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Today I’m off to CPR certification class,
I get mine first aid certification renewed regularly. I've been first aid certified (on and off) since I was about 20.
First time was when I worked in childcare and I got the childcare-specific certification.
Then I got into the manufacturing industry, and for several years had to take workplace health and safety courses + manufacturing/oil-field specific first aid courses, with an element of hypothermia care thrown in.
Then back into childcare, specifically elementary/primary education, and back into the childcare-specific certification.
I moved to mainland Australia and got first aid with a focus on things like remote care, heat-related care, and snakes. In fact, I had several sessions on remote care and one afternoon on snake bite care.
Then a move to Tasmania, and here the focus is on water safety, and all the things that could take a bite out of you if you stick a toe in the water ... as well as the usual CPR etc.
BTW - have you noticed how CPR has changed over the years? It's all compressions now ... thank goodness.
And this is an article on the history of CPR which appeared in my FB newsfeed the other day.
https://www.verywell.com/why-does-cpr-change-4144744
Machka in Oz
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mikesmom1983 wrote: »
I spoke to the fair labor board in my state about the situation, I can file a complaint but they strongly suggested I wait until I no longer work there because of retribution.mikesmom1983 wrote: »... they will probably have me on call 2 weeks of the month without pay instead of 1 and working 2 weekends a month instead of 1. That will amount to over 1100 hours per year that I will work and not get paid for.
Why on earth aren't you getting paid for work?
Can you place a report with your Fair Work Tribunal/Commission?
Chris in MA
That's sad.
Well, I do hope you find something else soon.
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coastalgosgal wrote: »So here's the plan. To not wash my hair, therefore slowing down my oil production. Hey people have only started shampooing their hair with shampoo since the 1930's. Before then it was washed with the same soap you did your body with. So by brushing the oils from your scalp to the ends of your hair you keep the oil at bay, plus your ends get fuller. I have watched videos of people that have been doing this for years. Their hair looked really great! I will be rinsing it with water now and then. It also is important to know if you have hard or soft water. That affects the sebum (oils) on your scalp. So that's the why of it.. Lol.
Becca
Back in those days, they also wore bonnets to cover their hair.
When we lived in the shack in the woods, water, and especially hot water, was rather precious so I cut back to once or twice a week. It didn't go particularly well, and I started wearing hair coverings of various sorts so as not to offend my coworkers.
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Artemis2121 wrote: »I did think I found a new strategy, but it backfired. I was playing phone puzzles of desserts. I figured I could ogle each morsel and gain -0- lbs. By day 3 I was obsessed with finding and eating, any luscious dessert. Dunkin Donuts was crowded, so I managed to come home empty and switched to kitten puzzles.
Linda NJ
I'm part of a Christmas cooking group on FB (I'm not entirely sure why ... I think someone signed me up for some reason), and was getting picture after picture after picture of Christmas baking. Yesterday I went in and turned off their notifications because it was just getting to be too much. I wasn't going out and trying to find the food or bake it myself, but it just made me feel ravenously hungry and grouchy all the time.
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Michelle I hope we never need it! But glad I have it - just in case.
Linda I would be in trouble with kitten puzzles, I’d want to keep playing, and playing, and playing. I’m not much of a desert person so I probably could manage that.
Machka The certification class I took still has breathing: 30 compressions, 2 breaths, 30 compressions... is the standard. But, the emphasis was on making sure to get the compressions right and started as quickly as possible.
Night, Cin Cin a tutti!
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Artemis2121 wrote: »Hello Ladies,
I followed my daughters onto MFP, and have been here, and reading this thread about 3 yrs. I learned why I went up 2 trouser sizes in as many years, when I started logging here. I aimed for a 20lb loss, lost 30, regained 10, lost 4.
This thread is one of my favorites. I love to see the support offered when folks share the ups and downs of their lives, their experiences, adventures and strategies. I'm usually way behind reading posts, so I don't add much.
I did think I found a new strategy, but it backfired. I was playing phone puzzles of desserts. I figured I could ogle each morsel and gain -0- lbs. By day 3 I was obsessed with finding and eating, any luscious dessert. Dunkin Donuts was crowded, so I managed to come home empty and switched to kitten puzzles.
Linda NJ
Good job!!! My hubby loves to watch Triple D on Friday nights and all kinds of cooking shows. It drives me crazy, I now get up and leave the room and go to the computer room (currently my craft room) and work on Christmas ornaments and listen to music in there, or catch up with my besties here on MFP. Ugh. Looking at/thinking of food just makes me WANT to eat
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Artemis2121 wrote: »I did think I found a new strategy, but it backfired. I was playing phone puzzles of desserts. I figured I could ogle each morsel and gain -0- lbs. By day 3 I was obsessed with finding and eating, any luscious dessert. Dunkin Donuts was crowded, so I managed to come home empty and switched to kitten puzzles.
Linda NJ
I'm part of a Christmas cooking group on FB (I'm not entirely sure why ... I think someone signed me up for some reason), and was getting picture after picture after picture of Christmas baking. Yesterday I went in and turned off their notifications because it was just getting to be too much. I wasn't going out and trying to find the food or bake it myself, but it just made me feel ravenously hungry and grouchy all the time.
That's me exactly. I just look and it and can get obsessives to the point of getting cranking over food. Mostly mad at myself for not being able to be above and beyond such foolishness.
I also have run out of my Lasix pills (they are mailed to me every three months) for some reason the "automatic" ship date was mixed up and I have been without them for almost two weeks. Thankfully they came in today's mail. So between wanting to eat, my feet and legs looking like they should be taped onto an elephant and not sleeping well due who knows why (I never sleep well), I am crankier than an old wet hen. Poor Jack has been thru the mill with me the last few days. Hopefully things will get back to normal shortly with the arrival of the meds.
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Chris, I am praying you will find a new well-paying job soon. Nothing is worse than to be miserable in your work place.
Didn't you mention once that your son and his wife live with you, are they able to help in any way with the finances?
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Chris, I am so sorry about your work situation, remind me again what kind of work you do. That was awful what tpthe commission said. Only complain after you quit due to retribution. That says that you place of work has some known issues. They owe you one big and I mean big check. Hope it gets better. Is there any agency in the community you can go to for assistance, especially for your heat and air.
We love our quirky Becca! I know you will keep is informed of how this all comes out.
Choir practice was good. We are coming along nicely with our Christmas cantata. Main problem is that most of us need to have some water in the choir loft and get a drink without anyone seeing it. There are times that she has us sitting during a narration r long prelude into a song so that would be the perfect time to get a drink of water. It it just looks tacky for a choir to have a bottle of water. We need to have those beer bottles on our head with a straw right at our mouth! Our minister and his wife went t Las Vegas t do a wedding for a college student that lived here for college. They took 5 days and when they came back tonight they looked like they had been on a second honeymoon. They have two teenagers s maybe it's just 5 days away form their kids!
Allie, I was wondering something the other night. I remember you saying something about there was some gunk around your shower door and it had to be cleaned up. Then when you moved in you weren't feeling well. I hope whatever that is/was isn't bothering you.
Night night Joyce, Indiana
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Choir practice was good. We are coming along nicely with our Christmas cantata. Main problem is that most of us need to have some water in the choir loft and get a drink without anyone seeing it. There are times that she has us sitting during a narration r long prelude into a song so that would be the perfect time to get a drink of water. It it just looks tacky for a choir to have a bottle of water. We need to have those beer bottles on our head with a straw right at our mouth! Our minister and his wife went t Las Vegas t do a wedding for a college student that lived here for college. They took 5 days and when they came back tonight they looked like they had been on a second honeymoon. They have two teenagers s maybe it's just 5 days away form their kids!
Get a camelbak.
Or if you don't want to go that route, get a really small bottle of water (like what some airlines give you) and put one of those bendy hospital straws in it. You could sip quite subtly that way.
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Penny and Machka I’m pretty sure it was you two who were extolling the happiness that was heated bathroom floors. I remember at the time thinking how happy I was never to have encountered this. Because cold bathroom floors have been a good friend my whole life.
For some reason, (I suspect an extreme humidity shift in my sleeping environment) I occasionally will wake up in the middle of the night and feel as if I am burning up from the inside out. This most likely happens when I am staying the night somewhere other than home. My cure? Go sit on my hosts or the hotel’s cool bathroom tile floor. If possible with my back against a cool surface like a ceramic tub. If it is an especially bad spell, I’ll have to move two or three times as my body heats up the tiles underneath me and I need to shift to a cool spot.
Guess where I am right now? Yup, camped out on my bathroom floor, with a very confused cuddly cat. For a number of odd reasons (broken ceiling fan in den, guest spending the night, and an under the weather husband who I do not want to wake with the extra strength fan we keep in the bedroom) when I awoke a few minutes ago in the midst of a doozy bad hot flash, I needed relief quickly, discreetly and quietly. Hip hip hooray for cold bathroom tile floors! I for one will always hope to find a nice welcoming cold tile bathroom floor wherever I go, lol.
I am aware that I may be unique in this. But at the moment this cool bathroom tile is my favourite home feature.
Rye
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I thought I had posted last night but I can't find it again. Was it just a dream? C'est la vie.
Marcelyn - We also have deer. They are always in our neighbourhood. It isn't unusual for them to saunter away from me as I leave for work. I am thankful we don't have any wild hogs! Those things are vicious. Nature or not they can stay away from me.
Joyce - Glad that it was good news after your colonoscopy.
Becca - Did you do the no shampoo experiment last year? Or was that someone else?
Your grocery list sounds good.
Pip - I think we all want a Kirby. He's a keeper for sure.
Chris - Praying for a better job for you. They are misusing you terribly. So, it sounds like the fair labour board really isn't of much use to you. How frustrating.
Picked up the forms that the Doc had to fill out for my attempt at getting the disability pension. She attached images of my ankle and back with all the glorious hardware. She says she can send them images of my ribs and shoulder also if they need more. I doubt there will be a later, pretty sure this is a one shot deal.
I have to finish the novel that is my part of the application. Why do they need to know where, when and what I went to school for? What does that have to do with this situation? There are a lot of questions but the one I think is going to disqualify me? Are you currently employed? Yes. It seems that I shouldn't have worked so hard to keep on working. I will be taking it all to Service Canada tomorrow afternoon.
I also have an appointment with the psychologist/ counsellor. It was a cancellation and I do have an appointment next Monday that Larry can come to if he thinks he wants to work on this. He is going to have to be completely honest and to stop justifying the things he says and does to me. My hope and optimism is no where to be found on this subject.
DS invited us to their house. She was crying poverty but I told her to stop. I was just at her daughter's wedding. I saw the dress. I saw the Jimmy Choos. She admitted that they were still doing okay. You think? She turns 60 this December and hasn't worked for the last 5 yrs. DBIL is a hard worker but he retired with a healthy pension. Went back to work for the government. Stopped that to do the commissioning job for a plant down in Texas for a year. Now he is back home and just got back from helping with shut down at a plant by Red Deer. Supper was good although I skipped the gravy and mashed potatoes. Not really a big deal for me as I don't like either.
A difference with my son upset me a little. My niece asked that they not use any video from her wedding but SHE decided that it would be okay because the videos were dark. I got stuck in the middle. I was already upset with HER over stuff on the weekend. If it is always you getting the short end of the stick, being picked on, being misunderstood then maybe it is you and not all the other people. I have been trying so hard to be supportive, to listen, to include HER but she makes it so difficult. A smart person in some ways but so utterly clueless in others. DS got defensive for her but if she would respect what others ask of her instead of doing whatever she wants that would be so nice. I know it is his choice and I have been trying my best.
I 've been wanting to get our passports done. Would it be bad form to work on that before I talk to Larry? He doesn't seem to even realize that things have shifted. Can he really be so clueless? If every week was like the last few days then I wouldn't have a problem.
-Sharon in Lethbridge (One big bundle of nerves)
p.s. Whoever thought I would have to deal with this pile of s**t at this time in my life.2 -
Hugs for all those with problems, glad the twins are doing ok now,
I'm a bit distracted at the moment DH takes medication for enlarged prostate and after blood test last week his PSA level had gone up so Doc referred him to Specialist. He has an appointment next Wednesday, seems very quick, hoping that's not because she thought it was urgent.
Must do some exercise before hairdressing appointment then later lunch with my 1918 Club
Kate UK
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Penny and Machka I’m pretty sure it was you two who were extolling the happiness that was heated bathroom floors. I remember at the time thinking how happy I was never to have encountered this. Because cold bathroom floors have been a good friend my whole life.
For some reason, (I suspect an extreme humidity shift in my sleeping environment) I occasionally will wake up in the middle of the night and feel as if I am burning up from the inside out. This most likely happens when I am staying the night somewhere other than home. My cure? Go sit on my hosts or the hotel’s cool bathroom tile floor. If possible with my back against a cool surface like a ceramic tub. If it is an especially bad spell, I’ll have to move two or three times as my body heats up the tiles underneath me and I need to shift to a cool spot.
Guess where I am right now? Yup, camped out on my bathroom floor, with a very confused cuddly cat. For a number of odd reasons (broken ceiling fan in den, guest spending the night, and an under the weather husband who I do not want to wake with the extra strength fan we keep in the bedroom) when I awoke a few minutes ago in the midst of a doozy bad hot flash, I needed relief quickly, discreetly and quietly. Hip hip hooray for cold bathroom tile floors! I for one will always hope to find a nice welcoming cold tile bathroom floor wherever I go, lol.
I am aware that I may be unique in this. But at the moment this cool bathroom tile is my favourite home feature.
Rye
Sounds like night sweats!
For a while, I was up every night with them ... before that time, and again now, I get night sweats in the week or so leading up to my period.
I wake up just absolutely dripping and have to get up and go into the toilet room ... the coldest room in the house.
One of the other things I found helps is running my wrists under cold water at the sink.
The reason I was admiring the heated floors is because the houses here in Australia are not well insulated, so they tend to be cold ... and the bathrooms and toilet rooms have a small open screen for ventilation. Great for ventilation, but on a cold windy day, those rooms are just freezing.
This is a toilet room window from one of our previous houses. See the little screen at the top ... that's open to the outside year round. Our current house has that too.
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Chris can you reach out to nonprofit in MA that helps families with heating oil, I know that help is out there on that front. I agree you should not file a complaint right now, protect the job you have now while you keep up the search, can your "work son" be a source for networking--he knows how great you are!
Beth glad that the little one is getting sorted out, it is so anxiety provoking those first 12 weeks are toughest!
sounds like you've got a fun plan in place for DH b-day!
The chiropractor had nothing good to say except go back to ortho doc and demand pt for your hands
Ah well, at least it was a quick appointment, but I skipped the gym because of it and then hit the pasta bowl HARD, yikes I can't tolerate the itchy rash I get when I eat wheat, what was I thinking? pasta was my childhood comfort food, I lived on it but I have developed a wheat allergy and eating it is akin to asking for a rash, bumpy itchy welts 
Back on the straight and narrow today, yogurt, salad and chicken, and homemade hummus with peppers. Oh yeah, and back to the gym after work, hold me to it ladies!
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Yesterday I did my longest walk since June ... 9.5 km. 5
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Joaquin and his daddy on the cable cars that took us over the Texas State Fair
Joaquin using the electrical current in his hands to make the wind tunnel work and make little balls float around at the Children's Museum.
Joaquin and his mama (my DD) inside a mouth structure at the Children's Museum.
Joaquin frustrated with the water ball. I think he wanted the swirling water OUT of the big ball.
Joaquin in a plaster cast of a dinosaur footprint.
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