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Tinkerbell (GLOWY) - Tinkerbell Movie / Peter Pan / Disney Parks
|Remake! I kept the wig and shoes with only minor changes, but redid the dress and wings. The details of the original costume are here
I decided on a remake for a few reasons. On my first costume, I had lots of problems due to using a stretchy fabric for the dress - it was a pain to work with, not really suited to a strapless dress and no help for supporting wings. I also wanted to try out new ideas for decorating the dress and I was keen to try to make a larger set of wings. My first set of wings using tights worked out ok, but the tights restricted the size a bit which had always frustrated me. I couldn't make them much larger due to the size of my suitcase, but I could still improve on the shape by having a shot at another construction method (stolen from Sands!) Finally, I wanted to incorporate lights, mostly for the hell of it, but the idea was inspired by Tink in the Electrical Parade and her assorted fireworks appearances at the Disney parks.
For the dress, I started out the same way as before, making a pattern with non-stretch fabric this time. I used New Look 6468 to make a simple princess seamed dress, which I took in, chopped a lot shorter, and shaped into the sweetheart neckline. Although I love how they look, I gave up on attempting the awkward spiralling seams after too many failed mock-ups and just went with simple vertical seams. After I was happy with the fit of my mock-up, I made the final dress from a non-stretch green suedette. The lining and the outer dress are the same fabric, but I used the reverse, non-suedey side for the lining. The lining has bra cups sewn in and spiral steel boning, mostly encased in the seam allowances but I also used some boning tape to form extra channels.
Then I sewed lights into the lining. I used two 2m lengths of green fairy light ribbon from festive-lights.com. It wasn't ideal that I needed two sets, because that meant having to hide two battery packs (that's 4 AA batteries) but otherwise the lights were great. I chose them partially because I couldn't find other suitable green lights, but also because I thought the ribbon casing would be ideal for letting me sew the lights into the dress. It turned out the lights shifted around too much inside the ribbon and it also proved to be too lumpy. However, it was easy to cut away the casing, and the lights and wiring themselves are tiny so don't create bumps in the dress. I zig-zag stitched over the wire to secure it all to the lining after I planned out how to arrange the lights. The battery packs had to go in the hem which is the only loose part of the dress - they're also at the back to keep them as discreet as possible. Makes sitting down awkward though! I sewed pockets into the outside of the lining to hold the battery packs, allowing me to easily access the batteries and on/off switches. The wiring then runs into the inside of the lining through a gap in the seam. I had to spend some time planning out how best to arrange the wiring to get the pattern of lights I wanted. I established I could cut the strings of lights shorter at the ends if required, but I needed the lights to start and stop in places, so used tape to hide any of the leds which I didn't want to show.
With the lights in place, I could sew the lining to the outer dress. The dress fastens with an invisible zip down the back. I also made a pair of matching shorts, which are essential since the dress ended up veeery short. Oops.
To decorate the fabric, I painted two shades of green on with Marabu fabric spray paint, then braved painting the veins on by hand. I used Marabu's Textil painter plus fabric paint pens. The pens are designed for use on dark backgrounds and they made it easy to draw the thin lines on neatly. I decided against using rhinestones since it just wasn't looking right. I might have another shot if I find smaller ones.
I used another set of ribbon lights in gold for the wig, just the 1m length. The battery pack and the extra lights are hidden inside the bun and the rest of the ribbon is visible. I hand sewed it to the wig to keep it in place. These lights are exactly what I wanted since the leds aren't visible at all when they're off and it looks just like an ordinary ribbon. The bun safety pins into the wig (because non-permanent methods let me go back and easily fix/adapt stuff) and when re-attaching the bun, I simply I left a gap to allow me to reach the on/off switch for the lights and the batteries when required.
I took apart the pom poms on the shoes, removed the padding I'd put inside them and replaced it with tap lights from a £1 shop. They were then sewn up again and attached to the shoes once more. It means I'd have to unpick them again to change the batteries (and take a look at one of the lights which decided to stop working at AyaCon) but, when working correctly, they can be switched on and off just by pressing them.
I also decided to try out new wings - slightly larger this time. I was still limited by what fits in my suitcase, but managed a broader shape than before by ditching the idea of using tights. I made the outline and inner vein patterns with wire which took me ages and also makes the wings fairly heavy. Some of the wire joins were really awkward and could only be properly secured once I added the clear vinyl backing to the wings. I ordered blue fairy lights from glow.co.uk which are on thin silver wire. They're discreet enough so I could wrap the wire around the wire frame of the wings. It was my aim to make the lights on this costume only apparent when switched on and I mostly succeeded. The wings are the one part of the costume where the lighting infrastructure isn't completely invisible when the lights are switched off. At least the lights have tiny battery packs which are perfect, especially since I ended up using 3 sets of the lights (6m in length)! The batteries (and on/off switches) are at the centre back so they slot down the back of the dress out of sight. My choice of blue is because Tink's wings usually do appear as blue, and besides, they didn't have the lights in green (incidentally, the lack of green is why I couldn't use these lights in the dress too, which would have been preferable due to their smaller battery packs). After the lights were in place, I hand sewed clear vinyl with clear thread to the wire. This also let me secure some of the joins required for the inner vein patterns - I used sellotape and also sewed it to the vinyl backing. The vinyl was spray painted with the same paint as I used on the dress and a few rhinestones glued on.
The centre back of the wings slots down the back of my strapless bra and an elastic strap ties around my waist for stability. The wings are too heavy for that alone to be enough, but the boning and tight fit of the dress on top holds them up too. Even so, I had to resort to clear straps for the dress and the battery packs on the wings cause the back of the dress to gape a bit.
I'm pleased with how the painting on the dress worked out and its general construction and fit (even lacking the spiral seams) but with hindsight, I should have made it a bit longer and I need to revisit the lights since the wire for the lights doesn't hold up too well as the fabric flexes. I made a couple of repairs to it, but gave up on the set at the back when the wire broke again at Aya. The lights also aren't that bright since they glow through the fabric and I had to be careful to trim seam allowances and avoid areas where the light would be obscured. There's nothing much I can do about this though short of putting lights on the exterior which I don't want.
I'm very happy with my new wings and the construction method worked well for me, but they are heavy and I really need shoulder straps, which I'd prefer to have avoided. I even tried slotting the wings into a tight-laced, steel-boned corset worn underneath to see if I could avoid straps, but due to the battery packs and generally the shape/weight of the wings, they still cause the dress to gape at the back and so stop it from fitting quite right and staying up on its own.
Looks great!
Shame I didn't get to see you in this in person but I did see the wings light up in the dark! 8D Amazing as always x
Your wings are AMAZING!
this Tink costume is utterly adorable! I LOVE how you used some inspiration from the night time electric parade and put it into your costume!^_^ Very original and works beautifully!
You look so lovely as Tink! I love your wings :)
This is gorgeous and I love the little lights and your shoes - SO CUTE!!!
You look gorgeous Angela, really really beautiful. The wings are a work of art in themselves O_O
Fabulous Tink. Seeing your pics makes me want to re-do Tink and spend a bit more time on her next time. :)
Great work! I love the wings!
You make such an adorable Tinkerbell!
Oh my God, you always go that extra mile with your costumes! The added touch of lights is an amazing idea and looks gorgeous! New wings are also amazing!
So beautiful! The lights give it that extra magical touch~ love!
Those wings are the coolest >_<
I used two 2m lengths of fairy lights from festive-lights.com. I zig-zag stitched over the wire to secure it all to the lining I had to spend some time planning out how best to arrange the wiring to get the pattern of lights I wanted. I established I could cut the strings of lights shorter at the ends if required, but I needed the lights to start and stop in places, so used tape to hide any of the leds which I didn't want to show. The picture shows the basic layout of the lights.
I used the shoes from my first Tink costume and removed the pom poms. The pom poms were made from fur fabric wrapped around wadding, so I simply replaced the wadding with push lights. I glued circles of white felt over the lights to help diffuse them. The fur was then sewn back up and reattached (with mostly hot glue but a few stitches as well) to the shoes.


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Eight Forty-Eight
Dueling Critics: 'Punk Rock' at the Griffin Theatre
WBEZ Dueling Critics Jonathan Abarbanel and Kelly Kleiman tell Eight Forty-Eight about the building boom underway in Chicago's theater district. While expansion is a boon to the theatre scene, moves can often result in a temporary decline in quality.
They also debated the merits of "Punk Rock," which runs through March 4 at the Griffin Theatre.

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The National Pension Scheme is a retirement savings scheme launched by the Indian Government in 2004. Under the NPS system, subscribers are allotted a Permanent Retirement Account Number (PRAN) which is unique to every subscriber....[…]
It's a cost-effective, tax-efficient scheme that enables the subscriber to operate a flexible and portable retirement savings account that operates on the basis of Defined Contribution. Ultimately, the benefits that the subscribers receive depends on the volume of contributions, returns on these contributions, and the total period for which contributions were made.
Since October 2015, Non-resident Indians have been allowed to open accounts under the NPS. By opening an NPS account, NRIs can create a pension corpus in India.
Non-resident Indians can also open these accounts and make full use of the benefits they carry.
NRIs who wish to open NPS accounts must first check whether they meet the following eligibility criteria:
At the time of a normal exit from NPS, the subscribers may use the accumulated pension wealth under the scheme either to purchase a life annuity from a PFRDA empanelled life insurance company or withdraw a part of the accumulated pension wealth as lump-sum, if they choose to do so.
In order to apply for NPS, the NRI applicant must:
The contributions made into the NPS account by the NRIs can be from either NRE or NRO accounts subject to normal foreign exchange conversion norms.
After submission of documents, you can check the status by accessing https://cra-nsdl.com/CRA/ by using the 17 digit receipt number provided by POP-SP or the acknowledgement number allotted by CRA-FC (Facilitation Centre) at the time of submission of application forms by POP-SP.
In such an unfortunate event, option will be available to the nominee to receive 100% of the NPS pension wealth in lump sum.
In such a case you are required to specify the percentage of share, which should not be in decimals that you wish to allocate to each nominee. The share percentage across all nominees should collectively aggregate to 100%.
If the NRI has taxable income in India, he can get additional benefit of Rs 50,000 offered by NPS over and above the 80C benefits.
It is preferable to open an NPS account through the POP bank where the NRI maintains his NRE/NRO account.
At the time of payment of pension or annuity, the same is paid only in INR. There is no restriction on repatriation.
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Chipotle Chicken Enchiladas
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- 1 rotisserie chicken
- 2 tablespoons EVOO – Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- 1 small onion, chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, grated
- 1 to 2 tablespoons chipotle powder (depending on how much spice you like)
- 1/4 teaspoon (2 pinches) ground cinnamon
- 2 15-ounce cans chopped tomatoes with chilies
- Salt
- 1/4 cup (about a palmful) cilantro, chopped
- Juice of 1 lime
- 2 1/2 cups smoked cheddar cheese or any type of cheddar cheese you like, shredded
- 8 corn tortillas
Step 1
Preheat oven to 375°F.
Remove the skin from the chicken and discard. Tear the chicken meat from the bones, shred it, using two forks or your fingers, and reserve in a mixing bowl.
Preheat a medium-size saucepot with the EVOO over medium heat and sauté the onions till soft. Add in the garlic and spices, and toast a few seconds until fragrant. Add in the tomatoes with chilies and season with salt. Cook for 10 minutes, until the flavors are well-married and the sauce is slightly thickened. Stir in the cilantro and lime juice, and remove from heat. Add a ladleful of sauce to the bowl with the chicken and toss to combine. Reserve the remaining sauce.
Heat tortillas by warming each side in a dry skillet over medium-high heat or by layering moistened paper towels in between them and placing in the microwave for about a minute.
Divide the chicken mixture equally among the warm tortillas and roll each one up. Add some of the reserved sauce to the bottom of a casserole or baking dish then line the dish with the rolled enchiladas, seam side down. Pour the remaining sauce over the chicken enchiladas and top with cheese.
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Felony Assault on a Peace Officer, Resisting Arrest and Public Intoxication
- May 15, 2017
- Category: Press Releases
On May 12th, 2017, at approximately 5:08 pm, the Sonora Police Department received a call of an intoxicated female subject behind the O'Reilly Auto Parts on Mono Way. Upon arrival, the responding officer located 35 year-old Sonora transient, Tellena Hogland.
Hogland was immediately non-compliant with the officer and because she displayed objective symptoms of alcohol and drug use, she had to be detained in order to evaluate her level of intoxication. Hogland tried pulling away from the officers when he attempted to escort her to level ground and as a result had to be handcuffed. A decision was made to arrest Hogland and she continued to physically resist the officer as well as a second officer who arrived on scene to assist. While the officers were attempting to place Hogland in the patrol car, she managed to twist herself into a position allowing her to bite one of the officer's arm. Hogland continued to clamp down on the officers arm making it necessary for him to use physical force to break free of her grasp. Unfortunately, the officer sustained significant bruising and broken skin as a result of the attack. Hogland was not injured during the altercation, and the name of the injured officer is not being released at this time.
Tellena Hogland was booked at the Tuolumne County Jail for felony Battery on a Peace Officer, Resisting Arrest, Public Intoxication and suspicion of being Under the Influence of Drugs. Additionally, Hogland is on active felony probation out of Tuolumne County and charges are being sought in relation to violating the established terms of her probation. Hogland's bail was set at $10,000.


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Delivering consistent service day after day begins with a plan. Field service organizations need to track their field employees, vehicles, equipment and parts, and a myriad of other factors to keep getting work done as expected. Of course, when a plan meets reality, they don't always align. Factors beyond the technician's or dispatcher's control will inevitably crop up and disrupt the best of plans. The difference between great and not-so-great service operations is the ability to manage the unexpected and adjust around same-day disruptions.
Service suppliers are still struggling to understand customer expectations, found a recent field service report by ClickSoftware. Without that insight, it's impossible to meet these expectations. With customer satisfaction being closely tied to revenue, delivering on the expected service plan is essential.
The good news is that anyone can master optimized scheduling and minimize the impact of unplanned changes. These four steps, mixing technology and process, will help keep service jobs on track—and your customers happy.
When in Doubt, Over-communicate
The most effective dispatchers, whether aided by technology or their experience, have access to critical information about every job planned for the day. They can combine intelligent automation with their own insights to adjust on the fly.
It's also expected that the dispatcher and field service technician will be in regular communication, with the most important information for each party being provided as needed. But that visibility isn't always extended to the customer.
While customer communication preferences vary by country and region, lack of visibility is a common frustration. Being able to share an accurate arrival times, information about the technician, and their progress towards their destination in real time will reduce customer no-shows and last-minute cancellations. In the absence of these Uber-like capabilities, the customer should still receive phone or SMS notifications and see what's happening.
In addition, showing up for a job unprepared due to insufficient information and requiring a follow up visit will also frustrate a customer who already took time off for the service. Enabling the customer to proactively share information like photos of broken equipment, environmental notes (e.g. don't knock, the baby is sleeping), and other insights ensures the technician can be successful the first time around.
Get Real Results from Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Having the capacity to automate scheduling decisions is a game changer for field service teams. Artificial intelligence-driven technology can use predictive data to reduce idle time, better anticipate travel time, and allow for back up resources to step in quickly when necessary.
For instance, instead of leaving white space in the schedule when a customer cancels, the idle time can be used for other jobs. The system can take the tech's location into account and send them to another nearby job, without delaying other scheduled work. This makes for a more productive day and satisfied customers.
These smart systems can also record disruption data over time to help with future planning. It can track trends, such as weather conditions throughout the year. In the months when there's a higher probability for snow, the system can schedule more low-priority jobs in case there's a storm and the tech needs to cancel. It could also look at typical traffic conditions during this weather and account for potential delays.
Finally, schedule elasticity leaves room for high priority and emergency work, without affecting the overall flow of job assignments. The system can fill a technician's day with a mix of high and low priority work, so there's room to be flexible. If an emergency comes up, low priority jobs can be rescheduled without upsetting the customer.
Hope for the Best, but Plan for the Worst
Regardless of how experienced your dispatchers and technicians, or how sophisticated your workforce management software, both human and technology decisions should stem from a clearly defined process.
Accept that factors like surprise cancellations, changing weather conditions, and traffic patterns will always remain out of your control, and will inevitably impact field service operations. But having predictive, flexible policies in place will help prepare your team to manage any disruption. For instance, using predictive travel times, especially for the first job of the day, can eliminate repeated delays throughout the day due to traffic. And scheduling technicians with a mix of high and low priority jobs allows for schedule reshuffling.
Remember that the success of both policies and systems hinges on how well you connect your field technicians to the dispatch team. Mobile devices allow techs to check in with the team back in the office. That way if the tech's vehicle breaks down and must end the day early, the dispatch team can make other arrangements.
Surprises will always be part of field service delivery. Smart technology solutions and even smarter policies can help you mitigate their impact on each technician, job, and customer–and your bottom line.


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Are Dissertation Editing Services Legitimate?
There has never been an excellent dissertation written that wasn't edited. Seriously, proofreading and editing are just as important as the first writing drafts are. Once a student gets a firm understanding of the importance of editing, the next question is who should do the editing?
Roommates don't make good editors; friends and family members usually don't make good editors either. In reality, you need an expert to do an expert editing job. Someone who has done it before and knows exactly what they are doing is the only logical choice for an editor.
There are many online editing services, so how would you go about finding one that's legitimate and that you can trust to do a great job editing your dissertation? First of all, what would constitute a legitimate service?
5 virtues of a legitimate editing service
- The service has a rock-solid guarantee placed predominantly on the website and has no small print. It's very simple – you are satisfied or you get your money cheerfully refunded. Everything about the service should meet your expectations: the customer service, quality of the service, speed of delivery and qualifications of the writers and editors.
- There are plenty of testimonials from real people and most of them should be positive. Remember that occasionally there are grumpy people out there that like to make others miserable so they complain about everything. Even the greatest editing service may unfortunately have done business with these grumpy customers. So don't let a few negative comments turn you away. Of course, the bulk of the comments should be extolling the virtues of the service.
- The company has been in business for a considerable time and there are repeat customers. If the company was set up yesterday, you might want to wait until you see some feedback. On the internet, even a few months or a year is a reasonable time to collect lots of feedback, because it really depends on the amount of traffic they are receiving.
- They have a real live person who answers the phone when you call and talks to you. Emails are answered and returned within a reasonable amount of time, usually 24 hours or less. Sometimes there may be a person on live chat to communicate with and ask your questions to.
- Their website is professional and everything works. Furthermore, the content on the website is in perfect English. There's nothing more disconcerting than finding spelling errors all over the website of a service that claims to offer excellent writing or editing services!
Academic editing
High school, college and university papers are hard to write. However, having the time and knowledge to write the essay does not save you from the need to edit and proofread it once you are done with the draft. This resource will help you polish your academic work.
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Drang the Devious
It's been a while since I've done a drawing of merit, let alone attempted a painting. I feel a bit rusty. This is the first piece of concept art for a short film my production company is planning on creating in the coming six months to a year.
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Nice work, Kevin.ReplyDelete
There's a section that's particularly intriguing to me — his left eye surrounded by all the reflected red light. If you cropped way up on that, you could get a really fantastic promotional image out of it.
Best of luck with the film. Keep posting!
BTW, I took some watercolors to a figure drawing session last night. The results were only so-so, but it was the first time I had attempted that in a while, so I graded myself on a steep curve.ReplyDelete
To make a long story short, I can relate to your story, and I applaud you for getting back in the saddle and pulling this one out —yee-Haw!
Nice work Kevin. It makes me want to put on a little Queen tunes from Flash Gorden ;)ReplyDelete
This makes me very curious about the short film.
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I know Bob Dylan well.
Grew up with him,
We all did.
He was the voice
We didn't have.
Said the words
We didn't know to say.
Such words.
He saw and sang
Of things we saw
Yet wouldn't speak about.
Where we were awkward,
He was talkin' out.
For forty years
I've looked up,
Listened up, to him.
Now changed, aged, yet
Both forever young,
I'm glad we grew together
In interesting changing times.
We never met,
But it's alright.
We spoke.
We played our parts.
He needed me to listen all along.
The singer sings
So others hear the song.


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Corentin Tolisso was ORTEC Sports' best U21 player last month. The French midfielder featured in all the league matches for Olympique Lyon, with the highlight coming in the match against Bastia. Tolisso confirmed the 2-0 win with a goal on the 88th minute.
Even though his pure stats might not be as exciting as others, Tolisso stands out for his constant involvement in the game (75.8 actions on average), as well as for the ability to make key passes (1.5 per game). Overall, he earned a 7.9 grade through September, which puts him at the top of our list for this month. Coming from the club's youth ranks, Tolisso shows as well that Lyon are still a leading football academy in Europe.
Coming a close second, Chancel Mbemba (7.8 grade) also deserves a place among the best. Newcastle's young centre back is emerging as a key element on defense, playing alongside the veteran (and team captain) Fabricio Coloccini. With 1.7 blocked goal attempts per game and an impressive 64% of duels won, Mbemba has surely had a very good September.
Still in his teens, Vitesse's Kevin Diks is working hard to become the best right back in the Netherlands. Co Adriaanse has gone further to say that he would already be in the national team if he was playing for a bigger club. Nevertheless, the 19-year old has shown a great ability to read the game – proven by the fact that 73% of his regained possessions came from interceptions. At the same time, having 1.7 key actions per game reveals his offensive prowess. Diks had an average grade of 7.2 in September.
The last member of this fantastic four is Niklas Süle (7.1 average). The German centre back has played every single minute so far in this season's Bundesliga. Even with Hoffenheim's early struggles in the standings, Süle has managed to make a good impression. Confident when it comes to passing the ball (92% completion rate), he is also contributing with 8.8 clearances per game.


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Leap Frog Multiplication Game is a fun way for kids to practice their multiplication math facts from 1s-12s. Math Games make learning fun! This is great for 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th grade students.
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Multiplication Game
We try to make learning fun! It not only helps motivate kids, but kids usually retain the information better than if they just dryly run flashcards or fill out worksheets. Here is a really fun math game for kids to practice multiplication with a friend. If you prefer NO PREP , black and white multiplication practice, see our 2000+ page of free math worksheets
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Free Multiplication Game
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Repetition will help them achieve math fluency!
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Zemmrate » Vegetarianism » Sweet tasty vegetarian!
Sweet tasty vegetarian!
Sweet Kitchen vegans
Being vegan does not mean that we should abandon the sweet as the main principle of a healthy diet is balance all tastes. Sweet by itself is not harmful if eaten it in sensible quantities. Not it is desirable to use large quantities of white sugar , it is better to replace it with honey, jam, nougat and other substitutes. We offer you to get acquainted with some nice recipes of sweet dishes for vegetarians.
Sweet carrot balls
Ingredients :• 3 carrots (400 g)
• 3 tbsp sugar
• 2 tbsp raisins
• 1 tbsp poppy
• Citric acid
Preparation :- Carrot clean, wash, grate.
- Raisins rinse and soak in boiling water a little. Then put the raisins, carrots in a saucepan and put on a small fire.
- Add 100 g of water and simmer for 15 minutes under the lid closed.
- Next, add the sugar, poppy seeds, a pinch of citric acid, stir everything.
* Optionally, poppy and raisins can not be added.
- Cook carrots until tender. It is important that all the liquid has evaporated.
- Cool the mixture. Hands to form small balls. They can roll in coconut flakes, cocoa, nuts or crushed wafers.
Indian sweetness "Dzhalebi".Sweet crispy spiral, which is prepared in India on every corner, will not leave anyone indifferent.
Ingredients for the dough :• 2 cups flour
• 1,5 tbsp. water
• 1 tbsp sour cream
• 2 tsp decoys
• ¼ tsp soda
Ingredients for syrup :• 2 cups sugar
• 1 cup water
• 1 tbsp lemon juice
• Vegetable oil for frying
PreparationKnead dough thick consistency, like pancakes. Cover and put in a warm place ( or in a bowl of hot water ) for two hours or more. At this time you can prepare the syrup. To do this, you need to mix the water, sugar and put on fire . After boiling, add the lemon juice and after five minutes, remove from heat.
You will also need a tight bag: a piping bag or syringe. If not, then you can use the package the milk, a little corner cutting on the one hand and making a big hole on the other.
Next, pour at least three inches of oil in a frying pan and preheat it well. Part of the test bag and pour in a circular motion pour batter into the boiling oil. You should turn spiral. Fry spiral necessary on both sides until golden brown. Follow butter. Dzhalebi have to swim in the oil, and do not touch the bottom pans.
With slotted spoon, remove the spiral, let drain excess oil and then dip them in warm syrup for a few seconds. Dzhalebi then spread on a large platter or tray. Once you have dipped in syrup spiral , they should be crisp , but do not hold dzhalebi syrup over 10-15 seconds.
Burfi from powdered milk with cashew nuts.Please note that the milk or cream were no herbal supplements and fat content of not less than 25%. Otherwise burfi have a salty taste and will not keep the shape.
Ingredients :• 450 g of dry milk (cream) 25%
• 225 ml cream / homemade cream 35%
• 200 g of sugar
• 200 g butter
• 1 packet of vanilla sugar
• Cashew
PreparationTake a saucepan and combine in it sugar, vanilla sugar, butter, put on fire. * Do not use cookware with Teflon coating. Cook, stirring occasionally, until sugar is dissolved. As a result, you should have a homogeneous mass.
Next, add the resulting mass cream and bring everything to a boil. After that, cook for another five minutes. Remove from heat and cool slightly.
Prepare a container with borders: Cover the foil and grease it with butter. After the mixture has cooled slightly, add milk and beat all the mixer until the mixture becomes thick. Next, the resulting mass is necessary to shift into the prepared container and smooth surface burfi. * Wet your hands with water.
Using a knife, make a layout, which will be ready to cut the burfi. In the center of each nut burfi place. Place the container in the refrigerator for six hours or more and better. When burfi hardens, remove it from the tank by simply pulling the film. Cut into pieces, marked by lines. Burfi stored in a refrigerator.
Lassie of sour milk with fruit
First of all, necessary to explain what a " Lassie." This fermented milk drink, which is made in India of yogurt, honey, sugar and fruit. There is also a version of salty lassi.
In this recipe we will use yogurt instead of yogurt. You can use any fruit of your choice, they can be fresh or frozen.
• 100 grams of strawberries
• 2 bananas
• 0,5 orange
• 4 tbsp sugar
In this recipe we will use yogurt instead of yogurt. You can use any fruit of your choice, they can be fresh or frozen.
Ingredients :• 500 g sour milk
• 100 grams of strawberries
• 2 bananas
• 0,5 orange
• 4 tbsp sugar
Preparation:yogurt add in sugar and whisk well with a mixer. Prepare the fruit, cut them into small pieces. Add fruits yogurt and mix gently. This drink can be served chilled - summer and the room temperature - in the winter. As you can see it's not just an easy recipe, but also useful.
Delicious cake with pears and cereal
Ingredients :• 2 tbsp. flour
• 1 tbsp. sugar
• 1 tbsp. water
• 0,5 tbsp. cereals
• 0,5 tbsp. vegetable oil
• 4 pears
• 2 tbsp honey
• 2 tsp Opener for the test
• 1 tsp chopped lemon zest
• 1 tsp lemon juice
• Salt
• Cinnamon
• Powdered sugar
Preparation:Getting cook this delicious cake, you need to connect in a bowl the sugar, water, vegetable oil, honey. All thoroughly. Next, be sure to sift the flour. Add cereal, salt, cinnamon, baking powder, lemon zest. Once again all thoroughly. The dough should turn out like thick cream.
Warms the oven at 180 degrees. Now we can start preparing pears. Take pears, my cut into small cubes. Sprinkle with lemon juice. Then add pears and stir into the batter.
Baking dish oiled and floured slightly. You can then pour the batter into it. Put the container in the oven and bake the cake about 35-40 minutes until golden brown. When fed-batch, you can decorate a cake slice pears.
Bon appetit !
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Good equipment to use for carpet cleaning?
Should I rent a machine, or buy one?
Looking for recommendations.....what to avoid, or what works well?
Also looking for suggestions of a good source, and good cleaning products to use?
I looked at some carpet cleaning machines for sale, and I know they are also available to rent. In the past, we've had a carpet cleaning service come in, but would rather do it ourselves this time. We keep saying we're going to tear it all up and put down wood flooring, to help with allergens, but the carpet keeps getting more worn out and it's definitely still here!
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Rather than having a rented equipment, I am in the favor to own such equipment because we use them often.
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If you're planning to get rid of your carpet and replace it with wood flooring, the last thing you need to be doing is buying a new carpet extractor or shampoo'er. You should rent a carpet cleaning machine.
However, to answer your question should you decide to buy one:
What to avoid: Bissell, Eureka and Hoover "residential" carpet cleaning machines. They simply don't have the pump pressure to blast water deep enough into the carpet, and they CERTAINLY don't have the suction power to pull dirty water out from deep in the carpet.
What to buy: If you want a no-frills machine that will last darn near forever in a residential setting at an unbeatable price, go to TMI, which stands for Timbucktoo Manufacturing Inc.
I have a Deluxe D-106, which is no longer made, but it has a 5 gallon solution tank, a 5 gallon recovery tank, two three stage vaccuum motors and a 100 PSI pump.
If you're wanting a machine that's better than a rental unit, you could just buy a Cruiser model, which has either a single three stage vaccuum motor or two two stage vaccuum motors:
Most rental machines only have a single two stage vaccuum motor, which is really not enough to do a proper job. You can get your carpet clean with one of these, but you pretty well need to make two passes; a cleaning pass and a clean water rinse pass.
I don't think TMI makes anything with only a single two stage vaccuum motor in it.
The Cruiser with a single three stage vaccuum motor or two two stage vaccuum motor is typical of what most small carpet cleaning contractors who are just starting out in the business use.
I got my TMI Deluxe D-106 for about half of what similarily equipped machines made by other manufacturers cost. I've been using it for the past 10 years now with no problems. You can tell that it's "hand made" because of the relatively crude way the bottom was cut to make room for the larger vaccuum motors, but that doesn't bother me.
If you can afford it, get the optional 60 to 500 psi pump on it so that you can use it as a "low pressure" pressure washer too. You wouldn't be able to peel paint off of concrete with it, but you could certainly put some Mr. Clean in the solution tank and spray wash your car with it.
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Much depends on what size carpeting you have to clean. If you have a building with 24 units in it -all with carpeting, then buy yourself a $2000 portable carpet cleaning machine. You'll probably be running it every few weeks, it'll last you 7 years and will pay for itself....
If you have a house with 4 bedrooms and 1200sqft of carpeting, it might be a toss-up between having it done and renting a machine; depends. A company might charge around $200 to do that - but will do it better than you could with a rental.
If on the other hand you have a 2-bedroom apartment with 300 sqft of carpeting that, by your own admission, is worn, dirty and soon to be replaced, it makes no sense to own a machine like that, or any other one unless you plan on replacing the carpet with more carpet. Here, I'd suggest you have them done for you by a pro. Cost would be around $60 or so, but could depend on a lot of things.
Done once a year by a good carpet cleaner, that'll cost $60. Rent a machine from a supermarket will cost you $35 plus a (lifetime) supply of their chemicals, for another $20 (detergent and defoamers etc).
The rental unit will do a so-so job, the pro will do the best possible...so, where's the savings?
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While we're on the topic of carpet cleaning, I thought I would dispell a few misconceptions about cleaning carpets:
0. Definition: A carpet "shampooer" is one that has a moving brush to agitate the carpet. A carpet "extractor" is one which does not have any form of mechanical agitation of the carpet fiber other than by moving the wand over the carpet fiber.
1. The best way to clean a carpet is not with a carpet shampoo'er or extractor. The best way to keep carpets clean is by regular vaccuuming. That's because most of the soil in a dirty carpet is solids. It's dirt and grit from the bottoms of your shoes or that's blown in through open windows, dead skin cells that have fallen off you and onto the carpet, paper and cloth fibers, plant pollen from open windows and indoor plants and hair from people and pets. All of that is solid matter.
2. Carpet shampoo'ers aren't NEARLY as effective as vaccuum cleaners at removing solid soils from your carpet because they get the carpet wet, and the surface tension of the water in your carpet holds the soil in to the carpet fibers. Next time you're at the beach, try shaking sand out of wet hair and dry hair and find out which one works better. Carpet shampoo'ers are meant for removing dried up liquid spills from carpets. The best way to clean a carpet is to FIRST vaccuum it thoroughly to remove as much solid soil as possible, and THEN shampoo it to remove the dried up liquids spilled on it.
3. You can do a better job keeping your carpet clean if you use your head more than your wallet. If you have a regular vaccuum cleaner with an agitating brush and a wet/dry Shop Vac vaccuum cleaner, you can do as good as any pro cleaning your carpet. Vaccuum regularily, and use the Shop Vac to pull any spilled liquids out of your carpet. Every place listed under Janitorial Equipment & Supplies that sells carpet cleaning chemicals will also sell something called "spotting kits". A spotting kit is a collection of from 8 to 22 different stain removers for removing various kinds of stains from various likes of carpets, upholsteries and draperies. If you have a tea stain on a nylon carpet, just to to your local janitorial supply store and ask for a spotter to remove it. Apply the stain remover to the spot, agitate with your fingers and pull the soiled cleaner out of the carpet with the suction hose of your Shop Vac applied directly to the pile of the carpet. Repeat as necessary. Then rinse with clean rinse water.
If you can read the English instructions on the stain remover, you can use your Shop Vac to remove stains as well as any pro can. Some carpets, like the ones made from DuPont Stainmaster nylon fiber require special chemicals, but any place that sells carpet cleaning chemicals or advertises that they have people on staff that are IIRCC accredited can give you instructions on how to clean Stainmaster fiber. These spotting kits are available individually or in a set of 8 to 22, and they are the same chemicals that the pros use to clean stains out of your carpet. If you can read the instructions and follow them, you can clean stains out of your carpet as well as any pro.
4. If you rent a carpet extractor, be aware that the suction power in the extractor isn't very strong, and the instructions given by RugDoctor and EasyOff tell you to use 5 times as much soap as you need. The result is that you don't get most of the soap out of the carpet, and that soap dies on the carpet pile and dirt tends to stick to it, making the carpet get dirty faster and also making normal vaccuuming ineffective at removing that dirt. If you use as much soap as RugDoctor or EasyOff recommend, you can avoid problems with your carpet getting dirty fast by doing a second pass over your carpet with just clean tap water in the solution tank.
5. If you buy a better carpet extractor or shampoo'er, the very best way to clean a carpet is as follows:
a) Apply an enzyme cleaner to the whole carpet, and a traffic lane cleaner in the traffic lanes. An enzyme is nothing more than a protein that breaks down other proteins. Since many common carpet stains are food stains, which often have proteins in them, breaking those proteins down makes the pieces more readily soluble in water for better cleaning results. Allow the enzyme cleaner and traffic lane cleaner at least 15 minutes to work. I let them work for at least a half hour.
b) Do a regular pass over the carpet with the carpet cleaning solution in your solution tank.
c) Now, go over the carpet with an acidic rinse. People often will use 1 cup of vinegar in a 5 gallon solution tank of clean tap water. Carpet cleaning detergents are slightly alkali in nature, and most foods are acidic in nature, and leaving any residual alkali cleaner on your carpet will attract acidic food spills, causing your carpet to be more likely to stain. The acidic rinse will both neutralize the alkalinity of any residual soap in your carpet and leave the carpet fiber slightly acidic so that it's not as prone to be stained by foods. You can buy acid rinse concentrates at any place that sells carpet cleaning supplies. Seldom will any carpet cleaning contractor do an acid rinse pass on a carpet unless he's wanting to impress you in how good a job he's doing.
PS: There's a dirty little secret in the carpet cleaning business.
Seldom will any carpet cleaning contractor do an acid rinse pass on a carpet unless he's wanting to impress you in how good a job he's doing. If a customer asks about doing an acidic rinse pass because of the alkalinity of the soap, the normal response by the contractor will be: "Ain't necessary Ma'am, I'm using a friable soap."
What's a friable soap? A friable soap is one that is supposed to dry to a brittle crumbly film on the carpet fiber as the residual moisture on the carpet dries up. The whole idea is that the soap won't leave the carpet alkaline because normal vaccuuming will break up and remove the friable soap film remaining on the carpet fibers.
Here's the problem: A friable soam may dry to a crumbly film under clean test conditions in a lab, but you mix that soap with God knows what that happens to be in the carpet, and there's really no being sure of what it's gonna do. So, friable soaps are a double edge sword. If they work, then that's great. If they don't work because of all the other garbage that gets into the soap solution, then you just add to the soil that remains behind in your carpet after cleaning.
Most contractors won't do an acid rinse pass without charging extra. So, if you hire a contractor to clean your carpet, after he leaves, pour a quarter cup of vinegar in a gallon of water, and spray that down on your carpet with a spray bottle. The slightly acidic water will disperse throughout the moist carpet to both neutralize the alkalinity of the residual soap and leave the carpet slightly acidic.
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Thanks for all the great information, and the education on the science of carpet cleaning!
To answer questions, we have a 3-bedroom house that's all carpeted except the kitchen and the baths. Plan to leave a couple of the bedrooms carpeted in the future, but put a hard floor surface in living room, hallway, and one of the bedrooms...somewhere in the future! So we will have a limited on-going need to clean carpets. The bedroom carpets are not going to get a lot of spills...it will be more the dusty dirt and foot traffic.
We have an old Kirby shampooer that does not rinse...it does pull out dirty water and ick that used to be in the carpet, but leaves behind soap film. May be possible to come up with a rinse system.
We did have a couple of less-than-stellar experiences with professional cleaning, unfortunately. Trying to avoid that situation if possible, even though it's less work when they do it for you and do a good job!
I'm sorry the "residential" machines aren't as good as the Rug Doctor rentals! That reduces our options, but it's good to know before we'd waste money.
Not sure about the sources that you mentioned, Nestor. They have not yet responded to inquiry, and they appear to only sell wholesale. They will have one of their reps call us...I think. If the cost of quality machines is huge, we'll probably just save towards new floors!
Thanks again for information!
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Dr Stephen Billett is Professor of Adult and Vocational Education in the School of Education and Professional Studies at Griffith University. Stephen has worked as a vocational educator, educational administrator, teacher educator, professional development practitioner and policy developer within the Australian vocational education system and as a teacher and researcher at Griffith University. Stephen was a Fulbright Professional Scholar in 1999, awarded a 2009-2010 Australian Learning and Teaching Council National Teaching Fellowship that identified principles and practices to effectively integrate learning experiences in practice and academic settings. In June 2011, he commenced a four-year Australian Research Council Future Fellowship on learning through practice, which aims to develop a curriculum and pedagogy of practice. He has recently secured an OLT Development Grant examining students' post-practicum experiences (2015-2018). In August 2013 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Jyvasksla University (Finland) for his contributions to educational science.
Stephen has been invited to give keynote presentations all over the world, including in Australia, Germany (EARLI) (2004, 2012), United Kingdom (2003, 2011, 2012, 2013), Singapore (2008, 2010, 2012) New Zealand (2006, 2010, 2011), Norway (2012), Finland (2006, 2009, 2011), Denmark (2009) Switzerland (2009), Czech Republic (2013) Sweden (2013) and Ireland (2014)
Professor Billett is currently on the editorial boards of 7 refereed journals, including the American Education Research Journal, the second most cited journal in the field of education, and he reviews articles for many other journals. He is also the Founding and Editor in Chief of Vocations and Learning: Studies in professional and vocational education (Springer). This journal has an editorial board of 30 members from 13 countries, and has recently been accepted with the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI). He is also the lead editor on the book series Professional and practice-based learning for Springer.
Stephen has led and participated in consultancy projects all over the world. He also advises the federal government's Office of Teaching and Learning and is a member of the committee considering revision to grants and awards. His work is widely cited and has secured over $4 million (AUD) in competitively funded grants and reguarly collaborates with universties around the world.
In particular, since 1992, Stephen has researched learning through and for work, and has published widely in the fields of vocational learning, workplace learning and conceptual accounts of learning for vocational purposes. These include publications in journals such as Culture and Psychology, Learning and Instruction and Mind, Culture and Activity, British Journal of Educational Studies, Studies in Continuing Education. He has also published his research in sole authored books (Learning through work: Strategies for effective practice (Allen and Unwin 2001); Work, change and workers (Springer 2006) and edited books (Work, Subjectivity and Learning (Springer, 2006) Emerging Perspectives of Work and Learning (Sense 2008), Practice-based learning (Springer 2010), and Promoting professional learning (Springer 2011).


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|part of the floral arrangement that was delivered to my home afterwards from my dear friend and "sissy"
Hello Luvs,
Awhile back I'd had a Cardiac Cathetarization done; or "Cardiac Cath". It was August 30, 2011. I had visited my Cardiologist, the one who'd known me since 1991. He told me that he saw some suspicious "stuff" in my stress test from the week prior and he wanted me to have a Cath done. I was really scared because he told me that HE wouldn't be doing the procedure, but his 'new young Dr friend" that he just hired to work with him, was going to do it. I told him how I'm a ver difficult and/or "special" case with the chronic pain, RSD/CRPS and all of the issues I have. Also, my cholesterol was always at 170 and never went up but this time when he did the test, it was about 204 or something like that? Frankly, I was not totally "freaked out " by 204!! But for some reason he was??
Well let me tell you about my procedure and I'll try and post a little video if possible so you can get a glimpse of how the procedure is supposed to go. First of all, when I was in the pre-op room, on a gurney; the nurses were GOOGLING "RSD" and "CRPS". They had no idea what it is! Then Dr. Trevax (sp?) came in and HE also had no idea what that "painful nerve disease" is that I was trying to talk to him about prior to my procedure!! He started to GOOGLE CRPS/RSD too!! Can you even believe this in the Century that we are in? He was a very young looking "new" Dr so he should've known about it as it should've been fresh from Medical School! He giggled and talked with me as if nothing was going on and I was there for a "good time" or something. I tried to explain to him /them that I was on quite a bit of Fentanyl for my chronic pain/nerve pain issues and my CRPS, along with the other pain issues. I now know for a fact that it went into one ear and out of the other!
My procedure was a bit different right from the beginning because #1: there was no anesthesiologist to be found anyplace in, around or near the O.R. that I was in! #2: I was not "out" or even a bit "drowsy" nor "sleepy" in any way, shape or form!!! In fact, I was very much awake and it was like a nightmare from hell being strapped down to a a gurney, unable to move at all and the whole time nobody could hear my screams! I felt totally "out of control while they were not paying any attention to what I was telling them. They were talking and joking around and I lay there wide awake and not even in the least bit of a "twilight" sleep or anything!! I started to scream uncontrollably saying "I can feel this!!!…I'm not asleep!! I'm not even drowsy! ….Hey…I'm still awake and I can FEEL everything!" It was horrible and I already suffer from PTSD and that did not help my fears or anxiety levels at all! I also suffer, as I've mentioned, from the horrible neuro-autoimmune disease, which is very painful. It feels as though I am "on fire" and as if someone has poured "gasoline" on to me and I feel like I'm going to spontaneously combust or blow up or go "poof" in flames, I'm just so burning up hot so much of the time!
I begged and begged for them to put the catheter up through my groin area because I knew if they did it in my arm/hand, that would cause much more spread and problems for the pain disease, CRPS/RSD. I begged and once again, I was not listened to at all. The Dr decided that it'd be easier for him and he THOUGHT I'd heal faster if they put it into my right wrist. Well NOT true! He was wrong and it was HELL for a long few weeks. Not only was I having to recover from the pain of the needles, Catheter and scope or whatever they use all going through and invading my body and bothering my nerves so as to upset my RSD/CRPS so that I would then have to flare up and suffer for a couple of weeks or longer.!! I ended up with painful swelling, bruises, redness and extra horrible pain from not only the pokes and shots etc. but from the catheter site. They continued on choosing not to listen to me and they went in through my wrist instead. I was not asleep, nor was I even drowsy in the least!! I continued yelling to them that "I'm awake!!"…"I'm not asleep, can you tell??" …"It is hurting me terribly and it hurts like Hell, please stop and let me be somewhat "out of it".." I just kept trying to tell them and in the background all I could hear was the young Dr. Trevax saying "1 mg Versed, or 1mg Dilauded" and he said it several times but nothing was happening to me. Maybe I was so afraid that I wasn't allowing the medicine to work?? All I know is that I did NOT want to be awake for that test and I was totally and completely awake. That is until they were wheeling me out of the door and into a "post op" room. Then they wanted me to hurry up and go home but I fell asleep for 4 whole hours finally after they were done and they'd or someone listened to me and gave me enough to work and then I was "zonked out" for 4 hours straight!!!
I don't think some of the little or smaller amounts of those big duty pain meds or whatever they were using with the pain meds, were working because My body had already at that time been used to the Fentanyl patch and the transbuccal Fentanyl. I don't think anyone had seen those or heard of those transbuccal Fentanyl meds either and that's why they didn't listen to me. But I think it's because my body had built up a tolerance and the small amounts that would normally work on a person of my (at the time) smaller stature, just would not work for me due to my medication regimen. Also because of the Neurological pain, of my chronic nerve pain disease, "CRPS/RSD", this caused their meds to not work well on me. Though had someone listened to me and really realized how much medication that I was really taking under my Dr.'s care, they might've figured it out. But no way, no how was anyone listening to me that Day!
It was the Cardiac Cath from HELL!!! I would assume that this would not happen to you if you are going in for a Cardiac Catheterization. Mostly, because they make sure that people are "out of it" in a Twilight type of sleep so they don't have the anxiety and terror and pain that I experienced! I was just one of the Unlucky ones, I guess!
The worst part, aside from the horrible extra pain, then the 2 weeks of flares from my CRPS; was what happened when I went back to my Gen. Cardiologist to explain to him the bad experience that I had. He just listened for a moment and then yelled at me and said very loudly "STOP IT!!" I started to tear up and cry a bit because my normally gentle and caring Doc had just yelled at me! He yelled at me to "get over my past"! I guess he thought I was upset about the way it went because it brought up some bad memories and feelings. I was but that was not why I was telling him! I was telling him so others would not get hurt like I did.!!!
Needless to say, I've not been back to that Dr. and he was one of my favorites too !! From 1991 through about 2011, I guess?? I transferred all of my cardiac care over to my EPS/Autonomic Dysfunction/Pacemaker Dr or "Neuro-Cardiologist". I decided that I wanted only one heart Dr to handle everything because of being on Blood thinners (Coumadin) and such..I liked the fact that my Neuro-Cardio office had a "Coumadin clinic" with nurses who actually called and reminded me to get my blood drawn. It made me feel more safe about taking an "unsafe" type of medication.
Well, Luvs….bye for now….this was the story of the "Cardiac Cath from Hell"…but I'm glad its over and I'm not sure when I'll need another but my Cholesterol went from 204, when that heart doc freaked out on me to now its about 223 to 279 it has been!!! YIKES huh??? I do know that the Dr. who did the heart cath only got about 1/2 way done and finally stopped the test because I was crying and screaming so much. They did find 30% stenosis in my heart and they are saying that I do have "CAD", but it's not terrible yet or right now…we will see as time goes by. I don't eat too much bad stuff, but those Fentanyl transbuccal meds were sugar filled and bad for my teeth. Luckily for me, my dentist made me a special floride tray to use twice weekly and help with that so my teeth did not rot out!! Thank you God for that!!
Thank you for reading about my past experience in 2011, with the Cardiac Cath from Hell!! G'bye Luvs….Suzanne
a picture of the Cath lab room!
Here are a few pictures, to show you what I went through; though I was not drowsy in any way , shape or form…
Month: August 2015
Withdrawals From Actiq…..3 Weeks Later….For CRPS/Systemic
"Why give up everything for one thing when you can give up one thing for everything"……Unknown
Hello Luvs,
Wow…it has now been 3 weeks (*tomorrow….On Monday, Aug 3, 2015), since I went from 5 Fentanyl "Actiq" Lollipops per day (Plus the long lasting Fentanyl patch that I still continue to wear and to change every 48 hours), to zero Actiq lollipops for Breakthrough pain per day. I went to bed on the 12th of July taking my last "sucker" for pain and I woke up being unable, not allowed to take another. The first day wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I am suspecting that was because I still had residuals left in my system. By the end of the first night, I started feeling pretty ill. The second day was wasn't so bad and the 3,4th, and 5th days were the worst. I can tell you that it feels like the very worst flu that I've ever had. It includes: vomiting, diarrhea, chills, awful sweats and all I wanted to do was lay on my couch, bed or "Lazy Boy" chair. I am sometimes hungry, but when I eat, my stomach hurts. I feel bloated and nothing sounds good to eat and even drinking doesn't sound good. I used to love my hot tea, my coffee and diet pepsi and none of that even sounds good to me now. Nothing is the same and now it's been 3 weeks!
We called the Dr. about 5 days into this and told him how awful I'd been feeling. I did a lot of research, went onto forums for withdrawals and such. I found out that there are a few different meds that can help through the hardest days at the beginning especially. The first one is a blood pressure medication called "Catapres" also called "Clonodine". There is an anti-anxiey /anti-panic attack type of drug called "Klonopin" that can also help with the withdrawal and flu-like symptoms. Then another thing that can help are the medications that are for anxiety, such as: Ativan, Xanax or even Valium. You don't need to take them for a long time but just long enough to help you through a hard time. If you find yourself in this kind of situation, please research online forums, use "google" to look up information on withdrawals and then check out "You Tube" videos online about withdrawals too! My Dr. gave me the Catapress and I took it for about 2 weeks and it helped very much with the symptoms of chills, sweats etc. That is driving me crazy! The chills and sweats are getting lesser and less often but the knee dropping fatigue just won't stop!
So now I'm actually finishing the 3rd week of not taking the one thing that actually worked for my pain. The Fentanyl Lollipops helped me and though I never should've been given the large amount that Dr. Bullach had given me, I felt so much better when I was down and got myself down to the FDA approved amount. I don't understand at all why I have to go through the pain of the withdrawals from something that helped my pain the most and did not upset my GI tract. I now remember and cannot believe that I didn't remember when the pain Dr. asked me "do you have stomach issues? Why are you taking the lollipops in the first place?" I told him that I didn't have issues with my stomach and due to my MTBI I forget certain things. I remember now that Dr. Bullach had written a "book" for the Insurance company about me and why I needed to take Actiq losenges or lollipops because of the numerous different meds that I tried with horrible GI side effects or allergic reactions. I had forgotten all about that until I started taking Dilauded on a daily basis. It's ripping up my stomach!
It's been 3 weeks and I cry often and feel very depressed. I'm not ever very hungry and I've not lost any weight! How crazy is that? I feel nauseous and my stomach down in my lower intestines, feels bloated and hurts every time I eat something! Nothing sounds good and nothing much tastes very good. I'm going to the pain Dr. this week and I need to talk to him and tell him everything. But I just really don't want to try a bunch of other medications that might make my stomach worse or have even worse side effects. The one side effect that I cannot handle is "weight gain". I already feel much to heavy now and I cannot afford to gain an ounce. I used to have Anorexia since I was about 13 yrs old and I fought in on and off until I was in that car accident . I will only say one thing about the eating disorder, and that happened because of things ….no…."Abuse" that happened in my home growing up. My kidneys and tubules from my kidneys are too small according to the Ultrasound that the Nephrologist did several years ago following my episode of acute renal failure in 1994. I've been on SSDI for Chronic Kidney Disease Stage II and Complex PTSD. To make a very long story, very very short, my heart and my kidneys have medical issues due to me being starved and poisoned with syrup of Ipecac during my childhood. I have seen my pediatrician records, shot records etc.; my dad gave them to me after my mom died and I don't think he knew what they said! They are written all over by the pediatrician. It says "Feed this baby"! "This baby is Anemic! Give her Iron"….then the Dr. wrote some instructions with names of baby foods and formulas with iron etc. So ….lastly, regarding this subject, I do have stomach issues and when I was terribly Anemic in 1999, 2000, 2001; I had 3 blood transfusions!!! They didn't work and the Hemoglobin was at 8. when I had the last one! So I visited a Hematologist and he gave me an IV infusion of something that helped and my Anemia has been much better since 2002!!!
Since that awful car accident on 8-11-02, and all of the chronic intractable pain, the surgeries and the horrible pain following the surgeries; I just didn't care anymore about how much I weighed. The numbers didn't matter any longer! I needed to eat to help myself feel less pain, take medications to help with the ongoing pain following that accident.!!! I slowly started gaining weight as at the time of the MVA, I only weighed about 90 pounds and I am 5'5" tall! Slowly I allowed myself the nourishment to "fix" or help "fix" my pained and broken body. I've gotten up to about 145 lbs now and to me, that is too much. For a long time I didn't weigh myself because as long as I could wear a size 6, I felt OK with myself. I can still wear a "misses" size 6 in relaxed jeans but I feel very big now because I need to use a cane, a wheelchair at times and even a walker. I don't exercise because I get out of breath and in too much pain and am unable to do much of anything. The CRPS started in 2007 in my right foot following a surgery. It spread to both feet and my knees as well. Now it is full body "systemic" and I cannot even walk more than just a few minutes, like 20 minutes I suppose. Some days a little more and other days a little less. I'm trying not to worry about that, the "numbers" game, but it's really scaring me because for the past 3 weeks now, I've had a very hard time eating anything much at all and I have not lost but 3 pounds. My Lymphedema in my left arm from the CRPS on my whole left side internally, doesn't help with that because I get a lot of edema! My feet, legs and arms swell. I'm pretty much miserable!
I didn't mean to go there. I wasn't planning on talking about the Anorexia. But I am proud of myself for a few reasons. I have cured myself of the Anorexia (although I will always have the food fears and I will always have the distorted body image and thoughts that go with it all. But I will not ever be acting on those fears and thoughts again, for life and death reasons because I love my husband, kids and grandkids much more than I care about those numbers! I always did but I felt too "out of control" and controlled by my fears of food way back when!
Ok…..so back to these past few weeks…..this has been the hardest or one of the top few hardest things that I've ever done. I asked the Dr. who took over for Dr. Bullach,(**and got me through by prescribing lower and lower doses of the meds that would've and could've killed me if he had not done that for me) if he was "proud of me" for stopping the Fentanyl lollipops? I asked him also if he liked the letter that I wrote to him, Dr. Bullach and Dr. Dobritt, the old pain Dr.? He smiled and said that his Office employees were impressed and he left it at that. I could see it in his face and his eyes. His demeanor was very different this past visit, with my being off of that prescription now and him not having to write it for me any longer. He is relieved and I do feel that he is very happy for me and proud of me. That shouldn't really matter to me but it does make me feel good that I did and am doing and have done something very very difficult that even some of the strongest willed people might not have been able to do!! But I've done it and i'm doing it!!
After having said all that I've said, now I'd like to really say that I've been going through "HELL" this past 3 weeks. I don't want to live like this with my stomach feeling all ripped up. My headaches and neck aches, which are in the back of my head and neck, most likely from the "Chiari I malformation", have been a daily occurrence and they aren't going away! I was off of my Ativan for a year and now I'm back on that several time daily to help with the Dilauded side effects. I could take the Dilauded when it was just an "emergency" medication that I used to keep out of the E.R. or it was used following surgeries. You must remember that I also had my "suckers" at that or during those times as well. My husband has had to set his alarm for 6:00 am each morning to get up and get me a Dilauded and an Ativan , just so that I am able to get out of bed an hour or two later! I used to take a Fentanyl Lollipop which was waiting in my bedside table drawer. I could open it, take it and lay in bed for about 1/2 hour and then I was able to get up. Now I have to plan it like a 2 hour ordeal. If we forget then we or I cannot even get out of bed. I do have GI issues obviously from all that my stomach has been through. Im actually surprised its not worse. I do have to have Colonoscopies every 5 years also, because of my mom's death from colon cancer in Dec 2002. For some reason, the lollipops don't upset my stomach or bother me in any way. I have had no side effects! I've honestly tried so many other pain meds that all had terrible side effects and worse! I don't think I'll be able to go back on the lollipops now! I'm not sure I would if I could, now that I've gone through the withdrawals and illness that goes with that.!! I honestly don't know what to ask for or try? I did have something called Kadian (*extended slow release Morphine) that worked for a few or 2 years and suddenly stopped working for me. I also have something called "LONG QT syndrome", which affects my heart and there are hundreds of meds that I cannot have due to this condition, that has only one symptom; which is "sudden cardiac death".
Now I'm going to share with you, some research that I got from some of the websites that are the companies that make these Fentanyl lollipops called "Actiq". I also want to share that many people have lost and do lose their teeth because of these lollipops with 8 grams of sugar in each one. The way that you get the medication to work is by placing the lollipop between my gum and my cheek. You have to pretty much keep it there twirling it loosly for 15 minutes in order to get the appropriate amount of medication. My Dentist was wonderful and thought ahead for my safety and comfort. He made special trays that molded to my teeth. I then put a flouride paste into these trays, put them into my mouth, covering all of my teeth for about 5 minutes several times per week! I had only one or two cavities since 2005, when I actually started the suckers. They were very old and needed new fillings. I tried hard to take every precaution.
I honestly don't see why I had to have something taken from me that I was being very responsible with and doing very well with while taking them??? I only always followed my physician's rules and advice! These past 3 years I had asked him several times if he would "help me go down off of them and take less". He always told me that "Suzanne, I got you out of that hospital bed in the living room! I got you to be able to get up, go out sometimes and have a bit more of a life!" He was right, so I stopped bothering him. He told me to "trust him" and so I did. Here are a few of the things that I found on the website for the Fentanyl "Actiq" Lolllipops for BT pain: "Actiq achieved off-label status as a powerful pain reliever (80-100 times more potent than morphine) and is used to treat migraine headaches, severe back pain, cluster headaches, bone pain, arthritis, neuropathies, and other situations of severe chronic non-cancer pain." Also, I read that "It can legally be prescribed for off-label used but cannot be marked as such. As much as 80% of the prescriptions for Actiq each year are written for off-label use for sufferers of NON-CANCER,Chronic pain. Soooo, then ….if I was doing so much better and had a much more happy existence with less pain because no stomach issues and honestly …less pain!!??? Why , then??? Why can I not have my life back? Its not any more dangerous it just cannot be! I don't understand because Fentanyl is Fentanyl and how is less of that any better for me, than Dillauded ripping up my stomach whilst my head and neck,…..arms, legs and feet feel "on Fire" along with burning nerve pain! I'm so fatigued, that I can only do something for about one hour maybe two and I'm down for the count! The rest of the day is in bed or in my "Lazy Boy" chair or on the couch!…
Well, I'll give Dr Bullach that one…he got me "out of that hospital bed in the living room and out doing more stuff" while in the meantime giving me much too much medication …..like I have said before, I'm a lay person and I had no idea !! I wish I'd never taken any of it….I 've never smoked, drank nor have I ever done any drug of any kind…At first, after the car accident, when I went to my 1st pain Dr for 3 yrs…they'd get upset with me because I wasn't taking the amount prescribed but was taking LESS….I cannot win….I never have taken more than prescribed either….well, we will see what happens huh? I'll keep you posted…I have another pain Dr. appt this week on the 6th….Thank you for following ….and we will be on to a new subject very soon…If you want to read back on any of my old posts…one of the pretty good ones is "Illness Doesn't Equal Lack of Faith"…..it's a good one if I do say so myself….check it out if you wish….I'll be writing soon again…not so long this time…My youngest daughter is moving with her hubby to Boise Idaho this week…give me strength. This is going to be so very hard…I miss her already….UGGH Why does life have to be this hard??? lots of love, Suzanne


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