I gave birth on Friday so this was my New Year's Eve. Babies FTW!!!!!
(Bottle usage due to latching/sucking issues and blood sugar testing equipment failure at the hospital that resulted in an unnecessary extra day's stay. What a fucking shitshow that was.)

Let's ban annoying fashion insider words like "a red lip". The newest and worst offender is "shirting". Really??? It's called wearing a shirt.

Does it really even matter who travels on the voucher? From a business standpoint, Air Canada's already committed to flying someone on the voucher, does it really matter who it is? (Other than trying to make it difficult to use the voucher so people are incentivized to not use it...)

Here's a thought, if you bought the ticket you should be able to transfer it to anyone you want, related or not!! One ticket, one fare, one passenger, who cares who it actually is!

It's so strange to me that these guys who are obsessed with the idea of women taking their money also insist on marrying women with no jobs or skills who will be forced to be dependent on them and their money. If you're so worried about her picking your pocket, marry a woman who has money in her own pockets. Of course…

I wonder how much of a correlation there is between hazing and sexual assault rates in an organization. It certainly trains people to ignore and laugh at abuse.

Nailed it. That perfectly sums up how the femme fatale trope can be frustrating in how ubiquitous and over-sexed it is, yet how empowering and fitting it can be given the view of women in society.

Also, absolutely with "what is the point of the Doctor being a woman." Because the default is male, and there have to be…

This is kind of how I feel when I come across the "female doctor" debate.

Unless you have an account for burner purposes, I'll save you the trouble; omniaccount -at- gmail dot com is mine. Stick in a distinctive subject line and I'll contact you from my personal. (And this should help get me working again!)

It serves all purposes, as you can tell from the name :)

That's a confusingly worded headline. How about "New UK Bill Named After Downton Abbey To Let Women Inherit Titles." The titles being referenced aren't named after Downton Abbey.

People blow eat their way past their gastric bypass ALL THE TIME! Stretch their stomach back out and gain all the weight back. What, exactly, will prevent this poor child from doing that very same thing? I agree, she shouldn't have the surgery. She'll eat past her limits. Besides, if she's already right now on a…

True. But I'm an Occam's razor kinda gal. And believe that a child of this very young age should keep all of her insides, if at all possible.

This is exactly right. I could not have put it better. The problem this poor girl has is with her endocrine system. Weight gain is always a symptom- not the problem.

Than 900 calories? That's dangerous in the case of a young girl, especially a young girl with diabetes

The weight isn't causing the endrocine malfunctions (though with time, that can happen), its the other way around: the central endocrine imbalance is causing the out of control appetite and weight gainn. The issue is the fact that they have created a central endocrine syndrome, due to the physical damage to her…

11 years post Roux-n-y. it's not the panacea they led me to believe. Not only have I regained all the weight, the effects on the brain are 100% phony. Once you 'cheat', you find out you don't get that sick, and then it's no longer forbidden fruit. If a Roux-n-y is supposedly the only thing that will stop her from…

I am going to be That Person.

I said this elsewhere, but I share your concerns. As well as the fact that she is only 3 months post-op, and there's no way her vasopressin, synthroid, steroid, etc dosing is stable. I say let the endocrinologists do their job a little longer, but I'm obviously not this family's physician. Still I think there's…

I hope the family has sought out second and third opinions. Gastric bypass is a serious, unalterable surgery with potential life-long complications and should not be undertaken lightly. Many people do fine. Some develop adhesions, fistulas, leaking and other complications that *never* go away. I've seen patients who…

Not knowing all the facts here, obviously, is it possible that a less permanent gastric surgery would have a greater chance of being approved (a gastric sleeve, for instance) in the hopes that the disease she has developed would not be permanent? Again, I have no idea here, but I had a very similar scare when I was…