My husband will be having major surgery next week. As far as I can tell, I was born without normal sick-person-wrangling instincts. What helpful or comforting things should I be planning to do to support him through recovery, at the hospital and afterwards at home? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Sep 16, 2012 - 21 answers

I am looking for resources to help me deal with the growing realization that I was abused, physically and emotionally, by my older brother for the better part of 20 years. [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Feb 8, 2010 - 25 answers

I irreparably damaged my installation of Windows Vista by trying to clean out my winsxs folder. I'm pretty sure there's no way to recover at this point. I'd like to know if anyone has some good suggestions for tutorials or tools to use to rescue my user info so that when I reinstall I can salvage my stuff. [more inside]
posted by judge.mentok.the.mindtaker on May 27, 2008 - 5 answers

Looking for secular alternatives to Al-Anon. [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Mar 15, 2008 - 15 answers

I need some help and some hand-holding with hard drive recovery on a failed main drive in a Windows Server 2003 RAID 5 array. [more inside]
posted by Oops on Apr 21, 2007 - 7 answers

OncologyFilter: An immediate family member has colorectal cancer. I need advice and recommendations in several areas. [more inside]
posted by mykescipark on Jun 19, 2006 - 14 answers