Have you talked to your doc/gyn? Once mine figured out my anxiety level, he decided to do the hysterectomy and biopsy I needed under general anesthesia. That probably won’t work for you, but maybe something like xanax? Propranolol is a beta blocker and can help with anxiety and panic attacks, and it’s cheap. But…

Ugh, I developed eczema during the winter and I am NOT looking forward to sunscreen season. I make most of my skincare at home now, but I am not gonna fuck around with skin cancer. My risk is too damn high as it is.

Ugh, I developed eczema during the winter and I am NOT looking forward to sunscreen season. I make most of my…

Part of the problem is that the people who want most to be cops (and political leaders) are generally the ones who really, should not have that kind of power. And the ones who go in for the right reasons burn out. As Douglas Adams once put it: people are a problem.

Those of us on the child free side of the fence get just as much bullshit about selfishness. To the point that I was actually grateful for the hyperplasia that required having my entire reproductive system chopped up and sucked out through a straw. (and the 30% increased cancer risk and the pre canerous cells in the…

I honestly did not think that my opinion of him drop any lower, but he seems determined to go spelunking under the barrel. What a shitheel.

Wait, Twin Lake is in Northern Michigan? When did this happen?

My husband writes in the FEAR mythos, and after hearing these, he said that they’re ‘creepy enough that I might be able to use them.’ Given that he often doesn’t let me read his stuff because he knows it will upset me, that’s just terrifying.

Best avoid reading too much about them, then, because some of them fucking obsess about young girls and will not STFU about it. It’s beyond disgusting.

Dammit, I JUST finished Deep Wizardry, now I have to give it another go... The burdens of fandom, I suppose.

I don’t know about MO, but you get food, WIC and cash benefits on the same card here in MI. A person could use their Bridge card to pay for ‘luxury’ food with their cash benefits, or pay for part of the purchase with SNAP. But asshats like this guy will never be happy until us Poors are forced to subsist on rice and…

Have you talked to your doctor about the anxiety? You might be able to get a scrip for an antianxiety med. I have horrible anxiety in doctor/dentist/hospital situations, and xanax is a damn lifesaver.

Ugh, surgical menopause. I was fine for about six weeks after surgery, and then I hit the wall. When I called the gyn to get some HRT, the phone nurse kept asking why I didn't mention the hot flashes at my one month followup, and almost flat out refused to believe that I hadn't been having the damn things then. I…

My gyn took one look at how nervous I was in the office and set up the biopsy/hysteroscopy as an actual surgery, general anesthesia and all. I am still grateful for that kindness.

I wonder if it would be possible to adapt this test to detect hyperplasia? Because right now, the standard is a d&c to get biopsy material (I had a hysteroscopy at the same time), and recovery from that was longer and more painful than the actual hysterectomy.

Yeah, lots of birds get territorial about their nests. Swans are lovely but terrifying if you get too close. Hells, mallards will try very hard to fuck your shit up if you get too close to the nest. It's not very effective, they're small, cute ducks.

Most owls compact all the indigestible parts of their food, then throw them up. It's a lot cooler than it sounds, you can open the pellets up and find out what they've been eating. Once they're dried out, I assume...

Holy crap, that sounds terrifying!

I should note here that my nephew was three when he said this. A profane prodigy!

Pretty sure that honor is reserved for Canada geese. Vile tempered shit machines... Owls stay away from people, they don't attack random kids walking through the park, and most of them don't poop. A vast improvement over geese.

My nephew can deploy an f-bomb like a pro. When my sister was looking for her keys (which she loses ALL THE TIME), he turned to their dogs and asked loudly, 'Where the fuck are Mom's keys?' The dogs had no comment. Once, when I was trying to manuver him and a gigantic cart out of Gordon's, we walked straight into some…