<p>Just check the class of 2010. Yes it seems foreign. But so important to those going through it.</p>
<p>Missypie, ain’t that the truth though. So few become bosom buddies with their first year roommates. He won’t really miss HIM, but his TV, well that’s another story! Is S in a double or a triple?</p>
<h1>theoryson is NOT feeling better today. If he does not feel on the upswing tomorrow I am going to TRY to make him see fit to go to Health Services again. Wish me luck on that. His B-day is coming up in just a few days. He’ll be 18. I hope he is better by then. Plus he is missing classes and the term is ending on the 15th! Damn, I wish I could just quit worrying. At least I do not feel I need to intervene. It really IS up to him now. All I can do is give advice…and worry…</h1>
<p>Talked to DS for the first time in about 2 weeks. (we’ve had bad luck with cell phone reception lately.)</p>
<p>All seems to be going well. He has pledged APO (co-ed service organization) and is very busy with various activities with this group. He likes the folks and volunteer service was a big part of his youth, so I was very happy to hear that he chose to join a service-oriented group. </p>
<p>He seems to be studying much more than I ever recall in HS, and says that his grades could be better… On the other hand he made a 99.5 on the first Physics test and a 91 on the first Latin test. He is very hard on himself.</p>
<p>Oh, and I forgot to ask if he ever figured out how to mail that letter.</p>
<p>Zetesis, ShawbridgeSon has a test scheduled on Sunday – there are several sections of the same intro course and the professors want to give the same test, so they are giving it on Sunday. I’d never heard of that. </p>
<p>I hope all of your sick ones are recovering including #theoryson. ShawbridgeSon reported a cold, but said yesterday was better than the day before. He actually caught it from his cousin when he was visiting over the weekend.</p>
<h1>tm, D had what I believe to be the flu a few weeks ago. She had one really terrible day, and then started to feel a bit better each day. Two weels later she still has a nagging cough. It’s so hard when they are sick!</h1>
<p>Stopped this morning to mail a package to my D. Feel bad that we aren’t going to be there for Parent’s weekend. I think the cost to mail it was almost more than the cost of everything inside. Course the thing weighed alot and wouldn’t fit into the priority boxes I had. She wanted a huge box of blowpops, huge box of ganola bars that she likes, shampoo and conditioner, cough drops, and halls vitamin c lozengers. I added some mail that had come a small note and some homemade chocolate chip cookies. Now most everthing that was in the box except for what I added she could have bought there I’m sure!!! The things we parents do… :)</p>
<p>Absolutely - D is bringing back her clothes that are dry clean only even though she could have found a dry cleaner close to campus. Since I don’t think I can find a place that is guaranteed to turn it around before she leaves on Tuesday I am going to try that Dryel do-it-yourself dry cleaning kit (better on her stuff than on mine lol)</p>
<p>…and of course she is making a BIG trip to Wegmans!!</p>
<p>She is recovering from flu symptoms (NOT H1N1) as well - she opted out of the meet today and I think she made the right choice. I am thawing a stewing chicken right now to make a big pot of soup!</p>
<p>re: things our kids want us to send, that we KNOW they could get at school: D insists we need to send her quarters because she has already used up all the ones we sent with her, making change for other people, and she insists that there is no where on campus to get change. so now it is MY fault that she can’t do laundry?! so I should pay postage to MAIL quarters?! so far I am holding out on this one…</p>
<p>Rachacha - when my daughter went shopping for clothes all senior year in hs I kept reminding her not to buy anything that needed to be handwashed or dry cleaned as she would not be taking it to college. Of course, as she’s packing she absolutely can’t go to school without all her favorites which just happen to need to be dry cleaned or handwashed! One of the first “to do” items on our list when we brought her out to school was to find a dry cleaners near the school! She’s brought stuff in twice already, hates having to do it, but loves wearing the clothes. It’s still relatively warm in Chicago, not sure about what she’ll do in the winter, but that’s her problem. I do see a trip to the dry cleaners over Thanksgiving and winter break!</p>
<p>I have autoimmune issues that make me react very badly to flu shots…but everyone else in my family gets one (plus they give them for free at work so almost everyone at work gets one) so I feel relatively safe.</p>
<p>Our office building put big hand sanitizer dispensers by all the entrances. D’s cheer gym makes them use hand sanitizer at the end of every practice. Wonder if all this is doing any good. Hope all the sick college kids get better soon…it’s mid-term time for many and how terrible to feel bad when it’s time to really study.</p>
<p>Son is in a double. He initially didn’t want a single, but now that he knows more people, he’d love it if he didn’t get a new roommate when/if the roomie moves out. I guess the roommate is talking about taking classes at the university that is extremely near his home, so I still don’t know what the deal is.</p>
<h1>Theorymom – Is theoryson taking an antiviral? Or does he generally avoid health care like the plague? (Re: visiting health services…)</h1>
<p>Don’t know if you’re into alternative approaches or not but if you are we’ve had good antiviral luck with colloidal silver PROVIDED it does not contain MSP (silver PROTEINS, which can cause the disease that turns you blue…same with salts or homemade, avoid those types like the plague). S. took it to Europe with him this summer on tour b/c his entire band was fighting H1N1 that had grounded the symphony (Air France didn’t let that group fly – they had all been at band camp together rehearsing before the tour : ) and they wouldn’t be stopping in any one place long enough to conveniently see a doc and you can’t get much OTC in Europe. He swears by it and also has it at his dorm. If you want more info about a brand that we’ve vetted heavily and where to get it, pm me. You could overnight it. Your call. Which is not to say more conventional approaches, like visiting HS, aren’t effective – just that some kids won’t go when they feel crappy. Some kids (like mine) are also wary about the accelerators used in pharma antivirals and vaccines - not sure where I stand on this but ultimately re: son’s choice of silver, if something works then it works.
Either way I am sending wishes for a “feeling better” trend.
Cheers,
K</p>
<p>I saw that blue guy on the Today Show. The possiblity of getting the “wrong kind” is enough to make me never consider it. Scary!!! (edited to add: It sounds like you’ve really done your homework. My fear would be to send my child some, then another time they decide to pick up some on their own and buy the wrong kind.)</p>
<p>To add to kmccrindle’s recommendation --Airborne. A dietary supplement that both my kids swear by. </p>
<p>Re: the quarters. Same deal with my D. I asked, can’t you put money on your ID card (Cavalier Advantage) and not have to worry about having quarters? Well of course you can! But it’s just so much better to have Mom send quarters! </p>
<p>She’ll be home this weekend for fall break so I’m anticipating mountains of laundry and dry cleaning.</p>
<p>K
hmmm turn you blue?
Where does one find the <em>right</em> kind?</p>
<p>Right now he has been instructed by me to drink lots of water. Hopefully because it was my instruction he has not decided to forego consumption of all beneficial liquids</p>
<p>Off the crutches and off the pain meds! Hooray! Got the ok to start light cycling on stationary bike on Monday. Couldn’t make D2’s OOS game today. Boo! Guess I am still high risk for blood clots with my history. The good news is both D1 and D2 will be home this weekend for a little bit. Will be nice to talk with both about how classes are going. D1 is busy with classes, internship and starting looking for a job! Told her to have a plan B just in case…grad school??? D2 is still noncommital about her progress at school. Hope to get more info.</p>
<p>Hope #theoryson feels better soon!</p>
<p>We just skip the quarters and deposit $$ on id card that gets swiped for laundry/meals/pizza/gas! Easy to deposit online and easy for D2 to spend at local grocery store/pizza place/gas station/ cafeteria/coffee shop. ;)</p>
<p>I am bound and determined to to get healthy! After being hobbled by this for most of the summer I don’t want to waste any more time. No bending or squatting but light cycling…not bad! :)</p>
<p>OMG, I’m starting to feel weepy for the first time since we took Son to school. Tonight is the homecoming football game. The school chorale always sings the national anthem at the game…of course, Son won’t be in it this year…maybe if they’re off pitch or something I won’t cry.</p>
<p>NM, great to hear that things are going well. </p>
<p>On the quarters, you guys are as usual way ahead of us. ShawbridgeSon dropped in last weekend and one of the things that he did was pick up old boxer shorts that would enable him to make it for another two weeks without having done any laundry while at college. Thus, he’ll be coming home for Columbus Day weekend with a laundry bag and suitcases full of all the clothes he has worn and feels need washing. The real question is whether he can make it through his entire college career without doing the wash.</p>
<p>oh, Missypie, I’m sorry you are sad. for me my first weepy moment was in synagogue last week on Yom Kippur, looking around at all the families with younger kids, and realizing that D1 wasn’t with us. there were a lot of sniffling moms nearby with class of 13 kids so at least I wasn’t alone. </p>
<p>NM - so glad you are back and feeling well, but don’t over do it. I’m sure you know what you are doing, but after my appendectomy 2 weeks ago I was so eager to get back to normal that I picked up my pace a little too fast and I paid a price.</p>
<p>PRJ,
High Holiday services this year were the worst! H and I recently moved from central Ohio to Chicago–and none of our 3 boys were home with us. S1 went to Boston with his wife to be with her family, S2 is in the Netherlands on a semester abroad, and S3 wanted to stay on campus/go to Hillel to meet more people.</p>
<p>H and I are from Chicago but we were away for 20 years…we have family here but we have chosen a different synogogue. We have reestablished some wonderful old friendships but it still feels so sad without the boys. Especially as we realize that the “old days” are gone forever…At least everyone except S2 will be here for Thanksgiving.</p>