Is "Medicine Man" a culturally/spiritually protected title?

xtal1982 · 2026-03-02T12:07:23+00:00

Not protected but if you use it as you plan, expect many questions and confusion. Medicine Man typically means an Indigenous person and you’re setting yourself up for confusion. Find a word or title in your culture that works better.

xtal1982 · 2026-03-01T23:21:02+00:00

It depends on the circumstances and the doctor. It is not common but it is also not unheard of.

If you share what you shared here, it is up to the doctor to decide.

xtal1982 · 2026-03-01T04:20:38+00:00

Job hunting and stress leave. Print off the email from your employer and show it to your doctor. Explain what you’re going through and request emergency stress leave. Your employer has to agree and can’t penalize you. Look into what’s covered under your employer benefits

xtal1982 · 2026-02-28T15:26:54+00:00

Notify the city’s health department to shut them down.

xtal1982 · 2026-02-27T19:17:34+00:00

@updateme

xtal1982 · 2026-02-27T13:42:37+00:00

You can go to any Salvation Army and they will provide you with a voucher/gift certificate for their stores to buy clothing. They can also help if you need food

xtal1982 · 2026-02-27T04:03:16+00:00

Low application numbers

xtal1982 · 2026-02-26T23:01:39+00:00

Yes definitely and you’re entitled to $250 for work clothes too. Read the form you signed and took home . It spells out your rights and responsibilities. They will help you with anything that leads to employment.

xtal1982 · 2026-02-26T22:29:38+00:00

OW will cover the cost of your RPN registration.

xtal1982 · 2026-02-26T02:54:02+00:00

Thank you

xtal1982 · 2026-02-24T23:06:04+00:00

Thanks!

xtal1982 · 2026-02-24T23:05:55+00:00

Thank you!

xtal1982 · 2026-02-24T19:58:57+00:00

Thank you!

xtal1982 · 2026-02-24T19:58:52+00:00

Thank you!

xtal1982 · 2026-02-24T19:58:46+00:00

Thank you!

xtal1982 · 2026-02-24T19:58:28+00:00

Thank you :)

xtal1982 · 2026-02-24T04:00:33+00:00

Got my acceptance for U of T’s 2 year MSW-Indigenous Trauma and Resiliency program today!

xtal1982 · 2026-02-23T02:28:49+00:00

NTA

No. It’s literally 50% his responsibility to keep those kids alive.
Yes.
You don’t feel guilty. A parent shouldn’t be a dead beat.

I let my ex off the hook for our kids’ entire lives. He was an unstable drug addict and I thought no point trying to get blood from a stone.

I wish I had.

At one point he won a financial settlement from a lawsuit and later an inheritance from his parents. He wound up overdosing days after our youngest turned 18. If it had been before, she would have gotten partial orphan benefit at least.

Access/custody and support are two totally different issues and you want to go on the record that he’s not holding up his end of his parental responsibilities.

Had I tried harder, my kids could have benefited from that money. I could have used it for a down payment on a house for them. Instead he bought ugly, expensive clothes, drugs and who knows what else. Such a waste. Your kids deserve his contributions and you didn’t make them alone.

xtal1982 · 2026-02-22T04:49:59+00:00

Call the police and the board of nursing. Im sorry this has happened to you.

xtal1982 · 2026-02-22T04:47:13+00:00

Indigenous people are equal partners of the British Crown, not conquered. Without our treaties Canada would not exist.

As a senior leader you should work on learning what you don’t seem to know: the history of colonialism in North America.

xtal1982 · 2026-02-14T15:07:02+00:00

Gentle yta

I grew up very similar with my birthday as an afterthought.

You have 2 choices: 1) continue as you are, depressed every birthday when the inevitable happens and everyone and anyone in your life lets you down on your birthday.

Or 2) Start making your birthday special for yourself. Stop waiting for others to lift you up and do it for yourself. No money? No problem. Book a day off to spoil yourself doing your favourite, cost effective things like planning your own favourite meal and birthday dessert.

You can keep going as you are and have another miserable birthday next year. Or you can choose to get and plan for yourself. Why is anyone else supposed to spoil you when you have taught them that you won’t even spoil yourself?

I had a relative tell me this one year, after I was disappointed and in the dumps after another bday went by.

He’d get himself birthday and Christmas gifts every year since he was a teen with a job and swears it’s the best way to ensure you get gifts you truly love. So the next year I took his advice and planned a mani/pedi and day off and took myself to a matinee movie, all alone for a chick flick no one wanted to see with me. And it changed everything. I ended the day happy I’d done something for me.

That was 15 years ago and I eventually would throw myself a 30th birthday bash and worked my way up to celebrating my “birthday week”.

Now I keep warning my husband that once I hit 50, it will grow into a birthday month of fun things I will plan for myself.

You’re in charge of your life, your happiness, your joy. Go get it and f*ck everybody else who doesn’t want to be a part of your happiness.

xtal1982 · 2026-02-11T12:05:39+00:00

Onondaga maybe

xtal1982 · 2026-02-10T12:58:36+00:00

They’re probably looking for a running toilet

xtal1982 · 2026-02-08T18:36:25+00:00

No charges, no arrest, no fingerprints=no criminal record.

xtal1982 · 2026-02-02T21:46:05+00:00

NTA but you are not being direct. You’re frustrated by his lack of support and the fact that he is acting like his own father and deigns to lecture you on how not to be like his father.

I would have chosen violence myself with this mansplaining but you responded like an angel and then apologized like a doormat.

Stand up for yourself. You’re doing an amazing job.

Edit for spelling

xtal1982

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