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- Bold textThe comments that keep getting 'chucked' out are from Eugene Bird's book 'THE LONELIEST MAN IN THE WORLD'!! And are absolutely relevant to the quotes on this page............
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There is some context inferred, but it is plainly insufficient to make these comments stand as something clearly about Hess. These quotations by Bird might perhaps be extended to provide more indications of context, but it would probably be better to add some simple and clear quotations from Bird's book as to what the commotions were all about, rather than how Bird or others reacted to them. ~ Kalki 09:29, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
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This time of year, we're all bombarded with advice about love and relationships. For those of us who've joined the ranks of the divorced, the annual onslaught of Valentine's Day advertising and content can be particularly rankling — and not necessarily because we're sad to be single or resentful of happy couples. What I find offensive — and even dangerous — are the magazines and blogs filled with articles on how to "divorce-proof" your marriage or that refer to marriages that have ended in divorce as "failures."
What bothers me the most is the notion that a marriage that ends in divorce instead of death is by definition a failure, implying that somehow the entire marriage no longer counts.
The notion that there was some way I could have "divorce-proofed" my marriage if I had just followed a 12-step program or we had worked harder at romance via date nights and weekend getaways demeans the work we did as a couple — not to mention, it hypersimplifies the complicated dance of living in a partnership with another human being. Worse, it projects a sense of blame — and shame — on those of us who've decided to end a marriage, as if we just were too lazy to do our homework and study.
The notion also trivializes the reasons marriages fall apart. Yes, lack of connection, poor communication, not making enough time for each other and all the other cliché explanations are often at play as a marriage dissolves — but they are often as much symptoms as they are causes.
Which is why these messages about how to "save" a marriage from defeat are not merely callous but also outright damaging. Encouraging people to stay in struggling marriages for the wrong reasons is not the best thing for any of the people involved, and leaving a marriage is hard enough without the addition of social pressure and reproach.
But perhaps what bothers me the most is the notion that a marriage that ends in divorce instead of death is by definition a failure, implying that somehow the entire marriage no longer counts. You wouldn't call someone who switched careers midstream a "failed" engineer. You don't call two buddies who fall in love and get married "failed" friends.
Relationships change; that doesn't mean they failed or, often, that they even actually ended. (Ask me about the time I got a drink with my ex last week or how often we call each other to good-naturedly vent about one of the kids.)
The problem with looking at divorce as failure is that it both erases all of what came before the dissolution of the marriage and sets up our future interactions (and how our children process them) to be that much more antagonistic. Instead, we would all do better to work to strengthen a marriage while it's part of our present and celebrate its successes if it becomes a thing of the past.
I married my college boyfriend at the age of 20, and we were together until I was 39 — nearly my entire adult life. We have five children, which means that together, we sat up worried with sick little ones for dozens of hours, tag-teamed night wakings for hundreds of weeks and, between us, changed about 35,000 diapers. We chased his career opportunities around the country and traveled frequently for mine and somehow managed to watch all 11 seasons of "The X-Files" and all six seasons of "Lost" — twice. We laughed (often) and vacationed (somewhat less often).
The fact that our marriage officially ended two years ago sometimes leads me to question whether we were just fooling ourselves — maybe it was all a sham. But when I look at our day-to-day lives, I know it wasn't. Were we as fun as we seemed? Actually, yes. Did we enjoy each other's company to the end? Also yes. Was our public-facing, cheerful, collaborative approach to raising a houseful of young kids really how it played out behind closed doors? Yep.
Were we particularly well-suited to be each other's forever partners in the "business of life" — seeing those same kids through college and beyond, seeing each other into retirement and beyond? It would seem not. But that doesn't mean it was all a waste and that the good memories can't be cherished. It just means that the success of the marriage was time-limited — in our case, to 19 years.
Maybe if my ex and I had taken the advice in those "5 Ways to Divorce-Proof Your Marriage" articles, I'd still be married right now. Who knows? When you're in the thick of it, no number of date nights, therapy sessions or communication tools seem like the answer, and when you're on the other side of it, second-guessing is useless.
Almost nobody vows to stay partnered with someone until they die unless they really mean it. Yet sometimes, when faced with the choice of continuing to slog and suffer versus bringing something to its natural conclusion, the choice seems not only clear but also unavoidable. As a therapist once told me: "When you get married, it's like you create an unspoken contract. Every now and then, one of you renegotiates the contract, and sometimes you can't agree."
In December, I, like many other divorcées who thought it would be a good idea to punish ourselves by watching a movie about a marriage breaking up at Christmastime, sobbed my way through "Marriage Story" on Netflix. The lawyer scenes made me nod with recognition, cringe and occasionally tense up with rage, but the most compelling interludes were the little moments of cooperation and tenderness between Charlie, played by Adam Driver, and Nicole, played by Scarlett Johansson, even in the midst of the proceedings.
Those moments rang as true to my experience as the uglier scenes in the courtroom and, to me, represented a kind of success: You can still tap into your humanity in the face of unbelievable stress, and there is still a relationship to be salvaged, even if the marriage goes away. Moreover, you don't do it just "for the kids" — you do it for yourselves, too. It's simply better to be in a positive relationship with a person you care about than one that's resentful and contentious — even if, initially, finding that positivity is difficult. (Sometimes incredibly so.)
During one exchange in "Marriage Story," Charlie's good-hearted lawyer Bert, played by Alan Alda, says, "I want you to know that eventually this will all be over." He's talking about the divorce proceedings, but really, he could be talking about anything in life. Childhood. Illness. A vacation. A stressful period at work.
We would all do better to work to strengthen a marriage while it's part of our present and celebrate its successes if it becomes a thing of the past.
Whether it ends in death or — nearly as likely — divorce, every marriage will end, and there are a lot of ways we can make that end more healthy and more human and keep open the possibility that two people who once loved each other enough to vow to stay together forever can probably, under the right circumstances, find a way to renegotiate that relationship into something positive.
I think it starts with taking the focus off "not divorcing" in the first place. Married people should spend time together and communicate well — not because it will shield them from the pain and hassle of a divorce later but because it will make the here and now better. A marriage that ends most likely still has parts worth celebrating in it. So I prefer to view the fact that I was married for 19 productive years as a success, rather than fixating on the "failure" of that marriage's end.


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I love hotels. I breathe hotels. My tagline "passion for hotels" is not a lie. I get excited with new hotel openings. But you know what I love even more? A hotel revamp. I love these big, brash hotels from the 1960s and 1970s. Once considered as modern marvels, now often looked upon as ugly ducklings.
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The Princesa Sofia Hotel was for some years Barcelona's InterContinental Hotel and for some years the Gran Hotel Princesa Sofia. Now, after a major revamp it is called just "Sofia" or to use the proper Spanish spelling "Sofía". After all she is not a princess anymore, but a queen. Or it is political, this being Catalonia they are not that much into the Spanish royal family or it is her conservative statements. Or not all and it is just a better name to pun on – like the hotel's new "Philosophia" café-bakery. Or actually that is the pun. Sofia joined the Unbound Collection by Hyatt Hotels.
The new Sofia is designed by Jaime Beriestain, a name familiar to many hotels on the DNA Hotels pages. Chilean-born and Barcelona resident Beriestain designed The One hotel in Barcelona, Room Mate Gerard in Barcelona, Vincci Mae and Vincci Bit in Barcelona, Vincci The Mint in Madrid and his first hotel revamp (2001): Hilton Diagonal Barcelona. Beriestain is also the "house designer" of the new Austrian upscale chain Almanac, which first property opened last year in Barcelona and with a Vienna outpost coming up in 2019.
December 2017 saw the finish of the much needed overhaul of the 1987 Jardin Tropical Hotel on the island of Tenerife to complement its Arabian-influenced architecture and spectacular gardens. 2018 will see the openings of The One Lisbon, and the Hotel Paseo de Gracia Barcelona.
The Sofia's parent company, the Selenta Group also owns the Gran Hotel Catalunya (1970) which they are transforming into the Nobu Hotel Barcelona with the famous restaurant chain opening on top of the hotel 23rd floor. Now hope they will let Beriestain revamp another iconic asset of them, the Hotel Don Carlos in Marbella, also in need of a major overhaul. Fingers crossed…


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Henry and the Malcontents, Chapter 8
The two were walking hurriedly through a shiny hallway in an apartment building, Mike's hoof beats loud like applause on the scratched floor, Luna taking an extra hop every minute or so, struggling to keep up with her friend. She was breathless and rushed and a little bit bewildered, and almost frightened by the poorly-concealed hostility with which passing strangers viewed her friend. She realized suddenly what an odd pair they must make, the soft-eyed child in an old-fashioned dress and the mohawked centaur with his perpetual grimace.
They stopped to look again at the illegible handwriting on the smudged piece of paper that Luna clasped with a sweaty hand.
"Ask someone. Ask him," she urged in a whisper, jerking her head in the direction of a heavy-set, middle-aged man with rattling keys, coming in their direction. Mike shook his head, then looked at the useless directions again, then shrugged.
"Hey," he muttered, then said again louder, when the man did not look up: "Hey!"
The man nearly jumped. "What do you want?" he hissed irritably.
"Do you know where Asher Levhi lives?" asked Luna, unable to keep the pleading from her voice.
The man stared flatly. "The crazy boy? What do you want with him?"
I don't know myself, Luna thought, her throat filled with anxiety. Mike shrugged again.
"Room 205," the man said finally, after waiting vainly for a response.
Luna thanked him softly and hurried after Mike, who was already making his way down the hall.
The door of Room 205, like the doors of all the other apartments in the complex, was painted a sickly shade of mauve, with bright gold numbers. Mike knocked, then waited, then knocked again. Luna felt the silence growing and closed her eyes, swallowing.
"Ash," called Mike softly.
"Maybe he's not at home?" she asked hopefully.
The centaur shook his head and knocked again. Luna held her breath and counted five...twenty…fifty. A minute, then two minutes, passed without a sound, then she heard something and tensed again.
It was a creaking, like a door opening. But it was not that, Luna felt sure. There was something in it that she could not recognize. Mike heard and grimaced, and took a key from the pocket of his black jacket.
The door opened on a tiny room with words scrawled all over the walls in black paint, words that looked like they were born and fashioned in hatred, and that were too mangled for Luna to decipher. The furniture, which was scarce and mostly of the nondescript kind that comes with a furnished apartment, was tossed about haphazardly—a table on its side, a chair with two legs broken, marbles from an inoffensive centerpiece still rolling on the floor. The plain beige curtains had been ripped from their rods, and their shredded remnants stirred helplessly before broken windows.
In the midst of the wreckage stood a tree, its reality inescapable as it was inexplicable.
"Hey, Ash," Mike said softly. "I brought someone for you to see."
"Who are you talking to, Mike?" Luna almost squeaked.
He took her hand and led her wordlessly to the tree. Luna saw there were two narrow slits, scar-like, in its bark, from which water trickled steadily. The leaves rustled unexpectedly, and she watched blankly as the slits grew larger and longer, then began opening slowly. They revealed man's eyes, green and white and murky, that looked straight into her own. She was riveted.
Luna was so captured by the eyes that she had not seen the bark below them parting to form an immobile mouth, merely a gash in the wood.
"Mike," she cried.
"Ash, you there?" he asked, not looking at her.
Luna realized all in a flash that the water coming from the tree's eyes was tears. She smiled shakily at what she now knew was Asher Levhi, musician and revolutionary, Mike's friend.
The tree stirred again, its bark seeming ever so gradually to change, its branches almost imperceptibly shrinking, its crude features seeming more and more like a face. The corners of the gash that was its mouth twisted painfully.
She watched in wonder as the tree became an man or boy of about twenty years, with very long, very pale hair course as if there were twigs in it, light green eyes set in a face that was at once delicate and wooden, and long hands whose many fingers—seven or eight to each—seemed to have either no joints or too many. These hands, his immense stature, and the curious texture of his hair and skin loudly proclaimed him to be a hamadryad, and yet he was human, with his fierce reddened eyes fixed unblinkingly on Luna's.
"What happened?" Mike asked, closer to hesitating than Luna had ever seen him.
"She's so small," said the hamadryad, as if that were a valid response to the centaur's question. His voice was low and breathy and somewhat hoarse. Luna felt the pressure of his eyes and realized, suddenly, how true it was. She was very, very small, and young, and helpless in that furious room. She had wondered, nervously, why Mike was bringing her to meet this dangerous friend whom Wryre disapproved of, Immer didn't know about, Otis mocked, and Gabe spoke of only in his quietest tones. Now, as all three of them stood quiet and tense in the wreckage, the thought came that she was here to be eaten.
"Tell her about our work anyway," said Mike gruffly. And so Luna's connection with the
darker side of the revolution began.
Zael was mid-sentence when he felt the compulsions coming from far away and fell into silence. All that was left to do was to let the odd accustomed stillness crowd out his communicable thoughts and to wonder what shape the compulsions would take this time.
It might be more important to know how the others would respond, but he let that consideration slide. These people whom he rode the train with every Saturday morning and returned with every Sunday evening, these glassy-eyed, quiet people with their minds wrapped in newspapers and winter scarves and discontentment, who regarded him with a sort of half-affectionate, half-repulsed patience—what were they and their responses to him?
He had never worried much about people's responses. The neighbors had been confused when he marched around and around his house, rapping each window twice; when he counted aloud as he walked, retracing his steps whenever he lost count; when he ran outside twenty times a night to scream at the moon. Some of them had been frightened, and averted their eyes, even when he was normal; others felt all the aversion and fascination one does feel about odd folks, and whispered to each other about the little pale boy. Some were concerned. "Is he sick?" they asked Tessa, their voices high with kindliness. "Have you talked to anyone about it?" And Tessa turned an innocent doll's face to them and pointed to the small black-and-white child curled up peacefully with a book, and wondered what made them think anything was wrong? They always backed down.
Despite her ever-increasing care that the neighbors should not know, or not officially know, of the boy's problem, Tessa had for the most part not responded in a troublesome way. She did, sometimes, allow her annoyance to show—perhaps he would awake her in the latest part of the night to help him open all the windows, and she would look at him out of sweet wide eyes like miniature heavens and, casting about for the direst of names, call him an imp, a changeling, a cambion. Even then, however, small though he was, Zael was neither disturbed, nor more inclined to explain his unusual behavior. After all, unlike the neighbors' gossip or fear or curiosity, Tessa's occasional resentment was an emotion he could understand. And besides, he reflected candidly, he really was a sort of cambion.
They moved from that neighborhood when Zael was four years old, then again when he was seven, then when he was nine, and again when he was ten (that was the neighborhood where he took to speaking only in rhyme). By this time he had learned to control himself better, and his fits of compulsive behavior were less frequent, though they were often odder and less explicable when they did come. Also by this time, however, Zael's disregard and rather biting sense of humor had developed to a disturbing degree, and Tessa began to worry. In her early thirties, she was still a doll-faced woman, the blood in her cheeks delicately blooming close to the surface, with rich, warm chestnut hair. The neighbors got no end of amusement out of contrasting the Wintras: Tessamy, gently vibrant and Zael, starkly black-and-white, with his curiously shimmering eyes; she, soft-spoken and modestly witty and he, volatile and seemingly reckless. They were alike just below the surface, though, selfish and clear-eyed and calmly calculating, and they shared a tacit but mutual agreement that neither would meddle with the other's small world unless it was necessary. So the mother and son got along pretty well until Tessa decided to remarry and Zael, at eleven years, was sent to a boarding school in the capitol. Zael did not mind, as Tessa had known he would not.
He almost always hid the compulsive fits when they came now, not because he feared what others would think, but because it had become a habit with him. It was almost with a sense of relief that he found himself irresistibly drawn to counting the tiles on the curved walls of the subway tunnels, and knew his fellow-passengers had nothing too unusual to fear from him today.
Thanks for publishing it,
Thanks for publishing it, James!
The dark side...... And, another dimension to Zael just when I thought he could not possibly become more interesting.
This story is so, so, so original! And well-written. You leave me hungry for more every single time! If I had this as a whole book in front of me, it would become one of those "one more chapter..." books where you tell yourself you're going to stop and go to bed but then you don't. (The best sort.)
Thank you, Hannah W. :) That
Thank you, Hannah W. :) That is verily one of the highest compliments I've ever received.--I know those books very well, and would love to think I could write one.
love love love this story!
I'm pretty new here, and I was randomly looking at people's pages, and I started reading your story and couldn't stop! It's really really good, very original and captivating. You're a very talented writer and I hope you post more of this soon!! please!
Don't know why I forgot to respond earlier...
Thank you very much, Renee! I hope to post more soon, though a combination of procrastination and loads of schoolwork might prevent that. Also belatedly, welcome to Apricotpie!


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LBI Media Partners With Children's Miracle Network Hospitals® For Third Consecutive Year To Raise Funds During Two-Day Radiothon
— Spanish language radio group in Houston and Dallas to host a two-day radiothon to raise funds for national non-profit organization benefiting the top children's hospitals in Houston and Dallas —
BURBANK, CA – March 23, 2017 – (HISPANICIZE WIRE) – LBI Media, the fastest growing, minority owned Spanish language broadcasting company in the U.S. announced today that it will partner for a third consecutive year with Children's Miracle Network Hospitals® to raise funds via simultaneous radiothons in both Houston and Dallas on March 30-31, 2017.
Since 2015, LBI Media's KTJM-FM 98.5 "La Raza" and KQQK-FM 107.9 "El Norte" in Houston, Texas have raised close to $1 million from over 2,700 Hispanic radio listeners for the charitable organization. For the past two years, during a two-day radiothon, LBI Media's radio station DJ's and personalities have committed to use their time, talent and the power of their radio platform to create awareness for critical treatments and healthcare services, pediatric medical equipment and charitable care for underserved, low income children who require critical medical attention. The money raised will continue to benefit the Texas Children's Hospital in Houston.
"Our audience has responded with an incredible and record-breaking outpouring of support. When we began this effort, we really did not know what to expect. We all knew of the benefits and services that Texas Children's Hospital provided to our local Hispanic community, but we were unsure as to the financial commitment that our listeners would make. Needless to say, we are grateful for the generosity of our community and the hard work of our entire team here at LBI Media," stated Benny Herzog, manager, national radio sales, LBI Media, based in Houston.
In 2017, LBI Media will add its Dallas radio stations KNOR-FM 93.7 "La Raza," KBOC-FM 98.3 "Luna" to be part of this two-day radiothon. The radiothons in both markets will be held from March 30th to the 31st and will air uninterrupted from 5 AM to 7 PM. The funds raised locally in the Dallas market will benefit the Children's Hospital of Dallas.
"Children's Miracle Network is extremely grateful for our partnership with LBI Media and their amazing team which has gone above and beyond the call of duty to ensure that these events are maximized to their full potential. La Raza and El Norte in Houston have excelled in their fundraising effort and in ensuring that the great work and services that Texas Children's Hospital offers their community continues. We are excited about the addition of the Dallas stations and are confident that similar results will be produced," stated Danny Garcia, strategic Hispanic media director, Children's Miracle Network.
Children's Miracle Network Hospitals® raises funds and awareness for 170 member hospitals that provide 32 million treatments each year to children across the U.S. and Canada. Since 1983, Children's Miracle Network Hospitals® has raised more than $5 billion, most of it $1 at a time through the charity's Miracle Balloon icon. Its various fundraising partners and programs support the nonprofit's mission to save and improve the lives of as many children as possible.
About LBI Media, Inc.
LBI Media, Inc., is the largest privately held, minority-owned Spanish-language broadcaster in the United States, with ten television stations and seventeen radio stations operating in top U.S. Hispanic markets. LBI Media, Inc. is the parent company to the Estrella TV Network, Don Cheto Radio Network, Fenomeno Studios MCN, Que Buena Radio and La Raza Radio. The company produces over 50 hours of original television programming at its Burbank Television Studios each week. The Estrella TV programming catalog consists of over 7,500 hours of original, Spanish-language television programming in genres including talk, drama, comedy, variety, reality, music and more. To learn more about LBI Media and see company updates, please visit www.lbimedia.com.
About Children's Miracle Network Hospitals
Children's Miracle Network Hospitals® raises funds and awareness for 170 member hospitals that provide 32 million treatments each year to kids across the U.S. and Canada. Donations stay local to fund critical treatments and healthcare services, pediatric medical equipment and charitable care. Since 1983, Children's Miracle Network Hospitals has raised more than $5 billion, most of it $1 at a time through the charity's Miracle Balloon icon. Its various fundraising partners and programs support the nonprofit's mission to save and improve the lives of as many children as possible. Find out why children's hospitals need community support, identify your member hospital and learn how you can Put Your Money Where the Miracles Are, at CMNHospitals.org and facebook.com/CMNHospitals.


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Embrace your Unique Experience
Who you are – the world has never known – this whole (human) experience is the reason why you are here. Embrace the now – everything is here to help you evolve – Love yourself and every lesson that comes to teach you. xoxo
Suffering plays an important role in our experience… it really only exists in our mind (our 'self-identity', our 'ego' of who we think we are to the outside world) and every time it is teaching us something.
Focus on what you are grateful for, "feel" into the "appreciation" for this whole experience and everything that comes your way, and embrace the lessons you are learning and the spiritual & personal growth you are gaining from the full human experience.
This whole experience is the lesson, this whole experience is the reason why we are here. You are creating your own reality but you also bring-in certain situations in order to reach the next level of your own evolution.
Love yourself and what you are accomplishing and love the journey you are on.
Live in the now, not in the past or what hasn't come to pass.
You can create a new reality but you can't do it from a place of suffering.. use suffering as an internal 'tool' of awareness to help guide you back to what feels right, embrace, be grateful, be thankful, have appreciation for the whole journey, for the now and for what you are in the process of creating.
To get 'out' of a 'negative-feeling' lesson and move-on to the next lesson or phase you have to have already learnt what you need to learn from this current experience. We are constantly evolving, learning and growing. Who you were yesterday is not the same as the person you are today if you are becoming fully aware that this experience is 'the journey'.
Embrace the now for all that it is, all that it is helping you to see. There is teaching in every experience.
I do believe everything happens for a reason.. every suffering that I went through brought me to a deeper level of understanding in the universe.. and now I see suffering as a friend.. it is here to help me, I learn from it.. I love it for teaching me and directing me to deeper, more conscious awareness of who we are – beyond these vehicles.. that suffering is just living out of alignment to who we are.
We think we are what society tells us we are.. & when we believe that.. life 'feels wrong', like we are less-than, like we don't "measure-up" to what 'success' means through 'other' people's eyes, but when we are in alignment to who we really are.. we recognize we're all on this adventure.. this soul journey, we are here to experience "experiences" to learn & share and love.. and all & every experience is part of it.
– A message for a friend..


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The Secret Ingredient (Key Lime): Key Lime Granita with Vodka Recipe
Every month we highlight a different ingredient and share weekly recipes that showcase its uses.
More on Key Limes
Key lime pie is this Florida girl's favorite dessert. This granita version is slightly less guilt-inducing. It starts with yellow jade key lime juice, super tart, with vanilla sugar and cream for a little key lime pie something. A shot of vodka doesn't hurt.
This recipe is super tart, like a lime FrozeFruit popsicle. If you like it less strident, decrease the amount of lime juice and up the proportion of water, or add a bit more vanilla sugar to your taste.
- 1 cup key lime juice (more or less to taste)
- 1 cup water
- 1/4 cup vodka (optional)
- 1/4 cup vanilla sugar (more or less to taste)
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- To make vanilla sugar, stir together white sugar and a used vanilla bean with a fork or clean hands. The texture of the sugar rubs the last black specks from the inside of the vanilla pod. Waste not, want not.
Bring the key lime juice, water, and vodka to a boil, and add the vanilla sugar. You could add the vodka later if you wanted to keep the alcohol content.
Once the sugar has dissolved, take the mixture off the stove to cool.
Add the cream (and the vodka if you want to retain the alcohol) and decant into a brownie baking dish. Place in the freezer, and scrape with a fork once an hour for 4 hours, or until flaky and frozen in little key lime pie crystals. Serve in frozen martini glasses.


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Grandma's Old Fashioned Bread Stuffing – With Video!
A recipe for Grandma's Old Fashioned Bread Stuffing, a classic and old fashioned Thanksgiving bread dressing made with giblets, milk, turkey stock, onions, celery and herbs.
You know how you hear about people taking recipes to their grave? My husband's grandma (my grandma-in-law?) seriously did that with her Thanksgiving bread stuffing (we know we're supposed to say "dressing," but we still always call if "stuffing" even if it's not stuffed in the bird.
It was the best stuffing in the whole wide world, and I consider myself a stuffing aficionado, as it's tied with mashed potatoes for my favorite holiday food. It had a simple, comforting flavor and was toasted to perfection.
Try as we might, we never got Mary Ellen to give up the recipe. Without fail, she made it for us every year (even, sweetly, one year when she was too sick to eat Thanksgiving dinner herself).
How do you make old fashioned bread stuffing?
Knowing our time with her was getting shorter, we asked after the recipe for years, and she would only reply "well, I just soak the bread in milk, really."
That's the only detail she ever gave up! That the bread was soaked in milk. I mean, I guess it's better than no details. I thought that maybe she would write the recipe down, wrap it in a gift box and present it as a wedding present to Jeff and I, but that didn't happen.
So, ever since she passed, it's been my mission to try to recreate this recipe, even though I know it'll never be as good as hers.
How do you make traditional stuffing?
Using some educated guesses based on what Jeff's family and I can remember about the flavor of Grandma's stuffing, along with reader comments and e-mails over the last few years, I've constructed and continually revised the recipe you see below.
At this point, I think I'm *pretty* close to honoring the flavors of Mary Ellen's stuffing, but I'm always open to suggestions on how to improve it. So far, the ingredients I've been able to figure out are as follows.
What are the ingredients in Grandma's Old Fashioned Bread Stuffing?
- Giblets from 1 turkey (except the neck) (these are optional but add a ton of flavor)
- Whole milk
- Hearty white sliced bread
- Eggs
- Unseasoned cubed stuffing (the dried cubes in a bag)
- Turkey stock
- Butter
- Cooking spray
- Onion
- Celery
- Garlic
- Salt and pepper
- Poultry seasoning
- Dried sage
Does your family have a stuffing or dressing recipe similar to Mary Ellen's? I'd love to hear about it in the comments below!
P.S. These photos were taken during one of my early attempt's at recreating Grandma's stuffing. I think I added too much liquid on that try, and the stuffing came out kind of dense. I've since improved and updated the recipe to be way better. Don't judge this recipe by these photos, please 🙂
Grandma's Old Fashioned Bread Stuffing
A recipe for Grandma's Old Fashioned Bread Stuffing, a classic and old fashioned Thanksgiving bread dressing made with giblets, milk, turkey stock, onions, celery and herbs.
- Giblets from 1 turkey (except the neck) (optional)
- 1-1/4 cups whole milk plus 1 additional cup if using giblets, divided
- 1 loaf (24 ounces) hearty white sliced bread, torn into small pieces
- 2 eggs
- 1 bag (12 ounces) unseasoned cubed stuffing (the dried cubes in a bag)
- 3 cups turkey stock, plus additional if necessary
- 10 tablespoons unsalted butter, divided
- Nonstick cooking spray
- 1 medium white onion, finely chopped
- 1-1/2 cups finely chopped celery
- 1 teaspoon minced garlic
- Kosher salt and ground black pepper
- 2 teaspoons poultry seasoning
- 1-1/2 teaspoons dried sage
- If using giblets, place giblets and 1 cup milk in medium bowl. Let stand at room temperature at least 15 minutes.
- Meanwhile, preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Divide torn white bread between 2 rimmed baking pans. Transfer to oven and bake 12 to 15 minutes or until crisp. Set toasted bread aside; leave oven on at 350 degrees F.
- Meanwhile, place eggs in large bowl and whisk until smooth. Add cubed stuffing, stock and remaining 1-1/4 cups milk; toss to combine.
- Melt 8 tablespoons butter in small pot or microwave-safe dish.
- Spray large baking dish with cooking spray. If using giblets, proceed with Step 6 and then 8-9. If NOT using giblets, proceed with Steps 7-9.
- If using giblets, remove giblets from milk; discard milk. Finely chop giblets. Heat remaining 2 tablespoons butter in large skillet over medium-high heat. Add chopped giblets and cook 3 minutes, stirring frequently. Add onion, celery and garlic; season with salt and pepper. Cook 5 to 7 minutes or until vegetables are softened, stirring occasionally. Add poultry seasoning and sage; cook 1 minute, stirring constantly.
- If not using giblets, heat remaining 2 tablespoons butter in large skillet over medium-high heat. Add onion, celery and garlic; season with salt and pepper. Cook 5 to 7 minutes or until vegetables are softened, stirring occasionally. Add poultry seasoning and sage; cook 1 minute, stirring constantly.
- Add toasted white bread, melted butter and onion mixture to bowl with cubed stuffing and milk. Toss until well combined. If mixture seems dry, add additional stock 1/2 cup at a time. Taste for seasoning; adjust with additional salt and pepper if necessary.
- Transfer mixture to prepared baking dish and cover with foil. Transfer to oven and bake 30 minutes. Remove foil; bake 15 minutes longer or until top of stuffing is golden brown.
- Autumn Celebration Rice Salad – a colorful and elegant side dish.
- Lemon & Maple Glazed Roasted Brussels Sprouts – don't forget your veggies!
- Spiced Sweet Potato Rolls with Bourbon Honey Butter – show your family how much you love them with homemade rolls.
- Creamy Garlic Mushrooms from Cakes Cottage


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Lutein and Zeaxanthin Found to Help Improve Cognitive Function
Fifty-nine healthy people between the ages of 18 and 25 participated in the study. Participants took a supplement containing 10.86 mg of lutein and 2.27 mg of zeaxanthin, 22.33 mg of lutein and 4.70 mg of zeaxanthin or a placebo daily for 6 months. The researchers measured the concentration of lutein and zeaxanthin in the retina and serum concentrations of brain-derived neurotrophic factor and antioxidant capacity at baseline and at the end of the study. Cognitive performance was assessed via a computer-based assessment tool.
Brain-derived neurotrophic factor and antioxidant capacity increased significantly in both supplement groups. Scores for composite memory, verbal memory, sustained attention, psychomotor speed, and processing speed also improved significantly in both supplement groups and remained unchanged in the placebo group.
The study was conducted by researchers from the University of Georgia. It was published online ahead of print on August 16, 2019 in the journal Physiology & Behavior.


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Bay City Western High School coach Chris Watz's description of Matt Costello makes the 6-foot-9 junior sound like Tom Crean's prototype for a power forward.
Costello, who was recently offered a scholarship by the Hoosiers, is adding bulk to his 210-pound frame to become more of a post presence, but he also has a strong step-out game. According to Watz, Costello averaged just under 17 points per game for Bay City, around 12 rebounds and close to four assists.
"Matt can run the three for me," Watz said. "He runs the floor fantastic. He can stop and hit threes. In certain matchups, we can throw him in the post. He can play pretty fluently at the 3-4-or 5 for me. It depends on the matchups we have and what we want to do with it."
At the next level, though, Watz sees Costello as a face-up power forward.
"I think he can be a four a guy maybe who can pop out hit 15 to 17 foot shot if not a 3-pointer," he said. "He's one of our better 3-point shooters on our team. I think he's just gotta get stronger."
And Watz believes Costello will. Last time he weighed in, he was around 210 pounds, but Watz calls him "a maniac," in the weight room and believes he will be significantly heavier than that by the time he's ready for college ball.
"He knows his ticket is increasing his strength," Watz said.
He also said Costello could be more assertive and more willing to take over games.
"He can work on being a little more selfish," Watz said. "He's a fantastic passer. He's a great teammate, but there are times where it's like, 'You know what? we really need to ride your coattails because we're struggling. We need you to be a little more selfish.'"
Watz said Costello has offers from Michigan and Southern California as well as Oakland (Mich.) and Cleveland State. Whoever lands him will get a well-rounded student athlete. Watz said Costello has a 3.8 grade point average and plays trumpet in the school band.


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Focusing on goal setting.
As we are approaching the end of a year and heading towards the beginning of 2017, a brand new year, many of us start reflecting on the past. We may have reached many of the goals we set for ourselves, or we may not have succeeded as well as we hoped we would. Looking back and reflecting on the goals we set ourselves earlier will help to see where we went wrong and where we succeeded. With this knowledge, we then can start mapping out a new direction or improve the one we are on.
Asking questions is a powerful way to gain new insights and perspectives in areas that you want to change or succeed.
I put together a list of 27 questions, each question has 4 sub questions to help you get a clear idea on what you want; why you want this and how to get it.
You can choose the questions resonate the most with you and focus on these, or you can focus on all of them. Some questions will overlap, but are focused just a bit different to help you probe deeper in different areas of your being.
Follow this LINK for free down loadable PDF.
1 What do I dream of becoming/achieving?
Why do I want to become/ achieve this dream? ___________________________________________
Which dream became true? ________________________________________________________
Who can help me become/achieve my dream? ___________________________________________
How do I want to become/ achieve this dream? ___________________________________________
2 What is my goal?
Why is this goal important? ______________________________________________________________________
Which skills do I need so I can reach my goal? ______________________________________________________
Who can help me with my goal? __________________________________________________________________
How do I want to reach my goal? _________________________________________________________________
3 What is my heart's desire?
Why is this my heart's desire? ____________________________________________________________________
Which part of me is my heart's desire? _____________________________________________________________
Who can help me get my heart's desire? ___________________________________________________________
How do I want to reach my heart's desire? __________________________________________________________
4 What do I want from life?
Why do I want this from life? _____________________________________________________________________
Which thing about what I want from life is the most important one? ___________________________________
Who might be able to help me? ___________________________________________________________________
How do I get what I want from life? ________________________________________________________________
5 What am I grateful for?
Why am I grateful for this? _______________________________________________________________________
Which part of this makes me grateful? _____________________________________________________________
Who makes me grateful? ________________________________________________________________________
How does this make me grateful? _________________________________________________________________
6 What makes me happy?
Why does this make me happy? __________________________________________________________________
Which makes me happy? ________________________________________________________________________
Who makes me happy? __________________________________________________________________________
How do I want to feel? ___________________________________________________________________________
7 What inspires me?
Why does this inspire me? _______________________________________________________________________
Which inspires me? _____________________________________________________________________________
Who inspires me? _______________________________________________________________________________
How does this inspire me? _______________________________________________________________________
8 What do I want to create?
Why do I want to create this? ____________________________________________________________________
Which makes me want to create? _________________________________________________________________
Who makes me want to create? ___________________________________________________________________
How do I create? ________________________________________________________________________________
9 What do I want to be?
Why do I want to be this? ________________________________________________________________________
Which makes me want to be this? _________________________________________________________________
Who makes me want to be this? __________________________________________________________________
How do I want to become this? ____________________________________________________________________
10 What is important to me?
Why is this important to me? _____________________________________________________________________
Which things are most important to me? ___________________________________________________________
Who makes me feel important? ___________________________________________________________________
How do I want the world to be different because I lived in it? _________________________________________
11 What makes me proud?
Why does this make me proud? ___________________________________________________________________
Which is it that makes me proud? _________________________________________________________________
Who makes me feel proud? ______________________________________________________________________
How do I make myself proud? ____________________________________________________________________
12 What are my good habits?
Why are these good habits? ______________________________________________________________________
Which 3 are the most important good habits? _______________________________________________________
Who supports my good habits? ___________________________________________________________________
How do I strengthen my good habits? ______________________________________________________________
13 What are my bad habits?
Why are these bad habits? ______________________________________________________________________
Which is the worst bad habit? ____________________________________________________________________
Who enforces my bad habits? ____________________________________________________________________
How do I change my bad habits? __________________________________________________________________
14 What habits do I want to change?
Why do I want to change these habits? ____________________________________________________________
Which habit do I want to change the most? ________________________________________________________
Who can help me change this habit? ______________________________________________________________
How open am I to trying new things? ______________________________________________________________
15 What habits do I want to cultivate?
Why do I want to cultivate this habit? _____________________________________________________________
Which is the best way to cultivate this habit? _______________________________________________________
Who can help me cultivate this habit? _____________________________________________________________
How can I cultivate this habit best? _______________________________________________________________
16 What am I resisting?
Why am I resisting this? _________________________________________________________________________
Which baggage can I let go? _____________________________________________________________________
Who can I forgive? ______________________________________________________________________________
How can I stop resisting? ________________________________________________________________________
17 What promise do I make to myself?
Why do I make this promise? _____________________________________________________________________
Which makes this promise important? _____________________________________________________________
Who can help me keep this promise? ______________________________________________________________
How can I keep this promise? _____________________________________________________________________
18 What lessons did you learn?
Why did I need to learn this lesson? _______________________________________________________________
Which teacher is there that can help me reach my goal? ______________________________________________
Who do I want to be like? ________________________________________________________________________
How does this lesson benefit my life? ______________________________________________________________
19 What do I want to learn?
Why do I want to learn this? _____________________________________________________________________
Which teacher can help me? ______________________________________________________________________
Who can benefit from what I learned? _____________________________________________________________
How can I learn this? ____________________________________________________________________________
20 What do you want to celebrate?
Why do you want to celebrate this? _______________________________________________________________
Which way do you want to celebrate this? _________________________________________________________
Who will celebrate with you? ____________________________________________________________________
How do you want to celebrate? ___________________________________________________________________
21 What goals do I have for my family and friends?
Why do you want these goals? ___________________________________________________________________
Which goals do you want? _______________________________________________________________________
Who do I want to spend time with? ________________________________________________________________
How do you want to spend time? _________________________________________________________________
22 What talents do I use?
Why do I use the talents? ________________________________________________________________________
Which of these talents do I like the best? ___________________________________________________________
Who can I help with these talents? ________________________________________________________________
How do I use these talents? ______________________________________________________________________
23 What is my body telling me?
Why is my body telling me this? __________________________________________________________________
Which of these are harmful? _____________________________________________________________________
Who can help me get healthy? ___________________________________________________________________
How do I best listen to my body? _________________________________________________________________
24 What do I want to own?
Why do I want to own this? ______________________________________________________________________
Which makes me want to own this? _______________________________________________________________
Who can help me own this? ______________________________________________________________________
How can I own this? _____________________________________________________________________________
25 What do you want to give yourself permission for?
Why do I want permission for this? ________________________________________________________________
Which will give me my permission? ________________________________________________________________
Who can help me? ______________________________________________________________________________
How can I get permission? ________________________________________________________________________
26 What is my financial goal?
Why is this my goal? ____________________________________________________________________________
Which is my most important financial goal? ________________________________________________________
Who can help me? ______________________________________________________________________________
How will I reach my financial goal? _______________________________________________________________
27 What is my business/work goal?
Why is this my goal? ____________________________________________________________________________
Which makes this my business/work goal? _________________________________________________________
Who can help me reach this goal? _________________________________________________________________
How do I reach this goal? ________________________________________________________________________
Choose 3-5 questions that are most important to you and that you want to set as your goals for this coming year. Start with the most important to the least important. You can add a time line if you so desire. Through the year reflect on your goals regularly and evaluate where you are in completing your goal.
To dream big
and don't let anything stop you from becoming who you want to be.
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Happy New Year!
What comes to mind as we all begin a new year? Here are mine, I would love to hear yours.
RESOLUTIONS! come on, now, even if you didn't write them down I bet you have a few
New commitments to exercise, eat right and lose some weight
New beginnings. Seems like anything is possible at the beginning of a new year.
GOALS. These are different than resolutions, they have a plan to work towards one outcome where a resolution is typically a habit to start or break that may help you to attain a goal.
Taking down the Christmas Decor and STORING
Planning Summer Vacations
Planning a Romantic Valentines weekend
Thinking about home renovations
Calendars, Planners and Notebooks…Oh my!
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Volume 5, Number 4 (2011)
Density dependent utilities with transaction costs
Eriyoti Chikodza and Julius N Esunge
Consistent price systems for bounded processes
Florian Maris, Eric Mbakop, and Hasanjan Sayit
MRM-applicable measures for the power function of the second order
Izumi Kubo, Hui-Hsiung Kuo, and Suat Namli
A martingale representation for the maximum of a Lévy process
Bruno Rémillard and Jean-François Renaud
A connection between the Poissonian Wick product and the discrete convolution
Alberto Lanconelli and Luigi Sportelli
Changes of measure and representations of the first hitting time of a Bessel process
Gerardo Hernandez-del-Valle
Intraday empirical analysis of electricity price behaviour
Eckhard Platen and Jason West


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Lakshmi Agarwal gave a very emotional speech at an TEDx event held in Jaipur last year. Her 19 minute speech had a highlight -a video about the café run by acid attack survivors – Sheroes Hangout.
We are very familiar with the word, 'heroes'. But this word, 'sheroes' is coined specially for those brave women who are real life heroes. Thus the name, Sheroes Hangout.
This café in Tajganj, Agra has two brimming highlights. One, that it is run proudly and efficiently by acid attack survivors and two, you pay what you want for what you eat there. The café has a library and is an initiative of the Stop Acid Attacks, an NGO based in Delhi. The money that the café makes goes to the aid of acid attack survivors.
Watch this documentary written directed by Sushmita Mukherjee, shot by Titly Mukherjee.
Rupa, who is an acid-attack survivor is a fashion designer. Some of her designs are put out on sale at the café for people to buy as well. Rupa's story is gruesome. She was attacked with acid by her stepmother when she was sleeping in her village in Muzzafarnagar, Uttar Pradesh. Do you know how old was she then? Just 15. Today, this woman is a walking inspiration.
Another charming woman who works at the café is Ritu. She usually takes the orders and has an amazing memory. She was 17 when acid was thrown on her face by her relatives as they wanted to hurt her family. She lost her left eyes but when you meet here you will see that she has a vision clearer than most of us.
Another beautiful lady, Neetu stands behind the counter and greets the visitor with a huge smile. How difficult would it be to have your own father throw acid on you, your mother and your baby sister? That is what happened with Neetu 20 years ago when she was only 3 years old. Her own father, threw acid at her, her mother Geeta and her baby sister Kishna who died as a result of the acid attack Neetu and her mother Geeta both work at the café.
The walls of the café are nicely done in graffiti and also hosts photos of the survivors, clicked by photographer, Rahul Saharan.
Sheroes Hangout is a place you should be in atleast once in your life. Not only will it broaden your perspective but it will also make you see the world in a different light. Five women who work at the café will inspire you beyond imagination and teach you the meaning of real beauty.
This TEDx speech by acid-attack survivor Lakhsmi Agarwal is something everyone should watch:


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Is Samsung's Decline a Bad Sign for Google's Android?
Samsung is struggling. Last month, when the Korean tech giant reported earnings, it revealed that its revenue and profits have declined sharply. Meanwhile, its smartphone market share has begun to slip.
As Google 's single largest hardware partner, and the one handset manufacturer most responsible for Android's global domination, Samsung's decline could be a problem for Google's mobile ambitions.
Samsung dominates Android
Samsung's share of the Android market is massive. In February, analytics firm Localytics estimated that Samsung had manufactured nearly two-thirds of the Android devices currently in use -- LG came in a distant second, with just 7% of the market.
Samsung's flagship Galaxy smartphones comprised the bulk of those devices, but Samsung has also emerged as the dominant player in the Android tablet market. With a plethora of tablets offered in nearly every size and at every price point, Samsung has been steadily growing its share of the tablet market, with shipments rising to 11.2 million in the first quarter, up from just 8.5 million in the first quarter of 2013.
Samsung's Galaxy brand has become so synonymous with Android that Microsoft , in a presentation outlining its rationale for acquiring Nokia 's handset unit, referred to all Android handsets as "Android/Galaxy" phones.
Google has many other hardware partners
Samsung is the largest and most dominant Android OEM, but it isn't the only one -- Google has many other hardware partners, some of which produce high-end Android devices as good or better than Samsung's. In addition to the aforementioned LG, there's Sony with the Xperia line, HTC with its well-regarded One, Motorola and Asus , in addition to emerging Chinese upstarts like OnePlus and low-end players like Karbonn and Micromax.
Although Samsung is struggling, Google's other hardware partners are seeing some limited success. Last month, LG reported a sharp rise in profit for the second quarter, boosted by growing smartphone sales. HTC's results were similar, with net profit and revenue rising. Motorola, meanwhile, appears to be on the upswing, with its low-cost Moto G capturing a sizable share of Indian smartphone market: According to Flipkart, one of India's largest e-commerce websites, Motorola has become a top five smartphone vendor in the country.
Android forks are pressuring Samsung
But given Samsung's size, the Galaxy brand would be difficult to replace, and Samsung's decline does pose a real risk for Google. Much of Samsung's struggle appears to be emanating from the low-end, in markets like China, where heavily modified versions -- called forks -- of Android are common. Some analysts were quick to see Samsung's recent problems as a positive sign for Apple , but when Samsung reported earnings, it blamed emerging market competition rather than pressure from high-end competitors.
One company that appears to be giving Samsung fits is Xiaomi, a relatively new Chinese upstart that has, within the last four years, risen to the top of China's smartphone market. Unlike Samsung, and most of Google's other hardware partners, Xiaomi relies on a forked version of the Android operating system -- called MIUI -- that strips out Google's services in favor of its own. Thus far, Xiaomi has been contained to China, but has begun to branch out into new markets, including India .
Xiaomi's recent growth appears to be a major factor behind the increasing popularity of Android forks: According to a recent report from ABI Research, forked versions of Android composed roughly 20% of the smartphones shipped in the second quarter, up 3% sequentially.
Does Google need Samsung?
In that sense, Samsung's recent weakness is a poor sign for Google's mobile ecosystem -- despite widespread speculation that it would eventually introduce a fork of its own, Samsung has remained loyal to Google's mobile operating system.
To be clear, Google's version of Android is still overwhelmingly dominant -- it shipped on nearly two-thirds of the world's smartphones last quarter. Samsung's decline won't doom Google's mobile ecosystem by any means, but the weakness of what Google calls its "fellow traveler" certainly won't help.
Leaked: Apple's next smart device (warning, it may shock you)
Apple recently recruited a secret-development "dream team" to guarantee its newest smart device was kept hidden from the public for as long as possible. But the secret is out, and some early viewers are claiming its everyday impact could trump the iPod, iPhone, and the iPad. In fact, ABI Research predicts 485 million of this type of device will be sold per year. But one small company makes Apple's gadget possible. And its stock price has nearly unlimited room to run for early in-the-know investors. To be one of them, and see Apple's newest smart gizmo, just click here !
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By: Dr. Fiona Caldwell
Vet at Idaho Veterinary Hospital
For Pets Best Insurance
Cinnamon's family was excited; their 3-year-old seven pound Chihuahua had just given birth to 6 puppies! Cinnamon was a light chocolate brown color and her puppies looked just like her. It was her first litter and everything seemed to be going great. About two weeks after giving birth though, her family noticed something was terribly wrong. Cinnamon started to have a slight all over muscle tremor that quickly progressed through the day to almost seizure-like twitching and convulsing. Although they didn't have pet health insurance for her, they were worried that she couldn't even stand on her own, so her family called the clinic and brought her in for an emergency visit.
When Cinnamon arrived her temperature was getting dangerously high. It was close to 104 degrees due to her violent all-over body tremors and convulsions. After learning that she recently had six puppies, which is a BIG litter for a little Chihuahua and certainly a lot of puppies for a 7 pound dog to feed, we had a theory about what was wrong with her. Laboratory work was needed to confirm the diagnosis. Cinnamon's owners would have greatly benefited from pet health insurance, as veterinary lab work and emergency care can be very costly.
Eclampsia or puerperal tetany is also called 'milk fever.' During pregnancy, especially in the last trimester and while nursing, the puppies' nutritional demands are very high. The more puppies there are, the more nutrition the mother has to provide. One nutritional aspect that can become a problem is calcium. The growing skeletons of the fetuses, and subsequently, the puppies, have a high demand for calcium. The mother's body will actually borrow from her own resources to keep calcium levels high in her milk, thus compromising herself. This dangerously low level of calcium is what causes milk fever.
Eclampsia is most common in small breed dogs with big litters. They generally have all-over muscle tremors and convulsions about 1 to 4 weeks after whelping. This is when the metabolic stress of lactation is at its highest. Early in the disease dogs may be restless, panting, whining, salivating or seem stiff. As the disease progresses, muscles will start to twitch and tremor. Severe cases can progress to seizures and even death. This is a medical emergency, as calcium is required for muscle function. The heart is a muscle, and without calcium, the heart can be compromised.
Cinnamon's calcium level came back dangerously low and she was immediately given intravenous calcium slowly until she stopped convulsing. Treatment is very rewarding, and within about 10 minutes her body temperature had gone down and she could sit upright without jerking. She stayed in the hospital through the day and received repeated calcium injections until she went home on oral calcium supplements. Her pups were a little young to start being weaned, but typically as soon as possible the puppies should be on a milk replacer or solid food in order to lessen the nutritional demand on the mother if she suffers from this disease.
Prevention of this condition is with a high quality diet only. It seems counterintuitive, but supplementing calcium WITHOUT a diagnosis of eclampsia can actually cause the body to stop producing calcium, therefore creating an increased risk for the disease. Never supplement calcium without the supervision of a veterinarian.
For more information about pet health and pet insurance, visit www.petsbest.com.


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