'Dirty Girls'
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.
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.
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.
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.
hate. job.
t trying not to be nervous about the pill now that my NP and I just agreed today I should go back on it for a few months in hopes of convincing my body to stop having stupidly short cycles
Oh, dear. I need to go home. I just read Allyson's tag, which is:
bent down and helped us pick up our boots.
As "bent down and helped us pick up our boobs." So. Wrong.
Here's a critique of the Gladwell article: [link]
Have done Quicken. Have NO MONEY. Again. Wah.
Stupid husband spent $60 at Kroger today, buying STRING CHEESE! Doesn't he know that poor people like us make their own string cheese by cutting up big square blocks of cheap cheese?
Ugh. I so need to go home. But I should finish my coffee first, so I will be less likely to plow into the center divider on my way home.
Malcolm Gladwell writes on many seemingly unrelated topics. I think he must have a fun job.