The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by amysue:

Thanks for this.

My son recently had chicken pox. It wasn't fun, but because he had been immunized it was a mild case and not a big deal. He is 10. Why do I even mention this? My son also has a serious blood disorder, if he had gotten a full blown case of the chicken pox things might have been, in fact likely would have been a lot more serious.

If enough people stop immunizing their children we will not only see more infant and childhood mortality, but adults like myself with serious health issues will be further at risk.

Anyway, thanks again for writing this.

So glad you called the paramedics straight away and hope you recover soon and completely. Be well.

Honestly?, she had me at the conflation of "Jew" , "Black" and "commie"...you just can't make this shit up.

An this is what we have to look forward to. If Clinton or Obama become president (and please God one of them does) than we will spend the next 4 years watching the right spend huge amounts of money and time "proving" that there is an evil conspiracy against the American way of life or some such nonsense.

My biggest fear is the right will do everything it can, and in many ways succeed in keeping a Democratic president from getting any good work done.

Thanks for the list, but I was wondering about those of us who use meds (in this case insulin, lantus, symlin) that need to be injected and temp controlled. Insurance being what it is, I never have much of a surplus on hand and if the power goes out and it is either summer or winter I risk spoiling the meds anyway. I can live without the lantus and symlin if I have to and use the rapid insulin more frequently and in higher doses. Of course, that assumes I don't run out of test strips or the meter doesn't die. And then there is the danger of lows.

I have always assumed that in the case of a long term serious disruption of services and supplies my diabetes will simply be uncontrolled.

That said, I plan to put together the urban (or suburban in my case) kits for work and home and to have stuff in the car as well.

As always, great post.

I recently had to go to the hospital via a rig because I couldn't get myself to wake up much and was getting increasingly sweaty, dizzy and I suppose anxious (not sure if that's what I'd call it-I sure knew something was up and I was able to check my glucose which was ok). It turned out that my BP as very, very low and I was very, very dehydrated with an infection I was unaware of. I felt so stupid calling 911 (at my docs insistence) but in retrospect it was the right thing.

I do have a sort of related question. I'm on Cape Cod for the summer and one of our favorite beach areas had an accident recently where a young man dove into water too shallow and was stunned and then felt some paralysis. Folks who happened to be at the scene immobilized him in the water and wouldn't let anyone move him until the paramedics came and apparently they did the right thing. I'm not sure of the outcome, the injury was pretty serious. Wouldn't the water add to his problems? I was just curious.

I will say that as a result of your past writings when I bike, hike, canoe etc with the kids this summer I bring more emergency stuff than I use to. It's stood me in good stead when minor injury occurs and when my glucose suddenly crashes. I like dealing with stuff BEFORE it's an issue I need to bother a professional with!

Sigh. Well, I guess I can wait. Maybe. There is a book coming out next week I need to read with the kids, maybe you could publish it right after that?

I think I've posted this before. Rt 16 in NH. Drunk driver crosses to our side of the road. I swerve to avoid and hit and then flip over guard rail and just before completing flip hit something and bounce back. I am driving and seatbelted. 2.5 year (this was a decade ago) old is in car seat in back. Husband is belted next to her. We all walk away (we have a few minor ouches, but not a scratch on the kid). The car is totaled.

No one gets driven in my car who isn't properly restrained.

Oh no. I am so saddened to hear this and my heart aches for what Alexandra must be enduring. Except for the occasional bumping into over the years most of our contact was in the GEnie days but two sweeter people I can't imagine.

May his memory be for a blessing.

Instantly. Which rather frightens me.

Last year when we were helping my mom move out of the home she'd lived in for 45 years (and the home I grew up in),my husband was appalled to discover a small journal I kept,writing in Elvish of course. He was even more shocked by my cache of Paul Williams albums. Somehow we weathered the storm.

#6-Thank you Alex for letting us know. We're members and that sounds interesting.

Poor Ezra didn't like bad weather it seems but there was much rejoicing in our home this morning. Snow Day!

Oh and one further silly FBoFW thing:

The fire? Given recent posts on safety, etc. the last few months it was somewhat distressing to see a family comic strip advocate leaving one's wife and small children in a bedroom filling up with smoke (they were getting dressed warmly before exiting through a fire escape) to race up, presumably through flames to the attic where his precious manuscript and laptop lay. A few days later we're told he needed to be rescued by firefighters (he passed out from smoke inhalation) and Mom made it to the escape after dressing and carrying two children, some blankets and the scrapbooks.

Is it me? We have taught our kids that you hear the alarm and you leave first, ask questions later and no the birds can't come. You certainly don't stop to get dressed, collect belongings etc when the house is in flames.

FBoFW, sadly has seen better days. Lately it's just fun to snark on it, but reading it is like watching a train wreck. The artwork has suffered, the plots are laughable (and not in a good way) and most distressingly the characters no longer behave in a manner consistent with how they were originally portrayed.

That said, it's the author's work and her characters and I guess she can do as she likes with them.

Molly Ivins was one of the only people I have ever actually "hero worshipped". I was lucky enough to hear her speak several years ago and it was SRO and every word she spoke was truth. She'll be missed. She is missed.

Words fail me. What a thing to see early on a Sunday morning. Love the 'pornstaches though.

I never liked disco and never paid it much attention..or so I thought. Our temple is rehearsing now for it's Purim Spiel and this year it's a disco version. I am frightened by how many of the songs I actually managed to somehow learn despite paying no attention. I will be humiliating myself with a solo during our pastiche of 'Macho Man' (Menchy Man, I kid you not.) And yet, for all the cheeseiness our production will have, I still think it will be head and tails over this bizarre find.

Now don't go telling people about this new-fangled googly thing. It makes me look so good at work. I overhear a teacher wishing they had information about "x" and moments later I place it in their hands unasked for. They think I'm smart. I think I've just bought myself a little more peace and quiet for the sock knitting that takes up much of my down time these days.

As for talking to PNH about Theresa, that's just silly but I see that every day here in the burbs. Everyone has to check everything with the husband. Now, I get that in a relationship it helps to let each other know some things, but I will never, ever get why you need to check with your husband when asked about stem-cell research.

My husband's pet peeve are people who praise him for "baby sitting" his children while I am somewhere else. He tries hard not to rant but sometimes can't help it.

#112: Hey and to swing this back to Blue Moon Fiber Arts, they've got a great "retro" tube sock kit.

Oh and I currently have nearly six miles of unknit sock yarn. I thought this was scary, but Miss Violet, further up this thread, has far, far more it appears as do many sock knitters out there.

#82: It's ok, you're amoung friends. Although I must say that while I am with you on the dpns and the tiny sizes, I prefer bamboo (it's much less slippery). That said, I am making the fair isle STR socks with the bobbles and bobbling with size 0 bamboo dpns is a little disconcerting, although I haven't broken any yet.

(lost my previous response)

Love BMFA. Love the sock club and was able to resend the money by Friday.

My minivan and laptop sport the bumpersticker: Don't Come Knockin If Your Socks Ain't Rockin! During synagogue board meetings I occasionally get confused glances. Of course, last June I ordered a t shirt for Knit in Public Day from a wonderful online knit blogger, Franklin. Instead of bearing the name of the town I am in, it bore the name of the synagogue. I tied-dyed it hot pink and ever since I have managed to decrease the number of glares I get for sock knitting during board meetings. Or maybe the other board members are just scared...

Theresa: My recent offer of a skein of STR stands. You don't have to knit socks with it...

Happy 2007 and thank you for hosting such a wonderful blog.

We've no special plans for the day. There will be lounging about, reading, knitting and at some point I will cook a brisket. The kids will spend the last day of their vacation in an orgy of computer/hand held gaming device and tv use. It's possible we will drag ourselves out of the house and over to visit friends but mostly we're slothy.

One could easily look at abortion through this lens of privledge. I remember that during a family discussion around the time Roe v Wade was passed one of my older relatives pointed out that if you had money and the right connections it was always possible to "take care of that problem" in a safe hospital setting. I'm tired of hypocrisy and the Cheney pregnancy, the umpteen recent Republican and right wing outings all reek of it.
I am completely empathetic to closeted people of any type, life is complicated and we all make hard choices. However, when you start actively condemning your fellow citizens for the same behaviors/life style/choices you indulge than all bets are off.

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