Text 32645, 92 rader
Skriven 2009-12-25 17:37:57 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 32581 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
Ärende: knife work
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Hi Ruth,

-> Steve just got a text from Rachel, Sarah is being admitted to the
-> hospital with RSV virus.

 RH> I don't know that one, but it doesn't sound like fun.

No, it is not.  It's a respritory virus, very common among children
under the age of 2 (she's 14 months). It is quite contageous, mimicing a
cold at first but can turn serious fast, attacking the lungs.  Sarah's
O2 level was at the point where the doctor felt it better monitored in a
hospital setting where she could also get breathing treatments on a
frequent basis.  As of this morning, plans are to keep her there at
least one more day/night.  Deborah had come up to spend Christmas with
Rachel & family; she's helping with Robert since he can only make short
visits to his sister.  Deborah (with help from one of her male cousins)
called "Santa" so Robert could ask him to drop by a few days later than
normal, after Sarah comes home.  He was allowed to open his gifts from
us while we watched via a web cam and Skype last night.


-> And going down the chimney to eat milk & cookies.  Not good for
-> diabetics or those with high cholesterol.

 RH> Bad eating habits in addition to peeping kids.  Yipes.  I hope someone
 RH> catches that dude.  Anyone have extradition agreements with the North
 RH> Pole?


Don't know, he's a fast one.

->  RH> out.  Most kids I know don't believe in Santa anyway.

-> Depends on the age of the kid.  We told our girls that he was a resident
-> of the Neighborhood of Make Believe, same place where a lot of Mr.
-> Roger's friends lived.  They seemed OK with that idea.

 RH> I never thought he was any kind of real.  He was just another fairy
 RH> tale figure.

Different take, but obviously worked for you. What is your niece's view
point?

-> We put out a week's worth of a daily newspaper plus a lot of other
-> paper.  Computer print out for papers that got edited and reprinted,
-> junk mail, etc, etc.  No pizza boxes but an empty aeresol whipped cream
-> can went out today.

 RH> We can't put pizza boxes in recyclables; it has to be clean cardboard.

Same here actually.  Cereal boxes are OK, same with boxes that had dried
pasta in them but no pizza boxes.  I've read of some women who get new
ones from pizza to put quilt blocks in but I use other things.  Don't
want to risk a block being tossed accidentally, not that we order pizza
that way to begin with.  Ours is the home made type--the better tasting
type.

-> Unless you have the right product at the right time in the right area.
-> Nothing I'd want to even consider right now.  We ordered from Carolina
-> Peanut Roasters for our parents--it's a niche company that has a few
-> outlet stores open this time of year.  There's one in WF so we were able
-> to sample/critique different products before ordering.  We each have a
-> mom who's diabetic, nothing hot is allowed, etc, etc but we found some
-> varieties that met the neccessary criteria.

 RH> Nothing hot, nothing sweet...what's left to eat? (innocent face)

Salty, but only to a certain extent, even with that.  But, beats giving
sweets to known diabetics or hot stuff to those you know don't like it.

-> But, you have to deal with them equally in the world.  Just grin & bear
-> it; you know your heating/cooling/etc bills are a lot less than what
-> they pay.

 RH> This is true - and there's a fire hydrant within 100 feet of my house.
 RH>  No well to deal with either, and unlike them I can cook with a gas
 RH> stove.  No filthy mcnasty electric ranges here!

Rub it in, I'm stuck with an electric range again.  Got to take what the
rental property has--we looked at some with gas but there were several
reasons why we took this place instead of others.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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