I’m not a nurse, but worked as a drug counselor (bagged pee, counted residents, ensured infants slept on their backs) at an inpatient drug treatment facility where women reunited with their children. Occasionally the women were pregnant and drug court ordered to live their while receiving methadone maintenance. …

post birth check-up:

I won’t bore you with the details of gross medical incompetence that led to my ruptured appendix, but probably the most disgusting part of the whole ordeal was when they inserted a drain into the abdominal abscess. I was doped up on major pain meds when they wheeled me into interventional radiology, where they use CT…

I have a fairly common, slightly gross skin condition. It only flares up sometimes, so I don’t need a prescription refill often.

I don’t really know if this is worthy, but I have chronic back pain and arthritis eating my spine. Not pretty, whatever.

It’s also why your nose runs when you cry, there’s a lot more fluid pumping from your eyes into your nostrils. :)

I starred this because.....I couldn’t think of what else to do.

My doctor explained that boogers come from your eyes, that the lacrimal fluid goes from your eyes down into your nose through the duct on the inside corners, and it mixes with dirt and “debris” caught by your nose hairs, and that’s where boogers come from.

It’s been on Netflix or Amazon recently I believe.

“Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies...”

I love how when Romney mentioned Russia as a threat in 2012 the Democrats just laughed, but now, suddenly, Russia is like the boogieman used to excuse the, frankly, frightening levels of corruption surrounding Hillary Clinton.

Although most of the credits are for TV, I would include honorable mention to Ida Lupino, director of:

If you didn’t like the movie that’s fine. I thoroughly enjoyed it in part because at the time there was nothing like it in the sub-genre of comedic-horror. And it was funny.

Near Dark is one of the best, most underrated vampire movies ever made.

I can think of no better group of people to whom to give my credit card number than people who publish everything they find to the Internet.

Russian intelligence almost certainly has access to everything Snowden took and have been sheltering him for quite some time now. Snowden took a great deal more than just files detailing NSA surveillance programs. This is not really a conspiracy theory, but actual facts. If you think the good he did outweighed the…

Let me have things my black ass will never try for $500, Alex

Farewell and adieu, to you fair Spanish ladies, farewell and adieu you ladies of Spain...

Code Brown. I repeat: We have a Code Brown.

Holy carp! That guy’s heart-rate must be through the roof!