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Chetzemoka
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Just to let you know, picking skin is not inherently a symptom of some deep hidden trauma. Sometimes brains do things a little randomly without there being deep psychological reasons behind it all, and that's fine, if that's the case.
Talk to your therapist about it, but don't think you need to go hunting down some secret trauma, if you don't feel traumatized or don't remember experiencing trauma. Because sometimes the answer is just "brains do be like that though"
Almost all miscarriages are unexplained. Because research into health issues that primarily affect women is still in the fucking dark ages.
I had a friend who suffered multiple miscarriages (including one that wouldn't complete itself and almost required surgical intervention because she was bleeding so badly - a procedure that her home state of Ohio is trying to ban now because it's the exact same procedure that is used in ~~electric~~ elective abortions.
After so many losses they finally figured out that her progesterone levels were extremely low and supplemented progesterone the next time she got pregnant. She now has a healthy baby boy as a result.
Medicine doesn't even have solutions for so many of these problems, and half the government wants to take away one of the few tools available to us to keep women alive and healthy.
Fetuses are not babies.
Just gonna shout out Clare for any elder or younger Millennials in the crowd. Their colors are chef's kiss
I go between them and Benjamin Moore, just because so the pros over ever hired to work on my house use Ben Moore, and I figure there must be a reason.
Yeah, you did exactly what I wanted to do haha. I just love the Mitsu products so much. I had Mitsu mini-splits when I lived down in the Caribbean, and I'm a complete convert. I did install a supplemental Mitsu mini-split in the largest room in my house, which actually is so god damned efficient, it reduces the load on the central heat pump. The two combined get me through a really reasonable portion of the year. Those things are just amazing.
This is the problem I'm facing though:
Our electric rates went from 18Β’ to 25Β’ last winter with no warning. It's not that our prices are particularly high for now, but rather that they're unreliable. I didn't feel secure installing an electric only system because of this, even though I could have gotten a more efficient system. The dual fuel allows me to toggle between the two as needed, which feels like the safer option for the next 15-30 years that I expect to have this thing.
Sucks because I'd really prefer to have one of those Mitsubishi hyperheat systems. But even with the less efficient system, I'm running in heat pump only mode in the to 0β°C nights we're seeing right now and it's fine.
We regularly give the exact same treatment to Medicaid patients at my hospital that we give to rich patients. The key is being in a state with actually good Medicaid (Massachusetts). Lack of access in rural areas is more about corporations not making enough profit to continue providing services there. Which is why we need to make hospitals public again.
This right here has been my experience with VC. I was working for an online retail startup when 9/11 happened. Within days, we were all called into the office to be told we were shutting down because the VCs pulled our funding. This despite the fact that we were only two months away from projected profitability and beating our sales projections every single month. But we weren't the biggest paying bet in the casino, so they dumped us when the cash flow got tight.
That would have been a successful company, but it wasn't good enough for the VC class.
Yeah, the whole "occasionally torturing old people with dementia" part of my job is not what I signed up for when I became a nurse. But we continue to value the feelings of family members who might sue over the best interests of vulnerable patients. Welcome to America.
The time is NOW, Ohioans! My parents both already voted in Ohio to make sure nothing went wrong that might get in the way of their votes being counted. The vote is yes on issue 1 to protect abortion rights in Ohio.
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