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  1. My 9th grade dd did Omni 1 this year. She's an excellent reader, writer, and student. We chose to do all of the primary books, which was a ton of reading, and it took her all year. (She also read the Narnia books that were scheduled in the secondary reading but as of yet she's done no work for that.) She also read SWB's History of the Ancient World and wrote a paragraph or two about an event in each chapter. Finally she did some other theology reading. For all that I'm giving her three credits.

     

    This coming year she'll be doing Omni 2 and I'll only have her read 1/2 the books again, but will discuss with her which ones she wants and we'll do less in the primary and more in the secondary so that the reading load isn't as burdensome.

     

    HTH.

  2. My dd has been having what I thought was on an off eczema on her face. I haven't been sure what's causing it.

     

    However...

     

    When I dropped her off at church (in a school gym) yesterday her face was completely clear. When I picked her up she had an outbreak over her chin and a little under her nose. Nothing out of the normal was done. She had Skittles to eat there.

     

    But...

     

    Her friend also had a reaction to something and she had NOT eaten anything up to that point. Hers was on her arm, about 2 inches across it.

     

    Weird! They could be separate cases, as I'm not sure if they're related.

     

    Thoughts?

  3. I'm considering providing summer home care for school-age children in my home. Has anyone done this or put their children into daycare for the summer?

     

    Here are some questions:

     

    1) What should I charge?

    2) What should the parents expectation from me?

    3) What should I expect from the parents?

    4) What kind of activities should I provide? (I have four children, and they just play outside and in during the summer...should I be doing more sit-down stuff?)

     

    I'm hoping I can get a few children in that would be around my three younger kids' ages. This way everyone will have playmates...but also I realize we may need an hour of alone time, too!

     

    Thanks...if there's anything I haven't asked, please include anything else!!!!

  4. Not sure I understand this - perhaps it has to do with your cyst and other individual circumstances.

     

    I had the Novasure procedure. I don't think anything is taken out just for the ablation. The uterus is cauterized by high temperature water. It was done under general anesthesia.

     

    I am a year out and I now have a regular cycle of normal periods. This is huge for me; before the procedure I could not leave the house for three days out of each month. I had been battling iron deficiency anemia for several years. Last month my lab work showed normal iron levels for the first time in five years. So for me, even with regular periods, the procedure was a success.

     

    Bleeding alone does not mean it didn't work. Be sure to ask your doc about the difference between bleeding that is normal and expected and bleeding that indicates a further problem.

     

     

    I don't have a cyst, just heavy periods.

     

    My ablation was was I think like a d&c, he went in and scraped the lining down. Or something like that (it definitely wasn't with water...he felt that the one he does is more complete...to each doctor his own, I suppose!). I'm having a brain freeze and I cannot remember the kind. But he said that a return of a heavy cycle, like what has happened to some posters, means that either not all was removed, or it's grown back. It happens to 20% of women for the type of procedure I had. So if this happens to me, I wouldn't necessarily say it didn't work, I'd say I need to go back and get the rest taken care of. I expect that I will have bleeding at periods...though I hope deep down I'll be a lucky one and only spot!

  5. FYI to anyone reading this....we did an ablation where I went into the hospital and went under general. He felt that it was the most thorough ablation but did say that it doesn't work for everyone. In that he meant, another surgery was needed to go back and get completely everything. So I think that if my bleeding comes back, it's not that the operation was a failure, it just means that we need to go back and tweak what he missed, or what grew back for whatever reason.

  6. I had an ablation done almost two weeks ago. During one of my consults, the doctor said no cardio or weight training for 1 week and no relations or swimming/baths for 3 weeks. When I went into surgery I double checked the exercising and he said 3 weeks! What did your doctor tell you???

     

    Also, I was getting my cycle fairly regularly. I had the ablation done mid-cycle. Can I expect my period, or period symptoms when my cycle is due, or does it get messed up? My cycle would normally be due tomorrow and I'm feeling these weird twinges in my uterus. Just not sure what I can expect!

     

    Thanks!

  7. We're painting Awana cars...ds's is a traffic light. We have the perfect colour for the actual traffic light, but for the lights inside we need a good colour of amber, that's either deeper or brighter than the traffic light itself.

     

    We're sitting here adding colours to our existing amber colour to deepen it or brighten it, but we are just NOT figuring out what colour it needs to affect it properly.

     

    Help???

  8. Have you tried going gluten-free? I was diagnosed with IBS when I was about 26 years old. I will be 43 in two weeks and stopped eating gluten last May. I wish I could get those 16+ years back of my life when I didn't have to be in excruciating pain. I haven't had one single bowel problem (except one time when I accidentally ate a small amount of gluten) since last May.

     

    Just give it a try and see if it helps. You should be able to tell within a few days.

     

    I go gluten/sugar free on and off. That first weekend I felt like this I had eaten like crap, so I went 6 days eating gluten/sugar free and it still happened. Argh! I don't think it's a stomach bug...I feel fine otherwise, no fever, etc. Weird!

  9. I've had IBS for 24 years. Usually the pain is more like stabbing, or like someone is twisting my intestines. It can have me doubled over and when I get it it NEVER goes away until I fall asleep in the evening. Really, I haven't had many flare-ups in the past 7 or 8 years.

     

    I started a new med and the doctor says it should not affect my stomach. Lately I've been having a new stomach pain and the only thing I can think of is that maybe it's a new way of getting IBS.

     

    Around my belly button and radiating in a circle is a constant pain. The best way I can describe it is how it feels when you're REALLY fully. Like bursting full. But I get it even when I'm really hungry, so it's not that I'm full. It's a constant ache. I had it on Mar. 17, 18, 20, 22, 23, and 25. So not every day. It usually comes around 2-4 in the afternoon and lasts until bedtime, but by bedtime it's eased up. It starts light, gets bad, then lightens up again. Only once it lasted 3 hours and it was gone.

     

    Has anyone ever experience an IBS attack that's similar to what I'm describing? Or does it sound like something unrelated?

     

    Thanks!

  10. Thanks to everyone who responded!!!!

     

    If anyone knows lice, it's me! :) When dd had it a few years ago I spent 41 hours picking....41 hours!!!! It was bad! I didn't let her play with friends for two weeks as I would be horrified if we knowingly passed it on to another.

     

    I had an email all written up to the coach and saved it in my draft folder. By the time dh came home I really felt like going to the coach to deal with it wasn't the way to go, and dh agreed. Though it technically has nothing to do with politics, anything "rep" can be political so I wanted to be careful.

     

    So in the end for discretion and kindness sake, and because my dd and B consistently are beside one another, I decided to email only B's mom.

     

    As I was writing this I received a very nice reply. Her mom had had surgery on the 15th and tried to ensure that B went to hockey with braided hair. Unfortunately B slipped out of the house one time without it and perhaps that's what I'm referring to. She seemed convinced that everyone was clear of lice, though I have my doubts since the professional picker took out 30 young bugs yesterday. Having said that I feel ok with how the conversation went and that B wasn't further embarrassed (all the team mates know because of the original email that went out the parents from B's mom).

     

    Again, thanks for your words of encouragement and wisdom!

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