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If you want to understand the stroke rehabilitation process, we have you covered.
There are many steps to understand during stroke rehabilitation and it can feel overwhelming sometimes, especially if you're a new stroke survivor or caregiver.
To help simplify the stroke rehabilitation process, we've outlined everything we think you should know about this journey. And we broke it up into 5 parts:
- Understanding the Basics of Stroke Rehab
- Stroke Rehabilitation & Treatment
- Timelines & Patterns
- Rehabilitation at Home Vs. Clinic
- Finding Hope and a Higher Recovery
Our advice is unconventional and full of the healthy perspective you need.
By the end, you'll have a deep understanding of the stroke rehabilitation process.
Understanding Stroke Rehabilitation
Let's start with the definition of a stroke.
1. What Is Stroke?
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A stroke is a "brain attack" that occurs when the supply of blood in the brain is cut off by either a clogged or burst artery.
Since brain cells cannot survive without oxygen, the lack of oxygen-rich blood causes brain damage which results in stroke side effects.
There are many stroke side effects that you may experience. Some of the most common ones are:
- Impaired movement or paralysis on one side of the body
- Spasticity (stiff, tight muscles)
- Aphasia (difficulty speaking)
- Foot drop (difficulty lifting the foot)
The side effects that you experience depends on where the stroke occurred in your brain, which we will discuss next.
Read more: 20 Most Common Post Stroke Side Effects Explained
2. Every Stroke Is Different
The brain is composed of many different parts that each control different functions like language, emotion, and logic.
Stroke can occur in any area of the brain and affect different functions, making every stroke unique.
Every stroke is different, which means that every recovery will be different.
3. Left vs. Right Side Stroke Rehabilitation
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Each side of the brain controls the opposite side of the body. When stroke occurs in the left hemisphere, for example, it can cause movement impairments on the right side of the body.
It's valuable to understand which part of the brain was affected by stroke because it can give you an idea of which stroke side effects you will experience.
For example, the left hemisphere controls language. So if you have a left-brain stroke, then you might have difficulty speaking and understanding language (a condition known as aphasia).
Every stroke patient should ask their neurologist about the size and location of their stroke because it has serious implications for rehabilitation.
4. It's About the Brain, not the Body
It's also very important to understand that stroke rehabilitation starts in the brain, not the body.
This distinction is incredibly important: to heal your body, you need to heal your brain.
If your motor cortex was damaged, for example, then you might have difficulty moving half of your body. Although it feels like the problem is in your muscles, you need to heal your brain if you want to regain movement.
All stroke rehabilitation therapies revolve around healing the brain.
5. Neuroplasticity Is the King of Rehab
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The good news is that your brain already knows how to heal itself through the process of neuroplasticity.
Neuroplasticity is the mechanism that your brain uses to rewire itself and form new connections.
When part of the brain becomes damaged after stroke, neuroplasticity allows your brain to rewire the healthy parts of your brain to pick up the slack.
That's right – your brain can rewire itself and let different parts of the brain take over.
Because of this, activating neuroplasticity is the #1 most important thing during stroke rehabilitation.
6. Repetition Is the Key
Neuroplasticity is activated by repetitive practice. Whenever you repeat something over and over and over, you strengthen the connections in your brain. The stronger the connections become, the stronger your skills become.
For example, if walking is difficult after stroke, then practicing leg exercises over and over and over can help strengthen the connections in your brain that control leg movement. The more you practice, the more your brain will rewire itself, and your walking will improve.
During stroke rehabilitation, you will be forming lots of new connections from scratch, which requires lots of time and hard work.
But trust that repetition and neuroplasticity will help your brain heal and alleviate your stroke side effects.
Stroke Rehabilitation & Treatment
Before we can start talking about how to treat your stroke side effects, we need to talk about the different types of treatment.
There are two types of stroke treatments that occur: treatment in the hospital to stop the stroke and treatment to remedy the stroke side effects that occur.
Let's start by discussing when happens in the hospital.
7. Stroke Treatment in the Hospital
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If you have an ischemic stroke, which is caused by a blood clot and clogged artery, then drugs like TPA or aspirin will be administered to dissolve the clot.
If you have a hemorrhagic stroke, which is caused by a burst artery, then surgery might be required to stop the bleeding.
The faster the treatment, the greater the chance of survival. Time is brain when it comes to stroke treatment!
8. Stroke Rehabilitation Begins as Soon as Possible
Once treatment has been administered in the hospital, stroke rehabilitation begins immediately. Literally – some people begin rehabilitation the day after treatment.
For those who sustain severe mobility impairments, a rehab specialist might start by taking your body through its range of motion. If your mobility was not severely affected, they might have you start walking as soon as possible.
It all depends on your unique stroke rehabilitation process.
9. Choosing the Best Treatments
The best treatments for stroke are the ones that activate neuroplasticity the most efficiently. Since the goal of stroke rehabilitation is healing the brain, you want to participate in stroke rehabilitation practices that help you get your reps in.
Because of this, rehab exercise is often the most effective way to regain movement after stroke – especially when you accomplish lots of repetitions per session.
There are other ways to boost neuroplasticity too by adding additional therapies to your regimen like mirror therapy and constraint-induced movement therapy.
Read more: The Ultimate Guide to Stroke Treatment for Patients
Stroke Rehabilitation Timeline
Now that you know how to treat your stroke side effects, you might be wondering long how all of this might take. Let's take a look.
10. Estimating Your Stroke Rehabilitation Timeline
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Generally speaking, people who recover from a minor stroke can recover within 6 months to a year. For more severe strokes, rehabilitation could take a few years. And for those who suffer massive stroke, rehabilitation could take decades.
Although these numbers might feel overwhelming, don't lose hope! Yes, stroke rehabilitation is a long process, but there is tons of hope for recovery – even a full recovery, which we will discuss later.
But first, we'd like to debunk a common stroke rehabilitation myth: the plateau.
11. Accepting and Reversing Plateaus
Plateaus during stroke rehabilitation are real and well-documented. Most patients will see a slowdown in their progress at about the 3-6 month mark.
Does this mean that recovery is over? NO. Although your progress slows down, it will not stop as long as you don't stop.
Plateaus are real and normal, and you can reverse them by providing your brain with the right stimulation.
Specifically, you want to get some variety and challenge into your regimen to shake things up and get your results moving along again.
Read more: How to Get Past Plateaus after Stroke
12. Understanding Regression
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Stroke rehabilitation often takes the shape of 'two steps forward, one step back.' Small declines in progress are normal and should not be stressed over. When you zoom out and look at the big picture, there should be a trend of upward progress.
Read more: What to Do If You're Regressing After Stroke
Stroke Rehabilitation at Home vs. The Clinic
Now that you understand the general timeline and patterns that happen during stroke recovery, let's talk about WHERE stroke rehabilitation takes place.
13. Stroke Rehabilitation at the Clinic
After stroke, you will likely participate in physical and occupational therapy. Most insurances cover these sessions for a certain amount of time.
During these therapy sessions at the clinic, you will work with a physical or occupational therapist to rehabilitate your side effects and work to regain independence. These sessions are valuable.
However, after a certain amount of time, insurance will stop covering your sessions. At this point, it's important to find a solid home therapy program to follow.
Some patients will continue to see their therapist once or twice a month and use home therapy as a supplement. Others cannot afford trips to the clinic and rely on home therapy to continue their progress.
14. Stroke Rehabilitation at Home
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When you're looking for a home therapy program, it's important to consider your goals. Are you looking for something challenging yet affordable? Do you have strong work ethic or do you need something that provides extra motivation?
Everyone resonates differently with different therapies. While we have our own preferred methods of home therapy (like our FitMi home therapy system), other people have their own preferences.
It's important for you to try many different approaches until you find the one that resonates with you because you're far more likely to follow through with therapy that you actually enjoy!
Finding Hope during Stroke Rehabilitation
And now we've reached our favorite part: hope!
We are very passionate about is spreading hope for stroke recovery because, far too often, patients are told that they will have a limited recovery, which is often not true!
And we're here to spread the truth.
15. Chances of a Full Recovery
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When you receive your stroke prognosis from your neurologist, they might say something like, "You might not walk again," or, "You might never regain use of your hand again."
Doctors and therapists say things like these to give you the "healthy dose" of realism and set your expectations low so that you're not disappointed or frustrated by the long road to recovery.
However, the problem is that limiting beliefs like these seep into your own belief system and often prevent you from even trying.
So we say, a fully recovery is absolutely possible for everyone. It doesn't matter how severe your impairments are. What matters is how hard you're willing to work and your dedication to never giving up.
There are so many stories of stroke survivors regaining more movement than doctors predicted. You can be one of those stories if you truly believe in yourself and work hard to get there.
Read more: What Percentage of Stroke Patients Make a Full Recovery?
16. Hope for Overcoming Paralysis
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Another common myth in stroke rehabilitation is that there's no hope for overcoming paralysis… Just… No.
There is TONS of hope for stroke paralysis recovery.
The key is to start off with passive movement that helps activate neuroplasticity. Passive movement simply involves using you non-affected limbs to move your paralyzed muscles.
Although you aren't "doing it yourself," you're still activating neuroplasticity, which will help bring movement into your paralyzed limbs. The results will come VERY slowly, but it's still possible so give it a try.
17. Recovery Is Possible Decades After Stroke
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And the last myth that we'd like to debunk is that you cannot recover from stroke after a lot of time has passed… Also, no.
The truth is that you can pick stroke rehabilitation back up after any amount of time – even decades – and continue to recover. We have seen it with our very own eyes.
Some of our customers are 20-something years post stroke and they start improving again once they start trying again.
Read more: It's True! Recovery Is Possible Even Decades after Stroke
9 Tips for Stroke Rehabilitation
Overall, stroke rehabilitation is a complicated process, but it can be simplified into these 9 important points:
- A stroke is a brain attack that causes brain damage
- This brain damage causes certain stroke side effects, like impaired movement, that must be overcome through rehabilitation
- The main focus of rehabilitation is to heal brain damage by activating neuroplasticity
- Neuroplasticity is activated by repetitive practice
- The best stroke treatments will involve some sort of repetitive practice
- Understanding the size and location of your stroke will help you understand which side effects you will experience and how long your recovery will take
- No matter what anyone says, there's more hope for a full recovery than you realize
- There's also more hope for stroke paralysis recovery than most people realize
- Recovery is always possible, even decades after stroke
We hope this guide has helped you understand what stroke rehabilitation is all about. If you have any questions, please leave them for us in the comments section below!


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5 French Holiday Outfits That Will Make You Want a Holiday More Than Ever
If there's one thing our readers love, it's stories on French style, which is why we've brought you French Week—seven days dedicated to decoding how French women dress. This month, our favourite French influencers have hit the beach, and there are five holiday-ready outfits that really caught our attention. From Jeanne Damas's unusual poolside cover up to the swimwear brand French Instagrammers are regularly tagging, keep scrolling to see (and shop) the outfits I just can't stop thinking about.
Sabina Socol
Style Notes: Sabina Socol's white swimsuit looks amazing paired with her floral high-waisted skirt and colourful beaded Susan Alexandra bag.
Style notes: This fruity print shirt is actually from the men's department in ASOS, but we love how it looks unbuttoned and knotted at the waist.
Style Notes: Adenorah proves that sometimes nothing looks better than a red printed wrap dress.
Jeanne Damas
Style Notes: A cardigan might sound like a strange idea for a beach cover-up, but we love how Jeanne Damas wore hers over her leopard-print swimsuit.
Style Notes: When it comes to swimwear, the French Instagram set is really into simple minimal swimwear, especially when it's by Matteau. We love the white bikini top worn with an open cropped white shirt.
For more French summer style see the swimwear brand that our office can't stop talking about.

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Tables and trails
Had a little job this morning to revarnish a couple of small tables, so while watching the weather sanded them down and gave them their fist coat.
The rain was off so decided to chance a short MTB outing to Biglees quarry.
On route was a sombre little reminder of mortality, beside the road were bouquets of flowers to the young girl killed there just two days ago in a car accident, very, very sad.
Up the quarry onto the moor downhill, over Goldenberry on the way back home but just did a loop back into Hunterston estate as the beach would be a head wind,back at 2.30pm for refreshments then finished varnishing the two tables.
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2 December 2002
By invitation–
Address to Federal Government Policy Committee of Health and Aging
Parliament House,
Canberra, Australia
Guest Speaker–Christine Hunter, on behalf of
Alison Hunter Memorial Foundation
ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Association of Australia
"Truth is the child of time, not of authority" – Bertold Brecht
The Alison Hunter Memorial Foundation was formally established in 1998 through the initiative of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre.
Myalgic encephalomyelitis has been formally classified by the World Health Organisation WHO as a neurological disorder in the International Classification of Diseases ICD since 1969. It remains classified in the current ICD 10, G 93.3.
The shift to the name "chronic fatigue syndrome" (CFS) invites the dismissal, contempt and medical neglect so often endured by people with ME/CFS. The emphasis of "fatigue" (weariness) at the expense of the cardinal neurological, gastrointestinal, cardiac and myoarthralgic features trivialises the substantial disability of ME.
I briefly relate our daughter Alison's experience of the health system to illustrate the problems faced by the severely ill.
In the Sydney Morning Herald News Review 4-5 May 2002, Professor James Isbister, Head of Haematology, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, described our daughter as "a brilliant girl, intellectually very vibrant". He continued "to be honest I felt helpless towards the end. On many occasions I was extremely embarrassed about the way she was treated by the system. A lot of terrible things Alison went through were doctors projecting their own fears and inadequacies. How anyone could not think she had a major medical illness is beyond me". Alison, he said was "like someone going through a concentration camp, suffering terrible physical distress compounded by insults and inhumanity."
Professor Isbister lamented "the edifice of medicine that cannot acknowledge things it does not understand". Six years after her death, those words were the first frank admission of Alison's cruel treatment by the health system. Such honesty may have provided some small comfort to her during her life.
In 1986 at the age of nine, Alison contracted a "severe virus" with encephalitic features. Six months later, with little sustainable improvement, she was given the diagnosis of postviral syndrome. A name with no treatment, no prognosis. Overriding the myriad of her symptoms was a punishing intractable headache. Alison's suffering tormented us all.
Over time, despite several lengthy episodes of remission, any further infection led to serious relapse. At the onset Alison was often reminded by eminent experts we consulted that it was her misfortune to have something so poorly understood because "in ten years we will have all the answers." Ten years later Alison's condition was critical. And still there were no answers. Although treatment with chemotherapy in the last weeks of her life eased the throat ulcerations which had plagued her for the previous two years, Alison died in March 1996.
US author Laura Hillenbrand articulated the common experience of those with severe ME, which she contracted from food poisoning.
"I lost 22 pounds in the first month – I lost all my vitality. My hair started falling out. I got sores all over my mouth and throat. I was running fevers all the time. I've spent 6 of the last 14 years completely bedridden. For many hours a day I can't move my arms or legs. I can't sit up, get myself to the bathroom. I can't talk to anyone. All I can do is move my eyeballs. I lie there and hope I can keep breathing."
Such severe ME does not discriminate.
The accounts of young people who share Hillenbrand's experience of ME can defy belief.
When faced with severe cases, doctors search for psychiatric labels such as pervasive refusal syndrome, Munchausen's syndrome by proxy, conversion or somatisation disorder, or abnormal illness behaviour. Enforced exercise and punitive behavioural regimes draw families into dispute with hospital staff. In the worst cases young people have been removed from the care of their parents by the courts, and confined to psychiatric units or placed in foster care. Paediatrician Dr Nigel Speight, a member of the UK Chief Medical Officer's (CMO) Reference Group for ME refers to the mistreatment of these severely affected young people as "child abuse by health professionals".
In Australia this abuse is well illustrated by the cruel treatment forced upon K aged 13.
Despite a confirmed independent diagnosis of severe ME/CFS by a leading endocrinologist /researcher in ME/CFS, K was detained in a locked psychiatric unit against her wishes and those of her family. A "normalization plan" was instigated to "create behavioural challenges to K beliefs". "If K is continuing to complain, scream, cry, whine etc she is to remain in the chair until she is calm. K does not require rests. At this stage bed rest through the day will cease". K was removed to foster care for 5 years.
Many such medical nightmares could be told of families desperate for medical help but constrained by fear. A study documenting family experiences of the health system has commenced at the University of Western Sydney.
What has been done for people with ME/CFS in Australia?
People with ME/CFS have been shamefully neglected.
For the past decade initiatives to bring consensus and appropriate care to people with ME/CFS have failed through inaction, denial and misattributions.
The medical politics are truly awful. One struggles to find another illness where those responsible for care in so many instances display such arrogant disregard, spite and cruelty towards the patients.
The history of the sparse initiatives towards ME/CFS speaks volumes.
1993 The "Watson" Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Review, instigated by the then Federal Health Minister recommended a national consensus conference of key agencies, researchers, clinicians and representative consumers.
This recommendation was ignored by the Liberal Government.
1994 The Royal Australasian College of Physicians RACP and the Royal Australian College of General Practice (RACGP) surveys of members revealed "significant areas of ignorance, misconceptions and prejudice". 1995 The RACP proposed the development of clinical practice guidelines for CFS. 1996 The Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care (Medicare Branch) provided an initial grant of $130,000 (later extended to $200,000) to the RACP. The RACP committed to following procedures outlined in the National Health and Medical Research Council NHMRC Guidelines for the Development and Implementation of Clinical Practice Guidelines. 1998 Due date for the release of CFS Clinical Guidelines was May 1998. 2002 The CFS Clinical Guidelines were published four years late in May 2002.
The Guidelines were strenuously rejected by all state consumer societies and the ME Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Association of Australia. Many Australian and international researchers and clinicians voiced concerns about the bias of the document.
Key consumer objections were:
- The failure to accurately represent the spectrum of the illness
- The undue emphasis given to recommendations for cognitive behavioural therapy
- Graded exercise based on unreliable evidence – short term studies of poorly defined patient populations
- The biased selectivity and inconsistency in the use of evidence
- The failure to incorporate the key consumer concerns
- The insidious psychiatric bias, which could not be masked by the superficial expressions of empathy
The Guidelines process did not conform to NHMRC Guidelines and NHMRC accreditation did not proceed.
Inexcusably the RACP Guidelines Working Group failed to address the severely affected, admitting "they have not been included because they have never been studied".
The NHMRC has provided the following details of research funding for CFS
1992 $213,000 over 3 years Chief Investigator- Ian Hickie Study Title "Is neurasthenia (chronic fatigue) prevalent in Primary Care" 1994 $270,740 Chief Investigator- Ian Hickie Study Title "The genetic aetiology of chronic fatigue and related disorders" 2001 $500,000 over 5 years Chief Investigator- Ian Hickie Study Title "A prospective study of the psychiatric and medical Characteristics of post-infectious fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome" 2001 $360,000 over 3 years Chief Investigator- Andrew Lloyd Study title "Microbiological and immunological determinants of prolonged illness following Q fever"
It should be noted that the 1992 and 1994 studies relate to chronic fatigue, NOT chronic fatigue syndrome. The NHMRC has failed to distinguish chronic fatigue from chronic fatigue syndrome both in correspondence and advice to the Health Minister (Hansard 10.9.96).
Does the NHMRC not differentiate between chronic fatigue and the neurological disease ME/CFS which has defined CDC diagnostic criteria?
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Priscilla by Dora Sigerson Shorter
Priscilla was dead, and all the women of the village had come to her
waking. They moved about the big house where she had lived so long and
so quietly as though they had never seen it before; and they never had,
without Priscilla.
They moved silently, or came together in little groups to talk about
her. They seemed as much amazed as sorry. Who could imagine Priscilla
dead? Surely she was the oldest woman in the village; and yet she
seemed not so very old; but no one remembered the village without her,
and no one remembered her young. Perhaps she had entered into their
lives unnoticed and only when she came to her womanhood had taken her
place in their sight, as a little unknown seedling will one day become
a tree and a landmark.
Perhaps in the great house she had passed her shadowy girlhood, and
only became a personage when her uncle died, leaving her his sole and
only heir. Then she crept forth, and her fading hands drew the hearts
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Was she rich? Who can say? The black, barrack-like house, with its
neglected garden, had no air of wealth about it; but never a child or
woman came to Priscilla for help and went away empty-handed. Some said
that for this latter reason the house grew more desolate as it grew
old,that pictures and silver and ornaments vanished one by one.
But others would have it that Priscilla had a box of money in her
room, corded, sealed and locked. For true it was that such a box, to
all appearance, was there, as Ann O'Ruark, who nursed her once in an
illness, could tell.
Now she lay dead, and it seemed to the women of the little village as
though something marvellous had happened,as though the old round
tower they looked upon every morning when they opened their doors had
crumbled in the night, or as though the church bell they depended upon
to awaken them at six had forgotten to ring, leaving them late and
bewildered. True, she might have been ill or gone away on a visit, or
vanished for a time. But to die! No one ever thought that of Priscilla
after all those years. Why, even now the children from the cottages
were running down the street on the stroke of five, to meet her coming
from her Saturday's marketing with something hidden for them in her
pocket. Yet they had been told she would come up the narrow street no
more. Yes, even now poor cripple Janie Doyle was turning her face to
the window to be ready for the smile and cheery word that always met
her. Yet she too knew Priscilla would never pass again.
All the women there sitting at her wake felt that to-morrow they
would put on their shawls and run to tell Priscilla their joys and
sorrows, or to ask her advice, as they had done all the time since they
became aware she was. And Priscilla would be lying with that strange
smile upon her face, so far removed from them.
Was she so very oldPriscilla? Hers was a face you could not imagine
had ever been young. Wrinkled and fallen away, you could not fix and
fill it with youth.
Once she had said to a child, I was light as a bird when I was young
as you; and the little one had gone away troubled at the lie. She
knew, as all the children did, that Priscilla had never, never been
Though Priscilla knew everything of everybody, nobody knew anything
of Priscilla, except, of course, that she was an old maidas any one
of the name of Priscilla must be. Why, the very
sound of it was enough to tell how prim, how neat, how old-maidish
she was. No one could have imagined her with a lover. Many a time the
village women had sat and talked of Priscilla, what she must have been
like as a girlif she ever had been a girl: the primmest of little
girls, who always had her hair smooth and lessons learnt: a girl with
large feet and high, buttoned boots, with every button fastened in its
place; thin legs, of course; a waist that had never known tight-lacing; straight hair, first in a plait, and later a tight coil at the
back of her smooth head; a high white forehead, intelligent grey eyes,
a rather large and rather pink nose, a pleasant mouth, thin neck and
breast, long arms, large nervous hands. Yes, that must have been
Priscilla, if ever she had been a girl. But there was no lover in the
setting of Priscilla's girlhood. No, she hated men, and rough boys the
natty Priscilla must have always shunned, nor could she, with her
cleverness, ever have admired the developing youth.
Yes, she hated men and all their sex; she was hardly kind to little
boysthey were cruel to her cats, she would say. But the girl babies,
how she loved them! There was never a birth in the village where she
was not first visitor to the new arrival. And if it was a boy, she
would look close into the little red face till he raised his voice and
howled. Then she would laugh. Shout for it and you will get it, my
lad; only shout long enough and you will get it. Then she would press
a golden pound into his little fist and leave him. But if it was a
girl, she would take it in her arms, and if it was crying it would stop
that minute. She would drop a tear upon it, perhaps, and whisper things
into its little unconscious ears. When she was leaving she would put a
guinea into its hands, with the words, For your sad heart, my girl,
for your sad heart. So the baby would be added to her list of loves.
But she liked best the lovelorn maidens who would come to her with
their stories. They were indeed for her heart of hearts. Many a
sorrowful soul that had forgotten how to be proud would after
consulting with her become strong again, and win the lover back by
flaunting who had grown weary of too patient a love.
The house was built like one that had never been intended to hold the
young: dark, gloomy, rambling. Priscilla was the only one to whom it
seemed a fitted background.
The little children who braved its awfulness would hasten, afraid of
its silence, from passage to passage till they reached Priscilla, every
minute expecting a horrible something belonging to the mould and age to
spring upon them from each dark place. Only the mysterious cupboards
with hidden sweets and jams, found nowhere else, could tempt them to
come. And it took three of them to do it, clinging together, and
stopping often with shrieks that were not all laughter, but served to
fill the dusty silence.
When Priscilla died there turned up from somewhere a far-removed
cousina stern, middle- aged woman, who looked at the world through
smoked glasses; and no doubt the world looked grey to her. She had no
tears, no smiles, no sentiments, only the hardness of middle life,
which has left the softness of youth behind it and not yet reached the
softness of age. She was a business-like person, and ordered everything
and everybody as if she had lived all her life in Priscilla's house.
The people wondered if she would get Priscilla's box of treasure; but,
of course, there was no one else. The cousin was making herself busy,
pretending to be concerned for Priscilla. Why had she not come before
to take care of hr? She wanted to blame somebody for not calling in a
doctor. But she ought to know Priscilla would not have the doctor. She
had a perfect horror of the doctor, and would never see him, or speak
of him. There was only one doctor in the villagean old man, as old
Priscilla, it might bea married man with grown-up sons and daughters,
now married themselves and doing well. Once a neighbour had spoken of
the doctor to Priscilla. It was to repeat a story of his past, a story
of a lonely girl he had jilted
almost on their wedding day; and how the girl had vanished and been
heard of no more; but that had not happened in the village, and so the
village was not interested in the particulars. When Priscilla heard the
story she rose from her seat and went to the window without a word. So
the neighbour thought she was weary, and changed the subject from men
and their misdeeds, but she did make a parting remark to the effect
that the doctor and his wife never got on together. She was surprised
when Priscilla said, in a voice so sweet and far-away she hardly heard
it, Poor lad! poor lad!
Priscilla would not have the doctor come near her when she lived, but
when she died he had to be called in. People who watched him coming
were surprised to see him falter, he ought to have been so used to
death. And yet he came like one most cruelly afraid. He stood at the
door of the room where she lay for a few moments, as though unable to
enter. Then he pushed the door open and went as if with an effort. When
he reached her bedside he stood silent, looking upon her face. And
there were those there who thought they had heard him whisper,
Priscilla! and then louder, as though she must hear, Priscilla!
But Priscilla was dead, and all the village had come to her wake; two
nights they had sat up, and this was the third. The will had been
readsuch as it was. For there was little to leave to anybody. Yet
every one had had a trifle, the house had gone to the cousin, but there
was no money to speak ofnothing more except the little wooden box,
corded, locked, and sealedthe box that must contain the body of the
fortune. The cousin's fingers had been on the cords, the eyes of the
village women had been turned to it, waiting for it to open, when they
were told it was to be buried with her. What an idea! Whoever heard of
a box being buried in a tomb? Who would ever have thought she would
have carried away what she could no longer want? Who would have
imagined Priscilla a miser?
The crowd had all gone to the dining-room at the end of the long
passage in the west wing, and the cousin was sitting alone in the room
with the box; upstairs Priscilla was lying, and she would never
knownever know the seals were broken and the knots undone. Surely, it
was no harm to open and look inno, not to touch a single penny, since
she was such a screwonly to open. No box was ever yet buried by a
woman unopened. The lid lay loose.
The cousin sat back a moment, then went upon her knees and raised the
cover. She saw the contents were wrapped in white paper. She pulled it
off and drew forth what came to her hand. Astonishment was upon her
face, for first there came a dress,a white satin dress,then a long
veil, then a wreath of orange blossoms. Shoes, gloves, and underwear,
all lace and ribbons, all sewn by hand in tiny stitches, surely
Priscilla's own. What was this the cousin had stumbled on unawares? A
wedding outfit, Priscilla's wedding outfit, breathing the breath of
years, lavender and age. How time had ruined all, as it had destroyed
Priscilla's love-story. How was it the cousin never knew of this
prepared wedding? Where or who was the man? She had known little of
Priscilla when she was young, only that she was fatherless and
motherless, and that an uncle had taken charge of her; that she had
grown up between the grey walls of her uncle's quiet, lonely house and
a convent school, where she had spent half her time. Always unnoticed,
silent, and companionless, was it because there was no one who cared
enough about her to draw her from her solitude. There was something,
the cousin fancied she half-remembered, something of a scandal of
Priscilla and a young doctor, something about love-letters and stolen
meetings discovered at the convent? Was it possible Priscilla had
returned home to work her wedding outfit, while the young doctor had
forgotten his promises and married money while she still was awaiting
him? But it was a vague memory, and might not have been her.
The cousin bent above the box. Nothing else; no moneynot a penny.
Ah! here was a key to the story, a bundle of old letterslove-letters,
for were they not tied by a silken bow? Poor Priscilla!
As she took them into her hands she fancied she heard the sound of a
woman sobbing far away; it might be upstairs with the dead. Some friend
of Priscilla's, no doubt. She turned the letters over in her hands. She
wished that wild crying would stop. It disturbed her. She laid her
fingers upon the beknotted strings, then hesitated. Should she dare spy
into the secrets of the helpless dead? But curiosity was strong; she
loosed the ribbons. At the same time a wild cry resounded through the
room. She sprang to her feet, the letters in her hands, and looked
fearfully around. There was no one there. It must have been outside.
Yes; it came from the floor abovefrom Priscilla's roomlong, sad,
and awful: the sound of a woman's wild grief.
The cousin thrust the letters into her pocket, and ran down the hall,
calling to the people to hurry to the room above. She called to them to
bring hot blankets and restoratives, that Priscilla was not dead, that
she had waked in terror, finding herself decked out for death. And all
the time she was shouting to them she was running up the long staircase
and down the corridors to the room where the crying came from. Then she
called, Priscilla, I am coming; don't be afraid; Priscilla, I am
coming. She imagined Priscilla sitting up in her grave-clothes, half
mad with terror at her position. When she touched the handle of the
door the crying ceased. She opened it, and stood half-fainting upon the
threshold. In her coffin lay Priscilla stiff and dead, her hands
clasped as they had been when she was laid there, her face unchanged,
the great room empty death everywhere.
The cousin stood dumb at the door, the women crowding about her with
hot blankets and restoratives. It was a mistake, she said; and
pushing them back, closed the door.
She went downstairs to the room where the trunk lay, and drawing the
letters from her pocket placed them back unopened where she had found
them. With reverent hands she laid the wedding things one by one in
their place, and when she had finished she sealed and corded the box.
Priscilla went to her sleeping-place the next day, there was borne by
her side a little trunk, and it was laid at her feet in the cold vault
that held so many dead.
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The dazzling ingenuity behind a simple bicycle ride in The Muppet Movie
In Objet d'Art, we take a look at the use of inanimate objects in film and music and their changing meanings, aesthetics and emotional purpose in different contexts.
Jim Henson's Muppets have always conjured entertainment through imagination, ever since they began on television in 1976. Few sights demand the suspension of disbelief like a bright green felt frog stage-managing puppets in a variety show, but once you get over the hurdle of believing that such an absurd situation is plausible in the first place, no amount of impossibility can break you out of it. With masterful puppetry and characterisation bringing these creatures to life so believably, technicalities like visible rods and the fact that Muppets are always shot from the waist up easily sink behind the fog of imagination, as does the ever-present inkling that just out of frame stands a human puppeteer.
In fact, for the Muppets, the direct connection between puppet and puppeteer is not only not concealed, it is celebrated. From the earliest days of the Muppets Jim Henson let his audience peek behind the curtain and see that puppetry is a craft, not magic. It is rare in other kid-friendly entertainment media, such as animation, to break the fourth wall as casually and unashamedly as the Muppets did (with a few exceptions), but a felt puppet would never really feel entirely congruous interacting with humans on a live-action stage anyway. The heavy lifting of constructing a believable world is left entirely to the audience's imagination — Kermit is a well-rounded personality, but it still requires some willful ignorance to buy that he, a small frog who speaks English and is a surprisingly competent television host, exists in the real world and interacts with real people.
So when a simple bicycle ride occurs ten minutes into The Muppet Movie, Jim Henson's first feature-length film, it comes as a genuine shock. Here is Kermit — a character we pretend is real but know deep down is controlled by Henson, constrained as all muppets are — flawlessly interacting with an object so much a part of the real world, without any of the usual cheats and tricks employed to hide the human element. No waist-up shots here (and no crude chroma key like a later scene). You see Kermit's full body, you see his feet turning the pedals, and you see nothing else. It's hard now to convey just how innovative this sequence was, but the opening line of Roger Ebert's review for The Chicago Sun-Times gives you an idea:
"Jolson sang, Barrymore spoke, Garbo laughed, and now Kermit the Frog rides a bicycle."
But besides its technical brilliance, what's really remarkable about Kermit's ride is just how unremarkable the scene is when viewed in the context of the film. It calls almost no attention to its own most complex visual effect. Kermit needs to travel from his swamp home to Hollywood, so he hops on his bicycle and begins riding, as any regular character in a live-action film might do. As Scott Jordan Harris put it in Rosebud Sleds and Horses' Heads: 50 of Film's Most Evocative Objects: "The bicycle is not in itself extraordinary and that is the point of it: it is a bicycle you or I might ride that, through the magic of the movies, is being ridden by a Muppet. Like all the most impressive magic tricks, this illusion occurs in plain sight."
The Muppets would take the bicycle riding technique even further — to astronomical complexity — in The Great Muppet Caper, but Kermit's short cruise at the beginning of The Muppet Movie speaks purely to Jim Henson's attitude towards imagination and believability. Who else would design such an unjustifiably complicated stunt to sell the illusion that a frog might ride a bicycle?


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When it comes to achieving that perfect Hollywood smile, dental veneers have always been the reliable choice for patients and dentists. Veneers are tiny sheets or layers of tooth-colored shells, porcelains, or composite resins that are placed over the facial surface or the front part of the teeth. This dental procedure instantly covers a tooth and hides its damages, including cracks, chips, worn enamel, discolored surfaces, misalignment, or tooth gaps and spaces. However, traditional veneers usually require numerous preparation procedures and at least two dentist appointments to be completed.
Thankfully, there are minimal prep ceramic veneer options that customers can choose from in lieu of traditional veneers. These veneers have almost the same features as traditional veneers, and provide the same functions as well. Some popular brands of minimal and "no prep" ceramic veneers in the market are Lumineers, Vivaneers, and Durathin.
One main difference of minimal prep ceramic veneer options compared to traditional veneers is their thickness. Traditional veneers are somewhat thick and bulky, and they usually require the dentist to reduce the impacted tooth by grinding a portion of the enamel. Depending on the thickness of the porcelain veneers, a Rockville cosmetic dentist may need to reduce a tooth's healthy enamel, or may even extend up to the tooth's dentin so that the veneers will be aligned with the surface of the adjacent teeth, and will not be bulky and chunky.
Minimal prep veneers, on the other hand, are a lot thinner compared to normal porcelain veneers. Most minimal prep veneers are thin enough to be placed over a tooth's surface, so dentists may not need to reduce a patient's tooth by grinding, filing, or cutting the surface. This also means that there is no need for a patient to undergo anesthetic injections for the veneers to be installed in his dentition. Since minimal prep veneers pose minimal damage to a patient's teeth, the process is also reversible. Should a patient decide to have the veneers removed for whatever reason, the dentist can easily remove them.
Another advantage of minimal prep veneers is that they can be installed in a patient's dentition in one dentist visit. Traditional veneers are created in dental laboratories so a patient will need to wear temporary veneers, and go back for a second appointment to have the permanent veneers placed once they are done. Minimal prep veneers are designed to be shaped and placed on a patient's teeth during his first visit to the dentist. This saves time and cost both for the patient and the dentist.
However, despite the numerous advantages of minimal prep ceramic veneer options over traditional ones, not everyone is a candidate for this procedure. Depending on the dentist's assessment of a patient's dental damage, and the overall condition of the patient's dentition, he may discourage using minimal prep veneers, and may recommend traditional veneers, or other dental procedures, that he deems suitable. After all, aside from the aesthetic value of a dental procedure, dentists have to consider how the procedure can help the patient in the long run.


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Creating a Windowsill Herb Garden
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The UnTea to Heal Me – A New Morning Ritual to Health
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Natural Lavender Bath Bars – DIY
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Oatmeal, Milk & Honey Bath Bomb – Atomic Balm
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Baby Bum Spray – DIY all Natural
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Healing Bath Scrubbies. DIY All Natural
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Luxurious 'Lavender Vanilla' Herbal Bath Bombs – DIY All Natural
This was our very first time making bath bombs! We are thrilled with how they turned out! We included some of our favourite oils & salts for their skin nourishing benefits. We'll definitely be trying out different ingredients in the near future. These are perfect sleepy time bombs. Lavender helps to calm and relax us. … Continue reading Luxurious 'Lavender Vanilla' Herbal Bath Bombs – DIY All Natural
Gentle & Natural Baby Bum Cream. (Easy DIY)
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[As Peter Parker returns to the big screen this weekend in Spider-Man 3 this weekend, here at IGN TV we thought we'd take a look back at the varied appearances of everyone's favorite web-head on the small screen.]
Spider-Man (1994 - 1998)
While Spider-Man (1967) may have brought Peter Parker off the pages of the Marvel comic books and into the realm of television, it would be the 1994 animated series that would, arguably, be considered the best of the animated iterations. With a more dedicated approach to recreating the Spider-Man comics on TV, much like Marvel's popular X-Men: The Animated Series (which was running at the same time), Spider-Man (1994) would use familiar storylines and villains to make the highest quality cartoon possible. After five seasons, the final product of this series was 65 episodes of quality Spider-Man stories which set the bar for Spider-Man cartoons to come.
Spider-Man (1994) didn't waste any time getting right to the action. By giving Peter Parker his abilities right from the beginning the show didn't have to waste time re-explaining the web-slingers origins -- knowing that most of their audience already knew the story of Peter Parker and the radioactive spider. In the first episode we were treated with an appearance from The Lizard, and with time the series unveiled the rest of the villains which Spider-Man fans couldn't do without -- Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus, Venom, Carnage, The Kingpin, The Scorpion, Mysterio, The Rhino, The Shocker, and many more. Along with the unending list of interesting villains, the show was able to recreate some of Spider-Man's most memorable comic book stories (i.e. The Secret Wars). By faithfully recreating these storylines and bringing in villains directly from the comics, the show was seen as being a step above the corny versions that had come before it.
On top of the great stories and villains for Spider-Man to bring to justice, Spider-Man (1994) was also known for the technical quality of the program (excluding the horribly repetitious theme song). While the show would sometimes look simplistic, Spider-Man would for the most part exude a quality which was rarely matched by regular Saturday morning comics at the time. With a more mature look to the characters, and faithful representations of all the villains and guest stars, Spider-Man was able to keep its audience hooked with the quality of the animation. But if there was one technical aspect of the show that would eclipse the animation it would be the excellent voice-overs. With the voice actors perfectly playing their parts, it is tough for fans of the series to hear anybody but the show's voice actors voicing their favorite characters -- especially with the outstanding work done by Christopher Daniel Barnes as Spider-Man.
With knowledge of a new Spider-Man animated series starting up in early 2008 (The Amazing Spider-Man (2008)), we can only hope that this new program will live up to the standards which Spider-Man (1994) has set.
Spider-Man Unlimited (1999 - 2001)
One of the lesser known Spider-Man TV iterations would be the spin-off of the Spider-Man (1994) series, Spider-Man Unlimited. As a loose continuation of the '94 series, Unlimited garnered interest in the series by taking Spidey's comic book origins and flipping them upside down -- by crafting a completely off-the-wall story with new characters and villains. By separating itself from the normal locales and having enemies from outside of Spider-Man's usual villain gallery, Spider-Man Unlimited was able to craft a place for itself as the strangest animated Spider-Man program.
The series starts off by immediately introducing Spider-Man and the audience to the danger of Counter-Earth -- a duplicate version of Earth located on the other side of the sun. Counter-Earth is home to The High Evolutionary, a powerful being who is playing god by creating a force comprised of Beastials -- half human, half animal soldiers. By creating the Beastials, The High Evolutionary has made man a second class species on the planet, and so it is Spider-Man's task to stop the Evolutionary and set things right again on Counter-Earth.
While the story is completely ridiculous, the execution is even more so. With certain characters making brief, but questionable, cameos (symbiote blobs Venom and Carnage in particular), we question the show right off the bat. Within the first minute of the show John Jameson declares war against Counter-Earth, solely based on the planet evaporating Earth's satellite/probe. Since this was the first contact with this new planet, it seemed rather brash to assume that this was a hostile gesture&#Array; but whatever the case Jameson is sent to war against this possibly hostile planet. As if this wasn't bad enough, Peter Parker somehow is able to finagle himself into the space program (as a photographer), and with the help of his new "nano-tech" costume (which looks like a cross between Spider-Man's new Iron Man outfit and the Spider-Man 2099 costume), and six months later Peter finds himself piloting a solo flight (although ground control was under the assumption that both Spider-Man and Peter Parker were going up) to Counter-Earth. From here we meet the Beastials and things really go downhill&#Array; so much so that the show is left on a cliffhanger -- as the final episodes were never produced -- after Pokémon bested Unlimited in the ratings and sent it off the air. While there actually have been odder versions of the web-head on TV, the ridiculous nature of Spider-Man Unlimited would guarantee the show a spot in the Spider-Man hall of shame.
Spider-Man: The New Animated Series (2003)
The summer of 2003 saw the airing of Spider-Man: The New Animated Series on MTV. CGI animated, the series was executive produced by comic book writer Brian Michael Bendis, the man behind the Ultimate Spider-Man comics. The series, produced by Mainframe Entertainment for Sony Pictures Television, mostly followed the 2004 Sam Raimi film in terms of characters and story, as Peter attends college and dates Mary Jane.
Spider-Man: The New Animated Series featured an inspired voice cast, including Neil Patrick Harris (then best known as Doogie Howser, M.D., now stealing scenes as Barney on How I Met Your Mother) as Peter Parker, singer-songwriter Lisa Loeb as Mary Jane, and Ian Ziering (Beverly Hills, 90210) as Harry Osborn. The guest stars were just as eclectic, including singer Rob Zombie as Dr. Curt Connors, Kathy Griffin and Jeremy Piven as twins with hypnotizing powers, Michael Dorn (Star Trek: The Next Generation) as Kraven the Hunter, and Gina Gershon as a ronin.
Aired almost entirely out of order by MTV, the short-lived series' 13 episodes were made available in their correct chronological order on a DVD box set in 2004. While most of the animation in the series was fairly underwhelming -- making you feel like you're watching an extended videogame cut-scene -- the action sequences are where the CGI animation of the series truly shines, presenting some of the smoothest and best looking Spider-Man movements seen in a cartoon to date. And while some of the stories rang a bit cliche and completely predictable, the series writers did very well recreating the sarcastic, playful voice of Spider-Man, something which most fans of Spidey comics find sorely missing in many of the various adaptations (TV, film and otherwise) to date.
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First Tirthankar, Rushabhadevis old temples built in 1700 A.D.
Second Tirthankar Ajitnatha's Temple is very old.
5th Tirthankar Sumathinatha temple.
8th Tirthankar Chandra Prabha's Temples at Naliya & Patri.
12th Tirthankar Vasupujaya Swami's Temple is old.
16th Tirthankar Shantinatha Swami's Temples are situated at Kothara Sandhan & Fatehgatha (Roper).
17th Tirthankar Kunthunath Swami.
23rd Tirthankar Parawantha have temples in every village & town. Oldest one is at Tera (150 years old), Jakhau (140 years), Suthari (130 years), Mundra (120 years) Yash Valabha Pasva Sayara.
This is last 24th Tirthankar, born 600 B.C. in royal family of Vaisali. He renounced the world at the age of 30 and attained omni science after twelve years of austerities & penance. He teaches non- Violence, to Indian society. Every Jain homes have Murti or pictures of this hold religious innovator.
Jinalaya. Khakkher, Vanki, Bhadreshwar (all three near Mundra ) also have Mahavir Temples. Be careful while going to jain temples. Remove shows outside the temple. Normally, vegetarian foods are served at all jain temples with prior information.
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PA Sport
Kyle Edmund beaten in Marrakech final as wait for maiden ATP Tour title goes on
The British number one lost in straight sets.
Kyle Edmund's attempt to win a first ATP Tour title ended in defeat in the Grand Prix Hassan II final as he lost to Pablo Andujar.
The British number one, who reached the semi-finals of the Australian Open in January, was playing against a man ranked 355th in the world but failed to turn up and lost 6-2 6-2 in Marrakech.
Edmund had beaten two opponents on Saturday to reach his first final at this level but won just four games against the Spaniard.
He does, however, move up to a career-high 23 in the rankings while Andujar claimed a first ATP title since 2014 and a fourth overall.
Steve Johnson successfully defended his US Men's Clay Court Championship title.
Johnson, the 2017 winner in Houston, again lifted the silverware after winning the all-American final against Tennys Sandgren 7-6 (7/2) 2-6 6-4.
A tight first set was decided by a tiebreak, which Johnson won comfortably, only for Sandgren, also chasing his first tour title, to hit back in the second.
The deciding set looked to be heading for another tiebreak until Johnson clinically broke at 4-4 and then served it out for the win.
The early stages of the Monte Carlo Masters got under way with three first-round matches.
Karen Khachanov beat Thanasi Kokkinakis, Daniil Medvedev got the better of Marton Fucsovics and Mischa Zverev beat Felix Auger-Aliassime.


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Today, driving to visit Mom at 4:45 pm, I got a phone call with the news that my daughter in recovery from cocaine addiction had relapsed but is okay, safely back in rehab as an inpatient.
By the time I dealt with that, I didn't show up in the Reminiscence Neighborhood until 6 pm.
When I appeared, Mom was sitting in a crowd of residents "watching" The Sound of Music, angry that I had not come sooner.
[Note: a few watch, most sit there sleeping or staring blankly.]
She beckoned to me to lean down and whispered something about how terrible and mean the staff had been to her today.
I wheeled her back to her room to do a toilet stop before pushing her in her wheelchair out in the evening air, still warm after another hot day.
But the door was locked and her suite-mate was pounding on it from the inside and yelling.
Caregivers came running, and it turned out that Frances had fallen. She was lying on the carpet striking the door with her cane, furious that no one had responded sooner to her cries for help.
During the Holocaust, Frances spent 2-3 years in a concentration camp, so she has some issues when her legitimate needs are not met.
As Esther tended to Frances, I grabbed Mom's hat and sunglasses and left the scene. We wheeled to Rite-Aid, where I bought us each a one-scoop ice cream cone.
Take care of yourself, says Al-Anon.
Then we went to Von's where I bought cooked shrimp for dinner, in case John gets home hungry.
Back in the Rem, I changed Mom to her nightgown, removed and cleaned her teeth, and set her up in the recliner.
Just another day in the Reminiscence Neighborhood.
My mother succumbed to Alzheimer's at 89... now my siblings and I work toward understanding and prevention.
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
Life in the Rem
2 comments:
- Novabella said...
I'm sorry to hear about your daughter's relapse and relieved that she is safe.
Hang in there! I can't imagine how hard it must be for you but I learn a lot from your blog. Have tried to start one of my own too but I choke on the words. So I rely on yours.
- terri c said...
Dear Anne, found your blog recently and now am hoping you and your mom and daughter are OK. Your plate has been so full; concerned and praying for you.
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"That's not fair," I said. iruvarum thina kooli velai seidhu pizhaippavarkal. The impact left me in a daze.
Hotwife Lana Rhoades Sent For Anal Fucking
I even tasted it to see what it was. There was lengthy training process to make sure everyone could safely operate the systems in place, and I was going to have to work 14 hour days until I was deemed safe. I then instructed her to kneel down in front of me and get my cock out of my trousers; slowly Sara knelt down and fumbled with my belt and buttons on my jeans.
It was fine though, as far as I knew; I was fooling everybody. Everything was going fine until my mate told me that Sara and Ben (his brother) had split up and Ben had moved back into his dads house, Sara was refusing to move out of there home even though the mortgage was nearly two thousand pound a month, on taking the business over Sara had upgraded her car to a flash Mercedes sports car, basically her out goings where greater than her income and I needed to find out how she was making ends meet.
This became a case of life imitating art, since what was in my pants by this time was as hard and full as what was in the drawing. Fuck me. "And what were you thinking about when your finger was moving back and forth inside you.
I couldn't wait.


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Under the federal False Claims Act (FCA), 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729 - 3733, individuals who submit false claims to Medicaid programs are liable to the government for a penalty of between $10,781.40 and $21,562.80 per false claim, plus three times the amount of damages, litigation costs and other costs associated with pursuing a claim.
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