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Peace to you as well. This on grief (Buddhist content)
http://www.pbs.org/thebuddha/blog/2010/mar/11/buddhist-perspective-grieving-roshi-joan-halifax/
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Do you have any pain in the upper right quadrant of your abdomen? It's another common gallbladder symptom in late pregnancy. The fact that your palms and soles are itching is very suspicious. It takes a few days to get the bile acid results, so if the itching gets bad, ask for the meds before diagnosis. You can stop them if the labs are negative.
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Ugh, so sorry about the Lyme and the treatments. To help with comfort, drinking a glass of pineapple juice each day is purported to help with bacterial cysts.
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Chiropractic maneuvers have been known to cause strokes in those who are predisposed, so I'd be careful doing anything there until a neurologist gave me the okay.
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I'm sure it is probably bacterial. It could be that the baby's stools are infecting any little opening in the skin because they contain bacterial strains that are difficult for the skin' normal flora to fight. So improving the baby's intestinal flora can help deter further bacteria to cause rashes. Using over the counter antibacterial creams for diaper rash is not usually recommended if it recurs at all. By changing around ointments, you can kill the beneficial bacteria on the skin, while letting the bad guys proliferate and become resistantThe second doctor did say it was definitely bacterial. It has the classic pustules of impetigo. And the only response to antibacterial cream’.
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I would sprinkle some acidophilus powder (from capsules) in the baby's food daily for a week or so to help establish helpful intestinal flora.
Over the counter antibacterial creams, soaps, or washes can make things worse in the long run. I'd see the regular pediatrician and use what s/he recommends.
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[emoji23]That would really annoy me. I would be tempted to set up dummy accounts and then put a rude autoreply on one and have another send him an enormous graphics file by mistake.
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Prayers and peace and strength
What a terrible shock for your family. [emoji173]
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All of this.I have joined the ranks of hs'ers who do not discuss hs'ing IRL.
We are in a low reg state. I have seen some horror stories, with what Kung Fu Panda and others were saying about parents getting offended by the school and pulling kids out on a whim. "Punishing the school" as opposed to "seeking the best learning environment for their child."
They don't stop working. (In every situation that I've known personally, they can't afford to.) They don't address their own literacy and social problems. They don't learn what the child needs to know, to progress academically. The child loses speech therapy AND breakfast and lunch that he got at school.
But here, you can't say, "Public schoolers problems," because they don't usually sign up for virtual ps. It's known to be a failure here. These are still the Walmart workbook type. When they do return to school, it's not next fall, it's more like three to four years later (according to friends who are ps teachers), and they've not progressed academically since they left.
I'm not going to put a number on this, but combined with the Gothardite types who have twelve untaught children, I see a significant problem with hsing in my state.
Now here's why I don't talk about hsing IRL: I know why people pull their kids out of schools here.
There is no way I can say to a functionally illiterate mom, "You can't teach him, and you aren't teaching him, and what are you going to do to afford the missed meals, you owe it to him to enroll," when I know she took him out because test anxiety and bullying and inappropriate curriculum were destroying him! At age eight!
And the same veteran teacher who decries the homeschool failure, tells me she is sick at heart over the testing culture, that she can only manage about 2.5 months of actual instruction because of it, and that the test anxiety and excessive homework are harming her third graders...and the only reason she's still teaching is that she's reluctant to turn the children over to young teachers who have only learned these non-nurturing and ineffective methods...
And nowadays, what if I, personally, tell an obviously unfit hsing mom that she owes it to her child to put him in school - and he gets shot? Or bullied until he kills himself?
No way. Not me. I've got my head down, finishing raising my boys, saving my books for the grandchildren.
Nutshell: I think hs neglect and failure are very real. But I see this situation as public school failure. If our schools were safe and effective, only a few outliers would homeschool. Probably that 3% that we maintained for so long; that's how many actually *want* to homeschool (and therefore do a pretty good job). Too many families are hsing because they just don't want to send their kid back. I want our nation to get the schools back on track, with all that's included in that sentiment.
Edit: I also went down the road of being in favor of increased hs regs, for several years, in response to what I've seen with Gothardite girls who are not given a basic education - not even third grade math - while being responsible for the care of younger siblings. But again, I have waved the white flag. Surrender. I don't want the school people telling me what to teach, and it doesn't even work when the father of those neglected girls used to pay "Christian" homeschool evaluators to lie on the reports.
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Sorry this happened to you! Don't rub or massage it. You don't want the clot to travel.Thanks for the extra info. I love to hike and the footing is seldom easy and we take significant road trips out to remote areas all the time.
I was told no standing on ladders or chairs. I do all of our interior painting and am in the middle of a project, so this is really a bummer.
I've been wondering if part of the reason this is a problem now is that with working at the desk for long hours on my teaching certification, I have been more sedentary for the past few months.
Anyway, I'd love advice because it's only been a couple of hours and my brain is already rebelling at having "constraints," but I know the alternative isn't too good.
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As far as pasta goes, we eat the whole wheat kind, and always add some kind of legume, some dried and fresh mushrooms, some peppers, onions, garlic, other veggies that we have around like peas, corn, carrots. Sounds crazy, but a half can of pumpkin (not the sweet kind, just pumpkin) is good with the red sauce. Or some coconut milk with the red sauce, or avocado as a garnish.
Spices are the main thing with vegan food. LOTS of spices, peppers, and herbs are used around here (four adult long term vegans live here.)
We eat vegan whole plant foods: high carb, low salt, very little oil, little sugar except for treats. Organic produce when available.
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Only some BKs have the veggie patty.BK has a veggie burger? I wonder how bad/good it is for you?
"The veggie burger from Burger King comes with a sesame bun, veggie patty, lettuce and tomatoes, ketchup and mayonnaise and has 410 calories.....
Burger King claims that its veggie burger has whole grains and that the burger provides 7 g dietary fiber....
Veggie Patty:
Morningstar Farms makes the veggie patty in Burger King’s veggie burger. The main ingredient is a vegetable mix with mushrooms, water chestnuts, onions, carrots and other vegetables. The next ingredient is textured vegetable protein. The patty is free from meat but it contains egg whites, so it is not vegan."
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I like the "or claims to be" part [emoji23]prude
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noun: prude; plural noun: prudes
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a person who is or claims to be easily shocked by matters relating to sex or nudity.
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Me too. Reiki distance healing has been sent.Well, I was wondering about you! I’m glad you’re rebounding. I will be sending telepathically healing energy your way. None of this bad reaction stuff.
Your attitude is so good; it will get you through these hard times [emoji173]
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Very wise advice. Be the watcher.About the criticism, I try to note its arrival without feeling the words: Ah, there it is again, what's today's subject, how long, oh it's finished. Be an observer.
I recommend at this stage thinking hard about your situation and being prepared for difficult conversations. If she can afford to pay for care and you are too busy to cope long term and still nurture your immediate family, you need to tell her that. Become her care manager and not her carer.
About past behaviour, my therapist suggests thinking about the person she is now as if she were not the same being as you resent for past actions. Who is she now, what can she offer, what does she need and what can you give.
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I would make an appointment with her PCP, bring all the medications she is on, and discuss her suspected dementia. Even things you wouldn't suspect, like statins (cholesterol lowering meds), can cause denentia-like symptoms in the elderly. Sometimes it's a combination of medications that can do it.SHe's been showing some cognitive issues for awhile, and there is a possibility they are thyroid related and might improve with treatment. She and my dad lived alone and she worked full time with admin help, so she was getting along. Her issue now is she doesn't seem to be able to understand the physical limitations of her injury and we are afraid she is going to hurt herself. We are very hopeful that in a couple months when she is fully healed and the meds kick in we might see some improvement.
I ordered the book for my Kindle! Will read tonight - that is exactly what I need. I will care for her and provide every opportunity for her to get better, It is my duty, and I know important to her as she did it for her mom and dad and grandmother. We know her wishes on this subject and will do the best we can. We have a power of attorney in place.
Thanks for all the advice and experience.
Always suspect the medications as he cause first, ime, especially for an old or a young person.
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Oh I'm so sorry
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It is compulsory imo
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Yes, even 20 years ago when my daughter was tested, it was just a bunch of pinpricks on her back. She didn't mind those (was 8 years old), but had a huge reaction to the fire ant test, a large hive wheal that covered 1/4 of her little back. (She had had an anaphylaxic reaction to fire ant stings, which was why we were there.)Seriously? That's an extreme reaction to allergy testing!
At a pediatric allergist office, the nurses are usually amazing and can administer dozens of scratch test samples in less than a minute. It's not pleasant, but skin prick/scratch testing is not a big deal. We used topical steroids on the areas that showed reactions and took extra allergy meds after the testing to counteract the effect of having the allergens placed on the skin.
There are a few different types of blood tests, and different labs will process the same tests differently, giving a range of % for false positive and/or false negative results. So, just do your homework.
Overall, identifying allergens is almost always worth the temporary discomfort of testing. Chronic eczema and constipation are great ways to feel generally miserable.
Best wishes!
They had to make up a special formula for her injections, of one part to 100,000 instead of the 1/10,000 usually used for treatment, so it took a long time to just get to baseline. We went weekly for over 2 years for allergy injections. She still carries an epipen.
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Also watch for constipation, common side effect of iron supplementation.
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There are different types of iron, so the 65 mg of ferrous sulfate (regular OTC iron) won't all be absorbed. Here's a copy pasta about it. (Whichever kind you use, vitamin C containing foods eaten with it enhance absorption.)Looks like that one contains extracts of wheat germ, so not gluten free. Floravital is gluten-free but it only contains 10 mg of iron. Our current vitamin has 18 mg and I am supposed to be looking for 65 mg.
"If you’ve shopped for iron supplements you may have noticed two different amounts of iron listed on the same package. The higher number is the total amount of iron in the supplement. The second, smaller number is the amount of elemental iron.
Elemental iron is the total amount of iron in the supplement available for absorption by your body. Each type of iron has a different percent of elemental iron. For instance:
Carbonyl has 100% elemental iron.
Ferrous fumarate has approximately 33% elemental iron.
Ferrous sulfate has 20% elemental iron.
Ferrous gluconate has 12% elemental iron.
Therefore, higher total amounts of ferrous gluconate may be prescribed by your doctor to increase iron stores as compared to the amount of ferrous fumarate prescribed.
The amount of elemental iron in a supplement is typically listed in the Supplement Facts panel. In addition, some iron supplements will indicate the total milligrams of elemental iron on the front of the package making it easy for consumers to compare different iron supplements."
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I like this!I love my old standard pyrex. Nothing fancy. But I always wished I had a lid for it. So I vote for the old classic plus a lid.
(Also, a friend of mine had a glass engraving tool and she engraved my last name on it years ago. It actually comes in really handy for all the times I've brought it to a "potluck," and otherwise wouldn't have remembered which one was mine. Maybe you could get it engraved somewhere?)
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PMS remedies other than BC?
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It sure sounds as if vitamin D has been a problem for you, so it's suspicious as a contributer to the pms.
Letting the sunlight on your skin, especially on your torso may help. It's really the best way to ensure that the vitamin D levels in your body rise appropriately. For some people, taking the oral vitamin D raises the vitamin D level in the blood, but the D in the body is not being absorbed systemically. Getting the sunlight in addition to your supplements may help.