Gastric bypass is really uncommon these days. Lap-Band and Vertical Gastric Sleeve are much more common, with many fewer side effects.

Gastric bypass can really fuck up your body in fun and exciting ways - it has so many complications that they basically can't cover them all for people having the surgery, because it's a roll of the dice as to what's going to happen. That specific surgery has really fallen out of favor in recent years - it's become a…

It was a hard decision after seeing what she went through, but I have had a very positive experience (and not in the let's-overlook-HUGE-health-issues way that this woman phrases it). I think that, like most medical things, it really depends on who you go with. My friend ended up with a chop shop that was pretty…

My best friend had a gastric bypass about 6 or 7 years ago - while I don't know it's impact on her fertility, I do know that despite not having lost any weight, long-term, the surgery has negatively impacted MANY aspects of her health that you would never expect. Gastric bypass is a ROUGH surgery (and I say that as…

When my dad started dating again after my mom died, I had this sudden realization that he had not dated since 1966, and that things had changed a bit. I had no idea what he knew and what he didn't, but I wanted him to be safe (duh!), so the only thing I could thing of to do was send him an email saying, "since you are…

Can we also mention how insanely gorgeous Mary Lambert looks in that dress? She looks like a classy Jessica Rabbit!

Hank green is white, that is a correct label for that gif...
Strangely, he's also a really good dancer. That must be his awkward dance

My favorite is "mid-phase Animorph"

Exactly! And really, you can spew hate speech and press charges when someone finally decks you for it? I mean, I guess it makes some kind of sense, but I don't like it

Well, when urban ditch-digging jobs that provide a living wage come up, I'm sure her mother would take them in a second. It's not a matter of "Oh, it would be too hard..."

The British mum reminded me so much of my mom. Near the end, during one of her many stays in the hospital, I was getting ready to go back to college, and I said, "Mom, why don't I defer for a semes..." and the words weren't even out of my mouth, when my mom, a woman who was so sick that even when she wasn't in the…

Please, tell us again how easy it is to just pick up your life and move to a new town. Jobs and affordable living situations just appear?

Help! I'm applying for a job that I'm ultra -qualified for, but which is in a totally different class than the kind of jobs I've interviewed for in the past. My suit was good enough for "I'm a scientist, and if I seem too put together, you'll doubt my credentials," but this job is in a much more...visual industry, and…

It really depends on the level of awkwardness of what you said. Did you imply she kills kittens to a room full of strangers (I had a date do that once...) or did you talk about your farts? Very different levels of awkward.

We're Short Shaft Sistas! (That's a thing, right??)

Bill Fagerbakke was Dauber on Coach!! The only character I remember from that show!!

I used to work for a very big consumer products company that had several celebrity tie-in sorts of things. One was an extremely famous woman, supporting one of our charity efforts. She was committed to make a series of several commercials that were going to be filmed in one day (they were very minimalist, in the…

The fanfiction in my head is that Ben Foster (who is only 6 months older than me) also grew up loving Princess Bride. Only instead of dreaming of marrying Wesley like I did, he dreamed of marrying Buttercup.

Your face is over-invested!! I'll be over here sobbing...

Is Tris really described as homely?