New Student!
I enrolled yesterday at Deltech (community college) and registered for classes today! I'm taking a psych class called Human Development. How exciting!!!
I think I want to be a nurse. I'm going to take the classes and see what happens.
posted by ElliottPreciousPants @ 3:40 PM
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That's really exciting. I LOVE taking my night business class. It's just nice to do something different, and actually use my brain a bit!
nurses rule too- esp the smart kind like you would be. keep in mind you can specialize, you can do all kinds of crazy clinical or not clinical... awesome stuff!
One fun update on lore promoting getting knocked up-
Robitussin® (guaifenesin)
Use/Effects: Guaifenesin is a commonly prescribed cough syrup that can be purchased over the counter at your local pharmacy. Anecdotally, guaifenesin has been promoted as a cervical mucus thinner. The idea is that guaifenesin can thin cervical mucus, and thereby help sperm travel to the egg for fertilization. There is no clinical evidence that guaifenesin can help you get pregnant, or that all women need thinner cervical mucus. If trying this remedy, make sure that the product you purchase does not contain dextromethorphan, as this ingredient may be harmful to a developing fetus. Consult your physician prior to starting guaifenesin.
Side Effects: Usually well tolerated, however, drowsiness, headache, or stomach upset may occur.
Dosing: If trying this remedy, one recommendation is 1-2 teaspoons a day for 3-4 days prior to ovulation.
also, dong quai, wild yam, chaste tree berry (ironic...), black cohash, and evening primrose from the herbalist...
and keep a diary... or i suppose a blog, although i don't know how many people will want to read about your cervical mucous. Get used to touching yourself a whole lot to check.
http://www.pregnancy-info.net/newprgnancyarticle8.html
and to complicate things more:
An old -- but still popular -- theory has it that if you want a boy, you should make love as close to the exact time of ovulation as possible (to favor the faster-moving male sperm); conversely, for a girl, you should begin making love two days prior to ovulation (giving the slower-moving female sperm time to catch up with the guys). But a 1996 survey of the major studies on sex preselection found no significant link between the timing of intercourse and sex determination. In fact, even the latest, high-tech innovations aren't foolproof. For example, getting artificially inseminated with sperm that have been separated by flow cytometry -- in which male sperm are sorted out from females according to their weight and swimming properties -- may up your odds to 75 percent (versus 50 percent normally) that you'll conceive a baby of the desired sex. "So there's still a 25 percent chance that things won't work out as you wished," points out Mark Sauer, M.D., of Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York.
(I work at columbia!)
PREGNANCY SPELL.
Repeat to each direction (east, west, etc.)
"To you my child, my body is open,
To you my child, my mind is open.
To you my child, my heart is open.
By Earth, Fire, Wind, and Sea,
Into my arms you will be."
(Last two lines are said while looking at your cradled arms).
FERTILITY SPELL.
You will need:
1 watermelon 1 tbs. powdered Palo Dulce 1 cup mixed rice and beans
1 tbs. shredded coconut 2 tbs. fresh basil leaves 1 tbs. anil powder
1 tbs. river water 1 tbs. sea water 2 cups molasses 3 cups olive oil
7 pennies 1 wick Statue of Yemaya
Preparation:
Cut the watermelon in half and scoop the majority of the insides out.
Write you name 7 times on a brown piece of paper. place the paper at
the bottom of the watermelon. place the 7 pennies on the paper. place
the powdered Palo Dulce, rice, and beans, shredded coconut and fresh
basil leaves in the watermelon. pour the river water and the sea
water into the watermelon. pour the molasses into the watermelon. pour
the olive oil into the watermelon. Mix the anil into the olive oil.
Float the wick on top of the oil. Light the wick and allow it to burn
for 7 days. place the watermelon lamp next to the stature of Yemaya. On
the 8th day, bring the watermelon and leave it next to a body of
water.
You may also want to make a lotion by adding: preparation:
place 1 cup of unscented body lotion or body cream in a mixing bowl.
Mix well. 10 drops coconut oil 10 drops chrysanthemum oil
20 drops watermelon oil
EGG WISH SPELL FOR FERTILITY
"On an egg whose shell is brown or pink,
Sign these signs in grass-green ink.
[a simple sun, a male symbol, an encircled equilateral cross, a female sign,
then an upside-down 5-pointed star]
Bury it deep in an earth-filled pot,
Let this stand where the sun is hot;
Sow on its surface seeds of grass,
Water them well while nine weeks pass
Gather the crop, bind it with thread
Let it hang always above your bed
ertility spells are very strong and affective.
These are very strong and affective spells and will give you positive results If you are scared and want to be assured of having a safe pregnancy You want to prevent Miscarriages You want to start your own family but not succeeded till now Then now is the right time for you to go ahead with the Fertility Spell.
And if all else failse:
Conception charm
Try filling a leather pouch with 1 of each of these stones: amethyst, clear quartz crystal, chrysoprase and aventurine. Place fresh rosemary under the bed when trying to conceive and wear the pouch around your neck each time you try. This will increase your chances of becoming pregnant. Once pregnant, keep the pouch until after you deliver to easy your labor pains and help ensure a safe delivery. Before your baby is 1 month old, give the stones away, particularly to a friend who is pregnant or who is also trying to conceive.
More tomorrow- the residents love telling me this stuff
Holy crap. Um, so, it seems that I should be able to easily pick out the 'crap' in all this. But, I'm not going to pretend like I am some expert--do you actually know people that used these methods (any of them) and credit them with their pregnancy? Are any of these things actually things you think I should try because you think there is the slightest hint that they might really work?
Please forgive me girls, if I should like a crazy desperate person. I'm just becoming sort of crazy....and desperate. Things that might have sounded nutso a few months ago might start sounding reasonable.
Hey Melissa, how is your little bro doing? He must be getting big now, last I knew he was 5 or 6? Is he still in MI with your stepdad?
people credit all kinds of funky stuff for their pregnancies- the robitussin one is especially popular. I doubt any of them help much, but it gives you something to concentrate on. The spells and charms and stuff are sort of like prayers. Most people think that stuff at least doesn't hurt.
My bro is pretty good. He's going to be 12 shortly- freaks me out! I think they are holding him back another grade, which i sincerely think is all because of my stepdad, but what can ya do? He's healthy and seemingly happy, and the nicest, most wonderful kid you'll ever meet (not to mention, i think he's pretty smart about things, tho i don't know about his school work). So funny that you are in delaware- let me know when you're gonna visit brooklyn. we have a teeny apt, but a futon, and the best neighborhood ever- 5 minutes to wall st!
Him being 12 really freaks me out too. Wow. I will NEVER forget that day that the three of us went and had pizza and then he got sick and then I got sick too because someone else was vomitting....yeah. I'm going to need to work on that if I become a nurse, because nurses handle a LOT of puke.
Puke is actually the thing I am most nervous about when making this change. I just hope to god I can handle the puke.
being a nurse nothing- if you're gonna have a kid you better get good on the puke thing! Puke is no big deal. When i worked on the ambulance, i tried to realized that you just have to reduce it to component parts. The initial smell is the disaster- that will make you gag the worst. but get past that, it's only a smell, and it is only the smell of food- once delicious- and tummy guff. Tummy guff is stinky, but it's just acid, like the lab. Bile sucks, but think- it's worse for that person than you. Once you have thought that much about it, probably the situation is over. And if not, you might give a good sympathetic hurl. No worries- the sick person still is sicker than you. wipe your mouth on your sleeve, and make them better...
Well I'm the big wimp here b/c just READING these posts made me want to puke.
Check out this too!
http://www.muridae.com/rabbits/rabbittalk.html
I saw that bunny page! How awesome!!!
yeah, i aspire to speak fluent rabbit. otis binkies all the time- so fun!
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