k johnson

I do not have any suggestions for any support gourps, etc...however I was wondering if you could enlighten me as to what "...biochemically behavioral affecting" means. Thanks!

>He also has a number of severe
>to moderate food allergies, some anaphylactic, some
>biochemically behavioral affecting.



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1. Re: time alone with dh
From: javamdnss@...
2. Re: oops previous post
From: joylyn
3. Re: travel during flu season
From: "Janet Hamlin"
4. Re: florida here/ Re: travel during flu season
From: tuckervill2@...
5. Re: florida here/ Re: travel during flu season
From: tuckervill2@...
6. Re: time alone with dh
From: badolbilz
7. Re: florida here/ Re: travel during flu season
From: badolbilz
8. Re: time alone with dh
From: SandraDodd@...
9. Re: travel during flu season
From: "J. Stauffer"
10. Re: florida here/ Re: travel during flu season
From: Genant2@...
11. fun online stuff for bored girls
From: badolbilz
12. learning
From: "heasue2003"
13. florida here/ Re: travel during flu season
From: "sonjawolf1"
14. Re: learning
From: Nancy Wooton
15. Re: Flu Shot....
From: javamdnss@...
16. Re: florida here/ Re: travel during flu season
From: javamdnss@...
17. Re: travel during flu season
From: ivorygrace7@...
18. Re: learning
From: SandraDodd@...
19. Support for Special Needs
From: Nanci Kuykendall
20. New Beginnings/Making It Work Help
From: Nanci Kuykendall
21. Booster Seats
From: Nanci Kuykendall
22. Re: New Beginnings/Making It Work Help
From: SandraDodd@...
23. Re: Support for Special Needs
From: Tia Leschke
24. Re: Support for Special Needs
From: Barbara Chase
25. Re: Support for Special Needs
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 01:47:14 EST
From: javamdnss@...
Subject: Re: time alone with dh

Hello Heidi,

I can relate to your posts, since my husband and I just argued about this
this past weekend. What we've been doing for years is to make one night a week,
usually a weekend night, our "date" night. We tell the kids they have to stay
out of the room during the movie and don't interuppt unless it's a fire,
earthquake, flood or other natural disaster. ;) We usually get chinese food for our
date and enjoy ourselves. The reason we do not go out much is for a once a
week date, that can get expensive, and we're a large family living in one income.
Now....what's the deal with you sleeping downstairs with the girls? I hope
everythings okay that way. I sometimes sleep on the couch, but it's only because
I want to stay up really late and don't want to bother him.
Anyway, make it a priority to do something together once a week (at least). I
hope it works out for you!!
:) Amy


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Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 00:53:34 -0800
From: joylyn
Subject: Re: oops previous post

This is supposidly a myth (love my creative spelling, this is the one
list I can sorta feel comfortable not fixing it). However, I personally
always get a little sick after the shot.

I am supposed to get one every year, but with a new car, a car accident,
my sister who is sick, my job (teaching) which is a pain, and my
impending (and now over) surgery, it never happened. now it won't as
there are none left. I have lung issues so it would have been better if
I had gotten one. My kids didn't get one either, nor did Mark... I
guess I will rely upon lots of white light and healthy living.

Joylyn

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> I wrote: 'there are many who get the flu right after taking it'..I
> meant to type 'thank goodness your family didnt get the flu vaccine.
> there are MANY who get the flu right after taking it'
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 07:25:00 -0500
From: "Janet Hamlin"
Subject: Re: travel during flu season

We went to Florida last January and are going again this year as well (for
the Disney Marathon on 1/11).

We bring lots of wipes and disinfect our seating area of the plane, drink
lots of water, and pray ;).

A few weeks ago, we actually took our kids twice in one weekend to Chuck E.
Cheese germ pit, and were fortunate to emerge unscathed (not even a
sniffle).

I'd go, be more diligent about hand washing, and HAVE FUN!!

Janet




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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 08:00:52 EST
From: tuckervill2@...
Subject: Re: florida here/ Re: travel during flu season

In a message dated 12/21/2003 10:10:17 PM Central Standard Time,
blossom_1964@... writes:
hello Heidi florida here. this flu is nationwide. you have just as
much a chance catching it where you are! its widespread everywhere

~~~

I would think you would have more of a chance if you are travelling by public
transport or by airplane. Being in close quarters with others that have the
flu is risky, that's for sure.

Tuck


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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 08:27:47 EST
From: tuckervill2@...
Subject: Re: florida here/ Re: travel during flu season

>>PS. BEWARE of the flumist..it carries 3 live strains of the flu!!
if your considering it PLEASE reconsider. (hospital employees are
being told if they are going to take the flumist it is mandatory
that they stay home for 3 weeks before returning to work!) <<

I find this little fact rather alarmist. There's a good reason hospital
workers should be careful with Flumist, and it's not because the vaccine is so
dangerous to them. It's dangerous to the very sick people that they care for in
their jobs.

From www.snopes.com:

"But even for the healthy 5- to 49-year-olds, the spray vaccine poses a risk,
if not to them, then to those they come into contact with. In a few
instances, those who receive this live vaccine will as a consequence spread it to
others, so FluMist isn't recommended for people who take care of or live with
either the elderly or those at risk of severe flu complications. The live virus can
be transmitted to others by way of coughing, sneezing, or talking, or via a
fomite, an item touched by someone who has the virus. (Common cold, flu, and
stomach viruses can live on the fingertips for hours, and they can survive on
the surfaces of objects for days.) "

Tuck


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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 09:57:28 -0500
From: badolbilz
Subject: Re: time alone with dh

Amy, the one night/a week movie would be great, except I have a 1 yr old
that the older girls, 7 & 5, can handle for a little while, but not the
length of a movie. Hiring a sitter is too pricey for us with our
finances and the four girls.

The deal with our sleeping arrangement is this: I don't believe it's
ever okay to not answer a child's cry at night, and I believe in
co-sleeping with babies...and I have four children. So by the time I
had Leiren, the forth, I was bed-hopping so much at night, with the
baby, that I would wake up and not know where I was, plus dh would get
woken up every time in jumped in or out of our bed. He's a farmer and
desperately needs good sleep or he could get hurt at work. We put a
full-size bed in our library for when my grandmother came to visit and
it was still here, so the girls and I just started sleeping there. It's
been awesome! They're comfortable going to sleep when they're tired and
they're not scared of being alone, because I'm downstairs with them and
whenever they wake up (anytime 9-12) they wake up right next to all the
activity, they just join in. One of the best parts is since we started,
I now get to sleep ALL night, and for the first time in 7 years feel
like I'm getting enough rest. I've been able to cut way back on my
coffee. Technically, I wasn't really sleeping in the bed with dh
before, and all of our nights were disruptive. Now it's just a lot
better :)

Have the Happiest of Holidays!
Heidi

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>Hello Heidi,
>
>I can relate to your posts, since my husband and I just argued about this
>this past weekend. What we've been doing for years is to make one night a week,
>usually a weekend night, our "date" night. We tell the kids they have to stay
>out of the room during the movie and don't interuppt unless it's a fire,
>earthquake, flood or other natural disaster. ;) We usually get chinese food for our
>date and enjoy ourselves. The reason we do not go out much is for a once a
>week date, that can get expensive, and we're a large family living in one income.
>Now....what's the deal with you sleeping downstairs with the girls? I hope
>everythings okay that way. I sometimes sleep on the couch, but it's only because
>I want to stay up really late and don't want to bother him.
>Anyway, make it a priority to do something together once a week (at least). I
>hope it works out for you!!
>:) Amy
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Message: 7
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 10:03:44 -0500
From: badolbilz
Subject: Re: florida here/ Re: travel during flu season

Sorry everyone...I forgot to mention we'd definitely be driving to
Florida. I do feel that if we use things like Purell hand sanitizer a
lot and wash our hands we'll be okay. It's just upsetting to hear about
children dying, especially healthy ones who are dead within days. But
we are all healthy and we'll just have to do our best to stay that way.
Getting out of the crowded New York winter rooms would have to help a
little. We really need a little heat and sunshine in our lives. We'll
be staying with dh's parents, which can be stressful, but also means mil
will babysit so we can go to dinner and the beach til midnight. Dh and
I desperately NEED that!

Thank you all for your advice. Happy Holidays. Heidi

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>In a message dated 12/21/2003 10:10:17 PM Central Standard Time,
>blossom_1964@... writes:
>hello Heidi florida here. this flu is nationwide. you have just as
>much a chance catching it where you are! its widespread everywhere
>
>~~~
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>I would think you would have more of a chance if you are travelling by public
>transport or by airplane. Being in close quarters with others that have the
>flu is risky, that's for sure.
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Message: 8
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 10:17:49 EST
From: SandraDodd@...
Subject: Re: time alone with dh

I used to go to sleep with a kid (or two or three) and nursing them would
knock me RIGHT out,but after a few hours when I woke up I would go and wake my
husband up in a way that he didn't mind, and we'd have some alone time and that
would knock me right out, and so I got two short yet deep sleeps, and he
preferred a 2:00 or 3:00 a.m. visitation to none at all.

That doesn't cover movies and conversation, though. That we did in the car,
or by watching movies we could watch with the kids.

Now that the kids are older, we've had two "disagreements" where I made a
suggestion (complained ) and he got angry. Both were the same thing, and both
recent.

With kids there, where we're all in one place and could potentially be having
fun, he has started on some long story about someone at work whose job
involves this or that project management and... and it's too removed and boring for
ME, and means absolutely nothing whatsoever to the kids present (once Holly
and her friend in the car, and once Holly and Marty at the dinner table) so
they're completely shut out of the conversation and end up zoning out their
individual ways or wandering off.

I don't think parents' "along time" should come when the kids are there.

I had a male friend who had a girlfriend who had a little girl. He broke up
with her after a while, because when he would come over, she would make her
little girl stay in her room the whole time, and he couldn't relax or feel good
knowing that he was the catalyst for their separation and that little girl's
unhappiness. And would the girl EVER have liked Bob? She probably hated him
passionately because she was banished from his presence (by her mom).

We traded babysitting with other families when the kids were little, and so
it was not like being sent to a babysitter, it was just like going to play with
their friends, so we were able to get dinner-date opportunities or boring
shopping opportunities that way, and the kids didn't feel shunted off at all.

Sandra


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Message: 9
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 09:26:34 -0600
From: "J. Stauffer"
Subject: Re: travel during flu season

<>

Why? People die from flu EVERY year. The media has a very sad way of
taking a little blip and turning it into a huge mountain. I take everything
from the media with a grain of salt. It is their job to get you to follow
more media stories. The best way to do that is to keep a crisis going.

Someone in your family is much more likely to die in a car crash going to
the grocery store than to die from the flu. But I bet you still go buy
groceries.

Sorry......didn't mean to rant but the media makes me nuts.

If you are really concerned, take along some of that handwash gel that you
don't need to wash off and just do everybodies hands several times a day.

Julie S.---whose kids rarely get sick and never get any kind of preventive
medications
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Subject: [AlwaysLearning] travel during flu season


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> Hi everyone. I hope your holidays are going well. I have a question
> for all of you. Dh and I are planning to go to Florida for the first
> two weeks of January (we're in NY). My mom called me tonight almost
> hysterical because she saw on the news that another little girl, age 4,
> died from the flu. She said we really shouldn't go on vacation because
> none of us, especially the girls (ages 7, 5, 3, and 1) have had flu
> shots. Instinctively, I feel we should stay home, for that and
> finances, but dh desperately needs a vacation due to mental health
> reasons. What would all of you suggest? Those of you in Florida, what
> are your flu stats? I expect we'll go, but I am really worried about it.
>
> Thanks for your advice, Heidi
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Message: 10
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 10:28:45 EST
From: Genant2@...
Subject: Re: florida here/ Re: travel during flu season

In a message dated 12/22/03 10:07:25 AM Eastern Standard Time,
ynxn96@... writes:

> Sorry everyone...I forgot to mention we'd definitely be driving to
> Florida. I do feel that if we use things like Purell hand sanitizer a
> lot and wash our hands we'll be okay.

We went to Florida over Thanksgiving, Universal Studios, you would think we
could not come out without catching something but we were fine, no colds, no
flu. But we went to Maine for a few days a week ago for a wedding and all came
back sick. LOL
Although we are all feeling better now.
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Message: 11
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 10:32:16 -0500
From: badolbilz
Subject: fun online stuff for bored girls

Someone posted not too long ago about their dd being bored. We just
found some really cool online activities for girls who are into dolls,
make-up, and dress-up. My dd's ages 7, 5, and 3 have totally taken over
my computer for about 3 days since we found all this and our fridge is
plastered with their printouts. These are the sites-
http://www.barbie.com
http://www.pollypockets.com
http://www.what'sherface.com
http://www.bratzpack.com
http://www.myscene.com
http://www.divastarz

Even I have had fun doing making my own pictures on what's her face.
Well, just a thought for any of you with girls wandering around saying
they're bored. Good luck. Heidi




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Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 18:21:44 -0000
From: "heasue2003"

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>I do not have any suggestions for any support
>gourps, etc...however I
>was wondering if you could enlighten me as to <what
"...biochemically
>behavioral affecting" means. Thanks!

>>He also has a number of severe
>>to moderate food allergies, some anaphylactic, some
>>biochemically behavioral affecting.


Some allergies cause a chemical reaction in the brain
and body which can bring on bouts of extreme and/or
out of control behaviors. These reactions can run the
gamut from manic episodes, rages, hypersensative
emotions, depression, etc. That's what I mean by my
son having some allergies which affect his behvaior or
emotions biochemically.

Nanci K.