The Peach Teacher

The everyday happenings of an SLP

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November is Manatee Awareness Month! These gentle giants – nicknamed “sea cows” for their diet of seagrass and other aquatic plants – can reach lengths of over 14 feet and weigh more than 3,000 pounds. Early explorers once mistook manatees, which have large, spoon-shaped tails, for young women – fueling legends of mermaids. Find out more fun manatee facts: https://www.doi.gov/blog/6-facts-about-manatees. Photo at Crystal River National Wildlife Refuge in Florida by Michel Gilbert, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service SUP holder.

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Mark 4:41

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[abortionanonymous]

recently I referred a patient to a late term abortion provider and I asked their office about cost and payment options so I could help the patient work out a plan for that, and the provider was just like “we’ll take whatever they can pay, and if they can pay nothing then we’ll take nothing” and isn’t that just the big bad Abortion Industry™ for you

[anamericangirl]

So they’re good because they will kill your baby for free? 

[abortionanonymous]

Nope, they’re good because they are willing to provide a procedure that typically costs thousands of dollars for free to ensure that this uninsured patient in desperate circumstances has access to the health care that they need! No one is killing babies, good lord! Please learn the basics of abortion!

[anamericangirl]

Abortion isn’t healthcare. And it sounds like you actually need to learn the basics of abortion because if you don’t think abortion is terminating the life of a baby, then you don’t even know what an abortion is. I mean what do you think happens in an abortion? What’s the goal? Terminating the pregnancy means you are killing the fetus inside of you which is a human being at the very beginning stage of life. So since you don’t seem to understand what happens in an abortion, allow me to explain it to you. 

First off, I’m assuming that this pregnancy is in the third trimester because you mentioned it was a late term abortion and usually abortion during the third trimester is what is considered to be late term and those are usually done through either an induced abortion or dilation and extraction. 

During an induction abortion, potassium chloride, urea or another substance is injected into the woman targeting the torso, head or the heart of the baby inside her in attempts to cause cardiac arrest. If, for some reason or other, the doctor sees that the baby is still alive after this when doing an ultrasound then a second lethal dose will be administered. This is all done to ensure that the baby will be dead upon delivery. During an induced abortion, you will still go through the stages of labor and delivery and the goal is to deliver a stillborn baby so if the baby is born dead due to the lethal doses that were injected into the mother in order to cause the baby to undergo cardiac arrest and die, it certainly appears that someone is, indeed, killing a baby. 

During dilation and extraction, a medicine is injected into the amniotic sac or heart of the baby in order to cause its death and then an ultrasound is performed to ensure the baby’s heart is no longer beating. Then a grasping  instrument is inserted into the uterus and the fetus is rotated and the instrument is used to pull the legs, arms and shoulders through the birth canal leaving the head still inside. Then, they make an incision at the base of the skull and suck out the cerebral material, or brain, until the skull collapses. If that is not killing a baby, what is it?

That is late term abortion for you but if that is not either of the abortion procedures you are speaking of, I am willing to explain what happens during an abortion in earlier procedures although they are no more pleasant. 

So, yeah, basically, they are killing a baby for free and calling it healthcare doesn’t change the procedure or what is going to happen to the baby inside the uterus. 

[warhistoryonline]

Brig. General Frank Merrill, Commander of “Merrill’s Marauders” in Burma, poses between his Japanese American interpreters, T/Sgt. Herbert Miyasaki of Paaulie, Hawaii and T/Sgt. Akiji Yoshimura of Colusa, Calif. May 1, 1944. Courtesy National Archives. http://wrhstol.com/2wtKCDr

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When the teacher sends my student to speech with their snack

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When I’m doing a standardized assessment and the Pt’s family keeps jumping in and cueing them

YOU’RE BREAKING PROTOCOL FAM, KNOCK IT OFF

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Any time an agitated patient swears at and/or hurls insults at me

“Call me whatever you want I’m still here to do therapy with you.”

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When I have a group session and my patients are horrible influences on one another and veer us off track/topic for 90% of the session.

This went a lot different in my mind

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(via Pin by Yvonne Hedlund on Wings | Pinterest)

[warhistoryonline]

On this day in history: US Marine Staff Sergeant A S. Barnacle shaving in his camp on Okinawa, Japan, ignoring the heavy flooding due to rain, 28 May 1945. http://bit.ly/2s583ib

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Gene Tierney, 1940s

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[railwayhistorical]

Twin Ports—One of Five

Here we see a Union Pacific transfer job working in the Twin Ports of Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, Wisconsin. The train originates in Superior and uses the Grassy Point Draw to get to West Duluth. From there it heads to Rice’s Point, Duluth, where the Canadian Pacific Railway has a small yard. After exchanging cars there it heads back to Superior.

This crossing of the St. Louis River, originally a property of the Northern Pacific, once utilized a draw bridge but has since been changed to a swing. The Union Pacific Railroad got into Superior with the acquisition of the Chicago & North Western; while it no longer has tracks leading into the city, it is able to use trackage rights over both the CN and the BNSF.

Many thanks to David Schauer for information on transfer movements in the Twin Ports. Five images taken by Richard Koenig; taken April 4th 2017.

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                                                             {Isaiah 53:5, 25:8}