Except that you DO sometimes get instantaneous results from a mammogram (even a regular one). Your experience is, of course, your experience, but it is not what happened to my mother who got immediate, same-day (actually within minutes) results from a radiologst on site at her regular, routine mammogram (never felt a…

What about someone forcing your hand down his pants and holding you down while you cry and beg him to stop? That’s not technically rape. He didn’t force a dick in you. Guess what it is... sexual assault. I think people who talk about “just touching” as if it were NBD ignore the fact that between forcible penetration…

Yeah, if you already had toxo and are are immunocompetent, you should be good as far as my understanding goes. I think the CDC advises waiting 6 months after a known toxo infection if possible before you try to get pregnant. You can get titers done to see your status.

It’s weird how judgy people get about David’s. When my sister moved up her wedding, we had to get the bridesmaids dresses there because you can get them off the rack in a ton of sizes, and they can other sizes from their other stores fast. My sister and her best friend were totally disgusted that my mom and I even…

Yes, the articles are so annoying. Also, I’m a vet, so everyone wants to know if I can test their cat for, “that virus that makes you crazy.” I start talking about parasites and oocysts and seroconversion and their eyes glaze over.

I think the big and largely unsubstantiated leap is the cats. Cats carry toxo, but they shed it for a week or two max after they get infected. After that, they don’t shed oocysts. If your cat is seropositive for toxo, you’re probably safer than someone with a cat that is negative because that cat can still get…

Suggesting cash and having registries are, I think probably about the same, and I don’t have an issue with someone who makes it known that they aren’t doing a registry because they’d prefer cash to someone buying some impersonal appliance that required no thought and was bought for the occasion. However, demanding…

I had no idea just how different it was until I did a little bit of reading. Here, getting rid of a teacher with 16 years in (so definitely tenured) is a fucking nightmare even if you have cause. My mom, who is a retired teacher, used to joke that you wouldn’t just have to murder someone, you’d have to do it in front…

They do in some places, probably places with strong teachers’ unions. My sister is a second grade teacher and has tenure.

Oh, interesting. Coming from a family with lots teachers in a place with strong teachers’ unions, I thought teacher tenure in Texas was more equivalent than it apparently is. I originally looked at a national tenure overview that gave Texas tenure policies, so I thought it worked the same, but I just looked at some…

Definitely, the amount of racism (and sexism for that matter) in the population of teachers is not less than the amount of similar prejudices in the general population of equivalently educated adults even if we like to pretend that it is.

She has tenure, so there is a long involved process required to actually terminate her contract.

Hee! In vet school, we would drunk watch Grey’s and scream when they mispronounced things or did surgery with dangly earrings all in their surgical fields. One time, someone put her stethoscope in her ears backwards.

Now, I want to ask her about it. Because of the way it twines, I think there isn’t much ink where the wrist actually bends. From what you’re saying, maybe that had a purpose. I definitely learned something new.

That does help, but I think after reading people’s descriptions, the one I’m thinking of may count as a hand tattoo or a hybrid? It’s a twining vine that goes around the wrist, but parts of it definitely are on the back of her hand above where the wrist bends. I think she’d have problems covering it. You can see some…

Are they on the insides of you wrists? The one I’m thinking of is a very delicate vine that encircles most of her wrist, and unless she wears super long sleeves that go over the top of her hand, she can’t cover it.

Yeah, I’m interested in that too. I know very little about tattoos, but I know someone with a pretty tasteful one on her wrist. It’s actually lovely. Is that considered a hand tattoo? I’d imagine it’s pretty painful though. I know someone else with a flower on her toe, and the artist tried to talk her out of getting a…

This attitude always puzzles me. I had my, then, 4 yo niece by the hand at a farm fair, and there was a lady shoving plastic fetus dolls in people’s faces. As I tried to steer my niece away from the crazy lady, the woman began talking to me as if I obviously agreed with her because otherwise, “that little miracle,” as…

Which is an awesome health benefit, but not one that applies to most women having babies in hospitals or even in houses.

Since it was unlikely to be attracting predators to you and your newborn while you were recovering from childbirth and unable to escape the ravening hordes of wild beasts hunting weak prey, you made the right call.