Your husband might want to talk to his uncle and see if grandfather has a long-term health insurance policy. For several years, I cared for my grandmother at home and her long-term policy provided visiting nurses and home health aides that came to bathe her, which was a tremendous help to me. The policy also paid out…

Thanks; that really helps. We're nowhere near moving in together, but we are at the point where we need to decide if this is worth pursuing or just a waste of time. I'll definitely look into your options.

Bring out the dancing CATS!

I'm pretty allergic to cats - I very quickly get a non-stop runny nose and itchy eyes. But yet I have a cat! His name is Archie and he's pretty awesome. Anyway, by following a few things now I almost never feel any symptoms (granted, I don't have a life-threatening allergy to cats like some people do with dogs). Oh,…

I'm a chef. The chemicals you reference are specifically referred to as "hazardous chemicals," and they're to be stored in a completely separate room from any foods. That is a federal health code standard for any food service operation. So, yeah, the language/classification of a "chemical" DOES matter.

I say try it before you throw in the towel on the man or the dogs. My ex partner was supposedly allergic to cats, but I wanted a cat and we got one. Eventually, with time and anti histamines, his immune system stopped freaking out to the point that the cat could practically sleep on his face with no ill effects. I'm…

Sometimes we need to have those experiences of screwing up to remind us how to overcome and be better at what we do. They suck and we don't mean for it to happen usually but it's life. We are human and fallible and it's unrealistic to think we won't make major mistakes sometimes. It's how we deal with it that does…

In my experience, if you think that something is amiss, if your gut is telling you that, you're probably right. I had a friend like this once, who lied about her job, how much money she had, all these weird other things (that she had a twin who died, that she was kidnapped as a child — eventually she admitted it was…

Stories slip through sometimes. It's difficult to keep track of which sites have run what at all times, and things are GOING to get repeated — people who want to complain about that are just looking for things to find fault with. As for why it's here now, the AP ran a story on it including the follow-up information…

Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone. It's how we learn sometimes, and the best we can do is deal with it in a positive way going forward. Reflect on what you could have done better (which it sounds like you're doing) and then use it to be more effective in the future. This is just one setback in a new job and…

My sister in law had freshman orientation at her Babtist college this weekend. I went to visit her today and she told me about how all the girls were put in a room and lectured about sexual assault and rape. She told me that some asshole administrator told all the girls that before any of them reported a rape, that…

Then you make the rules for your kids. And I'll make the rules for mine. The supe won't make my kid's rules for definitions of sluttiness, thank you, nor will she be inspecting how clothed my kid's ass is. I guarantee that if our supe did something like that, he'd be out on his own ass, clothed or not.

The fact that…

I don't have a problem with a school official enforcing a dress code, but name calling is out of line. Even if the students in question came to school in lingerie or fetish wear, 'skanks' is not a word an adult should ever direct at children, especially not ones in their care.

One person does not decide what is or is not empowering for other individuals though; that's something individuals come to learn about themselves. And no, your principle wasn't right. Are there some people who won't respect a woman who isn't modest or doesn't feign sexual innocence and demureness? Sure. But any person…

That is inappropriate behavior from a Superintendent. Sounds like she doesn't have enough to do as an administrator and head of the district if she has time to actively monitor the dress code violators. Most "Supers" leave that type of thing to the principals who are the leaders of the campuses, and so they can take…

"I think I drank acid,"

I don't think you can call the employee dumb for that. They were in a kitchen, working with food. They were probably testing to see if it was salt or sugar. It's outside the bounds of credulity to think someone would leave lye in a kitchen like that.

I'm really thankful that the places I've worked at have kept the cleaning chemicals on one shelf and food stuffs on another shelf across the room. And I've never seen an unlabeled container. Now if they could just take care of the 80 million cords and wires jumbled up and covered with dust bunnies under the counter...

Better question, who the hell stores cleaning chemicals in the same place as food?

Of all the chemicals you could possibly have anywhere around food or food prep areas, Lye ranks in the top ten of "oh FUCK NO". It's insane that the employees were allowed to handle it so casually with no oversight or training into what it is.