dosage

Now here is a sad story...
I have a slip of paper that I used to work out the dosage (concentration) of Codeine in generic Tylenol #3 for kids. The reason I did this is because when my daughter broke her arm, I went to the pharmacy and got the prescribed pain medication for her and dosed her. However, it became very clear that the pharmacy solution was not controlling her pain. We were all hazy, sleep deprived and worried, and so it took a little while to understand that there wasn't enough acetaminophen in her Tylenol. I didn't want to overdose her, because acetaminophen can easily be fatal if you double up doses. Neither did I want to OD her on the codeine part, even though I have a suspicion that she is resistant to opioids (as is her father and his mother). How does one test this, anyway, except by horrible trial and error. So I finally had the sense to google the dose concentration to figure out how much she was getting.

There was 120mg of acetaminophen and 12mg of codeine per 5 mL dose, and she was only allowed one dose per six hours. Well...120 is well below the recommended dose for regular tylenol. So no wonder she was getting no pain relief. Especially if she couldn't get help from the codeine. I switched her to plain tylenol and got much better pain control.
So that left this nice bottle of #3, if I could figure out how to use it. I calculated that an adult could take a 15mL dose up to six times a day (every four hours) with no toxic effect. So we saved it for possible future use.

So trust your gut, but do the math to confirm.

A Poem

I had forgotten about this, but this is a poem Brianna made up about her Gramma:

Grammas

They don't like to sleep in a tent
They don't want to sleep in a car
They'd rather sleep in a hotel
Preferably at least three star


Can you tell my daughter has been on a few trips?!

Also the SpongeBob Lyrics:
Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
SpongeBob SquarePants
Absorbent and yellow and porous is he?
SBSQ
If Nautical Nonsense is something you wish
Then Drop on the Deck and Flop like a fish
etc..

Now you know

my favorite shorts ever

I still have my favorite shorts, but the fabric is so thin in some places that you can read newsprint through it. Of course they were bought a decade ago. And the brand-name of the tag was cut off because they were purchased at Beall's Outlet or someplace like it where they are allowed to resell it as long as its not branded. I would love to find another pair just like them, but I think I am out of luck. Just in case, here are the numbers from the remaining tag:

RN# 42340
Style W5415328
Color Seacrest
UPC:03979416774

And, yes, I did look up the UPC, but there was no listing.

See, I warned you that this blog might be lame!

anime list

Okay! Okay! I am on a roll here, people. I also have been reading too much Barbara Park lately. My next random slip of paper is my list of Anime movies or series that I at least want to see, if not own. This is compiled from other people's lists and descriptions that interested me. It is not meant to be any kind of definitive list of good anime, just my personal interest list. Feel free to comment if you think any are particularly good or should be avoided.

Perfect Blue
Ninja Scroll
Akira
Shinkai Collection
Voices of a Distant Star
The Place Promised in Our Early Days
Final Fantasy Spirits Within
Origin Spirits of the Past
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Steinboy
OOOPS, that's Steamboy, cannot read my own writing, altho' maybe steinboy might be good
Wings of Hohneamise
Metropolis
Mushi-shi
Tokyo Godfathers
Kanon
and of course, High School Rumble

okay, I'm back

I had abandoned this blog, but didn't want to dismantle it. Now I have a new purpose for it. I am going to make this my mental bulletin board, my virtual post-it note for things that I have on annoying little slips of paper in my house that I cannot keep track of. I hope that if I post them here, then maybe I don't need to keep the little lists and oughta-do's that litter my workspace. So, if you care to read it, I won't stop you. I will just warn you: This will be the blog that other bloggers warn you about...the one where I may inventory my lunch, or my closet or other mind numbingly boring things like that. I may still crack a joke here or there, but don't count on understanding my humor.

Now that you've been warned, onto the first boring posting:

My Cox communications McAfee antivirus receipt number is 4621801600065825201151106
Now why in the bluddyfuk do I need a receipt number for something that I get FREE included with my internet. Don't get me wrong, I mostly rely on virusscan to keep the badbugs out of my hard drive. But seriously, a receipt?!? WHat am I going to do? Call up Cox and say, 'well my receipt number is this, so fix my computer!' They will laugh and say, 'just download McAfee again and get another receipt number.' That I felt the need to write the number down on a piece of paper just shows my insecurity about security. Okay. One down, a thousand more to go

Last Dance

I don't want to delete this blog. After all, it has some of my favorite things on it. I really just meant to change the name. Being new to blogging, I couldn't really figure out how to do that and get away from the old name without really screwing it all up. So, I am closing down this blog, and now writing new posts at: www.redtekbek.blogspot.com
After all, I haven't worked at the hospital lab in six years, haven't seen Vance in ten , and haven't called my husband a 'butthead' in fifteen years. So the old name is old news. Out with the old.
In with the new!
I will try to post more often!
I will try to finish writing about my trip that happened a Freakin' Year ago!
I will try to finish captioning my photos, sending links, and ordering prints about the trip on Snapfish!
Really!
You believe me, right?

ABC's of me

A - Age: 40
B - Bed size: queen
C - Chore you hate: scrubbing the floor
D - Dad's Name: William
E - Essential start your day item: Coffee
F - Favorite actor(s): Scarlett Johansen
G - Goal you've set: Decluttering the house more (yay freecycle)
H - Height: 5'5"
I - Instruments you play(ed): flute and guitar
J - Job title: Craft Painter/SAHM
K - Kid(s): Brianna
L - Lasting Memory: the sky at Turn-Again Arm looked just like a Maxfield Parrish painting.
M - Mom's name: Katherine
N - Nicknames: Bec, Rebec, Becca
O - Overnight hospital stay other than birth: Splenectomy
P - Pet Peeve(s): intollerant people, typing errors and other computer junk like popups and spam
Q - Quotes you like: "Together we stand, divided we fall" trite, but still true
R - Right or left handed: right, but pretty good with my left, too
S - Siblings: 2 awesome step-brothers
T - Traits—good or bad ones? Good: I'm a peace-maker, I like finding solutions. Bad: still swear too much, but it is getting better
V - Vegetable you hate: yellow and/or crook-neck squash, turnips suck too.
W - Worst Habit: keeping too many papers, books, magazines and procrastination about everything, including throwing stuff out.
X - X-rays you've had: left wrist twice, right collarbone
Y - Yummy food you make: thanksgiving turkey w/everything, chicken divan
Z - Zodiac: Leo (traditional) Monkey (chinese)