The Chronicles of Bill ~ opnwhl4 ~ Part 2 of 3 CLOSED

Hi Y'all-
Well sorry I had a very busy day today. Forgot about H/S softball open gym. I help with that and can't miss it. Then had to load my tool box on the trailer for tomorrow. Oh.., I did get the job and it's Mon. thru Fri. 8-5.... perfect for coaching softball. They are also looking for a service writer/ service manager since he was fired today. I let the owner know I was interested since I really want to be in management anyway and he said it will be a couple months before he decides and really needs me as a Tech right now, but will definitely talk to me first when he starts looking. Looks like the other shop dragging their feet on hiring me was for the best. They are open Saturdays and that isn;t good for softball.

Anyway got to get to bed.

Take care,
Bill

Congratulations, Bill!
Sounds perfect.
Denise

That's awesome Bill. I hope every works out at this new job. Let us know how your first day went. Barb

Good Morning Bill,

Sounds like you had a very full week. I am glad to hear you made it through and keep your eye on that Saturday morning in the future when you can sleep in and just snuggle back down under the covers to catch a few extra ZZZZZZZZZZZs !

Congratulations on your new job.

Gentle Hugs

Kitt

Howdy all!
Barb-Hope things go your way and you can be the Boss!

Kitt-Thanks. I am actually enjoying myself at work again. Something different all the time and something to challenge my mind once in a while. I was really feeling like a robot at OM the last couple years.

I had a rough day Monday... the stomach bug found me again. Not quite as bad as the last time, but darn close. We had a parent meeting on the Florida trip for the softball team. The whole trip is only going to cost each girl $200.00. That's taking a touring bus there to all the games and back. (8 games in 3 days) Hotel and tournament entry is also included. The girls are selling pizzas and 50% of it goes to the girls selling them and off sets the trip cost. I thought that was a great idea. They are also going to sell the new scenties or something like that. It's a heating unit with scented parafin wax that melts on it. The ladies who usually sell them are going to give the girls their profits for the month of Feb. to use towards the trip also. We really have a great group of boosters for the softball teams.
It actually made a lot of sense after they explained how they could give the profit away too. They don;t get the initial profit, but since it is a consumable they will most likely reorder the refills with them and have profits later. Pretty smart I thought. It actually makes them more money in the long run since they get extra sales they may not have had other wise.
Had to do some tests for my legs last week and won;t get the results until next week, but the neurologist kept asking me if I ever had back surgery or a back injury. Michelle asked if he thought ALS and he quickly said no it's not that, but he wouldn't say anything else. Guess I will find out next week.

Take care,
Bill

Bill, good thing the job is working out for you. Oooo, watch those bugs!

Kitt, I'm sorry to hear about your baby. I hope he gets well soon.

Joy

Kitt, I'll keep your baby in my prayers. I hope he's back on his feet in no time.

Bill glad things are going well for you and your family. How exciting a trip to florida.

Hey Joy how's your tummy feeling? Any more problems with it? Barb

Joy I never ever had gas before my surgery so that was kind of a big shock to me to have that after a lifetime of not having. I had my surgery at age 37. I use beano if I'm going to eat gassy foods and then I use gas x also. This is really weird but if I lay down less than 2 1/2 to 3 hours after eating I wake up with the most painful awful gas and it doesn't come out the top so I have to wait for it to work it's way through my system. Not fun! I wonder if there is a natural solution for it besides beano. I'll try to remember to look in my book of natural cures tomorrow. I have it out in the car and I'm not going out in the cold to get it tonight. Brrrrrr. I took it with me today so I could look up some stuff on cholesterol. I talked to my chiropractor 2 night and he couldn't believe how good my cholesterol is. He thinks they are nuts for wanting it lower. He said there's no way to get it down to My cholesterol is 187, lipids are really low at 44, HDL 65 which is awesome and my LDL that they are so concerned about is down to 112. Optimal LDL is 100-129. I had it down to 103 last summer when taking all my supplements faithfully. I see my regular doc tomorrow about my 3 weeks of lack of enough sleep and I'm going to get his opinion too on the subject. Well I have to try to get to bed early as I have to be at the allergy doc at 7am for injection before work. Yahoo! Oh well I wake up between 3 & 4am anyway and if I'm lucky get an hour or so of fitful sleep after that. Talk to you later. Barb

Hello All,

Well King is doing better and is able to stand on his own, walk forward and feed himself. He still has the severe headtilt and the problem with his eyes but he is showing som improvement.

Thank you for your support and my GERD is behaving even through the stress. I have been watching my diet and not falling back into old habits and feeding my stress with bad food choices that set off heartburn or relux.

I will be MIA from Sunday through Friday this coming week.

Hope you all have a good week.

Hugs

Kitt

Thanks Joy and I appreciate how you cover the forum. YOu give wise and accurate info. Bill you keep the home fires burning here.


Barb, Denise and all...........keep on making this the best forum on the site.



Love and hugs and see ya later tater.



Kitt

Hi Y'all-
What a week this turned out to be! Not only did I have a stomach bug on Monday, but I managed to get it worse Thursday. This time I was running a 101.8 fever and couldn't keep it down for more than 2 hours at a time for 2 days. That also hit when I was on my way to Iowa City to see a new pain doctor about the ribs. Since I was already there and had to travel about 1.5 hours they decided to leave it up to me if they went ahead and did the diagnostic injections and markers to freeze the nerves next week. I decided since I was already there and felt horrible, what's a ton more pain too?! What was I thinking? Anyway, I did go through with it and they did find the right areas, so next Thursday I go back so they can freeze the nerves. Hopefully it works and hopefully they knock me out.
Wasn't sure they were gonna let me leave since I wouldn't eat or drink anything. They also wasn't to impressed that I could barely walk either. I forgot how much fun a high fever can be. . They did finally say we could leave and Michelle decided it was a good idea to see our PCP when we got home. They determined I have an ear and sinus infection along with some virus too.
That's been the highlight of my week and why I have been scarce around here. Oh yeah, almost forgot they found a couple areas on my spine they didn't like how they felt or looked and want me to get another MRI. Between all the xrays, cts, and MRIs I should be glowing by now. Oh, and then the little alien who likes to build dams in in my kidney ducts has returned too. Ok, there I am done whining now.

So, how has everyone else been? I see Kitt is going to be gone a while again and tat King seems to be getting better slowly. That is good news.

Barb- Way to go! Don;t let them force stuff that messes up your stomach lady! Sometimes I really wonder what they are thinking when they prescribe stuff they know will mess with us. Glad your PCP was using his head.

Joy- Sorry about the gas. Unfortunately that is a huge side effect of the surgery. Unless you can burp all of it out it has to go somewhere. At least until we learn to swallow less air.

Michelle is starting to feel cruddy now too. She was feeling to well when she left for work at 4am. Guess she will be the next one fighting a fever. I told her I would go sleep on the couch until I stopped running a fever, but she said no.

Take care,
Bill

Bill, wow you have had an awful week. A sinus infection alone is bad enough. I hope you start feeling better soon. They are really good at Iowa City so I'm sure they will be able to help. When I was living in Iowa I had to go down there for some chronic health problems and they were a big help. They also saved my son's life when he had ecoli poisoning. Make sure you get plenty of rest so you can get over those infections. I should have went to see my doctor sooner instead of waiting 3 weeks to get help for my sleep problems, because now I have a horrible sinus infection. I could feel it coming on all week, but it really hit me hard this weekend. I went and refilled the antibiotic the allergy doc had me on for the last one. I sure hope I am doing better by the 16th when I see the lung doc because he wants me to get sinus surgery and so does the allergy doc. I don't want to get pushed into another surgery right now. I need to prove that I am healthy enough to do my boss's job. I sure appreciate all the support you all give me here with my health decisions and just life in general. I feel so lucky to have such good friends and a PCP that back me up when I need it.

Hey Joy, I've been to the pharmacy 3 times in the last 4 days and they know who I am too. It is rather disiturbing to be so well known at the local pharmacy. Well my meds are kicking in so have to go to bed. Oh how I hope I sleep all night. Talk to you tomorrow and I hope every one is doing better. Barb