A surgeon wouldn't necessarily know much if anything about EDS. A geneticist can do an examination and confirm an EDS diagnosis. They will also narrow down what type of EDS she may have which will give you a better idea what treatments will be needed. I had similar symptoms as a teen, feeling like an old person with joint pain and easily dislocated joints. I also didn't know ovarian cysts and such could be part of it but I have dealt with them on and off since I was a teen as well so it makes sense that it is related to EDS. My periods are heavy and always have been. Nothing has ever changed that and I have to watch my iron because the heaviest periods leave me anemic. I also have scoliosis as part of my EDS. It was caught when I was 11 but it didn't start getting worse until I was an adult which I've read is also common with EDS. Definitely get her in with a geneticist if you can. When you can pinpoint what is causing seemingly unrelated things, it gets a lot easier to know when and what to treat. ((Hugs)) EDS can be a very painful condition to deal with.

We had a drained PVC pipe shatter under the house earlier this week from low teens to single digit night time temperatures. The only reason it didn't flood under the house was because the line was drained (it's for outdoor use only so we drain it and shut it off in the winter) but it also shattered under the pressure tank in the wellhouse. So the wellhouse flooded which isn't fun but at least it is away from the main house. Since we only use the well for outdoor water, it wasn't too bad. Our main city water line froze as well but it is made of pex and resisted breakage just fine. We got the lines insulated and it has been fine since. Fingers crossed this next round of cold the beginning of next week doesn't do any more damage. We keep the house in the sixties to upper fifties at night. According to the plumber, those indoor temps had no bearing on the lines that we had freeze. Ours were all outdoor lines that should have been insulated but were not when they were installed last summer.

And it can be argued that older populations tend to be more rigid in their thinking. The older we get, the more set in our ways we become. Everyone has their biases. That's part of what makes jury selection difficult especially in a high profile case. I was simply pointing out that discrediting someone based on their age IS a logical fallacy. Full stop. Age is a personal trait and it was used against Heartstrings to try and discredit her opinion. Whether or not her biases are typical for her age doesn't change the fact that you can't logically argue with fallacies. I'm older than Heartstrings but younger than Scarlett. If that matters to anybody. I remember the ridiculous amount of media coverage that the case got but I was too busy wrangling 3 kids under 3yo and preparing for an international move at the time to care. Not to mention dealing with my own turbulent first marriage. Just boiled down to not my circus, not my monkeys. Now that I'm older and in a different place in life, my views are biased based on raw emotions left from my dealings with the court system. Not to mention apathy toward the case in general. I will be the first to admit that I would be a terrible juror for this case and pretty much almost any other case.

This is an ad hominem fallacy. Trying to discredit someone based on their age is a very basic logical fallacy. The great thing about the internet is that one can read and research to their heart's content about anything they desire. Just because someone was young or even just a twinkle in their parents' eye when something happened does not discredit their opinion when information about anything is so widely and easily available.

Are you wanting them to do a craft to make the puppet or do you just want them to have puppets to put on a show or something? If it's the latter, we had a set of puppets like these from Oriental Trading for years when my big kids were little. They lasted all the way through my youngest child's early years when he was young enough to play with hand puppets. That would be about 10 - 15 years that they were played with and loved by 6 homeschooled children which I think is excellent for something from Oriental Trading. They have all kinds of puppets and puppet related things. ETA: I also just saw they had these DIY hand puppets. They could draw with fabric markers or paint as someone else suggested.

You wouldn't refer to someone as stupid just because they described themselves as stupid. Even just prefacing it with "she feels half-crazed due to the pain she is in" would have been an improvement in semantics. I say this as someone who lives with someone who has been in chronic pain for two decades. My husband often feels crazy and insane from the pain he is in but he's not crazy or insane. The pain sometimes effects his critical thinking skills but that's why I'm here, to help him through the tough times. Sometimes that means letting him try things that I don't think are going to work but are overall harmless to try. Dietary changes, especially ones that are intended to be temporary from the start, are not likely to cause lasting damage. Temporary discomfort maybe but not life changing damage. Dh is having gastrointestinal surgery this spring that requires he go on a protein heavy diet. Just after the surgery, fiber is a no-no until he is cleared and then he still needs to stay protein heavy and fiber light for a few weeks until his body adjusts to his new normal. I'm thinking about going on the diet with him even though I'm not having the surgery. The doctor has said it would be fine for me to do that and even thought it was a marvelous idea that I would be so supportive as to join him on such a restrictive diet by choice. I'm not planning to eat this way for the rest of my life, that would be detrimental. The max I would be doing it is a month or so.

I wouldn't have called my dh at work either. If something happens to him at work, he will let me know when he can. I'm okay with that. No, you are not the a-hole for not calling him at work. Your mom is a bit on the a-hole side for projecting her feelings and needs on you. I stopped calling my father because he would do things like this to me. I finally said enough was enough and just refuse to have contact with him since he proved over and over again that he can't behave himself and act like a normal human being. The reduction of stress in my life when I made that decision was unbelievable.

My mother and I had a rocky relationship before I got pregnant. She wasn't involved with my first at all other than buying a few gifts but it was all for show; to appear to be an involved grandma. Our relationship went further down hill when I had my second child. It was about that time that I cut my losses and put some distance between us for my mental health. It wasn't called such back then but I basically ended my toxic relationship with her and never looked back. I had many more babies, 7 total including a still birth, none of which she was involved with. I don't have any regrets about it. I would love to be super involved with any of my future grandchildren but only if my child and their partner want my help. Otherwise I am content to watch from the sidelines if that is what they would prefer.

Walk to the bus stop at the end of our block. PE and recess were outside almost everyday as we don't get much rain in Phoenix. I think I was still in jump rope club then so we jumped rope everyday after school for an hour to an hour and a half. At home and on the weekends and in the summer we were outside riding bikes, rollerskating, jumping rope, hopscotch, 4 square, tetherball, swimming and playing on our swing set. I was never really into organized sports, the closest I came was marching band in high school, but my brother and sister did baseball/softball for many years.

That's right, it's 011. It's really been a while since I've had to call internationally lol.

As far as I know it's still 1 then the country code then the area code then the number.

I haven't had to call internationally since I had a land line but I think on a cell phone you have to have an international plan that includes the country you are trying to call.

I turned 11 in 1990. We lived in Phoenix then. Single income middle class family. Breakfast: Anything from cold cereal to toaster strudel to eggs and toast to pancakes and sausage to canned cinnamon rolls to instant oatmeal. My mom went through a spell of making Jiffy Mix muffins everyday for a while about this time. She almost always made breakfast for us at this time on school days. Saturday mornings it was cold cereal and cartoons (I specifically remember having "Nintendo" cereal but whatever sugary cereal we picked at the store is what we had). Sundays we went out to Denny's or IHOP for breakfast a lot. Lunch: School Lunch most of the time. We had a choice of two entrees everyday then there were veggies and a dessert. Pizza was a choice every Friday with salad, orange slices and jello. The other days varied from chicken nuggets to stirfry to stew to ham and cheese sandwiches. The school cafeteria also had a salad bar where you could make your own salad and a snack bar where you could buy all kinds of junk food. I was only allowed to eat from the snack bar on my birthday. My parents volunteered daily at the school so they were always aware of what I was doing for lunch and doing in general at school. Dinner: Chicken and Broccoli stirfry was a favorite dinner. Spaghetti, beef tips and noodles (similar to stroganoff), grilled burgers or shishkabobs, occasionally we'd have Hamburger Helper. Pasta dinners always had a side salad. Every dinner had a meat, a starch and vegetable side. We ate out at least once a week. Usually Olive Garden, Black Angus Steakhouse, Red Lobster or some other "sit down" restaurant. We'd do fast food on trips and outings. My parents had this weird thing where they refused to buy store brand anything. Everything had to be name brand. My dad once told me it was because he grew eating store brands and he didn't want his kids to have to "suffer" like that. I also remember asking for "brown bread" once because I had it at school and liked it and my mom told me no because brown bread was for poor people and we weren't poor.....🤔 my parents had issues with not ever appearing to be poor.

We got about an inch of snow yesterday but it's already gone. We are suppose to get some more on Tuesday before it all turns to rain. I'm fine with that. Snow is nice to look at once in a while but I'm glad I no longer live where snow sticks around for weeks at a time.

I would since it is going to be cooked again in the pot pie. But I'm pretty lax about these things. YMMV.

I don't know if it's more likely just that once I learned what EDS was and that not everyone had joints like mine it's that I recognize it more maybe? That's part of why I know how to reset them, because I didn't realize that what was happening was a slight or every once in a while a full dislocation of the joint and I just naturally know how to push it back into place because I've had plenty of practice lol. Sprains and twists I've just always been prone to and now I know why.

Slow start today. I have an appointment this afternoon so I'm not sure I'll get much done today. I think I'll go unload the truck so maybe I can get more loaded in there before my appointment.

Stuff from the porch loaded in the truck to take to the shed after I take a break. It's still chilly out there but not downright cold like it was this morning! 👍

I'm not sure where to start today. I didn't get to the porch yesterday so I could do that but it's colder outside today than it was yesterday. 🙄 I don't want to work on my bedroom until dh's up. I don't want to wake ds by decluttering in the craft room which is right next to his room. So I guess until everyone's up and it warms up a little outside I'll just look up decluttering and organizing stuff on Youtube and Pinterest. 🤣

Oh, the You Choose: Historical Adventures books were big hits here. They are Choose Your Own Adventure books but with a historical twist. Ancient Greece Ancient Egypt Ancient Rome

My knees and shoulders subluxate frequently. I'm on a daily dose of meloxicam to help with the daily joint pain and I have hydrocodone for break through pain or injuries that need it. It's no use going to the ER or urgent care around here for twists, sprains and dislocations. They put a splint on it and tell you to take tylenol and make an appointment with sports medicine. I've lived with EDS long enough to know how to reset my dislocations myself most of the time and if I need a splint, I can also do it myself. My family doctor has been the biggest help with EDS. When she doesn't know the answer, she sends me out to orthopedics usually. She is also the one who referred me to a genetics specialist to confirm my EDS diagnosis, mostly to just have it officially on paper that I have it. I also have severe scoliosis as part of my EDS. I had a (useless) scoliosis brace as a child but now it's just monitored and take pain meds as needed for it. I have bone spurs developing where the vertebrae rub together and they can get really painful at times. My EDS has been steadily getting worse since about my mid-thirties. Mostly the joint pain and more frequent sprains and twists from doing everyday things like just walking. I can't walk long distances anymore without something to lean on like a shopping cart. If I have to do it, my hips will be killing me before I've walked 30 feet or so. I'm pretty sure I'll need a walker sooner than later.

cave painting on brown paper grocery bags Build a ziggurat out of legos (complete with toilet papered minifig mummy) apple or chicken mummy

There is a 15 year age gap between my oldest and my youngest. Even just between the two of them, I notice the difference. Never mind comparing it to how I grew up. I do remember being bored at times but I didn't often go to my parents about it. I remember drawing or writing for hours or practicing the flute or reading. Lots of reading. I grew up mostly in Phoenix so in the dead of summer it was just too hot to play outside sometimes but the rest of the year was perfect for doing whatever. I didn't have cousins around very often and my parents were very strict about friends. We had a Nintendo and computers even though they weren't as common place back then as they are now but we mostly used those when it was too hot outside. My older kids also played outside more than my youngest does but they always had lots of kids in the neighborhood to play with as we were military then. Now we live rurally and there are no kids to play with in the area. While I was decluttering, I found my older boys' copy of The Dangerous Book For Boys. Let's just say it is in very well used condition aka nearly falling apart. lol I offered it to my youngest son to have and told him if he liked it I would get him his own copy that wasn't in such bad shape. Ds11 perused it a little bit and said there were some interesting bits in it but that it wasn't anything he couldn't find on the internet if he wanted so he wasn't interested in the book. 😞 l know he's just not a book kid and he does look things up on the internet constantly when he wants to know something, either by himself or has me or his dad do it for him, but it does make me a little sad for some reason that he's not more interested in the book.

One of our dogs can't have corn which generally means grain free food. She will roll around on the rocks in our yard trying to scratch her back until it bleeds when she doesn't have corn-free food. We tried eliminating corn first at the suggestion of our vet and it worked.

Today's plan: Get the truck unloaded from yesterday. Get the rest of the clutter that wouldn't fit in the truck yesterday, loaded and then taken to the trash. Then I think today I will tackle to porch which is piled with stuff that needs to go to the shed. I might do some more decluttering in the master bedroom if I feel up to it. I stirred up too much dust yesterday in the master bedroom and gave myself an asthma attack. 😞 But at least the dust is gone now! UPDATE: Ugh! It's noon already here and I'm just not getting as much done as I had hoped.