I'm not saying its impossible, but I haven't run across Guadalupe as a last name.
I wouldn't be surprised to see a Maria Guadalupe Sanchez (as in, Maria Guadalupe is her first name and Sanchez is her only last name). I have not run across Guadalupe as a last name either and I feel like my students all have urban spoon names (you know, it's like the same 25 names in different combinations) but I have taught in LA public schools in different neighborhoods for years now so I've seen lots of the variations.
OH! I can imagine a Maria DeGuadalupe, not named after the virgin but similar to Maria DeLeon.
I'm going to offer my non-specialist opinion and say that clean breaks are better, bon. Better than some crazy ass spiral fracture shit.
thank you all for words of sanity.
unsurprisingly unable to sleep. I have written checks for bills and am now doing the long overdue report to the adoption agency and I will finish and email my mother.
Happy birthday, Kat (or belated if you read this Friday morning)!
I am sorry, msbelle. That seems unhelpful even if they are concerned. I hope you can sleep soon.
Hope sleep finds you quickly, msbelle.
And Cass, hope you get some sleep too and get back some of those spoons.
Kat, that's helpful -- thanks!
Bon, I had a metal plate and 7 screws in my arm (I could have had a cast, not surgery, but I elected to have the surgery, as my ortho said my wrist mobility would be better and there would be a lessened chance of arthritis in the wrist as I got older.)
The surgery was out-patient; I wore a soft cast (bandages) over a half-splint with dressings underneath for 2 1/2 weeks, and then a removable velcro brace for 2 months. Let me tell you, in this heat and with my typing intensive job, being able to take the brace off to shower and scratch itches and exfoliate and put on lotion (gently and cautiously) was a GODSEND in this heat.
It all depends on the break and your ortho's recommendation, though.
done and done. one thing out of my head and off my plate and out of my mother's head.
Thanks, Strix! That is helpful. Meeting with ortho this morning.
Hope the ortho goes well, bon!
And yeah, msbelle, you do what you can. I'm disappointed; when you moved, I really hoped that your family would be able to be more support for you, not less.
(Oh, and as an aside, the SO did end up with a Dallas tour date: Aug. 11 at the International Linguistics Center.)
Which reminds me! Strix! Gudanov! quester! Other KC-ish types! I will be in your vicinity (sort of. Louisberg) Fri. August 3rd! I know it's a workday, but is there any chance of meeting up with all y'all for lunch somewhere? I will come to you. The show isn't until 7:30, but I will be just rejoining the tour, so I will want to help with setup and kiss my husband and stuff, so I'll be at the venue by the time workday stuff ends.
