Wednesday Randoms

[expectantsteelerfan]

Oct 2, 2024 14:35:02 GMT -5 midwestmama said:

Oct 2, 2024 14:13:48 GMT -5 Wallflower said:

I have a temporary curtain right now, as I just redid my bathroom and the shower doors are on order. It works but you have make sure the curtain hangs far enough down, really kind of pooling a bit on the floor. I'm actually looking forward to the glass doors but boy, you folks are making me a little terrified! lol

Ok, maybe it's my specific shower doors, LOL!  They are a textured, frosted glass sliding doors (late 90s/early 00s), so maybe I would feel differently if they were smooth, clear glass and swing only (no sliding track).  We also do not have a cleaning person, so maybe I would feel differently if DH and I were not the ones who always had to clean them. 

I have a swinging shower door, and it has a rubber flap that drags against the bottom lip of the shower, and it's kinda shaped like an upside down V along the bottom, and cleaning in between the flaps is impossible, but you can see the black moldy grossness in there, so I try every week to clean it (I can clean up until near the hinge of the door because it's impossible to get between the lip of the shower and up in between the rubber part.  I still spray bleach cleaner there every week, but it's never really clean, and I despise it.  

[ssmjlm]

Oct 2, 2024 16:24:15 GMT -5 expectantsteelerfan said:

Oct 2, 2024 14:35:02 GMT -5 midwestmama said:

Ok, maybe it's my specific shower doors, LOL!  They are a textured, frosted glass sliding doors (late 90s/early 00s), so maybe I would feel differently if they were smooth, clear glass and swing only (no sliding track).  We also do not have a cleaning person, so maybe I would feel differently if DH and I were not the ones who always had to clean them. 

I have a swinging shower door, and it has a rubber flap that drags against the bottom lip of the shower, and it's kinda shaped like an upside down V along the bottom, and cleaning in between the flaps is impossible, but you can see the black moldy grossness in there, so I try every week to clean it (I can clean up until near the hinge of the door because it's impossible to get between the lip of the shower and up in between the rubber part.  I still spray bleach cleaner there every week, but it's never really clean, and I despise it.  

You can replace the flap! Just make sure to measure the gap.

[momin2013]

I just sat down to enjoy my treat of Ben & Jerry’s Tonight Dough, only to discover that I accidentally got the non-dairy version. Boo.

[erbear]

My younger DD (13) jumped off a swing at school on Monday and busted her elbow. It was really painful and swollen so I took her to urgent care for an X-ray. Person there said no break but wanted the radiologist to look at it. They called back and said radiologist saw a break and to take her ortho for a treatment plan. Went to ortho today — they say no break. I am confused.

Also the X-ray is on a CD and I can’t look at it (not that I know what I’m looking at but I wanted to send it to my friend who is a MSK radiologist).

[erbear]

Oct 2, 2024 15:14:51 GMT -5 gretchenindisguise said:

Oct 2, 2024 14:53:58 GMT -5 abs said:

I’m sorry. We are having a similar issue with Biology. The teacher literally does not teach. He’s like here is the TEKS (basically learning standard) we are working on and you can read about it in the textbook. Quiz tomorrow. There is no lesson, no explanation, no study guide, nothing. No labs either. He says it’s supposed to be self led which is crap and wrong. His advice for poor grades? Study harder. Okay. They can’t study what they don’t know.

So yeah. All that to say is we are using all other resources. Their old science teacher has made himself available before school for tutoring and DD uses Khan Academy if she needs to. They all just Gmail each other practice quizzes they made themselves and it’s helping. Not looking forward to a whole year of this though.

Just jumping on this bandwagon but for math honors. Teacher doesn’t teach. Gives then problems with brand new concepts. Reads the problem out loud and then tells them to do it. If they get it right, she reward them with the equivalent of a gold star.

She doesn’t post the answer key so they can teach themselves until after class.

There are no text books.

Queue me re-learning graphing of sine and cosine so I can teach her how to find the amplitude, period, horizontal and vertical shift. We were up past midnight the other night. Ay yi yi.

Liking in solidarity. This was me and geometry last year with DD1

[cmeon]

Oct 2, 2024 21:33:30 GMT -5 erbear said:

My younger DD (13) jumped off a swing at school on Monday and busted her elbow. It was really painful and swollen so I took her to urgent care for an X-ray. Person there said no break but wanted the radiologist to look at it. They called back and said radiologist saw a break and to take her ortho for a treatment plan. Went to ortho today — they say no break. I am confused.

Also the X-ray is on a CD and I can’t look at it (not that I know what I’m looking at but I wanted to send it to my friend who is a MSK radiologist).

I'm sure you're just itching to throw more money at this fussy elbow, but USB DVD drives are pretty affordable, like $20-30? I don't need ours much, but it has definitely been worth having on hand.

I'm sorry about her elbow- I recoiled just reading that!

[mysteriouswife]

I’m going to need an iv of coffee and some ibuprofen in the morning. I just got home from Charli XCX and Troye Sivan. DD said she isn’t going to school tomorrow. Joke is on her. If I have to go to work and I’m twice her age she can muster up the energy for school.

[expectantsteelerfan]

Oct 2, 2024 21:33:30 GMT -5 erbear said:

My younger DD (13) jumped off a swing at school on Monday and busted her elbow. It was really painful and swollen so I took her to urgent care for an X-ray. Person there said no break but wanted the radiologist to look at it. They called back and said radiologist saw a break and to take her ortho for a treatment plan. Went to ortho today — they say no break. I am confused.

Also the X-ray is on a CD and I can’t look at it (not that I know what I’m looking at but I wanted to send it to my friend who is a MSK radiologist).

Is there something wrong with the CD of images, or do you just not have a way to see it?  If you just don't have a way to see it, I'd send it to your radiologist friend anyway...my dh is a neuroradiologist, and all the radiologists we know have a way of seeing images on CD if we give it to them (dh has drilled into me that if anyone asks him to look at their results, we need to ask for scans on a CD).  

Did any of the doctors say that the swelling made it difficult to tell if there was a break?  If so, I'd push to get another x-ray done and re-read.  

Did they give her a sling or anything?  A note to be excused from gym?

I've had a lot of experience with Ortho arm injuries over the past few years unfortunately, and one thing I learned is that whether there is a break or not, the treatment is often the same...pain meds, no physical activity while healing, and immobilization.  If it's broken the healing will take longer.  So it might not be imperative to determine whether there's an actual break or just a strain.  But if they didn't give you a sling or a note for gym, if your DD is in pain after a week, I'd push for a 2nd opinion.  BUT I will say the Ortho department looks at/for these things all day every day, and the Dr. who read the x-ray from urgent care possibly doesn't specialize in arms, or pediatric Ortho stuff, and may have just wanted to be on the safe side by saying they saw a break. 

[deadwing]

Oct 2, 2024 21:33:30 GMT -5 erbear said:

My younger DD (13) jumped off a swing at school on Monday and busted her elbow. It was really painful and swollen so I took her to urgent care for an X-ray. Person there said no break but wanted the radiologist to look at it. They called back and said radiologist saw a break and to take her ortho for a treatment plan. Went to ortho today — they say no break. I am confused.

Also the X-ray is on a CD and I can’t look at it (not that I know what I’m looking at but I wanted to send it to my friend who is a MSK radiologist).

I had an elbow injury when I was in high school that was kind of weird... What I remember is there was a "fat pad" on the x-ray.  It wasn't classified as a break, but I think that "fat pad" came from inside the bone (the marrow I guess?).  I don't know how something escapes from inside the bone without a break.  Maybe one of the more medically inclined posters can explain it.  But I wonder if it's something similar with your daughter.  I think I had to wear a splint for a week or so.

[erbear]

Oct 3, 2024 6:49:06 GMT -5 expectantsteelerfan said:

Oct 2, 2024 21:33:30 GMT -5 erbear said:

My younger DD (13) jumped off a swing at school on Monday and busted her elbow. It was really painful and swollen so I took her to urgent care for an X-ray. Person there said no break but wanted the radiologist to look at it. They called back and said radiologist saw a break and to take her ortho for a treatment plan. Went to ortho today — they say no break. I am confused.

Also the X-ray is on a CD and I can’t look at it (not that I know what I’m looking at but I wanted to send it to my friend who is a MSK radiologist).

Is there something wrong with the CD of images, or do you just not have a way to see it?  If you just don't have a way to see it, I'd send it to your radiologist friend anyway...my dh is a neuroradiologist, and all the radiologists we know have a way of seeing images on CD if we give it to them (dh has drilled into me that if anyone asks him to look at their results, we need to ask for scans on a CD).  

Did any of the doctors say that the swelling made it difficult to tell if there was a break?  If so, I'd push to get another x-ray done and re-read.  

Did they give her a sling or anything?  A note to be excused from gym?

I've had a lot of experience with Ortho arm injuries over the past few years unfortunately, and one thing I learned is that whether there is a break or not, the treatment is often the same...pain meds, no physical activity while healing, and immobilization.  If it's broken the healing will take longer.  So it might not be imperative to determine whether there's an actual break or just a strain.  But if they didn't give you a sling or a note for gym, if your DD is in pain after a week, I'd push for a 2nd opinion.  BUT I will say the Ortho department looks at/for these things all day every day, and the Dr. who read the x-ray from urgent care possibly doesn't specialize in arms, or pediatric Ortho stuff, and may have just wanted to be on the safe side by saying they saw a break. 

Yeah, I'm a classic under-reactor (and have broken my arm 5 times) so I admit that I'm a little blase, but I also know she is young and growth plates and all that so I should figure this out.

I don't have a way to view it -- no computer with a CD. I did ask her doc to upload to them to her MyChart so hopefully they do that soon. We are actually seeing our MSK rad friend on Saturday so I'll bring him the disk.

Ortho says that swelling can make an x-ray harder to read. If there's no improvement soon, I'll take her for another one as the swelling is definitely going down.

She has a sling and the instructions to wear it for 2 weeks, then another week with no activity before she can resume everything. So essentially, aside from a cast, they are recommending the same treatment regardless, which is good. No PE or soccer for at least 3 weeks.

Thank you!

[expectantsteelerfan]

Oct 3, 2024 9:37:37 GMT -5 erbear said:

Oct 3, 2024 6:49:06 GMT -5 expectantsteelerfan said:

Is there something wrong with the CD of images, or do you just not have a way to see it?  If you just don't have a way to see it, I'd send it to your radiologist friend anyway...my dh is a neuroradiologist, and all the radiologists we know have a way of seeing images on CD if we give it to them (dh has drilled into me that if anyone asks him to look at their results, we need to ask for scans on a CD).  

Did any of the doctors say that the swelling made it difficult to tell if there was a break?  If so, I'd push to get another x-ray done and re-read.  

Did they give her a sling or anything?  A note to be excused from gym?

I've had a lot of experience with Ortho arm injuries over the past few years unfortunately, and one thing I learned is that whether there is a break or not, the treatment is often the same...pain meds, no physical activity while healing, and immobilization.  If it's broken the healing will take longer.  So it might not be imperative to determine whether there's an actual break or just a strain.  But if they didn't give you a sling or a note for gym, if your DD is in pain after a week, I'd push for a 2nd opinion.  BUT I will say the Ortho department looks at/for these things all day every day, and the Dr. who read the x-ray from urgent care possibly doesn't specialize in arms, or pediatric Ortho stuff, and may have just wanted to be on the safe side by saying they saw a break. 

Yeah, I'm a classic under-reactor (and have broken my arm 5 times) so I admit that I'm a little blase, but I also know she is young and growth plates and all that so I should figure this out.

I don't have a way to view it -- no computer with a CD. I did ask her doc to upload to them to her MyChart so hopefully they do that soon. We are actually seeing our MSK rad friend on Saturday so I'll bring him the disk.

Ortho says that swelling can make an x-ray harder to read. If there's no improvement soon, I'll take her for another one as the swelling is definitely going down.

She has a sling and the instructions to wear it for 2 weeks, then another week with no activity before she can resume everything. So essentially, aside from a cast, they are recommending the same treatment regardless, which is good. No PE or soccer for at least 3 weeks.

Thank you!

Even if it's broken, she may just wear a sling and not a cast.  When I broke my elbow, I was in a sling (but for 10 weeks).  My neighbor's DD broke her elbow in a similar way, and she was casted by the same practice.  DD has broken her wrist twice, and 1 time she was casted (it was summer and she had an active camp she could still attend), but the 2nd time she broke it she just wore a brace.  And when she hurt it a 3rd time, it wasn't broken, and she just wore the same brace.  
So I think cast vs. sling would be determined by her age and how much activity she'll likely still be doing while it's healing and how much they feel it needs 'protecting' because the real concern would be falling or something and injuring it worse.  
But good luck!  My family had a good run where we made it 12 years without anyone having any broken bones, but now apparently my DD is accident-prone.  She currently has a concussion from getting hit in the head by a golf club at school during a field day event.