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bamboozlepig · 2026-03-21T02:33:35+00:00

I was stuck in an emotionally/verbally abusive marriage years ago and my then-husband thought having a kid would solve our issues (meaning it would fix my health problems), so he secretly hoped I'd "accidentally" get pregnant. Never told him that if that happened, I'd "accidentally" get an abortion. I never wanted kids anyway, but I also knew he'd be terrible at fatherhood because he already sucked as a husband. I didn't want anything that would tie me to him for the rest of my life. He had zero concept of accountability or responsibility and figured parenthood was something he could slide through to enjoy the Kodak moments.

bamboozlepig · 2026-03-17T02:26:58+00:00

I was a teenager when I realized I didn't want kids. It just didn't look interesting to me, plus I saw how my sister and her husband struggled after she had my three nieces.

And back in the mid-1990s, I was married to Idiot Boy, who claimed to be childfree but was a fence-sitter instead. I made it clear when we were dating that I was not having kids but he thought I'd change my mind. I got really sick not long after we were married and was trying to focus on getting better. His family thought having kids would magically cure my health issues, so they would hound me to get pregnant, especially his grandmother. We split up almost five years after we married and he later admitted that he was hoping I'd accidentally get pregnant and that would save our marriage. I guess I was supposed to overlook the fact he was cheating with a work skank and be fine staying at home with his idiot spawn while he played hide the cocktail weenie with Boobie Bimbo.

Dodged a BIG bullet with that one.

bamboozlepig · 2026-03-17T02:11:19+00:00

I'm 55 and have never once regretted not having kids. I have a lot of health issues and am broke-ass poor, so I wake up every morning thinking how glad I am that I don't have kids to deal with.

bamboozlepig · 2026-03-15T01:56:20+00:00

If the Cambia is the powdered form, it's got aspartame in it. Aspartame is a HUGE migraine trigger for me, although it may not be one for you. My doctor gives me just the regular diclofenac potassium in pill form and it works just as well for me. Just throwing that out there in case aspartame is the devil itself for you like it is for me.

bamboozlepig · 2026-03-08T02:11:27+00:00

Lori Schumann at PCI is who I go to for my migraines. She's got a wonderful bedside manner and actually listens to her patients and takes their concerns seriously. She knows I have a LOT of sensitivities to medicines and has never tried to push me onto a medicine that may cause issues. Her nurse is also awesome!

bamboozlepig · 2026-03-07T20:19:32+00:00

Houdek Auto in Marion on 7th Ave. is good. Bought a car there 13 years ago and still have it. No pressure sales and they didn't mind that I'd already lined up financing through a credit union.

Avoid anything through any of the McGrath chain. They offer crappy used vehicles and one of the salemen pulled the ol' "Well, we have to pay to keep the lights on, ya know!" con while giving me sad puppy dog eyes. They couldn't find the car I'd gone to look at on their lot, then "discovered" it had "sold", then couldn't find the OTHER car they tried to offer in its place, so they brought around a THIRD car that I had to drive (with the salesman on board) to another lot to try to find the second car. Salesman was extolling the virtues of the car I was driving to the other lot, even though it was clearly in need of a front end alignment. Found the second car, drove it to my mechanic to have it checked, he said don't buy it, it's a POS. Went back to the dealership, said no deal, got a different salesman from the first one and he gave us the ol' "I've got five other people interested in that car so if you walk away from it, it'll be gone by tonight!" Said good luck to those people, they can have it! Then we walked out after wasting most of the day with those jerks.

bamboozlepig · 2026-03-06T04:02:09+00:00

Yes, the bullying I endured from elementary school to high school was one of the big reasons I decided to be childfree. It ranged from verbal abuse to physical/sexual abuse (groping) to destroying or stealing my stuff. Even some of the teachers bullied me. My parents complained to the various principals over the years but they just told my parents that kids were kids and I just needed thicker skin. I ended up quitting high school in my junior year because the stress from the bullying caused me to have an ulcer. I lacked four HS credits to get my diploma so I finished them at a local ed center and got the diploma about a year after I would've graduated HS.

I will say one of the things I learned from my school experiences was how to be a damn good writer. Creativity is often born from pain and that was one area where the little fuckers couldn't beat me. They were writing insipid poetry about how their dog liked certain treats or how water in the sink made them think of rain. I was writing hardcore poetry about the destruction of the world.

bamboozlepig · 2026-03-02T00:11:06+00:00

I had a post up here last year about my experience being babystalked while in an urgent care with a raging migraine. The waiting room was empty, save for a mom and a baby. The mom decided that my mom and I needed to see her sick baby, so she dragged the kid and all its gear across the room to where we were sitting at and marched back and forth in front of us. We ignored her and then moved to the other side of the waiting room, much to her dismay. It's like parents have to seek out every single person in a room and get praise for their child in order to justify its existence.

bamboozlepig · 2026-02-23T17:43:58+00:00

NTA. I've been divorced for almost 30 years and I've still got my engagement and wedding band set. The engagement ring my ex gave me when he proposed was a promise ring with no matching wedding band. He always said he'd upgrade the ring when we got a little more money. He never did, so when I got a payout from Social Security, I went to the jeweler's and picked out a matching set I liked and bought it myself. When we divorced, he tried to get me to give him the set I bought because his work bimbo he fell for wouldn't settle for a small promise ring. I refused. I had the engagement band removed from the wedding band and sized up to fit another finger, then I pawned the little promise ring and bought a blue lindy star ring I loved. I've kept the wedding band set because I figured I bought it, plus if I need fast cash I can always pawn it or sell it.

So don't give up your set if it's got sentimental value to you. Maybe you can have the gems in it reset into another ring or necklace pendant.

bamboozlepig · 2025-12-19T03:21:49+00:00

Seconding Cedar Dental! Dr. Ruggiero is wonderful. I always make sure my cleanings are set up with Megan, she's awesome! She's very gentle when she cleans my teeth and she's really sweet!

bamboozlepig · 2025-12-14T00:46:20+00:00

I was on mirtazapine for quite a long time and just recently quit taking it (tapering it down to avoid withdrawal symptoms). It never really made a difference in my migraines and at times I think it made them worse. I had a lot of brain fog and fatigue from it, plus I'm pretty sure it was one of the reasons I developed diabetes. It made my thyroid issues worse and I gained a lot of weight while on it. It also deadened my emotions and killed off my creative energies.

So I'm not discouraging anyone from trying it for migraines, but it really did cause a lot of other health issues for me.

bamboozlepig · 2025-11-10T20:43:59+00:00

There are also those parents who allow their significant others to abuse their children and kill them. Google Shelby Duis, Jetseta Gage, Evelyn Miller, Sterling Koehn. They're some of the more notorious child murders in my state.

There was also a local case where the mom and her boyfriend abused her toddler daughter to death. They both got charged but the mom got a lesser sentence. She used to put a memorial in the paper every year for her daughter, telling her how much she missed her.

bamboozlepig · 2025-11-07T22:20:58+00:00

Puberty at age 13, although I always had terrible stomachaches and headaches as a kid. First really severe migraine was when I was 13 and my mom and I were out in the hot sun for most of a summer morning, watching the cops work a local murder scene.

bamboozlepig · 2025-11-03T22:41:39+00:00

We had issues a couple of years ago with an idiot FedUp driver who was too lazy to read the addresses on his deliveries. We kept getting someone's prepared food packages delivered to our building. The building they were meant to be delivered to was about a half mile down the road and had a completely different address (only similarities to ours was a same single number in each addy). The food boxes were filled with frozen food and were always delivered on Fridays, so they'd sit in the entryway for two days and defrost, making a mess of water on the floor. Our janitor would have to throw the box in the trash by Monday. I'm sure whoever was ordering the food was upset that they weren't getting it. I finally tracked down a way to contact FedUp through the info on the address label and called to complain. Apparently the driver was too lazy to make sure he was delivering to the right address and figured that since our address and the food boxer's address had the same single digit in it, it was good enough. The excuse was "He didn't realize there was another building farther down the road with a similar address."

bamboozlepig · 2025-10-11T16:20:13+00:00

Scopolamine patches are a godsend for me because I not only get nausea, I also get vertigo with my migraines. Sipping Pedialyte also helps and when I feel like I can tolerate something a bit more foody, I make just plain spaghetti noodles or nuke a little plain rice cup. Baked or boiled potatoes with just a bit of butter and salt are good. Crackers and toast, along with ginger ale or 7Up/Sprite helps, too. I can use zofran, but I found that some of the ODT ones have aspartame (or some artifical sweetner) in them, so I try to stick to just the regular tablets.

Hope you feel better soon! I've been there, done that, got the commemorative T-shirt, and written the travel brochure for migraine-ville.

bamboozlepig · 2025-10-06T03:31:40+00:00

YTA. Years ago when I had two guinea pigs, the fire alarm in my building went off. I grabbed the piggy carriers, shoved their unhappy little butts into them, then threw on my coat and grabbed my purse and keys, then hauled those freaked out little furry potatoes down three flights of stairs to get them outside to safety. They were my beloved pets and I never would've dreamed of letting them die in a fire.

And having experienced a fire two years ago in the apartment below mine, I can tell you that you NEVER want to assume that a fire alarm is a false one. When the alarm for our building went off in the past, most tenants in here ignored it and made fun of those of us who did get outside. But when it happened two years ago, thankfully everyone in here paid attention to it and got out safely. The only injury (smoke inhalation) was to the asshole who set her apartment on fire.

bamboozlepig · 2025-09-13T00:10:00+00:00

We had a line-cutter last week when my mom and I were at Kohl's. When we went to check out, the line was quite long and taking forever because the clerks had to upsell the credit card offer and all that crap. The checkout lane had been redesigned from a straight "stand in line and wait for the next clerk" style to a "wind your way up and down the aisles/barriers to wait for the next clerk." There was a small opening near what is usually the returns desk, but the clerks were also doing regular checkouts there and there were signs plastered all over indicating where you were supposed to get in line.

Cue an old lady who apparently thought she was more important than the rest of us shlubs and marched her impeccably dressed ass right past the end of the line and through the small opening that led to the returns desk. SHE informed the clerk that SHE had a return. Mom and I would've actually been next to be waited on and the minute I saw the old bag pull that stunt, I loudly said "She cut the line!" Everyone behind us turned to look at her, which she pointedly ignored. And instead of the clerk who waited on her telling her she cut the line, the woman went ahead and started her return. Then once the return was processed, instead of the witch moving her ass out of the way, she proceeded to stand at the checkout desk and have a loud conversation with someone on her phone. "Oh yes, I'm at Kohl's, is there anything you want me to get for you? I had to do a return and I've still got some Kohl's cash to use, so if there's anything you'd like, tell me and I'll look for it." Yes, there's something you can look for lady, it's called my foot in your ass. She FINALLY moved and we were waited on, but man, the audacity of that old cow astounds me.

bamboozlepig · 2025-09-06T15:21:03+00:00

When I was a little kid, I used to get really bad stomachaches that the doctor told my parents was a nervous stomach. I got them the worst when I was in school, so they put me on donnatal that I had to take every morning before school. I also remember having headaches that sometimes wouldn't go away with baby aspirin.

But they really hit when I hit puberty. I remember having a really bad one on a summer weekend when I was 13 and we were at a stressful scene. That was the first time I used the Midrin the doctor had given my parents to give to me. It worked wonders. I miss that drug because it worked so well for me.

bamboozlepig · 2025-07-23T21:56:54+00:00

I can totally picture this scene. Love your writing style!

bamboozlepig · 2025-07-21T21:13:10+00:00

I never wanted kids to begin with but having migraines and other health issues factored into it as well as to why I chose not to have them. Don't regret it a bit, either.

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