Nope. It's not a preemie thing. It's a baby thing. But, most people don't know, the arching thing means that they are not using their abs as much as they should. Lack of trunk strength = difficulty in sitting. So the more used to arching they get, the harder it will be to sit.
Sweet lumpy minion, you're the only one that understands. Probably 'cause I haven't sucked the brain out of you yet.
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kat - Dec 17, 2007 2:19:54 pm PST #7839 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
sarameg - Dec 17, 2007 2:21:24 pm PST #7840 of 10001
Didn't know that. But then, not an OT.
Kat - Dec 17, 2007 2:23:03 pm PST #7841 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I think pediatric OT or infant OT would be a rocking job! Go play with babies. Of course, it's more like Go Make Babies Mad! So maybe not so fun.
§ ita § - Dec 17, 2007 2:39:20 pm PST #7842 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
his addie is on his blog, yeah?
Yup. And he's all about this sort of stuff.
Looks like I might get today's worth of work done after all. I don't see why everyone's priority isn't me. I'm so incredibly reasonable.
Kat, yes, Wednesday night. Which is why it's probably rude of me to get her to take me to the ER same day, so I'll probably wait. And something just calcified in me that means that no one else gets to take me to the ER until she's gone. Not even before she gets here. I'm just tired of too much shit.
Okay. Back to work.
sarameg - Dec 17, 2007 2:43:54 pm PST #7843 of 10001
Of course, it's more like Go Make Babies Mad! So maybe not so fun.
Maybe it's like being a nanny: you can give them back, and just be amused at the range of baby-rage?
Theodosia - Dec 17, 2007 2:46:35 pm PST #7844 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
It sounds like something Nurse Ratched would actually be good at.
I remember reading a profile of the nurses who work on a burn unit, and the writer made a good point about how tough they have to be in order to debride burns, which is intensely painful for the patient -- but the patient truly will not live (let alone get better) if it is not done, so the nurses were both very empathetic to their patients AND rather indifferent to the amount of pain they caused.
shrift - Dec 17, 2007 3:23:24 pm PST #7845 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I made it to Sephora without killing anyone! Of course, on the way home, I realized that I need to hit B&N and another place before my Christmas shopping is done. So close! SO CLOSE.
Ginger - Dec 17, 2007 3:38:30 pm PST #7846 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I saw this guy [link] give an extraordinary safety presentation once. He was not following safety procedures and was burned over half of his body. He was in the hospital for five years. He said when someone was brought into the burn unit as badly burned as he was, he prayed they'd die.
§ ita § - Dec 17, 2007 3:55:23 pm PST #7847 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Good for him for turning his personal tragedy into something that can help other people.
Ginger - Dec 17, 2007 4:06:40 pm PST #7848 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
In one part of his speech, he talked about the safety rule that they wear fire-resistant clothing. It was hot, he said, and he had gotten in the habit of rolling up his sleeves. He then rolled up his sleeves and showed the scar tissue that stopped at the line to where his sleeves were rolled. By the end, I don't think there was a dry eye.