I hope things calm down, erin.

(A valid concern, she was born a year to the day after he had his first attack--brought on by his wife's infidelity--followed by open heart surgery. Many people question whether he actually fathered a child a couple months out of the ICU...) But since her birth he's been her father and never asked for genetic testing, so IMHO he needs to step up and continue

Okay, I guess I can see other people speculating, but um, wouldn't he be in a position to have a pretty good sense of how possible it is? A heart attack may make sex inadvisable but I'm not sure I see how it affects fertility.

Yay Trudy! ~ma for permanent job improvement

Okay, I guess I can see other people speculating, but um, wouldn't he be in a position to have a pretty good sense of how possible it is? A heart attack may make sex inadvisable but I'm not sure I see how it affects fertility.

I never asked specifics cuz, ya know, my DAD, but my understanding is that he has every reason to expect her to be his biological daughter. His wife really wanted a child, and that desire increased dramatically after he almost died (repeatedly)...his concern is that she may also still have been sleeping with another man. Who killed himself a few years later. It's all so very soap-opera-ey.

Heh. I figured it was something like that. It just took me aback the tying of his questioning to the heart attack.

All joking aside, I do hope they can resolve this in a way that doesn't leave her unmoored.

sj- cops frequently will do a "courtesy transport" after breaking up a disturbance, in order to separate the parties. My assumption would be that she got in a row with someone, they responded to break it up, and then gave her a ride home to get her away from the scene. Cops generally don't just give pedestrians rides home.

Yeah, that is probably more likely. Sigh. There's probably no way to find out for sure though, right?

So, has anyone ever wondered what a fibroid looks like? Well, they took a picture of what they removed yesterday. As a point of reference, the surgeon is holding the basin in both hands. [link]

NOT for the faint of heart.

It looks like popcorn shrimp.

It looks like popcorn shrimp.

In spicy BBQ sauce.

What is it with fibroid surgery and photographs? My sister sent me a picture of her doctor holding her fucking womb outside her body, pretty much. GOOD GOD.

So, has anyone ever wondered what a fibroid looks like?

Pardon my ignorance, but is that one fibroid or many? Also, YIKES. Also also, so much for eating the crawfish I'm about to be served.