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[indysteel]

Hugs to everyone dealing with work stress! Or any kind of stress for that matter.

In an effort to make lemonade from lemons, I just sent off some emails to one of supervisors and to my boss to offer some praise for my coworker's hard work this week. For one thing, the praise was deserved, but for another, it gave me an opportunity to focus on the good, rather than the bad and I hope it helps her do the same. Now I just need to relax and get my blood pressure down. I worked out over lunch and took out some aggression with the weights, but what I really need is yoga.

[indysteel]

Uh, what? I just yelled at my teenage neighbor and his friends. They had climbed onto their roof and were up on the second story roofline just hanging out for some reason. With five inches of slushy snow on the roof. Now, I lost a friend who fell from him roof while cleaning the gutters, so I'm hypersensitive to the danger, but just how stupid are these kids? They immediately promised to get down and I then watched as one by one, they realized that it's harder to climb up something slippery than it is to climb down. The last of the group was hanging on for dear life. Ugh.

[Dogmama]

My baby puppy (six years, 100 pounds) is getting a dental cleaning tomorrow. I hate it when they have to go under anesthesia...

[Dogmama]

Uh, what? I just yelled at my teenage neighbor and his friends. They had climbed onto their roof and were up on the second story roofline just hanging out for some reason. With five inches of slushy snow on the roof. Now, I lost a friend who fell from him roof while cleaning the gutters, so I'm hypersensitive to the danger, but just how stupid are these kids? They immediately promised to get down and I then watched as one by one, they realized that it's harder to climb up something slippery than it is to climb down. The last of the group was hanging on for dear life. Ugh.

Sorry for your loss - and good for you for caring!!!

[indysteel]

Thanks, Dogmama. It was a long time ago, but it was one of those freak and tragic accidents that really changed my behaviors. I won't get on a roof and generally won't let DH get on one either.

[Catrin]

Sorry IndySteel, that is certainly one of those things that has a permanent impact. I am terrified of heights myself but I have always been that way. Good for you, however, for speaking up to the kids. Hopefully after this they will think a second time before doing that again.

[shootingstar]

I worked in a hospital for spinal cord injured adults for awhile.

Some of them were permanently paralyzed after falling off a roof/heights.

A very popular hardworking local, cycling advocate became a quadriplegic, paralyzed from neck down. He was paragliding and crashed on a rock...

[OakLeaf]

Today on my run I encountered a roadie whom I'd seen from a distance several times before.

He's maybe a little older than I, always riding alone, has the look of someone who knows what he's doing on a road bike (decent cadence, sensible lane position and road choice, reasonably fitting bike and clothes), but he has a pretty big belly, like he'd maybe been off the bike for a while for whatever reason, and is getting back into it now.

Today it's very hot and windy, and I saw him up close at an intersection.

He had a cannula in his nose and a little portable oxygen concentrator in his jersey pocket.

If that guy isn't tough, I don't know who is.