My husband had PRK. He wasn’t technically getting it for vision correction, but because it would fix his detaching cornea. (His cornea was spontaneously separating from his eyeball at night and then sticking to his eyelid as he slept, and so he’d essentially tear off a portion of his cornea every morning when he…

They’ve already got a script written up for that: the vaccines that the mother and father got as children contribute to autism and/or cause autism in non-vaccinated children. Supposedly they get passed down through genetics in a magical woo way.

My doctor explained that some women carry their babies “upwards” rather than “outwards” and the tone of your abs can contribute to that, as can the size of the baby. My mom was like that. She went up one pant size through her pregnancies (she didn’t even know about me until around 7 months along) and she never looked…

The Republican convention: Where the rules are made up and the points don’t matter.

Prom in 2002. Those slip dresses were horrid for me. They just do not work with my body type, and the pale pink doesn’t do me any favors. It was not a fashionable night for me. It didn’t help that my budget was far, far, far beyond tight, so I had to just pick a dress within my Taco Bell part time budget. I ended up…

No problems, it does sound like they were unprofessional without the details all shoved in there. The ER guys couldn’t find the bleed, it was about 1am, and so they packed his nose, figuring that it would be 6-8 hours until we got in to see the ENT, which is reasonable (miserable, but reasonable). It was that jerk…

I just looked that up, and that’s pretty much it.

He had an extremely dry sinus cavity, which caused his wound. It was up really high in his nose, right on the edge of his sinus cavity, made worse because he took ibuprofen right before the bleed. It had to be cauterized closed.

Actually, with exception to ENT doctor who refused to see us immediately and the Urgent care nurse that didn’t notice him bleeding all over the place at first, all of them were pretty good. The problem was that the bleed was really fricking high up his nose, on the edge of his sinus cavity. Urgent Care and ER weren’t…

After a long road trip, my husband suddenly got a bloody nose at 11pm. It just started to bleed and never stopped. So I drove him to Urgent Care, which was full of people and had a long ass wait, and he had a rag to his nose. Another patient actually contacted a nurse, telling her that “we should probably be seen…

I’m wondering if abortion support will skyrocket when the numbers of zika infected babies start to be born in the US, at least among moderates and the people who think that “this could never happen to me/I won’t ever choose abortion”, etc. As disgusting as these laws are, there might be some light at the end of the…

I had almost zilch in the heartburn department when I was pregnant and my kidlet had a full head of hair at birth (although not nearly as much as this kid!). I don’t know if this kid’s hair will fall out, but we were told that it could happen with our kidlet. It never did. It just changed color from almost black at…

I had post-partum psychosis. My OB missed it, a specialty women’s health psychologist missed it, and a specialty women’s psychiatrist missed it. My regular psychologist, who has almost zip experience with pregnancy and postpartum, he noticed it when I started going back to him. That led to my week of in-patient psych…

It’s the same line of thinking that involves family being the end-all-be-all of life, blood thicker than water, family is always more important, etc. Sprinkle in a few bits of narcisissm, religion, and severe co-dependence, and it becomes a monster. Life exists as the family vs. the world. Friends are a distraction…

This fact was seriously discussed by professors when my husband was in nursing school. I don’t know of any study, but his professors called it the glass escalator. Amoung some areas of nursing, it’s apparently no secret that men have an easier time getting hired, although some of that is due to the labor itself. (For…

Darn, you’re right.

Yeah, I’m somewhere between the GOP using Trump for some game or that Trump is an unwanted wildcard that just appeared and they underestimated him. In any case, someone has a hidden motive here. The question then becomes, “What is the long-term strategy here?”

Okay, I have a new theory on this whole election craziness. It isn’t entirely fleshed out, but here’s the core:

*waves* My brother and I were my parent’s retirement and financial investment. I use past tense, because we haven’t spoken to our parents in, oh, 4 or 5 years now. I’ve found that expecting your children (and their spouses) to become a future nurse, housekeeper, and/or bank account has an astounding way of tarnishing…

Alinsky is a generic commie dog-whistle, at least in my understanding. He’s like a catch-all, probably because so few know who Alinsky actually is, let alone his politics. (I know my dad, a die-hard right-winger, has no idea who Alinsky is, except that he’s bad.)