Iowan's where are you???? (2)

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My sister talks to my aunt more than I do. I told her she should record all conversations with my aunt. In Missouri, if one person knows a conversation is being recorded, and it's between adults, then it's legal.

Unfortunately, we are quickly coming to the realization that there's nothing more we can do.

 

[PegasusOnFire]

Mary and Christian:

Mary last Friday (8/17/07):

 

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Awwww

 

[StarryEyes]

Adorable

 

[LightHearted]

aww, cuteness!

 

[PegasusOnFire]

Awwww

Adorable

aww, cuteness!

thanks guys

 

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So, what's everyone doing this weekend?

Whatever you do, have fun and be safe!

 

[PegasusOnFire]

I am staying home and contimplateing the stupid judge who is allowing gay marriage in Iowa now, thankfully we have some good DA's who are fighting it.

 

[PegasusOnFire]

Christian and Mary this past week:

Christian asked if she could hold Mary.

 

[LightHearted]

That's sweet.

Earlier this week I had a little accident. I was standing on a chair at the office hanging a clock when I got dizzy. I fell off the chair, hit my head on the desk, then hit my face on the floor. I managed to knock in my front teeth (but thankfully managed to keep them intact).

The ER released me without a CT scan, they didn't have enough reason to think that I had a concussion. I went to the dentist, and he shot me full of novocaine, then pulled my teeth into a more natural position, grinded down one of my two front teeth, and slapped some temporary braces on me.

He said that he wants to see me once per week for the next few months, and would most likely need to do a few root canals on me within the next month or two.

I was pleasantly surprised in that he called me personally the next day to see how I was doing. I told him that I was still in a lot of pain, and we made an appointment for me to go see him a couple days later.

Then he took the braces off, put my teeth back to their natural position, grinded down my other front tooth to match the other one, and put the braces back on me. We were able to accomplish on Friday what he thought would take months to accomplish.

I'll still likely need a few root canals, but thankfully look a lot better than I did right after the accident.

Please say a little prayer for me, that I figure out what's making me dizzy, and that I get my medication under control. I'm going through my days like a zombie, there physically, but somewhere completely different mentally.

 

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I'll be praying, but you might want to call your doctor and see if you can go in for a CT scan anyway, just to be sure.

 

[LightHearted]

Thanks Feesh, I'm giving it some thought. I hadn't connected the possibility that the "zombiness" is related to the fall until earlier today. I'm hoping that the change of medication over this past weekend will lessen the zombiness, but will give it a couple days before calling the doctor again.

 

[Phoebe]

Susan!!
Have you had your blood count checked recently? Some common causes of light- headedness are low blood sugar, anemia, dehydration, inner ear infection, stress, and lack of sleep.
Before your fall, were you having trouble concentrating? Heart palpitations? Chronically tired? Those are signs of anemia.
I'll keep you in my prayers.

Feesha, it sounds like you have your hands full, too.

Bobbie, those girls are darling! I love Christian's hair. Mary has a beautiful smile.

I have a smaller class this year. Only 25 kids. This group is better behaved. I hope I don't wreck them. I have two kids with minor behavior issues which is nothing compared to last year. The two I had last year were more violent/ mean.
Has anyone else noticed that more kids seem to be watching "professional" wrestling? I'm talking about the fake stuff. The kids seem to like "practicing" these moves. It's scary. I'm talking kids that are five or six. They take fake swings at each other and kick each other. Where are the parents when they're watching this garbage? (probably sitting on the couch next to the kids?) Aargh! Some of them talk about watching Kill Bill or Child's Play. It's unbelievable.

That's my rant of the month.
Have a nice day!

 

[LightHearted]

Susan!!
Have you had your blood count checked recently? Some common causes of light- headedness are low blood sugar, anemia, dehydration, inner ear infection, stress, and lack of sleep.
Before your fall, were you having trouble concentrating? Heart palpitations? Chronically tired? Those are signs of anemia.
I'll keep you in my prayers.

Thank you. I did have my blood count checked, and they said that I was on the low-side of acceptable. It's been that way as long as I can remember - I first remember hearing it in my early teens from a doctor. My doctor's nurse recently told me to eat more red meat, or to take an iron supplement.

Interestingly enough, though. I have had several of the symptoms that you mentioned above, for quite some time. A handful of years. Trouble concentrating, chronically tired, etc.

I have a smaller class this year. Only 25 kids. This group is better behaved. I hope I don't wreck them. I have two kids with minor behavior issues which is nothing compared to last year. The two I had last year were more violent/ mean.
Has anyone else noticed that more kids seem to be watching "professional" wrestling? I'm talking about the fake stuff. The kids seem to like "practicing" these moves. It's scary. I'm talking kids that are five or six. They take fake swings at each other and kick each other. Where are the parents when they're watching this garbage? (probably sitting on the couch next to the kids?) Aargh! Some of them talk about watching Kill Bill or Child's Play. It's unbelievable.

I had a heck of a time last night with a little boy in Religious Ed. I popped into a class, because the teacher wasn't able to make it, and that left the teenage aide alone with about 10 third graders. The aide told me ahead of time that she didn't feel comfortable in the class without an adult, so I made a point to spend time up there. The kids were a nightmare. I ended up pulling one of the kids out of the class. He was pulling up his shirt, laying on his back on the floor while bring his legs up to his chest. This left his butt pointing straight up in the air, in front of all the other kids. The boy was then using his pencil to poke his butt hole through his clothes. I told him to knock it off, that it was inappropriate. In the meantime, the other kids were shrinking away from him, saying "eww... gross! Get him away from me!" I gave the kid a couple chances, then pulled him out of class. This was only my first night of being in this position on class night. What fun it was to deal with this. And his dad.

 

[LightHearted]

How's everyone doing?

 

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Ooohhh, such a loaded question.

I just sent the following to my Bible Study friends:

If you all could say a prayer for my hubby – he got admitted to St. Anthony’s early this morning for observation and he’s still there. He had this sinus infection of some sort a couple weeks ago, took a Z-pack, and was better for a week. Then, this past Monday, he started running a horrible fever (103) that wouldn’t go down. He went to the urgent care Tuesday and they gave him a stronger antibiotic. The fever never broke. Yesterday and early this morning he was having episodes of blacking out. This morning I woke up to him hyperventilating, and he wasn’t saying much when I tried to talk to him, so I took him to the ER and they admitted him. He definitely has pneumonia, and his white blood cell count was slightly high, which is to be expected, but everything else was fine, and no matter what they gave him, his fever stayed up around 102-103. It FINALLY broke about 8:30 tonight and was still down when I left an hour later. Hopefully with the fever down he can go home tomorrow, but I’m sure he’ll not be allowed to work for awhile, which isn’t bad for him because he has a million sick days, but covering his shifts isn’t going to be easy.

An infectious disease specialist was supposed to see him late tonight and he was going to call me after that, hopefully with the fever down, it won’t be a big deal anymore. Hopefully the fever stays down. He scared the blankety blank out of me today – the higher his temperature was, the more incoherent he was.

Thanks, guys.

Felicia
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[LightHearted]

Awww, man.

Was he better by the time the infectious disease specialist saw him?

 

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Long story short, the specialist that was supposed to come in last night never showed up and there's a mystery note in the chart that he was told he wasn't needed. No one knows when that was charted, but the House doctor was pretty angry about it. Once he figured out he hadn't been seen, we had a different infectious disease specialist within the hour. Meanwhile, Adam spiked 103 a couple more times - they were starting to get worried about parts shutting down.

The specialist thinks he knows what it is, and is treating Adam for it even though he still needs some more tests to confirm it. He wasn't running a fever when I left an hour ago.

 

[LightHearted]

Praying for you and Adam. And the doctors.


I had an interesting class on Baptism today. Part two of the class is in two weeks. I'm taking classes through the Diocese, and it will last through May. It's interesting, because there are several places that the class is held, with only one instructor shared among the locations. The spots without the instructor are tied in through video, and they can still participate via microphone. It's pretty neat. I had stage-fright today, and was too shy to participate much, knowing that more people were watching than were in the classroom.

 

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Ok, I'm home again. Adam's still in the hospital.

The labs are not back yet (had to send them out because they aren't common), but the specialist is convinced he has this, and an internist here filling in for his doctor told us this morning that he's seen at least one case very similar and that's what it was. They are calling it an atypical pneumonia.

Also, he is responding to treatment. His fever went down enough last night that we had our first actual conversation since last Sunday (he spiked again Saturday morning before this). Today, it hovered around 100 all day, which is fantastic compared to before, and he was back to his usual goofy self, sort of - like having to push all the buttons to see how everything works (the nurses love that). He also ate some. He's still very weak, and the doctor we talked to this morning says that he'll be in the hospital a couple days at least, and then at home at least 7-10 days after that before he'll be able to go to work.

Thanks for your prayers. I can see a light now.

A funny aside to this that you will appreciate, Susan. Every morning a priest or someone, has come in wanting to give him communion, which he has politely refused. We figured it's a Catholic hospital, they probably do this with everyone. Well, today when a lady came in offering communion, Adam asked her if there's a sign on the door saying he's going to die. She said no, your chart says you are Catholic, and we offer daily communion. So, we told her that we are Lutheran, and she apologized (which wasn't necessary) and asked if he wanted to say the "Our Father." He said he didn't know that prayer. I said, honey, that's the Lord's Prayer, and then we said it. When she left, I had to explain that daily communion is common when you are in the hospital, even if you are Lutheran (but it has to be given by a Lutheran of course), and the anointing of the sick can also be done even if you are not on death's doorstep.

A dear friend of mine works for a college as the Instructional Design Coordinator. She coordinates all the distance learning through video and/or satellite hookup, so the same class can be held at multiple campuses (or even multiple colleges) at the same time. I find the whole thing fascinating. Your class also sounds fascinating.