Everybody dies, Tracey. Someone's carrying a bullet for you right now, doesn't even know it. The trick is to die of old age before it finds you.

Mal ,'The Message'


Spike's Bitches 42: Which question do you want me to answer first?  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


juliana - Aug 06, 2008 2:38:24 pm PDT #17 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

A thing! Yay, a thing!

sj, just tell them "We'll let everyone know when we do!" Either that, or "You keep asking, I ain't gonna tell ya!"


Calli - Aug 06, 2008 2:40:17 pm PDT #18 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

sj, perhaps you could tell them, "Our ceremony won't be complete with out a human sacrifice, and it's so hard to get volunteers these days." Then smile and ask what they're doing in six weeks or so.


sj - Aug 06, 2008 2:43:45 pm PDT #19 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

I have told them that we'll let them know when we figure out what we're going to do, but now I'm getting weekly e-mails. And of course no one is bugging TCG, so he doesn't understand why I'm getting so upset. I'm this close to saying that we are no longer going to have a little party after the elopement because it's becoming too much of a problem.


Barb - Aug 06, 2008 2:43:46 pm PDT #20 of 10001
“Not dead yet!”

Shiny!


sj - Aug 06, 2008 2:45:05 pm PDT #21 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Calli, I wish I could pull that off.


meara - Aug 06, 2008 2:46:48 pm PDT #22 of 10001

OK, I know the Bitches are down with the meds and the talky meat therapy:

So, if you feel like you are falling apart and suspect you may need both medication AND talky meat therapy, who do you call first? I don't want to call up a talky meat person who can't prescribe drugs if they decide I need them, but do they usually have a relationship with someone who can? Would they be someone on my insurance if the talky person was also on my insurance? Or do I call a psych person first? Or just go to my GP and start crying? That seems a tad melodramatic, but OTOH melodramatic is how I'm feeling these days...


amych - Aug 06, 2008 2:50:53 pm PDT #23 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Melodramatic is an accurate view of your symptoms, so there's nothing wrong with it if you want to go that route.

Other than that, IME, talky and prescribe-y people both tend to have networks that they work with and can give recommendations about -- in other words, you should be able to get a referral to either one from the other. But I'd start with the talky, since having a good relationship with them is more important; and obviously be sure that both are covered by your insurance. You can specify that, and they'll totally understand.

(At least around here, they're pretty much all covered by all the big providers, but we're also a big-time medical town, so it may be different elsewhere.)


Atropa - Aug 06, 2008 2:51:54 pm PDT #24 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

So, if you feel like you are falling apart and suspect you may need both medication AND talky meat therapy, who do you call first?

Go to your GP and tell them how you feel. They should be able to give you recommendations for therapists AND be able to suggest what meds you may need (and prescribe them!). That's what I did last summer.

And meara, I am SO ANGRY with the universe for mucking you around about employment.


Barb - Aug 06, 2008 2:53:28 pm PDT #25 of 10001
“Not dead yet!”

It's a pity you're not Cuban, meara-- we're big on the self-dianoses and the networking with which to obtain the meds without a lot of insurance interference, AKA, the Cuban Grapevine.

I think the first step is your GP-- they can usually get you the referrals you need. Actually, I've also gotten that sort of referral from my GYN, as well.


amych - Aug 06, 2008 2:53:47 pm PDT #26 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

And meara, I am SO ANGRY with the universe for mucking you around about employment.

Shit, I TOTALLY forgot to say this part.