When my baby was born last year, I started him out in the bassinet. He was a big baby, breastfed, and a constant eater. My husband took a couple of days off but then went back to work. He slept in the guest bedroom while I took care of the baby in our bedroom. Well it wasn’t long before I was cosleeping with my baby (now 1yo) because of convienence. I didn’t have any family or friends around to help (as we just moved) and I was the one up with him day and night. My husband travels a lot and could not be there to help as much as we would have liked. Ok, so then I started reading more and more about attachment parenting and cosleeping, etc. etc. And I truly thought I was doing what was best for our whole family because we were all getting decent (not perfect) sleep. Well, my baby is STILL in my bed, nursing every 2 hours out of habit, and my husband is STILL in the guest bedroom (I know a lot of ppl are going to assume I made a huge mistake and I am a bad mother, but please be kind in your answers and don’t assume judgement on me b/c everyone has a different home life and what’s best for some isn’t always best for all.) Anyway, I’ve read the No Cry Sleep Solution and tried that. The problem now is my baby nurses and gets off, but seems to be a habit every time he stirs for him to nurse.. Please help me! I would like for him to sleep a longer stretch (perhaps 5 or 6 hours) AND sleep in his own crib. When he falls asleep, I try to gently move him to the crib but he wakes and cries. I don’t object to some crying now that he is older, but he is a very light sleeper, very strong-willed, active little boy. Any advice for me? I am not looking for a lecture about why cosleeping is horribly wrong. I wouldn’t change anything I’ve done except maybe give him longer periods to sleep in his crib alone sometimes.
I am 35 years old. My dentist recommended I have wisdom teeth removed. I originally went in because I got a piece of food stuck in my gum and got an infection there, and during the visit to have that infection checked the dentist blamed it on wisdom teeth and said they would cause nothing but problems in the future and recommended they be removed. (Note: Months earlier I was seeing another dentist who said my bottom wisdom teeth were not posing any problems and that they didn’t need removed.)
I chose to follow my dentist’s advice and proceed with wisdom tooth removal. It was scheduled for the following month with an Oral Surgeon who would come to the office to perform surgery.
Neither my Dentist nor the Oral Surgeon ever discussed with me the risks of the surgery.
During the surgery the first tooth on the right came out fairly easily with some drilling and pulling. On the left side however he was struggling and really pushing down hard with the drill. I raised my hand to ask him to stop for a minute as I felt a pain. I mumbled to him that I could feel some pain and he said he would explain that in a minute. He proceeded to drill and when the surgery was finished he asked the nurse to call in my husband so he could speak to us both.
He explained that he severed a nerve during the surgery because it sat close to my tooth and actually went through my tooth so he had to cut it to remove tooth. He told us since the nerve was severed and not just damaged the numbness and loss of feeling could be permanent. He showed us where the nerve was on the X-Ray and showed us the tooth and where the nerve had gone through it and he said he was glad he could actually produce that tooth as evidence as many patients blame the surgeon for damaging nerves but in his case he was able to show the tooth with a hole where the root was.
My problem is, if he could see the nerve on the X-Ray shouldn’t he discuss the risks and potential complications prior to the surgery and also during the surgery when he encountered the nerve in the tooth should he have stopped to ask me whether I wanted to proceed knowing this could cause permanent damage? The Surgeon also said in all his 20 years he had never run across this. This leads me to believe he did not have the proper details or protocol on how to proceed in such a case.
I now have no feeling in left bottom lip and left side of my chin. I also have numbness in portions of my gums and a pins and needles and or stabbing burning pain in bottom middle teeth. My mouth and lips are exhausted when speaking as one side is compensating for the other. It feels as though I have had a stroke. I am spilling things down my chin and clothes as I cannot feel lip and chin and therefore not able to sense if food or drink is going into my mouth properly. I have lost sleep, missed work, and am mentally drained and devastated as I am a trainer and work with the public teaching makeup to various stores and employees and also doing makeup. My mouth is 90% of my job as I am always speaking, talking, smiling….
I have also had to live on vicodin as a result of this surgery to numb pain caused from the complication.
He let us go saying he would call a few colleagues to get some advice on how to proceed. He called and gave me a number a few days later to schedule a surgery consultation with a specialist 6-7 hours away from me to try and repair the nerve he severed. The surgery was not guaranteed to work and he was not able to nail down the percentage chance it would work, he said. I cannot afford to travel and pay out of pocket insurance expenenses and travel, loss of work and also my research shows the surgery could cause further damage.
Please help me. I cannot regain feeling, but I should not suffer without compensation for permanent damage to my mouth and the mental/emotional damage it costs me now for the rest of my life due to this mistake.
My name is Ellen and I’m trying to fundraise to volunteer abroad through Cross-Cultural Solutions in Africa.
Yes, I realize this may seem a little desperate but I’m trying anywhere I can!
I’m located in Saint Louis, where I’m pursuing my master’s degree in Nursing.
I’ve volunteered for Nurses for Newborns, Saint Louis Crisis Nursery, and the Alzheimer’s Association, as well as participated in Washington University’s S.T.A.T.S program and shadowed two major surgeries at Saint Mary’s Hospital.
I’ve applied for grants through Travel for Good by travelocity and VFPServ, but those are very very competitive and I’m running out of time.
If you can spare 50 cents, even, to help me pay for the trip I would greatly appreciate it!
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1) A train heads south out of Bloomington an hour after a northbound train leaves Bloomington. The northbound train travels 63 mph, while the southbound train travels at a rate of 57 mph. How long will each train have traveled when the trains are 243 miles apart.
2) A common antiseptic in the United States is 2% iodine solution. A nurse has two solutions that she wants to mix to make the requiered 2% solution. One of her solutions is 0.5% iodine, and the other is 4% iodine. How many kilograms of the 4% solution should mix with 1 kilogram of the 0.5% solution to produce the requiered mix?
Thank you
1) A train heads south out of Bloomington an hour after a northbound train leaves Bloomington. The northbound train travels 63 mph, while the southbound train travels at a rate of 57 mph. How long will each train have traveled when the trains are 243 miles apart.
2) A common antiseptic in the United States is 2% iodine solution. A nurse has two solutions that she wants to mix to make the requiered 2% solution. One of her solutions is 0.5% iodine, and the other is 4% iodine. How many kilograms of the 4% solution should mix with 1 kilogram of the 0.5% solution to produce the requiered mix?
Thank you.