Don’t get me wrong, I totally agree about the way animals are treated before they’re killed. But I think it’s two fold with the Yulin festival: 1) there have been reports of pets being stolen and sold for use in the festival and 2) there are videos of animals being tortured. Like in an obvious way, tortured.

I have a friend who works in animal rights activism (not just Yulin) and I’ve seen the videos. There’s no way that’s not torture. They’re on tape swinging animals by their hind legs and beating them with sticks. That’s torture. And yes, that’s not how stress hormones but lots of people believe lots of stupid things…

I get what you’re saying but a big issue with the Yulin festival is that animals (dogs and cats) were being tortured prior to being killed. It was something about making the stress hormone so the meat would be more tender. Any animal being tortured before being killed is fucked up.

One can only hope. That last season was bad but the finale was a slap in the face to fans.

You have a good dad. Isn’t Rick(y) Schroeder a republican now?

Wow, who knew so many passionate Ryan Adams would be upset enough to respond with such vitriol to your comment?

Ryan Adams is a pretentious douche. Also, I appreciate the contradiction he made in the excerpt about whether or not he actually dealt drugs, particularly to Albert Hammond, Jr.

I was just floored st the insinuation that good people are only homeless through alcoholism. Everyone else though is just lazy! One episode and never again.

I watched one episode that dealt with homelessness. There were 2 plot lines; one was about a young, single mother who overcame alcoholism induced homelessness by pulling herself up by her bootstraps (i.e. borrowing a suit from Tim Allen’s daughter for an interview) and the other was about a lazy bum who Tim’s young,…

It’s really less of letting me change her diaper as I force it by forcing it off and on. But thank you.

Yeah, we reinterred my great grandfather when his cemetery was sold to make way for housing. He died when my grandma was 8 so I obviously never met him and I didn’t get emotional at his re internment.

I get what you’re saying and I appreciate the honesty. I think I didn’t phrase it well, I can forcibly change her diaper, even if she doesn’t move. For 3 days, I couldn’t get her to change her clothes or get in the shower. Getting her to change her diaper is just getting behind her and pulling it off. Then I can just…

The worst part is he is a geriatrician. He was referred by her otherwise awesome geriatric psychiatrist at one of the top 3 Alzheimer’s centers in the country. I think he’s just overwhelmed with patients.

Thanks. I think her primary care doctor is a big part of the problem. He saw the edema and prescribed the diuretic. There was no real investigation as to what is causing the edema. I feel like if she had some diagnosis, we could get her hospice care and that would ease so much of the burden off me and my husband. I…

I really feel like it’s just her personality. From the moment she was born, she’s been a generally chill and easy baby. I don’t think it has much to do with my husband or me.

The price is insane for these homes. I looked at one that was over $3k a month, who can afford that? You’re a better child than I am. If I quit work to take care of her full time, I’d probably lose my mind.

Thanks, I appreciate your advice, it was measured and even handed. The thing that really bothers is me is that she’s clearly not healthy. If I could get someone to declare her terminal, she could qualify for hospice where they would send someone to do all these things. I feel like her doctor just sees her and I as…

The real struggle for me is that I believe if she did get hospice care, which I think is what she really needs, she could stay at home. But at what point do I accept that no one wants to help us?

That’s advice I needed to hear. The problem is my mom doesn’t trust anyone anymore. Her doctor is fairly new to her (last year or two) and she was already in the throes of Alzheimer’s so I don’t know that she actually remembers him. Her geriatric psychiatrist was really good with her but he moved to Chicago 6 months…

I refused. I told him if he wanted her to have it done, he could admit her to the hospital. I even said while they were there, they could sedate her and do the CT scan he was always going on about. He declined since, again according to him, “there’s nothing medically wrong with her.”