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[Donald - my hero]

Awww

I need some love too, I'm sitting at my computer, already late for school with my dad moaning and groaning and crying and throwing up because he has a kidney stone. My mom is trying to get dressed while all of this is going on but she's so slow! I'm really nervous, this is his 3rd one in the past 4 years and his blood pressure is really high. It's been going on since 6 and he won't do anything for it, so my mom is going to force him into the car and to go to the ER.

Hate to be one of those peeps who seem to take away your thunder by saying oh yeah i know cause i've been there BUT I have. Doc told me not a question of IF I will get more but WHEN will i get them. Everytime it hurts just as much as the 1st -- only advantage? I know that is what is happening and i don't get overly worried just head to ER for pain meds and iv fluids to flush them out. I understand the concern about his BP but the docs will be able to keep that under control too -- sending good thoughts

Seriously, I am so sorry that things are so rough, send some hugs to Em too. I know it is so hard when your kids are struggling, and its awful. I'll be praying that she settles in as things get going.

I'm so sorry things aren't going well for Em. I hope they improve quickly. But, you DO need to take care of yourself too (or you'll be no good to anyone.) You could plan out with her one evening that she calls early and then have an agreement that she give you until the next day at 10am or so - and then take the pill!! Get some good rest lady. Hopefully, things will look up soon!

Thanks -- that is a good idea i think i will encourage her to go back to school on friday evening as well, i (huhm even we) need a break from her. Terrible thing to say but this summer was hard on me

for you my friend. I've been down that road, and you have my sympathy

Thanks for that comment it helps to know i am not alone!

Thanks for the hugs

Jacqueline-- So sorry about Em. Maybe you should hook her up with a counselor at school, that person may be able to hook Em up with a support group of peers with the same feelings of being overwhelmed. Maybe you could buy her a recorder to tape the classes so she doesn't feel like she missed anything. Also talking with the counselor maybe you can get an indivdual education plan worked up for her. We're doing that for ds right now, his will follow him into college. This way she maybe allowed extra time to finish classwork and homework if needed and she may not be so overwhelmed. If nothing else maybe taking less classes until she gets used to it might help. Good luck.

Thanks Mary. That really helps to have some positive comments. She comes home every Friday to see her counselor so there is a sense of "normalcy" for her. One of roomies is being VERY helpful and just this past Monday night (the one where i was up all night and online till about 5) made sure she took her meds and stayed & chatted with her until she was ready to fall asleep! Not bad for someone who is only 17 eh?

We took the time to get her set up with a "worker" as such at school to give her all kind of help. She gets: a note taker in every class to help her make sure she doesn't miss anything, a tutor so she can ask question one-one with a senior student. And the BEST? a new computer progamme that helps her read her text books and turn them into study notes. she had a training session on it yesterday and sounds very hopeful that it will help her.

here everyone

 

[katlas&kids]

Happy yucky Monday Peeps!!!

PD...How did Winnie's Dr's Appt. go???

Kat...hope you find that Kitty!

thanks about the Kitty! We had laid food around the house, but it was undisturbed the next morning. Then Chip and I had gone out the night before with a flashlight, looking around outside. We figured she had pushed aside the duct taped barrier he had on his window AC upstairs and got out that way. We didn't see nay6 disturbances in the tree or ground outside his window, but that was about a 4 foot+ jump between the window & tree!

I was getting in my car yesterday morning to go to my office job, (after the pool job, so bleah!) and really felt the strong disire to go back an look again in the daylight. Our back yard is a jungle, with morning glory or some other type of fine growning everywhere right now. I was passing the back porch area , calling her name and nick-name, heading for the tree. I caught something out of the corner of my eye, backed up to take another look, and sure enough, under the wooden steps sat the cat. I crawled over all the stuff there, thorugh the vines and picked her up. She started snuggling me, put both paws on either side of my shoulders and just hung on.

When we got inside, and she saw the stairs to chip's room, she started purring. She was so happy to be back!

Chip was seeing his ortho about his wrist, but I called him and he was so happy. He bought more duct tape to reseal his window and said she was all over him. He sat on his bed, and she was in his lap, rubbing up against him. And this is the shy, hide under the furniture kitty!

Anyway, happily chip & Stormie are back together. I will get a picture uploaded soon!

 

[katlas&kids]

Awww

I need some love too, I'm sitting at my computer, already late for school with my dad moaning and groaning and crying and throwing up because he has a kidney stone. My mom is trying to get dressed while all of this is going on but she's so slow! I'm really nervous, this is his 3rd one in the past 4 years and his blood pressure is really high. It's been going on since 6 and he won't do anything for it, so my mom is going to force him into the car and to go to the ER.

I hope your dad is doing much better. Kidney stones bite so bad. I had one block the tube and it felt like I was delivering earlym, cause I had it when carrying Krista. Tehy also found a 1 MM one in the other side. Nasty things! Not much they can do but push IV fluids in the ER, though lithotripsy (sp) is a wonder, as long as the drugs used don't make you sick! Hang in ther and let us know, k?

 

[katlas&kids]

We took the time to get her set up with a "worker" as such at school to give her all kind of help. She gets: a note taker in every class to help her make sure she doesn't miss anything, a tutor so she can ask question one-one with a senior student. And the BEST? a new computer progamme that helps her read her text books and turn them into study notes. she had a training session on it yesterday and sounds very hopeful that it will help her.

here everyone

Back at you with the lovely thought!

I am glad she thinks it will help her. I know it may be wrong to say that it is good & very good that she has a very understanding roomie and hoping that Em will start leaning more on her peers than on her parents. I know one of my friends had a roomie with "emotional" problems last year and it was real draining on her & the others. They ended up tag teaming the week that her mother had passed cause it was so hard on her.

I hope the new program works out well. You are a great mom for being so encouraging. And if she does get a tape recorder, maybe a few tapes of her own so that she could talk/vent into it and see if that helps her? Might be tohard to journal it out, but maybe that would get rid of some of her stress?

big 's and lots of ice cream for you!

 

[katlas&kids]

PD, wanted to ask about Winnie's cast. did they put it up above her elbow? And don't let her near a screwdriver cause Chip got frustrated with his and hacked it off his fingers & below his elbow. His ortho's weren't impressed, and mentioned that he had never acted that way when he was younger!

Hope she is feeling more the thing and it doesn't bother her to much. I can pass on chip's IM on AOL or his email and they can "support" each other on their "casted-ness!"

 

[katlas&kids]

One more thing... Anyone been in a corn Maze? They are so cool and there are quite a few around.

How to Locate a Good Cornfield Maze:


I hope you get a chance to visit one of the hundreds of cornfield mazes. It’s difficult to tell which are good and which are not; so I will try to provide some help. I won’t make many specific recommendations, but instead, I’ll describe a general method for locating mazes. You might find some that are within a short drive from your home. They are only open during the summer, but if it isn’t summer now, well, it doesn’t hurt to plan ahead.

There are three companies that build these mazes in conjunction with the farmers who own the fields. The mazes are usually well done and come with food courts, other entertainments, and often some smaller mazes-with-rules. There are also mazes that are built by individual farmers, but, sad to say, they are usually pretty bad. However, if you’ve heard something good about one of these independent mazes, you should give it a try.

All of the three maze companies have web sites, and these sites are the best place to start a search for a maze to visit. Your search will usually take you to a page on the company’s site that has details about a particular maze. But don’t stop there. If you look around the detail page, you might find a link to a web site maintained by the farmer. The farmer’s site can be pretty interesting and it will usually have more complete information about the maze.

Here are the sites for the four maze companies:

The American Maze Company: http://www.americanmaze.com/home.htm This is Don Frantz’s company and he is the guy who created the idea of a cornfield maze (in 1993). The web site usually lists about 9 cornfield mazes, and most of them are accompanied by one or two walk-through mazes-with-rules. It was Don Frantz who came up with the idea of calling them “logic mazes” instead of “mazes-with-rules.” I designed most of these logic mazes, but a couple were designed by Andrea Gilbert and by John Taggart.

One of the mazes on this site deserves special mention. It is Cherry-Crest Farm, a few miles east of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Besides a huge cornfield maze and some logic mazes, they also have a crawl-through maze for kids, a petting zoo, farm tours, and even their own station on the Strasburg excursion railroad.



Adrian Fisher’s site: http://www.maizemaze.com/ This usually lists around 14 mazes in the U.S. and Canada and many more in the rest of the world. Adrian is without doubt the greatest designer of large mazes. Some of them are pretty spectacular, as you can see from the picture below:




This was a maze of his at Davis MegaMaze (http://www.davismegamaze.com/) near Worcester, Massachusetts. Note the bridge over a bridge. You can’t get any more complicated than that. Adrian’s mazes are often accompanied by small logic mazes that he designs.


The MAiZE: http://www.cornfieldmaze.com/ This lists over 190 maze sites. Many of them (in my opinion, the more advanced of them) are accompanied by my small walk-through logic mazes—called “Mini Mazes” here. If a farm has a Mini Maze, the detail page for the farm will have a cartoon like the one on the right.


Maize Quest: http://www.cornmaze.com/mqhome.asp They have interesting-looking cornfield mazes, which are designed by Dave Phillips. You might remember him from the many Dover maze books he wrote in the past.

In addition to the cornfield mazes on those sites, don’t forget Maze Mania, the fence maze near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. I still think it’s the best maze in the country. And also, don’t forget the Garden Maze at Luray, Virginia, a fairly large hedge maze.

Also I found this site: http://www.cornmazedir.com/

I have done some before, but none seemed this complex! Let me know what you find/do in your area!

 

[pixie dust 112]

PD, wanted to ask about Winnie's cast. did they put it up above her elbow? And don't let her near a screwdriver cause Chip got frustrated with his and hacked it off his fingers & below his elbow. His ortho's weren't impressed, and mentioned that he had never acted that way when he was younger!

Hope she is feeling more the thing and it doesn't bother her to much. I can pass on chip's IM on AOL or his email and they can "support" each other on their "casted-ness!"

Luckily it is only below her elbow and not over it, so she can bend her arm and it goes just over the wrist so she can use her fingers and thumb. SHe is able to take notes in class. The cast doesn't seem to bother her, except for shower time....talk about a pain...and she does miss soccer and gym class. She has swimming this semester and it's got to be boring watching everyone one else in the pool!

 

[pixie dust 112]

One more thing... Anyone been in a corn Maze? They are so cool and there are quite a few around.

I have done some before, but none seemed this complex! Let me know what you find/do in your area!

We have corn mazes around here, in the fall. THey are pretty much at the farms where you can go poumpkin picking, apple picking and take a hay ride....family traditions here! None are anywhere near to what you posted, bu they are fun!

 

[katlas&kids]

Luckily it is only below her elbow and not over it, so she can bend her arm and it goes just over the wrist so she can use her fingers and thumb. SHe is able to take notes in class. The cast doesn't seem to bother her, except for shower time....talk about a pain...and she does miss soccer and gym class. She has swimming this semester and it's got to be boring watching everyone one else in the pool!

For showers, get some plastice newspaper type bags, a washcloth and the wide waterproof tape. Slide her hand/arm into the bag, wrap the washcloth around the or just above the cast. fold/fit the plastic bag around the washcloth, so it is the first water barrier and then use the waterproof tape/first aid tape around the opening of the bag & her arm. If you miss anything, the washcloth usually stops it from getting into the cast.

If it does get wet on the inside at anytime, use a hair dryer on it and let the warm air blow in.

Hope this helps & sorry about missing swimming and sports. That is a bummer!

 

[SplshMtn99]

Sage green, but I doubt its a secret.

 

[Va-bear]

poumpkin picking!

I KNEW you had a new york accent!!!!

 

[pixie dust 112]

For showers, get some plastice newspaper type bags, a washcloth and the wide waterproof tape. Slide her hand/arm into the bag, wrap the washcloth around the or just above the cast. fold/fit the plastic bag around the washcloth, so it is the first water barrier and then use the waterproof tape/first aid tape around the opening of the bag & her arm. If you miss anything, the washcloth usually stops it from getting into the cast.

If it does get wet on the inside at anytime, use a hair dryer on it and let the warm air blow in.

Hope this helps & sorry about missing swimming and sports. That is a bummer!

Thank you! Thank you! Thank You! I think you just saved my life!

 

[pixie dust 112]

Sage green, but I doubt its a secret.

Shhhh...it's lime green not sage!

I KNEW you had a new york accent!!!!

no! That would be the other lime haired DISer!

 

[pixie dust 112]

Ginger Bear~ NSalz and I were wondering if you can hear us better now that you've had you're surgery.

 

[Piglets Mommy]

Jacqueline, i'm glad that they have some things in place to help Em adjust. Sounds like it will take some time, but she (and You) will get used to it.

thanks about the Kitty! We had laid food around the house, but it was undisturbed the next morning. Then Chip and I had gone out the night before with a flashlight, looking around outside. We figured she had pushed aside the duct taped barrier he had on his window AC upstairs and got out that way. We didn't see nay6 disturbances in the tree or ground outside his window, but that was about a 4 foot+ jump between the window & tree!

I was getting in my car yesterday morning to go to my office job, (after the pool job, so bleah!) and really felt the strong disire to go back an look again in the daylight. Our back yard is a jungle, with morning glory or some other type of fine growning everywhere right now. I was passing the back porch area , calling her name and nick-name, heading for the tree. I caught something out of the corner of my eye, backed up to take another look, and sure enough, under the wooden steps sat the cat. I crawled over all the stuff there, thorugh the vines and picked her up. She started snuggling me, put both paws on either side of my shoulders and just hung on.

When we got inside, and she saw the stairs to chip's room, she started purring. She was so happy to be back!

Chip was seeing his ortho about his wrist, but I called him and he was so happy. He bought more duct tape to reseal his window and said she was all over him. He sat on his bed, and she was in his lap, rubbing up against him. And this is the shy, hide under the furniture kitty!

Anyway, happily chip & Stormie are back together. I will get a picture uploaded soon!

Yay!!! I'm glad you found her!!!

One more thing... Anyone been in a corn Maze? They are so cool and there are quite a few around.

One of the mazes on this site deserves special mention. It is Cherry-Crest Farm, a few miles east of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Besides a huge cornfield maze and some logic mazes, they also have a crawl-through maze for kids, a petting zoo, farm tours, and even their own station on the Strasburg excursion railroad.

We go to Cherry Crest in Lancaster every year...it is awesome they even have a thing Very similar to Build-a-Bear whgere you can make a little Amish Rag doll..Martina made her favorite doll there, and named her Sara. We have to go back this year, cause Chris pulled Sara's leg off

For showers, get some plastice newspaper type bags, a washcloth and the wide waterproof tape. Slide her hand/arm into the bag, wrap the washcloth around the or just above the cast. fold/fit the plastic bag around the washcloth, so it is the first water barrier and then use the waterproof tape/first aid tape around the opening of the bag & her arm. If you miss anything, the washcloth usually stops it from getting into the cast.

If it does get wet on the inside at anytime, use a hair dryer on it and let the warm air blow in.

Hope this helps & sorry about missing swimming and sports. That is a bummer!

I think she needs to use Lime Green Duct tape though!

Shhhh...it's lime green not sage!


no! That would be the other lime haired DISer!

 

[Va-bear]

For showers, get some plastice newspaper type bags, a washcloth and the wide waterproof tape. Slide her hand/arm into the bag, wrap the washcloth around the or just above the cast. fold/fit the plastic bag around the washcloth, so it is the first water barrier and then use the waterproof tape/first aid tape around the opening of the bag & her arm. If you miss anything, the washcloth usually stops it from getting into the cast.

If it does get wet on the inside at anytime, use a hair dryer on it and let the warm air blow in.

Hope this helps & sorry about missing swimming and sports. That is a bummer!

Wow!!! I need to print this and file it for the future - how I wish we'd known this when my older cub had his cast! Baths were torture and crazy!

 

[Va-bear]

Ginger Bear~ NSalz and I were wondering if you can hear us better now that you've had you're surgery.

What???!!! OK, WAYYY Yoo easy, but had to do it!

Well, I've had a few "issues" pop up, so the jury is still out (like the legal connection there PD?? ) The skin near the implant got a "sore" that doesnt want to close - I actually think the pool water at out hotel may have introduced the infection....not sure, but it got progressively worse after the trip. (Which was sad, since it had previously been almost all healed. ) SOooo, now whenever I DO try to wear the processor I have (long story there too - the one made for me came from the manufacturer and was BROKEN , so we're still waiting on another and I was given a loaner - it says 'TEST' on it in big white letters! Classy!! ) it still hurts too much because its not healed well yet.

Well, long story short, ask again next month... (Or dont, if you dont like long rambling answers! ) But, thanks for asking.

 

[Va-bear]

Sage green, but I doubt its a secret.

HI and WELCOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOur kitty looks just like my JAKE!!!!

 

[pixie dust 112]

What???!!! OK, WAYYY Yoo easy, but had to do it!

Well, I've had a few "issues" pop up, so the jury is still out (like the legal connection there PD?? ) The skin near the implant got a "sore" that doesnt want to close - I actually think the pool water at out hotel may have introduced the infection....not sure, but it got progressively worse after the trip. (Which was sad, since it had previously been almost all healed. ) SOooo, now whenever I DO try to wear the processor I have (long story there too - the one made for me came from the manufacturer and was BROKEN , so we're still waiting on another and I was given a loaner - it says 'TEST' on it in big white letters! Classy!! ) it still hurts too much because its not healed well yet.

Well, long story short, ask again next month... (Or dont, if you dont like long rambling answers! ) But, thanks for asking.

Oiy Vay Maria!

 

[dwheatl]

What???!!! OK, WAYYY Yoo easy, but had to do it!

Well, I've had a few "issues" pop up, so the jury is still out (like the legal connection there PD?? ) The skin near the implant got a "sore" that doesnt want to close - I actually think the pool water at out hotel may have introduced the infection....not sure, but it got progressively worse after the trip. (Which was sad, since it had previously been almost all healed. ) SOooo, now whenever I DO try to wear the processor I have (long story there too - the one made for me came from the manufacturer and was BROKEN , so we're still waiting on another and I was given a loaner - it says 'TEST' on it in big white letters! Classy!! ) it still hurts too much because its not healed well yet.

Well, long story short, ask again next month... (Or dont, if you dont like long rambling answers! ) But, thanks for asking.

Good luck, twin.