And Catherine O’Hara “playing the scene without teeth!” I died.

Of course!! That’s so kind of you to say. I’ve dealt with chronic health issues myself and am so familiar with both the “I need this to be over, I’ll do anything!” feeling and the “you’ve got to be kidding me, HOW many doctors do you want me to see??” feeling - and layered on top of the health issue itself, which…

Glad you got the referral after all! You can also talk to the gastroenterologist about then seeing the ENT if the gastro doesn’t find anything; remember, the two of them look at different parts of the digestive tract so they wouldn’t always see/find the same things, although the systems they work with do work together…

Ugh. I’m so sorry. Have you spoken to any ENTs - ear, nose, and throat doctors (otolaryngologists)? They may be able to help as well. I’m so glad you have a good psychiatrist in the meantime, because this certainly sounds anxiety-provoking on top of everything else, too. Not sure a dermatologist would have as much…

Of course!! Wishing you all the best. When you speak to your doctor and go for the endoscopy, be sure to ask what exactly your endoscopy will look at - amazing as it sounds, there will be endoscopies (such as “FEES,” or fiberoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing) that look specifically at the swallow mechanism, as…

Speech-language pathologist here. My apologies for replying so late, but I was just reading through SNS and saw this thread. I saw the recommendation and agree that’s a great place to go, and agree that you might also see an ENT if you haven’t before - typically a speech-language pathologist who specializes in…

Hmm. Looks like they were finally asked about it last night - at a town hall on Fox News, of all places. Did not realize that was on last night. Not sure how I feel about this. They need to ask more, though, that’s for sure.

Clinton actually talked about getting more federal money to local districts so they can allot the money in the ways that they need to allot it, because the needs of local districts vary so widely. It was brief, but I think that was actually the very first part of her answer when she was asked the question by the…

EXACTLY. YES. THANK YOU. Well said.

Actually, the issue is that access to abortion is something that has not been asked about once in any of the democratic debates *at all* thus far in this campaign cycle, and many people and several prominent organizations in the party have been calling for them to do so because it’s an incredibly important issue to…

YES. THIS. 1000%.

Yeah, I’d been following that discussion and then forgot to turn the debate on at the beginning so initially I was just hoping they’d asked and I’d missed it. By the time they asked about rebuilding infrastructure and bridges and such toward the end, I knew there was no hope. How can these issues keep being avoided?…

Yeah, glad we cleared that up. Because lots of candidates are likely to answer that one with a ‘No.’ Sheesh...

I started watching about 45 minutes late - has there been any mention of reproductive health, access to abortion, equal pay, paid family leave, *any* of that?

I read that article on CNN - David Axelrod shared that Scalia basically requested Kagan directly. Here’s that section of the article (which I linked, but not sure the fact that it’s a link shows up since I think I’m grey here):

I love that Olivia Munn got right up and went over to the cookie cart instead of waiting for them to get to her - and then walked away with a giant armful of cookies. 10/10 would have done that myself.

Excellent - thank you so much! Sounds perfect. Hugely appreciated.

These sound excellent - thanks so much!! And good advice to read comments. Will definitely check them out. Much appreciated!

Fantastic - thanks!!

Thank you!!