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I don’t know who needs to hear this but…QUIT HARMING KIDS!!!

If you’re overwhelmed, I get it.
If you feel hopeless, I get it.
If you feel weak, I get it.
If you feel depressed, I get it.
However…it’s never an excuse for harming a child. And if you see it and don’t stop it…you’re just as guilty.

I’ve been babysitting since I was 10. Took a formal class with CPR instruction at 12. Certified again in high school.
I’ve babysat every younger cousin I have at some point. Made pretty good money as a teen babysitting on weekends.
I chose to be a mom to four because I love kids and I wanted to do it better than my parents did.
I was a parent aide for Catholic social services. I was trained to help young parents cope with life. I gave them tips on managing their stress or did their dishes so they could nurse the baby or take a shower. Whatever they needed….i tried to help.
One of the best volunteer jobs I’ve had next to helping friends run a food pantry for over a decade.

My point is…if you’re struggling…reach out for help. Do not take your frustration out on your infant or child. I haven’t lived here long and I don’t know what resources if any are available but we can figure it out. You’re not alone.
This goes for single dads too.

I don’t judge…I assist, I empathize, I listen.

Thanks for reading~Lisa

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📌 Fountain City Ancient Earthwork — Wayne County, Indiana
📍 39°58'02.44"N, 84°54'06.57"W

What was once an 800-foot-sided earthwork has been worn down by generations of plowing to elevation changes measured in inches.

Hidden beneath an agricultural field northeast of Fountain City, Indiana, is the faint remnant of a substantial prehistoric geometric earthwork recorded more than a century ago. Today, much of it is nearly invisible from the air, but LiDAR appears to preserve traces of the enclosure in the modern landscape.

An 1878 archaeological account by J. C. Macpherson, published in the Geological Survey of Indiana, described the site as an embankment enclosing about 11 acres on level ground between Noland's Fork and Buck Run, roughly a mile northeast of Fountain City. Macpherson described its shape as a square with curved corners, measuring approximately 780 feet along the inside of each embankment.

The Fountain City enclosure wasn't an isolated feature, either. Macpherson documented numerous prehistoric earthworks and mounds throughout Wayne County, noting they followed the branches of the Whitewater River and appeared to continue north into Randolph County. At least 25 mounds were mapped in Wayne County during the survey, several of them around Fountain City itself, including one adjoining the town, another about three miles north, and a third reportedly destroyed during construction of one of the town's principal streets.

More than a century of cultivation has dramatically reduced many of these features. The original survey specifically noted that plowing had already leveled numerous Wayne County mounds, while others were removed for roads or their soil taken for brickmaking.

That history is what makes what remains here so interesting. In the LiDAR, extremely subtle linear rises appear across portions of the cultivated field. They're easy to overlook, and shouldn't automatically be assumed to represent every section of the original enclosure, but their location lines up remarkably well with the historically documented earthwork.

What was once a prominent 11-acre geometric enclosure with sides nearly 800 feet long has been reduced by generations of farming to changes in elevation that can sometimes be measured in inches. It's exactly the kind of archaeological landscape where LiDAR becomes invaluable, the monument may have nearly disappeared to the eye, but traces of its geometry are still written into the ground.

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NOBODY TALKS ABOUT THE ANXIETY OF HAVING TO DECIDE WHICH PARTS OF YOUR SUFFERING ARE “APPROPRIATE” TO BRING INTO A DOCTOR’S OFFICE.

How am I supposed to fit months—or years—of chronic pain into a 10-minute appointment?

How do I explain what happens at 2 AM when my pain is a 10, I’m sobbing, I can’t sleep, and I’m desperate for relief?

And then the questions start running through my head…

Is saying “I’m desperate” going to help me—or make me sound like a red flag?

Should I tell them how bad it really gets?

Should I mention the medication that actually helps—or will they think I’m drug-seeking?

How do I explain everything I’ve tried without sounding like I’m demanding something?

What symptoms matter most when everything matters?

Do I mention my back pain even though this appointment is supposed to be about my ankle?

Because apparently I have to decide which suffering gets a seat at the table.

I rehearse conversations before I have them.

I mentally edit my symptoms.

I leave things out because I don’t want to overwhelm anyone.

I minimize because I don’t want to sound dramatic.

I choose my words carefully because I know how quickly a desperate patient can become a “difficult patient” in someone else’s eyes.

And meanwhile, I’m sitting there thinking:

“How do I tell you the truth without you judging me for it?”

I want my doctor to know everything I’ve tried.

I want them to know what worked and what didn’t.

I want them to know when my pain is manageable and when it is completely consuming me.

I want to be honest about how much this has changed my life.

But I shouldn’t have to wonder whether being honest will somehow make me less believable.

Chronic pain doesn’t just exhaust your body.

It exhausts your mind.

Because every appointment comes with a thousand tiny decisions:

Say this.

Don’t say that.

Maybe mention this.

No, they’ll probably think…

That mental load is REAL.

And sometimes I walk into an appointment already exhausted from preparing for the appointment.

I’m not looking for attention.

I’m not looking for a label.

I’m not trying to control the conversation.

I’m trying to communicate what is happening inside a body I have to live in every single day.

So when a chronic pain patient finally says,

“I’m struggling.”

Please don’t assume they’re being dramatic.

Maybe they’ve spent the entire night—and the entire morning—trying to figure out how to say those two words.

Maybe what they need most isn’t judgment.

Maybe they just need someone to listen.