This shit scares me, and I’m a middle-class white lady in the Midwest.

That scene in Crash is exactly what came to mind. I'm so sorry this happened to you!

My star is for support. I cannot imagine how difficult this is on you and your husband. Stay strong and good luck!

I had a complication with Mirena and then got Nexplanon instead. It is good for 3 years so not as long as any IUD that I’m aware of, but still enough that could cover you until you join the world of we working stiffs with regular insurance again! I haven’t had a period in the 20-ish months I’ve had mine.

I enjoy your handle and think you’re one of the Cool Kids.

The article said 6’7”. I know how short even other tall people can look compared to crazy-tall people but I would have never guessed that Teller would be roughly 5’9”-10”. My dad is 6’7” (or 5’19” as he likes to say) and I’m 5’10”.

I need to borrow that first one for a party. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go lose 80 lbs and 6 inches of height real quick.

I have to think that they'd be required to be on birth control so a surprise pregnancy wouldn't interfere with training and deadlines of the mission. Perhaps they could kills two birds with one stone and have Mirena or Nexplanon which stops your period.

The guy had a nickname of Officer Slam so if I were one of those kids, I probably would have kept to myself to avoid his wrath. And if no one had documented this and posted it, we wouldn’t be talking about it. Even if most of the kids in the room had rushed the ex-cop, I’m sure there would have been more injuries and…

I heard part of this story on my way home yesterday. I didn't hear the part about him being black. I had an image in my head of a white dude (well, 2 white dudes actually). Obviously I missed the bit about institutionalized racism altogether.

Yeah the first response was very butt-hurt but the initial posting was less than diplomatic.

My first impression of this was that if these people were going to pay for a pseudo-mom, they may as well pay for a professional therapist or career coach or food delivery. But then the comments have all these folks with contentious relationships with their mothers or don't have a mother at all. I stand corrected. I…

This would be PERFECT!

I got career coach out of that, too.

I think people were trying to grasp even a sliver of a bright side to the situation. And failed.

I had to go back to read the title. Nice catch!

“Doctor, I keep dreaming about a teepee and a wigwam!”

I was really debating with myself if I wanted to be that person so I'm glad you did it before I got a chance :-)

Sounds like my mother. But probably wasn't since she wouldn't have done warm colors like gold or orange.

Almay has their line of makeup for each eye color and the main one for blue eyes has a light blue shadow and a darker-but-not-quite-navy blue as two of the three colors in the pallatte. No. Fucking. Way am I doing that to myself!