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donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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Gabe1 said:
You're kind. :)

It is tough. I'm sure your have had your share of IEPs too. :eek: If a teacher doesn't have the support of the building administrators and the Sped coordinators and their staff the teachers are just sitting ducks. Missing the details of this of this color me curious....where is the internal support for the classroom teacher? Who is responsible for reporting the no show sped high school teacher? IEPs are not meant for sped teachers to be hands off. Seems the parent at first blush anyhow is laying into the wrong teacher????
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Yep, I don't remember either myself or DWifey missing any of those meetings right up through HS.
I only ever remember us having issues with one of his classroom teachers...his first grade teacher. Many other parents had issues with her too.
All the others were pretty incredible, and he and we had good relationships with them. We were very involved. :)
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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ajrwdwgirl said:
Thanks! The foot is feeling a little better. I wrapped it like the doctor said for a couple days and it hurt worse than it did unwrapped. So I have kept it unwrapped and work flat shoes (without an arch) and the foot is feeling better.

The cruise is the day after Thanksgiving, I'm really looking forward to it.
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Glad to hear it's feeling better!

Good, you still have the cruise to look forward to! That time of year sounds like a great time to go on a cruise...! :)
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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Gabe1 said:
I fell a few feet off a ladder a few years ago and still have issues with that foot. My ortho thinks I might have damaged some of the ligaments and tendons vs a break after I revisited it last fall with him. He wants an MRI now. He is right but at the moment if surge ry is the answer it isn't a good time for elective surgery so I continue to push it off.
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About 8-9ish years ago we were at Sclitterbahn in a long tube chute. We had gone with another couple that had young children. DWifey had one of the kiddos with her in her tube (relatively calm chute, kiddo had a poofy life jacket on). She got stuck in an eddy and couldn't get out. As I was getting out of my tube to help her, I slipped and my left foot planted on the bottom of the chute very hard and was twisted sideways...I heard my knee pop...and then came the pain...!!! :in pain:
I told DWifey right then and there "I think I just blew my knee out!"
Anyway, after I got them unstuck, I laid back down in the tube in quite a bit of pain, but, by the time we finished the run, the pain had diminished quite a bit...until I went to get out of the tube. I dealt with it for the rest of the day, but, by the time we left, it was gettin' pretty bad again, and swollen. :rolleyes:
Saw the Orthopedist ASAP on Monday. Luckily, it was only a strained MCL (Medial Colateral Ligament). The doc told me that that was the one ligament in the knee that was most likely to heal without surgery.
Fortunately, after wearing a brace for about 3 weeks, I haven't had any problems with it since.
At the time, though, I thought I destroyed it...! :eek: ;)
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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BAChicagoGal said:
MRI's are no fun. I will live with my foot the way it is for now. The pain is usually more of a burning sensation, and the swelling is minimal now that the weather is cooler. I understand you not wanting surgery. I am looking at possible eye surgery that I am dreading.
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Sympathy like.
Hope the foot and eye situations improve, soon!
I,ve had at least 2 MRIs, 3 maybe... :cyclops:
For sure, one on my knee and one on my head. They can take a while, but, I just chill and have never had a problem, so far. :)
 
Gabe1

Gabe1

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figmentfan423 said:
Has she tried the children's department for jeans?
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She can wear childrens dresses, some Ts, skirts, shorts but not pants or jeans. Too short and don't fit between waist to down there.
She generally wears Express Jeans but she could never order online cause the sizes vary by style.

Me I like midrise jeans. Unfortunately most of them have material for hips. Never having hips I wind up having these puckers of material. Hate Jean Shopping.
 
Gabe1

Gabe1

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MinnieM123 said:
Note to @donaldtoo , -- Then again, for those of us who aren't talented chefs like Figgy (some of us who can barely cook anything passing as edible), I've found that the cheapos from Target, with dents and paint chipping off them, work just as well for the kitchen-impaired! :D )
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I thought that too about pots and pans. I love to cook. I don't go the extend that @figmentfan423 does and buying items months in advance-never had the space for that. But the quality of pots and pans really make a big difference in how food cooks. Took me a while to realize it wasn't me, it was the cookware. Take a cheap frying pan and you will see how unevenly a simple grill cheese sandwich will cook for example.
 
Gabe1

Gabe1

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Goofyernmost said:
I know it makes me less then a team player, but, I just wouldn't show up for work if that was required. Especially for the second most fake holiday in existence.
Valentines Day
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I love Halloween, so fun. We have weeks of it here in some shape or form and mixes in with fall fests. Valentines Day is perfectly fine but the odd Holiday that I couldn't wrap my Brain around was Sweetest Day only trumped by Bosses Day.
 
Gabe1

Gabe1

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figmentfan423 said:
EEEKKKKKKK I just realized I'm going to be very busy the week between Christmas and New Year. I can't hem anything I'm making the boys for Christmas because I'm sure they will grow if I hem them now. In fact I made James items just a bit big knowing that will happen. On top of that we may be hosting a New Year's party, I don't want to, nope, no way not going to be fun for us at all. I don't mind Thanksgiving or Christmas Eve and day but I think NYE will just be one party to many! Not to mention it's for the kiddos:cautious:
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I long ago got over New Years. I've done some Disney NYE including the Millennium. In theory exciting, in real life not so much.
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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MinnieM123 said:
In my case, I had my left eye starting to turn inward when I was about 8. I had surgery to fix it back then. Also, I'm nearsighted, just like @BAChicagoGal . Think I prefer the treatment that you doctor gave you, instead--no surgery. You were lucky.
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Glad to hear they got your eye taken care of! :)

DS had premature retinopathy when he was in the NICU, and was in danger of going blind. They brought in an expert surgeon from Houston that took care of that. DS only lost about 0.5% of his peripheral vision.
Later, he had a lazy/wandering eye. The eye doc tried glasses, patch therapy, etc. None of it worked. He finally had surgery at about age 3, and that fixed the problem...! :)
 

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