28 min till Im 50 years old.....Im so bummed

Happy Birthday from a 51 yr old.

Happy Birthday Karen! Hoping your day is enjoyable. Have lots of fun with your
precious grandkids. Remember 50 is just a number, in your mind you can be how
ever old you would like to be. My chronilogical age is 58 and I'm trying to convince
my body I'm 28 :) Hope this year is a good one for you!

Hugs, Robin

Happy Birthday Karen,

I am 51 and loving it. So 50 isn't bad, you will find that out. We are as young as we feel, well, with fibro, I shouldn't say that. Because I feel pretty old sometimes. But keep your chin up. Enjoy those grandchildren!


Hugs, Karen

Happy Birthday Karen and remember to always appreciate and enjoy your birthday because many are denied the privilege. Also enjoy those grandchildren. I have four young ones that all live on the west coast and I'm in the midwest. Sounds like you can see yours as often as you'd like...try to enjoy every moment.
Instead of fighting Medicaid, have you contacted the hospitals directly? They do have money set aside, funds that are donated to the hospital for special circumstances, like yours. I'd be spending my time making those phone calls instead of beating your head against a wall and trying to fight for federal funds. Doctors also will work with patients...not all doctors, but there are some that do pro bono work. I worked in the healthcare field for 12 years...I KNOW they are out there. I wish you well...enjoy your day and every day...
take care
Miriam

Have a happy birthday, Karen, and have a great time with your grandchildren. 

 

I'm 63 and am shooting for 120 years old.  That means I'm in mid-life!  Yeah!

 

Sherrine

Happy Birthday!!! You have me beat by a year-ish, I'll be 49 soon. My grandson has been here for a while and is staying till Sunday but coming back on the 15th for 10 days along with my BIL and his daughter. I'm tired thinking about it LOL. Have fun!!

Yeah !!! it was a good day today. I went to my daughters and saw all the kids and they gave me homemade cards and showered me with kisses !!. The only trouble I got into was when there mom wanted to take a walk to get the mail and it was about 95 degees outside but the kids wanted me to go so I went. The problem was the mail boxs are about a mile and a half each way (they live out in the country). I started getting overheated,my face got all red and I had massive amounts of sweat pouring off me. I about bit it on the rocks everywhere and Jakob took me by the hand and said"its ok if you have walk slow Gramdma,we can go as slow as you need to" right there I got the energy to get back home were I could cool of. We had lunch together,all sitting together at the table and I played some games and did the girls fingernails and even shot Jakobs new bow and arrows(he bought them himself even though they cost over 30 dollars)I was proud of him,he's all boy. I told them no tears when I went to leave and told them I would see them next saturday when I had my party. They kept telling me I was going to be surprized. I got home right before Jay did and listened to the phone messages and guess what? this year all my brothers had called to say Happy Birthday(they all forgot last year) And my brother whom I hardly see said he was coming tomorrow with my brother Randy and would be here also on the 17th. Randy finally agreed to share my birthday since his B day is a day after they are celebrating mine. My daughter(barbarann) will be making Randy a cake too, a little smaller but Im sure it will be nice(that girl makes a mean cake!!) she told me she had come hear and googled my past posts and saw all the time she had made me cry and all the rotten things I had said about her. I felt like she was going somewhere where I could tell all my feelings to but after she had read my past posts hopefully she finally got it,is specially when I had takin care of her when she had surgery and I had another stroke when I was at her house and still went back there for another week because I had promised no matter how badly she was treating everybody, I had promised and she still needed me. And we didnt fight once today!! I know a miracle huh? so everything turned out today and Jayson gave me a beautiful card. We didnt have much money this year with him being out of work for awhile. I love you guys ya know? I dont always post but I am always reading and I see what you all go through on a daily basis. I wish I could take it all away but I dont have a crystal ball,what I can do is post more and make an effort to be more supportive. Sometimes all we have is words and they can be so powerful,they make you feel like you are being hugged in person. Take care and have a nice night(once it cools down lol).

Karen

Love to hear you had a great day! I'd be happy to trade you birthdays because in a short while I'll be 10!!! years older than you. Talk about not knowing what happened...lol I've decided I'm going backwards since I didn't do it at 39! Guess I should have wised up way sooner. Hey Sherrine and Marlee...want to join me???

And if you are lamenting the grandchildren, Sherrine, I have an 'almost four year old' I'll ship to you and have him delivered to your door. Because they are moving he's been a bit stressed but it's coming out of his mouth. He's trying to sound like a mom who's frustrated with a naughty child. Says things like.."Do you hear me?" "What did you say?" when you tell him to stop doing something. And the ever popular "I don't WANT to" and "NO". His mom and I had to call in reinforcements yesterday because the stress of moving had his mouth so off the wall we both were fighting over the roll of duct tape!

Oh Sherrine...I'm sure he'll be no trouble at all for you. But do please remove the past few yards of duct tape on him..OK?

tired Chutzie