toynbee

You stole my cat.

Reminds me of this book, which was not a good choice to read in the middle of the lockdown.

And maybe not now.

Unfortunately, it didn't for us, either. We ended up pursuing a few other methods but eventually found one that worked. Now the kid is almost six and a growing, healthy kid who mostly feeds themself.

Hopefully your story with your second had a similarly happy outcome.

When my kid was but a newborn, they were having trouble latching. We had to take them in for a very small procedure to get them to be able to feed properly. I could see their mother was having trouble dealing with it, so I tried to say "the doctor says it won't hurt" and "do you want me to hold [the kid]?" Ended up saying "do you want me to hurt them?"

The doctor counseled against that action.

On a separate event, years before that kid was born, I had to take my first dog to the vet and he had to get a shot. He was clearly nervous but the vet tech was holding him, so I rubbed his neck and ear to comfort him throughout. Only just as they were finishing up did I realize I had also, entirely accidentally, been rubbing the vet tech's hand. She didn't say anything until I realized and apologized profusely, but it was still mortifying.

edit: Punctuation.

I read the title, discarded it from memory because I had no context or meaning for it, read the comic, went back to remind myself what the title is. Now I just feel numb.

These are all network addresses that refer to localhost - how a computer addresses itself.

Probably, but fortunately it hasn't happened again in almost twenty years, so I'm not overly concerned about it. Still, your concern for my wellbeing is appreciated!

Right, it does make the concepts very straightforward.

When I started at my current job, I had basically no familiarity with AWS. Someone tried to explain how AWS networking worked to me and did so by drawing this on the whiteboard at the office.

I think they all theorized it was a food allergy (I have a vague memory of being given steroidal treatments) but I don't really recall. If that was what they thought, it may or may not have been correct, but it's inconsistent with anything I've experienced before or since.

Something like seventeen years ago, I discovered this as well and gratefully enjoyed my cookie. Not ten minutes later, I was spewing fluid from every orifice I have. I developed hives, too. Also, I didn't realize until someone told me, but apparently I had an extreme pallor.

I've never had an allergic reaction to a cookie before, nor an allergic reaction that severe to any food item. I hadn't consumed anything else suspect that day. It was bad enough that, once I had a sufficient break in my extensive leakage, I went to the hotel lobby where the hotel manager happened to be; he took one look at me and immediately went to call an ambulance without even asking me.

Once I was in the ambulance, even the paramedics commented on the volume and violence of my still ongoing reaction.

I was hospitalized overnight and it went away on its own over several hours. I was at a hotel for a week of on-site training for a new job and somehow the employer heard about it - I got major credit for showing up to the first day of training the next morning despite the circumstances.

Nothing else went wrong health wise during that trip but I haven't stayed at that chain since.

edit: Corrected a word.

I'm sorry for reminding you of your pain.