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My life is good, my life is great.
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My grades have dropped I'm such a schmuck,
but I don't care I don't give a ----
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Forget the world!
So time has passed but nothing's changed,
my life's still bad it's all rearranged.
Nothing matters any more!
My grades have dropped I'm such a schmuck,
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A few years back, I read about a marathon training program that virtually guaranteed that by following its system, runners could shave 20 minutes off their fastest marathon time. I know you're thinking, "Yeah, right, and you can be rich in 30 days too, right?"
I was intrigued, since at the time I was trying to make it to the Boston Marathon. It's called the FIRST system and, in a nutshell, it has people running only three times a week, with one day of non-running between each.
The first running day is for speed work, the second a tempo run at a 10K pace, and the last day, the weekend, would be for the long run. The caveat to this system is that on two, or at the very least, one of your non-running days you are supposed to train really hard on a bike, in the pool or on a rowing machine, giving your running muscles a break.
I tried it out but found I wasn't as committed to riding a bike as I was to running. And swimming was out of the question. Last year, I finally purchased a road bike and spent the summer half running half biking, not really excited about either.
This year seems to be different. In training between the rain and snow of spring, I've found that riding a bike on the non-running days has really helped. I feel better and stronger, and it seems I have more endurance. Not only that, the occasional calf and hamstring pain I once had has all but disappeared.
Not being a doctor or any kind of expert in medicine, I can't explain why I feel better, I just do. I assume spending three hours with your calves flexed on a bike pedal has to help. And although biking seems less strenuous, the endurance of cycling with an elevated heart rate for hours couldn't hurt either.
But the most noticeable benefit, I've found, is the variety. There's nothing like being able to participate in multiple sports and doing so with confidence.
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Jul 10, 2013, 2:15 PM EDT
The term "Flapgate" will never have the chance to take off.
NASCAR ruled Wednesday that the 31 teams found to have had noncompliant roof flap spacers at Daytona International Speedway will not be penalized following what it deemed a "thorough review."
Sixteen Sprint Cup and 15 Nationwide Series teams had their spacers confiscated last Thursday.
"We examined this from every aspect we possibly could and determined that there would be no penalties involved," Robin Pemberton, NASCAR's vice president of competition, told NASCAR.com. "Based upon our inspection and subsequent review, it was our determination that the functionality and safety aspects of the roof flaps were not compromised and the on track competition would not be impacted."
A litany of potential puns based on the "31 flavors of penalties" – one of which was suggested this morning by the brilliant NASCAR and IndyCar satirist known only as @nascarcasm, below – will now be averted as a result.
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Having been deeply immersed in the alternative, independent and analytical media (aka free media) since the downing of flight MH17 it is becoming increasingly clear that the world is on the verge of breaking point.
The international order with the US as global hegemon and their dollar as a global currency is nearly over. It is a dead empire supported by a worthless currency.
However... The people with power aren't going to give it up without a fight.
When the next market crash hits the world in the Autumn we will probably all be banned from gathering in public places due to (very convenient) outbreaks of the ebola virus.
We will all be pacified, sterilised and maybe even chemically lobotomised by untrialled but compulsory vaccinations.
Protests will carry on regardless. It will get very messy.
Then the terrorists will strike. 'ISIS' will detonate a crude nuke or dirty bomb in a US city.
The US will fall under full martial law and head towards civil war, a war between the state and it's people.
The world will have to watch and wait until their domestic military (aka police) either runs out of weapons or runs out of people prepared to do their dirty work.
Or maybe I just need to chill the fuck out and get stoned.
(And another couple of points on ISIS: if they hate the West and America so much then why did they name themselves in English and take their initials from an English translation of their name? Secondly, if ISIS are all about creating a regional Islamic state and ejecting non-muslims from the region then where is their support for Palestine? Where are their attacks against Israel? Why is all their rhetoric directed at the US and not Israel? ISIS is well known to be a CIA constructed terrorist organisation designed to scare the living shit out of Americans. They are funded by the Saudi's, trained by NATO and Israel provide at least some of their weaponry. They are the 'Operation Gladio' of the twenty first century.)
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Let's Talk About Car Seats: Proper Buckling Edition
I realized this week that it's been 2 months since I completed my courses and became a child passenger safety technician (CPST) and I really haven't done much with what I learned. Mostly this is because I am bohemethly pregnant, which makes it tougher than you'd think to install car seats. But I realized that being giant shouldn't stop me from sharing the things I've learned that can help keep kids safe.
I frequently see pictures of kids on Facebook, twitter and Instagram who are in their car seats, smiling their hearts out, and all I can think is how terribly injured they would be in an accident. I know this isn't because their parents don't care about them, quite the opposite, they're in a car seat in the back seat because their parents care, but somewhere along the line, the proper buckling/safety got lost or missed. And those kids, and thousands of others, are at risk for serious injury in an otherwise survivable car collision.
So today I want to talk about how to properly buckle a child into a 5 point harness, including some common mistakes and why we need to be careful about not making those.
This is Eli, he's 2 years and 1 month old and he rides rear facing 100% of the time and will until he outgrows the limits of his car seat. We can talk about that another time, but he's clearly not unhappy about it. In fact, he cried when I took him out of the car. I'm not even kidding. It might have been more because he had to put his pacifiers away, but still. He loves his seat and rides happily in it.
Here he is properly restrained. His harness is snug enough, the chest clip is positioned properly, the straps are on the right setting and his seat is properly installed (another post for another day). This is how he rides 100% of the time, regardless of whether he's put in the car by mom or dad. We take the time to do this every single time. Even when we're running late, which is 100% of the time.
Now, let's look at some common errors and how to correct them.
1. Chest clip placement. This is probably the most frequent error and is a big one. I know it probably doesn't seem that critical, but the chest clip plays a huge role in keeping your child safe in a collision. The chest clip keeps the straps properly positioned on the shoulders. In the event of a collision, if the chest clip is too low, the straps can slide off the child's shoulders and the child can be ejected from the vehicle. Also, if it's positioned over the belly, it may cause abdominal injuries in a crash.
How do you know it's in the right place? The chest clip belongs at armpit level (or nipple level, same difference). It should not be anywhere near the belly at any time.
2. Loose straps. I get how this one happens. We don't want our kids to be uncomfortable, so we make sure the harness isn't too tight. But in doing so, we are putting our kids at serious risk. If the harness is too loose in a rear facing seat, the child will "ride up" the seat and can be ejected. If the harness is too loose in a forward facing seat, the child will have significantly more movement forward, which could cause them to collide with the front seat, injuring arms, legs, brains and spines.
So how do you know if the straps are tight enough? The pinch test. The pinch test is the best measure to make sure the straps are tight enough. Once you've tightened the harness, attempt to pinch the webbing (horizontally) at the collar bone. You may need to remove or unvelcro shoulder pads to do this, but doing it at the belly is not valid. If you cannot pinch any of the harness, it is properly tightened. If you can pinch the harness, it needs to be tighter.
Here, I can pinch the harness, so the harness is too loose.
Here, when I try to pinch, I can't grasp any of the harness webbing between my fingers, so the harness is tight enough.
3. Aftermarket products on the seat. As you can see, I did this. I did it for a full year before I knew better (we can also discuss how the straps are too loose, I too made almost all these mistakes before I knew better). I thought that Eli would be more comfortable with these strap covers on and I clipped his pacifier to his harness. Why are these things wrong? Well, for starters, any object that isn't crash tested with your car seat shouldn't be used. Your seat was intended to work a specific way and there's no way to know if adding something is going to be dangerous. For strap covers, the issues are that they can make the straps slippery and cause them to slide off your child's shoulders, or, in a crash the fabric can compress (much like if you put your child in a puffy coat) and cause the harness to be too loose in the moment you need it to be tight. The pacifier should never have been clipped there because it could damage the harness and reduce it's ability to perform correctly in a crash.
So, how can you protect the neck from strap marks? You can call your car seat manufacturer and see if there are any strap covers that they can send that have been crash tested with their seat, and many companies have these available. If that doesn't work, you can put your child in polo shirts, you can pull their shirts up under the straps, or you can just live with it. It's not a perfect answer, but when used properly, the harness shouldn't damage the skin.
4. Combination loose straps and low chest clip. This is the worst. I don't mean for this to come across meanly, but if this is how your child is buckled into a car seat, you really shouldn't even bother putting them in a car seat. This will provide absolutely zero protection in even a mild crash. The child will be ejected at least from the seat, if not from the car, and very likely severely injured.
This actually happened to an infant in my area recently. The car accident was entirely survivable, but the child was ejected because she was in a seat with the chest clip at belly level and the straps too loose. It is an absolute tragedy and that's why I'm telling you this. We all get told repeatedly by doctors and family members how to feed our kids, what the safest products are, but no one takes the time to teach parents about car seats. Car crashes kill thousands of kids each year and studies have found that more than two-thirds of car seats are used incorrectly. We need to take the time to correct our mistakes and change our ways so that we can keep our kids safe.
It takes less than a minute for me to get Eli properly strapped into his seat. I know when we're in a rush it feels like every second counts, but safety should never be rushed. Taking those extra 30 seconds to adjust the chest clip and check the tightness are absolutely critical. I am not exaggerating at all when I say that it can literally be the difference between life and death for a child. Please take the time, pay attention and now that you know better, make the conscious decision to do better.
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Also, part way through there's a bird on the video and he gets distracted and starts quacking. Repeatedly. If you're not interested in hearing repeated quacking, I'd skip from 2:06-1:40 (the video counts down, which is…odd).
Two has proven to be the most challenging age to date, but damn if it's also not the very best. Eat your heart out, Adele Dazeem (and Kristen Bell).
This past month has been…interesting. It's frustrating because I can't freely write about a lot of it in detail, which basically has me here saying that things are interesting without being able to describe how and why.
The very short versions of everything is that:
1. My grandfather has tongue cancer, which I've written about already, and is going to be undergoing intense radiation. He's having trouble swallowing even his own saliva, and is currently in a lot of pain. And it's not good and it is just terrible for him and there's not much more I can add. It's a really crappy situation and we are all helpless.
2. At the same time, my father-in-law is sick, which is not something I will be writing about at this time. There are layers of bad here that I can't get into, my husband is caught in the middle and to put it mildly, what's going on is devastating. I realize that I haven't exactly written love sonnets about my mother-in-law but my father-in-law is a really great man, he loves my husband and my son and this whole situation is just terrible.
3. Eli has had something funky going on with one of his legs that we can't quite get to the bottom of. It's not life threatening by any means, just worrisome and confusing mostly. We're watching it for now since so far everything has come back okay.
Anyway, things are just suddenly feeling very personal. Writing has always been an outlet for me, but right now I feel like I'm overexposed. Like the things that are going on in my life are too intimate to share with everyone and that's why I've kept some of it quiet.
And it's why I locked down my twitter this weekend. I don't usually like to shout into an echo chamber. I value criticism and input and don't mind people disagreeing with me. I don't mind sharing things with people, even those I don't know. And I don't know if it's the hormones or if it's just feeling raw from life, but I'm just not in place where I feel like I want to share things with the entire world. And yes, I realize many of you are thinking then hey, how about don't share it on twitter, but you should understand that I have a lot of friends there, a lot of people who lend me a tremendous amount of strength and support and I don't want to give that up.
So, it's locked. I'm being somewhat judicious with the follow requests for now, but it's not like I'm kicking anyone out. I just need a little cocoon. I need to wrap myself in people that I care about, people that care about me, and give myself a little break from everyone else, at least on one social media platform. Plus, I feel like a little privacy isn't an inherently bad thing and maybe this is something that has needed to happen for a while. I don't know when or if I'll unlock the account, but I do know that for right now, this is what I need.
I will continue to write here (I have a good giveaway coming up this week, as well as the greatest video of all time to share), hopefully even more than I have in a while, especially since my maternity leave is starting soon.
Thanks for sticking around.
School's in for the Summer
When we had originally planned our move, we weren't going to do it until July. That way I would be heading towards maternity leave right when we transitioned away from Eli's daycare. It was a good plan right until crazy people were on our patio and our laundry detergent was being chronically stolen. And thus, we moved up our move. The upside was a safer environment (yesterday I left my phone on the roof of my car for 2 hours and no one stole it, though I don't recommend this as a test for your neighbors), but the downside was a major child care conundrum. Again.
So, we began looking for a place for Eli. I had not intended to have him in daycare while I was on maternity leave both for financial and germ related reasons, so I was just looking for short term options, but I quickly discovered that it was much more easily said than done.
And so the hunt began. The one I wanted required potty training, which ha. hahaha. hahahahahaha. No. Others were not able to accommodate my T/W/Th work schedule. Others still had 6 months wait lists. We finally found a few that checked all the boxes and began visiting. And finally, we had a winner. We were going to send our tiny little boy to preschool.
The school is a Montessori, but that's not why we picked it. We do a lot of Montessori things by accident so it's not that we're opposed, it's just that we didn't seek it out. After an initial meeting and visit, we decided, at their recommendation, to ease Eli in with a few hour long visits.
The first time went better than we imagined. We arrived just as his class was going out to the playground and he could not have cared less that we were leaving him there because guys, there is a SUH-LIE-DUH here and my husband and I left both sort of feeling like it was the most anticlimactic milestone ever. We picked him up an hour later and he was sitting at a table with the other kids, happy as a clam.
(Walking in the first day with his "pack pack")
The second time was a disaster. My husband dropped him off and he screamed "I want my daddy!" over and over. When my husband came to pick him up an hour later the other kids were dancing and he was sitting in the teacher's lap holding his blanket. When he saw my husband he burst into tears again.
At that point, I almost gave up on the whole thing. I wasn't sure how I was going to get Eli taken care of for the 2 weeks my husband is out of town this month, but hell if I was going to let my baby cry all day. Mama bear and all that.
I spoke to the preschool and they gave a not so reassuring, "if he's not a good fit, we'll let you know" but we pushed forward and set up a plan to do 2 half days the next week and 2 full days the following.
To my surprise and delight, the half days went really, really well. A few tears at drop off, but the rest of the day he participated and was happy at pick up time. We were going to do 8:30-2:30ish (basically through nap) the second week, but as usual life intervened and instead of a "school" day, today Eli went to his first full day of preschool.
My baby.
I was supposed to pick him up after my last patient at 5, but they ended up canceling and so I bolted out the door at 4 sharp and made it to preschool by 4:20. When I got there he was walking from painting to the sink to wash his hands, which are basically 2 of his favorite activities. He saw me and squealed and I basically did the same.
The teacher stopped to introduce herself since we had not officially met (most of the drop offs and pick ups were mostly done by dad) and she told me that he was "incredibly well behaved." I briefly brushed it off as something she said to everyone, but the tone and seriousness made me feel like maybe she was being really serious. Plus, he's an awesome kid, so there's that too.
(Walking out today, my big preschooler. Bonus unintentional gigantic shadow sort of showing my gigantic pregnancy girth)
And now he's a preschooler. My baby. I have all the feelings, but mostly I'm just hopeful that this will be the right place for him this year and that we continue to have lots of good, easy days where teachers remark about how well behaved he is. I'm sure that last part is super likely.
Face First
I don't have a lot of parenting advice because at least 85% of the time I have zero idea what I'm doing, but please take this one piece of advice from me: Don't let your kid fall and hit their face on cement. And if you insist upon ignoring this seriously important suggestion, then let me just recommend that you especially do not do this on a Sunday.
Which is what we did yesterday.
After Eli's nap, he and I were going to head to the pool for a little water time. This kid could literally spend all day in a pool if we'd let him, so it was just going to be a little time for the 2 of us while my husband worked on a presentation. I was probably more excited than the situation called for, but he's just so damn fun these days and I so enjoy spending time with him.
We walked out the door and Eli started requested to walk with his towel wrapped around him. We made it about 10 feet out of the hallway and he tripped. As he was falling I though, well, I really shouldn't have let him wrap his hands in that towel, now he can't catch himself and he's going to hit his face. And sure enough, he did. I hate when I don't see the risk until it's too late and I will harbor some guilt over that stupidity for a while.
He cried and cried and it was so sad. I could tell he was bleeding and was hopeful that maybe it was just his lip tie that tore, but no, the blood was coming from around his top left front tooth. I finally got a decent look and realized in horror that the left tooth, which was previously even with the right tooth, was notably pushed back. My heart sank.
I know it's silly and it's shallow, but I love Eli's front teeth. I find the gap adorable and even the slight protrusion that I know is a result of his dedication to his pacifier and my unwillingness to take away his soothing mechanism, makes me smile. I couldn't believe I'd let this happen. It took him a great long while to calm down, during which time I remained amazingly calm, and then finally he relaxed and asked to watch Planes and have ice cream. And then while he watched Planes, I had a complete and utter breakdown, sobbed like a baby over the possibility that they'd pull out one of his adorable front teeth. And then I pulled myself together and started figuring out what to do.
I called the on call pediatrician who a) told me she could not help me because we needed to see a dentist and b) chastised me for not taking him to a dentist sooner. I politely explained that we only waited because we asked both our regular pediatrician and our dentist (our dentist office has a pediatric wing), both of which who said to wait until 2 to bring him in, which we are what, 3 weeks late on? And she rather rudely fired back that the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends the first visit 6 months after the first tooth erupts or at 12 months and I was like HI, MY CHILD'S MOUTH IS BLEEDING AND MY TIME MACHINE IS BROKEN. I am seriously still livid over this. He's 24 months old, he's not been to a dentist, which is not something I can fix right now and he may have damaged one of his teeth. What about this seems like the time for a lecture?
Anyway, 25 calls later and guess what, there are no emergency dentists that see kids on Sundays. There just aren't. So we went to our ER where they have an emergency dentist, and then realized it was going to be 10pm before we saw him and so we left. Eli wasn't in any significant pain (he ate dinner without issue, though we didn't let him bite into anything) and was pleasant all evening. He even would've probably slept through the entire night had one of his window alarms not broken at 2am, causing it to start shrieking 12 inches from his face.
Sidenote: this particular incident was kind of a hilarious shit show. I heard the alarm on the monitor and knew what it was and that it was probably malfunctioning and not someone breaking in. Sometime between when I fell asleep and when the alarm went off, in a pregnancy induced hot flash I had apparently shed my shirt. As I was getting up to run into Eli's room, grabbed what I thought was my shirt from atop the laundry pile, but was instead a pair of my husband's (clean) underwear. So I'm running across the living room trying to put on underwear as a shirt, quickly and oh, I almost wish I could've seen it, except not at all. Thank God the house was dark. I think I might have traumatized my toddler more with my giant nakedness than with the window alarm. Thank goodness my husband came with me and helped calm Eli down while I tried to modesty patch myself with the underwear.
Anyway, we went to a dentist this morning who basically said that because Eli's pacifier use had caused his front 2 teeth to protrude, falling had really just knocked that tooth back into proper alignment and it would probably be fine. It might discolor, but should re-whiten and mostly we just need to watch out for future abscesses, which would necessitate extraction. He has to go back next Wednesday when hopefully the swelling will be down, to have an x-ray (also when his dad can come since I can't hold him down for an x-ray unless I want his brother to have 12 heads) to make sure the root isn't damaged. Also, we found out Eli doesn't have dental insurance, so yea. Good times for all of us. He's on a soft foot diet for a week and was pretty crushed about having pancakes for dinner tonight.
So like I was saying, don't let your kid fall on their face and especially not on a Sunday. And especially not when you're pregnant because this weekend is what alcohol was made for.
Where to Start
While I write relatively openly about Eli and our lives, I try to keep some things private. You will never see his naked butt on any of my social media (though it is truly the cutest butt ever), you'll not hear about potty training in great detail, nor will you ever see a picture of him sitting on a toilet. I have firm boundaries that are important to me. And this is one of those areas where if I didn't feel like I needed some guidance, I would probably not share. But I do. Because I've never had a child before.
Eli has some…quirks. He's always been a quirky kid, from infancy on. He had weird sleep patterns and weird eating patterns, but they worked for us and we rolled with them. He hated his crib with a passion of a thousand suns, and we rolled with it. But for the past 3-4 months, we've had a hard time rolling with things. All of this pre-dates our move, and though we have discussed the baby with him, I can say with great confidence that he has no idea what's happening there.
A lot of it is normal toddler stuff, I know that, but other parts aren't, and we're struggling to figure out how to best support him right now, because frankly, we have no idea what we're doing.
The first thing we noticed was the lining up. I know, I know. Lining things up is NORMAL. It's a normal stage, it's a good thing, it demonstrates good spatial awareness, as does the sorting. These are all true and I know it. And if he was just lining things up, I wouldn't even mention it. But it's not just lining things up. It's spending hours lining things up and freaking out when they don't stay, or when the space isn't quite right, or when it's time to clean up, or if, God help you, someone touches the line. When it was just cars, I was not terribly worried, but now it's everything. It's balls, it's chalk. Last week at soccer, he lined up all the extra cones and screamed when someone dared touch one.
And I was less worried when he was playing with cars typically in addition to the lining up, but I have scarcely seen Eli drive a car on the ground or do anything with them other than line them up lately. I just have this weird prickly feeling about it and as much as I want to dismiss it, instead of the behavior fading, it just seems to keep escalating.
At the same time, he's social. I mean, unbelievably, undeniably, loves to be the center of attention social. He's his dad. He smiles, he hugs, he gives kisses, he makes eye contact, he talks in multi-word sentences that are mostly intelligible. He does all kinds of cool stuff. Our pediatrician gave us an autism screening tool and we had several concerning areas but the doctor said that Eli's social skills are so astoundingly appropriate, that he didn't even want to refer him for anything. Which was like 10% comforting and 90% confusing as all hell.
The big thing is that he's struggling with is play. He has these rigid rules about things. Today he was playing with play dough with his cousin and I spotted the problem from a mile away, well before it began. My sister was rolling play dough into small balls and putting them on the tops of the play dough containers and Addie was taking the balls and squishing them. You know, playing. Eli came in and I knew the instant he saw the play dough that he was going to freak out because he could not deal with Addie taking a ball. Not like, he wanted it and was being possessive and she took it, but because then one container didn't have a ball on top. And he screamed and cried. Not like cried because something had been taken away, cried like he couldn't function. Couldn't stop crying, was beside himself and unable to be redirected in any fashion. Just an absolute mess (this after a 3.5 hour nap).
And it's not the first time it has happened, it's not the 10th time it's happened. All I want for my child is for him to be successful at what he chooses. I want his life to be easy in the sense that he can achieve what he wants without any unnecessary struggles. I want him to have friends and enjoy school and activities, but the way he interacts with his peers makes that a huge challenge.
And again, he's a toddler. They're rigid, I know that, it's just, he seems to always be noticeably more rigid than his peers.
The last thing that has given me the greatest pause is his sensitivity and what seems to be coming out as anxiety. He has always struggled with loud noises, literally for as long as I can remember. We can't run a blender, vacuum, dust buster or anything of that nature without him hiding or running and crying. The tape we used to close boxes scared him every time. Motorcycles that are a huge distance away terrify him. Public bathrooms (toilet flushing and hand driers) are an absolute nightmare. And okay, fine, he's sensitive, we've known that for some time. For a few months now, when something scares him, he'll say "you're okay! you're okay!" in a quiet high pitched voice, just to himself, as if to calm himself down (the wording he got from us). And for a while, it made perfect sense.
It doesn't anymore. There are times where there is no stimulus we can spot that is making him uncomfortable, but he'll start sort of panicking and then we'll hear "you're okay! you're okay!" several times. It will happen when he's otherwise happily at play, in the car, in his bed, basically anytime. Like he's constantly reassuring himself that he's okay. And it breaks my heart because no 2 year old should need to comfort themselves 20 times a day when they're playing safely at home.
And I'm just…I don't even know. It's something I don't know how to deal with. I don't know how to help him. I don't know what he needs. We could have him evaluated by the Regional Center, but our local one is terrible and he doesn't have delays in other areas and likely won't qualify for anything. We could go to a developmental pediatrician or a psychologist, but I don't know if that's unnecessary and if it'll just freak him out more. I just don't know.
I don't know the difference between normal toddler rigidity and all of this, if there is one. I don't know the difference between being a sensitive kid and this, again, if there is one. I just don't know. And I feel like in doing nothing, I'm potentially failing my child, but I feel frozen and unsure of what to do for him. It's not denial by any means, I know some of this stuff is probably not typical, I just don't know how to go about managing it.
I love this boy more than anything in the universe. He is the most lovable incredible boy, he does so many great things and he is my favorite person on the earth. All I want is for him to be happy and successful. I just feel like I have no idea anymore how to provide that for him with the things that are happening.
So, this is sort of a half-hearted request for suggestions or experiences or reassurances. Please know that it's sort of a tender situation for me, so handle with care.
All the Happenings
This is going to be like a stream of consciousness only longer, probably, because it's been a busy few weeks and I haven't had enough to say about any one thing, but too much to say about too many, and basically that's why it's been quiet.
First, we had Eli's birthday party, which was delightful. We had it at the same park as last year and decorated with Sesame Street. Eli had an absolute blast, which was my biggest concern. He played on the slide for a solid hour, hung out with his cousins and only stopped briefly to eat. We had ladder golf and corn hole tournaments (with prizes) for the adults and goodies for the kids. I will never forget the expression on Eli's face when everyone say happy birthday and he has pretty much been obsessed with singing it since then.
The next weekend, we moved. Well, first we packed. I cannot convey how much I hate packing and I always procrastinate and then stay up way too late the night before the move and it's the dumbest thing, but I'll never learn. It took hours to load the moving van and hours to unload. My poor husband did the lion's share of unloading because most of our (lovely, very appreciated) family volunteers had to leave before we finished. When we move again next year, my husband said that we're hiring movers, not because we need them, but because he's willing to pay money to keep his parents away. The movers are apparently just a bonus. His words, not mine.
Then it was my birthday, which was relatively uneventful, not in a bad way. We took Eli to his 2 year check up where he was pronounced in good health, though we are keeping an eye on a few concerning behaviors (which are another post for another time). He even escaped without any shots, which was a fun surprise for all of us. Then we went to lunch at the hospital cafeteria (we fancy), took Eli home for a nap, checked out a preschool (also another post for another time) and then went to dinner. I also bought my very first set of brand new pots and pans, which I love so much I kind of want to sleep with them.
Other big news includes Eli transitioning from his crib mattress on the floor to a (hand-me-down) twin bed. I made my husband take the frame off because it's SO tall and he's SO little, but we'll add that on eventually. The move combined with the new bed have essentially ruined Eli's sleep, but he's quietly sleep fighting, so I have zero complaints. And he loves his new bed and his "airpane" sheets.
In less positive news, my grandpa has had a recurrence of cancer. He had a tumor removed from his tongue about 3 years ago and was told that it was very slow growing and he'd probably be fine. We don't know exactly when, but he had regrowth and started having trouble eating in January. Being the stubborn man he is, he didn't tell anyone and has lost well over 15 pounds in the past several months from not being able to swallow food. He finally went to his doctor and it's not good. He met with a surgeon and an oncologist this week and his options are just awful.
He can do radiation, but it probably won't work (not a responsive type of tumor) and will be brutal on his mouth. There is a surgery, but it's 16 hours long and involves unhinging his jaw and the surgeon said a lot of 40 year olds don't survive it, so they won't do it on an 88 year old. Or he can do nothing, and basically he wastes away and can't eat and that's the end of his life. I'm so angry about this because it is just miserably unfair. He is a good man, this isn't how his life should end. I never imagined a scenario where there were no treatments that would make things better in some way (we're not delusional enough to need remission, just comfort) and I am just angry. He couldn't get his knees replaced 15 years ago because his heart wasn't in good enough shape, yet he's lived the past 15 years just so he can have this terrible end? I just can't. I'm so mad.
And that's pretty much it. Very abbreviated, but it's the goings on. I will post pictures of the new apartment when everything is finished. We've unpacked all the boxes but hung (hanged?) very few pictures and Eli's room needs some color. It's a really, really nice place and we're really happy here. Eli's room is huge, the patio is huge and it feels very much like home already. The community is also great and the 15 minute work commute is just a heaping pile of awesome. Overall things here are going very well and someday I will write in more detail about just one or two things. Probably.
I have been treating a little boy in my clinic for well over a year now, in fact, I saw him just today. I'm not going to tell you his name, age or diagnosis, not just for legal reasons, but also, because for the purpose of the story, it doesn't matter. But I will tell you that I adore him. If I was allowed to have favorite patients, he would be high on my list and he has captured my heart in a special way.
A few months ago, I ordered a special piece of medical equipment for him. It took months to get it created and adjusted properly. We had to go through his pediatrician, the company that makes it, repeated appointments to fix things that weren't right and on and on. And finally, about a month ago, he got it. This is not his first piece of equipment, but it was the first that he might actually use and it is important for his wellbeing and function.
We worked hard to get him comfortable using it and made a BIG fuss over how cool it was and things were going really, really well. Last week, he and his mom went to Target to do some shopping. As they were walking through the store, a young boy sitting in the shopping cart noticed the piece of equipment and like any kid, was curious about it. And so he asked his mother why my patient had that.
And her reply was "well honey, he's different."
That one word, that one 3 syllable, 9 letter word, undid months of work. It crushed a little boy's self esteem and it set him back weeks in terms of his function.
The question in and of itself is completely appropriate. That boy in the cart had every right and reason to ask his mother, and there are a million great ways to answer that question ("why don't you ask him?" "It helps him do x, y, or z" "It makes him jump really high!" etc, etc, etc). But instead, she chose not to explain it at all, but instead to label.
Her response was possibly the worst thing that she could've chosen to reply with. It instantaneously created an otherness, one that we had all been desperately trying to avoid, and set it right in my patient's lap. It was an otherness he had not yet come to fully recognize, but is now hyperaware of. That one stupid word literally changed his life.
The problem with labeling someone as different, especially with the tone that is so often used, is that it separates people into typical and atypical. It makes the group that are somehow atypical feel like they don't belong or can't fit in. And in the case of my patient, all he wants in the world is to belong. To have a group of friends, to play in a typical fashion, to be anything but different.
And he isn't different. He's a little boy. He loves Disney movies and pirates and cars and everything that kids his age love. He skips the number 17 when he counts. He is obsessed with superheroes and will do just about anything if you can make it into a game about Spiderman. He is not "different." He may move in a way that the rest of us don't or require help with things that other kids can do alone, but he isn't different. He's bright and fun and loving and everything that you want a child to be. His sameness is so much greater than his difference, but for some reason, no one can seem to get past the things that don't fit.
I wish I could've met the mother in Target that day. Not because I want to scream or yell (though I do, a little), but because it could've been an incredible opportunity to open someone's eyes to how powerful their words are. I wish I could've shown her how important a question that was and how important her answer was. I wish I could've educated her on all the ways my patient is not different, or on all the ways that using different in that tone is a terrible thing to do. I wish I could've helped her to understand how different can be good, how different can sometimes even be better.
We must do a better job of explaining and introducing disabilities and differently abled people to our children. By making these differences a negative we do a great disservice to these children and adults who have incredible talents, amazing personalities and bright futures that we completely miss because of our preconceived expectations about them. We need to teach our children to look beyond the things that give them pause, to push through their unintentional prejudices and realize that underneath what we may see as differences are often layers of sameness.
What a Difference 2 Years Make!
Well, we've done it. Pictures monthly for 2 years. It is likely that we're going to continue to do them monthly for a while, but I will probably just put them on flickr and post yearly or semi-annual updates here. It's not like I'm going to stop posting pictures of the boy in the meantime, just, I probably don't need to crash everyone's internet with millions of pictures a month. I don't know his official stats, but I know he's at least 32 inches and around 23.5 pounds now, so he's grown a whopping 2.5 inches and 4 pounds since his first birthday. But what he has lacked in physical growth, he has made up for in maturity. I can't believe how much this boy has changed in a year.
(For the entire first year of pictures, click here)
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May 13th, 2010 at 10:43 pm
Soap Opera Ratings: "The Young & The Restless" Tops Viewership Gains
"The Young & The Restless" added 153,000 viewers vs. last week.[Read-More]
May 13th, 2010 at 8:02 pm
Report: FlashForward, Romantically Challenged, Better Off Ted, Scrubs Canceled
EW's Michael Ausiello is reporting that ABC's FlashForward, Romantically Challenged, Better Off Ted and Scrubs have all been canceled.[Read-More]
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I agree with Teja here, this rule is terribly inconvenient and a bit silly. Given how easy it is to cheat individually, the entire ethic of online chess requires trust. So why would this not apply to a simple team match, that is just for fun anyway? Oh, the silliness.
You can play TVC even if you belong to both teams. I know from personal experience. Unless we play a Team Match vs Killer Derivatives or World Chess Players I won't be able to try playing in a TEAM MATCH (not Team Vote Chess) where I belong to both teams.
Yes, Roy, I understand this ... but doesn't mean I agree! :)
Tell it to City Hall...preferably the CIty Hall in Timbuktu Mali! :=)
where's the faith? :)
The Law written into the program was to stop players from infiltrating a group just to throw games. The Law cannot be enforced. I have group members who resign or timeout as soon as they get a winning position. It also happens in tournaments. Players will throw games for whatever reason and there is nothing Chess.com can ever do about it except banning like they do Cheaters, and we all know what a mountain of a job that is! However, what can Chess.com do? They can neither prevent players throwing games nor condone it. Their half-hearted attempt at making things a little more difficult and tedious is the most they can do. We are not supposed to resign one team to play for the other and then rejoin, that is a mildly unethical form of conflict of interest, but the world is not perfect and cyberspace less so.
Nimzo wrote that no one would drop their rating just to help their team. Not true! Members drop their ratings for all sorts of reasons, one of them to qualify in lower rated tournaments. Add to that there are lots of cheaters with multiple accounts. They could use one account to infiltrate and throw crucial games in matches and win in those matches whose outcome is already decided. In other words, matches can be fixed easier than boxing matches. Best not to take it all seriously.
I like how Cheryl - Lady Misil - explains the whys and wherefores and then rounds out the therefores. Creative imagination is limitless when it comes to online chess hanky panky, it seems.
I just wish there is a way for chess.com to punish the culprits in real life. Send out their goons to these reprehensible members' homes after hacking their IPs and finding out their real address, and beat them to within an inch of their life. Alas, chess.com can't do anything in the unreal world; no chance they can do anything in the real.
Teja calm down, take a pill and remember: CHEATERS SUCK ASS!!!
Lady Misil is right, I made a really bad ASSumption here instead of realizing there's always a rationale for cheating - no matter how lame or bizarre to anyone with even half a brain or the slightest iota of decency and fair play
Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.Jesse Ventura
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The Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District (NICTD) will add frequency and capacity to its weekend South Shore service between South Bend, Ind., and Chicago, citing overcrowding and delays to current service.
NICTD says it wants to add an evening departure from Chicago at 9:15 p.m.; it also will add cars to trains departing from Chicago on weekend mornings. NICTD also seeks to add a morning express inbound to Chicago from South Bend.
NICTD spokesman John Parsons said weekend on-time performance is only 53%, due in part to the increase in weekend ridership totaling 600,000 in 2008, up from roughly 400,000 in 2004. NICTD's Board of Directors will consider approving the proposed changes on Friday.
Per request from the Connecticut Department of Transportation, New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority will extend three Metro-North New Haven Line round trips about 1.7 miles east of New Haven's Union Station, to State Street Station in New Haven, closer to the city's downtown district. The extensions take place with the April 5 timetable change.
The added territory also served by Shore Line East Railroad, which provides regional passenger service from New London, Conn., west to New Haven (with some continuing as far west as Stamford, Conn.). Some Shore Line East riders routinely transfer at New Haven for Metro-North service to Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan; Metro-North also shows this option in its timetable.
Wilmerding, Pa.-based Wabtec Corp. Tuesday said it has received option orders worth $75 million from New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority to provide supply components for MTA's R-160 subway car program. The order covers components for the second option order of 382 cars. Wabtec will complete delivery during the next two years.
Components to be supplied include: brakes, couplers, and current collectors (supplied by Wabtec Passenger Transit); door operators and related equipment (supplied by Vapor Stone); and event recorders (supplied by Wabtec Railway Electronics).
Wabtec notes that New York City has ordered 1,662 cars, being built by Alstom Transport, based in Saint-Ouen, France, and Tokyo-based Kawasaki Heavy Industries. Wabtec has been supplying components for the previous cars.
"This order provides a continuing, solid base of business for our Transit Group," said Wabtec's President and CEO Albert J. Neupaver in a statement. "Across North America and around the world, it's clear that investment in public transportation is a priority, and we expect to continue to benefit from that trend."
Newport, Ky.'s City Commission Monday adopted a resolution supporting efforts of its larger Ohio neighbor, Cincinnati, to establish a $185 million streetcar system. Newport's resolution carries no fiscal weight, but rail supporters took the support as a positive sign that the Kentucky city would welcome being included in any future system expansion.
"We think it would be good if there was a loop through the river cities," said Newport Mayor Jerry Peluso. "It would be good to spur economic development."
Newport once was served by the Cincinnati, Newport and Covington Railway. Peluso and other city officials noted residual streetcar infrastructure still exists in Newport. "It is a neat idea. The rails are still underground on Monmouth Street," Peluso said.
A second nearby city on the Kentucky side of the Ohio River, Covington, could vote on a similar resolution Tuesday.
St. Louis-based Bi-State Development Agency, which operates MetroLink light rail service, is the only U.S. operator of LRT spanning two states (Missouri and Illinois). But Vancouver, Wash., is exploring an LRT link with Portland, Ore.'s TriMet light rail system. In New York City, the Staten Island Economic Development Corp. is advancing plans for light rail that strongly recommend an eventual link with New Jersey Transit's existing Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Transit system.
Amtrak will receive $137.2 million in federal funding for two of its West Coast services, the long-distance Coast Starlight and its Pacific Northwest Cascades service. The Coast Starlight, running between Los Angeles and Seattle, will receive $81.1 million; the Cascades, supported in part by the states of Oregon and Washington, will get $56.1 million.
For fiscal year 2008, ended Sept. 30, Cascades service carried 760,323 riders, up 12.8% from the previous fiscal year. Four Cascades trains each way link Seattle with Portland, Ore.; two of those reach further south to originate and terminate in Eugene, Ore. One additional frequency runs between Seattle and Vancouver, British Columbia; the state of Washington, province of British Columbia, and Amtrak are in discussions to add a second cross-border train.
The venerable Coast Starlight, often one of Amtrak's better long-distance performers, notched a 2.9% ridership gain to 353,657 riders in FY08.
In a victory for the American Trucking Associations, the U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit has ruled that several provisions of California's clean-truck program, aimed to reduce pollution at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, cannot supersede federal law. The Court of Appeals said the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles had erred by not granting ATA's request last summer for a preliminary injunction; the Appeals Court remanded the issue back to the District Court "for an appropriate preliminary injunction."
California has sought to enforce numerous environmental restrictions that are more strict than federal mandates. The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the top two busiest ports in the U.S., have worked to reduce air pollution generated by all modes, including rail. The clean-truck portion of the ports program seeks to reduce truck-generated pollution by 80% in a five-year period.
The trucking industry says it supports the ports' overall goal, but objects to requirements placed by the Port of Los Angeles that harbor trucking companies must replace one-fifth of their owner-operator drivers with employee drivers by year's end. "That requirement is dead," Curtis Whalen, executive director of the ATA's intermodal conference, said. "We are very pleased with this decision."
The clean-truck program also requires that motor carriers sign concession agreements with the ports that govern many aspects of their operations, but the Court of Appeals said some of the requirements amount to state or local regulation of interstate trucking, regulated by federal law.
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FTC: We're Not Fining Ann Taylor Because Their Social Media Efforts Were A Failure
In recent weeks, PRNewser had heard about the FTC potentially investigating brands for violating their recently revised, "Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising."
The guidelines read in part, "bloggers who make an endorsement must disclose the material connections they share with the seller of the product or service."
The FTC told PRNewser in late March that they there have not been any cases brought for failure to disclose. However, the agency recently announced that it looked into a promotion from retailer Anne Taylor for a program that offered bloggers gift cards in exchange for covering an event.
What is interesting is that the FTC decided to close the case against Ann Taylor in part because the program was not a success.
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Upon careful review of this matter, we have determined not to recommend enforcement action at this time. We considered a number of factors in reaching this decision. First, according to LOFT, the January 26,2010 preview was the first (and, to date, only) such preview event. Second, only a very small number of bloggers posted content about the preview, and several of those bloggers disclosed that LOFT had provided them gifts at the preview.
Tom Chernaik, Principal at Digital Communications Group, which has developed a service called CMP.ly to help brands and bloggers disclose endorsements online, told PRNewser, "It should be made clear that the gifts were valued between $50 to $500 and the FTC has made it clear that there is no minimum threshold to the value of a gift or payment."
"This announcement confirms that material connections must be disclosed and that compliance and monitoring are not optional," he said.
An FTC spokesperson again declined to comment on any additional pending investigations.
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QUESTION:On Monday - July 07, 2008, you answered a question about a catalpa and maple with the same problem--an entire branch died, and then more of the tree died. And both trees came from the same nursery. This fits the exact description of verticillium wilt, which both catalpas and maples are susceptible to. If you can post this answer somehow, it could be very important since the fungus may have come from the nursery.
You are correct that verticillium wilt could have caused the demise of both trees in our previous answer. We did refer the person who inquired to their local Extension office. We also recommended that they call in a trained arborist to physically examine the trees. It's very difficult to analyze or prescribe diseases from the descriptions given us, and it should be someone with local knowledge that makes that decision. And, hopefully, to follow up on the nursery from which the trees came. Unfortunately, most of our questions just want a quick fix and we're afraid they don't always follow up on reading our referenced information and/or getting a local expert to actually look at the problem. We appreciate your calling this to our attention, and we hope that others with similar situations will realize that there are problems that we cannot solve online. Even if we hit the nail on the head, knowing what the problem is does not necessarily cure it without positive action on the part of the gardener.
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Why are my Spanish Oaks dropping branches that appear to be alive?
June 24, 2009 - We have two large Spanish Oaks that we planted ourselves. They both have begun to loose large branches that aren't dead. These branches just break off and fall. There is usually a wind, but not to th...
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Problems in germination of Asclepias tuberosa in New York
August 31, 2006 - I am a member of the Native Plant Center at Westchester Community College and I need information on Acleptis tuberosa. I am in USDA zone 6. Last year I planted fresh seeds purchased from Johnny's S...
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Dying leaves on Autumn Blaze Maple tree in Littleton, CO
May 25, 2012 - I have an autumn blaze maple where for the last two years the left side of the tree turns light green, then brown, and leaves die. The right side is dark green, normal. Is this a water over/under pr...
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Burning sulfur over coals in the home for insect control.
July 18, 2008 - Is burning sulfur(over hot coals) in your home a safe way of getting rid of ants and insects?
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