Comments on: Fat Chance http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/08/23/fat-chance/ Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:58:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: res publica http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/08/23/fat-chance/#comment-1929 res publica Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/08/23/fat-chance/#comment-1929 My sympathies on the Medrol DosePak. I'm not a nice person either, and my Medrol adventure was a very rough ride. The prescribing information needs to be amended to read "contraindicated for patients suffering from chronic grouchiness". I hope your shoulder gets enough relief to make it worth it. I have wasted an entire workday reading short stories by H.P. Lovecraft (an unimaginable, blasphemous horror from out of the unfathomable depths of time and space!) and polishing my resume (speaking of unfathomable blasphemous horrors). I would have also done some patriarchy-blaming, but I haven't left my office or even glanced out the door at the patriarchy-infested world. However, now that I've read your post about the fat-n-sassy beauty pagent, I have something to work with. My sympathies on the Medrol DosePak. I’m not a nice person either, and my Medrol adventure was a very rough ride. The prescribing information needs to be amended to read “contraindicated for patients suffering from chronic grouchiness”. I hope your shoulder gets enough relief to make it worth it.

I have wasted an entire workday reading short stories by H.P. Lovecraft (an unimaginable, blasphemous horror from out of the unfathomable depths of time and space!) and polishing my resume (speaking of unfathomable blasphemous horrors). I would have also done some patriarchy-blaming, but I haven’t left my office or even glanced out the door at the patriarchy-infested world. However, now that I’ve read your post about the fat-n-sassy beauty pagent, I have something to work with.

]]> By: ae http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/08/23/fat-chance/#comment-1930 ae Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/08/23/fat-chance/#comment-1930 Twisty, I'm meeting w/ the orthopedist this afternoon! I haven't scheduled surgery yet. Any advice? I'm in the torn rotator cuff/bone spur/thickened cartilage realm of troubles. Heck. None of the PT I did for my shoulder has helped any, and, according to the PT, it won't really, except to strengthen everything around the shoulder in preparation for surgery. No cute nieces splashing for me, cumulative athletic wear and tear instead. It sucks. But what is this Medrol DosePak of which you all speak? Eeek. Twisty, I’m meeting w/ the orthopedist this afternoon! I haven’t scheduled surgery yet. Any advice? I’m in the torn rotator cuff/bone spur/thickened cartilage realm of troubles. Heck. None of the PT I did for my shoulder has helped any, and, according to the PT, it won’t really, except to strengthen everything around the shoulder in preparation for surgery. No cute nieces splashing for me, cumulative athletic wear and tear instead. It sucks. But what is this Medrol DosePak of which you all speak? Eeek.

]]> By: Twisty http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/08/23/fat-chance/#comment-1931 Twisty Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/08/23/fat-chance/#comment-1931 I have adhesive encapsulitis. I don't know what that means except that I can't, for example, look at my watch without crying out in agony. Medrol is prednisolone, a supadupa steroid that reduces inflammation, and the dosepak is pretty much a dangerous overdose of same ingested over the course of a week. No margaritas! Hence my current living-dead worldview. Shoulder feels better, though the effects, I expect, will be fleeting. The goal is to loosen it up enough for the PT to work so I don't have to get carved on. I have adhesive encapsulitis. I don’t know what that means except that I can’t, for example, look at my watch without crying out in agony. Medrol is prednisolone, a supadupa steroid that reduces inflammation, and the dosepak is pretty much a dangerous overdose of same ingested over the course of a week. No margaritas! Hence my current living-dead worldview. Shoulder feels better, though the effects, I expect, will be fleeting. The goal is to loosen it up enough for the PT to work so I don’t have to get carved on.

]]> By: John M. Burt http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/08/23/fat-chance/#comment-1932 John M. Burt Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/08/23/fat-chance/#comment-1932 I recommend massage. No, not for the torn shoulder, for the other one, and for your hands, legs, lower back, neck, &c. -- all the parts that are thrown off by the injury. Massage will relieve all of the pain that's caused by the injury, which will help you deal with the pain *of* the injury. I recommend massage. No, not for the torn shoulder, for the other one, and for your hands, legs, lower back, neck, &c. — all the parts that are thrown off by the injury. Massage will relieve all of the pain that’s caused by the injury, which will help you deal with the pain *of* the injury.

]]> By: ae http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/08/23/fat-chance/#comment-1933 ae Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/08/23/fat-chance/#comment-1933 Ouch. Will they let you have margaritas if you get carved on? Seems like a trade worth making! I, (un)fortunately, can have all the margaritas I want, because neither steroids, drogas, rest, nor PT can do much for the mess that is my shoulder. Not comfortingly, my orthopaedist (who is, I'm sure, younger than I am) tells me that the avg. age of his patients is 50+ and that he v. rarely recommends surgery for his young patients. Hmm. Great. I'm just lucky, I guess. Mo'Nique is damn cute, but this "rate my fat-n-sassy ass" pandering to the male gaze shite has got to go, girlfriend. What I just cannot make myself understand is WHY WHY WHY "we" give so much f*cking credence to male opinion/attention. (I mean, I get it, but WHY??) How many times does it need to be proven shallow, unimaginative, stunted, unworthy of our attention before "we" get it? Some days I'm just so f*cking not in the mood. It is a revolutionary act not to seek this attention, and it's fascinating how many men actually have no idea what to do w/ a woman who does not pander to some f*cked up idea of female sexual submission. Ouch. Will they let you have margaritas if you get carved on? Seems like a trade worth making! I, (un)fortunately, can have all the margaritas I want, because neither steroids, drogas, rest, nor PT can do much for the mess that is my shoulder. Not comfortingly, my orthopaedist (who is, I’m sure, younger than I am) tells me that the avg. age of his patients is 50+ and that he v. rarely recommends surgery for his young patients. Hmm. Great. I’m just lucky, I guess.

Mo’Nique is damn cute, but this “rate my fat-n-sassy ass” pandering to the male gaze shite has got to go, girlfriend. What I just cannot make myself understand is WHY WHY WHY “we” give so much f*cking credence to male opinion/attention. (I mean, I get it, but WHY??) How many times does it need to be proven shallow, unimaginative, stunted, unworthy of our attention before “we” get it? Some days I’m just so f*cking not in the mood. It is a revolutionary act not to seek this attention, and it’s fascinating how many men actually have no idea what to do w/ a woman who does not pander to some f*cked up idea of female sexual submission.

]]> By: ae http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/08/23/fat-chance/#comment-1934 ae Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/08/23/fat-chance/#comment-1934 John, thanks. I'll always take the advice that I need more massages. =) John, thanks. I’ll always take the advice that I need more massages. =)

]]> By: Sherika http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/08/23/fat-chance/#comment-1935 Sherika Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/08/23/fat-chance/#comment-1935 I have some aromatherapy for all of you especially the one who wrote this. I admire Mo'Nique alot and if you don't appreciate the movement that she is involved in then maybe you don't have anyone in your family with a little extra baggage. And if you don't, I feel sorry for you. But take it from a young, black, thick and sexy woman. If we had more people like her, depression wouldn't be an option. It would be terminated. So tell you what, Find something else to critize. Happy Thanksgiving. I have some aromatherapy for all of you especially the one who wrote this. I admire Mo’Nique alot and if you don’t appreciate the movement that she is involved in then maybe you don’t have anyone in your family with a little extra baggage. And if you don’t, I feel sorry for you. But take it from a young, black, thick and sexy woman. If we had more people like her, depression wouldn’t be an option. It would be terminated. So tell you what, Find something else to critize. Happy Thanksgiving.

]]> By: Twisty http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/08/23/fat-chance/#comment-1936 Twisty Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/08/23/fat-chance/#comment-1936 I got no problem with Mo'Nique, my dear old thick sexy aromatherapist, I got a problem with patriarchy. Read my sidebar. I got no problem with Mo’Nique, my dear old thick sexy aromatherapist, I got a problem with patriarchy. Read my sidebar.

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