fuck, i’m sorry, that’s awful. when you told us about it last weekend it seemed potentially straightforward healing he needed to do, but it sounds like there was a lot of damage already done. :-( so, so sorry

what kind of firm? and what’s your job in relationship to theirs? are you the boss of them in any way?

i am so very glad that you are so assertively getting care and treatment for what you went through, both for your body and your mind. it is still of course so rotten that it happened, but kudos for you for reaching out and getting help so quickly, cause i know the shock and (subjective) shame involved in being…

very glad he has insurance, and sounds like he is going to be OK. are they calling it a spontaneous pneumothorax? that happens in young men, usually tall and thin, as another poster has mentioned. if he is otherwise pretty healthy then his other lung probably got him through the situation pretty well and his oxygen…

i am getting a year off from seeing family this year, phew! but when i do go, the pets totally save me - i’ll spend as much time with them as i can, and it’s so helpful. glad you have a couple of decent humans too. good luck!

merry christmas to you too, Maya! 

i just did upthread, lol

i really like how she closed the letter ‘thank you for your attention to this matter.’ ultra-polite and yet super snarky. i dont get to use that line very often, but when i do it is glorious. 

i just found them this morning via an NYT editorial, although i had found them quite a while ago as a fairly dormant site. i cant even tell if tuesday evening is the right time? looks like is going to happen whenever the house votes, which i guess is tuesday night? anyhow, now i’m signed up so i can be activated…

i got the SSSS on my boarding pass pretty much the entire time i had a fraud alert on with the credit bureaus. exceedingly rare since then. 

you mean like this one? the headline makes me bristle

phew, ok! still, wonder what’s up with that? hope you arent dry for too long! im in mass, and the governor put a ban on the cartridges this fall, so flower started to really get bought up. wondering if supply will be able to keep up. 

good sleep is the best thing ever!

if you dont mind me asking, where do you live that’s having a shortage? i am in a new england state with recreational and i am scared to go look at my dispensary’s website to see if it’s here

ripsplinter

i was assuming it was some sort of electronic music genre, lol

it is very rare, but it can happen to absolutely anyone, even if you do absolutely everything ‘right’. the folks who get these diagnoses of anacephalic or otherwise compromised fetuses that will die once born are suffering enough, and i dont know why the 20 more weeks of sheer torture is necessary. i’ve told a story…

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my brother did exactly this in his late 30's, but did it with the kid starting when the kid was about seven. if you do it now, the toddler will try to help, so keep that in mind. three years later it now runs around the entire backyard, with bridges and tunnels and the next thing is going to be a waterfall! it was an…

maya, i am glad you are feeling better, and very glad you got more anxiey meds and therapy to help you through this more stressful time - i have anxiety that is usually pretty well-managed, but when it flares from stress it takes over everything and can be hard to see a way out, and seems like i cant possibly make it…