wishing for diapers

If you get them that frequently, talk to your neuro about botox. Injections across the forehead and back of the head were found to help years ago, but the FDA made them stop advertising for off label uses and insurance companies stopped covering it. Last Oct/Nov the FDA approved it for treating migraines. Getting your insurance to pay for it may still be difficult through (ours was a PITA, but they finally backed down). You are supposed to need a well documented history, be classified as a chronic sufferer (I forget the specifics but I believe it was 4+ a month), and showing a resistance to the normal drugs helps too. I have a friend that is also getting them and they've helped him pretty well. It had some effect for my wife (she had a week straight without one), but she found out she was pregnant the day before her second round and it's supposed to take 2 to 3 rounds to really start to effect them. My wife literally counts the days she doesn't have a migraine rather than how many she has (maybe 5 to 10 without in a month) and even the IV steroids don't break the things. She's learned to function around them, but she isn't really capable of working or going to school. Being pregnant and not being able to take anything (she can take vicodin, but it's never done much anyway) has not exactly been an enjoyable experience (and I don't have the migraines or a squirming kid in me)... Edit: 14 days a month is "chronic". WebMD has the info here.

babyvr6 beat me to it, but any thread title "Good News" that doesn't start with Dr Farnsworth is just a crime against nature! P.S. Glad life is going well for you.

Working in the corporate world since the early days of PowerPoint, I disagree. Strongly. I agree that it is a relatively simple program to use, but many are. Any idiot can open PP and create a few slides with bullet points and clip art. The annoying idiots even go so far to add stupid animations and sounds that add nothing to the presentation. Using it well and getting your point across in a easy to understand manner is an art that most people do not have. And I say this from the standpoint of knowing that I'm "any idiot that can create a few slides with bullet points and clip art".

I remember Benson. Wait, I'm about to turn 37. Crap

If your SO is a guy, you have being a girl in your favor. It seems guys are more accepting of a girls "quirks" than the other way around. I wouldn't, however, suggest just popping it out if you've been with them for a "long time", but if that's what they just did to you with their BDSM interests then maybe all is fair in this case. Good luck.

He gave me flomax for my last one since it decided to take a vacation in my bladder (no pain, but a solid week of feeling like I had to pee!) and he said the flomax was a mild muscle relaxer. Still took another 3 days to pass and I still had another 7mm waiting in the wings that we went ahead and broke up a few weeks later even though it was stable (you could literally stack 4 years of KUBs up and see that there was no change). Now he has me going to metabolic specialists to see why I keep creating them since I don't fit the profile for what normally contributes to them (calcium oxcalate). The Nephrologist wants to put me on more drugs, but I'm not doing that given that I'm lucky enough that they are only irritating at worst for me.

As a walking rock quarry I'd like to say "I feel your pain", but happily for me (given my predilection for creating them) I can't. Outside of the one episode (similar to what you describe) that got me into the ER to find out I had a stone, they just don't bother me. The last one I passed a few months ago was 4mm and it just popped out (diaper caught it FTW!! but my doctor wanted it to analyze FTL ). For non-aberrations of nature like my self, you should probably talk to Urologist about getting Lithotrypsy for a stone that big as it will be painful if it even passes on it's own. At least your ER doc told you how big it is after the CT. Mine didn't. Just gave me a filter and said it should pass (no drugs even!) "though I might want to follow up with a Urologist". Uncharacteristically I did follow up, turns out that "little" bastard was the size of the tip of my thumb (just over 1/2" IIRC). 12 years and 7 lithos later and I still have remnants of that bugger that just won't clear out (took 3 just to get all the large pieces broken enough so they could pass). Word to the wise, if you need a donor kidney, make sure it wasn't my right one Feel better soon.

I absolutely agree with your premise, just not your methods Personally I wouldn't want to work for anyone who saw it as retaliation Neither do I, but the reality is that the people you would work for (e.g. manager/director/vp/etc..) might be exactly the people/organization you want to work for, but they never see your resume because HR never passed it on to them. In the current climate where some positions are garnering hundreds to thousands of applicants, HR uses any excuses they can (valid or not) to whittle down the pool to something manageable. It's always better to avoid the problems of life from the start rather than reliving them over and over Absolutely. I've been burned in the past, so now there are specific things I look for and ask for when I'm looking for a new job. It tends to turn many employers off, but (like you) I'd rather not work for them (and I recognize I'm lucky enough (even now) to be able to cherry pick). The difference is that I would rather make it into the interview process to make that decision for myself rather than have an HR intern make it for me because of something I posted online. I don't agree with it, but it's common knowledge at this point that companies vet possible employees by searching Google/Facebook/Myspace/etc.. and reject them for unrelated things they posted online (e.g. if the work schedule is Mon-Fri, what's it matter if someone posts about going out and getting trashed Friday or Saturday night?). Even more annoyingly (from the hiring perspective), they do this to the extent that by the time they pass on resumes to the hiring managers they've managed to weed out any candidates that actually would fill the need. I actually had a case where we wrote a job description explicitly to someone's resume, yet we never got the resume from HR. When asked, all they would say was that it was rejected and the best we could figure was because of some old (5 years prior) posts he made about partying. We had to get our SVP involved to fight HR and let us hire him. In that case he had people on the inside willing to fight for him, what do you think happens for someone with no insider help? If it truly happened there is no libel or slander. Sure, they have resources to make a court case draw out but if you stick to your guns you will eventually win. The issue is that they have the lawyers to drag it out and the money to sustain them. If you need a job, then in all likelihood you don't which means you can't afford to see it through to the end (there are exceptions of course). This is what I mean by you losing by default. You might win the moral victory (and I am all about moral victories), but that won't put food on your table. Furthermore if they publicized anything about the event or mentioned it to a potential future employer, then you get to sue them, and in many cases like this the courts have awarded huge settlements based on the 'poisoned well' concept Absolutely, which is why no company (that has a clue) will do anything but confirm that you worked there from X to Y, had Z title and what your salary was. They won't even confirm why you left (e.g. layoff, fired, quit). but don't bash those of us who refuse to lay down and take it I'm not bashing you and and I'm not suggesting that you lay down and take it. I'm just saying that you shouldn't do anything that will make your life more difficult than it needs to be. If you think your job is mistreating you, by all means don't take it and quit. If you think they are breaking the law in how they are treating you, then seek legal advice and sue them if possible. You always have the power to move elsewhere. I do recognize that is sometimes hard for people as it may mean relocation or changing your career path, but it can be done and you will likely be happier for it in the long run. Just don't do anything about it (e.g. ranting about it online in a way that will show up in searches for your name/email/etc..)) that can bring legal troubles for you or make it more difficult to find your next job. Life is too short and we work too many hours to be doing something we don't enjoy or work for a company we don't think appreciates us.

Betty, I like you, but this is horrible advice. While it might make you feel better and have some effect on your former employer's business, there is a good chance that potential future employers will see it too. No company is going to be interested in hiring someone that has a history of retaliating (regardless if it was justified or not). You can also open yourself to slander and liable lawsuits from them former employer too (even if you are right, they likely have more money to drag it out so you lose by default). The best thing to do is talk to a lawyer if you think your rights have been violated (I think so in this case). Don't go around making trouble for your former employer outside of through legal means (if appropriate). And even down the road if someone asks about going to work for that employer, answer honestly but only with the facts and no personal feelings. I know it's hard, but you have to deal with things like this unemotionally. Otherwise you will do something that you regret in the long run.

I was laid off (4 years ago) after 14 years, but I was treated better than that (though that company did yearly layoffs so they knew how to handle it humanly). What you got sucks. I agree with others, outside of having you removed by the police (e.g. arrested) they shouldn't be able to keep you from your personal things like that (though they can and should have someone there to make sure you are only taking your things). As far as your vacation, most places (law?) pay you for your vacation time if you are not terminated for cause since it is considered part of your (monetary) compensation. As far as the severance goes, my state (right to work) requires that they give 3 months notices for lay offs if it is more than X (1000?) people or greater than 10% of the staff (whichever is greater). This usually manifests in you being paid for the time, but not working. I agree with others, something sounds wrong here. Talk to a lawyer about the laws in your state and what your options (if any) you have about getting your stuff in a timely and non-charged way. Good luck. Sorry this happened.

Thanks for the suggestions. They are soaking with baking powder now. I'll try vinegar if that doesn't work. These are less than a month old and I've only worn them a few times now.

I recently got some cloth diapers (I've been a disposables guy but wanted something I could throw on after work when I wanted to wear but not actually use them) and ultra-flex pants from Fetware. Last week while my wife was out of town I gave using the cloth diapers a shot (if it wasn't for the extra clean up effort I might actually switch!). Two of the 3 pants now have a horrible smell to them even after I hand washed them a few times. Any suggestions on how to make them not smell so bad? Is the soap I'm using maybe not aggressive enough? Should I be letting them soak longer than the 5 minutes the bottle suggests (I left them soaking for 30 this morning but I think I can still smell it)? Any help is appreciated. Thanks

By letting the water hold me down? No idea, it's been too long. I used to be active in A.S.F.D, but got away for a time and it was all spam when I came back. That's when I found DD, but then went away awhile again and forgot what my account was when I came back. So I created this one and haven't had a bad purge since.

I had an electric 4x4 (Big Brute) truck decades ago that I loved. It actually still worked after it got run over by a real car (all the structural parts were broken so it was more dragging itself around). I picked up a off-road car a few years ago, but don't know what happened to it. The problem I had was that it was about 5 minutes of fun and then a lot of fiddling with the batteries (either swapping them or charging them). My old truck carried the battery where you could get to it without taking the body off first, but the car's body had to come off. It also didn't have the clearance of the old truck so it wasn't as good on rough ground (grass, broken ground, etc..). As others have said, it's not a cheap hobby. So if you have limited resources, either find a different hobby or be prepared for it to sit idle at times while you need to get replacement parts or want to make upgrades. IIRC my truck plus it's (cheap) remote cost me about $500 new. Over the 4 years I had it, I easily spent another $500 on it (extra batteries, fast chargers, the thing ate axles, gears, and the old mechanical speed controls (probably $300 just in those parts)). I've thought about getting into gas, but just never have gotten around to it.

The problem (due to our overly complex tax code) is that the truly rich don't pay into the taxes nearly as much as the lower levels. This is mainly because they can afford the accountants that find all the various loop holes. So even if they revoked this tax break, it really isn't going to do anything one way or another outside of being a talking point. I agree in principle that you should get to keep the money you make, but as a larger society there are things we need to do to support each other and the ways we want to live. To do those things takes money. What really needs to happen is that we need a more simplified tax code where everyone is taxed equally and fairly without all the loop holes and shelters. Except that isn't always true, especially in bigger companies. I worked for a large company for over half my life when I was finally laid off. Prior to that they had lay offs every year they would then start hiring again within a month or two. Outside of businesses that are truly going under, layoffs are used for 4 major purposes: 1) Cull the under performers. 2) Cut groups/divisions that don't fit the plan anymore and can't otherwise be absorbed. 3) Cut large (non-exec) salaries from the books. 4) To fire those that aren't worth the legal risk of explicitly firing (e.g. you can't sue for wrongful termination in a lay off). Even in this economy, the next company I worked for had a lay off and then started hiring again a month after the lay offs were complete. And my former co-workers that have spread to other major companies in the area all report the same type things at their new companies. That's not to imply that there are uncounted jobs out there, I'm just pointing out that lays offs don't remotely mean that a job slot is lost (though the new spot that gets created may be for less pay or in a different part of the business). I remember reading a study years ago where they actually found that if you gave the money to a truly poor person, they would actually go and blow it all rather than save it or pay for basic needs (mortgage/rent, non-extravagant food/clothes, etc..).

Nope, growing would be to blame for that. What you describe sounds like stretch marks (and they aren't just for large people). As far as the red marks, if they aren't causing pain, fade in a few hours, and you aren't losing circulation/feeling in your legs while wearing the diaper, I wouldn't worry about it. In fact I don't because the same thing happens to me.

Floppies? You people had floppies? I had a cassette drive for my old Vic-20 and I had to flip the cassette manually when needed! Besides Turtle BASIC and Frogger I couldn't tell you what I did with it. God I feel old now

At least not when it doesn't show having gained any wisdom for those years.

Nope. Closest I can get is remembering being in my bedroom and desperately wanting to get to the box of Pampers on the shelf in my closet. My best guess is that was while or shortly after being potty trained as I know it was somewhere between ages 2.5 & 4.5.

Actually, it used to be written as AB/DL but the / has mostly been dropped in the last decade due to both laziness and intolerant idiots. From someone that is not part of the community I expect and accept this view point as a lack of knowledge and understanding. From someone that is a member of the community, there is no excuse for them to not understand the difference. Again you show your arrogant and limited understanding of the community. There have been plenty of cases over the years of ABs that have ZERO interest in diapers. If they wear them at all it is simply because it is appropriate to the age they regress to. Yes there are connections and similarities between ABs and DLs which is part of the reason that it is a joint community, but there are also significant differences. Some people cross the line into both groups (e.g. a DL that likes a <insert babyish item here>, an AB that is sexually stimulated by the diaper, etc..), but there is nothing wrong with them selecting the label that they feel best defines them. The connections between the sub-groups isn't so much the choice of underwear, but of how/when the connection to their chosen sub-group developed. But even that isn't absolute as there are members that developed their interest later in life and have no indication of desires or triggers during their developmental years. So just get over yourself and accept people for who they are and how they define themselves. To be perfectly clear, the issue is that it was not asked "Aren't DLs ABs too?" but instead stated "All DLs are ABs.". The first is a question for (hopefully) the desire of knowledge. The later is a statement to attempt to force everyone into the OP's view of the world.

Yay! This "absolute" again

We each have our own things

That's easy when you don't want to. It's much more fun when you desperately want to but are dependent on someone else's whims and mercy (or lack there of)

It certainly (in my opinion) takes two for it to be interesting as doing it by yourself just means you can let yourself out whenever you choose (though there are some options like leaving the key in a locked office over the weekend, mailing the key to your self, etc..). As far as getting out of it goes, some are certainly better than others in that regard. As has already been said, you get what you pay for. And yes, someone that is determined enough can get out of it but things that can cut steal aren't exactly things I particularly want around there

He could be right, some people just get cysts. Mine, unfortunately, is damage so I'm not risking it since I don't particularly want to have the "so doc, do you think this hunk of plastic I like to lock on myself might have anything to do with it?" conversation (Note: I appreciate telling your doctor all pertinent information, but as the damage is done here I don't see much point)