tntchix I would try to talk daughter out of the more extreme piercings for now only so she can think about it. I look at some kids with those huge things in their ear lobes and all I can think is you might regret that at 40. I didn't even pierce my daughter's ears when she was little. I let her make up her mind about that on her own when she was an adult. I probably sound "stuffy" but I know that if a "kid" was sitting across from me in an interview with huge ear rings (I don't know what the heck they are called) I would have a hard time hiring that person.
chickisoup I am sorry you are going through this and I hope the chemo will cure your leukemia. I know many types of leukemia are curable but some aren't. My dad passed away from CLL years ago. I was not impressed with his oncologist. When he was in the hospital going through a blastic phase, they had it under control enough to send him home. We all knew he didn't have very much time left and he was supposed to get hospice. I was happy about that because my mom has MS and really couldn't care for him. His oncologist asked him if he wanted to try an experimental drug. Of course he did which changed his status back to active care which made him ineligible for hospice. I don't think he made it to his first treatment with the new drug. I did like his general practitioner. He wouldn't have offered the experimental drugs to my dad because he realized how close to the end my dad was at. I understand this is how experimental drugs get tested on humans for eventual use but doctors really have got to assess the situation better. Here was a man who was falling asleep with his eyes open. I am no doctor but even I knew he was close to death when I saw that. Let the poor man go home to pass away in his bed and let his disabled wife get the hospice help to keep him comfortable until the end comes.
chickisoup I am sorry you are going through this and I hope the chemo will cure your leukemia. I know many types of leukemia are curable but some aren't. My dad passed away from CLL years ago. I was not impressed with his oncologist. When he was in the hospital going through a blastic phase, they had it under control enough to send him home. We all knew he didn't have very much time left and he was supposed to get hospice. I was happy about that because my mom has MS and really couldn't care for him. His oncologist asked him if he wanted to try an experimental drug. Of course he did which changed his status back to active care which made him ineligible for hospice. I don't think he made it to his first treatment with the new drug. I did like his general practitioner. He wouldn't have offered the experimental drugs to my dad because he realized how close to the end my dad was at. I understand this is how experimental drugs get tested on humans for eventual use but doctors really have got to assess the situation better. Here was a man who was falling asleep with his eyes open. I am no doctor but even I knew he was close to death when I saw that. Let the poor man go home to pass away in his bed and let his disabled wife get the hospice help to keep him comfortable until the end comes.