My 15 year old is a good kid, and there isn't much drama or rebellion here. It's much easier than I expected, and she's much easier than I was at that age. But I admit I find it very stressful. Mainly because I don't know what I'm doing. :confused:

That's strange. I don't think you'll hear this from WHO.

We're painting the master BR, and I want THIS. Above the bed, it looks brownish. On the other side of the room, it looks gray. I want it more brown than gray. I've looked at SW and Benjamin Moore, and everything I'm finding is either too gray or too tan or too dark or too light. I'm terrible at picking colors. Anyone have a brownish taupe you can recommend?

I have heard this anecdotally but so far haven't seen any good explanation. I'll let you know if I hear anything. My dh and ds both had what I first thought was a mild case of flu for about a week. They had a little sore throat, conjunctivitis, and mild cough. Dh got better, but as ds was almost recovered, he suddenly developed high fevers, terrible cough, and felt generally awful. He gradually got better, but the cough continued and we treated him for bronchitis. Now I don't know if that first week was some other virus and then he developed flu, or if he had mild flu which suddenly got worse after a week. Guess I'll never know.

It is confusing, isn't it? The difficulty is that each virus, and even each strain of virus, behaves a little differently, so it takes awhile to sort things out. In addition, recommendations change depending on how the epidemic plays out. If we were seeing a really virulent influenza, with high case fatality rates, they would be much more extreme with recommendations to prevent transmission. Absence of fever doesn't mean you aren't contagious. People shed virus for 7-10 days after infection with influenza. The amount of virus is highest at the beginning of the illness and you are most contagious then. You can be contagious for ~24 hours before symptoms, although you probably shed virus in lower amounts than after symptoms begin. By one week, most people aren't contagious. Young children and immunocompromised people tend to shed virus longer than others. As long as you have symptoms (cough, sore throat) you are probably contagious. Although if you develop a secondary infection, like pneumonia or bronchitis, and are coughing because of that, you aren't necessarily contagious anymore. It is true that they are not recommending people stay home until all risk of contagion is over. If we wanted to accept zero risk for transmission, everyone would have to stay home for 10-14 days after an ILI, and until their symptoms are completely gone. That clearly isn't possible and would be extremely disruptive. Schools and businesses would close, there would be a severe shortage of doctors and nurses and other HCW, there would be all kinds of travel restrictions, people would lose their jobs, and it would have a major economic impact globally. Obviously that would be a ridiculous overreaction to what's turning out to be a fairly mild illness for the great majority of people. So the question is where you draw the line. I believe CDC is trying to strike a reasonable balance between reducing social/economic disruption and minimizing transmission of influenza. CDC

I want to clarify this, since it comes up frequently. Influenza-like illness is defined as so it could be caused by a variety of things: influenza A, influenza B, other influenzaviruses, rhinovirus, adenovirus, RSV, parainfluenza, etc. So over the course of a year, most ILI *isn't* influenza. But if influenza is known to be in your community, and you have ILI symptoms, you probably DO have influenza. And if you were tested and found to have influenza, you almost certainly have H1N1, because right now, H1N1 is the only influenza virus circulating with any frequency. That could change as regular flu season starts, although I'm betting it won't. Is that confusing? Maybe I'm not explaining this well.

In general, it's true that if you were infected with H1N1, you won't be reinfected with the same exact virus. There are exceptions, as some people won't have a good immune response, but that's unusual. However, if the virus changes (and they do this all the time) , you will only have partial immunity, or none at all, depending on how different the new strain is. Unfortunately, he makes several mistakes. First, influenza doesn't have DNA. It's an RNA virus. Small detail, but as an infectious disease doctor he should know better. The RNA doesn't exactly rearrange. Instead, it gradually changes through point mutations. Influenza viruses can reassort, or combine with other influenza viruses to make an entirely new virus, but that's an example of antigenic shift and isn't what he's talking about. Also, overall, most influenza-like illnesses actually aren't flu, but are other respiratory infections. However, if there is flu going through the community, most people with ILI probably have flu. I think Mayo needs a new spokesperson.

Dh usually does this, but he's not here. I have some marinated boneless chicken breasts that I want to grill. What temperature do I cook them at? Do I shut the lid or leave it open? How long do I cook them? Do I put barbecue sauce on at the beginning or will it burn? I know how to bake them but my oven is in storage while the floors are being redone. Thanks.

Crissy, I'm sorry you're going through a difficult time. Whether it's situational or not, one thing that seems to help quite a bit is regular exercise. I know when you're feeling bad that's the last thing you want to do, but it works wonders. Good luck. :grouphug:

I've asked about this twice, and apparently it's not possible. Seems like someone could fix it if they wanted to....

All the time. :)

I used one like this too. Just make sure your bucket is deep. I had no idea mice could jump so high.

None of my kids really played with toys. My girls loved arts and crafts, drawing, painting, playing with playdough and clay. They could spend hours playing at the sink with soap and bubbles, washing plastic dishes. They also loved to be outside. My son liked to build things, but wasn't so much into drawing and crafts as my girls. The only real toy they used was the plastic kitchen. That thing got tons of use.

It was in a university hospital and it was quite unusual. Poor lady had a steady stream of students/nurses/doctors/unit clerks/etc. peeking in her room. (That was long before HIPAA and wouldn't happen these days.)

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No wind tonight or yesterday, no nearby trees. Sounds more like an explosion than a thud. I think it sounds especially loud since all the carpet is gone, there's wood flooring everywhere with no furniture, and everything echoes.

1. Because I once took care of a very sick patient with argyria. She looked like the tin man. Granted, she had been using CS for many years. In low doses used occasionally it probably isn't harmful. But I haven't seen anything to convince me it's beneficial either. 2. You can deliver toxins by lots of different routes- ingestion, inhalation, transdermal, injection... Taking something orally doesn't necessarily make it safer than injecting it. Depending on the substance of course. 3. No one is injecting formaldehdye or mercury into anyone's bloodstream. 4. In the amounts present in vaccines, those things aren't toxic. 5. I was looking for evidence. Still haven't seen any.

I was right next to the furnace and water heater just now and it wasn't from that area. It was upstairs. And it was way louder than the banging you sometimes hear in pipes. I just spent some time googling and it looks like this is common when the compressor on the fridge/freezer goes bad. I'll bet that's what it is. It sounds like it came from the kitchen. Now I'm expecting my freezer to blow up. :001_huh:

Bears and ghosts and explosions. Just what I wanted to think about as I'm going to sleep. I'm going to have great dreams. :)

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Last night I was awakened by a loud bang. I walked through the house, but couldn't find anything amiss, although my dd had been awakened by it also. So I knew I hadn't been dreaming. She thought someone had crashed into the house. Same thing happened at about 9:00 this morning. Again, I couldn't find anything. We are currently having wood floors installed throughout the house, so when the guys came this morning I asked if it could be related to anything they're doing. They didn't have any idea. It just happened again. It was LOUD. Sounds like a bomb. All the furniture is out of the house, so nothing fell over. It's not the furnace. Anybody ever had their house start making banging noises? It's freaking me out a little bit.

I bet if I put some thimerosal in there it wouldn't spoil either.:D

That doesn't tell me whether or not it treats infections in humans.

Iron and water are clearly vital to health. Of course, too much is bad for you. But you can't live without either one. You can survive just fine without colloidal silver. Do you have any scientific evidence that it is effective?

Many of his recommendations are perfectly reasonable. Diet, exercise, and sleep are major factors in maintaining health. I think increasing vitamin D is a good idea. I know lots of people believe they are helped by the homeopathic remedies. They won't hurt you, anyway. Some of the herbal remedies may be helpful. Colloidal silver is toxic and dangerous. It's his misrepresentation of the information about H1N1 that I object to.