That's how I feel too. I always assumed I'd want them one day, but it just never happened, and I'm pretty convinced now that it never will. I like kids a lot, but I just don't want any, but every time I smile at a child everyone is always like , "ooooh that's the mommy urge." Nope, I can like kids without wanting…

My mother's idea of discussing periods/ sex to ask me with a red face and in a pained whisper if I "knew about all that." I really had no idea, but I just nodded since it seemed like the thing to do.

Yeah, and when I got mine I really couldn't believe it. I remember being shocked that it just kind of leaked out all the time. I had had some vague notion that it was more like peeing blood, something you could mostly hold in until you were ready (thanks to a video that had more flowers and dippy music than facts and…

Possibly the only time in my life I've wished to be back in large animal repro. My professor would have gotten such a rage kick out of this.

It's the stupidest and most misleading thing to say it's "reversible." They mean that if you change your mind within 48 to 72 hours of taking the drugs, you might be able to stop the induced abortion with whopping doses of progesterone.

This. I spent a year at a big university doing research. I was dirt poor and lived in an apartment on a parking lot that was a popular (unbeknownst to me) overflow place to park for the bars downtown. Like my bedroom window was on the parking lot, so every damn weekend all I heard was drunk people, so I'm pretty over…

It is awful especially considering how many kids are killed are injured in firearm accidents. It does specifically exclude psychiatrists, so it at least does have a mental health provision. It's shortsighted though in many ways. Not the least of them being that primary care doctors often recognize mental illness…

Also doctors have a pretty good idea of the consequences of a projectile hitting a human body. Like I'm a vet not a mechanic, but I can tell you it's bad to hit a dog with a car even if I can't take apart an engine.

It doesn't. The language specifically exempts psychiatrists, "A physician, other than a psychiatrist may not:..." and then it lists what you cannot ask or require if you are a doctor.

It's really hard to avoid formaldehyde and formalin. I never really thought about it until I started vet school and started having chronic nasal irritation, sore throat, headaches, dizziness and nosebleeds from anatomy and neuroantomy lab and then again in path. It was ruled a formaldehyde sensitivity. Now, I try my…

I thought it was about what a great food choice eggplant is especially during Lent (apparently I cannot escape my Catholic upbringing despite many years of trying). I wish I could post a picture of the appalled face I made when I Googled it and found out what it actually is.

That is so frustrating. At least they're actually doctors. I'm a vet, and some clients are more likely to listen to male techs or assistants.

My mom does this. I am a veterinarian. I have a license and a degree in Latin and everything. Someone told her that my niece could get AIDS from her babysitter's FIV positive cat. I told her this was bullshit. She did not believe me. My BIL, who is a contractor and allergic to animals, told her it couldn't happen,…

I don't know generally, but many of the people I know who have had abortions in NJ have had them in hospitals.

Well, we also can't digest raw plant material, like grass, very well like say a ruminant or even a horse, so we're pretty much in the middle.

Me too!

The difference is that cats are obligate carnivores, and people aren't. People are even less obligate carnivores than dogs, and dogs are pretty omnivorous. We're are more like pigs in being pretty adaptable omnivores. I'd guess that you could feed a toddler a vegan diet as long as you properly monitored it and…

So frustrating. I worked at a Catholic school, and they were pretty careful about trying to keep dress codes even. The basic rule was: if everyone can see underwear or easily tell you are not wearing any, we have a problem. There was a uniform/ dress code, but it was relatively lax except the principal was obsessed…

Have you tried to go to body condition instead of weight? wEven though cats are relatively homogeneous in size vs dogs, there are still individual and breed differences. You should be able to feel her ribs without having to press (with some leeway for fur) but you shouldn't be able to see them. Here's a useful…

I had been out of college for a couple of years before I started too. Anatomy was the soul-crushing bane of my existence, but it did get better.