Every Congress person gets 12 weeks paid parental leave as a term of their employment. We, the taxpayers, pay for their family leave, but they won’t vote to let us pay for ours.
my IUD insertion was the most painful experience of my life. I’ve had several broken bones, appendicitis, muscle sprains, tattoos, concussions, and none of them came CLOSE to that pain. They told me to take ibuprofen and wouldn’t give me a doctors note to take the day off work.
It blows my mind that the same system that gives patients morphine for dental work has almost zero protocol for anesthetics and/or pain relievers when it comes to procedures involving the cervix or uterus.
i hope everyone is ready for the renaissance in multi level marking girlbosses since all the mean girls i went to high school with are now getting rejected from nursing school because they refuse to get vaxed
it’s 401k renewal season and i am once again distraught with the idea of saving for retirement when i know god damn well that this planet will not be habitable by the time i am 60