In my medical transcription studies, I have come across a few things.

For example, in the surgical procedure portion of a report, it's common to see certain agents introduced to various body parts... those agents being things such as lidocaine, Xylocaine, Marcaine, etc.

Tonight, however, I had to type this sentence:

"The patient's nose was then packed with cocaine."

Of course it was! Unless you're bringing drugs across the border, where else are you going to put it?



Don't mind me--I am easily amused.

Well, I've never posted before, but realized that joining some sort of support group would probably help me at this point. I'll sum things up a bit. I'm 25 years old, I have been having problems with constant diarrhea and pain for about a year now. The stubborn person I am never went to the gastroenterologist as was advised by my primary care doctor. October 5th I got very sick and was in the bathroom (needless to say at work) about 10 times within an hour and a half. Before I was finally able to leave work I started passing blood and began to realize, oh, this may not be good. I was finally able to leave work and went to the bathroom another 5 or 6 times before (which was straight blood) I went to the emergency room that night. UGH! Frustration! I was in the ER a couple hours and they never did a rectal exam, no CT scan, NOTHING! Oh, besides give me compazine which was suppose to be for the abdominal pain, which only ended up giving me an adverse reaction which made me panic. The symptoms never went away, but they released me anyway, diagnosing me with internal hemmorhoids. GARBAGE! I was back in the ER the following day and they noticed my colon was extremely inflamed. They put me on Flagyl and gave me some darvocet for the pain. I went and saw the GI doc the next day, he wanted a scope done immediately... That was the following day after that... So they found inflammation, obviously... alright, this is getting lengthy. Anyways. My doctor now has me on about 6700mg of Colozal and 40 mg of prednisone. I've now been on the meds for about 2 months, well, almost. I have to admit that I have gotten a little better, i'm definitely not having to run to the restroom as much as i needed to before. My doctor has diagnosed me with Crohn's, so when I say recently new to Crohn's, it's recent... I'm looking for any insight that I can get at this point. Prednisone is by far the worst drug for my personality and my life, I cannot stand it, and it also makes me feel like i'm going to have a heart attack everyday. I had to call an ambulance the other day because I really felt like i was going to pass out and kept thinking I was going to die. The paramedics did my vitals and my blood pressure was sky rocketed and my heart rate was 140. The doctor in the ER said this is all normal and I would basically just have to deal with it. I have been trying to take probiotics and eat organic foods to try to help my symptoms and the way I feel, so that maybe I will be able to get myself off the steroids. Has anyone tried taking probiotics? Can you notice a difference? Thanks to anyone that is reading this. I am aware it's extremely long. I appreciate anyone that is willing to help at this point. I'm trying to stay positive with this recent diagnosis, although sometimes it's too hard...

thanks!!!

The style of this community has just been changed. Apparently, we can't customize our own colors, though I'm not sure why. I can change the style itself if the colors are a problem, but I can't change just the font or just the background color. If you have any commentary, please comment here or email us at the community mailbox, asperger.community@gmail.com.

We now have the option, incidentally, of making a Links List. If anybody has any suggestions, again, you can comment about it or email the community mailbox.

Some people suggested that they might like to try tagging a *few* past entries, so long as they know there's an end in sight. I just checked, and as this community has been around 10 years (wow!) that makes a lot of sense. If you would like to tag some entries, I would suggest that you first take a look at the existing tags so you have a general feel for how they're used. (I know there's some overlap, and there are also subjects that come up often enough that the tags don't cover.)

After thinking it over, I think the best plan is for anybody who wishes to volunteer to help us tag all these entries to take a month at a time. You can take as many or as few months as you wish, and go from the top down or the bottom up, whichever you prefer. Just comment if you decide to tag a month so other people know not to take that one. (And thanks so much to anybody who helps do this. I already know it's going to take a long time and be a lot of work, so even a tiny bit of help is appreciated!) If you see a subject that doesn't have a tag and you think it needs a tag, either because it is an important subject or because it comes up frequently, please contact us either in a comment to this post or though the community mailbox to suggest it, and we'll add it if necessary. At the moment, only maintainers can create tags. Other members can tag entries in the community, but only with tags that already exist. (This way we don't have to worry about people making typos, or about having a tag for "add" and another one for "attention deficit disorder" and a third for "adhd" and one more for "add/adhd".)

Not every entry does need to be tagged - if none applies, feel free to ignore it and move onto a new entry.

( Months to be tagged )

Thank you everybody for your understanding, and, again, you can always contact us with any comments, criticism, or suggestions.

...if you look more like a drowning victim than a swimmer when you're trying to do anything other than the "doggy paddle" or "frog kick."

There's a new SCA list created a few minutes ago over on Yahoo Groups. Inter-Kingdom, everyone welcome. (I'm not the list owner, just wanted to let people know.)

Link: SCA Recipes

Description from the group sign up page: "This is not meant to replace any existing cooking lists. This group is for recipes of all kinds, but emphasis on recipes for dishes that can be cooked on site, or cooked beforehand and refrigerated/frozen, then reheated on site. This is NOT a medieval recipes group, although period recipes are certainly welcome, as are all non-SCA recipes!"


In service..

We had a very nice weekend. I'm very content. I shall write about it tomorrow.

I hate all of the stuff leading up to Christmas. I don't think these holidays were invented for introverts or people with asperger's at all.
First of all, I work at Macy's for the holidays, which is already a bad job for introverts as there's Christmas songs played 300 times a day, the same songs over and over. Noisy customers asking questions (I am starting to hate North Face jackets because yesterday alone I had to go up the stairs 7 times just to fetch a jacket of the right size and type. Which meant diving into a tight corridor of jackets)
I swear I want to go into a corner, take down all of the jackets, make a nest and HIDE under them with my MP3 player, but I think they would not like that very much and I need to have some sort of job, but in the future I would like to be a writer so that no one bothers me every five seconds and I could be quiet and content.
Plus working on Saturday or on sales days is the WORSE thing ever.
Crowds! Gum popping! Swarms of people bouncing off each other like pinballs. I can't stand it!
Plus the bells jingling makes my teeth feel like it's being scraped by tiny cold needles.
I can't wait for the holidays to be over. At least when Christmas is over I can finally have peace and quiet and no more Frosty, no more Rudolf. No more walking in a winter wonderland.
Christmas itself is not too bad. Especially when I get to either hang out with my friend's family or go to the movies and see 2 different kind of movies there.

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood episode 35:


LMAO. So. It begins. Me shipping Miles/Kimblee like a lunatic, I mean.


SO MOE~~~

He came up to me this morning. "Guess what, Mom? Sam's birthday is right by yours. It's December 23. And I already know what I want to get her."

Being a Christmas baby myself, I reflexively started with, "Just don't do a birthday/Christmas present, and don't wrap her birthday present in--"

"I know, Mom. No red, no green. I figured I'd wrap it in blue, since that's her favorite color."

Good boy!!

"Want to know what I'm getting her?"

"Sure."

"I figured for her birthday, I saw this crystal necklace at the mall that has bubbles and etchings that make it look like a birthday cake is inside and it says 'Happy Birthday.' For Christmas, I was thinking a teddy bear."

"Good ideas!" I told him, and then I added, "And you can wrap the teddy bear in red and green, if that's for Christmas."

"I know, I know." He smiled at me and left, because he's going to do the mallrat thing with her today.



For the record, he finally shaved his face.

I'm sorry if I'm blind, but I looked all over for help!

1. How can I remove the link from my subject? You can't see my subject because my links are the same color as the subject background. I just want the subject to be regular text, not a clickable link.

2. Currently, the subject and date are on the same line. How can I make it so one is aligned to the left, and one is aligned at the right? I tried using float: right/left but it isn't working.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

So I've been in a writing mood recently and I am finally going to get on the ball and start writing all those stories and ideas in my head. unfortunately, the stories calling the loudest happen to be fanfic, so I am writing those first. Over the next few weeks, in fact before the New Year I want to have all my fanfic idea stories posted and have worked on some of my ficcy fic stories so all the scenes in my head will be on paper or on screen. i will worry about editing and putting the story together later, if i just focus on writing them now.

If anyone is interested in reading my crack!fic my fanfiction.net handle is GypsyKylara. I warn you know though, the fanfiction that's on there and that will be on there is Life With Derek, Princess Diaries, iCarly, and Tamora Pierce's Protector of the Small series. Those are the main focuses. If I really get into, I will finish my 2 HP fic ideas and possily even write my david Eddings fic. I also now really want to write Dollhouse Bennett and Topher fic, but...we'll see.

I'm writing it down here so now it's in print and I have to do it.

Connor came through the house, looking to get to the kitchen to make himself an omelet.

And something caught my eye.

Holy, cow, the kid is sprouting a 'stache. It's kinda hard to see here, because it's a mixture of peach fuzz and dark facial hair, but if you look, you can see.



He was not happy that I took this picture. He's got the emo-teen-angsty-embarrassment-thang about puberty going on...

I remember the kid that had no qualms at 4 years old running through the house nekkid as a jaybird.

Where in the world has the time gone?

We were awake before sunrise, the alarm ringing at our bedside. On any other morning, I would have slapped it off, possibly knocking it to the floor. Morning is not morning unless there is some light in the sky and on this morning, there was none. It was too early to be alive.

There would be nothing of the sort today, though. Shortly after the alarm began to bray incessantly, a light came on in another part of the house. I heard the slippered feet of my mother-in-law padding towards our bedroom door. There was a knock before it slipped open, letting light from the hallway spill into the room. It was not our room, not anymore, but it had served as such for the last two evenings.

"It's time," she said in a quiet, but commanding voice. "You should both shower."

My husband grunted in the bed next to me as I swung my legs over the side. "Wake me when you're done," he said, rolling back over into the cocoon of warmth that the blankets had offered us. "I'll be up in a minute."

"That's not fair," I complained weakly. "I'm the one that should get to sleep in longer."

"You're the one that takes longer to shower," he replied, his voice already drifting hazily back towards sleep. "You'll thank me later."

I supposed that I would, I thought to myself as I lumbered out of bed. My ankles were swollen under a weight that they were not accustomed to carrying and, as such, cried out as I stood. Grimacing at the pins and needles that coursed through the bottoms of my feet, I carried myself gingerly to the bathroom down the hall. Today would be a long day.

Under the glaring lights of the bathroom, I disrobed and examined my nude body in the mirror. In my sleep-addled mind, I reflected that this could possibly be the last time I gazed upon this form of my body. I did not know for certain if we would attempt another child, so I carefully took stock of the very pregnant image staring back at me. I no longer felt "glowing," the term so many people had complimented me with during the mid-stages of gestation. Instead, I felt large. I felt full. I felt heavy.

Yet, I realized, I could stay in this shape a little bit longer and remain content. So many people had asked me, their number growing in the most recent weeks, if I was ready to "get that baby out of there," to quote their oft-used term. I am an honest person, so my answer almost always shocked them. "No," I would reply. "I'm not." I did not mind feeling large, full and heavy. I could've done without the summer's heat wave of 100-degree temperatures which had only exacerbated my swollen ankles, but I could have remained in this skin for awhile longer. I truly enjoyed the act of carrying my child.

Out of the shower, I examined myself once again. Stretch marks had creased their way across my stomach despite my best efforts to curtail them with cocoa butter and vitamin E. I traced along them with my fingertips, feeling the bulge of this yet unknown creature beneath them. A child was there, inside of me, and I marveled at that. Inside of me, I was sustaining life. That's quite a thing to realize, you know?

Sometime later, I slipped my hand into my husband's as the nurse led us down a corridor. The seamlessness of our union and the familiar roughness of his grasp lent brevity to the moment. The doorway to the delivery room felt as if like a linoleum precipice.

Outside, the sun began its ascent above the horizon.

I love going to parties that are exclusively women. Like we are sneaking out & doing forbidden things. Things like fruity cocktails, 8 salads on the buffet & 56 deserts!

Some googling and testing revealed the following undocumented XML-RPC methods, which expose a number of nice functions from the client side.

All are in the LJ.XMLRPC namespace of course:

getfriendspage
sendmessage
setmessageread
getinbox
addcomments

These were gleaned from: code.livejournal.org/trac/livejournal/browser/trunk/cgi-bin/ljprotocol.pl

It seems only paid users can call addcomments.
This codebase is over a year old, it looks like they aren't using that repository. I believe there may be other methods. The iPhone app developercosysoftware_en some upcoming functionalities in his app that don't seem available from these methods. He claims to have gotten LJ to extend the XML-RPC interface, but won't disclose what these new functions might be.

The LJ support is useless. Is there another way to contact LJ devs? Anyone with XML-RPC client should implore LJ to update their documentation.

New site up and running and I'm to the point of editing the main index page. On the page it says to reference this


You'll want to customize this page. Read the instructions at http://www.livejournal.com/doc/server/lj.customize.index.html for help.


to update the page. The only thing I see that might relate in there is the section about updating a language file.

Should I update it the normal way by creating it in my CVS local directory and syncing it over, or is there a different method for site pages like the main index?