You would be surprised. The amount of suffering women with HG generally go through prior to diagnosis is enough to cause you to contemplate serious self-harm. In my case, my doctor was aware. She was young, believed me, and trusted that, as a researcher, I would come to her with questions and advocate for myself.…

Someone created a Kinja account just to spam this post calling you a troll. You’ve hit the big time!

My former boss, who is Latina, had HG. When hospitalized for it, the nurse accused my ex boss of intentionally vomiting and making herself sick so she’d harm her baby.

So, I had a very, very complicated pregnancy and ended up on a support group with a bunch of wonderful women also suffering from HG (or as I call it now - Princess Kate disease). I noticed that the white ladies in the group (like myself) were often taken very seriously by their providers. However, women of color with…

We’ve been taught that birth is a natural process, maaaan, and we were built to do it, so birth should be fine. I think even a lot of people in the medical community have forgotten how very dangerous it can be. Also, a feeling that something is really, really wrong is a medical symptom. It’s true that if you’re a…

I had a very strange complication with my last birth: Peripartum Cardiomyopathy. No one listened to me when I described my symptoms in the hospital (one of the biggest and best in the country, btw) after delivering a very healthy baby following a very healthy and uneventful pregnancy. I was discharged but at home, my…

What’s frightening about the high rate of mortality among black women is it holds steady despite wealth or education level and there is no corresponding increase in mortality among other minority women. What the hell is it? Is it specific racism towards black women? Is it a physiological fact that medicine hasn’t…

I don’t know why it is but I just can’t stand Ed Sheeran. Honestly I think it’s that he’s just so dull and generic for what he is.

Catalina has been doing great! We went for some checkups last week and all things considered she’s meeting milestones in acceptable times. We confirmed she has perfectly normal hearing, which is awesome, and now I know she just likes to ignore us!

 Feeling pretty freaking proud of myself!

Pink ears, that origami wreath is gorgeous.

I’ve been busy working on glass projects. I made a crack to a friend about how all my time has been in the garage lately slapping glass down, and then I realized that I need a license plate frame that says “I’d rather be/slapping some glass” but I really do love working with it. Each piece is totally different from…

So I had a job interview that has just left me feeling like worthless garbage. After having to do hours of overtime (because they wouldn’t let me change the interview date despite being told they could) on top of working nearly two weeks with no days off and some 12 hour shifts mixed in I travelled halfway up the…

UGH!! What a tragic choice. I’ve been holding off to not distract from MeToo, but now I can say how disturbed I was by the video of him intimidating his live-in partner by smashing wine bottles and refusing to look at her or speak to her while she begs him to stop. I was a huge huge Depp fan. That all vanished when I…

Omar Delgado

But... I thought blue lives matter.

“The facts as we know them have caused me as an administrator to be concerned for the health and safety of the citizens and those passing through the town. Most of that is confidential, so I won’t be able to say anything about that.”

Hopefully he can sue for wrongful termination based on having a disability and collect his pension that was due to him. Sadly this probably means a large chunk of what he gets (if he wins or gets a settlement) will go to his lawyers.

She never said no?!?!

An old friend/co-worker of mine was sexually assaulted by our female boss. I was in the room when it happened and at the time we thought what was happening was “crazy and funny”, now I look back and am so grossed out.