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I have a new rose shrub - am I supposed to cut off the flowers when they start to wilt?

Is it a tea rose?? Or a landscape type rose (floribundas)? The tea roses I cut each flower off (plus a couple inches of the stem) when they die. Our floribundas, DH just shears with the hedge trimmers when they are all done blooming.
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Dd has tested positive for celiac disease.  We are being referred to a children's g.i. doc.  This kid lives on pasta.  But I am already gf,  so cooking for her won't be so hard.  I will have to be a lot more careful about cross contamination though. 

 

I hate to say that I am excited about this, because I know the long list of ways in which this complicates things, but I hope that this diagnosis and diet change will help her. Some of my friends with celiac have had huge improvements by going off gluten, including one friend who was able to go off all of her cardiac meds.

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Dd has tested positive for celiac disease. We are being referred to a children's g.i. doc. This kid lives on pasta. But I am already gf, so cooking for her won't be so hard. I will have to be a lot more careful about cross contamination though.

I'm sorry, Jeannie!!
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Dd has tested positive for celiac disease. We are being referred to a children's g.i. doc. This kid lives on pasta. But I am already gf, so cooking for her won't be so hard. I will have to be a lot more careful about cross contamination though.

Do they think this is what's causing her symptoms?

 

Ds21 has been mentioning dizziness/lightheadedness more frequently this past year. He says it is mostly when his heartrate goes up, but not always - excitement, nervousness, etc. Though sometimes just out of the blue. He has been seeing a GP for the past year, who has prescribed something for anxiety, but he really wants to see a cardiologist or some other specialist to see if there is some other underlying problem. The GP has run some tests, but I don't know what they are and whatever vitamin supplements he's been on and the anxiety meds have not really gotten rid of the lightheaded symptoms, at least not completely. The only other physical thing I can think of is that he has a hard time gaining weight. He's 6'4" and about 158lbs.

 

So all that to say - if you have any suggestions, I'm all ears. :D

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Susan--the studies on deadheading don't show a clear benefit to doing so....same with whether you prune specifically or shear them.  As to my preference, I deadhead to above a three leaf set for the first bloom cycles and to above a 5 leaf set on subsequent cycles, cut at a 45 degree angle on my David Austin roses. For my knockouts, I just shear them twice a year.

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Dd has tested positive for celiac disease.  We are being referred to a children's g.i. doc.  This kid lives on pasta.  But I am already gf,  so cooking for her won't be so hard.  I will have to be a lot more careful about cross contamination though. 

 

Yay for a diagnosis.  I don't know much about that; would that explain her heart/fainting symptoms?  If so, double yay.  Not that celiac is good, but at least you know what you're dealing with.

 

:grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug:  for Events Planner.  What a huge adjustment for her.  :sad:

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I hate to say that I am excited about this, because I know the long list of ways in which this complicates things, but I hope that this diagnosis and diet change will help her. Some of my friends with celiac have had huge improvements by going off gluten, including one friend who was able to go off all of her cardiac meds.

 

 

I'm sorry, Jeannie!!

 

 

Do they think this is what's causing her symptoms?

 

Ds21 has been mentioning dizziness/lightheadedness more frequently this past year. He says it is mostly when his heartrate goes up, but not always - excitement, nervousness, etc. Though sometimes just out of the blue. He has been seeing a GP for the past year, who has prescribed something for anxiety, but he really wants to see a cardiologist or some other specialist to see if there is some other underlying problem. The GP has run some tests, but I don't know what they are and whatever vitamin supplements he's been on and the anxiety meds have not really gotten rid of the lightheaded symptoms, at least not completely. The only other physical thing I can think of is that he has a hard time gaining weight. He's 6'4" and about 158lbs.

 

So all that to say - if you have any suggestions, I'm all ears. :D

I'm actually a bit excited as well.  Obviously I don't want her to be sick but knowing something is so much better than being told that they found nothing over and over again.  And much much preferable to her doctor suggesting that we consider psych issues as a cause when my gut (that's my celiac pun) tells me that it isn't.  Susan, ask them to do a blood test for ttg - that's what caught it for dd.  Now we don't have confirmation from the g.i. specialist yet.  I was told not to have her go on a gluten free diet yet as they will probably do a biopsy and it will not catch problems if she's already gluten free. 

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Is it a tea rose?? Or a landscape type rose (floribundas)? The tea roses I cut each flower off (plus a couple inches of the stem) when they die. Our floribundas, DH just shears with the hedge trimmers when they are all done blooming.

I think a landscape type. It's called a double knock out?

 

I just read the card that came with it and it says I don't have to dead-head them. ðŸ‘

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Dd has tested positive for celiac disease. We are being referred to a children's g.i. doc. This kid lives on pasta. But I am already gf, so cooking for her won't be so hard. I will have to be a lot more careful about cross contamination though.

This is awesome! (in a totally sucky way) Seriously awesome though. You are going to make definite progress with this!
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Yay for a diagnosis.  I don't know much about that; would that explain her heart/fainting symptoms?  If so, double yay.  Not that celiac is good, but at least you know what you're dealing with.

 

:grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug:  for Events Planner.  What a huge adjustment for her.  :sad:

 

It might.  Celiac is auto immune.  And autoimmune stuff can be weird and affect all sorts of things that you wouldn't think would be affected.  At any rate, just taking care of the celiac problem so that we can see what is left would be an improvement. 

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I'm actually a bit excited as well. Obviously I don't want her to be sick but knowing something is so much better than being told that they found nothing over and over again. And much much preferable to her doctor suggesting that we consider psych issues as a cause when my gut (that's my celiac pun) tells me that it isn't. Susan, ask them to do a blood test for ttg - that's what caught it for dd. Now we don't have confirmation from the g.i. specialist yet. I was told not to have her go on a gluten free diet yet as they will probably do a biopsy and it will not catch problems if she's already gluten free.

Thanks - I'll ask ds if they've done one already, and if not, we'll have him get it done soon.

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I need to find another job from home. Rating tests just isn't enough and hours are spotty.

How many hours and what pay? 

 

The insurance job I have is looking for 40 hours. It's only $10/hr (independent contractor), but you can make your own schedule. 

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Dd has tested positive for celiac disease.  We are being referred to a children's g.i. doc.  This kid lives on pasta.  But I am already gf,  so cooking for her won't be so hard.  I will have to be a lot more careful about cross contamination though. 

I'm sorry. YAY for a diagnosis, though and at least you already know what to do for her - that's a big silver lining for sure. 

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This diagnosis is huge. I've never known anyone with celiac that wouldn't call the diagnosis life changing. Sleep apnea, migraines, it affects everything. She "lives on pasta". She's been poisoning herself for years, of course she's miserable. This is excellent news.

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(((Events Planner)))

 

Jean, I'm so glad that you have a diagnosis.

 

I *might* have celiac, but I went gluten free before I knew that I should have more testing.

 

And I'm glad that you're already familiar with the diet.  This will make it a lot easier.  I know that you've been doing this for yourself for a while, but if you need any brand recommendations for food that she wants that you don't normally eat, let me know.

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(((Jean)))

 

I feel like Jean could really use a hug. I'm sorry everything has been so rough lately.

 

I'm glad your dd finally has a diagnosis that you can work with. Hopefully this is the start of a better path.

 

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DS scored close to perfect on all his subject state tests for HS! It's the type all students in the state take and you have to pass to pass HS (he's in PS). Yay, right? Except he's getting Cs in 2 classes and a B in the other. 

 

He says he cares about learning; not grades. He's not my trained monkey.  :nopity: I want my monkey to dance! 

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Since being grounded from the words poop, pee, fart and butt, my children are now discussing "throw up".

 

 

Teach them the word "emesis"!

 

 

And when they REALLY get sick teach them "hyper-emesis"!

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DS scored close to perfect on all his subject state tests for HS! It's the type all students in the state take and you have to pass to pass HS (he's in PS). Yay, right? Except he's getting Cs in 2 classes and a B in the other.

 

He says he cares about learning; not grades. He's not my trained monkey. :nopity: I want my monkey to dance!

🎉 :hurray: 🎉

 

He's obviously inherited your brains!

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I cut my insurance job back to 20 hours. Why does 4 hours a day still seem as long as 8 hours a day? Good heavens. 

 

 

Because they will still expect 8 hours of work out of you.

 

When I was contemplating part-time work as a transition from maternity leave back to full-time work my supervisor advised me to try working fewer longer days instead of short days every day.  Her reasoning is that for every person she saw trying to work 4 hours the reality is that time creep would set in and they would end up working 5-6 hour days, and sometimes longer, while only being paid for the 4 hours in the day.  I managed 3 days a week of 7 hours per day, but not everyone could manage that.

 

Be careful of time creep!  Don't let your days get extended often.

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🎉 :hurray: 🎉

 

He's obviously inherited your brains!

 

Thanks. My brains got good grades, though. I'm trying to focus on the positive. He's happy and proud and his teachers are impressed. But mostly I feel like strangling him because I know he can perform better in class. He could do so well if he wanted to.

 

And- he's historically been a terrible test taker. He's really struggled with being able to perform on standardized tests, so this is a huge achievement for us. 

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I'm not sure I'm qualified to answer this question, but I'll give it a shot. Like Slache said, routine works best for us. Implement certain transitions and anchor points. And be consistent.

My boys know they get up, have breakfast, and leave me the heck alone until my coffee kick in. When I'm ready, we take a walk and start school as soon as we get back. That helps them transition from free time to school time.

My boys are both slow eaters, so we don't have sit down meals (except dinner). That would take forever. Instead, in the morning I prepare a snack tray for the day and we graze as we go along with our day. It's usually fruits, cheese, sausage or deli meat, hard-boiled eggs, crackers; that kind of thing.

We also have quiet time for an hour in the afternoon, and we all do chores together right after. I'm still working on getting maximum cooperation for quiet and chore time.

This all sounds great on paper, but in reality I feel like I'm living with a bunch of baboons. It's a work in progress.

 

 

I like this snack tray idea!

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How many hours and what pay?

 

The insurance job I have is looking for 40 hours. It's only $10/hr (independent contractor), but you can make your own schedule.

I prefer part time, but in reality need full. I'm familiar with how most wah jobs pay, but haven't done it in a while. What do you do?

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Dd has tested positive for celiac disease.  We are being referred to a children's g.i. doc.  This kid lives on pasta.  But I am already gf,  so cooking for her won't be so hard.  I will have to be a lot more careful about cross contamination though. 

 

 

Okay, something that can be worked with!   :grouphug:  :grouphug:  all the same, but I'm glad part (all?) of the mystery is solved.

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 It's getting real, y'all. I just called the preschool director. Riv's last day is June 9. 

I also called the private school where we had her registered and told them to un-enroll her. 

 

Preschool, kindergarten, and early elementary can be so fun to homeschool! I hope she's excited. 

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Still in skilled nursing. She's barely eating. And her dementia is worse. If she doesn't improve in two weeks then I think she will be placed in the nursing home area.

 

 

:grouphug:  :grouphug:  :grouphug:

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I love apricots. I would love to have an apricot tree in our yard. May have to work on that.

 

Throw some seeds in the compost; you'll probably have luck that way. That's the only way we got our little trees. Planting seeds on purpose never worked.  :lol:

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