Guest guest Posted July 7, 1999 Report Share Posted July 7, 1999 what a shame. how could she end that informative article with such an ignorant suggestion for tx? and DEFINITIVE blood test??? does anyone know how to write to this woman? i REALLY want to know what this test is. could it be she knows something no one else in the entire lyme community (including LLMD) does not know? thanks for sharing. peace, kay massachusetts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 13, 1999 Report Share Posted July 13, 1999 A nation of disabled citizens?? Hmm, maybe it should include a large portion of the docs that get paid off by the HMO's to say that there is no such thing as Lyme Disease. Just a thought. Biddle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 13, 1999 Report Share Posted July 13, 1999 In a message dated 99-07-13 01:53:30 EDT, you write: << From: McDermott <pattymcd@...> Message: 16 Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 13:52:34 -0400 From: " J & M McCoy " <mlmccoy@...> Subject: Re: Dangerous Pest of Suburbs Is More and More at Home >I was stunned this morning when I read something on the Lyme >newsgroup that indicated that the tick need NOT feed on deer or >> Patti. Where in land do you live? I live in Laurel.. your area seem really unusually infested. elizabeth md Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 13, 1999 Report Share Posted July 13, 1999 Hi Patty, >From: McDermott <pattymcd@...> > >I wonder about it too, Marta, but if we can pass it on to newborns, >it does make sense. Here's something to think about. Suppose an >UNinfected tick feeds off of someone who has Lyme - does the tick >become infected? Can it then transmit it to it's next victim? >The whole thing is very scary and someone better start taking it >very seriously before we have an entire nation of disabled citizens! Yes, I guess that can happen too.......If the buggers weren't so damned small, it would be neat if someone could do a documentary on " A day in the life of a tick " They could follow one around with cameras and see what havoc they cause. > > >I'm afraid it's could well be true, Marta. Maybe this used to be >the habitat for ticks, but with so many this year, I fear that has >changed. I say that because at least two of the " crawling " ticks >Skip has found on himself fell from trees. He felt something hit >him from above, felt around, and there they were - both times. >I'm not saying this is true everywhere, but the trees are raining >ticks here at my home. Arrrrrrrgh! Yes, the more I think about this, the more feasible it appears. Birds carry ticks, birds land in trees, ticks drop off birds, ticks mate in trees, lay millions of eggs, eggs hatch and grow, ticks fall out of tree seeking host......Yuuuuccck....Tell Skip I said to carry an umbrella sprayed with Deet when out in the yard.... Sounds like a Twilight Zone episode to me. Hugs, Marta (NJ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 30, 2002 Report Share Posted November 30, 2002 This is a great article, in my opinion, because it helps me to know that my decision IS the right one (not vaxing), and I would love to live in a community such as ASHON ISLAND, WA. too! Funny how they (who wrote the article) stress what the Pertussis DISEASE can do, but not what its like to have an Autistic, ADD/ADHD child, or even a dead child, from giving them the VACCINATIONS for this disease and any others. They mention it, but that is ALL they do - mention it. I know that its horrible (Pertussis) cause I remember little Chaela going through it, and talking to Amy on the phone and hearing the fears and regrets in her voice, etc. and the " what-ifs " . It was HORRIBLE but Chaela has a very strong and BRAVE mommy, and she got through it, even as a BABY!! I envy Amy for what she has dealt with, and for her strength to not give in and vaccinate her children, after dealing with Pertussis.....In my OPINION - If a parent can deal with Pertussis, and have the strength to get through it and still not vaccinate that child, then they can deal with almost anything! (I feel the same way about DCF too....if you can deal with them, and beat em at their own game, then you can do anything) But the same fears and regrets, (of vaccinating for these diseases and a permanent vaccine-reaction or even death occuring as a result, or of NOT vaccinating and having to watch your baby suffer through Pertussis, turning blue, breaking ribs, and the whole 9-yards) will always be something that I, and many many other non-vaxing parents, will always have to live with I guess - because sometimes you cant win either way, no matter what you do. We all just have to think POSITIVE, as hard as it may be, and know that just because you DONT VAX, it doesnt mean your child or your baby WILL get a " vax-preventable " disease.....instead we have to tell ourselves that we ARE doing what is best for our baby or our children, by keeping them toxin-free for starters, and not deliberately placing them in danger, and that the benefits of not vaxing exceeds any potential benefits OF vaxing. Is there more chances of them contracting the disease, or more chances of them developing an adverse effect, no matter how common, from the shots? This is the easiest way for ME anyway, and everytime I tell myself this, I feel more confident than I did before, and feel PROUD of myself for what I am doing for my children! (especially after the HELL they have endured this year and the emotional ABUSE from the FL baby snatchers!) I just try and live my life day to day, and continue, and will always continue, to educate and inform myself on a daily basis, will stay prepared, and just deal with things as they happen, if they DO happen to us.....that is all we can do right? After fighting a battle for 6 months, with the DCF monsters that stole my children away just because I tried to save my baby from dying, I feel that I can take on ANYONE and ANY DISEASE...ANYTIME. And PRO-VAX articles cannot, and will not, ever scare me and make me even QUESTION my non-vax decision - ANYMORE!! I have more strength inside me now, than I have ever had before, which is a good thing that came out of all the tragedy in my life, this year alone. Not only were my kids taken, and my baby could have died, but I have endured 2 deaths in my family (and first time I've ever had to experience a family death before) just in the last couple weeks or so, but I also am dealing with " Inattentive-ADHD " and " Depression " , and a son who is " GIFTED with ADHD-combined Type " and ODD (Oppositional Defiant Disorder) CAUSED FROM BOTH OF US BEING VACCINATED!! I know its a vaccine-reaction, in my heart, even if its never proven......so I am dealing with all this crap, PLUS the regrets of being in denial and for thinking that I was one of the " lucky ones " and my child, and myself, DIDNT have a vaccine adverse effect - when in fact we DID. This is another reason I feel strongly about my decision NOT to vax my 2 year old baby girl. Me, my son, my mother, and my cousin, all have Neurological disorders - and I know its caused by the shots, even though the " experts " say its something you are born with! (the ADHD) Anyway, great article Amy....thanks for sharing, and hope you will keep in touch with me too! I havent even remotely caught up with all my vaccination digests, so I have no idea as to what has been going on in here lately, because of the deaths in the family, but I just got online and happened to click on the most recent digest to see whats up, and there was your post, so I wanted to reply about it, and say hello to you as well so HELLLOOOOOO!! Hugs, Ronda from FL. http://communities.msn.com/VaccinationInformation http://www.geocities.com/zaynablair/Zaynaspage.html http://benatarfanclub.com http://www.cpswatch.com, http://www.fightcps.com http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/vaccine.htm http://www.whale.to http://www.vaccinationnews.com NY TIMES Article When Parents Say No to Child Vaccinations By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. ASHON ISLAND, Wash. — Kate Packard, the school nurse here, has a nightmare she sums up in five words: " measles coming across the water. " If measles did make the 20-minute ferry ride across Puget Sound from Seattle — hardly unthinkable, since a case occurred last year near a ferry terminal in West Seattle — public health officers say the whole Vashon Island school district could be shut down until the island's last case disappeared or an emergency vaccination drive took effect.Advertisement <A HREF= " http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/N2958.NYTimes/B1051241.75;abr=!ie4;abr=!ie5\ ;sz=300x250;ord=2002.11.30.14.11.33? " >Alt Text</A> Eighteen percent of Vashon Island's 1,600 primary school students have legally opted out of vaccination against childhood diseases, including polio, measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, hepatitis B and chicken pox. The island is a counterculture haven where therapies like homeopathy and acupuncture are popular, and where some cite health problems among neighbors' children that they attribute to vaccinations. Most families opting out of vaccination here have obtained " philosophical exemptions " from normal vaccination requirements — exemptions that in Washington and several other states, including California and Colorado, can be claimed simply by signing a school form.Across the country, about 1 percent of all children are exempt from vaccination, said Dr. Walter A. Orenstein, director of the National Immunization Program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The agency's surveys suggest that more than 90 percent of all American children have had most shots, except for the new chicken-pox vaccine.But from Vashon Island to Boulder, Colo., to towns in Missouri and Massachusetts, there are " hot spots " where many children go unprotected. In a 1999 survey, 11 states reported increases in exemptions.Clusters of unvaccinated children are not only in potential danger themselves, health officials say, but are also a threat to the " herd immunity " that walls out epidemics, sheltering fetuses, infants too young to be immunized, old people with weakened immune systems and even vaccinated classmates who remain at risk because no vaccine is 100 percent effective.When only a few parents use " herd immunity " to let their children escape the small risks of vaccination, the system still works.But health officials become concerned in states like California, where it is easier for a parent to sign the waiver form than to have a child vaccinated. " People take the path of least resistance, " said A. Salmon, a vaccination expert at the s Hopkins School of Public Health. " What I do to my child can put other children at risk. " In 1989-90, measles broke out among unimmunized immigrant children in Southern California, causing 43,000 cases and 101 deaths.Vaccine resisters cite an array of reasons. " Sometimes it's distrust in government, feeling it's in bed with the vaccine industry and `everyone's making money off our kids,' " Mr. Salmon said. Sometimes the objections are religious, as among Christian Scientists and some Amish congregations. Sometimes a community is scared when a child is truly harmed by side effects; the live polio vaccine, for example, is thought to cause about eight deaths a year.Some parents are upset at the sheer number of injections a child must get — usually about 20 by age 2. Others are convinced — despite evidence to the contrary — that vaccines are highly likely to cause severe health problems, like seizures and autism.Here on Vashon Island, a community of 10,000, word spread quickly when the 10-month-old baby of Gail O'Grady, a midwife who also works at Minglement Natural Foods, died unexpectedly in his crib in 1984 two weeks after his first immunization; when Pam Beck's daughter suffered four years of seizures that began minutes after her first whooping-cough shot; when Soriano's son, , developed autism after tetanus and polio vaccinations.Some doctors they consulted disagreed, but all three mothers were sure vaccines were to blame., Ms. Soriano said, changed from " a bright-eyed, happy, beautiful kid " to a severely autistic 4-year-old who " lived curled up in a ball, screaming and screaming and screaming. " She says she has nearly cured him by removing milk and glutens from his diet.Public health specialists suggest that the resistance to vaccines is a consequence of the success of vaccinations: People, they say, no longer fear diseases they have never seen. " I remember how the fear of polio changed our lives — not going to the swimming pool in summer, not going to the movies, not getting involved with crowds, " said Dr. P. Rothstein, 60, a Pennsylvania pediatrician who helps the American Academy of Pediatrics make immunization recommendations. " I remember pictures of wards full of iron lungs, hundreds in a room, with kids who couldn't breathe in them. It affected daily life more than AIDS does today. " Now, with the rare side effects of the live vaccine, " there's a risk of about eight kids a year dying, so people don't want to be vaccinated, " he said, adding, " When polio was around, people gladly took that risk. " Rubella, Dr. Rothstein went on, " is, for the most part, a nothing disease " — the reason to keep vaccinating against it is to protect fetuses. " In the 1960's, " he said, " 50,000 to 60,000 babies were born with small heads, or deaf, or blind or with cataracts " because their pregnant mothers had been exposed to rubella.All 50 states allow medical exemptions for children who are immuno-compromised or allergic to vaccines; 47 states — all but Arkansas, Mississippi and West Virginia — allow religious exemptions; and 17 allow personal or philosophical ones. But how many children receive the exemptions depends partly on how much red tape is involved, a study in the American Journal of Public Health found. In states where parents must go to a state office for exemption forms, get their signatures notarized or produce letters from a religious authority, exemption rates tend to be lower.The only states with exemption rates greater than 2 percent, the disease center said, are Michigan, Washington and Wisconsin.Still, health officials say that in recent years public sentiment has often run against vaccination. The news media publicize stories of autism, seizures and crib death that followed vaccination. More than a dozen Internet sites specialize in describing the dangers of vaccines.Vashon Island is both a commuters' haven served by high-speed ferries to Seattle and a home to the counterculture — a place where the telephone company's garage features a mural of a Frisbee-catching dog. Millionaires have shore homes while the self-named Rainbow People live in tents in the woods.In interviews, parents who have signed forms to exempt their children from vaccination appeared to be educated, attuned to their children's health and full of opinions about vaccines, though some cited " facts " that the disease center disputes. Most parents mixed unconventional therapies like homeopathy, acupuncture and chiropractic, and conventional medicines like antibiotics and painkillers, Most said they were suspicious of the vaccine industry. " I consider well-baby care to be a capitalist plot, " am Steffen, a mother of four said only half-kidding.If anyone would seem to be a living argument for tetanus vaccination, it is Camille Borst, 25. When she was 12, she stepped on a nail. Her mother, who opposes vaccination, did not take her to a hospital until her foot was so inflamed she could not stand on it. But Ms. Borst says proudly that she has not immunized her own children, Deven, 9, or Casper, 4.Her mother, Adrienne Forest, 47, who is home-schooling her grandchildren in a neat, shingled mobile home in a clearing of fir and alder trees, said she was sorry she let the hospital give Camille other vaccines. " It was a moment of weakness, " she said. The nurses who angrily told her that Camille could have died " totally freaked me out, " she said.From 1995 to 1999, said Ms. Packard, the school nurse, an epidemic here of whooping cough, which can be fatal in infants, hospitalized some infants and left some children with chronic asthma. Ms. Forest's grandson Deven had whooping cough two years ago and, she conceded, probably passed the disease to 10 other children, including an infant. " Yeah, that bothered me, " Ms. Forest said. " But I called everybody and we studied up on what you can do to build up the immune system. " The baby " did just fine, " she said. " On Vashon Island, you have middle-class people who eat healthy and keep warm. If everyone was poor-poor, not breast-fed, not eating right — that might be a reason to vaccinate. " But she and her daughter remain steadfastly opposed.Meg White, 45, though, now somewhat regrets not vaccinating. Three years ago, her whole family, including her infant son n, had whooping cough " really, really bad " for more than three months. " My son would turn all shades of purple, " she said. " He stopped breathing several times and we took him to the hospital. My daughter was terrified of going to sleep because then it got worse. She would vomit all over the place. My husband cracked ribs from coughing. " Now, Ms. White said, she would advise other mothers to vaccinate against whooping cough, polio and tetanus, but only with the newest vaccines. She still has not vaccinated n, now 3, against measles, mumps, rubella or chicken pox.n is in nursery school at Puddlestompers, whose director, Tressa Aspiri, also changed her mind about not vaccinating after her older children got whooping cough.She makes no recommendations to parents when they fill out the school's vaccination form, she said, though she feels that vaccines are safer than they were when her children were born in the mid-1980's. " I still feel strongly that it's the parents' choice, " Ms. Aspiri said. AMY MOMMY TO 4 KIDDIES Chelsea 10 Carrigian 6 5 Chaela Noelle 20 mo When you know better. You do better..Maya Angelo <A HREF= " http://www.theforgotten.com/vaccines " >Did you know</A> <A HREF= " http://hometown.aol.com/chevy974/myhomepagebaby.html " >The Haskett bunch</A> <A HREF= " http://babiesonline.com/babies/c/chaela/ " >Chaela, born 12/22/2000</A> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 11, 2003 Report Share Posted November 11, 2003 I am from one of the rural Kansas districts that has been doing this for years. When Kaitlyn was in preschool, there were more role model children than kids with IEP's. It was really great. She had 12 in her class, a teacher, 3 paras, and a speech path in the classroom. Back then role models were all teachers kids. By the time my son Grant got into the program there were more IEP kids but still a good ratio. However, the other parents in the community had heard of the program and complained that only teachers kids got to be role models, so they opened it up to everyone with a big lottery to determine what role models get in. Teachers were really ticked about this. But really, it is everyone's tax dollar paying for it so they should have an opportunity to receive the benefit also. It really is a great program for everyone. It is also nice because the preschoolers are in a school building and atmosphere like what they will experience in kindergarten so the transition is that much easier. All the kids in the program, IEP or not, get bus rides here which is nice. Preschool has been the best part of special ed that I have experienced so far. I wish we could make that formula work all the way through high school somehow. Darcy NY Times Article OK. This didn't come through the first time... Kathy, Liam's mom( 5) Very Special Ed November 9, 2003 By SUSAN BRENNA Far beyond the boundaries of this scrubby, sandy shore town, word is out about the public preschool here, and about how good it is supposed to be. Donna Grygiel, a former kindergarten teacher, moved her family out of their North Brunswick home and into her mother-in-law's house in Brick Township so her daughters could attend the school -- or at least have a shot at attending. Svetlana and Dmitri Mushkarova, a graphic designer and carpenter who moved from Brooklyn to Brick for a greener life and better schools, inspected 20 private preschools. But they pinned their hopes on their 3-year-old, Katya, coming out a winner in the annual lottery for spots in the public preschool. ''We never thought we would make it,'' Mr. Mushkarova, a Russian immigrant, says over tea in the kitchen of his modest town house. ''It's the best thing that ever happened to us.'' Katya, who speaks only Russian, has just told him an English word for something she saw growing in the school garden: ''watermelon.'' It's ''Miss W'' week in her classroom, and Katya, who has learned many W-words, is practicing how to sign a W with three fingers. Then she makes what her teacher, Miss Sue, calls a ''fish face'' with rounded lips and huffs, ''Wha! Wha!'' The free Brick Community Primary Learning Center sits behind the mud-brown facade of a strip shopping center just off the Garden State Parkway. Mothers in flip-flops, who drop off their children before rushing to sales jobs at places like Pier 1, radiate the earthy opposite of exclusivity. Yet the hubbub and anxiety that surrounds the question of who gets in, and who doesn't, would feel queasily familiar to many Park Avenue families. Four tots vie for every preschool opening in Brick. To accommodate the maximum number, the school day has been compressed into a breathless two hours, so that three classes can cycle through each room in the course of a day. Even aside from the attraction of free preschool, ''it's worth it for the curriculum they cover,'' says Ms. Grygiel, whose 6-year-old attended the school but whose 4-year-old washed out in the lottery (after they had bought their own home). This is a moment of transition for American preschools. Parents, educators and politicians are focusing on how, in a world of escalating academic expectations, young children should be prepared to become grade-school scholars. In Congress, in state legislatures and in school board meetings, questions on the table include who needs to be in preschool, how much tots should concentrate on literacy and counting as well as purposeful playing, and how students should be evaluated. Because preschool remains voluntary, parents play a decisive role in shaping this universe, by choosing whether and where their children attend. When parents go searching for a quality preschool, they are advised by experts to seek a low ratio of children to teachers, a stable and reasonably well-paid staff that doesn't keep quitting, individualized teaching and small-group activities. They're also told that the curriculum must help children develop socially and emotionally as well as intellectually. Most important is a qualified teacher who can do it all -- help 4-year-olds become readers, attentive learners and junior diplomats -- and that generally means a teacher who has at least a four-year degree. In America's patchwork of private, public and community preschools and day care centers, such teachers are the exception rather than the rule. But all those qualities can currently be found in an unexpected place: public preschool classrooms like Brick's, which are actually designed for the benefit of special education students but invite children of typical abilities to attend. Here, teachers are highly qualified, instruction is individualized, and both social and cognitive development get their due. Responding to the demands of the Bush administration's No Child Left Behind law, with its emphasis on having every child demonstrate fluency in reading and math, as well as local demands to prep children for academic kindergarten study, teachers at Brick work letters and numbers into every session. But they also encourage children to play, and to try the kind of social experimenting that preschool experts fear is getting squeezed out of some programs. Here, teachers are specifically required to nurture social skills by the individualized education plans of some of their disabled students. Brick is one of the rare school districts in the United States to adopt this practice of ''reverse mainstreaming,'' which allows districts to meet federal directives to provide disabled 3- and 4-year-olds with schooling in the least restrictive possible setting. In each class of 18, 6 children are classified as disabled, most with speech delays or other speech problems. In Brick, in many parts of Connecticut and in more rural states like Kansas, children of typical abilities are placed in these classes to serve as language and behavioral models. Of course, the reality in reverse mainstreaming classrooms is blurrier than that. In (Miss Sue) Suzanne Piszar's class in the Brick school, one tall 4-year-old is the verbal star. The first to call out the answer to every question, he is also a ''bus rider,'' which is how teachers refer to the disabled children who get free yellow bus transportation. The typical children like Katya, who win places through a lottery, are called ''walkers'' because their parents must get them to school. More than half a million children ages 3 to 5 received special education services in 2002, and federal officials expect that number to grow as toddlers are diagnosed at an earlier age. School districts meet the requirements in many ways, including paying tuition for disabled children to attend private preschools and providing services at home. A federal count found fewer than 9,000 disabled young children to be in reverse mainstreaming classes in 2002 (though the number is probably more, as districts are not required to report that they use the method). Brick Township officials say they consider the approach to be both cost effective and educationally sound. In reverse mainstreaming classes, teachers point out that walkers have an opportunity to develop the social agility that is critical to later school success. ''When the typical children are trying to engage with some of the children with disabilities, they're thinking, 'How am I going to play with him, what would he like?''' says Synodi, coordinator of preschool special education for Connecticut. But that is a minor factor in what makes these programs so popular among parents whose children have no diagnosed disabilities. In suburban Waterford, Conn., school officials post witnesses when toddlers' names are pulled from a paper bag, to provide assurance that no favors go to ''the child of a doctor or the mayor,'' says Rick DeMatto, Waterford's director of personnel and special services. In Kansas, according to Marnie , who coordinates preschool special education services for the state, some districts dangle slots in reverse mainstreaming preschools for the children of new teachers as a recruitment tool. ''The classroom is just so rich,'' says W. Barnett, who directs the National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers University. Mr. Barnett believes these classes can serve as models for states that are writing or refining guidelines for what, and how, young children should be learning. His institute is studying Brick's lottery winners and comparing them to those children who applied but were not randomly admitted to determine which benefits middle-class children gain from a high-quality preschool experience. ''There's a belief that special education has this box of tricks for teaching that no one else has access to,'' Mr. DeMatto says. ''What special education is is a very individualized education that looks at a child from many points of view, delivered by a team in a familiar and supportive environment. Parents sense that their kids are getting more of that attention in these classrooms and that it's more intense.'' Ann Ceres, Brick Township's assistant superintendent for elementary education, says her teachers ''know how to use different strategies and techniques to teach different children in different ways.'' She adds: ''Our aspirations are to have children who are classified as special education meet all the requirements for kindergarten in a mainstream class. So our standards are high for every student.'' But there is another issue here, one that resonates with President Bush's recent demands for Head Start and other preschool programs to place greater emphasis on letters, numbers and reading. Particularly in schools like Brick's, where preschoolers and kindergartners are all in one building, teachers at the two levels tend to work together to tailor their teaching to what children are expected to know. Teachers here say kindergartners are expected to be able to write their names in the first week of school, to understand how a book is read, to know the alphabet, numbers, shapes and colors, and to independently follow a sequence of directions. DMITRI MUSHKAROVA says he is impressed by the projects Katya brings home every day, as well as the daily note from her teacher, Mrs. Piszar, enumerating that day's activities. ''They keep the children so busy, and that's good,'' Mr. Mushkarova says. ''In Russian schools, there is no multiple choice. You can't guess, you have to study. I want her to learn this. I have figured out the secret to America, which is to finish school and go to college, and then you have everything.'' He and Svetlana found out about the preschool lottery from the Brick municipal clerk who issued their beach passes. They read in a child-rearing book that for 3-year-olds, there should be one teacher for every six children. At Brick, each class of 18 has a teacher and 2 paraprofessionals, who often split the class into groups of six, all doing different activities. They are joined intermittently by other teachers. On a September day, the science specialist brings a green swallowtail caterpillar on a native Jersey milkweed plant for the children in Alisa Sternberg's class to examine. Speech teachers, occupational therapists and English-as-a-second-language specialists all pass through these classrooms, including Impellizeri, who makes friends with Katya by speaking the few words she knows in Polish, which have a familiar sound to Katya's ear. All the students -- bus riders and walkers -- are included in the group lessons designed around the bus riders' needs. They trace letters in shaving cream to help children with sensory deprivation, and practice fine motor skills by picking up pompoms with tweezers. While Katya's father is impressed by the ambitious pace of instruction, Katya, at the beginning of the school year, seems to be in a state of saucer-eyed shock. She sits in a circle of students on the rug while Miss Sue coaxes children to ''use your words to say, 'I'm here.' ''Much time is devoted to singing the days of the week and counting the days of the month. ''Will we go outside?'' one boy interrupts. ''Yes,'' Mrs. Piszar answers, ''but I can't think about outside now because I have to think about Miss W.'' Then the tall 4-year-old wants a drink, so Miss Sue decides everyone will visit the classroom water fountain and practice pushing the button. Katya, though, goes to her backpack and takes out her water bottle. ''Put it in the backpack, Kate,'' her teacher says, pointing to Katya's Hello Kitty bag. ''Put it in the backpack. Put it in the backpack.'' Mrs. Piszar explains that a paraprofessional taught her that she could get most preschoolers to comply without raising her voice by using the broken record technique. Few can stand to hear directions for a fourth time. True to her prediction, Katya puts away her water, and wanders over to the kitchen corner. The class then splits into groups. While Miss Sue assesses the state of her students' motor skills by having them trace, then cut, then paste a handle on a construction paper watering can, a paraprofessional works on short-term memory. She has children match pictures of clothes they have just seen in a book called ''What Would Mr. Bear Wear?'' with pictures on their bingo cards. Katya points to one and, with a bright smile, announces ''poncho.'' Miss Sue looked over in surprise -- the word she caught on to was ''poncho''? Snack time brings its own challenges when the children try to open their drink cartons. Ms. Sternberg tells her class to ''pinch your fingers like lobsters.'' Finally, for the last 15 minutes, the children are released to the playground. Several girls immediately run to the ''talking tubes,'' while Katya busies herself opening and closing the shutters of a playhouse. ''Occupational therapists will tell you that the best thing you can do for children this age is to let them play outside, and some of them with working parents don't get much chance,'' Mrs. Piszar says. Just beyond the playground fence is the school garden planted in eight color plots -- yellow sunflowers, orange pumpkins, red tomatoes. Ms. Sternberg has run out of time before she can take her class weeding. The color lesson will have to wait for tomorrow. Brenna is a freelance journalist who writes frequently about education. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/09/edlife/1109BRT.html?ex=1069565938 & ei=1 & en=aba585727e5d0e86 --------------------------------- Get Home Delivery of The New York Times Newspaper. 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Guest guest Posted January 2, 2004 Report Share Posted January 2, 2004 Sometimes a doctor might reccomend laminectomies for us, but it seems that a revision specialist would not recommend it, in my experience: I have Harrington rods and flatback, and at the bottom of my fusion, stenosis in L4-L5. A couple of Neurosurgeons I consulted (before I knew how specialized the problem was) wanted to do laminectomy at L4- L5 to free up the nerves, but when I later consulted some real revision surgeons, they said it would be very dangerous, weakening my spine at exactly the place where it takes the most stress (below the 9 fusions). Removing bone from a vertebra probably always weakens the spine; ---maybe the argument in the article is that removing a small amount in a healthy person wouldn't be dangerous, but that is quite different from doing it with flatbackers. Jackie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 20, 2006 Report Share Posted March 20, 2006 Hi Everybody. The attached was sent to me by a friend. He doesn't have HEP C that I'm aware of, just a nice guy that that thinks of others. Antone else read this? Any comments? Deliman Note: forwarded message attached. Use Photomail to share photos without annoying attachments. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/19/opinion/19crichton.html?_r=1 & th & emc=th & oref=slogin Del you should see if you can read that article. in part it says: " The entire genome of the hepatitis C virus is owned by a biotech company. Royalty costs now influence the direction of research in basic diseases, and often even the testing for diseases. Such barriers to medical testing and research are not in the public interest. Do you want to be told by your doctor, " Oh, nobody studies your disease any more because the owner of the gene/enzyme/correlation has made it too expensive to do research? " I wonder if that's why medicine for things like Hep C and diabetes is so expensive. Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 20, 2006 Report Share Posted March 20, 2006 Havent read this but nothing anymore surprised me...Everything has a damn price!!...and really the price is everyones lives, not their bank accounts!!!!!..errrrr Fwd: NY times article Hi Everybody. The attached was sent to me by a friend. He doesn't have HEP C that I'm aware of, just a nice guy that that thinks of others. Antone else read this? Any comments? Deliman Note: forwarded message attached. Use Photomail to share photos without annoying attachments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 20, 2006 Report Share Posted March 20, 2006 Sounds like your out of the hospital Del.I hope you are doing ok.Fill us in so we know how you are.Take care. Gail Fwd: NY times article Hi Everybody. The attached was sent to me by a friend. He doesn't have HEP C that I'm aware of, just a nice guy that that thinks of others. Antone else read this? Any comments? Deliman Note: forwarded message attached. Use Photomail to share photos without annoying attachments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 9, 2007 Report Share Posted May 9, 2007 The link did not work for me. Anyone else? Karyn Sharon <huie@...> wrote: This link is to an article in the New York Times, about the efforts many parents are making to reach parents whom have received the news of Down Syndrome prenatally. www.nytimes.com/2007/05/09/us/09down.html?pagewanted=1 & _r=1 Sharon H. Mom to , (15, DS) and , (11) South Carolina " Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle. " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 18, 2010 Report Share Posted January 18, 2010 Yes I read this and it is great I even replyed to there thread. Co-Moderator Phil > From: k0cm <Randy@...> > Subject: NY Times Article > > Date: Sunday, January 17, 2010, 10:58 PM > I highly recommend this NY Times > article: > > http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/magazine/17antiaging-t.html > > Randy Hoops > Springfield, MO > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 21, 2010 Report Share Posted June 21, 2010 Thanks for sharing this Laurie, wow is all I can say. H. NY Times article FYI, this is long, with hundreds of comments, but worthwhile reading if you're nterested in thinking about the costs of special education and what goals are eally important as our kids age out. It's a fairly bleak article, so read at our own risk! The comments are fascinating, too, and for the most part, very rticulate on both sides. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/education/20donovan.html?emc=eta1 L. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 22, 2010 Report Share Posted July 22, 2010 Here's an article from the NY Times. Note the mention of toxic mold, all the way at the bottom. It's mentioned almost as an aside, even though the person had no health problems before moving into the apartment with the mold and nothing helped him until he moved out. * http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/20/for-a-celiac-sufferer-a-new-mystery-ill\ ness/?emc=eta1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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