What's upsetting you today?

I gave her a lavender bath and the hives seem fine now, but i can't really take her back to school, so... sigh.

[morethanpretty]

Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

I know you support yourself, but the bottom line is you're still family.
The rule is first one to see it cleans it. That's the rule here anyway - if I see Mia has had an accident, I clean it up. If Mum sees Diz-puke on the stairs she cleans it up.

I get that it was a direct result of your Mum's action (or lack of it) and I guess you don't have a dog yourself. And I feel for you stepping in dog wee.

Chin up - you'll get your own place one day.

I usually do clean up. I don't have my own dog, it died. I can't get over my borderline hate for the one my parents have, which makes dealing with it all that much harder.
Usually I clean it up, it ALWAYS pees in my room, so I am always the one who has to clean it. This morning I woke up 30min late for work already, that was the other reason I asked her to clean it. I didn't even get breakfast this AM.

[capnhowdy]

Don't waste energy hating a dog. They will love you anyway.

[monster]

best friend, lump in boob, specialist did not put on happy-it-might-be-a-cyst face.

Don't fret too much Monster! I had a scary go about ten years ago but after sending the offending lump to three labs they determined it was "nothing".

[morethanpretty]

Mon, hope all turns out well. No use in freaking out, of course not somethin thats easy to control. Try keeping busy, and spending as much time with your friend as you can.

[ZenGum]

Originally Posted by ZenGum
One of my colleagues.

I need to show the kiddies the DVD of An Inconvenient Truth (which is in dire need of editing, IMHO).

To do this I collected a laptop, powerpoint projector, mini speakers, power board, extension cord, etc, and lugged these about half a K to the classroom, set it all up ... where I found that SOMEONE has CHANGED THE GOD DAMN PASSWORD ON THE LAPTOP and neither I nor our IT specialist can override it.

My lesson plan crashed and burned, I was able to review the first half of the movie which we watched last week and discuss the questions with them. Still I was NOT HAPPY.

Then in a meeting with the other critical thinking teachers and the college director I managed to spill moccha on my pants, only about a tablespoon worth, but that is plenty enough to leave a mark. They are fleecy woolen pants and will be difficult to clean.

Today involved one lesson, three meetings and next, a big bucket of marking.
Good thing they pay me for this.

Originally Posted by ZenGum

So, the next time I get the same group together, I am prepared. On Tuesday I went to the store room and checked that all the laptops worked properly, and was careful to book one which I was happy with.

On Thursday morning I had the class. Got the laptop, projector, spekers, cables etc and took them about 1/2 a kilometre to the teaching room and got everthing fired up only to hit a problem. One of the start up files has somehow gone missing or been corrupted in the 40 hours since I checked it!!!! Total failure. Plan B was already used in the previous class.
So I dash back 1/2 a K to the main building, grab another laptop, start it, check it is working (it is) and dash back to the classroom.
I plug everything in, insert the DVD .... and watch as the DVD playing software crashes. Repeatedly. Goddamn mother#&%*er.

By this time the class is half over anyway so I wrote the whole lesson off and sent the kids away. I've never had to cancel a class like that before and I was NOT amused.


Grrr.


Then I had to carry all that gear back, too.

Monday morning. Same class. Same boring and poorly done Al Gore movie. Different computer. Turn it on before leaving the store room. Works. Carry all crap to class room (1/2 km). Connect all cables. Insert DVD.

Error. Software does not have converter to play this media. Go #%@& yourself, human.

I had to borrow a laptop from one of the students to finally play the bloody thing.

This is not okay.

[capnhowdy]

what a bitch.

[capnhowdy]

Originally Posted by capnhowdy

what a bitch.

what a bitch.

[jinx]

I was just visiting my sister. Her neighbor's son is one of the peanut-allergic boys who was at my nephews birthday party recently. What's upsetting me is that her just turned 2 year old child was found unresponsive in his crib on Thursday.... he was diagnosed with ADEM today.

[lookout123]

I know this is bad, but what is ADEM?

[Aliantha]

From Wiki

Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) is an immune mediated disease of the brain.[1][2][3] It usually occurs following a viral infection but may appear following vaccination, bacterial or parasitic infection, or even appear spontaneously. As it involves autoimmune demyelination, it is similar to multiple sclerosis, and is considered part of the Multiple sclerosis borderline[4][5] diseases. The incidence rate is about 0.8 per 100,000 people per year.[6]. Although it occurs in all ages, most reported cases are in children and adolescents, with the average age around 5 to 8 years old.[7][8][9] The mortality rate may be as high as 5%, full recovery is seen in 50 to 75% of cases, while up to 70 to 90% recover with some minor residual disability.[10] The average time to recover is one to six months.

ADEM produces multiple inflammatory lesions in the brain and spinal cord, particularly in the white matter. Usually these are found in the subcortical and central white matter and cortical gray-white junction of both cerebral hemispheres, cerebellum, brainstem, and spinal cord,[11] but periventricular white matter and gray matter of the cortex, thalami and basal ganglia may also be involved.

When the patient suffers more than one demyelinating episode, it is called Recurrent disseminated encephalomyelitis[12] or Multiphasic disseminated encephalomyelitis[13](MDEM).

[jinx]

Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis. Sometimes call Post infectious or post vaccination encephalomyelitis.

[Aliantha]

The good news is that there is a good chance that your friends son will recover fully. I hope this is the case. His parents must be out of their minds right now.

[monster]

friend got mamogram today, more lumps discovered, looks bad, biopsy rescheduled for tomorrow because it will take 4 hours.

No biopsy today means she didn't need me today. Tomorrow she does, but I can't be there....

This stupid disease needs nailing. It takes too many good people and seems (to me) to be on the increase This woman has the healthiest diet I have ever seen, she's beating herself up over being a smoker for a couple of years at Uni.

fuck it.