<p>I was eating box mac and cheese and drinking beer when I was 18, ( oh… I sound like a college freshman :o ), so I suppose I don’t have a lot of room to talk but sometimes my D makes me sigh.</p>
<p>Growth happens when you do something that frightens you, so I must be growing a foot.</p>
<p>I haven’t seen D since end of Feb ( she is in India) and before she left she wanted me to get her another box of malaria medication, because the travel clinic had miscalculated how long she would be gone.
So since I wasn’t * exactly* sure where she was, I emailed her contact as well as herself to see where I could send it. ( I have spoken to her once, she seems happy).</p>
<p>She emails me back * Mommm* I can’t email you everyday! ( she has been gone twelve days, this is first time she has emailed me, but = every day :rolleyes: )
She adds that * they don’t have malaria here, so I have stopped taking the medication cause it makes me sick*</p>
<p>Alrighty then.
I just hope she doesn’t find out what sick feels like
( yes I am going to talk to the clinic)
:eek:</p>
<p>EMK - My D’s variation was “I can’t email you every day because there aren’t many internet connections here.” No malaria, but she did return with a minor bug that she freely shared with family members.</p>
<p>It is so hard when they KNOW, but they just don’t. Young friend said to her mother, with exasperation:" I don’t need a flu shot. I’ve already had the flu." (Not nearly so serious, I know.) And she hadn’t even really had The Flu, not that it would have mattered, just whatever illness, probably a gastrointestinal virus, that the kids were calling the flu.</p>
<p>This is usually when I resort to “Just humor me on this one, OK?”</p>
<p>Arrrggggghhhhh… I am so with you on this! One of my ds did the exact same thing in China a couple of years ago. If I could have gotten my hands on him…</p>
<p>Emeraldkity- I will be frustrated along with you.
My 21 yr old has been complaining all week about feeling sick. Made a Dr appt, I agreed to pay, she cancelled deciding she wasn’t sick enough. Was annoyed I was pushing her to go to the Dr. This was tuesday-fast forward to Thurs. She calls. Her chest really hurts, she has a cough, it is hard to walk up the stairs. She can’t find her peak flow meter easily and thinks it is lost. How do you lose a peak flow meter! It isn’t like it is an item your roommate borrows. I know she has one since I sent her a new one last month!
I can worry or I can accept the things I cannot change. If she reaches a point where breathing becomes to difficult she will go to the hospital. As the Mom I know it would be so much quicker and she would feel better faster if she went to the Dr. But I am learning to say it once. It is up to her to decide what to do with my advice. And I can vent my frustrations here on CC. Thank you!</p>
<p>The dust and pollution kills the buggers before they get a taste of humans.</p>
<p>It works for sunscreen pretty well too- at least in Ghana she came back as pale as when she left.
However- she just emailed me and wants me to send stuff for bug bites.
( I hope she bought a net)</p>
<p>mom60, ::::::::hug:::::::: thank goodness Ihavent’ had a nasty cold for a while, I have asthma too and sometimes it just goes right into your lungs and doesn’t go away.
If she is in a dorm, I would mention something to the RA, I used to talk to the RA, about my oldest- ( they were friends) and that way it isn’t you doing all the nagging.
;)</p>
<p>India- Mosquitos are there all year round- H found that out several years ago when he visited his home city one January. Ditto on the Indian drugstores- it would probably be a lot cheaper, also.</p>
<p>Having 2 parents for physicians doesn’t make a teenager any more healthy, sigh. At least son will email us when he is sick- otherwise our state must have a one way internet connection- from home to college, not the reverse (same thing with the US postal service speed- mail takes a day to reach him, weeks to come back). And being a physician doesn’t make a man more healthy either- knowing and doing are two different things.</p>