RoughCollie
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So, RC, have you checked to see if your auto insurance has roadside assistance yet?
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Happy Birthday, Rosie!
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I also make it thick - I like thick soups and stews; not as big a fan of brothy ones. I also add white beans to my beef stew.
My stews are thick, too. I love the idea of adding white beans to it. I'll do that next time. Thanks!
Nobody here eats greens (except salad greens). I am from the South, and every time we had greens, my dad would make us eat a spoonful of them. He was convinced we would learn to love them. I never liked them, and sadly, neither did our dog.
One of my favorite parts of cooking is watching fresh spinach leaves wilt. I put frozen, chopped spinach in vegetarian lasagna, but I don't eat it -- no Italian sausage, which is the best part.
The beef stew I made yesterday has onions, carrots, parsnips, turnips, celery, peas, and corn in it. I didn't have any fresh mushrooms or they would have been added in abundance. I didn't put potatoes in it this time, because DH wanted to try it served over mashed potatoes.
I forgot all about adding tomatoes to it. I wish I had.
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I know. It's so stupid. But we know that hormones in our diets are causing all kinds of problems. It makes sense to me that overloading a fetus with extra hormones could cause problems down the road. In theory, people like me might not produce enough progesterone at all, so the "extra" wouldn't be extra--it would just be enough. But if my first pregnancy was a fluke, then maybe I am producing enough on my own, and that would mean that the injections do result in too much.
Seriously, I can't have any more babies after this, because my anxiety over it all is just out of control!
I don't think it is stupid. If I were pregnant in your situation, I'd think exactly the same way. I'd be worried that I would make the wrong choice, especially since it is not known if or how this treatment effects a baby long term. My anxiety would be over the top.
I get anxious when I have to make an important decision and the outcome is not predictable due to unknown factors. That's why I decided to base my decisions on what is known. This has not proven to alleviate my tendency to second-guess myself and to blame myself when I make a poor decision. What I do that is reasonable, I think, is to analyze outcomes. Sometimes I make major decisions that, in hindsight, are poor, and the reason turns out to be something unknowable and beyond my control. Usually with decisions that are unimportant in the grand scheme of things, a poor outcome is due to my own flaws.
The unknown is what paralyzes my decision-making process especially when the risk of a poor outcome, no matter how slight, will have a bad effect on my family. I try to minimize risk as much as possible and to live with poor outcomes that are not my fault without denigrating myself.
I had to make decisions several times when I was pregnant with my boys. In one instance, the risks were known, and I decided not to undergo a pregnancy reduction to ensure my boys were not born prematurely. That was actually an easy decision that DH and I made immediately and never regretted. The risk came to fruition -- the three boys were born at 27 weeks, and each weighed under 2 lbs. I could live with that much more easily than I could live with myself after agreeing to "reduce" the pregnancy to one or two fetuses.
In another case, I was given a drug on which only one study had been done about how it effected fetuses and that was not a very credible study. The drug was necessary because I had a few severe illnesses that were directly caused by my being pregnant with triplets and the immense physical stress on my body was also not good for them. At the time, I had already been hospitalized for 4 weeks for preterm labor.
I took the drug. The boys were born prematurely. For years, I worried that my taking that drug had hastened the birth of my sons. Later studies showed that the drug was safe for pregnant women and their fetuses.
My point is that I am well acquainted with anxiety in the decision-making process, especially when the risks are unknown and the recipient of the risk is a baby. I don't think you are being stupid at all. I know what this anxiety feels like, and I would have the same response to the situation.
It is what I call a "you can't win for losing" situation. No matter which way you leap, your decision
could be the wrong one due to factors that are unknowable. So it comes down to an outcome-based decision, based on the facts you know. If you take the progesterone, and years later you find out that it caused your child some bad effect, can you live with that? If you don't take it, and have a premature baby, with a possibly dire outcome, can you live with that? Which risk is the lesser of two evils, basically.
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What about cabbage, chopped fine -- has anyone tried that?
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UPDATE: The strangest thing happened, and I wonder if it was due to my Amazon review. Hoover corporate just called me, saying they were returning a call I did not make. They want me to return the machine so they can use it to figure out what caused it to catch fire -- I am not the only one with this problem. They are going to send me a replacement machine. Previously they had offered to sell me another machine for $100 .
I told the lady I would edit my review on Amazon (which she never mentioned) to include this new wrinkle after I receive the new machine and have successfully used it.
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By greens, I mean spinach, kale, collard greens, and the like.
I looked at this recipe for beef stew: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/emeril-lagasse/emerils-best-beef-stew-recipe/index.html?rsrc=search
Emeril put 2 cups of chopped collard greens in his stew.
I thought about putting chopped spinach in my beef stew yesterday. I didn't, in case DH could identify it or taste it. DH eats a plenty of things he doesn't like, but he doesn't know it. For instance, I sometimes put parsnips and turnips in my stew, and he thinks they are potatoes (even though they are diced 1/2" or less). He wouldn't touch a parsnip or a turnip with a 10-foot pole, ordinarily. OTOH, if I use oatmeal in meatloaf, he won't eat it because to him it looks like onions are in there.
So if you've ever added chopped greens to beef stew, does it add its own distinctive flavor to the stew, and is it all that noticeable in the gravy and among the other veg?
Thanks,
RC
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I am wondering if you hit them on a bad day.
For the last 2 years, every time a call has been made to AAA from my residence by friends or family, the wait time to have the call answered has been at least 45 minutes.
The only time the phone was answered promptly was last week, when I called to cancel my request for service. Temp was below freezing, our well-maintained SUV had inexplicably died, my disabled husband waited in the unheated vehicle in an unsafe location with my DD for over an hour -- including the 45 minutes I was on hold. I was then told it would take 1 - 2 hours for a tow truck to get there. We cancelled the order and the tow truck DH called arrived within a few minutes.
Everyone I know who has AAA (and there are a lot of people) has this problem, and we all dread it. Only once have I gotten someone out here within 30 minutes. Usually the wait for service is 1-2 hours. Twice, the service order has been lost by AAA .... which means the whole process has to be started anew.
A few weeks ago, a friend of ours slid off an icy road, at night, into a phone pole. He was fine; his car was totaled. He called AAA and the state police. It took 2 hours for AAA to answer the phone. He was across the street from a service station that took AAA, but they could not help him unless AAA ordered the service. The police officer waited with him for 1.5 hours, then had to leave to go to another car accident. He was several hours away from home. In the end, the tow truck arrived exactly when his father did.
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AAA responded to my email: "Please accept our sincere apologies for the difficulty you had reaching us for service and the confusion surrounding your initial service request. Recently, we’ve been experiencing a higher than usual call volume and at times have been experiencing unusual wait times to speak with an operator."
I responded by saying that they need to hire more people to answer the phone, and that my most recent problem with them was not a fluke, it occurs at all times of year, in all types of weather, and every AAA member I know who lives around here has experienced it more than once over the past 2 years.
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Long term effects of progesterone on babies, if any, are unknown because there haven't been any reliable studies done. http://www.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/ehc/products/104/1239/ProgestogensPretermBirth_FinalReport_20120823.pdf
Many of the long-term effects of prematurity are known.
I'd go with what is known, and take the progesterone to hopefully prevent pre-term labor.
Personally, I would not let what a blog says effect my decision.
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My current favorite dog name is Woofy.
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I would tear it out and start over. It's as ugly as my fireplace is, and I thought that wasn't possible.
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Does anyone know what happens to CHIP coverage under the ACA? I can't find the answer to this anywhere.
My DD is 18, and on CHIP, which we pay for in full b/c it is cheaper than other health insurance and includes dental coverage.
I filled out the ACA forms, and said that DD is on CHIP, in response to one of their questions.
Now the group shows the entire family, except for DD. I contacted the healthcare people and they did not know why.
Does this mean that in addition to our family coverage, we have to pay $250 a month for DD's Chip?
Or did the ACA website screw up again? (It still screws up when I try to get insurance, and the healthcare people don't know what the error code means and can't help me.)
We are in PA, if that means anything.
Thanks,
RC
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Also what are you paying $188 for? Mine is only $55 a year.
AAA Plus.
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We may even have insurance that has roadside assistance. I am going to check because DH doesn't remember. He's the insurance guy. I do everything else (she said modestly).
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For the last year, my friends and I have noticed that AAA's customer service has gone down the tubes.
We call, and we are on hold for anywhere from 45 minutes to 2 hours. Then, it takes anywhere from 90 minutes to 5 hours for the service people to arrive.
I've contacted AAA about this because twice in the last month, people I know have waited in temps close to zero after a wreck and an engine failure, for 1.5 or 2 hours, just for AAA to answer the phone. After that, the wait time for the service was so long that the people gave up and hired a tow truck on their own, one that came quickly.
Today, AAA answered my call immediately. Then they lost the service request and never showed up. I made another one, but I'm getting tired of paying $188 a year for terrible service.
How about you? Have you noticed any problems? I don't know if this is a problem with the East Central PA branch, or a problem with the company in general.
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I wouldn't go. It would have to be a true emergency for me to go anywhere in temps that low.
However, frostbite time (exposed skin) is 10 minutes at -30 to -50, and 5 minutes at -50, so if you bundled up and covered your face, you'd be fine.
I'd be concerned about how my car would respond to those cold temps.
But mostly I wouldn't go near the outdoors because it is too cold for me.
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It is 11 right now (0 with windchill). Tomorrow it will get up to 41, which will melt the top layer of snow so it can become ice. Monday it will get down to -10.
I love summer, bring on the heat and humidity!
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(Don't tell RC but maybe it was good that she nagged me into calling.)
Now, now, Buttercup. I didn't nag you! I simply said, "How are you feeling today - any better? Have you had a chance to call the ENT for an appt?"
I thought I was being pleasantly polite -- such a feather in my cap! I gave myself 3 gold stars for Not Nagging!!!!
In the spirit of the game, today I tackled:
Prepared the meat for lasagna (will make tomorrow since DH did remember to bring home the pasta)Cleaned kitchenMade hamburger stroganoff for dinnerMade taco meatMade hamburger-corn casseroleRan out of ground beefCleaned kitchen againMade grocery list for DHTook care of AidanRead an entire book so I could borrow another from the Prime Library @ AmazonWatched the last 2 episodes of Grey's AnatomyClean kitchen againNow I'm wondering how I could have cleaned the kitchen twice, and it is still a cluttered mess. Originally I had the island and counters completely cleared off and now it is piled up with things again. It is much easier to keep a clean house when the kids are in school M-F until dinnertime.
It is cold here. It is just amazing how the inside of the house has to be 50* - 70* warmer than the outside in winter, but only 20* cooler than outside in summer. Winter is an energy hog and should be outlawed.
I need a new no carb comfort food/snack. :((
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