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Sadiesmom
Member
03-13-2002
| Tuesday, March 27, 2018 - 8:11 pm 
I think this show hits me in my comfort zone.
This case how hard to push someone to work with a medical issue,
I have been in the place where I was told to back off by a wife when I kept pushing her to tell her husband's doctor he was taking over the counter diet pills he was taking an antibiotic and it wasn't working, over the counter diet pills affect antibiotics working. I backed off and her husband never walked again.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Wednesday, March 28, 2018 - 9:05 am
Can hardly wait for the new season.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Thursday, March 29, 2018 - 6:20 am
Me neither! 
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Knightpatti
Member
12-05-2001
| Saturday, March 31, 2018 - 9:09 pm
So touching!
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Tuesday, October 16, 2018 - 9:56 am
Last night's episode, for those of us with abandonment issues, was extremely triggering and twice as sad. But I do love this show even if it gave me a good cry last night.
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Legalboxer
Member
11-17-2003
| Tuesday, October 16, 2018 - 11:35 am
I thought it was the best episode yet.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Tuesday, October 16, 2018 - 12:04 pm
It was a WONDERFUL ep. But having been in the Foster Care System as a kid, it hit just too close to 'home' for me, on several levels. Pun intended.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, October 16, 2018 - 1:59 pm
The way Dr. Melendez looked at his sister, my heart could not take it.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Wednesday, October 17, 2018 - 1:40 am
I know. My eyes were sore from all the tears I shed during that ep!!!
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Friday, November 23, 2018 - 3:02 pm
I didn't like the gold fish sub-plot.
They buy this goldfish and put it in a very small bowl.
Shawn's girlfriend call Shawn and tells him the fish is bored. He needs a castle in his bowl. (There is barely room for the fish)}
The fish dies before Shawn got home. The girlfriend cries. Shawn sends in an expensive parasite test to see why it died.
It was positive for some parasite.
The fish could have easily died from being in a small bowl with the water getting contaminated by fish urine.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Friday, November 23, 2018 - 3:30 pm
Yes goldfish need a lot of space (contrary to what people used to do in the old days when they'd stick them in a small bowl).
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Sadiesmom
Member
03-13-2002
| Friday, November 23, 2018 - 5:42 pm
I had two gold fish in that sized bowl in the day (1950's), the gold fish grows bigger the bigger the bowl size. My gold fish lived for 2 years but I was not really doing anything but feeding it my mother washed the bowl once a week while the fish had the bathroom sink to swim in. I don't think they died a natural death. I was only in 1st grade when they died. My parents gave me a 4 inch plastic giraffe to substitute for the fish. Then I had a cat that got lost when my grandfather took it for a walk, he did not like pets. then I had a dog that died when my grandfather took it for a walk when it was just a puppy. death was a big part of my childhood. We did not get any other pets until my grandfather moved out.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Saturday, November 24, 2018 - 8:59 am
Goldfish are quite amazing. If they have lots of space they live quite a while and get big (and I mean big). If I remember right, a forty gallon tank is about the minimum for two goldfish. They’re also remarkably intelligent (for a fish). My DD had a fish tank for a few years and we considered getting goldfish. It’s now a fine hamster residence. 
By the way, I’m not picking on anyone. I used to have a goldfish in a bowl when I was little. We just weren’t aware of all this stuff back then.
Your grandfather sounds terrifying.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Saturday, November 24, 2018 - 12:48 pm
We had goldfish and one named Goldie ended up in an aquarium with tropical fish. She decided that the catfish routine was for her, so she would graze along the bottom as if she was a scavenger, then dart to water surface, as if she needed air.
She was considerably larger that her fellow fish.
One weekend morning, my brother and I discovered Goldie with a catfish stuck in her mouth! My dad got a rude awakening, but he did manage to get the (deceased) catfish extricate and Goldie was ok.
We figured that she was doing her grazing and he was doing his catfish vacuuming and he swam into her big mouth and his whiskers got him stuck!
I watch Dr K (Susan Kelleher, DVM) who has an Avian and Exotic Pet veterinary practice in Florida and she has actually done surgery on goldfish, and explained why a goldfish might be stuck at the bottom of a tank or might be on its side.. Swim bladder problems.
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Sadiesmom
Member
03-13-2002
| Saturday, November 24, 2018 - 2:25 pm
you made me Look Jimmer
Tips on Keeping Goldfish in a Bowl
it says two small fish to a gallon bowl and they are fine in tap water but you have to take the chlorine out - which, well, I don't think we had chlorine in our hard hard tap water back then until my parents got a water softener decades later. I know they did not get fluoride in water until the 60's. Our bowl was about a gallon, and as I said my mother religiously cleaned it but it was odd that both fish died the same time. On a positive note, my grandfather moved out after he remarried when I was 12 and the family got another dog who lived until he was 16.
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Tuesday, November 27, 2018 - 10:01 am
Not to harp on the subject, but the gold fish is still in trouble.
It looks like they got a bigger bowl, but they filled it too full. You want to have as much water surface/air contact as possible, which is in the middle of the bowl.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Wednesday, November 28, 2018 - 9:28 am
Enjoyed Shawn learning to drive.
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Babyjaxmom
Member
10-20-2002
| Wednesday, November 28, 2018 - 11:12 am
I found that very interesting. As I've mentioned before, our son has ASD and is 18. We got his permit and attempted to teach him to drive, but all we were ever able to do is drive in parking lots and around our quiet suburban neighborhood to practice. He is terrified to drive on the street. He is like Shawn. If anything unexpected should happen, he would panic and freeze up. He says he has a hard time telling how far away things are from the car (spatial awareness issues?), so he is totally nervous behind the wheel. We've given up for now.
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Sadiesmom
Member
03-13-2002
| Monday, December 03, 2018 - 9:32 pm
heck of a dangling plot to be continued 1/15/19
ps buzzing lights drive me nuts, can't believe everyone can't hear them and and see the flickering. I used to bring in an incandescent to my desk.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, December 04, 2018 - 12:31 am
The light was making me crazy too.
And all those cliffhangers!
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Tuesday, December 04, 2018 - 5:29 pm
I hope they replay this episode before they start up again in January.
My memory will not last that long.
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Babyjaxmom
Member
10-20-2002
| Wednesday, December 05, 2018 - 12:01 pm
I hear ya, Dogdoc! I have the same problem.
That was an intense episode for sure. Not exactly your typical cheery little holiday episode! 
It was a good one, though. I knew when the EMT started flirting with the female doc (forgot her name) that he was going to die. Also knew the marrow donor was stuck in the ER. Why would he go to the ER???
We figured out it was going to be a cliffhanger. I hate those! If we'd known it was going to be a two parter, we would have saved it and watched them both together.
Hope my memory holds up till Jan. 14th!
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Spunky
Member
10-07-2001
| Friday, December 07, 2018 - 9:28 am
I stopped watching this show but I was curious to see the last episode because a preview caught my attention and I really liked it, a very different episode with lots of cliffhangers and for sure I'll wait for the next one, when? In February?? He also must have been infected and I wondered if the infection was causing Shawn a worsening of his syndrome and that's why he kept hearing the noise and lost concentration. From the 'savant' doctor he became a patient and no one around able to help him, surely a horrific cliffhanger but we'll know rescue will come in the new season.
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Babyjaxmom
Member
10-20-2002
| Friday, December 07, 2018 - 12:35 pm
I think the buzzing light was just a symptom of his autism. That along with the fact that his routine was disrupted, his lunch wasn't the way he likes it (believe me, this is a big deal to a person on the spectrum), Shawn has just reached his limit. Our son is very much like him. He is very sensitive to certain noises and environments.
The show returns Jan. 14th.
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Sadiesmom
Member
03-13-2002
| Friday, December 07, 2018 - 1:48 pm
the buzzing sound comes from broken lights. they can be replaced. Yes, autistic people are sensitive to sound, but a lot of us hear it, just like a lot of us are driven nuts by the flickering light from florescence. I don't know why some hear it and others not? too much rock music? my brother who played in a band can't hear so many sounds. But he does not think of himself as deaf.
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