<p>I asked some specific questions about FB linkage this afternoon – here’s the link: <a href=“While We Were Sleeping - Upgrade - #541 by notrichenough - Parent Cafe - College Confidential Forums”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/1609168-while-we-were-sleeping-upgrade-p37.html</a></p>
<p>My D works for Kaiser and I did also years ago. We both liked hearing that the Kaiser nurse was so completely on top of it. H says he has 4 patients H1N1 and pneumonia and is hospitalized. One had a flu shot and was still needed hospitalization.
Hope your B is doing Ok!
I had pneumonia when S was 18 months. I only figured it out because I had so rest before driving home from work. Of course 
H never believed or believes any of us were ill at any time until we were really in. Little D ended up in the hospital for 4 days the first time he did not believe me–after that I just did my Mom thing.</p>
<p>S called and is on his way to the ER with possibly another lung collapse. If he had listened to us he would have had his surgery 10 days ago and be well. grrrrr.</p>
<p>oregon101 – and a Kaiser in your state too! The son of one of our friends was hospitalized the same day as my brother with H1N1. …</p>
<p>Sorry to hear about your S, hope this all gets taken care of soon, for his sake and yours.</p>
<p>I simply hate this CC format. I know I was addicted but now I barely check at all. it is a problem on my I phone as I am not logged in.
I miss you guys and notice all of us are posting less and, quite frankly, less intimately.
I do no really care about the color (hate it but whatever) but I do think the simple idea that My thoughts could so easily be lifted (always could but took effort) and shared has freaked me out. A few years ago I Googled a phrase that I used here and sure enough it popped up. So I did learn this but it was also random.
Feeling as if these new changes are going to kill us:(.</p>
<p>S called but as I could not understand him asked for his wife. (all of 21) She got testy with me when I expressed H’s and my frustration that this could have been over 10 days ago. ALSO–nothing that we would say to them but S has cost the insurance company easily 4X’s what it needed to be.but he is 23 and H is retiring.</p>
<p>countingdown, first thank you for your link.
I did read a lot but came away without understanding if just anyone could lift my words EASILY (as I know that anyone could copy and post before) and post my words.
Many of us are not on FB but to think that any one’s post is up for grabs is upsetting.</p>
<p>^i think the ease and ubiquity of the fb post is the issue for me. I knew threads could be linked and relisted, and I knew that same was no more identifying than general posting to cc. However, the very nature of cc is DISCUSSION, not the commodification of discussion into bytes so I’ve always operated under the generally germane assumption that my comments would not circulate out of context.</p>
<p>My concern is that KIDS will not know better than to use a combination of fb integration and linking to their own comments and that those angsty or flaming comments will then live in a way via social media that will be easy enough to be surreptitiously tracked by HR software one day. And kids say a lot of unseasoned things on cc, from lying on fafsa to gaming admissions.</p>
<p>But this is unlikely to affect us in our conversation habits What it may affect is more likely how much helpful information I am likely to share with a kid, knowing they may not have the judgement to realize that reposting insight or examples I give them could indeed be identifying in certain circles like admissions, where I know some things via people I know, etc.</p>
<p>Good Lord, Oregon, I hope your son improves and fully recovers!</p>
<p>We had a gorgeous sunrise today. Snow is coming again. At least it warmed up a bit. I had a hawk in the back yard eating his squirrel yesterday, for over 2 hours. Yikes!</p>
<p>Oregon - how terrible. I hope he get’s better shortly.</p>
<p>I too am not thrilled with the facebook connection. Will make it more difficult in my mind to discuss some of the issues that we have in the past. This is NOT a step forward.</p>
<p>Went last night and bought me a new car and my husband a new truck. I’m feeling very poor today. I’ve been having lots of issues with my current car. It’s still under warranty and the dealership and auto maker have been behind it and have fixed it free of charge. It will be coming out of warranty this Nov. and based on the issue we have had we just wanted to get rid of it this year. I would have waited a bit but my H’s 1998 (yes I didn’t type that wrong. ) truck was having issues so it was “time”. </p>
<p>Hoping oregon S is doing well!</p>
<p>About 5 to 6 inches of snow this morning but warmer temps! 14 degrees right now. Just finished a walk with D1’s lab. The dog is having a very naughty day! She is so hyper and in to everything. Ran away from D1 when D was snowblowing. I took her for another walk to try and tire her out. At least I am tired! The plows have yet to be down our street so I am home for the day.</p>
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I so agree! Thanks for the link, counting down. Yes, anyone can cut and paste anything onto Facebook or anywhere else, but I don’t like the College Confidential avitar there with it when one uses the Facebook button.</p>
<p>kmc, congrats on the studio being finished. Oregon, so sorry your son is ill again. RM, congrats on the car and truck.</p>
<p>So glad the Kaiser nurse realized how serious the illness was. The “dial a doc” to which we have access is pathetic. A few yeas ago older D was a hair away from pneumonia because of the dial a doc’s treatment.</p>
<p>Forgive me one final rant about the high school musical in which younger D was not cast. This is the last weekend to see it so we all are going to suck it up and see the show tomorrow night. (One of D’s best friends has the lead, so she has to go.) This is a musical based on some children’s books (would say the name, but again, more fearful of identification.) I found out that a dozen of the cast members are middle school kids and at least another dozen more are short freshmen or are short for their age. D’s other friend who is also a choir diva was cast, but she is barely 5 feet tall. Poor D is 5’8". I think it’s fine to cast short HS kids because they are short, but my rant is filling a very significant part of the cast with middle school kids. What the heck? I can see casting one little boy to be Winthrop in Music Man, but a dozen?</p>
<p>Okay. Rant over, hopefully forever. I will put on my gracious face tomorrow night.</p>
<p>When I haven’t been able to find something in search on CC, I have been able to google a phrase that I do remember. Heck, that’s how I found CC in the first place – was looking for impressions of Harvey Mudd! </p>
<p>As for FB, I can only hope various extended family members have not gotten so sophisticated as to figure out how to sleuth me out. The likelihood that any of them even care drops significantly as our kids get older and move on. I have never posted anywhere what S1 makes in his job, which is the burning question among my sibs and dad these days. </p>
<p>Oregon, have been following your S’s travails with concern. S1 had a pneumothorax/collapsed lung in the fall for no apparent reason. He was also very thin (5"11", 125), but has been working on gaining weight.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone. DIL has called often. The problem is that the information keeps changing. First H and I understood that the surgery was to be Monday but then that turned out to be a consultation (like a few weeks ago when we thought we were there for the surgery). Now it is to be Tuesday afternoon. It is a long hard drive there but so far it is not suppose to rain so that is good. S seems to be doing ok and DIL is a take charge person. She told me that if I have any questions that she asked a lot of questions so probably would know the answer.
Evidently, as this is the 3rd since just before Christmas they think it is genetic and has to do with the blood supply.</p>
<p>CD-- did your S get a tube put in? S is about 5’10.5 ( I think) and 119lbs. </p>
<p>I had an interesting bout with some food poisoning this a.m. Fell in the bathroom and H found me and my BP was 55. I think it was the egg salad that I made at 1 am–had had an intuition but ignored it at ate a spoonful, Anyway, turned the corner at 2 and have wasted a perfectly good day doing nothing other than shopping on Zappos.
My BP meds are all screwy which why I think I crashed. Back end is sore from falling.</p>
<p>This FB think has got me. What if my DIL ever read any of the cathartic things I have shared with all of you?
Yikes. </p>
<p>MP take a small flask with you.</p>
<p>Gosh, I do need to purchase a flask. Does everyone else own one?</p>
<p>Oregon, your avitar makes me feel calm and happy (even without a flask). Horrible about the food poisoning! One of the worst feelings ever.</p>
<p>Edited to add: I love seeing “I do need to purchase a flask” next to my 50’s housewife avitar. </p>
<p>Best wishes for your son’s health, Oregon, and for you being not too sore and not too sick.</p>
<p>MP – I’ll add the casting to the “Why would you put on Guys and Dolls when girls outnumber the boys 3:1” list.</p>
<p>Oregon, they sent him to a pulmonologist, who ran a couple of tests (the names of which escape me) and said, “It happens.” I know there were no tubes or hospitalization involved. He started having trouble breathing on the way to work and the bus driver called an ambulance for him, much to his chagrin. Good thing he wasn’t riding his bike through the woods that am.</p>
<p>mp, yes! of course I have a flask:). But maybe a thermos would be a better disguise at a H.S…
Knew folks who would have it mixed in with a water bottle or coke can at events.</p>
<p>My avatar (so proud I figured out to do it) is from a hike we went on near here.</p>
<p>Sending healing mojo for your son, Oregon…and YOU. </p>
<p>Missy, I have a flask you can borrow. Just pop by to get it on your way to the play and I’ll top it up with some Glenmorangie
In fact, if its warmer in Texas than here, maybe I’ll pop by the play too and be an anonymous heckler :)</p>
<p>I’m sure we can get this quantum mechanics thing worked out so this fantastic instant travel notion can happen! That would come in particularly handy with the imminent move, let me tell you. Perhaps I should not be too quick to part with the flask!</p>
<p>Please explain the connection between tall skinny guys and pulmonary issues. Is it just with guys, or does it happen with women, too? Sorry if you did that before and I missed it.</p>
<p>I am doing this “Read Through the Bible” thing (of course, I am already 10 days behind, so reading in a year will likely stretch to two.) I recently reread the whole Joseph interpreting dreams scriptures, so the dream I had last night is fascinating me. I don’t remember the circumstance, but I was up in my bedroom with (a) a bear, (b) a baby, and (c) a pot of honey. We were all getting along great but I thought it would be fun to have the bear lick the honey from my hand whereupon he (of course) almost bit off my arm. I also gave the baby some honey and then when I returned said unidentified baby to its parents, I remembered the rule about not giving honey to babies but didn’t tell the parents that I had done so.</p>
<p>Other than that I’m stupid and dishonest and that our nursery was themed in Winnie the Pooh, what do think that means?</p>
<p>Too funny missy! I dreamed that I was at a lush resort in Africa that was being attacked because the President’s wife of that country was also staying there. I was trying to find a place to hide as the attackers didn’t want any witnesses and were planning on burning the entire resort. It was a very dark and gruesome dream! Wonder what that means!?</p>