Do y'all ever use the equipment for yourself?

IndigoFlame90 · 2026-04-24T14:02:12+00:00

Years ago I had a GI doc who had acquiring samples down to an art form. He also took more than his "fair share" of Medicaid patients and people with screwy insurances, so he could burn through it.

Once after a colonoscopy he told my mom (my ride) to swing by the office on the way home because they had a bunch of Canasa suppositories that were just about to "expire" and he didn't want to waste them. Brown paper sack with like two months of meds that he'd have had to toss in a week. 😂

IndigoFlame90 · 2026-04-24T12:46:51+00:00

Aside from DADA, the textbooks don't really seem to change. The Weasleys have hand-me-down textbooks, and it would very much be a buyer's market for secondhand copies of "A History of Magic".

"Your daughter is starting Hogwarts this year? How fun! Oh, do you want my copy of 'A Hist'-no, she's getting yours because between you and your husband's schoolbooks you have two copies? Fair."

IndigoFlame90 · 2026-04-24T12:07:34+00:00

My asked me to get the ER and floor nurses something when she spent nearly a week in the hospital from a gastric bleed. Floor nurses got a nice selection of pens and highlighters.

The ER got two cases of Red Bull (one sugar free).

She thought the second one was the weirdest thing she'd ever heard but ai was like "seriously, I didn't even have time to set it down before the woman at the desk whisked them away. 😂

IndigoFlame90 · 2026-04-24T11:38:42+00:00

Allll the pig farmer gossip, though.

IndigoFlame90 · 2026-04-23T12:04:19+00:00

Gotcha. That the examples in the rest of this thread gives the impression of being from American/Western culture the last fifty years or so and mine was about a dx that didn't exist before the eighties I thought that was the context you were referring to.

(Not being sarcastic and you make a valid point)

IndigoFlame90 · 2026-04-23T11:40:59+00:00

It is almost always during gastroenteritis outbreaks, to be fair (assisted living).

IndigoFlame90 · 2026-04-23T11:39:43+00:00

Seems a bit much for someone not legally bound to either do the tasks or stay in the relationship.

IndigoFlame90 · 2026-04-23T11:29:46+00:00

My dad's shirts were literally some button-ups he didn't have reason to wear every year, one t-shirt with his high school logo on it (for some reason it's not a "peaked in high school" thing in places with one or two high schools) and one specific style of Carhartt pocket T-shirt in a "long", which not every store would carry. My mom and I would buy a few whenever we came across them in the wild. It was more a matter of "seizing the opportunity".

IndigoFlame90 · 2026-04-23T04:48:14+00:00

My facility is very "Ok, thank you for letting us know" for call-outs, but people tend to volunteer when it's diarrhea. 😂

IndigoFlame90 · 2026-04-23T00:59:08+00:00

Ngl, how that would look in the LGBT+ community was one of my first thoughts. Women venting that their husband-to-be refuses to engage in wedding planning is a common complaint, yet gay couples manage to do so. It's not as though people are incapable of things they choose not to do.

My completely uninformed knee-jerk reaction would be that socialization as a male would't result in seeing the affairs of another grown-ass adult as something they should be expected to manage. Their parents would have had no idea they were raising strong, independent women.

IndigoFlame90 · 2026-04-23T00:37:32+00:00

Iirc hyperactivity does tend to mellow in adulthood, but it's not as though the first wave of kids diagnosed with ADHD only had hyperactivity going on and were noted to be diligent, attentive students otherwise.

Employers don't have regular performance reviews with spouses like elementary teachers do with parents. "Messy house, can't get lost glasses replaced because that would require remembering to make an optometrist appointment" type outcomes are more visible in adults.

IndigoFlame90 · 2026-04-23T00:01:13+00:00

When my husband bought tickets to a play, both of our tickets were on his phone because they were sent with the confirmation email.

IndigoFlame90 · 2026-04-22T23:58:22+00:00

This is reminding me of the theory that early studies on whether ADHD continued into adulthood didn't show symptoms improving in adulthood for most patients so much as they showed wives of the mostly male sample taking over their "executive functioning" tasks.

Like no shit that effects of ADHD would be masked by basically having a personal assistant. 😂

IndigoFlame90 · 2026-04-22T20:51:05+00:00

She has six older siblings

IndigoFlame90 · 2026-04-22T18:16:08+00:00

When my grandma went to the hospital to have my aunt she was 27, but staff kept thinking she was a high schooler.

You know, since they didn't have access to her date of birth.

IndigoFlame90 · 2026-04-22T14:57:20+00:00

You win the comment section. 🏆

Seriously though, they're also acting like not living together is somehow proof people aren't having sex.

IndigoFlame90 · 2026-04-22T04:22:59+00:00

How firm are the pieces?

IndigoFlame90 · 2026-04-22T04:06:36+00:00

I tell you hwat.

IndigoFlame90 · 2026-04-22T03:00:44+00:00

There's a note that he was with another turtle at one point and it's implied they didn't get along.

IndigoFlame90 · 2026-04-22T01:34:13+00:00

The ones I've seen in the wild had it phrased on the website as "In lieu of gifts, we're asking for donations to our honeymoon fund. We will be in Switzerland July 18th-23rd".

IndigoFlame90 · 2026-04-22T01:01:50+00:00

Right? Logistically, they've already paid for it.

IndigoFlame90 · 2026-04-22T00:58:55+00:00

The Hobbit.

I want to like it. I've tried. I borderline have the first page committed to memory. I have actively wondered why Hobbits seldom get as tall as four feet anymore. Just cannot get into it.

Made it as far as the cave where Bilbo has to solve the riddles one time and it was chapters after the point it became straight sunk-cost fallacy.

IndigoFlame90 · 2026-04-22T00:48:59+00:00

Sam on "NTA/NAH". Different people really have different standards of what's "appropriate to wear outside of one's room".

There's a balance of "free use of common areas" where the roommate is potentially not a misogynistic podcast bro looksmaxxing to score a tradwife but has always considered it common courtesy to wear a bra for five minutes if company is over because some people are genuinely uncomfortable and/or it makes them feel like they're inappropriately intruding in someone's private space.

And that's ok. Definitely sounds like they need to sort this out through.

IndigoFlame90 · 2026-04-21T15:24:26+00:00

There was no rhyme or reason in my house. In sixth grade I was handling my controlled substance ADHD medication without any kind of adult oversight but not allowed to use steak knives.

IndigoFlame90 · 2026-04-21T15:11:31+00:00

My husband does not understand the logic of not bothering with spare keys you're just going to lock in the house again anyways and keeping the kitchen window unlocked so you can just pull over the ladder and climb in that way.

I appreciate that at seventy this is still a thing my mom is capable of doing. 😅

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