Given that everyone heals at a different rate and deals with pain differently, one should take opioids as prescribed by a physician to manage pain at the lowest dose possible for as long as is needed to restore function.

I thought the fractured skull was the last kid who fell a few decades ago. Link?

Among other issues, that article is about chronic non cancer pain, not the specific post surgery/injury pain that you chose to highlight in your comment (the article references pain beyond 3 months, you gave it a week).

If you have an injury or surgery, DO NOT take narcotic pain meds longer than a week.

Well we can all rest easy knowing they’re so on the ball with taking down breast feeding photos.

Good to know, I’ll check it out.

Thanks — I was being sarcastic though, I know he lived. The gorilla dragged the kid and the child was none the worse for wear so saying “He was going to take what was left of the boy to safety evidently” is an absolutely ridiculous statement. Human children are apparently not that much more fragile because as far as I…

Holy shit is the kid dead?! If that dragging killed him I unequivocally change my interpretation.

Literally did this two hours ago to drag a 3 year old out of my bed.

I read an expert who said it was his way of taking him to safety (in a gorilla fashion). I imagine if we looked hard enough we could find someone who said it was his way of communicating that the boy should go get him some warm porridge.

jk jk i hate you burn in hell #gorillazforever

Apparently that’s normal gorilla behavior with babies and adult gorillas to get them to move — not aggression, just their version of grabbing someone by the hand. A baby gorilla knows that’s the cue to scramble onto their parents’ back and get off the ground. A baby human would obviously not have the same instinct.

Probably more like “be that as it may” or “whatever the reasons.”

I don’t actually think the lesser of two evils is acceptable at all. FGM shouldn’t be legal even if it is done in the top hospital in the world by the top physicians while the child is wearing a cashmere hospital gown. There is no lesser evil here — they are both evil and equally so. It’s just that one is more…

Ha! I’m not exhausted, I just find if I go around in circles for too long I can get testy and turn into a bit of a dick.

That’s fine. I agree absolutely, unquestionably, without a doubt that it should be illegal.

No one is saying it should not be fought tooth and nail.

Girls will not seek it out but it will still be done to them. I’m not saying it should be legal on any level (I agree with what you said) — I’m expressing concern because I know what happens when people can’t get safe access to a procedure that they are going to have (or be forced to have) regardless. I don’t think…

No need there either then, becuase I’m not conflating. We’re talking about different forests. You’re in the “is the procedure OK” one, which we share — unequivocally no. I’m also talking about the “what happens when a procedure previously allowed is outlawed and is subsequently done illegally outside a hospital”…

You don’t have to stop me, I’m not disagreeing with anything you said.