I'm so, so, so glad I'm moving out in a month.
Phew, not soon enough. And yet, within sight.
Take a deep breath, keep your head down and avoid conflict.
You are a duck and all the irritation rolls off your back.
Mal: Hell, this job I would pull for free. Zoe: Can I have your share? Mal: No. Zoe: If you die, can I have your share? Mal: Yes.
'The Train Job'
Spike's Bitches 31: We're Motivated Go-getters.
[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.
DavidS - Aug 04, 2006 8:42:23 pm PDT #7043 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Strix - Aug 04, 2006 8:42:55 pm PDT #7044 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Yikes! I just got on, and whoa, Nelly.
That little armadillo needs to stay in place! Silly weenie, wanting to crash the party early. Glad things are OK; tell JZ I'm thinking good thoughts for her and the 'dillo.(I don't know why I'm calling the weenie an armadillo -- it just seems right.)
Good thoughts for all of y'all. If I lived closer, I'd volunteer weekly vaccuum and dusting duty till the dillo was born. JZ needs to sloungue like a fecund Cleopatra for the next month or so.
And Calli -- I am so sorry about your mom. I can't even imagine. Peace to you and yours, darling.
-t - Aug 04, 2006 9:09:53 pm PDT #7045 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Anne! It's good to see you! You are doing okay, I hope?
DavidS - Aug 04, 2006 9:18:17 pm PDT #7046 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I don't know why I'm calling the weenie an armadillo -- it just seems right.
Maybe because that's what Flea was calling her most recent.
JZ needs to sloungue like a fecund Cleopatra for the next month or so.
Odalisque, baby. Though I really think that's your area of expertise, Erin.
Steph L. - Aug 04, 2006 9:25:52 pm PDT #7047 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Ugh. Can't sleep. The Boy is snoozing away like a snoozing thing in the next room, and I'm sitting all bug-eyed and resentfully insomniac in front of the TV.
Which makes me extra glad to see Hec here and get the full report on the too-active-but-by-God-staying-where-she-is Halloweenie.
How are *you* doing, Hec?
DavidS - Aug 04, 2006 9:32:06 pm PDT #7048 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
How are *you* doing, Hec?
I'm okay, thanks to my good friend Tequila.
Yet even before that, I was okay. I do not tend to think of the worst, and when things are crisis-y I just focus on the task in front of me. And the task today was keeping JZ from freaking out about all the needles.
Which she managed to do very well, though there was an iffy moment on the third try for the second IV.
"I can't just have my hand on my hip. It doesn't feel secure. I think I need to push it down against the rail. Can we do that?"
Honestly, for a needle phobic to have to endure five tries for two IVs, plus blood-work three times, plus a rather painful steroid shot in the hip...well, she was brave little toaster is what.
All while fasting for 13.5 hours.
Cass - Aug 04, 2006 9:41:25 pm PDT #7049 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.
Honestly, for a needle phobic to have to endure five tries for two IVs, plus blood-work three times, plus a rather painful steroid shot in the hip...well, she was brave little toaster is what.Oh god. Poor, poor JZ. And poor Hec too.
Why the steroids in the hip? I am flashing to the shots I get for tendonitis but that doesn't seem right. If it is? My sympathies cause those freak me the hell out when I am not worried about a Halloweenie.
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My iPod just got MiB'd (restored) and now I get to reload everything. This best fix its wee little flummoxed brain. This is gonna take a while.
DavidS - Aug 04, 2006 9:48:31 pm PDT #7050 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Why the steroids in the hip?
Pushes the Halloweenie's lungs to develop. 28 weeks is early and they're covering all bases if the Halloweenie doesn't stay put. JZ will have another steroid shot tomorrow and that's a full course to get the lungs ready. Lungs are the last thing to develop and the steroids apparently make a big difference. There's very little side-effect they said, though I'm sure Ple's already researched this subject inside and out and could give me the numbers.
We're at a point where every week is huge. JZ is 29 weeks as of Tuesday. If we can squeak by to 34 weeks then we're pretty much in the clear.
As Ple noted upthread, though, we've already reached a major plateau at 28 weeks so the Halloweenie's odds have gone from 50% survival at 24 weeks up to better than 95% at 28 weeks.
Cass - Aug 04, 2006 9:53:25 pm PDT #7051 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.
Ah, systemic steroids not shot into the joint.
And, because I haven't said so for a few hours, I am sending my thoughts and prayers and whathaveyous that she stays put until her scheduled debut. Perhaps even a day or two fashionably late.
P.M. Marc - Aug 04, 2006 10:15:11 pm PDT #7052 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I can give you no numbers, but pretty much everything I read suggested that the steroid shots very, very, very rarely have any negative side effects, and it's even more rare for said side effects to be serious if they do happen.
The Halloweenie would like to stay put until 13 October, so that she can be exactly 1.5 years younger than Miss Lillian. Drat it.