Holy crap woman!

• Epidural or not? - First timer
  • DEFINITELY yes to the epidural. I think they were invented - by God himself.
  • No Epidural - QA editor
  • No epidural if you can do without, and you can. JMHO. nm - Tired
    • true, buit it hurts!....nm - ()
    • very true!.......nm - ()
  • I had natural childbirth in 1974. 9 lb. baby. Ask for - epidural and don't worry. :)
  • Only thing I have to add to below is to ask if you have a tattoo on your back sm - HappyFlaMT
    • So what kind of anesthesia is available for a gal with - a tattoo on her back? ... GaMT ... nm
  • My experience - Steph
  • go in with open mind - mt
  • As you can see from all these posts, - ()
  • hmm, well let me tell my side of this story.. - Gina
    • Holy crap woman! - MT
    • God bless you,. what a jerk doctor with Kelcie...nm - ()
    • Boy, that anesthesiologist when you were having Kelcie - Backwards typist
  • My experience - Mom 2x
  • I have 2 children. The first, a boy, - ()
  • My experiences sm - Mommy a lot
    • May I just say....sm - PAMT~MDM
  • Ask your OB about an intrathecal - fiddlestix
  • My own experience - AnnuderMT
    • I, too, had both of my kids (now 24 and 25) the - vn
  • They really are not that bad - sm - Laura E.
    • I have had no ill-effects or complications - sm - Laura E.
  • I wouldn't stress. - babymama
    • You are right, everyone different - Mamma
  • SM - KidsX2
    • My first was induced too but - sm - Laura E.

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Wow, you know your spiders!  It was indeed a garden spider...Argiope.  Website does indeed say they are harmless but I don't believe that for a second!  Fangs were as huge as my head they were!

I just went out and documented the whole fiasco as best as I could...therapy really.  I found the spider and took a picture of "her."  Apparently only the ladies get this big.  As I was taking pictures, I found 3 more!!!  That's 1 spider per square foot!!  You can read about it here: http://www.perin.org/Residents/Ellie.html and just scroll down until you see "August 2007." 

I'm gonna go type now because it makes me feel safe.  Yep, 2 beers into me, nursing a third, and I'm hittin' the keys.  Should be interesting.  

I wish I'd been back in NY to see Spamalot when it first came out on Broadway last year....we don't make that kinda money, honey.  Cat

I almost fell off my chair in the difference.  

http://tv.msn.com/susan-boyle-makeover/?GT1=28103

I was just stiring instant potatos and then somehow it jumped on my belly and now I have this 2-3 inch mass of skin that has blisters, some of which have popped, and this one 2 inch round lesion that just looks gross.  I probably should have gone to the hospital, but since I have no money I just treated it over the counter with antibiotic ointment.  Has anyone done this before?  If so what did you use?  It is painful!!!!  I bought this lidocaine stuff, but it hurts worse.  At least it is healing!!!  I am a dum dum!!!  Those potatos were out to get me darnit!!!

This has nothing to do with being a christian, it has more to do with group dynamics. I have to deal with it all the time with 6 women in an in-law situation. They are narrow-minded Bible-thumping bigots.I happen to be of another "denomination" and I do attend every function of theirs, weddings, funerals, all of it, receive their communion. I have had my parents die, lost my younger sister and many things happen where they could have reciprocated, yet they will not "step foot" in my church. So where is all their faith, they certainly are not practicing the do unto others. I can relate, it is a horrible way to live. Thank God, I had psychology courses and know about group dynamics, I am in the middle of a herd mentality. I could go on forever, they even have "interventions" when someone in their family wants to marry or date someone not from their denomination. They are awful. I know your pain! It's not your imagination, they hide behind their cohesive "numbers game," one speaks and all the others agree in unison. No one has a chance against this mob. It's tough to be your own person, lots of tears. And guys think it's all in our heads - NOT!  Hang in, perhaps you'll have a Divine Intervention somehow.

Spend some time together.

Give each little young lady a handmade card/voucher that she can cash in to spend time with you one-on-one, whether it be at the hair salon, lunch, walking in the park, just doing regular shopping stuff, going to a play or just sitting, talking, having a cup of tea and looking through family albums....It's the special time that'll be cherished. 

Oh, and 50-ish is not old.....I know 70 to 85-yo young ladies who can run circles around me with their enthusiasm, drive, ambition and joy for life.   Cat 

graduated college last year?  She was all over the news, GOD BLESS HER!!  Had all her wits about her......just old looking is all....

Education doesn't stop until we die - so by all means 40+ is still young in that many change career directions many times in ones' life...

That an employee told her to use the MRI machine at the zoo?

When a 5-foot, 275-pound woman found out she had a tumor on her spine, she was told by her local hospital to go the zoo to have a MRI because a regular MRI machine could not hold her weight, myfoxkc.com reported.

Carolyn Ragan told the television station she discovered the tumor two years ago and, after the hospital told her she could not use their MRI machine, a medical assistant said he would help her find a solution.

“So he suggested the Kansas City Zoo,” Ragan said. “I thought, I know I’m big, but I’m not as big as an elephant. And my husband got mad.”

The University of Kansas Hospital would not comment on Ragan’s claim, but said its MRI department does not know of any animal MRI in the Kansas City area that would scan a human.

Ragan’s problem was two-fold: She was too heavy for the table and too wide to slide through the opening.

Medical Imaging in Kansas City North, which has both closed and open MRI machines can typically hold up to 440 pounds, but sometimes a person who weighs less can still be out of luck, according to an MRI technician.

“It depends on how they are built a lot of times and what part of their body we’re scanning,” said technician Sarah Abbott of Medical Imaging. “(The machine) can only be so open before the magnetic field dissipates into the room.”

Ragan, who ended up having two surgeries and some paralysis, said she finally found an open MRI machine that held her weight, but it was embarrassing and frustrating.

“They should have machines that fit most everybody,” she said.

My kids were out of clothes.  Yes, I'm behind on laundry.  So I wash some stuff, toss it in the dryer and I hear something going "ping" and it won't turn on.  I just pulled it completely apart, put it back together and it's working.  Yeah me!  A screw had come out and fallen down inside of it.  I can't believe how full of lint the inside was too.    I do, however, have 6 extra screws that should be in there somewhere lol.