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21stamps

21stamps

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Songbird76 said:
I have seen several, but they were far enough away that we only experienced the hail that came before. Though we were in Chicago once to bury my mom's ashes in Dundee. So we flew into Chicago, rented a car, then had to wait for my brother's flight to come in before we could drive to my cousin's house where we were staying. We went to Sears Tower and I remember when we looked out the window, there was a building on fire and we were watching that, so I wasn't paying much attention to the color of the sky. We went back down and it was suddenly completely dark and I said to DH that it was strange how early it got dark there! It wasn't even 5pm in June!! And we heard a lot of sirens and there was some vehicle making an announcement as it went through the streets, but we couldn't understand what it said. We decided to get some dinner before we headed back to the airport to pick up my brother. So we start walking and it just dumped buckets of rain...you couldn't step one step from an overhang without being drenched. I'd never seen it rain so hard in my life. So we ended up ducking into a covered terrace which turned out to be Eli's Cheesecake, so we sat down for me to have cheesecake while we waited out the rain. I was starting to worry we were going to be late picking up my brother. It finally cleared, got light, and we went to pick up my brother, only to find out his flight had been delayed because of the tornado going over Chicago. We had no idea we were out their walking while there was a tornado overhead...that must have been the announcement we couldn't hear. :banghead:

And of course, I told the story of my dad skipping his family reunion because he didn't want to take the time to get the oil changed in his pickup, and there was a tornado that went through my home town and took out most of the trailer housing, etc. So I was so relieved that my dad was at the family reunion until the cousin emailed me and asked me why my dad hadn't shown up. Turned out he slept through the whole thing...the storm did rip half the ceiling off his house and broke all his windows, but he was fine and didn't even know there had been a tornado.:banghead:
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Oh goodness! I would have been freaking out.
I’ll take a hurricane over a tornado any day!!
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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I’ve posted about this before, but, I’ve only ever seen one tornado in person before.
It was about 12-ish years ago, I was at the office in the afternoon, and we were under a tornado warning...standard for us spring-ish into early summer.
Anyway, all of a sudden, I heard stuff hitting my office windows, and looked up to notice it was leaves and twigs. When I looked a bit further out into the valley behind our building, I saw the rotation. Probably an F-0 at that point, but, it did knock over a coupla’ cedar trees across the back road of a neighborhood I used to shortcut through to the main highway that is now gated, and did a bit more damage to some more trees and roofs further down the road.
My theory is, our hills break things up before they get too crazy...!!! :)
 
MySmallWorldof4

MySmallWorldof4

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Rista1313 said:
@MySmallWorldof4 My SIL did 19 classes last night / this morning... that's insane, isn't it?
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Whoa! I can only do at most 4 in a day. Since I teach my own kids I offer between 5:30 am and 7:30 am. Then the other hours that you can teach are between 8pm and 11 pm due to the time difference. I noticed that for next week I had many hours up until 9am that had i interested parents, but until my kids are finished with their school year, I cannot accept them. My kids come first. We changed our clocks and they haven’t changed theirs, so now I am booking maybe 2 or 3 a day during the week except for weekends when dh is home and my kids don’t do schoolwork.
 
Rista1313

Rista1313

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MySmallWorldof4 said:
Whoa! I can only do at most 4 in a day. Since I teach my own kids I offer between 5:30 am and 7:30 am. Then the other hours that you can teach are between 8pm and 11 pm due to the time difference. I noticed that for next week I had many hours up until 9am that had i interested parents, but until my kids are finished with their school year, I cannot accept them. My kids come first. We changed our clocks and they haven’t changed theirs, so now I am booking maybe 2 or 3 a day during the week except for weekends when dh is home and my kids don’t do schoolwork.
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It’s crazy! She dies an all-nighter and then sleeps 4hoursand then gets up and does stuff with her own family
 
MinnieM123

MinnieM123

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Tony the Tigger said:
You can definitely pass it without feeling it. I had some tiny stones a couple of years ago. I found out by suddenly getting sweaty and doubled-over pain. I got some medication that relaxes, therefore enlarges, your tubes, which allows them to pass more easily. I also went crazy with lemons, and a tincture from Whole Foods, both of which are supposed to make them smaller/break them up. I still use those occasionally just as a preventative, because once you get them, you’re more likely to get them again, and they run in families.

My brother had a huge one around the same time and needed much more medical attention.

Side note: no kidding, there are articles that show riding Blue Thunder Mountain Railroad helps to dislodge them!
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One of my brothers had a bad one (too big to pass through naturally) so he had ESWL in a hospital to break it up. (ESWL -- extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsey therapy). He said it was a bizarre experience, but it did the trick!!

Since then, (this was years ago), he's greatly increased his water intake every day. I've followed his lead, in case it's something that could be hereditary.
 
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wdwfan4ver

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Tony the Tigger said:
You can definitely pass it without feeling it. I had some tiny stones a couple of years ago.
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I was not so lucky:(. Back in early December of 2012, a laser was needed to remove the kidney stone I had. I had a kidney stone that was too big to pass. I had a stint for a couple weeks after. I have no memory of the procedure being painful because I was put to sleep at the time.

What I can tell you that the stint I had did cause me pain whenever I had to go to the bathroom. That stint caused me back pain when I went to the bathroom with the pain up to 5 minutes after going to the bathroom. When the stint got removed, the pain went away.

The restrictions I was on even prevented me from gift wrapping Christmas gifts even at the time. My younger brother had to gift wrap my parents gifts and my parents had to gift wrap my younger brothers gifts at the time.
 
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MinnieM123

MinnieM123

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wdwfan4ver said:
I was not so lucky:(. Back in early December of 2012, a laser was needed to remove the kidney stone I had. I had a kidney stone that was too big to pass. I had a stint for a couple weeks after. I have no memory of the procedure being painful because I was put to sleep at the time.

What I can tell you that the stint I had did cause me pain whenever I had to go to the bathroom. That stint caused me back pain when I went to the bathroom with the pain up to 5 minutes after going to the bathroom. When the stint got removed, the pain went away.

The restrictions I was on even prevented me from gift wrapping Christmas gifts even at the time. My younger brother had to gift wrap my parents gifts and my parents had to gift wrap my younger brothers at the time.
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I had a friend who had a stent after a procedure as well -- she couldn't wait to get rid of that thing!!

Glad you're o.k. now. I assume you drink lots of water to flush your system, after that experience.
 
Figgy1

Figgy1

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Songbird76 said:
Yeah, I told him about BTMR, but we're not there until Summer....so. Anyway, he hasn't felt anything since that Saturday a week ago, and he had red blood cells in his urine, which is why the doc said kidney stones, but the tech couldn't find any. So we don't know...we figured you'd feel it when they pass. But if you've had them and didn't feel it when they passed, great....he must have passed it that night I guess! Thanks!
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Maybe he should see if he can borrow a moped.
 

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