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It's Been A long Time….
Well, life as an adoptive mummy at the best of times is…ummmm eventful? Hard work? For a while I didn't blog as I was just trying to get on with life and it was going 'ok'. I started my Open University degree in Psychology and also a Photograhy Studio and then in 2015 our world came crashing down around us. I simply didn't have the energy, head-space or time to give attention to this blog though I have thought often "I really must update the blog!".
So what happened? It all started on Christmas Eve in 2014 when Adoptive Daddy(AD) had a hospital appointment because he hadn't been well. Without getting too personal they wanted to perform a minor procedure there and then but given the date they couldn't because they were short-staffed. It was decided that further urgent investigation was also required but at a different hospital where AD had had surgery in the same area some 20 years previously. It was all very complicated, the original consultant had been struck off, AD's notes had been lost, AD should have been having regular annual check-ups as he was high risk for Cancer but he had no idea of this. By the time the original hospital had accepted the referral back to them it was late February.
AD was examined by the new Consultant and admitted the very next day for urgent surgery as they suspected a kidney stone and blockage which could have caused kidney failure. A biopsy was taken as they didn't find a kidney stone but a mass instead. A few weeks later AD was given the news that everyone dreads… cancer and a rare type too – this after having been told by the consultant when they discovered the mass that you couldn't get cancer in that particular area.
Things got steadily worse. The hospital were un-supportive, no palliative care was offered- even at the time of diagnosis. AD was told and 5 minutes later was out of the consultant's office. It is normal procedure for a palliative nurse to attend and offer counsel and advice, answer any immediate questions; we only found this out later. After a second consultation AD sought medical treatment elsewhere as we had no confidence, we were referred to a hospital in London who were very experienced in this area.
So, if that was not bad enough, around the same time I had been seeking medical help because of my periods, they were unmanageable and interfering with life, the PMT was having an impact on our family. One of the last solutions offered was a Mirena Coil and at the time of fitting the consultant spotted took a biopsy,to this day I don't know whether she spotted something or whether it was routine. In the same week that AD was told he had cancer, I was told that I had pre-cancerous cells (not cancer but the pre-cancer of the type most likely to develop into cancer). I questioned why it had not been spotted in a recent smear and was told it would never have been spotted because it was in the uterus and not the cervix. It was recommended I have a hysterectomy. As an aside I would recommend that if your periods are unusual and have changed/worsened, go and see your GP. Had I just put up with the periods this would not have been found, I thank my lucky stars for that.
So, the course of action for AD's cancer was major surgery, thankfully no chemo or radiotherapy was required. AD had to have a number of operations last year and once he has been in remission for 3 years more surgery will follow. During surgery AD had a number of lymph nodes removed and now has Lymphoedema which can be debilitating. This has a knock on effect of the sort of activities he can do with kids. Previously he was going on long bikes rides, building camps in the woods, we would go camping and for long walks, all of this is now more difficult not always absolutely impossible but definitely harder and thought has to be given to location and convenience. AD is in remission but life will never really be the same again. Consequently, AD had to close his business and as my studio was based in half of his business unit my new business had to close too, I still get quite emotional about that.
Every single school holiday last year one of us was hospitalised. My hysterectomy took place in the first week of the summer break so you can imagine the impact of that. Hospital for AD meant overnight hotel stays for me as the hospital was not local so the kids got shunted around from pillar to post. In the meantime our dog Harry died from heart failure, he had been poorly for a while and had gone into congestive heart failure on Christmas Day 2014. He made it a few weeks past his 10th birthday in May. We were in financial straits because of having to close both businesses and this took a long time to sort out. Hospital stays and travel was expensive and then there were the exasperating things like turbo went on my car (expensive), my 40th birthday weekend trip had to be cancelled, we did not take a proper holiday with the kids… all these things minor in relation to the illness all take a toll on emotional wellbeing.
And there was more… at the same time as all of this was going on Girl was seriously assaulted at school and Boy was having huge problems with school. His behaviour was difficult, the other kids knew that he was wound up easily so he was constantly picked on but because he was a difficult child little was done. He would come home every day from school stressed out, wound up and ready to lay in to his family. In October we eventually withdrew Boy from school totally and would have taken Girl out too but there were too many reasons not to, most of them positive such as the relationship with her teacher this year and friends.
In some ways home-schooling Boy was a good decision. It meant that we had a chance to be with Boy without the demands of Girl. In other ways it was very hard. Boy has difficulties responding to any requests so adding learning to the repertoire of things that were expected of him at home was stressful, his difficult behaviour not so much escalated as we were getting little respite from it that we would get while he was at school. Around the same time our old PASW got involved as we wanted help with negotiating with schools, we got a ticking off for not contacting her earlier. I pointed out that our problems were not actually adoption related to which she responded that everything we do is adoption related, if the family is stressed the adopted children are stressed and it's her job to support us with that.
The very same day we pulled Boy from school we also had a working diagnosis for Autism. As with most adopted kids diagnosing the why's and wherefore's of why he behaves the way he does is not clear cut but the Psychologist conceded that a working diagnosis would be helpful for us accessing support for his behaviour.
The disruption to our lives this year has been unbelievable. We had to cope with emergency visits to A&E with complications, people visiting the house to sort out our financial affairs, hospice nurses, stabilising medications, holiday cancellations, social worker visits, traumatic school meetings, being pestered from all sides about finding a school placement for Boy – (except from family who have been absolutely marvellous). I was adamant that Boy was not going back to school unless I was sure the setting was right for him.
The year is ending with AD needing more surgery this year…and I will be having surgery on my nerves too, I have a trapped nerve somewhere (more tests required) but yesterday after a hospital visit I discovered that as a consequence of nerve damage crucial muscle has wasted in my hand. I am hoping that the operation is sorted out quickly, I don't want any more muscle to degenerate. Two of the things I love to do photography and crochet require use of both hands.
So, we have been through a considerably difficult year but I want to end on a positive note and tell you about the good stuff that has been happening. I got a distinction for my second year of study in my degree and this year the module revolves around the reason I started studying, attachment and child development. Some of the stuff I have learned has been fascinating and I will share with you in an informal manner. We got a new dog, a rescue Cavalier and this has been brilliant for the kids. Harry was always my dog in a way, he was here before we adopted the kids and they could take or leave him and vice-versa. Boy is now settled into a new school. We still have difficulties getting him out of the door for school but he likes his new teacher, he is making friends. The school is very small and so this means he gets more attention and it is more intimate than the massive primary school he was attending. The best thing of all is that dinner break is structured, they have a sports scheme and Boy likes to participate which means he is not getting into trouble and conflict with the other children. Girl… where do I start? We have less problems than we did. She is confident, she is happy and we are able to give her responsibilities. She still has some issues around executive functioning but in the grand scheme of things happiness is far more important.
Make and Mend
It's International Day at Girl's school today, this took me a bit by surprise this year. We have had an issue this school year with Girl not bringing letters home so we missed the newsletter with the date of International Day, then Tuesday of this week (nothing like a bit of notice) a text from the school 'Your child's class is Norway, don't worry about dressing up as there will be activities'. I didn't click it was International Day, something the kids ALWAYS dress up for, I just thought it was a school project. It was only when chatting to another mum on the playground yesterday morning I realised I needed to sort out an outfit. I could have followed the text and not worried about it but that would have put Girl in the position of 'the one who's mum didn't bother'. Not on your nelly!
So after hunting for a Viking outfit during the day yesterday and coming up with nothing I took Girl to Hobby Craft. First we visited Asda for a white t-shirt as I had an idea and on walking in the door a woolly hat, scarf and glove set in Nordic design right in front of us and even better, in the sale! Perfect, it was like it was handed to me on a plate but it wasn't enough. We bought the white t-shirt then proceeded to the haberdashery area in Hobby Craft. My little tomboy always struggles to hold in her inner girl in the haberdashery. We decided to make a flag for her t-shirt, I was thinking simple fabric paint, Girl had other ideas. First Girl suggested I make the flag using marabou. Marabou, I ask you!!! That was a definite no from me, I would not have known where to start! We agreed on sparkly. So with ribbon, sequins and sparkly material we headed home.
Over the top for school? Maybe. I could have dressed her in red, white & blue as the teacher suggested but International Day is something we have always made a bit of effort for, as do most of the other children. Four hours later, the t-shirt was finished. This morning before I was even out of bed Girl came running up the stairs, wrapped up in her new woollies and wearing her t-shirt, grinning from ear-to-ear. Girl always appreciates somebody taking time and doing something special for her (as do we all).
It's the making of the t-shirt that mended our relationship.
Control & Food
Food is a funny issue in our house, an issue experienced by many adoptive families. Boy uses the food as a tool for control but also has sensory issues around food so from one day to the next we cannot predict what he will eat, if anything. It's something we are just getting on with and not making too much fuss of.
With Girl even now we still have the negotiations about what she is allowed to leave on her plate, usually she will want to leave roughly two forkfuls of food however much we put on the plate. Two forkfuls of food doesn't sound like a lot but if we had put three forkfuls of food on her plate she would still negotiate to leave them so it's not the amount she is leaving that's the issue; it's the desire to negotiate about leaving some.Granted it's not every day but lately we have noticed a new pattern of ravenously hungry Girl.
The first time she was ravenous was at nanny's house, they were serving up SpagBol. Girl likes the spaghetti but has never been so keen on the meat, I usually leave it out and do a tomato and basil sauce instead but this time she ate serving after serving after serving. I was surprised, it was unusual. That is I was surprised until I got home and realised she had not eaten her lunch, she would have eaten anything. For lunch she had eaten some cheese spaghetti, a Frube and just barely a quarter of a sandwich and none of the fruit supplied so by the time she got to nanny's house for tea she was ravenously hungry because on a day of PE a bit of cheese, a frube and quarter of a sandwich is not enough for a girl as active as Girl, the Girl who runs everywhere.
It's a pattern that is starting to develop and grow. We have frequent occurrences of her not eating her lunch and being ravenous when she finishes school. When I ask why she has not eaten her sandwich she has 'accidentally dropped it on the floor'. Girl is a messy eater, has dyspraxic tendencies but at home she has rarely dropped her sandwich on the floor, at school she seems to be doing it all the time. She always eats the sweet yoghurt and the cheese, more often lately she leaves the fruit and Girl loves fruit. She knows I have no control over what she does at school, that she can eat just the sugary yoghurt and the cheese and get away with it.
Our other routine is that every morning Girl has her cereal and then she likes to eat something else like a piece of toast or a crumpet. A routine she has had from foster care. The last few mornings she hasn't wanted the second item, this morning she ate two spoons of Shreddies then said she didn't want anything else. She looks tired but I'm pretty sure she is not ill, I think there is something else going on that is making her go back to using food as control. I told her that I am worried that two spoons of shreddies is not enough, that food is her fuel to make her brain work and concentrate but I can't force her to eat.
It sounds like not a lot to worry about but sometimes it's the little things that are completely out of character for a girl that likes routine and the familiar that give the biggest signals and since returning to school there have been a lot of these little signs of something being not quite right. I guess the best thing I can do is not make too much of an issue of it but I worry about her lack of concentration in class because of hunger when she is already struggling at school anyway.
The Behaviours
It's been a bad day and this is one of those hammering it out on my keyboard before I have a nervous breakdown sort of posts but somehow it is sort of important to me to write it all down and think about what happened, why and what I can possibly do about it. I don't expect you to actually read it, I just need to get it out of my head before I go to bed or I will not sleep well. This sort of day is one of the reasons why I started the blog in the first place, my counsellor thought it was a marvellous idea!
Often at a weekend we have a full range of activities planned but after the summer holiday extravaganza of going out nearly every day I decided it was time to pull back a little, have one day out and one day in, I can't cope with being out all of the time and the house is suffering for it, little jobs getting ignored, the grass growing too long in the garden. Our family therapist seemed to think that by going out all the time we are just running from the issues (I call it diverting and winning the battle without it being a battle but ho-hum you say tomato, etc).
So far the day in does not really go very well at all, we have not had one where it hasn't ended up in tears from one of them, both of them or me…or well if I'm honest all of us together, me usually hiding out in the bathroom having a little self-indulgent snivel, it's cathartic to let it out i tell myself.
Every morning when Boy gets up the trouble begins, the fighting, the demands, the boisterous behaviour. On a school day the behaviour disappears as soon as Girl is out of sight. On a day-out day we strap them in their car seats and let them run it off somewhere, yesterday was the seaside, I'm not saying day out days are perfect but they are better. On a day-in day there is no getting away from it, Boy wants to be centre of everybody's attention…and so does Girl. Battle commences.
So what happened today? Well, Boy was in one of his worse demanding moods, "I want this, I want that" and a lot of world is ending noises when his demands are either not met or not met straightaway ("I'm hungry", "ok lunch is cooking", that sort of thing) and Girl has been up and down herself recently, hard to read. We have had the full gamut of attachmenty behaviours from both of them today and I will tell you about the worst ones (far too many to tell you everything, it would be like trying to write War and Peace in one sitting).
Girl started the day being obsessive and weird about her new object of desire, a dreamcatcher. In theory it's a lovely concept but bad dreams and nightmares are already a bit of an issue for Girl, it's a subject she likes to talk about a lot so an object that makes her think about nightmares even more is not ideal for us. They have been studying dreamcatchers at school and immediately Girl started fretting because she did not have one and was sure to have nightmares. In truth I don't actually know whether she has that many nightmares, certainly not night-terrors, she sleeps like the dead once she is gone and rarely rouses. This morning Girl brought down the dreamcatcher that nanny gave her to shake the dreams out in the garden, there was an object in the way of the back door that I had put there the previous night. It was easy to move but needed two hands. Girl went into panic mode, using two hands would mean that she had to let go of the dreamcatcher for a nanosecond. You could see her start to hyperventilate. I explained that she needed to put it down for a moment, I was busy and she did accept what I was telling her but she didn't particularly like it. She spent the next five minutes vigorously shaking the dreamcatcher outside and then she spent ten minutes messing with it and handling it and broke it. If Girl has a new object of desire it's very, very hard for her to put it down, it's almost like she is terrified of the object not being in her hands (don't get me started on the new glasses case that she spent a full 48 hours opening and snapping closed and took to bed with her).
Boy has spent the entire day blaming Girl for every little thing that has gone wrong such as when playing with a favourite car (most of the day) and the wheels kept falling off it was Girl's fault, every time, even when she wasn't in the room.
Girl has spent the day playing passive-aggressively (or accidentally she calls it when she rams her toy car into Boy's leg because she was accidentally going too fast and accidentally rammed him or when she trips over him then stands on his foot for 15 seconds longer than necessary, "I accidentally tripped over him and then I accidentally stood on his foot'. Hmmm and you didn't think to get off when he was screaming and then you followed by saying "what's the matter? what's up" as if it was a complete surprise that he is screaming the house down?).
Then we have the competition. It's not just competition for attention, it's competition with each other. I took them both to Sainsbury's to choose their Halloween outfits while they have a clothes offer on (more fool me). I thought it would be fun and a good diversion. I also had a tiny bit of shopping to do, literally just coffee, bread and veg. "They'll be fine, I'll be fine, it'll be fun" I told The Hubster when I outlined my plan, he looked at me dubiously. Forward thinking I told them they had to have different outfits, they would end up squabbling if they had the same masks or accessories, somehow identical items cause the unholiest of rows between them.
Now Girl is very, very indecisive and maybe I should have done this without her but I always like an opportunity for her to have free choice. Boy chose very quickly. Pirate Skeleton. Girl howled in dismay, that's what she wanted, I honestly think that whatever Boy had chosen was what she would have wanted. She had already eyed up Ninja Skeleton and Dracula so I told her she had to choose one of those. She grudgingly chose Ninja Skeleton then walked round the supermarket sulking, not understanding why she couldn't have the same as Boy (I didn't tell her the truth, I just said I didn't want the outfits to get mix-muddled in the wash, believe me, this sulk was nothing on identical-item-arguments).
So to continue, I say walked, what actually happened is that both Boy and Girl spent the few minutes that we were in the supermarket pushing and jostling to be the one walking in front and this despite the fact that I had told them over and over they at the very least had to walk by me because their jostling kept putting them in the line of the trolley and other people's trollies. In the end I had to tell them off, in the middle of Sainsburys and threatened to return the outfits if they kept jostling. They just about managed to behave until I got to the checkout then started leaping around in front of people's trollies while I was bag packing. My diversion was not going well.
We arrived home to more leaping around. I set the living room as a quiet area, I had planned to take some portrait photos with my new studio equipment (that the Hubster had kindly set up for me while I was out) so considering the size of our living room and the size of the light stands, leaping around was an absolute no-no. Both kids were told that if they wanted to help me they needed to be calm, it's asking a lot of young kids but Girl took it on board and really enjoyed posing for some photos. Boy used it as an opportunity to play up to my camera, lots of noise and shouting (but thankfully not too much leaping). We had a lot of squabbling about who's turn it was to have photo's. A lot of competing for attention when it was the other one's turn but I managed to take a whopping 268 test photos and only one tantrum which I left for hubby to deal with. They then squabbled and fought over who was helping pack away, there was plenty for both of them but they still managed to fight for the whole time.
I then decided to put on a film, Boy wanted Underdog, Girl didn't. My dad had bought some new dvds round for them earlier in the week, one of them something like the new Planes film but older. They both agreed on that so we put it on. Girl then had a proper toddler-like tantrum because she had already seen it before and it was too babyish (oh the irony). I decided to change the film (it was babyish, I could see). Boy was not amused but I knew he would like the other choice too so he had a bit of a tantrum too but soon got engrossed in the new film (but kept telling me it was rubbish).
Boy does not usually watch a full film so he went off to sit on the Hubster's lap while he was on the computer and he then went to play with his tool bench. Five minutes later the film finished and Girl went and stood by The Hubster to see what he was doing on the computer and that's when it happened. Boy flew into a rage, screaming at Girl, hitting The Hubster. I went in to try and sort it out as The Hubster and Girl were sort of cornered and the tantrum continued, kicking, hitting, spitting. I tried a time-out, I tried a time-in. In the end to keep him safe as we somehow ended up in the kitchen where the dinner was cooking (it's sort of open plan) I hauled him into the utility room where I sat on the floor, shut the door behind me and just let him get it out of his system. He screamed, he hit, he kicked, he scratched, he told me he didn't like me but to me at least he was safe, he could come to no harm in there. I remained calm. I tried lots of diverting like counting and showing him the measure marks on the wall and eventually he let me hold him. He cried like a 4-month old (proper waaah-waaahs) for a long 10 minutes but no tears. Just noise, lots and lots of baby crying noise. I rocked him and kissed him and spoke to him. I told him once he was calm and he told me he was ready he could leave the room and say sorry to Daddy. It took a long time for him to say he was ready, I think he was sorry earlier than he said but just needed to be rocked and babied a little more.
So all this rage just from Girl standing by The Hubster. I have spent all day giving Boy attention and getting him involved in whatever I was doing, I couldn't not really considering the attention (attachment?) seeking behaviour but still he has this fear of being unloved or whatever madness is passing through his young brain.
So that's it, the full gamut of behaviours and I only told you about the worst of it!
I Had a Friend
When I was about 12 years old a new girl joined our tutor class at school. I was drawn to her, she was fun, she was cheeky, she was tall and lanky, she had a laugh like a hyena and she was quite unlike anyone I had ever met before. We instantly became good friends, the best of friends. She lived with her grandmother, her mother lived elsewhere but she had a good relationship with her mum, they were more like friends and I thought her leather-jacketed, chain-smoking, vodka drinking, spiky haired mum to be rather cool, a whole world away from my own parents with their rules and boring suburban lifestyle. It took me a long time to realise that her home life was not quite as it seemed.
My friend had a lot of uncles. On sleepovers at her mums when we were older I was introduced to a seedier side of life that I did not have any comprehension of, I took things at face value, it was onl later I started putting the pieces together. Uncles came and went. We were given free-reign to do as we pleased. I can remember being outdoors late at night with young girls hammering on doors in area you would not walk alone in, throwing stones at windows and running. I was always scared, it never felt right and I never joined in except for running. Knock-a-door run was never my cup of tea but I was with my mate and she was cool and I didn't want her to think me boring and what choice did I have, I didn't know the area we were in and was too far from home.
Where I was in awe of my friend's boundary-free, uber-cool, have what you want lifestyle, my friend hankered after a bit of what I had. My mum was a Sunday tea kind of parent. Sandwiches, jelly and ice-cream, coleslaw, crisps and cheese. My friend always had an open invitation to Sunday Tea, later in life my mum told me that my friend had her that she wished she had a mum that did that for her.
When we left school, we kept in touch sporadically, our lives went in different ways but one day after bumping into my friend in Dorothy Perkins where she held a job she invited me to the flat that she shared with her mum, so when she finished work my boyfriend and I (later to be The Hubster) accompanied her home. What I saw in that flat shocked me to the core and will never leave me.
My friend's mum had a belt fastened tightly around her arm, there was drug paraphernalia everywhere and a lot of to-ing and fro-ing of pretty much all the people that lived on the same floor. This was where the council put all the problem families. My friend's mum was pleased to see me but commented I had put on weight. I don't know why that stuck in my mind, maybe it was the mundaneness of the conversation against the sheer horror of seeing your friends mum shooting up.
I did not see my friend for a long, long time after that. Sometimes I wish that I had been there for her a bit more. The next time I saw my friend she had just left prison, she turned up on my doorstep. Her life, unsurprisingly had followed a similar path to her mums. We chatted like we had never been apart, she asked for help overnight with her cat, somebody was supposed to be taking care of it but wasn't, I took the cat in. We spent some more time together, she borrowed some videos from me I never saw her again until a couple of years ago. I suspected that the videos were sold to feed her habit. I heard that she went into prison again.
With the advent of Facebook my friend got in touch and we bumped into each other a couple of times briefly. She had turned her life around. She had a really good job, was married and had a house, a barn conversion that I can only dream of owning. I was so happy for my friend. About the same time as I adopted Girl my friend gave birth to twins and we promised to get together for coffee, it wasn't so easy to do at the time as we both suddenly had our hands full. We kept in touch via Facebook and then she disappeared.
The point of me telling you all this is it's too easy to take a dim view of drug addicts and really the sort of people who our children are taken into care from. My friend's story of turning her life around is probably quite unusual but she did it despite adversity and I am so proud of her for that. She was never a bad person, her home life had her in it's grips, there was never really any hope for her life to go any other way unless she stopped seeing her mum. It's unbelievably tragic that a couple of years ago my friend died from Cancer leaving her babies and her new life behind her.
Girl's birth mum has recently had another baby and despite the emotional knock on effect it is bound to have on Girl and her sisters, the inevitable questions that are going to arise, I really truly hope that my friend's life was not so rare that it can't happen again.


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I am new to blogging and dealing with websites in general. I just purchased a domain on GoDaddy.com and I'm hosting with hostgator.com. I downloaded WordPress.com through hostgator. When I type in my domain name (iamthatgamer.com/wp-admin/) I am never prompted to log in, and there is no username p/w box, it just goes straight to the default website with a GoDaddy ownerLogin button at the top. I already changed the NameServers to the ones provided by HostGator, but I'm not sure if I need to do anything else.
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Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherised upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To lead you to an overwhelming question …
Oh, do not ask, "What is it?"
Let us go and make our visit.
In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo.
ANFP: Still water runs deep, but occasionally is not so still.
"Bay Area native and damn fuckin proud. And before you ask me if/why I've never lived anywhere else just remember, you probably moved from your home to mine." -esseff87
👻/ig: cadenced
i recently got back from a zen monastery I was living at for the summer.
i think about the place i live a lot. i bike. i watch movies, i think warmly about swimming in cold water. i think hot springs are pretty cool.
I'm interested someday in continuuuing on in documentary, anthropology, and/or telling ghost stories in south america.
there's a beautiful beach, just off the highway and just south of monterey, that is composed of half-golfball-sized stones.
things are just fine.
it's a line excerpted from a poem reflective of a hot-baked cement day some time and some days after i lost a better friend to belladonna. but, i don't know.
my hair
En un beso, sabrás todo lo que he callado.
non fiction, articles on the internet, science fiction...
i read and write poetry, just for myself.
i love art films, studied and love documentaries.
album on power play for week of 9/28: http://open.spotify.com/album/2ERmZRvjDFu2yMTuK2UjuA
sing it: tren al surr...
bill callahan and the chili peppers
"i'm good at being uncomfortable, so i can't stop changing all the time" -Fiona
i take singing classes, mostly for myself.
shows of note: crooked vultures, the bad plus, smashing pumpkins, nine inch nails farewell show, sharon jones, fiona apple,
tren al suuurr...
i worked in nice restaurants serving and bartending for some time, so i know a bit about food and beer. and a lot about wine.
i'm recently vegan.
screens of light
fruits and veggies
conversational poetry
old wooden ships, computers, service, pateando piedras, wine, the internet, buenos aires and paraguay, food, health, land, sex,
'Derby Day, Henley Regatta, Cowes, the twelfth of August, a cup final, the dog races, the pin table, the dart board, Wensleydale cheese, boiled cabbage cut into sections, beetroot in vinegar, nineteenth-century Gothic churches and the music of Elgar'
here's a wall i throw stuff on: cadence.tumblr.com
and you dance. nothing fancy. but maybe sometimes as if your movement sustains the dharma of the world.
everything is important.


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Kary Askew Garcia
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The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has issued 10 new announcements offering up to $351 million in funding for patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER) study proposals.
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors today approved the selection or reappointment of 48 people to serve on PCORI's seven multi-stakeholder advisory panels. This includes 41 new candidates chosen from more than 400 people, who either nominated themselves or were nominated by third parties.
PCORI welcomes you to learn more about research we fund, our programs and initiatives. In an effort to better understand our work, we have provided a list of fact sheets below that are available for you to download and print.
PCORI's Research Funding
Find out what type of research PCORI supports and what we have funded.
Research Done Differently
We're committed to a new approach to health research. Learn how it's different.
Better Research Through Engagement
Find out what we mean by engagement, how PCORI engages patients and other healthcare stakeholders, and how we encourage others to do so.
Targeted Funding Announcements
Learn more about our research on specific, high-priority topics likely to have a substantial impact on practice and patient outcomes.
Pragmatic Clinical Studies Initiative
Learn more about this funding opportunity aimed at comparing outcomes of two or more interventions to healthcare issues faced by patients.
PCORnet - the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network
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PCORnet's First Observational Studies
Find out more about research to address questions on the treatment and prevention of obesity.
The PCORnet ADAPTABLE Aspirin Study
Read about this study that will help determine the best dose of aspirin to use to prevent heart attacks and strokes in people with heart disease.
Snapshots of PCORI Research on Specific Topics
Learn about our research portfolio's focus on high-priority topics.
PCORI-Funded Research on Addressing Healthcare Disparities
Find out more about our work to reduce healthcare disparities among different subpopulations.
PCORI-Funded Research on Arthritis
We currently support more than a dozen patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER) studies and methods projects related to arthritis
PCORI-Funded Research on Cancer
Read about our portfolio addressing cancer, the second leading cause of death in the United States.
PCORI-Funded Research on Cardiovascular Disease
Learn about our research on heart disease, which remains the leading cause of death nationally.
PCORI-Funded Research on Chronic Pain and Opioids
Read about our projects on managing chronic pain and addressing opioid use.
PCORI-Funded Research on Dementia and Cognitive Impairment
Our studies on dementia and cognitive impairment are more important than ever as older adults continue to make up a larger part of the nation's population.
PCORI-Funded Research on Mental Health
Around one-fifth of American adults suffer from mental illness. Learn how we're studying ways to deal with depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues.
PCORI-Funded Research on Obesity
Obesity trails only tobacco on the list of causes of preventable death in the United States. Learn more about our projects focusing on obesity.
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PCORI recognizes the special challenges that rare diseases, which often are understudied, pose. Learn more about our growing research portfolio.
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Learn about the studies that compare healthcare options to produce evidence to help patients and those who care for them make better-informed decisions.
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The PCORI Application Process
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Help Wanted - PCORI Reviewers
We invite patients, scientists, and other healthcare stakeholders to help us review applications for funding.
Why Methods Matter
See how we are supporting development and use of best methods for patient-centered outcomes research.
Posted: September 30, 2014; Updated: August 17, 2016
This collection of articles and opinion pieces provides insights into PCORI's work to advance patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research. The collection includes papers, articles, and commentaries written by researchers working on PCORI-funded projects and by PCORI staff, members of our Board of Governors and Methodology Committee, and others who are following our work.
PCORI is committed to the principle of transparency and openness in all of our work, including the sharing of information about our activities and the dissemination of research findings. We encourage authors to make their articles available without a subscription. In the pages below, we provide links when articles are available without charge.
Papers Resulting from PCORI-Funded Research Studies
Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Research
Corrigan PW, Torres A, Lara JL, Sheehan L, Larson JE. The Healthcare Needs of Latinos with Serious Mental Illness and the Potential of Peer Navigators. Adm Policy Ment Health. 2016 May 28. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 27236458. (Abstract only available)
Meisler MH, Helman G, Hammer MF, Fureman BE, Gaillard WD, Goldin AL, Hirose S, Ishii A, Kroner BL, Lossin C, Mefford HC, Parent JM, Patel M, Schreiber J, Stewart R, Whittemore V, Wilcox K, Wagnon JL, Pearl PL, Vanderver A, Scheffer IE. SCN8A encephalopathy: Research progress and prospects. Epilepsia. 2016 Jun 8. doi: 10.1111/epi.13422. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 27270488. (Abstract only available)
Health Affairs
Alegría M, Alvarez K, Ishikawa RZ, DiMarzio K, McPeck S. Removing Obstacles To Eliminating Racial And Ethnic Disparities In Behavioral Health Care. Health Aff (Millwood). 2016 Jun 1;35(6):991-9. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2016.0029. PubMed PMID: 27269014.
Crystal S, Mackie T, Fenton MC, Amin S, Neese-Todd S, Olfson M, Bilder S.
Rapid Growth Of Antipsychotic Prescriptions For Children Who Are Publicly Insured Has Ceased, But Concerns Remain Health Aff (Millwood). 2016 Jun 1;35(6):974-82. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2016.0064. PubMed PMID: 27269012.
The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety
Farrow NE, Lau BD, JohnBull EA, Hobson DB, Kraus PS, Taffe ER, Shaffer DL, Popoola VO, Streiff MB, Pronovost PJ, Haut ER. Is the Meaningful Use Venous Thromboembolism VTE-6 Measure Meaningful? A Retrospective Analysis of One Hospital's VTE-6 Cases. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2016 Sep;42(9):410-6. PubMed PMID: 27535458. (Abstract only available)
Journal of Palliative Medicine
Temkin-Greener H, Li Q, Li Y, Segelman M, Mukamel DB. End-of-Life Care in Nursing Homes: From Care Processes to Quality. J Palliat Med. 2016 Aug 16. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 27529742. (Abstract only available)
NEJM Catalyst
Song PH, Hilligoss B, Gleeson S. How a Pediatric ACO Coordinates Care for Children with Disabilities. NEJM Catalyst. July 2016.
Papers Authored by PCORI Staff and Leadership
Annals of Internal Medicine
Selby JV. Complementary Efforts Make for Efficient Research. Ann Intern Med. 2016 Apr 26. doi: 10.7326/M16-0869. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 27110867. (Abstract only available)
BMC Health Services Research
Walker KO, Stewart AL, Grumbach K. Development of a survey instrument to measure patient experience of integrated care. BMC Health Serv Res. 2016 Jun 1;16(1):193. doi: 10.1186/s12913-016-1437-z. PubMed PMID: 27250117; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4890282.
Journal of Cancer Education
Finney Rutten LJ, Agunwamba AA, Wilson P, Chawla N, Vieux S, Blanch-Hartigan D, Arora NK, Blake K, Hesse BW.Cancer-Related Information Seeking Among Cancer Survivors: Trends Over a Decade (2003-2013). J Cancer Educ. 2016 Jun;31(2):348-57. doi: 10.1007/s13187-015-0802-7. PubMed PMID: 25712202. (Abstract only available)
Journal of Cancer Survivorship
O'Malley D, Hudson SV, Nekhlyudov L, Howard J, Rubinstein E, Lee HS, Overholser LS, Shaw A, Givens S, Burton JS, Grunfeld E, Parry C, Crabtree BF. Learning the landscape: implementation challenges of primary care innovators around cancer survivorship care. J Cancer Surviv. 2016 Jun 8. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 27277895. (Abstract only available)
Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research
Gayer CC, Crowley MJ, Lawrence WF, Gierisch JM, Gaglio B, Williams JW Jr, Myers ER, Kendrick A, Slutsky J, Sanders GD. An overview and discussion of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute's decision aid portfolio. J Comp EffRes. 2016 Jun 14. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 27298206.
Journal of Oncology Practice
Tisnado D, Malin J, Kahn K, Landrum MB, Fletcher R, Klabunde C, Clauser S, Rogers SO Jr, Keating NL. Variations in Oncologist Recommendations for Chemotherapy for Stage IV Lung Cancer: What Is the Role of Performance Status? J Oncol Pract. 2016 Jun 7. pii: JOPR008425. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 27271507 (Abstract only available)
Metabolic Brain Disease
Bajaj JS, Frederick RT, Bass NM, Ghabril M, Coyne K, Margolis MK, Santoro M, Coakley DF, Mokhtarani M, Jurek M, Scharschmidt BF. Overt hepatic encephalopathy: development of a novel clinician reported outcome tool and electronic caregiver diary. Metab Brain Dis. 2016 Jun 9. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 27278222. (View abstract only)
Other Papers on PCORI's Work
Academic Medicine
Mazur S, Bazemore A, Merenstein D. Characteristics of Early Recipients of Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Funding. Acad Med. 2016 Feb 9. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26862840.
eGEMs (Generating Evidence & Methods to improve patient outcomes)
Haynes K, Selvam N, Cziraky MJ. Bidirectional Data Collaborations in Distributed Research. EGEMS (Wash DC). 2016 Mar 22;4(2):1205. doi: 10.13063/2327-9214.1205. eCollection 2016. PubMed PMID: 27141518; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4827790.
Carman KL, Maurer M, Mangrum R, Yang M, Ginsburg M, Sofaer S, et al. Understanding An Informed Public's Views On The Role Of Evidence In Making Health Care Decisions. Health Affairs 2016 April 01;35(4):566-574.
Weil A R. The Patient Engagement Imperative. Health Affairs 2016 April 01;35(4):744-745.
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I just picked up the Tokina lens, new and had a few questions regarding some images I shot.The first has vingentting, which I expected, but not sure if it should be that pronounced. I'm using a Tiffen UV filter, normal.The second was shot at 24mm and is overexposed quite a bit. I've noticed all the images shot at 12mm and slightly higher are exposed well, but toward the larger zoom lengths, they are overexposed.Anybody have these issues?
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#1. "RE: D200 w/Tokina 12-24mm f/4 PRO AT DX" | In response to Reply # 0
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#2. "RE: D200 w/Tokina 12-24mm f/4 PRO AT DX" | In response to Reply # 0
I have used the Tokina 12-24/4 with my D200 for many years. It is an excellent lens, and I never had a problem with it. I don't think that a UV filter serves any useful purpose. In fact, some of the "vignetting" in #1 is apparently caused by the filter. Regarding the over exposure in #2, I have no explanation. Perhaps the exposure compensation was set incorrectly, or the picture was part of a bracketing sequence.
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#3. "RE: D200 w/Tokina 12-24mm f/4 PRO AT DX" | In response to Reply # 0
The vignetting in the first image looks like the lens hood is not fitted correctly. I sometimes get the same thing when I fit it in a hurry. Make sure the dot labelled IN on the hood is aligned with the dot closest to the front of the lens when attaching the hood, then make sure it is fully clicked into place.
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#5. "RE: D200 w/Tokina 12-24mm f/4 PRO AT DX" | In response to Reply # 3
If you look at the vignetting in the first image, it is predominately on one side of each corner - not balanced. As stated by Steve, this is the classic appearance of a petal-shaped lens hood that is not correctly fitted to the lens - likely not fully "clicked" into place.Unfortunately, I have nothing to offer on the apparent overexposure in the second image.Good luck,Richard Baker
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#4. "RE: D200 w/Tokina 12-24mm f/4 PRO AT DX" | In response to Reply # 0
That's a pretty bright scene. The EXIF data shows the photo was shot at f8, 1/250, Pattern metering and 0 exposure bias. It looks like about 1 stop over exposed. Have you tried another lens on the same scene? Your first photo was taken at f9 and 1/320 sec. As to your vignetting, I think the Tiffen filters are pretty thick. While I think this particular scene can benefit from a UV filter you should get a thinner filter designed for wide angle lenses. That should help. I would probably advise against using any filter with this lens.Len
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#6. "RE: D200 w/Tokina 12-24mm f/4 PRO AT DX" | In response to Reply # 4
Thanks for all the help. The vingetting was probably caused by the hood being on a little "crooked". I noticed this a few times toward the end of the day.The overexposure issue is also present on my other Nikon body. Either way, I'll probably just return the lens. It seems to have a habit of overexposing as I zoom, typically beginning around 18mm.


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Yes, I and others have been strongly recommending to Google Maps engineers that they come up with an option for contractors and other street-address-less businesses. Google Maps encourages users to go to them for what were traditional yellow pages or internet yellow pages style searches. But broad categories of electricians, plumbers, roofing contractors, painters and more need an equitable provision for the companies/individuals who do not have actual street addresses.
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I'm beating my own dead horse here, but once again the Niners lose a game by 7 points or less. They now have 6 losses, by margins of:
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It is flat out weird. There have been 159 games played in the NFL so far this year. 53% of those games are lost by 9 points or more. 47% are lost by 8 points or less.
Something is obviously wrong with this team because they are 4-6. But it can't be terribly wrong, because they are in every game to the bitter end (Falcons are exception). I've posted before that the closeness of the games shows the team has talent and the closeness of the road games shows the team has coaching, and I still believe that is true. But it isn't translating into wins.
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Published: February 5, 1997
GARDEN CITY, L.I.— This is the story of a university that tore itself apart.
In 1985, Dr. Peter Diamandopoulos, a philosopher trained at Harvard and Brandeis who ran a small state college in California, arrived at Adelphi University. As its new president, he had a bold vision: to quickly transform a troubled commuter school best known for its vocational programs into a top-flight liberal arts institution.
At the time, Adelphi was close to insolvency. It was just moderately competitive: it accepted 6 of every 10 high school graduates who applied. Only one course, freshman composition, was required. Enrollment was declining.
The university's trustees thought Adelphi had to do something radical to survive in the increasingly competitive world of small, regional liberal arts colleges. And so they hired Dr. Diamandopoulos, who argued that Adelphi could be saved only by raising its intellectual sights and discontinuing or cutting back lesser programs.
He set out to adopt a demanding core curriculum like Columbia's ''great books'' course of study. He wanted to attract top students with an ''honors college'' within the university. And he set a daring goal for increased enrollment: to 15,000 students from 7,000 in five years.
He knew his proposal for change was ambitious and risky. Colleges can spend years debating much smaller questions. It took decades -- and $1 billion or more in fund raising -- for Duke University and New York University to make the difficult transition from regional colleges to nationally ranked research universities.
With annual support from a philanthropy that backs conservative causes, Dr. Diamandopoulos hired distinguished visiting professors like Robert Heilbroner, the economist; Maurice Cowling, a Briton who is an authority on intellectual history, and Edith Kurzweil, the editor of Partisan Review.
He raised about $13 million, about average for institutions like Adelphi, and saw the endowment rise to $47 million from $4 million, thanks to a soaring stock market.
The trustees rewarded him with the kind of salary and benefits not even the presidents of Harvard, Yale or Stanford received. In 1994, he was paid $523,000 in salary alone, the second highest in the country, after John Silber, the president of Boston University, who then was receiving $564,000.
Among the trustees on a select three-member panel deciding his salary was Dr. Silber. He justified Dr. Diamandopoulos's pay, saying, ''It doesn't take nearly as much effort to run Harvard as it does to take over an institution like Adelphi.''
Today, Adelphi has lifted its intellectual sights, refurbished buildings, balanced its budget and increased its endowment. But by many other standards, the university is in worse shape than when Dr. Diamandopoulos arrived.
Its academic reputation has declined. The student-professor ratio has increased to 12 to 1, from 9 to 1, slightly above average for universities this size. Enrollment has dropped to 4,605 last fall from 6,984 in 1985. Worse, the university has become what educators call a bottom feeder. It now accepts almost 9 out of 10 applicants.
In spring 1995, the chairman of the faculty senate, Devin Thornburg, and other faculty leaders, alarmed by declining enrollment and the overall management of Adelphi, joined with alumni and students to stage an unusual revolt. They petitioned the State Board of Regents to remove the university's leadership -- its trustees, including Dr. Diamandopoulos, who as president sits on the board -- for mismanagement and conflicts of interest.
In an unusual move, the Regents agreed to hold hearings -- remarkable in their scope and duration -- that concluded last November. The Regents are expected to announce their decision in a meeting Feb. 10.
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The trustees are also announcing several new initiatives Feb. 5, including a multimillion-dollar capital fund drive originally planned for Adelphi's centennial last year, as well as a new marketing campaign employing the phrase ''because Good is the enemy of Great.'' The trustees are announcing an expansion of the board, a new governance committee and a new faculty recruitment campaign.
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