My co-worker is a fountain of misinformation!! 5/14 the day has come page 130

[bumbershoot]

Her granddaughter is sick again. She tells her dil not to give the baby any milk, because she has a fever. Why, you may ask... because the fever will curdle the milk in her stomach and make the child sicker.

Painfully, there are SO many people out there that think that. And sadder, there are many who believe it when their relatives or nurses and doctors (so so sad) say it, and act on it. I know that DS has been as healthy as he has been (he's almost 3 and this week has his FIRST full blown head cold) because when he's not feeling well he demands (and gets) more milk from nursing. I'm making the antibodies, I might as well share the wealth!

The presence of milk in the stomach doesn't make you throw up, it just makes for a nastier cleanup experience when you do.

FWIW, when my son has thrown up with a belly full of milk from nursing, his vomit smells sweet, like vanilla ice cream. And it dries even sweeter-smelling (I know this b/c he threw up on a satin quilt my mom made for ME, and I had no idea how to clean it, put it aside, and later when I smelled it, it was like someone had dumped sugar-water on it it smelled so sweet). No curdles, just liquid milk.

Now, throwing up after cow's milk I would expect to be a different story! (unless one is a calf)

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Today's installment...wha? She moos? And what's the soda bottle opening noise all about?



Oh, and tell her she can go to Korea, because the largest Xian church (unless something has changed in the last 8 or so years) is there. Still more Buddhists there than Christian, but there is that big church.

Nevermind, don't tell her that, I can only imagine she'd decide to take a trip just at the same time we decide to go visit DH's family, and we'd run into each other and have to hang out.

 

[Hedy]

Suddenly, the hummer in the next cube seems tolerable.

 

[tmq2766]

I know this b/c he threw up on a satin quilt my mom made for ME, and I had no idea how to clean it, put it aside, and later when I smelled it,




Just out of curiosity why would you have smelled something that had been thrown up on???

 

[LadyShiva]

Painfully, there are SO many people out there that think that. And sadder, there are many who believe it when their relatives or nurses and doctors (so so sad) say it, and act on it. I know that DS has been as healthy as he has been (he's almost 3 and this week has his FIRST full blown head cold) because when he's not feeling well he demands (and gets) more milk from nursing. I'm making the antibodies, I might as well share the wealth!

That is sooooo cool! I loved it when kiddo would visibly perk up after a nursing! I just wished it would work for ME! Granted, I hated it when she was sick and much preferred to just be sick myself, but... MAN! Feedings every 3 hours were TOUGH. We called them the death march here. Had to feed her before giving her Motrin or Tylenol.

Oh, and kiddo is 2.5 and has forgotten how to nurse... She bit on the latch for 2 years, and now she just kisses! YAY!!! I miss the antibodies for her, but I don't miss the pain and looking down at her grin! Stubborn little thing!

Oh, and by the way, kiddo's food allergies showed up in uncontrollable vomiting (i.e, a run to the ER), starting at 5 weeks. Thankfully, they were easily avoided foods (peanut and shellfish--she didn't inherit milk, etc, from us). I had to pump and dump to get rid of the allergens... Meanwhile, every time she nursed, she would throw it back up quite violently.

Hope your baby feels better soon!

Brandie

 

[1Prince2Princesses]

MOOOOO. sssst. ssssst.

(Sorry... I had a headache, and I was hoping it would make me feel better.)


SERIOUSLY? If you didn't have such a good reputation around here, I'd think you were making this stuff up! It's hard to think anyone is THAT weird!

 

[Hixski]

OMG even I don't believe this one!!!

It's really, really quiet in here. All of a sudden I hear someone mooing. Yes, mooing. And then it stops. Then starts sst,ssst, ssssst. Like someone is opening and closing a pop bottle. Then the mooing again. I realize it's her!!!

ME WTH are you doing over there. (Because now she's broken my concentration)

Miss Info What?!?!

ME Are you mooing?? and going sst, ssst?

Miss Info Oh yeah that's me, I do that when I'm not feeling well. It makes me feel better.

ME ARE YOU SERIOUS?!?!? (Now I think she's just trying to break the tension of month end)

Miss Info Yeah I'm serious, it makes my husband nuts.

It makes her DH nuts and he lives with her. I think I would tell her it is making all of her coworkers nuts too. As in "YOU ARE GETTING ON MY LAST NERVE" nuts.

 

[pokemon_master]

My lord, we have reached a new low..

 

[minniecarousel]

Does her DH work there too?

NO?!

Then WHY is she making those noises at work. I swear, some people don't recognize what's proper at work...in public...and what is best left at home! Like I used to tell my Cub Scouts "indoor voices, boys". Some adults don't know what kind of behavior to leave at home!

 

[kendall]

EG, this one takes the cake. Any way you can record the sound for all of us to enjoy?

 

[jmskinner]

I love this thread.

I just remembered this lady that worked in my department years ago that did strange things like that. I think the worse was when she would scratch herself in front of everyone. Yes, down there!

 

[Blue Skies]

This thread just keeps getting funnier!!

I wish I worked with a miss info! All my co-workers are DULL!

 

[TPCShauna]

Back away slowly from the nut job!

 

[Poohbear123]

Reminds me of Niles on Frasier, he used to make that "funny noise" to clear his sinus, remember?

 

[julie_yet]

haha, I love these stories!


One of my best friends is very sweet, but she is VERY gullible. We were at MGM and had gottne fastpasses for RnRC. Anyway when we returned for our time, she asked my friend Kurtis why we "had our own line". He told her we were VIPs because my uncle is Steven Tyler, and she believed it. She walked by eveyone saying, "yeah, thats right, let the VIPs through, very important people, thats what we are"

This is also the same friend who asked me where Raven (thats so raven) lived while we were at the MK, and thought I was wrong when I explained that the disney start don't live in the parks.

LOL!! That reminds me of my brother's friend. They were talking about how short Tom Cruise is and my brother states very seriously that he actually played one of the Oompa Loompas in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. She asks "Really?" and he says "Yeah, don't you remember the Oompa Loompa that was a little taller than the rest? That was him." She absolutely believed him.

 

[gradtchr]

Mooooooooooooooooo

 

[Evil Genius]

MOOOOO. sssst. ssssst.

(Sorry... I had a headache, and I was hoping it would make me feel better.)


SERIOUSLY? If you didn't have such a good reputation around here, I'd think you were making this stuff up! It's hard to think anyone is THAT weird!

I don't have that kind of imagination. If I did, I'd be writing books and making millions!!


Moo, Moo sst, ssst, sssst. I feel better all ready.

 

[DisGirlAllie]

OMG even I don't believe this one!!!

It's really, really quiet in here. All of a sudden I hear someone mooing. Yes, mooing. And then it stops. Then starts sst,ssst, ssssst. Like someone is opening and closing a pop bottle. Then the mooing again. I realize it's her!!!

ME WTH are you doing over there. (Because now she's broken my concentration)

Miss Info What?!?!

ME Are you mooing?? and going sst, ssst?

Miss Info Oh yeah that's me, I do that when I'm not feeling well. It makes me feel better.

ME ARE YOU SERIOUS?!?!? (Now I think she's just trying to break the tension of month end)

Miss Info Yeah I'm serious, it makes my husband nuts.

 

[donnajon]

Moo, Moo sst, ssst, sssst. I feel better all ready.

That should be a tag! Where is that tag fairy when you need her?

 

[Nancy]

You need to put it to music...do the old Alka Seltzer commercial song (plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is)


Moo, Moo, ssst, ssst, oh what a relief it is.

 

[Mouse House Mama]

Maybe she drank some milk and now doesn't feel well so she is mooing to get the milk out?