There are no absolutes. No right and wrong. Haven't you learned anything working for the Powers? There are only choices.

Jasmine ,'Power Play'


Spike's Bitches 26: Damn right I'm impure!  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


brenda m - Sep 07, 2005 10:57:34 am PDT #1285 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

You're not the only one, Plei.


Cass - Sep 07, 2005 10:57:41 am PDT #1286 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

The lead singer is a stunningly pretty man, and the songs are all about how he loves you SO much he would die for you.
Oooh, he is stunning. He should love me very much but not do the dying for me, unless he vamps. Otherwise boring dead corpse and those aren't stunningly pretty. They're mostly just decomp.

My Splenda just fizzed when I put it in hot water (about to become tea). Is this a bad thing? Are my employers poisoning me? Drugging me? Why does Splenda fizz?


Calli - Sep 07, 2005 11:05:42 am PDT #1287 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

My Splenda always fizzes when I put it in coffee. It was a little startling the first time it happened. Six am is not the time for my coffee to talk back to me.


Susan W. - Sep 07, 2005 11:06:12 am PDT #1288 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

OK, just talked to the doctor. Probably an ordinary contact rash from allergy to something in the hummus, most likely the chickpeas themselves, since they're a more common allergen than, say, garlic or olive oil. I did the right thing in washing her face off and putting her down as normal. If it doesn't seem to subside on its own, she's old and heavy enough to have a small dose of benadryl.

I know I was freaky paranoid there before, but A) I know there's such a thing as a lethal food allergy, and B) I've never been around someone in the throes of one, so I don't have intimate familiarity with the danger signs. I didn't want to freak out, which is why I dealt calmly with Annabel, but I also didn't want to blow off something potentially dangerous.


SuziQ - Sep 07, 2005 11:08:46 am PDT #1289 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

Susan - your motherly instincts were right on track. If she had been having trouble breathing, that would have been your sign that it was something more than a contact allergy.

Strange that it did not bother her before.


Topic!Cindy - Sep 07, 2005 11:11:29 am PDT #1290 of 10001
What is even happening?

OK. Annabel has a rash all over her chin and lips that I've concluded comes from the way she was smearing hummus all over that part of her face while eating her lunch, despite the fact she's had hummus before. It doesn't seem to be distressing her, but it's freaking me right out.

If Chris or Julia (and they're 5 and 6) have spaghetti sauce or pizza sauce on their faces for too long after they eat, they get a little rash. Her skin is probably just irritated. Since she is breathing well and seems otherwise well, I think it is okay to wait for the pede to call. I wouldn't feed her hummus again, at least not for a while. Children have food intolerances as often or more often than the have the scary kind of food allergies. Food intolerances they can outgrow.

I put her down for her nap as normal, called the pede's office and paged the on-call MD (because the receptionist is closed between noon and 2:00), and am poking my head in every few minutes to make sure she's breathing and isn't otherwise distressed. Right thing? This is below the 911 threshold, even if I have wait till 2:00 to talk to someone, right?

How long ago did she eat this? The most severe food reactions generally (there are always exceptions) occur within 20-40 minutes after eating the food.

Sorry for Xpost Susan. I'm glad all is well.


dw - Sep 07, 2005 11:11:50 am PDT #1291 of 10001
Silence means security silence means approval

I'm listening to "The Doing Of Our Thing."

Yikes. But not evil. Not evil like WBTC.

Sounds like a 40 year old parent trying to get into "the thing" the "kids" are "into."

And now it's "A Prayer For Jamey." Interesting twist on the dead kid song, with a countrypolitan sound that sounds like they bought it at TG&Y.

Oh, TG&Y, taker of so much of my allowance, where have you gone?


beth b - Sep 07, 2005 11:14:10 am PDT #1292 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

there are still let us put your poem to music companies out there. one of our crazy library patrons just did it. and no, I won't ask her who


dw - Sep 07, 2005 11:14:32 am PDT #1293 of 10001
Silence means security silence means approval

OK, just talked to the doctor. Probably an ordinary contact rash from allergy to something in the hummus, most likely the chickpeas themselves, since they're a more common allergen than, say, garlic or olive oil. I did the right thing in washing her face off and putting her down as normal. If it doesn't seem to subside on its own, she's old and heavy enough to have a small dose of benadryl.

Damn, she can't have hummus just yet.

But it does mean the hummus is MINE, ALL MINE!!!!


Cass - Sep 07, 2005 11:14:48 am PDT #1294 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

My Splenda always fizzes when I put it in coffee. It was a little startling the first time it happened. Six am is not the time for my coffee to talk back to me.
Weird. I usually put in the Splenda and then nuke the water for the tea so I miss the fizz. The fizz is ... odd.

Note this did not stop me from drinking the tea while I was waiting to find out if this was normal. Because I have the survival skills of a shar pei.