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Uh, you misspelled "retarded". FYI.

6 weeks, tops. When we want a fire in the fireplace, we usually have to crank the AC waaaaaay up. Yeah, we have the carbon footprint of a Yeti.

This is true also. Mostly I came to resent literally putting my life on the line to go on a unit where the inmates didn't overcome me and rape/kill me just on the honor system, and then to learn the inmate we were called out to help just didn't want to walk to medical? Grrrr. As long as I worked there and we had what…

Buy your daughter her own vibrator and skip all the awkwardness. Buy it and throw it on her bed. You both get to look at each other sheepishly the next time you see each other, and then you don't see her again for 6 months. Just push flounder and toast under her door so she doesn't starve and she will come out again…

Thanks sararueful2! My kids hated it when "Drop it Like It's Hot" came out. Their crazy old momma was vacuuming and singing, "When the pimp's in the crib, ma, drop it like it's hot, drop it like it's hot, drop it like it's hot"..... They're never quite sure what I'll do next. I gave my mother (83) and handful of…

It is truly a miracle drug and can literally be lifesaving, but yeah, I wasn't told ANYTHING about the side effects. I'm good when they give me an IM injection and occasionally I have to get a 3 day IV infusion for my MS and that doesn't bother me either, but that fucking DosePak? OMG. I felt like I was living in a…

:raises hand: I've had IBS since I was in my early teens. I was 35 when I contracted Crohn's. In the beginning, I thought my IBS must have gone into overdrive for a bit, but I never lost weight with IBS (not more than a few lbs., anyway) and I sure didn't feel very, very, ill.

SO sorry! That is just so tragic.

No, no. We're on the same page.

To all of us who are living with Crohn's or UC, I think you are all so brave and powerful even if we don't feel that way sometimes. I don't think the general public *quite* understands these diseases. Especially the pain. On the bright side, I only had it about 7 years and have been in remission for more than 10…

Yes, I was just continuing the conversation.

On one of my first stints with the crazy pills, I met up with other nursing students at one of our houses. Her family had left to go eat since she burned the pizza. I went to her kitchen and ate every bit of that pizza (and I don't even like pizza, much less burned pizza) and she had bowls of candy corn everywhere. I…

It's all way to awful. I would read the inmate's psych reports and after reading what they went through as children, I wasn't surprised that they committed awful crimes, I was surprised at how few they did and how well they held back from doing them. There are a ton of broken children out there, who become broken…

This! ^^^^^^ I also already had osteopenia at an early age due to the corticosteroids.

When I was diagnosed, my first fear was a colostomy. (I worked as a nurse's aid in a "nursing home" when I was a teen.) Talk about take a hit to your self image! It would have been very difficult for me to have sex with anyone again.

Not sure how to make myself have cancer, but I could shoot for HIV/AIDS and be in a swimsuit next year! YAY wasting diseases!

If you had Crohn's for a DAY, you would realize that no amount of "thin" would be worth it. It's actually quite normal to see them with moon shaped faces, humpbacks, acne, osteoporosis and other terrible side effects of the steroids they (we) have to take to get an intractable case back down to management. There's…

I have Crohn's (though it's in remission) and though I wouldn't have actively committed suicide (isn't "commit" a weird word for suicide?), but I WISHED for death. I was too tired to breathe. I lost 37 lbs. between one semester of university to the next. It was godawfully painful. I had diarrhea about 20-25 times a…

They do. They "catch a case" for doing it.It's worth the gamble for them.