Ha! I just sent an email to my husbans thinking he could help Burell -- and he already put in his two cents

I don't know for sure where the cameo-maker got it. It could be the pattern maker saw the same engraving and made a pattern from that. I do know that the pattern itself has been blogged extensively and has thus been seen by a lot of people. And the pattern page includes that engraving.

Oh, ita. So very sorry. I'm glad the doctor at least prescribed more meds. I hope he does find stuff that works better without tripping his alarm bells.

Oh, ita. I'm glad your doc is keeping up the prescription and so sorry it isn't doing enough.

That's some kind of progress, ita, I hope. I'm sorry it's such a bad pain day, though.

beth, congratulations on the job! Whoot!

he thinks I have some "right" or something to not be in constant pain, and he has something called a "duty" to minimise the amount of pain I'm in

That sounds like a good answer to me - I mean, if the meds you were taking now were working, there would be a good argument for keeping you on them. But since you're not satisfied with the results and your doctor is concerned about dependence/side-effects/whatever, it's in everyone's interest to keep looking for better solutions. I'm so sorry there haven't been any easy answers so far.

Thanks. It's something. I also have an accommodation note to give my boss about asking for working from home...but I'm in no condition to have that conversation today, I don't think.

At least he's not telling you to dance and drink coffee.

Whew, my candles made it in time and I found my menorah. Usually my local grocery store carries a few, but I don't think they realized how early Hannukah was coming this year so I had to order. Now I just need to figure out how to test that frozen-candles-drip-less hypothesis and I'll be all set.

ita, it sounds like your doc is a good egg. I hope he finds something to help.

You there's nothing like being dumped with a many versions of comments on a document without any direction on how to synthesize them. Only to be told while working on the final set of comments they need a summary of all the changes made. (And I'm in WP, where track changes isn't as easy.)

What is the calculation for when Hannukah occurs? I didn't know it was a movable feast, like Easter.

There was an episode of the NPR program The World that was about parents of kids with ADD/ADHD who then discover -- due to their kid's diagnosis -- that they themselves have ADD/ADHD. There was a portion of the show where listeners could call in, and one dad called in and he was just a seething ball of barely repressed anger. The way he described his son's behavior patterns did, in fact, sound super frustrating (although it sounded like the kid had ODD, not ADHD [not that I'm a doctor]). I don't deny that. But this dad was just so angry that it made me sad for the kid.

Frequently co-morbid. Very frequently.

Bonnie, I think the mother needs to be seeing a professional with kids, especially one with ADD/ADHD/ASD kids. (Because no matter how stubborn and angry she's being, she's also not wrong that you can't know. You can't. No non-parent can. I thought I did, but nope. I didn't. So she needs, as Msbelle suggested, to have that not be something she can respond with.)