OK, in case anyone thinks I'm against cyclists using the roads, I'm not.

I just think that for their own health and safety, and that of their fellow road users, they should be a bit more sensible in the roads they choose to ride on, just as motorists must. If the conditions aren't safe, just don't do it.

Jebus Crepes on Toast...how hot does it need to be in here? How do you die of heat stroke in the middle of winter in an office job? Sheesh. :angry:

What's scorching my groove today?

Last night, I came home and Momdigr says "I think something bad happened." She then explains that she was online earlier (Facebook, what else?) when "a box" pops up on the screen (of course she don't know what it said, not even the gist of it), she said that about two minutes later the monitor made a sound "like an egg frying and aluminum foil being rattled around", then blink once and went black. No mention of any smell then, and it doesn't have that scorched/burned plastic smell now. So, who knows.

I'm using an HP monitor now that is just absolutely a piece of crap. Everything looks like I'm looking at it through a window screen. I can see the little dots from across the room. And I've adjusted everything I can, it's all washed out and funky, and can't be made to look like anything but shit.

ƒucking hate it.

The little boy I babysit after therapy had diarrhea in his pants, again, and wiped it on my carpet, again. I want to fucking throttle his mother.

1.) Your child is not potty-trained. Stop insisting that he is, and stop bitching when I put him in a pullup. The 7 separate times I've had to bust out the steam cleaner say otherwise. Children who are not potty-trained go in a diaper or pullup because otherwise they shit on my carpet.

2.) Your child has chronic diarrhea. Stop insisting that he just "needs a little more fiber," or "to cut back on sugar." (And if that's really what you think, quit giving him Vitamin Water to drink!)

3.) Medicine is not bad. You give him a dozen over-the-counter supplements every night, but you won't take him to the GI doctor because you're "trying to keep him off meds." That doesn't even fucking make sense. And if you really are trying to go all holistic-mother-nature-healing, feed him real food instead of cookies and Vitamin Water.

I swear to God, her money's not worth this aggravation.

Good post... I almost feel as though I'm there with you... glad I'm not !

My sympathies

Proof #1517 that some people should not be parents.

And the whole reason I don't babysit. I do laundry -it stays in one state.

clod, suggestion, tell her you'll take care of the hershey squirt if she changes out your cat's! :p

No, leave the "hershey squirt" ( :lol: ) and make HER clean it up.

Or ... point out that taxis charge a "befoulment fee". Last I heard here it was about $75. Costs a lot to chunder in a cab these days.

That works... or at least may help her with an attitude adjustment.

(morbidly, scatalogically) curious Clod... How does that conversation go? I mean with the mom, I grok your conversation with us. I reckon you tell mom her little boy had an accident, including the fact that it was diarrhea... I guess. Actually. I don't know. I doubt you say nothing. I am really interested in mom's response, I know you're on the ball.

Oh, she's an enigma, all right. He's in different clothes than what he left the house in, so she knows he had an accident.

"Uh oh... was it at [therapy,] or with you?"
"Yeah, it was here." (This isn't like some Old West face-off, we're all polite and I'm putting his shoes on while we talk.)
"Just pee, though?"
(slight apologetic grimace) "No, it was poop."
"Was it...?"
"Oh yeah, total mush, like always."
"Man, that's just so frustrating. And you know, [husband] and I just went to that big conference the other night, you heard about that? And this woman was, you know, nationally-renowned autism expert right, and I asked her, 'Why do you think all these kids seem to all have the same intestinal problems?' And she said, 'I don't know.' They don't have a clue! Who can help us, if the doctors can't help us?"
"Well, some of them get it. Dr. XXXX (our awesome GI doc, who has completely turned my kids around, and who I have recommended to her a thousand times,) he gets it. He has all the proof, the pictures of the lesions in the intestines, and he knows exactly which meds help them--"
"We don't need proof! We have all the proof right here in this room!"
"I know, and I'm telling you, Dr. XXXX treats the disease when no one else will touch it. Like I've said, Minifobette's speech just exploded after that first round of steroids, and then she was done, you know, the poop was perfect, everything's in remission--"
"Yeah, hey, see you tomorrow, okay? You guys have a great night."

That's pretty much exactly how it went.


Edit to add: Mr. Clod humorously suggested that maybe she has a problem with Dr. XXXX because he's Jewish, and she's a secret White Supremacist. Which was funny, because her husband totally looks like he could be one. And I told him that I would prefer that, because at least then her actions would be logical, if not rational. "Given A (Jews are evil,) then B (I cant take my child to this doctor.)" Right now she's just living in this limbo of, "Given A (my child has horrible GI disease,) then.... I refuse to draw any conclusions from this."

munchausen by proxy or whatever. She's an attention lady of the night.

:eek:

Nah, she's just terrified of meds. She's said to me before, "But what is he going to do? He does the pill cam, he sees the disease, then what does he do?"

"Well, it depends on the kid, but the protocol usually involves a tapering round of Prednisone, followed by Entocort and another type of anti-inflammatory depending on the damage, maybe Pentasa or Sulfasalazine... and these kind of overlap so you're weaning off the steroids and ramping up on the maintenance meds, and the idea is that you force it into remission and then the anti-inflammatories hold it in check, as long as you stay on the restricted diet and all that..."

And she shook her head and said, "Yeah, we just really want to keep him off meds." It's like the argument against putting kids on Ritalin or antidepressants, except these aren't psych meds, they're GI meds. I've asked her before, what if your kid were diabetic, would you want to keep him off insulin? And she insisted that was somehow different. She feels like the medical community already betrayed her, and she's terrified to go back.

Well, the boy shits everywhere, all the time...No wonder she's a "soiled dove".

:sweat::lol2:

That's amazing and a little discouraging, that she can see a success story like Minifobette, and talk to an intelligent articulate person who has walked this path before her and she still isn't sure.

The only analogy I can think of is that we resisted knocking our son out and putting tubes in his ears for so long because were were a little afraid, and looking back, I wish we had done it much earlier.

We've got friends whose kids are allergic to their pets. Do they get rid of the pets? No. They replace the pets when they die. The 8year old has had snot running out of her nose her entire life.

Denial; not just a river in Africa.

Thank you Clodfobble. I know so little about your situation, only what I've seen here. But Mr Clod's idea sounds plausible, stupid on her part but plausible. And I've seen, hell, I've lived the kind of fear that glatt suggests. Do they seem susceptible to the faith-healing idiocy we've all heard of? Are there other symptoms besides the shitty one you described? Maybe things just aren't bad enough to change. I know when ElderSon was much younger the prospect of having his hearing restored on a permanent basis by a cochlear implant was at once thrilling and terrifying. We ultimately decided the answer was "NO", but it was a very tough decision.

He was young, when language acquisition is in turbo mode, and he was not being immersed in language like other young children are. The idea that we would be risking permanent loss of his residual hearing, which was our small, weak bird in the hand by a failed operation (they insert a long hairlike electrode into the cochlea and the prospect of permanently breaking the cilia inside would effectively sever the physical biological chain making hearing in that ear impossible) was impossible to overcome. Not to mention the whole, "hey, let's crack open your kid's skull and stuff some cool electronics inside" was just too much.

So he kept his hearing aids, and his very limited hearing. And he's ok. But we agonized. I don't know your charge's mom's problem. Parenting is hard. I know she's fortunate to have you in her kid's life though. Good job, you.

Well, there's the whole autism thing... ;)

Oh, most definitely. She has at various times told me that her son is a "crystal child" (aka "indigo child,") and that she wanted to save up $7,000 for a hyperbaric oxygen chamber, even though they've only had success in about 10% of kids who have tried it--pretty reasonable success when they work, admittedly, but only with that small subset of the population. Personally I think the money is better spent on things that aren't such a long shot, but at least it's better than the crystal children bullshit. But both of those phases also seem to have passed.

The truth is she's still reeling from the shock, as many parents do, but she's been reeling for 2 years now. I feel like it's time for her to quit grieving and get down to business. But at the biomed moms meeting last night, I had more than one person tell me that they were in the same position as she is, for as long as she's been, and not to give up hope that she'll get rational soon.

You can lead a horse to water but he'll probably just poop in it.

goddamn homework tantrums...

aaauuuggghh!

I think there is still room on The Crystal Ship for the crystal children

USPS :mad:

Me too. :mad:

bloody kids. kid. little shit.

What did Thor do now ???

as the last straw, i discovered that instead of using his deodorant on his pits, he made patterns in it with the lid. No wonder it isn't working! And he didn't get dressed on time. And he stuffed a balled of mixed clean and dirty clothes in his bed only days after laundrymagedon which found him in the basement doing laundry all evening and he forgot to brush his teeth and hair and put socks on and he forgot to unpack his backpack and didn't put his clean laundry away AGAIN and.............. it went on. He also left his homework at home. (Tough life sucks, maybe you won't forget next time) and the lego robot from his focus study -which meant that 4 other kids had to suffer..... so I drove over with that. It's a 20 minute trip. He's on an indefinite electronics timeout now.

the calm before the teenage storm... you don't know how good you have it now.

Is this about Brianna again?

um... he's the youngest....

Brianna's a he?

no s/he's an it .... or something.... oh wait that was Ibrica.....

Sick and tired of this cough.
It's not a real cough. Like Whooping Cough or TB.
It's caused by cattarh sitting in my throat in the aftermath of a cold.
Happened last year over Easter (although that was more severe I admit - this is more irritating)

My voice is croaky, I cough to clear my throat so much it hurts, but it is a natural reaction. Mum has been bitching about it under her breath for a week and now has started bitching about it out loud on the phone to friends and family; being half term I am here to hear it. I cough when walking, talking and doing even minor chores like changing my bed linen (although that involves rough and tumble with Diz, which almost elevates it to exercise).

I've had four different over-the-counter pills now. Including those with caffeine, which have contributed to my foul temper.

I've long worn out any sympathy I might have had at home (usually about 1% anyway) and I don't want any from work. It might put them off my cake - I was very careful not to cough anywhere near it I promise! Back tomorrow and I just want to well!

I
Just
Want
It
Gone.

Isn't there something toad-based I can try?

you already have a frog in your throat and now you want to add a toad?

I don't care if it's a crowd!
I'm sick and tired. That's all.

We all have chronic coughs around here, for various reasons.

Chronic not only gives me coughs, it also gives me ferocious cottonmouth.

What pills have you taken?

Just different types of decongestant.
Some with paracetemol, some with caffeine (not many) some with added Vitamin C.
All spaced properly apart.

None since yesterday when I had my viral explosive sickness.
Which I wondered if it was connected to the tablets (as it felt like the codeine reaction I had the other year). But nothing going, just a bug.

I still have a good old rattly cough.
Which I didn't have yesterday as I was throwing up all the congestion.
But at least today I can cough it up again without throwing up.

There's always one step further down you can go it seems.

So do you have a lot of mucus in your lungs or is it just in the back of your throat?

A while back I had a cough that was caused by chronic post-nasal drip. I was always hacking and especially at night, so I wasn't getting a good nights rest. I ended up using a combination of guaifenesin w/ a cough suppressant and an antihistamine at night, and then pseudoephedrine and antihistamine during the day, and I finally got some relief.

Back of my throat. I assume.
If it was lungs I'd have worse symptoms.

*** SFW but nasty - text only ***






Before I actually became Mr Creosote, I was coughing up things you would expect to see in your tissue when you blow your nose.
I mean - seriously.
Green stringy strands and more solid bogeys (boogers).
I have never in my life coughed something into my mouth that belongs in my nose.
Revolting.

Sorry - I did warn you.

My nose is not longer running badly, although I blow my nose more than a person in normal health.
But my throat needs an ice-cream scoop to sort it out.

differential diagnosis
 

Check your feet; 'cause, if your nose runs and your feet smell ... you're upside down.

So the office is again dropping like flies. 4 or 5 out on vacation, another 4 called in sick today. We just keep passing it around.

It's only scorching my groove because my tummy is teh oogy and I don't want to get sick AGAIN.

Wish me luck it's just a passing gastrointestinal event. ;)

Good luck -and if you barf I want a full description in every thread -especilally the morning sickness one. :p:

Oh yeah, I forgot I'm pregnant.

No, tummy has settled. I'm good to go.

3 more hours.

You people make me sick! :sick:

My groove isn't scorched...

but my canal is coated. With superglue. I had a tickle in my right ear, I stuck my finger in there to untickle it, and found that my finger had had a coating of still wet superglue, which was fortuitously wiped clean on the inside of my f*cking ear.

I swear, I can't take me anywhere.


...wha?



I SAID I CAN'T TAKE ME ANYWHERE!

:lol: you dingbat. Are you going to see a doctor or hope it grows out with your skin and wax?

:D

We're all glad you were not scratching any one of several other places that can tickle.

Just pour some nail polish remover in there. You might be fine.

This is like a bunch of little boys sitting around playing "I dare you"

HLJ, I dare you.:rolleyes:

Thank goodness I can't hear you.

:eyebrow:

You like red wine?

My tinnitus has gotten REALLY bad lately.

Serious thought.

The ear canal is lined with hair which both contributes to hearing and moves old wax out.

If there is a significant amount of glue, these functions will be interrupted. you might *need* to get that glue out.

But if you grab it and pull, you're going to rip all those hairs out. That's bad.

Seriously, are you going to get it checked by a doctor?

Thank you for your serious thought. The serious reply is "too late". It was very irritating and I have already worried it out with my finger and a paperclip. There wasn't much glue in there, I guess, but it felt (and sounded!) like a lot. I scratched and rubbed and picked and cussed until I couldn't detect any more. Did I lose some hairs? I'm sure I did. Did I lose some blood? A little. Did I lose some hearing? Doubtful, from this most recent abuse. I likely lost more hearing during my log splitting escapade.

Thanks for your concern. :thumbsup:

I am posting this because Lake Oswego High School
is where my 3 girls graduated, and I am truly scorched. :mad2:

Lake Oswego is the highest income, bedroom of the PDX area.
I'm hoping the Principal, the School Board, and especially the Coach
get a public shellacking over it all.

OregonLive.com
Nicole Dungca, The Oregonian
3/7/12

Racist tweets lead to reprimands for Lake Oswego football players; 3 students suspended
Coach Coury doesn't get it that the issue is not kids being "stupid",
and it's not about putting the crap out there for "everybody to see".
Lake Oswego is already known for it's lily white population, and has even called Lake NoN*****'s.

Coach Steve Coury needs some back-side "education and training"
as to what "leadership" and "sportsmanship" really mean,
and maybe several weeks of private, in-home contemplation without pay.

Maybe some letters to the Lake Oswego School Board from all over Dweller-land would have an effect...

The two treasurers at my kids' school. Asshats. One has me doing his job for him (I just realized, so I decided to stop because it's taking too much time, pissing me off and making my volunteer job unenjoyable) and the other seeks to "put me in my place" at every opportunity -mostly by making a comment about my fundraiser in an email to the finance committee, then berating me for clogging up everybody's inboxes when I reply to it. She can just fuck off. that is all.

I read that initially as 'treasures'. Thought you were sarcastically referring to ytwo kids at the school...

Was thinking, damn that's an adult way of causing trouble!

Who do I have to have sex with to get some air in this office? You can walk from the front to the back...in the front you can breath, in the middle you are in a sauna, in the back you can breath.