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Clinical features, acute complications, and outcome of Salmonella meningitis in children under one year of age in Taiwan
© Wu et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2011
Received: 2 June 2010
Accepted: 27 January 2011
Published: 27 January 2011
Salmonella meningitis remains a threat to children below two years of age in both developing and developed countries. However, information on such infections has not been well characterized. We analyzed data related to twelve years of experience in order to clarify the comprehensive features of Salmonella meningitis in our patients, including admission characteristics, acute complications, and long-term outcome.
The records of patients with spontaneous Salmonella meningitis from 1982 to 1994 were retrospectively reviewed. The long-term outcome was prospectively determined for survivors at school age by the developmental milestones reported by their parents and detailed neurological evaluation along with intelligence, hearing, visual, speech and language assessments.
Of the twenty-four patients, seizures were noted in fifteen (63%) before admission and thirteen (54%) during hospitalization. Acute complications mainly included hydrocephalus (50%), subdural collection (42%), cerebral infarction (33%), ventriculitis (25%), empyema (13%), intracranial abscess (8%), and cranial nerve palsy (8%). Three patients (13%) died during the acute phase of Salmonella meningitis. The twenty-one survivors, on whom we followed up at school age, have sequelae consisting of language disorder (52%), motor disability (48%), intelligence quotient < 80 (43%), epilepsy (33%), sensorineural hearing loss (17%), visual deficits (10%), abducens nerve palsy (5%), microcephaly (5%), and hydrocephalus (5%). Overall, good outcome was noted in six (28.6%) of twenty-one survivors, mild sequelae in three (14.2%), moderate in six (28.6%), and severe in six (28.6%).
Salmonella meningitis in neonates and infants had a wide spectrum of morbidity and acute complications, leading to a complicated hospital course and subsequently a high prevalence of permanent adverse outcome. Thus, early recognition of acute complications of Salmonella meningitis and a follow-up plan for early developmental assessment of survivors are vital.
Salmonella strains are an important pathogen of childhood bacterial meningitis in many developing countries, accounting for 5-13% of acute bacterial meningitis in young children in the 1980s-2000s [1–4]. In developed countries, Salmonella meningitis is a rare form (1% or less) of acute bacterial meningitis, but such infections are serious and thus still a threat to children below the age of two [5, 6]. In 1907, Ghon reported the first case of Salmonella meningitis [7]. The previous reports suggested that Salmonella meningitis was associated with a very high prevalence (50-90%) of morbidity, presenting variable complications, and a high mortality rate of up to 50-70% [8–15]. However, comprehensive information regarding Salmonella meningitis, including clinical features, complications, and long-term sequelae among survivors has not been well characterized. To clarify these systemic features, particularly long-term outcomes of Salmonella meningitis occurring in neonates and infants primarily admitted to Changhua Christian Hospital from 1982 to 1994, the clinical characteristics of the disease present at hospital admission were retrospectively reviewed, and a follow-up assessment of patients at school age was prospectively undertaken.
Changhua Christian Hospital is a teaching hospital in central Taiwan that serves as a referral center as well as a primary care facility. From 1982 to 1994, we collected one to three cases with Salmonella meningitis annually for a total of twenty six patients. Twenty four of them received first aid and all medical care in our hospital, and the other two were referred to us after partial antibiotic treatment by local medical care. After 1994, only a few cases with Salmonella meningitis were collected in our hospital due to public health improvements in Taiwan, and they were referred by local medical care. Since the group of referred cases with Salmonella meningitis was small and treated with varied durations of antibiotics before admission, this group was excluded from our study. The medical records of all patients primarily admitted to our hospital from 1982 to 1994 with spontaneous Salmonella meningitis were reviewed. They fulfilled the entry criteria for diagnosis by the presence of Salmonella species in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) culture, which further supported infection based on pleocytosis (> 30/mm3) with predominant neutrophilia and hypoglycorrhachia. Records were examined for initial clinical presentations, demographic features, laboratory data, acute complications at hospitalization, and antibiotic therapy. In this study, the modified Grady coma scale was used to measure the level of consciousness, classing children on a scale of I to V along a scale of lethargy or irritability (grade I), stupor (grade II), deep stupor (grade III), coma with abnormal posturing (grade IV), and coma without any response (grade V) [16]. Follow-up on surviving cases was performed at pediatric neurology outpatient clinics after discharge. This study was conducted with the approval of the Ethical Research Committee of Changhua Christian Hospital. Written informed consents were obtained from the participants and their parents after full oral and written explanation of the evaluation procedures, and the purpose of the study.
The survivors and/or their parents were asked to complete a questionnaire detailing developmental problems and presence of a seizure disorder. Developmental delay was defined as a child not reaching developmental milestones at the expected times, including motor development, hearing, speech and language. In addition, a pediatric neurologist determined the presence of motor disabilities and sequelae in survivors based on neurological examinations. Motor disability was defined as reduced ability to perform normal human motor functions, such as standing and walking. Hearing function was assessed with conventional behavioral pure-tone audiometry. General intelligence was measured using the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) [17]. Language ability was assessed with a language assessment test as previously described [18]. Cerebral background activity and epileptiform discharge were detected by electroencephalography (EEG). Cranial computed tomography (CT) scan was also performed to document brain tissue changes following Salmonella meningitis.
In addition to considering individual assessment results and events of Salmonella meningitis during hospitalization, the overall outcome was classified according to previous reports with a few modifications [19]. These were as follows: (1) death: death was associated with Salmonella meningitis; (2) severe adverse outcome: severe cerebral palsy (vegetative state and/or tetraparesis, tetraplegia), profound or severe intellectual impairment (intelligence quotient (IQ) score < 55), profound or severe delayed language development (≥ 3 standard deviations (SD) below the mean on the full score of the preschool language scale), intractable epilepsy, sensorineural hearing loss ≥ 60 dB, and/or bilateral cranial nerve palsy or deficits; (3) moderate adverse outcome: moderate to mild cerebral palsy (hemiparesis or paraparesis), moderate intellectual impairment (IQ score between 55 and 69), moderate delayed language development (< 3 SD and ≥ 2 SD below the mean), sensorineural hearing loss (59 to 40 dB), one side of cranial nerve palsy or deficits, and/or epilepsy; (4) mild adverse outcome: minimal neurological impairment (generalized hyperreflexia and/or clumsiness), mild intellectual impairment (IQ score between 70 and 80), mild delayed language development (< 2 SD and ≥ 1.5 SD below the mean), and/or hydrocephalus without complications; and (5) good outcome: no motor disability, no intellectual impairment (IQ score > 80), and normal language development (< 1.5 SD from the mean).
Data is expressed as mean ± SD or median (range). Clinical features at the time of admission and acute complications of Salmonella meningitis were evaluated to find the relevant predictors associated with death, severe adverse outcome, and moderate adverse outcome using the 2-tailed Fisher's exact test (SPSS for Windows, version 15, SPSS Inc, Chicago, IL). P value < 0.05 was considered significant.
Clinical Characteristics and Acute Complications of Salmonella Meningitis
Admission features and progress of the twenty-four patients with Salmonella meningitis
Characteristics | Cases (N = 24) n (%) |
Male: Female | 15: 9 |
Age at onset, days* | 79 ± 44.5 (range, 5 to 266) |
Onset of symptoms before admission, days* | 2.1 ± 0.74 (range,1 to 3) |
Clinical features present between onset of symptoms and day of diagnosis | |
Fever | 24 (100) |
Lethargy | 6 (25) |
Irritability | 10 (42) |
Poor feeding | 20 (83) |
Diarrhea | 8 (33) |
Vomiting | 9 (38) |
Bulging anterior fontanel | 13 (54) |
Nuchal rigidity | 9 (38) |
Seizure | 15 (63) |
Salmonella isolates | |
Blood | 13 (59) |
Stool | 3 (17) |
Urine | 1 (6) |
Antibiotics | |
AC, third-generation cephalosporins | 6 (25) |
CM, third-generation cephalosporins | 4 (17) |
AC, CM, third-generation cephalosporins | 2 (8) |
AG, third-generation cephalosporins | 2 (8) |
Third-generation cephalosporins | 7 (29) |
Duration of hospitalization, days* | 32.1 ± 12.2 (range, 14 to 74) |
Condition at discharge | |
Survival | 21 (88) |
No disability | 8 (33) |
Disability | 13 (54) |
Ongoing seizure | 7 (29) |
Focal motor weakness | 10 (42) |
Cranial nerve palsy | 2 (8) |
Death | 3 (13) |
Relapse | 1 (4) |
Analysis of peripheral leukocytes and CSF at the time of diagnosis
Findings | Cases (N = 24) n (%) |
Peripheral blood data | |
Total WBC/μl* | 12210 (1570-28900) |
Segmented WBC/μl* | 4760 (527-17138) |
Banded WBC/μl* | 389 (0-4624) |
Platelet (×104/μl)* | 32.7 (7.4-87.5) |
CSF data | |
Total WBC/μl* | 1852 (68-30600) |
PMN/μl* | 1490 (65-24480) |
Glucose (mg/L)* | 15 (0-69) |
Protein (mg/dl)* | 330 (40-740) |
CSF/blood glucose ratio < 0.5 | 20 (83) |
CSF protein > 200 mg/dl | 13 (54) |
Gram stain positive | 24 (100) |
Initial antibiotics that covered Salmonella species were used for the twenty-four patients, based on the results of gram stains and cultures of blood and CSF. They were treated with fourteen different antimicrobial regimens, and most received chloramphenicol or ampicillin in combination with one of the third generation cephalosporins (cefotaxime, moxalaxtam, ceftriaxone, and ceftazidime) (Table 1). In vitro sensitivities to the third generation cephalosporins, chloramphenicol, and ampicillin were 100%, 54.5%, and 45.8%, respectively. Antimicrobial therapy durations were 32.1 ± 12.2 days (range, 14 to 74 days). One case had acute complications, including refractory seizures, ventriculitis, and severe hydrocephalus, and received a ventriculoperitoneal shunt. This patient had a relapse of Salmonella meningitis with the same serotype of Salmonella 33 days after treatment with susceptible antibiotics for 56 days.
The association of clinic features, CSF findings, and acute complications with the outcome in twenty-four children with Salmonella meningitis
Variable | Death, moderate and severe sequelae group (N = 15) n (%) | Mild sequelae and good outcome group (N = 9) n (%) |
Level of consciousness | ||
Lethargy or irritability at admission* | 13 (87) | 3 (33) |
Coma in hospital#* | 10 (67) | 0 (0) |
Seizures | ||
Seizure before admission | 10 (67) | 5 (56) |
Seizure in hospital* | 12 (80) | 1 (11) |
Laboratory tests | ||
CSF: blood glucose < 0.5* | 15 (100) | 5 (56) |
CSF protein > 200 mg/dl* | 11 (73) | 2 (22) |
Intracranial complications | ||
Subdural collection | 6 (40) | 4 (44) |
Intracranial focal infection* | 5 (33) | 0 (0) |
Empyema | 3 (20) | 0 (0) |
Brain abscess | 2 (13) | 0 (0) |
Cerebral infarction* | 8 (53) | 0 (0) |
Ventriculitis* | 6 (40) | 0 (0) |
Hydrocephalus | 9 (60) | 3 (33) |
Outcome of Patients with Salmonella Meningitis for School-Age Survivors
Overall, good outcome was observed in six (28.6%) of twenty-one survivors, mild adverse outcome in three (14.2%), moderate in six (28.6%), and severe in six (28.6%). Table 3 summarizes the relevant unfavorable factors associated with outcome. There was a higher prevalence of acute complications and decreased level of consciousness in children who had poor outcome than in those with mild adverse and good outcomes.
Long-term outcome associated with acute main complications for Salmonell a meningitis in twenty-one survivors
Findings | Survivors (N = 21) n/total (%)* | Number of acute main complications in each particular outcome | ||||||
Seizure# | Sudural effusion | Hydro- cephalus | Ventr-iculitis | Em-pyema | Brain abcess | Cerebral infarction | ||
Development | ||||||||
Delayed | 14/21 (67) | 11 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 7 |
Normal | 7/21 (23) | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Motor disability | ||||||||
Severe | 5/21 (24) | 5 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Moderate | 4/21 (19) | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
Mild | 1/21 (5) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Normal | 11/21 (52) | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Hearing Problems | 3/18 (17) | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Epilepsy | 7/21 (33) | 6 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
Microcephaly | 1/21 (5) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Hydrocephalus | 1/21 (5) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Visual deficit | 2/21 (10) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
CN6 palsy | 1/21 (5) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Intelligence | ||||||||
Speech/language | ||||||||
Abnormal | 11/21 (52) | 9 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
Normal | 10/21 (48) | 2 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Seven (33%) cases of the twenty-one survivors developed epilepsy. Five had refractory epilepsy that developed at the time of their acute illness, and the other two developed epilepsy post Salmonella meningitis at two and four years. All seven cases had focal or multifocal epileptiform discharges on EEG recordings. In addition, one survivor who did not display clinical symptoms of seizure had abnormal focal epileptiform discharges.
In sixteen (76%) of twenty-one children, brain CT scans revealed abnormal findings, suggesting old infarction and lesions associated with acute Salmonella meningitis. Moderate hydrocephalus was detected in one child, who had generalized tendon hyperreflex and good intelligence. Another patient who had received a ventriculoperitoneal shunt at age six months due to severe hydrocephalus had a normal sized ventricle.
One (5%) of twenty-one children had had left abducens nerve palsy since Salmonella meningitis and two (10%) had visual deficits. Sensorineural hearing impairment was noticed in three (17%) of the eighteen survivors tested by pure-tone audiometry. Two had severe unilateral sensorineural loss (> 60 dB) while one had mild unilateral sensorineural loss (40 dB). The other three survivors could not be tested due to their severe disabilities.
The language assessment test for school-age children was designed to identify language comprehension and verbal expression ability [18]. Of the twenty-one survivors who completed the test, eleven (52%) were found to have speech and language developmental delay, of whom five had severe communication problems or absence of speech. Thus, these five could not perform the neuropsychological tasks on the WISC-R, and the estimated score for each was assigned a poor performance under -3 SD for age because of their severe intellectual disabilities. The other sixteen children completed the WISC-R. The median full-scale IQ for these 16 cases was 93.5 (range, 48 to 107). Two children had borderline learning difficulty and another two had a moderate learning difficulty or worse.
Table 3 summarizes the relevant predictors associated with death and severe to moderate adverse outcomes found by univariate analyses. The major unfavorable factors presented during Salmonella meningitis were conscious change, seizure during hospitalization, CSF/blood glucose ratio < 0.5, CSF protein > 200 mg/dl, focal intracranial infection, ventriculitis, and cerebral infarction. The features including seizure onset before admission, subdural collection, and hydrocephalus were not significantly associated with a poor long-term outcome.
In this study, three out of twenty-four patients with spontaneous Salmonella meningitis died, representing a mortality rate of 13%; eighteen (75%) cases developed at least one complication at the acute phase of Salmonella meningitis, leading to a complicated clinical course. At school-age follow-up, fifteen (71%) of the twenty-one survivors had subsequent motor disabilities, epilepsy, language delay, and intelligence impairment (Table 4), and most (58%) suffered from moderate to severe sequelae. We further revealed that death and major adverse outcomes were highly associated with seven unfavorable factors during Salmonella meningitis: conscious change, seizure during hospitalization, CSF/blood glucose ratio < 0.5, CSF protein > 200 mg/dl, focal intracranial infection, ventriculitis, and cerebral infarction (Table 3)
The incidence (71%) of mild to severe adverse long-term outcomes in our twenty-one survivors was high, compared with those in the previous studies [8–13, 15]. One explanation is that our cases demonstrated more complicated involvement of the brain, such as cerebral infarction. On the other hand, our children were followed up at school age. Almost all previous studies involved follow-up of children aged less than five years [8–13, 15]. Since survivors remain at high risk for neurologic sequelae and lifelong impairment following meningitis [20, 21], there is difficulty in assessing those cases, particularly during the neonate period or during the first two years of life. Our study may thus provide a more accurate assessment for survivors, and give an incidence of adverse long-term outcome resulting from Salmonella meningitis.
Previous studies have demonstrated many prognostic factors for an unfavorable outcome of bacterial meningitis in children, such as Streptococcus pneumoniae meningitis [2, 22]. Since Salmonella meningitis is a relatively rare form of bacterial meningitis in neonates and infants, until now, there have been few studies that focus on the predictive factors for long-term outcomes [10, 12]. Although our case number was not so large, this study does allow us to assess trends in the distribution of an adverse outcome in relation to factors discernible at the acute phase of Salmonella meningitis (Table 3). The group with major adverse outcome and death was highly associated with seven unfavorable factors in comparison to the group with mild to no adverse outcome in univariate analysis (p < 0.05, Fisher's exact test), e.g. conscious alteration, late seizures, high CSF protein, low CSF/blood glucose ratio, cerebrovascular involvement, and intracranial infectious complications (Table 3). These factors are consistent with most predictive factors found in other bacterial meningitis [2, 22].
Treatment of Salmonella meningitis has not been well defined. Antimicrobial agents, including chloramphenicol, ampicillin, and cotrimoxazole, had a low cure rate (~ 40%) and a highly associated mortality (~ 45%) [23]. Third-generation cephalosporins and fluoroquinolones had a high cure rate (> 80%) and lowered the associated mortality (< 10%) [10, 24–26]. Thus, those two antibiotics would be regarded as the optimal antimicrobial regimens in the treatment of Salmonella meningitis [26]. All our patients were treated initially with antibiotics to which their Salmonella species was susceptible, and most received third-generation cephalosporins, combined with chloramphenicol or ampicillin. Similar to the previous report [10], the mortality rate in our cases declined to about 10%, but the morbidities remained high, up to 75%. The results suggest that susceptible antibiotics for treatment of Salmonella meningitis in children were unsatisfactory. Adjunctive dexamethasone, therefore, may be recommended to attenuate the effects of the acute innate inflammatory response to bacterial invasion within the CNS [27, 28], although the benefits of steroids in meningitis seemed controversial in developing countries [29]. In addition, the patient should be monitored in the intensive care unit for any morbidity, such as seizure, in order to detect its potential complication.
In the present study, there are some limitations that merit discussion. The admission features of our patients were retrospectively collected, and the sample size was not large enough for a good statistical analysis. The assessment methods were not fully validated. For instance, a standard clinical examination was performed to identify children with a gross motor impairment, which might not fully assess motor function in those with minimal deficits. Nevertheless, about a half of our postmeningitic children followed up at school age had neuromuscular disability, which was high in prevalence among bacterial meningitis [30–32]. Second, the study was limited by the lack of a sibling control group for comparison, since the possibility that some of the cognitive impairment detected might not be attributive to Salmonella meningitis must be considered. However, each of the tests used for neuropsychological and language assessment had been validated for normal populations, providing assurance that the intellectual deficits noted were the result of Salmonella meningitis. Our children with moderate to profound MR had more risk factors (5.2 ± 0.5) than those with normal average IQ and mild MR (1.6 ± 1.1) (Table 3). Thus, the results suggest that their motor disabilities and cognitive impairment might be highly related to the severity of their medical condition during the acute phase.
In summary, the present study provides more insight into a clinical spectrum and long-term outcome in the patients with Salmonella meningitis. Our study further revealed that Salmonella meningitis resulted in a high prevalence of long-term adverse outcome, being linked with its insult of acute complications, and a broad range of the potential neurological sequelae after meningitis remained with age. Early recognition of acute complications of Salmonella meningitis and a follow-up plan for early developmental assessment of survivors are vital.
cerebrospinal fluid
intelligence quotient
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This was supported by the Grant 83-CCH-IRP-01 from Changhua Christian Hospital for Medical Research. We thank the children and their parents who participated in this study, Rorn-Ting Huang who assisted in the children's follow up, and Chiu-Yueh Yang who analyzed the data. We are grateful to Professor Ching-Shiang Chi and Dr Man-Chi Lo for constructively reviewing the manuscript.
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Hi, Few months ago I had written a program to measure Java XML parsing performance. May be it could be of some use here. You can find details at http://www.pankaj-k.net/xpb4j/ I am not aware of Xerces internals so whatever I say here may not make much sense but one area where I feel that optimization at parser level can improve performance in server based applications is use of same String objects across parse runs. Let me elaborate -- A server program that accepts XML documents with every request comes across instances of documents from a small subset of schema. These documents use the same element names, attrobutes and namespace URIs. If the same immutable String objects can be used for these then there could be significant saving in allocation and deallocations. The problem is slightly complicated as the identification of repeating Strings must happen at a much lower level, before a String object is created of a lookup. What could do the job is perhpas some smart lookup during lexical analysis. Regards, Pankaj Kumar Web Services Architect HP Middleware -----Original Message----- From: Gopal Sharma To: email@example.com; email@example.com Sent: 5/5/02 7:18 AM Subject: [Xerces2] Measuring performance and optimization FYI Hi, I have forwarded this mail to _YOU_ ( general and xerces-j-user ) in view that you might be using *Xerces 2* in one way or other and could provide some data/details/suggestions/comments which would help us in this effort. Thanks in advance for your valuable suggestion(s) and comment(s). - Gopal ------------- Begin Forwarded Message ------------- Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 21:03:00 +0000 (Asia/Calcutta) From: Rahul Srivastava <firstname.lastname@example.com> Subject: [xerces2] Measuring performance and optimization To: email@example.com Hi folks, It has been long talking about improving the performance of Xerces2. There has been some benchmarking done earlier, for instance the one done by Dennis Sosnoski, see: http://www.sosnoski.com/opensrc/xmlbench/index.html . These results are important to know how fast/slow xerces is as compared to other parsers. But, we need to identify areas of improvement in xerces. We need to calculate the time taken by each individual component in the pipeline and figure out which component swallows how much time for various events and then we can actually concentrate on improving performance for those areas. So, here is what we plan to do: + sax parsing - time taken + dom parsing - dom construction time - dom traversal time - memory consumed - considering the feature deferred-dom as true/false for all of above + DTD validation - one time parse, time taken - multiple times parse using same instance, time taken for second parse onwards + Schema validation - one time parse, time taken - multiple times parse using same instance, time taken for second parse onwards + optimising the pipeline - calculate pipeline/component initialization time. - calculating the time each component in the pipeline takes to propagate the event. - Using configurations to set up an optimised pipeline for various cases such as novalidation, DTD validation only, etc. and calculate the time taken. Apart from this should we consider the existing grammar caching framework to evaluate the performance of the parser? We have classified the inputs to be used for this testing as follows: + instance docs used - tag centric (more tags and small content say 10-50 bytes) Type Tags# ------------------- * small 5-50 * medium 50-500 * large >500 - content centric (less tags say 5-10 and huge content) Type content b/w a pair of tag ------------------------------------- * small 500 kb * medium 500-5000 kb * large >5000 kb We can also have depth of the tags as a criteria for the above cases. Actually speaking, there can be enormous combinations and different figures in the above table that reflect the real word instance docs used. I would like to know the view of the community here. Is this data enough to evaluate the performance of the parser. Is there any data which is publicly available and can be used for performance evaluation?. + DTD's used - should use different types of entities + XMLSchema's used - should use most of the elements and datatypes Will it really help in any way? Any comments or suggestions appreciated. Thanks, Rahul. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com ------------- End Forwarded Message ------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- In case of troubles, e-mail: email@example.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: email@example.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- In case of troubles, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: email@example.com | |
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Chapter 2 of the series. If you haven't read chapter 1, I encourage you to do so. It explains how we got here.
I finally got to sleep, but woke up early in nervous anticipation of what would happen with Gwen on Skype later. Normally we'd chat for a little while each morning before she had to take Susan to school (because Susan wasn't old enough to drive, and couldn't stand taking the bus), so I went to my computer and saw she was already logged on.
Ingrid usually slept a little longer than I do, so I have a few minutes to talk with Gwen without interruption. We mostly chit-chatted, but at one point Gwen typed that she couldn't believe she'd "done that" last night, it wasn't like her, and she hoped I didn't think less of her. I assured her I was absolutely fine with what had happened, and not to worry. I was getting a sinking feeling that she was having a change of heart, and that nothing would happen after all.
Ingrid woke up, and as we sat and drank our coffee I continued to chat with Gwen. We kept it light and normal, and I tried to stay to my routine of checking websites and answering email, but I was distracted by all the thoughts in my head. Finally it was 7:30, time for Ingrid to go to work. We kissed and said our usual "have a good day", "be careful", "love you" platitudes, and she was gone. But by that time, Susan was ready, and Gwen said she was going to take her to school. She said she'd be back on around 8:15.
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"Oh, yes!" she answered, excitedly. I raised up so that my chest was in the camera view, and lifted my shirt and showed her my moobs. I think she might have thought I was talking about my dick, but I didn't want to presume.
"Oh, ha ha, asshole!" she laughed. "That's not what I wanted to see!"
I settled back so that my face was in the camera again. "It wasn't?" I asked, teasing. "What were you wanting to see?" I had a hard on, and my lose fitting shorts gave me easy access to my cock, which I was stroking slowly. Just as I realized she could see the movement of my arm, she said "Hey! What are you doing?"
"Oh, you can see that, huh?"
"I can see your arm moving, but I can't see what I want to see!" I know the pout she put on was mostly just for fun, but she was so goddamn cute!
"Okay, for real I'll show you this time." I stood up, making sure I was framed correctly, and pulled my dick slowly out through the loose leg of my shorts. I kept my hand over the top portion, so that all she could see was part of the shaft, but after a few seconds of this I removed my hand and let her see it in all it's glory.
"Wow!" she exclaimed, thrilling me with her sincere admiration. "He's really big! Not just long, but girthy too! How big is it?"
"Almost 7" long," I replied, proudly, "and about 5 ½" around. You like?" I asked, unnecessarily.
I sat back down, taking it out of view, and she pouted a little again. I loved that pout!
"So tell me about your other brother. What happened?"
"Oh, I don't know. There's not really a lot to tell. We were texting a lot, then one day he sent me a picture of his cock, and I thought 'I've got to fuck that!' So we did."
"Did you enjoy it? Did you come?"
"Oh, yea, it was fun. I felt so slutty, but in a good way, you know?"
"And how many times did you do it?" I asked. I don't know why I wanted to hear so much detail, and it was something that would later cause me no end of problems, but it was hot at the moment. I was continuing to play with myself; just enough to keep me rock hard and on edge.
"I guess two times," she said. "I stayed overnight at his apartment one night."
"Right, okay." I said. "I really want to see your tits again," I said, changing the subject.
"I don't know if I should," she answered, looking embarrassed but also interested.
"Come on, just take your shirt off and I will too," I said, pulling my t-shirt off. That was apparently all the encouragement she needed, as she removed her shirt and bra.
"God damned, those tits are fantastic!" I said.
"I know," she answered, smiling. She cupped them together, and gently bounced them up and down.
"Ooh," I sighed. "Tweak your nipples for me." She did, causing them to grow nice and hard.
"Can you lick them?" I asked.
"Oh, yea," she said, and demonstrated that she could, indeed, lick and suck on her nipples.
"Oh, dammit, I wish I was there," I moaned.
"I know, me too. But we might have time to play tomorrow."
"God I hope so!" I was still staring at her playing with her tits. "You want to watch me play with myself?" I asked.
"Yes!" I stood up, and she was able to watch me pull my shorts down, which caused my dick to slap up against my belly. I honestly couldn't remember the last time I'd been as hard and excited as I was right then. I sat back down, and adjusted my camera so that she could see my lap, and started slowly stroking myself. I was already leaking a little pre-cum, so I rubbed that around the head for lubrication.
Gwen's eyes were transfixed on the screen, watching me jack myself off. Her breathing was a little quicker than normal, so I knew it was exciting her.
"Turn around and let me see that ass!" I said. I meant it as a request, but it came out sounding like a command. Gwen didn't mind; she stood up, turned around, and unbuttoned her jeans. As she pulled them down, I was thinking I'd just get to see her ass covered by her panties, but to my surprise she pulled both down and bent over.
Because of the lighting, and the way her legs were together because of her pants being at her knees, I could see her ass but only a hint of the prize I was wanting to see. She shook her ass side to side, slowly and sensuously, then turned back to the camera. She leaned down, and I was afraid the show was over, at least for now. Instead of pulling her pants up, like I was half expecting, she pulled them the rest of the way off and sat back on the chair. She adjusted the camera so that I could see her boobs and pussy at the same time.
"Is this what you wanted to see?" She asked, rubbing her hands on her thighs, legs spread. Her hands would pull, causing her lips to part slightly, and thanks to the high-resolution camera I could see that she was already starting to get moist.
"Oh, god yes!" I moaned. "Play with that pussy. I want to lick you so bad!"
"And I want to suck that cock until you come in my mouth!" she answered.
We continued playing together, telling each other what to do. I had her turn around again to see her ass, and watch her play with herself from behind. I was in heaven! She turned back again, facing me, which I liked better because I could see those fantastic tits again.
"Your tits are fantastic!"
"I know," she said, the look of passion on her face flashing a brief smile.
She was rubbing her whole hand across her pussy and clitoris, and by this time she was very wet. "Lick your juices off your hand!" I begged.
"Oh, yes, I love doing that!" she answered, and immediately licked her hand clean. She rubbed again for a few seconds, then again licked them clean. "I've always loved the taste of my own juices."
"Have you ever tasted another woman's?" I asked
"No. I wouldn't be comfortable with that."
"Okay. Just curious. Stick your fingers in your pussy."
"No," she answered curtly. "I don't do that." I was surprised, but let it go. We continued to play, and I started feeling that familiar tingle in my balls.
"Oh, I'm going to come," I breathed. "Do you want to watch me come?"
"Yes!" she answered. "I'm close too! Keep going, I want to watch you spurt your cum all over yourself!"
I lay down on the couch so that she could watch, and that I could come on myself and not leave a mess. I got closer and closer, watching her hand moving faster now on her clit. When she changed to just using one finger, very fast, on her clit, I knew she was close too. Her eyes were trying to close, but she was fighting to keep them open so she could watch me. I was doing the same with my eyes.
My cock swelled to a size I'm not sure I've ever felt, and I started coming hard! The first spurt hit me in the face, leaving a trail down my chest. Gwen squealed when she saw that, and also started coming. My next three spurts were almost, but not quite, as strong, hitting me high on the chest and creating a big, sticky mess. I loved it, and so did Gwen! She kept rubbing furiously at her clit, legs shaking and twitching. I finally dribbled out the last of my come as her hand stilled itself, and we lay panting for a few minutes.
"Oh. My. God!" she exclaimed. "That was the most incredible… I've never done that with someone watching like that. And on camera! Oh, god!"
"I haven't come that hard ever!" I said. "Look at me!" I lifted up and got closer to the webcam so she could see just how much cum was on my chest. On a whim, I put my hand on my chest and rubbed the cum into my skin, spreading it all around.
"Oh, shit, that's hot!" Gwen panted. After watching for a bit she said "Okay, you have to stop now." She was laughing, but I knew she was serious, too. "You keep doing that, and I'm going to have to come again, and I don't have time! Plus, you need to get to work, right?"
I looked up at the clock and saw it was already after 9. "Yea, I definitely need a shower before I can go anywhere," I laughed. "What time will you be in this evening?"
"I'm not sure yet. What time do you get home, and when does Ingrid get home?"
"I can leave work anytime I want to, and Ingrid usually gets home around 4:30." I replied, hoping that she would come in early enough to…
"Oh, I won't be there that early," she said, dashing my hopes. "I'll probably get to your house around 5:30, then we can go to dinner, then over to Joe's to put the stuff in. Is that okay?"
"Sure," I said, trying not to let my disappointment show. "Are you still planning to spend the night there, or do you want to stay with us? Ingrid works in the morning," I reminded her.
"We'll see," she answered, smiling.
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This will add KHTML, iCab, and Opera support. I can prove Opera for sure.--immewnitythemew 19:06, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
- There's also the issue of bloat, too many CSS workarounds slow load times slightly. iCab is barely used, for example, so it's not really worth it to slow down load for everyone just so a small fraction of users see rounded corners.
- KHTML is slightly more widespread, because Safari also uses it, not just Konqueror. I'll need to test it a bit more to be certain, but we can switch that one out.
- I'm not sure about the Opera code either; I'll test it on the older version of Opera I have on my laptop, but for future reference, Opera, as of recently, uses the plain border-radius code, and doesn't support the -o-border-radius or -opera-border-radius. -- Jïörüjï Ðērākō.>.cнаt^ 22:30, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
- Safari uses -webkit
- I've tested just -o on Opera 10 alpha and it worked.--immewnitythemew 22:22, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
- And put the standard border-radius first!--immewnitythemew 22:23, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
- There's an unneeded > after noinclude...--immewnitythemew 18:00, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
- I believe different versions of Safari use different engines, but it's a moot point since we have KHTML and webkit both covered.
- I don't believe -o is disabled entirely on newer versions of Opera, but I know for a fact that the newest versions of Opera use plain border-radius already (getting a head-start on CSS3 specs).
- The extra > isn't hurting anything, just a mistake when I was copy-pasting.
- And lastly, do you have a particular reason why you say border-radius should be first? From what I know about CSS in general, it should usually be last in line for this sort of code. -- Jïörüjï Ðērākō.>.cнаt^ 05:48, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
- Opera never supported -o-border-radius. Also generic border-radius property should go *after* vendor specific ones. — Tenno Seremel 08:52, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
- There's an unneeded > after noinclude...--immewnitythemew 18:00, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
- And put the standard border-radius first!--immewnitythemew 22:23, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
Roundycorners are dead.
Hope you guys are happy. TTEchidna 01:52, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
- Oh stop pouting. They're not necessarily dead yet. That this template is partially to blame for the issues (never said it's the whole thing) is still a theory that's worth testing. If the roundy's were to blame....then we should try and find a way to do them without them causing issues, because I personally do like them roundy. --Archaic 04:24, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
- No, I'm not happy. >:{ Although I don't believe we need to include the
prefix anymore as the newest versions of Safari and Chrome now support regular oldborder-radius
(which I just discovered the other day), as does the latest version of Opera (no more need for-o-border-radius
). Perhaps we could uncomment the regular and-moz-
versions, leaving the rest hidden, and see what happens? Quagbert 14:03, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
Roundycorners are back!
We've split roundy into nine pieces. Currently, we have to fix a lot of the templates and pages whose coding is broken by this change. Should be done ASAP, if the servers cooperate. TTEchidna 08:27, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
Roundycorners go leafy!
I have an idea:
- classy="roundytl" and classy="roundybr"
- We can combine that to make
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- classy="roundytr" and classy="roundybl"
- Again,
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Can I get this to work? I haven't tried. To be moved to my sandbox!--444Zekrom 09:32, 6 November 2010 (UTC)


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We have a super busy day getting ready for parties and I don't have time to do a long post, but I thought I would share some pictures of the party I did for my very own 'lil boy's birthday yesterday. I worked with Melangerie for the paperie details. My son has an infatuation with planes right now so we did a "ready for takeoff" party. I need to "take off" now to take care of other parties, but I hope you all enjoy the pics below! Be back Monday!
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