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Auntiemike
Member
09-17-2001
| Friday, April 23, 2004 - 9:18 am
Tabby, I am sickened when I hear about children, who have to rely on trusting the adults in their lives for their safety, being hurt or killed. How tragic that the simple act of putting on a seat belt could have saved their lives. I see cars with "loose" children in my community and I want to pull them over and ask the adults, "don't you know how dangerous it is?" "Do you even care?" My sympathies to the families of those precious children. It is truly the responsibility of each and every parent or adult in the lives of a child to keep them safe and protect them. Bah humbug. On a brighter note, I am excited as all four of our children will be spending the night with friends tonight and DH and I get to go to a very fancy restaurant for dinner and then......hmmmmm....whatever else suits our fancy! Yahoo!!!
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Lucy
Member
10-08-2002
| Friday, April 23, 2004 - 9:38 am
Right now, not to bring this thread down even more, but there was another SOCCER GOAL ACCIDENT in my area yesterday. A 12 year old boy was hanging from an unsecured, steel-pipe goal during school hours and it fell on him. He died shortly after from his injuries.
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Friday, April 23, 2004 - 9:39 am
Right now I'm heading off for a hectic work weekend on the east coast -- from the west (Vancouver) to the northeast (Toronto) to the south (Orlando) in three days!
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Friday, April 23, 2004 - 10:00 am
Right now Lucy, NO>>>> that is what happened to a boy in dd 1st grade class last spring...
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Lucy
Member
10-08-2002
| Friday, April 23, 2004 - 10:17 am
Right now, Reader, I was thinking about you and your daughter when I heard this latest news. Just a reminder to everyone that unsecured goals are still a huge safety risk.
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Pcakes2
Member
08-29-2001
| Friday, April 23, 2004 - 11:26 am
Right now, I am counting my "loot" from a sales contest we had at work. For every $1000 sold last month you got 1 ticket. Tickets were then randomly drawn. All the prizes are small gift certificates. I ended up with: $10 Gap gift certificate $10 car wash gift certificate $10 target gift certificate another $10 Gap gift certificate $10 Home Depot gift certificate We have a new coworker, and he only had 1 ticket in the drawing (I had 75)...it was getting down to the end of the drawing, and I was pulled again, so I let him pick it...he got a $10 Home Depot gift certificate.
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Friday, April 23, 2004 - 11:54 am
right now, pcakes, i wasn't working, but i wasn't playing either. i had a nosebleed (thanks to the wind yesterday and my allergies) that wouldn't stop. boss found a styptic pencil, and we used that to stop it. i absolutely hate allergy season
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Pcakes2
Member
08-29-2001
| Friday, April 23, 2004 - 12:06 pm
right now, I have a visual of a styptic pencil up Landi's nose and I'm hoping that she's okay. This has been a horrible allergy season.
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Deesandy
Member
08-12-2003
| Friday, April 23, 2004 - 12:44 pm
Right now my dd has had 13 hours of vomiting. This could go on for four days we were told. Tabby, I am doing my best to keep her hydrated.
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Friday, April 23, 2004 - 4:18 pm
right now, lunk, you can eat many tasty soft foods as you get used to and less sore from your dentures (or multiple tooth extractions). scrambled eggs, garlic mashed potatoes, sauteed mushrooms, etc. you don't have to settle for cottage cheese and applesauce! dee, sorry dd has been sick for so long. when my son was hospitalized with salmonella poisoning at age 3, he had lost 4 of his 32 pounds in 24 hours! he was so dehydrated, they had to do a cut-down to find a vein. it took him over a year to regain the weight he lost! i had to take him to the doctor's 3 times in one day just to be weighed. when he was down more than 10% of his total weight they sent us right to the hospital. a pediatrician there said to just take him home. i insisted they take his temp before we left because he had been on tylenol for 24 hours with no effect. the man got royally pissed. we waited. a nurse came in about half an hour later and asked why were still there. i told her i wasn't leaving until they took ds's temp. well, she took it and ran for the doctor. his temp was 105.7 my husband ran so fast, he passed her in the hallway and burst into the doctor's office and grabbed him by the collar and said, "you WILL admit my son NOW!" the nurses all cheered. doctor did whatever we wanted after that!
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Friday, April 23, 2004 - 4:20 pm
and not to excuse the driver in the accident yesterday, but the girls who died were in their early teens--they knew enough to belt themselves in.
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Friday, April 23, 2004 - 4:21 pm
Right now, I am reflecting on the signs I am not to get my dental work down. I got a whole two hours of sleep last night. I called the bus folks to recheck the route and detours. I was given incorrect information, but was able to figure it out. I got to the dentist office at 8:05. I sat down on a bench on the outside, and realized the place looked pretty dark and quiet for having been open for an hour. I peer in through the door, and discover NO ONE is in there, except two employees in the record room. I decide to go in and update my paperwork, and the door is locked. I ring the bell and bang on the door. Nothing. I am doing this until 8:35, when I begin having a panic attack. I'm crying, shaking and hyperventilating. Still no luck getting anyone's attention. A woman walking by stopped and sat down with me to work on calming me down. I tell her the situation. She pulls out her cell phone, and calls the office. She has to leave a message. Someone who works there (we think) came up and asked if we needed anything. She again explains the information and says that the office won't be open until 1PM. I start falling apart. She calms me down, and I finally manage to center myself. I then walked over to Valley Hospital to visit a friend who had pins and plates put into her broken ankles yesterday. Before heading up to her room, I called DH and told him what was going on--in case they called asking where I was. I bought her a stiffened silk rose and loaned her a charged stone with "Healing" on it. We sat and talked about the practical stuff. When I left, she felt a lot better. I sat waiting for the bus, still focusing on being calm, and climbed on the bus when it arrived. I sat near the front, and met a very interesting guy who makes necklaces out of crystals and shells, for $5. I got his contact info, and, at some point, I do want to buy one. At the stop at Bonanza and Lamb, I started feeling really nauseous. I asked the driver if I were to get a transfer, could I use it to get back on the bus to come home. His reply: Not a problem. I went into Albertsons, was sick, and the returning to the bus stop. The bus showed up 20 minutes later, and I was told that I couldn't take the bus under CAT rules with the transfer and, natch, I had no extra tokens. So I exited the bus and began the two mile trudge home with my bags. It took me an hour; not the greatest speed, but since I had no hat or water, plus hauling the bags, I was content with that. I got home and called the dentist office. I broke down into hysterics as I was explaining the morning disasters. I was informed by the young woman on the phone that "all patients were notified that the office would be closed in the morning." I told her that I was not notified and I had the phone records to prove it. She said that I should have been notified, but that things were a bit chaotic. I was losing my tenuous grasp on my composure, so DH took the phone away, pointed out my state of mind, and started questioning the situation. He came away with the information that Doctor Brown left the practice yesterday afternoon, and the offices were falling apart. So, I begin looking for a new dentist. I then called the bus people to find out about the transfers. The gentleman who spoke with me told me that that is the policy. I told him that next time I would not leave the bus to be physically ill--I would just do it on the bus. His reply: "Well, ma'am, do what you need to do." So, now I look for a new dentist. UGH!
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Friday, April 23, 2004 - 4:23 pm
Right now, I am drinking some Pinot Grigio, sort of cooking dinner and having a great email debate with some girlfriends of mine on living together without the benefit of marriage!!! AND the boy is cleaning his room and doing his laundry!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Ddr
Member
08-19-2001
| Friday, April 23, 2004 - 4:43 pm
Oh sorry you had such an awful day Lkunkel. Your poor dear.
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Friday, April 23, 2004 - 4:46 pm
ooh, lkunk, i wish you were near me. i would take you anywhere you wanted to go for your treatments and i would go in with you for the consult and surgeries. (most oral surgeons/general dentists let me in since i worked in surgery for so long. i have gone with friends and my own kids, too.) this is not looking good. try to find an entire new office. explain some of your difficulties and setbacks to them, and i'll bet they will go out of their way to make it all so much easier for you. believe it or not, some of us really do care about the patient and not the paycheck!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, April 23, 2004 - 5:12 pm
Right now, I wish I could reach through the screen and give LK a big hug. I am so sorry that you had such a miserable day. I am sure you are going to find a new dentist that will be even better than this last one and make you feel more at ease. Texannie, I am waiting but soon I will be pouring some Pinot Grigio too and relaxing after this long week. Maybe as soon as I plop down with the wine glass in hand, Pacey will decide to come home!
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Friday, April 23, 2004 - 5:20 pm
Right Now I wish LK lived here. I have the absolute most best dentist in the world. Really. He can do a root canal, or pull teeth, and not even send you home on any pain pills. When I had my root canal done, my boss even insisted I would need to take the next day off too, since I would be home/in pain/on drugs at least the whole day (and he was a fuddy duddy that didn't give a damn about his employees, so for him to insist this was huge). So, I had a nice day off with no pain, no drugs, and no boss!
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Friday, April 23, 2004 - 7:39 pm
Right now all of you are making me feel a whole lot better. I got some rest, and that helped. Thank you everyone!
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Friday, April 23, 2004 - 7:43 pm
I have a great dentist here!
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Friday, April 23, 2004 - 8:17 pm
lkunkel, remember, right now, that everything happens for a reason. look at that dentist quitting yesterday. had you started with him, he would have left you in the lurch. it may be frustrating right now, but things will work out and they will be for the better! i know you want it done 'now', but it has been something that needed to be done for more than a few years, right? so, if it takes two months rather than one to make it all right, you will still be better off, don't you think? i know things will work for you... hugs to you.
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Friday, April 23, 2004 - 8:48 pm
Lk, I admire you, you got thru it, and you came and posted about it all in the same day!! THREE CHEERS - - Hip hip HOOORAY... Hip Hip HOORAY... GOOOOOOOO LK< GO LK GO!!! Your day had some very good bright spots, look at all the kindnesses shown you, you focused on those positives!! WTG!! Now lets belly up to this wine bar and get us some of that there Pinot Grigio!!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, April 23, 2004 - 8:57 pm
Right now, I just got a wonderful card from Herck and I am so thankful for all the wonderful people here at TVCH that have helped me through my kitty being gone. And I am really thankful for this Pinot Grigio right about now! lol
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Friday, April 23, 2004 - 9:05 pm
Tabby: You're right. I am glad. Apparently Dr. Brown's decision to leave was sudden and unexpected. I can likely still get the procedures done before classes start in June. I was just still in panic mode earlier and wasn't thinking clearly. But considering that I spent from 7:15AM to 1:30PM trying to deal with all of it and get home, I guess my stress level was just a tad high. I also learned about a place the "specializes in nervous patients" right around the corner from me--in fact, I passed it while I was walking home. I sent them a rather lengthy email explaining my current diagnosis, panic attacks, etc. They also do payment plans, which will definitely make my mom happy. The office also has an oral surgeon in the same building, and they are open 7 days a week. My fingers are crossed. Thanks again, everyone. Your support really helped me get through this.
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Friday, April 23, 2004 - 10:14 pm
right now, lkunk, when one door closes, another opens. maybe it's meant for you to be closer to home!
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Friday, April 23, 2004 - 10:14 pm
Oh wow LK. Did you just learn of that place when you passed it walking home? That right there must be the reason you had to walk home. I love it when things work out like that. It sort of tells me there is something/someone out there greater than ourselves actually looking out for us.
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