Just to calm any worries to those reading this...In an emergency/trauma situation, you or your dc would be given O negative blood, which is why it is called the universal donor. No hospital will give blood based on what you say. :001_smile:

Have them check for celiac, which can cause joint pain, especially if she has any digestive issues at all. Is there any history of autoimmune disease in your family?

I think the "rowdiest" Casting Crowns cd is "The Altar and the Door." My hubby is a big CC fan, but he doesn't care for this cd because it is too "rock" for him, lol. It is definitely not rock, but 2 of the songs carry a strong beat. Anyway, it is my favorite cd of theirs (along with their first one).

but chronic EBV (Epstein-Barr virus, which causes mono in the first place) fits the symptoms. I do realize it is hard to diagnose.

A fully funded emergency fund is 4-6 months worth of income.

I didn't consider them labs; really, they are more like demonstrations (and simple ones at that!) There are a handful of these sprinkled in the book. Fortunately, plenty of labs are scheduled that lend themselves to the more traditional lab report.:001_smile:

The chemistry course is definitely more rigorous than the biology. While there are concepts that could be covered better (like pH), the last four modules are pretty math-intense and will be challenging for the average student. IF you have liked and used Apologia courses in the past, I don't think you will be disappointed with the chemistry book.

although I hear about teens getting jobs all around us. I think it certainly depends on who you know and where your parents work. My 17yos put out a few applications and got no calls at all. I encouraged him to volunteer this summer at our local art center helping with the kids' summer camps. One, it will give him something he can put down on job apps next time around, and two, the experience will be helpful as he is considering going into art education.

So, Jack says he is NOT getting on the sub, but Flocke plants the bomb on him. So did Flocke "know" the future (and that Jack would be on the sub) or was he just trying to kill Jack and not everybody else? This isn't the only thing I'm confused about, lol...

Paul Blart: Mall Cop We rented it because we heard it was funny, but we did not laugh at all. Mainly, it just seemed stupid.

According to oldest ds's experience (he took both in his senior year), Statistics is definitely the easier AP course.

Are you sure you took a 500 mg tablet and not 50? I thought the recommended dose is more like 100mg twice a day...but you can look that up easily enough. Also, in my reading it is best to start out at a 50 mg dose and gradually go up to the higher doses if needed. Like the other poster, the 5-htp gave me nightmares/bad sleep and I overall didn't like how I felt while taking it, so I stopped. And I had such high hopes...

:iagree: Yes. Actually this is what we should have done before the situation turned into a crisis.

we have mental illness in our family as well. Did you know that most teenage boys express depression as anger? We had an angry young man, too, that we didn't know was depressed until he threatened suicide. Would he agree to a psychiatric screening?

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To Kill a Mockingbird is one of my favorite novels, my oldest boy was unimpressed, and my middle boy just did.not.like.it. (and let me know every day!) Agreeing with the medieval lit/Shakespeare; the boys have eagerly read from that time period. Their choices are not always evenly set on typically masculine books. My oldest ds sincerely liked Jane Austen's wit in Pride and Prejudice, which most think of as a girl's book.

Just curious, Cynthia, if you have read Total Truth? My comment was based more on the actual book itself, rather than the writing assignment. *I* had a tough time digesting that book. Of course, now I am feeling exceptionally stupid (not unusual on this forum!)

for a typical ninth grader. I had my son read Total Truth for his worldview/apologetics class (home-brewed) in 12th grade. It is a wonderful, thought-provoking book, but also definitely rigorous and dense. The summaries I assigned were just that-summaries of the material. I also had him write a more personal paper toward the end of our study. I am sorry your son is having trouble with the class. I just wanted to conjecture that perhaps her standards are more in line with the capabilities of 11th-12th grade students.

:iagree: Plus drink lots of water.

in southcentral Pennsylvania. My oldest ds had it a few years ago, although there was no rash and the docs had a difficult time diagnosing it. He presented mainly with a fever and neck pain which resolved, but a few weeks later he had Bell's Palsy. Thankfully our primary doc recognized it as Lyme-yes, the confirmatory test was positive. He was on doxycycline for several weeks and got better. I thought that was *the preferred* drug for lyme disease; I don't know about amoxicillin. Did she have any symptoms around the time of the tick incident?

with a 4-year degree. I did not take physics in high school, although I did need to take one semester of general physics in college (no problem). It is much more important to have a strong background in biology (and chemistry to a lesser extent). It wouldn't be a bad idea to take calculus in high school. One semester of calculus was required from my college...check out the program in which she is interested. The job was ok; I really wish I had pursued a degree in nursing instead, though-so much more flexibility and professional respect (as well as a better salary). If she works in a hospital, shift work and weekends are required. Where I was employed, the techs were backup to the phlebotomists, which I did not like. Medical laboratory science is now predominantly running large instrumentation (which is not the kind of cozy lab work I pictured before I went into the field!)

They are very helpful and will give you information on homeschool-friendly test sites (schools) closest to you. When I called I ended up with a list of about 7 districts, complete with phone numbers and reference persons, all within an hour of our home. Our first try was the closest and they were very accommodating. Blessings, Deb

Oldest went from Saxon 65 (1st year homeschooling, hated it!) to Singapore 5 to Lial's BCM in 7th grade. Middle ds (my math-struggler) used Saxon up through 76, then Lial's BCM supplemented by some of the Key to books in 8th grade. Youngest ds used MCP math through F, then started BCM in 7th grade. Hth somewhat. I love that Lial book!

We are trying Secondary Spanish for the first time with my eighth grader since it is supposed to be easier than SOS Spanish I (which I had used with my oldest ds a few years back.) I am not impressed with Secondary Spanish and MUCH PREFERRED the Spanish I course! I DO NOT like that grammar is not introduced and tons of vocabulary are thrown at the student with very little practice...argh! I have started to supplement with studyspanish.com and my own vocab sheets. We really liked the high school Spanish I course when oldest ds used it, although it is rigorous. It does use some whole to parts conversational learning in the first unit, but introduces grammatical concepts shortly after that. It contained a few computer glitches, also, but nothing we couldn't work through easily.

You should also run a control...jello with no pineapple and it should gel. It takes jello a little while to gel, even with a refrigerator. I'm thinking at least an hour? Do you have enough time to see the results?