I had a 'wadfoil' time <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

BUT STILL NO AUSSIE .... <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

Mikey had much more fun with the bright paper the goodies were wrapped in than any toys etc. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />
a nice big teddy bear which still puzzles him ..wont talk back!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />

still very sleepy but cant sleep AGAIN <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

AW -

Sorry you haven't heard from Aussie. You know he is thinking about you and would if he could.

We're going to have to think of some things to keep you challenged while the time drags by. I've been learning Spanish for the last 18 months, and now am fluent. So proud of myself. Also I've started 2 businesses - property management and a lawnscaping company.

I know you are busy with your job and Mikey, but just wondering if there is something new and exciting you could do to keep your mind off of things.

I'm headed to the mall. That will not be wadfoil.

Then to get a massage and chiropractic adjustment...That will be very wadfoil.

HI B !!!

hope you had a grreat Xmas!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

The daylight hours are covered until about 8.30pm ... its the insomnia I guess.... improve once Mikey is on full solids and I'm not breast feeding so Sis can give me something to help.

Even though I love this time of the year it also has some bad memories, triggers.
Its just like sometimes I feel the last five years my life has been constant pain interspered with moments of joy. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

But Mikey keeps me on track. Just have to look into his deep blue eyes & get a smile and it makes my day. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
Lot of people far worse off too. Way worse than I. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

Wadfoil that we get those interspersed moments, though. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

t&l

Believer,
Were you taking classes or did you use a specific method to learn Spanish and become fluent in 18 months? How did you keep up the motivation? I know you plan a trip to Mexico or South America this Spring, right?

I would like to better my Italian but lack the motivation to use the computer software I have for that purpose. I think I'd do better if I had someone with whom to speak the language. Growing up with relatives speaking Sicilian we learned by listening. Then when we had to speak when my father remarried a woman who spoke no English it came rather easily. But now that all of my close relatives are deceased I don't have that opportunity to speak and over the last 25 yrs have nearly lost all of my ability. As an 18 yr old I was able to dream in Sicilian. Italian and Sicilian are different languages with some similarities.

I had my Italian citizenship re-recognized (along with my kids) so that we now have dual citizenship and it would be good to really be able to speak Italian fluently.

Trix -

After D-day, I was in a financial bind. WH cut off any money. I couldn't afford to stay where I am. So I talked to my friends and neighbors about getting a roommate. You guessed it - he spoke NO English. The original idea was for him to learn English. What happened was I learned Spanish.

I wasn't starting from scratch. I had a year of Spanish in highschool. But I never could speak Spanish. Well, I learned. Also we watch TV in Spanish, and I listen to Spanish radio.

I purchased the "Ingles Sin Barreras" program for my roommate and his friends to learn English. Well, I am now doing it too. It has text and CD's which I play on the way to work. It works for learning Spanish too.

I went to Mexico last month, and was able to talk to everyone.

I'm seriously thinking about a ministry there. That's why I'm studying extra hard now.

That's really neat, Believer. Has your roommate learned English as well as your Spanish yet? There seem to be lots of Mexicans in our area that speak little or no English.

I would learn much faster if I had to use it by either living there or having someone living here that only spoke the language.

When we had a French exchange student, he was here to get more fluent in English, I didn't speak French with him at all. (I took French in High School and went there on an American Institute for Foreign Study trip)

When I've been visiting relatives in Sicily I just gotten by. I understand much more than I can speak.

My daughter is living in Panama. I just brought her to the airport this morning after she'd spent the last month home with me. She is getting more and more fluent in Spanish. She's taken it in college. When we were in a Mexican restaurant (a real one) recently, she was really comfortable ordering in Spanish.

Tonight is NOT a wadfoil night. My patient is having her 4th baby, has already had an 11-pounder in the past--all of which predispose you to think "fast labor, easy delivery whee!!!!!!!!!!!"--and in 8-1/2 hrs. has managed to progress from 6 all the way to 7cm. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" /> This is with Pitocin at the maximum allowable dose (and a fresh bag of it, too!) and ruptured membranes. I'd rather have 4 deliveries in a night, all mine, than watch one patient for 12 hrs. who won't dance when I sing. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

Mas contractiones, por favor. No tienes suficiamente ahora. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

t&l

Caesar .....Julius what a great pioneer lol <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

and drugs ..lots & lots of epidurals WEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeee


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This is just silly me, but whenever I hear the word 'Sicilian', I think of The Princess Bride.

AW, sounds like you've been there and done that. You still have a WEEee left; did you want to try again? Maybe Mikey would like a little sister.

Neak

well, yes it is a secret desire of mine to have another little girl...I would so love to another baby - BUT highly unlikely ... my sister & the specialists say I should not have had Mikey.

They say the risk is way too high now with diabetes ... that it may come down to a choice of me or the baby ...I wouldn't want Aussie to have to decide that ... .so highly unlikely unless diabetes showed remission ..again highly unlikely.

oh well, got to be grateful for what I have and enjoy Mikey all that nore. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

I have to go to work today. Not wadfoil. But it is a 3 day workweek. Didn't finish all of last weeks work so I have 3 days in which to do 5 days of work. And next week is a 4 day week. On top of that, we are just entering our busy season. Won't see daylight till around the end of March.

And yesterday I woke up w/ yucky sinuses. They are yuckier today. Must call the dr. Not Wadfoil!

But, my dog and cats are here and they love me. And my children will come home. And I did survive Christmas though my family chose not to associate with me.

Hmmm, maybe they like me more at work. Maybe it is wadfoil to have that job. No, it is wonderful to have mental stimulation and adult conversation and money with which to provide. Could they send the same amount of money and let me do something more fun? THAT would be wadfoil.

Hola, buenos dias,

<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> I had to jump in. I'm from the land of burritos y tostadas y tacos. What we call "vitamin T".

I have being a long time lurker of MB. More than three years. I've never been married but lived 8 years with a man, now dead. No children. At his funeral I got to meet some of the women how had been his OW at different times of our relationship.

I like this threat* and the changes in the title name.

Believer, I read about your trip to Oaxaca and you brought a smile to my face.

Thndrnlitng, have you thought about using Cuban methods to acelerate contractions? Joking

I also enjoy learning languages. Borges, the Argentinan writer used to say that to have another language is like to have another life.

Happy holidays to all.

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Hola Larousse -

THAT must be an interesting story. I'm getting a divorce so won't have to worry about who shows up at any funeral.

Welcome to the feminine hygiene products aisle. As you know, it's a multitasking kind of place, and even caters to post-menopausal women like me who have no use whatsoever for its merchandise! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />


What do they do in Cuba? Threaten them with a prison sentence? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> I'm not familiar with any Cuban techniques. I did, however, come up with another labor song in honor of my pt. having her 4th baby much in the manner of molasses in January...slo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-owly. (Sung to the tune of "Like a Virgin" by Madonna) "Like a primip (1st-time mom), Pushin' for the very first time..........." She was a very nice lady, and didn't have any serious pain except for the last 30 minutes of her 15-hr. induction (hateful, ain't it? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />), but my goodness, she took a long time to get there! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

t&l

It was quite a ride I must say. He was 28 years older than me. I meet him when I was 15 years old and Started a relationship when I was four months before been 17 years old.

Actually when I went to his funeral we had been apart three years, his then partner was like 20 21 years old. Surreal.

I think the relationship thar followed to the one with him, haven been a long process of making sense of such strong experience.

At the funeral were woman from 20 to 60 years old that had been with him at some point during his life.

I'm sorry about your divorce, you are such a compasionate, positive woman, his lost.

thndrnlitng, gracias for the bienvenida.

I can't confirm the veracity about this information but it seems that in Cuba, due to lack of resources, they invite women to estimulate the tip of their mamarial organs and stimulate the contractions in the process.

Merry Christmas to Neaksis


Neakbro just sent me this picture he took on his cell phone, while we were opening presents. Neaksis has a little problem, you see, with felines. There's this mother cat that's too wild to catch when she's not pregnant, and every time she has a litter of kittens she comes and drops them off at Neaksis' house and then flees the scene to get knocked up again. So Neaksis has WAY more cats around her house than anybody really needs to have. Ever. So Neak gave her this door mat for a gift, and it was a great favorite with the whole family, we who have to wade through a sea of kitties as we try to get to the front door every time we visit. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

t&l

Actually, they do this in los Estados Unidos, tambien. It's called a nipple stimulation test (how inventive!) and is done to test placental function in women who have not done well (usually) on a non-stress test. It's cheaper, easier, and less invasive than a test done with Pitocin in an IV, so the lucky women get to twiddle their nipples until they get 3 contractions in a 10-minute period so that the baby can be monitored for its response to this uterine activity. We don't do many of them on night shift, which is OK with me, since I have no major ambition to nip nipples, either personally or by proxy. However, I can see that if I were working in a place where not much was available in the way of medication to either augment or induce labor, the old-fashioned Twiddler on the Roof method would be a very acceptable and reasonable alternative.

t&l