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      CommentAuthorWmCElliott
    • CommentTimeJul 27th 2010
     
    need more background info - last thing(s) you ate, and when? Fever? Have you ever had this before? Do you have a cough or runny nose or sore throat? Did it hit you quick, or have you developed symptoms over a period of days? Have you been exposed to children?

    Have you been outside gardening or hiking? (Tick bites, fly bites, mosquito bites...)

    Any foreign travel?
    Sushi?
    stomach pains? Gastric pains?
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    Bunni, are you in a state of anxiety? Do you think these symptoms of nausea and uneasiness are connected to a depressive phase of your bipolar disorder and/or to medicines you are assuming to cure it? If so, don't wait - call your doctor and tell him about it. If these symptoms are connected with depression they can last months, I know it from personal experience. Don't wait; passing months in that state is dangerous and makes you feel awfully. I wish you a fast recover. *Hug*
    • CommentAuthorzelda
    • CommentTimeJul 27th 2010
     
    Absolutely call your doctor, in the meantime try to relax and we do love you.
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeJul 27th 2010
     
    I know how you feel about kids, but if your period is overdue--or if you don't have regular periods and it's been 30+ days since the last one--better try a pregnancy test. I felt *horrible* in my first trimester--I couldn't eat anything without throwing up.

    I hope you feel better soon, Bunni.

    And on that note, I'm not feeling so hot, either. After spending most of the smalls with what I thought was indigestion, I woke up nauseous and actually had an episode of the heaves. Nothing came up because there wasn't anything there. But I've slept away most of the day and I'm still really sleepy. Stomach seems fine, though I haven't got much appetite. I'm not dehydrated. I think it's just a bug. I think I'll justzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
    • CommentAuthorzelda
    • CommentTimeJul 28th 2010
     
    You're not too old, MT! There was a recent 64 yr old!!

    Hope you feel better, Bunni.. I feel the same way ,but , know I am dehydrated! Damn Texas heat.
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    I hope you feel better, Bunni! Sounds to me like bad food from a restaurant.
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    Or appendix or gall bladder

    best get checked, then you can relax and say ah! Now I know and now I will feel better!

    There is a stomach bug going around, and it's been around twice now in the South, started sometime in May and hit again in June. Most people I know got it, including me, but it was rather light.
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    Thanks everyone for your concerns!

    It might've a 24-hour bug...or maybe just a mixture of stress and allergies. I got my appetite back this morning and-- even though I was a LITTLE nauseated after dinner, it wasn't too bad.

    My throat and ear had been hurting on the right side. My nose wasn't particularly runny, but it was for a little bit. It was the lack of appetite that worried me the most though because I was basically craving tea like crazy (I really don't drink much at all...I know it's not good, but I usually only drink when I eat) and wanting to eat only tortilla chips (umm "crisps" for some of you). I could totally eat these with different types of dips/sauces/salsas, but I couldn't eat anything else!

    That has never happened to me before.

    And last night I started feeling just this general feeling of sickness. I wasn't sure where it was stemming from. I had actually driven to a pharmacy and stood there staring at the medicines b/c I didn't know exactly what was bothering me.

    But I'm much better now! I'm still feeling fatigued, but that's about it.
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeJul 28th 2010
     
    I'm feeling better, too!:bigsmile:

    And yes I AM too old, Zelda--these crazy 60+ year old women who get pregnant have to take hormones for months, then get artifically inseminated with a donor egg and the sperm of her choice. Not for me, thanks! I'll just get my grandkids the old-fashioned way.
    • CommentAuthorzelda
    • CommentTimeJul 29th 2010 edited
     
    Yeah, it is best to do things in their own natural time. How is Missthing...or is it teenthing now?

    Adoption, adoption adoption. It is a wonderful thing for what seems a hopeless situation..not you Sis, just hard to place children. 60 is not old for everything.

    BTW: Where is Lozzy?
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeJul 29th 2010
     
    She's got a very mild case of teenthing, Zelda. I feel lucky--so far.

    If you have a baby at 64, how are you going to play with it, or have the energy for those middle-of-the-night feedings, fevers, teethings, baby insomnia, etc? That mother will be 82 when her child graduates high school, should she live that long. It's insane.
    • CommentAuthorzelda
    • CommentTimeJul 29th 2010
     
    Quite, but there are so many, special needs children that 60's are a good age to adopt. Takes someone special...but with extended family, social network etc.,this cane be great resource for hard to place kids. Look at all of grandparents that end up raising their children's children.
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeJul 29th 2010
     
    Most adoption agencies (at least, the ones I've heard of) don't let people over 45 adopt babies. I don't know about older kids.
    • CommentAuthorzelda
    • CommentTimeJul 29th 2010
     
    There are so many special children of all ages that need a Permanant placements, it is sad.
    A healthy baby, I generaly agree with you, but, so many have such severe health problems their little life spans are very limited, but, they still need love.
    Older children are especially difficult to place. Many applicants do not want a child that has lived in a closet for two years or traveled around Texas with their mother to be used as bait to pick up john's, or children that smear feces everywhere, manipulative behavior problems etc. You know the count. Age can be very relative then. How about consistency, maturity, abilty to withstand the worse and Love. That is where the line is drawn.
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeJul 30th 2010
     
    A friend of mine adopted two "special needs" kids. One of them is now 12 and in the top 10% of her class (no gifted ed yet, but she'll be in honors courses in high school). Turns out she was ADD, but she's outgrown it.

    The adoption agency told my friend that the little boy she adopted would never walk or talk and would need lots of specialized care. He was nearly 1 year old when she got him, but he only weighed about 15 pounds and just laid passively in his baby seat, not attempting to interact with his environment.

    He not only talks, sings, walks, and runs, he's now working at grade level in school (I think he's 9 or 10--can't remember). He definitely has some learning problems, but he's overcoming them. I remember when he threw his first tantrum--I think he was 3 or so--everybody in the room cheered as he threw himself on the floor and screamed, because that's something normal kids are supposed to do, albeit at a younger age.

    Other friends of mine had a Down's Syndrome baby. Again--told he'd never walk or talk or function normally, told they should ignore his serious health problems and "let nature take its course". They refused, got him the heart surgery he needed to survive, and by the time he was 6 years old, he was bi-lingual (they were missionaries to the Dominican Republic), he was starting to read, and he could keep up with his older siblings and friends playing tag and other outdoor games. Not that it was an easy row to hoe, but it just goes to show that predictions don't always pan out, and it's never good to give up on someone.
 

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