Yes, that was my picture! Nathan was watching the holiday Blue's Clues that was on earlier this week. He loves it BTW. He answers some of their questions by saying uh huh. It's cute, and I'm really glad you suggested it. They have some really great shows. The one where they were teaching about time was really cool. I would have never thought to teach it that way, and they made it make really good sense!
I ordered Blue's First Holiday from
Amazon, and I think Steve is wearing his sweater there also...It looks cute, it's the story of Blue as a baby and his first holiday.
Kelly-I'm a nurse on a surgical floor, but I didn't tell you this. We all know why they don't like you to eat right before surgery, but did you know that 8 hours is more than enough time to empty your stomach? If your surgery is that late...why not wake up early and have a light breakfast? I didn't tell you to do that, and I wouldn't tell them that you did that, but I'm sure people do it all the time.
Also, if your surgery was scheduled for 6am, they would have still told you 'no eating past midnight'. It's just one of those standard things that we say when in actuality, the time really can vary depending on the procedure and the time it's being performed.
Yep. My cousin's kids have congenital cataracts, and have had a few surgeries each, and from her conversations with the anesthesiologists, that's definitely true.
If you, kelmac, were a baby or little kid, you could even have breastmilk, b/c that's now considered a clear fluid (thank goodness!), if you talk to the anesthesiologists who keep up to date.
If you have any questions, you can contact the, you guessed it, anesthesiologist to get clarification, as they are the ones who truly know, since they *have to* know.
I love having a big family.
I have a big extended family, but no one talks! It's crazy. Then again, my dad is the "black sheep" and he passes along NOTHING to me, so they might all chat away like crazy, but it never filters down to me. It was even worse when I still lived in CA (where many of them live), but since I've gotten older I try to contact them while I never did that when younger.
Thank you very much.
Thanks for the suggestion Molly about the chiro. Actually my MD is a sports medicine specialist and he gives me adjustments every time I go in. It DOES help quite a bit. I was going to ask you also I get sciatic pain a lot as well. Do you think adjustments would help with that also?
And here is LOTS of baby dust for you! You can have ALL of mine since I am LONG done with it!
Good luck to you!!
Yes, chiro can definitely help for sciatica. That condition is just awful. I've had bouts of it a couple times...once when very very sick and unable to move, I got the worst case. And I knew from the past that getting up and moving was the best for it, but when I would try to do that it would hurt more, so I just sat on the couch more, and it was bad. Finally I started to feel better (I'd had strep FOUR times in one school year, and we were rowing on a lake with a horrible algae bloom that our coaches were ignoring until it actually hit the newspapers, so all of us were sick sick sick that year, and it just slammed me once the summer started) and I forced myself to walk, and slowly it cleared up (and I was going for chiro care as well).
But from my experience, you want the more gentle adjustments, and it's not *always* something that needs an adjustment right there in the hips for it.
Since PTs and sports medicine people are taught more of a "hurts here manipulate here" form of bone-moving, it would probably be better for you to fseek out a nice, gentle DC. It was funny...I went to college and had an Exercise Science major which helped me get my prereqs for chiro school. I was in the classes with a bunch of pre-PTs who couldn't get into the 3/2 PT masters program at my university. They made fun of me *dreadfully* because they thought chiro was so useless, it was awful.
Then I was in chiro school, it was a couple years later, I got my alumni magazine, and there was one of my fellow students on the cover. He was one of the WORST at teasing me, but there he was, doing a PT version of a chiropractic adjustment, on the cover of the alumni magazine. So much for chiro being useless, eh?
But I'd find a chiro (or maybe a very traditionally taught Osteopath) for the adjustments...I'd rather see a PT for PT stuff rather than a chiro who took a PT seminar, and I'd rather see a chiro instead of another practitioner with a bit of adjusting experience.
Thanks for the babydust!
That's how I feel. Unless they are planning to
pay off my credit cards, they won't get very far.
I sure hope they are comfy! 
But I always thought you were supposed to send water 
