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Additional Reports of Magnets Detaching from Polly Pocket Play Sets Prompts Expanded Recall by Mattel - Small magnets inside the dolls and accessories can come loose. The magnets can be found by young children and swallowed or aspirated. If more than one magnet is swallowed, the magnets can attract each other and cause intestinal perforation or blockage, which can be fatal.
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Karen and I have been lucky when it comes to taking the kids on a long trip. Karen was smart when Jonathan and Andrew were young to be creative in entertaining them with new gifts they could play with. To mark the event time for the gift she chose crossing the state boarders as the time for the new gift. This kept the boys busy and eager to enter into the next state. Now that the boys are teenagers we still take long trips. They now know how to entertain themselves with their own toys. The boys either listen to CDs, watch DVDs or play games on their Gameboys.
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Bread sticks go with pasta dishes and when you don't have any you have to invent. Garlic bread is must when you have spaghetti at our house; it is demanded. So, I came up with this simple recipe.
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My wife Karen just had hernia repair surgery which was supposed to be out-patient based. Once the surgeon started he found that there were two hernia and they were both larger than he had expected. He also discovered that the mesh from another hernia repair wasn't doing its job and he had to replace it. While removing the mesh he found the intestine had attached itself to the mesh and he went about trying to knocking it loose frm the mesh. He ended up tearing a hole in the intestine and had to stitch that up. So now my wife is in pain, in a hospital room, on a liquid diet and running a fever. I have a virus and she said "Stay away! The last thing I need right now is a cold that makes me cough." I have complied with that wish but I do miss not seeing my wife.
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Pa Pa, my dad, is currently in the nursing home. His health has been failing for a few years now and he recently was admitted to the hospital due to dehydration, infection and kidney failure. After a dialysis cleaning of his blood he was released to the nursing home for antibiotic treatment.
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I have a lawn tracter whose key I kept in a drawer in my bedroom. Andrew had found it without my knowledge and had it for more than a couple of weeks. The key ring also contained the key to the storage building where I keep the mower. I have an extra key to the building but I don't have an extra key to the mower. I was getting the mower ready for use but discovered that I didn't have the key. I took Andrew's gameboy after assessing that he was indeed the one who had taken the key. He kept bugging me for the gameboy of course and tonight, after about 10 days, I have the key to the mower. The key to the building is missing from the key ring but at least I can now start the mower.
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April is fast coming to a close and as usual there has been abundance of rain. The saying goes "April showers brings May flowers" so we should have flowers galore. Well I have lots of yellow little Dandelions that'll soon be white with seed in my yard. Seems people do not like those Dandelion flowers much because we spray and sprinkle to get rid of them. There's the clover that have blue flowers that honey bees like to grab the pollen from. Seems people do not like those clover flowers to much; that same spray and sprinkle kills them too. And then comes the hay feaver season when the ragweed is out in bloom; what a rush to get indoors that season is. April showers then comes flowers we don't want because we really like to cut green grass.
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My son Andrew has a medical condition labeled ADHD. The H part of ADHD is one that drives many parents, including Karen and I, nuts and causes lots of anguish and distress. The H in ADHD causes my son to grab, pinch, stand up, jump around, shout out, become easily frustrated, be annoying, etc. Controlling the condition with just the right dose of medication is tricky. Too much and he becomes too lathargic and too little and he gets into trouble at school.
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One of the saddest stories in the news recently has been the tainted pet food story. I have just created a forum forum to discuss menufoods.com and to let pet owners tell memorable stories about their pets.
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