Trudy has your mom tried taking D-mannose supplements? It's what makes cranberry juice effective against UTis and my urologists have suggested I take it to help prevent a UTI or during one to shorten the duration.
Oz is the highest-scoring person ever to fail to graduate.
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Natter 78: I might need to watch some Buffy for inspiration
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
askye - Mar 16, 2026 10:40:33 am PDT #11981 of 11985
Thrive to spite them
Trudy Booth - Mar 16, 2026 11:11:07 am PDT #11982 of 11985
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
askye, I'll take a look! Thanks!
In excellent news, March 16th is National Artichoke Day and the vegetarian entrée in our dining room is Artichoke Francese. For future knowledge, anyone who wishes to fry artichoke hearts and serve them to me with a lemony sauce and some parmesan polenta should do so.
-t - Mar 16, 2026 11:15:28 am PDT #11983 of 11985
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, yum
Steph L. - Mar 16, 2026 11:23:46 am PDT #11984 of 11985
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Trudy, pre-emptively testing for a UTI seems like a good idea in your mom's case, because it could head off any problems before they have a chance to turn into huge problems. (My own dad has a UTI and still hasn't seen a doctor for it, which means he's going to go crazy if he hasn't already — literally crazy, like hallucinating people in his apartment — and I've had a cold since last week [thanks, Tim] that just keeps getting worse, so I don't have the capacity to go physically wrangle Dad to the doctor. I expect him to hit Code Blackwatch Plaid by Thursday.)
Also it was in the 70s yesterday and it's snowing now, which is some kind of bullshit. I feel personally attacked by the snow.
Trudy Booth - Mar 16, 2026 11:43:46 am PDT #11985 of 11985
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
literally crazy, like hallucinating people in his apartment
Yyyyup. I feel like if I had a Senior facility of any sort they'd be peeing in cups twice a week. Once when mom was in rehab and looped out I looked in the day room and thought "Do half these people just have UTIs?" Its staggering.