Yes. The oil pulling. I don't believe for a second all stuff about toxins under the tongue but I think it would do wonders for levels of bacteria etc in the mouth, gums, throat, and purely the motion alone would give the whole Ear-nose-throat area the opportunity to drain properly. Where did you hear about it?
I got onto it for the oral thrush from all the ABs i was on for the PPH in December I googled lol. I was desperately wanting to avoid boob thrush so tried everything and you know what?? it WORKED. in one treatment I could taste food better and then by the second it was receding! i used organic coconut oil....are there other oils you can use??
What??! How was there a thread on this but I missed it?
Cass that's awesome. Did you just use it for a short while or are you still doing it? From my non-BB reading, originally they suggested people to use sesame or safflower oils or a mixture. But I think everything we know about coconut oil says it will work just as well if not better. Plus taste nicer. I only wish I'd known about it after chemo when my teeth were so bad.
Cally, just make sure it's oil extracted from a cold-pressed virgin . It could help with headaches, depending on what's causing them, but since the mode of action is unclear, I think a personal-experimentation approach is warranted. If you get an improvement, you get an improvement. And if you don't, there's no harm done. I'm going to start using coconut oil on my feet, which are crusty-as. Just need another jar.
I luuuuuuurve quiz nights. Don't typically do terribly well (my interests are much too esoteric and so I'm useless with garden-variety trivial) but I do love the challenge. You would make an awesome addition to my team.
MD, while I would love to have you on my team, you narrowly miss the selection criteria - I have created The J Team I too am rather useless when it comes to quizzes. While I have a head full of useless information, it never seems to be what comes up.
Interesting day here. Last thursday P fell while running backwards and put her left hand out to break her fall. Naturally it hurt at the time and she was upset, but it didn't swell or bruise so we just iced it etc that night and didn't think anything more of it, just one of those things that hurt like the blazes at the time but you're OK. Last night after netball training she complained that it was REALLY sore and achey so I thought maybe there is something more going on. last night when she was asleep I ever so gently picked up her wrist and she flinched in her sleep so I knew then that it wasn't right. Took her to the Dr today and it turns out she has a buckle fracture in her wrist. She only has to have the backslab on for 2 weeks which is good considering she's already had the injury for over a week. I knew she was a tough little cookie, but putting up with a fractured arm for a week is beyond tough! Even when the Dr was checking her out she wasn't complaining that it hurt too much so we were surprised to see the fracture on the xray. So now I feel terribly bad for not thinking it was a bad enough injury at the time to do something about it, but I honestly thought she'd done nothing more than a minor sprain.
Trill, I hope she isn't in much pain, but it sounds like she is pretty tough! DH often tells the story of how he fell out of the top bunk and broke his collarbone and his parents sent him to school for two days before realising his whinging might actually mean something lol
We came in second at the quiz night. The other ladies had a really good time so I think I can muster up a team for the weekly comp one of the hotels run during the ski season.
Trill, don't feel bad. Sounds like the sort of thing anyone could miss, you werent getting outward signs that it was bothering her too much, kwim? DD1 has had a couple of arm/wrist fractures and one of them hurt a whole lot less than the other. Having a backslab for a couple of weeks probably means that theres not a lot of strain on the spot where the fracture is, if that makes sense. Anyway, I hope it heals quickly & that mummy takes it easy on herself!!!
Hope everyone's having a good weekend. I've got more cupboard cleaning-out & sorting to do, not very exciting. I'm not very good at keeping miss E happy & entertained when I'm doing a large and thoroughly boring household job like that, it would go much quicker if she would just stop diving into the boxes/cupboards/sorted piles to check stuff out. LOL.
Arte, well done on taking our team to penultimate victory. Bet you're glad now that I'm on your team, aren't you? Yep, I think we should definitely enter the weekly comp.
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trill- how is P going now? she is one tough cookie xox
too much to catch up on in one go so just a quick update from us. L going really well at school. has settled in really well and seems to enjoy it. he hasn't really clicked with one best friend yet, like he did at kinder, but i think maybe that's a good thing for now. we are amazed at how much he has progressed in terms of his letters and numbers etc.
J is doing speech therapy with an awesome therapist who he loves. the results so far have been remarkable and we are really aiming for him to start mainstream 4 year old kinder next year. he is on the wait list to start state based early intervention, which looks like it will start in january. so next year will be a huge year for him! i was planning on returning to work next year but it just won't be possible with all J's therapy etc. so my aim at the moment is for him to start prep at L's school in 2015 and me return to work part time that year. we are really pushing and aiming for him to go the mainstream route.
we have mainly just been spending heaps of time working on our house. we did have plans to renovate and move (sydney again!), but have decided that the best thing for all of us as a family is to stay in melbourne and stay in this run-down old house lol, so we are trying to make it as nice as possible. we really love L's school, and feel that J would be super settled and supported there so it is the best place for us all. so no doubt you'll all have to put up with me whinging all winter long about how freezing it is for another 20 years or so!
Ginger: yay for staying! i love your house! it is so open and the views!! definitely worth staying for and i guess renovating if needed...does it need it? I thought it all looked really nice?! what are you guys wanting to do with it? we are thinking of painting this place and redoing the bathroom. but then i think of the money and the work and pass out hahahahaha.
Trill: yeah how is P??
MD: *snap* i too have been cupboard sorting...bought an old trunk off ebay for the girls to put their dress ups in and then OF COURSE I had to then sort the rest of their room hahaha. I am totally boring for the girls when i get going as i get a *little* bit manic about the whole affair and cannot be interrupted lol.
Arte: whoot on the second place! what did you win?
No prizes for second place! MD, I think that the addition of the dentist to our team made all the difference - she is quiet, but apparently has a competitive streak and is very knowledgeable. The J that I first asked didn't have a babysitter but then she got one too late so she made her own team. In the book round (first lines of well known books), her team got a special prize "because, well, we just think you should read more" lmao. (I definitely felt your presence in that round - shame you provided no inspiration in the cuts of beef!)
G, I am glad that the school is working out well for your boys.
E is well and truly at the tantrum stage now. I hope she doesn't get as extreme as W did I don't really want to think of the next couple of years being ruled by meltdowns. Today she said "I wuv mummy and brother" She is such a sweet girl, those tantrums don't suit her.
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I googled lol. I was desperately wanting to avoid boob thrush so tried everything and you know what?? it WORKED. in one treatment I could taste food better and then by the second it was receding! i used organic coconut oil....are there other oils you can use??
. It could help with headaches, depending on what's causing them, but since the mode of action is unclear, I think a personal-experimentation approach is warranted. If you get an improvement, you get an improvement. And if you don't, there's no harm done. I'm going to start using coconut oil on my feet, which are crusty-as. Just need another jar.
I don't really want to think of the next couple of years being ruled by meltdowns. Today she said "I wuv mummy and brother"
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