When I get it they give me 2 shots in the butt (prednisone), plus a prednisone prescription and zantac+zyrtec by mouth. It really helps. If you don't want the shots, you could just try zantac and zyrtec OTC- you need to take both for the best results. I'm pretty sure they give me higher doses than OTC but it may be overkill. I break out pretty badly.

I want to spend some time on comedy writing and literature for Senior Year. I plan to pick a few of Shakespeare's comedies and A Confederacy of Dunces, but I'm not sure what else to consider. Three Men is a Boat may be good but it's not a personal favorite. What are the funniest books you've read that aren't just memoirs? We've already done The Importance of Being Earnest.

My current favorites are Ambrosia but I don't see them often. I usually pick Pink Lady or Lady Alice unless they are too expensive, but I can accept any apple.

We used to use Climbing to Good English. I think it's gentler for the littles.

Is your oldest very thin? The cardiologist found an abnormality w/DDs heart and wants to be proactive because of it, but she said that having muscle and fat on the body helps control the heart. DD is under orders to gain some weight. We also really want DD to be able to take her stimulants for ADHD.

I hope your DS is doing well! Maybe you could give him some caffeine regularly until he gets into the cardiologist. They would give it to my babies in the NICU to keep their heart rates up. I kept drinking caffeinated drinks so they'd get it through my breastmilk when we got home. It may help. My DD had the opposite issue- her resting heart rate has been hanging out around 130 and sometimes up to 150/160 and the doctor did not care. She's tiny and has never had covid as far as we know. After being dismissed by the familiy doctor for months, we got into a cardiologist who takes it very seriously and I feel better about that. DD feels better too with some medication. We were able to get into the cardiologist relatively quickly. Unless you are restricted in who you can see, you might have some luck if you call around.

For HSA, they would do an evaluation and place her into their system based on that. It doesn't matter what they call it. It's her 4th year of Spanish and it will be at the level she places in so she'll be learning. Call it Spanish 4 on the transcript regardless of what less she places into with HSA. HSA is personalized so they can meet you wherever you are. I would not recommend someone transferring into Fundafunda Spanish at level 4. They go fast and if there are significant differences in the curricula between them and the previous provider it will be difficult to keep up.

I'd sign up for Homeschool Spanish Academy unless the cost was prohibitive. You can jump in with them anytime.

I don't. I always hated dealing with meat when cooking and enjoy side dishes more. We are mostly vegetarian now and I don't miss it at all. My girls had seriously low iron and the pediatrician specifically recommended multi grain cheerios. They have 100% of the daily iron reccomendation.

I never figured out tandem nursing either. I could do it if I had to- I mean they could latch, but nobody was comfortable and then I really felt like a cow who couldn't move. They took turns. I may have done it more if they had been my first, but I knew what comfortable nursing felt like.

Breastfeeding puts the cost entirely on one person's chest, however. Formula feeding lets the burden be distributed upon multiple people- partners, grandparents, childcare workers. The costs may be about about the same, but the individual burden is not. I am lucky that breastfeeding was easy for me and I had the privilege to keep it easy. I've never been more exhausted in my life, however, than when I had preemie twins who we were trying to switch from being exclusively bottle fed expressed milk (in NICU) to exclusively breastfed. My DH could do none of that work. He couldn't pump, and he couldn't breastfeed. Even when he did bottles, I still nursed immediately before or after, and sometimes used the SNS so he couldn't be involved at all. He claims he was tired but he didn't know tired. I remember waking after falling asleep upright in a chair, attached to the pump with it still attached and running, and being absolutely soaked from breastmilk on my lap and puddles on the floor. I was devastated about all that lost milk and sore. I remember being so tired that I quit cleaning up the spit up on the floor and thought we could just rip the carpet out later because it was too much work. It was exhausting, it was my choice, but it would 100% have been easier for me if I'd let someone else take some of the feeding responsibilities.

Mine is a maintenance inhaler and I noticed the racing heart/ shakiness right away but it just got worse and worse until I couldn't even pour coffee after my morning puffs. That was the last straw- coffee is necessary! 😁 Rescue inhaler would do it too to a lesser extent but I use that so rarely. Hopefully the treatment you're on will get things under control and you won't need any inhaler often. Now I understand why my mom's pulmonologist wants to keep her off a maintenance inhaler if at all possible.

Hi Junie, nice to see you. Popped in and saw this and it's interesting because I decided today to quit mine too. Mine was definitely causing racing heart and tremors and I think maybe the cause of my long distance vision rapidly declining. I'm taking symbicort- not sure if any other inhaler would be better. Unfortunately none of them work as well. I think the racing heart it can cause would definitely correlate to an increase in anxiety. I tried going down to one puff a day and it helped some but with 0 puffs I cough but I don't shake.

I think another thing people forget is that vaccines for measles, polio, chicken pox, etc, work so well in part because at this point community spread for these is so low. Maybe immunity wanes some after a few years, but it matters little because not much protection is needed when nobody has it. I would be very interested to see stats for breakthrough infections of measles and polio from the first few years that the vaccines were available. I feel we had a lot more breaktrhough chicken pox infections when the vaccine first started too. I know my niece and nephew got chicken pox after that vaccine but both had mild cases with few pox. Now, I rarely hear of a chicken pox breakthrough but it could just be coincidence or the age of my kids.

But that's an if, then statement. When the if didn't happen, they had to moderate the then. We don't know what would have happened if they had gotten nearly everyone vaccinated and masking quickly. It may not have helped much unless we had truly global cooperation. I agree that CDC messaging has been terribly inconsistent, however. I still feel vaccination provides protection against serious disease and I am angry that they are slow rolling the under 5s. It's like the FDA doesn't care- there's no urgency. Grandparents don't care- they see nobody else caring about covid anymore and think we shouldn't care. Other parents don't care. But my 4yr old is getting tested for asthma soon and I have NO desire to see how he fares with covid with no protection.

Columbus was a terrible person, and I have no doubt you'd agree with that. You seem to be attributing his prejudice towards and evil treatment of the native Islanders to racism, however, where I would assert that it can be easily explained by pure xenophobia, religious intolerance, and even baser things like how power and impunity affects people. If they all looked exactly like him, their treatment probably would not have differed much. My belief is that the dehumanization was because of their different culture. And I knew that Barack Obama and today's racism would be pointed out when I brought up the African Emperor- but can you imagine an African Pope, President, Queen, General around 1822? Absolutely not. Sure we had Frederick Douglas and it was a big deal that he could meet Lincoln, but he could not have been President.

I quoted here because you said it was prompted by my comment about Africans in Rome. Being in-group does not necessarily mean assimilation by my definition, but I think being Emperor of Rome means that you are pretty well in group. https://www.history.co.uk/article/severus-rome’s-first-african-emperor Rome had black emperors and leaders, European countries had black people in their lineage, and there were black saints and popes. I'm not a historian of anything, but I feel we can't imagine today how much of our history has literally been white washed to justify slavery.

There's lots of evidence that the reverse was true- racism, skin based racism, really took hold after the African slave trade started. The Moors in Spain and throughout Europe were highly regarded and held prominent positions in society. The Romans were also more xenophobic than racist and Africans could assimilate and become in group. Xenophobia existed, religious persecution existed, but Africans and Middle Eastern people were very highly regarded for their education, civility, and skills before 1500s. Once the Europeans started having African slaves in Europe, sentiments changed. Racism as we know it is relatively modern.

Why do you think that? Race is a relatively modern concept and racism based on skin color seems to have really gained traction as justification for African slavery that existed rather than a primary cause of African slavery.

I think she had a soul the whole time. She felt justified in what she did because of her initial trauma and a kind of Stockholm Syndrome from being in demon land. When she became human Anya again, she was free of the obligation and motivation, had distance from her original trauma, and was just figuring things out about who and what she wanted to be. She always seemed slightly off. And she was very young when she became a demon.

I'm not sure it is actually humane to release elderly prisoners, and especially senile and disabled people, who have had no way to earn money to pay for their "retirement," who have no health insurance, and often few family or friends left on the outside. If we had some sort of plan to ensure they had care, homes, and the ability to live with dignity once released, that would be ok, but I doubt the state takes such care.

FWIW, when our vinyl was installed the first time they didn't move things completely out of the room and everything was fine. I don't think one desk will make much difference when we had a whole room full of stuff.

The cost for an hour consult with an attorney is likely less than paying for half a fence- it would be worth it to me to get a clear understanding of my rights. Also, if your neighbor is an attorney, and if you have no legal obligation to comply with their requests, a letter from another attorney may be more persuasive than your say so. When we bought our house, we had a survey done that said our fence was well past the property line. It's like half our yard is past the property line. Fortunately, it's HOA land. The attorney said it was fine because the fence had been there so long that we just get the use of the land. I don't know if we're paying tax on it but I doubt it because it's still not included in the plot.

The problem with quite a bit of water is that it starts floating by itself and then as you step around you may break some connections that are suddenly vulnerable and no longer secure. Then the mitigation company comes in and they don't care at all. They just yank it up and pile it up. It's a pain for someone to put back. I really tried to save it this time and it was going to take me 40-60 hrs just to sort it! The planks themselves were super dirty from all the water. We had to take every piece and clean it, dry it, check the connections, and set it aside in the right area. We were seeing a loss of about 50% and it took me about 2 hrs with 3 people to do maybe 60 planks. The contractors also have to consider planks that had been cut to fit a specific spot but who knows where that spot is now? It's a pain. When you have less water and fewer planks to replace, it's more reasonable.

We had a water heater leak in Nov and there was water in several rooms of our basement. We were able to pull it up and put some of it back down but the mitigation company threw most of it away without asking! Fortunately we found some in stock and only had to purchase a few boxes. You can pull it up and put it back down. Ours had foam on the back too and there's no reason it shouldn't dry out just fine- check your installation instructions. They should be putting some big fans and dehumidifiers in there that run for a couple days. If they get those fans asap, you may be able to salvage the furniture but you should have them check. Insurance should cover contents. But in Jan we had flooding from an entirely different cause and ended up with 5in of water throughout the entire basement! When they pulled all the floor up vs just a portion, it was obvious there was no way we could put that back down. You have too many planks with broken connections when they pull it up. We had one contractor say they wouldn't even bid on the job if that's what we wanted because it would be too much of a pain. The water had to sit for a day or 2 and we couldn't get the mitigation company out with the fans quickly in Jan b/c power was out all over and trees were down and nobody could get there so the damage was worse. The sooner they get the fans going the better.