I had a similar accident once with a wine glass! Severed the nerve to my finger and part of my hand and had to have surgery to repair the nerve. The feeling eventually came back but it wss never quite the same - for example, if I scratch one spot on my hand, I feel it on my fingertip. The broken glass from a wine…

This isn’t avocado related but I once cut my finger to the bone when my knife slipped while I was trying to cut through a loaf of day-old, crusty French bread. When I went to the ER, the doctor took one look and asked, “French bread or bagel?”

Unfortunately “vaginal atrophy” is indeed a real condition which happens to women after menopause. :-(

I just read the book and I thought that Skloot tells the story with great sympathy and sensitivity, and with awareness that a white woman intruding into this family and their history is very fraught. She became close to Henrietta’s daughter Deborah (who died before the book was published) and only went as far as she…

Thank you for this. As a white person, if I’ve thought much about Rachel Dolezal it’s basically that she’s a nut. To be kinder, I suspect that she has a form of body dysmorphic disorder. However, I had not considered her narcissism and sense of entitlement. By that I mean that she wants to appropriate what she…

I’m disgusted by this woman’s racist tirade but also really confused by the story. If you want to add more people to an Airbnb reservation, you go to the site and request a change, and if the host accepts, your credit card is charged. Every Airbnb listing that I’ve ever seen has a price for extra guests. The guest and…

If you are lactose intolerant, don’t drink milk. If you are a vegan or paleo or have objections to the dairy industry based on environmental or moral concerns, don’t drink milk. Biologically, however, if you have the gene for lactase persistence, then drinking milk is just fine and a healthy way to get calcium and…

Can we please stop giving a sh!t what mean think about out personal grooming. I’m 50 years old and I remember the big arguments about shaving vs. not shaving our legs. Let’s just agree that if we let a man get close to our legs, underarms, or pubes or lack thereof, he should feel damn lucky! Do whatever feels right to…

READING TOLKEIN ISN’T HIP??? uh oh, suddenly a lot of things about my adolescence are becoming clear...

I have lived in San Jose for 20+ years. The Merc was never a great paper, but in recent years it has become simply pathetic.

Equally shameful, our upstanding local paper agrees with the sentence, citing “usual circumstances” of the case such as the fact that the victim admitted to blacking out on several previous occasions while drinking, and also that the perp’s life will be ruined by being a registered sex offender. http://www.mercurynews.…

I had surgery on my sinuses a few years ago because of years of chronic infections. There are a lot of gross stories I could tell about chronic sinusitis, but the all pale in comparison to about a week after the surgery, at a follow up visit, my surgeon was poking around in my nose with forceps and suddenly yanked on…

I’ve lived in the heart of Silicon Valley for nearly 25 years and I think the show is brilliant. I recognize the criticism that the show is “too white” but the whole point of the show is to mock the particular varieties of the white males in tech (the awkward nerdy guy, the brogrammers, the VC with Asperger’s, the…

I don’t have any problem with legalized prostitution in theory. However, regulation is really really hard. Regulation of any industry is hard but we’re talking about an industry with massive potential profits and a long history of ties to organized crime. On the other side basically have a bunch of underfunded…

I feel dumb but what is the reason for writing W/whose and P/person etc.?

Over a lifetime there are only a handful of things that will definitely make you look older faster: smoking, doing meth, and spending too much time in the sun. The rest of the advice is all bunk. When you are over 40, you will probably look over 40.

You are right, her hands are totally out of proportion. Even assuming that she may have large hands due to her XY chromosomes, compare her hands to the people to her right and left. No way can that be accurate.

Meant to type that the FMLA wasn’t enacted UNTIL 1993.

I’m a younger “old feminist” I guess... I’m 48, and graduated from law school in 1993.

Thank you! I keep thinking about sending her a message on FB. I’m sure she had her reasons for not contacting me, and enough time has passed that it doesn’t really seem important any more. I really liked her and would like to see how she’s doing.