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i think i'm addicted to vicks vaporub. it just smells so good to me for some reason…
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This is a sobering moment… In all the years I've worked with this company I've only had to call out once (where I tell them I definetly CAN'T come in). And tonight is day 2. My car's gone down when I need it most, and it's too dark to go out biking (and it'd take too long anyway). And this means I've lost a day of work. I guess all I can do is enjoy this night off as best as possible… even though it's cost me $58…
And now I feel… not so great. I like enjoying my days off, but only if I know I've earned them. Tonight doesn't feel so great…
*edit/addon*-
Ugh… I'm jealous of you people living in the more northern/southern latitudes right now. Winter is nipping at your heels I bet. But on my end…
I'm trying to work outside, but the sun is trying to roast me to death. If I could, I'd trade some of the 90+ degrees of hot humid weather I have right now for a few degrees of your frigid winter temperatures…
Thanks everyone for the well wishes! Our first appointment with the plastic surgeon is in the morning,. We'll find out then what kind of post-healing operations will be required.
When we were at the emergency ward they wrapped his hand in gauze after sanitizing and placing some anti-bacterial cream on the site. To discourage him from using his hand they wrapped all his finger together and immobilized his hand. Then they proceeded to emphasize for the next ten minutes while we were signing off on all the paperwork that under NO circumstances at all was the bandage to be removed.
So of course the first thing our son did when he got home was take off the bandage. Three times. In one night. Each time we had to clean and rewrap the wound ourselves.
Here we are almost a week later. I sincerely hope that healing wasn't affected by changing the bandages so much.
He's also having an adverse reaction to the codiene they put him on. It's preventing him from sleeping. Since his injury he hasn't been sleeping more than four hours a night. Did I mention that I have two other kids beside him?
Someone get this kid some Tylenol PM!
Oh yeah, and we found out yesterday that I'm pregnant. Apparently birth control has failed us. AGAIN. I'm getting my tubes tied this time. Contraceptives are useless!! Third time they've failed us.
Also…..the last panel on this comic page is kicking my ass. Why do I insist on backgrounds? I think I'm just going to go with lovely black and white shading and vague shapes from now on, no more of this scenary business. Oy vay….
Good to see he's doing well. I always thought changing the bandages often would be a good thing. Keeps infection from really settling in. Hopefully this won't have a lasting effect on his personality. I've still got a scar on my left index finger due to me playing with a hot stove…
Heh… wow… pregnant again? And to think centuries ago women would be overjoyed at being so.. "fertile". Ah, well… I guess you already have more children than you can handle.
Jeez… now you're making me wish I had children myself. Which is unlikely to happen…
I wouldn't say more than I can handle, exactly. It's definitely overwhelming when they are all as young as they are. Having two in diapers at any given time in time consuming. Four kids isn't too bad, it's just that the oldest will be four, the next will be three, and the last will be one and a half when this baby is born. They're so back to back that it's making my head spin!
We're going to just stop having children for a while after this. Me and my husband still desperately want to adopt, though, so maybe when some of our older ones are grown up enough to help we'll start the adoption process as well.
If you can't tell, we're kind of fond of large families. :)
Also, if one more person asks me "Wow, haven't you figured out what causes that?" in response to my newest pregnancy, I swear upon everything holy I am going to launch into the most vulgar and graphic description of sex I can muster.
Ally Haert wrote:Sounds like a challange :)
Also, if one more person asks me "Wow, haven't you figured out what causes that?" in response to my newest pregnancy, I swear upon everything holy I am going to launch into the most vulgar and graphic description of sex I can muster.
ozoneocean wrote:I took the wife to the wound specialist last week and changing the bandages on a festering wound is what he told us to do, but you have to soak the gauze with saline to draw out the infection. Lovely celluitis bacterial infection. Painful and nasty but it's beginning to look better.
Lonne- changing the bandages more also means more chance of infection getting in. Nasty.
Yes Bravo, it's a case by case basis. In the example of your burns the important thing would be the calamine lotion needing to be replaced because it dries out and you need to keep the skin moist. For your wife you say the wound was "festering", so if it's already infected, then it'll constantly need clean dressings.
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UGH! Funny how one small thing can lead you to a massive pile of compounded errors isn't it?
I noticed the parting on Ace's hair was on the wrong side in my latest page that I'm drawing currently. That lead me to other errors… His hair part was wrong on the previous page too, AND the guns on Pinky's Mecha were switched around- which was a lot more serious since it's sort of a plot point that the gun on one side was blasted off with a direct rocket hit, while the other was just torn off as a side effect… If it had been the other way around there would've been a big explosion because the other weapon has a tank of fuel…
This meant I had to go back and flip panels and do redrawing on 3 previous pages.
Damn, continuity is a bitch!
Now if I could only get my characters looking the same from page to page…
We were watching football last night and there was a commercial on the TV with a door bell ringing. When my dog heard it, she ran to the front door of the house. Since it was so funny, we rewound that part of the commercial about 10 times and watched her run between the front and back doors trying to figure out who was ringing the bell. By the 11th time, she figured it out and stared at the TV.
Typical- Dogs are bright enough to know it's a doorbell noise, but not enough to realise that it doesn't actually come from your door. :)
-Thanks for your recording Niccea! It was better than what I got over SKype, but unfortunately Audacity crshed every single time I tried to do anything with it… So rather than trying to work on it all night I just used what I had (already been at it a few hours).
Thank you for doing that though, I really appreciate it! It's just a pity Audacity was being such a dick on my comp :(
Back in the day they used to recommend that serious burns have the bandages changed frequently. It wasn't until very recently that the doctors realized that third degree burns with a high rate of changed bandage have a higher chance of infection than not.
Third degree burns are not usually a weeping kind of wound past the first day, though it depends upon the case. The hospital said that the bandage wouldn't be soaked through and that it shouldn't need a change for the first week, but that if it did come off for some reason we were to repeat the anti-bacterial cream dosage and immediately rebandage the hand.
I can't tell you how many people I've had tell me to put Aloe Vera on it since we've been home, too.
Aloe Vera is great for minor burns, but for something like this it would be akin to poring aloe vera into an open wound.
the better google earth gets the more concerned i get about skylights. especially in bathrooms…
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Niccea wrote:The radio at work sometimes plays a song with whistling in it, and our store owner's dog always goes nuts running around the store trying to figure out where it's coming from.
We were watching football last night and there was a commercial on the TV with a door bell ringing. When my dog heard it, she ran to the front door of the house. Since it was so funny, we rewound that part of the commercial about 10 times and watched her run between the front and back doors trying to figure out who was ringing the bell. By the 11th time, she figured it out and stared at the TV.
Hippie, it depends on where you get your frame. There is a chain hobby-craft supply store Michael's that's here in the south. They do sell frames there, though they are very overpriced. We also have a locally owned supply store called I've Been Framed! that does unique framing jobs at a very reasonable price.
Also, tornado watch. Again. What the heck is up with this crazy weather?! Winter is always a calm time around here, but we've had so many twisters in the past few weeks it's enough to make me think twice about this whole "world ends in 2012" theory*.
*(Not really, but you get my point)
Bahahaha…don't jump, I loved it!
Also, my husband is going out for recirtification on his Tazer Gun this month. I'm seriously considering taping it and posting it for you guys. You'll be able to watch him taken to the ground by his co-workers and hear him screaming in pain as he rides out the twenty second jump, but it might be drowned out by my maniacal laughter.
Lonnehart wrote:That my friend is callad an ALIF or Ancient Lych I'd love to *you know the rest*…
Wow… Mass Effect 2 has showed me something… and makes me glad I don't drink alcoholic beverages. Some of them will… well… let's say enough alcohol in the system would make a thousand year old woman look significantly younger… O_O
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