OMG. webinars are the worst.
Gimme some milk.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
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.
le nubian - Sep 30, 2013 11:09:09 am PDT #7349 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Laura - Sep 30, 2013 11:14:12 am PDT #7350 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Holding your sister and loved ones in my thoughts, Burrell.
Kat - Sep 30, 2013 11:20:36 am PDT #7351 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I took Grace to UCLA today to see her pulmonologist and had an interesting appointment. She is ordering a cap for trache (MEEP) and we need to go for another sleep study, but it needs to happen while she is capped (MEEP).
I also know have the results of the swallow study that was done in March so we can officially feed her. Good to know as I have been feeding her yogurt forever. We are basically pureeing food down to baby food thickness along with some chunks. I want to have her admitted to an in-patient feeding clinic for two weeks where they will starve her/torture her with a spoon/teach her to eat so we could be without a G-tube, but it has to happen before she's 7. And I don't even know how to do it. Maybe talk to my pediatrician?
Jesse - Sep 30, 2013 11:20:41 am PDT #7352 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Absolutely! Isn't the whole point of Webinars to allow participants to only vaguely pay attention in the privacy of their own spaces as opposed to bringing people together to only vaguely pay attention in a meeting?
I thought so! This one doesn't even have the opportunity for interaction AND has the most jargon I've heard in a long time.
Kat - Sep 30, 2013 11:21:22 am PDT #7353 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
It sounds like traffic school, Jesse, but without the timer on the screen that won't release you until X minutes pass.
Jesse - Sep 30, 2013 11:21:41 am PDT #7354 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Wow, Kat! That sounds like a lot of scary but worthwhile stuff.
§ ita § - Sep 30, 2013 11:29:59 am PDT #7355 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
All strength to your sister and your family, Burrell.
And to Grace, Kat. That's exciting stuff!
Kat - Sep 30, 2013 11:36:03 am PDT #7356 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
It is. Grace is growing and changing. Where I used to worry about Grace physically, now I'm totally worried about Grace academically. ARGH. I need someone else to parent her for a while and I need to be Fun!Mom instead of Study Your Math!Mom or Why Are You Only Getting 60% on Reading Stuff Mom.
Actually, it would be totally groovy to not worry about Grace at all, but that's impossible.
Noah has also learned how to read Bar Graphs, Line Charts and Tables thanks to Khan Academy. He gets super impatient with the videos, though.
Theodosia - Sep 30, 2013 11:39:18 am PDT #7357 of 30000
'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"
Thinking of you and your family, Burrell.
My brother's nephew went through a lot of the same issues as Grace, poor boo, with additional woe for facial reconstruction surgery, and I had a fascinating conversation with his mother -- it had never occurred to me that if you don't learn it at an early age, eating food can be rather non-intuitive, even frightening, not to mention 'gross' to the child. But they can and do get over it, so strength to Grace.
Dana - Sep 30, 2013 11:40:07 am PDT #7358 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Is there any point in posting a Snopes link on the FB of a family friend, pointing out that her copy-pasted screed against Obamacare isn't actually factual?
I know the answer is "No", but I had to ask.