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Post by questa on Apr 2, 2021 1:20:42 GMT
What is the advice for pregnant women or those on assisted fertility treatments?
I have a vivid memory of being senior nurse on kids ward at 0300 hrs when a GP and a couple of senior hospital doctors came running (!) into the ward. The GP was holding a new-born well wrapped and the RMOs transferred the baby to a warmed incubator.
As the baby was not born in the hospital he could not go to the neonatal ICU so I was to care for him. The RMO took me aside and told me the baby was severely malformed and very weak. They dragged some top pediatricians out of bed and had a conference.
When I went to unwrap baby I saw that one arm was missing and the other was just a fringe of little fingers attached to his shoulder.Both legs were missing from mid thigh.His head was an irregular shape.
When I asked whether I should give him some water the doctors said he had a TOF i.e.his trachea and oesophagus opened into each other and to drink would choke him. His parents stayed with him for a while but knowing he only had hours to live didn't want to get too attached. I wrapped him and carried him around while I did my chores and found that he liked sucking on a piece of sterile, wet gauze for comfort.
I went off duty exhausted and teary. My pack of buddies were there for me, as usual. No de-briefing or counselling in those days. When I returned next night his cot was empty. Goodbye little Robin G. I'll never forget you.
This, as you know, was the result of mothers being given the anti-morning sickness pill Thalidomide, that had not been fully tested, and lies and cover-ups perpetrated by the drug company.
I will have the vaxx...but not yet.
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Post by questa on Apr 1, 2021 8:06:49 GMT
Oz is right behind schedule. 1st we started after everyone else. 2nd lotsa problems obtaining the vaxx. Held for ransom by India. 3rd general disarray as the states all went off in different directions. 4th..The floods cut all the highways and the trucks are banked up with vaxx which should be distributed by now. We have done well on the logistics of the contagion so it is annoying to see our efficiencies fall in a heap and we are outpaced by other groups.
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Post by questa on Mar 31, 2021 23:12:00 GMT
The only expression that I know for that in English is the silly one: "The early bird catches the worm." As though the worm was going somewhere! My kids used to say 'the early bird catches the worm but the early cat catches the bird'.
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Post by questa on Mar 31, 2021 8:58:20 GMT
Did the cat have jingle bells on the collar?Cats kill a lot of native animals here and maybe the person who collared the cat was trying to save the small fauna.
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Post by questa on Mar 31, 2021 8:48:24 GMT
Shipping businesses have dramas all the time...containers overboard in rough weather, mechanical breakdowns and pirates. If we worried about all that can go wrong we would be psychological wrecks. Let's be grateful that no-one was killed and the goods are now flowing again.
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Post by questa on Mar 31, 2021 1:19:15 GMT
In fact, Mossie, you had better 'step farther'out.
I can't get American humour. I have tried to watch the well known sit-coms but the humour is mainly people just insulting each other and the only laughs come from any freshness of the put-downs and the silly, not funny, situations the the script-writers thought up. Brit and Aussie humour is more ironic and spontaneous. Like the Brits we have a dry wit, and see the funny side of grim situations. Good satire is always popular...Brits do well here...Monty Python, Pete and Dud, but the movie "The Castle" sums up Australian quiet humour at its best
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Post by questa on Mar 31, 2021 0:19:02 GMT
England is the stealing of dogs. Here there have been occurrences of this. The sickening part is they say the dogs are used for illegal dog-fighting, even the little ones.
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Post by questa on Mar 30, 2021 23:51:13 GMT
When I was scammed the money was sent to Lithuania by Western Union, then back to Mumbai (Again W U ) and some bought a handbag in New York. Because the use of W.U. the money had passed through 3 hands and was unable to be retrieved. AUD 600 lost to the bad guys and a feeling of shame and fear for me.
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Post by questa on Mar 30, 2021 15:00:43 GMT
Very good indeed
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Post by questa on Mar 30, 2021 0:35:51 GMT
They will have to check for damage to the ship and the canal infrastructure before the ships can start moving again.
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Post by questa on Mar 29, 2021 23:36:57 GMT
my city has a river running through part if it, set in a park surrounded by an undulating joggers track. A couple of years ago a grandmother was taking her daughter's baby for a walk in one of those 3 wheel 'joggers pram'. Cell phone rings, grandmother fumbles in bag for it and the pram starts to roll down to the river. Running as best she can, she falls, injuring herself, but the pram lands in the river. In spite of people jumping into the river to help, the baby drowns. The whole city is shocked and so sad for the whole family.
To make it even worse...the same thing happened a couple of weeks later to another family. Now the public was angry, why did the brakes fail (the just watered lawns were soft and the brakes didn't set properly) Are these aerodynamic, built to go fast prams inherently dangerous? Does the baby safety belt design make it impossible to undo the belt in water?
The coroner's inquest recommended that prams should have a wrist strap to be used to attach the pram to the person pushing it. I see these prams being used with the strap hanging loose. When will they learn?
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Post by questa on Mar 29, 2021 12:51:18 GMT
It is a hell of a lot safer now. I don't know how babies managed to get past all the dangers of infant equipment 50 yrs ago.
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Post by questa on Mar 29, 2021 5:01:46 GMT
What saddens me are the young men who think it is fun to have a party, invite some girls, get tanked then show up next morning positive to the testing. They had some symptoms but wanted a farewell. I hope they get more than a slight dose.
Do you think Trump will ever understand what his actions did to US?
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Post by questa on Mar 28, 2021 23:05:54 GMT
Another good reason to Ban Live Exports I doubt the animals are being fed the correct rations unless it is being choppered in. They will probably be destroyed. No room for dead cows so how to dispose of the carcases. Good luck with the tide, fellahs!
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Post by questa on Mar 28, 2021 22:47:28 GMT
Bixa, you never cease to amaze me.How you can look at a 3 dimensional collection of walls and pipes and doors and windows and "see" what to do to fix it. Then to put it onto a 2 dimensional plan and explain it to your builders and supervise them. Finally to come out with the finished product, modified as needed, and it looks so good! It must give you a great sense of achievement and delight. It has been fun watching it grow.
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Post by questa on Mar 28, 2021 22:16:10 GMT
Halfway through Autumn and we are all still in shorts and Tshirt clothes.Next few days forecast to be high 20s to 30s.. Summer was quite mild. My plants and I are confused.
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Post by questa on Mar 28, 2021 22:03:59 GMT
Wherever you go in Oz you have to use the app on your phone to register your trail. If you don't have a phone you have to fill in a line on a woefully small form with name, time, phone # etc etc..I guess it pays off as they have just stopped a group of 4 positives from spreading, so Oz is classified as free from covid 19 for now.
It is like nailing jelly to a wall.
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Post by questa on Mar 28, 2021 12:57:59 GMT
Only in the hands of a writer with something worth reading or worth writing. Is the keyboard the modern day pen? Just think of the garbage that spews from the keyboards of today, And yet, and yet....
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Post by questa on Mar 28, 2021 12:49:34 GMT
Just remember the fate that befell the Photo bucket (who?) company when they got up their customers' noses.
There! feeling better?
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Post by questa on Mar 27, 2021 23:11:54 GMT
One time while going through airport security years ago they almost took them away. (Like these blunt pointed tweezers could actually be used as a weapon ) How about the bad guy strolls down the aisle and picks a little old lady in an aisle seat, puts her in a head-lock and holds her with the tweezers to her eye. Once that would have worked but now the passengers have chosen to fight back, so it probably wouldn't work. I thought I would have no problems taking on a circular knitting needle as they only have 5cm pointed ends with 60cm of soft plastic tubing joining them. I took them as I thought they were harmless...got past security after a lecture about using them as a garotte. I have also used a pair of pens as needles. I also heard of a chap who passed security with just a pencil sharpener and a piece of sandpaper in his pocket. Checked through, he enjoyed a Chinese meal before departure and kept the wooden chopsticks. The pencil sharpener shaped the chopsticks and the sandpaper smoothed and sized them.
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Post by questa on Mar 27, 2021 12:03:04 GMT
What? Are you saying you have not read Ciceron? His depth of knowledge is awesome and the niceties of his arguments on Roman Law are breath-taking. Of course it is much better when read in the original Latin.
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Post by questa on Mar 27, 2021 11:47:24 GMT
They are probably perfectly nice people, but Harry, royal or not, is the product of great wealth & privilege and surely that has colored his world view. Harry is also the product of tragedy. Any little boy whose healthy, vibrant, loving mother is suddenly killed is going to carry that sorrow for the rest of his life. Now imagine if every time there is an opportunity, the TV runs the same old vision of his mother's death...the drunken driver, the tunnel, the pole the car hit and the men of the family walking behind the coffin with Harry forbidden to weep. Just as he starts to heal something else hits the media and he relives it all again. Wouldn't you want to break away and go where the people around you are more or less normal and not obsessed by your mother's death? Although it is being said that it is Meghan who is not coping, I think she is the strong one and will, if left to themselves, let him bury his mother in peace.
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Post by questa on Mar 25, 2021 23:23:53 GMT
Great news, Whatagain! I'm sure you are dancing for joy so I'll dance with you.
My CT of the brain results show a little reduction in size..."But you still have a very good brain in there" (specialist.)
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Post by questa on Mar 24, 2021 23:00:32 GMT
Do these 'journalists' (and I use the term loosely) sit around in their lunch-break making up stories to match their absurd headlines?
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Post by questa on Mar 24, 2021 22:47:14 GMT
Good Grief! Did Madame Nhu live that long? I thought she disappeared after Diem was killed.I'm amazed no-one assassinated her as well. She was responsible for killing many Buddhist monks and nuns and was crazy.
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Post by questa on Mar 23, 2021 23:59:32 GMT
#1 How old were you when you ffirst sat down to read and follow a story in a newspaper. What was the news
Me...1954 the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu. I was 12.
Next...
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Post by questa on Mar 23, 2021 4:31:41 GMT
NYC will likely have a 3rd wave as well. Just as long as we don't get a seventh wave. According to some aboriginal song-lines this is the marker for the end of time and place.
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Post by questa on Mar 23, 2021 4:18:40 GMT
My star sign is Cancer and we are supposed to have great memories for people and events that happened in our childhood or long ago. Would you like me to make a quiz and see who remembers what?
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Post by questa on Mar 22, 2021 8:41:59 GMT
So just as the tourist business is taking off again, the aircraft will probably be forced to sit on runways and wait for the high altitude to clear.
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Post by questa on Mar 21, 2021 11:05:32 GMT
According to a series of lectures run by Jungian dream professionals, dream analysis is much easier than most people realise.
The basis is... our sub-conscious is often trying to get a message to us. Not necessarily of great importance and often the s/c will use humour to get the message across.
The biggest mistake is when the dream is taken literally. The dream is the symbolic presentation of the situation clothed in symbols that have meaning for that dreamer only.
I have a cat, at the moment she is on her last legs and the vet has given her a month or so before she dies. So if I dream of a cat my s/c is representing a time of something being lost to me. LaGatta and Whatagain have cats...if they dream of them it will be a totally different message.
About the only constant is if you dream of a house or building it represents the person doing the dream. The lowest floor is your basic needs and the upper the more higher needs that requires your attention.
Our s/c is busy while we are dreaming, creating image and action to get the message through. It sometimes makes mistakes and uses puns if not too serious. (Is Mick [Jagger] an old ham?) When we did the "dream diary" we found the best way to crack the meaning was to ask "What does ...mean to you?" K2 has dreams that could be Cecil B de Mille blockbusters but it may be the same dream-information being given every time until he "gets" it.
I dreamt I was on a carousel. The man made it go faster and faster-I had to hang on tight. Later that week I was dreaming of washing clothes...the machine sped up, froth went everywhere some clothes were torn. See what happens when you don't pay attention? I was flat out at work and v. stressed. Nasty carousel tried to warn me, but it took a bit more drama to get the message.
Then you know you got it right when the dreamer saya"Ah-ha...that's it, that is just what i was feeling when you said it."
Mr Kerouac...every time I see your posts I think 'Different day, same dream' What language do you dream in?
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