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[Haley R]

once hospitals here are overwhelmed it will be too late. Have you been following Italy at all? Doctors having to decide who they can treat (younger people) and who they should leave to die because the cases exploded quickly and there are not enough resources to treat everyone. That type of issue is what they are trying to prevent here. It does seem a bit extreme now, and may not get that bad, but it is a possibility.

I’m actually kind of worried about delivering in April. I’m hoping this doesn’t affect that at all

 

[CyndiLouWho]

Dh went to Walmart by himself. They’re completely out of all bread, almost all shredded cheese, all brats are gone, no frozen vegetables. These are things we need regularly so I’m not sure what we’re gonna do. This is getting a little ridiculous. All there is left to buy is junk food

Look online and find some recipes for bread. Most of it takes flour and yeast and salt. Maybe a few other ingredients if you get fancy.

We can enter our own orders. We just can’t initiate a tpn- but once the resident orders it I can go into their order and do whatever I want lol. I work at the largest hospital in my system- the only tertiary care facility- the rest are small community hospitals, so things are weird cause we had to let the old grumpy mds there have some input. Every resident where I work and basically every attending except one would be happy to just let us do anything we wanted.

I just like to go in to room and make sure the tpn is running at the right rate, and the right tf formula is hanging at the right rate. And double check drips and stuff. Because when things are bad in the icu the epic flowsheets are always updated.

So true about things getting updated in a timely manner. Our policy is to check TPN lines daily, so I go in and check to make sure right bag, filters, infusing into correct port, etc, so I wouldn’t be able to do that. For TF, I have seen all sorts of crazy stuff like wrong formulas hanging, wrong rates, water flushes wrong, etc. Working a few hours from home daily would be a good compromise I think. I would be happy to go in, physically check on each patient, take notes, then go home and chart.
It’s pretty easy.
I work in an odd community hospital that has a large residency program, Internal Medicine, Family Medicine and Transitional Year residents. We were recently acquired by a large tertiary care hospital only a few miles away, so some things have changed for the better and some worse. In the 15 years working at this place, I have wrested the TPN away from the docs completely. When we went to Epic (part of the recent merger) the PN orders are all labeled as “Nutrition and Pharmacy Managed PN”. The doc needs to consult us but can’t order it, but we have to have a consult to start it. Beats the days when the surgery attending and residents wrote all the PN orders and the patients’ labs were out of whack and always hyperglycemia.

 

[smmco]

To those of you that are stuck homeschooling I wouldn't buy a curriculum I would turn this event into a learning experience. Even if this virus goes down in flames this is a part of history and it's unprecedented.

Science- learn about viruses and how they spread

History- Pandemics in the past. Spanish flu is a good one

Math- the opportunities are endless. They can keep track of how many are infected, ratios, percentages etc.

Economics- the ups and downs of the stock market, interest rates, fed cuts, mortgage rates, etc, etc, etc.

English- Keep a journal on living through a pandemic.

Politics- How both sides spin things. This is also an election year so many opportunities there. This is a great time to learn about our election process with the primary's going on.

Heath- How to help your immune system with sleep, exercise, getting some sunshine and eating the right foods.

Physical education- Get outside go for a walk or a bike ride.

Have fun and enjoy the time you have with your kids.

 

[WardFam]

Returned home from my 40th birthday trip to Guatemala yesterday. Just thought I would give an airport update: on the way into Guatemala we got a temperature scan on March 4th. On the way back into the US on March 12th things ran just like normal! Nobody seemed to be panicking, customs was easy, no temperature scans.
Also Guatemala was beautiful and very little talk of coronavirus. We met some people from Italy who couldn’t get home and it did start making me anxious to get home especially when you start hearing about more travel bans!

 

[wendow]

To those of you that are stuck homeschooling I wouldn't buy a curriculum I would turn this event into a learning experience. Even if this virus goes down in flames this is a part of history and it's unprecedented.

Science- learn about viruses and how they spread

History- Pandemics in the past. Spanish flu is a good one

Math- the opportunities are endless. They can keep track of how many are infected, ratios, percentages etc.

Economics- the ups and downs of the stock market, interest rates, fed cuts, mortgage rates, etc, etc, etc.

English- Keep a journal on living through a pandemic.

Politics- How both sides spin things. This is also an election year so many opportunities there. This is a great time to learn about our election process with the primary's going on.

Heath- How to help your immune system with sleep, exercise, getting some sunshine and eating the right foods.

Physical education- Get outside go for a walk or a bike ride.

Have fun and enjoy the time you have with your kids.

Good stuff, Mama!! I may incorporate some of your ideas even though we are well set on school work!

 

[gottalovepluto]

Dh went to Walmart by himself. They’re completely out of all bread, almost all shredded cheese, all brats are gone, no frozen vegetables. These are things we need regularly so I’m not sure what we’re gonna do. This is getting a little ridiculous. All there is left to buy is junk food

On the one hand the normal grocery stores around me have better availability. Even now it’s running thin but I would start there and branch out. It seems like everyone goes to Walmart and warehouse stores, then Target, then the more expensive places. Heck my local grocery store still had a couple packs of TP and water bottles yesterday (but the manager told she has no idea when the next TP shipment is coming in). Admittedly we are about 3-7 days behind whatever craze hits American shoppers.

Our Costco on the other hand had a darn near stampede over water bottles last weekend when a shipment arrived on a Sat afternoon. The story is all around town, it was a thing- heckuva time to be working at Costco I guess! Any of those hundreds of people could have paid $1-2 more and bought bottles at the local grocery store without risk life and limb and shoving their carts into others to get there (legit that’s what was reported happened) but they’re buying from where they always buy (Costco) and not thinking outside of the box.

Also, if you have to start driving far out consider mapping out a plan of store attack and you can always try calling ahead to see if it s even there before you try to grab it. The supply chain will catch up though! ...DH could always try to chat with your local store managers about his pregnant wife and see if he can find out when next shipments are expected...

 

[CyndiLouWho]

I'm happy to make curriculum suggestions. I'm not sure if you are just looking for something in the short-term (sounds like it...?). In that case, I would not recommend investing in any bigger curricula. There are plenty of free online resources (brainpop and Discovery kids are free for a few weeks) or grade level workbooks you can order from Amazon.

Is your district not moving to online schooling?

The initial email came at 4 pm today canceling school indefinitely. My sister has a friend who is a teacher and school board member and she told my sister the district is not set up for online learning. We have since received a second email stating they are working on details for possible learning plans, letting people go in Monday to get supplies and other items. In our district, all kids have a chrome book at school. Only middle school kids are allowed to take them home, so all the chrome books at the elementary schools are without cases, so I think they didn’t want to send everyone home with one. Per our Governor’s address yesterday, Comcast has pledged that low income families can get 60 days of free internet so that would help. I just don’t think they have a plan. The second email said the absolute earliest the kids would go back is April 6.
DS will be home essentially alone. DH will be working from home, but he is on the phone all day and won’t be directly supervising DS with school work or projects. I’d like to give DS some stuff to work on while I’m at work, then work more with him when I get home. He will likely not do too much alone that seems like “work “ but might do some game type stuff. I will also be having him take the dog out or go for a walk if the weather is ok. I don’t need a big curriculum but ideas for different resources would be great. They work a lot on writing at school and it is neither my strength nor passion (plus I want to correct every tiny grammar mistake he makes which just make him shut down) so any resources there would be helpful.

 

[afan]

I really think we are in the very early stages. All of the closures are to slow the peak/spread The numbers appear low, in part, because not much testing is happening. We can only hope and pray that our healthcare system does not get overwhelmed.

I agree. I think most people around here fully expect it to go way up once they're testing more people, or even just the people that are actually sick and haven't been able to get tested. While most of the deaths here are from the nursing home, they also have tied at least once case back to the original 1st case back in January. The flu study that wasn't allowed to test for covid but did anyway and found a 19 year old with it, is the one that matches the 1st case yet they don't know each other. They were then made to stop which is ridic cause they had all these samples for the flu study back in January and could have potentially done more.

I also don't think, at least here, that our media is sensationalizing it at all. Granted most of the news coverage is it, but between the school closings (now state wide), updates on testing, updates on the nursing home etc it's most of what's going on.

Most people are still going into my work, but we all have the option of working at home if we want/need to. But I keep hearing about more restaurants closing due to no customers or more places telling people to work from home. But there's also the shop/eat local/get food delivery and still spend money to support.

But I also think it's different here because it started here so we've already been hearing about it for almost 2 months and wondering what to do etc vs places that have nothing. Which makes it a bit frustrating. Are people overreacting in some places, I'm sure they are, but with what's going on here I'd say I'd rather someone freak out a bit than think it's ok to fly while waiting for their test result or think it won't affect them so they can do whatever they want. We need a happy median but I'd rather you go over it than under it.

 

[Haley R]

To those of you that are stuck homeschooling I wouldn't buy a curriculum I would turn this event into a learning experience. Even if this virus goes down in flames this is a part of history and it's unprecedented.

Science- learn about viruses and how they spread

History- Pandemics in the past. Spanish flu is a good one

Math- the opportunities are endless. They can keep track of how many are infected, ratios, percentages etc.

Economics- the ups and downs of the stock market, interest rates, fed cuts, mortgage rates, etc, etc, etc.

English- Keep a journal on living through a pandemic.

Politics- How both sides spin things. This is also an election year so many opportunities there. This is a great time to learn about our election process with the primary's going on.

Heath- How to help your immune system with sleep, exercise, getting some sunshine and eating the right foods.

Physical education- Get outside go for a walk or a bike ride.

Have fun and enjoy the time you have with your kids.

As a teacher, I love this! Anytime you can turn something real life into a lesson is awesome

 

[smmco]

Good stuff, Mama!! I may incorporate some of your ideas even though we are well set on school work!

I'm a homeschooler too. I like to think outside the box. I'm a little traditional and a little bit of a un schooler. I think everything can be a learning experience.

 

[Haley R]

On the one hand the normal grocery stores around me have better availability. Even now it’s running thin but I would start there and branch out. It seems like everyone goes to Walmart and warehouse stores, then Target, then the more expensive places. Heck my local grocery store still had a couple packs of TP and water bottles yesterday (but the manager told she has no idea when the next TP shipment is coming in). Admittedly we are about 3-7 days behind whatever craze hits American shoppers.

Our Costco on the other hand had a darn near stampede over water bottles last weekend when a shipment arrived on a Sat afternoon. The story is all around town, it was a thing- heckuva time to be working at Costco I guess! Any of those hundreds of people could have paid $1-2 more and bought bottles at the local grocery store without risk life and limb and shoving their carts into others to get there (legit that’s what was reported happened) but they’re buying from where they always buy (Costco) and not thinking outside of the box.

Also, if you have to start driving far out consider mapping out a plan of store attack and you can always try calling ahead to see if it s even there before you try to grab it. The supply chain will catch up though! ...DH could always try to chat with your local store managers about his pregnant wife and see if he can find out when next shipments are expected...

I’m not sure what we even have for local grocery stores here. I know we have Publix but we don’t like shopping there. The reason we do target and Walmart is because both are across the street from each other and literally less than a mile from our house. We could walk to them both.

 

[gottalovepluto]

I’m planning on going to the grocery store early tomorrow in hopes they’ve restocked things overnight.

Supply chains are cut off. If you can wait a few days people will probably realized they don’t need anymore food and the stores will be mostly normal again.

If supplies chains were “cut off” no more food would be coming in indefinitely. I’m not being nit picky- it’s just that phrase is very scary as it means no food is coming indefinitely as far as stores go and I know that is NOT what you meant because you follow it up with stores will be mostly normal again

There is a run on stores, but the supply chains will slowly catch up. Nobody has announced shutting down major food production sources, processors, or transporters at this time.

 

[gottalovepluto]

Luckily I bought toilet paper at target a couple days ago before it started getting crazy here. If we did run out I can always use Kleenex or take a shower lol

Lived in China for a semester. Can testify Kleenex works (everyone has to keep a container of tissues with them as bathrooms only had toilet paper in super fancy places that college kids frequented once a trip ). Sucks having to put it in the trash and take it out though (but that’s how toilet paper worked there too).

 

[wendow]

I'm a homeschooler too. I like to think outside the box. I'm a little traditional and a little bit of a un schooler. I think everything can be a learning experience.

I knew you were a homeschool mama too! I can get so locked into my curriculum that I forget to use real world opportunities to teach. You had some great ideas that I would love using so wanted to make sure i acknowledged!! We are part of a public school co-op and I think that has me so much more focused on checking boxes (not my fav). It's nice to see some true homeschool ideas put out there!

 

[gottalovepluto]

Don’t know about baby diapers, but my MIL is in assisted living and we get her pads and adult undies...online..Costco was sold out this morning

Saw those at Boxed yesterday.

(I was looking for pasta (or soup?) and it offered those as an alternative It was my first time even browsing that website- talk about an algo that needs recalibration!)

 

[SouthFayetteFan]

When can we talk about churning again? ...asking for a friend.

 

[afan]

Lived in China for a semester. Can testify Kleenex works (everyone has to keep a container of tissues with them as bathrooms only had toilet paper in super fancy places that college kids frequented once a trip ). Sucks having to put it in the trash and take it out though (but that’s how toilet paper worked there too).

I can't remember if it was a China guidebook (probably) or Japan but they recommend carrying tp with you. I've gone through so many books in the past two months to figure out which I like best so we can plan our trip for next year. Thank goodness for the library. And for those that are friends on goodreads, that's why there haven't been any updates lately Plus the WW1 book I'm reading is slow non fiction.

When can we talk about churning again? ...asking for a friend.

April 25th, schools are closed state wide until the 24th for now.

 

[Haley R]

I knew you were a homeschool mama too! I can get so locked into my curriculum that I forget to use real world opportunities to teach. You had some great ideas that I would love using so wanted to make sure i acknowledged!! We are part of a public school co-op and I think that has me so much more focused on checking boxes (not my fav). It's nice to see some true homeschool ideas put out there!

I found out today that there’s a large group of homeschoolers in our area. I had no idea. We still are planning to send our kids to school but it’s nice to know we have the option

 

[orangecuse]

When can we talk about churning again? ...asking for a friend.

Churning TP? Oh you mean cards...

P2s Delta bonus posted! We just submitted the last bills on his Citi AA (his only one- dont panic!) and CIP to knock those out! I’m due for a Chase biz but not focused enough to apply yet.

 

[Haley R]

When can we talk about churning again? ...asking for a friend.