According to family lore, my dad stabbed me with a diaper pin while changing me when I was just a few months old. He said I didn't cry, I just looked up at him like "Daddy, how could you?" which made HIM cry.
I'm going to see to Wesley, see if he's still whimpering.
Giles ,'Chosen'
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Scrappy - Jul 13, 2016 2:26:38 pm PDT #25422 of 30002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
askye - Jul 13, 2016 3:10:27 pm PDT #25423 of 30002
Thrive to spite them
I have a small scar on my arm.
My parents were at a party where people had been celebrating and drinking, it was raining and Mom handed me off to a friend while she and my dad ran to get the car.
The friend slipped and jerked me up and in the process sliced my arm with her metal disc earring. (It was the 70s). I don't know if the drinking was a factor but mom throws it in.
Dana - Jul 13, 2016 3:33:05 pm PDT #25424 of 30002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
My grandmother left kids all kinds of places. She had a lot.
billytea - Jul 13, 2016 3:54:22 pm PDT #25425 of 30002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
My grandmother left kids all kinds of places. She had a lot.
This kind of makes her sound like the Easter Bunny.
Steph L. - Jul 13, 2016 4:53:54 pm PDT #25426 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Teppy, did you get that new IBS med? Is it helping?
Humana approved it and the assistance program made the copay $0 (which is amazing, because the copay WITH my insurance would have been around $300), and I picked it up from the CVS before we left for vacation, but I decided to wait until we got home to start it, because if I have a weird reaction (we're talking about ME, after all), I'd rather be near my own doctor.
So I'll start it Sunday -- it's a 14-day course. Fingers crossed!
askye - Jul 13, 2016 5:28:09 pm PDT #25427 of 30002
Thrive to spite them
I am going to call a differnt dentist tomorrow. I was googling and I found one that stated right up front they specialize in people with dental anxiety.
It'll probably be a few months before I can see them.
Steph I hope the IBS meds work miracles for you.
Tom Scola - Jul 13, 2016 5:30:44 pm PDT #25428 of 30002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Normal-matabolism~ma to Teppy.
meara - Jul 13, 2016 6:22:42 pm PDT #25429 of 30002
Ooh, and once when I was maybe 8, I was at my grandma's house and her sisters were hanging out smoking indoors (like you did in the day--even though i don't think grandma smoked) and one of them accidentally tried to ash her cig on my hand, thinking it was the ashtray.
SuziQ - Jul 13, 2016 6:34:26 pm PDT #25430 of 30002
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
I have a scar on one of my eyebrows from an accidental brush with a cigarette. Totally forgot about that, meara.
erikaj - Jul 13, 2016 7:24:29 pm PDT #25431 of 30002
Always Anti-fascist!
I wish I had an answer for the self-hate thing myself. I can't imagine talking to my doctor about it either, because I hardly have adoctor. More like an ointment jockey who overbooks three deep and I barely get a sentence out of.(I have barely ever been to a doctor who's any good at all at talking about emotional stuff, ever, anyway)