Sounds a little like Brittany Murphy’s death. Also pneumonia, and I swear they talked about mold for awhile there. But also drugs, I think.

Yea I’m turning 43 this week. Goddamn is right.

I’m really going to murder the next person who says or writes “pop of color.”

Mine are 18 months apart and I personally think it was fucking fantastic. I did fine, they’re fine. It was hard at first (OMG how do you bathe them! How do you put them to bed!). But I don’t really remember any of that, and you know, wine.

The real issue for me was childcare— I only needed the crazy expensive kind (a full time nanny) from the time my first was 6 months old until they were both in full day preschool and/or kindergarten. My childcare costs were slashed by half, then half again. But I’m not even sure we were thinking about that when I got…

So do they still think it causes autism, or is it all about the risk of vaccine injuries now? I’m guessing it’s still both, with a heaping dose of woo. But the vaccine injuries— by that logic, shouldn’t we outlaw all medications? Because they all cause some kind of allergic reaction in somebody. As does you know,…

He really is great. I sometime listen to the right wing radio station complain about him just to help me understand all the cranky republicans and libertarians. It’s really baffling.

You come right back here and clean the pretzel bits I just spit all over my screen!

It would be but they were Celebrex— old people medicine, not the good stuff.

This one I know posts almost daily about this one issue that’s related to someone she knows who is a minor celebrity (actually that person’s parent was a celebrity). So with every post it’s like, look, look, I know this person, look at me! But disguised as activism. The other groups she belongs to are all hockey…

PT is great, as is just plain walking and stretching. Not sitting at a desk is the best therapy around, I think.

I’ve heard those are good. Bizarrely there aren’t a lot near me.

Yea my guy is at a “sports medicine” place— he doesn’t highlight his chiropractic background at all. He actually works on a lot of the hockey players who won the Stanley cup for our city. One guy was in there right before me and then won the MVP for his playing later that day. Or something like that. I guess they get…

Definitely. The guy I go to now just happens to be one- there is zero chiropractic going on there. The place is labeled “sports medicine” and does a lot of PT, etc. I am generally a fan of those kind of therapies for back stuff. Surgery is a nightmare for a lot of people. Not that I even have a spine problem—…

I don’t know what any of that is. My guy does basically intense massage on tight muscles in the back, neck, butt, hips, and legs. He’s like a massage therapist with a really particular technique.

Nailed it. It’s clearly their sense of purpose and belonging, and that dose of paranoia fuels it nicely.

I really think that’s true. I know someone who isn’t working because of a minor disability, and probably some mental health issues as well, and her shit is all over Facebook and Instagram all day, every day. Half her posts are about bizarre conflicts she’s having with other internet people in various groups she…

Exactly. I go to a chiropractor for soft tissue/fascia work (so no cracking, not even really chiropractic)— he straight up told me “adjustments” don’t work. The cracking chiro I used to go to had all sorts of nutty nut religious stuff in his office- I think he was part of a lunatic Catholic fringe group. I also went…

Right- I get it. I think it gets all conflated— smacking a kid who is doing something dangerous at this instant, not for punishment but to stop the dangerous behavior immediately, and then like I’m punishing you now for touching the stove. The latter makes no sense.

The whole poem— the second one. I lost my shit.