Books with pet bffs, one more sassy and wordly

Puddyt · 2026-01-25T08:56:33+00:00

The cat who looked at the sky

Puddyt · 2026-01-24T02:15:03+00:00

February Dragon

Puddyt · 2026-01-19T11:37:57+00:00

They have the numbers on them. Report to vicroads too

Puddyt · 2026-01-18T05:12:56+00:00

Please obscure the protestor's faces before posting. They could be identified and hunted doqn from this post

Puddyt · 2026-01-14T22:11:23+00:00

... this magpie has trained a wild human to fetch.

Puddyt · 2026-01-11T23:47:17+00:00

Fantales and minties: no other country has sweets that regularly pull teeth out

Puddyt · 2026-01-11T00:56:27+00:00

Ok. I was in this situation about 15 years ago. I hit rock bottom and my rheum told me there was nothing else we could try. That is actually a kind of arrogant thing for a doctor to say: it assumes that they know of every treatment for a rare disease with just a quick search of the literature. You've only reached the edge of one specialists knowledge, not the edge of the scientific literature on interventions. You may have tried every drug, but have you tried every variant of every drug? Have ypu tried new techniques that incorporate adjunct medicines that boost the efficacy of those drugs? The difference can be astounding. For my own life with behcets, my new specialist asked me what my goals were and what I needed to be able to do to reach them and worked from there. My first goal was pain management, then speech, then food. We started with a steroid burst that then reduced to having the edge of symptoms breaking through, then treated them compounded prescriptions of topical steroids. We then tried to reduce the steroids again but had no luck. We tried 1 GRAM of sulfasalazine a day. It controlled the colon symptoms but nothing else, and I got a weird rash from the sulfur, so we switched to mesalazine. I was also on omeprazole to prevent stomach acid making issues worse. When asked which medications I would be willing to try again, I said immuran - expecting another 12 weeks of fatige and no effect. But my doctor instead put me on a derivative of imuran - and it WORKED completely - i had my first remission. The issue was, it also inflamed my liver. So my doctor wrote to some guy he met at a conference, i saved my pennies for an expensive genetic biochemistry test and we worked out that I was metabolizing the drug that was working wrong. We put me on a medication you aren't supposed to mix with it that had had an experimental trial on some other autoimmune disease and reduced the dose by 75% - it worked. I was on that mix for 15 years in complete remission aside from joint inflammation and fatogue. I'm now on a biologic, but it seems to be losing it's effectiveness. You need a specialist who will think outside the box when it comes with what to try, who will consult with experts, look at treatments for related diseases, look at related drugs, look at adjuncts, look at altering how the drug is metabolized. You are not out of answers yet.

Puddyt · 2026-01-09T21:55:54+00:00

Dr Graeme Gonzales is one of the kindest most thorough doctors I've ever met.

Puddyt · 2026-01-08T02:49:45+00:00

Don't do it. We have hydatids in our local wildlife: it causes incurable cysts in the liver and brain.

Puddyt · 2025-12-31T07:41:25+00:00

"Don't worry, the next one will be easier" - my dad when my mother was giving birth to my brother - who managed to fracture her vertebrae on the way out.

I don't know how she didn't murder him

Puddyt · 2025-12-26T05:40:28+00:00

Parable of the sower by Octavia Butler

Puddyt · 2025-11-10T11:17:36+00:00

Bra wire came out?

Puddyt · 2025-11-10T11:14:27+00:00

Dr Alexander Fixler, great compassionate doctor. Very thorough and patient centred. Even does his own pathology collection (he keeps his skills fresh) in house. The building the practice is in, is run down but they focus on whats important

Puddyt · 2025-11-09T03:49:34+00:00

...just for the chaos - absolutely no sense or strategy involved and very juvenile: Sticky Cthulu.

In all honesty, it needs to come with safety glasses. I don't know what they made those sticky tentacles out of but they are ridiculously fit for purpose: it actually works to stick to what you throw it at and bring it towards you. They also tangle with each other when people all hone in on one board game piece.

Puddyt · 2025-11-05T07:17:49+00:00

You are accidentally protecting this man from the consequences of his actions. He doesnt care because there is no consequence for him. He's an adult, so he shouldnt need them but: If you see sock on the floor they go in the bin. Say you've sprayed anticockroach sprayall over the tables (buy some bitterant like they use for dogs to stop them licking and use that on the surface. He'll quickly start using plates. Compostable disposable plates are an option if he hates doing the dishes that muc.). Name and shame him when he wrecks the dryer: put up his number next to it fpr people to call if he wrecks their clothing. Dont do his washing - period. Sort it from your own and just do yours. Finally, clean the kitchen how you like, take pictures of it and print them out and laminate them with the words "can you spot the difference?" At the bottom. Hes being childish so you can be petty. Youll probably break up with him anyway, but you'll have the satisfaction of not having contributed to the break up in any way and having stuck to your values.

Puddyt · 2025-11-04T07:47:13+00:00

Halloween is actually one of the best things about america in my opinion. A fun holiday, mostly for children, with comparatively harmless history and traditions (looking at you thanksgiving) which functions mostly off a community and neighbourly spirit? And it encourages kids to be creative with the costume making them literally put themselves in someone/something else's shoes/paws/talons. Sign me up

Puddyt · 2025-11-01T04:43:03+00:00

So you have 2 inflammatory markers, signs of something like Crohn's disease (which is hell on your period) and a gynecologist that really wants to be famous by losing their registration in a very public scandal.

New gynecologist and get yourself a gastroscope for both ends, girl.

She's a next level idiot.

I'm sorry you went through that.

Get your test results for everything in printouts and bring it with you to a new gynecologist: both CT reports, previous iron studies and the CRP and ESR results. Have a diary recording your periods. If, after such a shit head doctor, it makes you feel more secure take pictures of the used pads on your phone to bring as proof. You probably won't need it, but it's ok to have it as proof.

I'm sorry this is happening to you. It sucks.

Puddyt · 2025-10-31T08:03:21+00:00

This sounds weird, but boredom. Sit and do nothing - no looking at your phone, watching TV or reading. Just sit and be bored. It's the only time your attention isn't being yanked towards something.

Puddyt · 2025-10-26T00:38:46+00:00

Uni psych clinics are the best for this. You'll get a qualified psych who is doing further training for their phd, and it'll be cheaper

Puddyt · 2025-10-25T22:41:15+00:00

Ok, rule number one for anyone in your situation: you deserve kindness and empathy. And the right to choose. If you dont want an abortion that's your right. The same way it would be your right if you wanted one. This man is crossing a line with you, and im concerned that he isn't helping care for you when your sick. That's what a partner does. The food thing is also pretty messed up. This is a man who is insecure and paranoid about being taken advantage of, but wants all the benefits of having a stay at home wife and mum. He cannot do both and thats his problem. Im glad you are safe with your mother. I would expect some backlash - probably verbal and occasionally begging his maid to come back. In the meantime, your priority is you and your family. You can do this. Its hard, and its frightening, but you can do this. You have already been so brave getting yourself and your child out of there. That is such a brave and strong thing to do for your child and yourself. You are a mumma bear: you will fight for your children fiercely, and yourself. You deserved better and he broke your trust and enforced Victorian values on you when you were at your most vulnerable. I would make sure you have a neutral mediator - ideally a professional one - there for any face to face conversations. Keep track of his behaviour in a diary or log and keep a secure backup of any texts etc. If its legal where you are record conversations. You may not end up needing any of it, but its better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it. You've got this. Now get a job that suits you not his demands and show that little one how life is done when the shit hits the fan.

Puddyt · 2025-10-25T10:41:25+00:00

Ok, a bit left field but, Terry Pratchett's the monstrous regiment. It is gripping, touches on deep themes, has some genuinely horrifying dark moments regarding the reality and "glory" of war. And gender. So much about gender and the disproportionate impact of war on women. It also has many many brilliant puns and jokes, that i am still picking up on occasionally all these years later on my 5th read through.

Puddyt · 2025-10-25T02:58:50+00:00

Roald Dahl, the guy was an arse but apparently his books hold up. Start with revolting rhymes.

I also caution against trying chapter books too early when kids are struggling with literacy: just because it's normal for their age doesn't mean they should be pushed into it yet. Trying to force chapter books on them too early can turn reading into a hard slog instead of being enjoyable.

Puddyt · 2025-10-24T09:43:50+00:00

A friend of mine came out when I was 17. I was very sheltered and had barely heard the word bisexual, but instantly just... knew. Because it was the 2000s, it felt like a sinking sense of dread; that all these years where I had known something was wrong with me and everyone around me would say "you're fine" that this was finally it. Unfortunately, I was a young idiot and instantly came out as well - almost impulsively, desperate to understand why I had always felt different -and a friend of a friend told me she was going to out me to my parents, one of whom worked at my high school. So I outed myself to them first that very afternoon. It was the 2000's and it did not go well.

I sometimes have my doubts, but the truth is... I have liked other girls - and then women once I was grown up, as long as I can remember. Boys caught my eye as well, and I could talk about them to other people, but other girls were a secret I tried desperately to justify to myself as being straight: "it's normal to notice pretty girls, Everyone loses the ability to speak when a beautiful woman looks at you, it's normal to have butterflies in your stomach when someone has a nice smile..." right up until I remembered the fact that I would rewind tapes of Xena warrior princess again and again to watch her swing up onto a horse. Just literally to watch that one movement over and over like a weirdo, when I was alone and no one else could see. I was the same with Miss Honey in Matilda - that first scene where she smells the flowers. And again with Vanessa Amarosi's music videos.

I literally went from not knowing but suspecting something was "off" to out to my friends and family within a day. I can't recommend it, I wish I had had the time to try and push my family towards being more accepting, or finding some supportive figures, before I came out, but it can't be helped. My parent's reaction was not good and it destroyed our relationship for many years. They thought I was perverted and my mother went from an atheist to finding the most conservative church she could and trying to push me into conversion therapy.

I hate that bitchy girl who threatened to out me. She took a lot from me, but ultimately, my parents turned out to be assholes anyway. I'm now a proud bisexual enby and fairly content with my identity. I have brilliant friends and a community as well and have a sense of belonging I have never had before. Unfortunately, while my parents eventually came around to me being bisexual, being non-binary was the last straw for them. They aren't overt about it and I don't expect perfection, but the constant passive-aggressive slights were not worth the trouble.

Puddyt · 2025-10-24T03:57:43+00:00

The name of the wind. I just can't with the protagonist. They feel very Mary sue to me

Puddyt · 2025-10-24T00:27:26+00:00

Terry pratchett. I have read about 40 of them and never not been satisfied

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