Right. Some sort of antiperspirant is the key. Broadcasting strong scents everywhere you go isn't necessary. Fragranced products are even banned in some workplaces because so many people have sensitivities to them, and some people way overdo it since the average products are way too strong, and people wear like 10 of them at once.
Natural fragrances and essential oils are less of a problem for me but end up getting me after a while. I’d prefer if people didn’t try to broadcast a fragrance at all.
Dayzie for sure. What's wrong with all natural deodorant? I also kind of hate smelling people's non-natural deodorant, shampoo, hand lotion, laundry detergent, fabric softener...
Yeah, that is pretty different. I assumed it was similar from "can't eat solid food" but I never felt turned off from food, I'd just feel incredibly awful after eating so I stopped eating. Tried surviving on a bunch of different semi-liquid things before I found something that worked. I got medically underweight before gaining some back, and the weight loss was kind of a bonus after I felt better. People I knew told me "wow, you look great!" and I was like uh, thanks... funny how being dramatically unhealthy made people think I was more healthy.
Well, hopefully Mayo manages to find you some answers!
Yeah, I just wrote posted a diatribe about my experiences there too if you're interested. What they did would have been great if what they tested for was actually what was wrong with me at the time. Unfortunately they kind of let me choose my own tests, which was really nice, but it turns out I'm, you know, not a doctor and didn't ask for the right things, then they didn't really investigate other possibilities.
Side note, it sounds like you're going to do basically the same tests I did there - I had some sort of issue where swallowing food sort of worked but it seemed to stick in my esophagus, and I'd feel like hell and have to drink water, burp, regurgitate. That was familiar to me from Celiac disease (probably due to GERD inflammation) but it had gone away and come back. I thought maybe I had achalasia or at the least, an esophogeal stricture.
I had a choice of a Celiac specialist or a physical swallowing specialist. They did allergy tests, dermatology, additional Celiac testing, and the swallowing stuff. Overall I thought the doctors, facilities and organization were quite good. Make sure to go talk to the billing/finance people at the beginning.
Anyway, I had lost about 60 lbs in 4 months but regained it from eating blended foods and was doing better when I was there, which didn't help the testing - after barium swallows, radioactive sandwich and more, they determined no, I was just fine. I had temporarily sort of cured myself and so there wasn't much for them to observe. I had an irritating session with a psychologist where she grilled me for 45 minutes about "do you think the tests you had were accurate or do you still think there's something wrong with you?" I explained that sure, the tests were great, but I had been in pain every day for 4 months and lost 60 lbs so there must be some reason and apparently they hadn't done the right tests yet. She said I had "health anxiety" and I was so worried about gluten I had starved myself. Utter bollocks.
Anyway, I was right as it turned out I had adult onset type 1 diabetes and nobody ever tested me for that at all when I was there. On the last day the Celiac doctor told me "you could have type 1 diabetes... some people get that too" and then didn't order any tests or anything. Not sure why the presentation had been mainly digestive, but anyway, overall I sort of hate them now. Hopefully your experience goes better than mine did. It is a nice place.
It's a fairly small Midwest town. Nothing too remarkable other than that Mayo happens to be there. I stayed there for two weeks but don't recall doing much other than the hospital tests, eating at the restaurant at the hotel, and wandering around the small downtown-like area. There's your usual assortment of restaurants, bars and breweries, plus some boutiques and clothing stores.
Mayo itself is like an art museum - they have a fantastic art glass collection and some historical artifacts. I think it's the Gonda building where on each floor, at the elevator landing, there's a spread of art glass. The pieces they have are made by some of the best known and most respected glass artists. I spent some time looking through all that.
There are a couple Mayo-themed tours, like the founder's house and the old fancy hospital building. The Spam museum is about 35 miles away, which is almost as far as St. Paul. There are some hiking trails. Personally I was pretty busy just doing hospital stuff from 8-4 every day, wasn't feeling super energetic, and was happy to eat and go to sleep.
"Technically" ready isn't much of a boast about anything. Basically "yeah, you know we have nuclear weapons. Well, so we checked and they do work!" Well guess what Vladdo, the United States, France, the UK are also 'technically ready'. But anyway, this is very different than saying we're politically or strategically ready, so it's not really news. Of course there are those soulless cretins on Russian TV discussing nuking Europe often, but nobody with a brain considers that anything other than an aggressive jerk-off session.
It also looks kinda like a pentagram, which might not work given some of their userbase.