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Lol we make homemade play doh same reason.
Flour ,water,food coloring optional, y salt 🧂 mom did it for years. Can bake them to make ornaments to baby hand print keep sales 250* 2hours spray pan with Pam spray (to keep hand print paint after it cools to keep it hard y intact) (bigger ones sometimes 3hrs just check off y on) no right or wrong to mixing it can put the amount of salt 1/4cup ,1 cup of flour y add 3/4cup water can adjust as needed. To add scents don’t use anything other than some food seasoning like ginger or cinnamon! Safety first it’s so if they eat it their safe. Add a hole y ribbon paint it got a Christmas ornament for a few years. Reason for painting is so it doesn’t go moldy with age lol it is food.
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KetoneKaren wrote: »LuciBThinner wrote: »I
Tina Thanks to the people who have become addicts, chronic pain patients have a tough time these days. I went to the ER with pain that kept me awake 3 days straight…they gave me Tylenol. I told them I needed to get rest. They wouldn’t admit me or give me anything to help. I left crying (I never cry) and felt they had broken their oath by not helping me. I hadn’t taken anything strong for pain in a few years when that happened. It was the weekend, so I couldn’t call my regular doctor. After another 24 hours, I finally fell asleep and got 9 hours of sleep! I woke up a new person!! Ice is normally best friend – I also use Lidocaine patches and biofreeze…if I lived in a state where marijuana was legal, I would have a card. My doctor is very much in favor of it.
Love, health, and safety to All!! Luci in WNC
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Luci,As a health care professional, my take on this is as follows: while health care professionals are ethically bound to relieve pain and suffering, people who suffer from exacerbations of chronic pain should not expect ER physicians and urgent care physicians to prescribe strong pain medicines for them. Appropriate and ethical management of chronic pain must be done by a pain management specialist or other community-based doctor who has an ongoing relationship with the patient. Treatment of chronic pain with strong pain medicines is rarely warranted, but when it is, a thorough, longitudinal knowledge of the patients history, imaging studies, physical findings, etc., are essential in managing that patient's pain; in other words, a community-based primary care physician, spine specialist, rheumatologist, neurologist, oncologist, or pain management specialist. Emergency rooms and urgent care centers do have a role in treating acute pain - pain from a broken bone or a gallbladder attack, for example, - but not chronic pain exacerbations. In your case, you did get relief 24 hours later by simply sleeping, without narcotics, which could have caused harm to you or set you up for rebound pain. I empathize with chronic pain sufferers, but after 30 years of treating patients in an urgent care facility, my obligation to "do no harm" outweighs my obligation to "relieve pain and suffering" in a chronic pain patient who should have contacted their own physician. It's a tough choice; none of us wants to see patients suffering. However, it is the patient's duty to establish and maintain a relationship with an appropriate pain-management provider, and to contact them for exacerbation of chronic pain, rather than go to the ED or urgent care facility.
I agree that it's the patient-doctor relationship that should be managing pain. In our case, there are plenty of medications available to him right now. They just don't work. We want a diagnosis so we can take appropriate action. For example, if stretching will harm, we don't want him to stretch. However, we just don't know what is causing the pain in order to lessen it until things start opening up again.
I feel for those of you who do struggle with chronic pain. My grandfather had to my entire life and he was very cranky. I rarely heard him laugh or see him smile. When I did, it was special and the memories are sealed in my brain.
I have aches and pains, but nothing that keeps me from being active or causes me to think about the pain all the time. Opioids are responsible for our friend's downfall a few years ago. He is in a program now, but it almost ruined his marriage, his relationship with his kids, and any sense of normalcy for him. My cousin overdosed on pain patches many years ago. They can truly do harm.
I am glad that opioids don't seem to work for either of us so there is no need to take them. Marijuana is legal in my state both medically and recreationally, but I don't partake and haven't had a good reason to start-thankfully. That said, he's used a combo THC-CBD topical cream that seems to work better than the hardcore meds he's been prescribed. But it's not adequate and it's not a long term solution.
Tina in CA
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TIna, my comments were meant to address chronic pain where a diagnosis has been made. For those patients, there should be a pain management plan in place that addresses weekends, etc., and keeps chronic pain patients out of ERs. ERs should be reserved for emergencies and urgent issues. Your mister doesn't have a diagnosis. That's very different. Without a diagnosis and plan, no one is at the helm in managing or even understanding his pain.
Chronic pain is life-sucking. It can take all the joy out of life.
I am all for CBD products, and in states where THC is legal, it can be the difference between a decent quality of life and sheer misery. Creams may not deliver a high enough "dose" for more severe pain. It's really important to get a diagnosis and a plan, and I hope you are able to find the right specialist to pin it down for you.
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Rita, what is the interesting middle plant? I love doing that with my celery, by the way.
The only gardening I’ve had a chance to do is to decapitate the flower heads on the dandelions that are growing in my sidewalk. I have the kind of walkway that’s made of bricks and cement blocks. There’s ample sunshine to the point I wonder if I shouldn’t plant tomatoes there. If I didn’t need a handrail along my walk I’d plant them right alongside. As it is, I think I’ll try the upside down planter you can hang overhead. I have a beam at the end of my porch that’s made for hanging baskets, but I’m not fond of petunias and fuchsias need more shade. This is in full sun. Tomatoes would be ideal!
As for my yard, I mainly just let things grow. Dandelions, buttercups, thistles. But I do draw the line at blackberries and English ivy, which becomes seriously invasive here.
I’m having a very lazy day today, but will start a load of laundry later. It’s amazing how very little laundry one accumulates when one is a rule-abiding nudist who goes out twice a week when not working.
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I want to get my garden spot ready to plant beans. DH has is car parked in such a way that I can't get in and clean things up for this year's planting. I've just checked my planting dates and it is clearly time to get ready. Time to speak up and get that car out of my way. I grow only a few things but we enjoy them all year: green beans, blueberries, and herbs that I grow in pots.
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Sharon and Rebecca Do you have only cloth-upholstered furniture? I was looking around my house thinking about what it would be like to be a nudist, and all those wood and leather sitting surfaces gave me goose bumps. It would be like sitting on a cold toilet seat every time. Please enlighten.
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KetoneKaren wrote: »Sharon and Rebecca Do you have only cloth-upholstered furniture? I was looking around my house thinking about what it would be like to be a nudist, and all those wood and leather sitting surfaces gave me goose bumps. It would be like sitting on a cold toilet seat every time. Please enlighten.
Karen in Virginia
I picture sitting on a towel so personal bits aren’t on the furniture?
Okie in the TX Hill Country
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TIna, my comments were meant to address chronic pain where a diagnosis has been made. For those patients, there should be a pain management plan in place that addresses weekends, etc., and keeps chronic pain patients out of ERs. ERs should be reserved for emergencies and urgent issues. Your mister doesn't have a diagnosis. That's very different. Without a diagnosis and plan, no one is at the helm in managing or even understanding his pain.
Chronic pain is life-sucking. It can take all the joy out of life.
I am all for CBD products, and in states where THC is legal, it can be the difference between a decent quality of life and sheer misery. Creams may not deliver a high enough "dose" for more severe pain. It's really important to get a diagnosis and a plan, and I hope you are able to find the right specialist to pin it down for you.
Karen in Virginia
Well, he won't go to Urgent Care anyway. Thinks it'll be a huge waste of time. I can't drag him. Thanks for your comments. They are very insightful.4 -
Tina So sorry. I hope he gets the help he needs.
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KetoneKaren wrote: »Sharon and Rebecca Do you have only cloth-upholstered furniture? I was looking around my house thinking about what it would be like to be a nudist, and all those wood and leather sitting surfaces gave me goose bumps. It would be like sitting on a cold toilet seat every time. Please enlighten.
Karen in Virginia
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Whidislander wrote: »KetoneKaren wrote: »Sharon and Rebecca Do you have only cloth-upholstered furniture? I was looking around my house thinking about what it would be like to be a nudist, and all those wood and leather sitting surfaces gave me goose bumps. It would be like sitting on a cold toilet seat every time. Please enlighten.
Karen in Virginia
💖Rebecca
David Sedaris wrote a funny book about his time in a nudist resort. I laughed out loud, hard, at several points. It was aptly called "Naked."2 -
Hello all: DD is in the kitchen trying a new recipe for no yeast soda bread since we cannot find any yeast here. It will be interesting to see how it turns out. It is cloudy and cool here today so we are working on inside things. I am supposed to be getting some yarn delivered by FedEx today to make an afghan for DD's friend. Our water leak is fixed and we are extremely happy about that. Applied for a refund from United Airlines for ticket I purchased for a trip to Denver on May 5. Found out today they cancelled that flight but I had decided not to go anyway.
Rinn and Oskar
Everyone take care, Sue in WA
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Whidislander wrote: »KetoneKaren wrote: »Sharon and Rebecca Do you have only cloth-upholstered furniture? I was looking around my house thinking about what it would be like to be a nudist, and all those wood and leather sitting surfaces gave me goose bumps. It would be like sitting on a cold toilet seat every time. Please enlighten.
Karen in Virginia
💖Rebecca
David Sedaris wrote a funny book about his time in a nudist resort. I laughed out loud, hard, at several points. It was aptly called "Naked."
I have oogles! The one time I was playing doubles tennis, and I was running so fast I created "upper body momentum", and fell, did a perfect somersault and stood back up! No bruises, just my pride! I think my partner clapped because he was amazed I was so crazily acrobatic!😁. Can your whole dang body blush? Why, yes it can!😂😂
💖Rebecca
Need to find that book for *kitten* and giggles!7 -
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