Posted on 09/05/2013 10:24:15 AM PDT by Victoria Bingham
I plan to wait until Sunday night to give Sally another dose, because we have too much planned this weekend for her to be passed out in bed. In face, she’ll need to arise by 3:00, because I have to take Tom and Elen to church to leave for their campout, and the van is going on the trip so I can’t take all the other children.
If the next dose has the same effect, I’ll call the doctor and see what she suggests: either a half-dose or another medication.
Good idea! Doped up kids are not fun to deal with.
(Voice of experience, here...)
I probably should go to Walmart, but I will wait. I’m so afraid to drive the truck, for fear it won’t start when I need it to. I have extra keys, so I can let it idle while I’m in the store, but that seems such a waste of gas.
Hopefully, it can be fixed my Monday, if the starter is available. Then I can breathe easy. :o])
Monday isn’t that far away.
I think, if it is ready Monday, I will walk to get it, as my choice of drivers is limited. I DO NOT want to ride with that rude person who took me the last time! I still have visions of the driver of the other vehicle pulling a gun...not uncommon here.
If I could, I’d send Epic Fail to be your driver! He could live in the car ;-).
Ummm...a driver with a history of speeding? I. Don’t. Think. So.
But thanks for the offer. I can take it under advisement. ;o]
He claims he has learned his lesson.
*choke*
I got a ticket once for doing 29mph in a 20 mph school zone...the next ticket I got was for doing 69 mph in a 65 mph zone on a CA freeway 30 years later. $192 plus defensive driver class. Two weeks later, on the same stretch, Busdaddy was doing 86 and got a ticket...$98 plus defensive driver class.
Where’s the justice??
If Epic Fail can use the experience to let another 30 years lapse before his next speeding ticket, I’ll hire him as a driver. I will need one, by then! LOL!
He was doing 50 in a 35 zone.
I went to see Asuncion, told her about all the crises, got plenty of sympathy. She helped me pick out music for Sunday.
WHOA! He SHOULDA gotten a ticket!
Since I was already on my own when I got both tickets (the first one was just a “warning”) I had no lawns to mow and work off the fines. If Tom had been here, he would no doubt be an indentured servant in order to get the fine paid.
It’s finally up to 69 degrees, but the space heater is alive and well!
It’s about 70 outside, but 78 in the house. I’m just washing up everyone’s lunch dishes, then I’ll take Tom and Elen to church to leave for their campout. I made Sally get up.
I just got a nice card in the mail! Looks like I’ll have to refold the coloring page to fit into a smaller envelope. By the time it gets to you, it will have so many folds it will look like a “cootie catcher!”
Almost all the clothes are taken care of now, but it has taken me all morning. *sigh* I hate when I have things to do and don’t feel like doing them.
But that’s OK...bedtime will soon be here, and I may even feel up to putting on clean sheets...that’s a back-breaking job for me, but for some reason, the aide didn’t get that far when she was here last Friday.
She’s supposed to be here on the 25th, but I have an appointment for my glasses at 0735 that morning. Maybe I can have her come on Thursday or Saturday. Or at 0900 on Friday...
I hope my insurance covers the cost of the new lens. And then I will get busy on getting the other eye done. There is SUCH a difference in my ability to see, from one eye to the other! What a blessing!
I apologize. What was the name of the med? If it’s an antihistamine, a lot of them can cause drowsiness or dizziness. OTOH, she could be having an atypical response to it. Can you consult the neurologist?
Cyproheptadine. It did say it could cause dizziness, but this is excessive. On Sunday night, after we’ve made it through all the weekend’s activities, I’ll give her half-dose, and then I’ll call the neurologist on Monday. I need to call them anyway: the MRI scheduler-person didn’t call me back yesterday.
I should have called today, but I was concentrating on Tom’s English paper. He’ll be rewriting his next paper his own supposedly-brilliant self, but there wasn’t time on this one. Turkey.
Some people just can’t handle the “usual” dosage of some meds. Which is why its often said that “doctors practice medicine, because it’s an inexact science.” Or words to that effect.
Tom won’t learn a lot from “his” paper if you are doing the tweaking. Just sayin’. (Shet mah mouf.)
Yeah, I know, but this was an emergency. He did the research, at least, and made sure the all the source citations were in order. I just did heavy editing, to save time.
On Monday, we'll start working on his next paper, and he'll have to do the paragraph-by-paragraph rewrite himself. This should motivate him to try writing better in the first place! He gets his information down, but the facts get buried in dependent clauses. A lot of my work was breaking one sentence into three and making sure each had a clear subject.
Got it. I find me doing that, but I have an excuse! LOL!
I'll be interested to hear how it all comes out...
He could continue writing drafts in what seems to be his “default mode,” but then he’ll have to completely rewrite the draft. Or, he could learn to compose in better prose!
Once he is on his own, (ie; college) he will have to do this for himself. His propensity for shortcuts could result in withdrawal of funding for his scholarship. He needs to be aware that he is entering the Land of Adults, and needs to conduct himself as if he WERE one...
He could pretend he is in an acting class and is asked to portray an adult... Hmmmm...food for thought...
Hey, call me when you quit practicing and get it right, huh?
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