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Posted 7/19/2005 10:00 PM (GMT 0)
Thanks, Oona!! How are you feeling today?!
You take care, too!

Big Hugs, Teri :)
xoxoxo
Posted 7/19/2005 10:37 PM (GMT 0)

Thanks Oona I am printingit up and it will go in Beaus memorial book I have one for each of my furkids that has passed on the rainBow Bridge. I do miss him but also know in my heart he is not in apin anymore. i did tell him we will apart for a short time then be reunited he died with me holdinghis head in my hands  loving him and kissing his nose too. He was a wolf/shepard mix full name Bocephus Beaureguarde Beau for short or bo bo he was my protector and taught me alot about living, dying etc and i will always remember Beau and hold his meory alive and in my suol too. as you all know whne yu lose any tyope of pet they always take a part of your soul but leave a part of theirs behind with you.Beau has left a big part of his behind with me the vet said wehn we first found the cancer amputate and he has over a 90% cahnce of dying cause of his age so we brought him home and babied him the last 2 1/2 years and he went peacefully and I am thankful I could be their and holding his head and kiss him on the nose which he always loved that was our bedtime petting all the furkids heads but me kissing Beaus nose nd him licking my cheek.

Now I'llmis that then vacuming and geting up all his silver long hair from him being part wolf. well need to go Thanks teri for posting it and Oona thanks for such a beautiful poem. I have faith he is up at the bridge meting all our furkids and the ones he knew who left here  before it was his time.

 Hugs

Heidi

Posted 7/19/2005 11:24 PM (GMT 0)
Heidi - Go easy on yourself for awhile, please. smurf I'd bet you're much more stressed than you even realize. Make sure you eat something! You did good.
Rest well tonight,
Oona
Posted 7/19/2005 11:43 PM (GMT 0)
Heidi, Oona, Libby, Cathy, or anyone else interested!!

We'll start meeting in the Heart section of the Chat board tonight at 8 PM Central time and anytime that you are interested for a free for all type session...there can only be so many in the chat forum, so as ours will be informal, we'll have to make way for the chats that have been previously scheduled. If there is anything you'd like to talk about...feel free! As time goes on, I'll expect to start setting up a more formalized chat for us on different topics that you'd like to hear more about and get them on the calendar!...let me know what you all would like!?

Hugs, Teri :)
Posted 7/20/2005 12:34 AM (GMT 0)
Awwww, thanks, Jen!! :) What kind?? lol

Hugs, Teri :)
Posted 7/20/2005 3:23 PM (GMT 0)
Teri all went well alst night I posted my ost under  women and heart disease instead of here trying to post thrugh tears after you read thre poem that was sent to me by a pewt loving friend. it is beautiful sunnty out and nice too.

I am going to do a load of clothes too.

slept from 1"30 am tillabuot 9 am I kept hearing music in the backgorund or car radio on. Oh well I will get by dy by day and yes I will have my sad day's they say after yuo lose a pet the first year is the  hardest. Folks I have lost two within 5 months  and I now they are at rainbow bridge I have a pet cementary int he back yard with a cross up for each of them artifical flowers from a dolar store and then change thenm each year about 2 times. I am doing it up nice and can see it from my kitchen window and it will lok nice when I am done long story short I want to be creameated instead of buried and have ashes sprinkled over pet cementary for they have shown me more love and affection than ur sons who ar 26 going on 27. we have everything bought and paid for  funeral plots caskets opening and closing etc.. from his folks back in 1983 just cjhange it all around to creamation but also want husbands ashes back their too.And so does he but that is long story short. I wuold do it fro him bt donot know who wuld do it for me?  oh well need to go do a load of clothes and  vacume up study.

HEidi

Posted 7/20/2005 6:38 PM (GMT 0)
Awwww, Heidi, you just take care of you right now - I can tell you are sad. It is hard losing one of your best friends!!

Love, Teri :)
Posted 7/20/2005 8:33 PM (GMT 0)

Havenot even hit the closet yet do thet tomorrow for allnext week Doctor visite. Uck but next thursday my long awaited mammogram.

Heidi

Posted 7/21/2005 1:03 AM (GMT 0)

hey teri, what did the neurologist say today?

i went to my cardioboy, some reasonably good news and then some of the same old news, just a bad ticker, etc., but all is as OK right now as it's going to be.  too long a story to tell, but i DID get to see the very cool CD-ROM of my procedure in february and then the same procedure last week, and how my arteries look, etc.  wow, technology!

heidi, i hope the thought that you are surrounded in some way (that's here, us!) with people who care about you AND doggie lovers (that's me) who understand completely how you are feeling in some way helps.  i know there is nothing harder than those first few days.  i'm sure thinking about you -

libby

Posted 7/21/2005 1:39 AM (GMT 0)
Well, the neuro Dr. had not been given the message by his nurse that I'd had the MRI done - said he'd look at it this afternoon. However, my PCP's nurse called me while I was amongst the birds and the calls of the wild. lol She said the radiology report showed arthritis L4 and nerve root compression L5. So they are sending me to a pain specialist. Right about now, I'll try anything, so I'll keep you all posted on this continuing saga...

Thanks for caring!!
Hugs, Teri :)
xoxoxo
Posted 7/21/2005 1:42 AM (GMT 0)
Libby, please forgive me if I've asked this before, but when you mentioned "bad ticker" is that due to a prior MI? Do you have HF? I've never seen a CD of my caths, but I can tell you that I watched them in person! lol "Discovery TV" :)

Libby, thanks for joining with us in the chat last night!

Hugs, Teri :)
xoxoxo
Posted 7/21/2005 1:43 AM (GMT 0)
Oona, where art thou?? Hope you are feeling okay today?!
Hugs, Teri :)
xoxoxo
Posted 7/21/2005 2:44 AM (GMT 0)
I am here - I just wrote a post and it disappeared (server error)
yaaargh!
Teri, I'll stay tuned on the continuing saga and hope for better news. Ain't it a pain when nurses call you when you are observing the call of the wild? yeah lol!
I believe it would be a very good idea if all of you got & kept copies of your CD's.
(along with all of your records - they are only kept for 7 years)
(((Heidi))) I hope you're OK.
I felt like I was carrying around a grand piano most of the day.
Posted 7/21/2005 2:58 AM (GMT 0)
Oona, while I'm glad to hear from you, I'm sorry you weren't feeling well today!! I've been doing my homework on angina and nitrates tonight. :) Do you take anything for that at all??

Be well, my friend.
Hugs, Teri :)
xoxoxo
Posted 7/21/2005 3:36 AM (GMT 0)
Yes, nitroquick. I'll look forward to the chat next week. (practicing typing til then, lol!)
I'm OK, thanks Teri. Are you going to post what you find this week?
Posted 7/21/2005 3:45 AM (GMT 0)
Yes...Am already starting. :)
Posted 7/21/2005 6:07 AM (GMT 0)
hi all,

teri:  have you been to a pain management person before?  i hadn't, and thought it would mostly be about doing yoga, meditation, etc., but silly me, i found out that's a big bona fide medical specialite these days!  seems they're all related to anaesthesiology somehow.  anyway, i really like the guy i went to at baylor in dallas, but...certain things he has recommended conflicted with other things i was taking, and i don't know why he didn't know that.  one thing he recommended almost caved me in, literally - it is the "lollypop" - i think i wrote on a thread about that once.  it's fynergan on a stick, you just lick a little 'til you're stoned.  they say it's 80 TIMES as strong as morphine - good grief!  it made me sicker'n a dawg.  at any rate, my point being, i think that a pain management person could really help you, but you sure have to be on your toes - but don't we always have to be that now anyway?  best of luck, and let me know how that goes.  sometimes i think pain relief, even if it's strong, will be heavenly, then i get it and think the pain is better than the side effects...

you asked:  when i talk about my bad ticker, i mean that i inherited a bad one from my dad, who died at 62 of heart attack #3.  and my brother died 2 years ago of same thing.  my doc says i have the same heart, and i saw him today and we agreed i'm not much of a candidate for bypass, just due to the location of my probs and the kinds of probs they are.  it was sure cool seeing the cd's of all that, and i trust him implicitly.  he told me most others would probably actually recommend by-pass, but he said really the stents did the same job, and with less pain to me.  i'm sticking with him...

but dern it my LDL is back UP.  so i'm back to trying the statins again and hoping for less side effects...

by the way, i have taken nitroquick, for about 10 minutes it makes me feel awful, but it DOES get rid of the chest pain.  i'm ready to address that in next week's chat room.  i am now being prescribed "isosorb" instead of the nitro patch, so i'm anxious for us to talk about those options.  i guess my problems at this point may be more esophageal spasms than heart, but the symptoms are so mimicked and heart to interpret - for me AND for the docs.  sigh. 

but teri, please let us know more results as you hear them!

heidi, dear, i'm still thinking of you - i'm about in the same boat with little twig and feeling a mutual sadness across the miles.

libby

Posted 7/21/2005 4:15 PM (GMT 0)

hi y'all,

picked up my holter today.  i hope it's recording lots of informative stuff bc it's uncomfortable!

I think I'm coming down with something...i'm nauseous, shakey, and dizzy.  this stinks bc i've got a party to go to on saturday.  i hope i'm feeling better by then!

my new computer came in yesterday...installed sims 2 on it...runs like a dream.  i feel so yucky though i don't even feel like playing it.  that says something!  lol

have a great day y'all!

smurf  lil smurf

Posted 7/21/2005 4:47 PM (GMT 0)
Steven the baby by 31 min will be a daddy  Feb 19,2006. He and page heard the babie's heartbeat today. Midwife said it was strong but told Page no more junk food Steven is redoing kitchen so no stove to cok on at all so they eat out and she eats fries, hash browns etc and then not folowing or takeing care of her diabetes she is in denail that she has it quit takewing her emdicine for over a year and midwife told her that is probably what caused the first miscarriage.

In 2 more visits they get to see the baby a sonogram.

I am happy for them and better them than Me nono   I know but my mom had my sister at 43 redface thinking it was menopause. tongue . So i am happy for them but still not in a hppy mood told Beau they gott o hear the heartbeat. then I went through some papers and had a good long cry. Had to call up the vet and tell him what happened and to erase his records from their computer after I hung up i had a cry that is the hardest thing to do is call and tell yur vet hey yu can take Beau ut of yur system he is at the bridge. Doc told me he was sorry but i need to love on the othre pets and it will be hard on me for iwasnot thrugh greiving for Beaulhand now Beu 2 dogs in 5 months.  I 'll get by Thanks Libby.

How is yur furkid?

Heidi

Posted 7/21/2005 5:04 PM (GMT 0)
Hi everyone!

Libby, thanks for the advance info on the med. I'm really looking forward to our chat and if there is anything you would like me to look up ahead of time - please just give me a hint! :)

Lil, I'm so sorry you are not feeling well :( - this one can't be blamed on the 3rd graders, I guess. Please take care of yourself and let me know how you are doing!

Heidi, Beau, has been a part of your life for a very long time, so his memory will, too. I know it takes a while to accept and move on, but your vet is right, you do have other furkids that love you!! :)

Hugs, Teri :)
xoxoxo
Posted 7/21/2005 5:46 PM (GMT 0)
Lil - Hope you're not getting the flu! Blame it on the medical building - that's a likely suspect. Why is your holter uncomfortable? I have one coming up in about 2 wks and I can't remember what they're like. (my last one was before you were born! lol) Yes, they had those way back when although I think the box was a little bigger, 'bout the size of a car.... tongue
Heidi, I hope you're doing OK. The first few days are SO HARD. It's good to cry. Take good care of yourself and get plenty of rest, ok?
Teri - hope you are still sleeping well. I saw you were up late getting a whopping amount of info up on the angina thread! You are amazing. I hope it was ok that I posted on it (didn't mean to interrupt your train)
take care, everybody
Oona
Posted 7/21/2005 7:29 PM (GMT 0)
Oona...the holter isn't too bad.  It's just bulky and the stickies make me itch.  I always break out from them.  blech!

I hope this isn't the flu.  ohhhh....that would stink big time!!!

Teri - are you sure we can't blame the third graders?  I'd love to do that...would make life a lot easier!  lol

smurf  Lil smurf

Posted 7/21/2005 11:42 PM (GMT 0)

See ya all ijn chat tonight I hit the closet and shredded my stuff  then moved computer out to den with our window ac unit back study nothing but the fan sure does feel better but have to get use to tv in background adn pets all by my feet. My Beagle Abby who will be 6 Aug 14th is by me feet she knows when my Bp is up adn stays by me just hot today and it will be hotter.

Oona please watch Franklin ok they are saying it might hit south florida.

Heidi

Posted 7/22/2005 1:49 AM (GMT 0)

Hi all I'm back from vacation. Boy did we ever have fun with our little granddaughter. She is so cute, funny, smart, strong and wild. She loves to jump. Grandma didn't find it so cute at 3am when she was jumping on my lap. When I told her it wasn't funny she just laughed at me. Being a grandma is the neatest thing in the world. I had some problems with my ankles and feet swelling on the 1200 mile drive out and then 1200 back again. I normaly have some but this was worse. Seems better now though. Hated driving through Chicago. Wish there was a way around that city. The Smokies were beautiful in the morning on the way out there. We drove straight through on the way out and then took a few days coming back since my daughter in law decided to go home to tennesee 2 days before we were scheduled to leave to come back. I wasn't happy about that since her mom sees the baby every month and I hadn't seen her since she was 2 months old. She's 10 months now and the call her Bella (short for Isabella). Don't know when I'll get back here again since we have to go to Iowa this weekend for my brother in laws wedding. More driving. Yuck! I think my hubby will do most if not all of the driving.

Hey Heidi I know what you mean about those other chat rooms and stuff. I tried a few before I found healingwell and they were awful with all the bickering and it had nothing to do with any of the health subjects that they were supposed to be about. Thank goodness I found healingwell. I was ready to give up on getting help from anyone on the computer. Take care and stay safe from the storms. Barb

Posted 7/22/2005 2:35 AM (GMT 0)
Hi Barb - Yea, you're home!! :) It sounds as if you had a wonderful visit with your grandbaby - sorry it got cut short!!

Oona, yes, please, post wherever you'd like - the more input the better!! :)

Libby, I saw a pain specialist many years ago, but never took narcotics or anything then. They used 'trigger point' injections with anesthesia. I'll keep you posted. Re your 'inherited bad heart'...I suppose many of us could say that. My Mom had her first MI when she was 56. My Dad died of a massive MI.

Heidi, I know when we talked earlier you told me about your post re chat tonight - but anytime you want to the chat's open 24/7! :)

Hugs to all of you!! Teri :) xoxoxo
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