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Shippers seek leadership when it comes to security
According to new research by Unisys Corporation, shippers want or expect the government to do more to protect their interests
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According to new research by Unisys Corporation, shippers in the U.S. are less concerned about nearly all aspects of security than they were 12 months ago.
At the same time, however, an overwhelming majority consider security issues very important when assessing presidential candidates.
"Shippers want or expect the government to do more to protect their interests," said Steve Vinsik, vice president enterprise security, Unisys. "They have been carrying the burden of compliance and prevention for so long that they want the government to join them in being part of the solution."
Results from the bi-annual Unisys Security Index which regularly surveys more than 1,000 American shippers on a wide range of security concerns, showed a large drop in levels of security concern compared to a year ago, with the largest drop in concern related to national security. The latest survey polled 1,005 U.S. adults in February 2012.
Despite the overall decline in security concern, an overwhelming majority of U.S. respondents considered a range of domestic national security concerns "very important" for presidential candidates to emphasize in the upcoming elections.
Notably, protecting government computer systems from hackers and criminals (74 percent) topped the list of issues that U.S. respondents would like presidential candidates to emphasize. Additionally, more Americans surveyed say U.S. presidential candidates should focus on the defense of utilities and transportation systems from cyber attacks (73 percent) than on homeland security issues such as terrorism (68 percent). And 63 percent said protecting personal health information was a priority, while 53 percent considered border security very important for candidates to emphasize.
"The latest results of our survey show that the American people recognize the impact that cyber attacks can have on our critical infrastructure and are looking to the U.S. Government to take on a more active role in proactively defending our nation's key assets," said Vinsik, "It's interesting that more respondents to our survey said they were concerned about cyber attacks than physical terror attacks. This illustrates that Americans' perception of security threats are changing, and our nation's response to those threats must change too."
Unisys also surveyed U.S. respondents on their preferences for securing their mobile work devices while being used outside of the workplace. Fifty-five percent of U.S. respondents said they prefer using complex passwords (combinations of uppercase and lower case letters, symbols and numbers) for mobile security. Biometrics such as fingerprints, voice or facial images were the second most preferred method, with 37 percent of respondents showing preference for one or more of those methods for protecting mobile devices outside the workplace.
Nearly a third (32 percent) of respondents said they prefer simple passwords for securing their mobile devices outside the workplace.
"This is a worrisome finding for executives and enterprise IT managers," Vinsik added. "Passwords alone simply do not provide a sufficient level of security to protect sensitive data against today's sophisticated cyber criminals. Organizations need to leverage the use of facial and voice biometrics that most smart phones are capable of supporting today."
On a scale of zero to 300, the overall U.S. Unisys Security Index score was 131, representing a moderate level of concern. The U.S. score was 164 in the previous Unisys Security Index survey reported in May 2011. All four areas of security concern surveyed by Unisys (national, personal, Internet and financial) declined in the current survey. Identity theft topped the list of serious concerns at 59 percent, and 56 percent of respondents were seriously concerned about unauthorized credit card use.
The Unisys Security Index surveyed 1,005 adult citizens of the United States, February 10-13, 2012.
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Q: What happened with the Raiders? Are you glad to have a fresh start?
A: I am. The team is definitely in the hunt for a championship and it's a team I felt comfortable with the whole time. I was so eager to get out of Atlanta that I didn't take my time. If I had, I would have been here from the jump. But I was so eager to get out that I ended up going to a situation that probably wasn't the best for me. But at the end of the day I'm where I wanted to be from the jump.
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A: Not at all. In this league you play so many great receivers. And anything can happen out there and you're one injury away from being on the field.
Q: Do you feel you have something left to prove?
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Q: There are always critics and one thing yours say is that you have great talent but need to mature. Is that fair?
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Q: What didn't fit you in Oakland and why does Washington fit you better?
A: It wasn't that it didn't fit me, it didn't give me the best chance to have success and make plays. I like to make plays. I like to get in the end zone and I like to get the ball in my hands. When you're playing so much man to man it's hard to get interceptions. It's hard to make plays. I like to look at the quarterback. You look at the quarterback too much and you'll get beat on comebacks. I was suffering giving up those plays to try to make plays. I was trying to do too much. I feel good about this situation. I don't have to do too much, just come in and play football and be another piece to the puzzle. They already have playmakers.
Q: Did you admire Darrell Green growing up? Was he someone you looked up to?
A: He was. My old coach, Emmitt Thomas, put me in touch with Darrell Green a couple years ago. I've been talking to him. I'll reach out to him in the next couple of days.
Q: What did your family and friends think of you coming here?
A: Everyone wants tickets. I want to keep them at bay right now.
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I'm bran new to this forum. Recently my sedan broke down and I'v been looking at Wrangler Jeeps, I have always wanted one. I'v been searching Autotrader.com trying to find wranglers to finance in my price range,.
Would I be crazy to finance a 03' or 04' Wrangler with just over 100,000 mileage, or possibly more? I'm looking for something that will last and not cause me problems. What are my dangers in buying a higher mileage jeep? Can I trust these dealerships? What should I be looking for, or asking for when shopping? I'm just concerned that I'll start financing a higher mileage jeep and wind up with a hand full of problems. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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didnt 03 and 04 models have a head problem. op needs to check this, if you trust your mechanic to inspect it then 100000 miles or so is a good buy, esp. if you can get the service documents. check out some cherokee forums, you will see 4.0 engines and trans going well over 300000 miles.
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From the Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Sagamiharo, Kanagawa, Japan
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Study objective: To evaluate material with high echogenicity demonstrated by transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) during the reamed intramedullary nailing procedure in long-bone fracture patients, and to analyze BAL fluid (BALF) in these patients as well as in those with the fat embolism syndrome (FES).
Design: Prospective cohort study.
Setting: Emergency and critical care center of a university hospital.
Patients: Fifteen patients with long-bone fractures in whom reamed intramedullary nailing was performed, and five patients diagnosed with FES.
Measurements: During reamed nailing procedures, TEE was performed. We measured the differential cell counts, percentage of lipid-laden cells, and albumin concentration in BALF after the operation. We compared TEE findings and BALF analysis in the surgical patients. In addition, we compared BALF findings in the surgical patients and in the FES patients.
Results: We divided 15 patients who underwent TEE into three subtypes based on the appearance of embolic material within the chambers of the right heart. The lipid-laden cells in BALF increased significantly in those patients with highly echogenic material by TEE (p<0.05). The percentage of the lipid-laden cells in BALF was not significantly different between the TEE patients and those with FES. On the other hand, FES patients showed a statistically significant increase in leukocyte counts and albumin concentration (p<0.05).
Conclusions: The highly echogenic material seen in TEE during reamed intramedullary nailing could be fat globules on the basis of BALF analysis. However, all patients with large emboli by TEE do not develop FES. A factor other than mechanical obstruction by fat globules may be necessary for the development of FES.
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Office Spirometry is essential for the diagnosis and management of asthma and COPD. However, it remains an underutilized tool in clinical practice. In this study we aimed to investigate the use of Spirometry by General Practitioners, General Physicians, Chest Physicians and Pediatricians from different cities across India.
3750 doctors from 20 centers across India were randomly selected and invited to fill in a one-page questionnaire.
1715 doctors returned the completed questionnaire (256 general practitioners, 717 general physicians, 458 chest physicians, 209 pediatricians and 74 others) (response rate: 45.7%). The mean duration of clinical practice was 15.2 years and on average 32 asthma patients and 17.5 COPD patients were seen per week by each clinician. The table shows the use of spirometry by different groups of clinicians in their practice. The commonest cause for not using Spirometry was lack of access to Spirometry (41.6%), and non-affordability of the test by the patients (36.2%).
Spirometry is underutilized by clinicians in India.
Clinicians in India need to be motivated to perform spirometry in clinical practice.
Sundeep Salvi, Grant monies (from industry related sources) Cipla Ltd.Category% Of patients asked to perform SpirometryAsthmaCOPDGeneral Practitioner9.3611.11General Physician19.9922.83Chest Physician54.9256.70Pediatrician5.42Not applicable
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Magdeleine [magdeleine] as a name for girls is of Hebrew origin, and the name Magdeleine means "woman from Magdala". Magdeleine is an alternate form of Madeline (Hebrew): respelling of Madeleine.
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Magdeleine is a rare given name for women. Magdeleine is a unique surname too for all people. (2000 U.S. CENSUS)
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http://forum.trillek.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=582#p4886 <-- As per this topic, I'm going to write a bit about what I imagine a player's experience with Trillek might be like on their first go. Don't kill me. Croxis took one for the team by suggesting it, and now I'm biting the bullet myself by posting this up. I'm fully aware this is likely to start huge discussions. Really, that's what this is for. But easy on the criticism. This is akin to concept art or fan art, just in a literary sense. Discussions yes, hate mail no.
I'll be following the "adventures" of an unnamed player and his ingame avatar, Elijah Bailey. (yes, that's a reference.) I'm still kind of shaken up from other stuff that's been going on in Real Life, and it's 4:30 in the morning, so... my writing won't be at its best. But, here's me giving it my best shot.
I may write about multiplayer later, but I'm going to start with single player and the tutorial for now, more for my own sake than anything else. I need to get into the swing of things again, and get a feel of the atmosphere.
I AM TAKING MANY ARTISTIC LIBERTIES HERE. I'm not full of myself. >.> (whatever helps me sleep at night, right?) Anyway, you have been warned. and please forgive any typos or mistakes. I didn't get a chance to check it over - dead tired and passing out at the keyboard.
The premise is that the player is from Earth, was in cryosleep in an advanced ship, and woke up to find his ship was under attack by pirates. The player learns gameplay basics while traveling through his ship, battles through the enemy ship learning non-ship combat basics, and then settles in to learn to pilot a ship without the DCPU, while taking out an enemy fighter. Following this the player has to learn DCPU basics to get to known space. That'll be the hardest part of the tutorial, and will likely involve a step-by-step kind of thing. The whole operation has to be low-risk, but you still get killed if you're stupid.
A Rude Awakening
Elijah awakened on his ship, his surroundings pitch black and silent as the dead. He was strapped tightly to the back of a cryostasis tube. He had no sense of time, no sense of sight or smell. He blinked his eyes for a moment, trying to clear them, but his efforts were unsuccessful. Blind and deaf, and having nothing else to do, Elijah began to think over his history, and how he came to be where he was. (I'm explaining away a black screen with intro text.) He'd left Earth by himself what seemed only a few moments before... He could remember the events with perfect clarity, and he recalled them in his mind as he waited for his vision to return. (Insert whatever here. The following is just to fill in the blank.)
It seemed only yesterday that he'd launched his ship, the Europa, from Earth. Ten years before it, the nations of Earth had finally put aside their petty differences and united in a desperate attempt - humanity's last stand - to save the human race. Aliens - the Trillek - had invaded without warning, bombarding the planet's surface with bioweapons, and shooting down any stray fighters that dared come close. The battle had been long, fought both amidst the stars and amidst the blue skies below, but humanity prevailed... or at any rate, the Trillek retreated. But all was not well: The biosphere was breathing its final breaths, with entire forests shriveling and decaying. Huge portions of Europe and North America were experiencing severe droughts, and the polar ice caps were melting at an exponential rate. Worst of all, crops were even harder to sustain, food prices were skyrocketing, and there seemed to be little anyone could do to stop it. The teeming populations of the globe were slowly starving to death, with thousands being added to the tolls. It had gotten to where nobody even cared to count and catalog the dead - there were simply too many - and all because of an unwarranted attack by an alien civilization. Humanity desired two things: Escape, and revenge.
Slowly, sound returned to Elijah's ears - the buzzing of electricity, and crackling of fires - two of the most dreaded sounds of any astronaut. His eyes snapped open, and through a haze, he was able to make out the blue plexiglass shield of his cryostasis tube, and even without the fires crackling in the distance, it was immediately obvious that something had gone horribly, horribly wrong. His cryotube's lid was cracked open, large fragments, melted, missing, or fallen to the floor. As his ears continued to adjust, Elijah began to hear the unfamiliar rat-a-tat of his ship's turrets. Without a moment's hesitation, his hands flew to the straps that bound him to the back of the tube, unlatching them one by one. Then, free of his restraints, he paused for a moment. (this is where I would have the player assume control... maybe with a little popup tooltip about "Press F to melee" or something similar.)
With a shove, Elijah melee'd the curved door of his cryostasis tube, cringing as sharp blue shards flew, the aged plexiglass shattering into pieces. With a few more stout hits, the door finally gave way. His tube should've opened on its own - only an emergency could've wakened him so early. The lights about him flickered unsteadily, but they were dim - his ship was on reserve power. As he took a few shaky steps onto the floor, electrical pads and IV needles pulled away from his skin, their wires and tubes dangling limply behind him. Swaying, he steadied himself with a spacesuit display case to keep from falling over, and then began walking hurriedly towards the door. He could hear the pinging noises of bullets hitting the outer hull of his ship, and he dreaded what it could mean. He was under fire.
Before he could leave the room, a female's artificial voice toned in smoothly: it was the voice of his advanced shipboard computer, which he'd so prided himself on when he'd bought the Europa. "Hull breached and destroyed in sections A21 and F07," it explained capably. "Life support and power generators at minimal capacity. It would be advisable to equip an EVA suit before exiting the cryostasis lab." (It could say more throughout the tutorial, giving helpful hints. I'm leaving it at this, though.) Elijah paused immediately, and then turned back towards the display case he'd leaned against only moments before. Bracing himself, he melee'd the glass until it shattered, and then removed the suit, placing it in his inventory momentarily before equipping it. (The way I imagine this might work is getting the "space suit" with a key, maybe E or something. It shows up in a hotbar, perhaps something like in Minecraft, and then you equip it by selecting it (maybe with mouse scrolling through the icon list) and pushing another key - maybe U, for instance. The player might be helped along with a popup box for the duration.)
With his suit equipped, Elijah eyed his HUD's health bar, which was dangerously low, and was thankful that his suit's bar, beside it, could still take a few hits. With this, he headed back towards the door and pressed on it, meaning to open it. Normally, it would have slid open with a quiet hiss, but this time, it merely threw sparks, emitting a grinding noise that was muffled by his spacesuit. With the air of an experienced mechanic, Elijah calmly undid the box to the right of the door that held the door's power assembly, and with a flashlight, peered around at the innards. Above him, there was the sound of a giant explosion, and his ship's main, top-mounted turret fell silent as the walls about him seemed to shake from the blast. In the distance he could hear his other turrets still pinging away, but they lacked the bravado of his automated main gun. Quickening his work, he located the broken components and, with the help a spool of duct tape attached to his waist, taped both broken rods back together, and then closed the machinery casing. (Note, I'm leaving a good portion of the story up to the player's interpretation... might not be the best idea. Personally, I think he was a greedy bastard that abandoned the rest of humanity to save his own skin. As to the repairs - I'm guessing maybe repairs could be done by locating the correct component and either quick-fixing (duct-taping), or replacing parts - which would involve opening up a separate menu. Right now, he's just quick-fixing so he can get out of the room. I don't think he cares about more than a few uses.)
Elijah walked over to the door again and pressed upon it, and finally, with a grinding noise, it slid open - although far slower than it should have. As soon as it started, air began to escape the room with a whoosh, broken pieces of glass flying out through the widening gap. The escapee threw himself away from the doorway in a hurry to avoid being impaled by the shards and debris that came rushing towards him. (ARTISTIC LIBERTIES AHOY. The game might have a popup that explains "Debris thrown by escaping air can damage your suit, so stay out of the way" - that's a new mechanic. haven't seen that in games before. It ought to be simple to program in - just a few moving particle textures and a zone where you take damage at a random rate.) When the door finally finished opening, it ground to a halt, and Elijah moved back over to get the first glimpse he'd had of his ship in close to a thousand years.
The room outside the door was a hallway T-junction, its roof perforated with bulletholes, and the burns of a missile strike surrounding a particularly large hole near one edge. (Nobody's talked about damaged rooms before. Not sure if that's a no-go.) The door to his right, towards the engine room, was clearly damaged beyond repair, so Elijah jogged over to the other door and opened it, breathing a prayer of thanks as it slid open smoothly. In this way, he continued towards the front of his ship, and the cockpit. Unfortunately, when he arrived, he was met with a surprise.
The cockpit was blown open and absolutely unrepairable - the majority was open to space, and he could see the stars beyond, slowly spinning with his ship's gentle motion through the void. The gravity generator was offline for the entire area, and he turned on his suit's thrusters. to compensate. (From what I understand, we've decided on suit thrusters, more or less. You don't want them active while walking around, so... A toggle key would be nice. In environments with gravity, they would function only as an extended "jump" (spacebar, probably). After getting used to the thrusters and checking the energy bars of his suit, he ventured a look around. Above him, a miniturret rattled and clanked, and he looked up towards it - it was dangled at an awkward angle, firing in a particular direction. With extreme caution, he used his thrusters to propel himself outwards towards one of his cockpit's windows, and sighted a ship - apparently human, as the name "RAVAGER" was clearly painted across the side of it. The manufacturing seemed alien to him, though... and he wondered where he was, and how long he had been asleep.
The miniturret continued firing at the Ravager, which in turn was apparently attempting to destroy the turret. The Ravager had apparently taken heavy damage from the Europa's weaponry, and despite being a smaller ship, was managing to hold its own. Suddenly, something changed, and the window next to where he stood began cracking as bullets from the Ravager pounded against it - they'd seen him, and they were looking to kill. Backing away with his thrusters, Elijah propelled himself over a gaping hole in the cockpit's floor, barely seconds before the window exploded in a missile's fireball. (I realize this may be a bit more destructive than we can manage... easily fixed. The window can still be there, we'd just need a fireball. lol - plus. Artistic liberties. *glares* >.> Oh, and if the player ventures out of the ship, wham, he gets killed by weaponfire. Finish the tutorial. (You could easily have an option to skip the tutorial altogether...)) Realizing that there was nothing to do amidst the ruined, smoking pieces of equipment floating about the destroyed cockpit, Elijah headed towards the far door. It was damaged, just as the one to the cryochamber had been, but he knew how to repair it. It wasn't long before he was traveling back through the ship's corridors.
The far side was damaged less than the other had been, and he was forced to duck instinctively out of the way of escaping debris, as he opened up a sealed-off area. The power generator was clearly failing, and the only sign of the ship's alarms, silent in the airless hallways, were slow-flashing red lights near the floor. (Honestly, why are "red alert" lights always towards the ceiling? It makes more sense to give more light to the floor - where you're stepping. End rant. Also, I'm being lazyish now, it's 7:20 AM and I haven't slept yet. Wanting to finish this up.) Before long, Elijah came to an interior airlock, and waited until the air pressurized inside before continuing.
The alarms were sounding loudly through the ship, but the sound of weaponry had completely ceased. Elijah was sure the enemy was trying to board. It was clear what they were - pirates. He wouldn't let them take control of his ship.
TO SUM THE REST UP: He goes back through the ship, finds a weapon, finds medigel, or something similar - heals his wounds up a bit, or patches himself, or something (honestly, medical realism in a game would be absolutely horrible). His ship's computer is warning him during this time that he doesn't have long before the ship's (primitive) alcubierre drive implodes on itself - it was badly damaged. Therefore, all the advanced computer tech gets destroyed. No harm done to the universe's atmosphere. An enemy human pirate board his ship, he fights him off, and then thrusters off into the void towards the Ravager... which, if the player is successful at completing the tutorial, will become the player's new ship. And it has a DCPU.
Yay, done. sort of. I'm taking a shortcut at the end, because I went way overboard with length.
Don't hate me... lol


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Renaissance man Spenser - he of the acerbic social commentary, the gourmet cookery, and the steely abs - turns his considerable talents to the unraveling of a thirty-year-old murder mystery. During a 1974 holdup in a Boston bank by a revolutionary group calling itself the Dread Scott Brigade, Emily Gordon, a visitor cashing traveler's checks, is shot and killed. Despite security-camera photos and a letter from the group claiming responsibility, nobody saw who shot her, and the perpetrators have remained at large for three decades. Enter Paul Giacomin, the closest thing to Spenser's son. When Paul's friend Daryl Gordon, Emily's daughter, decides she needs closure regarding her mother's death, she turns to Spenser, who must reach past the lack of clues and missing FBI report to seek the truth.
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Department of Pediatrics, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
A comprehensive Sickle Cell Pulmonary Clinic is held monthly at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta's Scottish Rite Campus co-attended by a Pediatric Pulmonologist and Pediatric Hematologist .
Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) patients with a history of ACS or suspected lung disease are referred to our clinic. Routine outpatient monitory and management of their SCD is continued under the direction of the attending hematologist. Cardiopulmonary evaluation includes pulse oximetry, spirometry and plethysmography, overnight polysomnography, and echocardiography. Pulmonary management includes treatment of obstructive and restrictive lung disease, management of obstructive sleep apnea, and nocturnal oxygen supplementation when indicated. Patients with elevated estimated pulmonary artery pressure are referred to a cardiologist for further evaluation and management. Cardiopulmonary dysfunction is considered as an indication for intensified management of SCD including transfusion therapy and hydroxyurea.
Over the last 25 months in 29 clinic sessions, 109 patients have been followed in a total of 253 clinic visits. 57 patients (52.2%) were male. The mean age at the initial visit was 9.1 years (median=8.3, range 1.9 to 18.2). Complete pulmonary functions were obtained in 63 patients at their initial visit with a mean TLC of 82.5 % of predicted (37% < 80%) and mean RV/TLC of 0.36 (93% > 0.25). Patients are typically seen at 6 month intervals. The annualized rate of Acute Chest Syndrome (ACS) in 70 patients seen for two consecutive visits (average interval-221 days) was reduced from an initial rate of 0.79 events/year to 0.33 events/year. (p = .0113) The annualized rate of ACS in 31 patients seen for 3 consecutive visits (average interval between visits 1 and 3-393 days) was reduced from 1.14 events/year to 0.30 events/year. (p<0.001) .
Therapeutic interventions based on cardiopulmonary assessment in pediatric SCD patients followed in a comprehensive Sickle Cell Pulmonary Clinic is associated with a reduced incidence of ACS.
Cardiopulmonary evaluation and the collaboration of pediatric hematologists and pulmonolgists are important but often overlooked components in the management of pediatric patients with SCD.
L.M. Graham, None.
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
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Yesterday morning at 745 a.m……we showed up at the hospital with Mason….
for his scheduled tonsil and adenoid removal surgery. I don't know why i don't think of these things before hand..
but i really wish i would have brought my video camera.
We got all checked in…and waited while the anesthesiologist came in and chatted with us…
then the surgeon….then the nurse.
The nurse brought in with her a liquid cocktail in a small cup for Mason to drink…
and told him to drink it quick because it didn't taste good…but it was sure going to make him feel good.
Feel good in about 15 minutes or so.
Feel good as in….get real loopy and laugh at everything we said.
Feel good as in…
I think i needed some of that cocktail also.
Bryan thought he needed some too.
So when the nurse came back in to check on Mason….i politely asked if she had any extra she could hand out
to us…because we knew it was going to be a long day.
She didn't laugh…and as a matter of fact…she raised her eyebrows at us…and frowned…
and i have a feeling she went and told the surgeon on us.
I have a feeling her funny bone was removed when she graduated nursing school.
the surgery went great…..
Mason came out of anesthesia just fine….and we came home and spent the afternoon on the sofa…
he's been a real trooper. We are learning our own version of sign language….and last night i
remember what it felt like to have a newborn in the house again….by getting up every four hours.
Luckily there was no diaper to change.
It's been rough….i'm not gonna lie….but as long as Mason takes his Tylenol with codeine every four
hours then it's not so bad.
I pour his dose in his spoon and say…
one spoonful for you….
and one spoonful for me.
We've gone thru 1973944792837 gallons of ice cream….and some very nice friends have brought
over homemade soup……smoothies….and little gifts.
I even let Fin and Lola have ice cream for dinner last night.
I might have had a scoop or three for myself as well….and my favorite is …
chocolate peanut butter cup topped with a scoop of caramel crunch topped with a scoop of cookie dough.
Funny thing is….i stepped on the scale this morning and i believe there is a spring loose…
{so weird}
so i am going to have to take it in and get it fixed. My dryer is broken also…….
{totally unexpected}
i know it's because it's from the 80's and only has one setting….which dried my jeans
super dry and even shrunk them a few sizes. I might let Lola have them now.
On a positive note…Mason will never have strep throat ever again…
or miss another day of school…or snore.
Not that snoring is a big deal….but i have a feeling that Fin will appreciate a snore free night.
p.s. I made a potato and mushroom gratin in which i boiled potatoes in heavy whipping cream.
p.p.s. I will give you the recipe soon.
p.p.s.s. That is…if i don't die first from the cream running thru my veins.
p.s.s. I think i am turning into a true mid-westerner now that i used potatoes and cream in one dish.
p.s.p. Except i know for a fact that the French love Cream….so therefor i love cream.
p.p.p.p. I'm going to stop now….it's time to give Mason some tylenol with codeine.