My daughter, home for Spring Break was stricken with all the symptoms of food poisoning or stomach flu. It was the hope that she would be well enough to return back to school when it resumed. Yesterday by two o'clock, she was still having abdominal pains and hadn't kept any food down for two days, in other words- she wasn't getting better.
We decided to take her to one of the walk-in medical offices, since it wasn't or didn't appear to be an emergency. After examining some bodily fluids, the doctor determined that she was dehydrated and put her on a saline IV. After three bags, she was feeling a bit better but still nauseous and experiencing abdominal pains. The doctor there did not have the capability to perform an ultrasound to examine her appendix, as appendicitis is what her symptoms were speaking, so he sent us to the emergency room of the local hospital.
By the time we arrived there it was almost six p.m. The ultrasound was inconclusive. Meanwhile she was given another bag of saline and then asked to drink a gargantuan amount of some radioactive trace solution for a CT scan to put the appendicitis or not question finally to bed. Consequently, we didn't get out of the hospital with a negative on the appendicitis until almost two in the morning. It was a long day... She'll be staying home a few more days to recover before returning to school.
Thank goodness we have medical insurance. I don't know how families can cope with the expense otherwise. I'm sure that yesterday was, at least, a five thousand dollar day...
Now the popularity of smart phones, it has REALLY become an issue with the apps that are available as well. After more than ten billion downloads from Apple's app store, do we honestly believe that it would be any kind of a success with out the apps ? Having the right platform, with hardware capabilities beyond what we would have found on the early or even current PCs has driven the major development of apps for smart phones. Being able to sample them easily and buy them for as little as $1.99 has made them "fly off the (virtual)shelf". This is the way to market... After the biggies (AT&T and Verizon) get done raping their subscribers for data charges and the paradigm shifts, I may even get one!
These three guys are in a bar, having a few beers, and checking
out the babes as they enter the establishment. One walks in,
rather attractive, and they "discuss" her "rating," which is on a
1 to 10 scale. One says,
"I'd give her a 7. She's really quite pretty." Another agrees,
and so does the third. The bartender, while bringing a new round
of drinks to their table, overhears their rating of the young
lass. He checks her out himself and says,
"Nah, I'd give her a 3."
"A 3? How can you give her a 3?!" says one of the three guys at
the table. "She's a real pretty girl."
The bartender, walking away, says, "Well, I use the Budweiser
method for rating women."
The guys look at each other, figure the bartender has lousy taste
in women, and go back to their ratings. Moments later, another
young lady, prettier than the last, walks into the bar, and they
confer between themselves and decide she deserves a 9. However,
the bartender, wiping off the table nearest to theirs, again
overhears their rating of the gal. He checks her out himself and
tells the fellows that he'd only give her a 5.
"A 5? How can you give her just a 5! She's absolutely gorgeous!"
The bartender casually replies that he uses the Budweiser method
for rating women.
"The Budweiser method?" they puzzle, as the bartender returns to
his post behind the bar. They are quite confused.
Three, maybe four minutes pass by, and then a stunning blonde,
5'11" goddess walks into the bar. Long luscious legs, sexy shape.
Truly a work of flawless perfection. Without hesitation, the
three "judges" at the table determine that this young sultress
is, without any doubt, a 10. However, carrying a case of beer
pass them to restock the supply behind the bar, the bartender
once more overhears their rating of the girl. He glances
studiously at her, and says that the best, the very best that he
could give her, would be a 7.
"A 7? How in the world could you give her just a mere 7?! She's
gorgeous!"
"Well," says the bartender again, "I use the Budweiser method for
rating women."
"Budweiser?" says one of the guys, exasperated. "What in the
Hell is this 'Budweiser method' for rating women?"
"Well, says the bartender, "the Budweiser method for rating
women, is the number of Clydesdales it would take to pull me off
her."
GAMES FOR WHEN WE ARE OLDER:
1. Sag, You're it
2. Pin the Toupee on the bald guy.
3. 20 questions shouted into your good ear.
4. Kick the bucket
5. Red Rover, Red Rover, the nurse says Bend Over.
6. Doc Doc Goose
7. Simon says something incoherent.
8. Hide and go pee
9. Spin the Bottle of Mylanta
10. Musical recliners
Strange but true
Toxic house plants poison more children than household chemicals.
Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, but only in tropical fish stores.
In Bahrain, a male gynecologist can only examine a woman's private parts through a mirror.
If the entire population of earth was reduced to exactly 100 people,50% of the world's currency would be held by 6 people.
In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.
Fewer than half of the 16,200 major league baseball players have ever hit a home run.
A snail can sleep for three years.
Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
Turtles can breathe through their butts.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
Close to 80% of people who watch the Super Bowl on television, only do so to view the commercials.
In the 1800's, people believed that gin could cure stomach problems.
It took approximately 2.5 million blocks to build the Pyramid of Giza, which is one of the Great Pyramids.
Thomas Edison designed a helicopter that would work with gunpowder. It ended up blowing up and also blew up his factory.
McDonalds calls frequent buyers of their food heavy users.
Americans ate eight million more orders of french fries and almost six million more hamburgers this year compared to last.
The Netherlands has built 800 miles of massive dikes and sea walls to hold back the sea.
One pair of rats has the potential for 15,000 descendants in a year.
A female can produce up to twelve litters of twenty rats a year.
Male and female rats may have sex twenty times a day.
The rat has been called the world’s most destructive mammal - other than man.
Rats destroy an estimated 1/3 of the world’s food supply each year.
25% of all fires of unknown origin are rat-caused.
26% of all electric cable breaks and 18% of all phone cable disruptions are caused by rats.
The USA has more personal computers than the next 7 countries combined.
Members of the armed forces and the police cannot vote in the Dominican Republic.
US tops the world in plastic surgery procedures. Next comes Mexico.
22% of American women aged 20 gave birth while in their teens. In Switzerland and Japan, only 2% did so.
Mexican women spend 15.3% of their life in ill health.
Most Zambians don't live to see their 40th birthday.
The Mall in Washington, D.C. is 1.4 times larger than Vatican City.
The women of Iceland earn two-thirds of their nation's university degrees.
American adults have been educated for the longest time.
The ten most generous governments (relative to GDP) are all in Europe.
The Slave-Maker ant is so named because it raids the nest of other ants and steals their pupae. Once the pupae hatch, they are made to work as slaves.
Workers in an ant colony only live for about 45-60 days, but a colony's queen can live up to 20 years.
Ants make up 1/10 of the total world animal tissue. The total biomass of all the ants on Earth is about equal to the total biomass of all the people.
By combining force of numbers with organized aggression, ants have become the greatest insect killers on Earth -- even of their own kind.
Ants began farming about 50 million years before humans thought to raise their own crops.
The animal with the largest brain in proportion to its size is the ant. They are the smartest species of insects with about 250,000 brain cells.
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad in first class.
30% of Chinese adults live with their parents.
200 million people in China live on less than $1 a day.
There are 100 million internet users in China. Some of the sites they can't access are BBC news, Amnesty International and Dalailama.com.
In 2006, there were 398 million mobile (or cell) phones in China.
China is the source of 70% of the worlds pirated goods.
20% of the world's population lives in China.
People spend about two weeks of their lives at traffic lights!
Left handed people live slightly shorter lives than right handed people.
Armadillos are able to contract leprosy.
Ten years ago, only 500 people in China could ski. This year, an estimated 5,000,000 Chinese will visit ski resorts.
The ant, when intoxicated, will always fall over to its right side.
The original name of Bank of America was Bank of Italy.
