provide you that will help. What Wendy and the community helped you with here, i.e. your profile and pictures, is superficial. It gets you in the door. We can’t help you with what happens after and your dates don’t owe it to you to help you figure it out.
You need to do serious work on yourself with the help of a therapist.
What @Kate said. That was what, 15+ years ago? He hasn’t had a relationship since and he’s alienated all of his friends. I think Robert needs to do some major work on himself, with the help of a therapist, if he wants any kind of meaningful relationship, both romantic and platonic.
If I remember correctly, Robert’s beef with friends is that their lives were changing (marriage, kids, jobs, etc.) and instead of growing and adapting with those friendships, they ceased to exist. This inability to adapt is holding him back and I guarantee that’s a turn off.
Personally, I think you should forget dating for a while and start with making friends, of any gender, so you can learn how to better interact w/ people.
