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The Blade in Toledo (http://bit.ly/LY5Qzw ) reports the inspector general's office says there's no timeline for the release and won't comment further, citing a policy of not discussing investigations until reports are issued.
Inspector General Randall Meyer pledged in early 2012 to complete the report left unissued by his predecessor who oversaw the investigation into the scandal dubbed "Coingate."
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Friday, March 27, 2009
How to Plan Your VBAC (Vaginal Birth After Cesarean)
First of all, if you know you are going to have to have a cesarean due to baby position (try an External Version first if all natural methods fail), placental condition or other health issue, make sure you ask for a low, transverse incision with double stitching. Some doctors will say that double stitching makes no difference, but it is a criteria for VBAC consideration for many practitioners, so insist on it.
That, said, if you had another type of incision or only single stitching, you can still have a VBAC, but will have to work harder to find a practitioner.
The other thing you can do if you know you are going to have to have a c-section, is wait to go into labor before you have the c-section. That way, the baby gets the dose of hormones from labor that stimulate lungs and you know the baby is ready to come. You will have an urgent c-section, but not critical emergency.
Whether you had a scheduled, planned or unexpected c-section, you should do your research on VBAC. Find an ICAN chapter, read books like Henci Goer's The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth, and find support from like-minded people, either in real life or online in places like the Mothering discussion boards.
Before you get pregnant again, you need to research the VBAC policies of the providers in your area. Many providers like to see 18-24 months between births. That is very common. Don't try to get pregnant before that. The uterus needs to be well-healed from your c-section before it starts to stretch again. This is something that you can control so why not meet this criteria?
Get your medical records from your first c-section to find out the type of incision and suturing you had. Your new provider will want to see your records and sometimes there is information in your records that can help you figure out contributing factors to your c-section or other issues about the pregnancy.
Then, research natural childbirth. The fewer interventions you have (like epidural) the better your chances of VBAC because one intervention often leads to another. Also, pitocin and cervical ripeners cause more stress on the uterus than natural contractions and are linked to higher instances of uterine rupture. Pitocin can be used on a VBAC, but I think it should be avoided for your best chances. Both pitocin and epidural can cause fetal distress which would lead doctors to call for a c-section.
Reduce your health risks before you get pregnant. If you are overweight, before you get pregnant again, exercise and improve your eating. It is better for you, better for the baby and will reduce your risk of gestational diabetes, high blood pressure, etc. which can lead to providers pushing a repeat c-section. That doesn't mean you need to get down to a size 0, but if you incorporate some regular exercise, cut out junk food and add in healthy foods, you will be in better shape and reduce your risks.
Find a truly supportive provider. This is key. If you don't have a supportive provider, your chances of VBAC are very low. How do you know if a provider is truly supportive? Ask for their VBAC policies:
*How far past your due date can you go?
*Will they induce if you go past your due date or schedule a repeat c-section?
*If they induce, what type? Will they do balloon cathetar inductions?
*What are the reasons for suggestion induction/repeat c-section? (If you hear "big baby" that is not a good sign.
*What kind of monitoring? If continuous, external fetal monitoring, does that mean you'll be confined to the bed? Do they have telemetry units?
*Can you labor and push in any position that you choose or do they require you to be on your back?
*What is the c-section rate? VBAC rate?
Ask for provider recommendation from the local ICAN chapter, from people who have had VBACs, from natural childbirth advocates in the community. They usually know who is supportive of VBAC.
Don't be afraid to keep changing providers until you find the right one. I went through 4 providers, 4th times the charm!
I started out at a Korean doctor in Seoul, but the c-section rate is higher than the US (who would have thought?) and they don't allow VBACs in most hospitals. There was one provider in one hospital who would let foreigners try, but I decided to go back to the US instead (I have since learned of other options in Korea for VBAC such as midwives and OBs in Women & Children's hospitals, but I was originally told my choices by a Korean OB).
I did the rest of my prenatal care in Korea at the US military hospital because they would bill insurance and then headed back to the US. I planned a homebirth, but my baby was breech and so I needed to find another plan. I had to look outside of Erie, to Pittsburgh. I had already traveled half way around the world, what's another 2 hour drive? I got the baby turned and had a great birth with the right birth team.
Next, prepare your mind. I highly recommend Hypnobabies for labor management. It also programs you with positive messages about pregnancy and teaches you to resist all the negative messages which will be coming at you. Watch VBAC and natural childbirth You Tube videos. Talk to people who have had successful VBACs. Read positive VBAC birth stories and positive natural childbirth stories.
Also, start chiropractic work before, or soon after you become pregnant. Chiropractic work can help prevent or correct poor fetal positioning. Many scheduled c-sections are for poor positioning: breech or transverse. Many c-sections after "failed labor" are because of posterior position. Chiropractic can help prevent or correct these positions. Find someone trained to work with pregnant women, certified in Webster technique.
Spinning Babies is a great site for exercises to prevent or correct poor positioning. You can also find out things to do in labor if you have back labor due to posterior baby. Interestingly, the worst thing you can do is lay on your back--exactly what most doctors want you to do.
Now even if you do Spinning Babies and chiropractic, you may have a fetal positioning problem like I did. In that case, try External Cephalic Version. Many doctors do not like to do this, but you just need to find another doctor. You may need to go to a bigger city to a teaching hospital to have it done, like I did, but it is totally worth it. A confident provider is more likely to be successful and less likely to have a problem like placental abruption during it. They use ultrasound so they can see where everything is and see if there are any obvious reasons for the breech/transverse position. If your baby is meant to be breech, the baby will turn back. The procedure was not painful at all (unlike stories I had heard), just a little discomfort, mostly feeling faint from lying on my back. I think the Hypnobabies really helped with it, but the other thing is that the procedure takes only a minute. You'll be in the hospital for a few hours for monitoring before and after, but most of the time, they are only pushing on your belly for a minute or two. It can take longer, but if the practitioner knows what they are doing and you relax, it is usually very quick. Even if it is takes longer, it is much shorter than a c-section recovery.
Finally, hire a doula. It is worth every penny to have an objective person who is experienced in natural childbirth. She can help your partner help you, She can help you stay focused and relaxed and remember your wishes and remind you of them when you do not. Even if you have a midwife, a doula is necessary. Midwives are not always with you the whole time. Even if they are with you the whole time, like mine was, the presence of a doula allows the midwife to take care of medical things so there is no break in the emotional physical support of you. I really needed a doula because there was a chance my husband wouldn't make it ( turns out he didn't make it) so she supported me through my labor. My mom was with me, but she had never had a vaginal birth and though she was willing to do whatever needed to be done, she was grateful for the doula's presence. She was able to see her grandchild being born which was very special for her, but it was all she could do to keep herself calm. My mom is very good and pretending to be calm and pushing through to get something done--like making the 2 hour drive to Pittsburgh when I was in active labor--but the doula really helped.
In summary, you can do it and it is worth it! In fact, it was so much work to get to the point of being allowed to labor and deliver, that the actual labor and delivery was very easy in comparison. I credit the chiropractor, Spinning Babies, staying healthy, being confident in my birth team and Hypnobabies for a short and easy labor and delivery.
Reasons for repeat c-section: your age, your weight, big baby, gestational diabetes, high blood pressure, pre-eclampsia, placenta previa, danger of uterine rupture, not enough time between pregnancies.
Some of these, like placenta previa, you have absolutely no control over. The placenta implants where it implants and it usually moves up in relation to the cervix, but not always. If they tell you that you have placenta previa or marginal previa (like they told me), just put it aside and stay positive because the odds are in your favor. If you get to the end and you still have previa and have to have ac-section, just make sure you get the right type: low, transverse incision with double stitching.
Other things are bogus like:
* big baby: (often wrong because ultrasound can be off by 1-2 lbs either way and even if it is not wrong, many women have VBAC babies bigger than their c-section babies for CPD)
*your age: risks go up with age for many things during pregnancy, but not necessarily, many OBs treat women who will be 35 or over when they deliver like geriatric patients.
*danger of uterine rupture: it is less than 1%, especially if you avoid cervical ripeners or pitocin.
Some, like I wrote before, you have control over like you weight, time between pregnancies and your health. There are some people who have gestational diabetes or high blood pressure despite a good diet and exercise, but you can reduce your chances so it is worth doing. Again, the better your health before pregnancy, the better your health during pregnancy, but it is never too late for changes to have a positive effect.
10 comments:
- mel817ski said...
Congratulations on your VBAC! And thanks for this post on "How to plan your VBAC." I am an L&D nurse in the Northeast of the US and was recently honored to be a part of a BEAUTIFUL VBAC birth of one of my patients. I blogged about her story because it was so great!
Thanks again and happy mommy-ing!
- March 27, 2009 at 3:02 PM
- eriedoula said...
What a wonderful summary on VBACS! Excellent advice, comprehensive and encouraging. I intend to share it with any woman I meet who wants to pursue VBAC. Thanks for sharing your experience and all that you've learned, and again - Congratulations!! I remain so very happy for you!! Michelle
- March 27, 2009 at 8:39 PM
- Mama Seoul said...
Thanks, Melissa and Michelle!
My actual birth was very easy, but getting to be "allowed" to birth was hard. (I know you can UC, but I didn't want to do that).
- March 28, 2009 at 7:06 AM
- Connie said...
Congrats on your VBAC :) You worked so hard, and pulled it off so well!
I had my second child at a John Hopkins hospital in Maryland. I had not even considered a VBAC because my first born was an emergency C-section. Started with a low bikini cut, but ended up with an inverted T-incision, internal and external, 34+ staples.. my son was stuck and had to be pulled out breech. I thought there was no way I could VBAC. There wasn't :D but .. even after seeing the scar, my daughter's doctor (not me, the doctor!) said we should think about VBAC and she ordered my medical report from the first hospital herself. She told me that it was possible to VBAC if the scarring was only on the skin, and not the uterus, but the incision matched the scar. O well. With me, it was probably good. I was in labor when I went to surgery (which they had not wanted in my case) and the doctor said I pretty much tore right open as soon as she touched me with the knife... I would have ruptured. I just thought it was very nice that it was the doctor who promoted the possibility of VBAC.
- March 30, 2009 at 1:38 AM
- Kimberly J said...
CONGRATULATIONS on your VBAC mama! So happy for you!
Thank you so much for this blog post... so much good information on it that so many other mamas need to see. Would it be ok if I referred to your post on my blog? I have some readers that need to see this.
Congrats again!
Kim in Seattle
- April 4, 2009 at 11:24 AM
- Mama Seoul said...
Of course, that would be great, Kim!
- April 4, 2009 at 2:23 PM
- Amynf said...
This really is a fantastic post. I linked it in my VBAC post. I could not have provided the information as well as you did, I didn't even want to try. I am so happy for you that you got your VBAC and proud of you for doing whatever it took.
- June 12, 2009 at 5:52 AM
- Mama Seoul said...
Thanks! The easiest thing about my VBAC was actually giving birth that is why I am so passionate about empowering people to ask the questions and make the changes necessary to give yourself and your baby your best shot.
- June 12, 2009 at 6:38 AM
- Birdy!!!! =D! said...
What a beautiful inspiring account of a successful vbac...i applaud you and you in turn have given me the courage to try a vbac.i just turned 44 years old, have eight beautiful children(naturally),except for the last, who was an 11 pound emergency c-section,only because his head was turned and it had been hours of pushing and he would not come down.i am told to have no more due to age , rupture possiblilty , and the fact that my babies are big.again, i have been inspired. thank you
- March 10, 2010 at 2:47 PM
- yourinnerglow said...
Beautiful! We need to hear more of successful VBAC stories!!! I am a birth doula in NJ and just returned from NIH consensus on VBAC future...they are supporting a TOL!!! Thank you so much for sharing your story.....!
- March 30, 2010 at 6:58 AM


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The confluence of disruptive technologies beyond CMOS and "Big Data" workloads calls for a fundamental paradigm shift from homogenous compute-centric system which was designed for handling structured data to new heterogeneous data-centric system which can effectively store/process a large set of semi-structured or unstructured data for better innovation, competition and productivity. In a heterogeneous system, silicon CMOS (e.g., multi-core CPU) will continue to play a major role in primary computing and essential bookkeeping while the tasks that are either difficult, expensive, or even unachievable with standard CMOS within a fixed power/cost budget can be effectively offloaded to hardware engines built with other technologies. By harnessing the potential of new technologies, we can enable efficient data-centric computing by building cost-effective heterogeneous hardware substrate with significantly enhanced energy efficiency, performance, throughput and scalability. With the objective of rethinking data-centric system design from ground up, I will present a PCM-CMOS hardware accelerator based on the concept of ternary content addressable memory (TCAM) using emerging memory technology i.e., phase change memory (PCM). In particular, a fully-functional heterogeneous chip was designed and fabricated for the first time, achieving >10x cell area reduction compared to homogenous CMOS-based at the same technology node. The accelerator distributes compute units within storage elements in a cost-effective way, providing fine-grained control and high bandwidth close to data sources to avoid communication cost. It is particularly efficient in performing search operation with high and deterministic lookup rate. It can also be used as either a monolithic compute unit to perform direct data-flow computation or a monolithic storage media as storage class memory. Thus, it is an attractive solution for a wide range of data-intensive applications e.g., genome matching in bioinformatics, intrusion detection in cloud computing, etc. It is particularly useful for applications with real-time response demand (e.g., real-time pattern reorganization for national security) that pure software-based approaches cannot meet. In spite of tremendous advantages in performance/cost/energy, design with heterogeneous PCM/CMOS technologies poses new challenges during hardware implementation due to the severely degraded operating margin introduced inherently by technology itself. To address these challenges, in the talk, I will present two enabling techniques: 1) a clocked self-referenced sensing scheme and 2) a two-bit encoding. With these techniques, the fabricated chip can reliably operate at very low voltage (750mV). Finally, I will briefly present two critical techniques to move further into a more cost-effective design based on variable-bit storage.
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Lost and forgotten in a contract year that made Hakeem Nicks look like Randy Moss circa 2007, receiver Kenny Britt left the Titans in the offseason for a reunion with Jeff Fisher.
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A first-round pick in 2009, Britt was breaking out in 2011 before a Week Three torn ACL threw his career off course even more than a rash of early-career run-ins with the law. Last year, he caught 11 passes for 96 yards in 12 appearances and three starts.
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Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider AppHarbor has this week released an add-on API designed to provide a "self-service" portal for access to third-party service providers.
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Major Section: SWITCHES-PARAMETERS-AND-MODES
Detailed comments about the arguments of this function may be found
elsewhere: see guard-evaluation-table. Here we provide an introduction to
the use of
New users are encouraged to execute one of the following forms in order to avoid evaluation errors due to guards:
(set-guard-checking :none) (set-guard-checking nil)The former avoids all guard-checking on user-defined functions and should generally work fine for new users, the only drawback being efficiency loss on compute-intensive problems. All settings other than
:none check guards,
but a value of
nil allows evaluation to continue in the logic when guards
fail (avoiding the raw Lisp definition in that case).
You may put one of the above forms in the
file in your current directory (see cbd) or your home directory;
see acl2-customization.
Note that guards are not part of the ACL2 logic, and hence new users can
completely ignore the notion of guard (and the rest of this
documentation section after this paragraph!). For example,
(car 3) and
nil can be proved equal in the ACL2 logic, as follows, even though the
guard on
car requires its first argument to be a
cons pair
(thm (equal (car 3) nil))Moreover, unless your functions or top-level forms call built-in ACL2 functions that are defined in
program mode, the following property
will hold.
Evaluation of
(set-guard-checking :none)will allow evaluation of forms such as
(car 3)to take place without error in the top level loop, not only when proving theorems.
If you feel bold, then you may wish to read the rest of this documentation topic; also see guard.
See guard-evaluation-table for a succinct table, with associated discussion, that covers in detail the material presented in the rest of the present topic.
The top-level ACL2 loop has a variable which controls which sense of
execution is provided. To turn ``guard checking on,'' by which we mean
that guards are checked at runtime, execute the top-level form
:set-guard-checking t. To allow guard violations, do
:set-guard-checking nil, or do
:set-guard-checking :none to turn off
all guard-checking, so that raw Lisp definitions of user-defined functions
are avoided unless their guard is
t. The status of guard-checking is
reflected in the prompt.
ACL2 !>means guard checking is on and
ACL2 >means guard checking is off. The exclamation mark can be thought of as ``barring'' certain computations. The absence of the mark suggests the absence of error messages or unbarred access to the logical axioms. Thus, for example
ACL2 !>(car 'abc)will signal an error, while
ACL2 >(car 'abc)will return
We will return at the end of this documentation topic to discuss two other
:all and
:nowarn, for
:set-guard-checking. We also note
that evaluation of built-in
:program mode functions always takes place in
raw Lisp.
Whether guards are checked during evaluation is independent of the
default-defun-mode. We note this simply because it is easy to
confuse ``
program mode'' with ``evaluation in Common Lisp'' and
thus with ``guard checking on;'' and it is easy to confuse
logic mode'' with ``evaluation in the logic'' and with ``guard
checking off.'' But the
default-defun-mode determines whether
newly submitted definitions introduce programs or add logical
axioms. That mode is independent of whether evaluation checks
guards or not. You can operate in
logic mode with runtime guard
checking on or off. Analogously, you can operate in
mode with runtime guard checking on or off.
For further discussion on evaluation and guards see guards-and-evaluation, in particular the exception for safe-mode in the ``Aside'' there. See guard for a general discussion of guards.
Now we fulfill our promise above to discuss two other values for
:set-guard-checking :nowarn :set-guard-checking :allThe meaning of these values is perhaps best described by the following example provided by David Rager.
ACL2 !>(defun my-test (expr) (declare (xargs :guard (true-listp expr) :verify-guards nil)) (if (atom expr) expr (cons (my-test (car expr)) (my-test (cdr expr))))) The admission of MY-TEST is trivial, using the relation O< (which is known to be well-founded on the domain recognized by O-P) and the measure (ACL2-COUNT EXPR). We could deduce no constraints on the type of MY- TEST. However, in normalizing the definition we used primitive type reasoning. Summary Form: ( DEFUN MY-TEST ...) Rules: ((:FAKE-RUNE-FOR-TYPE-SET NIL)) Warnings: None Time: 0.01 seconds (prove: 0.00, print: 0.00, other: 0.01) MY-TEST ACL2 !>(my-test '(a b c)) ACL2 Warning [Guards] in TOP-LEVEL: Guard-checking will be inhibited on recursive calls of the executable counterpart (i.e., in the ACL2 logic) of MY-TEST. To check guards on all recursive calls: (set-guard-checking :all) To leave behavior unchanged except for inhibiting this message: (set-guard-checking :nowarn) (A B C) ACL2 !>If you think about evaluation of
(my-test '(a b c)), you will see that it
leads to the recursive call
(my-test 'a), which one might expect to cause
a guard violation since the symbol
a is not a
true-listp. However,
as the warning above explains, we do not by default check guards on recursive
calls. The reason is efficiency -- imagine a simple definition with a
guard that is slow to evaluate. The values
:nowarn and
:all for
:set-guard-checking have been introduced as ways of dealing with the
above warning. The value
:nowarn simply turns off the warning above.
The value
:all causes all guards to be checked, even on recursive calls
and even on all calls of non-built-in
program mode functions --
unless, of course, a call is made of a function whose guard has been verified
(see verify-guards), where the arguments satisfy the guard, in which case
the corresponding call is made in raw Lisp without subsidiary guard-checking.
We still say that ``guard-checking is on'' after
:set-guard-checking is
invoked with values
:nowarn, and
:all, otherwise (after value
nil) we say ``guard-checking is off.
For technical reasons,
:all does not have its advertised effect in the
case of built-in
program-mode functions. If you are interested in
this technical detail, see the comment ``In the boot-strap world...'' in
source function
We conclude with a remark about the use of
:set-guard-checking for
experimenting with ACL2 as a logic or as a programming language. If one
views ACL2 as a logic, one may wish to use
:set-guard-checking :none,
while if instead one views ACL2 as a functional programming language, one may
wish to use
:set-guard-checking :all. The following transcript
illustrates this distinction by way of example. Specifically,
(car 3) is
equal to
nil in the ACL2 logic, but may be viewed as a programming
error. The default of
:set-guard-checking t is problematic for learning
ACL2 using
program mode functions, since one can get raw Lisp
errors. In the example below, the raw Lisp error occurs because
implicitly has a guard of
t, hence
(foo 3) is evaluated in raw
Lisp, which leads to a raw Lisp call of c[(car 3)].
ACL2 !>(defun foo (x) (declare (xargs :mode :program)) (car x)) Summary Form: ( DEFUN FOO ...) Rules: NIL Warnings: None Time: 0.01 seconds (prove: 0.00, print: 0.00, other: 0.01) FOO ACL2 !>(foo 3) Error: Attempt to take the car of 3 which is not listp. [condition type: TYPE-ERROR] Restart actions (select using :continue): 0: Abort entirely from this (lisp) process. [Current process: Initial Lisp Listener] [1] ACL2(1): [RAW LISP] :pop ACL2 !>:set-guard-checking :none Turning off guard checking entirely. To allow execution in raw Lisp for functions with guards other than T, while continuing to mask guard violations, :SET-GUARD-CHECKING NIL. See :DOC set-guard-checking. ACL2 >(foo 3) NIL ACL2 >:set-guard-checking :all Turning guard checking on, value :ALL. ACL2 !>(foo 3) ACL2 Error in TOP-LEVEL: The guard for the function symbol CAR, which is (OR (CONSP X) (EQUAL X NIL)), is violated by the arguments in the call (CAR 3). See :DOC trace for a useful debugging utility. See :DOC set-guard-checking for information about suppressing this check with (set-guard-checking :none), as recommended for new users. ACL2 !>


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It was creative cheapness with a surplus latching relay that surely costs more brand new than a 4-zone controller would today. ~ Zones 1 and 2 operate normally, and zone 3 trips the latching relay. Then the second watering cycle sends the power from zones 1 and 2 through the relay contacts to operate zones 3 and 4. After zone 4 is done watering, the controller again trips the latching relay, and all the watering is done.Ok....Uh...I'll get that translated and get back to you.
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No I don't work for IC. I'm just looking for a new controller that is more modern than the dial and button controllers. IC seems to fit the bill. I'm just doing my homework, and I'm just a bit perplexed why many people on this board just don't give IC the love. What is wrong with IC?Wouldn't it be cheaper just to buy an Irrigation Caddy?
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Battle Royale Games will be held from CC Time: 2012-01-02 00:00:00 to CC Time: 2012-01-03 00:00:00 (Click to find out when the event starts and ends in your area!)
Like in years past, this topic you are currently reading will be where you can find information on Game Numbers, passwords (or clues to passwords, or instructions like 'go to Live Chat!'), and other Battle Royale related know-how, in the form of posts by Team CC Volunteers. (For your reference, here is last year's topic if you want to peruse it.)
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In general, trunk parts will need to be replaced as they get worn out. Trunk parts can wear out simply due to their frequent use. Replacing a torn or ragged trunk mat can help protect the trunk floor and improve the appearance of the trunk. Replacing a spare tire cover also improves the trunk's look.
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TACLOBAN, Philippines (Reuters) – Survivors began rebuilding homes destroyed by one of the world's most powerful typhoons and emergency supplies flowed into ravaged Philippine islands, as the United Nations more than doubled its estimate of people made homeless to nearly two million.
But the aid effort was still patchy, and bodies still lay uncollected as rescuers tried to evacuate stricken communities on Saturday, more than a week after Typhoon Haiyan killed at least 3,633 with tree-snapping winds and tsunami-like waves.
"We are very, very worried about millions of children," U.N. Children's Fund spokesman Marixie Mercado told reporters in Geneva. There are officially 1,179 people missing, according to the national count.
Survivors and officials in Tacloban, which bore the brunt of the storm, have said the death toll could be many thousands just in the city as more bodies are discovered every hour.
After long delays, hundreds of international aid workers set up makeshift hospitals and trucked in supplies on Saturday, while helicopters from a U.S. aircraft carrier ferried medicine and water to remote, battered areas where some families have gone without food and clean water for days.
Aid flown in to Tacloban's congested airport finally trickled into ravaged neighborhoods. Work crews and heavy equipment cleared debris from roadsides, but side streets remained piled with the sodden, tangled remains of homes.
In front of the San Fernando Elementary School, government workers distributed sacks of aid to a restless crowd of hundreds who had spent the last week camped in shattered wooden classrooms or in a main school building with floors covered in wet black sand. Nearby, about a dozen body bags were neatly lined up by the roadside.
Survivors living in the school said they had received little help since the disaster.
Rica Mobilla, an 18-year-old mother of one, said local authorities showed up two days after the disaster, handing out four kilograms of rice and a few packs of noodles for her family of thirteen. The family stretched this out with onions and garlic bought from the market.
"For the first two days after Yolanda, we didn't eat. After getting that packet, we eating once a day," she said, using the Philippine name for Typhoon Haiyan.
"I'm upset. I'm not blaming anyone. If there's aid there to give out we'll receive it."
President Benigno Aquino, caught off guard by the scale of the disaster, is scheduled to visit typhoon-affected areas on Sunday. He has been criticized for the slow pace of aid distribution and unclear estimates of casualties, especially in Tacloban, capital of hardest-hit Leyte province.
In Tacloban the death toll is written on a whiteboard at City Hall and bodies have been buried in mass graves since Thursday. Tacloban mayor Alfred Romualdez said people may have been swept out to sea after a tsunami-like wall of seawater slammed into coastal areas. One neighborhood with a population of between 10,000 and 12,000 was now deserted, he said.
Relief officials reported a surge in desperate, hungry survivors trying to leave the coastal city of Ormoc, 105 km (65 miles) west of Tacloban.
"People are fleeing in mass numbers and coming to Ormoc, where they stand in line all day to get on a ferry only to be turned away," said Arnaldo Arcadio, an emergency responder with the Catholic Relief Services group.
"Ormoc is teeming with people who haven't eaten in days. They're hungry, thirsty and tired. They want to get out."
Across Tacloban, survivors have begun to rebuild. The sounds of hammers ring out. Men gather in groups to fix motorbikes or drag debris off splintered homes and wrecked streets. Most have given up searching for lost loved ones.
The number of people made homeless by the storm rose to 1.9 million, up from 900,000, the United Nations' humanitarian agency said. In Tacloban, at least 56,000 people face unsanitary conditions, according to the United Nations' migration agency.
Captain Victoriano Sambale, a military doctor who for the past week has treated patients in a room strewn with dirt and debris in Tacloban, said the pace of aid relief was rising.
"I can see the international support coming here," he said.
But he is still overwhelmed. "Day one we treated 600-plus patients. Day two we had 700-plus patients. Day three we lost our count."
Massive logistical problems remain. Injured survivors waited in long lines under searing sun for treatment. Local authorities reported shortages of body bags, gasoline and staff to collect the dead.
British Prime Minister David Cameron on Saturday pledged 30 mln pounds for international aid agencies working in the Philippines.
But the patchy initial aid response highlighted the need for international agencies and local governments to prepare for more frequent, more devastating natural disasters, said Kristalina Georgieva, European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response.
"This is a mindset change that must happen if we want to be able to stand up to this trend," she told Reuters in Tacloban.
U.S. military assistance has been pouring into the Philippines since Thursday when the USS George Washington aircraft carrier and accompanying ships arrived off eastern Samar province, carrying 5,000 crew and more than 80 aircraft.
The Philippines is one of Washington's closest allies in Asia and a crucial partner in President Barack Obama's strategy of rebalancing U.S. military forces towards the region to counter the rising clout of China.
The Pentagon said on Friday that U.S. Navy amphibious ships will leave Okinawa in Japan "in the coming hours" carrying an additional 1,000 marines and sailors who will provide engineering equipment, relief supplies, and medical support.
U.S. sailors have brought food and water ashore in Tacloban and the town of Guiuan, whose airport was a U.S. naval air base in World War Two. The carrier is moored near where U.S. General Douglas MacArthur's force landed on October 20, 1944, in one of the biggest Allied victories.
The U.S. military estimates that it delivered some 623,000 pounds (283,000 kg) of U.S. relief supplies to the Philippines so far. The American military also estimated that it had moved nearly 1,200 relief workers into Tacloban and airlifted nearly 2,900 displaced people from affected areas so far.
(Additional reporting by Rosemarie Francisco and Eric dela Cruz and Manuel Mogato in Manila, Michelle Nichols at the United Nations and Stephanie Nebehay in Geneva, Ranga Sirilal in Colombo; Writing by Jason Szep; Editing by John Mair and Michael Perry)
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Linda Darlene Monday Blair, 48, of Oak Ridge, passed away Dec. 26, 2012, at Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge.
Linda Darlene Monday Blair, 48, of Oak Ridge, passed away Dec. 26, 2012, at Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge.
She was born in Oak Ridge on March 25, 1964, to Russell Monday, (now deceased) and Reba Sharp Monday. She was of the Baptist faith and a resident assistant at Continuum Courtyards. She belonged to the Clinton Riding Club and the Volunteer Riding Association. She loved barrel racing, horses and flowers.
Besides her father, she was also preceded in death by sisters, Mary Ann and Debbie Johnson.
Her survivors include her mother, Reba Monday of Clinton; son, Gary Monday and his wife, Tamara, of Clinton; daughter, Toni Blair of Harriman; brother Donald Knight and his wife, Carol, of Clinton; sisters, Brenda Roach of Clinton and Sheila McClure and husband, Joseph, of Kingston; and grandchildren, Jayme and Carly Monday.
The funeral will be held at 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 28, 2012, at Martin Oak Ridge Funeral Home with the Rev. Randy Griffis officiating.
Interment will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012, at Anderson Memorial Gardens.
The family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m. prior to the service.
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Monday, April 07, 2008
New piece in the New York Times
25 comments:
- Lindsay said...
Good article.
My mother-in-law and i have had conversations about this very thing. My husband (her eldest son) was born dead. They worked on him for several minutes, to no avail. Just after they'd finished writing out his death certificate, he started moving on his own. She definitely feels that the events of his birth had a profound impact on how she's related to him (and reacted to situations involving him) for the majority of his life.
- 4/07/2008
Absolutely true article. My daughter needed open-heart surgery shortly after birth; and took months to recover properly. Between that and the earlier miscarriages I had, I react intensely to the fragility of life. She's seven now, and perfectly healthy.
And you are correct about survival mode too; you just deal with the moment. My husband was very ill the last two years, and my mother made a comment about how she would just have collapsed. I know my mother well enough to know that wasn't true, but she hasn't been through it and doesn't know her own resources. You simply focus on what needs to be done now. Personally, I also cope by obsessively collecting information via the net on whatever the problem is. Knowledge is power. Knowledge is (the illusion of) control. Sometimes illusions are necessary.
- 4/07/2008
Harriet--this is exactly how I feel (only written much more beautifully than I could ever hope to) My husband wonders why I can't "get over it" and yet I wonder how to do something productive with the anguished energy this illness caused for my daughter, for my whole family and me. And mostly I hope to keep others from suffering the way my daughter (and our whole family) did. You are a great writer--thank you
ps what CAN we do about the awful links the NY times puts in their articles about anorexia--no mention of biological/genetic roots--still all about soical and family issues?
- 4/08/2008
i got shivers reading that. you write so beautifully.
my husband and i don't live in the u.s., and parents here are *so* lax with safety. example A, there are these little two-wheeled wooden bikes that are popular for toddlers. they have no pedals and no brakes -- the kids just scoot along with their feet and then coast when they get up enough speed. i've never seen training wheels here, just those little wooden death machines. they're supposed to be better for teaching balance. and fine, if you're just scooting along on flat ground, okay, but i regularly see kids flying down long, steep hills with the parents walking casually behind them. it's unbelievable. i already foresee myself being the one neurotic mother in the playgroup in a few years, whenever we have kids.
- 4/08/2008
Thank you.
- 4/08/2008
- mary said...
This really hit home with me Harriet and I know with many others. Really touched us where we live. thank you
- 4/08/2008
- Maureen said...
my son, now 24, was diagnosed with Kawasaki's when he was 18 months old. In the end, he had 4 coronary aneurysms. I was 29 at the time and quite overwhelmed by the severity of the illness in my previously sturdy and delightful baby, and by all the doctors, who disagreed with each other about whether to operate. In the end we didn't, and he's fine, but it was long slog; the last appointment with the cardiologist was the day my son registered for high school. I became clinically depressed during this time, and how well I remember those post-tramatic episodes, when the acute phase was over and everything seemed to be fine, and I'd wake up in the middle of the night, weeping. I lost a lot of weight; my marriage broke up. Really wish I'd seen this article back then. My son is extremely healthy now, an athlete. I know he never thinks about Kawasaki's -- but I do. What a nightmare. Good luck with your girls. Thanks for the article.
- 4/08/2008
Thanks for writing this Harriet.
- 4/08/2008
- Karen said...
I had always wondered what a "normal" reaction to seeing your child close to death was; my parents reacted to my suicidal depression with denial and blamed me for being selfish and demanding too much attention.
I really needed to know that most parents will actually face it when they look their child's death in the face. Thank you.
- 4/08/2008
- wellroundedtype2 said...
Beautiful article.
I think it's healthy to process the fear, guilt, anger and worry after the fact. Just because everyone is okay at the moment, doesn't mean you FEEL okay.
I think that during those intensely difficult times, thoughts and feelings get mired in the stress-hormone soup we have coursing through our bodies, and sometimes little things re-trigger those thoughts/feelings (I guess that's PTSD) -- it's entirely understandable that you couldn't go back to the way things were before, emotionally speaking.
Thank you for this blog, and for the link, and for sharing your life with the world.
- 4/08/2008
- Tracy said...
Thank you, Harriet. That we seek each other out, even without discussing what brought us to where we are now, is the thing that sticks with me in my life-beyond-near-death-of-a-child. Yet again, I hear that I am not alone; always a nice thing to hear.
- 4/08/2008
- Harriet said...
I wish I knew what to do about the Times' links. They stink, I agree. There is nothing I can say about it, alas.
hotsauce, It's a funny thing about being the neurotic mother. I was that before either kid got sick. I remember one dad who used to ride his 8 year old on his handlebars every morning to the camp bus stop (sans helmet, needless to say). One day she fell off, hit her head, and was knocked unconscious. It was all I could not to say "I told you so!" (I did restrain myself, fortunately.) Mostly though I envy those non-neurotic parents, because mostly things do not go wrong, and it's much more fun to lighten up about such worries.
Maureen, thanks for sharing about the kawasaki. I know virtually no one else whose child had this disease. It's so good to hear that despite the aneurysms your son is fine now. My daughter gets sick so much more easily now than she did before, 4 years post KD, and I worry about what means down the line.
Thank you to all of you for writing and sharing your feelings and experiences. I write so as not to feel alone, and so that others don't have to feel alone. It's good when that feeling of community happens.
- 4/08/2008
Wow----your article in the NYT made me cry because it validates my own experience to a tee. When you've been at the very edge with your child, life is never quite the same. After the sudden and unexpected loss of my 46 yr old husband, our fragile 14 year old daughter, even with immediate help and counseling, went into a downward spiral of self-destruction. She made serious attempts at killing herself several times, including throwing herself out of the car when I was driving.After several hospitalizations, she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
The next decade was another terrifying rollercoaster ride of different medications, relapses, non-compliance, etc. She turned 25 this past January and is doing well and working full time for a wonderful organization. That she is alive today is still a miracle of sorts. I'm proud of her courage, perseverance and strength in the face of so much loss.
I've been dealing with similar PTSD sx for several years and have worked with a wonderful therapist. I've come a long way, too, but before I ran across your article, I had sent a long email to my sister about my endless worrying---and gosh, why would I be like this when my daughter has recently had many successes???! Well, your poignant words and personal experience gave me an answer. "Stop worrying and enjoy!" is still very often hard to embrace, especially when the illness is chronic. That illusion of safety and control was indeed lost forever.Thank you for your comforting words of validation. I don't feel so weird now! I wish I could give you a hug in person---but I can't so please consider yourself hugged by a very grateful mother. ~~Nancy
- 4/08/2008
- Shari said...
Thank you so much for this article. My daughter nearly died at 2 weeks choking on spit up while sleeping on her back, but thanks to that wonderful blue syringe thing they give you to suck mucous out of an infants mouth/nose and some great paramedics we were able to save her. She wore a monitor until she was 9 months old so we could see if her breathing would stop or another problem would develop which was nerve wracking in itself. Today she is a happy 6 year old with asthma and doing fine, however, I still need to be able to hear her breathe at night and find myself sleeping in her room to make sure she is really okay. I hope to grow out of this someday, but I still get panic attacks and when she is having an asthma attack it brings it all back. It's nice to know I'm not alone because people do thing I should just forget about it, but I guess they weren't there when I was holding that almost lifeless little bundle in my arms and hoping that I was doing the right thing to try and get her breathing again. Anyway, I just wanted to say thanks for a great article.
- 4/08/2008
- Harriet said...
Wow--thank you both for sharing your stories.
You wouldn't believe the stories I've heard today. If I didn't already have PTSD I might be developing it now, because there are so many ways for things to go wrong with our children. . . .
But it's always good to know that other people feel the same way.
- 4/08/2008
- Mrs. B said...
You are an amazing writer. I read your article and had all day to think about it. We lost our first daughter, had 2 miscarriages and have a daughter dealing with anorexia now. I remember when Ashley died just going through the motions for a while(6 weeks or more). Then having two miscarriages in a year. When we finially brought our oldest home-- I wa severy fearful and over protective. Then came number two--17 months later. I got over that ok. Now you just want to go back to to the overprotective stage again. Thanks for putiing into words exactly how I felt.
- 4/08/2008
- Beth said...
I was on the Metro North (Chappaqua to NYC) returning from work, reading your piece in the Times and time stopped. And I stopped reading to stare out the window at the bare, but budding landscape. My heart went out to you -- and was also flooded with the memory of my daughter, at six years old, almost 20 years ago, who stopped eating and was hospitalized for 6 weeks. I haven't slept normally since. I, too, felt what I came to call post-traumatic stress disorder. No, you don't get over it. But you do, eventually move on and find a way to be happy again -- even if sleep is still elusive.
- 4/08/2008
- Erin said...
Thank you - finally, I have found someone who understands. Still - I am actually not a parent who almost lost a child, I am a 25 year old women who almost lost her mother. During the ordeal (stage 3 cancer), I was pretty strong - but when it was finally all over, every last bit of chemo and radiation, I began to have the same symptoms that you describe. We never expect to have something like this happen to your children (or in my case, my rather young mother), but what I never expected was what happened afterwords. Your article is exceptional in capturing this issue.
- 4/08/2008
- Harriet said...
I'm so honored in having you offer your stories so eloquently. Thank *you.*
- 4/09/2008
For me your article was such an eye opener. My son was 9 months when he was diagnosed and treated for KD.. it was his first illness, first fever, and it rocked my world. They diagnosed me with Postpartum depression when I apparently had a harder time recovering than he did. When my 2nd child was born, at 39 weeks, weighing just under 5 lbs, I immediately went straight back to that dark place. Once again diagnosed with PPD I have been struggling with these feelings that I call "the bottom is about to DROP OUT" now for about 5 months. Your article opened my eyes and made me really see why I feel this way. I can't thank you enough.
- 4/09/2008
- Maryanne Stroud Gabbani said...
Thank you for giving me the words to understand how I was living for the five years after my husband's death. I found myself the sole support of my minor children (19 and 16 years old) and the executor of his complex estate of companies but without a penny to support us in a country that puts people into prison for debt, Egypt. It all worked out in the end, thank heaven, but it was five years in hell that I survived in that "extended present tense." I only now am starting to feel again and it is with the utmost of caution.
Amazing how the words help to frame our experience and to give us a handle with which to deal with our reality. Thank you again.
- 4/10/2008
We nearly lost our college age son from a severe bout of Crohn's disease leaving him in the surgical ICU for nearly 3 months. His recuperation included weaning off a trach and learning how to walk and talk again. Thankfully he was able to return to university, graduate and be working in his chosen field. I count our blessings every minute, realizing how fragile life is. Thank you for writing such a poignant piece. To this day ( seven years later) I remain forever grateful to a little good medicine along with lots of prayers and hope. Thanks for telling your story and for allowing me not to feel alone.
- 4/12/2008
- Harriet said...
Thank *you* for sharing your story. I'm so glad your son is doing well now.
- 4/13/2008
My 19 year old daughter was paralyzed in a skiing accident. When I see girls her age walk down the street hand in hand with their boyfriends or tossing a frisby, a profound wave of sadness sometimes passes over me. I cannot freely enjoy activities I used to, because I remember that she cannot. And, close as we are, I cannot let her know how I am affected, because that would cause HER pain. I feel like I live in a terrible, secret world. Although I laugh, love and enjoy life, I know that I will never be the same.
- 4/13/2008
- Harriet said...
oh anonymous, I can imagine only too well. I am so so sorry. You're right--you won't be the same. But I do believe things will get better. Have you ever seen the show Joan of Arcadia? You might be interested. One of the characters is an 18 year old boy who's paralyzed in a car accident. There are several episodes focusing on how the family copes. I wonder what you'd think of them.
- 4/13/2008