<p>They have really would be better. Last year is when my youngest had a TBI.</p>
<p>Wow, PegV420. Hope s/he’s recovering well.</p>
<p>My worst: phone call at 3AM from DD studying abroad, “Mom, can you look up how to say “diarrhea” and “cramps” in Japanese?”</p>
<p>^^My daughter knows how to say diarrhea in Korean. Probably Japanese too since that is what she studies!</p>
<p>Our S called the other day & was asking insurance questions and said, “Oh yea, was rear-ended but got their info but now have bad headache from then through the next day & nausea.” Fortunately, he seems OK & did go to urgent care who checked him out.</p>
<p>Email from S1: “I drove on the autobahn and hit 200 km/h.”
Reply: “Are you trying to one-up your brother in the gray hair department?!”</p>
<p>That’s only 125 mph. You can relax. :)</p>
<p>not a phone call, but got a text earlier this week from D1: “How does one know if ones nose is broken?”. </p>
<p>something fell off her shelf and hit her. She was disappointed when I said there was really no first aid unless she was having problems breathing or blood was gushing for more than a few minutes.</p>
<p>Regarding the nose. Physician here. If the pain persists she should get it looked at. I didn’t when I was hit in the nose and decades later needed surgery for the problems that developed. My story involved playing in the touch football league for women medical students could participate in with undergrads at the nearby college (most of us knew nothing about the game). The other team didn’t show (all other games were losses) so we decided to “gang up” on our two man cheering section- got hit in the process. Ignored the pain, nose healed crookedly which caused narrow passages- mainly from enlarged turbinate on the opposite side so 25 years later…</p>
<p>I’m an EMT and saw her the next day (previously scheduled). It looked fine and didn’t hurt very much - just a slight bruise on the bridge. I think she was bored & looking for sympathy.</p>
<p>Text received last week: “I just ate something with mold and a maggot in it. Should I make myself throw up?”</p>
<p>Vitrac…did you text back: “penicillin and protein, you will be fine?”
Was he asleep, or was it a dare? Have to know.</p>
<p>I would have texted back: ‘why?’</p>
<p>As I was thinking about what the right answer was, she texted, “HURRY!!” I think maybe half asleep, definitely not on a dare. I told her not to induce vomiting on the theory of that which doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Oops, Vlines, forgot about about penicillin. Oh well.</p>
<p>I hope this wasn’t written from the dining hall.</p>
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<p>Made me laugh, Vitrac!!</p>
<p>The dining hall would’ve been bad enough. This is food that may have originated in the dining hall during a previous semester but until recently resided in D’s dorm room near, but not in, a refrigerator.</p>
<p>Funny how Vlines assumed my maggot eating kid was male!</p>
<p>Text received today from D in class:</p>
<p>“I can’t decide what’s worse: Waterboarding or Accounting”</p>
<p>I just saw that your maggot eating kid is your daughter! LOL …and I would agree with her about not knowing if waterboarding or accounting was worse! LOL</p>
<p>I am glad she lived through the maggots.</p>
<p>Thanks Vlines! Me too!</p>