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I did too, when I was at OH. I took the avatar down over there because I got tired of the picture, and the next day I got accused of being KabukiCoyote (who is WASa here) and Dee. Some of the folks at OH thought that they were the same person, too. Apparently, it's a major sin to not have your picture as your avatar or not tell where you're from. It can't just be that someone was tired of their picture or that they don't want to be exposed to their real-life friends, family, and co-workers. Nope, it HAS to be that they are someone's sockpuppet. So freakin' paranoid, it's crazy. :phanvan

They discounted a bunch of it, but I still had to pay a load of money. I had a $3,000 deductible to pay and then had to pay $888.88 to the surgeon, almost $2,500 to the hospital, $308.00 to the anesthesiologist, some to the pathologist, etc.

Ooh, hey, nice avatar. Mine sucks, I need to change it as soon as I get a more current picture.

Mint is icky. :Banane30:

Let me put it this way: I'm 24, and they were acting younger than me. It was seriously elementary-school level maturity. And people wonder that a mentally-ill person goes off the deep end?

Hmm, that's a hard one. I'd say go to a movie or play, but that would exclude the 2 year old. I dunno what you guys could do. Everything I could think of, the 2 year old wouldn't enjoy.

The woman's not deserving of sympathy. She can't even admit that she's done something wrong, for crying out loud, let alone apologize. Until she can do that, she's completely fair game.

Seriously, Chelle. I really don't give a flying you-know-what that you are friends with Sandy. I don't care. I may not agree with it at all, but you pick your own friends. I'm NOT going to shut up about her, though, just because she happens to have a few friends and supporters. The lady (if you can call her that) is an unrepentant lying, stealing, nurse-impersonating convict. And about the cliques.... I am a firm believer that the only people that don't see cliques are either 1) completely blind and stupid, or 2) in the clique.

You have to admit, it's kind of hard to be in the middle, in this kind of situation. On one hand, you have someone who may or may not have acted in the most mature fashion (I can't really say, not having been privy to a lot of the PMs and such.). On the other, you have someone who broke the law, deceived people, was incredibly unethical, and is essentially conning people for money. The first person, while he may have not acted maturely, never broke the law, only really started going after the second person when they sent other people PMs and emails that stated that his surgeon told them HIPAA-protected information, and never lied about the second person. The second person sent that email, didn't tell people that she got kickbacks whenever they bought a book or CD that she recommended, pretended to be a nurse (for profit, I might add, since that is one of the advertising features of her website), gave out medical advice that sometimes turned out to be bad, etc., etc., etc. And I got put with the first person by the second person's supporters at OH, basically because I happened to speak up in support of another person that they didn't like.

So, wait. You "shut your mouth" by starting a thread? How does that work, exactly?

One MAJOR difference. Wendell never did anything illegal.

LJ, you know what I just realized? (And this isn't an attack, so calm down.) You speak in haiku. Or like the boss from That 70s Show. Not sure which, honestly.

I do beans, but not fish. I don't eat anything that used to live in water. As a biology major, I know way too much about what they do and what they are. Shellfish? Essentially giant insects. Roaches of the sea, as I call them.

Yep, spicy foods are incredible! Just made chili last night, with extra garlic, rotel, and chili seasoning.

I'm making my yummy chili tonight. I use a pound of extra lean ground beef, browned with chopped garlic and onions and drained. Add a big can of tomato sauce, a can of petite diced tomatos, a can of corn, a can of original Rotel, and a packet of McCormick's chili seasoning. Cook on low for a few hours, and voila! Yummy chili. You can add beans for extra protein, but I prefer my chili to be beanless.

The only way I can stand coffee is iced with vanilla syrup and cream. Mint tea is just . A good, mild black tea like Twining's Prince of Wales blend, with a tad of sugar and half & half, is very, very yummy, though. :confused:

I'm not usually fond of herbal teas, since they usually taste like grass. Twining's makes a pretty decent one, though, called Herbal Revive Cherries and Madagascan Cinnamon. It's not half bad, even though I'm a die-hard black tea lover.

Maybe chili flakes? I dunno. I think there was a marinade posted by someone in one of the other threads.

It's like she doesn't realize that other people actually read articles, too. Does she think people are idiots? That they won't notice that, "Hey, there's an extra sentence added to that abstract! WTF, it's grammatically incorrect and it states a conclusion that wasn't there when I read the abstract 20 minutes ago!"?

That's not the only thing she does, concerning studies. She'll copy and paste the abstract, add on to the conclusions section, and then make a thread saying the authors made conclusions that they didn't. Then, she'll back-step and wiggle around when confronted about it. THAT is what first made me doubt her qualifications. There is no reputable peer-reviewed article author in the world that would do that to another author's article or abstract. That made me start wondering what else she lied about.

So did I. I'm trying to think of different ways to prepare it, because I bought 3 blocks of it. Anyone know if it can be frozen long-term?

I agree completely. It has been either outright said or implied that we're Wendell's patsies. We're not. He doesn't ask us or tell us to do anything. I got involved in all of this because of two things. One, Sandy annoyed the crap out of me and I was sick of the fawning she got, even though she was highly unethical and obviously a hack (I can post examples, if you want). Two, I happened to speak up for Dee. Now, Dee and I highly dislike each other. In face, I eventually blocked her on OH because she was harassing me. Ask WASa, if you don't believe me, we've talked about it and bitched to each other many times. But the way she got treated was horrible. This was a woman that was obviously (OBVIOUSLY, for Pete's sake) unstable. We all knew it. Anyone who had even an ounce of brains and spent any time at all on the boards at OH (or here, before she was banned) knew that she wasn't all there. Again, I didn't like or trust her one bit, but that doesn't mean I condone the way she was treated. She was harassed and teased and provoked. You guys know how people are talked about on OH. Their names are never mentioned outright because that would get the thread deleted, but everyone knows what and who you are talking about. (How many ways can people insert Dee into words? Hmm, let me think....) Now, I'm not saying she was an angel. Obviously, she wasn't. But damn, the woman was mentally ill. The rest of the people posting didn't have that excuse. But of course, no one could speak up for her without being attacked by everyone in sight. That leaves a very bad taste in someone's mouth for other people. So basically, that's how I got put on Team Wendell.

Word of warning, though. It apparently has enough acid in it to curdle milk. I just tried making it with a little half & half added, and I had to dump the enire mug of it.

By the way, it's the most shocking shade of pink/magenta that I've ever seen in tea.

That's what I'm worried about with my dad, too. He isn't sick right now, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if he eventually has Alzheimer's. Both his parents had it before they died (his dad was SEVERE), and his older sister (by only a couple of years) was recently diagnosed with it and is going downhill very quickly. We aren't that close, but that is what I am really, REALLY dreading, with both him and my mom. My mom is the one that I am extremely close to. Her mom was utterly senile (don't know whether it was Alzheimer's or not) when she died at 74, and my mom's already 62. I am really dreading the fact that, most likely, both of my parents won't recognize me when they die.