I'm doing ok B eating right, but still dont get much sleep. Just starting to do a bit of walking and getting fit but Mikey keeps me on my toes.

I think the worse thing is its like living in limbo .. frustrating. But it could be worse.

AW, sent you a note.

We are praying, too.

They always take prayer requests at church. We'll add you to the list today. I don't think it's possible that you could have too many people praying for you!! Ever. But especially in times like this

t&l

drat, I posted twice and managed to zap it away before it got there. Is this a conspiracy. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

I can can. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

I can can-can (sorta). <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

My garage door just broke. Please send a handyman. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

I have a well rested pelvis. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

I think you might want to consider placing the commune in a more termperate climante. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Trouble is, we can't afford anywhere more temperate - unless it was a grass shack on the equator.

Grass shacks can be fun, too. AJ thought your idea about Mexico sounded like a good one, except for the part where it's in Mexico. Picky, picky.

Neak - I'm thinking about Mexico - doing a missionary type thing - for 6 months, and then 6 months in Montana, during the nice weather. You can hold down the fort the rest of the year.

Morning /evening neak ones !

I was thinking about your plan B [not a Plan B!!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> ]...but what would happen to your man plan then???

Now here are some nice properties I'd buy to get Aussie away from the Army .....yeah like that will happen!

Manjimup Farm

Next farm


This is where Aussies family came from.


Now ...montana ... talk about cheap ..

$89,000 <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

AW - Well, now we know we can't afford to live in Australia.

I think I'm giving up on men. They are just so much trouble. I'm still not divorced, and life is so much simpler without them.

I put other relationship on hold until I'm divorced, but the longer I'm by myself, the more I wonder why I would ever want another man.

I know what you mean!!!! However, it would be nice to have some assistance in warming that bed. It's kind of hard to cuddle effectively with the heating pad.

I use a full-length pillow and electric blanket - doesn't snore, fart, or smell.

Yes B its not teh cheapest here these days ..and we are teh cheapest state in the Country! But remember exchange rate is $1 AUS = 76 cents US !!!! lol


Well .... men DO have their uses .... house repairs, car repairs, mowing, electric's ... hey wait a moment .. I DO THOSE THINGS!!!!

MMMmmmmmmmm I guess its more the hugging thing then <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

Well B, maybe a BF is more suitable & less intrusive than to have a full time live in partner. I have some friends who are in this type of relationship.. NOT a open relationship at all ...thay just don't live together full time. It works for them.
Dont know if I could do that. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

ROTFLMAO hahahahhahahahahahhahaha oh so true so true !!! <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="" />

Yeah, none of those bad habits but no pelvic exercise....and who was it that said 'Use it or Lose it'?

That would be my sister <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Mrs "I am in charge of your health & what you call your life so dont P me off"
<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

but she means well ...lol and I deny I ever typed that!!!

hehehehe <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

Ummmmm, slacking again.

What a day. I try to be a little lazy on Sundays, but today was busy, even though we didn't have time to take a quick trip to the snow.

The Dervish is cruisin' for a bruisin', and the other two aren't far behind. Ten minutes till early bedtime.

I dragged my two to an art exhibit today.....they were not happy about it but it ended up being ok. I don't know that they will remember going - just a mind block thing. But they went. It closed today so it was SO crowded. The Rau Collection.....El Greco, Monet, Renoir, Manet, Cassat, Pisarro, and tons more. 95 paintings - all European. Dr Rau owned something like 800 paintings and donated them to UNICEF Germany. These were touring the US and this was the last day for the exhibit in the US.

oh yes ... the school holidays ... the memory is still scarred... 12 weeks of TERROR. The other 2 lots of 4 weeks I could have done on my head.. but 12 ????? ARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGG

Some actual high school test answers

SOCIOLOGY
Q: What guarantees may a mortgage company insist on?

A: If you are buying a house, they will insist you are well endowed [Mmmmmmmm well after discussion with my sisters we like that rule <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />]

Q: In a democratic society, how important are elections?

A: Very important, Sex can only happen when the male gets an election [Yes I can see this child has REALLY investigated politics] <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

Q: What are steroids?

A:Things for keeping carpets still on the stairs [Excellent use for them]

I realize that every birth is a miracle, but I saw a surpassing one at work last night, and I'm still blown away by it. I should've take a picture with my phone camera, but I'm not used to having one and completely forgot that it was even an option until just this very instant! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

I don't know how many of you have checked out a placenta before. In the olden days, patients weren't given the opportunity to pay much attention, but nowadays the MD often drags it into display so that the parents can see it, and the amniotic sac in which their baby has been living up till a few moments before. For those of you who haven't, let me make just a quick description. There is a shiny side, which goes next to the baby, and a rough side, which is attached to the mother. In case anybody's curious, the bleeding women have after a baby is born comes from the wall of the uterus from which that rough side was detached, and where it left the tissue raw when it came loose.

The shiny side is the side where the umbilical cord attaches to the placenta. Usually, the cord goes pretty much in the middle of the placenta, and that white, rubbery stuff (Wharton's jelly) that surrounds the blood vessels and gives the cord its size and shape, covers the vein and arteries right down to the placental insertion. A velamentous insertion is one where the vessels enter the placenta on its margin, instead of in the middle, and generally the Wharton's jelly does not protect the vessels all the way to the insertion site. I've seen some that had 2-3 inches of unprotected blood vessels, supported only by the amniotic sac--a pretty flimsy support system for one's circulatory needs.

I had a patient who came in with ruptured membranes, bloody fluid, and contractions that were too close together. If I'd been giving her medication to stimulate labor, I would've turned it down, or even off. Baby's heart rate dropped a few times, once to the 60s, but it came right back up and generally looked passable. Still, it was a funky strip, and I was glad that she was having her 5th baby, went fairly quickly, and was there less than 4 hrs. before delivering. When the placenta was delivered, we discovered that she had the Queen of velamentous insertions, with fully 10-12 inches of unprotected blood vessels extending from the end of the Wharton's jelly to the beginning of the placenta. They looked like an aerial view of a river with many tributaries, and spread out all over the amniotic sac. When the bag ruptured, the tear ran directly along one of the large blood vessels for 6 inches or so. If it had torn across the vein, instead of along it, the baby would have bled to death inside its mother long before she ever arrived at the hospital. If the MD had artificially ruptured her membranes, without feeling one of those veins (basically impossible to do), and had pierced it, the baby would've, in all probability, died even in the hospital because of the rapidity and severity of the bleeding that would've ensued.

There was a small vessel that appeared to have popped when the bag popped; however, it was little enough that it clotted off before serious blood loss to the infant occurred. It does explain where my bloody fluid came from, though. But how that baby managed to survive to be born alive, with such an enormous network of blood vessels located in the amniotic sac instead of being nestled safely in the the placental surface, is an absolute amazement to me.

In a world full of nasty stuff, sometimes things turn out right. This was one of those times. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

t&l

WOW!