Anyone you would want to know about a miscarriage: right away

I didn’t remember this until after my marriage was over, but my grandmother told me once that “love” is a verb. It isn’t a noun. It isn’t a thing you feel or a thing that makes you happy. It isn’t a feeling at all. It is a thing you DO. You don’t always feel love, but you must LOVE.

No offense, but I really disagree with the views and actions you’re describing in your comment. I don’t think it’s right, or respectful to people who have actually had loved ones die, to refer to a child telling you what sex they date as “loss” that engenders a “grieving process”. This Reagan-era narrative that…

Yes. Abuse of laxatives is one of the things they warned us about in high school health class when discussing bulemia.

I think if your blood is too acidic, you’d be dead.

Counterpoint:

Before the ACA, it was. I paid vastly more than my brothers in health insurance even WITHOUT maternity. Individual insurance was so unbelievably unfair.

It’s still crazy that people think you can swallow your tongue. That is a myth that has been debunked a long time ago. What can happen is your tongue can block the airway. That’s why they teach you in CPR to tilt the head back.

You can’t choke on your own tongue. It’s physically impossible and yet the myth remains. Leave a seizing person’s mouth alone, jamming your finger in there to keep their tongue clear won’t help them one bit and it will almost certainly lead to them biting halfway through your finger.

I have always liked Leighton.

Find yourself someone who looks at you like Lin Manuel Miranda looks at everybody.

I thought the same thing about Rich’s characterization, The man could not have been more gracious, during what must have been an epically humiliating moment.

For all the times I like Jezebel, it’s things like this that are driving me away. A lot of the staff write callous and snarky things for no reason. It’s just mean for the sake of mean a lot of the time.

“Moonlight: Best Picture,” spat Horowitz.

“Moonlight: Best Picture,” spat Horowitz.

THis is dumb, but I walked all the way to the grocery store pharmacy last weekend to get my birth control filled. I honestly spend my weekends stuffed in my apartment alone, so getting out by myself was a big step. (I have the crazy brain sometimes.)

That is so sad to me. It’s just hateful to play with someone that way. Then watching the person being catfished is so heartbreaking. Most of them are desperate to believe that there is some logical reason for someone to do this and trying to get answers to understand and have closure. It hurts my heart for them.

I used to work for a hospital and so knew how triage worked. The day my son’s pediatrician called the ER to let them know we were on our way (less than 10 minutes from hospital, so driving was quicker than waiting for an ambulance), and a medical team with two docs actually met us at the door, I knew we were going to…

I once went to an ER for what was an Urgent Care issue, but I couldn’t find an urgent care center. The intake nurse apologized for the wait and cracked up when I replied “I’ve been in an ER before. Unless you hop in carrying your severed leg, you’re gonna wait. I brought a book.”

I used to live in this neighborhood — it’s super diverse and liberal (rainbow-flags-on-churches liberal). Washington University is nearby. As someone who grew up in the Midwest, I hate these kinds of generalizations. Most metropolitan areas, even in red states, are pretty blue.