I died. I just replied semi-defending WW but I like that she SAYS IT.

For real, I used to "hate" WW until the day I had my TV on lame local network television so I could have something on...

Yeah, I double-majored in the social sciences, and I've spent most of the last 15 years working in training or animal welfare.

We think of people with TBIs as unable to be as smart, articulate, or wise as the "average" person, but it's not so. At the same time, any damage to the brain— AT ALL— can change the entire personality and life of a person.

Fun fact: if you nurse a raccoon from infancy, but give them a bar of soap, they will wash it until nothing's left.

I have literal nightmares about mishandling aggressive animals. they're like night terrors— I'm being attacked, but I can't move my limbs.

Congrats! I'm 32 and first-year and I want to kill myself. :D

I like your...what I'll take as shade. I am just so beyond grossed out by the whole Whitney-Krissy-Nick situation that I'm not even able to not snark.

Are you going into tech or doctor? It's such a fun read. And I don't think it ever hurts to have more info than you'll ever need :D

I would really like to think I would have done that, too. Who knows? I probably would have. But you know, working with them, that they are...ahhhh...DEDICATED when they are upset.

I am happy I'm not the only one without words. I still am largely without them. I am so glad she's in the comments, and I agree— those of us with "invisible" disabilities could not ask for a better person to talk about their experiences.

Honestly, you really are an impressive person. Whatever you decide to do, and whatever is within your wheelhouse, I really think you'll be excellent. I can't tell you how inspiring I find your thoughts and your attitude.

Seriously. Every other campus with this issue— not saying it's "better" to do it that way, but it's like, "sign this waiver." Not Columbia, though. It's "better." :D

I generally don't bitch about being in the grays but...seriously.

I cannot remember exactly why/how I learned that zombiism was not due to rabies— I think it had to do with where rabies was generally endemic.

It's so great. I love "historical disease" books. I wish it were an actual genre I could search.

Yeah, that sounds about right. It is a bunch of visits, with the last one at around 30 days. But seriously, I mean what I said— given rabies' route of transmission, if a rabid animal bites your face— since it has to pass through the spinal cord/brain stem to start killing you— I would rather have a thousand leg bites…

I'm wondering where you were and/or when this happened, because even with really serious multi-bite/above the brain stem exposure, the PEP regimen now is about 30 days.

I'm reading

Also, seeing your ETA: I did not see that, but I also am not sure that I would further engage.