I have a few “I Voted” stickers on our parrots travel cage. People have actually asked me about it.
I put them on lager’s head. He will knock it off eventually.
I’ve tried the Silk brand eggnog - it’s pretty good.
I bought a pint of eggnog last week. Really glad the co-op sells it in that size … I take my nog straight so it’s very easy to have way more at one sitting than I should.
I started seeing eggnog in the grocery store I shop at a couple of weeks before Halloween.
I’d be upset but I really like eggnog. I wouldn’t mind if it was a year-round thing.
I’d be excited, but I’m on a diet and it’s the last thing I should drink. Even the low fat stuff is off-limits. But when we get to the Christmas holiday, I’ll be chugging that shit like it’s being discontinued permanently.
We took Wee Weasel for a routine EEG today and it went about as badly as it could have gone. I didn’t really want to do it in the first place because the neurologist had ordered it as a matter of routine/ruling out.
Wee Weasel was screaming, hyperventilating and inconsolable. At one point they had him swaddled and I had to hold him down and he is really strong. Because I went rucking this morning my lower back was killing me. I was in immense pain holding down my shrieking child.
At one point he asked for a wipe for his wet face and cried, “How many tears?”
Eventually the lady gave up and called another guy in, and he said, we can try swaddling again, and it will take about twenty minutes and he’ll probably calm down after that, or we can end this now, it’s up to you. It really bothered me that he kept saying, it’s not painful, it’s just annoying. Like clearly this is more than annoying to my kid. He is really sensitive about anything touching his head. For all I know he does experience it as pain.
At this point my son is on the floor still crying after getting a break, clinging to my husband for dear life. He could not psychologically cope with what was happening, I knew he was not going to calm down, and I couldn’t put him through something like this as a matter of routine, so I decided to end it.
He is home now and seems better but I am not better. I didn’t want my son to be medically traumatized and by allowing this I’m worried that’s exactly what has happened. I want to cancel his MRI in January, another routine test. They plan to sedate him but I don’t know if he will even let them put in an IV. I guess we are going to call the neurologist and say, hey, is this really necessary? If we were seriously worried about him having seizures that would be one thing, but he seems fine to me. We were a little concerned about his eyes occasionally rolling back in his head for a second, but I think it was a stim and I haven’t seen him do it in a while.
Anyway that was a really stressful experience and I feel terrible for what he went through.
I had more errands to run and I dropped in to the grocery store again because, natch, I had forgotten some crucial items yesterday: Fresh Herbes de Provence for doing air fryer mini-potatoes, and the ever-essential Caesar rimmer for, like, Caesars. Out of curiosity I checked the aforementioned pizza freezer, and danged if it wasn’t running just fine, so the old geezer was right after all! The thing that threw me was that the thermometer had been indicating a ridiculously high temperature (and yes, it was set to Celsius), and it was today too, albeit a lower one, but everything in there was solidly frozen so I assume the thermometer (a digital one) was seriously mis-calibrated.
I hope everyone got the eggnog they wanted. I noticed that around here, not all stores have started carrying it yet. I may have to venture out to that other more distant store that carries President’s Choice eggnog. Hopefully by now someone has taken a flamethrower to the skunk corpse in the middle of the highway. Have to remember to stay in the left lane just in case.
Pumpkin Spice Corn Flakes.
Is the neurologist calling for these tests as part of the autism diagnosis or is it for something else? Because when my daughter was diagnosed, they did NOT require an EEG or an MRI. I would think those tests would be cost prohibitive for a lot of people, not to mention difficult for autistic people to endure.
When my daughter had a bunch of cavities, I had to take her to a pediatric dentist to have them filled. She had to be partially sedated and put on a board to be restrained for the fillings to happen. I regret letting them do that to this day. But the good news is, even though I was traumatized by it, it seems my daughter isn’t afraid of dentists. So hopefully your son won’t come out of the experience scarred either.
This is what happened. The pediatrician referred us to a neurologist because that’s what he does with all kids diagnosed with autism.
We had a couple concerns - at the time, he had weak hand strength and was resistant to using his hands, but that can readily be addressed by OT, I understand. And he sometimes rolled his eyes back in his head briefly, so we were like, since we’re going anyway, let’s mention this to the neurologist.
I wasn’t at the neuro appointment but my husband said the neurologist wasn’t really worried about it but ordered an EEG and MRI just in case.
To me this seemed unnecessary, but I didn’t realize how difficult it would be for the kid, so I went along with it. After what he went through today, I’m feeling less inclined to go along. This was a really terrible experience. He was really hard to hold down, even swaddled, and at one point I worried I might actually be hurting him by pressing down so hard. Like how is this worth it for a just in case?
They asked us why he was having the EEG and I said just a matter of routine and they seemed to not understand the point either, so I decided to end it there.
He is fine now and I am almost fine. Rather than take him back to daycare I am snuggling with him on the couch while he watches number videos, waiting on him hand and foot with water and snacks, basically like I would if he was sick. This is more for me than him, I think.
One of the things that happens, which you may understand, is that if you have a kid with a disability you are so used to being told that something is wrong that you begin to worry that everything could be wrong. The just in case checking feels more important. But I don’t want his earliest memories to be doctors and hospitals and people running tests on him. Maybe there’s such a thing as being too careful.
I think we’re going to cancel the MRI. My husband says he won’t fight me on it.
Does he like the number blocks? Just wondering but it seems like it would be right up his alley.
It’s hard to know what the right thing is, especially when it comes to parenting. Kids are hard. But I think, in this case, you are.
In other news - right after my daughter having an ear infection and my son having pink eye, I have starting having UTI symptoms. GREAT. Let illness take out the whole family. What is my husband going to come down with? Pneumonia? Gout? The plague?
I mean, what could you do in that case? You couldn’t not have her cavities filled. And my son’s next dental visit is next year and they intend to move from the lap exam to the chair and I’m sure it will be a battle.
My husband says he doesn’t think my son is traumatized by today’s events, but he does hear my concerns about medical trauma. My husband is also sick today due to eating food he was allergic to. None of us are having a particularly great day.
It’s so hard to parent sick kids when you feel like crap too. How is your son’s cough? I know that was difficult for you.
We could have sedated her fully. Restraining her was a lot. She also does well with needles, which we knew at that time. I just wish I had done it differently.
Finally getting better. He only coughs at night now. I had serious thoughts that he’d have this cough forever.
Of course lost my job. About to get another and hope it sticks.
Ooh, sorry! What happened?
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A sure sign of the Apocalypse!
Guess I won’t have to stress about hosting people for the holidays if the world is ending…
I seem to have trouble keeping a job. Sigh. My job should be keeping companies from putting pumpkin spice in everything, but I can’t fight the Committee.
In other news, slept curled up with bf, legs entwined, trying not to breathe in as he breathed out in my face, then he turned on his back. I’m still scared to make the Move, obviously I’m not repulsive to him. I have issues with rejection.
One quart of nog, one quart of full-fat milk. I usually dilute the nog to about 1/2 to 3/4s nog, the rest full-fat milk. Too goopy for me to enjoy otherwise.
Cutting that mixture 50/50 with rum also thins the goopiness a bit more. 
Can I just ask why those of you who buy eggnog don’t just make it? It takes only milk, egg, maybe a bit of sugar and cinnamon or nutmeg. And maybe some brandy or rum or whatever. I don’t understand buying it.
I suppose that would make sense outside of the holiday season. But if I can buy it premade, why go through the trouble?