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Have you tried propping him to his side just a bit. He is still on his back but if throws up it will not just go into lungs? I had one foster baby that I had to sleep in a recline possition. She did great with that. I used one of those infant bouncy chairs.
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We have an above ground pool that we set up every summer. We use H2O2 instead of Chlorine to keep it up. That costs us about $23 a wk. My dh keeps the filter up and cleans the filters so they can be reused. He also keeps stuff off the water at least daily and 'vacuums' the bottom once a week or so. It is work, it does take time but we can't use community pools because of the allergies to chlorine so it is well worth it to us. Our kids have a blast in it by themselves and with friends.
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I sent you a pm.
Praying.
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Well, I guess I should feel like school has been a disaster again but I have a peace at this point. We have been going 4 wks now and with Dr appointments, tests and then the hospital admitance and surgery for my oldest son we have only gotten 2 - 3 days of school in every wk. This wk my husband did math with the kids 3 days but that was all.
I have hopes of being able to start back up on Tue., I had the first wk of Oct. scheduled off and we will school through it and I had 3 wks scheduled off for Christmas but will probably only take 2 - 2 1/2. It will work. It has to. Not like you can schedule in someone getting sick.
I think all in all my kids are happy with what we are doing. I made a couple of changes over last year but not much.
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:grouphug: I am so sorry. It is a hard place to be.
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Thanks ladies.
Yes, Jean, I have been doing the happy dance this afternoon. They are looking at us going home on Monday if all continues to goes well.
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Doing better this afternoon. He has kept juice and jello down. I think he will go for the big guns this evening, maybe some toast.
Blessings
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Richard has had a couple very rough days. He spent the night last night 'trying' to throw up. With limited diaphragm being sick to his stomach is not easy. After the night before of no sleep and still a very sicky stomach this morning he is beyond exhausted.
Please continue to pray. He needs to be able to eat, keep it down and have the food start to digest and pass through his colostomy correctly.
Thanks to all that have stuck with us thus far. Prayer works.:)
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I just heard from the nurse with the results from yesterday's scan. Her brain is clear - ie. there are no tumors! We will still follow up with the neurologist in November because she does have the tumor in her eye that needs to be watched. And she does have headaches. The nurse said that if the headaches are a problem before then, that we can make an appointment with the pediatrician. But then she told me what they tell patients to do to treat migraines and it is exactly what we've been doing all along. (NSAIDS, rest/sleep in dark room, some caffeine). So - a huge, huge worry off of our mind.
:grouphug: I know what a good report can feel like.:grouphug: :grouphug:
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Sorry, this is not a good time. Possibly we could arrange another time for you to spend some one on one with them.
Love you,
XXXXX
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I am physically and mentally tired. I want to be alone all day in my clean house. We are entering our 6th year of homeschooling with 15 more to go. :tongue_smilie:
Where do you find the strength to keep up the frantic pace of homeschooling? - By frantic, I mean anything more that me sitting quietly alone for years on end. I like being by myself.
Public school will not ever be an option. If we put the kids in private school, I will need to go back to work.
What strategies to you use to keep going?
I don't know what others have written as I don't have the time to read it all but I will share what I do.
I take time off. YUP! when I get to feeling over run/ behind in everything I take some time. Most of the time it is a day or two but I have taken a wk or more if I need that to accomplish what needs done. I can then go back to homeschooling feeling refreshed and ready to once again instruct. I couldn't do this if I didn't allow myself this privilege. Neither public nor private school is an option for us for many reasons.
We do school pretty much year around. We start in middle of August and go through the middle of July. Our life is full of Dr appointments so this can easily take a day a wk, some times more. We take a wk at Thanksgiving and 2-3 wks at Christmas(This yr it will be 2 I am thinking. I also plan a wk at Easter. If I feel I need it I take it, if not my kids don't know I had it planned in.:D This works great for us.
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I can share what I did when I was waiting table, many moons ago.
I worked nights and had a 'gentleman' come in wanting coffee I brought him his coffee and turned to go set the coffee pot back on the burner. As I started to walk away the 'gentleman' smacked me on the bottom. I didn't even think about it. I swung around and asked him if he would like to try that again. He turned a bit red and told me no. He was a customer that came in almost nightly. Never again was he anything but kind.:lol:
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Really the only things I can think of are a couple of things that we really NEED!
New living room furniture
New dishwasher
Next couple of levels of Barton, sigh.
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I have so many that it is hard to pick but right now I have been meditating on Is.43:1-3
This scripture starts out by assuring me that my relationship with my Heavenly Father is person, not only to me but to Him. It says He has called me by name. There is something about recognizing that He knows me, my name and He uses my name in calling me to Him.
Then it continues on to assure me that He is with me no matter what I am going through. He is with me through the waters that seem to want to over flow me and He is with me through the fire of life. One time when I was meditating on this scripture He reminded me of the 3 Israel children being thrown into the fiery furnace and coming out without a hair on their heads singed nor did they smell of the fire. He assured that as I rely on Him the results will be the same for us. I don't believe that this means we won't have any life lessons from our flooding/fiery experiences but that we will not have the scares in our spirit. I believe that this can encompass so many areas.
Ok, I will stop. I could preach on this scripture. :D
By the way, GREAT THREAD!
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I posted an update on my first post.:001_smile:
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I bought a jar of organic raw honey for a muffin recipe. So, the muffins are now in the oven - do I need to refrigerate the remaining honey or is it okay to store it at room temperature? I can't seem to find any indication on the jar. I have always stored my "regular" honey in the pantry.
TIA!
You can store it at room temp. Honey doesn't spoil unless it has something else in it. Even if you put water in it that can make it spoil but pure honey doesn't.
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What a sweety!
:grouphug: and prayers for your dd.
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Nothing shocks me any more and actually if the person/persons are relatively covered I am ok with it. We live in a rural area and I have seen like dress at many funerals. I guess I have a tendency to look more to the heart. Were they kind to the person when they really cared?
JMO
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I so appreciate the prayer support.
Richard is scheduled for surgery tomorrow at 7 a.m. The Surgeon had originally said probably Thursday but he spiked a pretty good temp again last night, lots of yuck coming out the wound, etc. She came in this morning and said she felt she just needed to go in, get it cleaned out and hopefully get him back on the way to healing.
Please keep my two youngest in prayer also, especially my youngest son. This seems to be bothering him a lot. I think he is afraid that we are headed back to when Richard was so sick two years ago and many times didn't see the kids but every 7-8 days. He gets to feeling abandoned pretty easy.
Trusting that Gods plan is in place.
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Well, I have potty trained 5 of my own children and pretty much trained the two that I baby sat for from birth to 12 yrs. The big thing that I realized was not to start until they really were old enough to understand well and were ready to participate willingly. I started my youngest at around 2 and it was a disaster. He wasn't REALLY potty trained until he was almost 4. It was 2 yrs of struggle, discouragement, anger and frustration. My second I started at around 2 and she was completely potty trained in a couple wks. She was ready to be a big girl. The third pretty much trained himself at 18 months.:001_huh: He loved the color yellow, fell in love with a yellow potty chair and it was all over. I never did figure it out.
The last 4(my two youngest and the 2 I baby sat were about 3 1/2 each. We didn't start until they really acted ready and it was over in about a couple days to a month. One of the things that I did with the one that took a month was I purchased a potty toy. He got to play with it only when he was on the potty chair and IF he did his job in the potty chair he got to play with it for a short time after(10 min. or so). When we did this is was pretty much done for him.
One thing I do know is that every child is different.:001_smile:
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I'm sorry that he missed his i.v.'s. I'm glad that you're there to advocate for him. :grouphug:
Thanks, Jean. It does concern me as I am only there about a 1/2 day each day this time around. He isn't near as sick as he was before though either so I know I can trust when he said he didn't get something or did get something. When he has surgery and a few days after I plan on being there 24/7. Please pray for my strength and energy for this.
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Thanks everyone. I have truly walked in peace today.
I got almost 9 hrs sleep last night, which felt wonderful. When I got to the hospital he had been running a low grade temp again. Come to find out someone dropped the ball and he had missed 2 iv antibiotics. That was taken care of and will possibly be ready for surgery on Thursday.
I know God has a plan and it is a good plan. Is 43:1-3 has been running through my heart all day.
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UPDATE:
Richard can through very good with surgery. He does have two wounds one on his tummy and one on the back where the fistula was He will have a wound vac on the latter. Dr put him in ICU as a precautionary but sounded hopeful that he would be moved to intermediate tomorrow. He was awake and alert very quickly after surgery so that was good. She said that it was a very clean surgery. She was expecting a lot of scar tissue from the previous surgeries but said you would never have know he had surgery before.
He has had a lot of spasms across his stomach. It is almost like it knocks the wind out of him.
We are now looking forward moving forward and possibly home in 5-7 days.
Some of you may remember when we spent 3 1/2 months in various hospitals the summer of 2010. Well, we are there again. Our oldest son who is in a power chair, c6 quad, has another area that is needing surgery. This one isn't near as bad but is going to be an extensive surgery. The surgeon felt that he would only need to be in the hospital for about a wk and could then do the rest of his recoup at home.
Please pray for us. We need wisdom for us and for the surgeon. We will meet with her tomorrow to make some final decissions. Mean while I am zipping between our home and the hospital(45 min away) 2 to 3 times a day. I am hoping I can go once tomorrow, spend 3-4 hrs and be back home by middle of the afternoon. I was worn out before he ended up in the hospital because of all the extra tests, late nights, early morning, extra transfers, STRESS! the list just keeps going on.
Please pray for strength for me also.
I don't know when I will be back to check this but know that I am so very grateful for your prayers. Prayer is what got us through last time.
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So. This blog my 19yo dd follows had the following:
"When you are introduced to a man, it is your place to extend your hand. This is especially true in the Southeast, and it is considered rude for the man to extend his first. It is the lady's choice whether or not she wants to shake hands.
I am from the SD and this is what I was taught was propper. I don't see many following it though.
While men grip tightly, palm to palm, a woman should extend her hand palm downward, and the man should take only her fingers in his hand and squeeze gently before releasing. "Never heard of the palm downward and the man taking only the ladies finders in his hand. I have had enough painful hand shakes though that I would definitely welcome that one.:)
I was hesitant in sharing, but... (wedding related)
in General Education Discussion Board
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I was 18 when I married. That was 45+ yrs ago. The main thing is you go into it knowing it is going to be difficult many times, you are going to want to quit but making that decision that quitting isn't an option.(I am not talking about in an abusive relationship. That is difference.) You don't fall in and out of love. You make a decision to love.
I am happy for you.