Monday, January 29, 2007
The world of dairy allergies
Luckily, Elena didn't have any trouble breathing during this reaction, but, she had us concerned for a while. The poor babysitter was feeding her yobaby and rice cereal when this happened. She almost called 911. Three days of Benadryl fixed the issue and no more yobaby for the next several months.
Monday, January 22, 2007
My Rant
People can be amazingly narrow in their views. Mainly, Christians who are oblivious to the world around them.
In my searching of media outlets today I saw a letter from a woman from Indiana Voice for the Family or something like that who is completely against making the HPV vaccine required for girls in Indiana, with the built in option for parents to opt-out of vaccinating their children without repercussion of their kids not being allowed to attend school.
They argue that it condones sexual activity and if their girls abstain from sex then they'll be safe.
One argument she did make was that there hadn't been enough research to make sure it was safe in the long-term. OK - I'll give her that point, but, there's been enough testing done that I myself will get the last round of dosage here in April.
Christians who believe that everyone is always truthful about their sexual past are absoltutely out of their minds. Even if their girls do abstain from sexual intercourse (which is getting less and less even for Christians) who is to say they won't have oral sex. A recent study said kids as young as 10 and 12 are performing oral sexual activities and having multiple partners in those activities still opens you up for exposure to HPV.
Parents who think their kids will 100 percent abstain from any and all sexual activity before having a life-time monogamous relationship are living in a dreamworld or sending their kids to universities that separate all interaction between the sexs (and I'm not talking single-sex education I'm talking the univ's who have seperate sidewalks for guys and girls and go to insane strides to keep them from never having physical contact with eachother).
Even then, when released to the outside world, how can they guarantee that their spouse will have abstained as well or will be honest about their sexual history?
But, the biggest reason to still vaccinate your girls againt this disease is that if you continue to live under the umbrella of 100 percent abstinence what if their spouse dies at a young age (I have several friends who have lost spouses before they were 50 due to accidents and cancer) and they remarry - what then?
All bets are off, especially if they marry a widower. How many people had his former wife been with and what if she hadn't been honest with him?????
That's the main reason I'm getting the vaccine myself. What if my husband suddenly dies and I find myself years down the road re-marrying? In addition, I can tell my children that I decided to do it for my health and I expect them to get the vaccine as well. The only conversation will be at what exact age and which sleeve they want to roll up.
Parents, please, don't find yourself in a few decades trying to explain why you felt it wasn't important to vaccinate your daughter against a cancer when she tells you she has cervical cancer and the doctor said it could have been 80+ percent prevented had her parents given her the three dose vaccine when she was 11. How will you explain that to her?
If you love your child you won't ignore the fact that sexual activity is seen younger and younger and you'll educate your children from a young age so they know how to respond when they see it. An educated child will make better choices than an oblivious one and that relationship and knowledge along with their fear of Jesus will keep them pure till they find the person they will spend the rest of their life with.
But even with that, the chances of having to re-marry or marrying someone who isn't 100 percent honest are too high not to protect them against that which you cannot control. And that thought should be enough for Christians to support the vaccine, not work against it.
Wake up, o men, to the world around you and do what you can to make the future for your children safer. And ladies, if you're under 26 please call your doctor to see if you can get yourself vaccinated to proctect you from the future unknowns.
La. Sra.
In my searching of media outlets today I saw a letter from a woman from Indiana Voice for the Family or something like that who is completely against making the HPV vaccine required for girls in Indiana, with the built in option for parents to opt-out of vaccinating their children without repercussion of their kids not being allowed to attend school.
They argue that it condones sexual activity and if their girls abstain from sex then they'll be safe.
One argument she did make was that there hadn't been enough research to make sure it was safe in the long-term. OK - I'll give her that point, but, there's been enough testing done that I myself will get the last round of dosage here in April.
Christians who believe that everyone is always truthful about their sexual past are absoltutely out of their minds. Even if their girls do abstain from sexual intercourse (which is getting less and less even for Christians) who is to say they won't have oral sex. A recent study said kids as young as 10 and 12 are performing oral sexual activities and having multiple partners in those activities still opens you up for exposure to HPV.
Parents who think their kids will 100 percent abstain from any and all sexual activity before having a life-time monogamous relationship are living in a dreamworld or sending their kids to universities that separate all interaction between the sexs (and I'm not talking single-sex education I'm talking the univ's who have seperate sidewalks for guys and girls and go to insane strides to keep them from never having physical contact with eachother).
Even then, when released to the outside world, how can they guarantee that their spouse will have abstained as well or will be honest about their sexual history?
But, the biggest reason to still vaccinate your girls againt this disease is that if you continue to live under the umbrella of 100 percent abstinence what if their spouse dies at a young age (I have several friends who have lost spouses before they were 50 due to accidents and cancer) and they remarry - what then?
All bets are off, especially if they marry a widower. How many people had his former wife been with and what if she hadn't been honest with him?????
That's the main reason I'm getting the vaccine myself. What if my husband suddenly dies and I find myself years down the road re-marrying? In addition, I can tell my children that I decided to do it for my health and I expect them to get the vaccine as well. The only conversation will be at what exact age and which sleeve they want to roll up.
Parents, please, don't find yourself in a few decades trying to explain why you felt it wasn't important to vaccinate your daughter against a cancer when she tells you she has cervical cancer and the doctor said it could have been 80+ percent prevented had her parents given her the three dose vaccine when she was 11. How will you explain that to her?
If you love your child you won't ignore the fact that sexual activity is seen younger and younger and you'll educate your children from a young age so they know how to respond when they see it. An educated child will make better choices than an oblivious one and that relationship and knowledge along with their fear of Jesus will keep them pure till they find the person they will spend the rest of their life with.
But even with that, the chances of having to re-marry or marrying someone who isn't 100 percent honest are too high not to protect them against that which you cannot control. And that thought should be enough for Christians to support the vaccine, not work against it.
Wake up, o men, to the world around you and do what you can to make the future for your children safer. And ladies, if you're under 26 please call your doctor to see if you can get yourself vaccinated to proctect you from the future unknowns.
La. Sra.
Friday, January 19, 2007
Percoset is my friend
So the last few weeks have been stressful and I though my mind was reaching a breaking point when I couldn't stand to read something for longer than about 5 seconds last week.
I was right. The migrane hit yesterday while I was in Auburn. So I did what I could to keep motions to a minimum so my blood pressure wouldn't go up and make it worse and I made it the 2.5 hours home. I called the husband to emphatically inform him of his need to be home soon after I arrived.
It wasn't horribly later after I got home that he did, which was nice. I crashed after one percoset and nursing the beast to sleep and the hubby took her so I could get some sleep. Once she was done eating later in the evening and had her bath I downed another 2 percoset with some milk (still didn't make the nasuea any less, unfortunately) fed the baby again and faded away into a percoset haze.
I seem to sleep pretty decently with the percoset, but not nearly as well as with the Relpax. That may be one of the best benefits of ending the nursing later in the year - I can have my sweet migrane drugs back. I never have better sleep than after taking a Relpax. Maybe they should use that as an off-label use.
Elena hasn't been eating as well as she had over the weekend, but I think it's getting better again. I've found the easiest way to get her to down the rice cereal and meet one of the solid food requirements is to mix the cereal with the YoBaby yogurt. She just sucks it down like candy.
Once that's down she only has to eat another 4-6 oz of solid food the rest of the day. That's pretty easy to do on a good day.
It's been a long week at work. I had to be on the road by 6 Tuesday and I have to be on the road by 5 tomorrow morning. This headache better be gone by tomorrow or I will have to resort to a Relpax and pump and dump for 12 hours. After 3 days of a headache my milk isn't golden anymore.
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O Tannenbaum
So our Christmas tree is still up and decorated. Before yall gripe at me for that, just know that when our basement flooded because of the stupid sprinkler people the box for our NINE footer tree got soaked and now has mold on it. So, I have to figure out what kind of tupperware tub to put the pieces in and exactly how many it will take to pack it away. Until then, it'll stay up waiting to be packed away.
It does irritate me a bit that it's still up, but what can a girl do when she's trying to afford a new furnace purchase for the next 6 months.
_________________
Go Bears!!!! Go Colts!!!!
Have a great and safe weekend and cheer on your favorite team!
La. Sra.
I was right. The migrane hit yesterday while I was in Auburn. So I did what I could to keep motions to a minimum so my blood pressure wouldn't go up and make it worse and I made it the 2.5 hours home. I called the husband to emphatically inform him of his need to be home soon after I arrived.
It wasn't horribly later after I got home that he did, which was nice. I crashed after one percoset and nursing the beast to sleep and the hubby took her so I could get some sleep. Once she was done eating later in the evening and had her bath I downed another 2 percoset with some milk (still didn't make the nasuea any less, unfortunately) fed the baby again and faded away into a percoset haze.
I seem to sleep pretty decently with the percoset, but not nearly as well as with the Relpax. That may be one of the best benefits of ending the nursing later in the year - I can have my sweet migrane drugs back. I never have better sleep than after taking a Relpax. Maybe they should use that as an off-label use.
Elena hasn't been eating as well as she had over the weekend, but I think it's getting better again. I've found the easiest way to get her to down the rice cereal and meet one of the solid food requirements is to mix the cereal with the YoBaby yogurt. She just sucks it down like candy.
Once that's down she only has to eat another 4-6 oz of solid food the rest of the day. That's pretty easy to do on a good day.
It's been a long week at work. I had to be on the road by 6 Tuesday and I have to be on the road by 5 tomorrow morning. This headache better be gone by tomorrow or I will have to resort to a Relpax and pump and dump for 12 hours. After 3 days of a headache my milk isn't golden anymore.
_________________
O Tannenbaum
So our Christmas tree is still up and decorated. Before yall gripe at me for that, just know that when our basement flooded because of the stupid sprinkler people the box for our NINE footer tree got soaked and now has mold on it. So, I have to figure out what kind of tupperware tub to put the pieces in and exactly how many it will take to pack it away. Until then, it'll stay up waiting to be packed away.
It does irritate me a bit that it's still up, but what can a girl do when she's trying to afford a new furnace purchase for the next 6 months.
_________________
Go Bears!!!! Go Colts!!!!
Have a great and safe weekend and cheer on your favorite team!
La. Sra.
Monday, January 15, 2007
Weight Check!
So we went in for a weight check on Elena today and in the past 3 days (since that's when we began feeding her almost every hour) she's gained 8 ounces.
Yes, that's right - HALF A POUND!!!!!
We go in next Monday again for another check so hopefully it'll be gggrrrreat!
But, today she wasn't into eating much or being put down so she basically ate nothing but the breastmilk - but I was able to get her to eat 4 oz of yobaby pear yogurt. And the nurse OK'd the pedialyte and water mixture for as much as Elena wanted to consume.
Here's hoping she eats more tomorrow with Martha or next week won't be pretty.
La. Sra.
Yes, that's right - HALF A POUND!!!!!
We go in next Monday again for another check so hopefully it'll be gggrrrreat!
But, today she wasn't into eating much or being put down so she basically ate nothing but the breastmilk - but I was able to get her to eat 4 oz of yobaby pear yogurt. And the nurse OK'd the pedialyte and water mixture for as much as Elena wanted to consume.
Here's hoping she eats more tomorrow with Martha or next week won't be pretty.
La. Sra.
Dear Blogger Administrators
I'm sorry to have bothered you with a mess up.
I was having no luck with with the tool bar at the top of my page and by accident I flagged my own blog as objectionable. Please forgive me and please undo whatever I did to flag myself. In the future it would be helpful if you had an e-mail account to contact you when things like this happen.
Thank you for the help (if you ever get to reading this).
La. Sra.
I was having no luck with with the tool bar at the top of my page and by accident I flagged my own blog as objectionable. Please forgive me and please undo whatever I did to flag myself. In the future it would be helpful if you had an e-mail account to contact you when things like this happen.
Thank you for the help (if you ever get to reading this).
La. Sra.
Sunday, January 14, 2007
Laid back Sunday
Today was my MILs birthday so my SIL was in town and the tio y tia came over and we had Olive Garden for lunch. It was good and we have had so few dinners out since Elena was born it was kind of a treat instead of 'the usual'.
We also tensly sat through the Bears game. It was amazingly painful but at least they pulled it off. I'm also glad the Colts and Saints won last night. That'll make for some great festivities in the next couple of weeks. I'm just glad that the Bears or Saints will be going to the Super Bowl. So long as Peyton doesn't choke again next week we'll be having a bigol party on the 4th!!!!
And after Gould's 48 yarder JoPa should be singing and toasting in Collegetown Pa. for dinner.
And, any of you looking for a good drinking game for the next couple of weeks every time a Chevy commercial with Mellancamp's song comes on take a shot of your favorite hard liquor. Anyone still able to walk after the first quarter has my kudos.
Go BEARS!!!!!!
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Weighty situation
So I'm back on weight watchers as I got my calculator fixed this week. Stupid dead batteries. Hopefully the weight will finally begin to come off but that, unfortunately, isn't the biggest weight issue in the house.
Elena is still losing weight. We had a ton of blood and other excretory tests run last week and come to find out she's got a UTI/Bladder infection on top of the weight loss.
So after finding out the results of the test and our doctor doing a consult with a peditrician in SB, we are basically feeding the beast every hour.
Here's what she has to have in the course of a day:
Minimum 25 oz of breastmilk
PLUS
4-6 Tbs. of rice cereal
PLUS
a minimum of 8 oz of solid (ok it's pureed but it started off solid) food
She's also been downing about 8 oz of H2O mixed with pedialyte (the only way she's willing to take water anymore) and the doctor said nothing about that so I'll ask if she wants us to continue that practice tomorrow when we go in for another weight check.
I'll let you know how it goes, but she already feels like she's gaining weight but that could just be the constipation from the change in diet.
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Garcia Invasion begins
Coming in March to a Paraguay near you!!!! Elena!!!!
She's being baptized in Tobati (for more info on Tobati go to www.teamtobati.org) toward the end of the month so we just got the tickets booked this weekend. Elena's got her own seat from Chi town down to the end, but they were appearantly going to charge us 400 extra for her to have her own seat from SB to Chigaco (total of an hour in the air!) so guess who's going lap style for those flights.
I'm not sure Elena will be happy once we get to Asuncion as there will probably be about 50 people there ready to love all over her and after 24 hours of traveling who knows what kind of mood she'll be in.
I'm not taking the big camera as it would be a theft target so I'm taking the little camera we have but I don't think I'll have the Mac, but, thankfully, my BIL will be down there with his school kids and uploads photos and info to the Team Tobati website while they're there so I'll try and post some photos from the trip while I'm down there for your enjoyment.
Sunshine, here we come!!!!!!
_________________________
Tomorrow's a holiday for us and I think I'm going to try and get all our laundry done. Elena's stuff is clean, but not put away and I've got a couple of weeks for the two of us and I haven't been able to do much house work lately. I hope I can make the most of my day off after taking 3 hours out of the day to go to the doctor.
Hope everyone had a great weekend.
La. Sra.
We also tensly sat through the Bears game. It was amazingly painful but at least they pulled it off. I'm also glad the Colts and Saints won last night. That'll make for some great festivities in the next couple of weeks. I'm just glad that the Bears or Saints will be going to the Super Bowl. So long as Peyton doesn't choke again next week we'll be having a bigol party on the 4th!!!!
And after Gould's 48 yarder JoPa should be singing and toasting in Collegetown Pa. for dinner.
And, any of you looking for a good drinking game for the next couple of weeks every time a Chevy commercial with Mellancamp's song comes on take a shot of your favorite hard liquor. Anyone still able to walk after the first quarter has my kudos.
Go BEARS!!!!!!
_______________________
Weighty situation
So I'm back on weight watchers as I got my calculator fixed this week. Stupid dead batteries. Hopefully the weight will finally begin to come off but that, unfortunately, isn't the biggest weight issue in the house.
Elena is still losing weight. We had a ton of blood and other excretory tests run last week and come to find out she's got a UTI/Bladder infection on top of the weight loss.
So after finding out the results of the test and our doctor doing a consult with a peditrician in SB, we are basically feeding the beast every hour.
Here's what she has to have in the course of a day:
Minimum 25 oz of breastmilk
PLUS
4-6 Tbs. of rice cereal
PLUS
a minimum of 8 oz of solid (ok it's pureed but it started off solid) food
She's also been downing about 8 oz of H2O mixed with pedialyte (the only way she's willing to take water anymore) and the doctor said nothing about that so I'll ask if she wants us to continue that practice tomorrow when we go in for another weight check.
I'll let you know how it goes, but she already feels like she's gaining weight but that could just be the constipation from the change in diet.
____________________
Garcia Invasion begins
Coming in March to a Paraguay near you!!!! Elena!!!!
She's being baptized in Tobati (for more info on Tobati go to www.teamtobati.org) toward the end of the month so we just got the tickets booked this weekend. Elena's got her own seat from Chi town down to the end, but they were appearantly going to charge us 400 extra for her to have her own seat from SB to Chigaco (total of an hour in the air!) so guess who's going lap style for those flights.
I'm not sure Elena will be happy once we get to Asuncion as there will probably be about 50 people there ready to love all over her and after 24 hours of traveling who knows what kind of mood she'll be in.
I'm not taking the big camera as it would be a theft target so I'm taking the little camera we have but I don't think I'll have the Mac, but, thankfully, my BIL will be down there with his school kids and uploads photos and info to the Team Tobati website while they're there so I'll try and post some photos from the trip while I'm down there for your enjoyment.
Sunshine, here we come!!!!!!
_________________________
Tomorrow's a holiday for us and I think I'm going to try and get all our laundry done. Elena's stuff is clean, but not put away and I've got a couple of weeks for the two of us and I haven't been able to do much house work lately. I hope I can make the most of my day off after taking 3 hours out of the day to go to the doctor.
Hope everyone had a great weekend.
La. Sra.
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