Not only that, but my mother wasn’t even conscious for my birth. They just knocked her right out. She said she woke up, patted her stomach, and asked the nurse “what did I have?” “Natural childbirth” was not a goal a few decades ago.

*pats gut*

I have to wonder now how old that person is, because nearly everyone born in the 70’s got formula. And somehow we didn’t all die.

Dude the hospital I gave birth in served a “new parent special” - filet mignon and champagne (or cider if you were breastfeeding). It was amazing. But it was also in rich-ass Santa Barbara so they actually had the money for real food.

Send me a sign I can staple to my brother’s house.

My mom got rubella when she was pregnant with me, in 1972. A very mild case for her ... massive congenital heart defect for me. And yet my brother has decided to go anti-vaxx. Asshole.

Yessss 7 years on I still have pain at my hairline on the right side. I can’t get my hair colored because it stings the nerve endings there so badly.

Stress is supposed to be one of the things that can cause a shingles outbreak so I would get thee to a doctor asap.

I have to have my right eye checked carefully every 9 months because that’s where I had shingles.

I always thought I was naturally immune to chicken pox. When I was little every kid but me came down with it after a neighbor’s birthday party. My brother got it when he was 15 or 16, I got nothing. Worked in preschools for 15ish years before the vaccine existed, went through 3 or 4 events where all my kids got it but…

oh you will know. Because it feels like no pain you’ve ever felt. Like someone scraped your nerve endings raw, poured lemon juice on them, and then set them on fire.

Yeah I didn’t get a rash AT ALL which is why it took me nearly a week to get it diagnosed. Also I didn’t think I’d ever had chicken pox, so apparently I didn’t get a rash then, either. Shingles, in my eye, at 35. Fucking fantastic.

Well now I’m just SAD. Jesus bro.

I read this post this morning, and this evening I was in a Chinese restaurant and the old guy behind me was very loudly and angrily ordering chow mein with prawns. I was seriously waiting for him to demand cocktail sauce to go with it.

My thought was that she wanted the server to be baffled and think there was some sort of “miracle” happening.

Right like why roll this out in New England where you can get a good lobster roll at any one of a thousand restaurants already?

God I want the Kitchenaid but I just had to buy a portable A/C for our house. Two straight weeks of 90+ weather in Seattle is some bullshit.

God I want the Kitchenaid but I just had to buy a portable A/C for our house. Two straight weeks of 90+ weather in…

Exactly. When everyone assumes the woman is changing her name, they don’t blink if you walk in and ask to change it to the male name on the certificate. A dude is going to have to have the conversation about WHY he’s doing it, and how WEIRD that is over and over and over.

Mr. Bells was actually surprised I took his. We hadn’t really discussed it and he just assumed I was keeping mine. Although it wasn’t “mine”, it was my ex’s name (he was also of the “we’re not really married if you don’t” school) so I wasn’t keen on keeping that.

The thing is, a lot of the infrastructure isn’t set up for guys to do it. As a woman, I just had to walk into anyplace with my marriage license and they did it no questions asked. A man I knew who changed his ended up having to go to court with a name change petition to get it done. Stroll into the DMV with your…