When I think of your little town, I think of Chase County Kansas. http://www.chasecountyks.org/pages/dining.htm This is RURAL. These eating places have been going strong for years.

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I don't know if anyone remembers the ups and downs we went through with a rather hyper, easily frustrated boy with a teeny Cuban mother and a not so great dad? The one who ran up to a dog and got a nasty bite on the face? The one who put soiled undies in my son's face to disgust him? The one my husband stuck by for years trying to be a loving male role model? Well, the boy's GPs, aunt and a pair of cousins moved in from Cuba and the boy suddenly wasn't the only child and had some better parenting in the extended family. He is a MUCH better boy. He figured out that tantrums got him left out of the fun, and his demands to be the center of attention were ignored. Plus, his girl cousin could punch back*! Amazing. As the months pass he gets better and better. *Something my son was not allowed to do. P.S. Mom is a lot happier having family here, too.

No vomiting? Or was that just me? No broken bloodvessels in the cheeks? Or was that just me? In one birth class, they had daddy put his arm in ice cold water and see how breathing, support, etc helped him keep it in the iciness longer.

I don't drink very often, but I'll take a shot glass, fill with hot water, pour out, pour in half sweet liquour, like Cherry Heering, and half hot hot water and I knock it back. It makes me sleep for 2 hours and overwhelms my throat, too.

I slowly suck on baby ASA. I drink very slightly sweetened lemon water warm. As a last gasp, I get that numbing spray. It numbs my tummy, too, and I hate that, but when I can't sleep.....

I don't like toppings but cook-ins. I start the water on the stove and put in chopped fresh apple, a few raisins, and a few chopped walnuts, a sprinkle of cinn and a drip of vanilla. After it has come to a good boil, I put the oatmeal as planned. Of all the things, the apple, hot and slightly softened with cooking, is the best.

I haven't followed the current story, but I'm reading Churchill's The Grand Alliance. In the appendix are some of his letters to various officials, and I was pleased to see he devoted more than one to having female battery gunners, taking the same risk as the men, get the awards and bars, etc the men get, instead of just the Women's Aux corp stuff. He thought it right, as well as morale-building.

I remember the party line.

Those are the ones you remember. I remember plenty of "I saw him every day for years and he seemed fine to me". Plus, the press loves these hindsight is 20/20 statements, and people suddenly have different opinions once something dramatic has happened.

Not all of us have been devastated. Personally, I don't buy into giving genitalia that much importance in my life.

Just a thought: Has this grandmotherly type has been watching too much TV news.

No, but to the outside observer, these marriages were on the rocks already and while the affair might have gotten one or the other motivated (last straw or I have someone better) to actually put in the divorce paperwork, it is not seen as "the cause" by the circle of friends. E.g. hubby's sister said "the writing was on the wall" for a long time that hubby's ex wanted rid of him. I replied, "But you forgot his dyslexia".

Machine count or a manual? If it is a concern, a peripheral smear is much more accurate. I can't tell you how many unexpected "odd" differentials disappear when reviewed by an experienced eye looking at a slide gotten from a finger prick rather than a tube full of preservative. BTW, the only time elevated eos have tipped me off to anything, they have been *markedly* high. I recall one very nice one-legged homeless man with 35% eos. My intern rushed down and exclaimed that it must be cancer. I, lowly student, said, "Shall we repeat after his whole body case of scabies is treated?" It was the scabies.

No, but then I like singing House the Rising Sun to the tune of Amazing Grace. And vice versa.

Size.

Gaslighting. As a wild leap, are they heavy drinkers?

I would ask someone who knows them better for advice on what this particular family needs. A "thinking of you" card never hurt.

My son glanced over my shoulder and said: Yes it does, if you want to add or subtract. He meant denominators. You can guess what we are studying....

I try to catch Radio Netherlands.

Next time, try to respond with giggling. This is amazingly effective and therapeutic.

Oh the screams of laughter that got when we were 16! Let's see, good luck from careful planning: all those temp. checks, urine dips, day counting, holding off to make sure both barrels are loaded, and evenings spent with my heels propped up on the wall, reading. Yup. Worked for us (and we were BOTH IVF rejects.)

Of a dead fetus? That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard come over a set of earphones.

No. You get used to it. A bit of lemon juice won't cram it with sugar, either.

You might be thinking of the old "phosphates" although there are two camps on this. Seltzer does not cause osteoporosis. There is some thought that soda drinkers drink less milk, and then there is the "whatever else is in coke" idea, and heavy coke drinkers who are women having lower scores on their hip and spine dexa scans. But, they drink, on average, less milk than non-soda drinkers.