Professionally I see a lot of neither regions as an emergency department RN. I'd say at least 90% of the under 40 year olds are bare. As a swim mom, and athlete myself, I've noticed a lot of talk in the locker rooms about shaving and waxing, not trimming.

Indeed. As our average size continues to increase the rates of diabetes, heart disease and dyslipidemia are exploding. Our quality of life is deteriorating and there seems to be no end in sight. Our children will have even more struggles as they have been indoctrinated with the fast food/soda propaganda their entire lives. :(

Perdido Key is beautiful! There are a ton of bike trails. We especially like biking along Johnson Beach. We stay at the Purple Parrot resorts. They are single family homes in a gated community with a huge pool with a waterfall. It is a great place for families. We were there for three weeks in May. We went to the beach everyday and never saw a shark. :)

I'm in graduate school, working on my nurse practitioner degree. My university has a library sharing program that allows me access to something like 74 different libraries throughout the country. I can even borrow books from one library and they will mail them to my college. I utilize the eBooks frequently.

In fact, I belong to nearly 35 libraries just for their Cybershelves. I love my Nook! Aside from a few children's books I purchased I almost exclusively read eLibrary books.

In Colorado, it depends on how many days you plan on skiing. The multi-day tickets are a much better deal. You can find four packs to the major resorts for around $200 (not Aspen). Lessons are around $150 a day. Season passes are often the best deal if you're planning on spending more than a couple of days. They often include a lesson or two and deals on rental packages as well. Kids under 5 are free. Of course the smaller resorts are a lot less $. My parents buy my kids season passes every year for Christmas. It forces us to go quite often. :)

http://mistupid.com/science/heredity.htm I have blue eyes, my hubby has brown. All our children have brown but thier kids have a high chance of having blue (depending on their spouse, of course).

:iagree: The BSN new grads do seem to lack clinical skills. The RN-BSN programs are usually less than a year in length and are available completely online. I would encoursge my child in that direction. In our area you can begin taking CC classes at the age of 14. I would use their program for A & P and developmental psych classes.

I'm so sorry your father (and family) had to experience that kind of a reaction. It is scary to witness it happening! There is a reversal, Narcan, although it sounds like it's out of his system now. Often times we see this type of reaction in the elderly, especially with morphine. I would encourage your mother to call the doctor immediately and explain exactly what happened. Is he still in pain? There are other meds they can prescribe if appropriate.

I can tell you what not to get, the LG!!! We just moved, 3 weeks ago, into a house in which the kitchen was remodeled in Nov. 2008. The dishwasher worked the first week we were here then it died. The motor went out. It will cost about $350 for the guy to come out and fix it. Lowes said this is a "known issue" with LG. They looked up the order information from the previous owners to see if there was anything they could do for us. There wasn't. They paid $800 for this dishwasher! Seriously!? One would think that an $800 dishwasher would last more than 16 months! I'm thankful for this thread as we will be putting our $350 repair cost towards the cost of a new one thankyouverymuch! Boo to LG!

Nope, no way. My daughters swim competitively. Those would never work. They do wear rash guards when they aren't at swim practice, though. My sister wears one like this when she races: but it's $260 (on slae) and it only lasts nine swims.

Another RN here. :)

I sent out my emails on Valentines Day. We met our goal the 1st week of May. We had over 75% by recommitment. If we didn't have at least 50% we were not going to continue. I found that the further along we got the more willing the TnT staffers were to help. I do recommend attending all the training sessions and really getting to know the trainers and mentors. We had a couple people who never participated but then wanted their portion of our team fundraising efforts.

My mom and I did it last year. We were terrified about the money! Together we needed to raise $4800. We honestly thought we would be lucky to raise $500. Neither one of us worked outside the home and we knew the same people. How the heck would we ever make the goal. We set it up so that all the donations went into my account first. We figured that we'd have a better chance for one of us to go than if they were split. I sent my letter by email to everyone on my contact list. I use Gmail so anyone who has ever sent me an email was on my list, over 800 addresses total. The first week went by... nothing. Then we got a $100 donation. A few days later we got another $100. Then a bunch of $10s $25s and a few $50s. I was absolutely shocked at who gave. There were people I didn't even know, a grandfather of one of my son's friends, a neighbor of someone I met once at church, etc.. Slowly but surely we got over $1500 without doing anything other than that one email! Actually I did also send letters to everyone I knew who didn't have emails too. We did three group fundraising events: a haircut-a-thon, baseball tickets, and Poker night. My mom and I made over $1100 on poker night alone. As soon as someone on our team made thier goal they would split their excess among the rest of us. that was a huge help too. The TnT trainers and mentors were awesome! I really can't say enough positive things about the whole experience! I might still have my link in my signature try and click on it. We ended up exceeding our goal. Good luck!

You can opt out but it is very difficult. I actually worked for the census bureau in the 90s. My job was interviewing households for the CPS survey. It is completely different than the 10 year census. Addresses, usually a block of random numbers on a single street, were chosen by some computer system. Those houses were put into a cycle. Every month for up to a year (depending on when in the cycle they were placed) a worked would have to do a face-to-face interview. Each moth the questions were on a different topic. There are many financial questions. This is how they get the unemployment numbers that are released on the first Friday of the month. It is very difficult to opt out. They are (at least when I worked there) required to make 3 in person attempts, several phone calls and then it's escalated to a supervisor. You are not required to answer spicific questions and it is much less harassing to do the interview but to refuse each answer that you are uncomfortable in answering.

I find it a million times easier to school with a newborn than schooling hugely pregnant. We usually stop schooling when I can't get through a morning without crying or being unnecessarily mean (around 36.5 weeks). I'm always surprised at how easy it is to go back to the school routine with a snugly newborn on my lap.

My Sister's Keeper- I hate when they change the ending of the book. The Ugly Truth- awful

It wasn't too bad sexually speaking. The teenagers did have intercourse which was slightly annoying since they only kissed in the book. The ending was also changed. The book was so much better IMO. I thought the movie was predictable and shallow. I wouldn't let my 11 year old daughter watch it.

Gosh, I guess we have had it since the end of summer(ish). My kids all love it. It is definitely the most popular game in the house, especially with the little ones. I've only played it once and it was fun. It seems really cute.

We're split. My girls love it! My boys tolerate it.

I've had the G1 since November. I LOVE it! The maps/street view is really cool. I've been a Gmail only user for years so that was a big seller. There are literally hundreds of cool apps. My favs are the bike and jog trackers (speed, distance, altitude). . It is a bit fatter than the iphone because of the slide out keyboard but it isn't huge. When it updated last month it added a virtual keyboard. I mostly use the virtual one but it is really nice to pop out the bigger keyboard when I'm typing a long email or something.

There is no way I would ever treat strep naturally! My very "crunchy" med-surg instructor scared us silly with strep stories that lead to death. I've never heard any MD, and I'm around a lot, not give antibiotics for strep. Rheumatic fever (heart valve damage), post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis (very serious kidney damage), join pain and abscesses are all very real and very serious complications of strep! From emedicine: It is thought that if the strep throat infection is untreated or inadequately treated by antibiotics, the bacteria remain in the tonsils and promote a persistent immune response from the body. Certain strains of the bacteria are more likely to cause this response. At times, this ongoing immune response may trigger the immune system to mistakenly attack other organs in the body including the joints and the heart valves, as seen in rheumatic fever. Treatment with appropriate antibiotics, even if started several days after the resolution of the infection, may prevent acute rheumatic fever. Fortunately, it is now uncommon in the current antibiotic era.

I saw this in my chemical dependency rotation in nursing school. There were tons of college kids that started with oxycontin and then switched to heroin. Apparently, it's cheaper and much easier to obtain. :(

I would take him in. It sounds like an infection. FYI- don't use peroxide on wounds. It isn't effective in reducing bacteria and can actually inflame healthy skin cells that surround wounds, cuts or scrapes, increasing the amount of time it takes to heal.

I love Trek bikes. I've had a lot of success finding very good deals on expensive bikes at pawn shops.