Coumadin is a god-awful, effective drug. Blood tests every few days for, I think, liver function. Plus vitamin K interactions. When the doc said he was putting Hubby on Coumadin, also known as Warfarin, I freaked. "You're giving my husband rat poison??" Doc was dismayed, "Oh, you know what that is." "Yes, I know what it is! And I know how it kills rats!" I made him give the full, "the patient and family have brains" explanation.
I swear, one of these times, you're gonna wake up in a coma.
Cordelia ,'Showtime'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
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.
Connie Neil - May 09, 2011 6:14:14 pm PDT #7648 of 30001
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Kat - May 09, 2011 6:28:50 pm PDT #7649 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Clots where they don't belong are bad.... (though clots when necessary are good).
Grace has surgery again tomorrow. Which blows as I don't have money this month nor time off. Yay furlough days?
We also received a note from Grace's teacher. The AAC assessor (who we requested to see Grace because we need help getting her to communicate more effectively...we know she CAN communicate, but she has no language right now) had a big suggestion. She said we should get rid of the trache and she'll just start talking.
OKAY.
Yes, I acknowledge if she didn't have a trache she would learn to talk faster. Just like she'd learn to swim faster. And maybe she might learn to eat faster too.
But seriously? You don't want to get the kid an iPad with communication software but you want us to pull her trache out.
Sigh.
And this woman works for the same outfit I do. Makes me distrust my colleagues.
brenda m - May 09, 2011 6:37:51 pm PDT #7650 of 30001
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
Good lord, Kat.
My friend has two boys with hearing problems who basically acquired no speech or language their first couple of years (he and his wife adopted them as toddlers). They're trying to fight the insurance company who won't pay for speech therapy because the coverage is for recovery of speech. Since they never properly learned...
§ ita § - May 09, 2011 6:46:58 pm PDT #7651 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Dick Grayson wants a hug. I love Cass.
Kat - May 09, 2011 6:47:05 pm PDT #7652 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Oh good LORD, Brenda. That's insane.
Sigh. I'm just....ugh.
Cass - May 09, 2011 6:54:49 pm PDT #7653 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Dick Grayson wants a hug.
That is adorable.
I love Cass.
And that's never going to stop being startling for a moment.
Steph L. - May 09, 2011 7:00:16 pm PDT #7654 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Dick Grayson wants a hug. I love Cass.
Beeee hee hee! I like Jay. ("I'll shoot you.")
§ ita § - May 09, 2011 7:05:11 pm PDT #7655 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You can be loved too Cass! And Cas! I feel munificent.
§ ita § - May 09, 2011 7:20:24 pm PDT #7656 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
When asked if they'd put Chris Brown on their cover, GQ tweeted: "Might be a while. It's Gentleman's Quarterly after all, not ironically-Named-Magazine-That-Knowingly-Puts-Domestic-Abusers-On-Its-Cover Quartlerly"
Trying to think of other perhaps alleged wife abusers that might have been on their cover. Sean Penn? Sean Connery? OJ Simpson? Wesley Snipes? Charlie Sheen? James Brown? John Daly? Ike Turner? Eminem? David Hasselhoff?
Matt the Bruins fan - May 09, 2011 7:26:08 pm PDT #7657 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
(I know that you and J. are smart people and know about drug/drug interactions, but Coumadin has some noteworthy food/drug interactions, and I tend to fret overmuch, so I just wanted to mention it.)
Yeah, Dad gave up broccoli and cabbage once he started taking Warfarin because he couldn't eat the same amount of it every day forever.