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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 603089" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>This is WONDERFUL! Maybe for xmas a copy of the Tightwad Gazette from amazon marketplace would be useful? It might inspire M to read!</p><p></p><p>With M's desire to work and the way he enjoys yardwork, he might make more $$ by investing in his own mower and weedeater for next year. Or applying to a landscaper. Not reading is a handicap, but he could still learn a LOT and eventually even make his own yardwork business in time if he is able to get experience. Here there are a TON of people who do yards and pay their bills that way even in the winter because they shovel then. I know a group of five teachers who do yardwork instead of summer jobs and they make more in the summer months than they do teaching so they do it on weekends year round to pay for their 'hobbies' of expensive ATVs, hunting trips (which some of these men pay thousands of dollars to travel and hire guides and pay to have the heads taxidermied etc.... - one guy paid for trips to Africa to hunt and then tried to have a few endangered animals smuggled in and his yard business paid those legal fees so he could keep his house after he was caught!)</p><p></p><p>It can be lucrative to do yardwork esp with that enthusiasm. </p><p></p><p>I am SO PROUD of them and I honestly think that it is having a home they don't have to keep worrying about losing that is making the changes possible. LEt them know that their Board Aunties are proud of them too if it won't make them uncomfortable!</p><p></p><p>As for Katie's migraines, she may still need some medications to help, but getting a job and some income might make that possible. Beta blockers are the medications most common as the first step at prevention, and they are dirt cheap. They were increased in price when they went on the walmart $4 list. I used to pay $1.21 for 90 of them because I was on a super high dose at the time after having to increase the dose every year or two for seven years. then that list came out and it became $4 everywhere, which annoyed me. So it is totally possible to prevent them even if those don't work. There are several different types of medications that prevent them.</p><p></p><p>Migraines are the scourge of the earth in my opinion. they are one of my biggest problems so I totally sympathize iwth Katie over them. Go over the migraine trigger foods iwth her now and then. Google migraine triggers to get a list for her - it makes a HUGE difference esp if you keep a log of when you get them and what you eat.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 603089, member: 1233"] This is WONDERFUL! Maybe for xmas a copy of the Tightwad Gazette from amazon marketplace would be useful? It might inspire M to read! With M's desire to work and the way he enjoys yardwork, he might make more $$ by investing in his own mower and weedeater for next year. Or applying to a landscaper. Not reading is a handicap, but he could still learn a LOT and eventually even make his own yardwork business in time if he is able to get experience. Here there are a TON of people who do yards and pay their bills that way even in the winter because they shovel then. I know a group of five teachers who do yardwork instead of summer jobs and they make more in the summer months than they do teaching so they do it on weekends year round to pay for their 'hobbies' of expensive ATVs, hunting trips (which some of these men pay thousands of dollars to travel and hire guides and pay to have the heads taxidermied etc.... - one guy paid for trips to Africa to hunt and then tried to have a few endangered animals smuggled in and his yard business paid those legal fees so he could keep his house after he was caught!) It can be lucrative to do yardwork esp with that enthusiasm. I am SO PROUD of them and I honestly think that it is having a home they don't have to keep worrying about losing that is making the changes possible. LEt them know that their Board Aunties are proud of them too if it won't make them uncomfortable! As for Katie's migraines, she may still need some medications to help, but getting a job and some income might make that possible. Beta blockers are the medications most common as the first step at prevention, and they are dirt cheap. They were increased in price when they went on the walmart $4 list. I used to pay $1.21 for 90 of them because I was on a super high dose at the time after having to increase the dose every year or two for seven years. then that list came out and it became $4 everywhere, which annoyed me. So it is totally possible to prevent them even if those don't work. There are several different types of medications that prevent them. Migraines are the scourge of the earth in my opinion. they are one of my biggest problems so I totally sympathize iwth Katie over them. Go over the migraine trigger foods iwth her now and then. Google migraine triggers to get a list for her - it makes a HUGE difference esp if you keep a log of when you get them and what you eat. [/QUOTE]
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