I developed a UTI right after getting on a bus from Boston to Philadelphia. Not only did peeing hurt like a BITCH, but the bus’s toilet was out of hand sanitizer. And we ended up getting stuck in traffic around NYC, so a ride that normally takes 6 hours took 10. AND I was out of pads, so after a while I was just…

I was having a rough senior year at college. On a particularly stressful, bad day I was walking down the hallway in the math department and my favorite professor (who was the nicest, kindest teacher, had no kids but treated all her students like her children) asked me how I was. The polite ‘Hi, how are you’ that isn’t…