In a First World Country, one doesn't run into the measles in the grocery store.  Blame the victim much?

Because I was 17 years old in the 1980s and had enough sense to know that I would be the one blamed, shunned, and called a liar. I didn’t want to be the girl THAT had happened to. I didn’t want to be a victim. I wanted to be tough. I was so ashamed of what happened to me, y’all.

Nope. They’re wild animals. They’ve not been domesticated. Trying to keep wild animal as a pet can end in tragedy. Have you read/seen any of the stories about people who try to keep chimps as pets? They’re adorable when they are babies. Not so much when they grow up. They display simian behaviors that we humans don’t…

Amen! I graduated from High School in South Carolina in the early 80s. From Middle School on, no shorts or tank tops allowed. Most of the classrooms had no air conditioning. We had open windows and we prayed for a breeze. We were told that we couldn’t wear shorts and tanks, ‘cause the boys couldn’t keep their hands to…

I love Madonna’s Truth or Dare. It’s very well done, and is supposed to be based on vintage Fracas.

Thank you!

Barf!

Preach it!

My question has always been, why aren’t there better drugs being researched and developed to help the chronic pain population? Most of the folks that I talk to who suffer with chronic pain tell me that they don’t get relief with the drugs that are deemed appropriate. I think that I know the answer to my question.

I learned this in an advanced Pharmacology class. In a nutshell, neuro-wise : Pain from traumatic injures and surgical incisions comes from one place; pain that is chronic comes from another. Therefore, opiates are appropriate for the former, but not for the latter. People with metastatic disease fall under the former…

I kept it to myself for all of these years. No one knew. Now y’all do. :)

Me too.

Do you get a gift if you have a CSection? What’s it called?

That popped into my head, as well. I noticed that the actress who played Lyanna Stark bore an amazing resemblance to the actress who played Meera Reed.

It’s been reformulated. It’s not you. I still have my bottle from 1994.

White Bread and Mayonaise

The Stand is his best, and my favorite.

Thanks for the link. That was so much fun!

I’m crying.

That is heartbreaking.