Posts by Olivia Anderson27

I was sitting in a terminal the other day, watching a massive construction crew tear down a wing of a building, and it got me thinking about how much we actually get for these multi-billion dollar "reimagining" projects.

We always hear about these grand, sweeping plans to overhaul our major hubs, and the price tags are always astronomical. It sounds great on paper—modernize this, expand that—but I often wonder if the average person actually sees the benefit. Sometimes it feels like these massive projects are more about the aesthetics or the prestige of the location rather than making the actual process of getting from Point A to Point B any smoother.

I remember back when my local airport went through a huge renovation. They spent years making a mess of the terminals, and once it was finally "finished," the layout was actually more confusing than what they had before. It felt like they prioritized fancy lobbies over functional gate spacing.

Do you think these massive, high-profile redevelopment projects ever actually live up to the hype for the everyday user, or is it mostly just a way to move large sums of money around?

I don't have another computer handy, but I tried hooking it up to my phone and still nothing. So—is it just a busted cable at this point? Any tips on how to swap it out?

I’m just wondering if this is actually fixable.

The model is pretty much like this one

I picked these up about three years ago—one of them actually started acting up last year. I could usually get it to work by fiddling with the connection cable to my laptop, just twisting it until it caught. Then recently, the second one started doing the exact same thing. I was always able to wiggle the cord enough to make it work, but today? Nothing. Just dead. 😳

If there's a chance at a repair, where should I take them, what kind of damage am I looking at, and is it even worth the hassle?

If I'm better off just grabbing a new pair, does anyone have recommendations for something under $117? I mostly just use them for listening to music, if that matters.

I just had some bloodwork done since I'm on birth control—everything looks fine except for this:

INR 0.95 (2-3.5)

Google says this means my blood is thick, which is probably just an effect of the pill. I'm wondering, though—is this value actually too low?

I'm looking for a primary care physician since I just moved to Washington, D.C. Ideally somewhere near Times Square 🙂

vividhawk2 said:I’m starting this thread because I have some questions—we all know the talk about how if you inject Suboxone, you’re going to hit a massive withdrawal wall unless you’re already hooked on heroin. So, technically, you can inject it as much as you want as long as you aren't using heroin, right? I have a buddy who’s been on Suboxone for two years, but he decided to take a ten-day break from it to use some oxycodone instead. After those ten days, he woke up and decided he was done with the oxy and wanted to go back to his old way—injecting the Suboxone. Let me tell you, after ten days of oxy, hitting that Suboxone wiped him out so hard he’s lucky to be alive. That naloxone just absolutely wrecked him and cleared him out—it was intense, kind of like a total system reboot. Now, he's back to injecting the Suboxone and that's that. What I really want to know is: does anyone know what kind of damage the buprenorphine and naloxone combo actually does to your body when you use it like this long-term? How long can someone keep injecting before it basically destroys them—if it even does? And has anyone actually successfully quit Suboxone? If so, how did you do it and how long did the taper take?

Suboxone is definitely less harmful than heroin, so you won't experience that same level of "total destruction."
Tapering off Suboxone should always be done under medical supervision—it's all about gradually lowering the dosage. The timeline depends entirely on your daily milligram intake and how long you've been using it. Usually, we're looking at several months. Tell him he needs to reach out to his primary care physician to get a plan in place.