Kaylee: Is that him? Mal: That's the buffet table. Kaylee: Well how can we be sure, unless we question it?

'Shindig'


Natter .38 Special  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Steph L. - Sep 21, 2005 2:35:45 pm PDT #9742 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

I'd never heard of strokes/heart attacks being related to BC pills before this article.

Scientists could just be extrapolating from the blood-clot risk. I've heard plenty about that, especially if you smoke and are over 35, but nothing about strokes/heart attacks.

But my BP went up after going on the Pill last year, which is why I'd prefer an IUD, though I don't know if my OB/GYN will agree, b/c they're weird about women who haven't had kids getting IUDs.


amych - Sep 21, 2005 2:35:50 pm PDT #9743 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

I've heard about strokes and BCP, but specifically in smokers on high-dose pills -- which fits with it being an early round of safety panic, before either dosages or the specific risky factors were as well known as they are now.


Steph L. - Sep 21, 2005 2:36:48 pm PDT #9744 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

(Though, really, my personality is all the birth-control I need....)


amych - Sep 21, 2005 2:37:15 pm PDT #9745 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

(pfffft)


Lee - Sep 21, 2005 2:38:47 pm PDT #9746 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY.

I am. I had actual work to do, so I am even happier that other people nagged for me while I was gone.


Jessica - Sep 21, 2005 2:39:09 pm PDT #9747 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

t thwap!

Unrelated, I'm downloading My Name is Earl right now, and it's earwormed me with "Duke of Earl." Just thought I'd share.


ChiKat - Sep 21, 2005 2:39:39 pm PDT #9748 of 10002
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?

If you have a preexisting condition that puts you at risk for blood clots (as I do), it's recommended that you use only low-estrogen pills

That makes sense. I know my doc won't prescribe them for me because of the heart disease/stroke history in my family. I guess that means I'm at a higher risk for getting a clot.


Trudy Booth - Sep 21, 2005 2:40:22 pm PDT #9749 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

I grew up with a woman who had a stroke on those early pills.

She was my Dad's next door neighbor, a very beautiful vivacious girl who (without her strict parents' knowledge) had gone on birth control pills. When she had the stroke her first or second year of college no one had any idea what was happening.

By the time I knew her she was in her late twenties or so. She was like an old woman how she walked and talked but looked like a young woman. Her sister was just as bubbly as she had once been and I remember being bewildered when I was told Clare used to be just like Susan is now. She lived with her parents for the rest of her life.

For several reasons I've never really been on the pill, but my gut-level distrust has never made me miss it. The article is sort of disconcerting on that same gut-level.


dw - Sep 21, 2005 2:40:39 pm PDT #9750 of 10002
Silence means security silence means approval

And now, the latest Rita the Destroyer update:

Latest pressure: 904mb, making it the fifth strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic basin. Katrina bottomed out at 902mb.

The storm should enter an eyewall replacement cycle sometime this evening, and that should weaken it some. Storms rarely stay at cat. 5 more than 12 hours at a time, so the 11pm EDT update will probably be the peak of Rita's intensity. After that, it should sink back to a high cat. 3 or low cat. 4 at landfall.


Allyson - Sep 21, 2005 2:42:12 pm PDT #9751 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

hate. job.