Sure. But there are two parents. The possible outcome of one of them leaving temporarily is hurt feelings. The possible outcome of taking the kid on an illicit joyride is death.

...you're an absolute moron, you know that, right?

Yes, I'm obviously not a parent due to me belief that taking an extremely ill, post-surgical-op kid out of treatment, smuggling them out of the country while you arrange a buyer for your vacation house. I am perfectly aware of all the points you have raised here; you have completely missed mine.

Certainly not thinking clearly, and for obvious reasons. I'm all for them proceeding with private treatment, but smuggling an extremely ill child out of the country doesn't seem necessary. Sell the house, schedule the treatment, and THEN take the kid out of the hospital.

Yes, I saw that; that's not what I was asking about.

Yes, but it doesn't seem to imply that they already had a sale arranged. Why take the kid out of treatment for even a week?

I'm sure this is going to be an annoying comment (I'm a bit annoyed at myself for it), but was it really necessary to take the kid with you when you sold the property? I would think it best to leave him in the hospital.

Which is it? Is it safest for someone to leave their abuser, or is it victim-blaming to suggest that this is the best option? No offense, but you seem to be backing both points.

Off the top of my head, I'd find out what your local police response times are like. I'd also recommend having a phone available through the night for emergency services, either a safe place in the house to wait for help OR (if you're in a lot of places I've lived where response time can be 10 minutes or more) how to…

With exchange rate, at the current $93,805, before taxes... about 5 years.

This is the 2nd time I've corme across one of these articles, both of which seem to be written from the POV that the subject should be obvious and thus you go halways through having no clue. Both times I've got "aaahhh, this nonsense again."

I worked for a little while as a skycap: they're completely unrelated to the airlines, in the sense that you don't really interact directly with them much. I can kinda allow it.

As someone with a biology degree, a background in medicine, and more than a bit of an armchair herpetologist: I know this.

Rhino horn is fingernails. Snake venom is a complex broth (hah, see what I did there...) or proteins and peptides designed to latch onto cellular material. That and most venom also have an analgesic effect.

Dried cobra venom is actually prescribed in herbal medicines a lot. In small doses there are some distinct health benefits.

I also did a double-take.

Also originally from New England, but again I've always seen prime rib bone-in.

I was trying to figure out how sturdy the table was.

Something similar happened at a kitchen I worked at for a year. There were these two older, fat, horrible white women who had worked there for something like 10 years; they would be the nastiest POSs to anyone else in the place, but for some reason the management didn't feel that they had a way to fire them. There…

It seemed like a decent guess. Pretty much everyone that I found who seemed relevant to your description seemed like unpleasant people.