I had a psychology professor say pretty much what @catz said above. In magazine quizzes and online typing tests it seems like extroversion is an either/or thing. But most people fall somewhere along the middle of the spectrum, and even extreme extroverts can need time away from people.

I would ask the pediatrician’s nurse if they can do the basic workup or if you need a referral to a rheumatologist. The real decision about that is probably up to your insurance company. IME those referrals take many months.

Praying the same things @KSera said.

I’m so sorry. I would take her in tomorrow.

I seriously doubt gas is going to be outlawed in the US in our lifetimes. Natural gas is a byproduct of shale oil in the US. It’s not only essentially free, it’s abundant and we burn it off to waste it in huge quantities in production because it’s difficult to put in pipelines. But the equation for that has changed a because of the war in Ukraine. Now we’re discussing building more pipelines so it can be shipped to Europe because the price of heating oil is so expensive there now. It is moderately healthier to use electric stoves, but we don’t have the battery capacity to really switch to a green electric grid, even if everyone preferred it. There hasn’t been enough lithium and other necessary chemicals mined yet. If we’re building up more infrastructure to capture and use the currently wasted natural gas, we’ll probably end up incorporating more of it into the electric grid instead of wasting it.

Happy Easter!

If the parents aren’t pushing back, it’s none of your business.

The Paregoric... And to think you can STILL get a prescription for it.

This was part of a Friends episode once. I think the girls might have used (their own) body wash. Chandler argued soap is soap and it is clean, and that's why he & Joey could share a bar. Joey countered that with something like, "Think about the first place you wash and the last place I wash."