Grade 11 Math class. Going over some sort of word problem wherein "Angela" weighed 180lbs and exerted so much energy blah blah blah. Our male teacher starts laughing and says "Can you imagine how huge she must be? 180lbs is enormous for a woman!" I don't know what came over me, as…Â
My FIL was just admitted into Long Term Care for severe dementia where the monthly rent is a base sum + half of the household income. In order for my MIL to continue living life with any semblance of comfort she will need to divorce her husband of 47 years to preserve what little…Â
Friends for over 15 years. She was always a bit quirky and loved conspiracy theories, which I indulged because they were mostly harmless and way out in left field. Then Covid hit and i had the audacity to vaccinate my teenage son (along with myself and my partner) because I am immunocompromised…Â
I was with a national company for over 5 years, as one of 3 office staff. Things were going really well for the first 2 years, then staff was reduced to 2 and the extra stress & workload led to my autoimmune diseases flaring up. At that point my enthusiasm dipped but my work was…Â
I raised my son alone for the first 5 years of his life. The hardest part was when he was sent home from kindergarten for pooping in the urinal because he had never seen one and didn't know what it was for. He's still traumatized and embarrassed about it 10 yrs later. But the best…Â
I was offered a job by a regular customer, he called for a phone interview one morning with his wife while I was on my way to work. He knew a little bit about my life and was asking the typical questions until close to the end of our 40 minute talk when he asked me if I had any plans…Â
I became very ill with Crohn's disease and lost 60 lbs in less than a year. Reactions varied between my friends telling me to eat a burger or actually shoving food in my face, to my boss telling me she was jealous of my weight loss, to my landlord telling me I've never looked better.…Â
I was diagnosed with several autoimmune diseases a couple of years into my first office job. It took more than a year to find a medication that finally worked for me, but the medication itself was through IV and took hours per treatment every month. I returned to the office after…Â
I wish people would stop saying "Well you look fine." or "You're too young to suffer from that, that's for old people." Some conditions are invisible but the pain is not, and no, apparently 25 is not too young to be diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis
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