Csun summer class schedule

What advice would teachers give for students scheduled to take an AP class next year?

I’m an incoming sophomore transfer and am trying to sort out my schedule with regards to the AXLE requirements, specifically the math and science ones. I’m not a very math/science oriented person, so does anyone have any recommendations for easy classes to take to fulfill the MNS component?

History:
Hello all. My mother has a lengthy medical history. I will start from the top. She is 44 years old, was diagnosed (but incorrectly staged) with HER2 positive breast cancer 5 years ago. She was originally staged at Stage II, but before her double mastectomy she got a second opinion from another hospital, where a panel of doctors reviewed her scans and re-staged her at Stage IIIB. From what I can recall, I know that she obviously had malignant tumor(s?) in the breast tissue itself, on both sides, and I know for a fact that it had spread to the lymph nodes on both sides of her body. She had another tumor that I do not know was ever classified, but they considered it to be in the "breast region" so treated the tumor as though it was a part of her breast cancer. So I imagine that would be considered a tumor in the chest wall (?). She successfully beat cancer a few months after harsh treatment, and had a double mastectomy and affected lymph nodes removed. Successfully completed radiation, and has been in remission since early 2019. After the mastectomy, she also had spacers and eventually implants put in.
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Presenting problems:
Fast forward to recently. She had an unrelated MRI or CT (can't remember which) roughly a year ago that showed a 1.3cm (?) cyst on one of her ovaries. No follow-up was recommended for the cyst I believe, they ruled it to not be a cause for concern. About a month ago, she had a regular visit with her OB, where they did an ultrasound to show that the cyst had grown to 3cm. Further imaging and tests showed that it was just a cyst, no malignancy. After my mother's mastectomy, I thought it would be wise of her to also have a hysterectomy. Given her age and her positive HPV status, I just thought it was the best course of action, but she was against it. Now with the cyst, she automatically jumped to talking about a hysto. In the same day, she had a biopsy on one of her breasts, because she had some kind of skin thing that she described as "a bruise that hasn't gone away". Biopsy showed no malignancy for whatever it was, but the biopsy left her with a hole in her skin, about the size of hole punch. When you looked through the hole, you could literally see the surface of her implant, and if you were smart enough to shine a flashlight on it, you could clearly tell it was her implant you were looking at. I don't know if that's standard practice or what. It seems odd to me, like you're asking for an infection that way, but we were aware of that risk so she kept it covered after the biopsy.
So, hopping back to the hysterectomy. Her OB also thought that at this point with her clear symptoms of the beginning of menopause, age, HPV status, cancer history, and cyst, that it was probably a good time to talk about a hysto. My mother eagerly agreed, not wanting even the smallest hairline of a possibility of cancer ever being in the conversation ever again. She was scheduled very quickly for a hysterectomy. In the meantime, the hole in her skin was not closing. At one point the skin seemed to thin and stretch around, creating a smaller hole but thinner skin, which I imagine was the hole closing. However, even two weeks after the biopsy, the skin remained red, warm to the touch, and irritated. She revisits the oncology office that did the biopsy. Here comes the fucked up part.
The first person that visits her in the oncology office (PA? I don't know, wasn't there) examines the hole in her skin WITHOUT GLOVES- that part I think needs to be made very abundantly clear. This physician immediately says that we're looking at a scab, not her implant. My mother is insistent. "That's not a scab" she says. This physician brings in another physician, who is thankfully gloved, and this physician- a true genius, probably top of their class- decides they can't tell. So they do what I did (not a doctor or brilliant by any means) the commonsense approach, turned out the lights and used their flashlight and confirmed that we were in fact looking at her implant. This doctor says "Walk quickly across the street to your plastic surgeon, he needs to see this. I think the implant may need to come out".
So that was the long story. Here comes the shorter part. The plastic surgeon was on the fence about removing the implant. He decided to try sewing the hole, and seeing what happened. Shocker: it didn't fix anything. I don't think his actions made anything worse- I think it was "worse" to begin with. The skin became more inflamed and irritated. Plastics said "Well add on implant removal to your scheduled hysterectomy. If anything gets worse or you start to feel weird, go to the hospital immediately". So exactly that happens. 4 days before surgery she starts to feel off and immediately goes to the hospital. They check her out, WBC and bloodwork are good, she checks in with her surgeons who give her the OK to go back home. That lasted one whole day. Closer to the end of the day 1 day later, she starts feeling significantly worse- infection feels like its traveling, shoulder starts hurting, head is pounding, more skin on her breast is now red and inflamed, hole is oozing. So she finds herself back in the hospital. WBC is not only elevated, but a good jump from where it had been previously. Different WBC components are also not only elevated, some are now double what they were 36 hours ago. So she's admitted, given more IV antibiotics, and she stays until the day of her surgery.
Surgery:
Surgery goes well. Very well. Cultures are taken of the infection, sent off for testing. Recovery was brutal at first but she's exactly 1 week post-op now and doing very well. However, we just got the results back from the culture of the infection, and I have never been more pissed off and ready to attack someone in my entire life. The culture from the infection states this exactly: "Occasional staphylococcus epidermidis. Possible skin contaminant. No further workup. No neutrophils noted. No anaerobes isolated." One quick Google search tells me that this type of staph infection is commonly called the "accidental pathogen" and is most likely caused by MEDICAL DEVICE CONTAMINATION. So, correct me if I'm wrong. My mother has been a nurse and worked in the lab pretty much her entire life. She knows how to care for a wound, and was properly taking care of the wound and keeping it covered. No one I know has any present staph infection.
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Does this mean that my mother needed to have an additional surgery on top of her hysto because of SOMEONE ELSE'S mistake??? How easy is it to obtain this type of infection on your own, in your own home?? She doesn't go to the gym or public places (other than the hospital I guess) and she most certainly kept it covered, but also, it's on her breast- so not only covered to keep it sanitary, but also under her bra, under her shirt. I'm just incredibly frustrated because her plastic surgeon said from the beginning that what they did (which part of it he's never specified) is not right and should have never happened. It really doesn't help my faith in my local hospitals that are supposed to take care of me.
So please, feel free to drop any information you have, medical mumbojumbo and all. I want to know everything I can about this type of infection- how easily you can pick it up, how easily it is transferred, and how likely it is that she obtained it from either the biopsy or the medical office that examined her without gloves.

So for some background, I(37F) have started and managed multiple small businesses (2 local farm businesses and a cafe) and I think I generally have that entrepreneurial spirit when it comes to any job/life (always thinking of the next thing I can start haha!).
Anyway, I was approached last year to teach a 1-credit university course on entrepreneurship. I said yes. It went great! Note, this is on top of my FT job. Now they are wanting me to teach a second entrepreneurship course. This time a 3-credit hour course on entrepreneurial consulting, which would be co-taught with another woman who works as a consultant; however I would be the main instructor and the one getting paid to teach it and to design the course this summer, as she doesn’t have a masters/phd to teach at the college level.
The thing is I don’t have any experience consulting or with starting e-commerce businesses and that’s what they want the majority focus of this course to be. I was honest with my co-instructor on this and she said that was fine and she’d guest lecture those classes. But my dilemma is I am still ultimately the one responsible for day-to-day teaching, setting up assignments, grading, etc, on a subject I have little knowledge on, but the university department really wants me to teach it.
Do you think I should risk it, go with the flow, and teach this class? It could actually be beneficial for my future career growth and maybe get me into consulting and out of my FT job which is what I want. Or do I admit to the school I’m not qualified to teach it and pass on this opportunity?

Brace yourselves, this is gonna be a long one.
Table of Contents
1…… The Main Goal
2…… What I’m Seeking
3…… Personality
4…… Interests
5…… Physical Characteristics (with pics)
6…… Expectations of You
7…… Living Situation
8…… Deal Breakers
9…… Closing Remarks
(1)
The Main Goal:
Well if you’re browsing this subreddit then much like me, you were alone this weekend and I’m sure you’d like to change that as much as me. I won’t lie, I am going through a rough part of my life right now. It’s difficult for me to find the energy for anything at the moment and I’m just really seeking affection in general, anything that will give me a push. I don’t want to be that person who brings everyone down but I could really use someone to talk to right now. I’d really like to find someone who’s similar to me so much to the point that we do everything together and talk about everything while not having to pretend to be interested. I want someone with whom we can mutually spew our emotions onto and have those feelings reciprocated. Not an emotional punching bag, but an emotional teddy bear to hug and cuddle until everything feels better as many times as we need. There’s people who I’m sure have told you the same, they’ll be there no matter how many times you need the support, no matter how many times the insecurities and bad thoughts come back but they don’t mean it. I will be the exception, I’m not so ignorant to think some nice words and tales of relating to you will magically forever heal whatever ails you then get mad when you seek the same support again. Mental ailments are rarely temporary and I don’t care about someone because they’re perfect, caring about someone means being there no matter how many times they need you to be. It doesn’t feel like a chore, it doesn’t get old, and it never will.
(2)
(2.a)
What I'm Seeking:
I will upfront let you know if I’m clicking better with someone else or if you’re the one, I’m not here to tread the sea of fish or keep my options open, I’m here for one singular person.
(2.b)
Relationship:
A relationship is difficult for me right now, it’s been nearly half a year since I got out of my last relationship and the reasons for it ending are partially responsible for how I’ve been feeling and why it’s so hard for me to seek the comfort I so desperately crave. I will tell you about it but for the sake of not treating the entirety of the internet as my therapist, it’ll be in private. I really need the comfort of intimacy and the warmth of someone who cares. I'm not going to feel better if I just sulk and don’t move on. This is my attempt to get better, I’ll admit I’m not great right now and I don’t expect you to be either. If we can help each other heal, then I’d be more than happy :) A relationship isn’t just being there for when someone’s at their best. Even if a relationship is hard at the moment, I do want a life partner and I don’t want to be alone. Things aren’t going to get easier without you so I don’t want to hesitate. I view my other as an equal, I don’t like categorizing us into specific roles. We take care of each other and treat each other how we like to be treated, whatever that is, it's as simple as that. I don't care if you're "successful" or not, living simple lives with our days filled with love is the ultimate measure of success to me.
(3)
Personality:
(3.a)
On the Surface:
As you can tell I can be rather… stoic but that’s largely due to my current stressors, I truthfully am goofy and fun loving but I just can’t find it in me right now. I want to return to that but without someone to light up my world it’s been difficult to just have fun and enjoy stuff. I’m definitely more introverted, you won’t catch me at any parties or really outside at all. I definitely prefer being home though the occasional outing is not out of the question and one day I’d like to travel to other countries because I think that kind of perspective is important.
(3.b)
The Core of My Being:
I like being a spectator to it all and if we bear witness to humanity burning or its miraculous recovery, I want to watch it with you. I enjoy watching humanity advance, less so when it devolves but I want to watch it to the end nonetheless. I’m both a realist and someone who lives with my head in the clouds dreaming of scenarios or worlds that don’t exist. I’m saying that I enjoy a good narrative and can suspend my disbelief to enjoy something but you won’t catch me refusing vaccines or ignoring blatant facts for the sake of some pseudo science or witch doctor’s remedy. I’m an atheist but I do not rule out existence after death, not because I’m agnostic but because due to the nature of potentially infinite time at some point after how many googol years with a googol amount of 0s after that, something’s bound to replicate your consciousness perfectly at some point. It’s actually a really fascinating topic I like talking about. If infinite time and infinite possibilities exist, does non existence exist? Though that’s an awfully existentially dreadful thought process considering the ramifications of infinite existence and infinite possibilities during said infinite existence. I would say I’m confidently left leaning and I don’t think I could truly get along with anyone right leaning, at least America’s definition of right leaning. Left and right seems to have just become; do people deserve to suffer or do they deserve to live good lives? Being political is not something I expected to become but how can you not be when crimes against human rights are being passed on a daily basis and at the end of the day, everything’s political. Oftentimes I imagine the perfect moment as relaxing with my significant other playing games or cuddling in a cold room under blankets.
I value that special someone above all of the existential thoughts, the bad of the world, the good of the world, they practically become my world. So many worries wash away when I’m with them. I don’t know if that’s the defense mechanism my brain created to not feel bad 24/7 but if it is, I’m currently without it.
(3.c)
Insecurities:
I talk of philosophy and politics here but really I spend most of my time just playing games, watching stuff, and trying to not be sleep deprived. I’m also nowhere near as well spoken, heck sometimes I feel like my speech is broken. I won’t claim to be something I’m not, I sit at home while I complain about the world doing nothing about it wishing I had someone here with me. I’m not noble nor do I really want to be, I have morals I uphold but much like most other hypocrites I acknowledge that my comfortable life is built on the suffering of others without doing anything about it. Why? My sleep problems? Am I depressed? Is that why I have no energy to do anything? Do I just think nothing I could do could help? I can’t nail it down myself, maybe it’s a mix of everything, maybe I’m just a bad person. I have always told myself that if I had wealth I would help people but if I get that kind of wealth will I just become a wealth hoarder who tries to justify my riches as something I earned rather than something given to me through incredibly lucky circumstances? If I do help people is it because I’m a good person or out of guilt? Will I die alone? I feel like I drive everyone away with my clinginess, I get paranoid often and need reassurance often. It’s something I want to work on, something I’ve been trying to work on. Hearing that someone cares about me just never gets old. I value self awareness even if it’s painful.
(3.d)
Socializing:
I’m definitely a socially anxious/awkward mess, especially around strangers. I do feel a large amount of anxiety in public, people can’t tell by looking at my face since I kind of go stone faced in an attempt to block everything out but yeah you’ll notice that if we go out in public. Growing up my pediatrician said I was probably autistic, never got a formal diagnosis so that’s just great. But yeah that explains why I can’t make eye contact with people, I kinda just stare at the ground and avoid their gaze at all costs. A lot of these social struggles go away to a great degree once I know you for a bit but yeah I apologize for how terrible I am at socializing at first. Don’t let my social struggles fool you though, I love cuddling and being close with my person.
(3.e)
Sexuality:
I am a heterosexual male, though I’m not very masculine like at all. I may even be a bit feminine sometimes. Not that I believe any activity or manner of acting belongs to a gender but I don’t know how else to describe it. I’m definitely super affectionate and love it when my partner is too. I am open to dating demi people but I do have a libido so I don't think asexual would work out.
(4)
Interests:
(4.a)
Video Games:
As stated before, I do spend a lot of my time playing video games. It’s been hard lately with me having no energy but I really do want to play more games and have a good time playing them with you! I primarily play on PC though I do have a switch. I’m primarily into platform fighters, roguelikes, open world, survival, and sandbox games. As for single player story games, I enjoy watching them through twitch or youtube but for the most part I don’t play them myself. I’d watch you play them though!
Here’s a list of games we can play:
-Minecraft (Java)
-Risk of Rain 2
-Gunfire Reborn
-Roboquest
-7 Days to Die
-Phasmophobia
-Rust
-Unturned
-Bloons TD 6
-Platform fighters: Super Smash Bros. Melee, Slap City, Multiversus, Flash Party, Fraymakers
Whatever you want to play I’ll give it a shot! I will say that League bores me to death but I’ll play it for you :) I try to avoid MMOs, not because I don’t like them but because of how addicted I can get to them. I enjoy learning games in-depth so MMOs can be a fast track to addiction.
I recently got Kerbal Space Program 2 and ehhh not really worth it right now but hopefully later it will be? I’m super excited for Tears of the Kingdom! In the far off future I’m excited for Rivals of Aether 2 which is a platform fighter releasing in 2024, let me know of your most anticipated releases and I’ll see if I could play them with you!
Also I never got into FPS games but I could totally see myself playing like CoD with you or Escape From Tarkov. Any FPS really, I’m down.
I am a fan of Pokemon but with how things have been lately I don’t know how long that will last. Pixelmon is a common Pokemon mod I play for Minecraft if you want to play that! Also if I say I want to play something with you I mean it but there are often times when no matter how much I want to I'm just drained and can do little more than lay in bed so please don't think I'm making an excuse.
(4.b)
Science:
I really enjoy keeping up with the latest advances in pretty much everything, it could be biology, technology, astronomy, anything! I love seeing progression and I love talking about it! Really I could go on and on about what I’m obsessing about that day. I particularly love technology, ask me for my laptop specs I dare you. When I was little I always wanted to be a scientist of any kind but then insomnia and fear of college stuff hit me like a truck aaaand that’s the end of that dream.
(4.c)
Anime:
You got me, I like anime but I’d like to think my tastes are benign.
Here’s some of my favorites I can list from the top of my head:
- To Your Eternity
- Vinland Saga
- Spice and Wolf
- Re:Zero
- Mob Psycho
- Dr. Stone
- Attack on Titan
- Spy x Family
- My Hero Academia
- Ranking of Kings
- Demon Slayer
Okay I can go on and on but I will say I don’t like pointless fan service and the spamming of cliche anime moments. I mostly enjoy action and anything well animated if it doesn’t have a potato story. Heck Demon Slayer could be my top 3 out of season 2’s animation alone. I don’t watch slice of life often or romance but I would with you!
(4.d)
Misc:
I’m not going to go on and on about the tiniest little things when the main ones are covered but I’ll watch pretty much any show with you and anything really. I like random youtube videos that explain some kind of lore or mystery, sometimes mini documentaries too.
As for food I looove sushi and I’m a sucker for fast food. Okay and candy, definitely candy.
I used to play tennis but haven’t really had the opportunity nor friends to play it with and I’m way too socially anxious to seek it out. Also I will say that when we move to something like discord I type waaaay more casually. I’m not going to expect long paragraphs back and forth like we’re writing English papers for each other, I do enjoy long conversations but seriously don’t worry about having to put the utmost effort into every response, I just like making good first impressions I guess.
(5)
(5.a)
My Physical Characteristics:
I’m 5’8 (172cm), 128 pounds (58kg), with curly brown hair and blue eyes. I like keeping my hair long in the winter and cutting it in the summer. I’m pretty slim in general so if you’re looking for someone large, that’s not me. I don’t work out but my work is pretty physical so at least I’m not totally inactive. I don’t have the urge to work out or gain muscle but I do want to maintain my slim figure so if I start losing control of that I’ll work out. I like to keep my face shaved because I don’t think I look good with a beard/mustache so if you’re into those I apologize. I have an average amount of body hair? I’d prefer to be completely shaved but it’s easy to lose motivation with that battle, if you prefer shaved then I’d have no problem complying. Anyways here’s what I look like: https://imgur.com/a/MZZgf2t
(5.b)
My Physical Preferences:
Having physical preferences makes me feel shallow, if I could make myself not have them I would but unfortunately that’s now how that works. I don’t care if you’re shorter or taller than me and I don’t care if you weigh more or less than me. All I ask is that you’re slim-average weight. I would never ask for someone to be something I’m not. I don’t care about tattoos or piercings.**(6)Expectations of You (Relationship Only):**I am not looking for someone “exciting” or someone to “keep me on my toes” I’m not looking for someone to cater to my every whim or anything like that. I don’t care if you’re “boring” or if you aren’t “successful”. I know it’s a common thing for people to not want a “boring” relationship and to seek something argumentative or something with constant challenges but I just want to be with you. During the exciting times, the boring times, and everything in-between, all of it will be great with you! Maybe we do argue sometimes or maybe there will be challenges but that will never be something I purposefully seek out and I don’t want that to be something you seek out either. I will not play tricks on you and I will not play mind games, I expect the same from you. We all have personal measures of success we may or may not have lived up to but what I care about most is our commitment to each other. If we have each other we can get through tough times, near the ends of our lives I want us to look back and feel that this life together was worth more than anything. That’s not saying I want us to be haphazard, I don’t want us to make poor decisions for the sake of yolo and I want us to always be rational, especially with each other. I want you to be someone I can trust to make decisions and weigh the options with a level head, I’ll try my best to live up to the same for you. Most of all I want empathy, understanding, someone to feel the utmost comfort and trust in.
(7)
Living Situation:
Currently my life is pretty relaxed, I work 3 times a week as a night shift stocker. I currently live in a 2 bedroom apartment with my roommate but we’re looking to move into someplace larger by the end of the year if everything works out. The internet is weirdly great for Ohio too like I have fiber and later this year we’re supposed to be getting dedicated fiber so that’s neat. I’m not attached to Ohio so the ultimate goal living location wise is probably moving to a country that won’t send you into a lifetime of dealing with the repercussions from one medical emergency.
(8)
Deal Breakers:
Might as well make this simple and make it a list.
- Anti-vaxxers
- Unironically believing astrology
- Right wingers
- Hard drugs (occasional 420 and alcohol is fine, may even join you)
- Wanting children, there was a time when I was younger when I wanted children but with the state of the word that’s a definite no and I feel like I wouldn’t be able to handle the stress. I’d love a stress free life with as much time with you as possible.
- Homophobic
- Transphobic
- Racist
- Super Religious
- Don’t be a bigot and don’t deny facts.
(9)
Closing Remarks:
Well you made it, I was thinking that finding someone I’d be willing to put a lifetime of effort into at least required this much effort. If I think of anything more I’ll update the post. Also about timezones, it really doesn’t matter where in the world you are. I don’t have a sleep schedule and I have most of the week off from work so it really doesn’t matter.
I request that in your response you do put effort into it, it doesn’t have to be anywhere near as long as this but at least enough so I know that you read this and enough about you so I know why you saw potential compatibility. I will seriously read all of it and respond the best I can. I do also request a pic included in your response (sfw please) or one soon after we start talking to prove identity, I’ll send identity proving pics too. As long as this post is up, you can send a reply!

My college semester ended and I want to focus on improving some parts of myself before I go back to my school playlist
My main focuses for the summer: -New job (achieved)
-Online business success (will begin working on the 1st of June)
-Teeth alignment/brightening/restore enamel
-Regrow eyelashes (Trichotillomania)
-Grow some ass (either eggtopia’s reupload or another sub?)
-dark eye circles/sunken eyes (genetic..)
-Scars on knees (want to be ready next summer)
-Scholarships come to me (so that my school playlist is stronger when the semester starts)
-Understand math easy (so when the semester starts I can be better. Taking on some hard math classes)
I intend to only have 1-2 sub per category. My main focuses are eyelashes and business success. However, I want to include all the categories I listed, but I’m worried that because the subs aren’t 100% similar in topic, it’ll be slow/ineffective.
I also have specified books I use for scripting (ex: script in my pink wish book for beauty stuff and script in my blue wish book for more academic stuff) so I’m not sure how I can script. I don’t want to script about a juicy ass while the eyelash sub is playing. I also don’t want to be in the middle of writing an affirmation but then the sub changes (as some are short)
I’m thinking maybe affirmations like “my glowup has happened, my teeth, my online business, my eyelashes..” etc where it’s general and includes everything?
Advice and opinions wanted please. Let’s make our summer playlists!:)

My college semester ended and I want to focus on improving some parts of myself before I go back to my school playlist
My main focuses for the summer: -New job (achieved)
-Online business success (will begin working on the 1st of June)
-Teeth alignment/brightening/restore enamel
-Regrow eyelashes (Trichotillomania)
-Grow some ass (either eggtopia’s reupload or another sub?)
-dark eye circles/sunken eyes (genetic..)
-Scars on knees (want to be ready next summer)
-Scholarships come to me (so that my school playlist is stronger when the semester starts)
-Understand math easy (so when the semester starts I can be better. Taking on some hard math classes)
I intend to only have 1-2 sub per category. My main focuses are eyelashes and business success. However, I want to include all the categories I listed, but I’m worried that because the subs aren’t 100% similar in topic, it’ll be slow/ineffective.
I also have specified books I use for scripting (ex: script in my pink wish book for beauty stuff and script in my blue wish book for more academic stuff) so I’m not sure how I can script. I don’t want to script about a juicy ass while the eyelash sub is playing. I also don’t want to be in the middle of writing an affirmation but then the sub changes (as some are short)
I’m thinking maybe affirmations like “my glowup has happened, my teeth, my online business, my eyelashes..” etc where it’s general and includes everything?
Advice and opinions wanted please. Let’s make our summer playlists!:)

I just started a job at a summer stock building the sets. I wanted to do stage management, but the boss said she needed "builders." Little did I know, I would be the only one doing it full time and basically be the lead builder. I have ONE YEAR of experience at a massive theater putting together pieces that the in-house carpenters had already built. It was a simple follow the blueprints and screw the damn things together while supervisors made sure it was going to plan. I have no prior carpentry experience.
So now I've been thrust into this position I just started a couple days ago, I'm already shutting down because I didn't realize this is the role I would be playing, I have no clue what I'm doing, and the workshop is an absolute disorganized mess that hasn't been touched in 3 years. The people who do have an idea of what to do are mainly acting and directing, so they have very little time to spend in the shop. I'm getting nothing done.
I keep trying to tell my boss about my inexperience in carpentry, but either I'm not getting my point across well enough or she just isn't understanding how little I actually did.
I should've asked more questions in the interview, but I didn't have much time to prepare any. Now that I'm in it, any advice? Is it worth staying even though they don't have anyone else lined up to do the job? I hate to leave people to do what should have been my job on such a tight schedule, but I really don't feel like I can contribute much in this role.

My ismis says that I should see the dept chair for my grades and the reason for blocking is summer classes or something like that. Does that mean that I failed a course?

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How it Works
Engineered For Safety With Iron, Not Ion Home Energy Storage Built with Safer Lithium Iron Phosphate Built with Lithium Iron Phosphate [LiFe(PO4)] Longer-lasting and safer battery technology
Non-toxic, cobalt-free energy storage Built for Stability Non-toxic, with superior thermal and chemical stability
NeoVolta Is Built with Safer Lithium Iron not Lithium Ion with Cobalt Built specifically for solar energy storage Batteries are designed for homes, not for cars
NV14 has a higher temperature tolerance than Lithium-Ion batteries Under extreme heat, Iron outperforms Ion
No Maintenance Costs Required 10 year warranty
Built with longer-lasting IRON, not ION 13,896 Wh X 365 days x 10 years 50,720 kWh lifetime throughput
Floor or Wall Mounted Easy Installation Weatherproof and installs in a garage or on the side of a home.
Remote Monitoring They monitor the health of the system so you don't have to.
VIDEO: See How the NeoVolta NV14/NV24 Work
NeoVolta’s NV14 is the first Lithium Iron Energy Storage System to be approved by the California Energy Commission. It seamlessly powers up to 16 breakers and 32 amps of continuous power through peak rates or grid outages.
Connect to DC solar installations without any external inverters or to AC solar installations via String or Micro Inverter.
The rapid auto transfer switch, ensures that even when the grid goes down, power remains uninterrupted.
Recent News
NeoVolta’s Backup System Saves MDX Labs’ Lifesaving Medications During Multiple Grid Outages
- Commercial Battery Backup System Has Prevented the Loss of MDX’s Critical Functions and Thousands of Dollars in Inventory During Numerous Power Failures
SAN DIEGO, May 09, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NeoVolta Inc. (NASDAQ: NEOV) – NeoVolta Inc., manufacturer of Smart Energy Storage Solutions, has kept MDX Labs protected during multiple grid outages with reliable battery backup. Thanks to NeoVolta, the laboratory’s critical functions (refrigeration, server, and lights) have kept running, saving thousands of dollars while sustaining lifesaving medications and vaccines.
Founded in 2020, Henderson-based MDX Labs is the top privately held molecular and clinical diagnostic laboratory in the state of Nevada. MDX provides on-site testing services to a range of manufacturers, casinos, entertainers, restaurants, and nonprofit organizations, and it is the official overflow laboratory for the Southern Nevada Health District.
MDX Labs houses large quantities of vaccines, patient samples, and medications that require refrigeration. When grid outages occurred in the past, MDX would often lose tens of thousands of dollars in product and face periods of product unavailability while awaiting restock. In late 2021, MDX began searching for a battery backup system and discovered NeoVolta, which features a clean lithium iron phosphate battery and a hybrid inverter that can accept 208-volt power connections. NeoVolta can also charge from the power grid, eliminating the need for solar installation. In March 2022, MDX Labs installed NeoVolta’s NV14 Energy Storage System.
“Being able to support commercial facilities that are powered with 208-volt electricity is an amazing capability. Transformers are not required, which saves customers thousands of dollars and eliminates loud equipment that gives off radiant heat,” said Brent Willson, CEO of NeoVolta. “Our energy storage solutions are a very smart investment, especially considering the cost and consequence of an outage that would result in the loss of vital medical supplies and medications. We are thrilled to be partnering with MDX, a world-class clinical diagnostic laboratory.” FULL ARTICLE
NeoVolta Approved for Partnership by GoodLeap, the Top U.S. Financer for Solar and Sustainable Tech
- Offering Flexible Options for Consumers to Pay for Battery Storage
- NeoVolta Approved for Partnership by GoodLeap, the Top U.S. Financer for Solar and Sustainable Tech
SAN DIEGO, May 04, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NeoVolta Inc. (NASDAQ: NEOV) – NeoVolta Inc., manufacturer of Smart Energy Storage Solutions, has partnered with the sustainable home improvement finance platform GoodLeap to make solar energy storage as affordable as possible for more homeowners.
GoodLeap will finance standalone NeoVolta Energy Storage System (ESS) installations with or without solar panels. They offer flexible terms and highly competitive rates. As of 2022, GoodLeap was the number one financing platform, responsible for 26% of the entire U.S. residential solar market.
To apply, homeowners can coordinate with their installer on costs and then complete an online application. The process is fast and easy, and the underwriting is very flexible so that more homeowners get approved. Finally, GoodLeap has a strong reputation for exceptional customer service, with phone calls answered live by experienced solar professionals.
“GoodLeap’s low financing rates will allow more homeowners to enjoy years of utility savings and long-lasting blackout protection with NeoVolta energy storage,” said CEO Brent Willson, CEO of NeoVolta. “Our energy storage solutions are a very smart investment, and it’s never been easier to get started. With GoodLeap financing, NeoVolta’s market is opening to a much bigger audience. We are thrilled to be partnering with a world-class provider of sustainable home improvement financing.”
The partnership with GoodLeap is expected to help fuel NeoVolta’s continued success in the rapidly growing home energy storage market.
Devastating power outages throughout the country, caused by wildfires, extreme weather, and an increasingly unstable grid system, have underscored the urgent need for home backup power.
NeoVolta storage systems are designed for safety and performance. They use lithium iron phosphate battery chemistry, the nonflammable and nontoxic alternative to lithium ion. NeoVolta’s flagship NV14 energy storage system has a very high storage capacity of 14.4 kilowatt-hours, expandable to 24.0 kWh with the optional NV24 battery—without the expense of a second inverter. The system’s inverter discharges 7.7 kilowatts of instantaneous power, more than most mainstream competitors.
For its superior safety, performance and compatibility with any solar system, new or existing, the NV14 has been named one of Solar Power World’s top storage products four years in a row. FULL ARTICLE
NeoVolta Selected to Provide American Development Partners with Energy Storage for More Than 400 Regenerative Treatment Centers
- NeoVolta’s Energy Storage and Intelligent Power Management Will Be Deployed in Treatment Center Builds Nationwide Over Next Seven Years
- NeoVolta Selected to Provide American Development Partners with Energy Storage for More Than 400 Regenerative Treatment Centers
SAN DIEGO, March 14, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NeoVolta Inc. (NASDAQ: NEOV) – NeoVolta Inc., manufacturer of Smart Energy Storage Solutions, announced today that its systems will be deployed in more than 400 Orthagenex treatment centers nationwide. This is part of a rollout of NeoVolta batteries in thousands of American Development Partners (ADP) properties across the country over the next several years.
Together with ADP, NeoVolta will provide energy storage systems and intelligent power management for Orthagenex’s cutting edge regenerative medicine treatments centers. These 400 builds over the next seven years will be equipped with NeoVolta’s NV14 and NV24 Energy Storage Systems. The clean solar energy stored in the NeoVolta batteries will be used to dramatically reduce electric bills and serve as a backup in the event of a power loss.
American Development Partners developer Manny Butera said, “At ADP, we work with companies who innovate. NeoVolta’s advanced energy storage product is a perfect fit for the properties we are developing. We are thrilled to continue our close relationship with NeoVolta.” FULL ARTICLE
NeoVolta Poised for California’s NEM Incentives to Pair Solar with Battery Storage
- Additional $630 Million in California State Funding Set Aside to Support Residential Low-Income Solar Plus Storage Adopters
- NeoVolta Poised for California’s NEM Incentives to Pair Solar with Battery Storage
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 26, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NeoVolta Inc. (NASDAQ: NEOV) – NeoVolta Inc., manufacturer of Smart Energy Storage Solutions, announced today that it expects California’s recently updated Net Energy Metering (NEM) program to drive increased demand for energy storage systems.
On December 15, 2022, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) issued a decision to update the NEM tariff to promote consumer adoption of solar and battery storage. The program will go into effect on April 13, 2023. According to the CPUC, the move was designed to financially incentivize Californians to install both battery and solar systems.
The CPUC stated that the current NEM 2.0 program was not aligned with California’s grid reliability and climate goals, noting that the increased use of electricity between 4 and 9 p.m. causes dependence on fossil fuel gas plants to meet the demand. With the battery storage incentive, the CPUC hopes to see an increased adoption of residential energy storage that will better support the needs of the grid, with customers saving self-generated solar energy for use in the evening hours.
An additional $630 million in state funding has been set aside by the California State Legislature for residential low-income solar plus battery storage adopters. The decision bolsters federal incentives provided by the Inflation Reduction Act for solar and battery storage.
It’s important to note that NEM 3.0 is not retroactive. Rooftop solar systems installed under NEM 2.0 will remain under that policy for a 20-year grandfathering period. This means existing rooftop solar owners who add a battery after the April 13 deadline will not be subject to NEM 3.0.
“We expect that NEM 3.0 will make Californians more aware of their energy consumption, encouraging them to conserve energy and pair rooftop solar systems with battery storage,” said NeoVolta CEO Brent Willson. “Californians who adopt this strategy will dramatically reduce their electrical bills while increasing their energy resiliency during periods of prolonged blackouts, fires, and flooding.”
California’s vast solar plus storage market has a dramatic impact on the grid. California has about 12 GW of distributed solar generation already installed, equal to nearly 25% of peak demand statewide. California also has more than 80,000 customer-owned batteries connected to the grid, with a storage potential of 900 MW, according to a September 2022 study by the California Solar & Storage Association. FULL ARTICLE
Homebuilder Rebates and Savings
Starting 2020: California Requires Solar On New Construction Each NeoVolta NV14 Could Save Builders $8,500+ (Equipment & Rebates)
Impressive Management
Brent Wilson, CEO
Brent Willson is a retired USMC Colonel with 30+ years of experience, who managed $100B aviation acquisition portfolio for the Defense Department. Brent is passionate about clean energy and providing battery energy storage solutions to consumers that provide the comfort of black out protection and the ability to offset increasing grid costs, with the solar power they produce.
NeoVolta Directors & NeoVolta Advisory
An older investor presentation (2019) but still relevant.
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I dont really know what this post is for I guess I want some advice or just some sympathy. I don't know if this fits in the mental health subreddit but I already posted it on advice and didn't get any answers so I'm just posting it on other subreddits so that it may get more attention. Also I'm not a native english speaker so if I say something thats hard to understand or use words wrong I'm sorry. So, I am 14 (almost 15) and about 2 years ago (early summer 2021) during covid I joined my first public minecraft server. I played alone for some time till a girl who was playing for a longer time helped me a bit and we played together for some time. but that doesnt really matter. what does matter is that I became friends with some ´dude (he was about 16 then i think) and we played together, build a home and a whole city with some other people. the server restarted a few times with a new world and every time we went together and build our home together again. over the span of a few months (half a year or something) we got really good friends and talked almost every day and every hour of the afternoon. By that time in late summer I got 13. around that time he told me he liked me and asked me if i wanted to be his girlfriend (ik its weird) but I said no cause I didn't think I liked him that way, I dind't really have any experience in that and I didn't want to lose him as a friend. He accepted it tho and we continued to be friends and he also had another girlfriend. A few months passed again and we were normal friends and I even almost forgot about it. Then he told me he broke up with his girlfriend (she was kinda weird) and told me he still liked me. (That was around novembedecember) I really thought about it and I knew I liked him but like I said I didn't have much 'experience' so I didn't know if I liked him that way or just as friends. I was scared that I'd lose him if I reject him again but also that if we'd break up our friendship would be destroyed. So I said yes cause... yk what could go wrong? and guess what happened? Like a month or two later he told me that 'we dont spend that much time anymore' and that long-distance relationships are complicated and dont work out and asked me how it should go on. So I guess we broke up or something. He said we break up but still be friends and see how it goes. And well it happened what I was scared of. We didn't really talk anymore and the conversations were kinda awkward cause he still called me some 'cute nicknames' and told me he loved me (in a friends way) but it felt weird. So from mid january on we almost never talked and if we did, he'd start the conversation. It feels weird to say that but I was really sad during that time cause yk I just lost a person that I really liked and spent every day for almost a year with. Looking back now I wouldnt call it a realationship cause I mean I was 13 he was 16/17 and I think I felt happy during that time cause I had someone (other than my family) who really liked me for who I was and told me every day. So like I said for a long time (and also now) I felt really sad and didn't play on the server or talk to any of my friends there anymore.
So that was only one part of my hole thing here. A bit earlier in autumn we got some new students in our class. Three girls and a boy. almost directly after that we went on a class trip and the three new girls and some other friends of me got in a room together and through that we all became friends. Some months later a friend of mine whos also in our class told me he had a crush on one of the new girls. Lets call her "Betty". And that crush went on for some time. like half a year later, still while he liked her I also started to develope a crush on her but didn't tell anyone especially not him. He had kinda given up on her cause she liked some other guy in our class and told me he had set them up with eachother and their together now (that lasted for like a week or so). But that just made me realise I liked her more cause I was f*cking jealous of the guy and mad cause he broke up with her because she's "too touchy for him". I'm kind of introverted so while I had a crush on her I started talking less to her or at least less 'flirty' which I did before cause she was also someone who'd flirt jokingly and in a friendly way. I guess I was scared that she or someone else would find out I got a crush on her cause I'm too flirty or I sound too serious or something. Anyways she was sad because that guy broke up with her, the friend of mine who had a crush on her apparently didn't anymore and also didn't want to be friends with her anymore and another friend of mine also had some kind of argument with her and I didn't understand most of it. Now what I didn't mention yet, and I also didn't know for long is that she wasn't really mentally okay. I'm not that sure but she probably had depression and she also selh#rmed. One day after school she send me a text. It just said "your really cool. sorry for everything". That kinda confused me cause she had nothing to apologize for that she did that day and she behaved like always. But it made me worry cause it sounded like some kind of last message. So I immediatly replied and asked what she meant, what she wanted to apologize for and when she didn't reply or answer my calls I knew something was off. She always replied when you wrote her. I texted all of our other friends and asked them if they knew anything from her. The ones who replied me also got a personal message from her apologizing and saying other stuff. One of the friends and I really worried and wrote to our teachers and other people if they may have heard from her and our teacher contacted her mom. But she also didn't know where she was and the police were searching for her. The whole evening I worried about her and just hoped she would come back to school the next day. So at school our friend group was of course very worried about her. We started to think about where she could have gone and someone mentioned she had a best friend outside of our school where she might be. She didn't really have the best relationship with her so we thought she might have just run away and had hope. So after the first lesson I went to one of our teachers (the math teacher) and told her our idea and that we could try to contact her friend. She listened and said she could talk to someone (I dont really know what she said anymore) but she acted kinda weird. The whole break long we just hoped and thought about things to do. Our math teacher let us in the class room but didn't star the lesson. She told the class (mainly the people outside of our friendgroup) that they might have heard that something is up with "Betty". And after that the door opened and our class teacher, co-class teacher, a guidance teacher and the principle walked in. Already when I saw the with tears overflowed face of our class teacher I knew that she didn't run away. And I was right. Our class teacher had to go up in front of the class and tell us that "Betty" had k!lled herself the evening before. And the next two hours were just crying. I remember my math teacher coming up to me, crying, telling me that she was so sorry that she couldn't tell me the truth before when I had told her our theory but she couldn't tell me then. I felt so bad for her. And for the other teachers and the one who had to tell us what happened. And I was mad seeing some other class mates who were looking exaggeratedly (is that a word?) sad. And I was mad that she did that to us. And I just cried. Our whole friendgroup cried for two hours. Now I don't know how to continue this post. There isn't really much more to that part and I don't know if I can bring myself to write more about it.
My newest problem is about another friend of mine. I'm not sure if I like her or not. But I feel bad because of "Betty". That whole thing was in january, so 4-5 months ago and I feel bad because I may already have a new crush. And I'm not sure but I think she also had a crush on the girl I like now and I just hate everything right now. But the main problem with my 'new crush' is she is straight. And she made it very clear that she doesn't like me back. I've been flirting with her as a joke a while ago but everytime I was flirting with her she "rejected" me. But you know everything as a joke. But I think it isn't a joke anymore for me. The problem is, like I said, she's straight. And she's leaving next year after summer to another school so it's useless anyway.
I'm just thinking about everything. Why does everything that I like leave me. god that sounds so dramatic. I have a friend who I told all of this and she said something like "that could be a sick movie" and I can't un-think about that. Why the f#ck is my life a movie? And why can't I like anyone and have a normal relationship or something. This all sounds stupid and like I'm being over dramatic and I can't really express my thoughts without it sounding stupid. Also thank you if you read this and sorry cause its very long

I am thinking of taking Arts37A (Sculpture) at De Anza Community College coming summer quarter with Professor Patricia Jauch. (since I can transfer the credit to the CSU that I'm attending)
For anyone who took that class in the past, how is it?
I saw the course description and under essentials student materials, it said other materials required for various assignments. I want to know if I have to pay out for pocket to buy those materials.
Any information helps, thanks.

I’m taking a summer class to bump up my GPA a bit and get ahead on classes. I was looking through our discussion board from last week for some information needed this week and noticed a classmate completely copied and pasted a reply I did for one of our classmates. And pasted it on the same post lol. Will I get in trouble for this? I posted it before she did but I’m a lil worried

(Posted this on 2 other subs too but I think posting here will make this visible to more poeple)
My city is extremely unsafe for women and it's gone to the point where mrders are happening in front of the crowd and no one bats an eye about it. I did the mistake of watching an uncensored video of a recent mrder and it has made me shit scared. It triggered me to the point where I got dizzy and almost fainted publicly (I was going to my classes). I was mostly disturbed by the extreme rage of the guy while he was continuously stabbing this minor girl. It made me realize how stronger men are than us.
I know I know about self defense classes but I can't take them right now because of my hectic schedule. Plus there are no classes nearby me so I'll have to travel long hours everyday for them which is also difficult. I'm aware of stuffs like pepper spray, keys between fingers etc but I feel like they won't work if I'm ever caught in such violent situations. I think I'll just freeze.
Are the videos on youtube helpful? I need some advice on what I can do right at this moment to feel a bit safer.

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Miller's camp says it is hoping he can do enough on his June 10 visit in Charlotte to convince the Hornets to give him assurances they'll pick him at this spot, something that might hinge more on how he performs in his interview than his workout. He sat down with 12 teams at the draft combine in Chicago, but arrived holding a legal brief written by his attorneys informing teams that he would not be able to comment on specific details regarding his involvement in the lead-up to the fatal shooting of Jamea Jonae Harris. It's the biggest factor holding him back from being the easy choice at No. 2, as many expect to be the case in Charlotte. Miller's fit with Charlotte's roster looks ideal, and he is considered the front-runner here if he can do enough to alleviate off-court concerns.

Sources say Scoot Henderson is also very interested in Charlotte's situation and would welcome hearing his name called second, as much due to geographic proximity to his hometown of Marietta, Georgia, as the excitement over new ownership that is potentially taking over the Hornets organization this summer.

Jonathan Givony on The Woj Pod recently: "Based on talent, [Brandon Miller] should be the #2 pick in the draft, and I believe if the draft was held tonight, he would be the #2 pick". Also mentions that teams did not like Miller's answers during interviews in regards to the gun incident

Brandon Miller answering questions about this topic at the combine:

“The message I’ve presented to them is just it’s all a lesson learned,” Miller said to a group of reporters at the NBA draft combine, according to USA Today. “You always have to be aware of your surroundings and what you’re surrounded by.
“I feel like that night could’ve changed my career in less that a heartbeat. Just always be aware of your surroundings.”
Asked a follow-up question if he would have done anything differently the night of Jamea Harris’ murder in Tuscaloosa in January, Miller responded, “Like I said, just be more aware of my surroundings and what I’m surrounded by. I think it could have changed the whole night.”

Miller had contact with then-teammate Darius Miles the night of Harris’ murder Jan. 15. Miles texted Miller to drive Miles’ gun to the scene, and it was later retrieved from Miller’s car before it was allegedly used by Davis to fire the shot that killed Harris. Miller is considered a witness and not a suspect in the case. Miles and his friend Michael Davis were both charged with capital murder and await trial.

I’m 27. When I was 13/14, I started having weird throat issues all the time. It felt like my throat had a lot of pressure in it, like a weird tension feeling, and the only thing that helped was when I ate/drank something or swallowed. This would help then it would come back a few minutes or so later. I had weird issues swallowing saliva too. I saw an ear nose & throat doctor about this and was told my issue was acid reflux. Doctor prescribed reflux medication and told me to sleep on an incline. I did those things for a while, but it didn’t help. Supposedly I was treating the issue and the doctor didn’t know why I wasn’t improving but told me to continue doing what I was doing to supposedly treat it. I saw some other doctors that weren’t sure either. I pretty much learned to just live like that but it was annoying and started to take over my life to the point that every day revolved around coping with my throat and dealing with the bad anxiety it was causing. I used to avoid things, had no life, had to make sure I always had something to drink to help my throat, and felt really stressed about the whole thing and how it was affecting me. On a side note, I also used to breathe mostly through my mouth as well. No one really knew, but I was really miserable all the time because of this stuff.
At 15, I started to feel like a brain fog on top of the throat issues. Something I’d never felt before. It was like my brain felt like mush all the time, no matter how much sleep I got. Like that feeling when you sleep really bad for a couple nights and feel like crap, except I was sleeping enough. Felt kind of spaced out constantly, couldn’t concentrate as well, I never wanted to do anything, felt apathetic, and just kind of crappy all the time. Wasn’t severe but was definitely impacting my day to day life. I went back to seeing doctors. Lots of doctors said there was nothing medically wrong with me and some even said that the brain fog (and maybe even the throat issues) were all psychological. I didn’t feel like that was it because my symptoms felt so real and physical but what did I know. I was prescribed antidepressants and doctors recommended I see a therapist for bad anxiety issues. I spent the next couple of years trying multiple medications, seeing therapists, and making other changes but nothing helped. I thought I was going crazy. In those few years that passed, I had slowly started to feel worse. By the time I graduated high school, the constant mental fog and tiredness were affecting me pretty bad. I felt stressed and anxious nonstop. I had almost no life during high school because of it and did just the bare minimum to get by. With lots of doctors telling me there was nothing physically wrong with me, I started to believe them about it being all mental. I thought it was something I was doing wrong personally. At this point I wasn’t even talking to my family about it as much since supposedly there was nothing wrong and it was all in my head. Especially when doctor after doctor were saying nothing was wrong and because my symptoms were mostly feeling tired all the time, what was I supposed to say? It felt like it was my personal fault for feeling the way I did. Everyone gave me the impression that my issues were because of me and I just needed to change my mindset and lifestyle and I’d feel better. Do anxiety workbooks, deep breathing, get more sleep, take antidepressants, therapy. I did every single thing doctors and therapists told me to do, but nothing helped. Doctors and therapists made me question my sanity every day. It was hell.
I was in no shape to go to college out of state, but I did. I ended up going because supposedly there was nothing wrong with me and I was trying desperately to believe it was all in my head like doctors and therapists and my family were saying. I just needed to change my way of thinking and lifestyle and that would cure the constant brain fog and tiredness and throat issues. So I pushed myself to go, hoping I’d sort it out. I spent the next 4 years slowly feeling worse, still seeing doctors but getting no legit answers. I'd go months and months at a time without seeing a doctor as I didn't know where to turn and had given up at times. I saw a doctor about sleep apnea but didn't seem to fit almost any of the symptoms. Stuff like waking up trying to get air, choking, stopping breathing, snoring, wasn't overweight, wasn't unhealthy, didn’t have a family history of it or other health issues. Still, I tried one of those moldable mouthpieces that’s supposed to help with sleep apnea but didn't see any benefit from it. So with all of this, I figured it’s probably not sleep apnea. I was so desperate, I was constantly trying all sorts of medications, supplements, and other weird things to try and help myself. I felt like I was losing my damn mind. My mental health was horrendous. Felt like crap 24/7. I literally felt stupid because my brain wasn’t working. Dealing with symptoms and figuring out what was wrong with me consumed my entire life. I would occasionally go to class after taking a big dose of stimulant drugs, but even those only did so much. No amount of caffeine pills, energy drinks did anything either. I was beyond that stuff helping. I experienced almost nothing enjoyable in those 4 years of college and had basically no life, really no friends, hobbies, nothing. Really the only experience I had during college was when I went on a study abroad trip but it was hell because I felt so awful the whole time. I had also joined a fraternity in the beginning of college but did almost nothing with them for the same reason. The mental tiredness had gotten so bad it felt like I was disconnected and living in a dream. Like I felt kind of drunk. I was so mentally and emotionally numb and exhausted I didn’t even feel human. Like I physically could not feel emotions and felt super spaced out. I was also still dealing with the throat issues. I’d get random dizziness, my vision got worse (more sensitive to bright light, bad floaters in my eyes). I somehow managed to graduate college and finished feeling significantly worse than when I began. I was so miserable and had no one to talk to about what was going on. But I was at least glad that college was over, because it sucked horribly.
I spent the next year doing just the bare minimum to get by. About a year after college (2019), I had a sleep study done and results came back with moderate sleep apnea. For the first time I actually had an answer. Sleep doctor immediately prescribed a CPAP machine. Didn’t even bother to wonder why a young healthy person has sleep apnea to begin with, because it’s not normal. I spent the next 2ish years trying multiple machines, masks, changing all the settings, but only saw some improvement. Keeping the CPAP consistently on throughout the night was also a struggle in itself as it was super awkward and uncomfortable, even though I was desperately trying to make it work. When I was able to keep it on for 5+ hours a night I felt a bit better but it was really difficult to do so consistently. During this time I couldn’t really hold down a job, other than some really basic, short term jobs. And even those felt brutal. My relationships with everyone were affected pretty bad. I was a complete zombie because the tiredness was so overwhelming. It was as an amount of brain fog and exhaustion I didn’t know was humanly possible. I was making myself basically sick with stimulants that really weren't helping and even had a doctor at one point tell me that I should get genetic testing for depression or have my brain zapped with electric shocks. I luckily didn't go that route.
After two years of messing with machines, my sleep doctor then recommended I see a maxillofacial doctor to see what the underlying breathing issue was being caused by. The doctor recommended I get a custom mouthpiece made that shifts the lower jaw forward to help open the airway to prevent breathing issues while sleeping. The process of having it fitted and made took a couple months. I even took a “real” job during this same time because I had two different doctors telling me that this mouthpiece was likely to help me a lot. I felt like I couldn’t have gotten the mouthpiece fast enough. I ended up messing with the mouthpiece for months and had no benefit at all. Literally zero. The dentist who made the mouthpiece said that the mouthpiece wasn’t helping because I might just have “weak muscle tone” in my throat and that I should see someone called a myofunctional doctor to supposedly improve muscle tone in the throat and tongue. I looked into that and it seemed like total quack stuff so I didn’t do it and completely dropped that dentist that made my mouthpiece and suggested this. I then saw an ear nose and throat doctor and later did a sleep endoscopy with him where I was put to sleep and had my breathing monitored with a camera down my throat. The doctor said that my breathing issues were being caused by my throat and jaw and suggested that since the mouthpiece wasn’t helping, I could get surgery or have a device called Inspire surgically inserted into my chest and neck to artificially help breathing. I held off on that cause it sounded pretty extreme and thought there had to be something else. During this time I had to leave the job I should’ve never taken in the first place because I was so non-functional.
I pretty much gave up for months. I eventually scheduled an appointment with another ear nose & throat doctor (the same kind of doctor I saw when I was 13). I'd already seen many ear nose & throat doctors by this point but didn't know what else to do. Don’t remember how exactly it happened, but the connection was made that my issues were due to really abnormal nasal breathing. Something called nasal valve stenosis, where both sides of my nose were completely caving in and blocking most air, leading to crappy breathing, even when just breathing in lightly. This issue is worse during sleep and was causing my brain to “wake up” every time my nose had the obstruction. So I was struggling to breathe all night and I was slowly feeling worse as I was never getting good deep sleep. So the bad sleep every night just kept accumulating over the course of 10+ years. He also explained that my throat issues were a sign that my nose wasn’t functioning normally, which was causing airflow issues and a throat pressure feeling as a result. But weirdly the nasal issues weren’t being caused by my nose itself. There’s nothing actually wrong with my nose. It’s the middle part of the face that provides the base and support for the nose that is lacking the support needed to keep the nose open for normal breathing. Doctor said it’s really abnormal for nasal collapse to happen like this as a result of the face just not developing properly. It was just the way the middle of my face grew and changed over time, especially during puberty, that led to this. Doctor said it is called midface deficiency. It’s the area of the face just to the sides of the nose, below the eyes. Doctor said facial surgery is really what I needed but said nasal surgery could potentially help a bit and is less intense of a surgery, so I decided to go with that. Prior to the surgery the doctor had me wear a dilator in my nose at night to keep it open which helped immensely. Everything finally made sense for the first time ever. I even recorded my sleep and sure enough I could hear myself struggling to breathe all night.
Last year (2022), I had nasal valve surgery. It took a long time to recover from surgery and I still have to wear something in my nose when I sleep to prevent it from pinching shut because the surgery only helped a bit. I will still have to look into facial surgery to address the underlying issue as my breathing is still horrible during the day when I’m not wearing a dilator in my nose but at night I wear it and am good. Over time most of my issues have gone away. The slowly worsening exhaustion and brain fog and cognitive issues that started when I was a teenager. The constant severe anxiety and stress feelings I had since I was a kid. Throat issues gone. I no longer feel like killing myself out of misery. It was that obvious all along but untreated made my life constant fucking torture. Feeling horrible nonstop, slowly getting worse, not knowing why, being told there was nothing wrong with me and that it was all psychological, trying all sorts of things with no benefit, and having my entire life be ruined was a mental hell I wouldn’t wish on anyone. I don’t feel like my teens and most my 20s actually happened because I was in such poor health physically and mentally 24/7. Surreal all of this even happened. I wish I had been able to see decent doctors earlier, but obviously that didn’t happen. I’m not even sure how I wasn’t able to make the connection myself. I think I was just so used to really bad breathing since I was young I didn’t know it was abnormal and had no reason to think I had some weird issue cause why would I? I still struggle with the mental effects of I think living like this for so long. The depression and anger about it all. These issues consumed everything for over 10 years so I guess it’s not surprising that it still affects me mentally even after the fact. Thanks for reading and hopefully this can help someone out there.
Here's photos of my nose just breathing in slightly deeper than normal:
https://imgur.com/aQWsJeX
https://imgur.com/a/7NsNIWo
https://imgur.com/a/qGXCBFw
TLDR: Slowly worsening chronic fatigue/brain fog and other issues for 10+ years was due to really bad nasal breathing, mostly nasal valve collapse due to midface deficiency that developed when I was a teenager and was leading to sleep apnea

I’m 27. When I was 13/14, I started having weird throat issues all the time. It felt like my throat had a lot of pressure in it, like a weird tension feeling, and the only thing that helped was when I ate/drank something or swallowed. This would help then it would come back a few minutes or so later. I had weird issues swallowing saliva too. I saw an ear nose & throat doctor about this and was told my issue was acid reflux. Doctor prescribed reflux medication and told me to sleep on an incline. I did those things for a while, but it didn’t help. Supposedly I was treating the issue and the doctor didn’t know why I wasn’t improving but told me to continue doing what I was doing to supposedly treat it. I saw some other doctors that weren’t sure either. I pretty much learned to just live like that but it was annoying and started to take over my life to the point that every day revolved around coping with my throat and dealing with the bad anxiety it was causing. I used to avoid things, had no life, had to make sure I always had something to drink to help my throat, and felt really stressed about the whole thing and how it was affecting me. On a side note, I also used to breathe mostly through my mouth as well. No one really knew, but I was really miserable all the time because of this stuff.
At 15, I started to feel like a brain fog on top of the throat issues. Something I’d never felt before. It was like my brain felt like mush all the time, no matter how much sleep I got. Like that feeling when you sleep really bad for a couple nights and feel like crap, except I was sleeping enough. Felt kind of spaced out constantly, couldn’t concentrate as well, I never wanted to do anything, felt apathetic, and just kind of crappy all the time. Wasn’t severe but was definitely impacting my day to day life. I went back to seeing doctors. Lots of doctors said there was nothing medically wrong with me and some even said that the brain fog (and maybe even the throat issues) were all psychological. I didn’t feel like that was it because my symptoms felt so real and physical but what did I know. I was prescribed antidepressants and doctors recommended I see a therapist for bad anxiety issues. I spent the next couple of years trying multiple medications, seeing therapists, and making other changes but nothing helped. I thought I was going crazy. In those few years that passed, I had slowly started to feel worse. By the time I graduated high school, the constant mental fog and tiredness were affecting me pretty bad. I felt stressed and anxious nonstop. I had almost no life during high school because of it and did just the bare minimum to get by. With lots of doctors telling me there was nothing physically wrong with me, I started to believe them about it being all mental. I thought it was something I was doing wrong personally. At this point I wasn’t even talking to my family about it as much since supposedly there was nothing wrong and it was all in my head. Especially when doctor after doctor were saying nothing was wrong and because my symptoms were mostly feeling tired all the time, what was I supposed to say? It felt like it was my personal fault for feeling the way I did. Everyone gave me the impression that my issues were because of me and I just needed to change my mindset and lifestyle and I’d feel better. Do anxiety workbooks, deep breathing, get more sleep, take antidepressants, therapy. I did every single thing doctors and therapists told me to do, but nothing helped. Doctors and therapists made me question my sanity every day. It was hell.
I was in no shape to go to college out of state, but I did. I ended up going because supposedly there was nothing wrong with me and I was trying desperately to believe it was all in my head like doctors and therapists and my family were saying. I just needed to change my way of thinking and lifestyle and that would cure the constant brain fog and tiredness and throat issues. So I pushed myself to go, hoping I’d sort it out. I spent the next 4 years slowly feeling worse, still seeing doctors but getting no legit answers. I'd go months and months at a time without seeing a doctor as I didn't know where to turn and had given up at times. I saw a doctor about sleep apnea but didn't seem to fit almost any of the symptoms. Stuff like waking up trying to get air, choking, stopping breathing, snoring, wasn't overweight, wasn't unhealthy, didn’t have a family history of it or other health issues. Still, I tried one of those moldable mouthpieces that’s supposed to help with sleep apnea but didn't see any benefit from it. So with all of this, I figured it’s probably not sleep apnea. I was so desperate, I was constantly trying all sorts of medications, supplements, and other weird things to try and help myself. I felt like I was losing my damn mind. My mental health was horrendous. Felt like crap 24/7. I literally felt stupid because my brain wasn’t working. Dealing with symptoms and figuring out what was wrong with me consumed my entire life. I would occasionally go to class after taking a big dose of stimulant drugs, but even those only did so much. No amount of caffeine pills, energy drinks did anything either. I was beyond that stuff helping. I experienced almost nothing enjoyable in those 4 years of college and had basically no life, really no friends, hobbies, nothing. Really the only experience I had during college was when I went on a study abroad trip but it was hell because I felt so awful the whole time. I had also joined a fraternity in the beginning of college but did almost nothing with them for the same reason. The mental tiredness had gotten so bad it felt like I was disconnected and living in a dream. Like I felt kind of drunk. I was so mentally and emotionally numb and exhausted I didn’t even feel human. Like I physically could not feel emotions and felt super spaced out. I was also still dealing with the throat issues. I’d get random dizziness, my vision got worse (more sensitive to bright light, bad floaters in my eyes). I somehow managed to graduate college and finished feeling significantly worse than when I began. I was so miserable and had no one to talk to about what was going on. But I was at least glad that college was over, because it sucked horribly.
I spent the next year doing just the bare minimum to get by. About a year after college (2019), I had a sleep study done and results came back with moderate sleep apnea. For the first time I actually had an answer. Sleep doctor immediately prescribed a CPAP machine. Didn’t even bother to wonder why a young healthy person has sleep apnea to begin with, because it’s not normal. I spent the next 2ish years trying multiple machines, masks, changing all the settings, but only saw some improvement. Keeping the CPAP consistently on throughout the night was also a struggle in itself as it was super awkward and uncomfortable, even though I was desperately trying to make it work. When I was able to keep it on for 5+ hours a night I felt a bit better but it was really difficult to do so consistently. During this time I couldn’t really hold down a job, other than some really basic, short term jobs. And even those felt brutal. My relationships with everyone were affected pretty bad. I was a complete zombie because the tiredness was so overwhelming. It was as an amount of brain fog and exhaustion I didn’t know was humanly possible. I was making myself basically sick with stimulants that really weren't helping and even had a doctor at one point tell me that I should get genetic testing for depression or have my brain zapped with electric shocks. I luckily didn't go that route.
After two years of messing with machines, my sleep doctor then recommended I see a maxillofacial doctor to see what the underlying breathing issue was being caused by. The doctor recommended I get a custom mouthpiece made that shifts the lower jaw forward to help open the airway to prevent breathing issues while sleeping. The process of having it fitted and made took a couple months. I even took a “real” job during this same time because I had two different doctors telling me that this mouthpiece was likely to help me a lot. I felt like I couldn’t have gotten the mouthpiece fast enough. I ended up messing with the mouthpiece for months and had no benefit at all. Literally zero. The dentist who made the mouthpiece said that the mouthpiece wasn’t helping because I might just have “weak muscle tone” in my throat and that I should see someone called a myofunctional doctor to supposedly improve muscle tone in the throat and tongue. I looked into that and it seemed like total quack stuff so I didn’t do it and completely dropped that dentist that made my mouthpiece and suggested this. I then saw an ear nose and throat doctor and later did a sleep endoscopy with him where I was put to sleep and had my breathing monitored with a camera down my throat. The doctor said that my breathing issues were being caused by my throat and jaw and suggested that since the mouthpiece wasn’t helping, I could get surgery or have a device called Inspire surgically inserted into my chest and neck to artificially help breathing. I held off on that cause it sounded pretty extreme and thought there had to be something else. During this time I had to leave the job I should’ve never taken in the first place because I was so non-functional.
I pretty much gave up for months. I eventually scheduled an appointment with another ear nose & throat doctor (the same kind of doctor I saw when I was 13). I'd already seen many ear nose & throat doctors by this point but didn't know what else to do. Don’t remember how exactly it happened, but the connection was made that my issues were due to really abnormal nasal breathing. Something called nasal valve stenosis, where both sides of my nose were completely caving in and blocking most air, leading to crappy breathing, even when just breathing in lightly. This issue is worse during sleep and was causing my brain to “wake up” every time my nose had the obstruction. So I was struggling to breathe all night and I was slowly feeling worse as I was never getting good deep sleep. So the bad sleep every night just kept accumulating over the course of 10+ years. He also explained that my throat issues were a sign that my nose wasn’t functioning normally, which was causing airflow issues and a throat pressure feeling as a result. But weirdly the nasal issues weren’t being caused by my nose itself. There’s nothing actually wrong with my nose. It’s the middle part of the face that provides the base and support for the nose that is lacking the support needed to keep the nose open for normal breathing. Doctor said it’s really abnormal for nasal collapse to happen like this as a result of the face just not developing properly. It was just the way the middle of my face grew and changed over time, especially during puberty, that led to this. Doctor said it is called midface deficiency. It’s the area of the face just to the sides of the nose, below the eyes. Doctor said facial surgery is really what I needed but said nasal surgery could potentially help a bit and is less intense of a surgery, so I decided to go with that. Prior to the surgery the doctor had me wear a dilator in my nose at night to keep it open which helped immensely. Everything finally made sense for the first time ever. I even recorded my sleep and sure enough I could hear myself struggling to breathe all night.
Last year (2022), I had nasal valve surgery. It took a long time to recover from surgery and I still have to wear something in my nose when I sleep to prevent it from pinching shut because the surgery only helped a bit. I will still have to look into facial surgery to address the underlying issue as my breathing is still horrible during the day when I’m not wearing a dilator in my nose but at night I wear it and am good. Over time most of my issues have gone away. The slowly worsening exhaustion and brain fog and cognitive issues that started when I was a teenager. The constant severe anxiety and stress feelings I had since I was a kid. Throat issues gone. I no longer feel like killing myself out of misery. It was that obvious all along but untreated made my life constant fucking torture. Feeling horrible nonstop, slowly getting worse, not knowing why, being told there was nothing wrong with me and that it was all psychological, trying all sorts of things with no benefit, and having my entire life be ruined was a mental hell I wouldn’t wish on anyone. I don’t feel like my teens and most my 20s actually happened because I was in such poor health physically and mentally 24/7. Surreal all of this even happened. I wish I had been able to see decent doctors earlier, but obviously that didn’t happen. I’m not even sure how I wasn’t able to make the connection myself. I think I was just so used to really bad breathing since I was young I didn’t know it was abnormal and had no reason to think I had some weird issue cause why would I? I still struggle with the mental effects of I think living like this for so long. The depression and anger about it all. These issues consumed everything for over 10 years so I guess it’s not surprising that it still affects me mentally even after the fact. Thanks for reading and hopefully this can help someone out there.
Here's photos of my nose just breathing in slightly deeper than normal:
https://imgur.com/aQWsJeX
https://imgur.com/a/7NsNIWo
https://imgur.com/a/qGXCBFw
TLDR: Slowly worsening chronic fatigue/brain fog and other issues for 10+ years was due to really bad nasal breathing, mostly nasal valve collapse due to midface deficiency that developed when I was a teenager and was leading to sleep apnea

I’m 27. When I was 13/14, I started having weird throat issues all the time. It felt like my throat had a lot of pressure in it, like a weird tension feeling, and the only thing that helped was when I ate/drank something or swallowed. This would help then it would come back a few minutes or so later. I had weird issues swallowing saliva too. I saw an ear nose & throat doctor about this and was told my issue was acid reflux. Doctor prescribed reflux medication and told me to sleep on an incline. I did those things for a while, but it didn’t help. Supposedly I was treating the issue and the doctor didn’t know why I wasn’t improving but told me to continue doing what I was doing to supposedly treat it. I saw some other doctors that weren’t sure either. I pretty much learned to just live like that but it was annoying and started to take over my life to the point that every day revolved around coping with my throat and dealing with the bad anxiety it was causing. I used to avoid things, had no life, had to make sure I always had something to drink to help my throat, and felt really stressed about the whole thing and how it was affecting me. On a side note, I also used to breathe mostly through my mouth as well. No one really knew, but I was really miserable all the time because of this stuff.
At 15, I started to feel like a brain fog on top of the throat issues. Something I’d never felt before. It was like my brain felt like mush all the time, no matter how much sleep I got. Like that feeling when you sleep really bad for a couple nights and feel like crap, except I was sleeping enough. Felt kind of spaced out constantly, couldn’t concentrate as well, I never wanted to do anything, felt apathetic, and just kind of crappy all the time. Wasn’t severe but was definitely impacting my day to day life. I went back to seeing doctors. Lots of doctors said there was nothing medically wrong with me and some even said that the brain fog (and maybe even the throat issues) were all psychological. I didn’t feel like that was it because my symptoms felt so real and physical but what did I know. I was prescribed antidepressants and doctors recommended I see a therapist for bad anxiety issues. I spent the next couple of years trying multiple medications, seeing therapists, and making other changes but nothing helped. I thought I was going crazy. In those few years that passed, I had slowly started to feel worse. By the time I graduated high school, the constant mental fog and tiredness were affecting me pretty bad. I felt stressed and anxious nonstop. I had almost no life during high school because of it and did just the bare minimum to get by. With lots of doctors telling me there was nothing physically wrong with me, I started to believe them about it being all mental. I thought it was something I was doing wrong personally. At this point I wasn’t even talking to my family about it as much since supposedly there was nothing wrong and it was all in my head. Especially when doctor after doctor were saying nothing was wrong and because my symptoms were mostly feeling tired all the time, what was I supposed to say? It felt like it was my personal fault for feeling the way I did. Everyone gave me the impression that my issues were because of me and I just needed to change my mindset and lifestyle and I’d feel better. Do anxiety workbooks, deep breathing, get more sleep, take antidepressants, therapy. I did every single thing doctors and therapists told me to do, but nothing helped. Doctors and therapists made me question my sanity every day. It was hell.
I was in no shape to go to college out of state, but I did. I ended up going because supposedly there was nothing wrong with me and I was trying desperately to believe it was all in my head like doctors and therapists and my family were saying. I just needed to change my way of thinking and lifestyle and that would cure the constant brain fog and tiredness and throat issues. So I pushed myself to go, hoping I’d sort it out. I spent the next 4 years slowly feeling worse, still seeing doctors but getting no legit answers. I'd go months and months at a time without seeing a doctor as I didn't know where to turn and had given up at times. I saw a doctor about sleep apnea but didn't seem to fit almost any of the symptoms. Stuff like waking up trying to get air, choking, stopping breathing, snoring, wasn't overweight, wasn't unhealthy, didn’t have a family history of it or other health issues. Still, I tried one of those moldable mouthpieces that’s supposed to help with sleep apnea but didn't see any benefit from it. So with all of this, I figured it’s probably not sleep apnea. I was so desperate, I was constantly trying all sorts of medications, supplements, and other weird things to try and help myself. I felt like I was losing my damn mind. My mental health was horrendous. Felt like crap 24/7. I literally felt stupid because my brain wasn’t working. Dealing with symptoms and figuring out what was wrong with me consumed my entire life. I would occasionally go to class after taking a big dose of stimulant drugs, but even those only did so much. No amount of caffeine pills, energy drinks did anything either. I was beyond that stuff helping. I experienced almost nothing enjoyable in those 4 years of college and had basically no life, really no friends, hobbies, nothing. Really the only experience I had during college was when I went on a study abroad trip but it was hell because I felt so awful the whole time. I had also joined a fraternity in the beginning of college but did almost nothing with them for the same reason. The mental tiredness had gotten so bad it felt like I was disconnected and living in a dream. Like I felt kind of drunk. I was so mentally and emotionally numb and exhausted I didn’t even feel human. Like I physically could not feel emotions and felt super spaced out. I was also still dealing with the throat issues. I’d get random dizziness, my vision got worse (more sensitive to bright light, bad floaters in my eyes). I somehow managed to graduate college and finished feeling significantly worse than when I began. I was so miserable and had no one to talk to about what was going on. But I was at least glad that college was over, because it sucked horribly.
I spent the next year doing just the bare minimum to get by. About a year after college (2019), I had a sleep study done and results came back with moderate sleep apnea. For the first time I actually had an answer. Sleep doctor immediately prescribed a CPAP machine. Didn’t even bother to wonder why a young healthy person has sleep apnea to begin with, because it’s not normal. I spent the next 2ish years trying multiple machines, masks, changing all the settings, but only saw some improvement. Keeping the CPAP consistently on throughout the night was also a struggle in itself as it was super awkward and uncomfortable, even though I was desperately trying to make it work. When I was able to keep it on for 5+ hours a night I felt a bit better but it was really difficult to do so consistently. During this time I couldn’t really hold down a job, other than some really basic, short term jobs. And even those felt brutal. My relationships with everyone were affected pretty bad. I was a complete zombie because the tiredness was so overwhelming. It was as an amount of brain fog and exhaustion I didn’t know was humanly possible. I was making myself basically sick with stimulants that really weren't helping and even had a doctor at one point tell me that I should get genetic testing for depression or have my brain zapped with electric shocks. I luckily didn't go that route.
After two years of messing with machines, my sleep doctor then recommended I see a maxillofacial doctor to see what the underlying breathing issue was being caused by. The doctor recommended I get a custom mouthpiece made that shifts the lower jaw forward to help open the airway to prevent breathing issues while sleeping. The process of having it fitted and made took a couple months. I even took a “real” job during this same time because I had two different doctors telling me that this mouthpiece was likely to help me a lot. I felt like I couldn’t have gotten the mouthpiece fast enough. I ended up messing with the mouthpiece for months and had no benefit at all. Literally zero. The dentist who made the mouthpiece said that the mouthpiece wasn’t helping because I might just have “weak muscle tone” in my throat and that I should see someone called a myofunctional doctor to supposedly improve muscle tone in the throat and tongue. I looked into that and it seemed like total quack stuff so I didn’t do it and completely dropped that dentist that made my mouthpiece and suggested this. I then saw an ear nose and throat doctor and later did a sleep endoscopy with him where I was put to sleep and had my breathing monitored with a camera down my throat. The doctor said that my breathing issues were being caused by my throat and jaw and suggested that since the mouthpiece wasn’t helping, I could get surgery or have a device called Inspire surgically inserted into my chest and neck to artificially help breathing. I held off on that cause it sounded pretty extreme and thought there had to be something else. During this time I had to leave the job I should’ve never taken in the first place because I was so non-functional.
I pretty much gave up for months. I eventually scheduled an appointment with another ear nose & throat doctor (the same kind of doctor I saw when I was 13). I'd already seen many ear nose & throat doctors by this point but didn't know what else to do. Don’t remember how exactly it happened, but the connection was made that my issues were due to really abnormal nasal breathing. Something called nasal valve stenosis, where both sides of my nose were completely caving in and blocking most air, leading to crappy breathing, even when just breathing in lightly. This issue is worse during sleep and was causing my brain to “wake up” every time my nose had the obstruction. So I was struggling to breathe all night and I was slowly feeling worse as I was never getting good deep sleep. So the bad sleep every night just kept accumulating over the course of 10+ years. He also explained that my throat issues were a sign that my nose wasn’t functioning normally, which was causing airflow issues and a throat pressure feeling as a result. But weirdly the nasal issues weren’t being caused by my nose itself. There’s nothing actually wrong with my nose. It’s the middle part of the face that provides the base and support for the nose that is lacking the support needed to keep the nose open for normal breathing. Doctor said it’s really abnormal for nasal collapse to happen like this as a result of the face just not developing properly. It was just the way the middle of my face grew and changed over time, especially during puberty, that led to this. Doctor said it is called midface deficiency. It’s the area of the face just to the sides of the nose, below the eyes. Doctor said facial surgery is really what I needed but said nasal surgery could potentially help a bit and is less intense of a surgery, so I decided to go with that. Prior to the surgery the doctor had me wear a dilator in my nose at night to keep it open which helped immensely. Everything finally made sense for the first time ever. I even recorded my sleep and sure enough I could hear myself struggling to breathe all night.
Last year (2022), I had nasal valve surgery. It took a long time to recover from surgery and I still have to wear something in my nose when I sleep to prevent it from pinching shut because the surgery only helped a bit. I will still have to look into facial surgery to address the underlying issue as my breathing is still horrible during the day when I’m not wearing a dilator in my nose but at night I wear it and am good. Over time most of my issues have gone away. The slowly worsening exhaustion and brain fog and cognitive issues that started when I was a teenager. The constant severe anxiety and stress feelings I had since I was a kid. Throat issues gone. I no longer feel like killing myself out of misery. It was that obvious all along but untreated made my life constant fucking torture. Feeling horrible nonstop, slowly getting worse, not knowing why, being told there was nothing wrong with me and that it was all psychological, trying all sorts of things with no benefit, and having my entire life be ruined was a mental hell I wouldn’t wish on anyone. I don’t feel like my teens and most my 20s actually happened because I was in such poor health physically and mentally 24/7. Surreal all of this even happened. I wish I had been able to see decent doctors earlier, but obviously that didn’t happen. I’m not even sure how I wasn’t able to make the connection myself. I think I was just so used to really bad breathing since I was young I didn’t know it was abnormal and had no reason to think I had some weird issue cause why would I? I still struggle with the mental effects of I think living like this for so long. The depression and anger about it all. These issues consumed everything for over 10 years so I guess it’s not surprising that it still affects me mentally even after the fact. Thanks for reading and hopefully this can help someone out there.
Here's photos of my nose just breathing in slightly deeper than normal:
https://imgur.com/aQWsJeX
https://imgur.com/a/7NsNIWo
https://imgur.com/a/qGXCBFw
TLDR: Slowly worsening chronic fatigue/brain fog and other issues for 10+ years was due to really bad nasal breathing, mostly nasal valve collapse due to midface deficiency that developed when I was a teenager and was leading to sleep apnea

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$75 + Shipping.
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1902 $5 National Bank Note Fr. 598 (Council Bluffs, Iowa - Charter No. 1479) (PMG/VF-25)
$350 Shipped.
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1907 $5 Legal Tender Note Fr. 91 "PCBLIC" Error (PCGS/F-12)
$150 + Shipping.
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1864 CSA $20 T-67 (PCGS/XF-40)
$60 + Shipping.
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Small-Size Type Notes
1928 $1 Silver Certificate Fr. 1600 (PCGS/VF-35)
$55 + Shipping.
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1928 $1 Silver Certificate Fr. 1600 (PCGS/AU-58-PPQ)
$80 + Shipping.
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1928-A $1 Silver Certificate Fr. 1601 (PCGS/F-15)
$20 + Shipping.
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Reverse: https://imgur.com/zNX13oF
1928-A $1 Silver Certificate Fr. 1601 (PCGS/VF-20 Apparent)
$20 + Shipping.
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1928-A $1 Silver Certificate Fr. 1601 (PCGS/VF-30)
$50 + Shipping.
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Reverse: https://imgur.com/Ef80QEK
1928-A $1 Silver Certificate Fr. 1601 (PCGS/VF-35)
$55 + Shipping.
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1928-A $1 Silver Certificate Fr. 1601 (PCGS/AU-50-PPQ)
$65 + Shipping.
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Reverse: https://imgur.com/goeSt72
1934 $1 Silver Certificate Fr. 1606 (PCGS/F-15)
$20 + Shipping.
Face: https://imgur.com/VAKBjrQ
Reverse: https://imgur.com/Lo8fq8i
1935-A $1 Silver Certificate Fr. 1608 (PMG/AU-58)
$20 + Shipping.
Face: https://imgur.com/RocdV4y
Reverse: https://imgur.com/essNs4l
1935-A $1 Silver Certificate "Hawaii Emergency Issue" Fr. 2300 (PCGS/XF-40)
$100 Shipped.
Face: https://imgur.com/DKMpzGx
Reverse: https://imgur.com/GV5BWGd
1935-A $1 Silver Certificate "Hawaii Emergency Issue" Fr. 2300 (PCGS/F-12)
$30 + Shipping.
Face: https://imgur.com/QkhIdQ0
Reverse: https://imgur.com/BHXiwA8
1935-F $1 Silver Certificate Fr. 1615 (PCGS/XF-40-PPQ)
$8 + Shipping.
Face: https://imgur.com/1WzhIDC
Reverse: https://imgur.com/XlV6sDp
1935-G $1 Silver Certificate Fr. 1616 (PCGS/AU-50-PPQ)
$10 + Shipping.
Face: https://imgur.com/xm974tG
Reverse: https://imgur.com/8iYKOdg
1935-G $1 Silver Certificate Fr. 1616 (PCGS/AU-58-PPQ)
$12 + Shipping.
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Reverse: https://imgur.com/zuQiEB7
1937 $1 Bank of Canada BC-21d (BCS/VF-25)
$20 + Shipping.
Face: https://imgur.com/Vbl9teO
Reverse: https://imgur.com/hqy77qS
1957-A $1 Silver Certificate Fr. 1620 (CGS/UNC-68*)
*Please note that this particular note is likely overgraded and therefore priced accordingly.
$15 + Shipping.
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Reverse: https://imgur.com/Fd1ZXnz
1973 $1 Bank of Canada BC-46b (PMG/UNC-65-EPQ)
$20 + Shipping.
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Reverse: https://imgur.com/VHU3Gh9
1928 $2 Legal Tender Note Fr. 1501 (PMG/VF-30-EPQ)
$30 + Shipping.
Face: https://imgur.com/yXUEntz
Reverse: https://imgur.com/jOOaT2H
1928-G $2 Legal Tender Note Fr. 1508 (PCGS/XF-40-PPQ)
$55 + Shipping.
Face: https://imgur.com/hRBDB2h
Reverse: https://imgur.com/yLia7XV
1953-C $2 Legal Tender Note Fr. 1512 (PCGS/UNC-63-PPQ)
$35 + Shipping.
Face: https://imgur.com/Ce1zqUV
Reverse: https://imgur.com/PjhzxQf
1963 $2 Legal Tender Note Fr. 1513 (PCGS/UNC-64-PPQ)
$35 + Shipping.
Face: https://imgur.com/NhFKE6A
Reverse: https://imgur.com/FdH2NYk
1928-E $5 Legal Tender Note Fr. 1530 (PCGS/VF-20)
$20 + Shipping
Face: https://imgur.com/GoczqxM
Reverse: https://imgur.com/cwNG4Tf
1934-A $5 Silver Certificate Fr. 1651 (PCGS/VF-25 Apparent)
$15 + Shipping.
Face: https://imgur.com/6mrKm8J
Reverse: https://imgur.com/6c220uc
1953-A $5 Silver Certificate Fr. 1656 (PCGS/VF-25)
$25 + Shipping.
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Reverse: https://imgur.com/30SwrRu
2006 $5 Bank of Canada BC-67b (BCS/AU-58)
$10 + Shipping.
Face: https://imgur.com/VhPJqbA
Reverse: https://imgur.com/hQ6gJ03
1928-B $10 Federal Reserve Note Fr. 2002 DGS (PMG/AU-50 Net)
$40 + Shipping.
Face: https://imgur.com/k4dtPlP
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1929 $10 FRBN Fr. 1860-G (PCGS/VF-25)
$35 + Shipping
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Reverse: https://imgur.com/rPXzaMR
1929 $10 National Bank Note Fr-1801-1 (New York, NY - Charter No. 2370) (PCGS/VF-30)
$60 + Shipping.
Face: https://imgur.com/onpyvGN
Reverse: https://imgur.com/g6vs3yn
1929 $10 National Bank Note Fr-1801-1 (Fort Wayne, IN - Charter No. 3285)(PCGS/XF-40 Apparent)
$70 + Shipping.
Face: https://imgur.com/p7lOxBl
Reverse: https://imgur.com/27s29ZE
1929 $10 National Bank Note Fr-1801-1 (Cleveland, OH - Charter No. 4318)(PCGS/VF-25 Apparent)
$55 + Shipping.
Face: https://imgur.com/GMVARCN
Reverse: https://imgur.com/7zUDJ38
1929 $10 National Bank Note Fr-1801-1 (Memphis, TN - Charter No. 13349)(PCGS/F-12 Apparent)
$45 + Shipping.
Face: https://imgur.com/cpiPuxt
Reverse: https://imgur.com/PbX8vTH
1934-A $10 Silver Certificate "WWII North Africa Emergency Issue" (PCGS/F-12)
$50 + Shipping.
Face: https://imgur.com/a20xHDU
Reverse: https://imgur.com/DdYEIGO
1934-A $10 Silver Certificate "WWII North Africa Emergency Issue" (PMG/VF-25)
$100 Shipped.
Face: https://imgur.com/GluLb67
Reverse: https://imgur.com/gNiPw3f
1934-D $10 Silver Certificate "Wide" Fr. 1705 (PCGS/VF-20)
$30 + Shipping.
Face: https://imgur.com/Vhtac6m
Reverse: https://imgur.com/jk5yHxI
1950-B $10 Federal Reserve Note Fr. 2012-G (PCGS/UNC-63)
$30 + Shipping.
Face: https://imgur.com/FdE5EQM
Reverse: https://imgur.com/g6vs3yn
1971 $10 Bank of Canada BC-49c-i (BCS/AU-58)
$20 + Shipping.
Face: https://imgur.com/6iGsT49
Reverse: https://imgur.com/NgS3VNL
1928 $20 Federal Reserve Note Fr. 2050-D (PCGS/F-15)
$40 + Shipping.
Face: https://imgur.com/RmwC05y
Reverse: https://imgur.com/WWllU1l
1929 $20 FRBN Fr. 1870-E (PCGS/VF-20)
$60 + Shipping.
Face: https://imgur.com/PvqDi37
Reverse: https://imgur.com/WWllU1l
1929 $20 FRBN Fr. 1870-F (PMG/VF-25)
$65 + Shipping.
Face: https://imgur.com/MAvXPJe
Reverse: https://imgur.com/8NdN49R
1929 $20 FRBN Fr. 1870-G (PCGS/F-15)
$45 + Shipping.
Face: https://imgur.com/RVGmETx
Reverse: https://imgur.com/jnot4zP
1937 $20 Bank of Canada BC-25c (PCGS/F-12 Apparent)
$30 + Shipping.
Face: https://imgur.com/Mlfrv3q
Reverse: https://imgur.com/TqSFWJc
2009-11 India 5 Rupees (PCGS/UNC SAMPLE)
$20 + Shipping.
Face: https://imgur.com/rzHkJWd
Reverse: https://imgur.com/kWpKkeU
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Hi so for some context, I’ll be returning to uni in the fall and I’ve decided to switch over to CS. I have a relative who presented an opportunity for me to work for him next summer after I’ve learned html/css, python, javascript(and react and node.js). Next month, he proposed the idea of me sitting with him and learning how his team does things but told me I should at least familiarize myself with the programming languages i’ve mentioned before then. I’ve actually started on html/css but I just don’t know how much of python and javascript I’ll be able to understand by then.
As I mentioned, I can start working for him next summer so I have about a year to learn everything. The only dilemma is I’ll be taking a lot of courses in the next two semesters and they revolve around C++. Because I’ve already taken an intro to C++ class, I’ll be thrown right into a data structures class(it’s been almost a year since I’ve touched c++) so I feel like I need to prioritize learning C++ this summer as well. Does anyone have any advice on how to manage everything? I was initially planning on dedicating 4 days out of the week to web dev and 3 days to c++ but I feel like i’m taking on more than i can manage.

First and foremost, THANK YOU TO THIS COMMUNITY!!!! Without y’all, I’d have lost my damn mind these past few weeks/months dealing with wedding drama. This sub has some wonderfully amazing and very kind people on it!!
Second, I am wrapping up my master’s degree in journalism and one of the requirements of my program is to take a creative writing course. I’ve done the odd creative writing exercise in some of my other classes & the techniques really do help you to improve the way you approach details, sentence structure, and use of descriptive vocabulary to maintain the reader’s attention. It’s actually been helpful since news writing can easily become bland and boring. However, I am absolutely NOT a fiction writer!!! Some of my instructors and classmates have written fiction books, but I loathe even writing short stories. It is a craft I’ve never been drawn to, hence why I’m taking it over my final summer session (since summer classes are condensed and shorter in duration 😆) Anyway, I had my first class this morning and though it was mainly introductions & going over the syllabus, the instructor told us to think of an event in our lives that we can turn into a story by the end of the course and to come to the next class with a short description of our chosen inspiration.
My mind immediately jumped to the string of wedding drama I’ve experienced these past few months. I know that the pinned post on this sub is that this isn’t a creative writing space and I presume that means stories should be factual… but what about the opposite?? Can you turn real events into creative writing stories?? I asked my partner for his thoughts on using my recent wedding experience, especially the debacle with my friend who wants the $30k venue in NYC, and his response was that the situation is already so extra and over the top that it could write itself without any needed creative writing input 🤣 I agreed & we had a good laugh about how absurd my wedding experiences have been, which was great… except I still need a life experience to propose (pun intended) for my creative writing class. I thought that I might ask y’all - I feel like there just needs to be an anthology of the most asinine bridezilla stories (no creative writing influence needed) but could a bridezilla story be the basis for a creative writing piece??? As I said, I can write news, interviews & non-fiction all day long, but I cannot craft character development and plot lines… but this class is mandatory & it’s the only thing standing between me and my master’s. Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas??? I’m desperate!

1. Which brings me to updates…

Here’s one update about the wedding without invitations: OG post about recent wedding drama of mine. My partner and I congratulated the couple and reiterated our compromise proposals, but ultimately haven’t spoken to the newlywed couple in a few weeks and have decided we don’t really want to after this. We haven’t sent a gift as we’d normally do, and we’re likely just going to let our relationship with the couple fizzle. From a mutual friend, we heard that there were about 50 people at the wedding, mostly family members, and only 3 friends. He said it was a pretty boring wedding and he left as soon as it felt appropriate to do so. He assured us we didn’t miss anything by not attending 😂 But it’s good to know that only 3 friends of the couple attended - lets us know that we weren’t the only ones who failed to use our telepathic powers to learn the wedding date/time.
The situation with the venue has been emotionally and mentally draining AF! My friend (the bride) is still hellbent on this venue in NYC & put down a deposit of $8,000 that’s non-refundable. So if she can’t come up with the remaining amount, she’ll be SOL and to me that’s A LOT of money to put on the line. The venue does have these stunning gardens which my friend seems to like so much that she sent us proposed bridesmaid dresses that have colorful floral embroidery… on otherwise sheer fabric 🫣 The dresses aren’t that expensive, IIRC off the top of my head they’re under $100, but another bridesmaid asked about undergarments and wearing slips beneath the dresses & suggested we each wear a different colored slip for added pops of color (which I think would actually be really pretty) but the bride didn’t go for it and said she’d “think about it” (it = the use of undergarments for appropriate coverage)
For that wedding, it seems like one bridesmaid has either dropped out or is on the verge of dropping out. And our group chat went silent until the dress discussion, so most of the bridal party is tired of the dramatics over the venue and IMO checked out (at least I am - I’ve barely kept up with the group because it’s exhausting)
Edit: Wow, the typos are everywhere today!!