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Family Forum / Parenting / Mothers / March 2008A Year and a half of absence
Well Here it is in short: Lots of work and little time. DW went from the Assisted Living place into a nursing home. There the therapy and medical attention she received slowly improved her condition. We were ready to start talking about getting her back into assisted living and if there was further improvement back home. We took her out on weekends and on one of those trips she tripped and fell and broke her femor (spelling?). So they did surgery in the hospital and unfortunatly she has not really woken up since. Thay say it is not a come as she responds when one speaks really loudly at her and shakes her (she opens an eye about half way for about 1 sec on a good day) So she got a breathing and feeding tube. This has been going on now for almost 2 months. Can't go into too many details but I am not too happy with the medical care she is receiving. Took me 6 weeks to get to talk to a "real" MD. All I got on other occasions was a resident and evry week a different one. DS: Well he is still a challenge. He is now in 8th grade. When he gets home from school my day is over as he needs constant supervision. Well I got approved from the state for some help but we are in line and our turn is to come somewhen afte 2012. He likes to throw stuff and that cost me 12 windows last year. Some of them ar still covered with garbage bags and duct tape waiting for the funds to fix them. Lately he also has been developing a bit of a temper and "I am big now I don't need anyone to tell me what to do" Even though emotionally and cognitively he is still on the level of a 5yo... Well with the exception that a 5yo does not have to deal with puberty. It threw him off for 3 weeks and he was all besides himself because there were hair growing where there were not any for all his live. Even though we tried to teach him all the "facts of life" long before puberty over and over to get him prepared. DD: In 6th grade now and way ahead of anyone in her class it seems. Last semester she had her "worst report card ever" which was a 97 average. Teachers either love her and think she is the greatest or strongly dislike her. Seems to go ditto for the students. She still got the same set of friends outside of school that she always had (couple of years older than her) and she is still leading the pack. Kind of unusuall it appears for a 6th grader to lead a bunch of 8th graders and HS Juniors. But I post more about her later. FS > Well Here it is in short: Lots of work and little time. > [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] > Kind of unusuall it appears for a 6th grader to lead a bunch of 8th > graders and HS Juniors. But I post more about her later. Hiya, Good to see you Marcelle >Well Here it is in short: Lots of work and little time. > [quoted text clipped - 38 lines] > >FS Ah, nice to see you posting again!!! Loved the post about your dd's petition. Tell her I think she's an amazing young person and to always hold steady on those opinions :-) Nan Loved the post about your dd's > petition. Tell her I think she's an amazing young person and to > always hold steady on those opinions :-) > > Nan Ah now see, I disagree. The DD would lead a lot less stressful life if she were more tactful or at least more careful about with whom she's sharing unpopular or counterculture opinions. Of course she is entitled to believe whatever she wants but when she goes on a crusade, she must be prepared to live with the consequences. She is a very bright child but I'd advise her to be careful and pick her battles wisely. "He/She who has the power makes the rules." gloria p > Loved the post about your dd's > [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > gloria p I told her a couple of times to be careful and that sometimes you can also achieve your goals by using diplomacy. But she believes so strongly and is so full of energy. Her reply was basically that this nation was created on "Give me liberty or give me death" so I can take a lunch detention for standing up for the first amendmend. Well the dress code story has a part 2. Because of the destruction of the petition she organized a little something. Halter tops are outlawed according to the dress code. So she got almost all the girls (except 6 she told me) to put on halter tops and wear something else on top of it and at lunch they all took their other top off and were sitting there in halter tops. That particular teacher that ripped up the petition was fuming. But nothing except a lot of talk regarding the dress code happened. Her point was that if everyone or almost everyone does it there is little they can do and she had everyone initially wear another top over the halter top just in case there was not enough support to call it off. Then getting everyone to take off that top was easy she explained. First they already came with a halter top - willing to participate - and as soon as some start taking the other top off the rest will follow suit - noone wants to be the "chicken". And as she used the "grapevine" to get the action going only very few knew it was her idea. She told her tight friends to go around and tell everyone "did you know that next wednesday everyone is going to .... are you going to stick out and be the only one who does not wear one? I am going to wear one and wear something on top just in case ..." So the teachers got just "everyone is doing it" And of course halter tops are "in" around here and almost all girls like to wear them. That is why she picked them to make the point. BTW she does not like halter tops. She is a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl. >Loved the post about your dd's >> petition. Tell her I think she's an amazing young person and to [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > >gloria p Oh horray just what we need a person to do - tell a strong intelligent leader of a girl to stifle :-/ As far as you have a point (not quite as far as you think, but you do have a point), *she'll* learn what those boudnaries and limitations are and adjust as she goes on in life. But in the meantime, she'll bust a few of them. And make the world better in the process. Banty > In article <dshHj.97275$cQ1.85...@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>, Puester > says... [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] > > - Show quoted text - And I don't have a problem with that. Funny part on how the teachers are divided on her. There is "Great - we need more like her - we got some her who are in real need of someone like her" and on the other side "She is a kid and needs to learn to shut up and do as she is told without question." And nothing in between. >>Loved the post about your dd's >>> petition. Tell her I think she's an amazing young person and to [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > >Banty This is what I'm thinking. She's a very bright and intelligent girl. She'll learn those boundaries and probably push them just slightly, too. Not a bad thing, imho! Nan > Well Here it is in short: Lots of work and little time. Sounds like it. Nice to see you back among the posting. It sounds like your family had to struggle quite a bit since you last visited this side of the world. Welcome back. Loved how DD handled the "Award" though I hope she continues to be the best Her she can be. Others opinions are inconsequential. Cindi > DW went from the Assisted Living place into a nursing home. There the > therapy and medical attention she received slowly improved her [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] > > FS |
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