When I have a patient in labor, I have to make sure that I chart pretty much every single little thing that happens. But, especially, I have to chart certain milestones. Like...your due date...the first day of your last menstrual period...when your labor started....when your water broke, when your cervix in dilated to 10 cm. When the baby is born...when the placenta is delivered. But, you know what IS NOT A MILESTONE? When you lost your mucus plug. I don't really care. Your doctor doesn't care. Your midwife doesn't care. If you call your midwife at 3 am to tell her that your mucus plug is currently exiting your vagina? and she tells you to put it in a baggie and take in to the office the next day to show the other midwife? She's probably really mad at that midwife (or has a rea
Medically known as halitosis, bad breath is a condition so common that it affects people of every age, gender and race. 75% of the world's total popular population is affected by it, either temporarily or chronically. The bad news is bad breath or halitosis can be the reason for deep embarrassment and poor self-worth, making it truly an unfavorable condition that needs to be considered, not to be ignored.
Bad breath is caused and triggered by a number of factors. Some are serious, while others are just normally occurring. But generally speaking, the main culprit of bad breath is the bacteria that normally live in the mouth and tend to grow into numbers once triggered by certain conditions, like the formation of dark mucus due to a post nasal drip or sinusitis.
When you develop a sinusitis or post nasal drip, bad breath occurs in a way that the dark mucus that is continually produced by the cells lining the passages of your sinus tends to drip down your throat and nose. What'
Yes, it's true, my freedom loving, tub thumping, freestyle humping chums! The People's Democratic Republic of Pubistan has just passed a law to ban making the picking of one's nose in public places an offence as of June 1st 2007. This inhuman, highly provocative and ultimately self-implosive act will prevent anyone over the age of two years of age with or without a runny nose from dealing appropriately with the offending snotpiece. It will also mean, since all vehicles and barns, sheds, garages, greenhouses and outside toilets have been designated as public areas, that any citizen caught in the aforementioned structures partaking of a bit of picky wicky of the honourable bogey will be liable to the maximum punishments under the law, which are as follows:For the first offence: the nose shall be knitted together by needle and thread for a period of no more than ten years, and no less than nine years, eleven months and 30 days.For the second offence: one or both nostrils shall be re
#686: MUCUS RUNS DEEPMy head feels either very large or very heavy. I can't quite decide which it is. It's not both, or I am sure that I would be bobbing head-down on the floor like an upside down Bozo the Clown bop bag.I am leaning toward heavy rather than large, and I do mean leaning. I am leaning on everything. Right now it happens to be a coffee mug on an old desk. Earlier, it was a shopping cart in the personal hygiene aisle of the grocery store. The bed has been my best support thus far. I cannot complain about the bed. It's fluffy.When I was at the grocery store, I spent a long while in front of the pharmacy counter, checking over all the boxes of medication. I wanted one with everything in large doses. It couldn't be for colds and not flus. It couldn't be for allergies and not colds. It had to be a cold and flu and allergy medication. Also, it couldn't have ibuprofen, because ibuprofen makes me an easy bleeder when combined with the anti-depressant I am on,
What the heck is it? Does losing it mean that labor is hours away?
The mucus plug is a build up of secretions on the opening of the cervix that protect the uterus and baby from infection. Usually sometime in the ninth month you lose this mucus plug because the cervix is dilating. The mucus plug is a gooey substance that looks a little like gelatin. Sometimes you find it in your clothes, sometimes after wiping when using the bathroom. It kind of looks like a plug.
To be honest, this is the only pregnancy where I noticed that I lost the mucus plug. Quite often you can lose the mucus plug gradually and it seems more like a heavy discharge. Sometimes it has blood in it, sometimes it is clear.
The bad news is that it doesn't exactly mean that labor is hours away. You can have at least two more weeks to go!
It is strange that I looked up a lot of information on "mucus plug" but found it beneficial to read message boards on the topic and read what other women went through. Some said that
Thought I'd write a few lines just to let you know that I am coughing up snot and don't feel so well.(Sharing - ain't it great?)However, I will be back tomorrow with at least 99% less Rosie and Britney.Enjoy.Your friend,Sudiegirl the snot-filled.
Well, chiclets, we're down to the final two. Oh, ick! But won't let my prejudice against both cheftestants rule this post. We'll let esteemed guest judge Anthony Bourdain speak about Ilan aka Chuckie the Evil Kewpie Doll, and Marcel aka Marcel Jekyll and Marcel Hyde.I quote Chef Bourdain verbatum in the good, the bad, and the fugly sections:Ilan aka Chuckie, the Evil Kewpie DollThe GoodI suspect, he'll go all the way.That his food was derivative is no dishonor. Smart chefs must first know what their strengths and weaknesses are. And who to steal from. He did both well.The BadHe DID manage to get others to do his dirty work (if ineptly). Also a useful skill. If not the most admirable of young men--it is certainly well within reason to imagine him as a successful chef who serves good food at a prof.If Ilan has a fatal flaw, it's that he let Marcel get up his nose so easily and predictably.And that when he (again and again) conspired to sabotage or screw over his enemy--either direct
