Jyetie

Yes, yes, I know. "They're such wonderful creatures!" Some of you are shouting in vain at your monitors. "They're helpful! Killing anything is wrong!"

I don't care. There is a praying mantis on my porch. It attacked my dog the other day and now she's afraid to go outside. I'm not letting an insect bully any of my family members, human or otherwise.

I'm asking because I want the most humane way to kill it. I don't want to gas it with bug spray for an hour as it suffocates, but it's a good 7 inches long so I also don't want to step on it. Could I challenge it to a duel for my dog's honor I would, but I don't think it can hold a sword. Honor in war and such.

Don't tell me it's illegal, it's not. I'm not going to capture the little bugger and waste my time relocating it. She's a jerk. Don't tell me to let her go away, she's been here for a week, and probably laid a nest of future jerks. Oh well.

Stupid question, I know. But I looked at the bottle of Vicodin(7.5-750 and some 10-325) I got in May and noticed there where only about 20 pills left. Out of 100. Which kind of scared me.

Now, I'm not just using it for fun. I have an actual (extremely painful) medical condition called occipital neuralgia that causes constant severe pain. But I'm just afraid I'm taking them too much. And then there's the whole, "you can get addicted to these."

And furthermore, I'm on this lovely little pill called klonopin that I'm trying to detox off of, but I've never really thought of myself being addicted to it. I just took it because the Dr said to, and now I'm stopping because the new Dr said to.

So I think my idea of addiction is a little messed up.

Before I get to my questions, let me tell you about my puppy, first. Her name is Maggie, and she's a 6-7 month old min pin(possibly mixed with chihuahua). We found her in a box by the side of the freeway when she was 6 to 8 weeks old, and we fell in love. She's got an amazing personality. She isn't very well trained, but she knows sit, stay, come, and is leash and house trained. She's not fixed yet. We've had problems in the past trying to get animals fixed (our cat nearly bled out on the table) so we wanted to wait until she was bigger and a bit older than the 4 months she would have otherwise been fixed at. She didn't have all her shots at time, as well. She's put on 2 and a half pounds since then, and now weighs about 5 pounds. We don't have the money to fix her right now, though we do not intend to breed her.

So... my questions...

We found her humping her bed last night. Is that even normal for female dogs?

And could she be going into heat even though she's so young and tiny? And since we do intend on getting her fixed, could going into heat cause complications?

And when she does go into heat, what do we need to do for her? Do we need to give her more iron, is there some sort of doggy pads?

Will getting her fixed change her personality? She's not very hyper. Actually, she's downright lazy. She'll play for a little bit, run around, drink some water, then sleep. That's, of course, comparing her to our friends dog, who is like a little energizer bunny. My dog is more of a lovebug. She'd rather watch TV with you then play fetch.

And my last question: How often will she go into heat?

And before anybody says anything about my grammar and whatnot, I'm typing this on my phone.

Anyways, I'm almost 16, and I've always been extremely intelligent. My IQ is something like 137 and I was nearly a straight A student for the past few years. I've always scored in the 95th percentile for state tests at the very least. I'm usually in 98-99 for math and science, and a bit lower for say, history.

So I should be able to pass high school with honors, and I was on track to do that until I came down with a disabling... head pain that's been constant for a little over a year now. Doctors are baffled because they have no idea what's wrong, and why it won't respond to any medication. I'm not looking for a diagnosis, I'm just looking to have a few questions answered.

As I said before, I'm pretty dang smart, and I've never had problems in school, except now I have this horrendous, disabling headache. I was out since last april, and I've recently started back. I've been in school for 12 days, and I've missed half of them because I just can't function.

I've always had lofty dreams of becoming a productive member of society, maybe a doctor, teacher, or engineer. And while I don't want to give up on those dreams, I'm now behind in high school, and I won't be able to graduate on time unless I take a lot of summer school classes. More than likely, though, ill be in the hospital a good portion of the summer, or maybe travelling to see different doctors.

Basically, I want to live my life and get the future I deserve, but I don't know if getting a ged would hold me back from that. Were I to get one, I would like to continue on with school, going to a jc and then a university. Would I still be able to do that?

I also saw that you must be 18 except under certain circumstances, but I can't seem to find them. Since I am disabled, would those apply to me?

And most importantly, if and when I get this condition under control, would having a ged instead of a high school diploma prohibit me from future opprotunities, even if I went to a junior college?

I forgot to add, I would more than likely get it in arkansas or california. And do you feel there's a stigma of being an underachiever if you have a ged?

And how will I survive the next 7 months?

His name is paul. He never talks. He never changes channels. And he's never logged off. Is this just like an error with vent or what?

I found a puppy on Thursday, abandoned by the side of the road. She's really little, maybe like 8 inches long. She can eat wet food just fine, and will try chomping on dry food until it hurts her teeth, but I can't get her to drink water. I've tried giving it to her through a bottle, but she would only take a couple sips. In a bowl, though, she'll only put her nose in it before walking away. How do I get her to drink?

Alright, so back story first: I'm 15, 16 in may. I've had a headache for almost a year now. One. Single. Headache. I've had to stop school and home school for part of my freshman and all of my sophomore years in high school. This headache has become my defining element of my life. I don't leave the house without Norco in my pocket, I have to get some 13 restless hours of sleep, and I've gained 40lbs from medications and just plain inactivity due to not feeling well. I've tried soo many medications. Otc meds do nothing for my pain. I've been on antidepressants, anticonvolsents, and calcium channel blockers. I've also had DHE infusions, and I'm allergic to triptans. I'm "diagnosed" with ndph, for lack of anything better.

Here's my questions in a not so questiony form:

I don't fit the symptoms of ndph, besides that it never stops. My pain is on one side, and I hate using the word dull, because I feel it doesn't accurately convey the severity. So let's call it boring. It doesn't do much, it just HURTS. Occasionally(read: every few hours to every few minutes), I get sharp, stabbing pain from where the headache usually is(right above my left eyebrow, in an area about the size of my fist turned on its side, so the litter part is the area.) To the back of my head. On a scale of 1-10, I'm usually a 7. Could this be any other headache?

Also, is there like another form of indomethacin, because id like to try it, but I'm allergic to it.

Oh, and I forgot to mention: ct and mri came back clear, my csf level is slightly elevated but not to the point it could be psuedotumor cersomethingorother, and the fluid itself is clear. My blood pressure is normal, and my family has a history of migraines. It seems to respond somewhat to trileptal, migranal, and narcotics. The only thing to make it go away completely for a little while is dilaudid(not even morphine), and that's a very bad treatment plan.

Tl;dr: I've lost all hope in my 3 neurologists and have come seeking help from y!a.

I'm not using the backspace key. (Except for typos)

I've had a headache for what feels like forever but is really only 9 months. Doctors are stupid. No, they're arrogant and pompous. They KNOW what's wrong, **** the symptoms. You have NDPH. It may or may not ever go away. Sure, we could try that treatment, but let's try another one instead that WON'T WORK. Just like the last 5. 6? 7? I've lost count. We can't try it because I didn't think of it, and I went to medical school. You don't have md behind your name, therefore you are wrong.

I CANNOT ****ING GO EXERCISE! I hardly feel like getting out of bed. So yes, nurse, I know I'm overweight. Thanks for pointing it out. I've only been self concious about it since I was 5!!

Stop asking me how I'm doing! I don't want your pity. I want to gag everytime I hear, "oh, you poor thing!" YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW! YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IT FEELS LIKE BEING TOLD YOU COULD BE IN PAIN FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE! I'm 15. I can't learn to drive. I can't go to school. When I go to the hospital, I see little kids with cancer who are dying, and I think to myself, you selfish *****.

I'm crying as I write this, not because I'm sad, but because I'm soo majorly pissed at myself. I didn't do anything to deserve this, but neither did they. I'm just lonely and fat and in pain all the time. I'm not dying. It could be soo much worse, why am I wallowing now? Why do I yearn for a diagnosis when I know it will change nothing?

I'm causing my family soo much grief. My mother is always researching and stressed because of me. Because I'm a freak. I have such a great family, I shouldn't complain. Why don't other people get families like mine? Families that love them and help them and drive two hours to wait two hours to see a neurologist because she's supposidly the best?

Why did I have to do this to them?

Why...

What's the meaning of it all? Why are little kids suffering? Why do we have to get sick?

Why am I crying? Why am I typing this all? I'm not going to get anything out of throwing a fit on the internet, and yet I must, because I can't tell my family. I don't want to burden them more with me.

There's no point here. I'm pitiful. And don't worry, I'm not suicidal. Just tired and angry at life.

I need to throw up. I think the new medicine is making me nauseous.

I ruined our family night at universal studios. We went to the hard rock cafe and sat down and my head just hurt soo bad. I curled up on the floor next to the toilet, trying not to throw up and focus on anything else but the pain. But we left and I fell, and I sprained my ankle. On the way home, my sister said "why do you have to ruin everything?" And my parents told her to stop, but its true. I ruin everything. I ruined the past year.

I want to be a neurologist. I don't want other people to go through this.

I don't want to go through this.

I just want to sleep. And go to school. And learn to drive. And flirt with boys. And be normal.

I'm sick of wallowing, but that's all I do. I'm pathetic.

I think I'm having a mental breakdown.

I think I just need a hug.

I'm not sure if I even could, since I'm not disabled in the typical term.

I've had a headache since april 20th 2010, following a cold. Since then, I've had multiple cts scans, mris, lumbar punctures, and a dhe infusion that caused me to be in the hospital for 8 days. I ve been diagnosed with ndph, and am in constant pain which, on a scale of 1-10, varies from a 5 to 10, and is usually at a 7 or 8.

I'm currently homeschooled simply because I can't go to school.

Next year ill be a junior, and id really like to go back to school for my last two years of high school and on to college, eventually hopefully to become a neurologist. But that's the problem. I currently can not go to school for 7 hours without any pain medications.

My neighbor(who is a psychologist) says I'm technically disabled.

Would I be able to return to school if I got an iep? And how would I go about that?

Why not 10, or 15, or 20?

12 seems such a strange number to stop with.

I've been cheating on WoW. Whew, it feels good to get that off my chest. Please don't tell! We've been together for a few years now, and while I still love him, I've just been... exploring my other options.

And those options were Star Wars: Galaxies(Human Jedi), EVE Online(Caldari), LotRO(Elf Hunter and Dwarf... person), and EQ2(Half Elf Wizard). Warhammer wouldn't download.

And without my 80s, heirlooms, gold, and guild to back me up, (not to mention knowledge of the game) I'm a total noob. So here's what impresses me as a noob in a brand new world...

1. Instanced Starting Areas: Holy... Talk about a way to draw a noob in. There's nothing epicer than talking with Gandalf or Han Solo and making you feel 'part of the world'. You're important, you lil level one you!

2. Not Dying: Easy-mode while I figure out what I'm doing? Yes, please! WoW was really bad at this when I first started. Damn you, Defias! Damn you, murlocs! Damn y- "Release Spirit?"

3. Options: Face 1 or 2? How about customizing every feature? I want to be different than every other noob on this server! Also, I understand class and race restrictions, but I don't like them. The first character I make will likely be my main, so I want to be able to choose the class that sounds the most fun BEFORE I buy your game, to see if it really is the most fun. The exception here would be races/classes that come with expansions, or have to be unlocked(Death Knights, anyone? No, you shouldn't be able to skip all of Old Azeroth.)

4. Fast Setup: I don't want to wait 4 hours to play your game. In those 4 hours I'm waiting, I could be playing and falling in love with a different game. Trial clients, anyone?

5.Help Me!: Tutorials, a "Noob Help Channel", and quests to learn your basic abilities are sexier than a really sexy thing.

And last but certainly not least,

6. Keep me interested!: So I'm level 10(or the equivelent). I'm learning, but it's getting slow and grindy, and boring. (And I can do grindy and boring, I play WoW after all! ;D) Those easy quests just got way harder, and everything isn't in the same general area anymore. I made it this far, but I can still turn back. I need a transition phase, from baby noob, to adolecent noob. Provide it, and I'm a happy camper. Leave me hanging and I wander around Stormwind for hours looking for Hogger. Games that failed this: WoW(back in TBC), SW:G, EVE (and I haven't reached this point on the others yet. XD)

So what do you think? What makes a game noob-friendly? What game is noob-friendly? And what should I try next before my guild catches me and sends me back to the Citadel?

Ok, so I'm having some odd symptoms that may or may not be related or I may just be overreacting. I don't know. Which is where you come in. =)

First things first, I know I have asthma. Moderate asthma, probably, but I haven't gotten an official diagnosis as to the severity. I've had asthma since I was a baby, and I'm 14, so it's just something I've gotten used to (Actually, it kinda went away for a little bit, and it's coming back now, which I know is not unheard off.)

I was on prednisone a lot when I was younger, and I've been on it... twice in the past year and half.

I'm overweight, I'm not going to lie. I need to loose weight, but it's hard. It's hard because my asthma gets in the way and it's hard because the weight doesn't seem to come off. Last time I tried, I lost... about 3 or 4 lbs in the first month. Talk about discouraging.

I get dizzy, too, sometimes. It's always usually brought on by something, and I've always gotten motion sickness. In fact, one of my earliest childhood memories was me getting out of the car to throw up on the side of the mountain because I was car sick. Lately, however, I went on the Nemo Submarine ride at Disneyland, and was dizzy for a couple hours. (Yes, I know, it's disneyland and dehydration is prevalent. I wasn't dehydrated.)

My next symptom that may or may not relate to any of this: I get hurt easily, for lack of better words. I'm going to try and elaborate on this one, but it might not make much sense.

I hurt my leg taking off my shoe. Apparently, I tweaked my calf muscle in a weird way, and hurt it. It's hard to explain. =(

My final symptom is painful muscle cramps/spasms/whatever you want to call them. The other day in PE, we had to run a mile. (This is where everything comes together) I didn't have my inhaler, so I, stupidly, tried to do it without it. Long story short, I finish. I don't get a time because I took too long, but I really don't care because it hurts to breathe. I figure I'm having an asthma flare-up and that sucks because I'm not going home for another 3 hours. So I get dressed, and go to lunch. I'm not really wheezing so much as coughing until I run out of air and have to breathe and start the process over again. After about 10 minutes of sitting and resting, the coughing subsides, but I'm still having the classic "shortness of breath and wheezing" asthma symptoms. I text my mom and tell her I'm having asthma problems and while doing so, it feels like my hand is falling asleep. You know, the tingling feeling.

(My theory at this point is that my hand isn't getting enough oxygen because I'm not getting enough oxygen because I having an asthma attack. Makes sense, yes?)

And then, slowly, it starts getting harder and harder to text because my hands are totally cramping and spasming. Which has never happen before. And it scared me. And that was the moment I thought something might be wrong with me and put these symptoms all together.

The weird spasms continued for about 10 minutes or so, and I got the tingling feeling in my calf/feet areas, but not the cramps.

And I didn't have an asthma attack, because I made it through the day, came home, and took my inhaler. (Better late then never?)

I think that's it on symptoms. If anything else comes to mind, I'll add it.

And thanks in advance for any and all answers(Except totally lame ones, like "You should see your doctor". I know I should see my doctor, and I have an appointment next week. I want to know if there's even anything wrong with me and have a general idea of what before I go.)

I'm trying to figure out how I'm related to Herbert Clark Hoover. I know that he is the great-great grandson of John Hoover, and that I am the 5th great granddaughter of Peter Hoover, who is John's brother.

So what is the actually title of how we are related?

Hi, my name is Amy, and I'm currently playing WoW.

But I can't anymore, because my computer crashed and I don't have another computer that can fit a game that big.

So I'm looking for another game that is similar to WoW, but smaller. Right now, I'm on a Windows 2000 laptop, and I've got a great internet connection. I'm not sure how much memory it has, but it's old, so I can't imagine it has very much. I've got my Windows XP upstairs, and it has more memory, but not a very good internet connection. So it's a trade-off. I'd like to play on this laptop, but I suppose I can hook up the XP if it doesn't work.

So I'm really just asking if you, Y!A community, know of any good MMO's that are smaller than WoW. I'm fine with paying $15.00 a month or less, but I need a free trial first. I'd rather not have to buy any expansions atm.

I have around 1 1/2 experience, and I think I'm pretty adaptable, but the one game I can not figure out is EVE. Other than that, I'm open to any and all suggestions. =)

Alright, so I'm doing a project on arsenic and I can't figure out whether sublimintion is a chemical or physical properties. I've looked around on the internet for about 20 minutes and I can't find an definite answer. So what is it? also, if you have anymore physical and chemical properties for me there could be ten points in it for you.

murderer by rihanna?

story of my life-searchin fr a strife-but he keeps avoiding me-

chorus goes-

i dont wanna hurt him anymore i dont wanna take away his life idont wanna be a murderer

That's all we know. Please help. It's driving my friend nuts. We don't know if that's the title.

Wow, that's a long title, but it pretty much summarizes it. So I don't confuse you, let me explain.

I like writing stories. I'm pretty good at it too. Lately, I've been getting more and more of these wierd dreams that are soo detailed. When I wake up, I can remember it word for word. The other thing about my dreams is that I'm someone other than myself. One of my most recent ones happened about a week ago and I was a princess(I guess you could call it that)and lots of stuff happened. I don't want to get into it right now. Another thing is that dreams are really, really long and ALWAYS end. I never seem to wake up in the middle. I figure they happen early in the morning(aroung 1 or 2). Now, don't get me wrong. I still have the usual strange dreams everyone else has, but these dreams are different. It's almost as if I really were transported to another dimension or something. Does everyone have these, or am I just a freak? Also, can anyone explain why I have these dreams too? Thanks!