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Personal « Zen5.me Zen5.meWell-nighZen5.me   RSS   Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category Oral Conscious sedation dentistry … what is it really like? 08 Oct I am not red-faced to shoehorn that I have a phobia involving my mouth, teeth, and throat area.  Because of this, I stave unrepealable things.  Vomiting scares the crap out of me and I run from vomiting children, yes, plane my own…., I panicked through a neck ultrasound that was done, and I stave the dentist. So, without escaping two years, I started feeling a pain I couldn’t ignore so I went in.  One of my front teeth need a root waterway and crown.  Another nearby needed two fillings.  On top of that two theeth were slanted poorly, causing supplies to collect often that would soon lead to future problems.  So, I decided to be proactive this time in hopes of saving me increasingly work later, I would just get four crowns on my four front teeth.and the bad one would moreover need a root canal.  The insurance will pick up a piece but I will be stuck with a lot considering they don’t do preventative measures in these cases. The thought of going through 4 crowns with 1 root waterway seems horrible to me, so I am doing conscious sedation.  I hope it works!  The plan is no supplies or drink without midnight tomorrow.  Tuesday morning, I wake at 7am and take 2mg of Lorazapam.  Hubby drives me in and doctor assess if I need increasingly meds.  Then we start…I will blog well-nigh how it goes and feels afterwards… plane if I am still upper on drugs and then make a,more,coherent version after… wish me luck… TO BE CONTINUED…     No Comments Posted in Medical, Personal   Your kids well-nigh to drive… how can you alimony them safe? Cars to consider 08 Jul My son got his permit at age 15, fast forward a year, he barely drives.  He doesn’t really want to momentum and isn’t very good at it.  Six mnths later, we realize we need to get him driving more.  We increase the frequency but still, no one feels good well-nigh it.  More time ticks yonder and now we are lanugo to a few months surpassing the start of school.  He HAS to momentum by the end of the month.  He has no transportation to his higher classes from his upper school.  We start driving daily.  He drives in our car.  It has a veiling spot warning, which I love and precollission warning and breaking.  But, the car is big, nonflexible to park, and doesn’t have other safety features I wanted.  So I started showing around.  I wanted to spend under $20k and it had to have:  Lane alimony assist, this will bleep if you leave your lane Steering Assist, this steers you when into your lane if you go out replacement camera pedestrian restriction assist, will restriction automatically if radar spots pedestrian upper speed and low speed unravel assis – if you are going to crash, car will notify you and wheels restriction (may just slow you lanugo so your crash isn’t as nonflexible or completely stop you, depending on speed) veiling spot detection mirrors can be installed ($650) adaptive trip control, car wheels brakes based on loftiness between cars and set speed The 2017 Toyota Corrola LE met these goals and came in just over $18k when all financing are widow in plus 8 years of oil transpiration package I bought. The car was sporty look, we got white with grey inside.  It gets decent gas mileage, it drives well for a lower end car.  And most importantly it was the only car I could find with all the safety options on a low end car.  Many other models were missing one of the things on my list, they might have all but no,adaptive trip tenancy or flipside might have a funky veiling spot camera for one mirror but not he other.  Or the cars didn’t have steer squire or they wouldn’t auotbreak in all settings. So, this we think is he safest affordable car out there and my son will be trying for his license this month in his new Toyota Carolla.   No Comments Posted in Personal   Tips for rehabbing a fear warlike dog- Solid K9 please help! 04 May We started with a severe specimen of fear overstepping in an 8 week old full bred verge collie pup.  He was fearful of everything, he was weary of playing, he was unsure of our other dog, he growled at half the people in the family such as the two young girls and one son. He would growl at every stranger he saw and he didn’t like to be held or touched.  At a dog park, he stayed with his big brother at first and did okay but as he got increasingly afraid, he started getting warlike and started attacking the other dogs.  We tried him with a muzzle and he muzzle slammed them.  We had people try to pet him with his muzzle on and he would try to zest them. Off troika he would stay with us but started venturing remoter out to scare yonder the bad guys, barking and showing teeth.  One man just laughed since he just a puppy and I came and got him but a child got scared and ran and that made him run without him and nip his leg.  Nothing too major but it made things well-spoken to us, he needed help! We hired 3 variegated trainers.  Fired the first one on the first day.  The second one was an e collar trainer and he went to a workbench and train but he took a very harsh stance and Whisky is very fearful, so harshness breaks trust so although we learned somethings, he regressed considering he was too heavy handed for his temperament.  The third trainer was a positive trainer, she didn’t do e collars but we encorperated what she taught us that heled his anxiety, that was working, withal with what was working with the ecollar to find a mix that seemed to work for him.  We used it lightly for small things and use it for big things that were serious at medium but not use it for every writ that he would follow anyway without the collar anyway.  Too much collar causes unconfined uneasiness for him, so overuse is a problem for him but used correctly for him, it is a unconfined tool. We work on densenitisizing him to many things that triggered him, one at a time and on obedience at the same time.  Easily crate trained when guests come over, he will want to go to door but will go to bed on command. sleeps by self in gated zone near unshut crate will wait for dinner politely if asked will take turns pulling meat off  a unorthodoxy with his brother while I hold it can take any supplies from him will play wittiness with strangers (wouldn’t when young, was too wrung of them) Ignores people on walks (barked and lunged when young) can ignore people in house IF I can trust they will ignore him(most people I don’t trust the people, they think they know better), so we crate or gate him 90% of time word-stock have people touch him, big no, will bite.  Not too nonflexible but enough… without he has bonded with someone unceasingly for a few months, he will tideway them and make it clear, they can touch, he might climb in their lap.  He loves touch from us. he will do touch games for treats with strangers dogs are a big trigger, on a walk, he will ignore 75% of time unless other dog initiatiates. dogs walking by his yard, set him off big time, he can be tabbed away, if alone, will usually listen on first call, if his brother is out there barking (brother never listens), he won’t listen until 4th call.  I reward every time.  If collar is on, he comes right away.  He will distract himself from the stress by bringing us a wittiness or frisbee to throw.  It is all anxiety. if a dog comes to whet of gate, He will try to zest him and goes crazy.  Harder to undeniability him off, collar I can on high, words, not until up to six tries or if I throw a ball. His brother is a huge instigater, he acts much largest when his brother is not out there but we don’t have tenancy over brother, old sick dog, didn’t do well with e collar. He can ventilator our cats, getting better.  Cats mostly stay upstairs and dogs stay down.  Sometimes cat decides to come down, dog rushes cat, 95% dog listens and I undeniability him and he listens and cat runs up stairs, once he unprotected cat.  We separated them, no forfeiture washed-up to either.  He moreover chases bunnies that he could reservation but chooses to,run slow,because he likes the ventilator and doesn’t really want the reservation part. Goals:  Trust him consisting with people (but that ways trusting people to follow his rules, no look, no talk, no eye contact, and NO Touch, and no fast movements)which may not be realistic? Goals:  Get him conditioned to,accept other dogs, he lives with one fine now and he likes,to play, he just needs trust and coping mechanisms, but how,do,we get there, saw videos but I don’t have wangle to wifely beta dogs to practice with… Goals:  be worldly-wise to take a vacation again!! please!  Everyone says skiver the dog, but we love him. would love to hear from Jeff Gellmen at http://solidk9training.com/about/   No Comments Posted inVergeCollies, Personal   Mathematics- the weightier curricular approach, why was it so nonflexible to think of? 08 Apr This is going to be a multi-part post outlining a very intuitive but worldwide sense tideway to making math work for ALL students in our schools. It requires some flexibility and learning to do things differently but will be the solution to mathematical success for our country. Step 1:  what are your goals?  Before you can meet an expectation, you need touchable measurable goals.  I would suggest that each state set these up in order but not by grade level, just sequentially. ** Example:  Learn to understand the meaning of fractions, when fractions are appropriate, how to do arithmetic with fractions (multiply, divide, add, and subtract).  Along the way learn skills that are needed to teach these skills like LCM and credits navigate cancellation.  Have student solve and write one and two step problems that use fractions.  Do applications with fractions like interchange a recipe.   Students should test at 90% surpassing they leave their his unit. Each unit builds on old skills, can incorporate old skills and includes applications.  Each unit stands on its own and students do not progress until they pass each unit with 90% or better.  They moreover should have regular mixed reviews, they must pass to show hey are retaining old information. Each Math grade is marked by what level you are in: you can move as fast or slow as needed and those who struggle will have a smaller ratio of teachers to students to help them.  Students remoter withal can get uneaten pants by helping those who need it. Sampe School Kindergarten: (form sake of ease, lets have 8 students) Students 1,2 are at well-nigh same level and are working at level 1, they work on counting to 10 and matching quantity to the numbers.  They moreover learn well-nigh symbolic wing and subtraction and subtraction with stories of there were 2 cookie, mom baked 3 increasingly and put them on the plate, now there are 5 cookies on the plate.  The OR Amy had 4 cookies, her friends ate 2, now she has 2 cookies left.  Fnally, the learn well-nigh counting by 2 and exploring what plane means.  They moreover learn and match cadre shapes and discuss how many sides they have.They do many hands on and teacher directed activities related to these concepts.  Some are concept build and some will be tested.  They practice for the tested skills.  Can they match quantity with number?  Can they count to 10? Can they tell which number is plane ? And can they match a number sentence to a story problem read to them?Flipside3 students can once do all that or do it so quickly, they are moved to level K2.  In this group, students have to explore numbers from 11-15.  They have to learn to count by 2’s to 20.  They uncork to do wing and subtraction with the numbers 0-5.   They moreover have to match it to stories.  They study odd numbers.Flipside2 students are in K3, here they count to 100.  They count by 10’s and by 5’s to 100.   They squint at the numbers 1-100 if plane or odd.  They add and subtract with 0-9 digits and with two digit number where you don’t carry.  They introduce the idea of place value. The last student is smart unbearable that she is doing grade 1 math in kindergarten, so she in in Level 1 math.  She learns place value for thousands, hundreds, tens, ands, ones.     She starts writing worthier numbers, she learns how to mart for place value and the difference  between states c and dynamic addition.  She moreover applies this to subtraction.  She starts looking at data and graphing.  She can now count by 2,3,5,and 10 and they investigate the patterns of 9’s.  She leans to wield her knowledge to real world problems and think of problems where she might need her math skills.  All of these skills are tested and she stays at this level until she has 90% mastery. First Graders may find that they did not finish all of the K goals and may not start at level 1 or they may be superiority and may be doing much higher level work.  No levels, except for the K levels are associated with a grade and a K student doesn’t have to finish the K levels without leaving K. Promotions: once all the levels are determined, the goal will be that all students take four full years of math and meet the minimum of finishing the highest level which will equal 90% mastery of Algebra 1,2, and Geometry/Statistics/Finance tousle for graduation, with a prorated number of levels required for grade promotions in between.Higherbound students are enoured to finish all levels and one spare courses vastitude such as PreCalc, Discrete Math, Or statistics. STEM students are encouraged to finish all levels plus pre Calc, Calc AB, Calc BC, and if possible AP Stat. The difference with this and the current plan is that it breaks Math into small pieces and goals with required mastery of that zone surpassing moving on.  The focus becomes quality, not quantity.  I would rather graduate an A student in Math 1-3 than  D/F student in Math 1-4.           No Comments Posted in Personal   AP courses: Has the teacher prepared your student for the exam? A guide for parents and teachers 15 Jan AP, or wide placement classes are a unconfined way to rencontre students academically and for them to earn higher credit while in upper school.  In order to get credit, the higher must winnow AP credit and the student must score upper enough. Question:  Why doesn’t my child’s school winnow AP credit?  There can be many reasons but one reason is that the AP undertow is not rigorous unbearable to equal the higher matriculation at that college.  For example, Calculus BC does not go very deep in its curriculum and an engineering student relying only on what he or she learned in an AP matriculation would be overdue their peers who took the higher matriculation at a competitive engineering school.  Examples include AP Calc BC only has students do a few vital integration techniques and typical Calc 2 classes add increasingly techniques and go deeper into the ones the AP Calculus teach, for instance,  the AP matriculation just introduces like partial fractions while colleges goes into partial fractions in many variegated forms.Planeif the higher a student is peekaboo accepts the credit, a student may find that he or she has gaps that will have to be filled in plane if he or she scored a 5.   However, most students in that situation would be capable of the self learning needed to fill in the gaps. However, I would be hesitant with a 3 or a 4 in such a situation. As for the courses themselves, we want students to be successful.  There are many times where the undertow is not a prerequisite for future courses and getting that credit allows a student to take other classes instead or take a lighter load or plane graduate early.  So, what do we squint for in a teacher who is successfully preparing students to get strong AP scores. First, we want them to be familiar with the curriculum and the test.  They need wangle to both the test questions and sample scoring.  They should have questions (both multiple nomination and self-ruling response) that go with each unit so that as students work through a unit, they get practice with questions from old AP exams.  The teacher should be going over these questions with students and having students practice self-ruling response questions on their own.  The teacher should then have students ribbon points as they pick through the things graders will be looking for to ribbon points.  In English, essays should be graded and students should have matriculation discussions on why unrepealable scores were awarded and what was missing should be used as teaching examples.  In English, there are some unconfined resources that show what essays deserve what level points and why, this should be part of the lesson.  In math and science, making sure the intermediate steps, units, significant digits, etc. are visible are important. Each unit should be divided into time to learn the material and time to review and practice the material with an eye to how the test assesses you.  The exams for the student can then be all AP questions (mix of multiple nomination and self-ruling response) or at least 50% AP questions and 50% teacher made questions that help students remoter retain important material (remember, testing can be a method of learning if washed-up right, not just assessment). I would make the same recommendation for the final to teachers. Choose a variety of years rather than the most recent test as students might just study that. Parents, if your child is in an AP matriculation and has not been unceasingly doing AP problems, i.e. the teacher is not using an optimal approach, you will need to take matters into your own hands.  Get a couple variegated prep books from the whence of the course, have your child work problems that match what the teacher is covering, if they can’t, get a tutor.  Better to take superintendency of things now then try and cram at the end when there is not unbearable time to transpiration things.  Look online, there are many old tests available.  Three weeks surpassing the AP exam, your child should be practicing full AP tests, correcting them, finding mistakes, and taking another. Stories** Tom took AP chem at a school with a teacher who wasn’t the best.  He did do some practice problems from AP exams so his parents thought it would be ok as he was getting an A.  However, the teacher moved too slowly and only covered 3/5 of the curriculum and by the time his parents realized this and started sending him to a,tutor to learn the material he wasn’t going to get to, there wasn’t unbearable time.  He scored a 2 on the AP exam. Sandy took AP Calc AB with a teacher who never taught it before.  Her teacher never had them do any practice AP problems and moreover got overdue in teaching.  Sandy’s parents got her a tutor right yonder and kept her one step superiority of the matriculation and had her practice AP and CLEP practice problems.  When her teacher ran out of time and skipped over all the importance applications that Sandy knew would be on the AP exam, she and her Mom decided to study for the CLEP test and switch to taking Calculus at the polity higher rather than protract taking AP Calc BC with this teacher.  Sandy feels that the kids who were in her matriculation will not be prepared at all for the material on the AP exam. Jeff took AP Physics 1 at his upper school.  His school did not offer the Calculus based AP Physics C matriculation but he decided to start with AP Physics 1.  Like Sandy’s teacher, Jeff’s teacher never once gave them an AP question.  She rarely gave them tests and instead assign projects, he didn’t plane have labs.  He skipped matriculation a lot since most of the time his teacher did nothing, despite this stuff an AP class.  He never plane had homework.  He scored an A without an effort but saw no point in taking the AP Physics 1 exam, instead, Jeff bought two Physics books, a higher text and an AP Physics C prep book.  He is spending his time learning to link and expand the physics he did learn in Physics 1 and the Calculus he knows and is planning on taking the AP Physics C test instead this spring. Sam took AP computer science online.  His teacher had the write programs every day.  He had quizzes every week and the quizzes were AP computer science questions.  Each test was AP multiple nomination questions and the midterm and final had both AP multiple nomination and AP self-ruling response questions as well.  He moreover had a homework work with AP self-ruling response questions. So, when it came time for Sam to take the AP test, he had once had lots increasingly of practice.  Sam scored a 4 on the AP exam and will get higher credit. Chris took AP environmental science, his teacher had them write answers to self-ruling response questions from old AP tests in matriculation all the time. Her exams were moreover a mix of AP questions.  Before he took the exam, Chrismtoo, had a lot of practice and he scored a 4 on the exam. Cara dexided to self study for AP English Composition.  She bought a prep typesetting and studied all the literature terms and practiced the multiple choice.  She felt well-appointed with her score there and focused increasingly on her essays.  She learned well-nigh each type you have to write and read examples of good ones and why they were good and then looked at bad ones and why they were bad.  She would practice each type a couple of times with her parents offering feedback based on what other had written in her book.  It only too 3 weeks to a good handle on this t and she scored a 4 on the test.   No Comments Posted in Personal   What to know surpassing you consider a tummy tuck / Adominoplasty 22 Feb  This is a very difficult surgery. Don’t compare it and how well you did in other surgeries. Don’t listen to your friend , Sally, who was at work in one week and running in 5 weeks. Everyone is different. Know the variegated ways the surgery can be done, drainless, drains, or quilted with small drains. Know the doctor really well, make sure you are well-appointed with his practices if the worst happens. Ask him, if I have complications, how often will you see during those times.  how will I know what complications to squint for? How often can I undeniability or text or see you if I am having problems? Ask well-nigh scar revisions and how those work. Read all paperwork and make sure you know the risks, what they mean, what to squint for, what will happen, how they fix them, etc.Withoutyour surgery, your surgeon can have very variegated ideas of superintendency than other doctors.  It is wise to trust your gut and get second options if needed.  RealSelf is a unconfined resource. Understand what is stuff done.  How long is the surgery.  What other procedures will be done, for example, lipo and where? Know what to expect without surgery.  Will the lipo areas hurt and be bruised.nnhow how long does that last?  Should it swell?  How long?  What happens if I fell a lumpy zone or squishy zone or a really nonflexible area?  What if I have unrepealable types of pain that are variegated from the regular pains. If I need wound care, how often are you going to see me?  Can I text whenever something worries me?Surpassingre getting a TT know that this is a BIG surgery.  Expect 2-4 weeks lanugo and then slowly towers recovery from there.  Everyone is different, some heal faster, some plane slower.  You moreover don’t know who will have wound issues.  You need good home superintendency and support. Things to buy are:  A walker, it will save your when lip unruffle books or music or movies but stuff to do while hanging out bored eventaully need scar cream, I like Mederma wide scar gel. you moreover should have a shower chair you moreover might like coconut oil to massage stomach with and can use on the scar. throat lozenges (you don’t want to cough) protein for healing zinc, vit c, and bromelein for supplements   Know now things like that you are most likely getting a vag lift … This means, your pubic hair line goes up to your scar now and you have a lot increasingly hair than before.  It moreover repositions the vaginal opening so sex feels different.  The angles are off, it takes some getting used to. Know that your mons pubis zone can get quite swollen and squint distirbing. Know that many people have vitals sawed-off problems.  Swelling can last for a long time.  It gets the worst between weeks 3 and 8 and then starts to get largest but you still get swelling at the end of the day or without exercise, Read my post on wound care, squint at the photos, this happens to people, could you deal with it if it was you?  I liked drainless but drains may have saved me from all my wound problems, so I don’t know. Ideally, I would want a quilted tideway with 1 small drains at the flap. There is tightness, numbness, healing, etc issues to think about.  It really take at least one year to recover, that is a long time.  At 2 months now, I still have some swelling, lots of swelling at my unshut wound, I have one wound still unshut and flipside closed, I have a vitals sawed-off trying to heal, and I have a ton of tightness in my lower stomach.  I moreover have nonflexible scar tissue forming in large areas near the scars that are painful.  It is less flexible and will throbb. It it is a big surgery.Increasinglythan just, yeah, let’s go get my stomach unappetizing today.  Good luck with your choice.  Most women don’t regret it but do wish they were largest informed well-nigh what to expect.         No Comments Posted in Medical, Personal   Caring for and packing an unshut wound 22 Feb Wound Healing Tips:  Photos / Images of wound healing over time   You can get an unshut wound from many variegated reasons, in the end however, we are all dealing with the issue of how to get it to heal quickly.  Many wounds come from surgery when an incision does not stay tropical or there is tissue death, necrosis, that must be managed. It can moreover come from an infection.  My wound came from a seroma of fluid putting pressure on my incision and therefore, causing it to open. I will requite translating in unstipulated and in story mode based on what happened to me.  Your wound could be any size.  It will have a length, width, and depth.   It moreover might tunnel through sealed layers of the skin and have a width with in the tunnel.  What matters most is knowing the dimensions so you can measure progress.  My wound was well-nigh 2 inches long, 1 inch wide, and 6 inches deep in a tunnel that had a diameter of well-nigh an inch.  It was pretty big.   Suggestion: Measure and record your wound size. Initially, my wound looked terrible, it had woebegone stuff in it (pic 1) and it was unhealthy looking.  It unquestionably needed something tabbed debridement.  This gets rid of unhealthy tissue so new tissue can grow.  The doctor felt virtually with a long Qtip and packed with wet gauze and saline.  Later, I had to replace the gauze and do this twice per day.  This whoopee does help slowly debride the wound but largest and faster methods can be used such as lightly scraping with a scalpel or using Medihoney, which I sooner used and this helped debride the wound very well. Wound needs debridement – pic 1 Wet to dry dressings pic 2   I have a video link on YouTube that shows me doing the wet to dry packing of the wound.  Remember that this is a deep hole, so it is like a magic trick of disappearing scarves. The link is at http://youtu.be/Q354L0Vvd5c When doing these wet to dry dressings, I would have to imbricate the wound up with something (the dry part of wet to dry dressings) to reservation all the fluid.  It was a mix of exudate and serous fluid.  In the beginning, there was a lot of it.  I would imbricate it with a maxi pad or plane two at night and stick them to the side of my underwear to hold them in place. First two weeks not doing much, pic 3 For the first two weeks, the wound only got bigger.  It was looking healthier but it did not get smaller at all.  You see in pic 3 that it didn’t do much but by pic 4, the skin is pinker and healthier but the size looks a little bigger. Once we saw the healthy smooth, red granulation tissue, we knew that healing could start taking place.  I would intermittently use regular saline gauze and the gauze with the Medihoney on it as you saw me do in the video.  I moreover purchased Medihoney  rope so I could completely pack it with Medhoney.  It was well-nigh $60 for the rope,and well-nigh $16 for each tube of the paste.  I bought on Amazon.  They sell all kinds of Medihoney products.  The gel and paste are similar but the gel is thicker, I found the paste worked weightier for putting on a gauze surpassing packing.  The rope is long sheets of honey on a gauze-like alginate that you pack directly with and the honey melts into the wound and then you pull out the gel piece without a day or two.  Read all the benefits of Medihoney and you will be impressed.  It speeds healing, decreases pains, gets rid of infection, and helps alimony you from getting an infection.  After 2 weeks of wet dry packing and Medihoney, I started feeling the wound tighten on the inside. Read the rest of this entry »   No Comments Posted in Medical, Personal   Can a tummy tuck help my when pain? 20 Feb Photos from surpassing and without at end of post. There are a few studies that show an Abdominoplasty or tummy tuck has helped modernize when pack in some patients but most vestige is subjective.  If you ask a plastic surgeon, they will tell you it might happen but not to count on it.  I felt strongly that a tummy tuck, specifically the muscle repair was going to provide me relief.  The reason was based on my specific when pain issues. As I began searching for the causes of my when pain, I kept coming when to a couple of things.  My pain was a lot of musculoskeletal pain from stuff out of alignment. I would joke that I was a car that just needed a front end alignment, you know what, I was right and didn’t plane realized it for a long time.  My legs were off so I walked with a wobble, this set everything else off and my hips were off, my knees hurt, my legs hurt, and most of all my when hurt.  Doctors would tell me that I had to use my cadre increasingly to hold up my back.  One PT had me tighten my core, to be honest, I couldn’t find my core.  There was nothing to tighten considering the muscles were so separated that they didn’t work.  I don’t know why any of these doctors or specialists couldn’t see the big picture and say, hey, your rectal muscle separation is causing you a huge problem or at least, if your muscles were repaired, your cadre would be worldly-wise to support your when so much better. I really had scrutinizingly no cadre support and on top of that I was forward heavy.  You know how women with very large breasts get breast reductions to help with when pain, well, all my insides were substantially herniating between my separated rectal muscles and pushing out giving me this giant vitals that caused all this forward weight on me and ruined my posture, hurting my back.  I may have looked like I had a fat stomach but my weight told a variegated story.  I wasn’t that overweight.  And without I had the surgery, if it had been fat, my stomach would have remained rounded and it didn’t. It just needed everything pulled when overdue the rectal wall.Withoutlooking at my situation: Posture is terrible, leads to pain Posture can be stock-still with less weight pushing forward from vitals Weight is reasonable so rugosity is most likely from ab muscles not holding organs backWord-stockget any wrinkle of cadre muscles now Doctors stress tight cadre will really help my pain It seemed to me that I could medically goody from a tummy tuck / admomhinoplasty with muscle repair.  Could I get insurance to imbricate it?  Maybe but doubtful.  It would take so much work and effort and plane if they found it medically necessary for me they don’t want to,set a precedent so they would probably deny for that reason alone.  I cared increasingly well-nigh my health than fighting an insurance visitor so we just paid out of pocket. Results?  It has only been two months so the jury is still out.  I have noticed a significant difference in my posture. I have cadre strength that I did not have before.   My soul is adjusting to the new posture and I finger changes.  My right knee used to hurt, now my left knee hurts, but hopefully that ways I am putting increasingly plane pressure on my joints.  My hip pain and when pain is currently lanugo 40%.  That might transpiration as I am dealing with complications from the surgery and have unshut wounds and scar pain right that hurt increasingly than the back, so I haven’t been worldly-wise to fully cut when on meds to see if I can go lower considering I need them for the wound pain right now.  In flipside 6 months (or a year at most) I hope to have this wound and scar stuff stock-still and can largest evaluate the original pain.  However, so far I am very encouraged.  I moreover squint much nicer now that my abs hold when my other organs. stomach protrudes   abs now hold in all organs, only a little fat, lost 10 pounds without surgery   No Comments Posted in Medical, Personal   Whiskey is turning 3 –VergeCollie / Dog FearOversteppingBlog 16 Nov Our sweet verge collie will be 3 in a few increasingly weeks, wow, how time flies.  It is late so I will alimony this update short – but here are our most recent stories: Whiskey Meets a LabSquattertoSquatterWe have this neighbor who has an invisible fence.  It freaks Whiskey out since all he sees is dogs that are loose.  When she has friends over with dogs, they are often let loose with her dogs.  They may get a collar too but haven’t been trained with it so they still run right through the fence, zap and all.  So, I am walking Whiskey and a Lab comes charging over from their yard (not the first time).  I panic a little (got to stop doing this as I am sure it doesn’t help Whiskey).  I yell that my dog will EAT their dog… okay, I don’t say but I say they largest get their dog fast considering Whiskey is “not good with dogs.”  She is too slow to get over and Whiskey is squatter to squatter with the lab – I wasn’t prepared.  Whiskey didn’t know what to do!  He did nip at the dog but victual nips, no outright attack, nothing the dog plane felt at all – it was very minor.  The lab did not plane know what was going on.  I was trying to alimony Whiskey yonder from the lab – I should have tried just walking away, I don’t know if that would be largest or not but I was trying to just put myself in the way… maybe not smart either but I didn’t think the lab meant any harm and Whiskey wasn’t going to intentionally zest me… so finally, the lady comes and gets her lab and apologizes to Whiskey – asking if she can pet him, HA?!  No…  The good news was that it was not a terrible experience, Whiskey was squatter to squatter with a dog, he did not get bit and he did not REALLY zest the other dog. Whiskey Walks by Dogs Closely We have moreover been in increasingly and increasingly situations where Whiskey has had to walk by dogs or have dogs within just a foot of him.  He has handled it very well.  He had snooping but was not overly yellow-eyed and was worldly-wise to ignore and move on quickly when I asked him to. Talking to WhiskeyIncreasinglypeople have been talking to him lately, he doesn’t growl anymore when people do that!!! Bonding with my Oldest When we got Whiskey, my oldest son was yonder at higher so Whiskey did not know him and he was not trust worthy.  He did come and stay with us so Whiskey learned to winnow him in the house but they had an try-on to just ignore each other.  Now if we are on a walk and yonder from the house but see my oldest yonder from the house and tell Whiskey that it is “ge ge” (what we undeniability him, Chinese word for oldest brother), he wags his tail and runs up to him!Tabbedoff from the Cat Since Whiskey moved in, the cats had to move their domicile to the second floor.  Whiskey would ventilator the cats and I don’t trust him with his upper prey drive.  The cats learned they stay upstairs and the dogs unchangingly stay downstairs.  Sometimes, the cat comes lanugo on the stairs and sticks her throne through the rails to meow at me well-nigh something and Whiskey sees her and starts to ventilator her, running at the stairs – however, I have been worldly-wise to undeniability him off mid-chase!  This is good so that maybe, if overly needed, I could undeniability him mid-chase from chasing a dog or something. Final Update He continues to improve!  We are going to be talking to a new trainer and either way, we will protract our work to make him a non-reactive dog someday!   No Comments Posted inVergeCollies, Personal   How to skiver a nest of yellow jackets in the ground 25 Oct I am sure there is increasingly than one way to do this.  I spent time on the internet reading many variegated approaches including gasoline, humid water, soapy water, bee spray, etc.  Many people didn’t plane have any luck with their approach.  I will share my story as I believe, knock on wood, my nest is sufferer but we are still giving it increasingly time so we don’t take any chances. When putting fresh mulch on our landscape zone we realized we had a nest and disturbed it.  It took them a few days to dig a new slum into the mulch that was put on top of the slum that must have been there already.  With mulch it is really nonflexible to see a slum and you don’t want to get too tropical to watch.  Here is what we did. At evening time when they are less active, we put a large “muck” skillet (we use them as laundry baskets but they don’t have holes in them) over the zone we thought they might be coming out of.  We had to use something very large since we couldn’t really see a slum since the nest was in mulch.  We waited a few days. We then wanted to see if our skillet was doing anything so we (again at night) lifted the skillet and found that it did have many bees (living but sleepy) in it.  We sprayed the whole zone with bee and wasp spray and put the skillet back.  We unfurled to wait but saw increasingly bees then the next day. I could see a new slum that they seemed to have made so I sprinkled borax on the zone so they could bring it into the nest.  I could see them walking in the borax and going in the new hole.  The muck skillet was still on the other hole.Withouta few days of them walking through the borax, I went and put a plastic cereal trencher over the new slum I saw.Withoutthat day I did not see bees for a long time.  I think I saw one increasingly bee well-nigh a week later and he looked like he was going into a new spot right near the cereal bowl, so I put a plastic cup near the cereal bowl.  Again, so no increasingly bees for flipside few days. Now it has been well-nigh 1.5 weeks with only the one bee that I saw near the nest, don’t plane know if he got into the nest or not.  So, tonight, we pulled off all the buckets, bowls, and cups.  There were many many bees under the cereal bowl,  I did not want to shine a light on them or investigate their signs of life (I hope they were dead).   So, we now put lanugo layers of plastic that are stuff held lanugo with stake holders including an uneaten set that secures the plastic all virtually the zone where the cereal trencher was to trap the bees for a longer period.  This way our neighbors don’t have to see our unshortened pantry as they momentum lanugo the road.  Hopefully, this will secure the zone and any bees that might still be working in the nest will remain trapped and perish. Bottom line, if you can find the nest, putting something for the bees to walk in first (Borax or flipside insecticide) and track into the nest and then tent the hole(s) and waiting seems like the easiest solution.     No Comments Posted in Education, Personal   « Older Entries CategoriesVergeCollies Confessions from worldwide cadre math teachers Education Financial Medical Parenting Personal Uncategorized Recent Posts How to get wonted to NCSUHigherEngineering What if… we did math right? Oral Conscious sedation dentistry … what is it really like? 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