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apryl29 said:
Jealous about your 13 degrees! I didn't even bother opening the door today and feel bad about it, but I know they wouldn't have gone out much..


Me too! My oldest was 2 when she was super sick. It was a Friday & I couldn't get her into her reg dr. Saw someone else in another office and he dismissed her symptoms (not eating or drinking, fever, lethargy) as the flu (despite no puking or diarrhea!) and sent us home w/ nothing. Sunday night she had a temp of 105. Called the after hours hotline and they said tepid bath w/ alcohol.. & call the dr in the am. In hindsight I think she thought I meant 100.5... also in hindsight I should have taken her to the er regardless of what the idiot nurse said or thought. Seriously, my daughter could have died. Called our dr the next morning (she was PISSED!) and they had us come in immediately. Sent her to the pediatric unit of the er to get tests done... they had a heck of a time getting any blood drawn b/c she was so dehydrated, 4 people to hold her down, her blood was black in the tube. Flu swab in the nose, urine sample. Strep swab. Her white count was so high they thought the results were wrong and retested and it was still super high. After 2 weeks on antibiotics it was still high & had to retest again after a month to make sure it was still going down. What caused all of this? An undiagnosed UTI... all that ignorant dr had to do was to actually LOOK at my daughter and LISTEN to me to realized she had a UTI... but he was too busy being a cocky tater to give a crap... I was just a paranoid young mother who was over reacting. After that my daughter learned to say 'Eat' b/c I had spent days trying to get her to eat anything and begging her to eat. She lost 5 lbs.. which is a lot when you only weigh 25 lbs. Before she got sick she knew all of her letters and numbers to 10. After she didn't recognized any of them. It still makes me mad. And not surprisingly it did make me a paranoid mother who over-reacts when her kids get sick/ hurt.. watching them suffer like that does that to you esp when it was totally unnecessary.
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Tater hole doctors!
 
I don't trust doctors at all.
105 fever is freaking dangerous!

Lots of horror stories about bad diagnosis here and I am sure for others too. It sucks taters! Supposed to be able to trust them to do the right thing and actually help.

Sometimes I think its a miracle any of us reach adulthood.

I tend to boil soups and stews in winter. I thought it was for the comfort food. Could be for the MOISTure.
 
apryl29 said:
I use those too. I'm not very good w/ the whole mixing spices thing.
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Oh i also put in extra powdered garlic, salt, pepper, and oregano with stew. I coat the meat with a mix of flour and spices, brown it in olive oil and then cook it for an hour before adding veggies. Love it!
 

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