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Recently I started the Lizzie Grace series by Keri Arthur with Blood Kissed. I revisited some of my favorite authors with Phsy-Changeling Trinity #6, Storm Echo by Nalini Singh, and The Dark in You #8, Reaper by Suzanne Wright. I also reread Emerald Blaze, Hidden Legacy #5 by Ilona Andrews, and Smoke Bitten, Mercy Thompson #12 in preparation for new released in both series on Tuesday. 😉
I'm currently listening to a new series by Catherine Bybee, with book #1 When it Falls Apart. I enjoy the majority of Catherine Bybee's works on kindle unlimited audio, the exception being the Richter books. They make perfect fluff when I'm busy cleaning or doing other chores.
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11 hours ago, Robin M said:
I'm still rereading and reading Ilona Andrews Guild Hunter series. Discovered I stopped after book 7 and didn't read 8 - 10 so currently reading for the first time Book 8 Magic Shifts.
"After breaking from life with the Pack, mercenary Kate Daniels and her mate—former Beast Lord Curran Lennart—are adjusting to a very different pace. While they’re thrilled to escape all the infighting, Curran misses the constant challenges of leading the shapeshifters.
So when the Pack offers him its stake in the Mercenary Guild, Curran seizes the opportunity—too bad the Guild wants nothing to do with him and Kate. Luckily, as a veteran merc, Kate can take over any of the Guild’s unfinished jobs in order to bring in money and build their reputation. But what Kate and Curran don’t realize is that the odd jobs they’ve been working are all connected.
An ancient enemy has arisen, and Kate and Curran are the only ones who can stop it—before it takes their city apart piece by piece…"
I think I've read that series 2 or 3 times now. Do not forget about Iron and Magic, and Blood Heir! I also enjoy their Hidden Legacy series, with the last of the current trilogy coming out on Tuesday.
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On 7/28/2022 at 8:09 PM, Smikell said:
Thank you! I signed him up with CLRC—hoping it will be a great year!
My son is going into Japanese IV with Clare Kappenman and she is fantastic. He did Japanese I with Todd Godwin and then transferred to WTM. I would find out if he’s resolved his internet connection issues. We had a lot of problems with the class, simply because he didn’t have reliable internet. As a result, he wasn’t able to access any online classroom for the kids and they finally ended up on Zoom at weird times of the day to accommodate the internet issues. In the end, DS received an A and tested into Japanese II with minimal additional work needed to cover the Japanese I materials at WTM.
ETA: I agree, start hiragana now.
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I agree with the following:
Get your PCP to order a CT of the chest asap.
Get the referral for pulmonology going, but they will immediately order the CT of the chest anyway. Most don't do contrast, if needed they would then jump to a PET.
Track your peak flows, morning and night and whenever you have pain.
DH has areas that are tracked by CT yearly now as they are stable. He has had abnormal chest x-rays of large measurements that turn out to be related to viral illness, they're really only stepping off points to further diagnostics.
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I was prescribed metformin, I had my first few pregnancies using injections, after a disastrous experience with clomid. Over time the metformin reversed by PCOS and my last few pregnancies were conceived naturally. I tried inositol at one point and went back on metformin because it got so out of control.
Congratulations on your update! I took metformin until I hit 12 weeks with each pregnancy. I also took progesterone for the same period of time.
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The kids each upgraded their echo dots to the 4th generation. I used the $200 gift card for opening and account and bought the $377 bread maker I've been watching for weeks for $83.
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21 hours ago, Robin M said:
Fantasy and paranormal romance is more my style too! what have you been reading?
I have no idea when I last updated, so here goes:
I finished a reread of the Jane Yellowrock in preparation for the end of the series, and found a few shorts I'd been missing along the way. I also did a reread of The Linesman series because I love Ean and saw it mentioned here in the lists again. I read a bit of the paranormal and urban fantasy with Annabel Chase's Midnight Empire, and Deborah Wilde's The Jezebel Files. I dabbled with Sarah J Maas's Crescent City, which is long at 803 pages, too long for me to be ready to read the next, which is a few pages longer. I read A Sense of Danger, the new Section 47 series by Jennifer Estep, which I enjoyed. I'd put Jennifer Estep's Elemental Assassin books on the back burner a while back, but the second in this series is due out soon and I have pre-ordered it.
Otherwise I've been lost in space. 😀 Science Fiction/Space Opera has been my things this year. Far enough from any reality, and relatively straight forward to read seems to be the draw. I'm currently reading The Last Hunter Series by J. N. Chaney. I also started listening to Trouble with the Cursed by Kim Harrison. I haven't listened to any of the audibles for The Hollows series, so I'm not sure that I like the way it's going, through no fault of the narrator. I have built up a lot of audible credits I need to use.
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I've decided mystery is just not my genre, but still following along. 🙂
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6 hours ago, Mrs Tiggywinkle said:
I am passing out every single time I stand up. They think it may have been triggered by a virus. In any case, we are going to try Ivabradine. It’s off label but promising studies with fewer side effects.
My head rate hasn’t been what I’d consider super high, but does jump around 40 bpm in 60 seconds on moving from laying to sitting and also from sitting to standing. And my blood pressure plummets. Like to 80s systolic. And then it goes black.My first easy question would be if you're wearing compression on your lower extremities? That's easier than meds and makes a big difference in POTS syncope for my child, second to fluid intake, which I assume you're already doing. 3L a day is a lot of fluid! My DS takes bupropion to stabilize blood pressure and prevent syncope per the POTS specialist.
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Hugs, I hope it is as smooth a transition as possible.
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@Mrs Tiggywinkleif you already have Ehler Danlos I would not want to leave POTS off your record since they often go hand in hand. My DS is waiting to see a specialist because they think he now meets the criteria for ED, where he didn't when he was younger, by a thin margin.
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My son has POTS and another is showing symptoms. We never had stigma issues. We started out with Children's Hospital, but did end up at the University of Toledo, out of state, to see a leading specialist, so maybe that makes a difference. 🤷♀️ No one has ever mentioned anything about anxiety or depression to us. DS only goes to Toledo when needed, and sees a local neurologist that handles the headache side of things. We did have an experience where a local doctor tried to change meds, and the specialist about lost her mind because it was the exact opposite of how to treat a POTS patient, so I think proper diagnosis makes a big difference.
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I would call the OB/GYN and be seen again. The dose of the metformin may also need adjusting. It took me about two weeks to stop bleeding each time I restarted it after a pregnancy. I also take meclofenamate to stop/slow bleeding when needed. Be sure she's taking a high quality iron supplement.
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Congratulations! I love the picture.
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8 minutes ago, mathnerd said:
More tragically, a paramedic responding went to that girl who was rushing out and asked her if she needed help since she was bleeding and the girl told him that the blood was from her friend and the friend's name she mentioned was that paramedic's step daughter. I read this last night somewhere, it should be googlable. I am beyond upset by what the police officers did in that town. Looks like they were busy saving their own behinds in a crisis.
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1 minute ago, KSera said:
I've been thinking this a lot today. There's a whole lot to be stunned and devastated about in learning about the total incompetence of the police response, and the fact that they might have been able to save lives, but I expect gun enthusiasts are very happy that that is where the focus is today, rather than on the root cause of this, which is a highly lethal weapon in the hands of someone with no business having it.
I see a lot of comments to effect that if a police officers didn't want to stand up against a shooter with an AR-15, the shooter shouldn't have had access to that gun.
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That’s not that far over normal. I’d see where it is in 4 weeks and otherwise discuss all supplements with your PCP.
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What medication are you taking for your blood sugars if you are willing to state? Some promote weight gain. Glucotrol is notorious.
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1 hour ago, Kassia said:
@melmichiganI brought up the info for my county and don't understand it. It says community level is low but the county is in red and says transmission level is high. Can you (or someone else) tell me what this means? I hope I don't sound dumb but I'd like to understand what I'm seeing.
ETA - I don't think the link shows my Ohio county (Geauga) specifically so I'm editing to add it here.
The community level metric: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/community-levels.html
The transmission level metric: https://www.akingump.com/a/web/oHFiv6tLE6XqSTREwwMnN6/2nfajr/table-1.pdf
In simplest terms, the community level is the new action level and the transmission level is the old standard that is kept around for healthcare use to understand what is really going on. So my community level is low, but in reality cases are climbing (doubling), and the percentage positivity is over 15% and rising. YMMV.
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This is the Michigan community transmission map as of today. The new metrics are a joke, and most people don't realize they can change the metric choices. Source: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#county-view?list_select_state=Michigan&data-type=Risk&list_select_county=26025
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I am so very sorry for your loss.
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4 hours ago, Vintage81 said:
Did you not like it the first time you read it? I’m curious because this happened to me. My book club read it last year and everyone loved it except for me! To this day, they still rave about it (and all the sequels). 🤣 Many of them said the audio book was good.
I didn't even get half way through it before I abandoned the book. My sister said I just wasn't in the right mindset.
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I found a now defunct group on Goodreads called Buddies Books and Baubles, which dubbed themselves as an Urban Fantasy Group, but seem to have a little bit of everything. There are a lot of the authors I normally read on their spreadsheets so I'm picking through to see what I may have missed over the last few years. 🙂
Eclipse the Moon by Jessie Mihalik, #2 in the Starlight Shadow series is already on my preorders for this July. It's Kee and Varro's story, and I hope it's as enjoyable as Octavia and Torran's story was for me.
At my sister's insistence I'm going to give Red Rising by Pierce Brown another try, this time on audible. 🤞
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I completed my reread of the Jane Yellowrock Series by Faith Hunter in preparation for the end of the series, and have been hopping around since then. I tried the Paradox Series by Rachel Bach. I finished the first two on audible, but then realized I wasn't invested enough to read the third. I came back to a few of my author/series and read Abandoned in Death by J.D Robb, and Beyond the Eyes of Mars, before reading a few kindle unlimited books for quick reads. I've given up any rhyme or reason this year.
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Help me pick a good Algebra I textbook?
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I have used Dolciani with the last three of mine. I have no regrets, from my DS who is dyslexic, to my DS who is going into accounting.