( Warning - very disturbing. May not be suitable for parents and pregnant women. Not Joking! )
On a different topic. Last week I called in a Rx for a friend's 7#cat. I learned that they now have wonken high doses of liquid clavulonic acid poteniated penicillins*. The pharmacist explained that yes, the pediatricans are not prescribing very high doses of it for kids.
So today I called in an Rx for my 60# dog for cephalexin (3rd generation penicillin.) I was hoping they might stock the 1g size so I wouldn't have to give her 2 500mg caps. Nope, they don't.
I'm confused by this. I get resistant bacteria and increased antibiotic dosages. I don't get why 1 penicillin has had its recommended dosages upped and not the other. I can only hope somewhere this is based on MICs.
*In laymans terms these are BOTH PENICILLIN!
- Me and my big mouth.
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drlori- November 14th, 12:34
contemplative
- Memories and Perspective
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- drlori
- November 10th, 15:43
nostalgic
This morning at the gym 3 of us were discussing that the sniper will be executed today. Seven years ago one of the women lived in Richmond and had school age children. I was pregnant with my first child. The third woman couldn't remember all the details of the situation.
I just turned to her aghast and blurted, "You weren't living here then were you!" No, she was lived in Phoenix then.
On 9/11 I was between Harrisonburg, PA and Three Mile Island. I had a number of less than kind emotions/thoughts about how much caterwalling and fear the locals had for themselves and the way they felt both locations could be high up on the terrorist hit list. To be fair the 4th plane did crash in PA, but it certainly wasn't the target.
Living in NoVA during the time of the sniper at first we weren't too worried because at the start it seemed to be a MD thing. And it kept going. Schools canceled all outdoor activities and even indoor ones. A child was shot being dropped off at school. A woman was shot in the head walking next to her husband in a Home Depot parking lot. Several people were murdered pumping gas.
I guess its my own insular-ness. First, I didn't even think about how the fear had spread down to Richmond and Charlotesville. Second, I just can't imagine an adult woman with children not knowing the details. I can't imagine how they can shrug it off. But, she didn't live it.
I have only 2 regrets to the death that will be carried out tonight.
1) That we have even to open up this morass of memory at all.
2) That it has taken 7 years to get to this point.
To those that didn't live here then. I share this poignant memory that both I and the Richmond mom shared.
We remember a world where husbands wouldn't let their wives get out of the car to pump gas. We remember a world where pumping gas meant running around the pump changing directions frequently and trying to move as erratically as you could on and around that small island.
Here's to a world where pumping gas isn't the most stressful terrifying thing you do today.
- The Early Morning With Children Quizz
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- drlori
- November 10th, 8:33
If there is only a very small amount of orange juice left in the house, should you:
A) Pour yourself a glass and drink it.
B) Give the glass to your child to drink.
C) Give the glass to your child so they can snort it through their nose and coat themselves, their brother and the kitchen table.
- Humor/Sanctuary
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- drlori
- November 9th, 16:31
rushed
Perry's quote from last night:
"I can't feel the sugar anymore, Daddy."
Now this is wrong no matter what*. But the context was that he wanted more sugar to put in his tea. :)
*Well maybe not if you're creaming for a cake.
Comment on Sanctuary - Amazingly bad idea. Kidnapping, torturing and killing Jack the Ripper's daughter. Even more of a bad idea the moronic CEO-whatever that came up with and implemented this program for the Cabal is a woman. Oh yeah things are gonna go real well when Druit catches up w/ her.
- Anyone watch Sanctuary?
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- drlori
- November 3rd, 7:34
happy
We just watched the one where Ashley/Cabal attack the Sanctuaries. I have a few amusing thoughts.
( Spoiler here )
- Another Day of Mixed up Ethnic Cooking
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- drlori
- October 28th, 11:04
Breakfast was a standard French Toast - cinnamon, nutmeg, except the Challah from last week is the rose water one.
Snack - Stewed tomatoes and okra.
Lunch - Pak-choi w/ coconut-lime dressing served over Shabbat rice (an Italian dish.)
Anyone have any ideas on what ethniticy I could base dinner to make today as culinarily mixed up as possible?
Maybe something from S. America? Hhhmmm - beet green quesadillas?*
*Yeah, Mexico is technically on the North Am. continent - I suppose Latin America would be a better title.
Edit - We went back to American. Bread pizza w/ black olives. Who knew challah went well w/ marinara?
- Hhm.
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- drlori
- October 26th, 8:40
curious
We've been trying to remember to do growth/weight measurments on the boys' birthdays for posterity.
A couple interesting things.
1) G - has grown 1/2 an inch in 24 days and weighs the exact same amount he did on 5/3 when he was 2 inches shorter.
2) According to the growth charts he is still only in the 25th percentile on height but is now down in 5 on weight.
3) P - who now weighs just about the same as his brother is 50 on ht. and 25 on wt. It's always a bit of a shock to me that P is "tall" and "light". P is just so much more muscular than other kids his age.
FYI - None of this is concerning to me. I just find it amusing.
- Silver Lining
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- drlori
- October 25th, 7:47
- cheerful
Apparently, being sick burns calories. Specifically carbs. Despite eating way too many carbs (and hence calories) the past few days my weight has been dropping much quicker than it had been.
This morning I got up and realized all my jeans were in the laundry. Looking around I saw in the get rid of pile were my breastfeeding jeans. These are the tiny jeans thatcoloradojen convinced me to buy back when Perry was still nursing heavily and before the ACL tear really took hold.
Guess what gets to come out of the "give away" pile?
- Personality Studies.
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- drlori
- October 24th, 10:20
- chipper
Got up before the boys so I could take the birds off to slaughter.
Both boys commented on my being dressed so early and asked where I was going.
Both got the same answer - To take the ducks to slaughter.
G. - "Why?" sounding a little sad.
Me - "They aren't laying eggs anymore. We'll get new ones in the Spring."
G. - "Maybe the chickens are eating all their food. What if we give them more food?"
P - "Mmmmmmmmmmmmm. I like ducky."
- Bad choices
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- drlori
- October 22nd, 17:32
drained
G. is sick. I woke him up (Breaking cardinal rule #1 - Never wake a sleeping child.)and took him to P's practice. Where P immediatly got his face caught in the car door. He forgot to move it out of the way while he was entertaining G. So, leave balls and goal and speed home for ice and Ibuprofen which I took out of the car this past Sat and hadn't put back it yet.
Sigh.
On the plus side - I made a big pot of minestrone and got 2/3 of the lettuce washed.
- Big Brother how repressed are we?
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- drlori
- October 22nd, 10:45
annoyed
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=1790464
7 year old boy sees a naked man. Um, what exactly does the 7 year old BOY see when he gets dressed every morning?
And the woman and her son were trespassing in this man's yard!
Now, if he was in the doorway as opposed to his kitchen - that is a bit different. But still she was in his yard w/o permission. Not that I think we need to be so possesive. We should however understand that the owner of the space is the one to whom we defer. For example in college I was very conscientious of leaving the toilet seat UP in the suite. Guys bathroom - seat should default to guys favored setting.
Here's a thought for dealing w/ neighbors. Knock on the door and politely say, "Um, you probably aren't aware that your kitchen window faces the street."
Sheesh.
- Maternity Care
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- drlori
- October 21st, 15:49
- crushed
Feeling really sad that someone I know but haven't seen in years is going to have an unecessary ceserean tonight simply because she didn't have real care.
Yes, I know she chose to stay w/ an abusive provider where every visit sent her on a crying jag.
It makes me a little cranky that I'm probably as sad if not sadder than she will be about this and I barely know her.
So I just need to scream to the world when your OB says:
You can have this baby by induction this week or wait until your 40 weeks exactly and then we'll need to do a ceserean. The translation is similar to a boyfriend saying, "You can agree to have sex w/ me this week. Or wait a week and if you're not ready I'll just rape you then."
Its rape either way.
There is another way. You find a care provider who doesn't make you cry. Who doesn't give ultimatums. They provide you w/ facts and let you make your choices. They come to you - you don't go to them. You get to eat and drink and do what you want and they are guests in your house.
- Must be cranky day.
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- drlori
- October 20th, 17:13
- tired
I lost my cool w/ the dental hygenist when she asked me the same question around 10 times in a row. It was annoying but I really shouldn't have screamed at her. Its the type of client behavior that I won't tolerate for my nurses.
Then it just seems like at soccer there was much honking, hand waving, screaming at kids.
I guess we're all just tired form the extreme weather changes.
- Today
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- drlori
- October 12th, 19:24
Coming right on the heels ofmalle_babbe's post. We had field day today. Since the school is named after an admiral who also has a ship named after him we were treated to 85 sailors who made the trip up from Norfolk to hang out w/ the kids. I We also have a deal where we are helping sell each others' merchandise. Soon we will be the proud owners of an actual US Navy shirt and many of them, hopefully, will be sporting the pastel pink and blue tees of our Seadogs. :)
The one confusing point of the day was when they were having dif. sailors dress up in a big piece of blue lycra w/ velcro at the back. This was "blue man" think Gumby only more rectangular looking w/ no appendages.
I noticed him coming up behind me and went back to watching the kids at my station. A few moments later I'm roughly grabbed from behind fingers digging in above my ribs. Somehow I 1)recognized this as an attempt at tickling (attempt = failure since I'm still tender to pressure on the spot this evening roughly 6 hours later.)
2)did not scream as I usually do when startled. Honest, I have heard[Error: Irreparable invalid markup ('<ljuser =>') in entry. Owner must fix manually. Raw contents below.]Coming right on the heels of <lj user=malle_babbe>'s post. We had field day today. Since the school is named after an admiral who also has a ship named after him we were treated to 85 sailors who made the trip up from Norfolk to hang out w/ the kids. I We also have a deal where we are helping sell each others' merchandise. Soon we will be the proud owners of an actual US Navy shirt and many of them, hopefully, will be sporting the pastel pink and blue tees of our Seadogs. :)
The one confusing point of the day was when they were having dif. sailors dress up in a big piece of blue lycra w/ velcro at the back. This was "blue man" think Gumby only more rectangular looking w/ no appendages.
I noticed him coming up behind me and went back to watching the kids at my station. A few moments later I'm roughly grabbed from behind fingers digging in above my ribs. Somehow I 1)recognized this as an attempt at tickling (attempt = failure since I'm still tender to pressure on the spot this evening roughly 6 hours later.)
2)did not scream as I usually do when startled. Honest, I have heard <ljuser = bflan> come into the garage and still yipped when he suddenly gets right in front of me. I tend to scream something along the lines of, "Hello!!!" so some part of the thinking brain has kicked in even while monkey/adrenaline brain is running the show.
3) did not have any self defense reflexes kick in - mostly thank G-d to #1 above.
Administration and I made a few amusing/wry comments about how this particular sailor needed to learn some of the quality rules the students have.
But it didn't end there. After amusing the kids for a few minutes he came back over and started in w/ me again.
This time the reflexes DID kick in and w/o thinking I tried to put him in an arm lock. He slipped away and went into the silly "eye poke" stance - I don't know what else to call it the kinda playful one kinda like the "walk like an Egyptian pose." I started to move into a true takedown (and I may be short and slow but I'm betting I had a better than 50:50 chance of getting my leg behind his knee 'cause I am really good at basic take downs) when I decided it wasn't the time or the place. I had to stand there hands on hips, keeping myself and my reflexes under control, repeating, "No." to him over and over before he left off.
On the one hand I feel like it's been a long time since I had a silly tickle fight w/ anyone except my kids and spouse. I miss the HS/college days. OTH random strangers whose faces I can't even see in front of Kindergarten and first graders?
I'm glad my body went for the arm lock w/o thought. I'm glad I didn't do anything untoward when he first surprised me. I'm a little sad I didn't drop his _ss to the ground w/ an awesome take-down. I'm also sad to be all "responsible". I'm trying to figure out how I could have been more "playful".
I really don't think this was the type of thing <lj user = malle_babbe> was talking about but it was def. in a grey area.
- Misc.
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- drlori
- October 10th, 21:08
- tired
Soccer went poorly for P. He was a hungry overtired ball hog who did
EDIT I wrote G. It was P. G was very happy child and mostly w/bflan for the day, who reports G. played exceptionally well and had a goal and an assist.
not handle things well when the team lost. We were down 3 kids out of 8. Plus 1 of my aggressive players was really hanging back and then among those that did show were my 2 girls that don't act. kick the ball during games. Sigh. If I weren't the coach and stuck on the field I would have taken P. home or at least to get a snack at the half. Came home and spent a lot of time waiting for the screaming to stop.
Simchat Torah tonight. Much fun dancing w/ the torahs. Disappointed that all but 1 other K family left after the K part of the service. B. didn't eat dinner before hand, just a snack, and I didn't warn him that its a torah service hence the name, Simchat Torah. Bring kids home to more screaming from the P. Right now I'm thinking it stands for Pain.
There were lots of good moments today, too. Just the screaming gets really grating, along w/ the being hit, head butted and squeezed. We even had a broken Corelle plate in there, too. I've only stepped on 3 ceramic shards to the point of drawing blood so far...
There was one hilarious bit. As part of the consecration all the kids got to use the yad (and a glass one - much credit to the rabbi for trusting them w/ that!!!) to find a shin. So then we had the older kids finding dif. letters. For Galen I suggested a gimmel thinking that's another dreidel one and easy. Would you believe 3 whole pages of the torah rolled out at random and only 1 gimmel hidden in the edge of the roll! Who would have thought gimmel would be so uncommon? This is why I don't play the lottery and other games of chance.
- I am a birth junkie/groupie.
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- drlori
- October 7th, 15:24
- ecstatic
The Prenatal symposium was awsome. I came out of the parking garage and was trying to figure out where to go when another woman asked me for help w/ directions. I look at her name badge - Shafia Monroe!!! http://www.blackmidwives.org/about-us/63 After recovering from being star struck, I told her I was a big fan.
I listened to a reading of Birth by Karen Brody http://www.birththeplay.com/ (who is so skinny its just unfair!). It was amazing. I still need to see it staged but just sitting in a room listening to it was still so powerful.
Then on to Robbie Floyd-Davis http://www.davis-floyd.com/ShowPage.asp?id=155 talking about her new book about maternity care models that work. I am so into the OB in Brazil - Brazil can you believe it!!? who couldn't get his c/s rate under 25% and then one of Michel Odent's books fell (literally) into his hands. So he hires a doula and his wife gets unhappy that he's running around at 2am to meet this young thing so she goes to school and becomes a CNM and so now his clients get all 3 of them at their homes and mostly he reads or takes photos while the women do the work of birthing. One of his few "requirements" for home birth is chocolate cake(for him, duh!).
Anyone have any idea what the cinammon tea is for, that was a new one on me. An OB who totally gets that if you've got a laboring woman chocolate is truly called for and machines that go ping not so much! :)
Robbie was just hilarious and so upbeat.
Then during the lunch break I went over to the student center to view the work of Jessica Clements.
http://www.hs.facebook.com/pages/Fairfax-VA/George-Mason-Universitys-Center-for-t he-Arts/114073944332?v=feed&story_fbid=146527329332&ref=mf#/event.php?eid=150076054490&ref=mf
Really amazing labor/birth paintings that look like photos but are acctually a composite that she painted. That isn't a photo - really!
Time to catch the bus and put away the week's veggies.
- How to get your kids to eat carrots:
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- drlori
- October 5th, 18:17
- accomplished
Step 1: Let them peel them
Step 2: Mix w/ some plain salt (add brine if needed) and let sit until sour.
Step 3: Tell them if they eat too many their skin will turn orange.
Step 4: Sit back and wait as they gobble handfuls of naturally fermented organic carrots while running back and forth to the bathroom mirror.
Smirk. Easier than choc. chip zuchinni cake.
- Happy happy happy!!!
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- drlori
- October 2nd, 9:36
- ecstatic
Dropped 2 minutes off the first 1/2 of my bike ride. Finished the whole thing in just over 1 hr 8 minutes.
Bike's gears are still a pain.
- Wake up call for Women
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- drlori
- October 1st, 7:47
What are you voting for ladies?
From:
http://washingtonmonthly.com/
TAKING A STAND AGAINST SUFFRAGE.... I tend not to expect much from National Review's John Derbyshire. The conservative writer/columnist more or less jumped the shark when he expressed contempt for the victims of the Virginia Tech shooting massacre. (As he saw it, those who feared for their lives should have tried to physically confront the armed madman.)
But it seems Derbyshire continues to push the boundaries of good taste. His new book apparently includes a section against women's suffrage, and Alan Colmes explored the matter on his radio show this morning.
The National Review writer initially said "women lean hard to the left," which isn't necessarily true, and certainly isn't a rationale for denying women the right to participate in democracy. So, Colmes pressed further. Faiz Shakir posted a transcript:
DERBYSHIRE: Among the hopes that I do not realistically nurse is the hope that female suffrage will be repealed. But I'll say this -- if it were to be, I wouldn't lose a minute's sleep.
COLMES: We'd be a better country if women didn't vote?
DERBYSHIRE: Probably. Don't you think so?
COLMES: No, I do not think so whatsoever.
DERBYSHIRE: Come on Alan. Come clean here [laughing].
COLMES: We would be a better country? John Derbyshire making the statement, we would be a better country if women did not vote.
DERBYSHIRE: Yeah, probably.
He added that the United States "got along like that for 130 years," and added that the Civil Rights Act may also lack value because you "shouldn't try to force people to be good."
Just so we're clear, a leading conservative writer at one of the premier conservative political outlets, argued publicly against a woman's right to vote and against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
It's extraordinary. Generally, conservative media figures try to maintain the pretense of sanity in public. I'm afraid that's no longer the case.
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- Stuff: Part - Who Knows?
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- drlori
- September 29th, 14:49
creative
Last night I came down for services in my maroon skirt and an orange sweater. I askedbflan, "Do I match?"
He smiled and said, "Normally, no. But we're Hokies, so its okay."
:)
Today I woke up w/ Tzadik Katamar stuck in my head - no idea why. You'd think Vidui or Avinu Malkenu - but nope - Tzadik Katamar.
So now I've spent the afternoon listening to Great Big Sea and instead have:
The old black rum has got a hold on me like a dog wrapped round my leg.
