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Congratulations - this is really interesting reading for this lay community member, thank you. Every right to be proud!
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I'm finally home after all my travels with some interesting results. I've done very little hard exercise for close to three weeks, started drinking a small amount of coffee, drank some wine, ate some wheat, stopped taking my supplements, and lo and behold my b/p is back up. Go figure! But this tells me my efforts really worked and now I will start again, and will know to never slack off. Crystal clear.
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I do, so much. I've been known to pull over on the highway and quick roll down my window to hear them. It's magical. Also love the V and love to think about how far they will fly together as a team.
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Dd will work at a take-out lunch place, nothing exciting but good money. She'll probably also do some landscaping and a few catering jobs. Cash is the goal! Plus having time to swim and hike.
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On 1/23/2024 at 7:46 AM, alysee said:
*HE GOT THE JOB!! He starts April 29th*
My husband has been in the very long process in getting a federal govt job. He is in the last round of interviews(yes! Interviews). He currently works in the Canadian animation business as well as being in the army reserves so that we can have extended health/pension benefits for our large family. With this possible job he will be able to work regular hours, no weekends. We need all the good thoughts and prayers because this possibility could transform our family.
I would hit the double like button. Congratulations to you both!
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Yes, and I also would put strict parental controls on the phone. These days plenty of dangers are brought to us via the Internet.
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In my family of origin and my own kids we use Grandmother and Grandfather for maternal side and Grandma/Grandpa for paternal so I will be Grandmother. Can't wait!
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14 minutes ago, wathe said:
I am surprised that there wasn't an Ambubag or other BVM on-board. It's usually stored with the AED (NOT in the medical kit)
Video of Air Canada medical kit. BVM is mentioned at the very end.
That is odd. Editing to say the RN was focused but also fully directing everyone else.
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57 minutes ago, wathe said:
@Eos I'm glad that your daughter stepped up to help, and I'm glad that there was a good outcome.
I hope she is OK. Resuscitation can be traumatic for responders (both professional and lay-responders alike) and witnesses.
Peel Regions's Lay-Responder and Bystander Resource Guide is excellent.
Downloaded, thank you.
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1 hour ago, wathe said:
(i) Airways, oropharyngeal (3 sizes) or
(ii) Ambu bag
(amended 2005/06/01)1 setIt was Air Canada and they didn't have an ambu bag, just a tank and mask. The RN was doing super fast compressions with no puffs, just mask oxygen, which seems to prove the modern protocol of slipping in rescue breaths but focusing on compressions. That, plus probably lots of prayers...
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47 minutes ago, wathe said:
@Eos I'm glad that your daughter stepped up to help, and I'm glad that there was a good outcome.
I hope she is OK. Resuscitation can be traumatic for responders (both professional and lay-responders alike) and witnesses.
Peel Regions's Lay-Responder and Bystander Resource Guide is excellent.
I hear that, thank you. I actually think she is a bit less traumatized than had she not participated. Having diabetes gives her a fair amount of worry about responders not knowing how to work with it. She wears a bracelet with insulin pump CGM and glucagon written on it. The patient today was not wearing a bracelet and his wife froze for a minute, so I hope he gets one now.
Dd was quite disturbed by the movie Knives Out and the plot with someone getting an accidental overdose of otherwise benign medication., too close to home for an insulin-dependent diabetic.
I once did CPR on someone who had had an aneurysm which we of course didn't know at the time but he was dead by the time he hit the floor. That was kinda horrible until the ER doc called me weeks later to tell me that it was an aneurysm.
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21 minutes ago, seemesew said:
Why don't you start a park group? Where you meet at the park kids play and moms chat! Its super simple and low key, we did one for years and really loved it! Your kids are young so the other thing I'd do is just invite a couple other moms over with their kids and let them play while you chat.
This is good advice but also having a moms-only dedicated group to share about homeschooling can be great. Think of it as professional development and continuing ed. I loved Park days but it's a lot of multi tasking to interact with kiddos and have anything like a serious conversation with moms. I only had a mom's group for a year but it was super helpful.
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Just now, KSera said:
Wow, that is amazing. Good thinking on your dd’s part. And immense effort on the part of the RN giving chest compressions for half an hour (do planes not always have an AED?).
They had the pads on and were about to shock him when he got a pulse. Incredible effort of the RN! Dd said she could hear his rib break. When he came to and they asked him if he knew where he was etc he said wow my chest hurts and she said I'm sorry but i broke your ribs!
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Dd was on a flight this morning when a man two rows up collapsed. His wife called for medical help and an RN and a WFR responded, got him on oxygen, lost his pulse, started giving chest compressions. RN asks the wife if he has any medical issues and wife says no, but Type 1 diabetic dd asks directly "does he have diabetes?" and wife says yes. So dd checks his glucose while he's seizing and getting chest compressions, she already has the app on her phone that converts it to metric (she's flying from Canada) then stood by with her glucagon at the ready.
He received a half hour of chest compressions then revived, which is an actual miracle. The plane diverted to a different city and dd said they cleared the airport then came in super hot, faster than she's ever landed before. EMTs came for him and he was talking and aware. I'm proud of my girl's small part in the situation! The RN was an actual hero for directing the terrified flight attendants and giving chest compressions for so long.
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1 hour ago, Ali in OR said:
20 min fitbymik dumbbell workout.
Me too!
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On 3/12/2024 at 5:27 PM, prairiewindmomma said:
Instead of a place that has a sign that says, "Do not go past this point", a more effective sign would be "9 people have died here since 2016 from falls off of crumbling cliffs after crossing this point"
There are signs like this on a trail near me, which include a helpful graphic of a person falling from a cliff. People are still climbing it in flip flops.
I think there is a certain humanity to risk taking in the natural world, but learning to mitigate risk is the most human of activities.
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1 minute ago, Kassia said:
Thank you. We feel very fortunate that he is so resilient and seems to be doing well. I can't even imagine what he witnessed and experienced that day. I grieve for him and, of course, the victims and their families, while being so grateful that he came home safe and is thriving.
I'm sorry, the autocorrect said dad but of course I meant dear son.
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On 3/12/2024 at 3:59 PM, Kassia said:
I voted yes, with caveats. Ds2 was in a school shooting and was able to call to tell us there was a shooting and he was okay minutes before we even knew anything happened. And then we were able to keep in touch with him until he was allowed to leave the campus (he was in the room where it happened and a witness, so he had to stay a while plus the school would only release students under 18 to parents so it was quite a mess). I can't even imagine not knowing if he was okay or not and was SO grateful that he had the phone.
But I would never text my kids during class! That is bizarre unless it's an emergency/extremely important and I do think it's a distraction.
I'm so sorry that happened to your ds, Kassia. How traumatic.
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Three miles walking plus a video. Cannot wait to go home and hike!
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1 hour ago, Clarita said:
I look up homeschool stuff (curriculum, how to schedule, organizing) and I get ads for linen dresses and how to be a "vintage" homemaker. And I wonder is wearing a linen dress going to turn DS7 into a child who will happily write out his history narrations??
See the fundie baby voice thread, we've moved on to discussing the linen-festooned tradwives and their sad beige children.
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2 hours ago, Rosie_0801 said:
Single Russian ladies, single Asian ladies, single Christian ladies, single specific Asian nationality ladies, none of whom are suitable for the job seeing how I'm not a bloke. I am offered prenatal vitamins for women and men just in case though.
Laughing out loud across the Pacific.
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I go "incognito" when I look up my objectionables...
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3 hours ago, Carol in Cal. said:
I wonder whether the beige colors are indicative of organic, undyed fibers? Because chemical inputs reduction is a value that some hold, and cotton, most wool, and linen, if undyed, would fall into that color range.
I think so. It's about "purity" on so many levels.
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What is in your purse? (specific questions in thread)
in The Chat Board
Posted · Edited by Eos
My wallet with ID, credit cards, etc. - goes with me all the time, my purse usually only when I'm traveling. So I'll have travel-y stuff like books, notebooks, pens, a sewing project.
I'm not very purse-conscious so I don't carry much I don't need right then, except for some odd talismanic stuff: I have a map of the college campus where dd went, I kept it in there for ds and now youngest who went to the same college. It's ripped and crinkled and I never actually use it but I'll keep it in there til the last one graduates. A birch twig that youngest gave me. A meaningful political pin.
Along the floor of my purse: hair ties, coins, an eyebrow pencil, pine needles and dried flowers.
I would say I'm a pockets-gal rather than a purse carrier.