All kids swallow a bit of water while swimming it happens!!
A few years back I read a post and it scared the shit out of me, so much so that I would stay awake all night to check Blaines breathing after playing in the pool.
Fast forward to his year, he is far more into loving water and pools and slides and everything that comes along with it, including swallowing and coughing up water when he gets splashed in the face or does something silly.
Yesterday we were at the pool and through out the day as kids will he would cough or spit out water, I didn't even think about it really. As we were getting ready to leave he really wanted to do the big slide, I told him a million times he was not ready for the slide because it is a big splash and he will go under, well he does it anyway and of course he goes under and was fine not even coughing up water. I said see your not big enough, of course once the initial shock wears off he says Mom that was super exciting I want to do it again.
I swear to god he is trying to kill me.
Well we get home and hes tried and hot and of course, mom brain goes into panic mode. "OMG HE SWALLOWED WATER HE IS GOING TO DRY DROWN" So I decide instead of rushing him to the ER for being tired and hot I would google the symptoms of "dry drowning".
LADIES AND GENTS SIT DOWN FOR THIS ONE!! Its not a real thing, yes I read 4 articles by 4 different doctors talking about it.
"Dry drowning came about from someone who poorly researched and wrote a paper"
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180606163050.htm
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180606163050.htm
https://www.kidnurse.org/dry-drowning/
https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-blog/2018/august/mythbusting-dry-drowning
Now lets talk about what you should 100% take your child to the doctor for if your concerned about drowning, Vomiting, fever, coughing (more then they would for swallowing water the wrong at the dinner table), All day coughing, wheezing, trouble breathing, turning blue etc.
There is no reason to loose sleep because you are scared they might die in their sleep from swallowing water at the pool or beach, there is no reason to panic and run them to the ER because they are tired and hot and swallowed water at the pool.
You will NOT miss the serious symptoms that need the ER doctor to save their life.
Let them play, let them love water, let them learn water safety!
Drowning is a real risk not just for small children but adults too, safety around water should be taught at all ages! Swim lesson and close super vision of children is beyond import.
But don't let fear of swallowing water stop them from enjoying life!
Tuesday, July 9, 2019
Friday, July 5, 2019
Lazy Strawberry Rhubarb Pie
I got my strawberries and rhubarb from Zekveld's Garden Market
What you need:
1 box of frozen pie crust (the ones with 2 crusts in a box)
1/2 cup sugar (unless you like it sweeter then do 1 cup)
Small handful of flour (about 1/2 cup)
2 stalks of Rhubarb
1 quart of strawberries
1 bowl
1 spoon
1 cutting bored
1 knife
1 cookie sheet
parchment paper for easy clean up
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 400 degrees
1) Chop rhubarb
2) Cut strawberries
3) Put them in the bowl and mix the sugar and flour in
4) Line your cookie sheet with parchment paper put your frozen pie crust on the cookie sheet
5) Dump your bowl of filling into the pie crust
6) Turn the second pie crust on top of your filling, let thaw a few minutes until you can press the edges of the pie crusts together.
7) Put slits in the top crust to let steam out
8) Bake for 40 minutes Let cool for 10 minutes
ENJOY!!!!
Thursday, July 4, 2019
Pinterest try: Philly Cheese-steak Sliders
Trying new recipes is one of my favourite things to do, and when they turn out amazing it is even better and I just have to share with everyone so they can try too.
This week I tired out Philly Cheese-Steak Sliders. I have never tried a real Philly cheese-steak so I really have nothing to compare to but Connely said they were good and he likes Philly cheese-steaks.
This is a super simple recipe to so that is another big win. I think total time including cooking was 30 mins.
What you need:
1 pepper (I used red because that is what I had on hand)
1/2 med onion (I only used half because I am not a huge fan of overwhelming onion taste)
3/4lbs steak (I used the thin quick fry steaks)
Dinner rolls (I used what the superstore had on hand in their bakery section 12 buns)
Mayo
1 cup shredded I used Mozzarella but the recipe calls for provolone.
Garlic
Butter
Recipe:
1) Preheat oven to 350 degrees
2) Cut up peppers, onions and steak. Shred the cheese
3) Cook in frying pan until everything is nicely browned
4) Cut your buns in half and lay the bottom halves in your baking dish
5) Put Mayo on both halves of your buns
6) Spread your mixture evenly over your buns. Spread the shredded cheese over the mixture.
7) Melt your butter and mix with garlic. Brush on top of your buns.
8) Cover with tin foil bake for 10 mins. Uncover. Bake for another 10mins
ENJOY!!!
This week I tired out Philly Cheese-Steak Sliders. I have never tried a real Philly cheese-steak so I really have nothing to compare to but Connely said they were good and he likes Philly cheese-steaks.
This is a super simple recipe to so that is another big win. I think total time including cooking was 30 mins.
What you need:
1 pepper (I used red because that is what I had on hand)
1/2 med onion (I only used half because I am not a huge fan of overwhelming onion taste)
3/4lbs steak (I used the thin quick fry steaks)
Dinner rolls (I used what the superstore had on hand in their bakery section 12 buns)
Mayo
1 cup shredded I used Mozzarella but the recipe calls for provolone.
Garlic
Butter
Recipe:
1) Preheat oven to 350 degrees
2) Cut up peppers, onions and steak. Shred the cheese
3) Cook in frying pan until everything is nicely browned
4) Cut your buns in half and lay the bottom halves in your baking dish
5) Put Mayo on both halves of your buns
6) Spread your mixture evenly over your buns. Spread the shredded cheese over the mixture.
7) Melt your butter and mix with garlic. Brush on top of your buns.
8) Cover with tin foil bake for 10 mins. Uncover. Bake for another 10mins
ENJOY!!!
Tuesday, July 2, 2019
Greenview Aviaries: Homeschool trip
This is the last homeschool trip for the year with the home school group. We home school year round because every moment is a learning experience and how hard is it to do a page in a workbook each day in the summer.
Greenview Aviaries and zoo has a few playgrounds, a splash pad, picnic areas, food and animals. I was concerned that it wouldn't be something that I was comfortable with doing as I am an animal activist.
We spent most of the day playing on the equipment, in the splash pad and with the other kids. We did the animals for about 30 mins out of the whole day. They seemed well cared for, yes the pens are what I would consider small for a wild animal but they are clean, the animals show no fear of people at all and love to pet and attention.
Personally we spent so little time with the animals we could have gone to a park with a splash pad/zipline and playgrounds and the kids would have been happy.
We got to fed the animals and they were all gentle and kind. I feel the pens should be larger for some of the animals but I also feel that about our own animal farm and they are well taken care of in both places. They all had food, fresh water, shade and places to hide from the people when they wanted too.
Will I go again? I am not sure, I might try to find somewhere that offers the same type of play without animals.
Greenview Aviaries and zoo has a few playgrounds, a splash pad, picnic areas, food and animals. I was concerned that it wouldn't be something that I was comfortable with doing as I am an animal activist.
We spent most of the day playing on the equipment, in the splash pad and with the other kids. We did the animals for about 30 mins out of the whole day. They seemed well cared for, yes the pens are what I would consider small for a wild animal but they are clean, the animals show no fear of people at all and love to pet and attention.
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| neck scratching! |
Personally we spent so little time with the animals we could have gone to a park with a splash pad/zipline and playgrounds and the kids would have been happy.
We got to fed the animals and they were all gentle and kind. I feel the pens should be larger for some of the animals but I also feel that about our own animal farm and they are well taken care of in both places. They all had food, fresh water, shade and places to hide from the people when they wanted too.
Will I go again? I am not sure, I might try to find somewhere that offers the same type of play without animals.
Thursday, June 27, 2019
Plastic in your gum?
I had no idea this was even an issues until I was looking for a pattern for reusable bags when I came across this blog
When I chew gum its Dentyne Ice
But I really had no idea that gum contains plastic. Well it turns out this blog post explains it all.
I tend to stay away from gun because I end up biting the inside of my mouth when I chew it, but for those who need to chew the gum they make natural gums that do not contain any plastics!
The blog think that I included will tell you all about those gums!
Anyway food for thought now back to finding a good reusable bag pattern. Do you know of any?
When I chew gum its Dentyne Ice
But I really had no idea that gum contains plastic. Well it turns out this blog post explains it all.
I tend to stay away from gun because I end up biting the inside of my mouth when I chew it, but for those who need to chew the gum they make natural gums that do not contain any plastics!
The blog think that I included will tell you all about those gums!
Anyway food for thought now back to finding a good reusable bag pattern. Do you know of any?
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
Brain Doctor Take 1
Waiting since my first brain injury to see a doctor, ANY doctor about the injury was horrible, no one would take me on. Well then I second and third brain injury and finally was able to get into the brain injury clinic in London.
This is special clinic and very hard to get into.
The whole experience was amazing from the moment I got there.
I park the car, a man with a little dog parks next to me, he has had a stroke and now takes his dog EVERYWHERE he goes. I get to pet and love the little thing up. I walk into the wrong doors, and look completely lost. They redirect me to where I am actually supposed to be. I am early which is fine I have my crossword book.
I get registered and take a seat with my book. A nurse comes out and asks if I would like to moved to a darker quieter room until the doctor is ready for me. WOW that is a first someone who takes into consideration what a loud bright room does to me. She takes me to a room and turns the lights down, she asks me a million questions and I start to cry to because I don't want her to think I am crazy, or making it up or all the other nasty things Sarnia Hospital seems to think every time I go in and accuse me of just wanting pain meds, which I don't I can't even take pain meds because of the reaction to them. As I am crying and telling her something she says no no no that's normal it was actually my next question on the sheet, see look. OMG!!!! She was amazing and once the questions are finished she offers me a blanket and says if I need anything at all just peek my head out and she will come right away.
I sit for what feels like forever! It was about 30mins because the clock in there is fast lol. A student doctor comes in and asks me a million more questions, I answer as best I can and am crying again. I am not a crier but this is my last hope. No one at the Sarnia Hospital believes me, Dr.Keith my sports doctor is doing everything humanly possible to support and help me through all this and Dr.Campbell my personal doctor has been trying every neurologist across Ontario for 2 years to find someone who will take me on. This here, this apt is my last hope to not feel like I am crazy!
The doctor comes in about 20 mins later and she is AMAZING! She gets it! All of it! I explain that I don't feel pain normal because of the high dose of pain blockers I am on. She said no, you should be feeling no pain at all with pain blockers you are, but what is it at most of the time. We go over everything. She tries to touch my head but it hurts so bad to the touch.
I see it in her eyes and hear it in voice, I am not sure what it is yet but it scares me. She says we need to get this extreme pain under control before we can do anything else. This is the first time someone has called it extreme pain! This is the first time someone gets it! I ask her a few times about the other stuff going on because of the brain injury and she just keeps saying we have to get the pain under control first. That scares me.
Turns out the SUV door slamming on my head damaged the nerve at the back of the head/top of the spine area. This nerve controls the entire left side of the brain. This is my head feels like it does! OMG answers! She says its just like with your foot. Great well I know what has happened with my left foot, I am stuck like that rest of life according to doctors.
She says she wants to put on 100MG of progablin. Its another pain blocker, they want me up to 600MG before my next apt in Sept. If they can get this pain down enough to inject the nerve with freezing. The same freezing they use at the dentist. This has a change of resetting the nerve. So if it works then I wont be in extreme pain anymore, if it doesn't work, at least I will have some relief for a few hours. If it doesn't work I will be stuck with this pain for the rest of my life.
So now I take 250MG of pain blockers in the morning and 100MG at night for a week and each week I go up 100MG at bedtime until I am at 600MG.
Do I want to be on meds the rest of my life no! But I surely want to function, I want to live as normal of a life as a person with post traumatic brain injury syndrome can life.
Anyone who knows me, knows I don't cry, at least not in front of anyone its an alone activity. Yesterday for the first time in my life I broke down in a doctors office. I broke down because the pain in unbearable day to day. I broke down because this was my last chance at help. I broke down because until now no one understood. No one got it!
Yesterday wouldn't have been possible if I didn't keep asking for help. I may be like this rest of my life, I may be in pain like this the rest of my life. But I know I am not crazy like the hospital made me feel.
When your in pain like this everyday you start to wonder if it is just in your head, yes, yes it is in my head literately a damaged nerve in my head!!!
This is special clinic and very hard to get into.
The whole experience was amazing from the moment I got there.
I park the car, a man with a little dog parks next to me, he has had a stroke and now takes his dog EVERYWHERE he goes. I get to pet and love the little thing up. I walk into the wrong doors, and look completely lost. They redirect me to where I am actually supposed to be. I am early which is fine I have my crossword book.
I get registered and take a seat with my book. A nurse comes out and asks if I would like to moved to a darker quieter room until the doctor is ready for me. WOW that is a first someone who takes into consideration what a loud bright room does to me. She takes me to a room and turns the lights down, she asks me a million questions and I start to cry to because I don't want her to think I am crazy, or making it up or all the other nasty things Sarnia Hospital seems to think every time I go in and accuse me of just wanting pain meds, which I don't I can't even take pain meds because of the reaction to them. As I am crying and telling her something she says no no no that's normal it was actually my next question on the sheet, see look. OMG!!!! She was amazing and once the questions are finished she offers me a blanket and says if I need anything at all just peek my head out and she will come right away.
I sit for what feels like forever! It was about 30mins because the clock in there is fast lol. A student doctor comes in and asks me a million more questions, I answer as best I can and am crying again. I am not a crier but this is my last hope. No one at the Sarnia Hospital believes me, Dr.Keith my sports doctor is doing everything humanly possible to support and help me through all this and Dr.Campbell my personal doctor has been trying every neurologist across Ontario for 2 years to find someone who will take me on. This here, this apt is my last hope to not feel like I am crazy!
The doctor comes in about 20 mins later and she is AMAZING! She gets it! All of it! I explain that I don't feel pain normal because of the high dose of pain blockers I am on. She said no, you should be feeling no pain at all with pain blockers you are, but what is it at most of the time. We go over everything. She tries to touch my head but it hurts so bad to the touch.
I see it in her eyes and hear it in voice, I am not sure what it is yet but it scares me. She says we need to get this extreme pain under control before we can do anything else. This is the first time someone has called it extreme pain! This is the first time someone gets it! I ask her a few times about the other stuff going on because of the brain injury and she just keeps saying we have to get the pain under control first. That scares me.
Turns out the SUV door slamming on my head damaged the nerve at the back of the head/top of the spine area. This nerve controls the entire left side of the brain. This is my head feels like it does! OMG answers! She says its just like with your foot. Great well I know what has happened with my left foot, I am stuck like that rest of life according to doctors.
She says she wants to put on 100MG of progablin. Its another pain blocker, they want me up to 600MG before my next apt in Sept. If they can get this pain down enough to inject the nerve with freezing. The same freezing they use at the dentist. This has a change of resetting the nerve. So if it works then I wont be in extreme pain anymore, if it doesn't work, at least I will have some relief for a few hours. If it doesn't work I will be stuck with this pain for the rest of my life.
So now I take 250MG of pain blockers in the morning and 100MG at night for a week and each week I go up 100MG at bedtime until I am at 600MG.
Do I want to be on meds the rest of my life no! But I surely want to function, I want to live as normal of a life as a person with post traumatic brain injury syndrome can life.
Anyone who knows me, knows I don't cry, at least not in front of anyone its an alone activity. Yesterday for the first time in my life I broke down in a doctors office. I broke down because the pain in unbearable day to day. I broke down because this was my last chance at help. I broke down because until now no one understood. No one got it!
Yesterday wouldn't have been possible if I didn't keep asking for help. I may be like this rest of my life, I may be in pain like this the rest of my life. But I know I am not crazy like the hospital made me feel.
When your in pain like this everyday you start to wonder if it is just in your head, yes, yes it is in my head literately a damaged nerve in my head!!!
Tuesday, June 25, 2019
Are you easy?
Easy to get along with that is. Today I am asking myself if I am easy to get along.
I would like to say yes right off the hop because I am easy going, pretty good at holding it all together and inside. I mind my business, am a good listener and give good advice.
I like to think with the right mind set everyone is easy to get along with, some people just take more effort to control my responses and reactions.
But that is coming from me, and we all like to hope that we are putting our best foot forward so maybe in the eyes of others I am not easy to get along with. I decided to take this questions to those who know me best.
My Sister: I figured she would say that I am not easy to get along with because well she is my little sister and sisters don't always get along. What she actually said was "most of the time why?" When I asked her what made me easy to get along with she said "I donno lol"
Connely: Thinking he would say no, because I am strong willed and a pain in the arse when I can't decide where to go for dinner. "Sure why?" and when asked what makes me easy to get a long with or why am I easy to get a long with he said "I donno, why ask me a question I don't know the answer too"
Richard: He has known me for 20 years and I am sure he is going to say no lol or unless you piss me off. "You can be but your extremely stubborn sometimes" was his response and when I asked what makes me easy to get along with me said "I didn't know that was a personality flaw" lol
So I guess I am easy to get along with for the most part!
Do you think your easy to get along with? What do you think your family would say about you?
I would like to say yes right off the hop because I am easy going, pretty good at holding it all together and inside. I mind my business, am a good listener and give good advice.
I like to think with the right mind set everyone is easy to get along with, some people just take more effort to control my responses and reactions.
But that is coming from me, and we all like to hope that we are putting our best foot forward so maybe in the eyes of others I am not easy to get along with. I decided to take this questions to those who know me best.
My Sister: I figured she would say that I am not easy to get along with because well she is my little sister and sisters don't always get along. What she actually said was "most of the time why?" When I asked her what made me easy to get along with she said "I donno lol"
Connely: Thinking he would say no, because I am strong willed and a pain in the arse when I can't decide where to go for dinner. "Sure why?" and when asked what makes me easy to get a long with or why am I easy to get a long with he said "I donno, why ask me a question I don't know the answer too"
Richard: He has known me for 20 years and I am sure he is going to say no lol or unless you piss me off. "You can be but your extremely stubborn sometimes" was his response and when I asked what makes me easy to get along with me said "I didn't know that was a personality flaw" lol
So I guess I am easy to get along with for the most part!
Do you think your easy to get along with? What do you think your family would say about you?
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