Andi has it exactly right. C got one a few weeks back and neither Kelly nor I had ever heard of a hair splinter. C kept whining about it and we kept not believing him and giving him grief until I asked about it on FB and found out that hair splinters can, and do, happen. So now it has become "a thing" in the house.
The kit we came up with has tweezers, neosporin, tiny bandaids, tissues, advil, gold bond healing lotion, and a magnifying glass. The box we are using is pretty full at this point. I'm going to print off as professional looking a label as I can.
This is hilariously weird: when I had my annual OB/GYN appointment last week, the doctor removed my Mirena because it was a couple-few months past its expiration. I'm getting a new one, because Trump, but the office manager has to order it, so I am currently IUD-less.
All day my IBS has been particularly painful, all lower-abdominal crampy and such. Except, no, it's not my IBS. Or at least not entirely my IBS. I'm getting my first period in 10 years. TEN. YEARS. I don't even remember how to have a period. This is so weird. And also painful. I did not miss this at all.
Oh dear, I hope you get the new one soon! I don't miss periods whatsoever.
You have my sympathies, Teppy. It wasn't 10 years, but it was long enough in between periods that when I had my first one after ltc was born, I had sort of forgotten how miserable they were.
I don't miss them either. Have you read Connie Willis's "Even The Queen"? it's set in a future world in which menstruating is optional ... and some women do, indeed, choose it. For some reason.
Almost five years without a period with my Mirena, and after it was removed I had two of the worst periods I ever had. But after those, nothing. Fingers crossed for menopause! woooo being a girl sucks
I remember that from getting my IUD out. It was NO FUN AT ALL.
I should be due for my quarterly period about now. My body is holding on to Not Quite Menopause by its fingernails.
Edit: Give it up, body! We'll be 56 in two months, there ain't no baby coming out of this factory!
My body has a different agenda for my life than I do.
Yeah, I asked my OB/GYN if I could skip a third IUD since I'm probably close to menopause, and she said "Not close enough." (I know there's a bell curve, so maybe I am about to hit menopause at 45, but I'm not willing to take that chance.)
