Don’t pay money for plants. Ask your friends with plants if you can have cuttings and shoots, plant seeds or if you you’re ok with that, pilfer cuttings. Plants you buy 1) are needlessly expensive, 2) often carry diseases and will die soon after you bring them home. Besides, it’s nice to watch a cutting develop tiny…

On top of my sympathy for her and her circle of loved ones, I’m sad we will be denied an even more curmudgeonly, scabrous 95-year-old Wurtzel pissing us off from the comfort of a rest home.

I was diagnosed with mets dec 31st last week, after eight years cancer free. I know I should feel sorry for her, but I’m just scared for myself

The expression on his face reminds me of when I had a shoulder injury and people kept trying to side hug me or slap me on the back. I wonder if maybe he was in pain and it caused a bit of an over reaction. I had to tell one friend that I was going to punch him in the nuts the next time he grabbed my arm. Can you…

As I sit here writing this my 96 yo gm with dementia is laying in bed muttering to herself and I am feeling like this is a pretty good day..I havent had to clean up any poop yet. She has picked her nose until it started to bleed but ..meh..easy peasy. I cant leave the house unless someone comes to relieve me, I have…

My Mom has had a brain injury for 20 years and my husband has lung cancer that has spread to his brain in the last 4 years. I’ve been caring for people with dementia for most of my adult life and I myself have breast cancer.

I fall on the side of this not being a “great” way to handle cognitive decline but that I understand how one could come to the wrong conclusion to commit murder then suicide.

“people with little to no experience with the dementia population”  In my experience, people with no experience tend to feel quite the opposite. People who don’t know about dementia tend to think of it as early stages when a person is just confused about who is who and what day it is and keep having the same…

HELLLL NO. My father shot my mother in a murder-suicide in 2017. This shit is why people had the audacity to say “They went together” or “They just loved each other to much” to me, and to talk about what a “wonderful husband” my father was. Those people didn’t read the police report detailing my mother’s defense…

I would be 100% ok with my husband doing this. My folks would be 100% ok with one doing this to/for the other. My grandparents (the happiest couple I have ever seen FWIW), my siblings, etc. A surprising number of Boomers I know are planning for similar scenarios - not calling the ambulance right away or at all, etc.…

This is precisely what troubles me about how seemingly popular it has become for people - people with little to no experience with the dementia population - to casually announce that they would rather die early than live with dementia. That announcement often happens in place of the much needed conversation about how…

To say “sex” is unchangible is not inaccurate, as of today we cannot change our genetic makeup. Its not possible, if you die and your genetics are tested even after transitioning you’ll be identified biologically as what you were born as.

This is the context a woman was fired from her job for tweeting a woman or man cannot change their sex. A judge then upheld the firing claiming her views were “Absolutist”. Here is where I think the discussion is getting a little outlandish. There is two concepts, “sex” and “gender” which while related I would argue…

Cats will also eat grass when they have upset stomachs to make themselves vomit. This is why you’ll see little blades of grass in their puke sometimes.

And most of them voted for Trump, three marriages (and counting unless he keels over first) who cheated on his wife with a porn star

Honestly, I think the opposite is true. Hallmark is the anodyne, boring, bland retailer. They profit from being the “background”, the unquestioned default of generic holiday greetings and movies. By caving to a socially conservative astroturf group, they pissed off their growing liberal fanbase-and then caving to the…

“Across our brand, we will continue to look for ways to be more inclusive and celebrate our differences.” Unless we receive the slightest amount of criticism. Then we will panic and forget being inclusive until we get slapped back to reality.

Love that the “One Million Moms” got upset about this ad “ruining marriage” or something but didn’t care about Leann Rimes being in a Hallmark movie. Someone who literally fucked over the sanctity of marriage.

I scanned the replies and think this is actually a new albeit unsolicited thought for you. My partner was a pack a day guy for almost 10 years. I warned him that we wouldn’t be moving in together unless he kicked the habit. Don’t enjoy ultimatums, but this was a health-related boundary for me; secondhand/thirdhand…

I quit smoking, but the catalyst was to quit drinking by myself (great choice for me) as a New Year’s resolution. Smoking lost something from that, and then I decided I would switch to a vape because I thought it would allow me to be more physically active. The vape was good for a while, except for when I went out to…