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Rolling Back Rights
Jenna Reinbold. Seeing the Myth in Human Rights. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 208 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-4881-4.
Reviewed by Todd Landman (University of Nottingham)
Published on H-Diplo (July, 2017)
Commissioned by Seth Offenbach
Rolling Back Rights
On May 3, 2017, Rex Tillerson, US secretary of state, briefed staff at the US State Department on how the new "America First" policy of the Donald Trump administration should be interpreted for the planning and implementation of foreign policy.[1] He declared that there should be a decoupling of policies from values, where interventions carried out under the auspices of "America First" would not necessarily be done so on the basis of an appeal to American values such as democracy, freedom, and human rights. He claimed that even though values remain constant, policies change and the pursuit of American interests during the Trump administration will supersede American values. In other words, he was articulating a realist and pragmatic approach to foreign policy that concedes the importance of American values at home, but does not insist on those values being at the heart of its policies abroad, nor should such values be seen as a sine qua non of US foreign relations with other countries around the world.
Such a position represents a significant break from the past, where at least ostensibly, the United States has always sought to align its foreign policy to such values. Even though there is a long history of the United States ignoring human rights abroad, including recent revelations in the CIA torture report, the Abu Ghraib torture photos, and the use of extraordinary rendition, the United States has long been seen as a defender of freedom and a supporter of democracy. Indeed, the Millennium Challenge Account as part of USAID has human rights and other governance conditions that need to be met before third countries receive overseas development assistance (ODA).
In the debates during the recent general election in the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Theresa May led moves to abandon the UK's 1998 Human Rights Act, which since coming into force in 2000 brought the full protection of fundamental rights set out in the European Convention of Human Rights into UK law. The result of the June 23, 2016, referendum for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union provided additional leverage to the prime minister's argument; however, her official positon is to wait until after Brexit is complete before looking at the protection of human rights in the UK. These anti-human rights sentiments stand in stark contrast to the United Kingdom's history of rights that not only reaches back to the Magna Carta of 1215, but also includes British leadership in the forging of the European human rights regime.[2]
The Tillerson and May positions on human rights come at a time of rising criticism in which human rights are seen as impediments to strong government, economic efficiency, and national and international security. The "War on Terror" since 9/11, the consolidation of anti-terror legislation across many Western democracies, the rise of "illiberal" democracies, and the return to authoritarianism in countries such as the Philippines under President Rodrigo Duterte have seen significant efforts to roll back human rights protections and to undermine what has been a gradual, consensual, and increasingly inclusive promulgation, legalization, and proliferation of human rights.[3]
Ever since the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the world has seen the establishment and subsequent growth in the international law of human rights, which includes major international and regional treaties, institutions, and organizations. Many now describe this collection of bodies and law as an international "regime" of human rights, which has grown in depth and breadth, where an increasing number of human rights have been given express legal protection (i.e., civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights) and an increasing number of countries have ratified human rights treaties.[4] More countries in the world have formally committed themselves to the human rights norms and values originally set out in the UDHR, and such formal participation in the de jure protection of human rights has been shown empirically to lead to an improvement in their de facto protection and realization.[5]
Over the last year and a half, I have been talking to human rights scholars and practitioners as part of the Rights Track podcast series (http://www.rightstrack.org) in which we have been discussing how systematic research on human rights has developed and how human rights organizations carry out their work to advance human rights. Our discussions have revealed two very important and common themes: (1) trends in the perception and protection of certain human rights are actually much more positive than we had assumed or believed before starting the podcast series; and (2) human rights are fluid, contested and "made" by collective struggles from groups at the domestic and international levels. Demands for rights create opportunities to extend rights protections that have already been promulgated in principle or to promulgate new rights protection and expand the law of human rights. The gap between "rights in principle" and "rights in practice" becomes a space for contestation that is often used by human rights NGOs and other collective actors to seek redress from states and international actors.[6]
In the face of such positive developments and importance of human rights, the Tillerson and May approach finds significant traction in mass publics and represents a more nationalistic and isolationist turn in international relations and politics. Nativist and populist elements in the United States propelled Donald Trump to power in part due to a deep skepticism about "globalist" ideas such as human rights and fears that international governance curbs the sovereignty of America. Theresa May famously declared that "to be a citizen of the world is to be a citizen of nowhere," and Brexit campaigners traded on a similar set of discourses evident in the US that created fear of the other, suspicion of supranational governance, and strong dislike of human rights.
Beyond the rise of May and Tillerson, academic work has also seen recent books such as The End of Human Rights by Costas Douzinas (2000) and The Endtimes of Human Rights by Stephen Hopgood (2013), which are critical of the ways in which human rights have been colonized by particular sets of elites who have taken away the power of human rights from those who most need their protection. These critiques see a yawning gap between the practice and discourses of the elite international human rights lawyers in New York and Geneva (what Hopgood refers to as "Human Rights," with large capital letters) and the day-to-day struggles of ordinary people who demand rights and basic protections (what Hopgood refers to as "human rights," with lowercase letters). Douzinas claims that the struggle for human rights has moved from the barricades to the barristers, while Hopgood argues that human rights language has become sacralized (and is guilty of its own form of social magic) and even dedicates a chapter of his book to a critique of the architecture of human rights buildings in New York, The Hague, and Geneva.[7] Skepticism and critique of human rights such as these are not new; many people have doubted the foundations of human rights and have seen them as serving the interests of particular segments of society, but the return of strong critique and recent political developments suggest that once again human rights are under threat.
In this current climate, Jenna Reinbold's Seeing the Myth in Human Rights is a welcome defense of human rights. In the absence of agreed philosophical foundations for human rights and despite the many positive advances that have been made in their promotion and protection, there is still a need for strong arguments about why we have human rights, why they are important, and how they have come about. Her argument reaches far beyond consideration of the pragmatism of a human rights approach that only focuses on the law, or concerns over administration or enforcement, and delves into the deeper sense of what "we mean when we speak of human rights" (p. 7). She grounds her argument in the idea of "political myth"; that unifying set of narratives that have parallels with religious beliefs and discourses, but that also encompass secular, modern, postmodern, and post-traditional notions of a binding set of ideas that become legitimized and reified. For Reinbold, myth is not fantasy or fiction as it has been traditionally understood, but it is a "dense, evocative narrative designed to generate meaning, solidarity, and order for a particular audience" (p. 8). To be effective, such myths must carry "indisputable authority" and "unequivocal assertions."
She argues that the UDHR, the primary focus of the book, had both of these attributes of myth, and she deploys the idea of the mythopoeic quality of the UDHR: "the deliberate, often painstaking work that Commission members undertook to produce an ethico-political narrative capable of commanding a uniquely realistic status" (p. 8). In this way, Reinbold joins other scholars in examining how human rights are socially constructed, crafted and made through language and action wrapped in a powerful narrative. Her focus on the UDHR is correct in that it begins the modern process of articulating a set of universal rights drawn from historical struggles and the history of thought, and it is not a legally binding document, but a global foundational document that would shape law, politics, and practice in the decades that followed its promulgation. Reinbold's use of the term "mythopoeic" is very much in the vein of the sociologist and social theorist Emile Durkheim, for whom myth is not valuable itself, but has a larger "sociofunctionalist" purpose. The UDHR, as Reinbold sees it, gave human rights "their capacity to command a particular moral weight within the blossoming international landscape of the twentieth century" (p. 9).
There is a strong "sacralization" logic running through this book, which sees the evolution of a secularized defense of human dignity. While Hopgood sees such sacralization as problematic, Reinbold, in keeping with other sacred arguments about humanity and the person, sees it as crucial for understanding the foundation and enduring appeal of human rights. Her mythopoeic analysis is rooted in religious beliefs and discourses, but in human rights she sees a similar function for "authoritative secular" or "quasi-secular" narratives. Indeed, she argues that the UDHR is an "avowedly secular document" designed to encapsulate a prescription for "human meaning, morality, and solidarity within an evocative, highly authoritative narrative" (p. 11). While she insists on the secular nature of the UDHR, she nevertheless concedes that the document itself is "a true spiritual guide for humanity" (citing Chilean delegate to the Commission Hernan Santa Cruz, p. 11). There is thus for me an ongoing and some ways unresolved tension in this book between the insistence on secularity and the appeal to myth, the sacred, and the spiritual.
Her evidence base for this particular reading of the modern origins and articulation of human rights is an extensive record of the negotiations of the UDHR, the public broadcasts of the framers, their speeches, and many of their essays. The success of her argument rests on three main things, in my view. First, she claims that the framers of the UDHR had effectively narrated into existence the moral and legal landscape that centered on the sacredness of the human being. Second, she deploys a flexible and fluid understanding of myth that breaks from more formulaic uses of myth found in religious studies. And finally, she is keen to demonstrate how this narrative construction of human rights has sought to move the world from one of "barbarous acts" to one of "freedom, justice and peace in the world" (p. 13).
The structure of Reinbold's argument starts with a deeper understanding of myth, both in its sacred and political dimensions, a theoretical framework which allows her to understand the construction of human rights as mythopoeic and to bring in a fuller and more salient consideration of religion. She moves on to consider the sacred elements of human rights or the appeal to the sacred in human rights. Here, we see the powerful role of the notion of "inherent human dignity," which can come from philosophical foundations that appeal to God (e.g., Thomas Aquinas), nature (e.g., John Locke), or reason (e.g., Immanuel Kant).[8]
While we often think the notion of the sacred transcends time and space, the particular critical juncture of the immediate post-World War II period during which the UDHR was drafted pits the notion of the sacred against the "barbarous acts" the world had just witnessed across Europe. In this way, the sacred in human rights is socially constructed, as the ideas about human rights interact with the social world in which the UDHR was being framed and crafted. Human rights so conceived do not become "empty signifiers," but of a time and a place that can be their empirical referents and that can provide them with meaning.[9] The challenge, however, remains in making the appeal of human rights travel beyond these particular conditions in ways that appeal to a global audience.
The mechanism through which human rights have become universalized has primarily been international law, which developed through consultation, iteration, and different forms of social construction over time. The sacredness of human rights articulated in the early sections of the book is then seen through the eyes of the legal world, and the language of the UDHR, while not legally binding, sets out minimal conditions for human dignity that can be articulated through law. For Reinbold, law makes the language of the UDHR "actionable," but even the law has evolved through further iterations, ongoing jurisprudence, and proliferation over time.
Reinbold culminates her argument through a consideration of the precarity of myth. Indeed, in 1999, New York Times author David Reiff claimed that human rights should be seen as a "precarious triumph," which has advanced considerably since the UDHR, but which remains continually under threat and never fully realized. Reinbold has given us much to contemplate in this beautifully written account of the mythopoeic origins of human rights. Seeing the myth of human rights is not to dismiss them as nonexistent or fragile, but to show us the genealogy of an idea that has moved from the conceptual to the practical, a journey that requires us to acknowledge the role of religion, society, politics, and law. In the current period, the force of her argument and the power of human rights is now more important than ever.
[1]. Rex W. Tillerson, "Remarks to U.S. Department of State Employees," May 3, 2017, US Department of State website, https://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2017/05/270620.htm (last accessed June 19, 2017).
[2]. A. W. B. Simpson, Human Rights and the End of Empire (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).
[3]. Todd Landman, Protecting Human Rights: A Global Comparative Study (Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2005), Human Rights and Democracy: The Precarious Triumph of Ideals (London: Bloomsbury, 2013), "Rigorous Morality: Norms, Values and the Comparative Politics of Human Rights," Human Rights Quarterly 38, no. 1 (2016): 1-20; and Salidin Meckled-Garcia, The Legalization of Human Rights: Multidisciplinary Approaches (London: Routledge, 2005).
[4]. Landman, Protecting Human Rights, 1.
[5]. Landman, Protecting Human Rights; Beth Simmons, Mobilizing for Human Rights: International Law in Domestic Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009); Christopher J. Fariss, "The Changing Standard of Accountability and the Positive Relationship between Human Rights Treaty Ratification and Compliance," British Journal of Political Science (2016): 1-33, doi:10.1017/S000712341500054X.
[6]. Joe Foweraker and Todd Landman, Citizenship Rights and Social Movements: A Comparative and Statistical Analysis (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997); Thomas Risse, STephen C. Ropp, and Kathryn Sikkink, eds., The Power of Human Rights: International Norms and Domestic Change (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
[7]. Todd Landman, "Social Magic and the Temple of Human Rights: Critical Reflections on Stephen Hopgood's Endtimes of Human Rights," in Debating the Endtimes of Human Rights: Activism and Institutions in a Neo-Westphalian World, ed. Doutje Lettinga and Lars van Troost (The Hague: Amnesty International, 2014), 25-32.
[8]. Attracta Ingram, A Political Theory of Rights (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995).
[9]. Ernesto Laclau, On Populist Reason (London: Verso Books, 2007).
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You might think there's nothing worse than getting ticketed for a totally minor infraction, like five or ten over on the highway. Trust me, it could be worse.
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Welcome! And thanks for your post. Definitely creepy - unsure if its strictly illegal as they owned the house and its their private space. However Im not a lawyer!
In season 1 episode 5 the family who Malcolm babysat for secretly filmed him. In addition, they kept tapes of him with creepy names, including curious scratching and used our bathroom.
Is this illegal? Because it seems unusual and the way the parents sat and watched the videos drinking wine was really creepy.
Welcome! And thanks for your post. Definitely creepy - unsure if its strictly illegal as they owned the house and its their private space. However Im not a lawyer!
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I'm not sure if it's illegal or not, but just like tjpeople said, it is definitely creepy.
Interesting question! Nowadays, lots of people have installed surveillance cameras in their homes, but I don't know if it's illegal if they don't inform all visitors that they are being filmed. At least there's likely to be a difference between private use at home, and use in public spaces.
At any rate, in the end, it is revealed that, because of this practice of secretly snooping on Malcolm, the supposed "ideal family" is far from ideal, and they have betrayed his trust in them.
One tape of him is labelled "Curious scratching", which as you say could signal improper interest (or could just refer to the bugs which have infested Malcolm's house and maybe clothes), and in the end it is implied that the wife has a lesbian affair: "Who's Melissa?". So it's very likely they have lots of skeletons in their closets!
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All the people are so happy now, their heads are caving in.
I'm glad they are a snowman with protective rubber skin.
Beiß mein' Schorf, Blasenloch!
Haha I've always wondered thi myself! I'm not sure, but I guess you're supposed to at least inform the people about the cameras and them being filmed.


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The rural rebellion
PUBLISHED: 09:55 31 January 2013 | UPDATED: 09:55 31 January 2013
Government to be tackled over funding gap between rural and urban areas.
Local MP Neil Parish is leading the fight to secure a fairer funding deal for rural areas.
He has secured a backbench business debate in a bid to persuade the Government to reconsider the 2013/14 Local Government Financial Settlement.
The Conservative MP for Tiverton and Honiton believes the current settlement "threatens to entrench the injustice suffered by rural areas by further widening the gap between the funding given to rural and urban councils".
"It's time the countryside got a fairer deal," he told the Midweek Herald. "Rural Local Authorities have always had to deal with under-funding compared with their city neighbours. Urban councils already receive twice as much than rural councils like East Devon and Mid Devon District Councils in my constituency. This trend must be reversed.
"I hope that this debate will send a clear signal to the Minister of the strength of feeling from all sides of the House that rural services need to be properly funded."
Mr Parish led a group of cross-party MPs in presenting the case for the debate to the Backbench Business Committee on Tuesday.
The debate will take place Monday, February 11, and is being supported by The Rural Fair Share Campaign.
Urban councils receive 50 per cent more per head than rural areas - despite evidence that many services are more expensive to deliver in sparsely populated areas.
In spite of a commitment by Eric Pickles in December 2011 to reduce the inequality, the most recent provisional settlement instead cuts support for rural councils.
The Rural Fair Share Campaign is calling on the government to do two things:
To amend the provisional settlement so that there is a modest reduction in the gap between rural and urban councils in the coming year;
For the Secretary of State to set out a plan to close the funding gap between rural and urban councils to no more than 40% by 2020.
The chairman of the Rural Fair Share Campaign, Graham Stuart MP, said: "The Department for Communities and Local Government promised in the summer that they would reduce the Rural Penalty – which sees urban councils receive 50 per cent more per head in grants than those in rural areas – but the proposed Local Government Financial Settlement only narrows the gap by 0.2 per cent.
"It's great that Neil Parish has taken this up, got a parliamentary debate and we hope to use it to change the Government's mind."
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TYRA IS BEHIND THE CAMERA DURING THIS WEEK'S PHOTO SHOOT � The remaining five girls travel around town by boat for their go sees. Tyra shoots this week's photo challenge and during elimination one girl screams at the judges. After the judges deliberate, one girl is sent home (#1110).


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Penske Racing Save Mart 350 Race Preview
June 18, 2013
The Toyota-Save Mart 350 at Sonoma Raceway (10-turn, 1.99-mile road course, Sonoma, Calif.)
Sunday June 23, 3:00 pm ET
No. 2 Miller Lite Ford Fusion driven by Brad Keselowski
• RUBBIN' IS RACIN': This weekend marks the first road course event of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season. The last time the Cup cars visited a road course - Watkins Glen International (WGI) in 2012 - Brad Keselowski helped provide one of the most exciting finishes in recent memory. He and Marcos Ambrose battled door-to-door over the final laps on a surface that had been coated with oil from another competitor's car. Rather than throw a caution flag, NASCAR let the two drivers battle it out in a jaw-dropping finish that had the crowd on its feet.
• ROAD COURSE RINGER?: Since the start of the 2011 season, Keselowski has averaged a ninth-place finish at Sonoma and WGI. In addition, Keselowski owns five top-five finishes and eight top-10 finishes on road courses in NASCAR Nationwide Series competition.
• PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT: In preparation for this weekend's race, Keselowski and the No. 2 Miller Lite Ford team tested at both Virginia International Raceway and Road Atlanta in recent weeks.
• JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE: On Thursday night Keselowski will be a guest on "Jimmy Kimmel Live." The show will air on ABC-TV at 11:35 pm ET.
• NASCAR AUTOGRAPH SESSION: Keselowski will participate in a NASCAR autograph session at Sonoma on Friday afternoon at 5:30 pm PT.
• SULLIVAN AND SON: On Monday following the race, Keselowski will fly to Los Angeles to film an episode of the TBS sitcom, "Sullivan and Son." The show, which is produced by Vince Vaughn, just began its second season.
"Absolutely. The two road course races are among the most exciting of the year. I think we have the perfect blend right now of guys that are getting really good on the road courses, coupled with the fact that we only race on them twice a year. So even though we are becoming very proficient at this style of racing, there is still going to be driver error because we don't do it consistently. On top of that we are able to lean on each other more in stock cars, as compared to open-wheel or sports cars. When you have all that you can't help but have great racing."
"Sonoma is in a beautiful part of the country, but it's a very demanding road course. It's just so technical, whereas Watkins Glen is more of a stock car driver's circuit. You have to be mindful of hitting your marks on every lap and you can't throw your car around very much. There's a lot of elevation change that makes it difficult to see around the corners, but that also makes it a fun place to race. You are as worn out mentally as you are physically when you finish a race at Sonoma."
No. 22 Shell-Pennzoil Ford Fusion driven by Joey Logano
• CONTINUING HIS SOLID RUN: Joey Logano has been one of the hottest drivers on the NASCAR circuit since the middle of May That continued last weekend at Michigan International Speedway, where Logano led 21 laps and picked up his fifth consecutive top-10 finish (including the All-Star race) in the Sprint Cup Series. He now has four top-fives and seven top-10s this season. In addition to his recent hot streak in the Cup Series, Logano has also been red hot on the Nationwide Series. He's produced four finishes inside the top five and a near win at Michigan after leading 30 laps before he fell back to 11th after a late-race flat tire.
• ROAD COURSE PREP: Logano, along with his Shell-Pennzoil Racing Ford team, got ready for the right and left turns of Sonoma Raceway by spending two separate test days at both Road Atlanta and Virginia International Raceway doing road course testing.
• FORMER POLE WINNER: In 2011, Logano surprised the racing world, and himself, by laying down an impressive qualifying lap at Sonoma and winning his first-career road course pole. Logano, who never did any road racing until he reached NASCAR, has spent a lot of time testing various cars at Sonoma to get more acclimated to the track. In the 2011 race at Sonoma, Logano led five laps and finished sixth. He's scored two top-10 finishes in his four career races at Sonoma.
• MEET LOGANO: Logano will participate in a NASCAR Q&A session on Sunday at 9:15 am PT at the Turn 11 Fan Stage at Sonoma.
• BACK TO SINGLE DUTY: This will be the first time since the Talladega event in May that Logano will not run double-duty on a race weekend. With the Nationwide Series in Road America, Logano will focus solely on the Sprint Cup Series race at Sonoma.
"You know, a few years ago, all of the rage was the 'road course ringers' that they would bring in to these two races. But they never seemed to have the success you would have thought. I think that's because the regular guys that are out here, they are some of the best racecar drivers in the world and we've all be able to adapt to racing on the road courses better and better. Now, I feel like we can all compete with each other and we are as good as any of the ringers. I feel the same way about myself. I have a lot more things I can still learn, but I have worked hard and gotten a lot better over the years."
"It will be interesting. However, those of us that have run in the Nationwide Series in the last few years will be familiar with it. The good thing is that if you mess up a lap, it gives you the chance to make up for it by hitting all of your braking and shifting points on the next lap. Of course, you need to be careful as to how much you run as that can affect your strategy come race time with fuel and such. It will be fun and good for the fans though."


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So you got a new iPad? It's all very exciting because you've heard so many great things about using it in therapy, right? But now what?!
This is exactly how I felt when I got my iPad. I'm a poor graduate student who honestly can't afford very many popular, but expensive applications. So, I set out on a mission to find adaptable, useful and FREE applications for my iPad.
If you are in the same boat, or simply looking to add to your collection of apps without spending money, read on 🙂
1) StoryCreator: I already did an entire blog post devoted to this app. You can read my post on StoryCreator here.
2) All of the Lingraphica applications.
How I Use Them:
These apps are great for adults with aphasia and/or apraxia. Most of them upen up to a screen similar to the screenshot shown above. Then when you press one of them, for example, /fr/, a video pops up of a person's mouth saying fffrrr. It helps give focused stimulation both visually and auditorily! One of my clients practiced using this app as a cuing strategy for himself when he forgot things such a numbers, days of the week, or months of the year (there are apps for all of those!). This was great for him because it made him feel more independent and decrease his reliance on my cues! He could use this strategy out in the community independently! If you are working with people with aphasia, search for Lingraphica in the App Store!
3) Hungry, Hungry Hippos: A classic game that is just as addicting in iPad form!
How I Use It:
This game can primarily be used as a reinforcer. It is very easy to operate and learn, even for those kiddos with poor fine motor control. Each game is also really fast so you won't find yourself trying to pry the iPad away mid-game!
4) Talking Pierre, Talking Tom 2, and Talking Ginger: These apps are FANTASTIC for getting quiet kids to talk and have fun doing so! Thus far, my kiddos have enjoyed Talking Ginger the most!
How I Use It:
This app is simple but engaging. You speak to the cat, and the cat repeats what you've said back to you in a silly voice. You can also practice basic pragmatics by giving the child a scenarios (ex: "asking another child to play") and prompting them to practice with the animal in the app. Then, they can reflect on how the question sounds when it's repeated back to them! The same can be said for syntax!
5) Image Search: Essential if you have apps that allow you to upload personal photos! (e.g.: StoryCreator)
This app allows you to do a Google Image Search and download the pictures directly onto your iPad! I use it to fill my books on Story Creator with pictures. You can also look up silly pictures for children to describe, etc… Definitely an essential, free app!
6) Book Apps: There are too many to list all of them, but if you want/need more book apps there are many good, free options. I have Toy Story, Lazy Larry, and The Artifacts. I would recommend all of them for working on topics such as story retell and comprehension.
7) Sort It Out: This is a good app for sorting into categories!
How I Use It:
I've used this app with the kiddos who are fairly good at basic, salient categories but need more work with subcategory work! For example, it would be at a good level for a child who could identify a 'toy' from an 'animal' but who has trouble identifying different toys such as a 'ball' vs a 'vehicle' vs a 'stuffed animal'.
8) What If? – A great app with conversation starter questions.
How I Use It:
This conversation starter app can target carryover of articulation targets to the conversational level, asking and answering questions, stating opinions and giving reasons to support their opinion, topic maintenance, and grammar skills within conversation! It really helps when you're low on question ideas!
9) Little Finder: An app that works on receptive language (at the word level) and vocabulary development.
How I Use It:
Once opened, the app lets you choose between 1 player or 2 players. Then, the game begins. It says a word out loud (and also shows the written form at the bottom of the screen). The child is timed to see how fast they can find the picture that matches each corresponding word. I love this game because its a more motivational way to teach basic vocabulary, listening skills, or to test receptive language at the word level!
10) WH Questions: A great app created by Super Duper that targets WH Questions. The free version only includes 'who' but it's been really useful!
How I Use It:
Obviously for answering wh- questions! 🙂 This app is also awesome because the foil answers are tricky! They tend to be answers for other wh- question forms (see picture above). This forces the student into really understanding what 'how' means vs 'when' etc…
11) Mad Libs: Just like the old school paper version, but in iPad form!
How I Use It:
I've used this app as a fun break for many kids with language goals. It helps solidify the parts of speech (e.g.: nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc…) while being motivating and fun! There are 21 stories included in the free version, which should be enough to use in a variety of settings!
12) SeeTouchLearn: A must have application for anybody working on receptive language or vocabulary development!
How I Use It:
This app is amazing! It allows you to create 'quizzes' testing vocabulary and receptive language (see picture below).
It comes with a good library (as seen in the first photo). You can use the included templates or customize your own. You can choose the carrier phrase and even record your own voice for each page! After each quiz is completed, data is shown.
Download it and play around!
13) Comparative Adjectives
This application tests exactly what you'd guess: comparative adjectives! Each page verbally prompts the child to select one of the items on the page. Some are easier (see the first picture which stated, "find the smallest item") while some are more difficult (see the second which stated, "find the lightest bucket").
14) Name Things: This app targets naming items within a particular category.
One great feature about this app is that you are given the opportunity to select only the categories you want to test.
How I Use It:
I use this app for a wide variety of kids! I've used it for kids with some level of word finding troubles as well as children working on categories! I'm sure there are many other ways to use this!
Organizing all of those apps is also important! I organize my applications into topic folders. Click on the picture below to enlarge if it's difficult to read!
Then when I open up a folder, for example, literacy, I see all of the applications/books I use for those kiddos. (PS: All of the apps you see below are FREE as well!)
So there you have it! Have fun downloading and playing! Are there any amazing free apps I left out? I'd love to hear from YOU!
Thanks for reading! If you are interested in staying up to date on freebies, giveaways, and new posts, 'like' me on Facebook here.
**Update: Due to a great idea from a reader comment, I took screenshots in each folder on my iPad. You can see that post here. From there you should be able to see all of my apps and my organizational system!
**Ultra Update: I'll keep a list below of FREE apps I continue to find and love!
–Toca Kitchen Monsters and Toca Tailor Fairy Tales: Great for following directions and general reinforcements. Kids love these apps!
–Where Do I Go? – Good app for sorting at categorization. Students sort items into the correct room of the house.
–Build A Word Express – Great for phonological awareness and putting sounds together to make words!
–Endless Alphabet – Love this app! Thanks to Rachel for commenting and pointing it out to me 🙂 It has really cute graphics also!
I would absolutely love to hear your suggestions for free apps! Let me know of any I missed below:
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A's slated to debut 2014 squad at home vs. Indians
Oakland set to see plenty of NL East, close season with four games in Texas
The A's will visit the East Coast early and often next year, they learned Tuesday, when the preliminary 2014 schedule was announced.
Interleague Play features the American League West matching up with the National League East, including the A's and Mets each hosting a two-game series against one another. Oakland is slated to travel to Miami and Atlanta, while the Phillies and Nationals will find their way to the Coliseum.
Oakland will make its first East Coast swing at the beginning of May to Boston as the tail end of a three-city trip, by then already having been on the road for 16 days in a travel-heavy April.
But it's at home where the A's will debut their 2014 squad, as the Coliseum will welcome the Indians for a three-game set starting on March 31. Following their departure, the Mariners will come in for three games and, later in the month, fellow division foes Texas and Houston visit.
By the end of June, the A's will have already seen the Indians, Rays, Yankees and Orioles on the road, with New York making its always anticipated trip to the Coliseum from June 13-15. That's the start of an intriguing homestand that also features three games against the Rangers (June 16-18) and four with the Red Sox (June 19-22).
The annual Bay Bridge series will spread across four consecutive days, with the A's playing host to the Giants July 7-8, before they embark across the bay for a pair of contests July 9-10 at AT&T Park.
The A's will host the Mets for a quick two-game set Aug. 19-20, and from Sept. 19-21, they'll welcome the Phillies for three games as part of the final homestand of the regular season, sandwiched between series with the Rangers and Angels.
Oakland will conclude the season in what should be exciting fashion, with four games in Texas (Sept. 25-28).


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Ample Hills' Sweet as Honey Ice Cream
Sometimes simplest really is best: sweet cream ice cream bulked up with fresh bits of chopped honeycomb candy. It's a strong hit of caramel flavor, with the delicate sweetness of cold, fresh cream. Let the pieces melt in your mouth or chomp your way through it. Either way, it's great.
Why this recipe works:
- Honeycomb candy yields a complex caramel flavor and satisfying crunch for very little effort, and mixing it into ice cream makes for a delightful combination of crunchy and smooth.
- The recipe comes together faster than you might think; make the ice cream base while the honeycomb candy cools, and you've got a finished product in a couple of hours.
Note: Golden syrup can be found in supermarkets that sell imported British products, like Fairway.
Excerpted from Ample Hills Creamery: Secrets and Stories from Brooklyn's Favorite Ice Cream Shop by Brian Smith and Jackie Cuscuna with Lauren Kaelin (Stewart, Tabori & Chang). Copyright © 2014. Photographs by Lucy Schaeffer.
- Yield:serves 4
- Active time: 1 hour
- Total time:several hours, for chilling
- Rated:
- Butter for the baking sheet
- 2 cups organic cane sugar
- 1/4 cup honey
- 7 tablespoons golden syrup
- 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 recipe Walt's Dream (ingredients follow)
- 3/4 cup organic cane sugar
- 1/2 cup skim milk powder
- 1 2/3 cups whole milk
- 1 2/3 cups heavy cream
- 3 egg yolks
Make the honeycomb candy: Butter a 12-by-18-inch rimmed baking sheet and line it with parchment paper.
In a large saucepan, combine the sugar, honey, syrup, and 2/3 cup water. Whisk to combine. Clip a candy thermometer to the saucepan and set the pan over medium-high heat. Cook until the syrup reaches 305ºF. (The syrup will bubble and spit, so please be careful.) Remove the pan from the heat and, wearing an oven mitt for protection, whisk in the baking soda. Whisk vigorously for a few moments to make sure you've incorporated all the little bits of baking soda, then stand back and watch the honeycomb grow.
When the honeycomb stops growing up the sides of the pot, gently pour it onto the prepared baking sheet. Let it cool. Refrigerate the candy for 30 minutes, then chop it into bite-size pieces.
Prepare Walt's Dream: Prepare an ice bath in your sink or in a large heatproof bowl.
In a medium saucepan, combine the sugar, skim milk powder, and milk. Stir with a hand mixer or whisk until smooth. Make sure the skim milk powder is wholly dissolved into the mixture and that no lumps remain (any remaining sugar granules will dissolve over the heat). Stir in the cream.
Clip a candy thermometer to the saucepan and set the pan over medium heat. Cook, stirring often with a rubber spatula and scraping the bottom of the pan to prevent sticking and burning, until the mixture reaches 110ºF, 5 to 10 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat.
Place the egg yolks in a medium bowl. While whisking, slowly pour in 1/2 cup of the hot milk mixture to temper the egg yolks. Continue to whisk slowly until the mixture is an even color and consistency, then whisk the egg-yolk mixture back into the remaining milk mixture.
Return the pan to the stovetop over medium heat and continue cooking the mixture, stirring often, until it reaches 165ºF, 5 to 10 minutes more.
Transfer the pan to the prepared ice bath and let cool for 15 to 20 minutes, stirring occasionally. Pour the ice cream base through a wire-mesh strainer into a storage container and place in the refrigerator for 1 to 2 hours, or until completely cool.
Now you're ready to make ice cream! Transfer the cooled base to an ice cream maker and churn it according to the manufacturer's instructions. Or, if you want, you can keep it in the refrigerator for up to 3 days before churning.
Transfer the ice cream to a storage container, folding in the pieces of honeycomb candy as you do. Use as much of the candy as you want; you won't necessarily need the whole batch. Serve immediately or harden in your freezer for 8 to 12 hours for a more scoopable ice cream.
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Hi Family and Friends!
I really, really want to share this with you - I know everyone's time is limited (mine sure is!) but I think all of you can get so much out of this entry in Shalons website! So, that you won't have to go hunt it down, I have brought it to you! Please keep her in your prayers as well - she is going through a lot and has been so inspirational to me! She's always happy to see me and very encouraging to all AVM patients! Like me, she has an amazing husband named Josh that reminds me a lot of Mark! The "warthog" is what she named this area on her face that developed from the embolizations that is dark and scabby I believe! You can always keep up w/Shalon by clicking on to her blog from my main page! She is a doll!
Surgery is scheduled to remove the coils. August 18th I go back in for an embolization with Yakes. And then on the 19th I have surgery with Dr. Hepworth, Dr. Campagna, and Dr. Cote to remove all of my inner bling. Those platinum coils that are now what you see as the "bulk," what has caused the warthog, and which are trying to escape on their own are coming out. I still really am going to tell them I want the platinum to melt down into a keepsake bracelet. For reals! I'm thinking I'll have a little charm made of a warthog to remember him by.
I'm super scared, absolutely nervous, but very hopeful. Trying with everything I have to focus on that last part. But it's hard. We've all prepared the best we can and I know the docs are capable, cautious, and without any Superman complex. I feel good about that. But they couldn't get any of the images they wanted to be able to prepare. They can't "see" anything in an MRI or any other films because the coils ruin the image. So they are going in somewhat blind. But it's necessary and they have prepared the best they can. They are confident in what they can do while absolutely aware of what they don't want to do or don't want to get involved with. And that's the best we can go with.
That's the scoop! Phase 1.5 is under way. This surgery isn't meant to be reconstructive or leave me as the Super Model that I'm anticipating ;) It is just to get the junk out and to let Dr. Yakes continue with the embolizations until he feels that he has gotten everything. When he says we are done, then I'll go back with Hep & Cote to work on more debulking and ultimately the aesthetic part of this entire journey.
Wish me luck for next month and keep your fingers crossed that my new docs prove to be just as very awesome as I think they are!
My Avm Buddy, Shalon!
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Hi Family and Friends!
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Saturday, August 7, 2010
Hi Everyone! Wow, its finally the weekend and already I've had all sorts of adventures! Would you believe that I was @ the end of this blog and I totally wiped it out by accident? Yup! So here goes again!
First I have to say that I'm calling this O-M-G in honor of one of my fun, animal loving co-workers named Mary Jo! She's always saying OMG! The way she says it makes it funny for me every time! Her daughter has a poodle named Sammie that Mary Jo gets to take care of now and then, so she and I trade Sammie and Hanz stories and share pictures on our phones!
On Friday, Mark and I were leaving for work and gave each other a kiss goodbye, when I felt my mouth filling up with blood! It was really comming out, because I felt I had to open my mouth and just let it fall out! Told Mark to open the front door again so I could rinse my mouth out in the bathroom! Would you believe after all that, I still made it to work on time?! Then, during my time to cover the front desk for lunch, I started having another bleed! We aren't supposed to leave the front area unattended, but I knew I needed to get to the bathroom fast! I ran to my friend Diana's office first - I pointed to my mouth and opened it slightly and she goes, "OK"! She knew what was happening and by the time I got back, she already had gotten someone to cover the front desk for me! Not really happy about these things going on @ work! Now I take my toothbrush/paste to work every day in case this happens, so I won't have blood on my breath - ugh! Actually, I had been having these bleeds even before going to CO this past time and I was hoping that w/Dr. Yakes doing an embolization, that would put an end to these bleeds! Meanwhile, I have run out of the second round of steroids my Primary Care Physician put me on and I had been feeling more pain as well! Dr. Yakes always sends me home on Prednisone 20 mg., but Dr. Boynton put me on Medrol 4mg. I didn't like the latter because they gave me night sweats bad!
So, after a long day, I get home and Mark decides to make nachos for dinner! Of course those must be chased by a MARK-a-rita! I usually have a couple of dollops of the frozen concoction, but this night, I decided to have a little extra figuring, what the heck! Well, I woke up sweating and nauseous @ 5:00 a.m.! I knew I was going to need to be close to the bathroom and sure enough - had to see those nachos again! Then I caught sight of myself in the mirror and I looked horrible! I was all swollen again! My eye was almost swollen shut and the left side of my lip/face was very swollen too! It took me a while to figure out what happened! Good thing I write all my medication down! I had been off steroids completely for 2 days, so my pain was getting greater! At this point I didn't think either doctor would give me another round of steroids, so I thought I could man up and deal with it! Course my way of "dealing with it" meant taking too many pain pills!! Mmmm.....Hmmm....
I had been reading the part in Breaking Dawn where Bella is nauseous and I didn't even want to read about that! After sleeping on and off most of the today, I called up to CO and got the Physician Asst.on call, Kelly and she called me back right away! She called another round of Prednisone 20mg so I can get back on track! All I've eaten all day is a cup of applesauce! I attempted one of my favorite snacks, a glass of milk and some bread w/blackberry preserves on it! Kept that down, so I guess I'll live! Took a shower so I feel better.
Earlier on Friday, I noticed that I took my main pain killer,
the Oxycontin 40 mg @ 6:30 a.m.
the Gabapentin 300 mg. @ 8:30 a.m (this is safe-@the hospital they give me
both of these together!)
Here comes the mistake: taking the Lortab7.5-500 mg @ 9:30 a.m.!!!
So she decides to repeat the mistake she hasn't realized yet that she's made later on in the day by taking:
Oxy @3pm
Gaba @ 4:30pm
Lortab @ 7pm!
Yeah, my body is going, "I don't think you should have so many narcotics in your system little girl"! Course the Gabapentin isn't a narcotic, but I was taking the other two, too close together in time! UGH!
I should have realized this on Thursday - I had lunch w/my co-worker/friend Diana and my husband Mark. We were all talking and eating and then Mark reached out to grab my hand. My first thought was, "oh, he's being romantic and wants to hold my hand". The reality of it was, I hadn't realized that my hand was shaking! Enough so that Mark held it to stop it from shaking - yikes! That should have been my first clue to check out my meds I guess!
My buddy Felice called earlier this evening - she is such a great friend! She knew I had read Kenneth Folletts The Pillars of the Earth that is curently showing on Starz. She was watching it and says it is awesome! She is trying to tape it for me and then send it in the mail because she knows I don't have Starz! When I get done with this horrible AVM, I'm going to try and be a super good friend just like my buddies have been to me! Between Dorinda, Felice, Patty and Sylvia, I'm blessed to have fun, prayer and love all rolled into one!
I'd better go, I'm in pain and falling asleep! Take care!
I'll post a couple photos later!
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Friday, August 6, 2010
Happy Friday everyone! TGIF! I was remembering when Davis was little (about 4 years old), he used to think that saying "Skunk"! was like saying a "bad word"! Well, that's what I feel like saying today after having some bleeds - SKUNK! Sigh ...
Today is also my first day without any steroids since my emboloization in Denver! I'm not a happy camper right now! Not that I ever would be a happy camper - camping and I don't get along! No steroids to keep the swelling down means more pain! Yeah, the whole left side of my head hurts! Soon as I finish this, I'm going to bed for a much needed NAP!! Actually, a lot of the swelling inside my mouth has gone down, so it's a little easier to brush! Did you know that I have to use a child size toothbrush so that it will fit into my mouth? Mmmm hmmm.... I prefer Cinderella, but I'll take Snow white if I have to, ha,ha! Yeah, what with my avm and all, my mouth has been "frozen" I guess is one way of putting it, so I'm only able to open my mouth a bit - enough to eat and brush! I need to work with the Therabite again, I haven't done that in a while, due to swelling and pain! I'm gonna wrap this up since I'm falling asleep @ the computer! Y'all have an aweswome weekend!
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Set back
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Hi Everyone! How are you? Is it hot out there or what? Sometimes I wonder whether it's even worth leaving the building for lunch - you can work up a sweat just walking from the office to your car! And that's because I finally got a handicapp thingy to hang off rear view mirror! Yeah, Celia had been after me to ask my doctor for one - I haul a cart full of medical supplies and all my needs every day to and from the office, and I do have some back/knee problems, so that really does come in handy!
Anyway, I was going to write how lately, I've been having bleeds from inside my mouth! I started having them a couple of weeks before I went back to CO and had hoped that after the embolization Dr. Yakes did, that I wouldn't bleed anymore from inside my mouth! Wrong! Yesterday I was in the bathroom about to wash my face, when I decided to bend down to pick up Hanz. Right then I could tell my mouth started filling up with blood! Gosh darn it! It lasted about 5 minutes and I believe it happened again in the evening for just a bit.
Well, this morning, I sat up in bed and said, "Good morning Hanz", and right then blood just came out of my mouth and on to the top sheet! Course I went to the bathroom sink and Mark took the top sheet off the bed and put it in the wash! So that is how I started my day! Luckily, these bleeds don't last long, but I DO Ok, I need to hit the sack! More later!
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Hanz's Play Date!
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Hi Family and Friends! How is everyone? I'm hungry, but what else is new? That's one of the drawbacks of being on steroids - always being hungry!
Oh well, this portion of my blog is about my little Hanzie! We had found out through the folks @ Petsmart that Linda, the office manager @ Santa Fe Animal Hospital has 2 Brussels Griffon puppies! I had called over there yesterday and spoke to one of the other receptionists that had answered the phone and asked whether we could bring Hanz by some time to meet the Brussels! Turns out the pups are a male and female named Griffin and Bristol! There aren't too many Brussels in Corpus Christi, so we all like knowing each other since we love the breed so much! This lady also knew Dr. Zane (my ENT here locally) has several Brussels in his family! Dr. Zane and his wife own Ellie, and I believe from the same litter, the Zanes got one of their daughters another Brussels that she named Missy and yet another female from the same litter for another daughter, but I forget the puppy's name! I guess the Zanes take their dogs to this clinic for their Veterinary care, and we already knew they take their dogs to The Dog House for grooming and supplies!
Anyway, we walk in with Hanz and right away everyone just oohed and ahhed over how handsome he is! You could hear comments like, "Oh how adorable"! "Look @ that profile"! (see photo of Hanz surrounded by women). Yesterday was Bristol's birthday and she turned one year old! See photo of Mark with Bristol! They were all just delighted @ how cute and friendly Hanz is! See photo of Bristol by herself and then Bristol and Griffin together! Bristol has a soft demeanor and she's actually somewhat of a heavy weight! I asked to hold her and she surprised me with how much she weighed - all 14 pounds of solid weight! Hanz is about 12 pounds and is light on his feet!
Here is a photo of Mark with Griffin and then a photo of me with Bristol! We had a nice time visiting and comparing stories and photos from our camera and Linda's phone! She got her pups from a breeder in San Antonio!
We had to laugh @ one point, because Linda was telling us how she doesn't cut the pups hair and that they don't like to be brushed! Oh, I was telling her how Hanz practically points to where he wants me to brush him next! Hanz likes the wire comb for getting those little tangles out! Anyway, I like to carry a "diaper bag" of sorts for Hanz when we take him out, just in case he needs anything - he's high maintenance like his mommy! Well, I was showing how I had some of Hanz's necessities in my bag, and right away, Griffin stuck his head in there like, "hmmmm...., I'm smelling something pretty good in there"! I had a couple of baggies with some of Hanz's favorite treats, along w/some bottled water, some wipes, some poop bags and his brush!
I almost forgot! There was a "little mishap" when we first arrived with Hanz. Mark had just asked whether Griffin had been fixed and right then Griffin decided to growl and snap a bit @ Hanz! Griffin's owner said it was because Griffin was jealous that Hanz wasn't fixed - yikes! They were all fine after that - no problems!
Griffin tended to be a little more timid overall, and has a bit of a "sad" expression. One of the receptionists teases him by saying, "this IS my happy face"! Awwww....! Linda and I both had to admit though, that right after seeing the movie "As Good As It Gets" we fell in love with Verdell, the Brussles Griffon in the movie! Right away seems both of us started looking into owning one of these dogs of our very own! Hanz has been all about love and happiness for us!
You should see Hanz - he knows we're talking about how special he is and he is just loving it! We just adore him and he knows it! Here he is, making sure we blog all about his play date! Well, Goodnight all! Gotta go iron, get my eardrops and then settle in to read Breaking Dawn for the 9th time!
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Daily stuff continued ....
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Good Morning everyone!
You know, here I was ... all proud of myself for my last entry and explaining some of my goings on, and I apparently jinxed myself, because I just had a bleed from my mouth! UGH! I had already woken up about 3:30 a.m. and noticed Mark was covered up w/the sheet AND blanket. He was slightly awake and said it was cold in the house! With the steroids I'm on, I'm having night sweats, so I have the temperature set @ 73 degrees! Woke up again @ 5:30 a.m. and had missed my 4:00a.m. dose of Oxy for pain. Started eating some candy corn and decided a glass of milk and a Little Debbie chocolate roll were in order! I am still hot temperature wise, I look in the mirror and decide I look like a poodle, as my hair is very curly from the heat! After eating the Little Debbie, I have to be a moose and continue by eating a cinnamon roll and another glass of milk! I don't like being sticky, so I was eating the cinnamon roll w/a fork and accidently jabbed the inside of my mouth and it started to bleed! I could tell right away that my mouth was filling up with blood! DARN! I start rinsing my mouth out in the bathroom sink and this bleed lasts a few minutes. Poopie! This is why I can't travel right now, Mom Schuman! My mother-in-law was hoping we could come up and visit in September and I was telling her how difficult/nearly impossible it is for me to be away from home! When things like this happen ... I'm just not the best house guest right now! I need to be near my home/comfort zone to take care of these incidents! Can you imagine my telling my in-laws, "Hey, I need the aircondition on MAX because I'm hot! Plus, I need to make sure I have all the snacks I want @ my fingertips because I get so hungry w/the steroids! AND, I'd have to haul my humidifier along and have that thing plugged in and making a lot of noise! AND, I'm not going anywhere w/out my Hanzie and they don't want animals in the house! Oh well! We're a packaged deal! Mom and Vicente already figured that one out! My poor Aunt, Sister Juanita is headed to Mexico and can't take her cocker spaniel Avila with her! I would take her if I lived nearby, but my Aunt lives in Oregon! Avila is 12 years old - poor baby, she's going to miss her Mommy so much!
Mark is asleep and has no idea what happened (the mouth bleed)- it wasn't anything I couldn't handle on my own. Hanz gave up thinking I might drop a bit of cinnamon roll and went back to bed! I may have 30 minutes to close my eyes before the alarm goes off! Just had to tell you about some of the fun I was having in the wee hours of the morning!
P.S. I just want to assure everyone though, that I'm a very happy person most of the time! I have a terrific, attentive husband that loves and understands me! The cutest dog in the world that has a play date w/2 other Brussels @ the Santa Fe Animal hospital tomorrow! We were told by someone @ Petsmart, that the office manager @ the animal hospital has 2 Brussels - a boy and a girl! I called over there today and it was the girl Brussels birthday! Can't wait for my Hanzie to meet them! I believe the male dog was named Griffin! I can't remember what they told me the female dogs name was. I've decided I want a female Brussels for my 50th birthdayh in May! Woo Hoo!
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I wanted to share something with all of you. Lately, I've been running across people again, saying "What happened to your face"! Or maybe not completely understanding what I'm going through - and it's important to me to educate everyone on all things avm! Of course I'm grateful for prayer and acceptance, but there are times it might help to have a more complete picture of what is really going on! I have to say though, that I know that even though I'm going through so much - there are people going through worse. I had a lady that called to reschedule her appt. today because she said she was in a lot of pain. I could relate to that for sure! This lady said she had cancer and had already had one breast removed, then had to have the other removed, and now had to have some lymph nodes removed and was told not to be lifting things because the doctor had cut too close to a nerve, and she had been helping her mom out in the yard and now she was paying the price experiencing the pain! So I know and am grateful that @ least I have hope and will someday be avm free! I certainly don't want to whine, and believe me, I do count my blessings! What really keeps me going is my awesome support team! From family that has been there for us and has supported us with prayer, emotional and financial support that is beyond anything we expected, but appreciate so very much! Mark of course is my constant support in every way! He always assures me we are in this together and takes such wonderful care of me! From just listening to me, to changing my dressings and doing wound care and making sure my humidifier has distilled water every night! He picks up my slack around the house, since I'm not always up to doing much! On a good day I help clean the kitchen and change out Hanz's pee pad trays! Normally, my main chore around here is doing wash! Of course Hanz is Mommy's angel! Just Hanz being in our lives has brought us so much happiness - he is one special puppy! We like to say that he "rescued us"! Everyone adores him and says how well adjusted he is! Super smart and cute and we can't get enough of him! He has done wonders for my over all well being in keeping my spirits up when I could be sitting home miserable w/all I'm going through!
One of the great things that has improved is no more real spontaneous bleeds! Not like before, when I would wake up covered in blood or sometimes that would happen @ work! I would be going about my daily routine and a co-worker would tell me I was bleeding from my facial wound! It has been very minimal that I've bled lately, and when I do, it isn't gushing like it used to be! So I know that Dr. Yakes is getting those arteries closed off, so the bleeding can be stopped quickly!
Unfortunately the one thing that I just can't do anything about is the pain involved! I remember when I first started having these procedures, I didn't have to even have any pain medication prescriptions filled @ all! Then I remember asking Dr. Yakes nurse @ the time - Julie LaBadie ... "as Dr. Yakes gets closer to my face in doing these embolizations, is this going to involve some pain"? Her answer was, "Well, you may be surprised ..." - but something just told me that it wouldn't be that easy. I know a couple years ago, Mark wondered about how long I would be taking the pain pills and believe me, no one wanted to be off of them more than I did! Being on this medication put a halt to the MARK-a-ritas we love so much around here! For me anyway! At one point, I was trying to use a "pain patch", which ended up "burning" my sensitive skin, and I made the mistake of thinking I could drink a Mark-a-rita and ended up throwing up and bleeding from the force of throwing up! Lesson learned! It took a long time for me to have any tequila after that! Every once in a while Mark will put a dollop or two of some Mark-a-rita in my glass now when he makes nachos! Or maybe I can handle just ONE bud light lime w/some pizza, but usually only half a beer! I know some of y'all don't drink out there, but down here in South Texas, we enjoy our brewskies! :) Anyway ... each time Dr. Yakes works on me and does an embolization, he may use anywhere from 2cc's to 24 cc's of alcohol and that means swelling and PAIN! It got to a point where I just wasn't able to get to the level of comfort that the nurse could get me to while I was in the hospital! I had a fabulous nurse named Justin during one of the times I got stuck @ Swedish for a week w/an infection - and he was nice enough to chart my meds for me to where I could understand what and when I was taking what I needed! I also had to see a pain management doctor here that felt that I needed to take my main pain medication THREE times a day instead of only two! There is just no way around having to take the pain meds and sometimes my dose falls @ taking it @ 4:00 a.m.! Short of setting an alarm, I sometimes sleep through that time (wonder why?)so I end up taking that medication several hours late when the alarm goes off for work! So I'm already starting my day off in a bad way - grumpy because I'm in pain and having to get dressed and get my day started as I'm waiting for the pain meds to kick in! Poor Mark, I just mess his sleep schedule all up! Sometimes he sleeps through my antics, but a lot of times I wake him up as I get up to take meds or can't sleep due to being wired from the steroids I'm on! I did not go to sleep until 4:30 a.m. Saturday morning! Not to mention the steroids make me soooo hungry! I want to keep eating in bed and then I'm drooling orange candy corn on my nightgown and sheets! All this while the loud sound of the humidifier (that sounds like an air compressor) is going! Hanz finally got used to it - when I first started having to wear that mist cup on my trache, I think it scared him - he didn't know WHAT to make of the blue hose attatched to mommies neck! Doesn't bother him a bit anymore! Sometimes taking the main pain med (Oxycontin)isn't enough, so I follow it up w/a Neurontin! That used to make me SOOOO SLEEPY! I remember Dr. Yakes P.A. Rhonda would tell me that I just had to get past a certain point w/that medication, to where I wouldn't be so sleepy anymore! I kept thinking, "what does she mean by THAT"? So, I finally got to be more tolerant of that medication where I wasn't nodding off ... and if I'm still in pain several hours later (I take the Oxy every 7 hours) I may take a Lortab too! That will hold me over until it's time to take another Oxy! I may as well sign my paycheck over to the pharmacy, because there are several daily meds I need too! It's ok though, because I'm getting the help I need and I am really happy with my amazing husband and cutie patootie Hanzie!
Meeting other avm-ers has helped tremendously as well! Shalon Whitgob has been instrumental in getting fellow avm-ers to meet and help support one another! I got her name from one of Dr. Yakes P.A.'s @ the time and right away Shalon set me up w/my blog and both of us have reached many other avm-ers to help them through their procedures and situations! My blog is mainly for family and friends to keep up w/my latest procedures - and Shalon has lots of great medical information, as well as starting her own business w/her FGG's - Feel Good Gowns hospital wear! You can get to her site from mine!
Well, I'd better be off to bed soon! It's late and I still have to iron my clothes for tomorrow! I just wanted to remind all of you that even though I may not look so good right now, or I have people staring or some wonder what the heck happened to me - I like going back and filling in the gaps to some questions some may have. Feel free to ask any questions if you see me out and about. It would be nice if some people were a little more tactful, but what can you do. Would you believe a lady saw Shalon and I writing to each other on Facebook and this lady is in Israel? Her daughter has an avm, so this lady wrote and she and I have been keeping in touch ever since! I love writing and am here for anyone that has questions!
Thanks for listening and keeping up with my procedures and adventures! Take care! Love to all!
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Ava Faye Brewer is due March 4, 2010! We chose her name because Ava means "like a bird" or "to fly" and her daddy is a commercial pilot. Faye is my middle name, my mothers middle name, and about 4 distant aunts and great aunts middle name.
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Aw, congratulations! I kind of thought you were having a girl! :)
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Congratulations! I look forward to hearing all about her and of course seeing adorable pics. I dont have a girl so I have to live vicariously through others!!!
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Hooray! What a beautiful name!
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Congratulations on a girl! I love the name Ava too. What crib did you order from Bonavita? I can't wait to get mine in. :)
- October 29, 2009 at 3:42 PM
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Thanks Shannon! We ordered the Peyton Lifestyle crib and furniture. Now we just have to clear out the room for it! I feel like I have so much to do, and no time!
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Just checking in on you! My sil is having her baby next week and I thought of you! Hope all is going well! :)
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Ann Mallek is selected chairman of the Albemarle Board of Supervisors at its first meeting of the year January 6.
While Mallek, as former vice chair, traditionally would have been next in line for the chairmanship vacated when David Slutzky was not reelected last November, Ken Boyd made a brief run for the position in December, then remembered he was also running for the 5th District Republican nomination to challenge Tom Perriello in this year's elections and withdrew from pursuit of the chair.
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Isn't this woman a public figure?In the home of the brave and the land of the free aren't we allowed to criticise our elected officials ? What happened to freedom of speech and the press.The Hook pulling the hook on 6 of 8 comments stinks of "CENSORSHIP" This column shouldn't offer a spot for our comments if they wont be allowed.I guess THE HOOK will just keep taking their ball home when they don't want to play anymore .PS "THE HOOK" should stop trying to be hip when its not.
I think the question is whether it's possible or feasible to do zero-based budgeting. Charlottesville Tomorrow is probably reporting on what the new supes want to happen and Ms. Mallek is stating what she believes will happen.
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The Hook, like all leftist tabloids, knows what is good for us and will make us do it whether we want to or not. Is criticism forbidden here?? Is one required to be nice? No one has to like or be nice to anyone. all one has to do is obey the law
Criticise yes. But making fun of the Hat Store is way over the line Ms Crozetite!!!!
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There's a hat store in this town!!? I Must go there, of course after tea and biscuits and it must not be a chain of any sort.
I read the Charlottesville Tomorrow story , sounds like they will do zero based budgeting for this budget cycle, but when I heard Ms Malek speak on WINA she indicated they would not do this. I'm confused, are they or aren't they, going forward with this idea?


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