I live in New Mexico, but I didn’t get the Amber Alert on my phone until after midnight. I don’t know if it was the day of the kidnapping or the day after (the alerts aren’t saved on my phone). Either way, that was a pretty long delay.

I work from home, so I get to see a lot of fear-mongering lawyer commercials. The one for the $72 million J&J verdict said something about talc fibers being found in the ovaries.

Sorry I didn’t see this until now. Kinja was being dumb and wouldn’t let me see my notifications. Good luck with your mom, and thanks for the words of encouragement. I have had a lot of sucky things happen to me health-wise, but I am extremely lucky. When I had tethered spinal cord and the doctor didn’t want to do…

In most cases, you don’t need a gyn exam to check for bladder problems (unless they were concerned that the incontinence was caused by pelvic prolapse), and you definitely wouldn’t need one to check for kidney problems. They could do a urinalysis/culture to check for infection, an ultrasound or X-ray to check for…

I don’t have much experience with it in older people, but I have neurogenic bladder and have had multiple bladder surgeries, so I am very familiar with all things pee-related. Do you have power of attorney? If so, is there any way you can get your mom to a doctor, even if she doesn’t want to go? If there was just a…

I actually found that to be helpful the other day when Facebook showed me an ad for something I bought on Amazon. I clicked on it when I was trying to hide it, and it turns out the price had dropped $5 since I bought it about 20 hours earlier. Wrote to Amazon via chat and they credited me the $5!

Does he eat greasy food for breakfast? I had my gallbladder out last year, and if I dare to eat anything fried, I will pay for it. But I’m okay if I avoid grease/oil.

I wish I qualified for a tubal. I’m in the same boat: can’t have hormones because of my lupus and high blood pressure and heart disease, can’t have an IUD because of previous pelvic surgery/scar tissue. But when I went for the tubal consult, they told me I’m not a candidate. I can’t wait until menopause so I can stop…

You’re my kind of people.

Nope. Pennsylvania.

I was diagnosed with heart disease at 31. I had been having symptoms for months (annoying twinges of pain in my jaw, weird pains in my left hand/arm, crushing fatigue from time to time). I went the ER with chest pain and had a stress test. The cardiologist was a total asshole; he walked into my hospital room and said,…

Oh, I’m so sorry. That’s terrible.

It’s really hard to deal with a barrage of calls when you’re meeting with the funeral director and mourning your loved one. He’s a famous guy who has a ton of friends, so it would be even harder for him. I actually think Twitter is okay in this case (although I think it’s super tacky when people post condolences on FB…

I feel terrible for Patton. He seems like a decent guy. I feel especially bad because of all the comments I’ve seen about how it must have been a drug overdose. People just assume you don’t die young unless you’re on drugs, but that’s just not the case. A few years ago, a friend of mine just dropped dead at the age of…

You know, like a cow’s opinion.

Yes! It’s crazy. A friend of mine was on House Hunters International, and it was fascinating to learn more about the show.

She and Mark are really good friends with Andy Cohen, which was a total surprise to me. But when I read his book (“The Andy Cohen Diaries”), he name-dropped “Mark and Kelly” about 1,000 times.

Baby showers usually suck, so I was pleasantly surprised when two of my friends just did low-key lunches. We didn’t have to sniff diapers filled with melted candy made to look like poop.

I just finished “Foreign Faction.” Kolar does a good job explaining why an intruder couldn’t have done it.

I wish I had known more about it before I got married. A friend of ours recommended her photographer, and we liked her pics, so we hired him. He didn’t do a *bad* job, but he wasn’t the best. For example, for the photo of my dress hanging by itself, he took a shot of the dress hanging on the cleaner’s hanger with that…