You sound like a real pill.

I’m a PhD, not an MD, so I don’t see patients. From a scientific standpoint, though, chemo can severely impair ovarian function. There is a whole field of study these days called “oncofertility” which is devoted to helping cancer patients preserve their fertility. Ovaries are really dynamic amazing organs, and are…

Oh, sorry, I totally missed the tongue in cheek part! Women are so often misinformed about our bodies that I never underestimate how much we don’t know! For the record, I had an ovary and fallopian tube removed because of a 17cm cyst, so I totally get the emotions.

There isn’t a real pattern to it, though researchers used to believe that it alternated right-left-right-left. It doesn’t; it seems to be a toss-up (in any month most healthy fertile women will have a 50/50 shot of one ovary ovulating). It seems to be as simple as whichever ovary contains the dominant follicle (the…

So much bad biology here (I understand that a science lesson was not the goal here, but still). As a reproductive biologist let me just say quickly that ovaries absolutely do not regenerate from nothing. More probable is that doctors only removed the cyst before and left the ovary intact, or they took a large piece of…

Oooh, what was your veil made of? It's gorgeous! I can't decide whether to spring for french silk tulle or not!

Right? I think he just luckily has never had the actual flu, so he has no clue.

Haha, you're either not in a long term relationship or a much better person than I am. If you've never called your SO worse than a baby or whiner, then you should give perfect partner lessons! Labeling my partner, who fully recognizes that he gets whiny when sick, a whiner, while I cater to his every whiney whim, is…

Nah, I love that baby whiner. We all have that one annoying thing we do. If you're looking for someone who doesn't do anything that annoys you, I wish you the best!

Man, my fiance is already such a baby whiner about every little cold or papercut (I'm not exaggerating, every cold is "the flu") that I don't even want to think about how awful an actual illness will be. Dear Lord, please take me first.

Almost how we did it. We moved in together at ~1 year, got engaged at ~2 years, and will be getting married at ~3 years. It's a nice way to get to revel in each different stage.

Woot, high five! Team lactase! Haters gonna hate!

TSA agents are no better trained or equipped to take down a raving lunatic than any of the bystanders or the ticketing staff. That isn't at all their job, which is why airports have actual police officers etc to handle those situations. The "security" part of their name is confusing; I'll agree, but they handle one…

Can I ask you a weird question about growing up with a disabled mother? I use a wheelchair for mobility and we're thisclose to getting on the TTC train, but I have random "what if" fears about how having a disabled mom might scar my kid. Any insights?

She was penetrated because that's what the whole scene is about. He "slipped" and put either a finger or his penis in her anus. That you can not understand the context of a television show does not reflect at all on me.

They were not two consenting adults, though. Mindy never consented to anal sex. She was penetrated without her consent. Period. Now, whether she chooses to forgive the person who did so after she schools him on what emphatic consent is, or they decide which things have her implicit consent, that's something different.

No it isn't. Of all the people he came in contact with before his hospitalization (they said at least 80 people) and all the people who treated him, worked in the lab that ran his samples, cleaned his sheets and the dishes from his room, and processed his body for cremation, 1 person has contracted the illness. That…

Yessssssss. Mmmmmmmm, those crunchy bits....

I am going to Iceland in two weeks, and I am going to eat so much shark and cute puffin. Their FACES; I plan to mostly eat their faces.

I think she means that even in the last hundred years (modern life), people have been killed simply for being Jewish. Millions of people, in fact. I don't think she means she thinks everyone wants to murder her. It's a hard thing to understand if you don't live with it, but Jews are targeted all over the world, simply…