Yes. Then the couple leaving the reception hall and going straight to the airport have to assign *someone* to be in charge of getting the gifts to their home. Then, you end up with "my mother(-in-law) opened my wedding gifts while we were on the honeymoon" type threads!

In our house, it's me banging my head against the desk. :banghead: My 11yo dd asked again why she can't just do her math with a calculator. :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

My niece is going to attend college away from home. Her grandmother on the other side of the family wants to host a "shower" for her to supply her dorm room with necessities. I told her that I would give this niece a gift for her birthday (in April) and graduation (in May), but a completely separate "shower" is in poor taste. Going away to college doesn't warrant a "shower".

Have you seen a neurologist or a neurosurgeon? Has anyone done nerve conduction studies? Ah. I see they did an EMG. There's usually two parts. One part (EMG) looks at the quality of signal. The other (NCV) tests how fast a signal is traveling on the nerves. Your problem should be seen on the EMG portion though. When they did the test, were your hands numb/tingly? Did you induce the "asleep" sensation and then test? This is like a car with an intermittent electrical short. If you can't reproduce the problem, it's hard to pinpoint. I would want the test performed while the sensation is being induced. It sounds very positional to me.

Actually, the invitation to an event implies that you desire the presence of the invitee, not their presents. It's not really rude per se to attend without a gift. You're attending a party, a celebration. Now, attending a shower empty-handed is indeed tacky. If I attend the shower, I do not bring another gift to the wedding.

Occasionally, we'll see a baby with eczema come in with their first asthma exacerbation, but kid is still on formula or whatnot. I always tell the parents to get their kid to an allergist before they start table foods. I always have this terrible thought in the back of my head of feeding a kid table food for the first time and it triggering an anaphylaxis episode with the parents completely unprepared and blindsided.

Yup. I'm a peds nurse and it's a common "triad" to see a child be admitted with asthma exacerbation and have a history of eczema and food allergies. It's the first question I ask when I get a new onset asthma. "Does kidlet have any allergies? Have you had them tested?"

:tongue_smilie: Well, it kinda is. "We only want xyz and not abc." Or the mile long list that includes absolutely nothing under $100. Seriously. A registry isn't a bad thing. It's the responsibility of the hostess of the shower to convey to guests, when they RSVP and ask what the bride/mother-to-be needs/wants, where the couple/mother is registered or of any special requests.

Poor baby! I took a peek at your blog and discovered that she's allergic to so much stuff. Wow! No advice or anything. Just big ol' hugs!

For cases like this, two gifts are appropriate and indicated: a financial planning/budgeting book (like Dave Ramsey or Suze Orman or pick someone) and/or a nice book on etiquette. :D I tend to buy "useful" gifts. I'm the chick at the baby shower with no size NB/1 diapers or layette items but a case of size 3s and a case of wipes. I don't tend to even look at the registry or at the invitation's extortion list.

I doubt our ER gives out any patient listing. They don't appear in the operator's hospital directory until they've been assigned a room. Some things end up as confidential/nonpublished due to situations like that.

Well, actually, you can tell callers/visitors if a pt is hospitalized. You can't divulge any health information such as their diagnosis, treatment plan, etc. Only if a pt has elected to be "nonpublished", we would deny knowledge of the pt. In a Catholic hospital, anything coming through the door is treated appropriately. If there are financial needs, a social worker assists with filing for any eligible aid. Many charitable hospitals have a "foundation" that provides for the expenses of the indigent. Basically, the hospital "reimburses" itself for the wholesale cost of providing that care from its charitable foundation. Anything over the wholesale cost of the care would be written off as a charitable write off.

Fried bologna. No, I don't have coronary artery disease (yet)! Actually, we were broke with a capital B, so if it was cheap, we ate it. X Helper Cheapest possible roast cooked to beyond death in the crock pot Loads of pasta Miscellaneous casseroles Cream of wheat or grits Cinammon/sugar toast Cheese toast Cheapest possible cereal (corn flakes, shredded wheat, cheerios) Rice a Roni with a bit of ground beef added Boxed mac & cheese with a can of peas and a can of tuna Fried bologna and any actual lunchmeat was a treat. I ate a lot of PB growing up.

In the am, unless he's running fever.

Remind him of good handwashing after he's been playing with critters. My boys like to catch and release all manner of critters around here and I'm constantly having the handwashing talk. We usually have "ABCs" or "Happy Birthday" or "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" being sung to accompany the sound of the faucet! :D

My middle child is my only daughter and she tries to run the whole house! :lol:

My OB circ'd my sons at 4 weeks old and 3 weeks old. They were both premature. They weren't circ'd until a day or so before they were discharged from the hospital. My second son was actually circ'd at the OB's office because she wasn't able to come do it at the hospital. I had to bring him back to the office a couple days later. Call your OB.

Isn't Monarch just the SOS curriculum but online instead of installed on one PC?

My DH completely lost a whole day from our last Disney trip. He doesn't remember the day we spent at the pool, eating dinner at Golden Corral with dessert at Dippin Dots. He's called the rest of us looney and accused us of making it up. :001_huh:

We're "normal" people, but we don't wait in any line over 10-15 minutes or so. We hit rope drop. We skip Extra Magic Hours. We hit the Fast Pass machines and the slow loading headliners early. We've been to Disney 5 times in four years and I have 3 trips planned for this next year. (We're DVC members.) We've even been during Star Wars Weekends during Gay Days. Hollywood Studios was packed, but we had no problems at all because I am a planning freak when it comes to WDW! :lol:

Naval Air Museum Pensacola Lighthouse USS Alabama Dauphin Island Sea Lab Fort Gaines That should get you started!

We're hugging folk. Doesn't bother me (obviously), but I can respect that others aren't as touchy-feely.

Media Mail means it goes out on the next truck only if the truck has room. I wouldn't be terribly fussed over it until 4 weeks from the date of mailing has passed.

We just use our cover school's name. "Churchname" Bible Academy. Works fine for us. Staples thinks I teach at a private, Christian school. Which I do. Sort of. I do teach co-op classes. That counts! Right?

12 year olds are having sex. In the area where we live, oral sex on the school bus is not a rare & shocking event.