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Masterpieces of the Century: A Critical Guide
A quarter-century ago, the history of 20th-century music looked quite different from the way it looks today. Many critics and scholars believed then that the universal acceptance of serialism—the nontonal method of harmonic organization invented by Arnold Schoenberg and disseminated throughout the Western world by his students and disciples—was inevitable. Others, like the composer-historian Eric Salzman, thought the future of classical music lay with even more "advanced" developments than serialism:
The old categories—serial, aleatory, closed form, open form, chance, and ultra-rationality—are no longer really relevant. For the younger composers, and many of the older ones, the barriers are down, the categories destroyed, the old battles over and done with. Any kind of statement is possible. All possible materials and all possible relationships between creator, creation, performer, and perceiver are possible (including none).
Both camps agreed, however, that whatever else was to come, the old tonal traditions had definitely run their course. Even though nearly all the major composers of the first half of the century had continued to believe that tonality was as crucial to musical meaning as grammar is crucial to the intelligibility of language, the living line of classical music was understood by critics to run instead from Wagner through Schoenberg to the nontonal modernists of the postwar era. All other stylistic tendencies—the neoclassicism of Igor Stravinsky, the folk-flavored nationalism of Béla Bartók, the neo-romanticism of Sergei Prokofiev—were dismissed as historical dead ends. With the deaths of Dmitri Shostakovich (in 1975) and Benjamin Britten (in 1976), supposedly the last giants of the breed, it was taken for granted that the long reign of tonality had come to a close.
By the 1980's, however, it was becoming clear that the critics and scholars were wrong. For one thing, the listening public had remained all but unanimous in its rejection of nontonal music. For another, the success of new "minimalist" composers like Philip Glass, John Adams, and Steve Reich, whose harmonic language was triad-based and quasi-tonal, was having a galvanizing effect on their younger peers, impelling them to turn their backs on nontonal music and instead begin to adopt tonal techniques. While the tradition-based music of today's new tonalists has yet to be generally accepted by the American musical establishment, it, too, has already begun to find favor with audiences and performers.1
If serialism and the avant-garde are now dead (as is apparent) and tonality is in the process of being revived (as seems likely), then it follows that the history of classical music in the 20th century must be rewritten accordingly. Nontonal composers long thought to have been indisputably major—Schoenberg, in particular—are now ripe for thoroughgoing revaluation, while less fashionable tonalists like Paul Hindemith and Francis Poulenc are looking more important today than at any time since their deaths. Also up for reassessment is the ultimate historical significance of once-influential composers who must now be judged in light of the continuing failure of their work to find a place in the standard repertoire. For in the long run the question of influence is of purely academic interest; what matters is whether a composer's music strikes us as boring or interesting, forgettable or memorable, good or great.
The first step in rewriting the history of 20th-century music, then, is to ask: what were the works that will be listened to and loved so long as music itself continues to be made? In recent years there have been surprisingly few serious attempts to address this question. In part, no doubt, that is because the very act of canon-making is now regarded with derision by left-wing scholars. Yet the idea of a canon retains its firm grasp on the imagination; even in this egalitarian age of diversity-by-mandate, we still seem to believe in masterpieces. And so what follows is my own list of 50 classical masterpieces composed since 1900, together in each case with my recommendation of a recording or, occasionally, recordings.
In compiling this list, which I shall present in three installments over the next months, I applied the following criteria:
- The works were not chosen because they are "representative" or "influential," or in order to produce a "balance," but solely for what I consider their intrinsic quality.
- Each has received at least one first-class recording that is currently in print.
- Each has had an ongoing performance life outside the country of its origin. (Masterpieces are by definition universal, not provincial.)
- Although some of the works are popular, some less so, each has been heard more or less regularly since the date of its original premiere (or successful revival).
- Despite the foregoing two rules, a few works have been included that I expect will be more widely played in the next century than they were in this.
- Finally, there are no works by living composers. This is not because no major composers are active today, but simply in order to give posterity at least a preliminary chance to speak its piece.
I should stress that I have made no attempt to rank these 50 pieces in the order of their quality. Even though I believe some are better than others, at the very highest levels of excellence the concept of quality necessarily becomes slippery. There is no meaningful sense, for example, in which Prokofiev's First Violin Concerto can truly be said to be "better" than his Seventh Piano Sonata, any more than Mozart's Clarinet Quintet is "better" than the G-Minor Symphony.
I do believe, however, that some of the composers I have chosen are better than others, and that is why, although there are 50 works, there are only 29 composers. Specifically, the list features one composer with four pieces, four composers with three pieces, and ten composers with two pieces. This four-tier hierarchy strikes me as a more meaningful way of coming to grips with the problem of relative merit than by making a futile attempt to compare, say, Bartók's Fifth String Quartet and Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony.2
Every list is arbitrary. But while compiling this one, I did invite several similarly inclined composers and performers to submit their own preferences. As I compared our several efforts, it became clear that we shared a broad-based consensus of taste—often extending all the way down to the level of individual pieces. In a few cases, my own thinking was swayed by the unanimous views of colleagues; but the last word was mine.
In short, the following list contains a representative cross-section of what I believe to be the best classical music of the 20th century, and every work on it seems to me to be of permanent interest. This month's installment, in chronological order, consists of the first 15 compositions, which take us from 1900 to roughly the end of World War I, a convenient resting point.
1. Claude Debussy
Pelléas et Mélisande
Though it has never been popular outside France, Pelléas is the first great modern opera, and still casts its fragile yet mysteriously potent spell on connoisseurs of French music. Furthermore, no single work defines more clearly the divergence between Austro-German and Franco-Russian musical tradition—the fork in the road of 20th-century music. At first glance, Pelléas may appear to be an impeccably Wagnerian symbolist music drama (right down to the use of leitmotifs as "calling cards" for the characters), yet its atmosphere is wholly French, and Debussy's use of harmonies derived from the whole-tone scale points directly to the freer, more flexible tonal language of the Franco-Russian composers.
Herbert von Karajan's exquisitely refined 1978 recording with the Berlin Philharmonic, featuring the much-loved American mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade as Mélisande, combines Wagnerian sensuality with French finesse to uncanny effect (EMI CDCC 49350, three CD's).
2. Maurice Ravel
String Quartet in F
Debussy and Ravel are invariably discussed in tandem as the twin avatars of musical impressionism, but they were in fact as dissimilar in temperament as Anton Bruckner and Gustav Mahler. Where Debussy is vaporously elusive, Ravel is direct and elegant, nowhere more so than in his only string quartet, a model of Apollonian balance (though the slashing finale gives the lie to the absurd notion that his music lacks inner fire). "In the name of the gods of music—and in my name, too—do not touch a note of your quartet," Debussy is supposed to have said upon hearing that his colleague had doubts about the work. The anecdote may not be true, but it ought to be: Ravel never composed a more perfect piece.
The Quartetto Italiano's stereo remake of the F-Major Quartet, as perfectly poised as the piece itself, is now available on a budget CD that also contains fine performances by the Beaux Arts Trio and the violinist Arthur Grumiaux of Ravel's two other great pieces of chamber music, the A-Minor Piano Trio and the G-Major Violin Sonata (Philips 454 134-2).
3. Giacomo Puccini
Madama Butterfly
Puccini is one of the half-dozen major composers whose careers pivoted on the fulcrum of the new century. Though his sensibility was unambiguously romantic, he was fully aware of the harmonic innovations of Debussy and Ravel (as well as of the potent theatrical impact of naturalism). The finest of his operas to have been completed after 1900 was Madama Butterfly, a work whose well-deserved mass popularity should not be allowed to obscure its exceptional musical quality and dramatic effectiveness.
Many recordings of Madama Butterfly are first-rate, but the best—albeit by a narrow margin—is the one by Victoria de los Angeles, Giuseppe di Stefano, Tito Gobbi, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, and the orchestra and chorus of the Rome Opera House (Testament SBT 2168, two CD's).
4, 5. Gustav Mahler
Das Lied von der Erde
Symphony No. 9
Unlike Puccini, Mahler had a genuinely modern sensibility (he even contrived to be psychoanalyzed by Freud himself). If his harmonic language rarely extended beyond the perimeter of Wagnerian precedent, his structural innovations and chamber-style orchestral palette foreshadowed much that would come after World War I. Yet Mahler's music, at once obsessively introspective and grandiose in scale, is fully as romantic as that of Berlioz or Tchaikovsky, and his two final masterpieces, the symphonic song cycle Das Lied von der Erde and the Ninth Symphony, are the swan songs of 19th-century romanticism, intensely nostalgic and deeply affecting.
The Vienna Philharmonic has always had an equivocal relationship with the music of the Jewish-born Mahler—hardly a surprise, given the orchestra's long history of anti-Semitism—yet its performances of his symphonies have an idiomatic quality unrivaled by any other orchestra. Leonard Bernstein's highly strung 1962 recording with the Philharmonic of Das Lied von der Erde, featuring James King and the great German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (singing the alto songs, an alternative sanctioned by the composer), is unforgettably passionate (London 452 301-2). Bruno Walter's 1938 recording of the Ninth Symphony, made at a live performance just prior to Hitler's Anschluss of Austria, is less emotionally extreme but still compelling (Dutton Laboratories DUT 5005).
6. Richard Strauss
Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59
For die-hard reactionaries who still contend that traditional tonality has run its course, Strauss's preeminent contribution to musical modernism is to be found in his opera Elektra (1908), in which he peered anxiously into the abyss of atonality. But audiences the world over continue to prefer Der Rosenkavalier, a warmly humane comedy of manners whose libretto, by the playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal, is a model of wit and intelligence. Strauss' bittersweet, waltz-colored score may not exactly be Mozartean (though he thought it was), but it is irresistible all the same.
Der Rosenkavalier, like Madama Butterfly, is eminently "phonogenic," and few recordings of the complete score are without their memorable moments. Still, most collectors prefer von Karajan's 1956 version with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Christa Ludwig, and the Philharmonia Orchestra (EMI CDCC 56242, three CD's).
7. Claude Debussy
Preludes for Piano
The most successful of Debussy's various attempts to create a sonic equivalent of Impressionist art are his preludes for piano, each of which bears an evocative title (though the titles, significantly, appear not at the beginning but at the end of each piece). Virtually every aspect of his contribution to 20th-century music can be heard in miniature in these pieces, and though their extreme originality has been obscured by decades of imitation, Debussy's once-startling innovations remain central to the lexicon of modern piano technique.
The preludes—especially the lyrical ones—have never been played with more tonal refinement and technical control than by the Italian pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (DGG 413 450-2 and 427 391-2).
8. Jean Sibelius
Symphony No. 4 in A Minor, Op. 63
In 1934, the English composer-critic Constant Lambert called Sibelius "the most important symphonic writer since Beethoven"; though few were prepared to go quite that far, he was then widely regarded as a great composer. But he fell from critical grace (though not public favor) after World War II, and only since the break-up of the serialist monopoly has he begun once again to be treated with appropriate respect. His despondent Fourth Symphony did remain in fashion during the long years of disrepute, mainly because of its bleakly polytonal harmonies, and it is certainly a modern masterpiece.
The best modern version of the Fourth Symphony is by von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic (DGG 439 527-2).
9. Igor Stravinsky
Serge Diaghilev's legendary Ballets Russes put the foremost composer of the 20th century on the map, first with The Firebird (1910) and then with Petrushka, the choreographer Michel Fokine's fantastic tale of a melancholy, mischievous puppet who comes to life. The languorously romantic Firebird was recognizably the work of one who had been Rimsky-Korsakov's star pupil, but the folksong-derived tunes, crackling bitonal harmonies, and brightly glittering orchestration of Petrushka were all Stravinsky's own. They alerted European audiences to a cool, crisp wind that was blowing out of Russia, one that would sweep away the long-unquestioned dominance of German romanticism.
Not all of Stravinsky's own recordings are worth hearing—he was a reasonably competent but unevenly inspired conductor—but his 1960 performance of Petrushka, made with an ensemble of Los Angeles studio players billed as the Columbia Symphony Orchestra, is one of the most effective of his later recordings, and leaves no doubt as to how he wanted the piece to sound (Sony MK 42433).
10. Arnold Schoenberg
Pierrot lunaire, Op. 21
Atonality makes sense only when intended to serve as a musical representation of nonsense—that is, psychosis or some other dire mental disturbance. In that case the ear registers it not as a separate musical language but as a deliberate distortion of the normal vocabulary of tonality. ("Like blasphemy," Constant Lambert quipped, "it requires a background of belief for its full effect.") That is why Pierrot lunaire, a cycle of 21 settings of poems by Albert Giraud, "works" in spite of the illogic of its harmonic syntax: Schoenberg's splintered harmonies, weirdly delicate instrumental sonorities, and keening vocal line, half-spoken and half-sung, are the exact musical equivalent of Giraud's surrealist texts.
Jan DeGaetani's coolly committed version of Pierrot lunaire, accompanied by Arthur Weisberg and the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, is a superlatively musical rendering of a fiendishly difficult work (Elektra/Nonesuch 79237-2-ZK). Schoenberg's own 1940 performance—his only commercial recording as a conductor—is a flawed but fascinating companion piece (Sony MPK 45695).
11. Igor Stravinsky
The Rite of Spring
Twentieth-century music may not start with The Rite of Spring, but no piece is more universally identified with musical modernism. Today's ultra-virtuosic performances have made Stravinsky's most famous ballet score more familiar (and less shocking), but they have done nothing to diminish the monolithic impact of its granite-hard harmonies and precisely calculated orchestration. Eighty-six years after its riotous Paris premiere, The Rite of Spring remains the colossus of modern music: you may not like it, but there is no getting around it, and no forgetting it.
The most effective of Stravinsky's three commercial recordings is his 1940 performance with the New York Philharmonic, a no-nonsense interpretation in which the notoriously unruly orchestra was on its very best behavior—the proof being that seven of the eight original 78-rpm sides were first takes (Pearl GEMM CDS 9292, two CD's). The best stereo recording is von Karajan's ferocious 1977 remake with the Berlin Philharmonic (not its overrefined predecessor, which Stravinsky hated), coupled with a seraphically beautiful Apollo (DGG 415 979-2).
12. Claude Debussy
Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp
As Debussy grew older, his music became more spare and enigmatic, though he never lost his sensuous delight in the blending of instrumental timbres. The Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp, one of a group of three related instrumental works completed shortly before his death, is perhaps the finest example of his subtle late style, transparently scored for a chamber ensemble of unorthodox makeup and breathtaking in its harmonic clarity and quiet lyricism.
All three of the late sonatas are included on an indispensable Philips CD, the Flute-Viola-Harp Sonata in a handsomely played performance by Roger Bourdin, Colette Lequien, and Annie Challan, the sonatas for violin and cello in equally accomplished versions by Arthur Grumiaux and Maurice Gendron (Philips 422 839-2).
13. Jean Sibelius
Symphony No. 5 in E Flat, Op. 82
If Sibelius's Fourth Symphony (see under 1911) is a masterpiece, so is the unambiguously tonal Fifth. "God opens His door for an instant and His orchestra plays the Fifth Symphony," the composer wrote to a friend shortly after he began sketching it out, and for all the seeming megalomania of these words, it is easy to see what he meant: the Fifth Symphony is one of the most unequivocally affirmative works to be written in this century by a major composer.
As with the Fourth, the best modern version of the Fifth is by von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic (DGG 439 982-2). Perhaps even more eloquent is Serge Koussevitzky's 1936 recording with the Boston Symphony, available on CD in adequate sound (Pearl GEMM CDS 9408, two CD's).
14. Manuel de Falla
Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Comparatively little classical music of the first rank has come out of the Spanish-speaking world, but Manuel de Falla's fastidiously worked compositions, though few in number, are nonetheless of the highest quality. In this piquant three-movement suite for piano and orchestra, unmistakably Spanish melodies and rhythms float gracefully atop impressionist harmonies and French-style instrumental textures.
Arthur Rubinstein, who did more to popularize this marvelous piece than any other pianist, recorded it three times, always with the utmost panache. The second of these performances, with Enrique Jorda and the San Francisco Symphony, has been digitally refurbished as part of RCA's "Living Stereo" series (RCA 09026-68886-2).
15. Serge Prokofiev
Violin Concerto No. 1 in D, Op. 19
Contrary to the opinion of innovation-obsessed critics, the classicizing Prokofiev was one of the century's four or five major composers. His youthful style can be heard at its most vivid in his First Violin Concerto, a work in which soaring lyricism and sardonic wit are juxtaposed to hugely stimulating effect. Completed just as Prokofiev was preparing to leave Russia for what would become an eighteen-year-long exile, this delectable showpiece contains no hint of the agony and disillusion that would follow in the wake of the twin horrors of World War I and the Russian Revolution, leaving an indelible mark on classical music between the wars.
The best modern recording of the First Violin Concerto is by Gil Shaham with André Previn and the London Symphony, coupled with an equally impressive performance of the Second Concerto in G Minor, Op. 63 (DGG 447 758-2). In addition, no Prokofiev lover should be without Joseph Szigeti's astonishingly bold 1935 recording, fancifully accompanied by Sir Thomas Beecham and the London Philharmonic (Pearl GEMM CD 9377).
To be continued
1 For a discussion of these composers, see my article, "The New Tonalists," in the December 1997 COMMENTARY.
2 In trimming the list to a manageable size, I applied some weighting to the hierarchy, thereby reflecting my opinion of the relative importance of the 29 composers.


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I have been a partner at Dickinson Wright PLLC, one of Michigan's most historic law firms, since 1998.
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MILLBURY, Mass. — Author Sean Glennon will be at the Barnes & Noble in Millbury Saturday, Dec. 8, to sign copies of his new book, in which he argues that Tom Brady is the greatest quarterback ever.
The signing takes place from 1 to 3 p.m. in the bookstore at the Shoppes of Blackstone Valley.
Glennon's "Tom Brady vs. The NFL: The Case For Football's Greatest Quarterback" is a great gift idea for an NFL fan or die-hard Patriot follower. Last month, I was asked by Glennon's publisher to review the book for a football website that covers the Patriots. Some of the excerpts are below:
"Perhaps the greatest thing about this book is that Glennon puts out his beliefs that Brady is the best quarterback ever to play the game. And then backs them up with facts. But the manner in which he does so is not to insult or belittle the many great quarterbacks that have come before Brady. No talk about modeling or marrying a supermodel, or his hair. If you're looking for the TMZ version of Brady, this one isn't for you, but if you want to talk about and read about football this book will be manna from heaven."
"The book is a fantastic read; I received it and couldn't put it down until it was done in the wee hours of the morning. It is a must read not only for die-hard Patriots fans but fans of the NFL as well. Glennon makes some very compelling arguments for Brady as the best QB ever to lace them up."
Glennon, who lives in Florence, Mass, has authored four books and is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in such publications as The Boston Globe, Boston Phoenix, The Hartford Courant, The Journal News, The Valley Advocate, Salon and Details. In addition to sports, Glennon has written about books, sequential art, television and pop culture.
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Health reform means many American Indians could be fined
Some of the nearly 16,000 American Indian residents in Ventura County may have to prove their heritage to qualify for a federal health care reform waiver because of a mandate that could bring financial penalties some can't afford.
"You don't ask a black man if he's black or a Chinese man if he's Chinese," protested Mati Waiya of the Wishtoyo Foundation, a nonprofit Chumash group in Ventura County. "But when it comes to Indian people, 'prove it.'"
The care and the medical services for many Indians is paid for as part of the government's treaty obligations to tribes dating back nearly a century. But under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, tens of thousands of people who identify as Native American will face a new reality.
They will still be eligible for government-paid care at Indian Health Service clinics. But they will have to buy their own health insurance policies or pay a $695 fine from the Internal Revenue Service unless they can prove they are "Indian enough" to claim one of the few exemptions allowed under the Affordable Care Act's mandate that all Americans carry insurance.
"I'm no less Indian than I was yesterday, and just because the definition of who is Indian got changed in the law doesn't mean that it's fair for people to be penalized," said Liz DeRouen, a former tribal administrator for the Dry Creek Rancheria Band of Pomo Indians in Northern California. "If I suddenly have to pay for my own health insurance to avoid the fine, I won't be able to afford it."
The Affordable Care Act takes a narrow view of who is considered American Indian and can avoid the tax penalty. It limits the definition to those who can document their membership in one of about 560 tribes recognized by the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Yet many tribes nationwide are not recognized. Many tribes do not allow their members to enroll before they are 18, meaning some school-age children whose parents are American Indian might not be considered "Indian" under the definition in the act.
Other tribal governments have complicated blood-quantum requirements or rules that all members must live on the reservation, even though nearly two-thirds of American Indians and Alaska Natives now live in metropolitan areas, partly a legacy of federal relocation and adoption programs.
The definition of Indian in the Affordable Care Act is roiling emotions, but U.S. Department of Health and Human Services spokeswoman Erin Shields said the agency is powerless to change it without an act of Congress.
The problem is so new that the federal government is still seeking to establish how many people might be affected, although Indian health advocacy groups estimate it could be up to 480,000.
In California alone, about 21,000 people who currently receive free health care through Indian clinics are not recognized as Native American by the federal government and would have to pay the penalty, according to the nonprofit California Rural Indian Health Board.
In Ventura County, 15,942 people identify themselves as part or solely American Indian, according to the 2010 census. It's unclear exactly how many of these people would be impacted by the health care reform definition but many are likely not part of a federal recognized tribe, said Jim Crouch, executive director of the California Rural Indian Health Board. The only Chumash band recognized by the federal government is the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash.
People in Ventura County who currently receive free primary care through the Indian Health Service clinics would still be eligible, Crouch said. But they could also be hit with the IRS fine. If they needed care not available through the Indian Health Service, they might not qualify for the same subsidies or co-payment waivers available under federal health care reform to people who can document their membership in federally recognized tribes.
Many of those people may not be able to afford extra financial burdens. The 2010 Census found that nearly one-third of the 6.2 million people who self-identify as American Indian or Alaska Native lack health insurance and that 28 percent live in poverty.
The IRS is working with the definition but has not yet decided how the agency will verify who qualifies as Indian or assess the penalty on tax returns, agency spokesman Eric Smith said. The IRS and U.S. Treasury have scheduled a May 29 public hearing on their proposed rules establishing who qualifies for an exemption from the insurance coverage requirement.
Republican Rep. Tom Cole, a member of the Chickasaw Nation in Oklahoma and one of just two federal legislators who are members of a federally recognized tribe, said he was aware of the concerns and would ensure that care for native people was not compromised as the health overhaul rolls out. He declined to comment about whether he would sponsor a bill to address the issue.
"This could lead to some tribal citizens being required to purchase insurance or face penalties even though they are covered by IHS," he said in a statement to The Associated Press. "I am watching the situation closely to ensure that those individuals already benefiting from care through IHS continue to receive it."
Julie Tumamait-Stenslie of Ojai is insured through her husband's employer. She worries about family members who could be impacted by the definition. She's Chumash and tribal chair of Barbareno/Ventureno Band of Mission Indians, which is not federally recognized.
"It's really sad," she said. "Federally recognized people think they're more Indian than we are because of some criteria they satisfy."
She worries that many American Indians don't have documentation but know their heritage because of what they were told by their grandparents.
"It's more like taking away our identity," she said.
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Goose Creek police are looking for a 24-year-old in connection with the shooting death of another man whose body was found Sept. 18 in Dogwood Park.
Stephon Johnson, who was thought to be "moving about" in the North Charleston and Goose Creek areas, is wanted on a charge of murder, police Capt. John Grainger said Tuesday.
Johnson's most recent address was not clear, Grainger said. Johnson was described as a 5-foot-7, 185-pound black man with black hair and brown eyes.
Tuesday's development came after some children playing at the park's playground on Liberty Hall Road came across the body of 40-year-old William Marshall Kuhn. The North Charleston man had been shot once in the head.
"Johnson is known to carry a pistol and is believed to be armed and dangerous," Grainger said in a statement.
Anyone who knows where Johnson might be is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 554-1111. Callers to the hot line will remain anonymous and could be eligible for a reward.
Tipsters also can contact Goose Creek police at 863-5200 or one of the agency's investigators looking into the homicide, Paul Tremblay, at 863-5200, ext. 2463.
Grainger declined to add additional details about Johnson's involvement in the case or about how detectives linked him to Kuhn's death.
A photo included in a wanted flier showed Johnson flashing a peace sign and wearing sunglasses as he grips the hand of a child, whose face isn't visible. Surveillance footage in the poster also captured him walking on a patio outside a building.
The Dayton Daily News reported this week that Kuhn was a former Ohio resident who was legally blind and moved to Charleston two months ago for an opportunity to work a government job in a mini-mart. His family told the newspaper that Kuhn, because of his physical disabilities, was permitted to drive only during the day. They didn't know what Kuhn was doing in the park or if he was there alone, the newspaper reported.
"They didn't have to kill him, for sure," his brother, George Kuhn Jr., told the Dayton newspaper. "He couldn't defend himself. We're just devastated."
The newspaper reported that Kuhn, who was separated, leaves behind two sons, ages 18 and 8.
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You can potentially damage your electronic equipment doing that. There are adapters you can get for this purpose. Web searches should point you to them easily.
Over the years, I often travel back and forth to the US, Asia and Europe with my MacBook Pro and external firewire hard drives, which were purchased in the USA. While in Europe or Asia, which generally runs on ~220 volts, I've had several experiences whenever I daisy chained more than 1 external firewire hard drive to my laptop, either the connection was very unstable, resulting in drives randomly unmounting; or my current dilemma where the 2nd drive is not mounting at all. I never experience these issues at all while I'm in the US. My guess is that the difference in voltage (110 vs. 220) or cycles (60 Hz vs. 50 Hz) is affecting the drives somehow. I have experienced this with G-drives, and the Newertech Voyager Q and Wiebetech Traydock which are well built, reliable enclosures. I pair the enclosures with Seagate or Hitachi drives. All the enclosures' AC adapters specifically state that they're rated for 100-240 volts. I thought hooking all my drives to a 2000 watt voltage transformer would solve the problem but it didn't. Using 1 firewire drive is not a problem, but the daisy chaining seems problematic. The dilemma is I MUST daisy chain the drives for backup purposes and just for general data wrangling. Plus my MacBook Pro only has 1 firewire port. My laptop and firewire port is not the problem, as I've upgraded several times over the years. The reason I'm posting on this forum is I'm assuming there are many FCP editors out there who travel and use American drives in 220 volts countries.
My questions are:
1. Has anyone else ever experienced USA drives acting funky in 220 volts countries? I've heard some ProTools users have to be more careful about this, perhaps because of the cycles difference.
2. Anyone have an idea for a solution to this problem?
Thanks so much,
PS. On perhaps a related note, when I plug my MacBook Pro into a 220 volts outlet and lay my wrists below the keyboard, there is a current or vibration that I do not feel when I'm in the US.
You can potentially damage your electronic equipment doing that. There are adapters you can get for this purpose. Web searches should point you to them easily.
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Do you mean transformers? Adapters are just for altering the plug shape. As I stated, the power bricks state they are compatible with 100-240v, so I'm following what the specs recommend.
Running 60Hz equipment on 50Hz power sources can potentially damage the equipment.
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Thx BenB. So I'm wondering then why are these adapters capable of world voltage 100-240 volts, if the cycles will negatively affect the drive? As far as I know, I haven't seen a transformer that also converts cycles, only the voltage
They should be converting cycles, too. If they are labeled as international converters, and list US, UK, you're ok.
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Louisiana State University & Delgado College
According to the above website:
Do voltage converters convert the cycle (Hz)?
All voltage converters only convert the voltage and not the cycle, however most appliances and electronics will function properly with them.
North American 110-120 volt electricity is generated at 60 Hz. (Cycles) Alternating Current. Most foreign 220-240 volt electricity is generated at 50 Hz. (Cycles) Alternating Current. This difference in cycles may cause the motor in your 60 Hz. North American appliance to operate slightly slower when used on 50 Hz. foreign electricity. This cycle difference will also cause analog clocks and timing circuits that use Alternating Current as a timing base to keep incorrect time. Most modern electronic equipment including battery chargers, computers, printers, stereos, tape and CD players, VCR/DVD players, etc. will not be affected by the difference in cycles.


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For Electric Forest's 2011 inaugural event, Madison House Presents partners with Insomniac Events to introduce a new breed of U.S. music and camping festival. Hosted at the one-of-a-kind Double JJ Resort in Rothbury, Michigan on June 30 through July 3, the musical lineup includes headliners The String Cheese Incident (3 performances) and Tiësto, plus Bassnectar, Pretty Lights, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Stephen Marley, Kaskade, Shpongle Presents The Shpongletron Experience, Galactic, Railroad Earth, JJ Grey & Mofro, Skrillex, Excision, The New Deal, EOTO, Emmitt-Nershi Band, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe and many more.
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Marshall OKs master of health program
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — Marshall University's Board of Governors has approved a master of public health program.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. --- Georgia sophomore Carly Hamilton has won the program its fifth individual conference crown of the weekend during the final day of the Southeastern Conference Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Columbia, Mo.
Hamilton, a native of Springboro, Ohio, won her first career conference title after finishing the 1500-meter run in 4:14.27. Hamilton steadily moved up in the field during the race until she was even with Florida's Cory McGee on the final straightaway. Hamilton then shot ahead to win her second consecutive race in the event with her second time under 4:15 in as many races.
This is the first SEC title for the Georgia women in the event since 1995 (Monika Ronnholm). Hamilton was disqualified in the mile at this year's SEC Indoor Championships but returned to earn First Team All-American honors with a fourth-place finish at the NCAA Championships.
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SACRAMENTO, CA - Black Friday shoppers were a little too anxious to get inside the Walmart on Florin Road Friday morning. SLIDESHOW: Black Friday shopping
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Sacramento County sheriff's deputies were called to assist with crowd control -- but instead of blaming shoppers, they blame Wal-mart.
"They should have had more security present and had a more organized entry into the store," said Sgt. Brendon Hom. "They shouldn't have been able to congregate in the electronics section like they did."
Shoppers were asked to evacuate the store and line up outside.
"People were pushing and shoving when they got the camera and computer aisle," said shopper Joe Gonzales. "They had a little roped off area and when they clipped it at 5 a.m., people started fighting."
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Suspect apprehended in two armed robberies
An Olivia man was arrested Monday in connection with two weekend armed robberies.
Roger Wayne Hawkins, 42, of the 100 block of Mount Sands Lane, Olivia, was charged with two counts of robbery with a dangerous weapon, two counts of possession of a firearm by a felon and two counts of possession of stolen goods, according to Lee County Sheriff's Office Capt. Jeff Johnson.
Hawkins was held under a $250,000 secured bond.
The two robberies, which occurred on opposite ends of Lee County, involved a masked man brandishing a shotgun as he entered the stores, Johnson said.
A man wearing a blue ski mask and camouflage jacket and waiving a shotgun entered the Value Mart, located at 4971 Edwards Road, at 7:20 p.m. Saturday and demanded money from the clerk, according to a Lee County Sheriff's Office report. The employee complied, and the suspect left on foot.
Shortly before 9 p.m. Sunday, a man with a stocking over his face, wearing a camouflage jacket and wielding a shotgun, entered the Short Stop #6, located at 3901 Hawkins Ave., according to the report. The suspect reportedly demanded money from the register, and a store employee complied. The suspect then fled on foot.
There were no reported injuries, Johnson said.
A Shot Stop employee referred questions to the company's home office, where calls were not returned Monday, and no one could be reached at the Value Mart.
Hawkins was also charged with a larceny of a firearm and possession of a firearm by a felon in connection with a stolen .22 revolver on Nov. 26., 2013, the report states.
According to the N.C. Department of Corrections, Hawkins has a criminal record dating back to 1994 that ranges from traffic and drug violations to breaking and entering, larceny and possession of stolen goods convictions.
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The former president of the South Seneca Community Volunteer Ambulance Corp. has been charged with 14 counts of petit larceny.
Seneca County Sheriff's Deputies say 44-year-old Richard Heichel of Seneca Falls used a debit card belonging to the South Seneca Community Volunteer Ambulance Corp. to make multiple personal purchases.
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Exactly. I feel like I'm just going through the motions. Today I am so tired, I feel like a robot. I have no enthusiasm to give DS1 and I hate to let him feel the stress I am under. He finally took his nap and I thought Oh - I can put the baby down and get some sleep. Right on cue, DS2 starts crying that reflux cry. Had to walk him around for three hours (11:30am - 3pm) and then he finally fell asleep. Ever feel like you're doing something wrong. All the other mothers know how to take care of a child, but you don't?
DH says it could be that he is detoxing from the mold environment. I hope that is the case.
Most days, I don't eat until DH gets home. Between feeding the two of them, washing bottles, changing diapers, trying to find activities to keep DS1 stimulated, etc... I don't have much time for myself. Today I put the baby down and decided to just let him cry for 15 minutes while I cook something. He cried for 30 seconds and I couldn't do it. It's not his fault he can't lay down without feeling pain.
I really think if your LO is not at a decent baseline yet, that you should keep trying things.
Yes, I agree completely. I'm going to keep trying until we find a way. DH and I have been bantering back and forth about using the medicine. Originally, I didn't want to try it because we tried it on DS1 and it did nothing. Also, his symptoms increased and later on we figured out he has a corn allergy (corn is in Zantac as well as most other medications). I have allergies as well, so most likely DS2 will. I still am considering it, but DH doesn't want to go that route. If the medication helps him and he can breastfeed again, that would be most beneficial to all of us.
I just want to be able to love my children with the best me possible. And right now, I'm not doing that. Definitely not the best me, and definitely don't feel the love around here.
It's good to have other mothers who have gone through the same or worse. It's so true that people don't understand when they haven't been through it. My family thinks I'm crazy for abandoning my house and moving into an apartment. I've also heard from some of them that I'm too overprotective and I should just let him cry, not pick him up and walk him around. Stop trying to help him. I'm creating the problem by responding to the cries. He will eventually stop crying. I've heard it all. I'm so sick of it and so sick of not getting the support from them.
Sorry about the rant. Your LO is 18 months and still having problems? You must be exhausted! I hope things get better for you as well. I think one day we will look back on this time with fondness, and be able to pick out little moments that made us smile. At least that's what I hope!
Wife to - Mama to DS 6/08 and DS 9/11
I am glad you guys got the apartment but sad that it isn't helping as much as you hoped it would. I can't remember if you mentioned this or not, but my son has reflux, particularly at night, and his gastro recommended that we elevate the head of the bead. Is this possible for your DS? Or could he even sleep in a swing where he would be mostly sitting?
I hope you find some relief soon. Having just one high needs child is difficult, but when you have two and one of them is a baby, that ups the stakes significantly. Try not to be too hard on yourself. AP is great in theory and it's something that we could always aim for, but sometimes it's just not practical and reality takes over. (((((HUGS))))
Hi, yes we have him sleeping in a Fisher Price rocker type thing. It is elevated. He now won't sleep in anything else (not even our family bed)
Also, when he has the reflux it is bad in any position, not just when he lies down. So he is basically crying as we walk him around, but likes the motion and usually starts screaming when we stop moving or put him down. So I'm basically being forced to walk miles a day.. what a workout!!
So glad we are in the apartment too. I have so many allergies and the mold was making them worse. I feel so much better, and DS1 isn't coughing all night. So at least it helped us some!
Thanks for the hugs!
I am glad you guys got the apartment but sad that it isn't helping as much as you hoped it would. I can't remember if you mentioned this or not, but my son has reflux, particularly at night, and his gastro recommended that we elevate the head of the bead. Is this possible for your DS? Or could he even sleep in a swing where he would be mostly sitting?
I hope you find some relief soon. Having just one high needs child is difficult, but when you have two and one of them is a baby, that ups the stakes significantly. Try not to be too hard on yourself. AP is great in theory and it's something that we could always aim for, but sometimes it's just not practical and reality takes over. (((((HUGS))))
Wife to - Mama to DS 6/08 and DS 9/11
It might be pointless to keep updating this thread, but I have to do it for my sense of control over the situation. I also like to come back here and read everything I've gone through when I'm down about things.
DS is 4 months old now, so he's been on formula for 2.5 months. I still pump every day, in the hopes that he will grow out of whatever is causing his pain and reflux when he drinks breastmilk.
I finally tried the Zantac, and true to my intuition it made him *much* worse. A screaming I have never heard before worse. So, back to the drawing board. I guess most at this point would be wise enough to say - it's just not working - and move on. But I can't let go. I just feel like maybe, maybe - at some point he will be able to tolerate it. And I don't want to let that go.
He's not even 100% better on the formula. He still needs the DGL to help soothe his throat. And he still has bad days/nights. And we still have to hold him for 30 minutes after each feeding and basically walk on eggshells all day and all night -*every* day- , to keep him from having a reflux episode. But, hey at least something is helping take the edge off for him.
We have an appointment with the GI doctor tomorrow. I'm not sure what to do about running tests and getting prescriptions. Conventional medicine always has allergens in it. DS1 and myself usually have problems taking it. If they do invasive tests and then prescribe him something that he can't even take, what's the point? I guess the best thing that could happen would be for the Dr. to offer a prescription for the elemental formula that seems to work on reflux/GERD babies. We sure can not afford it by ourselves.
Anyway, on to some good news. DH and I decided to try giving a little breastmilk (about 1/4 oz.) mixed into one bottle of formula per day. We did it for 2 days already and DS doesn't seem to be any worse or better. Not being worse means maybe we can increase it daily. But reflux is a funny thing, so we are treading carefully.
If anyone is reading this, thank you for taking an interest. This feels like such a lonely road, especially for a highly sensitive person. Sitting here day after day, sleep deprived, messy house, pj's, whole world passing me by, all-time consuming crying baby, 3 year old babysat by Netflix attention deprived. Mommy guilt, depression, frustration, wondering what I'm doing wrong, why other people have *normal* babies. Not what I envisioned when I looked at the pregnancy test and went running upstairs to tell DH! But also, I know it could be worse and I have to remind myself that I am blessed to have such trivial problems when compared to others.
I hope to have some good news soon.
Wife to - Mama to DS 6/08 and DS 9/11
Hang in there, momma. That baby will get bigger and you will be able to start trying other foods.
My youngest brother was allergic to everything as a baby. He drank sugar water and ate rice cereal because he couldn't take milk or soy or formula. This seems like forever, but the baby will grow past it.
I'm sorry that things don't seem to be improving much. I hope at some point that it becomes easier for you. As for the medical testing, if it were my kid (which it isn't so you have every right to tell me to shove off) I would pursue an endoscopy at some point to rule out food allergies. I don't think it is something that needs to be done now, 4 months old is really young to undergo general anesthesia and I wouldn't push that unless one of my kids was deathly sick. I do think though that he should be tested for EE, just to be safe, and to see what if anything he will react to as he starts eating solids. I work with special needs students and one of them has EE. He is allergic to the usual (dairy, wheat, soy) but he also has some strange allergies, like chicken, which most people can tolerate fairly well. So it could be that your son is highly allergic to some oddball food that you are eating and passing on to him in your breast milk and you aren't necessarily recognizing it because it isn't a common allergen. FWIW, that student I have is able to tolerate solid foods and he does not have a g-tube, so EE is not automatically a sentence to a life time of tube feeding. He has a restricted diet but fortunately he really likes fruits and veggies and turkey so he does okay. I'll keep you and your son and your family in my prayers.
I followed DeCHiRi's story when I was pregnant and then with my youngest when she was very similar. I have 6 children and the older five all added together in their whole lives as much as our youngest did in a week. She would scream ( the baby goat bleating scream) for hours.... averaging 6 hours a day. She got up to 14 on bad days, only lapsing into unconciousness for a few minutes between screaming tirades. I was a zombie.... I could not function at all. She had a lip tie when she was born and it was severe, we ended up getting it revised at 10 days old.... it improved her latch enough that I didn't lose my nipples but she didn't nurse well at all. The ENT mentioned that her tongue was weird but that everything looked fine. At five months I met a mother at our homeschooling group who mentioned that her children had all had posterior ties and they had the same problems.... I researched and found that it looked just like my dd's tongue. I found a ped who would clip it in the office with topical anasthesia......we drove out and had it done. (the night before the procedure she screamed so hard she blew all the vessels in one of her eyes) when the nurses apologized for her crying during the procedure I showed them her eye and said that it was less screaming than she had done on the drive over.
It was a miracle.... our dd was transformed, she slept and didn't cry for a week. We lived with a completely different baby..... we were overjoyed that she was not crying but so sad that we had missed it for so long. After a week she started being fussy again in increments.... it was much better than before but she was still a screamer and a choker. She drooled incessently. It was hard to really accept, we kept saying that she must be teething,(even though our older kids hadn't gotten teeth until they were one.) We kept thinking it was an allergy ( our 6yo has crazy allergies and we eliminated all of them... no change). We tried gluten free, my arthritis disappeared, my stomach issues disappeared. She was still miserable. The pediatrician who had clipped her tie had mentioned that sometimes ties were so deep in the muscle tissue that he couldn't clip them out patient.....he suggested that if we still had problems to go to a pediatric dentist in NY to have the tie lasered. We debated whether we thought that it was the tie but eventually decided it was worth going.
We drove up to NY and had her examined.... Dr Kotlow was spectacular.... he explained that the tie was causing all of her screaming issues because it was causing her reflux and her inability to protect her throat. We were sure that what we were dealing with was going to be resolved with the laser..... it was! The Dr said that he tool her tie back 1/2 an inch.... that is huge but it was what she needed. She was able to stick her tongue out so much further than before........she could nurse without me holding her on. She could manage the milk without choking. She did take quite awhile to figure out the new mechanics of nursing but it was so different. She still cannot manage a bottle or cup, it is because of her vestibular issues not her tongue... she cannot tip her head back without falling. She can now eat without choking on every bite of food. SHe does still have a sensitive gag reflex but it is maybe once a meal not every single bite of food.
I was so sure that there was an allergy causing all of the issues....we had been through 3 years of battle with our son and i have dealt with allergies and the horrible side effects my while life, I hadn't thought that her tongue tie could affect every aspect of her life so much. I can say that we still have a very high needs little girl..... we have other issues to deal with on a daily basis,...but she is not suffering every moment. I am so thankful that we did go to have the consult with the Dr and see if it could be her tongue. We are still having issues with her speech ( she only has one word) but it is definitely worlds better than it was 6 months ago. I was so depressed and barely able to function. I felt as if I was drowning every day with no way out. I cannot believe that I survived that time, no sleep, no breaks, no ability to think clearly. I think now that if I had been able to think clearly I would have seen the reality of my situation and found help faster but I was just too far gone with exhaustion.
I don't know if this will help you, I am so sorry that you are dealing with this now and that you and your family are living with this.... I can remember how desperate we were when our dd was screaming endlessly. I just know that if someone had mentioned this to me I would have been saved so much grief and my dd would have been helped faster. I hope you find answers soon, sending hugs to you!!!!
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I have a kiddo with EE, and I definitely think that going to a GI is the way to go. They WILL likely suggest an PPI (like prevacid) and then an endoscope. An elemental diet may be warranted (it sure sounds like it!)
The bad news is that a lot of insurances do not cover formula except for inborn errors of metabolism. Some cover formula for infants for the first year, so I hope that will be the case. Our kiddo just had to go 100% formula at age 5 so I understand the sadness and hardness that it can be.
Big hugs. This has been quite a journey for you and I have been thinking about you.
Thanks everyone. I read all your posts, but only have a minute right now to respond. Went to the GI last night and she was no help at all, besides telling me that he will outgrow it in a few months and he looks healthy because hes not underweight or malnourished.
I have another appointment in 2 weeks with the same doctor. I am looking for a new doctor.
Will respond in more detail as soon as I can.
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Keep posting...I have some goofy long thread here from my DD3s first year and I swear just being able to spew it somewhere helped. And having a few people that stuck with me here the whole time was great. Some good advice from the mamas here. When #3 was born, I was so anti dr, anti anything medical on my kids, the ones so far had BF for years, etc. Now I have a 19 month old that has undergone general anesthesia 5x for endoscopies and a 4 yr old that has been under 3x in the last year, and I can honestly say all were needed. In hindsight, and I think I said this in my PM, but I would rather have scoped DD3 at 4 months, prior to going elemental, and gotten a better grip on the diagnosis (either EE or not) vs listening to a horrid GI that then started pumping my child full of what ended up being 12 different medications that did not work (and I was so desperate at that point, I would have put her on a morphine drip to freaking make it stop). I think I did way more damage with all the meds vs a scope that took light general anesthesia and took 10 minutes. Even now, when she gets scoped, she is awake and literally climbing the walls an hour later. My 4 yr old has not missed a beat either. Her first scope was her diagnostic one for EE, and she was 3 and all she remembers is that she got a cool coloring book.
Not saying knock your LO out without thinking twice, but just trying to look back on my experience which is freakishly like yours, and wishing I had pulled the trigger on certain things earlier. I ended up so beaten and tired that I could not even think straight to make rational decisions at that point. And still to some extent am. :)
I am with Devon, and I think it SUCKS that your GI gave you another H2 blocker vs a PPI. Just know that you are NOT crazy. One thing I realized after moving my kids' care to a GI that deals specifically with EGIDs, is how important it is to trust my instincts. When we speak on the phone about a food trial, or weird new onset of symptoms that I am trying to sort out, the first thing he asks is..."what does your gut tell you?".....then offers he medical expertise based on that.
Hang in there, be on the look for another GI, take the stupid H2 blocker so you can call back and tell her it does not work, and get on a PPI so one way or the other there is a next step.
Yes - definitely get a different GI. We saw two before we found one that I felt like actually listened to us, and gave us the right information (and that was WITH having an EE diagnosis).
If they have to do a scope - it will be okay. My little guy has bounced back tremendously well from them. They are scary at first but I think warranted to find out the root of the problem.
Good luck.
You will probably NOT look back on this time with fondness (I sure don't look back with fondness on the screaming pre-treatment days or the feeding tube days or the disagreements with the feeding team days), but you WILL survive this time and come out the other end of it. You will some day (soon!) be able to sleep. And breath. And relax. You will make it through this.
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I keep thinking about you and your 2 children that become ill, can't digest, whatever you want to call it from breastmilk and what could be going on. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics Breastfeeding and the Use of Human Milk only babies with classic galactosemia are contraindicated for breastfeeding - "Breastfeeding is contraindicated in infants with classic galactosemia (galactose 1-phosphate uridyltransferase deficiency)."
It just doesn't make sense that your baby would do better on formula. I am concerned that your children have a rare genetic disease. It isn't classic galactosemia. Babies are tested in all 50 states. Of course tests aren't perfect but babies that don't get diagnosed with classic galactosemia usually die in the first 2 weeks. It's not unusual for children with rare diseases to go undiagnosed for years. My 3 children have a rare, life-threatening genetic disease. I have an adult-onset form of the disease and was diagnosed when I was 32, soon after the birth of my youngest child. They did testing on my 3 children and they all have the same disease. My children were 8, 5, and newborn. The doctors could never figure out what was wrong with them until I was diagnosed. My 2 nephews and grandson also have the disease and they would have never been tested. This is a very rare disease. Much rarer than galactosemia.
If you look at the comparison lists of formula to human milk and explainations of why human milk is designed for babies how could formula be better for your baby? I encourage you to take your baby to an immunologist/allergist associated with a children's hospital. It doesn't make sense that this is just a digestive problem and a that a GI doctor would be the answer. Switching from breastmilk to formula isn't supposed to make digestive probems better, it would make them worse. I'm not sure the allergist would be the best but they are used to working with people with rare disease presentations.
Someone said I didn't seem like I cared about your feelings. Maybe because I said your your baby had the right to be breastfed. I said this because you said the doctors were telling you to stop breastfeeding. I wasn't saying this about you and breastfeedin but about doctors and telling you that you can't. I am a health scientist and sometimes I come off sounding like Dr. Brennan on Bones. It was said I must not know what it is like to have a child with problems. I wish that were so. I had 3 very ill babies and children and they only had a 64% chance of living until 20. They are all adults. My grandson is 3 and has been head to toe eczema since he was 10 months. I didn't know my children's risk of dying when they were young. It breaks my heart my grandson only has a little better than 50/50 chance of living to be an adult. I care very much, perhaps people assume the worst.
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Thanks everyone who has commented. I finally have about 5 minutes to come on here and update. Hopefully the baby sleeps at least 5 minutes, but I never know nowadays.
Purplepaisleymama, thank you for your story. I had an appointment with a midwife/LC and she took a look at his mouth. She says he has an extremely sensitive gag reflex and that could possibly be a reason for all the problems. If he was feeding off of the breast, it goes way back into the mouth but the nipple of the bottle goes partially into the mouth. But that doesn't make sense as to why he *still* had problems when I was exclusively pumping. And as I mentioned before, he does noticeably better on the formula, but the reflux and crying is not totally gone.
Thank you for your sentiments Devon. An update: I went back to the GI doctor and she said she will not do a scope. She says it's probably colic or reflux and she doesn't want to put the baby in unneccessary possible harm by scoping. DS is gaining weight and *looks* healthy. She gave me Prilosec and Neocate (elemental formula). Seeing as my DS reacted to the Zantac, I don't feel comfortable giving him the Prilosec. I don't want to go down this road of medication after medication, so I am stalling I will try the elemental formula though and see how he does. Right now, he won't touch it. I am looking for a new GI on long island, New York if anyone has info it would be appreciated.
Although DS can not have much of my breastmilk without getting sick, I am still pumping 3 to 5 times a day. Call it hopeless, but I can't seem to let go of the possibility that once we find out what this is I may be able to breastfeed again. As of right now, he will not latch. I'm trying every day and he is getting closer to latching again. Sometimes I wonder if its pointless to be doing all of this- pumping for 2 hours a day when I could be spending time with my boys, staying up late to pump when I could be sleeping - but I have to hold on for him. I feel if I let go now, I will fall apart emotionally with the strain of my dashed hopes.
Foreverinbluejeans, thank you for your post. And I'm sorry for all you've had to go through with your little ones. So glad they are alive and doing well.
I'm sure it was meant to help, but you have a way of making me question my sanity in a time that is already rough and frought with insecurity. Like a bull in a china shop.
And of course, DeChRi - thanks for all of your help in this. I am plugging along albeit slowly. I guess I have to go through all the rigamaroll the doctors put you through before I can get a diagnosis.
And thanks for the dose of truth fiddlefern. I remember when DS1 was sick like this. I look back on those days with dread and anger. Not fondness. I want so badly to be able to enjoy this time. I think I deserve it. I ate properly when pregnant, had a beautiful peaceful homebirth, cared for my little one... I deserve to enjoy my child who has now just started screaming. He just slept 20 minutes after being up all night last night... lovely... got to run!
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I am so sorry you are dealing with this. I know how hard it is to try and make decisions for your kid- always weighing the pros and the cons of the natural route vs. pharms. I do want to encourage your to try the Prilosec- it is a totally different class than the Zantac, and untreated reflux can have life long consequences (like increasing the risk of esophageal cancer), not to mention the immediate pain it causes.
I hope I am not being to forward. I have always been hesitant to put my kids on any kind of medication too,so I get where you are coming from.
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Thanks homemademomma. No, you are not being too forward. I need some clarity right now - advice from someone who is outside the situation.
It would be wonderful to think that I could use a pill to solve everything. But that hasn't been my experience with medication. Just to clarify, my children and I don't handle foreign chemicals very well. I've been told by a ND that my children and I have "methylation" issues, causing *huge* digestive and allergy problems. Mine were worsened by being on PPI's and other meds. Meds have made my life miserable. I get terrible looking rashes all over my body and face from eating. Sometimes I get the rashes, reflux and stomach pain from eating things I'm not supposed to be allergic to. My list of allergies is growing every day and I can barely eat anything as it is. Last night, I reacted to chicken, which was one of the last meats I can eat. I don't want this for my child. Another downside is that Prilosec shuts off the proton pumps which cause acid in the stomach. Stomach acid is supposed to help keep infection and bacteria away. My child is not vaccinated, so I could be creating a nice environment for some kind of virus.
Just wanted to get my thoughts out on paper...
Thanks for helping me clear my mind actually. I am considering the medication, even through all of this. I think I will try the hypoallergenic formula first and then if that doesn't work, possibly the medication. Thank you so much for your advice, I really do appreciate any advice that will help me :)
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I would also lean in trying the Prilosec - because it is a PPI. But, like you said, you have a history of problems with medications, so it's something to consider. Did you talk to the doctor about your past problems with them?
I would definitely switch to a different GI, or get a different opinion. Just saying "colic" or "reflux" is not acceptable, IMO. This is extreme and this poor kiddo is suffering, as are you!
My kiddo is on Neocate but it took him being on it 100% (with absolutely nothing else) before he started gaining weight, etc. I think using it is a good path to start from, and see if it helps. However, if you can't get the reflux under control, it might not (because its not going to prevent that). I would give it a try with ONLY the neocate - no other formula, milk, no drops added, etc. and see how it goes.
I don't think you are crazy for still pumping - I am majorly impressed with your dedication. When I thought I was going to have to potentially wean one of my kiddos early, it was devestating. Keep up your hard work and dedication but don't kill yourself about it if you decide that you do have to stop. You have been a warrior so far.
Good luck.
Hi Devon - yes I spoke to the GI about the problems. Well, more like I tried to talk to her. Some doctors don't understand. It's like talking to a brick wall.
For instance, when I mentioned we have corn allergies and that there is corn in the Zantac (which he could possibly react to), she responded "There's no corn in Zantac". But I had done my research already and (obviously) she was answering without really knowing. Typical response I get from people. I've learned not to argue, because it makes me look eccentric.
Unfortunately, most people, incuding doctors, don't understand the true nature of food allergies/sensitivities. Or problems detoxing chemicals. But when you live it day after day, and work so hard to protect your children, you can truly come to realize the intensity of the setback you will have to suffer *just* from trying to go about things the standard way. As I'm sure you understand, since your little ones have dealt with similar things.
His pediatrician is one doctor who understands much better and supports most of my decisions. She was the one who prescribed the Zantac in the first place, but would not prescribe Prilosec when the Zantac caused a terrible reaction. She wanted a GI visit first.
And yes, we are all suffering. We keep looking for answers. First it was the breastmilk, then the mold in our home (which we moved out of), then possibly the formula... among many, many other things. We have been trying to figure this out for 3 months now. I have to say, he is doing much better than he was 3 months ago. So we are slowly moving towards finding relief for all of us.
Thank you for your kind, supportive words. Gotta run to work now! Just started a new PT job at the HF store.
Wife to - Mama to DS 6/08 and DS 9/11
Well, DS is almost going to be 8 months. And what a frustrating and confusing time it has been for the family. Yesterday was the first day I didn't pump at all.
We still haven't found an answer, but he is (for some unknown reason) doing okay on the formula. He's doing okay enough that doctors have labeled it reflux or colic and don't want to go any further or do any other tests. Of course, we are planning on seeing new doctors and hopefully getting some tests done. But really - one main thing has happened to cause me to discontinue trying to give him breastmilk. I lost a part of my tooth with an amalgam filling. I don't know where it went. I could have swallowed it or maybe just lost it.
This was two teeth together with two huge amalgam fillings that we have suspected to have caused allergies and sensitivities in me ever since the day I got them 9 years ago. MY first DS was breastfed for 2.5 years and we have also wondered if the amalgam fillings were getting into the breastmilk somehow. We think he may be on the ASD spectrum.
Because I lost part of my tooth unexpectedly, the dentist had to do some extensive work on those two fillings last week. There was already a cavity underneath the fillings and they had to be removed at some point anyway. But I was planning on waiting until my little one turned 2. The dentist removed all the amalgam and replaced it with composite. I have decided that I don't want to take the risk of mercury somehow getting to DS. Some say it's okay to breastfeed after you pump and dump for 3 days. Others (some acquaintances mostly who have ASD children) say you should wait 18 months after doing any kind of work with amalgam. It's just not something I want to experiment with - and he wasn't exactly enjoying the breastmilk to begin with.
Part of me doesn't want to give up pumping, but I know that it takes *hours* of time away from my children. So I'm finally at peace with my decision.
I want to thank everyone on here for the encouragement and the non-judgemental advice I recieved on this thread.
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This is really bothering me, my fan is always on high and the laptop is completely cool. I cleaned out all the dust, even opened my laptop to take any remaining dust, but the fan is still very loud. Once I go to watch a video or play a game in full screen, the fan freaks out and starts to lag whatever I am doing. Also, as soon as the fan starts roaring away, with nothing running, it makes my cpu jump to 20-30% Any idea what the problem is?
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Date of problem start - 1/21/09