Friday Randoms

[Bernadine]

I have a prenatal massage scheduled for noon, and I can't wait.

I've been up since 2:30.  I think our one cat hates me.  He's up every morning between 2 and 4, and then I can't get back to sleep.  Meanwhile, h sleeps right through it.

[TR]

I had trouble falling asleep last night. I usually close my eyes around 9:15pm (shaddup) and fall asleep fairly quickly, but it took me almost two hours last night.

But it's Friday! And we have friends coming into town and should have a good weekend, provided the thunderstorms don't ruin any of our plans!

[snipsnsnails]

I have discovered a new annoyance. When I get up MOTN to feed Annabel, it never fails that DH sprawls over onto my side of the bed. So, when I come back after feeding her, my side of the bed is not all crisp and cool and inviting. It's wrinkled and all body-heated up from him! And then it takes a minute to climb in and jab him so he rolls over!

Last night I snapped, "If I have to get up, at least scoot over when I come back!!!!" Ugh. Can you tell I'm sleep-deprived?

[TR]

Oh and my new bathing suit from Express came yesterday and I love it! I was worried about the top fitting because it's all strappy and non-adjustable, but it does! And I'm not 100% happy with where my body is, but I feel confident in it.

[TR]

Mar 25, 2016 6:52:18 GMT -5 snipsnsnails said:

I have discovered a new annoyance. When I get up MOTN to feed Annabel, it never fails that DH sprawls over onto my side of the bed. So, when I come back after feeding her, my side of the bed is not all crisp and cool and inviting. It's wrinkled and all body-heated up from him! And then it takes a minute to climb in and jab him so he rolls over!

Last night I snapped, "If I have to get up, at least scoot over when I come back!!!!" Ugh. Can you tell I'm sleep-deprived?

Taser.

[dreamcrisp1]

My neighbour was drilling at 7:15 am. On a day off. Wtffff. I hate people. I wanted to sleep in.

[snipsnsnails]

Mar 25, 2016 6:53:04 GMT -5 TR said:

Mar 25, 2016 6:52:18 GMT -5 snipsnsnails said:

I have discovered a new annoyance. When I get up MOTN to feed Annabel, it never fails that DH sprawls over onto my side of the bed. So, when I come back after feeding her, my side of the bed is not all crisp and cool and inviting. It's wrinkled and all body-heated up from him! And then it takes a minute to climb in and jab him so he rolls over!

Last night I snapped, "If I have to get up, at least scoot over when I come back!!!!" Ugh. Can you tell I'm sleep-deprived?

Taser.

This would *definitely* heat the bed up!

[picaflora]

I fell asleep super early last night because I had a killer headache. Which meant I was wide awake at 2am. :-( I think I went back to sleep around 4.

Looks like our medicated TTC cycle was a bust. Of course it is - I had big plans to tell family over Mother's Day. We have to sit the next cycle out because of a vacation we have planned. I want to move to IUI, but H (and the Dr) say to try meds + TI again.

[melissa]

I stuck DH with the kids last night and went to bed early so I could get up and start working early. He didn't mind and I was able to get up and start working at 6:00 a.m. I still will be online till at least 4 p.m. since I have to flex out but nice not having to use time off work.

[nsl]

It's the first day of spring break! The boys have requested a lazy PJ/movie day (after we do some playroom cleaning and decluttering), which is fine by me since the last couple weeks of work have kicked my ass.

[notoriousmeg]

We are on vacation and I have a work issue hanging over my head that I just can let go. The weather is also miserable here which isn't helping. I was so looking forward to a few sunny days to get myself in a better frame of mind.

[BlackCanary]

I have my surgery today and I haven't been able to eat anything since midnight, and I'm starving! Surgery isn't for another four and a half hours.

[lostlenore]

I slept weird last night and now my neck is all messed up. I feel like I was in a car accident or something, I can hardly move. Looks like my kids' first day of spring break will be pretty boring.

[ginandjucie24]

We are going to the drive in movies tonight. I am so excited.

I have been feeling the baby kick. I forgot what those felt like. .

[pandora89]

I have the day off today but H is at work so I can catching up on my PVR.

I relatively really like my job but one of the guys I work on accounts with can be such a asshole. He's a older guy (retiring this year) and is just so full of himself. He treats me like his assistant, even though I am not and just tries to push off all his work on me (even responding to his emails, he will forward them to me). I don't only share accounts with him but he expects his account list to be prioritized and I have to drop everything to help him, which no. My manager warned me about him when she made the account list and told me to speak to her if there are any issues. I just figured I'd roll with it since he's leaving soon but argh.

[noodle]

Mar 25, 2016 6:41:29 GMT -5 Bernadine said:

I have a prenatal massage scheduled for noon, and I can't wait.

I am jealous!

I'm working from home today, and I think it's going to be a day I do the bare minimum.  I have 2 work projects I want to complete today, and one phone call I need to make. If I actually get moving, I should be able to get everything done by noon.  But I can't get motivated to start working.

[cheeseandcrackers]

We heard a mouse in our attic this morning. Hurray.

[frkls]

some woman on my growth disorder parents FB group is talking about being too afraid to start HGH therapy with her daughter because her doctor told her that anything that causes cell growth can cause cancer. my endocrinologists at vanderbilt and here have both assured me that GH has been extensively studied since the 70's and it's super safe, unless your kid has already had a certain type of cancer, then it increases the chances of recurrence. i shared that and some links that vandy gave me and another woman chimes in with, "hgh studies that claim to have followed patients into adulthood only follow them into EARLY adulthood but not beyond that."

i feel like an asshole because i instantly got all eye-rolly. i truly feel like if this stuff has been studied since the 70's, somebody would have noticed a rash of cancer patients who were on GH as kids. i also trust my doctors not to prescribe something to my kid that's going to cause cancer. and now that i think about it, how can a hormone that your body makes naturally cause abnormal cell growth?! ugh!

[frkls]

Mar 25, 2016 6:41:29 GMT -5 Bernadine said:

I have a prenatal massage scheduled for noon, and I can't wait.

I've been up since 2:30.  I think our one cat hates me.  He's up every morning between 2 and 4, and then I can't get back to sleep.  Meanwhile, h sleeps right through it.

have fun!!! i tried a prenatal massage once and it made me puke...because everything made me puke

[ProfessorArtNerd]

I'm out of coffee, this is not a drill! And naturally David woke up early omg why baby?

I am annoyed that school is in today. But luckily the roads are super empty so I won't be sitting in traffic too long. I hope.

[frkls]

this gem showed up on fb today



eta: ugh!! i can't PIP it 
click here...it's worth it


www.facebook.com/MarchAgainstMonstanto/photos/a.566016720083519.1073741828.566004240084767/1154702207881631/?type=3&theater

[BaliHai]

TGIF! Tomorrow morning H is taking the car for service and L and I are going to dye eggs again, and I'm going to give her a bath, which I'm sure will be awesome since she screams bloody murder every time. I'm already looking forward to her going to bed tomorrow night, though, for no other reason than I am going to set up a plastic egg trail to her basket and she's going to lose her mind when she wakes up on Sunday morning, lol.

[FastHands]

Mar 25, 2016 8:05:56 GMT -5 frkls said:

this gem showed up on fb today



eta: ugh!! i can't PIP it 
click here...it's worth it


www.facebook.com/MarchAgainstMonstanto/photos/a.566016720083519.1073741828.566004240084767/1154702207881631/?type=3&theater

[mom2twoboys]

This is Carter's first and only day of spring break so we are going to Columbus Ohio to go eat a Chuys. Anyone from Texas should know what that is. We are excited to get some Tex-Mex food!!

[thinkofthesoldiers]

Mar 25, 2016 8:05:56 GMT -5 frkls said:

this gem showed up on fb today



eta: ugh!! i can't PIP it 
click here...it's worth it


www.facebook.com/MarchAgainstMonstanto/photos/a.566016720083519.1073741828.566004240084767/1154702207881631/?type=3&theater

Mom why do you share shit like this on fb? To join in with the thousands of others who also follow this site and share it on their fb pages to show how different they are by all doing the same thing.

[candreco]

I have finally convinced DH to give up the k-cup machine and go back to a regular coffee pot with good beans, and OMG, my coffee tastes so good.

[cereal K]

Daycare/preschool is closed today so H is home with them. I was going to take off/work remotely for part of the day, and then a HUGE meeting (well, very important - the meeting itself is only 10 minutes!) came up, so I'm in the office for the morning.

Then I'm off until 4/5! We're heading to SC for a week with my parents.

I have SO SO SO much to pack/prep and I've barely started. We're leaving on Sunday to drive part way, so we want to have the care loaded up Saturday night. So not only do I have to pack up gear and toys for the drive and the trip, and suitcases for me and both kids, I have to have everything laid out for church, then lunch/egg hunt at H's aunt's house, then driving clothes, then overnight clothes, then more driving clothes.

Oh - and I still have to put Easter Baskets together, devil 18 eggs for the family lunch, and generally get the house ready for use to be gone for a week.

And H is all "I don't see what the big deal is! Just throw some shit in a bag and let's go." *stab stab stab*

[jlt19]

I have the day off and DH is on nights. We're leaving here at 9:15 for our first Ikea trip ever and I'm very excited. Then we're going to try to have DSs new daybed ready to go by the time I pick him up from daycare. I am a bit worried about that part. He may have to sleep with DD tonight.

[FastHands]

Mar 25, 2016 8:01:02 GMT -5 frkls said:

some woman on my growth disorder parents FB group is talking about being too afraid to start HGH therapy with her daughter because her doctor told her that anything that causes cell growth can cause cancer. my endocrinologists at vanderbilt and here have both assured me that GH has been extensively studied since the 70's and it's super safe, unless your kid has already had a certain type of cancer, then it increases the chances of recurrence. i shared that and some links that vandy gave me and another woman chimes in with, "hgh studies that claim to have followed patients into adulthood only follow them into EARLY adulthood but not beyond that."

i feel like an asshole because i instantly got all eye-rolly. i truly feel like if this stuff has been studied since the 70's, somebody would have noticed a rash of cancer patients who were on GH as kids. i also trust my doctors not to prescribe something to my kid that's going to cause cancer. and now that i think about it, how can a hormone that your body makes naturally cause abnormal cell growth?! ugh!

So, the purpose of these growth hormones is to encourage growth, right? In your case, your son's body isn't recognizing/reacting to his natural levels of hormones, so they are adding more to get the same response. This is very obviously being done in a controlled environment, and they are studying his body and how it reacts, so in all likelihood, they are just bumping his growth levels up to normal, not initiating extra growth. Knowing this, and that the drugs have been studied, I would probably agree with you that the risks are small.

I'm going to answer the bolded here, because it is possible, but it ties into what your dr told you about someone who already has cancer, or a mutation that leads to cancer. Okay so cancer is abnormal growth, right? And there are actually lots of factors that interplay in telling a cell when to grow, and when to stop. There are multiple, overlapping systems, so say one of your "stop" genes (your cell's breaks) gets mutated, there's an emergency break. Cancer happens (in a very generalized way) when you end up with uncorrected errors in multiple systems -- so maybe you were born with crappy "breaks," and then you end up having a mistake in your "emergency break" that wasn't caught/corrected. Well shit, now your cells just keep growing.

So where do hormones fit into that? Well a growth hormone is encouraging cells to divide. At each division, you are copying DNA -- and that's where there's a chance for something to get fucked up. Your cells are careful, and they have editing features, so they can usually see a mistake and fix it, but it's not a perfect system. So by encouraging lots of cell growth, you're giving lots of opportunities for errors. And maybe that error will be in the emergency break that was the only thing keeping your cells in check IF you had shitty breaks to begin with. 

BUT, like I said -- in your case, you're not giving him growth hormones to bulk him up or something. You're just getting him up to normal levels. So I would think his levels of cell division aren't actually any higher than average.

[FrozenSunshine]

The contractors should be done soundproofing our master bedroom today. Hoping to never hearing the neighbors ever again. I just wish I could afford to do the whole house.