She's a real person, it's a real book, and it's extremely good. I checked it out of my library.
Um, you do know that we have a current thread about unusual names? It was the Wednesday question of the day this week.
There is a pediatrician in a nearby town whose last name is Isburg. Pronounced like iceberg or eyes-berg, close enough. He likes to tell kids that his cousin starred in Titanic.
How old is he? How do you plan to cope with night terrors/nightmares when they happen?Well, I finally did it. I bought a 40" RCA TV through Walmart online. With tax and warranty it was only $175. It will be here next week. I can't wait to make my son watch Alien on a bigger screen, with all the lights off in the house. He will probably never have the experience I had. In a theater, surround sound, with even the isle lights off. The theater wanted to scare theout of us, and it worked. Can't wait to do this to my son.
I've no idea how they missed it, but you darn well should be upset, and communicating that feeling to them. It's obviously the only way they'll ever get it right for you.How does this well established company mess up twice? I'm not upset by any means. Far from upset. I'm genuinely curious how they printed and sent 5 more grainy mugs to me. Don't they have graphic designers or whoever do quality check?
She went to the doctor yesterday; he says that giardia is going around in her area and put her on flagyl. This lasted too long to be food poisoning.
I definitely understand that; it's horrible to lose someone this way. I recently watched a brilliant woman die of Alzheimer's, and it was shocking what it did to her. For what it's worth, a really good care facility can probably take better care of your grandmother than your family. My friend who died of Alzheimer's kept wanting to go "home," but she meant the house they'd lived in over 30 years ago, not the house with all the rose bushes she'd planted or the garden with the fairy lights that she'd carefully designed to be a fantastic night garden. If she'd been in a good facility they could have arranged furniture the way she remembered and given her the illusion that she was "home" again.
The only thing worse than losing your mind, it to know it's happening.
Except when there's something that can be done about it. One of the reasons I lost a decade to a brain tumor is that my husband kept telling me I had dementia, and I did remember that "dementia"="Alzheimer's," didn't remember that there was such a thing as non-Alzheimer's dementia, and kept saying (correctly) "No, I'm not senile." I was only persuaded that I needed my head examined when I broke my left arm in three places doing something that even I recognized as stupid. If someone had explained it to me earlier, in words that made sense to me, I wouldn't have lost so much of my life, and I wouldn't currently have a left hand that's so damaged I can't crochet or tat right-handed.Yes, they can test for the gene. I think that they haven't been automatically offering the test to people who are at risk for two reasons:
- It's probably an expensive test, that isn't covered by insurance.
- What's the point, if there's nothing you can do about it anyway?
In the meantime, it appears that there are some lifestyle changes that may help to prevent Alzheimer's:
- Anything that prevents diabetes may help to prevent Alzheimer's, since diabetes is a major risk factor.
- If you already have diabetes, keep it under control.
- Eat a healthy diet and get plenty of exercise.
- Learn new things. Take up a new sport or hobby. Take a class in something that's new to you. Anything that exercises your mind.
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Well, I have a bit of a problem. First, some background. I have a very difficult time with earbuds; my ear canal is small, and most earbuds don't fit it properly. But then I found Klipsch: In Ear Headphones | Klipsch These are very high quality earphones, and they fit the ear canal properly because the ear tips are oval rather than round. In other words, the same shape as a normal human ear canal.I have a Klipsch headset which I use with my phone as a headset and also use as simple earphones, and I love it, but occasionally I lose an ear tip. So when black Friday sales rolled around and Klipsch was having a 50% off sale on ear tips I ordered 8 replacement ear tips. My size on these used to be Small, but apparently Klipsch has added a couple of new sizes, one of which is Extra Small and one of which is Small, bumping my size up to Medium.
As soon as the Small ear tips I ordered arrived I discovered they were the wrong size; I didn't even have to open the original packaging because it's clear and I could see that they were too small for me, so I called customer service at Klipsch and asked whether I could exchange them. There are some really nice folks at Klipsch; instead of exchanging them they just sent me the Medium ear tips and told me to donate the Small ear tips to charity, which sounds good until you start looking for charities that need or want something that specialized.
So now I'm asking everyone I know, "Do you know anyone who uses Klipsch ear buds or a Klipsch headset who has very small ears and needs some spare ear tips?" If anyone here knows someone who fits that description, please let me know, because I'll be happy to send them some. If I can't find anyone who needs them among my acquaintances I guess I'll try selling them on eBay and donating the proceeds to charity, but that requires work that I'd rather not do - setting up a seller PayPal account and such.
Margret
So now you know what you need to concentrate on. This really is the primary purpose of tests, letting both you and your teacher know what it is that you really need to study.
