mthor

No shit, moron. What was it, last week, I told you to stop using Karen as a slur? When I mentioned that the Karen are an oppressed Burmese ethnic group? Google Karen, you insensitive slug. Much compassionate. Much wokeness.

Well, the thing is, if you're going to do it, do it right.

You have more urgent matters to deal with than a feral kitten. You have a human child who depends on you, and if you're actually as ill as you say you are, you owe it to her to take care of your own condition before you worry about feral kittens. Save your money for the ER bill instead of spending it on a feral cat.

You may want to call her back. This is not going to sit around waiting until next Wednesday. If you were diabetic and you couldn't get your sugar under 500, would you wait almost a week for your endocrinologist? If you had a heart condition and started having palpitations, would you wait almost a week for your cardiologist? You have a chronic illness, and you are having an exacerbation. Please treat your brain with the same respect you'd show your heart or your lungs or any other part of you.

No, it's just years of conditioning.

Meh, maybe. I'd rather err on the side of caution. And it's been my experience that mental health care workers can be pretty cavelier about the discomfort of their clients. Not all, but enough to make dealing with them pretty much a crap shoot.

if you're out there somewhere, dude: Happy Birthday!

I mean, whatever. I've never worked in outpatient mental health, so maybe she's right. But I hope you got her name in case she's not.

What a twatwaffle. A hallucination is kind of uncontrollable by definition. Did you tell her that it's interfering with your work?

No. I said I used the bathroom.

I can't make the decision for you. I can only tell you what I think. What I think is that it's not going to get better by itself, and that even if it just stays the same, it's going to be damn hard to work with the distraction. And if it gets worse, you're going to wind up in the ER anyway. I understand about the bill, but I don't want to see you go off the deep end, either.

I don't think that it's a good idea to wait. Is anybody answering the phone there?

KEEP CALLING!!! Go to the ER if you have to. You've got the FMLA to protect your job. Look, I may be overreacting, but I think this is an emergency. If nothing else, it's interfering with your ability to perform at your job. And I'm concerned about it escalating.

Thank you. Auditory hallucinations are nothing to fool around with. I'm taking this at face value because it's actually an emergency. If you're choosing to be patronizing, that's your call. However, as I have said before, hearing voices once wound up with me driving for 3 days and nights, stopping only for gas, coffee, cigarettes, and the bathroom, and ended with a week on a psych ward in Philadelphia (at a time when I was living near Orlando). You can learn from my experience, or you can learn from your own. Your choice.

If you're hearing voices, you shouldn't be posting about it. You should be calling your shrink right away. And you probably shouldn't be at work, especially if you can't differentiate between voices and The Voices.

"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain." RIP

Abracadabra! You're a sandwich. And I didn't even have to go to the kitchen.

It's ok. You weren't there.

There weren't any states at the time. They were colonies.

I remember one of the afflicted girls at the Salem witch trials being referred to as a junior in court documents, but that's the only time I've ever seen it used. (At least that's what I've read; believe it or not, I wasn't actually there.)

Well, to be fair, they weren't the greatest pictures, but Mom made Tang so we could feel like we were there.

Enjoy the peace and quiet.

Venipuncture.

I thought that that was plain dynamite. Shrapnel makes for poor eating - it's like hunting deer with a shot gun, and you could break a tooth on it.

Out of curiosity, exactly what are the commercial and/or agricultural applications of a pipe bomb?