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After months of stomach cramping that left her crying in pain, Katie Tricarichi, saw a doctor. She had a colonoscopy on her 16th birthday. Two days later, she got the diagnosis -- Crohn's disease.
Crohn's disease is an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that causes diarrhea, cramping, and loss of appetite. In severe cases, it can lead to malnutrition. Crohn's can affect any part of the digestive tract, but it often affects the small intestines or colon.
Tricarichi's treatment started with a number of medications that she took for four years. "Then I developed a fistula [an abnormal connection] between my bladder and my ileum," she says. "The fistula went undiagnosed for almost six months. By the time it was found, I needed emergency surgery."
The surgery involved a small bowel resection. Surgeons removed 12 inches of her small intestine and the first inch and a half of her colon. They also took out part of her bladder and repaired a hole on the top of her uterus.
For Tricarichi, who is now the walk director of the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America, the surgery for Crohn's changed her life.
"It gave me six blissful, almost Crohn's-free years before I had an active flare," she says.
Eight years later, Tricarichi takes similar medications to the ones she was on when she was first diagnosed. About her surgery, she has no regrets.
"I do believe Crohn's surgery should only be used when medication fails, but it was definitely the best decision for me," she says. "The surgery saved my life."
Tricarichi's story mirrors that of many people with Crohn's disease. Many have surgery only for an emergency or when other treatments fail. Almost 3 out of 4 people with Crohn's will need some kind of surgery eventually. Most get relief from symptoms for a while, and some can go off a few or all of their medications, at least temporarily.
"Surgery gets rid of the diseased bowel," says colorectal surgeon Jon Vogel, MD, of the Cleveland Clinic. Vogel says surgery can help people eat and drink without pain. It also frequently eliminates the need for ongoing medications. "For all these reasons, surgery for Crohn's improves quality of life," he says.
At the same time, medications for IBD are also getting better, with the development of biologics and other drugs that suppress an overactive immune system. "Crohn's disease medications improve quality of life for some people," Talamini says.
People considering Crohn's surgery should be cautiously optimistic, however.
"Surgery doesn't cure Crohn's disease," says Mark Talamini, MD. Talamini is chairman of surgery at The University of California, San Diego. Half of people who have one surgery require a second procedure or more. Tricarichi is a prime example. Her Crohn's disease is no longer in remission, and she may need additional surgery down the road.
For most people with Crohn's, symptoms get worse over time. In emergency situations, surgery is the only option.
The most common reason for surgery in people with Crohn's disease is a partial bowel obstruction. An obstruction can get worse gradually or happen quickly and be an emergency.
"Segments of bowel in Crohn's disease go through cycles of inflammation and repair," Talamini explains. "Over time, these pieces of bowel become hard, like a lead pipe. People with obstructions may experience vomiting, distention, and abdominal pain when they eat." When bowel obstruction sets in, surgery is in order.
Other reasons for Crohn's surgery include a fistula, bleeding, perforation, or abscess.
There are two main surgeries for Crohn's disease: bowel resection and stricturoplasty. Both can be done laproscopically or through an open abdominal incision.
Bowel resection: A bowel resection involves removing the diseased part of the intestines. It is the most common operation for a bowel obstruction caused by Crohn's disease. It's also done to correct a fistula that doesn't respond to medication.
Colectomy: If Crohn's disease is severe and affects the colon, some people may need to have their entire colon removed, called a colectomy. In some cases, the small intestine can be connected to the rectum, so the person can pass stool normally.
Proctocolectomy: In some cases, both the colon and rectum will need to be removed. The surgeon also performs an ileostomy, which brings the end of the small intestine through a hole in the abdomen, called a stoma. Waste is collected in a bag attached to the stoma, which is emptied several times a day. The bag is hidden under clothing, so no one will see it.
Stricturoplasty: Stricturoplasty is done to open up narrowed areas of the small intestine. It doesn't remove any part of the small intestine. However, sometimes with strictures, a bowel resection may be necessary.
With surgery for Crohn's, surgeons aim to do as little as necessary to obtain the best results. "People with Crohn's disease tend to need multiple operations; therefore, we preserve as much bowel as we can each time," Talamini says.
In most cases, Crohn's surgery is done to improve quality of life. "In these cases, we decide to do surgery only after weighing benefits and risks," Talamini says.
If you are considering surgery, make sure your gastroenterologist and surgeon work together to come up with the right treatment combination for you.
Both operations for Crohn's disease generally involve a few weeks of recovery. Like all surgeries, they also come with risks. "Surgery on the intestines can lead to complications such as leakage from the bowel; infection in the abdomen or surgical wound; blood clots in the extremities; or a temporary bowel blockage called an ileus," Vogel says.
In addition, some people may experience "short-gut syndrome." With this condition, the intestine is too short to absorb all the nutrients a person needs.
Crohn's surgery used to involve an open abdominal incision and six weeks of recovery. Today, surgery may be done laparoscopically. "Typical procedures take one to three hours and require three to seven days of recovery in the hospital," Vogel says.
People who have laparoscopic surgery for Crohn's can usually return to their normal activities in just a few weeks. "These new techniques are safe and effective. And they are constantly being refined to limit post-op pain and shorten hospital stays," Vogel says.
Most people with Crohn's disease are good candidates for laparoscopic procedures. "The only exceptions are those who have had many operations and are known to have significant adhesions [scar tissue] in their belly," Talamini says.
Talamini points out that many people with Crohn's are like Tricarichi: They don't fit the mold of the typical surgical patient.
"People with Crohn's disease are typically young and ramping up their careers and lives," he says. "Therefore, having the option of surgery that is less invasive (physically, socially, and professionally) is important."
Talamini adds that better tools and experience with laparoscopic techniques are on the horizon. "So more people with Crohn's disease will be able to take advantage of these approaches."
SOURCES:Mark Talamini, MD, chairman of surgery, University of California, San Diego.Jon Vogel, MD, surgeon, department of colorectal surgery, Cleveland Clinic.National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse: "Crohn's Disease."Katie Tricarichi, walk director, Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America.Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America: "Surgery for Crohn's Disease," "About Crohn's Disease."
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Although electric vehicle use is on the rise, we're certainly not out of the woods yet in terms of providing them with a steady supply of clean energy – that's why designer Neville Mars has conceived of an incredible EV charging station that takes the form of an evergreen glade of solar trees. His photovoltaic grove serves a dual function, acting as a go-to source for clean renewable energy while providing a shady spot for cars to park as they charge.
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September 1, 2010 at 8:24 pm
I'm sorry, but this is madness. This is one of the most anti-green ideas I've ever heard. Putting aside the fact that solar panels are too expensive, and that only nuclear power could support a growing fkleet of electric cars, this will create an extraordinary heat-sink that will destroy life. You want shade? Plant trees–the very best possible converters of the sun's energy, through photosynthesis.
August 20, 2010 at 8:57 pm
It's Great.
January 22, 2010 at 10:26 am
I can't really see how efficient a solar panel is when it's being shaded by the other panels?? I would be interested to know how that works? Very creative design though….
July 29, 2009 at 2:19 pm
Why not just design a single solar roof to cover the entire lot? It would probably cost less.
July 28, 2009 at 8:43 pm
This looks great. But why waste it on cars? Why not put this in urban parks where people will walk and roam.
Cars are going to be just as happy with straight steel as with these works of human art. These are for people.
the solution to shaded PV's is less leaf density and longer branches. or/and rotate the trees with the sun.
July 28, 2009 at 6:52 pm
Cute but totally inefficient. lots of solar cells in the shade
July 27, 2009 at 3:29 pm
"Although the efficiency of overlapping photovoltaic panels will likely leave something to be desired"
So, essentially, he doesn't solve the problem at all! Anyone can make something interesting if he's not actually compelled to make it work.
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On Salvation
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Let me tell you about how I was saved by maps.
I used to be a chemist some years ago. I worked at a mom & pop pharmaceutical laboratory in my home town of Kalamazoo, Michigan. From the time I was ten or eleven, I had planned on this job. I blame Mr. Wizard — I loved watching all the seemingly magic things he could do with brightly-colored liquids in test tubes. Now that I had my childhood dream job, however, I was disillusioned. There was no magic, there was only routine humdrum. The work was hard, it was stressful, and it was frequently dull. I started the slide into depression. I came home every day feeling far too tired for the number of hours I was working. Time off seemed fleeting, and I spent the whole weekend worried about the fact that Monday was approaching, and wondering sometimes if I could face another week. I felt constantly pursued, and unable to relax even when given respite.
I decided to get out.
I had planned on going to graduate school right after college. I liked being in school and I succeeded there. It seemed natural to continue. But inertia kept me in the workforce for about three years before I finally managed to get enough forward momentum to return to school. My other love in school besides chemistry had been history. I can't blame Mr. Wizard for this one, but I'll blame my high school teacher, Mr. Cahow, instead. My bachelor's degree at Kalamazoo College was in both subjects. At first I tried, and failed, to get in to graduate school to study classical history. The next year, though, I switched focus and applied to History of Science departments. Given my background, it seemed a pretty sensible fit, and the University of Wisconsin agreed. They let me in, and I was off to Madison in the summer of 2007.
Coming along with me was my girlfriend of three years, an amazing and brilliant woman whom I had met in college, and with whom I was very much in love. We got a small apartment together about a mile from campus, she found a job, and we settled in to an unfamiliar city. It was about here that my life started completely unravelling.
I did not fit in to my new graduate department at all. I was wholly out of my depth; my background was insufficient to match the demands of the program. I had gone to graduate school because I liked school, not because I was deeply passionate about the history of science in particular. It just seemed interesting. My peers, on the other hand, seemingly had been pursuing this track for far longer than I, and had put in enough extracurricular effort through their college years that by the time we all started at Madison they were talking over my head. I fell swiftly behind and lost heart. I realize now that while I might have had the relevant skills, I lacked the critical element of passion. I did not feel like spending all week trying to get through 400+ pages of reading, because the end goal was simply not enticing enough, nor was the journey greatly intriguing.
This had been my grand escape plan. My job had depressed me, and I was going to return to school, something I was good at, and I was going to enjoy getting an advanced degree and then spend the rest of my life in academia. My depression returned, much stronger, as this escape plan crumbled away.
My girlfriend, meanwhile, made a bunch of new friends in town, and started spending more and more time with them. Sometimes she wouldn't come home, or even communicate with me, for days. Eventually, she told me that it was because she didn't like being around me when I was depressed. She kept getting more distant, and moved into her own separate room. She would have parties at our apartment and introduce me as her "roommate," and then close me off into one room so that I couldn't hear what was going on, and so that no one could see me. Then she'd leave for a few days and I'd have to clean up the mess. I did not generally have the wherewithal to stand up for myself in the face of her steadily worsening treatment of me. Her behavior eventually reached the point where I started reading online to determine if I was in an emotionally abusive relationship. None of this helped my depression.
If you've never been depressed, I'll just say that it's much worse than it sounds, and I imagine everyone manifests it a bit differently. I would stay in bed for hours. I would avoid doing any of my school work. It took a significant effort to scrape together the energy needed to do any sort of housework or cooking. I was constantly bored, but could not muster myself to do anything to make me less bored, and I did not have the courage to face the growing pile of assignments that I was falling behind on. I felt trapped and powerless.
I made a lot of maps during that period; it was one of the only activities that gave me any sort of positive emotion. I had actually started a cartographic hobby a few months earlier, before I moved to Madison. As far back as I can recall, I liked reading maps. I used to be the navigator when my family would take trips. I like paging through atlases for fun. So it was natural enough that I eventually determined to learn a bit about how to make them. One of my first efforts was for Wikipedia, a map of the Kalamazoo River:
I was terribly proud of that map. I still am, despite the many, many flaws I can see in it today.
I kept up my new mapmaking hobby when I moved to Madison. It gave me something creative to do, and I have since learned that, for me, being creative is critical to keeping a positive emotional state. Making maps was the light of my day, in a time when my days were very, very dark. I probably talked more to my colleagues in History of Science about the maps I made than anything actually having to do with my graduate work. I did not construct anything particularly interesting or attractive. Mostly I just put together choropleths of census data to answer idle curiosities. But I was making something, and it felt good. And it involved learning geography, which was fun and new. It was avoidance behavior, to be sure — there were important things I really needed to be doing, and spending eight hours on a map was just a way of procrastinating, but I needed the escape. I could not always face my life outside of my cartographic refuge.
I was still trapped in my ill-fitting graduate program. I was adrift, and didn't know what to do. I did not thrive as a chemist; I did not thrive as a historian of science. What now? I had no other obvious options, and I considered dropping out of school. But one day a friend of mine in the History of Science department pointed out that, being as I liked maps so much, perhaps I could go to school to learn about them. And, it so happened that there was a first-rate cartography program at Wisconsin. I spent my second semester in graduate school taking a cartography and a GIS class while applying for a transfer to the cartography program. I found that I liked these new classes, and that it was no longer a massive chore to get up every day and try and get to campus and accomplish something. I had more energy. I felt like I had a future. Somehow, despite no background or training, despite a weak performance in History of Science, and despite an application letter that didn't say much more than "I really like maps," the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Geography accepted me, and I began a Master's program in Cartography & GIS. They took a chance on me, and I cannot hope to repay them for that.
I threw away everything I had ever thought I wanted to do with my life and leapt blindly into the unknown. I abandoned the safe, clear path I had been plotting since I was a child. As simple as it sounds, that was probably the most courageous thing I've ever done in my life.
I thrived immediately in my new program. I found that I was part of something I had lacked before: a community. I was surrounded by supportive friends and colleagues from whom I learned much, and whose input can be seen in everything that I design. I had a place to belong, and a future that I was passionate about. I came out of my depression. I worked up the fortitude to bring about an end to my relationship with my girlfriend, who by now was living on her own yet was unwilling to formally let go. I began to move on from my old life, to the new one I have now. I am a cartographer, and a teacher (another chance that the Geography department took on me). I love what I do. I draw strength from it. It feels like I should have been doing this all along, like I was made for it.
I write this story because I want people to understand what maps mean to me. Cartography is not just a hobby, or a job. It has taken me through the darkest times of my life. It has helped me overcome depression. It has given me a renaissance and a calling. It has given me a community which has enriched me personally and professionally. It has saved me from a life I would prefer not to contemplate, one which I cannot believe would be as fulfilling.
I am very glad that I made that terrible map for Wikipedia, one winter in 2007.
22 responses to "On Salvation"
Kurt 2nd March, 2011 at 01:34
There seem to be a lot of chemist, who became cartographers later, eg. the late famous John P. Snyder
Andy Woodruff 2nd March, 2011 at 08:14
Ah, the power of maps. When cartography has improved your life so much, it must be that you've found your true calling. From our little circle of UW friends to map enthusiasts all across the land, we're all better off for you having found your way to the UW Geography department. Everybody wins!
I know the feeling a little bit, although half the time maps are killing me instead. There's nothing like a map for escaping the real world, and even if it's done just for the escape, at least there's usually something to learn in the process.
Peter Laws 2nd March, 2011 at 10:45
You're very brave to post that to a now somewhat-famous blog (thanks to your rivers-as-transit-systems diagrams!). Congrats for working up the nerve to do so.
From a fellow map-lover …
Bob Gaudio 3rd March, 2011 at 05:54
Daniel, thank you for creating the Kalamazoo River map. I would like to include it, with proper credit, in the paper that I'm writing about the building of the Trowbridge, Plainwell and Pine Creek (Otsego) dams on the Kalamazoo River. Of particular interest is the disappearance of the pioneer Village of Pine Creek, that was flooded by the flowage created when the Pine Creek Dam was built in 1903.
James 3rd March, 2011 at 13:04
That's a great story, well-written, and thanks for writing this.
James from selloutyoursoul.com, a site about my own attempt to find meaning after grad school.
Ben Lukoff 3rd March, 2011 at 17:12
This is a great post. I became a map hobbyist when very young, after my parents gave me What We Find When We Look at Maps. Of course I didn't think of it at the time, but it was a refuge for me, wasn't it?
I never studied it formally — in fact, I was intimidated by the classes on offer at the University of Washington — but I still love maps of all sorts, and they've become very useful to me in my writing on local-historical issues.
Again, great post.
David Deis 3rd March, 2011 at 19:02
Fantastic post- a real pleasure to read. Thanks for sharing!
Doc Rings 5th March, 2011 at 02:22
I was also a Chemist working in the biochemistry field that saw no future… Did I really want to be dissecting rat parts for experiments until I was 65? So I waddled over to the local medical college entrance department and asked what forms I needed to fill out to get into medical school.
That was 25 years ago…and now I'm a very happy eye surgeon, who still gets to use his chemistry occasionally, and am still in awe and wonder of the creation of the human body and universe (and the mapping and illustration of both).
Love your blog!
Dave Rasmussen 7th March, 2011 at 09:19
What a wonderful path your hobby as family navigator took you. I too got my interest in GIS probably as the kid directing the family through Chicago in the 70's.
Thanks for sharing!
Danielle 8th March, 2011 at 12:54
What a great post–thank you for sharing a bit of your personal history.
I also started my academic career in chemistry, but then I switched to biology. In ecology class, I was much more interested in making data charts than anything else. It wasn't until I discovered the fields of environmental modeling, and GIS, that I found my passion for map making.
It is really great when your interests and career mesh in such a strong way–for everyone.
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Thank you for posting this story, it was exactly what I needed to read today. I am going through a very similar thing right now, as I am in the final year of a PhD in Archaeology (my childhood dream job) that feels more like a long, bitter defeat than the blissful culmination of my lifelong ambitions. Your story gives me hope that, whether I finish this course or not, there may still be a happy future to look forwards to, as long as I am willing to make the effort to find it. Again, thank you.
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Thanks for sharing that post. It was very open and honest of you to explain why maps mean so much to you. A very inspiring story.
kd 8th June, 2012 at 13:25
Wow, your story is very encouraging and I feel that I'm on a similar journey. Thanks for being so honest about all of your feelings and struggles with depression. I think that's part of what makes things feel difficult…the isolation of feeling that others haven't faced the same odd mix of struggles to find the right path. I'm 50 yrs old, I was a 'stay-at-home' mom while my kids were young. I returned to school in my early 40's to get an MS in Computer Science. After graduating, I worked as a software developer for 3 years and it was extremely depressing for the same type of reasons you described. I gathered the courage to quit my job, I'm in the process of starting my PhD studies, but I am now having doubts whether this is the right path. I am a creative soul, interested in doing info vis research and teaching programming to visual artists…however my University doesn't have faculty interested in my area of research…so the lack of peers and mentors makes it difficult. I feel extremely fortunate that I'm finding blogs such as yours for encouragement…The important thing I take from your story is to keep listening to my heart…to keep searching for the right 'fit'…..I feel that is the most important thing I can do, and I'm working to move beyond the fears that sometimes overwhelm me.
Your maps are beautiful.
Chris Corcoran 3rd February, 2013 at 21:56
Daniel, You know who else is a K grad and cartophile? Larry Bell, the head of Bell's Beer/Kalamazoo Brewery fame. I think you should talk.
John Nelson 20th January, 2014 at 10:19
Daniel, thanks for your honest and beautiful description of your path. I suspect anybody with the maker fire can relate to your sentiments and I appreciate your sharing with us. You're an wonderful cartographer, for sure, but your ability to inspire makes you more than that.


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I attended the IBM THINKMARKETING event last week in Paris. 280 CMOs and CIOs representing $3 trillion in global commerce were concentrated in one room. Wow. The good and the great congregated to see a show hosted by Ginni Rometty, the CEO of IBM, and featuring presentations by the CEOs of Vodafone (Vittorio Colao), WPP (Sir Martin Sorrell), and Starbucks Europe (Michelle Gass). Pretty impressive, to say the least. It was a privilege to be invited.
The event was billed as a CMO+CIO Leadership Exchange. The gist was that Marketing and IT, two historic internal foes, need to work together to address the needs of increasingly discerning and digitally savvy customers in the new digital age. I was pleased IBM supported the position I took in my June 2012 article Digital Marketers and IT folk must become more interdependent. The conclusion echoed IBM's message "the rapid change in the data-driven way that Marketing now does its business, and the rising importance of digital commerce and digital device use for customers makes a combined (CMO + CIO) approach to digital marketing an increasing business necessity."
IBM chose to avoid talking about their products, and instead focused on the market environment and business context. The growth and availability of 'big data' and IBM's ability to process it. The death of the 'average' customer, and the need for personalisation of customer communications and offers. The need for an interactive 'system of engagement' (with the customer) rather than a traditional inert 'system of record'. The need for corporate brand authenticity and delivering the corporate brand in a consistent way, across all channels of communication and customer touchpoints.
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"We need (customers' data) to be liquid and linked". When approaching digital marketing projects "think big, start small, scale fast"; and "move from a global to a networked company"; "whatever you do, stay relevant (to your customers)" (Coca-Cola's CMO)
"Finance and Procurement have become too powerful - Marketing needs to be taken more seriously" (WPP's CEO)
A global retailer talked about the importance of embedding social (media) into the fabric of the way you do business, rather than as a separate functional department. The retailer believes in enabling its community of customers and staff to become self-moderating and self-curating, as Wikipedia does, by empowering them with the right social tools.
Of course this is all great stuff from some of the acknowledged thought leaders in the digital marketing space. The online polls (we were all loaned an iPad for the duration of the show) revealed that most large enterprises agree that a significant corporate investment in digital marketing is required going forward. The CMOs and CIOs were broadly in line with IBM's thinking. This is good news for the digital marketing industry where investments to date have been largely piecemeal rather than strategic.
The tide is turning and IBM is well placed to exploit the digital marketing systems requirement given its investments in products (having acquired Unica, Coremetrics, DemandTec, and Tealeaf). IBM also has an unmatched depth and breadth of professional services resources at its disposal and the continuity of deep customer relationships within large enterprises. These assets reduce the perceived risks to the tenure of CMOs and CIOs who are making a big and highly visible bet on enterprise digital marketing.
IBM is clearly considered 'a strategic partner' rather than 'a seller' by its enterprise customers. This approach should enable IBM to further grow its footprint in the digital marketing space and take a stronger leadership role in shaping the industry.
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Posted: 8th November 2012 | By BrunoGebarski :
Thank you for some very strategic insight to say the least: I think "infostructure" from Ginni Rometty is probably one of the most profound statement we can attach to social business transformation! 1. Company Culture 2. Company Mission 3. Company-Info + Crowd-Info-Sourcing 4. Making this information available to Co-workers, Partners, Clients, Customers, but in total contradiction with a "centralized-capitalistic" mentality, which is never satisfied & always wants more! Will Social Enterprise (#socbiz #esn #e20) put an end to this "too-much-of-never-enough" ongoing human greed?
Posted: 8th November 2012 | By Gerry Brown :
Hi Bruno, Thanks for such a great insight. I hadn't seen that angle to 'Social'. Interestingly enough recently there was a programme on BBC called 'the Masters of Money' where Stephanie Flanders was arguing that we should have another look at the ideas of Karl Marx to get us out of the global stagnation we seem to be suffering. Gerry
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Title: elephantastic - part 2
Date: April 10, 2007
Summary: Beaver and Steve keep looking for the Elephant Burial Ground but only find a Potato, Panda, and Unicorn Burial Grounds.
Onomatopoeias used: "CRACK!", "SQUITCH!"
Number of panels: 4
Panel 1
Beaver: "Sorry Steve it looks like this is the Panda Burial Ground.
Steve: "Confound it!"
Panel 2
Beaver: "...And this one's the Unicorn Burial Ground."
Steve: "Useless!"
Steve CRACK!'s a Unicorn Horn.
Panel 3
Beaver: "And I guess this is the Potato Burial Ground."
Steve: "Curses! We're never going to find it!"
Panel 4
Beaver: "How about if we try. You know. Actually following and elephant?"
Steve: "Genius!"
Steve SQUITCH!'s a dead potato.
Fun Facts
Beaver and Steve find a Panda Burial Ground.
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ITEM#: 13642184This elegant platform bed features a black faux leather upholstery. This bed has bent wood slats that eliminates the need for box spring. The minimalist design of this platform bed exudes sophistication, making this bed great for a bedroom decorated in cutting-edge style. Aspiring couture fashion mavens and ladder-climbing execs alike appreciate the sleek look and the ease of maintenance this bed affords. Made to fit a queen-size mattress, this bed gives you plenty of room to stretch out.
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It is a little lower to the ground than I expected but it looks great!Read More
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Pretty sturdy and looks pretty good for the price. Perfect for college kids or kidsRead More
Not bad
When the bed arrived, there were no instructions, when I emailed to get them, they sent six copies of them. It sits a little lower than I would like, but that's on me for not paying attention to the dimensions. And within a week, one of the slats brokeRead More
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First off, I had ordered the wrong size and needed a queen after putting it all together. I boxed up the full size bed and returned it with NO problems. Lori at customer service was a joy to deal with. The full size bed came with instructions but no hardware, which I went to our local *** store and bought what I needed. ( See my previous post for the full size review) When I ordered the queen size bed, it was delivered within a week of ordering. Most excellent! When I opened it though, this time we received the hardware and no instructions. O.k I thought, at least we know how to put it together! The hardware I bought, I felt, was a little better than what came with the bed...i.e, the bolts were a little longer as well as the machine screws for the legs. I used most of the hardware I had bought because I felt it was a little more secure. With that said, there was a slight odor when I pulled the bed out of the box. Kind of a plastic/rubber smell. This went away after four days or so. The bed was easy to put together ( even a mom can do it!) and even though you will be able to put it together with just yourself, two people would be a lot easier. My son is loving his new bed and it is a lot better than sleeping on the floor on his mattress he says. It goes with the japanese theme he is doing for his room. All in all, I would say this is a good bed for the price. It does not "squeak" and can hold my son and myself, which equals about 400 lbs. Would definitely purchase another one if needed. One other thing. The instructions are not very clear as to which way to put the slats in. Put them in with the bowed side up and you shouldn't have any issues. Enjoy!Read More
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Bed was easy to setup, the pictures made the setup a quick job. I put the bed together in about thirty minutes. Don't tighten the screws on the bed rails until you are sure the bed is square. The kit came with hex wrenches that I found to be awkward so I used my own tools. The legs on the bed were missing the matching holes on the frame so I used self taping screws to put them on. So far everyone who has seen the bed has been surprised of its low cost compared to how it looks and how simple it was to setup. I topped the bed with an 11 inch aloe foam mattress from o.co and together they make a quality set that sleeps as well as it looks!Read More
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Great looking bed, decent to assemble
This bed went together pretty well, according to my husband, who assembled it as a surprise for me while I was at work. He said it wasn't a big deal to assemble at all. As for the infamous slats, yes, they're thin, and yes, they look pretty fragile. However, we've been sleeping on this bed for just over a week now, and they are holding up great. We weigh a combined 475 pounds, and have a heavy 10-inch memory foam mattress on it, and it's stable as a rock. No movement, no creaking, no groaning, no cracking. Slats look great. My husband swears he can feel the curve of the slats on his side of the bed (the slats arch up slightly in the center and then arch down towards the sides in order to flatten out with the mattress weight applied) but I don't feel that all on my side. Really happy with this bed, and if a slat breaks, it will be easy to replace with a piece of wood from a lumberyard or even get a whole replacement slat set from Ikea or wherever.Read More
Good bed, right price!
I bought this bed to go with an 11in memory foam mattress; I wanted to do a bed without a box spring so this was the perfect setup. The bed was relatively simple to put together once I got going and took me less than 2 hours to complete. The only trouble I had was with the 4 corner stands, I have yet to figure out how to get those on because the provided screws aren't long enough. For now I put them under the corners and they're holding up just fine. One minor mishap, on the second day after I put this together, my daughter was jumping on it (a definite no no!) and the entire left side collapsed. I couldn't blame it completely on her, however, because I realized that I didn't tighten any of the screws near tight enough. So I got everything back together, each screw in nice and tight and while there's been no jumping on the bed, there hasn't been a problem! I would definitely recommend this bed to friends!Read More
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Can i use a 12" memory foam mattress on this bed without a spring box as I'm looking for a bed to eliminate the spring box. And what do u mean by bent slants? and are the slants wooden? and how many slants does this bed come with?
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Is there any where that i can purchase replacement wooden slants for the support?
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yes but they dont hold up very well. I laid on the bed and it slammed down within a few minutes under the weight.
I bought the bed a while ago for a room that I am remodeling which took a lot longer than expected. When I tried to put it together yesterday, I discovered that legs were missing. Can I order replacement legs?
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It comes with slats
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No box spring comes with it i havent got one on mine just the matress and its perfect.
No, and it's not needed, where it's a platform bed, it's made to be used without a box spring.
what is the max weight for this platform bed
not exactly sure, but the mattress I ordered was about 70lbs and I weigh 215lbs, and I feel like it could take more, perhaps double my weigh.
Could I also put a box spring on the platform for added height?
Thank you for contacting us, this bed has bent wood slats so we don't recommend using a box spring. Please let us know if you have any further question.
You could but with how the bed is, it would probably look funny.
the slats are arched, so it wouldnt be very effective
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