Good luck with your pregnancy! I hope that everything goes better for you.

My biggest problem at hospitals is getting my normal medications. Like, I once went a day without my seizure medication because I couldn’t jump through the hoops fast enough to get a doctor to approve it before they went home at the end of the day.

Honestly? People cope with this by pretending that they will never have an injury or any kind of medical condition.

Thankfully, my dad knows how to find the right people to get through to. That was going to be my case several months in a row for an antidepressant before he helped me wrangle some people to help expedite the processes by a few days.

Exactly.

As someone on Medicaid in Florida, pretty much.

I’ve switched from United and still have to verify one of my medications (Anafranil, for those interested) once every few months.

How sad is it that my reaction to this was “Yeah, that sounds about right for United Healthcare.” It is like pulling teeth to get them to pay for anything. I had to get several MRIs a few years ago and I had to get put in the hospital for a week just to get a 20-minute test.

Neat! Thank you!

Do you have a link to the article by any chance? The “mommy juice” culture that we have built up in the US (and other English-speaking regions, apparently) is both fascinating and disturbing to me.

Thanks for bringing this up!

Same here. High-five?

According to this Business Insider article, you could technically go for a week without water, but that’d be on the ideal side. Most people could do it for a few days maximum and it’d be kicking your ass.

A water fast is the other way around. It’s where you only have water for 3 days. Still dumb, but not “going to put you in the hospital for dehydration” dumb.

I’m just confused as to why he did it. Like, what did he get out of this? Didn’t he think that he’d be found out eventually?

I’m always left wondering when someone is going to attack a vigil, to be honest. It’s to the point that when I attend one I keep to the outskirts of the group.

Oddly enough, I went to see the play in a completely different city (Tampa) and that’s exactly what I did when I got to my seat. To be honest, I was a little uncomfortable with how few doors there were for so many people.

You may be on to something.

My dorm freshman year had the emergency alarm pulled late at night almost every weekend, to the point where we stopped responding to it as “DANGER!” and more of “Ugh. Drunk kids!”

The fire thing happened at the university I went to, as well.