Santa Claus is coming to couch 68!!!!!

Artemis I am so very sorry, we are all here for you. I am sure a call to Xt in this situation would be ok.

Art....yea, call your xt, you need support.

I am so sorry.

Oh Art. I am so sorry for your loss.. (((hugs))) If you need to get a hold of XT it would be ok.. dealing with death is not an easy thing to do. We are here if you need to talk.

Artemis...I am so sorry for your loss...

LC - yes status quo.

Art - I am sorry to hear about your father. This is indeed the sort of thing I believe would be a call the ex-therapist about situation.

Oh, Artemis, I'm so very sorry. It's ok to reach out for support. You don't need to know what you need.

Thanks you guys. So much appreciated. I did call ex-T and am so thankful that she answered, didn't have to leave a blubbering voice mail, she talked with me for about 10 minutes which really helped a lot. I told her I don't really know what I'm asking you for I just, wanted. She said we have a deep connection and you wanted me to hold your grief with you or something like that. I really don't remember what other words she said but I felt her caring and support and as we were getting ready to hang up she said I sounded like I was back down in my body and I am. I'm so glad I called her. I'm feeling a little more ready to talk to my son when he gets home from school in an hour or so.

(((( Art ))))

I'm so very sorry for your loss. It's such a difficult thing to endure. I'm so glad, though, that you reached out to XT and that it was helpful. We are here.

((( Wiki )))

I'm glad you're doing what you need to in order to stay safe. Please reach out if you need to. Know that I care.

so sorry artemis for your loss

I'm so sorry, artemis.

I'm so sorry Artemis....

I am so sorry art

Wikid- I hope you feel better soon.

Sending prayers and good thoughts your way Wiki....

(((wikid)))

Lola, thinking of you, and I hope your session will be helpful.

So sorry, Artemis. This is going to be a difficult and confusing time -- I'm with those who say talking to xT is probably worth a try.

love you bunches wiki

Hi...I'm up for some fluids to wash down pain pills. I wish Dilaudid killed emotional pain as well as physical pain.

I heard from my niece, my sil is doing really well after her kidney removal. So relieved that things are going okay for her, I hope she's home by Christmas.

I am definitely going back into t after the holidays.

Another positive: my MIL (who hasn't been feeling well) decided she would come spend Christmas with us. Which is nice, you think I could send my mother back to her little one room apartment in CT and put MIL in the beautiful apartment I got for my mother here?

I'm glad you're returning to T, wikid. And it's really nice that your lovely MIL is coming for Christmas.

I'm living in a bit of a mental rollercoaster. Don't want to take up space with it, because it's probably boring. But I kind of need supportive vibes.

Artemis, I'm so sorry for your loss. Let us know if we can do anything.

I'm here if you need me. Feel free to PM me or whatever. You won't bore me.

Art, sorry for your loss.

mast im here if you want to talk and you are not taking up space and I know im interested in hearing what is going on and I bet others are also

Well, I got p i s s ed today. Not just mad...flat out p i s s ed. The kid I was reading to in the morning did not finish her exam (she got 100 of the 150 questions done). She was afraid to go back to class with it not complete because her teacher would yell at her, so I walk back to class with her to explain to her teacher that she worked hard, but just didn't have enough time to finish and reminded him that she does get accommodations like extended time. He tells the girl that she has to come back in another class after she finishes that class' exam to finish his. The girl is about in tears because she doesn't think she will finish any of her remaining exams early and tells the teacher this. He tells her that if she doesn't the questions she did not get to would be marked as incorrect. I immediately thought who the h e l l are you to do this to a student with a learning disability. It flat out p i s s ed me off. The girl is pratically in tears at this point because she doesn't want to fail. I walk her out of the room and once the door closes behind us tell her I will do what I can to resolve the situation.

I immediately go to the person in charge of accommodations and tell her what was said. She got mad too and said she would talk to the teacher. She said she already told that teacher his students with learning disabilities needed a reduced question load on the exam (other science teachers I have read for have told the learning disability kid to only do the odds, so they are doing half as many as the "regular" kids). He supposably told her that all of his questions were important and he couldn't eliminate any of them for any student. This teacher is an a s s in my opinion. He needs to understand that some students have difficulties and need accommodations to succeed.

In other news, I probably said a little "too" much as I was reading to the girl. She gets several accommodations based on her individual education plan (IEP). One is verbatim reading of test questions. Another is clarification of test questions. I probably went a little "too" far on some of the clarification. One of the questions asked about charateristics of elements. She asked what a charateristic was.