I’m reading some fucking idiot argue that a healthy, fit twenty-eight-year-old woman who is 8.5 months pregnant running 800m at a reduced speed with her doctor’s and midwife’s approvals is “selfish” because of the supposed increased risk to the fetus.
First of all, even if it were true that there was some risk to the pregnancy, worst case scenario she goes into labour and delivers a healthy full-term fetus. OHNOES TEH HORRORRRRR! But that’s not true. Going for a run is better for the fetus and the pregnancy than sitting at home, not exercising.
Second of all, yeah, track and field sports carry some degree of risk but this isn’t fucking pole vaulting. Show me how going for a run is any more dangerous to a pregnancy than going to the grocery store. YOU MIGHT GET HIT BY A CAR! Or going for a nice, leisurely swim. THERE ARE SHRKS IN THERE! Because if she shouldn’t be doing something as safe and healthy as a run, she should be bedridden.
And, most importantly, this woman wants to go for a fucking run. Why don’t her wishes matter? We don’t we label men who want to go for a run and indeed go for a run “selfish”? Why could that be……… oh, that’s right, women aren’t people with the right to pursue satisfaction and fulfillment. They’re incubators whose wishes come last.
Any use wrapping it in something like cake that will dissolve quickly from it once swallowed ?
marinerachel
10 years ago
If they just bound it in a filler material you wouldn’t have to taste it but adding an ingredient to a prescription drug is a pain in the ass because you have to take into account possible interactions and blah blah blah blah.
pallygirl
10 years ago
Now the cake idea sounds promising. It does say I need to take it with food.
Just avoid wet food items. My parents once tried to get me to take a foul-tasting pill by mixing it in ice cream and not telling me. Instead of one smallish foul-tasting pill, what I got was a dish of foul-tasting icecream as it flavoured everything it touched 😛
marinerachel
10 years ago
I know one of the crappy side effects of the drug it’s self is a foul metallic taste in the mouth. That’s not from taking the drug though. You get that however it’s administered. The initial shitty taste can probably only be masked from preventing the caplet from coming in contact with any of your taste buds so, yeah, wrap it up in something smooth that won’t instantly fall apart and swallow fast.
We need to invent the pill pocket for humans, you guys.
If you hate it that much it might be worth getting hold of empty gel capsules and enclosing them yourself.
pallygirl
10 years ago
It’s got that strong alkaloid bitter taste, if you know what I mean.
marinerachel
10 years ago
I was about to say, health food store. Buy some gelatin capsules. The pills are pretty little so you should be able to cut them in half and stuff both halves into one gelatin capsule. Enclose that puppy and take it with water. The only thing that comes in contact with your mouth should be the gelatin.
marinerachel
10 years ago
Yeah, it’s a citrate so bitter as heeeeeell.
pallygirl
10 years ago
Will the stomach acid dissolve the gelatin capsule quick enough that the drug will be absorbed in the correct area of the gut?
marinerachel
10 years ago
Yeah, the gelatin will start breaking down the second it’s in your mouth. The salivary amylase in your spit is sufficient to break it down. What reaches your stomach where absorption begins will be the pill and remnants of gelatin capsule that survived your esophagus. HCl in your stomach will take care of those. Digestive enzymes will take over and enable absorption of the medication in your intestines.
Lea
10 years ago
pallygirl,
That sounds awful. I hope the gelcaps work. Whould you like an internet hug?
You may still be eligible for EI if you have Just Cause to quit, and sexual harassment is literally at their top of the list of Just Causes.
GrumpyOldNurse
10 years ago
@ Alex – One more voice in the chorus; you were totally right to quit. His family is not your responsibility. If he is an abusive asshole (even if he doesn’t abuse them), his kids will suffer, and you can not fix that by staying in the job. Being targeted was not your fault. You did the right thing!
@ pallygirl – sincere best wishes! and kitties! and hugs (if you want them)!
@ marinerachel – As a woman who was on bedrest during my last pregnancy; fuck those guys! I would have loved to have been able to go for a run, or a walk, or anything, and it would have been good for the fetus that grew up to be my daughter. Being more fit would also have made my delivery much easier. So, to Hell with the ignorami who concern troll fit pregnant women.
Yeah, it’s not even that it exists in law in some states in the U.S. Per judicial precedent, at-will employment is the default status for the entire country. Most states have instituted at least some exceptions to this (implied contracts, public employees, various others) but those are explicit exceptions.
To quote a lawyer friend “You can fire somebody for any reason, as long as it’s not an illegal reason”
pallygirl
10 years ago
Thanks for the hugs and tips and kitties, I have some good ideas now. 🙂 And I’m sitting down to oatmeal for breakfast – hooray for oatmeal.
In Dublin (after adventures… fucking cabbie in London caused us to miss our train, so we missed our ferry, we we were out another hundred quid, or so, and then froze on the ferry… fucker was late, then stopped to take a piss; and lectured us on how we needed to allow more time. We only missed the train by about 4 minutes. He was 20 minutes late when he arrived. Asshole).
Have a cold, but not too bad. Guinness is better here, even in cans.
Today I found a tree frog in my kitchen sink. It says much about my housekeeping that this isn’t the first vertebrate life form removed from the sink and put outside.
In other news, one of the spiders living around my kitchen window hatched about 100 babies out. This variety of spiders is well-adapted to indoor living, a lot of spiders can’t handle air conditioning.
Fortunately the latter category includes brown recluse spiders. I like it that those fellows stay outside. I have yet to be bit by one, though they are quite plentiful in the yard. OTOH, if I did get bit by one and didn’t have the necrotizing reaction, how would I know that I had been bit?
kittehserf MOD
10 years ago
pallygirl, late in here, but how about smothering the tablet in Vegemite?
… Oh wait that’s for cats. Never mind.
kittehserf MOD
10 years ago
My latest knitting project is coming along nicely. I started it on Sunday night and have done this much – one complete front and a couple of dozen rows of the second (yes, one’s horizontal and the other vertical).
We Hunted The Mammoth
I’m reading some fucking idiot argue that a healthy, fit twenty-eight-year-old woman who is 8.5 months pregnant running 800m at a reduced speed with her doctor’s and midwife’s approvals is “selfish” because of the supposed increased risk to the fetus.
First of all, even if it were true that there was some risk to the pregnancy, worst case scenario she goes into labour and delivers a healthy full-term fetus. OHNOES TEH HORRORRRRR! But that’s not true. Going for a run is better for the fetus and the pregnancy than sitting at home, not exercising.
Second of all, yeah, track and field sports carry some degree of risk but this isn’t fucking pole vaulting. Show me how going for a run is any more dangerous to a pregnancy than going to the grocery store. YOU MIGHT GET HIT BY A CAR! Or going for a nice, leisurely swim. THERE ARE SHRKS IN THERE! Because if she shouldn’t be doing something as safe and healthy as a run, she should be bedridden.
And, most importantly, this woman wants to go for a fucking run. Why don’t her wishes matter? We don’t we label men who want to go for a run and indeed go for a run “selfish”? Why could that be……… oh, that’s right, women aren’t people with the right to pursue satisfaction and fulfillment. They’re incubators whose wishes come last.
Any use wrapping it in something like cake that will dissolve quickly from it once swallowed ?
If they just bound it in a filler material you wouldn’t have to taste it but adding an ingredient to a prescription drug is a pain in the ass because you have to take into account possible interactions and blah blah blah blah.
Now the cake idea sounds promising. It does say I need to take it with food.
Just avoid wet food items. My parents once tried to get me to take a foul-tasting pill by mixing it in ice cream and not telling me. Instead of one smallish foul-tasting pill, what I got was a dish of foul-tasting icecream as it flavoured everything it touched 😛
I know one of the crappy side effects of the drug it’s self is a foul metallic taste in the mouth. That’s not from taking the drug though. You get that however it’s administered. The initial shitty taste can probably only be masked from preventing the caplet from coming in contact with any of your taste buds so, yeah, wrap it up in something smooth that won’t instantly fall apart and swallow fast.
We need to invent the pill pocket for humans, you guys.
If you hate it that much it might be worth getting hold of empty gel capsules and enclosing them yourself.
It’s got that strong alkaloid bitter taste, if you know what I mean.
I was about to say, health food store. Buy some gelatin capsules. The pills are pretty little so you should be able to cut them in half and stuff both halves into one gelatin capsule. Enclose that puppy and take it with water. The only thing that comes in contact with your mouth should be the gelatin.
Yeah, it’s a citrate so bitter as heeeeeell.
Will the stomach acid dissolve the gelatin capsule quick enough that the drug will be absorbed in the correct area of the gut?
Yeah, the gelatin will start breaking down the second it’s in your mouth. The salivary amylase in your spit is sufficient to break it down. What reaches your stomach where absorption begins will be the pill and remnants of gelatin capsule that survived your esophagus. HCl in your stomach will take care of those. Digestive enzymes will take over and enable absorption of the medication in your intestines.
pallygirl,
That sounds awful. I hope the gelcaps work. Whould you like an internet hug?
((HUG))
Alex: STRONGLY suggest going here:
http://www.servicecanada.gc.ca/eng/ei/digest/6_4_0.shtml
You may still be eligible for EI if you have Just Cause to quit, and sexual harassment is literally at their top of the list of Just Causes.
@ Alex – One more voice in the chorus; you were totally right to quit. His family is not your responsibility. If he is an abusive asshole (even if he doesn’t abuse them), his kids will suffer, and you can not fix that by staying in the job. Being targeted was not your fault. You did the right thing!
@ pallygirl – sincere best wishes! and kitties! and hugs (if you want them)!
@ marinerachel – As a woman who was on bedrest during my last pregnancy; fuck those guys! I would have loved to have been able to go for a run, or a walk, or anything, and it would have been good for the fetus that grew up to be my daughter. Being more fit would also have made my delivery much easier. So, to Hell with the ignorami who concern troll fit pregnant women.
let’s see if this works, if photos are currently working.
I think that’s a nope! 🙂
RE: pallygirl
That “at-will” employment exists in law in at least some states is a horrifying reality.
It wasn’t till I came to your country that I learned anything else EXISTED. It was eye-opening.
Yeah, it’s not even that it exists in law in some states in the U.S. Per judicial precedent, at-will employment is the default status for the entire country. Most states have instituted at least some exceptions to this (implied contracts, public employees, various others) but those are explicit exceptions.
To quote a lawyer friend “You can fire somebody for any reason, as long as it’s not an illegal reason”
Thanks for the hugs and tips and kitties, I have some good ideas now. 🙂 And I’m sitting down to oatmeal for breakfast – hooray for oatmeal.
I wonder what happened about the photos.
In Dublin (after adventures… fucking cabbie in London caused us to miss our train, so we missed our ferry, we we were out another hundred quid, or so, and then froze on the ferry… fucker was late, then stopped to take a piss; and lectured us on how we needed to allow more time. We only missed the train by about 4 minutes. He was 20 minutes late when he arrived. Asshole).
Have a cold, but not too bad. Guinness is better here, even in cans.
Today I found a tree frog in my kitchen sink. It says much about my housekeeping that this isn’t the first vertebrate life form removed from the sink and put outside.
In other news, one of the spiders living around my kitchen window hatched about 100 babies out. This variety of spiders is well-adapted to indoor living, a lot of spiders can’t handle air conditioning.
Fortunately the latter category includes brown recluse spiders. I like it that those fellows stay outside. I have yet to be bit by one, though they are quite plentiful in the yard. OTOH, if I did get bit by one and didn’t have the necrotizing reaction, how would I know that I had been bit?
pallygirl, late in here, but how about smothering the tablet in Vegemite?
… Oh wait that’s for cats. Never mind.
My latest knitting project is coming along nicely. I started it on Sunday night and have done this much – one complete front and a couple of dozen rows of the second (yes, one’s horizontal and the other vertical).
http://i.imgur.com/zbkHIGn.jpg
That yarn is striping up so nicely. Ewwwwwwwwwwww vegemite and marmite, they’re both horrible.
My cunning plan tonight is to smother it in Nutella. If that doesn’t work, it will be gel caps for me tomorrow.