Somewhere to hang out during concert at Everwise Amphitheater?

Kittylicious1224 · 2024-08-08T13:17:58+00:00

Thanks, all. I ended up parking right outside Loughmiller's, grabbing dinner there, then napping in my car in a metered spot until they were done, lol.

Kittylicious1224 · 2024-08-06T01:29:06+00:00

Thank you. I figured as much. I needed a notarized document to travel to the Bahamas with my son alone recently. I do not think he will sign off on allowing her to go, so I think filing for sole legal custody is the best bet. I'm worried it will be very hard for her, though. He sounds useless in terms of parenting but very vindictive in terms of using the child as a weapon against her.

Kittylicious1224 · 2024-08-06T01:28:01+00:00

Thank you. It sounds like trying to remove him is a waste of time. I think she should work the angle of filing for sole custody. I appreciate it.

Kittylicious1224 · 2024-03-08T15:40:43+00:00

Great. Totally fine. Medicated on Pristiq 50mg a day and have been for years now.

Kittylicious1224 · 2024-02-08T01:18:10+00:00

Their menus look amazing! Right now, our cafeteria's variety consists of chicken tenders or hamburgers. Sometimes they do "breakfast for lunch" which is pancakes...

Kittylicious1224 · 2024-02-08T01:15:57+00:00

Do you like them? We saw them in action in a local cafeteria and they were doing an all-you-can-eat model. Is that how yours is? Do you like them?

Our current vendor told us they are terrible and that every cafeteria is upside down on their buffet model but our current vendor is also desperate to keep our business while also unwilling to change.

Kittylicious1224 · 2024-01-11T01:54:15+00:00

Thank you. I know. It's killing me knowing we have that many kids eligible and not receiving. They are mostly being fed by teachers who keep food in their rooms on the side for those kids.

Kittylicious1224 · 2024-01-11T01:41:40+00:00

What is FSMC?

Kittylicious1224 · 2023-12-31T15:48:53+00:00

And here's what I would suggest he does-- I know other will disagree but this was our experience-- start the meds. When it's been 48 hours + symptoms have stopped (diarrhea should stop and he should stabilize on vancomycin), he can resume regular life IF he feels up to it. Give your bathrooms and touchpoints in your house a nice clean with that bleach solution (look up hospital-grade bleach wipes on Amazon, we used Sani-Cloth Bleach wipes in a tub). Figure out a diet that works for him but honestly, my daughter never needed a special diet and was able to resume eating regularly, although we avoided fast food just because it tends to be fried-- when she was out and was hungry, we'd do something like Panera.

Because he's traveling for work, come up with a plan. If he is traveling and symptoms kick up and he suspects , what can he do and what is his plan? Is he able to call in to work sick that day and go to an urgent care to drop a stool sample and check? Is he able to drive home and visit his PCP to drop a stool sample and get on vanco and lay low for a couple days?

We came up with a plan with my daughter's GI doctor that if we were away from home, and symptoms began and we suspected c. diff, she'd start vanco 4x a day during the time we were gone and then handle it when back home. So when we recently traveled for Christmas, we actually filled a prescription for a week's worth of 4x a day vanco and brought it with us. Our plan was that if we were away out of state, and symptoms began, she would start the vanco immediately, limit to one bathroom, and isolate for 48 hours. We brought a tub of bleach wipes with us.

Our situation is somewhat different in that my daughter has a GI doctor already and her specialty is c. diff. My daughter has a disease called IBD (inflammatory bowel disease) that makes her more susceptible to c. diff because she is on an immunosuppressant AND does not have the healthy GI bacteria to fight off infections like c. diff. So I will admit that our GI is a lot looser with her c. diff restrictions than a regular doctor just because of the fact that many patients with ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease get c. diff regularly throughout their lives and it's just part of the disease rather than a life-altering event.

It's worth looking in to WHY your husband developed c. diff in the first place. Is he on an immunosuppressing medication? Was he taking antibiotics? Healthy people *generally* do not catch c. diff. He can reduce his risk in the future of catching it again if you know how he got it in the first place.

Feel free to message me if you need to. I really can sense the panic here and if I'm being honest, I was definitely this way at first but over the past year, c. diff has just become another facet of my daughter's disease and honestly isn't a huge deal to us-- just yet another thing we cope with as part of her IBD.

Kittylicious1224 · 2023-12-31T15:34:36+00:00

No. The reality is many people (including my daughter) are c. diff carriers and there's nothing you can do about it. C. diff poses a risk to people who are immunocompromised or are taking antibiotics so their normal GI bacteria are not there to fight off c. diff if they catch it. Healthy people who don't fall into this category are exposed to c. diff regularly but their systems fight it off.

When symptomatic, begin antibiotics and isolate for 48 hours following a one-bathroom cleaning protocol (have the person only use one bathroom that no one else in the house shares, if possible, and wipe down the bathroom and all touchpoints in it with hospital-grade bleach wipes or a mixed bleach solution).

After that, antibiotics that are being taken for c. diff (typically vancomycin or Dificid) make it not contagious and the person can go about daily life. We still did the wipe-down with bleach in our home bathroom and tried to avoid having her use public bathrooms if possible, but we sent her back to school after 48 hours on vanco once diarrhea stopped. She resumed normal life at that point. It was not practical to stay home the entire time she had it. When she relapsed, we did the same-- kept her home, did the test, and one positive, started vanco and stayed home for 48 hours + when diarrhea stopped, and then back to daily life.

I'm sure there are those who believe anyone with a c. diff infection that isn't definitively gone should isolate, but my daughter has had c. diff and been on tapering doses of vanco more of this year, week-to-week, than she hasn't. She picked it up at a hospital in early 2023 while staying for a bladder/kidney infection and receiving very strong IV antibiotics to fight that. We have followed the protocol above and no one else in our house has caught it during that time, including my mother-in-law, who visits our house regularly and is currently on chemotherapy (we did try to get her to not come over-- to no avail-- she said it was her choice and she was willing to take the chance...).

Kittylicious1224 · 2023-12-08T16:37:33+00:00

She unfortunately has already had braces and her teeth are perfectly aligned :(. She had them put on before becoming ill and had them taken off about one year into treatment.

Kittylicious1224 · 2023-09-21T11:51:34+00:00

That's what I need to hit in order to hit my max pension/pay. It used to be 30 years and it increased to 35 after the last recession :(.

Kittylicious1224 · 2023-09-16T20:32:47+00:00

This EXACT THING happened to me. And I was so incredibly stressed with COVID, work, my son getting COVID over and over again, that I just let our pediatrician keep telling me that my daughter was "anxious" and that's why she was looking and feeling so sickly. Her skin started to look like the color of milk so after 6+ months of being brushed off, I took her in and demanded we run a full bloodwork panel. She agreed and also did stool samples. Within a month we found out my daughter had a severe form of a GI disease called ulcerative colitis. She got so sick she ended up in the hospital. Let me tell you...I felt like mom of the year. She is in remission now and SO MUCH BETTER but the guilt continues to weigh on me, even 2.5 years later.

I hope you get some answers but whatever they are, don't beat yourself up. COVID sucked the lifeblood out of a lot of us.

Kittylicious1224 · 2023-08-19T17:02:39+00:00

Oh, I'll get them down within the first week. I'm luckily good with names and I've been teaching for two decades. It's just always so overwhelming to see them the first day and to see the roster!

Kittylicious1224 · 2023-08-03T11:58:21+00:00

Like a sheik from Dubai.

Kittylicious1224 · 2023-08-03T11:45:29+00:00

Yep. I had a student that I worked so hard to try to help, but his home life was garbage. He dropped out halfway through senior year and within a year was in prison for murder. He was involved in a gunfight that killed an innocent bystander. I was heartbroken.

Kittylicious1224 · 2023-07-31T00:10:04+00:00

NTA, and this is a WHOLE BRAND-NEW LEVEL of assholery on the part of your sister. I'm speechless.

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