Bah. I hope you don't get any grief for it, vw. I hate that showing the place while you're living there thing.

Goodness gracious, lad, don't take cooking lessons from Sean of all people

Hee. My mother, god love her, is All About the Bargains. Be they clothing or food or coupons or garage sales or what. So she used to go to the Hostess Outlet, sometimes, and get the expired bread/rolls/whatever. If we were lucky, she might buy a danish or doughnuts. One morning in high school, she'd bought mini powdered doughnuts, and handed me a baggie with some, as I ran for the bus (6:40 in the morning, I was never more than vaguely coherent, and often skipped breakfast). I sat on the bus, in the dark, eating them, thinking "huh, these are very interestingly flavored doughnuts". Then got to school, in the light, and realized it was the added flavor of MOLD.

I have a friend who had a List like this with her GF, who also had a list. Friend ended up in close contact to someone on her List. Cheating, ugly breakup, and 5 years later, friend is still with the person on her List

OMG, that's so crazy! And yet, so lesbian (see "list should be inaccessible people", because the lesbian world being so small...even the celebrities sometimes aren't that many degrees of separation)

Jury duty? Continues to suck. We deliberated ALL DAY, and we are not done.

Is JenP around?

My mo just called and my sister-in-law (the one who gave birth last Tuesday) is in the hospital. She apparently has a headache that was scary bad, and freaked my brother out. Her blood pressure is 190 over 100, but it's been ruled not hypertension. She's not running a fever (my thought was leftover placenta/infection), and the doctors think if it was a reaction to the epidural it would have happened before now.

Anyone have any thoughts/wisdom? I am freaked the fuck out.

I have no thoughts or wisdom, AmyLiz, but will send ~ma. I'm glad that she's in hospital, though, where the doctors and nurses can figure it out.

vw, if your landlady wants to show an immaculate apartment with minimal stuff, she can wait until you are all moved into your new place and stage it. In the real world, people have stuff and it doesn't always find its way back to the place where it came from. Some of it probably didn't even have a place. I find I have no sympathy for your landlady.

Maybe a hormonally induced migraine, Amy? Her hormones have to be in deep flux, so soon after giving birth.

Maybe a hormonally induced migraine, Amy?

Do migraines cause blood pressure that high, though? That's what concerns me, and it's freaking me out that the MDs actually admitted her.

I'm sorry -- I was unclear before -- her doctor had her sent to the hospital in an ambulance, and they've already done a CAT scan and are preparing to do a spinal tap. Apparently the MDs keep talking about the epidural, but I'm thinking blood clot or something. I'm sorry -- the baby's so little, and my brother's all alone down there with her, and their two older kids. My SiL's mom just left a day or so ago.

JZ!!! You're the best. I haven't had a chance to try on the blouses yet, because I was cooking dinner when Dave got the mail, but I love the Tea knowledge cards (I thought I had everything tea related, but I don't have those), and your card was so sweet. Thank you!

AmyLiz, I was told that sometimes the epidural can cause headaches in the week following. I hope she's ok.

Edited because, yeah, it's serious enough to send her to the hospital. Gah.

{{AMyLiz}} I don't know what it could be, but I hope it's fixable and quick. Much ~ma.

it's freaking me out that the MDs actually admitted her.

I'm guessing they admitted her because the headache came on so suddenly, out of the blue -- because a headache is such a nonspecific symptom of a gazillion conditions, the MDs need to err on the side of caution.

And hormones could cause a migraine, and a migraine could definitely make her blood pressure spike. The pain of the migraine is a stressor on the body, and that makes blood pressure rise. (And 190/100 is high, yes, but it's not out-of-the-ordinary high, if that makes sense.)