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I have always thought my middle daughter would do best in a small liberal arts college but didn't think we could afford it. But she is going to Roanoke College in Salem, VA next month with a very nice financial aid package.
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One of my friends is going through treatment for cancer. My main job is managing her appt schedule to make sure she has rides. She had 6 weeks of radiation x 5 days/week, plus 4 rounds of chemo x 3 days each (1 more round to go), but our circle of friends really stepped up and she has always had rides when she needed them. Several people got her stocked up on boost and ensure, one friend who doesn't have young children has spent countless evenings sitting with her. We've taken meals to her, a couple friends have helped her with cleaning and laundry, we've bought groceries and toiletries for her, and we've visited her in the hospital. Her last hospitalization was 16 days, so the visits really helped break up the monotony.
I don't know if you have mutual friends or a mutual homeschool group, but if so, the above scenario really helps to spread out the load. My friend doesn't have a spouse or reliable family; if your friend does, she may not need as much help as my friend.
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Nimrod
Really. My Grandfather's name...if I had been a boy my mother planned to call me Christopher Nimrod.
I totally celebrate the XX chromosomes that rescued me from that dire fate.
On the other hand, my mother was seriously pressured to name me after my grandmother. My name was supposed to be Gladys Annabel. It wasn't until I was born that my mom rebelled and told her mother that she had another name picked out!
Unfortunately she didn't, and looked around the room for inspiration. I ended up being named after a lotion bottle:)
Keri is so very...
Just be glad she didn't see a urine sample....
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I do know a lady in town who named her baby Matilda. I thought that was unusual--until she said she could be Mattie or Tillie, and those are kind of cute :) Gertrude, probably not, although Gertie is cute--
I actually like old names. My DS2 is rocking a name that hit it's prime in the 60s & 70s and there are tons of 40 year old men with this name but very, very few kids. Todd. I think it's heading for a comeback.
Betsy
My grandmother's name was Matilda, and she was called Tillie.
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Nicolette, Dorothy (my mom's name that she hates with the heat of a million suns and possibly more)
My middle daughter just said that her civics teacher's baby born just this spring is named Dorothy.
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Which names spring to mind? And keeping in mind that old-is-new-again happens about every century. (I realize this might vary by country; for all I know, the names I mention might be the hottest thing going across the pond.)
For me, boys name: Ralph. Does anyone name a kid Ralph anymore? Any potential for Ralph to once again sound fresh and quirky? I vote no. Ralph is a goner.
For girl: Ida. Can't see that one ever making it to the top of the baby name list.
Ida was #183 out of 4276 names in the 2000 census. I have a friend whose daughter is Ida Mae. I don't think it will ever go away in the South.
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NC doesn't get as hot as some of the top corn producing states.
Maybe it's not the heat then. All I know is that frozen corn on the cob is better than fresh here, it's that bad.
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No way! I didn't know they sold it on Amazon! But $4 a pound? My family gets it buy one get one free, and it usually works out to less than a dollar a pound. Going down next week and my sister already has 20 pounds for me. I'm paying her in cheese made locally.
My college kids love this macaroni. They eat it just buttered, with cheese sprinkled on top, with veggies and chicken added...it's a staple for them!
Plus $4.67 shipping!
I had no idea Mueller's wasn't sold everywhere in the US. I've always had access to it, so never thought of it as anything special. We buy Barilla and stock up when it's on sale for $1/lb, but I'll buy Mueller's when it's significantly cheaper than Barilla.
Now I'm hungry for homemade mac and cheese. :-)
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When I go to western MD, I buy local maple syrup and apple butter. If I go to MD in late summer/early fall, I bring back corn on the cob. NC corn is tough and not sweet because it's too hot here to grow good corn. We bring some of my mom's canned applesauce.
We don't bring it back, but when we go to Baltimore, we go out for things like crabcakes, shrimp salad subs, and chesesteak subs.
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Hmmmmm.... Not much time, but good for you for giving it the attempt!
Honestly, I would back up and have her drill multiplication and division. Making those operations "automatic" will ease the road for fractions and decimals. Then I would drill order of operations (including psrenthesis and brackets!) and working with negative numbers.
My experience has been that the majority of struggling Algebra students are missing one or more of those four areas.
Exactly. My answer was going to be to nail the basics.
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Madame Bovary is pretty easy reading as far as classics go. From what I read about the book, she was supposed to be a heroine for breaking the rules but I thought she was just incredibly selfish. It could make for some good discussion.
I got halfway through Brothers Karamozov and the murder hadn't even happened yet. It was so boring so I gave up on it.
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Before I spend a ton (literally) of money on the headphones and equipment, are there any parents out there with dyslexic/ADD children that have seen positive results?
Yes. We used TLP - it's one that has to be administered by a certified consultant. My dd's OT was certified for TLP and Interactive Metronome, so we were using both of those, plus sensory therapy. At home we were using curriculum for dyslexics. I think the key was finding the right mix. We could see the difference not just academically, but in dd's timing for playing piano and dancing, too.
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Here it is:
They can not only uphold their religious beliefs by not allowing their employees to purchase certain forms of bc through the health insurance plan, but they can also form a nonprofit group to spread the message of the gospel as they see it.
See, clearly NOT a just a corporation.
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Okay, all joking aside- whatever side of the issue you are on, I thought y'all would find the plans for the Bible museum interesting.
A lot of families own for profit and nonprofit companies, so this is really not anything unusual. In fact, the foundation that pays a large chunk of my two older girls' college tuition is owned by a family who also owns a large auto parts business. I'm kind of glad they didn't feel like they had to stick with auto parts. :-)
The article says that "the company" bought the property in 2012, but doesn't make it clear which company. I don't know whether the reporter wanted to imply that the property is owned by Hobby Lobby, but it's not. Per Washington DC real estate records, the property is owned by The Museum of the Bible, Inc. (link - https://www.taxpayerservicecenter.com/RP_Detail.jsp?ssl=0536%20%20%20%200053)
ETA: The link didn't bring up the property detail, just the search engine. The address of the property is 300 D St SW.
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Dh and I were talking about it and he was like, "But then we could go. It would be so funny!" Sigh.
Real estate is pretty tight down there. Where are they even imagining they might squeeze this thing in?
They purchased the property for it in 2012.
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The other driver was updated from critical to serious yesterday. I only know this because of the very kind state trooper who tended me. Since he is the investigating officer and gets updates, he is willing to share a little. Hippa puts him in a bind, but he liks to side with me and be helpful. He's even made house calls to see how we are doing.
So let me tell admit my internal struggle. We have no fault in Michigan which means our insurnace has to pay, our premiums will go up, and we are not entitled to any kind of long term settlement from our own company.Because he is a minor, our company isrequired by law to pay his medical bills related to this injury for the rest of his life IF primary medical insurance does not pay or if it does but there are deductibles or copays. But we get nothing financially for putting on a ramp, remodeling the bathroom for handicap accessibility. We don't know everything C is going to need in the future, but we are not entitled to anything but medical bills from our insurance. However, if we sue her personally, she has up to a million in personal liability from her car insurance company. I don't want to be a golddigger and I know it's not very Jesus like.
I know it's not kind. But, C may need extra help when he eventually does go to college - he faces so much pt and OT this next year that he may not graduate or need a gap year - and really we can't know what all he is going to need and I feel that I need to advocate for my son, and push other considerations aside. We don't want a million...but $100,000 or so would greatly ease my mind about providing for his accomodations in the future.
I agree with the others who said that $100k is not going to cover your costs for this, and you need a good lawyer, someone with a reputation for being a bulldog. There is nothing un-Jesus-like about recovering your costs and something for pain and suffering. Your costs are likely to be much more than you'd think. She has the $1mill policy for just this kind of thing, and there's nothing wrong, unChristian, or sinful with making her use it. You're not doing it out of malice, but out of a very real need that she created. Don't forget to keep track of miles driven to appointments and things like that, because just your travel costs will add up quickly, in addition to copays and coinsurance.
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Trane is good. Don't let anyone talk you into a Paine (payne?). They are cheaper but you get what you pay for.
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Even people who don't go online can have an internet presence. I was surprised at how much info I found on my mom. Her name, current address, past addresses, and people she was associated with at those addresses. Google your mom and you might find something.
Found her age, town and state, my dad's name, and her current husband's name (she remarried after my dad died). That's it.
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My FSH was 37 the last time it was tested, and my doctor doesn't like to start HRT until it gets up to 50. So I'm taking an estrogen based birth control pill instead of HRT. It has made a world of difference. I was having debilitating symptoms in 2012. Besides being an emotional wreck, I had brain fog, and some days I could barely get out of bed. One day I was up for two hours, started a load of laundry and homeschooled a little bit, and went back to bed crying with exhaustion for the amount of effort it took to do that little bit of work. I work outside the home, and I was sure I was going to end up on disability. I saw five different doctors during that time, got tested for anything and everything, and my oncologist is the one who told me he thought it was hormones. I didn't really think it was until I went 90 days without a period, and as soon as it started I could feel the fog starting to lift and I was feeling better with each passing day. My oncologist discussed the risk/benefit with me. He said the risk is relatively small, i.e. it took 30 years and a large pool of women to discover the risk; I've had a DNA study and don't have the BC gene; my closest relatives with BC were a great aunt and a cousin; and I'm not a smoker. Because I don't have any of the major risk factors and the severity of my symptoms, I'm comfortable with the decision to use bcp, and later on I'll switch to HRT.
It may be that the reason my symptoms were so bad, and early in the process at that, is because I have chronic leukemia. Everything hits me harder now than it did pre-leukemia.
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My mom has gotten two of those calls from "grandchildren" who were traveling and got in an accident and needed money to get home. She has zero internet presence, so that's not where people got the information to call her. They also answer questions with pretty generic answers because they target older people but don't necessarily have much information to go on. For example, the first one was a guy and when my mom asked who it was, he said your oldest grandson. She asked where his parents were, and he said they were at home. That was a giveaway, since my oldest nephew's mom (my sister) died a couple years before the call.
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Yes, I'd be concerned about that. Normally blood sugar should not be that low even with fasting because the liver releases glucose when levels drop to keep them within the ideal range. So a reading that low could indicate a more general problem.
Also, having blood sugar that low and not having significant symptoms is worrisome because it means that she'll have very little warning and chance to intervene before it becomes dangerously low if it drops further.
I would pursue it further with the doctor, and do blood testing at home to get a better idea of what is going on (maybe that one reading was inaccurate, or just a fluke), how her blood sugar levels respond to different types of food, and so she can learn to identify how she feels when her blood sugar is low.
I bought a meter on the way home from work yesterday. Her blood sugar was 60 when she woke up and 78 an hour after she ate this morning.
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I only know for me, that if I eat cereal for breakfast, I'm STARVED shortly after. My blood sugar plummets. Frankly I don't know how the daughter can stand that feeling. It's awful!
Milk actually has quite a bit of sugar and carbs in it. I don't know which milk she had, but 1%, for example, has 13 grams of sugar for one cup.
But overall I have found it to be true that having enough fat and protein with carbs helps. A lot of people don't seem to realize what the sugar and carb content for a lot of foods is though.
She drinks whole milk, so it has 8g of fat and 11g of sugar per cup. I'm the same way about cereal - it makes me hungry. I don't eat it often, but my husband buys it. This particular dd is a creature of habit and it will be hard to break that habit. We've discussed that this is a very serious thing and she needs protein with every meal.
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Thanks for all the support. I bought a meter on the way home from work and we'll try it out in the morning. If we get normal readings for the next few weeks, I'll feel a whole lot better about sending her off to college. And if not, she now knows what the symptoms of a sugar crash are and that she needs to make some dietary changes to better regulate her sugar.
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If she struggles with breakfast foods, maybe try a smoothie.
A good combination is a handful of greens (spinach, kale etc...but alternate days) 1/2 c frozen berries, vanilla protein powder, 1/2 c coconut milk and 1/2 c filtered water. I also add hemp seeds, chia and some liquid cal-mag-zinc and omega 3. But start simple and find something palatable that is easy yet minimizes the blood sugar spike. Avoid the temptation to add too much fruit to make it sweet, that defeats the purpose!
If she likes eggs a frittata is a great option...sauté up some veggies, add some meat, eggs and top with salsa if she likes it or a little bit if cheese. That is a very stable (blood sugar) start to the day. Even leftover quiche is awesome and can be made ahead specifically for breakfast.
I have some vanilla powder, coconut milk, chia seeds, and a vitamix, so I could try that. I don't have spinach and kale right now, but I have some peaches which are a low carb fruit. I have some rainbow chard, but I'm think it's too fibrous to work well in a smoothie.
I'm guessing if the caf at college serves smoothies, they're going to be full of sugar, so not a good option. :-(
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I was told at the endo that fatty meats like sausage and bacon don't count for protein in terms of regulating blood sugar.
Not surprising with all the additives. Maybe I'll make her try scrambled eggs again.
Doctors/ C-sections/ 1st time mamas
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I had an induction with my first baby and didn't have a c-section. I thought it was headed that way because I was only 2 cm after 12 hours of labor, so I agreed to an epidural. The epidural was what kept us from a c-section. I finally relaxed and took a nap, and when I woke up I was 9 cm and ready to push.
But I was induced with my 3rd for the same reason (HELLP syndrome), and that one did end in an emergency c-section at 4:30 am. The cord was wrapped around her neck and she was in distress. Dr re-infused fluid into my uterus to try to break the cycle that was causing her distress to prevent a c-section, but it didn't work. The OR staff was giving him grief because he had an OR reserved for me in case we needed it, but in the meantime he was trying to avoid using it. I was pretty impressed at how hard he worked to avoid a c-section.
OP, I have a friend who had the same thing happen to a friend, except she didn't even have high bp. OB just decided that since her due date was here, they should induce. After 12 hrs of labor 3 days in a row, they finally did a c-section at the end of the 3rd day. She was one exhausted new mom.