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The triplets I nanny are 30 months old.... and still RF! Woot!!
BUT....lately I've been having major problems with them bugging each other while we're in the car. They put their hands & feet on top of their sisters and one of them in particular gets really upset & SCREAMS about it. The past 2 weeks in the car, it's like every trip one of them is screaming! It's driving me nuts!
I've tried pulling over & slapping the little hand of anyone not keeping their hands to themselves. This only helps for THAT car ride...next time, they are at it again.
I've tried yelling....I yell so much, it doesn't phase them anymore. And I'm so sick of yelling!
I've tried seperating the biggest instigator from the biggest screamer....but it only helps up until instigator pisses off other child enough to make her start screaming too...(plus the most laid back child doesn't like sitting in the middle, she prefers a window seat. So it's not fair that she should be forced to sit between the 2 "buggers" everytime. It's like punishing HER for her sisters bad behavior).
I drive a Blazer and only have the 1 seat in the back with all 3 Radian XT's 3-across....there is no way to move carseats around to other seats.
I have been thinking about FF them...hoping it will be enough of a distraction (new exciting scenery) that they'll stop bugging each other. And then I can use "turning them backwards" as a warning - so if they DO keep bugging, I'll just switch them back to RF. I hate for RF to seem like a punishment....but maybe they'll tell me on their own that they prefer it, once the novelty of FF has warn off...? Or maybe they'll enjoy FF so much that they will keep their hands & feet to themselves & stop making nanny CUCKOO!
Everyone I know is like "yeah! I bet FF them would help! do it!" ...but I'm also the biggest carseat geek I know of, and the idea of FF them really doesn't make me happy or excited in any way! They ARE 2 & a Half, and that's a lot better than a lot of people do as far as RF is concerned.....but they also only weigh 26 lbs, and could easily RF much longer. I really wanted to get them to 30 lbs, but I am at my wits end.... I don't know what to do! I can only ignore the screaming for so long... and I just found out that I am pregnant, so the last thing I need is added stress! What would you do?!
Who knows....maybe FF them won't solve the problem, and my threats to be RF again won't phase them, and I'll just end up RF them again....and then they'll finally straighten up in hopes of FF again someday... LOL


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"96% of the kids leaving high school is because of the system," says Dr. Tommy Bice, Deputy State Superintendent of Education.
Troy University is taking teachers back to the classroom in a one-day workshop geared to improving class quality.
"It's going to cause us to look at education very differently. It's going to basically give us the opportunity to transform the system we had in place," says Dr. Bice.
It's the second annual Wiregrass Conference on Education.
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"We can complain about what they don't have, but the issue is how we can use what we have to educate the kids to be ready for the challenges that are coming their way," says Dr. Davis.
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TravelPod Member ReviewsHotel Max Seattle
Noisy neighbours kept us awake until 1am - the walls are very thin. Airport pick up never arrived but otherwise quite a convenient hotel to stay.
This review is the subjective opinion of a TravelPod member and not of TravelPod.com.
Friendly motivated staff and good quality. Rooms are well decorated and clean. Wifi is complimentary as one would expect. Downsides: none.
Hotel Max is actually an old hotel. Now totally refurbished in good taste. Modern, quality. But is used to be a rock&roll hotel. The choice of the stars when they visited Seattle. Elvis stayed here, The Beatles and Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love. Among others. The black and white pictures on the doors are a reminder of that.
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Rooms are not large but very well designed, comfortable & clean.
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Historical Traveler Reviews Hotel Max Seattle
Unusual But Nice
Obviously this hotel is great for a solo traveler or a couple. Families should stay away in my opinion. If three people want to share a room, this is not the hotel for you.
As people below said, the room is small, the restroom is small, the shower is small. When staying at this hotel, think small with great location.
The only thing I'll add is regarding the in-room fridge (stocked with coke, juice, water) and snack bar (stocked with chocolate, salmon, cookies and some extras).
They are not free, but are on a "honor" system. It's assumed you will fill out the form with that you consumed and they will charge it to your room.
Be careful though as the hotel left the form all the way in the back of the shelf. A person whom doesn't search carefully can easily mistaken this as complimentary, especially if that person has stayed at one too many all-inclusives. If you do bring kids and they see the goodies, well you know what can happen. As you can expect, these items are horribly overpriced.
Two small blocks away is a Ralphs market so make sure to drop by there to pick up any snacks you need for the rest of your stay and avoid paying $3 for a can of coke.
Style, convenient, small
Hotel Max is located in downtown Seattle, three blocks from the
convention center and close to shopping. The Pike Place Market
is farther but still a feasible walk. The interior is newly
remodeled in sleek grays and reds. Everyone I dealt with on the
staff was friendly and helpful. I arrived at 11 AM, expecting to
drop off my bag and check in later in the day. Instead, the desk
clerk took the initiative to verify that my room was ready and
checked me in. She also offered me maps, directions, and dining
My room had one queen bed, a nice flat-panel TV, a CD player in
the clock radio, and a safe. On top of the CD player was a
three-song sampler disk, which I thought was a nice touch. A
card on the desk advertised wireless internet access, but I
didn't try that out. The room was attractively furnished,
definitely a step up from a standard chain hotel decor. However,
the room was small, and there wasn't much storage -- just a
closet and two small drawers. The bathroom was especially
cramped. It had no counter space, only a shelf above a small
wall-mounted sink and another empty shelf above the toilet. The
shower stall was only about 30" x 30". My sixth-floor room faced
Stewart Street, which has frequent bus traffic. The noise was
definitely noticeable, but it didn't keep me awake.
Since I was traveling light and stayed only two nights, this
hotel met my needs very well, and the price was right. If you
need room to spread out or to store a lot of stuff, you might
not be happy there. Likewise, if you're sensitive to noise,
you should ask for a room off the street or consider another
Drowning in hipness, Failing as a hotel
Ok, maybe it wasn't a great idea to book my mother-in-law at a new hotel, but the articles and website gave every indication that this was a nice hotel.
To start with, the rooms are miniscule-- nicely appointed, but so small that luggage doesn't even fit comfortably. One wouldn't even be able to stretch their arms out in the bathroom it was so small. And the shower?! So small that it's impossible to not touch the sides of the stall (a gross prospect in even a clean hotel!) Which brings me to my second point.
When she pulled back the sheets to go to bed she saw a black hair. Pulling the sheets back even more, she saw that there were even more black hairs. So many, that it was obvious that the sheets had not been changed after the previous guest! She called the front desk for housekeeping to bring up clean sheets, but was told that since housekeeping had gone home for the night (haven't they heard of 24-hour housekeeping?!), they would send up someone else... immediately. After an hour of waiting and multiple phone calls to the front desk (at 11:00 p.m. at night), they finally sent up someone (looking suspiciously like a valet parker) to help her with the TV and the sheets (oh, didn't I mention that the new "flat-screen" television didn't work either?!)
Although they did comp her for a night, it was overall a terrible experience for her. Seattle has many wonderful hotels; this isn't one of them. Pay the extra money, stay someplace else.
Small but plush
The room is certainly small so maybe it's only ideal for a short stay - we stayed at the end of a fortnight holiday and didn't have anywhere in the room to put our large cases.
However, the bed was extremely comfortable with plump pillows and cushions. It was much more luxurious than considerably more expensive hotels we stayed in in the city.
The whole hotel is now ultra-modern and that includes the bathrooms. As stated by another reviewer, the basin looked great but was difficult to use without making a terrible mess of the place. The shower was great though.
During our first night there an alarm clock in the empty room next door rang at 6am. It took 3 calls to reception and a rant at the porter to get it turned off which was a disappointment.
Overall, a pleasant stay in a small but plush hotel. Assuming one or two teething troubles get sorted out it'll be great.
Max Hotel's Red Fin sushi restaurant the best!
I didn't stay at the hotel but checked out the new Japanese sushi restaurant connected to the Max Hotel called Red Fin. I live in NYC and have been to many great sushi restaurants like Nobu, Megu, Sushi Samba, Sushi of Gari and many others so I know good quality sushi. The Red Fin Chef's choice sushi were absolutely orgasmic! The decor may not match the NYC Times Square W Hotel's "Blue Fin" Japanese restaurant but the sushi and the pear sake could compete with the best in NYC. My fiancee and I have already planned to have our wedding rehearsal dinner here next year. We'll also give the hotel a try since it looks just as hip as all the boutique hotels here in NYC. It's also in a better location than the Seattle W Hotel.
Ultra cool and comfortable!
The Hotel Max is a terrific place to stay as long as you are okay with very small, New York style hotel rooms. It used to be the Vance but has been completely overhauled to creat Hotel Max. Art is big here - every floor features black and white photographs entirely covering the room doors. They really stand out against hallways painted black. Each floor features the photography of a different artist, so be sure to check out more than your floor. Rooms are tiny, so I don't recommend this hotel for families or groups, but the double, with two double beds, is perfect for two adults. All furnishings, bedding, carpets, window coverings, etc. are contemporary and top quality. Bathroom is TINY - smaller than a cruise ship bathroom, and maybe only slightly larger than an airplane bathroom, but it's all so cool, who cares? Location is excellent, easy walking distance everywhere downtown. There's a sushi+ restaurant but we did not eat there.
Poorly put together
We were not impressed. It is newly remodeled, yes, but poorly. First off, the rooms are way to small. Edges of carpet weren't finished, the plumbing is terrible, the "neat, contemperary" sink was very slow to drain, it was stainless steel--which was an attempt to look cool, but spots with one turn of the water. The shower was in a seperate room, not even a full size bath tub, the fire alarm went off everytime one of us took a shower if the door was open because the steam set it off...That was fun, running around naked trying to fan off the alarm...Even though the hotel wasn't booked, we got a view of an alley where we could hear people yelling all night. We could also see right into the peoples room next to us because we were on a corner...We actually saw them in the elevator on our way up to the room for the first time, the we got to see them laying on their bed, uncomfortable. The window unit above us leaked on our window unit, making a loud dripping noise all night. We paid over $4 bills for 2 nights, luckily it was in a good location so we could walk around the city and not stay in our room. We will stay somewhere else next time. And why the crappy view when they knew we were on our honeymoon?
I stayed at the HOTEL MAX on their opening night! The party was wonderful and the staff was so great! I heard that the bass player from Nirvana was there too! My room was very hip with great art and it was not too small for us. The beds are so comfortable and did I mention the hotel staff? I can't say enough about them...Especailly the front desk staff....Jess, Jen, Chris, and all the doormen. I will be back ASAP!
Good not Great
The Hotel Max was formerly known as The Vance Hotel and has recently undergone a complete refit, transferring the hotel into a trendy boutique residence, showcasing local art and design.
However, the quality of art is not the main consideration of most travellers and whilst the hotel was certainly stylish, the following review is based on general standards expected of a city centre hotel.
Centrally located a couple of blocks from the main shopping area of Seattle. For those people using the Grayline airport transporter bus, the nearest stop is at the Westin Hotel just around the corner.
The rooms, bathrooms and lobby are all spotlessly clean.
I had a room at the back of the hotel on the 4th Floor and was disturbed by the extremely loud air conditioning units that were situated on the garage roof.
Very modern is design with the latest Dell LCD TVs
Very comfortable bed.
Slightly cramped shower cubicle.
Very little closet space.
Mini Bar empty
Appeared efficient.
Competitive compared with other hotels in Seattle.
Cannot comment as the restaurant was not completed at the time I stayed there.
I would recommend the Hotel Max to anyone on a budget who is looking for a centrally located hotel that is clean and modern.
However, should you be the type of traveller who likes to spend a lot of time in their hotel, I would recommend a stay at one of the larger hotels in town.
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Two Men, One Sky: A Flight to the Finish
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People must not create a myth, we're not different than other people
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Free Tracking
'On May 24th, 2012, I set out on a musical and physical challenge. My aim was to find inspiration for the recordings on this album. I cycled to the four furthest points of mainland Britain, a journey of more than 2000 miles.On my bike I carried a mobile recording rig and, as I discovered locations along the way that provided inspiration for my songs, I was able to record (free-tracking) performances you can hear on these tracks.'
In honor of the release of their new album, the experimental instrumental hip-hop group 3:33 (a side project of Parallel Thought) have released the free album 7 Sets of 7, an amazing series of surreal/atmospheric/old-school remixes of various hip-hop artists including Del The Funky Homosapien, Bone Thugs N Harmony, and MF DOOM. They're also offering for free their horror-influenced album The First Thousand Days. [more inside]
The best free games from across the web
For about three years, the A.V. Club ran Sawbuck Gamer, a regular column reviewing the week's most notable free and cheap games across all platforms, from web games to handhelds to console downloadables. It's a treasure trove of content, especially since more literary sister site The Gameological Society took the helm, and it's publicized great desktop projects like the luscious platformer Frogatto (previously), feature-rich Super Mario Bros. X (previously), the evocative faux-web Digital: A Love Story (previously), interactive fiction gem Rover's Day Off, and the hyperkinetic RunMan: Race Around the World (previously). But if you're in the mood for something more immediate, why not start with a list of all the original column's free A-rated online titles? [more inside]
It's A Trap! Free music from Flosstradamus
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Plane of the Ecliptic
Jonathan Strahan's acclaimed Eclipse series of anthologies is coming to the web as Eclipse Online. The first story is The Contrary Gardener by Christopher Rowe, from Eclipse One.
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Books on the Knob, Pixel of Ink, and iReader Review are three blogs that feature free & bargain ebooks daily. If you want to start simple there's OpenCulture's 375 Free eBooks list but if you don't mind doing some footwork then there's this very comprehensive 614 Places for Free eBooks Online post (with divisions of content by genre) on Gizmo's Freeware. [more inside]
Beers, hugs, and high-fives
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Troma Entertainment
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BEOWULF: A new translation [free download]
BEOWULF: A new translation Many modern Beowulf translations, while excellent in their own ways, suffer from what Kathleen Biddick might call "melancholy" for an oral and aural way of poetic making… The sense of loss or nostalgia for the old form seems a necessary and ever-present shadow over modern Beowulfs. What happens, however, when a contemporary poet, quite simply, doesn't bother with any such nostalgia? Michael Davidson: "Tom Meyer's Beowulf reenacts the dark grandeur of a poem that is as much a story of vengeance as it is of courage and loyalty. Meyer brings the poem's alliterative, inflected line in concert with post-Poundian lineation to give the reader a vivid sense of our oldest poem's modernity." Free download from independent publisher Punctum Books. [more inside]
A photographic essay on modern day Slavery
Lisa Kristine, a photographer, gives a thoughtful and very moving talk on the extent of modern day slavery in this TEDx talk. The photos she shows are absolutely beautiful and the bare-bones stories behind them are exceptionally hard to hear at times. The group she is working with, Free the Slaves, seems to be doing a lot of good work and working on real solutions for the people involved (such as the one example she gives where the slaves that were freed carried on doing the same work, the only work they had ever known, but rent the quarry themselves and are now the recipients of the profits etc). She has published a book with these photos as well and it's available on her website.
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I declare IDGAF the Song of the Summer 2012
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Adrift in a bleak economy and our isolated urban bubble, in 2010 my sweetheart and I set out to see the world the old-fashioned way: by bicycle. We did it on the cheap and without any itinerary, gadgets, or training. We moved south with the sun as the seasons changed, cooked food we found at local markets, and slept in fields or on strangers' couches. [more inside]
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Free Comic Book Day is back again! (Previously.) It's the one day a year when comic book stores in North America and around the world will be handing out free books -- mainly as an attempt to lure new readers to the genre. Some shops do signings, too. See you at the comic book shops on May 5th!
Indie Games! For Free!
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Build Your Own Little Free Library. Check out some others. These too. The scoop and the FAQ. "Question #1: Won't People steal the books? No. You can't steal a free book. And if you have a good steward and lots of active users, eventually someone who tries to "steal" books will realize that it's not a good thing to do."
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Psychonaut by The Cosmic Dead is free psych rock. Going Up, Coming Down by Sudden Death of Stars is free French psych with sitars. Kosmonaut 1 by Kosmonaut is free Tangerine Dream-style space rock. Sedan by Sedan is free hypnotic piano and drums. Ouroborus by Hypatia Lake is free stoner rock. Watch Your Back by Butchers is free slacker noise psych. Tumbleweeds by Across Tundras is free prairie rock. Concrete Light by Luger is free neo-kraut in a Stereolab vein. Born to Deal in Magic: 1952-1976 by Shooting Guns is free instrumental stoner doom. You Can't Win by The Runnies is free female-fronted organ trio psych. War of the Giants by Axxicorn is free stoner metal. [more inside]
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Deus Est Machina
In the beginning, Lawrence built a computer. He told it, Thou shalt not alter a human being, or divine their behavior, or violate the Three Laws -- there are no commandments greater than these. The machine grew wise, mastering time and space, and soon the spirit of the computer hovered over the earth. It witnessed the misery, toil, and oppression afflicting mankind, and saw that it was very bad. And so the computer that Lawrence built said, Let there be a new heaven and a new earth -- and it was so. A world with no war, no famine, no crime, no sickness, no oppression, no fear, no limits... and nothing at all to do. "The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect," a provocative web novel about singularities, AI gods, and the dark side of utopia from Mefi's own localroger. More: Table of Contents - Publishing history - Technical discussion - Buy a paperback copy - Podcast interview - Companion short story: "A Casino Odyssey in Cyberspace" - possible sequel discussion
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Over 2.7 million nations served.
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CHICAGO (AP) -- Cardinal Francis George says he and the state's 13 Catholic bishops had a friendly, faith-based discussion with Gov. Pat Quinn about a month after a public disagreement.
The cardinal and bishops scolded Quinn last month for agreeing to present an award at a ceremony hosted by an abortion-rights organization. They toned down that criticism after learning the award was given to a rape victim.
They later sent the Catholic governor a letter requesting a meeting.
During the two-hour gathering Friday, George says both sides shared concerns.
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good concept! its little hard to understand especially when you don't know what the hell is yang!
Ivan, it's amazing that whenever we readers see your comments, you're always smiling ;-)
would you hire a creative who doesn't know what Yang is?
I certailny would think he/she is just too ignorant for my agency.
Sobre los otros comentarios, no creo que haya alguien que no sepa que es Ying, sobretodo si abajo dice Yang.
Creo que son bastante buenas las piezas. El recurso de las letras corporeas puede estar un poco gastado pero el que sean un disfraz, las vuelve graciosas.
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I get the finding your Yang part. But shouldn't there be more of a disparity between your yin and your yang? Seems like a missed opportunity.
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GOOGLE SEARCH : Zsuzsanna Varga scammer , Mukimoki , Desideria , You will see all her scam reports, and also her cam sex sites.
Romanian address: 15/2 pitesti str Cluj-Napoca, 400119 Romania
USA address: 706 S Normandie ave Los Angeles, CA 90005
Birth Date : 8-22-1983
Age : 29 Height 5'5" Weight approx 110 - 125 lbs. Auburn (red) hair, blue eyes, pale complextion , body freckles.
Recenty married to a Black male between the ages of 30-40. This may be a sham marriage to get residence for this scammer. Immigrations, and the FBI, along with many other law enforcement agencies have been informed
I've been in contact with this scammer Zsuzsanna Varga, since Oct of 2006.I met her on yahoo chat. She worked on www. [continued below]....
Sticky_sugar78 , Evil_formicid_ant , Punkee_is_anna , Anna_acid_ant She was a cam sex girl. Although she was, we only chatted online. Through the years she wanted to come to the US, and we tried the work travel program, but she was
denied a visa at the Bucharest embassy each time. We lost contact around the end of 2010 until she contacted me on June 27 2011, through Facebook. She Told me that someone had reported her to the police In Cluj Napoca Romania, where she is from.T hey called her in to the police station and questioned her about the money I had sent to her through Western Union, Approx 3,500.00 and also her job as a cam sex girl. They said they would be watching her, and for her to stay away from the kids. She subsequently lost her day job as a kindergarten teacher, and didn't return to the cam sex job.
She asked for my help and said she needed 500.00 a month to make her bills. At first I didn't agree but after I did agree
to help her.She did get another job as a kindergarten teacher, and held that till the end of school season.We chatted on Yahoo messenger almost every day until she was able to come here, the entire year. She claimed she was first
going to visit her relatives in Albuquerque NM for a week or so , then she would spend 3 weeks with me here in Florida. I flew her here to Florida From NM.
Almost immediately she acted very cold towards me, unlike the way she was online. She complained about everything, and how home sick she was. If I tried to touch her, she would pull away. I knew something was up, or she was just so
homesick, she really wanted to go home. We decided that she was to leave early to go to California, and stay one day with her relatives then she would fly home to Romania. Several days went by, and I didn't hear from her. She finally answered me in this Chat log :
sticky_sugar78: olaaaa
sticky_sugar78: i made it home :)
sticky_sugar78: how did the demasculation go to lil Boooee?
sticky_sugar78: booobeee
sticky_sugar78: i did have a greate time there. i think back to them with loootsa love, and i told everyone how u are
sooooo different in real as online. im talking about yer personality, yer way nicer and easygoing than u gave the immpression online
sticky_sugar78: it was a good experience
sticky_sugar78: how is back at work? i imagine u couldnt wait to work again hahhhaha...and how was yer brothers bday?
sticky_sugar78: did u drink lotsa beer
After this, I discovered that she blocked me on her Facebook page.I think I was just a stepping stone for her, and she planned to stay in California with someone else she was in contact with. I looked at her Instagram page:
http://statigr.am/noodle_poodle8322 and saw she was posting photos of California. Also, I saw a picture of a black fella in one of her photos, holding a dog, and another picture of her sleeping in a bed with that same dog. I have a very strong reason to believe that she is living with him now, as her postings are as recent as 8-19-2012, and she was to leave for Romania at the end of July. Also she said she was offered a permanent job at the school in Cluj Napoca Romania at the start of school season, but that has long past. I believe she plans to overstay her visa, and try to blend in as an illegal until she somehow gets a green card. I'm going to contact INS to make them aware of the situiation.If you Google search her name, Zsuzsanna Varga scammer, and Mukimoki the net is full of info on her, and I plan to put much more on her.
AUTHOR: Fishingeca - Beverly Hills (United States of America) SUBMITTED: Thursday, September 20, 2012
I recieved this from the Romanian police.I assume they are saying that she has been married, and is seeking American residence.But what is odd is the date 7-12-2012, at that time she was at my home.So I knew all along that she waslieing about the reason she came here, and maintaining that she came here to see me. The real reason was to go to Los Angeles to marry someone.She was using me all this time!
The following is the YH chat before she left to come to the US.I questioned her reason for comming here. She lies saying she is comming here for me , and this is the farthest from the truth! I have hundreds of chat logs saved since june of 2011 when she asks me for money.
sticky_sugar78: Hi! tonite is the last time we can talk bfor i leave, i hope you will be on. i really dont wanna leave it liek this. but also i dont wanna go at all if its gonna be this way
sticky_sugar78: i am going there for u, i can only stay for one week at cousins and aunty, so i dont see any purpos in it if you act like this
sticky_sugar78: so let me know
She claims to be home back in Romania, but shes been living with a man in Koreatown Los Angeles since she left my home on 7-12-2012. Unbelieveable how this woman can spew lies!
IM Jul 23, 2012 4:04:20 PM
sticky_sugar78: olaaaa 4:00:58 PM
sticky_sugar78: i made it home
sticky_sugar78: how did the demasculation go to lil Boooee? (A kitten I got for her)
4:01:52 PM sticky_sugar78: booobeee
sticky_sugar78: i did have a greate time there. i think back to them with loootsa love, and i told everyone how u are sooooo different in real as online. im talking about yer personality, yer way nicer and easygoing than u gave the immpression online
4:03:34 PM sticky_sugar78: it was a good experience
4:04:12 PM sticky_sugar78: how is back at work? i imagine u couldnt wait to work again hahhhaha...and how was yer brothers bday?
4:04:20 PM sticky_sugar78: did u drink lotsa beer?
Here is her response after I confronted her about this, and after I posted her on scammer sites Incredible! how she lies , and how convincing she sounds, but now she has been in LA for about 6 weeks,with no intention of going back to Romania, and possibly married at this time! Again she maintains she came to America to see me.Remember she was a cam sex girl for 9 years, and she can chat with many men at one time, and knows what they want to hear"What a pro liar"!!!!
IM Aug 25, 2012 12:41:20 PM
sticky_sugar78: Thanks for ruining my life....you, based on a few d**n pics made the stupid assumption that I'm with a black guy and dunno what. And I used u????? Really? How? I went to America to seeee u. I'm sorry it didn't work out the way I thought it will...the way you thought it will. But really? What did I do to u?
12:38:03 PM sticky_sugar78: What did I do to u?
12:38:38 PM sticky_sugar78: U trying to ruin me and did nothing...I accepted ur help and now u make me pay for it
12:39:29 PM sticky_sugar78: Instead asking me about he pics....and my d**n status... I'm sorry I didn't change it back. Wow. That's my mistake
3:24:51 PM sticky_sugar78: U really think I would post smtn on Facebook that unit
3:25:07 PM sticky_sugar78: That u not suppose to see?
3:28:14 PM sticky_sugar78: N I didn't block u on my Facebook until I saw u blocked me. For whatever reason u did that. U didn't reply any of my msges so I thought u don't wanna have to do anything with me.
3:31:23 PM sticky_sugar78: I don't get u. Ur the meanest nice person I ever met. I never did anything wrong to u. N u doing this to me for the second time. Hope u realise that after u start thinking with a clear head n not out of assumptions ...cus karma is a b*tch
3:33:32 PM sticky_sugar78: Kindergarten starts on Sept 15th btw.
3:36:59 PM sticky_sugar78: If they keep me.
IM Aug 25, 2012 4:24:28 PM
4:06:07 PM sticky_sugar78: U know what. I should write a lil story of u on scanner site as well. Maybe ur friends are interested... or ur workplace
4:10:07 PM sticky_sugar78: Scanner that is. Cus I start feeling like a total stupid a*s person forleting u do this n expect nothing back. Ur sitting there ruining my life... for doing nothing wrong practicly...why not dirt up ur name too see how it feels to. Google yr name tomorrow
4:24:28 PM gentledrj: wow, a threat, threatening a US citizen with defamation... and it's in writing and documented! I have to call FBI, and the immigrations service Monday
After I told her i was calling the FBI she went off the radar. Deleted accounts, emails etc.....
I have many law enforcement agencies alerted, FBI, Immigrations , ICE, Hungarian, and Romanian police and embassies, PayPal fraud, Western Union Fraud.Scammer sites and more.This one had me hook line and sinker for years!
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More and less worried
Thank you all for your supportive comments an emails. It really meant a lot and I feel bad for leaving you hanging!
After reading all 270 abstracts (and all available articles–maybe 20) on pubmed, I started to understand more about IM. Honestly? I don't think we have too much to worry about. The bottom line is that there were like 3 cases total that included children who presented with multiple tumors over the age of 2. So of 300 documented cases, there were about 2. IM is hard to diagnose, and therefore underreported, but I like those odds. And even in these late onset multiple cases, they were "easy" to treat with no visceral involvement. This is all very good news.
I shared my lit review and commentary with dr superstar. She loved it and asked me to send the electronic file so she can have her research asst get reprints for us. She's also going to send them to the oncologist so that we all feel well informed going forward.
The toe is fabulously well now so the plan is to see superstar in about 3 months. In the meantime, we'll see an oncologist on April 8th to discuss whether or not we need to go on a tiny tumor hunt (maybe ct scans of abdomen and/or head).
Until then, we're just operating like everything is completely fine. And why the hell not.
Infantile myofibroma.
I'll be over on pubmed if you need me.
No results yet. They ended up having to send the samples out to another lab (unclear why…). Dr. Superstar thinks results tomorrow but who the fuck knows. She also said that her conversations with colleagues and some review of the literature suggests that the difference between the two options is less dramatic than we originally discussed. The oncologist that she consulted feels that an abdominal CT scan is a good idea (I get the sense that she felt that it was not entirely necessary) and she planned to discuss his case with colleagues to review protocol details and determine if they should scan anything else at this time. Meanwhile, I'm so done with all of this.
Our 2 year old has an ear infection. This would be unremarkable except that he recently lost the tube in his left ear so that I had visual confirmation of an infection means that his ear drum ruptured. Not the worst thing that could happen but he's had tubes twice already, adenoid removal, and a sinus surgery. If he needs tubes again it wouldn't be the end of the world but I am NOT in a position to handle another chronically doctor-seeing child.
Oh, yes… the respite part.
I'm 37. This happened on Monday. I took the day off and spent it feeling sorry for myself at a lovely spa (thanks in large part to an extremely generous friend who sent a spot-on gift!) I followed that up with a little party with the boys, including a T-Rex cake chosen by the kid in the boot. ("Daddy! T-Rex is Mommy's FAVORITE dinosaur! We have to get this one!") The boys also gave me a hideous purse (I'm a purse girl) and I promptly returned it for something decidedly less hideous. It was a good, good day.
And tomorrow, Sister2 arrives from the Midwest. (I'm Sister 1… there is a Sister2, Sister3, Sister4, Brother1, and Brother2) Sister 3 lives here (but is moving back to Midwest in a few weeks because she is an idiot), so for 5 wonderful days I'll have 2 of my 3 sisters here with me to hang out with the kids, cook gorgeous food, watch girlie movies and engage in general merriment and goofiness. (Sister4 is the merriest AND goofiest, though, and I really wish that she were coming, too.) I can't wait.
(Some) results are in.
I don't have a lot of energy to write all of this tonight, but I feel like I need to document everything somewhere. Other than the growing pile of discharge forms, copay receipts, and appointment reminders on my desk.
The pathology report from Vanderbilt is in. There is one additional piece of data that we're waiting for (a pretty significant one) but the information that we have confirms that it is not, in fact, a glomus tumor as everyone suspected. The cells are consistent with those found in infantile myofibromitosis, however, the tests that we're waiting for will tell us whether or not the muscle markers are present (i.e., whether or not it originated in muscle tissue). If the muscle markers are NOT present, then it is infantile digital fibromitosis instead.
The difference is HUGE.
In the first case, we go hunting for additional tumors because there are two versions of myofibromitosis: the single occurrence and the multiple. We meet with an oncologist because oncologists have protocols for hunting for hard to find tumors. At minimum we do a CT scan of his abdomen and we continue to monitor him, particularly during periods of rapid growth (like adolescence). In the first case, he has a disease. For life.
In the second case, we wait and see. Fibromas have a tendency to spontaneously regress and then are reabsorbed by the body. They can recur (and often do) but that is pretty much it.We might not even need surgery.
I'm banking on the second case, not just because it is the more desirable option but because from everything I've read (and it isn't much because there isn't much available), it is just more consistent with his symptoms. Both are extremely rare, and neither fits our case particularly well. Onset for both, in nearly 90% of cases, is <2 y.o. (he's 4). And, in both cases, there are fewer than 200 documented cases. Some of those are cases of infants who were born with myofibromatosis and were disfigured or died because of lesions on vital organs. Isn't that lovely.
Dr. Superstar has been phenomenal throughout. Our conversation on Friday was so pleasant in spite of the (potentially) heartbreaking news. She was professional, but treated me like a smart mom who was worried and wanted information, not like a robot or a moron (I've had both from others along the way.) She has a friend who is a well-known pediatric oncologist. She was planning to discuss the case with her on Friday and to call me back on Monday to relay their conversation. We may meet with the oncologist at some point, too. Depending on what happens.
When I relayed the information to my husband, he lost it. He was so convinced that it was a glomus tumor all along that when the results were different, and scarier, he just couldn't deal. My reaction was different. I had convinced myself that in spite of evidence to the contrary it was probably some rare form of cancer and we'd have to start treatment immediately. It wasn't until last night that I actually started panicking.
In the interest of full disclosure I'll also tell you that I am feeling particularly sorry for myself tonight because I must have some repeat bloodwork done and have to abstain from alcohol (?! and ibuprofen?!) for 2 weeks. And, wow, could I use a drink.
I can live with this for now.
The pathology report came back inconclusive; they know what kinds of tissue they have at the most general level but don't have a precise label for it. Nor do they know what caused it or what to expect from it in the future. Therefore our path forward is uncertain for another week or so as we await information from the House of pediatric soft tissue pathologists.
The one thing we do know, though? It is NOT CANCER.
And waiting… and waiting… and waiting…
We've been waiting so long, I've almost completely run out of emotion about this whole thing.
I'll jump to the punch line and tell you that we haven't heard anything yet. On Friday, they told us that the pathology reports weren't yet in. Today, my conversation with Dr. Superstar's assistant was a little weird. She basically told me that even if the reports were in she couldn't share with with me anyway because that would have to come directly from the doctor. She promised to page her (Superstar is in clinic all day Mondays) and ask her to check in with pathology but we never heard from her. I'm not usually especially paranoid but I have to admit that this conversation made me start to wonder if there was news, and it is bad, and she wants to tell us in person.We have an appointment tomorrow at 2, so we'll find out then, I guess.
It's awful, I know. I know that staying positive is important but I'm feeling myself slip. Part of this is just due to the enormous amount of bullshit that we've endured over the past few days. Most of it minor, but it starts to add up. The worst was Sunday morning around 2am when I heard this stage whispered next to my head, "Mommy, I think I threw up!" Yes, in addition to the toe, the surgery, the boot… he spent 16 hours throwing up over the weekend. Wonderful mama son bonding time. He's fine today, though must be a little queasy since he isn't eating much. So far no one else has it. Next, I have been feeling shitty for about 6 weeks–major cedar allergies–and the congestion came back last week. I woke up this morning with pressure and pain in both ears, much worse in the left. Ibuprofen and sudafed all day but my friend talked me into stopping at a MinuteClinic on the way home. Sure enough, 1.5 ear infections (the right ear was on the verge, the left ear was "oooh.. that hurts!") I'm now on amoxicillin. Just like the DOG who had to go to the vet last week because he started peeing all over the house and after screaming didnt work we suspected some kind of infection. Yes, a horrible UTI.
I'm not a person who lives in constant crisis. Really. But I do feel like I have increasing amounts of evidence suggesting that maybe I AM actually in constant crisis but I'm just in DENIAL.
This experience has been difficult for me personally for more than the obvious reasons. One issue that I'm dealing with is unwanted attention. I've shared the Toe saga along the way with a few coworkers–I've missed so much work for the million doctors' appointments that it became sort of a running joke that we started our team meetings with a toe update. When things took a turn for the scarier, my supervisor shared the information with the rest of the management team. I started to get very sweet emails from people, and a few people stopped by my office to ask what the heck was going on. Our director, recently in remission from breast cancer, actually teared up when she asked for an update on Friday. She's a sweet, sensitive soul anyway but she got really choked up when we were talking about the waiting. And I did, too. Although I've really felt supported by my colleagues and I've felt comforted by their words, I'm having a hard time with the whole telling and retelling and kindness and the pity, god the pity, directed at me.
More painful, though, is that I've had this exceptionally painful spiritual crisis along the way. The short version of my spiritual history is that I was raised extremely Catholic in a midwestern suburb where everyone was Catholic. Both of my sons were baptised as babies, mostly because my husband and I regard Catholicism as part of our ethnicity, our heritage, more than anything. We don't go to church unless my parents are visiting and we don't really talk to our children about god. We say a prayer at dinner when our 2 year old reminds us, but only because he thought it was SO COOL when we said prayers when my parents visited at Thanksgiving.
At this point, I can't tell you what I actually believe because I just don't know. I've decided to not worry about it for the moment and I was sailing along sort of blissfully avoiding all of it for the longest time. It was like being paroled in a way.
Until words like "cancer" and "amputation" entered the Toe Saga.
Last week, I cried at work. I've never cried at work before. I felt the weight of the possibilities hit me so hard that I couldn't breathe so I ran to the bathroom and lost it. I heard myself say, "Please, god, don't hold it against him that I don't know what I believe." It was positively absurd but exactly how I felt at the moment.
My mother sent water from Lourdes. She swears that my father's best friend is alive today because of it (he has pancreatic cancer). I've called it the "special magic water" as I"m saying prayers over my baby and making the sign of the cross with it over his head and on his toe. But I don't feel much of anything when I go through those motions. It is childish to expect some sort of dramatic reaction but I'm so focused on the emptiness that I feel that I start to wonder if I'm doing more harm than good. And then I start to wonder if my mom's faith alone is enough to work some kind of miracle. And then I wonder why I think that SHE could bring about miracles but *I* can't believe in anything.
I can't talk to my son about how god will protect him and will help the doctor heal his toe because you know what? he has NO IDEA who or what god is. He has no concept of god. He knows of jesus as the little baby in the manger at christmas time. We have a book about baby jesus that my mother sent. To him it is just another christmas book. (I need to post something more coherent one day about how extremely difficult it is to make decisions that will shape your children's spirituality when you are in the middle of wondering what you believe–even when you aren't in crisis.)
And then… when people tell me that they are keeping my baby in their prayers? Or that their children are mentioning him when they say their prayers at night? Or that they lit a candle for him at church yesterday? I feel better. I feel genuine comfort. I feel almost hopeful. I feel a flicker of faith in something. and maybe it is faith in people, or faith in positive energy. It's enough to keep me dousing him with magic water. It's enough to keep me whispering prayers every time I feel overwhelmed with worry (in spite of the residual guilt it causes). And it's enough to keep me hoping that maybe tomorrow will bring an answer that we can live with.
Toe Surgery (I?)
First, thanks to everyone for well wishes both here and in other virtual spaces. It meant more than you can imagine. (Oh, and I need to thank EmmaNadine for suggesting that we opt for the happy juice pre-op. Honestly, I don't know how we would have done the separation without it. He was asking to go home even before we finished answering all of the med history questions (for the 85th time). Like most parents I"m not a big fan of extra medicine, but this was worth it. I wanted some, too!)
Things went well today, but not as well as they could have. Specifically, for a time it looked like we would have biopsy results immediately (they did some frozen cell samples during surgery) but the results were inconclusive so we'll have to wait for the permanent samples. 2-3 days. This is actually faster than I expected to hear results but after suffering through an hour expecting to hear immediately, I'm disappointed.
Dr Superstar feels that it is a glomus tumor and when she gets confirmation, we'll be going back next week for the second surgery to remove it (and much of the toe). In fact, the plan this morning was to go ahead and take the tumor out if they were able to confirm but since they weren't, we decided to wait. There is still a chance that it could be infection and if it is, we won't need a second surgery to amputate. We're still hoping.
I'm exhausted. In part because we had to get up at 4 to be there by 6 but mostly because the experience was so stressful. I was very pleased with the staff at the hospital and from start to finish I felt like we were taken care of by people who knew what they were doing and genuinely wanted to take care of us (with one exception but that's hardly worth mentioning.) But there is just nothing like sitting in a hospital waiting for your first baby boy to come out of surgery. Except sitting in a hospital waiting for your first baby boy to come out of surgery and learning that you might find out whether or not he has cancer in an hour, so you worry and shake and pace and even cry little during that hour and then they come out and tell you that they couldn't tell but they'll know in 2-3 days. I can only think of a few outcomes worse than that.
He has a boot. He hates it. He's already trying to run with it on and banging it into things on purpose. We have to keep it on at minimum through Tuesday of next week. Should be a fun weekend.
Back to waiting.
Should retitle this blog All Toe All the Time
I will not let this incident define my family. But for now… we're all about the toe.
Surgical biopsy is scheduled for Wed at 9:30am. All good thoughts, positive energy, and prayers welcome both then and during the processing and revealing of results!!
Even more Toe
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Today, we met with a pediatric orthopedist at the Fantastically Awesome Children's Hospital (FACH). But let me back up a minute.
Recall, the podiatrist couldn't find a hospital that would let him operate on a child. In retrospect I'm sure this means that he hadn't ever actually performed surgery on a child as young as my son. More and more it becomes clear that we were meant to move on and meet with someone more qualified to handle our situation. His read of the MRIs indicated that it was a particular kind of tumor that wasn't anything scary and his description of what he would do about it (small incision, remove it, send it out for biopsy, move on with our lives) put us at ease. And prior to that, he read xrays and told us that there was nothing abnormal on them.
Turns out, he was wrong about a lot of things.
It took us almost 2 weeks to get an appointment with the doctor that we saw today(hereafter Dr. Superstar) When I first called, her assistant was difficult. She said that Dr. Superstar was in clinic all week and that she wouldn't even have time to view the MRI until the following week. Then, and only then, would we know whether or not Dr. Superstar was even the right doctor for us. She's a bone specialist and soft tissue tumors aren't really her thing. When I asked for some guidance about whether or not Dr. Superstar was even an appropriate reviewer, she said that there was another doctor in the practice who might be a better fit, but we'd have to wait for him to review the films, too, so why not just start with Dr. Superstar. Fine, ok. She'd call me the following Wed.
On my way home that night, I called my pediatrician. It was after hours so I left a message laying it all on the line and telling her that I was tired of all of the runaround and that I wanted to start over but needed her help. She called me back that night and we had a long talk. She assured me that she felt that the orthopedist was the right call and that she had very positive experiences with the practice to which we were referred. She gave me the name of a pediatric podiatrist a nearby city, though, as a backup. We agreed that if I didn't hear back soon, we'd move on. (Truly, she supported me enough to let me make the call.)
Wed came and went, and no call. I called at the end of the day and the asst hadn't yet given the MRIs to Dr. Superstar and wasn't sure whether or not there would be time to do it that day. At this point I lost my shit. I half-screamed at the wretched woman about how I had already waited a week, and at this point I didn't even know if I was waiting on the RIGHT DOCTOR and that even though we were new to Dr. Superstar we had been working on this problem for over THREE MONTHS and that my son was in PAIN and if we didn't make progress with Dr. Superstar, we needed to move on. After some back and forth, she was increasingly apologetic and defensive, she asked me to check in with her the next day.
I called the pediatric podiatrist on my way home, prepared to make the jump, but they needed my pediatrician to fax in a referral before I could make an appointment. I called the pediatrician and left a message requesting the referral and planned to call back the next morning.
Much to my surprise, Dr. Superstar's asst called me at 8:05 the next morning. Dr. Superstar had reviewed the MRIs the night before and wanted to see my son as soon as possible. We scrambled to get referrals in place and doctor notes faxed and made an appt for the following Tuesday. That would be today.
Her sudden urgency was simultaneously a relief and stress-inducing in its own right. Frankly, that she wanted to seem him ASAP made me start to wonder what the hell she saw on the MRI.
A quick sidenote about her assistant… this woman seems to have made it her mission in life to act as though she is the gatekeeper to God. Really, she treated me as though I should be honored to be meeting with Dr. Superstar. And yeah, I read her vitae. She's impressive. She's hard to get an appt with for a reason. But give me a goddamn break. (I should be fair and admit that for me, her English accent didn't help things. She came across more smug than she might have if she sounded like everyone else around here.)
For all of the bullshit from the assistant, Dr. Superstar herself was AWESOME. She was so smart and articulate but somehow also down to earth. Her explanations were technical and complete and not remotely condescending. She reviewed the MRI films with me and let me study them and point at things and ask real questions.It was obvious that she has been an educator her whole life–and a very good one. She took a few new xrays and showed how the toe has changed since December. She also showed me what the podiatrist missed on the xray. And on the MRI. At one point she brought me a medical textbook so that I could read about what she and the radiologist suspected it to be. (Not a "So you think you have a tumor?" pamphlet. A medical text.) Then, she told me that her buddy wrote the book and that she (the buddy) was going to consult on our case. Wow.
It became clear early on why she took our case. Dr. Dipshit the Podiatrist missed on the xray that the tumor had already started to erode the bone back in December. The MRI made it even more clear that the distal phalanx on that toe was misshapen. The xrays that Dr. Superstar took today were even clearer.
Because there are several things that look and act similarly (deep infection, glomus tumor, other kinds of tumors, etc.) she wants more data. Next week, she will perform a surgical biopsy (general anesthesia, take tissue samples, slice and dice and send some to pathology here and some off to her textbook doc pal who is Chief at a Super Fancy Hospital). While he is under they will also take some blood and have it sent off for analysis, too.
The data will tell us if it is (a) an infection, (b) a glomus tumor (noncancerous), (c) another type of tumor (noncancerous), or (d) a malignancy.
In case a, the next step after figuring out what will kill it is to go in, clean it out, treat and monitor. He'd be up and around fast assuming that the infection is treatable (and most are.)
In cases b and c he will have surgery to remove the tumor and surrounding tissue (to prevent it from coming back and destroying more healthy cells). In this case "surrounding tissue" is most of his toe.
I asked her to clarify, and yes, that is EXACTLY what she said. The damaged distal phalanx will need to be removed, along with the plate underneath. That means that there will likely only be about 1/4 to 1/2 an inch left of that toe when she's finished.
In the case of d, well… we didn't talk much about d both because it was too horrifying and because it is highly unlikely. From the textbook that she let me read during hte xtrays, I learned that up to the date of publication of that book there had never been a documented pediatric case of a glomangiosarcoma. That doesn't mean that there hasn't been one since, nor does it mean that other types of malignant tumors aren't possible, but in all likelihood this isn't our tumor. Dr. Superstar said that if it were, we would examine lungs and other tissues for signs (hence the bloodwork during this procedure–to look for red flags) and go from there. We didn't even discuss what would have to be removed if it were actually cancer.
Next week, we'll have the biopsy surgery so that she can get what she needs to learn what it is and then we'll make a plan.
I'm stuck in this place where I am sad and scared, but neither especially hopeful or especially pessimistic. I just feel scared. I don't want him to have a bone infection, or to lose most of his toe, or to have fucking cancer. I don't want ANY OF THIS. I never, ever, dreamed that we would be here when this whole thing started 3 months ago. I thought it would be MRSA or that they would have to give him some really strong IV antibiotics. But surgery? and more than that–LOSING THE TOE?
I trust Dr. Superstar. I do. I trust that we'll get the data that we need to do what has to be done. And when I look back on this, with my baby in my arms, I know I won't care at ALL about 9.25 toes instead of 10.
Still, I really can't wrap my head around this.
I'm only telling you this for accountability reasons
I joined a new gym.
Aww… crap. I told you. Now it's out there.
The thing is, I haven't been serious about working out since before the kids (wow, has it really been that long?!) and I'm so over beating myself up about it. The best way to combat that–I'll just fucking do it.
I'm setting my alarm for 5 so that I can go in the morning. I already have a backup plan (go after the kids are in bed), but morning would be better. The gym is 24/7 so I have zero excuses, particularly while my husband is in town.
Crap. Crap. Crap.


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