If you attend the White House Correspondents Dinner this year, you should be legally barred from using the term "journalist" to describe yourself from that point on.

I am actually st the primary care place so forgive my typos. Haven't had my steroids or meds and I have sausagy fingers in the morning from RA

I just want them to make sure my kidneys and/ or vitamin balances are ok. Something like that. My brain is foggy and I am sleepy but something like that

Feel free to ask advice/ questions if you or a loved one is living with it
I had brain surgery a year ago but lived with it 9 years. Its a horrible disease but there is a lot of support online including a Reddit group that is international

It can take forever, then a lot of experimenting with medications! But if you find a competent specialist they will fight to get it right.

Lol next time they ask who my primary is, I am gonna say Dr. Retured

Went for my MRI at 6:30 this morning for my neck. Then cant get back yet bc Uber is $40 lol so i went to see my on-deman primary care place...and my Dr. Retired. I didn't even get a letter

It's kind of terrifying, but this child has had so much pain and drama in her young life.

They're on the way to the hospital to get her birth records, that's really all she needs. Then to the police station. The people said they would watch her baby for a few days and then wouldn't give the baby back lol

So the Snack Kids' don't really need me to send instructions on anything. I didn't tell them how to get the mice set up (I forgot and needed to look it up), but they magically figured it all out.

Just like I thought they would

I am 2 pounds from losing 50 lbs total. Although some of it was recent and more rapid, I worked hard to lose most of it over the past 2 years.

My skin is getting saggy due to my hybermobility disorder. It looks like I was on Ozempic but I just have some collagen issues lol

We have new neighbors a few doors down and it's a grandmother who bought the house and the family is huge. It appears 3 generations live there. The youngest boy is really fun, I like him a lot. I wish the Snack Kids were here to befriend them. These kiddos already own the block, they are charming.

So ICE is helping with security, the train is $150 and FIFA won’t allow access to the parking lot, and walking to MetLife is illegal/dangerous — and if people decide to walk an hour anyway, it will be like 85 degrees with 70% humidity. Sounds like a World Cup for the books!

I guess I need to get another COVID shot soon in preparation for a colonoscopy. It's been since October last year so I guess my husband and I are due.

For the MRI's they usually give you a nonmetallic paper mask

So a friend of the Snack Kids' family is having a crisis where a distant family member won't give a baby back to an underage teenager. The police refused to help and consider it a domestic matter. And they need my help, sometimes I feel like Velma

Tomorrow I have a neck MRI, and then the next day we are investigating a lump on my hip. I am sure it will all cost me a boatload eventually.

The new favorite doctor line is "It's much easier than brain surgery" and actually, they gave me the best painkillers during brain surgery. I texted from ICU I think or maybe even posted here. So, I was ok. I tried to do Audible but it didn't work out while in the hospital

It's almost been a whole year since brain surgery!

But to me, every surgery, even colonoscopies, take a lot out of me for a week or more. They also have a COVID risk and sometimes make the gastro issues flare

SO there's not exactly gaslighting on this health issue, it's just a storm of different issues, and he says very few symptoms overlap. We don't know if the colitis is drug-incuded/acute and that's what he wants to know.

We don't know if the colitis is drug-induced or even if it is further up my digestive track. This is all crazy. He wants me to have a colonoscopy PRIOR to starting Humira for RA. I really f-ing hate colonoscopies and just pushed back on that. But the clock is ticking, really.

I tested positive for norovirus Thursday but due to immunosuppressants and several other issues, we don't know if it's active or when I had it. I feel like I still sometimes have it but then I also have proctocolitis. It is very, very uncomfortable

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LOL I love the Snack Kids but the eldest keeps calling me with teenage emergencies and they're never serious. They are also never emergencies, like getting to a party etc. One day I will say yes again but for now, child, you must chill lol

I have been so unwell and losing weight so rapidly, that norovirus in the middle of all of it just became what I thought was worsening symptoms. I never threw up and never would have realized it was a virus. How many foodborne viruses have I ignored, I wonder?

Gosh I am still having pain, I think I literally just had a norovirus episode come and go lol. The stomach upset is calming down but not the pain and symptoms that he says are the colitis, which we don't know if it is acute or not, and could even be crohns

All I hear is that there are tons of tests

I have no idea what symptoms are the colitis, or the norovirus, or my rheumatoid arthritis lol, because I'd been aching and my gastro issues have been going on over a month. They got a little worse and are better when I'm on prednisone. But everything is basically waiting.

Police treating arson attack as antisemitic hate crime It comes as a man attempts to ignite a plastic bag containing containing fluid in north-west London.

And another one.

It would be nice — albeit a triumph of hope over experience — to think we had vocal allies right about now.

'Worse than the pandemic': Red state restaurants now suffering from Trump's ICE crackdown A coalition of business groups, restaurateurs, and lawmakers in Texas has been formed to push back against the anti-immigrant policies of Donald Trump’s administration as sales collapse and companies ...

Oh. Who could have predicted? 🙄

'Worse than the pandemic': Red state restaurants now suffering from Trump's ICE crackdown

Alexis and her kids are going to learn how to do all kinds of computer stuff, it's going to be amazing.

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The teenage snack kiddo locked her mom out of the Macbook then went out with a relative lol. She swore she didn't. I know she did, I think I knew she might do that as soon as I saw her grab it at the house lol.

But the AMAZING news is I sent Alexis instructions and we just reset the whole thing