Lead is a pretty big deal for developing brains, so if you’re pregnant, planning to become pregnant, or regularly hosting small children it matters- particularly if you have non modifiable risk factors, like known high soil lead levels or chipping paint in an old home sort of thing. Lead isn’t ideal at any level but it’s also a question of absolute exposure, if you can’t modify known exposure one place you get lay off being more mindful where you can modify. If that makes sense.
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Thanks so much @Littlebird @Bernadette @mountainmustache29 @Bracken_Joy !
Not even related to this, but I love this phrasing and need to keep in mind so I stay focused on what matters to me.
Appreciate you sharing your own thought process and especially these two recs!!
This is super good to know and absolutely makes sense!
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Please start new thread to sass it. I’ll totally watch when I get a chance! 
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I mean, did anyone ask Britney? She’s the Toxic expert, yes?
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My sister went to a workout class and the woman next to her picked up the 25lb weights, did one rep, put them back and said “you know, those weights just aren’t in my journey today” and it is a classic phrase in our house now. So it has a wide range of uses and I recommend you use all of them. 
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Behold this frame i saw for sale at an antique store slowly going out of business. I desperately want to know if it came that way or if the seller decided Brittney would pep it up. 
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They absolutely popped her in
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CW: medical procedure
I have a colonoscopy/endoscopy coming up, and was told I’ll have conscious sedation. Someone just told me that they had a bad experience with that combo, but my sense is that most people don’t have pain or remember their colonoscopies, right? I’m assuming that I wouldn’t wake up for the endoscopy portion either? When I’ve been sedated in the past, I don’t remember being awake for any of it, e.g. wisdom tooth removal and an IUD removal I advocated to be sedated for.
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I had my knee sawed out with a spinal and that kind of sedation. I remember being in the OR, and then I remember being in recovery. I felt like I could have remembered some stuff if I wanted to, but I most assuredly did not want to.
Anyway, I was worried about it not being general anaesthesia, but it was fine.
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For me on the patient side, I couldn’t tell the difference between the waking sedation (egg retrievals) and general (D&C). I retained none of either, came out super groggy and disoriented.
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I’ve had conscious sedation a couple of different times for spinal injections. My experience was a little different each time, but the closest description I would give is “I am aware this is happening but I don’t give a shit”. Like, I couldn’t feel pain from the procedure, but I knew it was happening, but I also didn’t care. I also tend to forget most of the experience within an hour or two afterwards.
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I just has a colonoscopy/endoscopy in March and remembered nothing at all even when I woke in recovery 10-15 minutes after.
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I asked husband- he saw no difference except that I reoriented to myself sooner with the conscious sedation. But the level of loopy, stupid, etc when I was out was the same with both. None of them I talked to him about the procedure indicating I remembered it at all, even pre- memories for me.
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Thanks for sharing experiences! I did some more reading, and I think the person who was sharing this experience was thinking about a different level of sedation, hooray.
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So I will give a slightly different answer and hope it doesn’t cause a panic. Both my dad and I did experience pain and some awareness during a colonoscopy/endoscopy. At that point we were both put further under. I have a very brief memory of trying to be le "owwww! But I couldn’t actually say words. But very shortly after I have no memories until I was in a grocery store with my mom lol.
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Not panic causing at all! Someone was telling me I’d be fully conscious for the whole thing, so this is still beats that.
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I want to learn a lot more about health insurance but from a beginner/basic perspective. Is there a person who is kind of like a financial advisor but for understanding health care? I want to talk to an actual human being and not just a customer service rep. So…if that type of person exists, what are they called? Thanks!
ETA: Oh, and if you have online resources that are really good (like something you might recommend to an 18 year old moving out for the first time) that would be helpful too. I have been unable to even interact with any of this stuff (ptsd reasons) until recently so I know literally nothing.
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“patient advocate” is one I’ve heard, though I haven’t ever interacted with one.
I think @anomalily is working on a book for this??
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Thanks I’ll look into that! My concern is they will want to take over everything and like, that then I’ll also have to manage them as well. Like I don’t need a case worker to manage all of it but I would like to learn more so I can manage it myself. But I’ll see if they can just offer me a one off call for assistance. And she is working on a book! 
I have a feeling it will be, uh, a bit advanced for me, haha. Just based on what/how she’s written about healthcare stuff here. I usually can’t even follow what she’s explaining.
ETA: calling a patient advocacy foundation now!
ETA2: I haven’t read them yet but they were able to give me lots of links to information! And if I need more help then I can get a case manager or whatever. Thanks @iualia <3
ETA3: Was going to post the resources here for others but they are not super helpful, the search continues!
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It’s actually aimed at people who are engaging with US health care labyrinth for the first time - immigrants, folks turning 18/26, folks taking over from someone else who has done it before, or folks navigating a new diagnosis/injury where they suddenly need to handle it. So you’re the target audience.
But publish date is 2024…so…
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