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Post by steph08 on Mar 16, 2020 11:50:25 GMT -5
So sorry, taz.
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Post by raeoflyte on Mar 16, 2020 12:07:52 GMT -5
Taz - I wish there was something better to say, but I'm so sorry. Thinking of you.
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Post by cktc on Mar 16, 2020 14:09:20 GMT -5
So sorry Taz.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2020 14:11:45 GMT -5
I'm so sorry.
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Post by financialpeace on Mar 16, 2020 16:58:41 GMT -5
I’m so sorry Taz. That waiting to know for sure is so hard.
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Post by tcu2003 on Mar 16, 2020 23:23:52 GMT -5
Oh taz, I am so very sorry. Sending hugs and love to you.
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Mar 17, 2020 14:15:33 GMT -5
Oh Taz. I'm so sorry for your loss. I too wish I had something better than that to say to you.
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Post by taz157 on Mar 17, 2020 15:09:12 GMT -5
I had a follow up appointment today and they are concluding it’s a blighted ovum and discussed my options.
Basically let nature takes it course, use medicine to speed it up or a D&C. Since it’s an elective procedure, I would have to wait until the hospital allows it, which is a couple of weeks away. I had already decided against the D&C due to the potential of scar tissue and I’ve already had one before (with the first blighted ovum).
I’ve decided to do medicine. They gave it to me at the doctor’s office and I’ll take it tomorrow.
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Post by tcu2003 on Mar 17, 2020 20:36:26 GMT -5
Hugs, taz.
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Post by tcu2003 on Mar 17, 2020 20:39:10 GMT -5
C is officially done with in-person school today after the governor’s press conference announcing that for the entire state. 😯
This is going to be a wild ride. DH and I are both WFH for the foreseeable future, but we still have to work. My mom retired last month, so she’s going to come visit and help with the kids. I’m not sure how well this will work with M, but we’ll figure something out. And I’m guessing we’ve got at least a week and a half before we get any formal direction/instruction from the school as it’s spring break this week and I doubt anything is place next week.
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Post by lurkyloo on Mar 18, 2020 7:39:53 GMT -5
All the hugs, taz.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2020 7:56:14 GMT -5
My kids have been home for 13 days now and I have to figure out a way to better handle keeping them (mostly Carrot) on a schedule while I'm at work. So far, it's not been going well! Older son has a meeting at school Thursday morning to pick up his e-learning materials and officially starts online classes on Monday where he will be in "class" from 9-1 every day. He is going so stir crazy he signed up for a blood drive on Monday just to be allowed on campus. Carrot goes to a public school and up until now their focus has been on getting childcare to critical jobs parents and setting up a breakfast/lunch system for those that need it. I've started getting survey questions about our ability to access online materials so hopefully some kind of e-learning is to come and Carrot can handle getting these things done on his own with me at work.
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Mar 18, 2020 8:32:57 GMT -5
Taz *-*-*-*-
K's teachers, well, her science/health teacher mainly, have been utilizing Google Classrooms. So she logs in daily to see what the assignments are and then does them. Half of her classes are in German and the other half in English.
C's teacher is starting to put assignments in his Google Classrooms. Most of his classes are in German so this should be interesting.
I need to hit the FB pages for both kids' schools and see if/when we can get in and get their textbooks and folders. Also see if there's a place to drop off the completed printouts for them to grade.
DH and I are both still working. The kids are at Mom's this week and probably most of next week. C is desperately missing his friends and classmates. I'm going to start reaching out to other parents too, once I'm sure he's not going to get K's strep throat... The Ninja Gym has shut down but are offering 1 on 1 classes, as of yesterday. I'm encouraging DH to sign up for 1. I may sign up for one for the kids to run around. They don't want to leave the house right now and the energy levels are stupidly high. The owners have said they're paying their employees and planning on extending memberships by another month since we can't actually go and do classes. DH and I don't care if they extend or not. We'll happily keep paying them. The owners also said they're using the time to do a deep clean of the gym and to do some maintenance and new obstacle builds, since they have the time and few people around.
There's a couple of local restaurants we're going to try to get takeout from this week. We don't go to either one regularly but we'd like them to survive this. We also have some chain fast food restaurants that we'd like to see survive too.
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Post by raeoflyte on Mar 18, 2020 8:33:18 GMT -5
I'm worried that dd has a uti. She had all the symptoms last night to the point I practically took her to urgent care. This morning she seems fine of course.
Love our doctor but we can't ever get in to see her. Will see if today is different. Thought I might just ask them if I could take her to lab Corp to pee in a cup. They don't need to see her, just the test results I would think.
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Post by raeoflyte on Mar 18, 2020 8:38:40 GMT -5
Beth - my advice is worth exactly what you paid for it but I'd hold off on play dates especially if the kids are around your parents. It sucks but kids can't social distance in a play date.
My kids don't seem very interested in calling their friends which I keep pushing. Dd is finally looking at mailing things to friends.
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Post by oped on Mar 18, 2020 8:44:16 GMT -5
Son has tons of digital friends from all over the world who he watches movies with and plays games with consistently. Daughter needs to be touching a human being most hours of the day to feel whole. It is definitely more difficult for her. I was in Philly last week and her boyfriend's mom was traveling, they were in dorm rooms on Sunday. I told her to give me a week... then if both families are practicing social distancing and there aren't any outbreaks where we've been we'll see if we can get the two of them together regularly, and do the same with 3 of her friends who are currently back from school and distancing.
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Mar 18, 2020 8:59:31 GMT -5
Beth - my advice is worth exactly what you paid for it but I'd hold off on play dates especially if the kids are around your parents. It sucks but kids can't social distance in a play date. My kids don't seem very interested in calling their friends which I keep pushing. Dd is finally looking at mailing things to friends. I think even phone calls will help. He was crying last night after DH told me (while he was around) that school may be cancelled for the rest of the school year.
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Post by oped on Mar 18, 2020 9:02:30 GMT -5
Calling is old. Text, Video chat. Discord.
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Post by tcu2003 on Mar 18, 2020 9:02:56 GMT -5
Yep, C misses his friends and all the other activities. We went on a walk yesterday before lunch and as we got back by the house, saw our next door neighbors playing in the backyard. “Mom, A and B are outside, can we go?” I remind him about social distancing and he can play in the yard but he’ll have to stay in our backyard and ask if he can do that. “Uh no, guess we better just go inside.” 😂🤣
We were all outside after dinner, so the kids got to shout things back and forth at each other while playing on their swing sets.
We are going to try and get dinner from local restaurants that are doing curbside / carry out 1-2/week to support local restaurants. We normally end up doing fast/fast casual a couple of times a week, so going to try this instead.
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Post by raeoflyte on Mar 18, 2020 9:23:58 GMT -5
I think my C is loving social distancing. I've suggested reaching out to friends through text, calling, video calling, mail and he's just meh. He's gone back to the games he plays by himself. (I gave in on fortnite with strict rules which was going ok and I don't want to jinx it but within 24 hours of staying home he had dropped it).
E its definitely harder, but she hasn't taken me up on anything either to talk to her friends. She's too young to have online access with them but she uses my phone to text friends sometimes.
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Post by cktc on Mar 18, 2020 9:26:33 GMT -5
I'm worried that dd has a uti. She had all the symptoms last night to the point I practically took her to urgent care. This morning she seems fine of course. Love our doctor but we can't ever get in to see her. Will see if today is different. Thought I might just ask them if I could take her to lab Corp to pee in a cup. They don't need to see her, just the test results I would think. I recently read they sell home test strips at drugstores. Azo I think.
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Mar 18, 2020 9:40:23 GMT -5
Calling is old. Text, Video chat. Discord. They're 10 year old boys without cell phones of their own. Neither family does skype although that's probably going to change PDQ.
But we've swapped phone numbers so the boys can at least talk to each other. It's a step.
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Post by muttleynfelix on Mar 18, 2020 10:07:08 GMT -5
Sorry Taz.
We are out of school until April 10 at least. Work went work from home last night. This is spring break week, so I did send the kids to my parents house for the week.
Ben's teacher is going to email out a page of activities to do each day. Jocelyn's teacher stopped by last night with things for her to work on.
I had an interesting experience yesterday. I joined a Facebook group to help people out. Someone neat me couldn't get out for a multitude of reasons with 2 kids. So brought over groceries, mostly from my basement and it was eye opening. The apartment complex was run down, there were people going through the dumpster pulling things out, the outside door to the 4 Plex didn't actually shut. This is a place less than 2 miles from my house. My pastor volunteers at that elementary school and he had told me about what some of these kids don't have, but I don't usually see it. I brought a lot because I am apparently a hoarder. Included in the pile of stuff was ice cream (because why not and it isn't my kids favorite and they would complain) and apples. The younger kids is 7 and went to his 9 year old autistic brother "this is the lady who brought us apples". I also brought over old Nat Geo Kids and Ranger Rick magazines. The mom was thrilled with them. Anyway, I got in the car and just started crying. I am so lucky in this world. My kids can complain about the type of ice cream they have. I get to have a job. My husband gets to stay home. For the first time in 6 days I actually fell asleep easily. That my brain didn't go nuts with anxiety.
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Mar 18, 2020 10:12:37 GMT -5
Hugs Mutt. It was so nice of you to do that.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2020 10:33:31 GMT -5
Our town started a Covid-19 Facebook group and people have been jumping to help those in need. I've been lurking there in case there's something I can do for someone, but so far someone posts about not being able to get hand sanitizer or a certain brand of formula and they get bombarded with replies to help them out.
It makes me happy, but my heart sinks a little when I think about all those that don't have internet access or aren't on Facebook (jeez, never thought I'd feel sorry for people not on Facebook), as a lot of these people are elderly that are most at risk from all this. I hope somehow they're getting the information about all the things being set up for them like dedicated senior hours at the stores and free meal delivery.
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