On The Patient is Non-Compliant
@S. Elizabeth what drug interactions are there? I have heard that antibiotic thing is basically made up.
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On The Patient is Non-Compliant
I have been saying this for years! It's paternalistic crap that I have to get a completely unrelated cancer screening for a BC prescription.
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On I Drank the Kool-Aid, and It Was Juice
@Molly Jolene@facebook probably! I just compost it.
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On I Drank the Kool-Aid, and It Was Juice
beet juice is the best! carrot beet apple ginger 4LIFE
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On "Was My Face Red!"
@Where Pies Go When They Die The whole setup of this story still makes me cringe and I never tell anyone about it. In 6th grade, my mom let me get a PERM. It was horrible and I was a small child who had no idea what to do with curly hair so I just brushed it and it was a giant poofy triangle. Sort of near the end of that school year we moved to a different state (later people said they remembered me as the new girl with bad hair). Whatever, bad perm is no biggie, but I did realize it looked pretty dumb so I got it all cut off the summer before 7th grade. Except it got all cut off into some kind of horrible mullet. So I go back to school where I don't know barely anyone, with BOY hair, as a super tall girl with zero breastesses. I was so self conscious I just started wearing tons of jewelry everywhere so people would recognize me as a girl. It was just a gym class though that I was some 100% androgynous gangly non-athletic person who other 7th graders felt it was ok to ask if I was a boy or a girl :(
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On Becoming a Better Lazy Vegetarian
I was a vegetarian for a whole decade of my life and am even now old enough to have been eating meat again for 5 years. I basically don't ever cook meat (sometimes dude does that which is rad), and also I feel like I eat pretty healthy while being super lazy. Here are super lazy veggie tricks:
1. mixed whole grains! get a rice cooker, and in it put like an almost full cup of wild rice and then like a centimeter of the small green lentils. Add 2 cups of water and set it cooking. Sometime later when you remember (15 minutes? 30?) there will still be water in the pot but stuff will have started to cook and you can stir in a big handful of quinoa. Then recover and let that cook to completion. Then you can put that in everything for a few days and I think it's pretty healthy.
2. Lentils- sautee up an onion, a few cloves of garlic, however much ginger you can manage. after it cooks for a bit, put about 2 tsp each of cumin and coriander, then 1 tsp of mustard powder and .5 tsp tumeric. Then a potato chopped up and a carrot chopped up. After that looks appropriate, fill the pot with veggie broth and add a couple cups of lentils. Let it cook for awhile. You can put in some lemon juice for extra deliciousness when you serve it. Oh it probably needs salt too.
3. I basically eat veggie burritos a hundred times a week. Sautee up veggies (whatever you have). Then cumin and chili pepper (I think that's all taco seasoning is) then beans, salsa, avocado and cheese etc. (you can also put your multi grain rice mix thing in !)
4. peanut sauce on everything (peanut butter + water + equal amount brown sugar and soy sauce + 1/3 as much apple cider vinegar + however much garlic you feel like mincing + cayenne). It's delicious and goes on any stir fry and also sometimes your finger.
5. spaghetti sauce with all the veggies you have
6. salads are gross but I eat those too sometimes
7. I forced myself to start liking eggs a few years ago and now I can eat scrambled eggs for breakfast occasionally
fat is your friend- avocados, nuts (pecans yes! but also walnuts), and coconut yummmmm
super easy dessert- coconut rice pudding! cook up rice in milk/coconut water/coconut milk whatever adding enough milky drink to keep it liquidy as it's cooking (i pretend like it's risotto). Then coconut, vanilla, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg etc. Also you can melt chocolate chips in but maybe your boyfriend thinks that's gross so do it in your own bowl.
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On Friday Open Thread
@dauphine Tons of music playing everywhere all the time, the metro system is pretty ok (but closes early), FREE MUSEUMS!, people talk a lot about politics all the time, it's getting bike friendly, interesting neighborhoods, good restaurants, it's small enough that you can really know your way around pretty quickly.
I moved away in 2005, so I haven't lived there in ages but I would jump at the chance to move back. It was a fun vibrant city. Also I was younger and drank a lot, so I enjoyed the nightlife a lot. I've never made out with so many strangers in bars in all my life !
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On Friday Open Thread
@dauphine move to DC!! There are some affordable-ish areas and you don't need a car and I loved it there.
Also, apply for that job already! You don't have to take it even if they offer it to you.
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On The Patient is Non-Compliant
@ImASadGiraffe but you had to get a prescription for the antibiotic, so the doctor could ask about BC, and I presume that your friend gets treatment for lupus, so her doc could talk to her then. I actually have a medical condition that doesn't allow me to take estrogen containing BC (migraines with aura) but never once did a doctor mention that to me even though I've been treated for migraines. I found out about it separately and had to bring up my increased stroke risk with a doctor after having been on and off BC for a decade. I think individuals should do work to understand their own medical histories and not rely on doctors. I am fully on team OTC HBC