Trenton Kelley Blog

That’s easy. To become a good student, you must first learn to set your priorities. A good student does not play video games for 12 hours straight instead of doing homework. A good student does not procrastinate. You must learn to set aside your hobbies for something which is truly more important-your education and your future!!!

Paying attention in class is also ideal to becoming a good student. Good students don’t talk in class with their friends. They don’t pass notes either. They are giving their full and undivided attention to the instructor and jotting down notes at the same time. If you lack this technique, remember this-would you enjoy showing your parents a horrible report card in exchange for hearing some juicy gossip an hour earlier, during class? No, I don’t think so. Take notes to remember those important facts and dates or complicated math formulas!!!

Ok, so maybe it isn’t as easy as it looks. But, the first step was recognizing you were an absymal student. If you posted a question up here, looking for advice, than you have already taken a huge step to becoming a better student. The rest is up to you and how determined you are. *thumbs up*

Having sold TVs for many years I’m going to be honest where as most sales people will not. Just by a cheap one. It may be nice to have something fancy and cool, but here are some good reasons why:

1. Stuff gets stolen out of dorm rooms all the time.
2. Most dorms have problems with low voltage or power outages. These are hard on TVs.
3. Parties in your rooms can result in damage to your TV.
4. You can always be friends with the guy who bought the big expensive one.
5. All your game system and DVD players will work with the cheap TV.
6. Cable signal in dorm rooms is usually bad so a TV with great picture quality will do you know good.
7. You can always get a great TV after graduate.

Plus, if you’re anything like I was you don’t have much money as a student. So save it for important stuff like beer and pizza.

Yes, it’s normal. The antibiotics killed the gerbies, but they don’t have any influence on healing the irritated tissues left behind. Those are mostly sore muscles, which have to be healed by the body itself. Ordinarily you rest a muscle to allow it to heal, but you obviously can’t stop breathing. So the process of repair takes a bit longer. Folks still feel ratty after bronchitis and pneumonia for some time after the active infection is wiped out for this reason. You still need to rest and recouperate, that’s all. Take life a little slower, eat a good balanced diet, and take something like Motrin or Tylenol for the remaining aches. A cooler room to breath in, with a vaporizor or humidifier to add moisture to the air, will feel a lot easier for your chest. You are better, but you won’t be entirely well for a few weeks yet. Give it a bit more time.

My first two children were born with a doctor assisting. My second two were with a midwife.

Although I had a good experience with both, I felt more comfortable and in tune with the midwife. She kept me more informed and really understood everything I was going through. (Keep in mind my doctor was a male, so maybe it would have been different with a female.)

Also, the midwife was more accessible throughout my pregnancies and was always backed up by the other midwives in the department.

My births were all at the hospital and were very comfortable. Our hospital has made the birthing rooms as much like home as possible. For the younger two, our older two children were present the entire time. It was an awesome experience for us all.

A friend of mine did have a home birth with her 10th child. She had always wanted to deliver at home. It was with a good midwife. Although she cherished her experience, she did have excessive bleeding with the birth. It caused some concerns, especially because she was home.

Just for safety reasons for the baby and mom, I would plan to have a baby in a good hospital. They are more prepared for the unexpected.

Whatever you do, research both possibilities. Visit your hospital’s maternity ward. Interview midwives and OBs. Based on your findings, you’ll be able to make an informed decision.

Good luck!

I would ALWAYS get a second opinion before doing a major surgery like that.

The fact that she is able to “sling walk” and has control of her bowels and bladder is a good sign.

I’ve dealt with back injuries before. The first time my girl was paralyzed, she had the surgery and did recover. She went down a second time a couple of years later, I couldn’t afford to do the surgery again so I just treated her with anti-inflammatories, crate rest, a homeopathic remedy and physiotherapy. She was not in pain either time.

Her daughter also blew a disc, but she was in so much pain, and we couldn’t stop it, so I had to let her go.

Recently I treated a friends dog who was not paralyzed but was having disc issues that made it difficult for her to walk. She came to stay with me for a month while I kept her on strict crate rest and medication. We also built ramps for her for when she went home. She is fine now.

Discuss it with your vet, but if your girl is not in pain, I think I’d consider simply putting her on strict crate rest and painkillers for a week or two and see if there is any improvement. If so, continue.

If you email me I can put you in touch with a lady in Florida that does lots of work with bassets with disc issues. She recently took in a dog that had been paralyzed for two years and got her walking again.

If a myelogram is absolutely necessary, then do it, but one of the side effects can be epilepsy. My Myrtle had seizures 3-4 times a year after having one.

Make sure that the vet doing the surgery is very experienced with this.

Certainly don’t give up, the outlook is good for your girl!

Inflatable vests aren’t a good choice at all. They aren’t always reliable, And its a pain to rearm them. If you wouldn’t mind sacrificing a little comfort, I can give you some very reliable and very safe vests.

http://www.stearnsrec.com/dyn_prod.php?p=STR6601&k=78029
This vest is if you want to be noticed, and if you want alot of free movement.

http://www.stearnsrec.com/dyn_prod.php?p=STR6155&k=78029
This vest will offer lots of security and alot of head support, if you knock yourself unconcious.

http://www.stearnsrec.com/dyn_prod.php?p=STR4180&k=80874
This is a great vest, Im trying to get it, although its best for boating and and canoeing and fishing, it could be used for wakeboarding.

I just hope you wear a REAL VEST, and not a cheap inflatable one, better to sacrifice loose and lightweight for heavy and tight.

And hear another great choice, you think about it
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yes, while the camera is connected to the computer, browse your My Computer list for something that’s not usually there…digital cameras usually have strange names, like CanonA550 or something with a generic icon, usually at the bottom of the list. open that up and this is the tricky part, try and find out what directory the camera stores pictures in, you can probably find a directory that already has some pictures, just copy and paste or drag and drop your files to that location.

OR
if you happen to have one of those multi-card readers on the face of your computer, gentrly try to see if the memory card fits directly into one of the slots. if it does you can bypass the camera and just do as i explained above but the memory card will probably be more difficult to identify in My Computer.

If McDonald’s wanted to stay in business because the minimum wage went up to $15 an hour, they would have to either raise their prices equivalently, or lay off some of the teenagers and/or illegals that they employ.

Everyone thinks “Wow! $15 an hour!”, but they never think that that money has to come from somewhere in the employer’s overhead costs. And it usually comes out in the form of fewer entry-level jobs for teenagers, because the employer has to make cuts somewhere if the market won’t bear an increase in prices.

If it cost me $50 to feed a family of four at McDonald’s, McDonald’s would never see me again.

Jobs that pay minimum wage are NOT meant to be career choices. They are starter jobs to allow a person to get into the job market, and give opportunity to later move on to better paying employment after gaining work experience.

Any person who started a job flipping burgers and intended to do that for a career (without moving up through management levels) should not expect to making the same money as someone with more ambition. And he/she should not EVEN consider raising a family on such wages.

I think we would all end up living very quiet and solitary lives if we only ask questions of people without making some assumptions.
“How are you today, Mary?” Mary is dying of a massive brain tumor.

“Say hi to your husband”, he beat her last night and she just came from the lawyers office.

“You have lovely children”, the eldest was arrested on a drug charge and stole a car last week.

Come on, how the heck are we supposed to talk. Crap happens, people aren’t EXPECTED to know. Additionally, people who have “secrets” should NOT have thin skin if they are social animals and associate with people who are not their intimates.

It’s unfortunate for everyone when we embarrass ourselves by an inopportune question, but that is just part of life. Hopefully people will continue to wish newly weds a wedded bliss and to many people that includes children. People hopefully will ask after people’s health, even though some of those won’t be with us long. And asking about our loved ones shows a concern for us as well, and I hope they continue to do that.

So, in answer to your question, NO. You aren’t the question police and probably should reconsider your position.

Glori, I posted a similar question with the same problem just this morning. It’s giving me some ideas but I’ve received some great answers. Regarding “rewarding” not bribing, yes the counseling issue, the age thing, punishing indefinitely, loss of driving privileges, cell phones privileges, etc. I could go on because there were such a variety of suggestions. I’ve taken everything from my son to avail also.

I think my problem is similar to yours, we’ve rewarded and disciplined but until we can actually “GET THROUGH TO THEM HOW IMPORTANT THIS IS”, the punishments and rewards are just temporary, I, like you, need a long-lasting solution to change their attitude and all else should follow.

I’ll keep following your post too incase I miss something but again I’ve gotten GREAT answerers for mine if you’d like to check it out. Hopefully I’m not violating any guidelines but we need all the advice we can get. My question was “Needing help with a teenager with bad grades”

GOOD LUCK I feel for ya!