I think about this every summer commute where I see (mainly) men in full suits (jacket + long-sleeved button up shirt + trousers, etc) looking sick in the heat. Surely there has to be a solution that can be appropriate for work and season.

I hope you feel better soon! I felt pretty good pretty quickly after having mine out, but I was a teen at the time, so ymmv.

I hope you feel better soon! I felt pretty good pretty quickly after having mine out, but I was a teen at the time, so ymmv.

All I can say is that I wish it were less complex! It would make my grad school experience a heck of a lot easier!

I have to wonder what I did to deserve my chronic diseases. Well, the depression’s probably not actually a disease, just me being sad, so let’s sweep that one off the table and just focus on the IBD. What did I do that I deserve this? How should I have lived my life before September 2016 so as to avoid it?

There are so many international students in my program, they’re great and I really really hope they aren’t affected

I’m glad to hear that.... I got diagnosed sort of recently with a chronic illness and am still kinda in a struggling-to-get-used-to-it phase. I know I’m getting slowly more able to cope, but still get panic attacks about the hospital when it seems like I might be having symptoms. :(

I miss Millihelen so much. I don’t even really know exactly why, considering I wear makeup about twice a year.... But I loved it and miss it still.

Give me two bottles!

Hah... Same.

yeah. yeah. yeah. Good on him! But I am totally envious.

My husband and I both just found out about fun, new, chronic (me) and potentially chronic (him) health issues this winter! We are also insured through Obamacare and terrified. * solidarity fistbump *

2016 sucks and there’s little relief in sight. I got diagnosed with a chronic, lifelong illness that I’ll probably need surgery for (50% chance) and that increases my risk of cancer significantly. My partner got Lyme disease. I lost ~2 months of research time to my new illness and now have to take biweekly doses of an…

Iunno, many cats have hypnotized me over the years. I don’t know if this supposed Persian is all that special.

Completely agreed!

Shouldn’t it be Y chromosome-tainted?

A bit late, but I got through my committee meeting and am Acceptable in all areas (although I gotta read more papers).

Oh hey I just realized the connotations behind “whip smart”. Wow, I can’t believe I never saw that before.

Well, that’s good news, I hope, but I’m worried that something will happen to prevent anyone actually getting one. Like, the clinic has to be within ten feet of a hospital and have its own ER and spend four hours telling a potential IUD-receiver bogus “facts” about how having an IUD will make them sterile, etc., etc.

Now I’m sad too.