Jacqueline

That's my middle name, but it always feels pretentious to pronounce it correctly. Except when I lived in Quebec. But there my totally simple last name always got a I added to it.

(Of course, the Americanized version of Jacqueline doesn't sound right either. If I have to say it I kind of split the difference. Basically I don't have a preferred pronunciation, just several non-preferred. For me, of course - for other people it doesn't ping me one way or another, whichever they prefer.)

I love the French pronunciation of Jacqueline, but always ask Jackwa-lin or Szhahcqwe-lean. A couple of Jacqueline's I have met didn't know there the original pronunciation.

I had a student who was a Balasubramanian, and she about fell over when I pronounced it right first day of class. But I had a Malaysian friend with that name in undergrad, and I thought it was a lyrical surname, and practiced it till I got it right.

Also, I've always said Sue-me-ko, not -ku. Good to know!

Hey, I can twitch my fingers on my bum paw now! And...hey! there's pain!

Okey-doke -- nighty-night all; nerve blocker is wearing off...

When I was leaving the ER yesterday, one of the nurses was all "Bye! See you soon!"

What are you supposed to say to that? She was really nice. First shift I had a new nurse, but we were soon swapping book recs when she saw my Nook. Second shift I got a nurse I actually thought was one of the...greeters. Volunteers...she looked like she was in her early 70s. I hope she's working because she wants to, not because she has to...anyway, she was taken aback by me, by my dosage, by the existence of my port ("It's just for...this?" "Ayup--because y'all asked so nice-like") And I basically got the side eye the whole time. And then..shit, I should remember her name, because she was all bouncy and upbeat, and tells me where she's been working since last time I'd seen her yadda yadda bonding bonding... and the older nurse is looking even more suspiciously at me by this bit.

Since my migraine doc re-sent the old letter with not just the dose but the method (it actually says 6mg push, but there's no way they'll administer 6mg at one anymore) to the head of the ER, a woman I'd had meetings with when I worked for the hospital--suddenly people are a lot nicer to me.

I sure hope it lasts! I get the correct medication, maybe not as close together as before, but they are pushing, as opposed to adding it to the saline bolus.

And, god, I have no idea how I'd face monday morning without stripping down the headache I spent a week building.

Played phone tag with the doctor's office for the occipital nerve block. I gotta get that taken care of. Stat.

Okay, I think my tummy stopped hurting, finally (can you OD on tums? If so...tell my family I love them , and sav gets the images on my network...) so I'm gonna have ice cream.

I'm glad they are giving the meds right, ita.

I don't know why but suddenly I'm so tired I could just plop. I should go to bed early.

My name may be unusual, but it never seemed like it should be that hard to pronounce. The problem is people don't believe it and hear what they want to here. So "Garson" got pronounced "Garfield" "Gary" "Garth" - 90% of people upon hearing my name could not get it right. So I finally decided to go with Gar, because when a name is even slightly unconventional, most people can't handle more than one syllable.

And my was xposted with Strix and ita ! medical updates . So I hope ita ! gets the nerve block soon and that it helps as much as you think it will. And I'm glad you got the meds you needed almost in the way you needed them. I hope the meds continue to work for you, Strix until you do not need them.

can you OD on tums?

It's quite difficult. I actually looked it up when the words "brain cancer" were used in proximity with my Dad.

So "Garson" got pronounced "Garfield" "Gary" "Garth" - 90% of people upon hearing my name could not get it right.

My brother Geoff sympathizes. Or rather, Garth, Goff, Goaf, Ghee-off, Gee-off, and/or Grof does.

ita, push matters so much better than with a saline bolus because of the time it takes? For Grace, being fed via bolus it has to be pushed because one cannot water her food down enough to flow via gravity and still maintain calories.

Blargh. I wish neither of us had a need to know this stuff.

I forgot to take Noah to school. I sat in a meeting with my principal where I was ruder than I should have been but adamant that a half-baked idea makes a crappy tasting cake.

Then I came home and packed up 80% of the clothes in my closet and most of my shoes. Blargh.

I need summer vacation to commence post haste.

Blargh. I wish neither of us had a need to know this stuff.

Seconded.