<p>Thanks to the students on the GA Tech thread, I checked my son’s college email account when we got home from dinner - he has been selected as a semifinalist in the President’s Scholarship Program. We are very honored.</p>
<p>Looks like it’s Georgia Tech day! Congrats to all those students who got the good news - and their Parents!</p>
<p>Congrats to the new admits! I’m so happy for you and your kids!</p>
<p>I spent the middle of the night in the ER. We went to the Harry Potter midnight showing with my D and two friends. About the time the movie started, I got severe low back pain on my left side, and a similar pain in the front, same side. Didn’t take long before I was in so much pain I vomited. H rushed me to the ER halfway through the movie. Guess what, I have a kidney stone!</p>
<p>I got home about 5:30 a.m. this morning and have been in bed, doped up on pain pills and nausea pills. I throw up almost everything I eat. 
I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy! Doc said the CT scan showed it’s a 4 mm stone that looks like it will pass very soon. By very soon I hope they mean by tonight or tomorrow.</p>
<p>In admissions news, D finally got through to her EA school today to get her login and password for their online portal. She was annoyed that I had been bugging her every day to call. Sure enough, they’re missing something! It’s actually a mixup, they’re waiting on a transcript from a 3-week summer program that doesn’t have a transcript. So D emailed them and hopefully they’ll get that straightened out. Now we wonder if her ED school and the other app she sent is going to have the same issue, but she will have to wait till Monday to call them. Doesn’t she know by now, that MOMS KNOW BEST? I was nagging her to call for a reason!</p>
<p>oregonianmom, I’m so sorry–hope it passes very soon. </p>
<p>Congratulations on the various acceptances being received. I’m happy to have found a place where I can relate and there are people going through the same types of things I am. </p>
<p>We will be out of the country when D’s EA result comes in and she’s debating whether she will check, risking being upset and in a bad mood for the rest of our trip or wait until we get home which won’t be until January 1. There’s no way I could wait! Still, D in a bad mood in close quarters…not a good thing.</p>
<p>As I mentioned earlier, after difficulty in getting the transcript up to one of ShawD’s two first choice schools (both in Canada) that required a couple of phone calls during the school day that thus had to be made by me, I got a call telling me that ShawD’s transcript had been received (after a month) and that an offer letter was being sent. ShawD was not excited, which struck me as odd except that she hates being surprised and hates being disappointed. I figured that she didn’t want to get excited and disappointed. just acted as if it wasn’t real. So, she And given the US-Canada mail situation, I emailed the person who’d called me and asked if she’d email a copy of the letter to ShawD (given the problems we’d had with the mail). She did and ShawD was absolutely elated. </p>
<p>Life is good. Last weekend, ShawD performed in the musical Chicago, gave her talk to her whole school (a lovely ritual at her small-ish private HS in which the kids talk about whatever they’ve learned, who they are, struggles they’ve had, or whatever they want to talk about), and was admitted to the one of her two first choice schools – the only school she’s applied to. She handed in two papers that she’d gotten extensions on because of the play and she’s agreed to complete the application to her other first choice school. Then tonight her best friend’s family is taking her to a Bob Dylan concert. Lots of her senior year angst will be gone (though somewas eliminated by her decision to apply to schools in Canada).</p>
<p>OMom - ouch. My H had a stone once, it wasn’t fun. I hope yours passes quickly.</p>
<p>Shawbridge…BIG Congrats to your D!!</p>
<p>Omom…yikes and ouch! I hope you are feeling better soon.</p>
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I don’t understand why our kids don’t get this yet when we have proven it to them time after time. We hope you feel better real soon. One of my earliest memories is of my mom being brought down the steps of our house on a stretcher screaming. I later found out her screaming was as much due to being on the stretcher downhill as the pain from the kidney stone. Too bad it isn’t a diamond!</p>
<p>Congrats to ShawD on the play and the admit.</p>
<p>PHB and Shawbridge: Congrats to your kids! I love signing on and seeing good news.</p>
<p>OMom: I hope you feel better soon.</p>
<p>Haven’t been on for a few days – busy w/ my mom and S1 (driving to his college interviews and prepping him a little for them) but love to return to hear everyone’s news. Congrats to all the acceptances. It was great to read that kids have already heard from their very top choices! FlMM, best wishes to your son for the scholarship. Fingers are crossed.
OM, my mom had gall stones a couple of years ago and I’ve never seen anyone in so much pain. Hope this too shall pass soon!</p>
<p>Re: SAT scores. We sent out the scores to his 5 early apps but I wasn’t planning to send the rest until Tuesday after we see his score on his SATII math 2 exam. Hopefully these will make it to the other schools by Jan 1 or thereabout. It’s too bad that I have to spend that money now and can’t wait until Dec 15 to hear from his ED/EA schools but that’s just the way CB has it set up – a real money-making machine. In this day you would think that 2 weeks would be sufficient to send something either electronically or by snail mail but I guess that’s expecting too much :/</p>
<p>Congrats to ShawD!</p>
<p>OMom, +++++++++ your ordeal is over quickly and you are back on your feet soon. </p>
<p>If I missed admits - congrats to all!</p>
<p>FLMathMom, how exciting! Congrats on the Georgia Tech scholarship news. How was eating dinner “out” on your new eating plan? Sometimes I have trouble finding (or committing to) healthy stuff when I have a menu in front of me. :)</p>
<p>O-Mom, omg!!! Not what you bargained for at a midnight HP movie, huh? I’m so sorry…I have friends who’ve suffered kidney stones and I know it is excruciating. I hope you’re feeling much better very soon. Please let us know how you’re doing.</p>
<p>HUGE congrats to ShawD! What a week!!! May she have many more like this one.</p>
<p>S picked up the mail today and being the obsessive person I am I hovered while he looked through it. I asked him if he got any acceptances today and he shook his head no and walked away. I picked up the bundle and started going through it and there was a big letter with Congratulations on it! How he missed it I don’t know. So he got second acceptance today to Pitt. No mention of scholarship info though. I hope that comes separately.</p>
<p>mamom, I giggled at that. How can our kids, who are so intelligent, can sometimes not see what’s right in front of them?! Congrats on the acceptance!</p>
<p>I’m doing OK. The percocet is keeping my pain at bay, but the stone hasn’t passed yet. I haven’t vomited since early last night, so that’s a plus.</p>
<p>Gosh, oregonianmom, I hope you feel better soon and that this hasn’t affected any Thanksgiving travel plans. How awful for you.</p>
<p>Congratulations on acceptances to Pitt, GA Tech, and others. Stress levels must be going down.</p>
<p>ShawD tried completing her application to school number 2 and the system, which has just been revamped is now down for maintenance. There’s always tomorrow.</p>
<p>Yes, I can appreciate the “please pause for technical difficulties” experience - ouch! That happened to us this week, too.</p>
<p>There’s always tomorrow, but tomorrow so often has rehearsals or homework or fun or just not being in the mood! Around our house I say to myself, there’s always next week …</p>
<p>mamom-sounds like something my D would do!!</p>
<p>Congrats to all the acceptance holders! And Mr. DD, that’s a good one. Big news around here is the hs football team played semi-finals last night and won in 2nd OT! Band halftime show was dedicated to the drum major who passed with everyone wearing ribbons and the band director spoke. So now, the band gets to do a final halftime performance at states at Giant’s stadium.</p>