Xander, don't speak Latin in front of the books!

Giles ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'


Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet  

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.


tommyrot - Nov 20, 2012 8:59:41 am PST #1592 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

October Was 332nd Consecutive Globally Warm Month

Twenty-seven or younger? Then you’ve never experienced a month in which the global temperature has been colder than average, according to the latest data from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Scary.


Jessica - Nov 20, 2012 9:01:05 am PST #1593 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Forgive me, but I'm going to wait for the UK life on Mars, if you don't mind.

LIKE.

I totally bribe Dylan to read books, and so does his school. (At school, reading earns points which can be exchanged for "Bee Bucks" which the kids can use to buy Bee Buck things like pencils and stickers and whatnot. At home, every ten books earns a toy from the mystery bag.)

it's the prettiest damned phone I've held/seen in a while

That's my next phone, unless my lizard brain talks me into the Note 2 instead. Which is a really impractical phone but a gorgeous little tablet, and it's not like I use my phone for making calls anyway...


Jesse - Nov 20, 2012 9:01:39 am PST #1594 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

It really does surprise me how many different staff configurations you get at the hospital, given you're pretty much there at the same time each week, right? Is it because it's a shift that people don't want? Or do ERs not have the kind of regular weekly schedules that jobs like mine have?

I am still not at the part yet where this isn't a v. generous gift of e-readers to everyone...

I don't even know what that means. (I mean, I do now that I've googled.)


Scrappy - Nov 20, 2012 9:10:54 am PST #1595 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

I just got this case for my new iPhone: [link] and it is so purty. Every time I use my phone, I feel like petting it. It was pricey, but I tend to knock things around, so a good case was called for.


Kat - Nov 20, 2012 9:12:57 am PST #1596 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Kat, if it's not the wrong (and never right) time to ask, what are the goals of this procedure specifically?

Each time it's a larynoscopy and bronchoscopy. So technically it is just to look. But they are checking the size of the opening. Doc also either dilates or lasers scar tissue. Ultimately we hope for decannulation. Sigh. I would like for this to be a faster process but oh well.


Jesse - Nov 20, 2012 9:27:18 am PST #1597 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Better slow but done well, right? Still, ugh.


Kat - Nov 20, 2012 9:34:18 am PST #1598 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I totally agree. Except we do this every 8-10 weeks and we have been doing it for two years now. As Grace gets older it gets harder because she is more aware and she gets way more upset.


Jesse - Nov 20, 2012 9:35:17 am PST #1599 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Yeah, that sounds terrible for everyone.


Kat - Nov 20, 2012 9:40:18 am PST #1600 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

The fun part is Grace is totally princess of the procedures unit. They love her as does admitting. Today there was a crowd in her room watching her play a game on the iPad.


Jessica - Nov 20, 2012 9:42:14 am PST #1601 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Poor noodle. I was in and out of hospitals constantly at that age until I was about 8, and I remember it getting easier when I got to an age where the gross medical stuff started to get interesting. (And by the time I was 6 I had mastered the art of riding my IV pole as a scooter down the halls, which the nurses loved...good times, good times!)