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  1. A torn ACL may or may not need surgery depending on your lifestyle and what you want to do. Sports with lots of lateral movement require an intact ACL. I completely tore my MCL in June. No surgery was done as they heal themselves. I would say that I am 80% back to normal. Swelling comes and goes. I have full motion in my knee but am still experiencing a lot of quad weakness that is related to swelling that makes stairs hard to do (not painful but tiring) My biggest issue is that I don't trust my knee. I am afraid to rupture the ligament again so I tend to err on the side of caution.
  2. If you have a student taking MatLab through Catapult engineering could you please pm me? I have a question for you. Thanks Tania
  3. Our co-op has done Totally Red twice. It works with a large number of kids, is appropriate and hilarious.
  4. We have three guinea pigs, one male and 2 female. I find that our females really don't smell at all. (we change their cage weekly). The male however does smell.
  5. My engineer daughter uses MATLAB in college. My mathematician daughter used in on a summer research project and then took a class in it at college (different college than her sister). My son is learning it right now through a third college. I get the feeling that it is the standard.
  6. My daughter was accepted to the VCU art school and started there but after her first semester switched to mechanical engineering, still at VCU, she is a senior and really enjoys the school.
  7. VCU (Virginia Commonwealth University) is the top ranked public art school in the nation.
  8. can you post the sections that are giving you trouble and I will help. (I am a very experienced seamstress)
  9. My kids loved The Seven Silly Eaters. It is not specifically about siblings but features a large family (seven children) and their specific problems that arise from their individual food preferences. It is a really cute story.
  10. My daughter commutes to college too and her school has lockers in the student center that can be rented by the semester. They are just like the ones used in high school. She rents one to keep her excess stuff in. The gym may have lockers as well and if he is going to swim each day he could potentially use a locker at the gym.
  11. I am the mother of daughter with anorexia so I am super hesitant to even think of any kind of diet that includes restricting any group of foods but more importantly my husbands own headache issues had another very unexpected trigger so I wanted to share his story. The first time my husband experienced and was diagnosed with migraines was when he was deployed in Oman. They troubled him daily the whole time he was there. Upon returning to our home in Illinois they went away. A few years later when we lived in California they came back again and he spent a whole spring suffering truly debilitating headaches. 3 years later we moved to Virginia and he started having headaches again every night. They woke him up at about 11:00 pm and continued for several hours he described it as like an ice pick going though his eye into his brain. The doctor diagnosed cluster headaches and prescribed medicine that totally knocked him out. Then his lip started randomly swelling up, we started a food journal. Then he developed a rash on his torso. They gave him hydrocortisone lotion for it and the rash just got worse. his lip was swelling everyday and the headaches came like clockwork every night. The doctors were baffled and the food journal showed nothing in common other than very basic ingredients. I spent hours researching his symptoms on the internet and found reference in a medical journal to swelling of the lips as a rare side effect of corticosteroids. All of the sudden a light came on. He has always had seasonal allergies and the doctor had just recently prescribed Flonase for him (it isa corticosteroid) I asked him if her had every used it before and found out the doctor in Oman and prescribed it as had the doctor in California but he discontinued its use in both cases (upon coming home from Oman and when summer hit in CA, we moved before the next spring). I told him what I had discovered. He told the doctor who laughed and assured him that corticosteroids are safe because our body produces them so you can't be allergic to them. Another 2 days of misery was enough to convince my husband to try my idea and the headaches were gone in a week. He didn't use flonase for another 12 years. During that time he continued to have allergies and doctor after doctor tried to get him to use Flonase. They all swore that you can't be sensitive to it. Its just topical, not systemic etc. Finally, last year the doctor convinced my husband to try it again (he actually kind of tricked hm be using the generic name and telling him that it was not Flonase) he had the first migraine headache three days after starting to use it. He has now sworn it off for life.
  12. check out homeschool-life.com I run a homeschooling group using this website service and love it. It does facilitate online class registration and online payment as well as many, many other features. Our group has 50 families and I feel that the $7.00 per family fee is worth every penny.
  13. I had it as child, I was a very competitive swimmer so it didn't really affect my sport. I have a large bump below by left knee cap today and it occasionally aches but doesn't really stop me from doing anything. My son developed it in both knees. He is a very active martial artist and hiker. He wore a knee strap for about a year and took motrin when it especially bothered him. He did skip some exercise in martial arts as they were particularly painful and iced his knees after practice. He hiked a total of 175 miles in the year that it was the worst. He outgrew it about 18 months after it started.
  14. My son took the first class last year. His prices were lower. When I saw how high they were this year I almost didn't re-enroll. I did email with the owner and pointed out exactly what you have said here. $700 is just too much for the audience.
  15. Homeschool Tracker (online, doesn't matter what computer you have) Homeschoolskedtrack (online, doesn't matter what computer you have) Scholaric (online, doesn't matter what computer you have) Homeschoool Planet (online, doesn't matter what computer you have) Olly (computer based, mac only) Homeschool Helper (iPad based)
  16. My son took solid modeling last year as well and we were very pleased. The class was identical n many respects to the course that my oldest daughter took freshman year in her mechanical engineering degree. My son is also registered for the MatLab/LabView class this coming year as well.
  17. homeschoolskedtrack is free and automatically reschedules incomplete work to the next day.
  18. My son wants to be an engineer too. We did Landry Labs for Biology and he will do chem and physics with lab at the community college. I count landry as skimping on labs (they do good labs bit still it is all done in 2 days and I haven't made my son follow up with lab reports) and I can't see how 2 years of college labs will be cheating him of lab experience. I think that we are good.
  19. It is hard. I now understand the women who would look at my screaming 2 year old in the store and tell me to enjoy them when they are young because it never gets easier. My big kids have endured some hard times in the last year and it has been so hard and sad for me but we have all come out the other side stronger. Hug her and be glad that she will talk to you. Open communications (as hard as it has been on me) has been one of the saving graces in our life.
  20. My insurance won't cover a nutritionist for a patient with an eating disorder no matter what billing code is used. There is no logic there that I can understand.
  21. Thanks ladies. This was my first ever dislocation and a freak accident sports injury and the PT is really convinced no surgery will be needed. I hope that he is right! I have no pain and really have had none though the entire experience. I didn't tear my ACL or MCL so maybe that bodes well for me! My son is at camp but when he gets back Friday I am stepping up his driving training so that he can drive me around.
  22. I dislocated mine on Sunday. I saw the physical therapist yesterday. He doesn't think I will need surgery at all and started me on some strengthening exercises. I did them all plus a few more yesterday, My leg was so sore when I woke up this morning! I have to get some stuff packed to mail to my daughter and then I need to do my exercises and ice my leg but I am still sitting in the recliner typing this. Everything just takes so long to do. How long was it before you felt more back to normal and could walk with relative ease and drive?
  23. I have the white bindings with pastel stripes. I grew up with the solid green ombre bindings (easiest books were lightest green, hardest were the darkest) my mother still has that set. I have compared them and the insides are identical.
  24. Clothing doesn't sell well unless it is small kids clothing (take it to a consignment store) or really specific brands, Hanna Andersson, Heartstrings, Ralph Lauren, Gymboree (used to sell well, but is just meh now), Naartje etc. Basically expensive clothing. Furniture would do best on craigslist because it would be hard to ship. I have had the best luck with electronics on eBay.
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