moakley

Fiction.

My book store would not have a lot of sections.

Well it happened.

You're right they wouldn't have accepted the results. They called her while she was taking the pregnancy test to tell her not to bother, because it wouldn't be accurate enough anyway.

She was going to fight them on it, but the test was positive. So she just came home instead.

Her regular doctor said she wasn't going to recommend that facility anymore, because the whole thing is fucked up regardless of the outcome.

Even though mammograms are generally considered safe during pregnancy, her doctor just did an ultrasound instead. I believe that's because the doctor wasn't that worried about the lump, otherwise she'd have gotten the mammogram.

I didn't mention all that other stuff in my original comment because I don't want to distract from how fucked up it is that they treated her that way. It doesn't matter whether she was actually pregnant, or even if mammograms are considered unsafe for pregnant women (and again, they're generally not). They put a hypothetical unborn child over my wife's health. It's unacceptable.

Honestly frozen can be fine. My kids love frozen broccoli and cauliflower. You still have to prepare it right though.

But I'm pretty sure even the frozen veggies are better now than they were back then.

In the 80s my family still got most of our vegetables from cans. It was bad.

Unbaptized babies don't go to purgatory. They go to Limbo, which is the first circle of Hell.

You said you don't need two governments.

This was my first thought as well.

It's funny how many online people turn into libertarians the moment an HOA is mentioned.

So the highest level of government should be policing this? You don't think there should be any form of local government?

It most likely doesn't. One of several reasons it was so fucked up.

My wife was denied medical care in Texas because she might be pregnant. There was no reason to think she might be, but they still wouldn't perform her mammogram, which was scheduled to follow up on a lump she found.

She ended up taking a pregnancy test in a Whataburger bathroom near the doctor's office. That's the state of medical care in Texas for women.

Love that game. The gameplay was not good, but the script was hilarious. They knew exactly how ridiculous the Skittles connection was.

It's also where I learned that the singular of Skittles is "Skittles". No such thing as a Skittle.

I drew a comic of myself once that got turned into a meme. So I totally get how surreal it is to be scrolling through the front page of reddit and unexpectedly seeing a picture of yourself. Although mine was certainly under more pleasant circumstances.

In any case you seem to have a positive outlook on the whole thing, which is great.