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[Not_saying]

FLASH!!! Important medical news for all peep lovers.

Introduction: One of the great mysteries of the Peep species is that these creatures are always born as conjoined quintuplets. Some scientists have theorized that this arrangement, much like pack behavior in other species, serves as a natural protection against predators. As evidence, note that Peeps are most often consumed by predators only after they have been separated from their siblings. Conversely, Peeps which remain attached to their siblings are rarely preyed upon.

For the rest of this groundbreaking, and peep breaking, article, please visit this link.

Warning: NOT for the Peep Squeamish! Karo is spilled!!

LOL

Mom will love this link.

she loves peeps . oddist thing is she had the pink one in the middle muahahahaaaaaaaa

[Not_saying]

LOL

Mom will love this link.

she loves peeps . oddist thing is she had the pink one in the middle muahahahaaaaaaaa

Yup I'm right she loved it .lol

gave her the giggles officially stef

and now she's eating some of her peeps now .lol

[stefanl]

Yup I'm right she loved it .lol

gave her the giggles officially stef

and now she's eating some of her peeps now .lol

I got an official mom giggle! Does she prefer them fresh or stale? Me? I'm a stale peep lover. Poke holes into the plastic soon as I get them home.

[Not_saying]

I got an official mom giggle! Does she prefer them fresh or stale? Me? I'm a stale peep lover. Poke holes into the plastic soon as I get them home.

Mom loves them stale .lol

you and mom would get along .lol

mom was giggling again saying I like'em good and stale..lol

[stefanl]

Mom loves them stale .lol

you and mom would get along .lol

mom was giggling again saying I like'em good and stale..lol

If you nuke one in the microwave when it's fresh, it'll blow up like a balloon. Not that I condone peep abuse in any way, you understand.

[Not_saying]

If you nuke one in the microwave when it's fresh, it'll blow up like a balloon. Not that I condone peep abuse in any way, you understand.

LMao

She's laughing
she wants to know

What the heck are you doing nuking peeps .lol

LOL

Did you actually try that ?muhahaa

she sarcastically calls it peep terriosim .lol
I know i most likely missspelled it .

[stefanl]

LMao

She's laughing
she wants to know

What the heck are you doing nuking peeps .lol

LOL

Did you actually try that ?muhahaa

she sarcastically calls it peep terriosim .lol
I know i most likely missspelled it .

Yup. I had one of my students tell me to try it. Can't exactly call that peer pressure but it worked like a charm! When we do the gas laws in my chemistry class we put some shaving cream in a beaker and put it into a vacuum chamber and it expands like crazy. Peeps too!

Peep terrorism. That's blow milk out the nose funny.

[Not_saying]

Yup. I had one of my students tell me to try it. Can't exactly call that peer pressure but it worked like a charm! When we do the gas laws in my chemistry class we put some shaving cream in a beaker and put it into a vacuum chamber and it expands like crazy. Peeps too!

Peep terrorism. That's blow milk out the nose funny.

AH so they dared ya did they .

you might've wanted to put a disclaimer no actual peeps were harmed during the making of this experiment.We just got curious.lol

[easterlily07]

Not thankless in the least, actually - outside of Backscratch wahiohnlikedatlotion Pudding Cup, who's only there because he needs to get longterm vancomycin infusions for bloodborne MRSA. If not for the fact that his insurance probably refused to pay for home IV treatments, his a** wouldn't even be there! (got to share; the Ativan and Seroquel are meds he took at home... they/we don't go around prescribing just-shut-the-h'll-up!!!! meds to certain patients! though I think Cv would agree that, at times, it's a d'mn shame we can't) ...writing back to everyone, but picking up from here...

I did get to have my moments of 'eeeey, 'owyadoin'!!! with our friends in blue, white and red, an black (thus far) over the course of the three days - only it was when it wasn't my patient! Haven't figured out who the regulars are, but I'm assuming there really isn't a 'regular' bus as we don't have an ER, thus no direct admits. We're a long term acute care facility (LTAC). We get all the sickest of the sick from the acute care hospitals that, basically, Medicare -and thus most all other insurers- won't pay them to take care of anymore for the related diagnosis (DRG). Apparently, it's a newer animal in terms of Medicare acuity levels. Your longterm ventilator patients, your longterm IV treatment (a la Puddin') who don't have anything wrong with them that warrants taking up a hospital bed, your longterm traches (a la contracted and Lazy A** mistreated man), dialysis, hospice patients, etc. Your mom, easter, sounds like the type of patient we would take care of; if she's not still maintaining a decent level of independent functioning. Basically, the regular "med/surg" floor's are like a non-Boston hospital's ICUs, with the ICU being like a Boston med/surg and/or ICU floor. I'm thinking not too much like MGH's though. It's still shuddering to think of the acuity of the patients we took care of and saw on MGH's Neuro floor that last semester who DIDN'T reach the level of neeing to be admitted to the Neuro ICU. I thought we WERE in the Neuro ICU! Sh't, do those people have their brain stems hanging out the back or something!!??? Oy.... Just can't fathom it on my own. Anywho - Back to the LTAC; hemodynamic monitoring is done to the extent that you don't want anyone up and dying on you "out of the blood" with passing of cardiovascular meds, but anyone who's acutely unstable on this front would be sent back to a hospital and/or not accepted for transfer in the first place.

Ah crap - I'm taking too long to write this and I need to be up in Peabody by 7 tomorrow morning (haven't had my mousse and cab yet!). I'm gonna have to cut this short. Whereas I'll be a "guest" for most of tomorrow rather than a servant, maybe I'll have a bit o' energy to come back on tomorrow night. (b- doing 7a to 7p on Tues; nothing scheduled for Weds... )

Catch up with you later!!

na
EDIT: Oh crap! Did mean to add, Cv, that at least I've not had to make any heroic efforts to keep any of them from Going to Ground.... (so far that is - despite the new, strong push against using restraints *shudder* )

My goodness! LOL 'shut the h*** meds up'....I am sure some of our counselors would love to prescribe some of those to a few of the clients (not that they can), but I know what you mean!

Fortunately, Mom is pretty independent. She had a bout with an infection (more of a mold) in her system in November. That put her in the hospital a couple of weeks. They managed to 'fix' it, or make it manageable. With her heart transplant (almost 15 years ago), it kind of makes things a little more dicey on what she can take without upsetting her med regime for her heart. She's able to walk again, and she's back on her treadmill to keep her strength up. I think what keeps her going is being there for Dad, and what keeps Dad going is being there for her (they've been married 57 years). They are tough old birds....and I hope I can be that tough at their age!

It's sad to see them grow old. In the last four months they have been making a positive move towards assisted living, which is probably for the best. The place that they have chosen has accepted them. Now to down size! But, mom is working on it.

[stefanl]

Take a Tour of the Peep Factory!!!
Join the Peep Fan Club - Make Groovy Peep Treats

The Pennsylvania Cable Network has this excellent program called PCN Tours where they take a tour of different Pennsylvania businesses and other places of interest (eg. Yungling Breweries, Tastykakes). Around Easter they aired a tour of the Just Born Candy factory where they make the peeps. They showed the peeps being made from beginning to end. Visit the link above to see still pictures of the peeps being made.

[CvlSrvnt]

The Pennsylvania Cable Network has this excellent program called PCN Tours where they take a tour of different Pennsylvania businesses and other places of interest (eg. Yungling Breweries, Tastykakes).

Mmmm...TastyKakes!! I miss the Coffee Cake TastyKakes. Any chance they'll visit Utz in Hanover?

[stefanl]

Mmmm...TastyKakes!! I miss the Coffee Cake TastyKakes. Any chance they'll visit Utz in Hanover?

I love Utz. Why do they charge extra for the burnt pretzels? Wouldn't they just throw them out? They can give them to me, they don't need to charge me for them! I'll take them right off their hands.

Serious love affair with peanut butter tandy takes, or are the kandy kakes now?

[CvlSrvnt]

I love Utz. Why do they charge extra for the burnt pretzels? Wouldn't they just throw them out? They can give them to me, they don't need to charge me for them! I'll take them right off their hands.

Serious love affair with peanut butter tandy takes, or are the kandy kakes now?

Forgive me for the sin (for PA anyway), but I never really cared for the pretzels. Now, the cheap refills on potato chips (when you bring your own Utz tin from home) was a great deal. And the Old Bay chips - I really miss those.

I had forgotten about the peanut butter ones! Aw, now I'm getting hungry...we really have to get this board away from the food discussions.

[stefanl]

Day Three - Peeps Among Us

Today's episode: Fear Response in Peeps

Introduction: It has long been appreciated that various animals have developed innate responses to stressful situations that may increase their chances of survival. Included in these behaviors is the exaggeration of physical size, a strategy employed by various animals including the common house cat, the pufferfish, and the ever feared Siamese fighting fish.

Other behaviors of a similar nature include the ability of skunks to spew foul smelling nastiness at enemies (a response which fortunately has not been observed by peep scientists thus far), and the tendency to exaggerate one's own intelligence (a practice employed multifariously by insecure scientists who through obfuscation and transmogrification render oblique the perspicaciousness of the facts, and attempt to ensure utter confusion through pedantic pontification and verbose oration in order to maintain the illusion of their own preeminence).

In order to assess whether fear adaptations are present in the peep population, it was necessary to find a stimulus that elicits a fear response. After spending hours screaming obscenities at peeps, and subjecting them to a variety of scary stimuli including, but not limited to KFC commercials, Dr. Laura, and a full-length Martha Stewart video, we decided to investigate whether peeps exhibit fear responses when placed in enclosed, brightly lit spaces.

To read the rest of this riveting article and view pictures of the actual experiment, follow this link.

[thelibrarian]

There is enough impulse for the multiple culture that ethnic/Deaf clubs are very popular - even down religious lines - Jewish/Deaf (happy Passover by the by)

Delsign, what is the sign for Passover?

(And my quest for fairly useless knowledge continues... but this one will be fun to use at temple.)

[alliehalliwell]

Okay two things so I'll make two posts.

First, my friend sent me this link...apparently people do this and I just think its so wrong on so many levels.

http://www.earlylifecosmetics.com/

[SPARKLE-4-U]

Delsign, what is the sign for Passover?

(And my quest for fairly useless knowledge continues... but this one will be fun to use at temple.)

I really like your avatar!!!

[alliehalliwell]

stupid computer kicked me off...

Anyways, i was also going to tell you that I had a dream about CI last night. It was weird of course so here it is:


I came down to watch CI on the tv, got comfy on the couch and turned the tv on. Ross was talking to some perp for 45 minutes. It was soooo boring. All the cops in the squadroom were called away and when they came back all their desks/chairs/files,etc. Everything was gone except one lone desk with a phone and a stapler on it.

While all the cops tried to figure out what happened, Goren and Eames talked in an interview room. they had a 'talk'. Eames went on about something for awhile then told Goren that she loved him, like a big brother. She asked him if he had wanted anymore than that, just to clarify, and Goren said no. He then asked "so you love me huh?" Eames smiled. "yeah I do." She hugged him and Goren looked ready to burst into tears. Loud emotional music played in the background.

Then when Eames went to leave the interview room Goren started doing this dance...snapping his fingers and bobbing around. He looked ridiculous (and it was a horrible dance).



....and that was my dream. I think that CI will be good as long as it doesn't turn into the crap that was my dream.

[naydi]

Yes, we are definitely going to have to have a chat here reeeeeeaaaal soon...

Some of the nursing homes around here have taken to putting trundle beds on the floor to avoid the problem, but it's h#ll on your back.

Poseys are my friends, but chemical restraints are my one true love - just gimme an excuse; I'll even RSI 'em, please?

Hiiii-eeee... My God I'm loving this working three days a week thing! Got the scrubs laundry going downstairs, went out and did some household shopping, hit the bakery at an early enough time before they'd run out of my favorite peaches and cream white chocolate ganache pastry bars, threw the clothes in the dryer on the way back in, had my Dunkin Donuts maple cheddar croisant sandwich while finally watching Silencer from Tuesday *the one-hour dryer setting should have just shut off* and it's only going on 2 o'clock (or at least it was when I STARTED typing). Once I manage to be able to get out of bed before 12 o'clock on a regular basis on my days off, life is going to be good. Off yesterday and today, working tomorrow, then I'm off until Monday. Finally - some real Rest within my life. Starting thinking that I'd never actually see any of the spoils of hard labor! (at least until the fall, when I go back to the world of higher learning... online of all things... maybe with 4 days off a week I can actually develop the discipline for it? Lord, I hope so!!)

Funny you should mention beds that go to the floor - When doing wound rounds on Monday, a recent unilateral amputee who had fallen and gotten a nasty gash on her stump and the middle of her suture line, was in a bed that went all the way down. I don't know her full story yet -all be working that floor tomorrow- but she was on a 1:1. Guess I'll be finding out tomorrow if it's a matter of her having previously dx'd psych issues or a matter of terribly bad denial coping to being a new amputee. On Tuesday, my sweetly delirious patient with the best natural skin glow any of us has ever seen ripped out her Foley. Last week, she took to popping one of the ports off her J-tube and drinking her own gastric juices. Tuesday was the first time I'd worked with her; was still without restraints per her daughter's request. Hadn't done any thing "destructive" all day ;'til pulling that Foley out at 7:15p. It was reported to me by my CNA while I was down the hall helping another CNA Hoyer somebody else's patient back into bed. I was nice enough to have pulled out a new kit out of clean utility and got the special silicon tubing from the RN supervisor, so the night nurse would have that much of a head start after taking my report at 7:30. Wasn't that so nice of me?



Actually, I wouldn't have minded putting the new one in for her, but, by the time enough people were free from change of shift for me to get the required person per leg it would have taken to get the thing in while keeping a sterile environment, I could have been half way home and half way to picking up my Sei Bar order. Finding new restaurants are fun for me, but way too d'mn expensive. I did manage, having had 1/2 the una-ju available for lunch yesterday, not to have a gut inverting craving to fight yesterday, but I'm seeing some Crazy Maki in my future tonight. Tempera battered fried shrimp, avocado, cucumber, and flying fish roe. Hmmmmmmm.....fish roe..... They allow custom rolls that customer can create. I'm thinking an extra layer of rice on the outside wrapped with unagi. Ooooooo, that'd be good. Too bad the roll's already pretty "American sushi" fat. You'd have to have a Honeycomb mouth to take in an extra layer of rice and unagi on the thing! But anywho...

Have you seen Posey beds? Basically adult playpens with roofs? (or is it rooves? io'no...) Great for keeping a patient in bed, in theory. Not great, though, for keeping that guy on the MGH neuro floor from cutting a hole in one of the corners after having wiped his feces around the thing. Yeah. He had some issues goin' on. Schizophrenia with a brain tumor on top maybe? Not quite sure. The Ativan and Seroquel weren't enough to keep a good Puddin' Cup down. Normally, I can forgive a sick patient a lot. Him - he's just a d'mn pain in the a**. When you have to actually say, 'Well, I'm holding blood right now, so that's gonna have to wait; but, they do know to come back to pick those up!!!' when he calls for "your help" through the curtain as your doing a blood sugar immediately after eating his last bite off his food tray; you know your just dealing with a whining self-centered pain in the a**. I wasn't even his nurse. During my 12 hours Tuesday, he must have pressed his call light at least 20 times. Thank God I'll be on a different floor tomorrow, Monday, and Tuesday. With any luck, his blood cultures will start coming back with lower colony numbers, and he'll be gone by my next shift. One can only hope....

[bwalter]

Delsign, what is the sign for Passover?

(And my quest for fairly useless knowledge continues... but this one will be fun to use at temple.)

Librarian, in case Delsign is occupied elsewhere, here is a link to ASL for Jewish Festivals. From what I could find, there is a Quicktime video for signing Passover, which seems to be the same as "cracker". I'm not sure if I've understood the author correctly there, but have a wander around.

I did a similar snoop-around for Easter ASL instructions. Mostly I found out how to sign 'chocolate', 'bunny', and 'egg hunt' . Ah yes.. Gimme that ole time religion