Renal diet solidarity. I'm not in ESRD, so I don't have to limit phosphorus, but I'm on sodium, potassium, and protein restriction. It sucks, doesn't it?

I found an amazing dark chocolate bar with peppermint at Wegmans last week. It was $1.99, which is expensive for a candy bar, BUT it took me like a week to eat it because it was sooo rich. So it actually turned out to be a pretty good deal compared to a 99-cent candy bar I'd eat in two seconds.

Someone could possibly smuggle drugs in a sanitary napkin from "outside." I don't see why they didn't just give her a pad from the facility and confiscate hers, though. A friend of mine is in state prison, and when I went to visit him the first time, I was a nervous wreck because they have so many rules. No…

I just wanted to comment and let you know I read your post and have a tremendous amount of admiration for you. Our stories are somewhat similar; I've had four surgeries on my spine, have dealt with chronic renal failure since I was 3, and also have lupus. It's a struggle to find compassionate medical professionals who…

Fellow Flexeril user here. I understand exactly what you mean. I take it for my muscle-tension headaches, which stem from trapezius spasms. I used to get headaches for six or seven days at a time. Tylenol, ibuprofen, and other pain relievers didn't help. An astute doctor suggested they might be muscle-related and…

But not as much as tomorrow?

I don't think my mom is a narcissist, but she has some "selective memory" as well. My parents threw me out of the house (after a huge screaming match in which one of my family members threatened to stab me with a pair of Fiskar fabric scissors). I didn't have a car, so I took a bus to NYC and lived on the subway for a…

Someone is narcissistic in this scenario, and I'm willing to bet it's the mother. I had the fortune of never really having to deal with a narcissist as a child or young adult. The problem with that is, when I encountered one, I was completely gobsmacked. She would gaslight me (and my husband) as easily as other people…

But you're not a neutral observer, because it's your sister. I can almost guarantee that there is a good reason her kids don't want to speak to her, or tell you why they won't speak to her. I had to cut myself off from my in-laws because my husband's stepmother is downright abusive. The problem is, she does it only in…

A friend of mine told me I look like a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle when I smile. When I told him it hurt my feelings, he said he was just trying to be helpful. Now, if I asked if I looked like a TMNT and wanted an honest answer, that would be fine. But he looked at a photo I posted on Facebook and told me that without…

Sounds like my furry fella. Nothing works....not yelling, not clapping, not shaking a can full of pennies, not spraying him with water, not stomping my feet, not putting tape over the furniture, etc. etc. etc.

Not all vets. One of the local vets advises declawing AND declaws his cats. Not only does he declaw his cats, he removes the nails from ALL FOUR FEET, not just the front ones.

Are all of your cat scratchers flat, or do you have some vertical ones? Some cats really like to stretch and stand up as they scratch, so a flat scratcher on the floor won't interest them much. A tall one (like three or four feet high) might work better.

I came home late one night after doing a field show at the football game and grabbing some diner food with my friends. My mother is a total nut about needing absolute silence and darkness to sleep, so I crept into my room and didn't turn on the light so as not to wake her. While I was taking off my pants in the dark,…

I did, too!

Those things work if you don't have other things going on with your health. My dentist flat-out told me it wouldn't matter if I brushed and flossed 50 times a day and never ate an ounce of sugar; I'd still have periodontal disease because all of my health issues. I have a very high level of inflammation in my body…

Those things work if you don't have other things going on with your health. My dentist flat-out told me it wouldn't matter if I brushed and flossed 50 times a day and never ate an ounce of sugar; I'd still have periodontal disease because all of my health issues. I have a very high level of inflammation in my body…

Whether this is worth it really depends on the store. I love doing it with PetSmart; I order and pay online and then just pick up the item in the store. It takes about a minute for someone to grab the item out of the manager's office. Don't ever do this with Lowe's, though, unless they somehow seriously revamp their…

My husband's stepmother. The same person who spends $75 a pop on crystal sessions and colonics. Also the same person who nearly killed my FIL by "diagnosing" him with a pinched nerve and treating him with herbal liniment (I should note she has a high school education and no formal training in science or medicine).…

When I was in second grade, one of our big science projects was going out behind the school and collecting monarch caterpillars from the milkweed that grew around the fence. Then we'd put them in plastic containers (with holes in them, of course) and watch as each caterpillar turned into a chrysalis. When they…