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The news is reporting that the Morrison's have lost another of their babies--a daughter named Lucia Rae. They still have one child, a boy named Silas, in the NICU. This has really turned into a terrible tragedy for them. I hope they have a good support network.

Well, you just never know. In a world where people can bring a lawsuit for $54 million because the dry cleaner didn't return their pants on the day they needed them, the founders of a charity probably have some sort of paperwork drawn up about what sorts of things the donations can be spent for. Unless of course, the donation is just put into a jar at a gas station counter, or a car wash or something. More than likely, if the parents spent money on anything not baby-related, no one would ever know it anyway. And I'm sure they have lots of funeral expenses now. People bring lawsuits over crazy things, and sure they often get dismissed, but it still stresses out the innocent party.

As far as the money donated to the Morrisons, I'm sure they'll find a legitimate use for it. Even if only one of the babies survives, I'm sure it will generate lots of bills (surgeries, nursing care, medicines, maybe special tutoring or different therapies) that will drain the account. Also, I think that people who donate to a fund (whether it was to the Morrisons or to the baby that Susan Torres had a couple of years ago) know that sometimes the baby/babies don't make it, and that money might get re-distributed to another cause. Probably a court will decide that the money should be re-distributed to a similar cause, like March of Dimes or something. It might be hard to track down each donor to give them a refund.

The latest article I read about the Morrison sextuplets said that the hospital won't be releasing anymore information about them. I wonder if this was at the parents request. The parents actually have a website (you can use google to look for it). I wonder if they will stop updating it, even if they are able to take one or two of the babies home eventually. I'm sure they are too heartbroken currently to update it. As of the last article, 3 of the 4 boys have passed away, so they have one son and 2 daughters still alive. It must be so hard to be 'on stage' like that. After making the website, and doing interviews and all, then to have such a bad outcome, like that. It must make it even more horrible. They had said they were optimistic, even with the premature birth. I don't know how I would feel anything but devastation, but maybe they feel they owe it to their children to try to save them through positive thinking?

I read on their website this evening that their baby passed away. I'm sure they are devastated. It is so sad--yet it sounded like their child couldn't recover--she was just barely surviving, so they kept hoping...

No she didn't.... Look for a 20,000 unit syringe.

Counting the week that starts Monday, and excluding Spring Break, how many weeks do you have left for your semester? How many weeks long is your semester. Ours are 16 weeks, and that feels like a very long time. I have 9 weeks. May 10th can't come soon enough! Also, do you take Nursing classes in summer? Are you required to take them, or can you defer them until Fall or Spring? They don't offer any at my school. Not sure if I could force myself to take one even if they did!

hi fun2care, if i'm remembering right, the "co-requisite" gpa was lower for the northlake campus than the el centro campus. it think it was 3.54. this was for the class to start august 2004. also, there are several (about 5) of my classmates who initially got a rejection letter from the program, and made plans to take co-reqs (like micro or speech, etc.) then were called less than 3 days before the start of classes, told that there were now seats available. these students really had to scramble to adjust work hours, money to pay for books, child care, etc. but they are still there and seem very happy they got in. the thing these last-minute-acceptance students had in common was a low number of co-req hours completed (10 or fewer), and that they had a 3.77 gpa for the pre-reqs. hope this helps somewhat. take care!

northlake is in irving tx. to describe where it is...hmmm...you will drive by it if you are on walnut hill, not long after you pass the intersection with story road. it can also be reached from other streets also, like macarthur. physical address is 5001 n. macarthur blvd., irving, texas 75038, usa, phone: 972-273-3000 . you can type that into mapquest to get driving directions if you need to. i like northlake so far. this is my second semester in the nursing program. they have first, second & third semester students so far. next semester they will have also have 4th semester students. just know that there are many mandatory events in the nursing program that will have you driving all over the dallas area (clinicals, seminars, mandatory community service that must be health related, etc.). that's one of the big challenge of the 1st semester...realizing & getting where you need to be.

I actually find that pretty funny. Maybe I've been studying too long. :uhoh21: Chad, you just can't appreciate it because you're a boy. :rotfl:

Keep in mind that the guy you are talking about probably has fewer friends than an alarm clock. His behavior isn't invisible--even though its currently directed at you, other people hear & notice comments he makes, and it DOESN'T make him look any smarter. In fact, it will probably make others in the class avoid him or not want to offer him help when he needs it. Not a nice position to be in, is it?

When does flu season end? I remember being diagnosed with it spring break (mid-March) of 1995. So by April, is everyone pretty much safe?

Me neither. Medicine packages don't come in braille. How can she do assessments? Safely transfer patients? Give shots? What exactly would she be doing? Phone triage, maybe?

:rotfl: Too funny!

The first one was my favorite. :rotfl: Thanks for posting! :)