The smell of victory
― emotional support vegetable (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 05:41 (five years ago) link
Guys come back to us ladies when you have that pain 4 days a week erry month :P
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 07:11 (five years ago) link
(but on that note, I cant recommenmd Implanon highly enuff - havent had a period for like 2 years and it has been AWESOME)
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 07:19 (five years ago) link
yeah, my wife was on implanon for like 15 years before we starting trying for a baby and had like maybe three periods during that entire time, she fucking hated it when she had it taken out and the periods returned
― and TOWERS MONACO as 'seaman' (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 11:51 (five years ago) link
The cauterising method used here, too. The smell of singeing scrotum is not one I'll forget.― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Tuesday, June 5, 2018 10:12 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Tuesday, June 5, 2018 10:12 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
was wondering about this but decided not to ask
― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 14:42 (five years ago) link
yup same herea friend had a varicose vein burnt out or whatever they do and he described the smell in great detail
― kinder, Wednesday, 6 June 2018 15:44 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/ZMl9Jah.gif
― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 21:12 (five years ago) link
to be fair the smell of babby being born is not so great, or so I hear
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 21:15 (five years ago) link
I knew a doctor about 20 yrs ago who performed his own vasectomy. I have no idea if that is normal. He was a weird dude.
― sciatica, Wednesday, 6 June 2018 21:52 (five years ago) link
D:
― WilliamC, Wednesday, 6 June 2018 22:06 (five years ago) link
I hate these Friday night socials where you’re supposed to mix and mingle and act all chummy with the other parents. I should really go live in a cave somewhere.
― calstars, Wednesday, 6 June 2018 22:21 (five years ago) link
depends on the parents, I find.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 6 June 2018 22:22 (five years ago) link
I had a baby born in my kitchen and did not notice any unpleasant smells. I had my scrotum cauterised and did not notice any unpleasant smells.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 7 June 2018 05:28 (five years ago) link
Are you Abbott?
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Friday, 8 June 2018 01:19 (five years ago) link
How, how, how are children so ridiculously tired at 6pm that they act up in every way possible and then some, yet still aren't asleep 3 hours after putting them to bed?and God forbid they fall asleep in the car for 30 seconds because then it's game over for any kind of going to sleep before 11pm.and babies be waking up every 2 hours day and night.
― kinder, Monday, 11 June 2018 20:13 (five years ago) link
maniacs, all of them
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 11 June 2018 22:18 (five years ago) link
Disgusting savages
― calstars, Monday, 11 June 2018 22:28 (five years ago) link
tiny jerks
― Οὖτις, Monday, 11 June 2018 22:29 (five years ago) link
I’m so done with the baby stage.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 30 June 2018 04:04 (five years ago) link
my daughter finished this high school this week. I think she was 4 when I started posting here. my son starts high school in the fall. #3 is in middle school. they're not babies for long!
― droit au butt (Euler), Saturday, 30 June 2018 09:36 (five years ago) link
I started a "recommend colleges for my daughter" thread back when and this Wednesday she turns 30.
― a shomin-geki poster with some horror elements (WilliamC), Saturday, 30 June 2018 11:13 (five years ago) link
my daughter is 16 days old today! time flies man
― Fox News' Chad Pergram contributed to this report (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 30 June 2018 11:34 (five years ago) link
baby stage is exhausting and I'm barely sleeping, plus totally isolating ime, plus difficult to entertain, BUT they are portable and you don't have to worry about bringing snacks or giving them their drink in the wrong colour cup or them not making it to the toilet in time, so I'm kind of appreciating it apart from the no friends or sleep thing.
― kinder, Saturday, 30 June 2018 14:38 (five years ago) link
I liked babies. They lay there gurgling and playing with their feet or whatever.
I like big kids who can go to a museum and look at paintings and talk about music.
The stuff in between seems to last forever. Spare me the "middle school ALREADY?" stuff. I love them to pieces but I have felt every. fucking. Second. of the last 12 years.
The time has not flown. Quite the contrary. It's the pre-kid life (restaurants, movies, sleeping in on Sundays, going to concerts, having money) that flew.
― this ukulele annoys fascists (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 30 June 2018 16:37 (five years ago) link
yeah I remember hearing "don't panic, it gets easier" a lot but what they don't say is that it also gets harder in a lot of ways. its amazing how fast you go from "I wish I didn't have to carry you everywhere" to "holy shit stay still for 10 seconds so I can put your goddamn shoes on". my oldest is 3 1/2 and he's already at the stage where if he really wants to be defiant there isn't a whole lot I can do about it.
of course that said not sleeping really is the worst so in that sense it does get easier. I remember the first night we got 6 straight hours of sleep, it felt like the clouds parted. plus you do get better as a parent. i'm really, really good at multitasking now.
a few months ago my wife was between jobs so she took the kids to see her family in Mexico for a couple weeks. it was fun to not have any responsibility for a while and get to sleep in and all that but your life does feel pretty aimless when they're not around. your social life at 32 isn't going to be what it was at 20 or 25, people drift apart and the world seems a bit less exciting. I miss the days when I could go out and see like 30 people I knew in the same night. but I guess the positive way to look at it is that I've already got everything important out of life so there's less to look for on the outside. i'm in a much better place emotionally.
― frogbs, Saturday, 30 June 2018 18:57 (five years ago) link
my baby has a particularly delighted laugh that he saves for when he's puked all over me
― kinder, Friday, 6 July 2018 18:51 (five years ago) link
Also I've realised that parenting means spending 50% of your time yelling 'hold on, wait, just stay there' and 50% yelling 'come on, quick, get a move on'
― kinder, Friday, 6 July 2018 22:32 (five years ago) link
Truth.
― Madchen, Saturday, 7 July 2018 05:59 (five years ago) link
Was out to dinner last night and the kid had to shit. It kind of messed with my head because it was so massive that I really couldn’t comprehend how it fit into his body. I kind of had to walk it off for a while before I could return to my food.
― joygoat, Saturday, 7 July 2018 14:07 (five years ago) link
"alexa, play buttholes by asshole"
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:33 (five years ago) link
Hahaa we have similar with Siri. "Siri, fuck you!" etc
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 00:53 (five years ago) link
So we went on holiday to France during a heatwave and Casper, 5 months old, got a bacterial skin infection, because he's such a fat baby, and ended up in a French hospital for three days and it was hellish but we're home now and he's OK so it's all good.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 16 July 2018 11:23 (five years ago) link
fuuuck
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 16 July 2018 11:58 (five years ago) link
Aw, poor guy. I'm glad that everything's alright now.
― how's life, Monday, 16 July 2018 12:19 (five years ago) link
The worst moment was a few minutes after I'd deciphered "herpes" and read the NHS webpage about neonatal herpes. Luckily it wasn't viral.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 16 July 2018 12:21 (five years ago) link
fuck, sympathies to everyone, that sounds grim.
We nearly had an A&E incident last night after F, trying to cool down, put his hand on a fan and got his little finger sliced by the blades. Poor mite realised he wasn't supposed to have done that, so hid his hand and tried to pretend (through sobs and while bleeding everywhere) that he was "fine, fine I am OK really".
― stet, Monday, 16 July 2018 13:43 (five years ago) link
oh man
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 16 July 2018 16:51 (five years ago) link
i guess it's the season for this stuff. my 9-y-o got chomped so bad by a mosquito two nights ago that yesterday he was covered in welts as big as bee stings. he had one on his toe that bulged up like a blister and then POPPED and then got INFECTED so now he can barely walk and is on oral antiobiotics. from a goddamn mosquito!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 16 July 2018 16:53 (five years ago) link
poor babies! mine's hair is all falling out but that's a thing at this age - same happened with his elder brother.Stet what kind of fan was it? I've told my son not to touch the fan at all but he'll do it to be naughty.he's three and does all this melodramatic 'martyr' stuff when he's upset, 'I want you to take all my toys away and give them to other children then I WON'T EVEN HAVE ANY' (crying)
― kinder, Monday, 16 July 2018 22:22 (five years ago) link
It was a medium sized desk fan. Tonight he went up to and it said “now I have my plaster on I can touch it, yes? It can’t get through plaster can it?”I am no longer using my “If not duffer won’t drown” phrase around this kid
― stet, Monday, 16 July 2018 22:53 (five years ago) link
Aaaaand back in hospital.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, 22 July 2018 16:29 (five years ago) link
:(
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 22 July 2018 16:57 (five years ago) link
oh no, what's happened?
― kinder, Sunday, 22 July 2018 17:33 (five years ago) link
Not sure. Lots of vomiting. Trying to figure out if that and his rash are connected. Been here since 8am Saturday.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, 22 July 2018 18:49 (five years ago) link
<3 to you guys
― kinder, Sunday, 22 July 2018 22:24 (five years ago) link
Feel better soon.
― how's life, Monday, 23 July 2018 00:40 (five years ago) link
So we're probably dealing with this: https://www.macmillan.org.uk/information-and-support/childrens-cancer/cancer-types/langerhans-cell-histiocytosis.html
Biopsy results due Wednesday. He's had every test you can imagine.
Which is a bit of a headfuck.
C's obs are stable as you like, and they're talking about transferring him to Bristol ASAP. It's highly treatable.
Not a great deal else to say.
Kinder, I know you talk to Em via other channels; I'd appreciate if you didn't message her yet until she's comfortable discussing it. I see ILX as a safe space for me but she may not want me posting about it yet. It's my instinct to talk to all and sundry because that's how I cope with things, but Em's more private.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 23 July 2018 20:55 (five years ago) link
Sending thoughts
― calstars, Monday, 23 July 2018 20:56 (five years ago) link
fuck sake. I'm so sorry this is happening nick. hang in there. it will be a bit of a bumpy ride no doubt.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 23 July 2018 21:00 (five years ago) link
jfc my sympathies. keep yr head up kid
― Οὖτις, Monday, 23 July 2018 21:06 (five years ago) link