DAILY CHECKIN THREAD 131

Good morning HW family!

I hope everyone is well.

I survived last week emotionally. My daughter left for college and my son turned 18 on the same day. It was a rough few days.

I officially start back to work tomorrow. Even though it seemed like a quick summer, it was wonderful.

We've been getting showers each day and it is needed. More expected every day this week.

Have a nice day everyone!

Been absent for a while, but I'm still kicking. Had a rough week last week, but generally better now. This will be a rough week at work and tomorrow I'm meeting a surgeon for the first time about my neck to see if anything can/should be done.

You know we love you too....HT !
So stay warm and remember you could be here in the sweltering heat in the US.

Well wishes to everyone. Hope you all had a great summer...most of all peace, happiness & calmness.

Xxxxx

Tuesday Smiler - Aug. 18
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Did you know
The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust

You’ll know you are ‘mature'
The irony of life is that by the time you're old enough to know your way around,
….............you're not going anywhere.


What's the anwer?
Where in Scotland is Dunkirk?
…..(answer tomorrow)


...and, we should all wish Robert Redford a Happy 79th Birthday today:

hey everyone. esp stillme and chotti. been awhile since I've seen you.

HA! to funny, the Book Club is 7 PM! I ought to have know to ask! Who the heck gets up that early to talk about books? I don't even do that!

I am stil chuckeling......

Dunkirk is not in Scotland, despite the name. It is in the very most northern part of France, across from the British Isles, just due south of Holland. It is/was a prospective staging area for an English invasion.

Hope all are well.

Signed up with a staffing agency locally who look to staff a mortgage bank call center. I cannot take the applications and the uncertainty anymore. Yes,I am over-qualified, but I also need a job and can make a year's commitment to them. It is very local (biking distance),weekdays, and no evening/weekend work.

Sticky outside.

Just a note--putting vanilla and cherry extract in seltzer tastes like bad cough syrup.

-curtsey-

After I read Atonement, I looked up Dunkirk. I knew that the Brits would not be evacuating from a Scottish city in 1940.

Wednesday Smiler - Aug. 19
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Did you know
The odds of being struck by lightning are 600,000 to 1

Have you ever wondered
When your pet bird sees you reading the newspaper, does he wonder why you're just sitting there, staring at his toilet?


What's the anwer?
Is the Lychee nut really a nut?
…..(answer tomorrow)

I met with the surgeon yesterday. After an examination and reviewing my MRI, he said there is nothing to point at and say "I can fix that." Basically I just have degenerative discs. I'm pretty depressed by this news. I'm only 39, so I have many years to degenerate. On top of RA and crohn's/IB, it's just more than I can handle. Right now I'm on robaxin, relafen and norco, so I've certainly got options on the medicine front. Thankfully my family life is very good and everyone is healthy there except for me, and I don't have anything terminal. Work is extremely stressful right now. I think I just need to do what I can at work and try not to tell anyone to pound sand because of everything else I have going on. Metaphorically I don't have a lot of room for additional stress and I'm sure not going to take it from work.

My crohn's has been decent of late. I think the humira is helping a bit with the RA. I take my third shot tomorrow. The PT isn't really doing much so far for my neck and back. If anything for the past month I've felt that the pain has spread lower into my back.

Could use all the encouragement, support and prayer you can muster amidst the things you all are already dealing with. Thanks for reading. I hope everyone else is doing ok today.

Interesting Joyce!!! And sounds yummy!!!

Thanks for the Smilers!!!

I hope everybody has a good day today. Cooler here, I hope it heads to the hot areas. I am so relieved to be done with the heat.

Take care all!!!

Hugs, Karen...

Oh,NO!! Oh, pitmom, that's awful!!! I read your post, and was so mad for you. Here is to hoping it works this time!!!

I have seen Lychee at Asian markets,but never tried it. Now,I will have to buy it. I will let you know.

In pain today--worked out too hard yesterday. I plan to go and do a gentle half hour today, to try and get the muscles to release. I didn't do anything differently than normal,so who knows what happened. I did several online tests for the staffing company--still moving towards a job in a call center. I can't take this limbo anymore. The staffing manager is willing to try to get the company to give me a try, despite my background, and I really hope it pans out. I am emotionally exhausted and mentally unchallenged.

Rain here,and then a glorious weekend.