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Posted 9/10/2007 3:33 PM (GMT 0)
yeah   yeah yeah Previous thread can be reached here.. please continue moanin'! yeah yeah yeah
Posted 9/10/2007 3:34 PM (GMT 0)
Oh Yally.. hang in there sweetie.. You know I joke and say, "I can't wait til they grow up.." but I know that is the LAST thing I want.. She's always gonna be your baby, and you still have one at home... take care and you know how to get me if you need me.. love you..
Posted 9/10/2007 4:55 PM (GMT 0)

Yalinda - hang in there! I am not looking forward to those days when the kids grow up and move on. We keep ourselves busy to ignore what will be bothering us until we have time to settle down and it all sinks in. I'm sorry you are feeling so alone and depressed!

Boo - I hate to say it, but misery must love company as I felt a little better knowing there is someone out there who understands and I can talk to. It's been so hard. I will try to write you personally in the next day or two. I love the buttheaditis....I think my husband was born with it.  So often I feel he just needs a slap upside the head. tongue   Thanks for the kind words and hugs everyone. Sorry to have gone off-topic so much.

I hear some more storms are coming. I hope everyone stays dry and well. I'm not sure if we're gonna get hit with the heat again, but my big toe was hurting yesterday....my weather vane.....it was killing during that horrid heat wave we had with all that storm pressure.

I did hear from Bear over the weekend. He said he was hoping to be released home Monday or Tuesday, but wasn't sure if it'll really happen.

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Posted 9/10/2007 5:38 PM (GMT 0)
CaMama - don't ever apologize for coming here and venting.. if it leads to you feeling just a little bit better, then this forum has done it's job.. You know we're always here for you..

Boo - how are you? How's your SIL?
Posted 9/10/2007 7:42 PM (GMT 0)
scool  rainy rainy day...and i felt this coming 3 days ago! ouchie!

yeah ya know...yally you said "your heart just isn't in it". me too kinda, in a wicked flare & a "spunk slump".  normally i can keep pretty spunky & upbeat, but i guess it's a bit too exhausting.

oy, in a financial fiasco.  absolutely this week i have to bite the bullet & find a bankruptcy lawyer.  and who the he** knows what i'm going to do about this ssdi hearing.  MY doc has me as "sevrely & permant desabled" (sorry 4 the spelling my shoudler is out). lol.

the 13 days i spent w/ my hooney were very vevry nice. tomorrow i go back to Old Smoky...yuck! lol.

 

but alas i am alive.  be seeing you lata'!

ciao ciao

erin

Posted 9/10/2007 10:37 PM (GMT 0)

Yally, I'm so sorry you're feeling that empty nest feeling.  I hate to say this (but it's the truth) my two oldest were such hellions that I took a deep breath when they moved out.  The third nearly did me in.  I still miss the laughter.  She has the bestest laugh in the world. 

SIL is actually feeling good right now and had a white count done today.  Not very high as would be expected for someone two weeks out of chemo.  But he goes back in on Monday for 4 days of chemo and radiation.  Here we go again.  I'm hoping he can keep his weight on during his good days. 

CaMama, I have to keep the humor in this stuff.  You're my "twinkie".  We're going through the same frustrations.  One of Willie Nelson's wives used to tangle him up in the bedsheets and hit him with a broom when he came home drunk.  Sounds like a good idea to me........Really most of the time it rolls off my back....until he starts thinking I'm actually going to listen to his stupid ideas about arthritis.  He comes from a group of people who think they were born with medical degrees.  I might as well go out in the front yard and start chewing on the tree as to listen to the crazy stuff they say.  I had Bell's Palsey thirty ago and still have residual paralysis on the left side of my face.  It just adds to my sexiness.  Woohoo!  My hubby's brother is chiropractor and you'd think he had split the atom or something.  One Christmas, in front of the whole family he said he thought he could help my face.  I said, "I like my face.  Maybe you should do something about yours!".  I'm kinda used to ignoring ignorant people.  So when the hubby tells me this nonsense about why I'm limited and he's not, I picture the woman Willie used to be married to.  She's my hero! 

Posted 9/10/2007 10:44 PM (GMT 0)
PS Jody, I don't think you're headed down the same road. Sounds like you have lots of support and understanding. I know in my case, if there's something going on with me, if I'm worn out from trying to act like a "normal person" or having a bad inflammation day or whatever, it means HE may have to do something for himself. That seems to make him extremely uncomfortable. May be some anger issues with him that life hasn't turn out to be so peachy keen. "Que sera, sera"
Posted 9/11/2007 5:11 PM (GMT 0)
Hi Ladies, just lurking a little.
My youngest just started High School and he is showing the independence I expect (and trained him for tongue ) but I know how everyone feels.

I've been off Enbrel and MTX for 3 months now, but I am a little concerned that I'm getting sick again. I am riding and lifting a lot, but starting to feel a general soreness and tiredness often, more than I think I should. I see the Rheumy on Monday, she doesn't know I stopped taking my drugs devil

I'm not very active in the forum lately, but I think about you all often, particularly when I get a little grumpy about my situation and recall some of the struggles others have to endure.

stay tough ... Craig
Posted 9/11/2007 8:23 PM (GMT 0)
cool  Craig!!!! Hang in there man...keepin' my eyes crossed for you today @ your appointment.  You're a tough cookie...your body tells you when you're right & when it's time to knock it off...I'm confident you will do what's best.

Boo I think Willie's "X" is a really great herroine to admire, hah!

I saw Willie 2 years ago...he opened up for Bob.  It was a <<<<dream>>>>...perfect nite in June...in the grass, outdoors, beautiful.

 

Man I'm out of the loop.  Lotsa' catching up to do.

OK people, hang in there & keep on keepin' on.

erin

Posted 9/12/2007 5:32 PM (GMT 0)
Hi all,
Oh Yally, my heart is with you, been right where you are..from the day our kids are born we have to start the process of teaching them to be independent and not to need us. Just not fair, if we do our job right, our hearts get broken, but we've raised some incredible people...I STILL miss the boys being home, don't know if that will ever change, so much of my life has been defined by being a mom and a wife.  Did you get the results of your cat scan? been praying everything turned out ok.
Hey Boo, Willie was always my hubby's hero, think I'll share the wife story....can't wait to hear what he has to say then..probably something like "don't get any wise ideas"! Think I need you and that Beetle to come to Florida...the youngest lost his job and the boss was an unbelievable jerk...our boy LOVED this job, but was only there 2 months...went in the office for what he thought was his 60 day evaluation and the guy threw the paper at him and told him that he couldn't even fill it out because there "isn't one positive thing I can say about you.", amongst a few other niceities. Now of course, the mommy in me wants to rip the guy's face off...but know that I can't. The kid was just laid flat, wasn't expecting it, let alone all the crap he got. This isn't a bad kid, (yes, I'm biased) but he's not a mouthy punk, he's a genuinely nice kid, not a mean bone in his body. Has had his own share of hard knocks to deal because of health...found myself wondering "What would Boo do?"  Have there been any cases of mamas going "postal"?
How you doing CaMama? Hope things are better out your way, both health and home?
Erin, hope you're feeling better, too...sure do miss you when you're away...glad you got some time with Joe..when do you go back?
Ducky, hope you and the family are ok, too!!

Craig, nice to "meet" you...have read your posts in the past, you sound like yet another very special person on this forum...hope all goes well for you.
Hugs to all!!
Jody

Post Edited (babyplace) : 9/12/2007 11:53:37 AM (GMT-6)

Posted 9/12/2007 11:09 PM (GMT 0)

It's nearly midnight in the cave where I have been these last two days starting the long recovery back to what passes as good health. I go away for a week or so and all the other men see it as an opportunity to behave like shiites again. I am not going to attempt to 3apologise for the rest of my gender nor shall I make excuses. As Loudon Wainwright once wrote 'boys grow up to be grown men then they grow back in to boys again'. It's all very well us all agreeing on the one hand that most of the time they are 'good men' but it is absolutely no smegging good at all if they only choose to be 'good men' when there is no call on them to be so, and it's time they were asked to either shiite or get off the pot. Nuff said.

Thank you all for your support while i hospital I shall respond individually toeach of you in duecourse.

Yally your daughts will soon appear at the porch door trailing her dirty washing behind her so fret not andinsultme instead a I ennjoy it really.

Erin hope you are feeling better fro your sojourn - yuo have had it ahven't you?

Teeenshuuun - hi Ducky how's it going?

Man I am so tired, will haave to close already but will post tomorrow when awake more.

Stay well one and all.

The Bear

Harold! Turn up the mic.

 

***Hey Bear.. I edited your post a bit 'cause it was causing the forum to S-T-R-E-T-C-H Out a bit.. tongue Other than that.. I left it in tact!***

Post Edited By Moderator (Ducky) : 9/13/2007 4:42:59 AM (GMT-6)

Posted 9/13/2007 7:35 AM (GMT 0)
Sorry bout the waste of space there  nono -  not easy typing left handed from the prone position with the puter at 90 degrees tothe bed.
Hello, good morning and welcome to the cave in downtown Apsley where there bear is going to try and survive his first day left alone
 to his own devices. Very difficult as I need assistance still to get safely on and off the sofa and bed -my bed is

downstairs in the dining room.I can only assume the leg is healing well but the thigh muscle and groin hamstring

 are still incredibly sore 11 days on fron the sawbones. I am still scared stiff about moving the joint laterally as

 it is not cemented in and I am very nervous about doing anything that would
jeopardise the security of the joint. I had forggotten from last time just what

a frustrating 6 weeks I have to face. I am not allowedto weight bear with leg

just use it for touch stability up to 30% of weight bearing loaod.

 Ia sk you can somebody please tell me how I work out what 30% is? I just

have to learn to be a couch potato for the time being. Sleeping is still a beach

so I cat nap much of the timeand read my way through the night.

 

Yally how is the silence bearing up from one part of the house? I often wish

that the bear cub wouuld disappear now instead of

2 years time - he really is playing catch up in becoming the bolshie adolescent.

 How is the shoulder coming along?

Camama I am really thinking aboutyou at this time and Boo also. It's very hard

 for me to come to terms with. Like you gave yourself

a permanent disabling condition just to inconvenience somebody else. Smegging

 hell, screw that for a game of soldiers.

Erin, it sounds like you have had a reallygood and relaxing time over the river

 - as relaxing a your condition can ever allow. Say hello to  hunny

from me and tell him I think he does a great job.

 

Craig - hello man. Nice tosee the odd male appearance on the thread, it gets

 kinda lonely around here with nobody to tell sexist jokes to - NOT.

LOL. They are a great bunch of remarkable people here and I feel priveliged

 to know them eeven if I am only on this thread by default. Enjoy the

off roading and look after yourself.

 

As I have mentioned I am alone all day from today with very limited mobility

 but I do know that I am doing far more than I was at the same stage

with the last one. Totally different approach this time from the surgeon

 also, going in through the side door as mentioned. I think that has been the

cause of the muscle pain this time around and it is this that causes all the aggro.

 

My love to you all

Stay well

The Bear        

 

Posted 9/13/2007 10:41 AM (GMT 0)
Bear so good to see you up and posting.. no worries about the stretched out post.. is totally understandable with that you've gone through.. Take good care, relax and enjoy your day..

Moanin' everyone.. it's early here and I'm off to work, but thought I'd stop in and say Moanin'! :) I'll post more later..

Love to all.. Duck
Posted 9/13/2007 12:24 PM (GMT 0)
Kiddies are already fighting like crazy this morning, but wanted to take a sec and say WELCOMR BACK BEAR!!!! So glad that all went well, and am so glad to see your posts up and running..you have been sorely missed. Hope you are able to relax, re-coup and get back to normal as quickly as possible.
Hugs,
Jody
Posted 9/13/2007 4:35 PM (GMT 0)
yeah  hip hip HOORAH! Bear is alive!!!!! and back in cave!!!! yea!!!!!!!

hey...each week will get better & better.  don't try any stunts you're not supposed to (Craig may suggest unicycle therapy but beware)...and when it's time for moving around you better get to!  that or fly Yally over to occupationally theraparize you back to 30%. lol.

 

yeah, my hunny is great and don't think he doesn't know it either!  i'm shocked his head hasn't exploded the way i feed his ego & praise his Saintly-hood.

 

 

it'll bust....

one of these days....

i'm sure of it

Posted 9/14/2007 12:04 AM (GMT 0)
It's 12.55 am Apsley time and I am trying to make myself tired enough to fiind a few hours sleep. I think the problem ultimately is staying in one place long enough for sleep to find his way here.My bed is in the dining room and I transfer from there to a padded up chair in the lounge next door  and only spend a couple of hours in each place as the catch 22 situation is that if I stay too long in one place cos its too comfortable I stiffen up to the point wheere I can not get up out of the chair/bed whatever. Oy vey etc.

I hope everybody has had a good day and that tomorrow brings untold joy to all. Colour gone looking for my brains.

Sleep tight people.

The Bear 

Posted 9/14/2007 1:57 AM (GMT 0)
moanin everyone! tongue welcome back craig and bear ~ wishing the best for the both of you.

 

to everyone!!! thank you so much for all your support and words of encouragement. i love you all and wish we could all meet up and share real hugs and tears together.  i am keeping busy with my daughter gone and definetly am enjoying the time one to one with my younger daughter!  oh bear i too thought i cant wait til she leaves especially when she p'd me off but just wait til the cub goes...... you'll miss him.  i cant wait til she shows up on my porch but that will be thanksgiving late november and only for a few days.  but time passes quickly. boo i sure they werent that bad silly girl~ jody sounds like you have activity back again!

 

so erin did your mom think i was a bill collector again?  did u get my message?

just tooling around in my car ~u and duck not home and i dont know any other numbers to bother anyone else from HW so i came up blank!  i should call that hotel up again in washington and insist on the bear again! lol

ok maybe not funny ? devil

 

well i hope theresa is feeling better?  as everyone else too..... keeping all the SIL and kidos and hubbies and cubs and kitties in my thoughts and prayers

 

hugs to all ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,)))))))))))))))))))))))))  - my partial left armed hug lol

yally tongue

Posted 9/14/2007 2:52 PM (GMT 0)

Good morning all,

Another morning of what feels like chasing chickens.  Kids all running in different directions at the same time, grabbing.all the stuff they know they're not supposed to have. They are having a blast, I'm already exhausted, and it's not near lunch time!

Taking off early today to spend the weekend with three of my sisters, this will be interesting...we're all so different. Wanted to check in first though, and send hugs to all and wishes that you all have a peaceful, relaxing, pain-free weekend.

Bear, hope you rested better, not sleeping is the worst, especially when you're achin. Makes for really, really long nights.

Yally, if you ever need someone to call, e-mail me and I'll send you my phone number...would love to chat person to person anytime!  I,too, wish there was some way we could all meet and share hugs....got a freezer full of stuffed shells and cookies, I could feed everyone!! Florida's not really all that far, is it?????

Boo and CaMama, hoping things are better with the two of you and your families...you're always in my thoughts and prayers.

Erin, how are you doing  Better I hope...Ducky, things ok with you and the family? 

Gotta run, still have to finish packing, if the little ones let me!!

Jody 

Posted 9/14/2007 3:28 PM (GMT 0)
Moanin' all.. am here. .have been working 14+ hour days due to an inspection we are having.. I'm beat.. found out yesterday I may be discharged due to my ailments.. not real happy at this point.. Kids are good.. all is well other than finding out I'm going to lose my career.. Hubby hasn't left yet.. but will be soon.. Sorry not in a good mood right now.. just got a million things on my mind.. hope all is well with everyone.. will write more soon.. I'm just tired.. :(
Posted 9/14/2007 5:16 PM (GMT 0)
moanin'

(((((((((hugs Duck)))))))))) sad as terrible as things may be now, slowly things have a way in working out as they should.  you hang in there toots.

 

eyes  i gained 6 pounds overnight.  literally OVERNIGHT. wtf?!?!?  tuesday came home from mini-break & there was no swelling AT ALL.  then yesteray my legs & arms looked "big" or bigger rather so hopped on scale...SIX POUNDS! went from 100 to 106lbs in a day????  it hurts!!!! i can totally empathize with packed sausages now.

but, the joints are very bad this week (friggin' Remicade wears off 10 days on the hour before next infusion) mad but this sudden weight gain & edema always freaks me out. 

i mean, it'd be a different story if the pounds went to somewhere useful like my bust or rump...BUT NO!!!!!!!!  all in my arms & thighs/knees/legs...it's hard to carry around, makes walking near impossible.

 

tee hee...Yally i was getting hosed off when you called. Old Smokey actually made a trip into the bathroom JUST to tell me! she said you'd call again later...i was on the telly A LOT so ya' probably got a busy signal. {no call waiting...i just cannot seem to part with the $4.99/mo for it}.

 

eyes  hmmmm...friday...i'm debating if i'm good enough to go home w/ my hunny tonight. eyes don't feel well (joint pain's bad) & gut issues.  i want to go cuz' i haven't slept since i've been home! I AM USING MY MAN FOR HIS TEMPUR-PEDIC MATTRESS. and i can use the sleep.

 

we shall see...

Posted 9/15/2007 2:44 AM (GMT 0)
its raining! actually pouring! and this old lady aint snoring........
well i went to the ortho tosay and he was happy with my progress!

opps g2g the youngin just phoned for a ride home so out in the rain i go! sry a short post i hope to crash when i get back to ta ta til lata yally
Posted 9/15/2007 8:14 AM (GMT 0)

Hi folks. computer was down for a few days. think it's up and running - for now at least.

I'm hanging in there. still wondering what's going to happen here around here.  Guess I'm waiting for the sky to fall in.

Good to see everyone here....hope you all have a relaxing and pain free weekend.

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Posted 9/15/2007 11:49 AM (GMT 0)

Oh Man!  Erin, I haven't weighed 100 lbs. since is was 6!  Or anorexic after one of hubby's rhubarbs.

Duck, what can I say.  I'm so sorry and a little infuriated.  I resigned from the hospital just before being dismissed due to my ailments.  yeah I understand.  I was doing something I loved. 

Jody, please don't WWBD.  That's a disaster waiting to happen.  Heehee.  I probably would have already blown the guy's butt off the face of the earth and be paying the consequences.

Have to work today.  Ugh.  Having many, many problems.  Cash seems to be disappearing.  Have to change to another ticket system.  These days I don't go into Poor Me mode.  I go into Mad Woman mode and get things done.  Had an offer on the business, not a good one but it was an offer.  Sending a counter offer today.  Maybe I won't have to do this much longer and the employee in question will be someone else's problem and I can concentrate on making my body last a little longer. 

Sending great big gentle hugs to you, Bear.  I tood every advantage when I had a joint replacemant although it was just a toe joint.  Not quite as serious as a hip.  I read many books, slept a lot, wrote a lot, slept a lot, got hooked on soaps, slept a lot.......

Boo

Posted 9/15/2007 1:01 PM (GMT 0)
i'm back... sry about that post last night but the little one had a sore throat from being out in the rain at the varisity football game- real man football bear- so i got to love and make her feel better with moms remedies.
it is freezing her today hi only in the mid 50's and i have an outdoor party to go to tonight! bring out the schnapps to keep warm.
jody stuffed shells yummy i am there!~ i like you would love to feed the crew here hence my vertual food! i think i missed your bday recently if i read back posts correctly? sorry
el you still out there? how you feeling?
curley i saw you posted this week great seeing your name pop up... i think and wonder about youtoo.
so many friends come and gone on hw. but i see how easy it is to get out of the habit of posting as i am trying to get back into it after being away a bit.
canada dave? you ever a voyer on her still? last we heard you moved and had a new girlfriend, and i am wondering why you dont post duh? new girlfriend keeping you busy!
craig i miss your posts on all that you do and the piccs too. sorry the joints are acting up. i like you would love to quit the drugs but i fear going off and it all coming back to bite me in the butt.
boo and camama- hang in there and erin and duck u know i love you
bear get well so i can pickon you and not feel guilty that i have to be nice to you.
hugs all sry if i didnt mention ur name i do love you and my brain is stupid
Posted 9/15/2007 6:24 PM (GMT 0)
scool  yeah right?!? it's freakin' cold!  my kittens outside are freezing their little arses off! (and trying to squeeze through the door when i open it to get in!) if they weren't little flee-bags i'd let them in...but they bring a plague amongst my house & i'm not quite up to de-fleeing the joint.

3 baby possums go wormin' in the backyard, ewwwwwww!!!!!!!! i hate possums, they creep me out.  i saw em' the other nite...ah gross!  wish i had a BB-gun eyes hmmmmm...

couldn't make it to my hunny's. boooooo. (bummer) teathered to the toilet & wasn't unleashed long enough to make the car ride.

so i guess he's relishing in his Alpha-Manliness right about now...drinking, burping, gambling, scratching, farting...all in his manly glory. <<<sigh>>> no holding back when the lady isn't there right?  not that i care anyway...in fact, after 4 years i still find it quite endearing {how long does that last? LOL}

i guess that's the nurse in me though... eyes i figure always that if you ain't passing gas, there's something awry.

 

edema in legs is a tad better.

Bear ((((((((((hugs))))))))))) you take care of yourself.

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