Right now it is 86 degrees and the sun is out. We are prepared for the hurricane that is supposed to hit North Carolina tomorrow. They are saying now that it has been downgraded to a tropical storm. Can't count on that as the weather has a mind of it's own. If it turns left it's a hurricane. If it turns right and goes out to the Atlantic Ocean it'll be a storm.
My daughter has a house on the island which makes her basically on the beach. I live 15 minutes inland from the ocean. We evacuated when Florence was a 4. Two days after we evacuated power went out in the hotel so we didn't have a/c or a way to cook or buy prepared food so we went back home and didn't have power for almost two weeks. She and her husband and two dogs stayed in my house.
When I was still working we had a case of a young woman who was in a car accident with her father who was the driver of the car. She had a brittle bone disease known as Osteogenesis Imperfecta.
Brittle bone disease is a disorder that results in fragile bones that break easily. It’s typically present at birth, but it only develops in children who have a family history of the disease.
The disease is often referred to as osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), which means “imperfectly formed bone.”
Brittle bone disease can range from mild to severe. Most cases are mild, resulting in few bone fractures. However, the severe forms of the disease can cause:
hearing loss heart failure spinal cord problems permanent deformities
Osteogenesis Imperfecta can sometimes be life-threatening if it occurs in babies either before or shortly after birth. Approximately one person in 20,000 will develop brittle bone disease. It occurs equally among males and females and among ethnic groups.
Brittle bone disease is caused by a defect, or flaw, in the gene that produces type 1 collagen, a protein used to create bone. The defective gene is usually inherited. In some cases, however, a genetic mutation, or change, can cause it.
This woman had a severe case and could not walk. If she tried to turn over in bed she suffered extreme pain. She could barely stand it when someone tried to wash her body because someone was touching her body.
Her condition was exacerbated by the accident. Even though she had a seat belt on her body was still thrown around in the car. We (the law firm where I worked) sued her father because he was driving the car. To look at her body before the accident you would think she isn't going to live long but she did still have the probability of living a long life because she was young.
Only now her condition has worsened since the accident.
To answer the hypothetical question that Ro asked, yes you can be accountable if you make someones illness/injury worse.
FYI: Judge Judy Sheindlin is a Civil Law attorney. She wouldn't have the expertise to handle the case that I presented in this post. Matter of fact, her show is no longer on tv except for old cases.
Larry, a down thumb shouldn't "ruin" the forums for everyone. It might make someone upset or wonder why it was done but it shouldn't actually ruin the chance for you to post. I got a down thumb but it's not going to keep me awake tonight.
Whoever gives me a thumbs down just means they don't agree with what I said. I actually prefer that to harsh words directed at me.
I didn't even know the thumbs up and down was there. I remember years ago the thumbs were red and green and could be easily seen. I went back to see if my post in the thread asking if you ever said something you wish you didn't say and somebody gave me a down thummie. Wonder why someone would disagree with that post
So I went back to my post in the Last Relationship thread and I got two thumbs up. I'm glad about that cause that post is from my heart.
When my daughter went to her high school prom I told her that if the boy wanted to see her again, but she didn't want to see him, she should remember that he has feelings and she should make sure she is polite and kind when she rejects his request to see her again. I'm pretty sure she followed that advice.
I did the same thing when I was casually dating men that I didn't want to see again.
The hardest one to break was my alcoholic husband that lead to a divorce.
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I'm glad about that cause that post is from my heart.
RE: KEEP ONE REMOVE ONE
Broken Heart