No advice, but I do want to say bravo for sharing (as I am sure you know, the antichoicers love to intimidate women and make them feel ashamed for a common procedure). And I hope everything goes smoothly.

Heating pad helps a lot. Pain pills barely touched my pain, even the good stuff my mom had, so I knocked myself out with Ambien. I wouldn’t do that unless you have someone with you though.

Some of those stick-on hot pads might help.

Some women say it feels like intense cramps and it wasn’t too big a deal, but I had full-on labor contractions. I was all ready to have a quiet night in, watching movies, but most of the time I was on the bathroom floor, on my hands and knees. In that same year, I was one friend’s birth partner, and I accompanied…

It’s times like this when I’m glad to be a redneck.

THEY DID SOMETHING I DON’T LIKE THEREFORE BULLYING

Okay I’m just going to vent here:

Haruka was a beloved member of our dance community, liked and admired by her classmates and respected by professors for her intelligence and spirit.

Dude, I’m fucking done with Sanders. I gave him a ton of money and I wish I could ask for it back. This fundraiser was done specifically to raise money for downballot candidates—the kind of congresspeople Sanders would actually need to fuel his imaginary revolution.

Cannot recommend IBR enough. I’ve been on it since 2009 and it has made my life infinitely easier (e.g., I can afford to buy food). Seriously, even if you don’t intend to see it to its conclusion of forgiveness after 25 years (I don’t), it’s worth seeing if you can qualify.

I understand the issues with porn, consent in the business (especially after that James Deen shitshow) and the social impact it has, especially on young men.

I watch porn but not that much. But when I do watch....and when I do have sex I like some of the things people are ragging on here and while I can understand that…

Man, some of y’all are pretty fucking judgey about certain types of porn.

Pretty sure men have been beating women far longer than the existence of porn.

After my car accident outside of the abortion clinic, protesters came to my car and were waving rosaries with plastic fetuses in place of the beads in the window. Never asked if I was okay.

I kind of want to commission some etsy artist to make her a whole set (necklace, earrings, bracelet, TIARA) made out of those little plastic fetus thingies and send it to her.

I just so happened to be at the PS’s office today. Unashamedly team botox and team filler (as in all things, moderation). He was jamming (not the needles though, he has the gentle touch of a harpist playing with gilded strings made of angel cat whiskers*). He had at least 6 patients an hour. When I made the…

Most of my doctor’s numbers I find written in sharpie on the walls of bathroom stalls in bars.

There have been a lot of great Groupons for plastic surgery in my area. $99 for $2500 toward breast augmentation, stuff like that. If anyone wants to know what to get Elvis for Giftmas, Groupon plastic surgery is a perfect suggestion. I think I’m going to get all of my major medical procedures with a Groupon now.