Perry
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Aw. Well, I was a waitress back when I was all of 21 years old. I frequently called customers 'hon'. Mainly elderly people,
This is why it bothers me. It really isn't that common around here, but I've noticed that people have been calling me hon much more frequently in the last few years. It's coming mainly from people quite a bit younger than me, and it makes me feel really old. I know it is probably meant kindly, but it feels very condescending. I have to bite my tongue from saying "that's Dr. Hon to you, missy!" So I say it in my head.
And it really irritates me when the old guy at the grocery store says "Hello young lady!" everytime he sees me. I'm sure he means well, but I just want to bop him.
Really, not much irritates me. But I'm not enjoying aging and those things get under my skin more than usual.
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You and Molly have been on my mind all day. I'm glad you have a plan. :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug:
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It's not working for me either.
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I'm so sorry, Julie.
:grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug:
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By a retired judge in front of the huge Christmas tree in the Wisconsin State Capitol building.
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Now I'm getting an error message
"You have exceeded your allotted disk space for attachments "
So, never mind. :sad:
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Is the picture not showing up? I posted one, but let me try again...
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I bought these stained glass panels at a flea market last summer. They were filthy and covered without about 10 layers of paint. I cleaned them up and hung them in my kitchen. But they look a little... bare, or something. I want to put something in front of them on the floor, but can't think of anything interesting. My default is a floor vase with some dried flowers, but I'd love to hear if anyone has any other ideas on how to dress up this space.
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Are you an athlete?
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Dh has a bunch of clothing I want to get rid of, but I'm not sure what to do with them. They are monogrammed with the name and place of the hospital he is employed by, and are in perfect shape as they have never been worn (they were unwanted gifts - don't even get me started on the wastefulness :glare:).
Should I donate them? I can't find anything on the Goodwill site about it.
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My own private gourmet cook.
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I'm so sorry. :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug:
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1 bag cranberries, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup water. Boil until cranberries pop, chill, serve.
You can grate an orange (fruit and zest) into it if you, unlike me, have no citrus allergies in the family.
Mine is similar, except I use 1/2 white sugar and 1/2 brown sugar, and OJ instead of water. My kids love this recipe.
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I think my real problem is once I start cleaning I find dirt in all sorts of visible places that I really thought were clean. My vision isn't very good, and I wonder how much of this dirt is obvious to people who can actually see! I know my guests aren't going to be looking at the top of my cabinets, but the little nooks and crannies all over my kitchen... :eek:
I have a lot of work to do.
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until I actually start cleaning it. :o Then I feel like a terrible housekeeper.
How often do you clean above your cabinets? Under your fridge? Inside kitchen cabinets? And all the rest of the places that don't get done routinely. Or am I supposed to be doing those things routinely too?
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Might be hot tub folliculits.
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If you had it in the past, and still have antibodies, baby would be getting some protection from maternal antibodies received before birth.
And, about 50-60% of US adults have HSV antibodies.
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So unless I have the virus and just don't know it, breastfeeding doesn't help. That's what I'm getting?
Assuming it is HSV-1, and not angular cheilitis.
Man, what am I going to do without the Hive for a day?
If you had it in the past, and still have antibodies, baby would be getting some protection from maternal antibodies received before birth.
If you haven't ever been exposed to HSV in the past, baby won't get any protection specifically for HSV from you through breastfeeding, even if you were recently exposed. If you were just now exposed to HSV and became infected, you will make antibodies, but what antibodies are passed through the breast milk probably won't help.
Hope it turns out to be nothing. :grouphug::grouphug::grouphug:
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This isn't the study that was done, but says what I was trying to more eloquently.
http://www.llli.org/faq/prevention.html
" Nursing also allows your baby to give germs to you so that your immune system can respond and can synthesize antibodies! This means that if your baby has come in contact with something which you have not, (s)he will pass these germs to you at the next nursing; during that feeding, your body will start to manufacture antibodies for that particular germ. By the time the next feeding arrives, your entire immune system will be working to provide immunities for you and your baby."
Here is an excerpt of an article from a pediatrician:
When you ask a bunch of doctors about how breast-feeding prevents infection, they get it wrong—I know they do, because I've asked the question. Doctors tell you that colostrum (produced in the first three days or so after a baby is born) and breast milk are full of maternal antibodies. Next, doctors say that these maternal antibodies are absorbed into the infant's blood circulation and thus serve to protect infants from disease.That's the correct description of the immunology of breast-feeding for most mammals. It's also true that human colostrum and milk are rich in maternal antibodies—colostrum is pretty much antibody soup. And babies take in these antibodies as they nurse. But human babies are never able to absorb maternal antibodies from milk or colostrum into the bloodstream, except perhaps in the minutest amounts. Maternal antibodies in milk and colostrum protect against infection—but only locally, working inside the baby's gastrointestinal tract.
This information will surprise farmers, veterinarians, and strongly invested proponents of breast-feeding. After all, if a newborn piglet is deprived of its mother's colostrum for the first eight hours of life, it is almost guaranteed to become sick and die. Similarly, newborn horses, cats, dogs, and most other mammals are not likely to survive long if they are deprived of colostrum. The reason is simple: Most mammals are born without any antibodies, or only the tiniest amounts, circulating in their blood. That leaves them defenseless at birth against viruses, bacteria, and other pathogens. Fortunately, for a brief period after birth, the antibody molecules in colostrum can easily pass through the bowel walls of babies of each of these species.
But human newborns, it turns out, differ from most other mammals in the way they acquire maternal antibodies. (Before the creationists get too excited, I should point out that everything I am about to say applies to monkeys as well as to people.) Newborn infants get their maternal protection before birth, via an active transport system in the human placenta that carries maternal antibodies from the mother to the fetus. Unlike all those other animals, human babies are born with all the maternal antibodies they will ever have. That's why we don't need to absorb maternal antibodies from colostrum. And it's why formula-fed babies are not at a disadvantage, compared with breast-fed babies, in their supply of circulating maternal antibodies.
None of this is my discovery. It was well-known, even commonplace, in the immunological literature of 40 years ago. But as the field turned to other matters, these findings just sort of fell out of fashion (though I've certainly come upon plenty of modern papers whose authors understand the idea). Because of the modern aversion to looking at older research, a surprisingly large number of doctors, especially nonimmunologists, have either forgotten this aspect of human immunity or never knew about it. And perhaps nobody wanted to bring the older findings to light for fear that doing so might discourage breast-feeding. (I can assure you that I feel some trepidation as I write this.)
Before breast-feeding's able defenders come after me with pitchforks, I'd like to reiterate that I'm only talking here about the incorrect idea that maternal antibodies in milk or colostrum protect against diseases by being absorbed in the baby's blood. The breast milk antibodies are present in the babies' intestines, and while they're not absorbed, they still protect against diarrheal disease, and perhaps other infections as well. This is a huge boon in parts of the world where sanitation is poor and refrigeration nonexistent.
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This isn't the study that was done, but says what I was trying to more eloquently.
http://www.llli.org/faq/prevention.html
" Nursing also allows your baby to give germs to you so that your immune system can respond and can synthesize antibodies! This means that if your baby has come in contact with something which you have not, (s)he will pass these germs to you at the next nursing; during that feeding, your body will start to manufacture antibodies for that particular germ. By the time the next feeding arrives, your entire immune system will be working to provide immunities for you and your baby."
This is very misleading. The mother cannot make antibodies unless she is infected. She can't be infected until the baby has become contagious, and that does not happen instantaneously, it takes days after the initial exposure.
La Leche League isn't a reliable source for scientific information about immunology. :lol:
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Me too! But I'm not sure how to send the link....
I think I figured it out...
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I want to join!!!!
Me too! But I'm not sure how to send the link....
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What I was trying to say though, is that if your baby is exposed, you are exposed the minute he/she starts to nurse and you immediately begin to produce antibodies.
Also, if this were the case, breastfed babies would be protected from every contagious disease. And that clearly doesn't happen.
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What I was trying to say though, is that if your baby is exposed, you are exposed the minute he/she starts to nurse and you immediately begin to produce antibodies.
It really doesn't work like that. Say the baby is exposed to something. The only way mom will get exposed is if the baby is shedding germs. And he won't start shedding germs (i.e. be contagious) until the germs have been in his body awhile, and allowed to reproduce. Once he has enough germs to be contagious, and mom becomes exposed, it will take awhile for her body to make antibodies to pass back to the baby. By then baby is already sick.
Baby really only gets protection from antibodies mom already has in her body.
Do you like other non-family women calling you "honey", "sweetheart", etc?
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I'm pretty sure this guy only says it to old ladies. :mad: If he said it to everyone it wouldn't bother me so much.