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The kid is fortunate that you chose mercy over the school's overblown idea of justice.
I hope that having the crap scared out of him taught him some important lessons, like 1) peer pressure makes you stupid, 2) look before you leap, 3) you make choices & live with consequences, & 4) the rest of the world, including employers, customers, police, or total strangers, may not be so ready to take pity on you & give you a break.
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quote:since the bike was returned only after the security video caught him
Yeah, I would be a lot more sympathetic if he had returned it under his own cognition. However, the results seem to be good. He didn't get off completely and neither did he have a school year blown. It is good he can sit for exams.
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This is going to sound crazy frivolous, but all y'all pray for our cat Fred? He's been sick for about a month now with bloody stool and vomiting...we've taken him to the vet twice and he gave him IVs and antibiotics and anti diarrheals and anti nausea meds, and the original infection seems to be gone but he's still not getting better. Now he's lethargic and skinny and treating the entire house like a litter box and we don't know what to do. It's 'just a cat' but since we can't have kids he's very precious to us.
Thanks and sorry if TMI.
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Thank you all for your prayers. I felt your prayers. And Jana, thank you for your Facebook plea. It means everything.
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Dyany, it isn't frivolous at all. We give our pets our whole hearts and get so much more in return. I will include Fred in my prayers.
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I agree with the others, Dyany. It isn't frivolous at all. Prayers will be said.
One time when my cat was sick, I asked for a blessing. Since the priesthood holders didn't feel comfortable giving the cat a blessing directly, they gave me a blessing instead. They didn't consider it frivolous, either.
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Hmm. I remember watching Legacy and there was that scene with the bull... maybe the sisters could bless the cat if the priesthood declines?
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I didn't see this before, but I'll certainly remember Patrick in my prayers & will put him & the rest of your family on the prayer roll this weekend. I hope he is feeling hetter.
Dyany, Fred will be in my prayers too. After all, we pray for our families & each others', & Fred is part of your family.
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Some of you already know but I am recuperating from a virus that cleaned left a shell of me behind. Today i can't move because I have overtaxed every muscled in my torso. - can't even laugh.
so Else just called with early warning symptoms. So it wasn't food poisoning.
who needs prayer? Andries. He is already flat out at work and he just cannot be sick.
Please pray that what ever this is will leave him alone. thanks
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I picked up a gastrointestinal virus during Memorial Day weekend and I ended up in the ED early Thursday morning (about 4 a.m.) with what I thought were atypical chest pains. It was really more of a burning feeling than a stabbing pain, but it was enough to awaken the palmetto_kid and ask her to drive me to the hospital. Fortunately, we live about 5 blocks down the street from the hospital, so the ride was short.
On that early morning, the ED was filled to the brim, so they put me in the trauma room. It’s amazing how quickly you are placed in a room when you tell the triage nurse you have chest pains. They hooked me to a heart monitor and drew some blood. A few minutes later, after someone else had been discharged, they moved me to a different room. A rad tech came in and took a portable chest x-ray, and one of the RNs came in and gave me a 325 mg aspirin and had me drink a GI cocktail. GI cocktails, for the uninitiated, contains a liquid antacid and viscous lidocaine. Afterward pal_kid and I tried to nap, as I the burning had subsided. Nearly an hour later, the RN who had given the GI cocktail came in and asked if I had ever been diagnosed with renal failure. I said I had not, and he replied, “Well, you do now. Looks like we are going to admit you.” For the next 30-40 minutes I imagined myself spending the rest of my life visiting a dialysis center several times a week. Then the ER doc came in, confirmed I was in acute renal failure as a result of the dehydration from the GI virus. He stated he thought my new blood pressure medication had had a negative effect on my renal status because of the dehydration and that my BUN and creatinine (renal enzymes) were both quite elevated. I expressed my alarm, but he assured me that the renal failure was reversible with proper hydration and that was why I was being admitted. He also assured me that my cardiac enzymes were completely normal.
By 8 a.m. I was in a telemetry bed, hooked to a heart monitor. I spent Thursday and Friday night as an inpatient and was released shortly after 1 p.m. on Saturday. How happy was I, to be back home again! During my hospitalization, the hospitalist treating me had withheld all of my rheumatoid arthritis meds. When I awakened at 4:30 on Sunday morning, I could barely move. Every joint was aching! I got up to visit the bathroom and then took a Lortab before going back to bed. I fell asleep and woke again at 9 a.m., in as much pain as earlier. I had a little bit of breakfast and then went back on the least lethal of my RA meds. That did not do much good, so I took a muscle relaxant a few hours later, which did the trick. At least I could walk around and move relatively easier than earlier in the day.
I awakened today with minimal discomfort and have a call in to my rheumatologist to ascertain whether or not he wants me to restart the stronger med with a lower dosage.
All in all, I must say that the high point of my hospitalization was Friday night’s dream, where I visited Jana and family at JADE House.
I would appreciate your prayers for my continued recovery. Thanks in advance.
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Palgal- um. I just don't know what to say. I am glad we were there in spirit for you, but what an experience. Hope you get all back in order soon. ( Glad you didn't dream we were zombies or something LOL)
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Jana, quite the opposite! My dream may have been fueled by the Restoril I took so I could sleep (ha! Wake up for blood draw @ 2:45 am, then vitals @ 4:30) better. At any rate, my visit with you was delightful!
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Fred passed away at 10:45 this morning. He was so sick and weak at the end that we decided to put him down without the exploratory surgery that would have most likely just confirmed the lymphoma that had been making him so sick. We buried him under his favorite bush in the front flower bed. I haven't been able to stop crying since we realized he wasn't going to get better yesterday.
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I feel for you, Dyany. I had to take my wee lad Boris to the vet when he had a stomach tumour. I'd had him for 19 years. It was over three years ago and I still miss him. The only comfort is that cats definitely go straight to Heaven.
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Dyany, I am so very sorry for the loss of your Furbaby. It's a hard, hard thing to go through. Posts: 2641 | Registered: Aug 2006
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Dyany, I'm sorry. May your furry companion be waiting to take you on a guided tour of the Happy Hunting Grounds someday.
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Dyany, I'm also sorry about Fred. Since all living beings have spirits, I'm sure he will be watching over you & at times you'll even feel his presence.
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I'm so sorry, Dyany. I know how much you guys loved Fred, and he seemed like a great cat.
Yesterday at my mom's I came across a picture of the dog I had growing up. I found myself hoping that we'll have a chance to have those pets back again. I really hope that's the case for you and your Fred.
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I still get moody when I think about our departed Button and Woefie...and they weren't my dogs, nor did I like them particularly, but they were my companions in the long solitary days, and I miss their presence.
I know you will grieve, and I am sorry .
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I have mentioned how stressful things are here. Himself came home yesterday late from yet another conference looking terrible ( he had that virus too) and not acting right. I finally asked him what happened in the day: bloody nose. Sure sign of way too much for way too long.
The pressure won't let up at least until July. I am sure getting hammered for not bringing in new funding is eating at him. It is the first time he's ever had a negative comment on his professional evaluation...and it really hurts his science self to have proposals turned down just because the economy is in the crapper. The money is NOT there anymore.
And he took on a new faculty assignment, which is supposedly much better than being dean but so far has added HOURS of extra work at home. He does not get overtime . not one penny.
Any prayer you can spare for him would be much appreciated. I am worried about his blood pressure...if he had a stroke, what would we do?
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Jana, I know how he feels. The university sector is in crisis wherever you look. Spiralling workloads, lack of resources, pressure to scare up money, large amounts of which don't go on research itself but instead pay for the infrastructure which otherwise isn't being paid for. Your husband has my sympathies and my prayers for his health.
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I am posting here and in the Prayer list: both my children have passed their comprehensive exams. This means David is automatically in the medical school at the University in Nijmegen and he found a place to live that is super and might be moving out this weekend already ( he and his roomie are anti- squatter tenants in an empty office building.) University Amsterdam medical school entries are at some other time- so we have to be patient for Else's future- but she is glad to the grouund to be shed of that school!! I am thanking each and every one who has fasted, prayed and supported us through these last months. I know we have been blessed.
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Goodness Jana, when you first said 'both of my children have passed' my first thought was 'passed away' and you scared me near to death! But congrats to them!
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Congratulations to the kids, Mom and Dad. I had the exact same thoughts as Dyany and reread the first sentence several times in shock before reading the rest of the post.
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