I was certain I wouldn’t like a male doctor doing my breast reduction. I’d heard nothing but issues about male plastic surgeons. Mine is a soft-spoken, kind, caring sweetheart. Hilariously proud of how nice he made my boobs, but I suppose people should have pride in their work.

I recognized her dress before her. lol She always wears the red dress at important events :)

I’m pretty sure the woman on the left in red is Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s foreign minister and is banned from entering Russia.

I found their clothes overpriced, cheaply made, and poorly cut. So meh.

I will turn around and tell seat kickers to stop please. First time, I give them a glare. Second time, I tell their parents. Third time, I call a flight attendant and ask to switch seats with the parent. (i have never gotten to #3).

I spent part of a red eye across Canada playing peek-a-boo with a screaming toddler between the seats because it was that or she started screaming. I didn’t sleep, but at least the people in the back got to.

I only have tingling/occasional “falling asleep” in my hands now and the nerve tests show it’s from my wrists, my elbows, and my neck. So each entrapment is mild, but together, oh the tingle.

It’s ok! We don’t know what happened to me lol Over the course of a year, I kept getting more and more pain to the point that the GP and two specialists couldn’t decide WTF was happening. They labeled it fibromyalgia, but admitted the label might end up doing me more harm than good long-term.

They tried, oh, not Lyrica but the other one, last summer. I had such an adverse reaction that I’m not allowed to try anything in that category for a while/ever. (I stopped sleeping and lost the ability to speak after 4 days on the lowest dose. They had to pull me off it and dope me with ativan to knock me out.)

Oh damn :( I’m glad he’s on an anti-depressant, though I wonder if it’s the right one for him if he’s getting more and more tired on it. Of course, explaining that to people can be tough.

Oh that is total bullshit! If long-acting meloxicam is helping, I mean great, but that’s what they are thinking about switching me to for my arthritis (mild) and carpal (mild) if ibuprofen hurts my stomach/doesn’t keep helping. It’s not what they are giving me for my chronic pain (medium most of the time now, was high…

Since some anti depressants are meant to help with chronic pain, it’s a good way to bring it up and get around the old school thinking. They were designed to help with pain, so end up being prescribed for that as opposed to depression (since they aren’t as good with helping depression as others). BUT it might be…

Massages are $120 per 90 minutes where I live. I need the 90 minute sessions because it takes her that long to work out the knots when they get really bad. My insurance (I’m in Canada, so workplace insurance is different than the US) covers $600 in massages. It can be a lifesaver, frankly. It’s not covered under…

Tumeric burps are as bad as they sound.

I got heartburn and tumeric burps for days.

My elderly mother has two types of arthritis. Mindfulness (in her case, listening to gospel music) helps keep her from becoming depressed during the day, but it sure as hell doesn’t help the pain keeping her awake at night to where she doesn’t sleep for days and needs pain med injections to knock her out and give her…

The water class was great for my mental health more than anything pre-surgery. I was unable to move some days and it was a struggle getting dressed after class. Most of the class is elderly ladies who give no fucks. They’d come over, help me out of the pool, help dress me some days, and there was no shame. I cried in…

Yes! Jaden looks like he dressed appropriately for the venue!

In bed. And even then, I’m not sure.

I wrote a big long “fuck you” to that OP, but deleted it before posting. What’s the point? People like that are the ones who tell you to take up yoga and give up sugar. Oh, and to have tumeric.