Things that I like:
- First and foremost, when doctors listen to me, and believe me when I say I swim 4 miles a week and eat a vegetarian diet mostly composed of fresh veggies and whole grains (and not say, as one dr did, "You do know that being a vegetarian doesn't mean you can eat Twinkies and drink Coke all the…

Seconded, because those are all my feels too

Lindy, no! I mean, yay for you! Where will you be??

How could she have carried the child to term if it was miscarried?

Kat, thanks for this article, and your others. They're why I still come to Jez

My mom planned this several decades in advance: My 30th birthday will be on 12/13/14 :D

Love it, love it, love it! Increased sex drive, if anything, because there are no concerns and nothing to remember to do. The insertion was unpleasant, but worth 5 years of reliable and don't-think-about-it bc. Also, WAY less hormones than Nuvaring, etc.

Oh, that is *very* soothing...

I hadn't thought about it that way, but you're absolutely correct. Thanks!

Me too. I had to flip through my dictionary for a minute before what Mark said sounded like a positive thing.

Ugh, that sucks. Literally adding insult to (painful!) injury. When it happened to me, it was actually the nth time I'd traveled with a broken leg (because it was badly broken and I'd had lots of surgeries) and the first few times, they were really nice and sweet about it and helped me a lot, but (at the same…

No idea. It was in a messy bun/ponytail and it's really thick. I guess they thought I had something in it. Or really wanted to touch my hair...

I have really big boobs too, and fortunately this has never been a problem for me, but I have been asked to take down my hair and let them run their fingers through it and when I was traveling with a broken leg, they asked me to take off my cast and put it through the x-ray. The cast. On my broken leg.

I was thinking about that too. It seems most appropriate that anyone who opts for a pat down should be able to request the gender they want to do it, rather than being assigned someone (which leads to assumptions). Perhaps although this person presented as a woman, she would have preferred a man do the pat down?

Me too, but now I'm nervous, having said it aloud (so to speak...)

My mom and sister and I like to re-arrange the hyphen such that it reads: Bum-pit

You did everything right. These things are shitty and scary and you did everything right. Do something for yourself and make sure you have support too. Try not to worry about school (I know, I know) and just do something so you feel safe and supported and cared for.

I have two:

Many of them are so perfectly coiffed!

Etsy is where we got ours. Just simple (solid) gold bands, about $250