Uncle Ebb would be great! Like Cat Whisperer says, it’s supposed to be OVER!
Bah, grumble.
I had a hysterectomy and still get a brief visit each month. APPARENTLY the membranes can extend down into the vaginal canal slightly and they keep doing their thing even when the uterus is gone.
Initially I was just excited that I went from 8 - 10 days of bleeding to death to one day of meh is that blood but I’m starting to get sulky about it. I mean damnit isn’t surgery even enough to make it quit?
You got spayed and you STILL get a period?!? :eek: Goddammit, it’s official: women’s bodies are teh suxx.
You aren’t kidding! Yesterday I was sitting at my desk at work when I all of the sudden had a bright spot appear in the center of my field of vision. I thought that was weird but it was bright and sunny outside and our office is made of windows for some reason so it wasn’t unlikely that I caught a reflection off of the glass outside and was seeing a temporary spot, sort of like what you see after looking at a camera flash.
Then it started to spread and I went almost completely blind in a matter of seconds. I sat at my desk and cried quietly to myself because I am down to 2 days of PTO left and 4 more doctors appointments with my ob/gyn since I’m pregnant. If I went to the doctor for this it meant one less half day of time off available to me and I can’t afford to lose my job as I am currently the sole breadwinner in our household. So as I sat there crying and trying to determine which was more important, my vision or my baby, a coworker saw me and helped me get to a dark room where I could lay down for a while. After about 20 minutes my vision was back to normal and I could go back to work with no problem but it was incredibly scary. When I got back to my computer I googled “temporary blindness dur…” and before I could finish typing it filled in the “…ing pregnancy” for me. Apparently this isn’t crazy common but it isn’t uncommon either. At my next doctor’s appointment I will ask her about it and see what she says.
Women’s bodies are truly teh suxx.
pbbth, I’ve also experienced that temporary blindness. I believe mine to be an optical migraine, although it didn’t involve any pain.
Call me crazy, but isn’t this the kind of thing the FMLA was created for? Assuming you’re in the U.S. and not working for a company so small that it doesn’t apply. If your manager is someone you can trust, try talking to them about your options for getting an official FMLA leave of absence (they can be intermittant!) and taking noncompensated time off if you need it (or borrowing PTO if your organization allows that, which IME most do).
Could well be. Google “ocular migraine” (Google Image Search, too) and see if that matches your experience. I’ve had them alone and as a warning of an impending migraine.
That exactly describes my first warning of a migraine. I have to squeeze my eyes shut to check whether it’s an after-image of light or an aura. After-image fades when I keep my eyes shut for a few seconds, migraine aura intensifies.
And pregnancy can definitely make for migraines. I normally get them three or four times a year. When I was pregnant, it was every single fucking week.
Obviously check with your doctor, but till then, I honestly wouldn’t get too scared about it.
I respectfully disagree.
I came in to bitch about Google toolbar no longer working in Firefox…but now I feel bad. 
So many sad kitty problems!
I’ve had an ocular migraine, and I don’t get real migraines. It was the weirdest thing, like looking though shattered glass. Lasted about 30 min or so, no pain, and no recurrence.
I have no idea what prompted it, I sure as hell wasn’t pregnant, on any medication, or under any unusual stress.
I didn’t freak only because I’d been talking to my sister a month or so before about the same thing, she gets them and was describing how she had to pull over while driving and wait it out, she couldn’t focus on the road.,
Ocular migraines are definitely scary the first time that they happen. I haven’t had one since my last concussion though. I am not sure if that is a good or a bad thing.
So I was doing dishes and was going to get a dish towel to dry my fresh dishes. I open the drawer and what do I find? Droppings. Mouse droppings. On my clean towels. Since then, I’ve found fresh droppings all over my sink, stove and in my utility closet. This event officially makes this apartment the worst place I have ever lived, finally beating out the place where my roommates had a dog that ate my glasses.
And really minor and mostly self inflicted: Kittens, please stop sleeping on my face!
On that note, anyone have any good ways to kill mice but not my kittens?
Hmmm… if only there were some sort of creature that could serve dual purposes as pets and killers of mice…
Try looking for traps that are very enclosed. Alternately, those little “Hav-a-Heart” traps that just snap closed and capture the mouse, then take them for a long ride into the woods. (And make sure to check those traps a couple times a day at least.)
Some sort of… cat-like… creature. Maybe one that could, you know, grow into the role.
Other than that, I got nothin’. 
Or Slalexan could get a Scottish Terrier. Those things live to kill the small and rodenty.
Hah! I was disappointed to see the first field mouse of the fall season (mouse says “brr!” and runs into the old farmhouse for warmth) and was about to unleash my pets to destroy it… only to remember that rabbits aren’t exactly up to that task. Having ferrets for so many years will get the thought into your head that you can just release the “mighty hunters” and take care of the problem. Maybe if I told the rabbits that the mouse would eat their lettuce?
He’s got huge, sharp… er, he can leap about… Look at the bones, man!
Just a brief update from yesterday… my friend did end up losing her baby. It was pretty much inevitable, we were just waiting on confirmation.
Shit. 
Sorry to hear that.
No shit.