Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 10:32 AM Thursday 9/21/2006, Julia Thompson wrote:
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 12:24 PM Monday 9/11/2006, Gibson Jonathan wrote:
Nonesense. Why do the puppetmasters pushing suicide bombers have
less to lose than the soviet aparatchniks did?
'Cuz "a cave somewhere in Afghanistan or Pakistan" is harder to
program into the nav system of a cruise missile than the GPS
coordinates for "the men's room window of the Kremlin"?
Is it starve a cold and feed a fever, or other way around?
And if you have a cold _with_ fever, should you binge and purge?
Not as funny as the one that stopped me last night. :)
Sturgeon may be gone, but his law lives on.
Yup. And the great ones being rare helps you appreciate them.
(And again I hope you are feeling better today than yesterday and keep
improving . . . )
In either case, if you're not a vegetarian, chicken broth is decent
stuff.
And if you are a humanitarian? Or a veterinarian?
Having chunks of chicken, plus other stuff such as rice or noodles or
various vegetables isn't a bad thing.
OTOH with some chunky soups it can be hard to tell if this is the first
or second intake pass . . .
(I think the "starve a fever" went out at some point;
I didn't write that. I was just trying for a response to it. And at
the time I realized that it wasn't one of my best ones.
if you're sick, eat what you can to keep up your strength. If you're
having gastrointestinal issues, try just a BRAT diet
Ice cream, candy, soda, and pizza? Or anything with enough sugar to
turn a normally well-behaved kid into a BRAT?
Bananas, Rice, Applesauce, Toast.
until you're doing better. If you're vomiting, be very easy on your
stomach,
F'r instance, don't read list mail?
Well, technically, it's not my stomach that's having the problem, it's
my abs. :) But if you're vomiting a lot, you may be too cranky to read
listmail anyway.
and if the vomiting doesn't start getting better before you're
approaching problematic dehydration, get some meds for it. I
personally like promethazine; in an IV, it puts me out fairly soundly,
and if I'm in a situation where I'm already on an IV, sleeping
probably is beneficial.
Yeah, but your recent experience is hopefully relatively rare.
I have been on an IV like that 3 times in my life. All in the same
hospital, at that.
The really weird thing was, this was the first non-birth stay in the
hospital, and after the surgery they ended up putting me in the
postpartum ward, because there weren't enough beds available in the
post-surgery ward. Just like old times. :)
(With Sam's birth, I did not have Phenergan through the IV at any time.
The other two hospital visits, I did. I'm OK with an epidural, but
any other sort of anesthesia given to me in the hospital has upset my
stomach rather badly. I didn't need the Phenergan for my stomach as
much as needing it to sleep this time, because the milder stuff actually
worked this time.)
Sure beats freaking out because someone has messed with the
carefully-arranged lighting arrangement
Frex, brought their million-candlepower flashlight to a night lab or
star-gazing session . . .
Yup. I think at that point, you confiscate the flashlight, shine it in
the offender's eyes, and try to make sure they don't fall off the roof
before their eyes get dark-adapted again.
and walked out again before you can say anything.)
Julia
Maru? Maru
-- Ronn! :)
Julia
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