Thread Drift

[rebeccaC]

I don't ignore/close off anyone on this forum. This is reality: a forum is like meeting people face to face: people you like and those you don't want to listen...but sometimes have to. Unless the person is threatening abuse, I might as well get a well-rounded view of (female) humanity....here.

I cannot learn unless someone challenges me. And people have here. At the same time, if I REALLY expressed with my heart on the line, what I thought, it probably surprise some folks here. So I will pussyfoot and tamper my passion on certain matters.

there are more than enough members here who give me a well rounded view, share positive info with and give me good learning experiences without the two on my ignore list....each of us can have our own way of dealing with others here. That's also a good thing in my mind!!!

and i don't see value in pussyfooting or tampering my passion on important matters here or elsewhere

[Pax]

Rebecca, just want you to know how much I admire your passion, you are an inspiring young woman.

[lph]

I frequent a couple of other forums too. The other two forums are male-dominated, and sometimes I will see threads that I would have replied to but the tone of one of the posters is too gratingly misogynistic or the banter is just a little too testosterone-fueled. Instead of gritting my teeth and posting anyway, or wading in ready for a fight, I just - don't post. My point is really that it isn't a big deal one way or the other. A forum is comprised of whoever happens to be there at the moment. I don't have any more or less right to be there than someone else. And if I don't appreciate their tone, or they don't appreciate mine, then we just don't post on the same thread a lot.

I appreciate it when I see someone posting interesting questions and making an effort, but I don't feel obliged to do the same. When I have something to say or ask I'll say it, and if by then there's no-one around to answer, so be it. :-)

[Trek420]

Quick! Everyone view Thread Drift. We're about 9,500 views away from 2,000,000 views! Long live TE. Long live TD.

[OakLeaf]

What lph said. When there was a stalker on this board, as some of you remember, I tried putting him on ignore, but then I'd miss half of what other people were saying to him.

[Blueberry]

What lph said. When there was a stalker on this board, as some of you remember, I tried putting him on ignore, but then I'd miss half of what other people were saying to him.

Apparently I missed this!! Kinda glad.

I have 4 exams in 16 days starting Monday. 3 lecture exams, 1 clinical exam (they schedule that one for you and I got the worst possible date) - oh yes, and a quiz. This is getting a tiny bit excessive. October is my favorite month to be outside, and since the exams are on Mondays (or Wednesday for the last one), it's almost impossible to get out and enjoy the weather.

I'll stop whining now. I love med school - I really do. This just seems like a bit much.

[Crankin]

I think I know who Oak is talking about, but I never saw it as a stalker situation. Maybe I am thinking about the wrong person.
Blueberry, I know hard it must be to be inside studying on these beautiful October days. Can you sneak out for even a 20 minute walk once in awhile?

[rebeccaC]

Quick! Everyone view Thread Drift. We're about 9,500 views away from 2,000,000 views! Long live TE. Long live TD.

did that just cause a 4000+ view increase they should let you do post number 2,000,000

[rebeccaC]

... and I don't see that happening.

that touched….hoping I can find a spark of peace when dealing with issues like that…on both sides of it.

There’s a reasonable public health system there and less expensive than here. Do you think most of the expats are satisfied with their health care issues? Cuba's done a lot of the development of the tropical disease treatment for that area. You are well covered on that!!!

[emily_in_nc]

There’s a reasonable public health system there and less expensive than here. Do you think most of the expats are satisfied with their health care issues? Cuba's done a lot of the development of the tropical disease treatment for that area. You are well covered on that!!!

Yes, I do. From the few folks I have talked to about it plus many forum postings, people here seem very happy with the quality of care they have received and the cost -- and most of these have gone to private physicians/hospitals, not public ones (which are even cheaper but have longer waits and probably not as nice facilities). After getting used to how health care works in the US and Canada, most expats here seem to be very pleasantly surprised with things like $30 doctor visits and cheap meds. Not to mention shorter wait times to get in. And, get this -- quite a few doctors here make house calls!

[Trek420]

did that just cause a 4000+ view increase they should let you do post number 2,000,000

We're at 1,998,161 views. I'm rigging up the confetti so whomever does the 2,000,000th view gets confetti dumped on them wherever in the world you are. They also get 50% off run apparel and accessories .... oh, we all get that right now.

Oak, I think the person who left the forum, stating that she felt unwelcome as a conservative, may have also been somewhat freaked out by lesbians.

Ouch. Please tell him or her "Come back. We don't bite. Well, we won't bite you"

[Pax]

Hopefully it will! I think we reach a point where the gains are so small that it is hard to see them at the time. I hope that is where we both are and a year from now we will be able to look back and breathe a sigh of relief!

I hope you're right, better would be great, but I'll take whatever I can get.