Tag: healthcare

  • Help Me Fix My Mistakes

    Help Me Fix My Mistakes

    Maybe it would have worked out regardless. I know when I’m on the other end, like on servicing, I’m more likely to want to put in the extra effort to make a not-strictly-required ask work for a customer when they frame it as “yes, we know it’s our fault, but please help us anyway.”

  • Healing Potion

    Healing Potion

    Thank goodness we were having all that bad weather while I was taking this medication, so I didn’t turn to ash.

  • Calcium Deficit

    Calcium Deficit

    All the times I found myself in the kitchen seriously considering if it would have been better to still be sick because then I could at least have as much [food containing calcium] as I wanted…

  • Un-emergency

    Un-emergency

    I understand that there are legal cover-your-ass reasons that they have to consider the worst case scenario when you call for medical advice, but it’s not always the worst case, you know?

  • Hold On To Your Sanity

    Hold On To Your Sanity

    Every baby is different, so the “newborn experience” isn’t as equally harrowing for everybody. Parents with challenging babies love hearing how great that time was for someone else.