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I know I don't have a degree, but I did study psychology/sociology and worked in that environment for many years and never saw that at that age without some underlying issue. I was depressed at 3, but that was when my mother first went psychotic. There was a reason.
Things like that have happened a couple more times. Not similar incidents (thank goodness I've gotten more assertive), but similar in that something completely ridiculous derails my sense of self-respect and I go around and around in a morass of wondering why I couldn't have been more whatever, except that I'm not whatever, so why did that person accuse me of whatever? Luckily my DH stops me after the first few sentences and tells me that the whole exercise is futile and I should just stop thinking about it, and I try really hard and often if I can stop dwelling on it soon enough, it doesn't stick with me long term.
I'd better post this before I lose it.
Hmmm...excellent point L. Maybe I should reassess my values in life and consider the con artist lifestyle.
I've found myself stuck like that too...that whole thing with learning about my grandfather's death on FB, and yeah I did rant strongly about it on FB as well, but my cousin tried to turn it around that I felt guilty and that's what my post was really about. Um, no, I didn't feel one bit of guilt at all, but that comment still stuck a little and I wasted energy it didn't deserve thinking about it.
Umm, you all still love me even if I have grammar issues? I actually did know that it was supposed to be one space and not two after a period though. I mix up than and then I think a lot...I mean I know the difference but just don't think sometimes. I also know a percentage vs percentile. But I'm sure that I make a lot of grammar mistakes. I was actually never taught much in the way of grammar. It seemed like every year the teacher thought we learned it the previous year. Just sort of the basics I learned until I took French class. LOL
I am not a fan of formal writing. Thank god I had Dh in college to correct my papers for me. It was one of the bigger reasons I didn't go for the PhD like I was thinking....I just do not enjoy writing papers. And the funny part, I HATE citations. I mean I HATE doing citations with a passion. All the stupid punctuation in the right places....omg I almost always lost points on my bib page. Course as a librarian I now use citations daily. LOL I just don't have to write them. So annoyed that the new version of word that formats citations for you came out my last semester of grad school.
My parents were in town over the weekend too. I love my parents dearly but it is a bit tiring to have them around. they are really good parents BUT my mom especially I think has to bite her tongue a bit. She is used to be the boss and is opinionated. And generally thinks her way is the best way. Which I do agree that she tends to be right more than not and DH and I are very similar in lifestyle to them. So I was showing her some stuff I had gotten and really thought she was going to say cloth diapers are stupid and that is too much work. I did get instead, oh people can make those and I saw the material at the store....I had thought about them for you but decided it was too much work. Ok so that went better than I thought. But she did tell me I am buying too much baby stuff and that I am going to jinx it. Ugggg. I mean you don't tell the lady that is 8 months pg that she better not buy stuff or she might jinx a healthy labor and delivery. She thinks we should wait for a match....even though there are still generally 1-3 months for things to go wrong and fall through. I mean I have absolutely NO reason to believe that we will not eventually get a match if we are patient. The agency has a long and good rep. They match their birth moms with their birth families and provide counseling. Their fees and when fees are paid are ethical. They limit the number of families they have waiting at any given time. And when a safe haven baby comes up, the family waiting longest in that region is asked first. Dh and I have a nice home, college degrees (they say birth moms tend to value education), long stable relationship, and we are cool enough. The one downfall is weight....but a LOT of the waiting families have weight issues and it's not so bad that it affects our health or lifestyles. but yeah my buying diapers and some things for the room is going to jinx us.
Awww, Jennifer that was in sensitive of her. My mother's side of the family can be quite superstitious and I could see them saying something like that.
I loved it when I switched to my computer degree. Everything was written matter of fact, no personality, no passive voice. Very 'staccato' sounding. Like a robot, actually...It's carried over and I'm afraid it makes me sound witchier than I really am, especially if I'm trying to make a point and keep emotion out of it. It's just BAM, BAM, BAM with no tact. I can rub people the wrong way. I can probably cause the grammar police to have a seizure. lol
Pepperlu, as far as the Bible comment - my mother is very involved in her church. She participates in a bible study and a prayer group and a book club and volunteers in her church library regularly. And I know for a fact that she doesn't own a concordance. So even if your mother had presented that accurately - that you didn't have a concordance, rather than you didn't have a Bible - it still would have been just as ridiculous as what she did say.
I actually try hard to stay away from the grammar police (although I did have a slip-up with calendaring!) I know a lot of brilliant people who don't spell or type well, and linguistics really emphasizes the differences between prescriptive grammar (telling people what to say, which is what grammar teachers do) and descriptive grammar (describing what people say, which is what linguists do). Descriptive grammar is a lot more useful to me in my daily life. So I do try to stay out of the grammar-police stuff, especially for casual writing on forums (fora, if you are a prescriptive grammarian), but I actually am hypercritical when I read professional reports. I figure those people need to know what they are doing and if they don't, I don't trust their findings.
That %ile comment has been brewing for several years now, though, and I just couldn't hold it in any longer.
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I agree, if it's a professional document, it should be written correctly. When it comes to FB or here, I'm not worried about my grammar at all. Only marginally about my spelling. I do cringe when I read back what I wrote previously and see I've misspelled something, and once I actually used the wrong their/there. I couldn't believe it!
I think there is a time limit on the effectiveness, but I thought it was 10 years? And I think it's possible to get a mild case of something you have been vaccinated against.
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Oh I don't think that my mom was meaning to be insensitive or anything. It's just how she is. And I know that once we get that call, she would do anything for us. Let's see if I can do paragraphs yet without HTML.don't even know what a concordance is. I mean isn't a bible a bible? LOL OMG I like to check the news but am so sick of all the pope stuff. Chrissy yes it is still possible but it's much less likely and if so it should be a much milder case. Not sure what limits are on current ones but I know that the one we got as kids they found wears off.....it's why DH and I got new tdaps in September....we knew we could have an infant at any time and wanted to make sure that we wouldn't be passing it on. Actually my Dh got all the vaccines as a kid...and still ended up with a mild case of measles and a mild case of mumps. He is just gifted that way.
Oh Jennifer, I didn't think she was being insensitive on purpose. I know myself, I've said things that later I thought were insensitive...without meaning to. I would imagine she'd say that with the best intentions towards you. Of course she wants you to have a baby! I'm betting she's as anxious as you are. It's hard for me, way over here, to watch you wait so patiently sometimes. I do wish I could just give you one...not that you'd want my nutty genes, but you know what I mean.
Jennifer, a concordance is like a Bible reference book. It lists passages under different themes and you can cross-check where certain concepts appear. So I wouldn't call it a Bible exactly.
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O.M.G. - This is too funny.
When we acquired Vampire Kitty, she came with a bag of dry cat food (Friskies) and a big case of canned food. We switched out her food and put the Friskies in the cabinet as an emergency stash. Yes, I know you're supposed to mix it...I didn't. Okay, moving on.
DH was just looking through the cabinet where we keep the cat's dry food and the rest of the pet stuff. He found the Friskies bag, which had been in the back of the lower shelf, ripped open and empty.
Little bugger! She's been sneaking back there and eating Friskies! She eats the Blue, too, but perhaps that explains why she never seemed to eat very much...
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For Chrissy:
Effectiveness of the Vaccine
The DTaP vaccine is 95% effective in preventing all three diseases that it immunizes againstdiphtheria, tetanus and pertussis. It is 59-89% effective in preventing pertussis, while the protection rates for diphtheria and tetanus are higher. Pertussis occasionally occurs in children who have received the pertussis immunization, but it is less severe and has fewer complications.
From http://www.immunizationinfo.org/vacc...whooping-cough
So yes, you can get it if you have had the vaccine.
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Have you ever heard the podcast Grammar Girl? I've only heard it a few times, but there was an interesting discussion about how to change one's grammar style to fit into one's surroundings. She wasn't saying to not be inaccurate, or dumb down, or to not be true to yourself, but the same way you wouldn't wear a tuxedo to hang out with your buddies, or wear sweat pants to your prom (examples approximate to the best of my recollection), it is possible to alter one's style of speaking without sounding fake and without being inaccurate. And she emphasized that language is a living, evolving, creative process, and following certain grammatical rules can sound artificially stuffy (such as never ending a sentence in a preposition), and if you are just hanging out with your friends you can take a lot more liberties than you would at a job interview or when writing a paper. "With whom did you go to the store?" just sounds strange nowadays, although there is one person around whom I will always be careful when speaking, since he is extra critical of grammar and does not hesitate to reprimand me.
I do tend to notice a lot of grammatical errors in general, but for some reason, unless someone's post is just a complete unreadable mess or the user has a trend of being very lax in correcting their mistakes, I tend to go with the flow. I figure with phones and babies and what-have-you, people have a hard time.
I don't know Grammar Girl, but she does make a good point. It's a perspective most people will take away from an introductory linguistics class, although I admit pre-linguistics I was very judgy when it came to grammar.
Code-switching (adjusting your speech to suit your listeners) is actually a sign of high-level language skills.
I'm really a chameleon when it comes to my spoken language. I pick up on what I hear from someone and go with it. So I will speak completely differently depending on my audience. I do it in writing, too, I notice. I can write in a very high-brow, formal style but most of the time I'd rather write the way someone would speak when having a chat. Much more natural.
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Chrissy, how is Conner today? Sawyer is very sick and i keep going back and forth on if I should bring him in or not. I am waiting for a call back from our dr now. Yesterday he coughed so much and so hard that he was throwing up, mostly phlegm. This is not the same thing Kai had at all. The mom of the children I care for is very sick and has pnemonia, which is not contagious right? But the virus that causes it is? Today he is coughing less but running a fever and will NOT let me put him down. Thank goodness I did not give up my moby wrap yet. I pulled it out of the donation box to wear him today and he's sleeping on me now as he will be all day I imagine. I would hate to have to put him in his carseat (which he already hates and will hate more being sick) and drive him to the dr in this inclement weather. What would you guys do?
I'd wait and see what the dr says. I'm like you, I never know whether to go to the dr or not.
As far as I know, Conner only has a cough and sore throat. Rich wants us to take him to the dr tonight because he's had a cough on one level or another for over a month. It's transitioned into a coughing fit where he has a hard time catching his breath. Whooping cough is going around at his school, which is why I asked if it's possible to get that when you've been inoculated against it. I'm in agreement with Rich that it's probably time we took him in. When I say he's had a cough for a month, it hasn't been steady but seems to ebb and flow...but this time it's way worse. It might not even be the same thing, but we should have it checked just in case. It's been a hard year for Conner. He's never been sick and now he's almost constantly sick.
I have to admit since I started hanging around you guys I've been trying to polish up my language a little bit. That's why I stopped writing so many LOL's (although I may have slipped lately). I feel like the uneducated one in the bunch. Not that that's a bad thing-I just feel like I can't keep up sometimes, so while you guys are going on about IT and medical issues and things I do read along but I sometimes don't comment for a page or two. I actually feel like a complete dunce hanging around most people. I think I've gotten so used to communicating online that I've actually forgotten how to communicate face to face because I obviously don't speak the way I type. Since I have all this free time now I feel like I should be taking classes or doing something to put myself out there.
I'd take him in, Bridget. JoJo had pneumonia last year and the only thing besides a fever the day before was that she threw up in the morning. Even if it isn't pneumonia, maybe your dr. can prescribe something to ease the cough. And for Connor, too. I hope they both feel better soon.
"Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out." -Anton Chekhov
Josh had a cough for almost 3 months at the end of last year into this year. It wasn't pneumonia but they found out that his sinuses were almost completely blocked and dripping into his throat which was making him cough. It was terrible! It took us 3 tries to get them to send us to the hospital for those x rays. I would bring him in, just so they can have everything on record.


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Social worker Francine Adams is running for Detroit City Council hoping to represent District 3 on the city's east side.
"Strong lady. Strong character. I admire her," one woman said.Adams says she wants to clean up Detroit and has launched a project called "You Don't Have to be Rich to be Clean.""We don't have to live amongst the filth and the litter that we're being subjected to," she remarked by phone.So she rented a Bobcat, learned how to use it and went to work on the alley behind her house. Video from a nearby surveillance camera shows Adams hard at work. She hauled mattresses and tires and found a hot tub and a boat."We need to clean up. Don't let things pile up like that. There should not be that much trash in one neighborhood," Adams said.But not everyone's happy with the candidate and her Bobcat because Adams didn't dump the trash from the alley on her street. It was dumped on the street over."It just make[s] the neighborhood look really bad," said one resident."All her curbs are clean, and I've been looking at this since Friday," said David Pfeifel.He said Adams even knocked down a few vacant garages, and her Bobcat left tracks that he says will make it tough for him to mow vacant lots."Cleaning up her neighborhood destroyed my neighborhood," Pfeifel said."They're complaining, but they're not complaining about the right things. If you take the time to keep your community clean on a regular basis, you don't have volumes of trash like that," Adams commented.She said she dumped the trash on Grixdale because she found it on their side of the alley, and she requested a bulk trash pickup during Saturday's Motor City Makeover. But there were so many requests all over the city, crews couldn't get to all of them in one day.Despite this backlash, Adams said she is still determined to clean up the city.I've been told the city will pick up all that trash sometime on Tuesday, and hopefully these neighbors will move on from this and work together to clean up their block.
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Last night my 10 yr old went with me as we had to put my 12 yr old best feline friend to sleep. I had made the decision to put him to sleep because he was less than 5 lbs, he was suffering with kidney failure, he had stopped eating two days prior and was crying almost all the time whether I held him or not. I felt so bad to see him suffer but I couldn't help but bust into tears when it was all said and done. He was a momma's boy and used to always sleep with me at night. He had a habit of howling at the top of the stairs when it was 11pm and time for bed. He was my "baby boy".
And to add insult to injury, my youngest daughter who is 16.5 months old came down with a fever yesterday that climbed to 103.7 by the time I got back from dealing with my grief and helping my cat end his suffering. So immediately I throw myself into mom mode and get the ibuprofen out to reduce the fever and grab a drink for her to try and hydrate.
It was a very sleepless night between crying over my cat and worrying over my daughter. My oldest daughter was with me as I held my "baby boy" for the last time. I couldn't leave him alone because he was such a "scaredy cat" as it was. She asked to go with me and be there for her buddy, also. She wasn't quite prepared to see what she did even though I tried to warn her what would happen. Frankly I don't think even I was prepared. My cat was a present from my late husband. Irony is when you have held your husband as he takes his last breath and you hold your cat as he takes his last as well. I will never forget either but it closes yet another small door to that chapter in my life. Thankfully I still have 4 other cats at home who crowded around me later in the night because I believe they knew. My oldest daughter went to spend the night at Grandma's house and have a more uplifting time. I have since heard they went shopping.
He was as close to being my baby as any of my pets. His loss hits just as hard if not harder than my lost pregnancies (the miscarriages). I knew his little personality and he was so sweet. Kitt, I'll miss you buddy!
My youngest daughter is doing better this morning. She and I both went back to sleep after I gave her another dose of Ibuprofen at 7 am and something to drink. She woke up and her fever wasn't near as high. She seems to be feeling a lot better now.
Good news part of this, my husband received a letter of recognition for his efforts at the hospital. It also comes with a monetary award which will show up in his paycheck. I am very proud of him for his good work. He is a nursing assistant and pours his heart into helping the veterans at the hospital. It's nice when you hear it has not gone unrecognized.
We are unfortunately looking at one of our dogs thinking we may have to put him to sleep as well. He has developed a mass in his chest that could be cancer. He's been throwing up in the morning and once again, it's so hard to see someone you love suffer. I don't presume to play God but I know that he may feel better in Doggie Heaven than suffering at our house with little relief.
Hugs to all. I wish you a blessed day as the weather today here is beautiful. Love to the mommies.


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For one night, residents of the Lincoln Houses in East Harlem saw an increased police presence, cameras documenting their grievances, and politicians on their couches. A handful of candidates for mayor accepted Rev. Al Sharpton's invitation to spend a night in public housing.
But once they left, few who lived in the building seemed convinced the visit would make much of a difference.
"There's nothing wrong with the building," tenant Mary Vanderhorst said. "It's just the people and the management."
Like many in the Lincoln Houses, Vanderhorst has lived there for much of her life. The weekend's one-night candidate slumber party did little to impress her.
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Few of Vanderhorst's neighbors seemed swayed by the overnight, either.
"It's nice to see them in the neighborhood and everything like that," tenant LaMoat Foxhall said, "but it's election time and this is New York."
"They [couldn't] wait for daybreak to haul tail," tenant Mary Myers said.
"I couldn't tell you the last time [the city] came and mopped the floor," Vanderhorst said.
But Monday, we found New York City Housing Authority workers doing just that, although mopping seemed to taper off significantly when one ventured to floors above the lobby.
"I see the drug addicts come late at night and they push the door open and they put garbage and juice on the floor," tenant Martha Santos said.
In a statement, the Housing Authority pointed out that this year alone it had reduced the number of open work orders by half, but still had more than 200,000 orders left to fill.
"I don't have to live like this," Myers said, "and we shouldn't have to live like this."
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Eddie Izzard must like the taste of blood. Just last month, the 50-year-old actor played Grandpa Munster, a vampire obsessed with eating people and drinking their blood, in the TV special, Mockingbird Lane. And now, Izzard has reportedly been cast to guest star in the NBC thriller, Hannibal, according to Entertainment Weekly.
While Izzard played a deadly killer in Mockingbird Lane, he will also be taking on a similar role in his new gig. According to the report, Izzard will pose as an inmate locked up in the same prison as Hannibal Lector. His specific role is said to be that of ""the infamous Chesapeake Ripper"" a serial killer who likes to remove his victim's organs.
The killer instinct isn't the only thing that Izzard's two recent roles have in common. Writer Bryan Fuller is responsible for both Mockingbird Lane and the up and coming production of Hannibal.
While there has yet to be a premiere date set for Hannibal, the buzz surrounding the show is that this may be one of NBC's most promising upcoming programs. If this is true, Izzard may have just found his next big meal ticket.
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NASHVILLE (BP) -- A state medical panel has put a stop to Planned Parenthood's Webcam abortion system in Iowa.
In an 8-2 vote, the Iowa Board of Medicine adopted new rules Aug. 30 that require doctors to meet in person with women before giving them abortion drugs, thereby prohibiting "telemedicine" abortions.
Planned Parenthood pioneered the video-conferencing system of abortion services in Iowa in 2008. More than 3,000 abortions have been performed in the state since then, according to The Des Moines Register.
The Iowa "telemed" system has involved a doctor in Des Moines or another city videoconferencing patients in a Planned Parenthood clinic in another town in the state, avoiding in office visits. The doctor can dispense the two-step abortion drug known as RU 486 to the woman seeking an abortion by typing in a computer command. The action opens a drawer from which the woman in the remote clinic may remove the pills.
The physician is able to observe her take the first dose of mifepristone, known as RU 486. The patient returns home to take the second pill, known as misoprostol, two days later. Mifepristone causes the lining of the uterus to release the embryonic child, resulting in its death. Misoprostol causes the uterus to contract, expelling the baby.
Board of Medicine members who voted in the majority expressed concern about the safety of women seeking "telemed" abortions.
"How can any of us possibly find that a medical abortion performed over the Internet is as safe as one provided by a physician in person?" asked board chairman Greg Hoversten, The Register reported. "The woman essentially goes home and labors and delivers a fetus. It's very bloody. It's painful."
Planned Parenthood, as expected, decried the board's decision.
"This decision is a political attack aimed at restricting access to abortion in Iowa," said Jill June, president of Planned Parenthood of the Heartland. "Proponents of this rule aren't against telemedicine technology; they are against safe, legal" abortion.
Michael Norton, senior counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom, commended the board "for caring more about the health and safety of mothers than about the profits Planned Parenthood obtains through 'webcam' abortions. Chemical abortions pose serious health risks to women, so their care should not be taken lightly. No matter where people stand on abortion, all should be able to agree on that."
Planned Parenthood's "telemed" system has spread to Minnesota, but several states have banned the videoconferencing method, including Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Wisconsin.
The Iowa vote may set back hopes the Planned Parenthood Federation of America has reportedly had of expanding its business through the "telemed" system.
Post-comatose British woman declines abortion
Gemma Holmes woke up last year to find she had been in a coma for three months -- and was pregnant.
The 26-year-old British woman could not recall the last three years of her life, including who the father of her unborn child was. She faced months of severe pain from debilitating injuries in a scooter accident and without pain-killing drugs, if she continued with the pregnancy. Still, she chose life for her son.
"I just thought that if this little baby inside me had managed to survive the awful crash, then he was meant to be," Holmes said, according to LifeSiteNews.com, which based its article on British media reports.
Holmes suffered a broken back and head injuries when she was thrown from her scooter into a lamp post. Doctors did not expect her to live and recommended abortion because her pregnancy prevented the type of surgery she required.
Her mother, Julie, refused to grant permission for an abortion. "So many things went through my head, but I wanted to wait until Gemma was awake to make the decision," Julie said, LifeSiteNews reported Aug. 28.
In May, Holmes gave birth to Ruben Miracle Holmes by Cesarean section. Although Holmes is in a wheelchair, both she and her son are doing well. Doctors plan to perform surgery on the mother in a few months, and she hopes to walk again.
"Ruben is the best thing to ever happen to me," Holmes said. "I may not remember how he came to me but I've got the rest of our lives to make up for that."
Chinese woman reveals forced abortion at full term
A Chinese woman has come forward to say she was forcibly aborted at nine months into her pregnancy in 2011.
Lili Zeng of Jiangxi Province said the forced abortion occurred two days before her due date, when seven family planning officials held her down and used a needle to inject a lethal drug into her unborn son, according to an Aug. 29 report by Women's Rights Without Frontiers (WRWF).
"I cried bitterly when they injected the abortion needle into my body, but I heard the family planning officers -- headed by their director -- laughing treacherously," she said. "After the needle injection, they all disappeared, as if I were a pig waiting to be slaughtered."
The baby was born alive before dying.
She recently learned from a family planning officer she was forcibly aborted at the request of her former husband's first wife, and her ex-husband signed a consent form for the abortion, she said. She had been divorced from him, however, for a year when her son was killed, she said. She has tried to kill herself three times since the forced abortion, she said.
China established its "one-child," population control program in 1979. The policy limiting urban couples to one child has resulted in many reports of authorities carrying out forced abortions, sterilizations and infanticides.
The Chinese Health Ministry announced in March there had been 336 million abortions since the government implemented stricter family planning practices in 1971, eight years before the "one-child" policy went into effect.
Lili Zeng's account adds to the growing list of mothers who have been restrained by Chinese family planning officials and aborted late in their pregnancies.
"Her experience dramatically demonstrates the connection between forced abortion and China's astronomical female suicide rate: 590 women a day end their lives in China," WRWF President Reggie Littlejohn said. "Her experience shows that -- even when a woman is pregnant with her first child -- if it is her husband's second child, she can be forcibly aborted. We strongly condemn forced abortion under China's One Child Policy and demand that the Chinese government put a stop to these atrocities immediately."
WVU prof. regularly sees women with abortion complications
A West Virginia University medical professor has told the state's attorney general he often sees women with abortion complications.
"We commonly (I personally probably at least weekly) see patients at Women and Children's Hospital with complications from abortion at these centers in Charleston: so much for 'safe and legal.' These patients are told to come to our hospital because the abortion clinic providers do not have hospital privileges to care for their patients, so we must treat them as emergency 'drop-ins,'" Byron Calhoun wrote in a letter to Attorney General Patrick Morrisey.
Morrisey, who is reviewing West Virginia's abortion clinic regulations, received Calhoun's letter as part of the public comments Morrisey accepted on the topic, The Charleston (W.Va.) Gazette reported Sept. 2. The newspaper gained Calhoun's letter through a public records request.
"No other medical providers are allowed to care for patients, have no backup coverage, and then abandon them to the emergency room.... The fantasy of women's reproductive health care seems to allow these individuals who perform the abortions some special dispensation to provide substandard care," wrote Calhoun, vice chairman of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department at West Virginia University Physicians of Charleston.
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Vet Advice: Relief for Your Dog's Itchy Skin
This article first appeared in The Bark,
Issue 46: Jan/Feb 2008
Please note comments are moderated. After being approved your comment will appear below.
Submitted by Joanna | August 19 2013 | Permalink
I adopted an 11 year old dog from a couple who had the dog since he was a puppy. They brought along vet records that were extensive. They also brought all kinds of medication. The results from a previous allergy test were that the dog was allergic to all kinds grass and trees. The problem for me was that this was February and nothing was blooming and there was no grass anywhere yet the dog was suffering. He had no fur on his belly and his skin was tough and blackened.
Submitted by monica ong | August 22 2013 | Permalink
Beware of allergy shots they can be very dangerous to your dog.
Submitted by David | August 29 2013 | Permalink
Hello. I have a two year old golden who is tearing herself up from itching. Her father had severe allergies to grasses and trees. We have had her on benadryl and are going to try using mane and tail shampoo. Any comments as to how often to shampoo her? Also, someone posted to use tinactin on spots that have been bitten raw, does anyone else successfully use that?
Submitted by Lucille S | June 5 2014 | Permalink
My Gracie & I adopted one another last July, 2013. She had hair missing from the back of her legs, under her chest, belly & her tail was almost hairless. She's on minimum ingredients, grain-free dry dog food - I add fresh chicken breast to morning meal. I bathed her frequently with oatmeal shampoo when I first got her. Later - I would bathe her when she seemed more itchy. One day I used the oatmeal shampoo & added the Main & tail shampoo w/it. Afterward, she was jumping & running all around, seemed she was irritated - it was early evening. I rinsed her again because I thought it must have been reaction to the shampoo. In the morning her skin was a deep red color in spots on her back - not from scratching but I believe from the main & tail shampoo. Had to take her to the Vets & he gave her a prednizone injection. I since have used the oatmeal shampoo only & she hasn't had any reaction. I will not use main & tail on her again. This is the shampoo I'd used on my previous dogs w/o skin allergies & no problem w/them that I ever noticed. Gracie is going through the itching again this June; hair coming out in clumps. I'm looking for a natural remedy.
Submitted by Patti | September 1 2013 | Permalink
Daisy is. 7 months old and we live on a very hot and humid area. Her skin is dry so she scratchs a lot. Is there a shampoo or cream I could use to help her! Thanks for your help.
Submitted by rohit | September 4 2013 | Permalink
my dog got some skin allergies for a long time tried out lots of medicine can any one help me out with this ...
Submitted by debbie orr | September 8 2013 | Permalink
i have a small cairn terier cross silky his itch is driving him crazy and i can not afford a vet where he itches he gets very hot its like he has dandruff and he could be asleep and all of a sudden he jumps up and starts itching he is so uncomfortable please help
Submitted by Nicolle Guimbarda | September 9 2013 | Permalink
Hi! I have my dog here having his irritated skin. He used to scratch, lick and chew his skin due to its severe itchiness. He don't like to drink water as usual consumption of his body and saw him licking on others dog pee. He is always inside our house and regularly taking a bath. But it seems that it doesn't help him to prevent him from scratching. He's skin now is like a point-point small lump around his body. He's not that tardy (that i'm gonna think that he's sick) but he's shedding to much also. What can I do? Is chicken meat and crushed chicken bones bad to dog's health? Thanks
Submitted by Emma | March 29 2014 | Permalink
Hey there, NEVER give your dog crushed chicken bones. Chicken bones are really bad for dogs, especially when cooked as they can puncture their insides. Crushed ones are even worse!
Submitted by Mel | April 10 2014 | Permalink
As a matter of fact, raw chicken bones are not bad for dogs. When they're raw, they're soft enough to chew; it's when they're cooked that they splinter. Some large long bones may splinter also, but chicken, turkey, and neck bones are fine.
Submitted by dogzzz | April 16 2014 | Permalink
Wow. Just no. Chicken bones are an awful thing to feed a dog (no matter what form) and it's moronic to feed them to dogs.
Submitted by Joanna | May 22 2014 | Permalink
Our 1.5 year old german shepherd is on a raw diet (no kibble at all) and whole chicken quarters are many of his meals. Raw bones are safe for dogs - they are flexible and canines are designed to eat them. Maybe err on the side of caution with tiny dogs - you don't want them to choke. The point is, please stop spreading misinformation about raw bones, and educate yourself.
Submitted by Alisha Franczak | June 7 2014 | Permalink
I just adopted a German Shepherd. The Rescue has put her on some sort of antibiotics twice and they help but the condition comes back. I just ordered her a medical shirt... Until I can figure out what the heck is wrong with her. Did you begin feeding raw because you also were having allergy issues? I think I will switch to raw too (she is currently on limited ingredient kibble) because I've heard it is cheaper than canned food and really good for them, especially allergies. Please reply! I am desperate
Submitted by Helene Gorman | July 31 2014 | Permalink
My Frenchy has been having the same problems. What I've found is that eliminating all grains, and following a diabetic diet helps, along with supplements like probiotics and digestive enzymes, and oils helps. i feed only canned dog food with only one protein product and no other products. I will add soft cooked fresh veggies that are safe for dogs and low in sugar. I will do this one veggie at a time to watch for reactions-have fed some that did not not agree with my dog. Cranberries, blueberries are also good with no sugar added. I stay away from shampoos with oatmeal, it is a grain and really irritates the skin. I use a herbal shampoo that is anti-fungal and has tea-tree oil as a main ingredient. I've also found that apple cider vinegar is helpful as talked about in one of the other posts. the big thing is to stay on top of things--food is very important and baths--can be given every other day and using the apple cider (mixed 1:1 ratio with water) is a very good conditioner. Makes the dog very soft and shiny. The vinegar is also supposed to help with fleas . A friend will wipe her dog down every-time it comes in from outside
Submitted by Mike G | June 28 2014 | Permalink
I feed my dog raw. We have a very good meat grinder, When raw chicken is put in the grinder you don't even see the bones. They are ground into the meat. So there is a way to feed your dog chicken bones which is very healthy because of the marrow in the bones.
Submitted by sheila | July 26 2014 | Permalink
OMG....never never give your dog chicken bones. They splinter in your dogs gut and could kill him.
Submitted by BQu | August 15 2014 | Permalink
Actually RAW bones - poultry bones included are great for your dog. Never mix raw food and kibble - it will cause digestive upset and distress. Kibble takes longer to digest, and raw takes less time as it is a more biologically appropriate diet their bodies utilize it better. Proof is in the poop quite frankly. I fed my cats raw from kittens, and now I am feeding my rescue dog raw as well, even went to work for a raw food place when I found them.
Submitted by Holly | September 9 2013 | Permalink
Is it possible for the topical flea medicines to cause a reaction on the skin? If so how do you recommend treating for fleas? Also, is there any homeopathic regiments to treat the skin and itch?
Submitted by dian blinte | September 18 2013 | Permalink
my dog is having a reaction also scraching on the area that i put advantix II on I gave him benadryl but still scraching been 2 days rinsed him with plain water what else can we do
Submitted by Heidi | March 7 2014 | Permalink
I know I'm late to this party but my dog had a severe, toxic reaction to a topical flea medicine. Symptoms started (itching all over and rubbing her nose and face) showing about 12 hours after application. I stayed up most of the night with her. By morning she had calmed down but still didn't seem right so I took her to the vet. Good thing because my vet said she would not have survived if I hadn't brought her in when I did. She ended up in the hospital for 5 days and now, almost two years later is still on Denamerin because her liver enzymes are too low. Thankfully Denamerin is one of the more natural medications out there. It is made from milk thistle extract and has no known side effects or long term repercussions. My baby girl has done really well on it.
Submitted by Andrew | May 1 2014 | Permalink
If you want a homeopathic version of anything, just mix 1ml of the original with 1L of water, and you have a VERY powerful homeopathic version of the original. To make it even MORE powerful, take 1ml of the new mixture and mix it with 1L of water. The more times you do this, the more powerfully homeopathic it is. That's what the (for instance) 16x on the label means - it has been massively diluted 16 times.
If you think that sounds like a sick joke, and you should, then you don't understand homeopathy.
Submitted by chaz | September 19 2013 | Permalink
my staffy has allergies and chews his feet(pretty bad)my vet has said he will have to take steroids for the rest of his life!but I fear they will harm his health,i have heard of a product called dermapaw in America..do the uk have a sililar product?? anybody who can help please do!
Submitted by Tom | September 27 2013 | Permalink
Last couple years I took him to the vet who, of course, decided he needed expensive injections of steroids plus steroids by mouth. After reading the horrors of steroids I didn't want to do that to him again. Heck, it didn't help for more than a few days anyway. A lot of what you read online is scary too... One article I read recommended rubbing baking soda and oatmeal into his skin. Really? The dog's skin is dry so we want to use the driest stuff on the planet on him. Stuff that will take motor oil out of a concrete driveway? I think not!
Today, after reading the above article as well as some others I just thought "why not try on him what I use on my own dry skin?" Nothing with chemicals or scents, of course, just pure aloe vera. I buy it at the local pharmacy, but you can get it almost anywhere. I had to mix the gel with water to make it thin enough to get down through his coat, but the relief was immediate and has lasted all day so far. It must taste like crap because he won't lick it, and it is non-toxic even if he did. It is unscented and has no real natural scent to it. And, bonus, it is dirt cheap.
My dog is no longer suffering. I hope you'll try this solution for yours and save him some irritation, and yourself some money.
Good luck!
Submitted by cyn | April 1 2014 | Permalink
Thank you for your post! My lil peekapoo, thanks you as well :-)
Submitted by aditi | April 8 2014 | Permalink
Yeah...for sure..i will try this..for my cutiee pie minnie..thnx dude..
Submitted by Cindy | May 3 2014 | Permalink
Will give this a try. I will stop at the store tomorrow. My poor Oscar is itching so much. he looks at me sometimes, like he is saying, can't you do something mommy
Submitted by Roger | September 30 2013 | Permalink
ABout 1 week ago, I decided to try the Wellness brand dry dog food, for my 3 4 legged kids, and i am starting to decide it was a bad idea. Cost wasn't a factor, as it is pricey. More so than the Blu Buffalo I was feeding them for many years. Bear is a 5 year old Shi-Chon Bichon mix and has never displayed any signs of excessive itching or skin problems up to this point. After 1 week on the Wellness brand dog food, the itching has begun to drive us both crazy it seems. He sleeps with me and shakes the bed all night long now. I spend more time scratching him to prevent him from doing damage to himself. I tried benadryl ( 1/2 tablet) and it seemed to quiet down the itch, but only tried it as a last resort. It worked for 1 night of rest, but I am leary of making it a constant remedy for his itching. As of today, I am removing the Wellenss from his diet and going back to Blue Buffalo permanently. Just because it costs more, doesn't mean it's better. Wellness brand claims are deceiving at this point. for instant releif, I use the benadryl insect bite spray and rub it in very good, to treat the skin where he seems to have the itchy spots ( rib area on both sides, lower inner stomach) after reading other posts, I will go back to benadryl tablets at bedtime so he sleeps good at night.
Submitted by Diane Johnston | May 20 2014 | Permalink
My dog 14 year old lab had severe skin allergies I tried Fromm's dog food Salmon Tunalini and her skin cleared up immediately. It's grain free and consists mostly of fish, fruits and vegtables. It'susually a protein source that causes the severe itch or seasonal allergies. And it's good practise to rotate the dogs food don't feed them one protein source for a long time. I switch betwen the beef frittata, salmon tutulii
Submitted by Michele | November 9 2013 | Permalink
Both my dogs went crazy with allergies this past summer. They only got relief when I gave them regular antihistamines. I found out what dosage from this vet's website.
Submitted by Delaney | November 22 2013 | Permalink
My dog has had major itchiness, and developed some scabby spots and thinning hair on her but near her tail -- I am using canine enterouc powder on her and this has helped a great deal, all her hair is back and the scabby spots are gone. Along with brushing her and tea tree oil for hot spots I think I might add olive oil to her diet a couple of times a week also see if that gets rid of the remaining dryness and flakiness.
Submitted by Donny | December 6 2013 | Permalink
I Have an american pitbull x bulldog aka a bandogee she is super itchy from her face ears back all the way to her legs and feet she has been on venectyl p, prednisone and fed with medical hypoallergenic dog food. We cant seem to get her itchyness under control she has scratched / chewed her hair and legs to the skin and wont stop even on her med which is prednisone right now is there anything we can do for her? She has no hair left on her back legs :(
Submitted by Theresa Day | December 7 2013 | Permalink
My two English bulldogs have food allergies changed mine to a grain free diet and they are 99% better...
Submitted by Sandra Erickson | December 14 2013 | Permalink
Help! I have 50 lb pit bull she is 2 year ,she has a bad red rash her tummy that just won't go away,we
Submitted by Thea Mcclure | March 6 2014 | Permalink
My little chihuahua and shihtzu has had allergy's since we moved to our first home four years ago. Started out really slow for the two and a half and then she started breaking out with these little bumps mostly on her back, then she started getting some on her belly. Then she scratches on the right side on the under side of the belly. Took her to the vet wasted time and money. So I started looking for web sites that had vets that were holistic. I kind of anticeptic but by this time I was ready to listen. As long as it was safe. So Dr at website. . she suggest providone iodine its for a lot of infections and is a nathuarl medicine. Its used for skin infections , yeasts,molds, fungi and viruses.so I started using it. U can find it in any drug store. Put some in warm water into a glass container and apply with a wash rag or a clean rag. Wipe gently down going the same way the hair grows. Never against. Do it twice a day. Don't forget the belly. Then you pat dry with a clean towel, not to dry just damp. Then let dry. Its working for us. It takes about three weeks to see it really working. We have also started benadryl twice a day it seems like that's adding help also. Thank you God.
Submitted by Rod | December 15 2013 | Permalink
We have a 8 year old mix breed, that has every licking and itching issue possible. Allergic to so many different things, the food allergies are pretty much conquered since all he gets is lamb and brown rice. Organic snacks, with limited ingreients. Bath every other week, has a vaccine every 10 days for 6 months now. NO relief!!, Poor dog wears a cone most of the day, with exception of when outside and can be watched constantly. Issues have been discussed with Vet overand over, so far no solution, bendrdyl twice daily no help, sprays and lotions worthless. I read of a new product coming available first quarter of 2014 that has shown to give relief to the constant licking and scratching. /the name of it is Apoquel, I am hoping it will give some big relief, because at present we are at wits end and frustrated at no relief for all the things we have tried either OTC or prescription, I don't know how this dog is able to have a good quality of life the way it is. All the home remedies we tried, no help. This dog was a rescue puppy and feel due to the inbreeding that a lot of his problems were generated that way. We will continue to give all the comfort possible and hope one day for something more powerful.
Submitted by Randy Poppert | January 1 2014 | Permalink
We have a full blooded German Shepherd that we got as a pup. He in now 7 years old and every year his allergies seem to get worse. Our vet says that he is allergic to just about everything and during the dry winter months up here in Alaska, he seems to get so much worse. I think this may go back to the earlier article when you spoke about "puppy mills". At any rate, as is the case with most pets, Zues is a very big part of me and my wife's life. Zues gets really sick sometimes to the point of vomiting and fevers. He scratches almost non stop when he is awake in the winter months (which is about 6 months a year)even though I can see no dry skin under his coat. It is a very sad thing to have to go through for him especially and for us to have to watch because of the family bond we have with him. He has been put on a whole litany of different medications but he seems to be immune to just about everything they try. We are at our wits end trying to keep him comfortable and the money that we have spent on his care up to this point is an extraordinary amount which is fine and we would gladly spend that over and over again if we could find something that would help. If you have any suggestions I would appreciate it so very much. (And I have had people tell me "Hey, his name is supposed to be spelled "Zeus", you have it misspelled". And my reply is "No, he's not some mythical god, he's my buddy, a part of the family and Zues is his name".)
Submitted by Jmfarrside | January 5 2014 | Permalink
We have a 3 year old German Shepherd we have has as a pup as well and he has horrible allergies. We have spent a considerable amount of money also to try to get him some relief. We have him on a prescription called Clemastine which we get from Target pharmacy. It helps a lot with his itching and we tried many prescriptions before we found one that helped. But we also make a solution of apple cider vinegar and water a 50/50 mix and just wipe him down twice a day. It gives him relief for several hours. It's worth a try to give your dog some relief.
Submitted by Mads | January 10 2014 | Permalink
Please try to get him on Apoquel as soon as possible, should bring him relief without harsh side effects for the forseeable future. Best of luck.
Submitted by Jamie Vaccaro | March 13 2014 | Permalink
Hi, I read your post and had to reply. We put our Lhasa Apso on Apoquel last month. Her itching stopped, but she began to refuse to take the pill, which is unlike her. So I thought I would check out the side effects. APOQUEL CAN CAUSE CANCERS, something our vet did not tell us!! It also can cause upper resporatory illnesses, etc. Please read about these pharmaceutical drugs and the actual side effects before you give them to your pets. She knew that pill was doing something to her and since I read that, she has never, nor will EVER have Apoquel or Cyclosporine/Atopica again!!!!!!!!
Submitted by Trublu | March 19 2014 | Permalink
Please try grain free Halo pet food or Primal raw; I shave my poodle down and put on 100% aloe gel all over the areas that make him itch. I also give him probiotics and very low sugar plain yogurt. I also make sure my sheets on my bed and anywhere he lies down are washed in fragrance free and chemical free laundry detergent; no downy or frangrance softener either. I also use Halo Pet shampoo and never give him cheap treats or any toys made in China. See if he is allergic to other cats or other animals you may have. Cheap air fresheners are bad for you and your dog's environment. Use Vinegar to clean floors; toss out the chemical floor and rug cleaners. Rug deodorizing powders make my feet itchy when I walk on carpet. Ok, hope I can help someone out there.
Submitted by Susan | March 28 2014 | Permalink
This sounds so simple, but have you tried lavender essential oil.Try a few drops in a jug of warm water as the carrier, concentrate your pouring under arms and legs (of dog) if possible and leave for as long as possible. or make a natural mix of lavender oil and a non poisonous oil, any lightweight edible oil for the carrier(for the non poisonous factor in case licked.)a few drops to a around 50 mls of oil. Use under arms or itchy hot spots. I use lavender essential oil in an ointment with my dog and when he is itchy, and this is frequent come autumn I use it and he actually comes to me, for me to put it on him when he is suffering. He only has to see me with the jar and he is there. I conclude it doesn't cure but it eases. Just an idea :)
Submitted by kim | January 12 2014 | Permalink
It started with my older dog who would itch and chew his whole body . HE had red skin,loss of hair, bumbs , you name it he had it . Now my younger dog (5) is itching and so am I . I'm itching so bad and so is the other dog . the older one has been to the vet 5 times (they said its food allergy . My gut tells me its not (no ringworm,no mites) had him tested. all three of us have this problem. i need help i think its internal but what????????
Submitted by Lori | January 12 2014 | Permalink
Help. My Samoyed who is 12.5 years old is suffering from a skin condition. She is dry in someplaces, but in others she has oily canine seborrhea. I washed the oily pits with dishwashing soap as suggested to remove it from the skin. Now she is incredibly itchy. Any advice?
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