DW Community Catch-up Thread
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It was 7 degrees this morning when I left the house. It feels downright balmy compared the the past couple days. Some of my coworkers from HQ are here, and HQ offices are downstate where it was still cold but IMHO way more manageable. I heard complains about the cold they endured on their walk from the train station to the office. It’s literally 60 degree real feel difference (if not more by now) between two days ago and today.
ETA: My coworkers at our HQ office complained that it wasn’t fair that the city office would be closed, even though we all commute on foot/transit and it was MUCH colder here than there. So they closed HQ for a day as well, and wouldn’t let the city office close yesterday even though it was still really very cold. Now they’re here in our “heat wave” complaining. Massive eye roll.
Oh good grief. Maybe the people who were stuck inside, freezing if they had to go outside, etc. would’ve preferred to go to work rather than being pent up inside, and for many not getting paid.
Oh wait, another thing I would rather be at work than doing….shoveling this foot of snow just so I can get my mail delivered again…scrapping the car….slipping on the ice that will remain once I remove the snow…
Ugh this one just really gets under my skin. What entitled brats. If an employee told me this I would NEVER have closed the office but instead would have offered to transfer them to the worse climate office with a lower title and pay.
I’m told our HQ has a very high school-like atmosphere. A few weeks ago they closed HQ at noon for a retirement party while city employees worked a full day. I should’ve thrown a tantrum that it’s not fair we didn’t get a half day or cake.
“For the men on the line cross your legs and whistle – can’t they just stick a needle in there and extract some sperm instead of going through this rigamarole? I mean, it’s still in there right? Why ya gotta go through this to do this the old fashioned way? Just numb it up, pinch pinch, ice down”
They sometimes do extract sperm during the process but it’s not that reliable and they may not get enough. My understanding is also that the material they get isn’t as usable for in vivo implantation so you have to pay for in vitro fertilization, which ain’t cheap.
Alao,once you have cut the balls open to go in, you’ve incurred a lot of the time and costs and effort so you might as well try to get the factory working.
@JD- Good luck with the goods.
This is so interesting. It’s extraordinary that medical science has advanced to having the first successful uterus transplant and lasting pregnancy. But there is such a gap between capability and accessibility.
I’m just a speculative dope, but this link was so interesting:
I skimmed it but that is interesting. There does seem to be a huge gap between the ability and access. The largest gap I find is in adoption. It does not cost an attorney 60k worth of their hours to prepare adoption documents yet that is an average rate. It is truly limiting and even if the money isn’t an issue that money should go into a college fund or further taking care of the child. Plenty of people who cannot lay out 60k plus make great parents who an support a child perfectly fine but they really limit it. There are resources for discounted pricing, help with payments, but you can imagine the amount of people who are in line for that. It is difficult enough to be approved to adopt before you even get to the payment time. While I would like to have at least one of my own husband and I would both love to adopt for many reasons, but the reality is the difficulty in doing for all the reasons may limit that. I already have one child to put through college and it is not fair to take away from him.
Even just getting the vasectomy reversal, the wait to so much as see a doctor is long. Heck my fertility dr was a 6 month wait! For reference, I went to get fertility testing before we committed. We didn’t want to go through with it only to find out that for some reason I couldn’t get pregnant. I will say that losing any stress on my part over MY ability to get pregnant has really helped…and stress is one of the biggest blocks for getting pregnant for many people as it directly affects fertility.
I have to imagine that the universe of people who have them reversed is probably not that large so there aren’t a ton of surgeons experienced at it.
Maybe some day kids will be able to get it painlessly snipped at twelve and regenerated at twenty-five when they graduate from their free public education program.
I mentioned during my cramps the other day that I really shouldn’t have to have my period until I wish to reproduce, a switch perhaps, plus perfect birth control.
