trying, most people get married to find the things in their partner that are missing in themselves. They are searching for "completeness" because they do not feel complete themselves. I believe that...
SJH, I wanted to tap into what everyone else has saiod: we are all in the same bost and have all "been there, done that, in too much pain to get a T-shirt!" I agree: If we stay in the NOW, maybe we...
H*ll, olivia, I don't know if, whewn, or where i'll be one day from now! how about where i'd like to be? 1. Have a stronger relationship with my wife. 2. Lose at least 50 lbs (a little over 8.5 stone...
twisted, you write well. fom my own experience i know that poetry can be hard - i wrote total drivel. this poem concentrates a great deal of meaning. WELL DONE GIRL! warren...
sjh, just a thoought and a suggestion. where/when do you live? in the past? in the future? from what you've written, your mind seems to be in the future: "afraid that my kids may get it." my dear,...
lucky, sometimes (not often) i begin to believe that there IS a god! my wife and i both are "rugged individualists" and, from our collective experience, don't expect help from anyone or anything. i...
lucky, if you have to ask if you should keep the child, then you have already answered your question. the "little voice" in your head is telling you what you have to do but your emotions are getting...
interesting thread. in addition to listening to the "sound bites" and pablum that politicians send out in ever increasing flatus, i suggest a web site called projectvotesmart.org. it provides the...
gee, guys, didn't know i was so smart and funny. lol. glad i finally, after 62 years, said something worth while. warren...
twisted, if i had a dime for every time i innocently said something that was misinterpreted and hurt someone else's feelings, i wouldn't have to worry about my ssd check arriving on time! we all do...
charlie, may i be the last person to welcome you to HW and this forum? lol therapy sessions are like precious stones: not to be wasted. when i was working and the dinosaurs roamed the earth, i...
quahog, my deepest sympathies on your loss. in my religion, we believe that the departed still exist on the earth in the good deeds that they have done and the love that they have shown. i know that...
caren, i have a very simple solution for you. let your Bible study partners know about your illness. if they treat you like a pariah, you don't need them and they give your religion a bad name. if...
gramps, and i thought I was cynical! you may be entirely correct in you assessment, but it still reaks of cynnicism. lol i love it!! after about a week with my bipap i am still feeling pretty good....
OK. i'm vertical instead of horrizontal and didn't see my name in the obits today so i guess i'm alive. not necessarily living, but alive and sentient. my chronic back pain is feeling better and my...
DH = Dear Husband? i think if my wife called me that i would barf! lol warren...
need, i know how hopeless having doctors ignore your symptoms can be. it's soul destroying. i wish that i could reach out there, take you by the hand, and lead to to Nirvanna. but i can't. that move...
PAlady, why not? what are friends for? just don't let gramps or me sing! warren...
anybody read any michael creighton? i really enjoyed timeline. warren...
hey, y'all! (living in AL is rubbing off on me) i've been "otherwise occupied" and wasn't even aware that my thread had been hijacked!! isn't the purpose of this web site, and this forum especially,...
gramps, is there a little dark cloud always over your head? lol like in l'il abner - joe blix*******? look at the situation from outside and it's sardonically funny. if you don't laugh at these...
needhelp, from my experience and from i understand from drs, NOTHING happend with your body "for no reason." this concept, excuse me if this hurts you, is foolishness. all that you have said is trhat...
I spent the last week doing sleep studies, getting a BiPAP machine, and learning how to use it. After my first, frustrating, night with the BiPAP, i discovered that my constant debilitating back...
serafina, where in st. l were you? did you know that the botanical gardens were once called "shaw's gardens" after the family that donated them to the city? when i was in hs i did my "research" into...
twisted, (((((hugs))))) i'm glad that your party was such a big success. congratulations! and then some! you might have made as much as if you saved one of those 75-yr-old pieces and sold it at an...
mr t, i do exactly the same thing as you. i find it very painful. i don't work anymore (i am permanently disabled with chronic debilitating back pain), so i don't even have the outlet of my...
i debated about starting another thread for this comment, but decided to keep the coherence of the thread alive. i have the opposite problem of everyone who posts in this forum: my cp doc gives me...
PALady, your situation reminds me of an old joke, "never tell people how you feel. half of them will be glad it's you and not them and the other half will be glad to see you suffer." I only had one...
mochiah, i agree 100% i really like robin cooke and went on a binge of reading his novels for about a month (i think i real almost all of them). dean koontz, when he's in the grove, cannot be beat....
great idea, cookie, but it would never work. people can laugh at themselves cross-dressing or even with a "maternity girdle" (that device that makes people feel like they're 8 mos. pregnant). But i...
twisted, sorry i'm replying a day late and a dollar short. i've been having lots of tests done and problems with my COPD, etc. anyway, a lot of excuses (and, no, i don't accept excuses, either). i'm...
Muzz, yes, you have it exactly. these books, however, are better written and have more interesting "what ifs". hoipe you can find at least one of these to get your teeth into. i am accepting that we...
i don't know if my experience in a similar situation would help or hurt you and your situation. in terms of background, i had fallen down a flight of stairs and was having tremendous pain. I was...
twistred, you are one brave woman. i'm surviving this sat. night - sometimes that's the best one can do. i hope that you are, and stay, as chipper as you sound in your message. warren...
i have a short story - well, short for me. several yrs ago i was assigned to a therapist who was less than half my age with no life experience at all. but he was really proud of that shiny new...
melissa, look, kid. i am the only one allowed to be invisable in every forum in HW. it's MY job, darn it! keep your perfectly good fingers and hands out of my grimy invisibility. get it? with love,...
cary, thank you for your post. i didn't really expect any - i was just feeding fuel to the fire that keeps all of us burning. inn fact, kaddish is said first at the funeral and then at the house of...
if you like pre-history "what ifs?", my wife has found a great series by Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear: The First North mericas Series. The titles all begin with "People of the ... ." Each...
mogs, CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (((((hugs))))) i, and i'm sure everyone else here, are proud for you and wishing, praying, thinking good thoughts, for you. you said something, though, that i...
i've always been a loner - both by choice and by situations. i haven't had more than a half dozen friends since i got out of high school in 1964. i know that i'm an odd duck and have fairly severe...
a late one: when i first moved to texas, i saw this bumper sticker: I WASN'T BORN IN TEXAS BUT I GOT HERE AS SOON AS I COULD warren...
hey, kara. i don't think we'vew met yet. i was a regular about a yr ago, then went off for several months, and came back a few months ago. i can't even follow that! lol at any rate, i've taken ms...
twisted, i, too, welcome you to this disFUNctional family! as far as i can ascertain, i have more chronological yrs than anybody else here. Yeah. i remember the pyramids being built. my middle...
denise, i empathise with you. i've4 been through two back surgeries and 15 yrs of debilitating chronic pain. just a thought based on my hospitalization experiences. after my first surgery i was...
olivia (oc) this may just be IMHO, but i have found it to be true after having survived over half a century of emotional turmoil snf more suicide attempts than i ever want to think about (that is ONE...
your dr or pharmacist are probably the best sources for this information. here on this board we can only tell you our experiences or the experiences of others that we know. i took lithium for about 7...
chronie, just to expand on what gramps said, it could also be another threatened "purge" by this administration's "war on drugs:" we can't beat them at the borders (might upset the Mexican President)...
of course you make sense. and i stepped in it again by using the word "perfection." i apologize; please forgive an old man who is trying his best to express some very difficult and complex issues....
wen, my wife "got" that my chronic depression had turned much darker after i attempted suicide in 2000 after a botched epidural; steroid injection. the problem was trying to have my mother and our...
lfw, my wife is a lot like you. anal retentive. everything has to be PERFECT before she can go on to something else. i keep telling her that life isn't perfect and that there are a lot of fiddly bits...