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[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Yes, the Kim story is incredibly sad.


Well, for the past 2 weeks DH has had a terrible cold and HUGE cough. HIs cough has been keeping both of us up every night. I've been making him tea, sympathy, etc, all the while counting my blessings for not getting it.
Well, I got it. After my freezing ride this morning, I got slammed with sore throat, cough, fever, shivering, headache, earache- the works.
DH put me to bed and put lots of blankets on. Later, I got up and had a LONG shower as hot as I could stand it. That really helped, along with some aspirin.
Back to bed, then later still had some of the fresh veggie stew I made yesterday, plus some tea. Now DH is out getting some "emergency" rice pudding for us both. He's still sick, and he had a powerful craving for rice pudding today. Comfort food...yum! I told him to get FOUR tubs so we could each "own" two and eat freely with no fighting over it.
I feel AWFUL, but the rice will definitely help.

[mimitabby]

tubs of rice pudding? Bath tubs?
that sounds kind of an exotic way to feed your cold. you know? or is it feed your fever?
I hope you and Jennifer get better soon.
all these people getting sick! ak. don't you love the internet? We can talk to each other and be perfectly miserable and all the others can see is our nice avatars.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

tubs of rice pudding? Bath tubs?
that sounds kind of an exotic way to feed your cold. you know? or is it feed your fever?

Yes, it's Tub Therapy. As long as I stay away from bathtub gin I'll be ok.
Happy to report that the aspirin and rice pudding treatment appears to be helping...
When DH showed up with the 4 tubs of rice pudding, I promptly marked them with magic marker- 2 for each of us with our initials. Don't want any vicious survival struggles over who got more than their share! DH pointed out that once one of us had eaten their share they could possibly switch the lids and then illegally dig into the other one's tub. I showed him that I was already one step ahead of him- I had marked both the lids AND tubs with initials! (mature, aren't we?)

[crazycanuck]

Thanks for posting the story.

What a brave man for leaving his family to seek help! The image of him leaving pieces of clothing behind has stuck with me. My thoughts are with his wife & family.

I just want to remind all you ladies up in snowy north america to NEVER leave your car if you get stranded. Please. Also, don't forget to pack a blanket, candles, energy snacks and water in your boot.

Be safe up there kids

c

[Trek420]

crazycanuck "I just want to remind all you ladies up in snowy north america to NEVER leave your car if you get stranded."

Yeah, isn't that taught in boy scouts? If you're lost...stay put and let someone know when you take a trip.

His wife was so brave, nursed the kids!

Discussing this in our buildings safety crew today seems that kids who get lost fare better, they instinctively head for high ground so they can see around, find a road and sometimes be found.

Where adults often take the "I'll follow this stream to the river to the ocean" route which may have been his thought.

Very sad. But what a brave man to set out to save his family.

[kelownagirl]

Where is everyone tonight? That snowbound story is so sad. And scary. That poor woman...

Lisa - hope you're feeling better soon. I have managed to avoid a cold all year. In September I started to get one and started taking the ColdFX and it disappeared. Then two days ago, I was sneezing and all stuffed up. Took the ColdFX again for 3 days and it just fizzled out again. I am beginning to think that maybe there's something to that stuff...

BMOs - get rid of that fever right away. Concerts are important! We have ours on the 19th. From a teacher's point of view, it's just another stressor. But as a parent, I love 'em! My little guy is singing in the choir at the mall tomorrow. I managed to get someone to cover my class so I can run down there and watch.

OTG - glad the orthotics thing worked. Nice when it happens like that.

I showed my ring for "show and tell" at school today. The kids were very excited that I am getting married, expecially since it's to Mr. D! They all wanted to come to the wedding but I told them it would just be a small ceremony with my family. They said, "but we're just like your kids!".

[Trek420]

kelonagirl,

could you do a reception.....in class? what grade or the kids?

[kelownagirl]

trek - hmm, it could almost be done. In the staff musical we're working on, dh has to actually get down on one knee and propose to me. He thought for awhile that he might do it for real during the show. Aack. Not sure how I would have reacted to that. Anyway, knowing the moms in my class, I have no doubt they'll have something up their sleeve before the end of the year. They are just like that. Last year, they gave me a $250 GC to the LBS. I kept the room mom's son in my class this year.

The other reason why it would be nice to do something like you mentioned is because Dh and I have our classes as buddies and we have PE together twice a week, plus one other activity so our kids see us together a lot. It might be kind of cool to have some sort of joint celebration before the end of the school year. We'll have to think about that.

Oh, and I have grade 3, he has grade 6.

[crazycanuck]

BTW...What's the area like where the gentleman was found???

Trek-I think it's taught in Girl Guides & Scouts around the world.

In Australia there are tons of stories each year about folks who wander off the 4WD tracks and don't return.

There was an incident late last year here in Western Australia-Three folks decided to drive up to work in one of the mines & took a wrong turn. They found thier bodies three days later.

When we drove to Melbourne we had two large petrol holders( i know what they look like but can't remember the exact term for them) full of water just on the odd chance we broke down. Not something you want to do in +45c..

Anywho..KG it's nice to hear you & your dearie are getting married!!

Tomorrow is "get everything ready for the 12hr"day-I have it off just to ensure all our "stuff" is put aside in one area so Ian doesn't have to stress too much. Ian's doing the 12hr solo and anything i can do to make him less stressed is good..

c

[crazycanuck]

Poor penguins..Stupid humans!!!!


http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegrap...007132,00.html

Odd human story flatulent person here

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6213644.stm

c

[Nanci]

Wow, I don't know how many of Mr. Kim's pieces I've seen on Cnet...It's sad. Stranded for almost two weeks- I don't know if I could stay with the car that long...

Nanci

[mimitabby]

BTW...What's the area like where the gentleman was found???

Trek-I think it's taught in Girl Guides & Scouts around the world.

c

The area where Mr Kim was found is near the california oregon border, very rugged terrain and high altitudes. The roads he took are closed every winter but they used a map that didn't give that information. Then they took a wrong
turn and ended up on i think a forest service road! his biggest mistake was to get off the road he started following streams in country so severe that you
had to walk IN the stream to continue. This made him quite wet and probably
wore him down fast.
Some of the roads in this part of the country are still snow covered (and closed) in June.

[mtbdarby]

That is a very sad story about the Kims. Just imagine if the mom couldn't have nursed the kids - I don't even like to think about it. My winter stuff stays in my car year round. I don't even want to take it out to go get my vehicle tomorrow.

KG - so cute your kiddies want to be there for you guys. I hope you're able to work out a little something with them.

CC - GOOD LUCK AND HAVE FUN! I hope you and Ian have a blast. Pix! Lots of pix and a full ride report when you're back.

Lisa - hope you and dh are feeling better. You treat each other so lovely

Not much new here. My sick boss is in today - he better not share all his germs. Off to get some java...

[KnottedYet]

When I drove through there last month I was ridiculously over-prepared. And I wasn't even leaving I-5!

Now I'm thinking the extra winter clothes, sleeping bag, food, candles, heater-packs, water, blanket and such really weren't ridiculous. And on my way home through there it had snowed, which completely changed everything. I was reassured by my extra supplies then.

That area is pretty intense in the snow.

I can understand him leaving his family to get help, that's a natural reaction. Did they think he already had hypothermia when he left the road? I had hypothermia once (on Mt. Shuksan) and never want to experience that again. My intellectual processes are iffy at best, but with hypothermia decision-making gets really weird.

[mimitabby]

Apparently, it is believed by a lot of people that if you follow a stream down hill that will take you to civilization. That is not always true, particularly in rugged mountains. I have a friend who did this (20 years ago) they walked for 5 days
following a riverbed. Helicopters found him and his friends... They were lucky
but they had a long ways to go yet to find civilization when they were found.

so they are saying stay near your car and make your car seem as brilliant and as big as possible (put shiny things around the car, like hub caps)