I'm just beaten down by the craptacular summer we've had.

Completely understandable.

My biology book just came! After all that fuss the other night, it's the US edition after all. I must have gotten that e-mail by mistake.

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Cindy, not using anything really on my finger as I can't actually see any puncture sites (and it didn't bleed or anything). Mostly I'm just keeping an eye on it. And it's nothing that needs Vicodin or Flexeril, so I'm much better off than most people on the board, it seems. Even with the outbreak of shingles on my face this past week. Effing viruses.

Also, you can find cervical neck roll pillows at lots of different places. I think most department stores and probably even Target carry a brand of some sort. (Although I am Tempurpedic's bitch so I highly recommend them although they're very pricey.)

Plus, you could probably use muscle work of some kind (massage, chiro, PT) to reduce some of the scar tissue and "reeducate" your muscles.

I also thought Cass' pain was low back. Odd. Glad nothing seems overtly problematic, though.

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Oh, and he's totally got a great baseball name.

He so totally does! Except he can't be a closer for the A's, but otherwise, great baseball name.

Cass, glad you went to the doctor, and glad there is relief in sight. I'd rub your back were it not for geographical difficulties.

I actually do keep meaning to get massage training/license. It's something I'm good at, and while I don't know that I'd like it as a job, I like doing it.

I'm in one of those introspective, write-y moods, which no good ever comes of. So with Mal finally asleep, I think I'm going to try to draw some.

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Even with the outbreak of shingles on my face this past week. Effing viruses.

Eeek. Did you see a doctor? Did you get on the anti-viral in time? Is it well away from your eyes?

Plus, you could probably use muscle work of some kind (massage, chiro, PT) to reduce some of the scar tissue and "reeducate" your muscles.

I think so. I also think I have to stop falling asleep on the couch, and get myself to bed, when I'm too tired to keep my eyes open. I *knew* I was falling asleep last week. My neck was already in an uncomfortable position and I thought, "Hmmm. I should probably get up, and go up to the nice bed," and then didn't. Dh was staying up, waiting to take his medicine for his Lyme disease, and I then I fell asleep.

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Raq, how long until he's sitting up well enough for a high chair?

I praise the Graco Overlords every day for the battery op baby swing: it lets Lillian have dinner with us, or rather, it keeps us in view while we eat, and makes it so she's only minorly grumpy at being out of the action. I do think she now thinks her parents are her jesters, and the swing her queenly throne, but that's a small price to pay.

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I also think I have to stop falling asleep on the couch, and get myself to bed

Yep. I don't even have a neck injury, and I almost gave myself one falling asleep with my head on the arm of the couch. Take care of yourself!

Raq, how long until he's sitting up well enough for a high chair?

He can actually sit in a high chair now, although I haven't set ours up (I'm waiting until the last of the guests departs in a couple weeks). Most mealtimes, he sits in his papasan overlooking us, although he's ended a couple meals sitting on my lap and exploring plates and glasses and such. That just wasn't going to happen tonight - if I set him down anywhere, he howled.

Huh - I suppose it could've been gas. He never seems to get it, so I don't really think about it, but that might explain why he wanted to be held and jounced.

My question was more a meta-question, though...I usually feel like this parenting thing is going pretty well. Mallory's teaching us about himself, and we are quick learners. But sometimes there just doesn't seem to be any right answer that I can figure out, and I wonder. I suppose anything short of downing shots whenever the baby cries is not too bad, though.

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One of these days I'm going to actually keep up in at least one of these threads.

I've been super busy. Updates and pics friendslocked in my LJ (I've gotten very wary of posting anything overly personal in a public forum after a teaching friend's student found her LJ. Eek). How's life?

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Hey, pillow pushers, there are too many choices: [link]

What am I looking for, and where would my head, and neck go? I'm slow and easily confused.

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I've found with Lillian that teething, gas, and tired all lead to a baby who can't deal with anything other than being held. Which explains why I carried her around the grocery store last night while Paul pushed both the buggy and the grocery cart.

When I need to do something like shower, eat, or go to the bathroom when she's in one of those moods, it's the swing or the Bumbo baby chair for her (we don't have a crib), with promises from me that, no, really, I'll be done in a minute, so hang on.

And then I think about downing shots, sigh, and realize that would just make things worse.

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I have no art skills tonight.

Cindy, this one [link] is like the one I use. The lower of the hills goes under your neck, and your head rests in the trough.

I have a yoga friend who swears by the TempurPedic one, but I like to sleep on my side, and I can't with the TP, designed as it is to prevent your head from lolling.

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