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11/12/09
*crickets*
Thank you, thank you. I'm here all week. #strippers
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Maybe I've helped too many friends decorate their babies rooms, but to me it sounds something you hang over a crib. #strippers
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I can't believe they were sitting there at two computers in the same house! I wonder if she managed to keep a straight face at all. #strippers
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What on earth, between women dancing without restraints in a moving vehicle and the distraction that women dancing suggestively is bound to cause for all drivers, would lead them to think that there was any doubt in this situation? #strippers
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That's a BMI of 35.4. And I had a perfectly normal labor and delivery and nobody told me to GTFO. He was just a hungry damn baby and weighed over 9 pounds himself. Neither of us had diabetes or ANY PROBLEMS AT ALL.
F*ck you, Weston General. F*ck you right to hell. If you were my local hospital and you had the balls to try something like this on me I'd just sit on the front doorstep and give birth RIGHT THERE IN THE HOSPITAL LOBBY. #strippers
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At first take I was mad at this, but from the hospital's perspective, this isn't about discrimination.
I was a really early preemie and my mom was a Type 1 diabetic. She was transferred to 2 different hospitals before the EMTs found one that had a doctor willing to assist with the complicated delivery (which lasted 39 hours, go mom!). The first two hospitals did not believe that they were adequately equipped to help my mom, and in addition were not equipped to help a baby that would need immediate life support.
Some hospitals don't accept trauma patients etc-- on the face, this banning certain types of pregnancies seems like a maddening practice, but if the hospital believes mothers will be in danger, they should not treat them.
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It completely sucks for women in that area who will have to travel farther to receive care-- but I hope it's for a good reason and not just the hospital being a bunch of dicks. #strippers
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It seems to me that the hospital is advertising that it cannot deal with any kind of "complicated" childbirth, and if I were of lower than 34 BMI, I would be very hesitant to birth my child in a hospital where the staff may not actually know how to deliver babies. #strippers
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I have a BMI of 38 which is DEATH FAT. I am so fat that the BMI chart indicates I will die from my enormity. I am a size 20. I have absolutely no problem fitting into theatre chairs, standard bed sizes, etc. No special gurneys, beds, tables or scales are neccesary for me. My only complaint are airline seats, but that's more of a gendered complaint from anyone who possesses hips.
Certainly, if a hospital cannot care for me because I have such freakish proportions, they should be shut down. And for those people who require larger scales, beds, chairs, etc, they should acquire some - because some people come in "non-standard" sizes and they are also human beings who may need health care.
This case is one of two things: the staff at the hospital are incompetent, or just want to "punish" fatties - specifically women - by withholding health care. My money's on the latter explanation. I'll bet they have no problem offering incredibly risky weight loss surgery to people over a 34 BMI. #strippers
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In other news, I really thought the woman gets arrested while in labor story was going to be very different (like they tracked down an actual criminal) and was shocked! by the story. But then I remembered that this is America, and my shock faded. #strippers
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However, we couldn't give a fuck about the ones who we DON'T LET deliver here. #strippers
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Before I was born, my parents spent 6 years trying to conceive. This was just about the time that IVF was invented, but it wasn't being used outside of research labs yet. They were just about ready to cut my mom open so they could root around for a problem when my old Irish granny (who hadn't even graduated high school) mentioned to my mom maybe it could have something to do with the pills my dad took. My mom scoffed, if that were possible, the doctors would have asked! But she asked anyway and found out my dad's high blood pressure medicine caused temporary infertility. No one had ever asked anything about my dad's medical history and his doctor had never mentioned that side effect. My dad went off the pills and I was born less than a year later, despite my mom's advanced maternal age of 36.
I don't think all that much has changed since then. If anyone is having fertility problems, they should get their partner into a fertility specialist.
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This Jezegay is thinking that for me it's more like two and a half years.
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That duck isn't the only one! (There's a whole slideshow in the Telegraph.)
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As for the actual story. That sucks. I mean, really, really sucks. Those drugs can really mess with one's mind.
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Dr. David had valid points, though this is one place where I don't see sexism (which is shocking, because I see it everywhere). I do think docs resort to IVF a bit too quickly because the results are so much better (generally speaking) than other methods, like IUI or ZIFT and GIFT (I don't know if those two are even used any more).
08/12/09
First off, no one would help because he's white, and techically a 'domestic' duck, unlike a mallard, which is wild. And domestic ducks don't belong at the lake.
But Delano the Disabled Duck (I named him after FDR) has been slowly improving. He couldn't walk for a while, so I brought him food. Now he can amble about -- slowly -- and swim. There are always a couple other ducks -- the same ones -- with him. Delano's posse.
All of the ducks are ruled by a giant mallard with a majestic white chest. His name is BaQuack Obama.
Yes, I need more human friends.
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But Delano has been slowly improving since mid-winter. He's going to be okay, in my non-educated view.
I am also friends with Moe the Mallard. He has a band of white around his neck. He's cool, although I'm afraid he's mentally retarded.
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