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  1. I am happy to be able to update that my shoulder has improved since I posted this. I am even able to swim without it hurting. I took the advice of continuing the gentle workouts. Some yoga and resistance training. It helped. 
     

    I can check that worry off my list!

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  2. 17 minutes ago, Garga said:

    It is a nightmare. 

    My son is 21 and everything in his life is like he’s slogging through thigh-high mud pits. Everything is just So Hard because of his blasted ADHD. 

    He’s 21 now and so he’s handling this shortage himself somewhat, but I still remind him every few days to call the pharmacy and ask, “Are you able to fill my prescription yet?” He can’t remember to call them on his own. They said to call once a week to check in, but I told him to call at least twice a week. 

    When he was 7 or 10 or 14, we could have gotten through this. But at 21 in college? The stakes are so high. If he can’t keep up his grades because he can’t focus, what happens? Drops out? Has to work at WalMart for the rest of his life? 

    I hate ADHD so much.

    You’re scaring me. 
     

    Dd22 is a senior, and I don’t think she can make it through and pass every class without the Vyvanse. So far the university pharmacy has had it in stock. 
     

    I will seriously have to move in with her if she can’t get it. The stakes are indeed really high at this point.

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  3. I gave up wine for Lent, and I am now getting ads for weed. Ad after ad after ad for "Mood", "buzz drops" etc... I had no idea! I do not know what I did to trigger it. 

    I can say...they are wearing me down! 🤣

     

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  4. 1 hour ago, ScoutTN said:

    And some ADHD meds in short supply are not stimulants and must be tapered. It can be dangerous to just drop these suddenly. 

    Also, Vyvanse is used to treat binge eating disorder. When you have a child in the hard, early days of recovery…a missed day can be really, really bad. 😞

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  5. I just picked up my youngest’s prescription. My pharmacy has had a hard time staying stocked in generic Vyvanse, but they did have the brand name this time. Rather than call around hunting for more generic, I decided to pay the extra. I can afford to do that every once in awhile. Not everyone can. 

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  6. I had to pick up a prescription at the grocery store, so I bought a fully intact can of black eyed peas from the same brand. I opened them just now and they smell and taste the exact same. Yuck! I had never tried this brand before—Glory. Theirs are “seasoned”, so I guess that’s what tastes off to me. Sort of an aftertaste of —idk—ammonia or something. 
     

    I admit to being extra paranoid because my husband was one of the bunch who got food poisoning from a bad batch of Fairlife milk over the holidays. 

    OP:

    I ate exactly one black eyed pea and a tiny bit of the broth it’s canned in. I swallowed it before it registered that something was off. It tasted like fuzzy mold smells. Or maybe it was really more of a smell than actual off taste. Either way…I’m scared! I pulled the can out of the garbage and it had two small dents at the bottom of the can. 
     

    I’m probably being paranoid. Black eyed peas do kinda have a weird smell normally. The can is definitely dented, but no slits that I could see. The beans look and feel normal, but I know you can’t see or taste botulism.
     

    I’m going out of town for a long weekend with Dh tomorrow. 😞

  7. 23 minutes ago, Kareni said:

    @popmom, could it be from her book, Rethinking School? Check the beginning of Chapter 2 which you can see at the link.

    Regards,

    Kareni

    I’m pretty sure it was a really old facebook post the more that I think about it. Probably deleted. 
     

    I have a copy of Rethinking School. Thank you for reminding me. That was a very helpful book. I’ll go hunt it down. 🙂

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  8. On 2/10/2024 at 3:43 PM, Ausmumof3 said:

    Top story on ABC today 

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-11/patients-catching-covid-hospitals-australia-infection-control/103442806

     

    Twelve months later Australian hospitals have become a strange new battleground in the fight against COVID, with doctors and public health experts concerned that too many patients are catching the virus — and an alarming number are dying — as a result of inadequate infection control. Until recently, tools like contact tracing, testing, N95 respirators and good ventilation were mainstays of COVID management in healthcare settings. But in many hospitals they've been wound back or ditched in tandem with other community protections, putting patients and healthcare workers at risk and deterring others from seeking treatment.

    Health departments insist the risk of catching COVID cannot be eliminated completely, and that hospitals maintain stringent measures to prevent infections and manage outbreaks. But senior healthcare workers in several states say vulnerable people — including transplant and oncology patients and others with compromised immune systems — are contracting COVID because even basic precautions are not being taken: a consequence, they say, of hospitals' failure to address airborne transmission, and the pervasive myth that COVID is "just a cold".

     

    I have wondered about this. My sister in law’s husband died from a hospital acquired COVID infection. It was devastating. He was admitted after an outpatient surgery. He had some issues with anesthesia. He wasn’t in the greatest health and refused vaccination, but he was only in his 60s. It was absolutely heartbreaking. I read stories occasionally about people being upset over hospitals starting to require masks again, and it makes me furious. 

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  9. Does he type/keyboard well? My dd is really good at typing. And in college it’s really much more typing than handwriting. I mean…I know that hand written notes are best for learning and retaining info, but there are work arounds. Just thinking about the long game. 🙂 

    I really do understand your concern. He is very fortunate that you have struggled similarly. You can empathize. I was a mess about it at first because I have that perfect school teacher handwriting. 🫠

  10. Once upon a time there was an article about the “myth” of accreditation, and now I can’t find it. Does anyone remember this? I used to reference it occasionally for friends who had concerns about homeschooling through high school. 
     

    I could always search her fb page and find it, but not today. Has she changed her mind due to Well Trained Mind Academy having an accreditation? 
     

    Anyone else remember the article?

  11. Is occupational therapy an option? It ((might help)). My dd had very, very babyish handwriting for a long time. Overly large print, spacing between letters and words was like a preschooler. No…it was possibly worse than a 4 year old. It was so bad. In OT they taught her cursive, but it didn’t stick. Maybe it did help in a way. She was 12 in OT.
     

    I will say that there was a change around 14 years of age maybe?? And she improved. Now she writes smaller than average print. I wish I knew how this happened. I would’ve never predicted it. It was a total flip flop. It’s not pretty, but it’s legible, and much more efficient. 
     

     I’m wondering if using narrow (college) ruled paper might help. As opposed to the wider ruled paper used in the earlier grades. I’m sort of thinking that might have been what helped dd make the shift to much smaller print. 

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  12. I am pretty lazy about skincare, but I try. The sicca syndrome of my AI disease sort of forces me to. 

    I have been using a skincare line that I feel like has made a significant difference in how my skin "behaves", and I'm much less dependent on oils or other occlusive moisturizers. So I went to the website today, and it looks like they have discontinued their body serum and lotion! I am going to cry if that is true. Maybe it's a website glitch. 😞 They still have the face products available.

    It's Renue By Science. The stuff has NAD+, resveratrol, apocynin, methylene blue, Glutathione, NMN and NR...

    Before I started using their stuff, I had to use Vanicream ointment nearly every day on my legs or they were uncomfortably dry and super flaky. I was so skeptical of the Renue products when I first received them because they feel so light compared to the Vanicream products. So at first I used the Renue stuff and put the Vanicream on top of it. Then one day I figured out I didn't need the Vanicream any more. And I could go a few days without even putting the stuff on! No flaking, no itching. 

    I am seriously going to ugly cry if they stopped making the body serum/lotions. I just emailed the company about it.

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  13. My thought is…of course you’re sad. This is ((really hard)). But not insurmountable. Just know that I (and I’m sure everyone here…we) are sad with you. I am so glad that you can come here and allow us to sort of shoulder the emotional burden with you. 

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  14. 2 hours ago, Faith-manor said:

    I am worried. We are having insanely warm temps. Some trees are so confused they are budding out. But it is early February, the chances of freezing weather, ice and snow are high. SouthEastern Michigan orchardists are REALLY worried.

    Such a strange year.

    It really is weird. I am watching the insanely cold temps in Alaska (looks like they have finally "warmed up a bit") because this weather pattern is going to flip in the next couple of weeks. So yeah...I understand your concern! Down here it's peaches. Last March we had a really hard freeze that did a lot of damage to our peach farmers' crops. 

  15. Back in the fall I found what I thought was a volunteer Komatsuna mustard plant in the beds where my tomatoes had been. They reseed easily. I transplanted it to the bed with my lettuces. I have harvested a few leaves of off it a couple of times to add to dishes. I noticed it seemed to be a bit slimy when I would break off a leaf. Today I checked on it. It's broccoli plant. It has a tiny little broccoli floret and a thicker stalk. 🙂 I have never ever successfully grown broccoli. I have no idea how a broccoli seed even got in that bed. I don't remember ever trying to direct seed. I only remember trying to start them indoors. Side note: broccoli leaves taste wonderful sauteed. 🙂

    My swiss chard has done nothing. I planted it in Oct, and it still looks like puny little seedlings. My lettuce is looking okay, but it hasn't grown as fast as it should. I finally broke down and added fertilizer--not the organic kind. We were just so dry for so long that I was afraid I'd burn the plants. We have received a lot of rain since the new year fortunately. 

    I need to sow carrots this week.

    I got impatient and started a bunch of seeds in my Aerogarden and my biodome. Some dwarf tomatoes, poblano, anaheim chili, bell pepper, other tomatoes, celery... And some more lettuce for succession planting. I'm experimenting with getting ahead with the tomatoes. I'm hoping to get them setting fruit by early June because it gets too hot by mid July for them to do anything here. I plan to start a second round of tomatoes (around April maybe?) to plant in July when the first round plants are playing out. Then hopefully those would be ready to bloom and set fruit once the temps cool off a little in September. 

    Wondering if I should throw some more broccoli seeds out...

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  16. 5 hours ago, PeppermintPattie said:

    I would use the counter for my favorite cook books. For under the counter, I might find some plastic drawers that fit there, and then hang a little curtain in front to cover it up.

    I like this idea! Since I can’t change mine rn, I may try this and see how it goes. My cookbooks don’t have a good home right now. Not easily accessible.

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