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    Jo HughesKaryn Polewaczyk
    5/25/15 6:06pm

    So much for honesty.

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      LOREM IPSUMJo Hughes
      5/25/15 6:12pm

      Good thing they still sell that fake urine at head shops. I’ve known plenty of people that passed those stupid tests with that stuff. And you know, I was floored when I learned that Canada doesn’t automatically test job applicants last summer, and will only test you if you fuck something up beyond repair. Are we the only country that does this?

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      ErgatesLOREM IPSUM
      5/25/15 6:30pm

      Are drug tests common/routine in America? For office jobs? (i.e. jobs were people don’t die if you make a mistake).

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    LadyologyKaryn Polewaczyk
    5/25/15 6:32pm

    I have three family members with Crohn’s disease and two waiting their turn (my cousin, after three serious surgeries *in his 20s* to resect his bowel repeatedly and an entire adulthood in and out of the hospital decided to have two biological kids; do not get me started on what kind of egotistical shit does that to his children). For some, like my uncle, it can be a very manageable disease. For others, like my cousin and my cousin’s husband, their entire lives revolve around debilitating symptoms and flare ups. The immune dampening drugs my cousin’s husband has been on for decades a few years ago caused such a profound case of meningoencephalitis that we thought he’d die. Whatever these people need in order to live as ordinary and as healthy a life as possible they should have. Whatever medical science can provide. She has a severe, documented autoimmune disease. She shouldn’t be treated like a teenager using marijuana to blow off life and his responsibilities. This is outrageous.

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      Cynical BritLadyology
      5/25/15 6:52pm

      My brother has crohn’s, you don’t get to fucking judge peoples decision whether or not to have kids, It’s their choice not yours and there is also no guarantee the kids will even have it.

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      LadyologyCynical Brit
      5/25/15 7:02pm

      My cousin isn’t a stranger. He’s family. And when he decides, irresponsibly, to bring more members into my family who are at high risk of a lifetime of surgery, nearly toxic medications, opportunistic infections from years of immunosuppression, and debilitating symptoms that prevent them from living normal lives, that’s my business. Because I suffer and grieve for my young family members along side them. They’re my blood, and they were knowingly brought in this world to suffer as he still does. I love them, and hate him for doing that, simultaneously.

      His father’s entire family is stricken with autoimmune disease. He and his father have Crohn’s. His aunts and uncles have lupus, type 1 diabetes, and Crohn’s. They carry an HLA haplotype (a dominant allele) that packs a wallop of aggressive and devastating autoimmune disease which have demonstrated some degree of genetic anticipation: they grow worse with each generation in the four plus generations afflicted with one or more diseases (some family members have both lupus and diabetes). Deciding to conceive a biological child months from recovering from his most recent major surgery to resect his bowel was a shock. There is a very good chance each child will face Crohn’s. A good chance (something like 50%) that each child will experience the merry-g0-round in and out of the OR to remove more and more bowel. What kind of egotism is that? What is that to do that to his own family? If he were a stranger, I’d respect his choices. But he afflicts his father’s family’s diseases on *my* relatives. And for that I want to slap him across the face.

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    EldritchKaryn Polewaczyk
    5/25/15 6:25pm

    Get black out drunk on the weekends? Hey, whatever. But use weed to help your debilitating disease and get fired because fuck you, that why. Absolute bullshit.

    I wonder how much of this is weed and how much of it is her employer looking for a quick way out from hiring someone with a chronic medical condition. I wouldn’t be surprised.

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      furry woodland creatureEldritch
      5/25/15 6:37pm

      You can get black out drunk on the weekdays, and be drunk at work (as long as you don’t drink at work) and still keep your job. The double standard for alcohol vs. pot is ridiculous.

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      maudeinlosangelesfurry woodland creature
      5/25/15 8:00pm

      You can also be high on prescription drugs, as I have encountered with many a retail manager. I think drug tests are bullshit, but so are the assholes who are obviously under the influence of other drugs while working, prescription or no.

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    LOREM IPSUMKaryn Polewaczyk
    5/25/15 6:06pm

    Completely asinine. You can go to work wearing fentanyl patches, taking two 10mg Percocet every 4-6 hours, and be on Xanax and no one bats an eye. Medical marijuana? Even if it isn’t affecting your work performance and has been cleared, it sucks to be you! It makes me paranoid because I have debilitating GI issues (gastroparesis) and plan on getting my green cross card to get my appetite back and treat my nausea since anti-emetics don’t work on me anymore. When it’s legal, if I legitimately use it to treat this awful disease, I could be fired, or flat out not hired. It’s ridiculous.

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      katie0823LOREM IPSUM
      5/25/15 6:48pm

      it is ridiculous because none of the other drugs have any pros except relief of pain. They are all addictive and have serious side effects if taken too long. You won't turn into a junky, rob people, overdose, or develop long term gastrointestinal issues from taking it. There are more pros than cons. this country is so ass backwards.

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      LOREM IPSUMkatie0823
      5/25/15 6:57pm

      You can actually get gastroparesis, the stomach disease I have, from taking narcotics for a long period of time. And like you said, they can be fucking dangerous. The prohibition of pot in this country is completely nuts.

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    justachickKaryn Polewaczyk
    5/25/15 6:32pm

    Anyone who either has Crohn’s disease or knows anyone with it, knows that it can be absolutely so painful you wouldn’t wish it on the worst Duggar. This person has it and is still trying to hold down a job, give them all the pot they want. Seriously. It’s not like they were driving a school bus or something.

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      digital_rusejustachick
      5/25/15 6:53pm

      I know this is serious comment/topic, but this:

      “so painful you wouldn’t wish it on the worst Duggar”

      Is hilarious. Bravo.

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      AnglKatjustachick
      5/25/15 7:36pm

      At an internship I had, one of the secretaries had Crohn’s. I didn’t know anything about it at first. Everyone hated her (she was really annoying and bad at her job), and used to mock her behind her back because of her gas and constant bathroom use. And they’d make comments like “gross, I’d hate to be her husband.” I remember researching it online and being so horrified at what this woman had likely been through during her life.

      Oh, and these people doing the mocking? They were lawyers. Total “professionals.”

      Anyway, because of her I have a special sympathy for Crohn’s sufferers for having to put up with the embarrassing aspects of the disease and the cruel people that mock them.

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    lazyjortsKaryn Polewaczyk
    5/25/15 6:51pm

    why does every late 20s-early 30 year old white woman have IBS, Crohns, is gluten sensitive, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, fibromaylagia allergic to MSG, Morgellons, and feline aids? like every young white woman i meet has some sort of “condition” thats completely untreatable other than dictating what everyone eats and being a pain in the ass to go out with, not doing anything physical or exerting or taking days off of work for “malaise” or smoking a ton of weed.

    then they have the gall to call themselves crippled or disabled because of it.

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      AnglKatlazyjorts
      5/25/15 7:27pm

      Some of these are not like the others....

      But seriously, are you suggesting that Chrons is made up? I mean, they’ve identified some of the genes associated with it and everything. People who have it have a reduced life expectency.

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      Emeggiolazyjorts
      5/25/15 8:26pm

      I have IBS and fibromyalgia (alongside some others). They fucking suck. IBS gives me hemerroids every week

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    Vulcan Has No MoonKaryn Polewaczyk
    5/25/15 6:25pm

    They likely didn’t fire her for the mary jane. They likely fired her because she has a chronic medical condition which drives up their insurance costs.

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      RedSpiralVulcan Has No Moon
      5/25/15 7:16pm

      Totally this. My work fired a person about a year ago on trumped up charges, and we all know it was because she has an immune disease and a couple of their children were in and out of the hospital between getting hit with the flu very badly (they got the vacced for it but they ended up getting a strain not covered) and a couple of broken bones.

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    sybannKaryn Polewaczyk
    5/25/15 7:47pm

    This seriously fucking sucks. When the hell are we going to decriminalize something so damn useful? I have always had a constant low grade anxiety. People, crowds, noise, stress all impact me terribly - especially when they pile up. When I can smoke a SMALL amount regularly (evenings) I have no issues coping. Guess how much fun it is to have to look for a new job in a state where the Gov owns drug testing facilities and testing is common? Just when I really need the chemistry, I can’t use it. Fuck the fucking fuckers.

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      LadySparrowsybann
      5/26/15 1:13pm

      I have a friend with a medical card for severe anxiety. She was barely able to work or go out in public at all before she discovered how much weed helped her. Of course, now every time she talks to her mother she has to sit through ten minutes of “I don’t understand why you can’t stop using that drug and get on something real, like Xanax”. 0.o

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      sybannLadySparrow
      5/26/15 7:29pm

      Right. Her mother would rather she take something that in combo with other things could suppress her respiration and kill her. Mom’s are usually right about stuff. SIGH

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    barnaclesKaryn Polewaczyk
    5/25/15 7:36pm

    my bf has crohns and it is horrible. he was diagnosed his sophomore year of high school, and he’s shown me pictures during that time. he was scary, skeletal skinny, and my bf is not short or “built” to be skinny. he tells me how fatigued and sick he was before he was diagnosed. he’s very lucky that his crohns isn’t as severe as other people’s. but once a month he goes in for treatment (antibody infusions) and that really manages it well. his worst symptoms are some occasional cramps. but those treatments are expensive as hell. each one costs about $10,000 and he’s been getting them every month for 4 years now. it’s not cheap. for someone without insurance or if their insurance didn’t cover all of it/most of it, it simply wouldn’t & couldn’t be an option for them. when my bf gets the treatment, his immune system is much weaker, and i have to be careful with washing my hands and stuff around him. his dad also has issues with his GI tract, and he recently had polyps removed from his colon because they were cancerous. both my bf and his dad have increased risks for colon cancer. it’s a terrifying thing to think about.

    despite his weakened immune system, i’m still the one who gets a cold every year and he stays perfectly healthy :(

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      Dust for VomitKaryn Polewaczyk
      5/25/15 6:19pm

      Crohn’s is not just any GI issue (I have IBS—which is sometimes difficult) . Crohn’s is quite definitely a downright debilitating disease

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        bowsercrushesDust for Vomit
        5/26/15 1:07am

        IBS is debilitating. Whenever I hear about people complaining about “self diagnosed g.i. problems” i feel so bad for the person who thinks they have the gluten allergy, even though they don’t, because they really are suffering and are looking for an explanation. IBS is some legit shit. Crohn’s is just a whole other level of legitimacy.

        The way you characterize IBS as being “sometimes difficult” makes me wonder if there’s still something else going on, because I’m glued to the bathroom, and not being able to go out for more than 3 hours or eat whenever is more than “sometimes difficult”

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        Dust for Vomitbowsercrushes
        5/26/15 11:23am

        I definitely have IBS, per several docs, and yes, it can be extreme for me at times, but it is, for me, a flare-up situation now, fortunately. I used to have a seriously stressful job, and before that, a stressful personal life as well, and had to get up at least three hours early to be able to deal. I started a higher dose of Zoloft a couple of years ago, and it seems to have quieted things down quite a bit. It works a lot better for me than the IBS stuff (Levsin) did. You know you have more serotonin receptors in your gut than in your brain?

        Crohn’s is way worse, though, as you say.

        IBS is totally legit, and way too much shit. :) So is anxiety. So are lots of things folks tend to dismiss who don’t have them!

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