Fibromyalgia #98

[Mima]

Good morning-using a new access number to dial in to so I think my computer problems are fixed. Have a good day all. Mima

[Joanne D]

Well my day is a third over and I still have to start laundry. Ofcourse we have already been to lab for blood work and out to breakfast. Can't eat much more than a fruit for lunch.Even the senior breakfast is too many points at Denny's.
Walked again yesterday. I thought my legs were going to fall off. I did do more than 2 miles. It should get better daily
Hope everyone is well...Joanne

[Ally0306]

Made some things yesterday to take down to my aunt, including potato salad with red potatoes. I put some in a bowl for my son and ate it right before I went to bed. I forgot how good my own cooking is. Lately, it has been tossed salads and fruit.
My aunt used to be heavy, went to weight watchers years ago and then became a speaker. Now she has lost so much in bone density. She seems almost tiny to me and she used to be 5'8". But she says she does not have the same appetite. I wonder when mine will decrease.... I want more than those senior portions at Denny's. Those are just a snack to me!!!

[Mima]

Hi guys-my computer problems were not fixed so I am getting DSL-we got a new service and it's only 8$ more than we were paying and I also have free long dustance from my home phone anytime. It's beautiful out right now-why did I eat that brownie last night. Bye for now. Mima

[Joanne D]

Ally- I love red potatoe salad. I make it with the skins on. I put a little mustard in mine. I ate a little and mu hubby ate the rest.It was a good sized bowl.
Mima- You ate the brownie because you wanted it. I would have too. I love them.
It is hot and steamy here. I didn't walk today. It was all I could do to walk yesterday. I got really hot. I have been having stomach pains all day today. My hubby wants me to go to Dr. I will wait as long as I can. I don't like going to Dr.'s It just feels like a 'belly ache' gas. I don't like to waste their time for that.
Hello everyone....Joanne

[Mima]

Move over Joanne-I get stomache aches all the time-I buy generic GasX all the time but you want to make sure it's not something else. I have diverticulosis and I have to watch my diet .That could be dangerous if you ignored it but how they find out is a barium enema. Computer still driving me nuts-this is the only time of day I can get on. 8 more days to DSL, walking and lunch with my aunt today-it's another gorgeous day-pool with my girlfriend tomorrow. She is on the South Beach diet. It sounds good but no carbs for 2 weeks. Or fruit!!!But it's better than the Atkins!!!Hey Anne, have you recovered yet? Where are you Meme? Have a nice day everyone. Mima

[Happy Canuk]

Mima - I HAVE recovered but have been so busy. Had to go to Red Deer on Monday. Went to my chiro., and then to the Dr. I now have an inner ear infection so am on antibiotics. Should really help out my yeast problem!! Darn, I sure didn't need that. Then I went to my Naturepath and will start on a yeast treatement on Monday of next week, after I finish off the antibiotics and a wedding on Saturday. I am hoping that getting the yeast cleared up will help a lot with pain, fog etc. and the fatigue as well.

Atikins helps with the fatigue, but got away from it and can't seem to get back at it. Ate far to many carbs during our packing and moving days. Now we are all settled in and life goes on.

I am starting on a diet the Naturepath gave me for yeast. I won't be able to lose any weight until this problem is cleared up, so hears hoping. I will also start on that on Monday.

Joanne - I hope you feel better soon. Perhaps you DO need to go get it checked out.

Candice - I checked out the price for those Urban thingies. They are $4.99 for a pack of them. There are quite a few in the package. You can zap them in the microwave if you want them hot or just eat them straight out of the package. If you want to try them, I would gladly send you some.

Meme - Hope you are feeling better. What a long haul for you.

Ally - Hi. Well, I hope your boys know what it costs to go to summer school and that they will apply themselves. Such a hard age for them right now. Take care, in a couple of years they will start to change and grow into young men.

Anagram - Hope things are going well for you.

Yesterday was Canada Day, so everyone had a holiday. Had my kids over for dinner and then we played cards. Had a good time. Nice to be home after so many years of being away. Have had some great visits already.

[Joanne D]

Mima- I have had stomach / intestinal problems for years. I have had several colonoscopys. I may need to do it again. I may have another polop.
Happy- Good that you are getting settled . Do you eat yogart? Helps with the yeast problems. I have a appointment for the 15th. I am trying not to go and just find out that it is just gas. I want it to resolve itself.
My daughter and G/daughter are coming down for a couple days.
We may cook out Friday. We all are watching the weight. So nothing too fattening.
Bye...Joanne

[Ally0306]

My cousin is bringing me the new craze in S. Carolina. A tape that encourages stretching and walking. I was just walking in the heat with my dogs realizing that I have kept up my 5 miles a day for over a year now, but I reached a plateau on weight loss a long time ago. If I want to dump a few more pounds, but not give up food I am going to have to up the pace or walk longer. This stinks. I look at some people who are just naturally skinny and they do not walk the miles that I do. Just not fair.
Oh, the aches in my hips. That came from being in a lawn chair that was too close to the ground. And this humidity. I heard the weekend will be cooler...yea!!

[Happy Canuk]

Ally, maybe you don't need to walk further, but try to do the intermittent walking. Walk fast for a few minutes and slow it down and keep doing that. Perhaps you already do it, but my son was telling me it a great way to move the body. Some people do a little jog for just a minute and then get back to walking.

Good for you keeping up that 5 miles.

[Mima]

Yeah-good for you Ally-walked yesterday with my aunt and cousin but we have to walk slow because my aunt has asthma-my cousin is going back t0 California next week-it's been fun having him around-we grew up together but were always vying for my grandmother's attention so we fought.She wouldn't let us stay over at the same time.He was trying to take my place-I was the first grandchild. I'm going to my girlfriend's house and we are going to her pool-heated. I'm so tired-I wake up at 4:30 and can't get back to sleep-Going to fireworks tonight or tomorrow. Brad is going to put a faucet outside so I can water my plants easier. Siding guy is back-says he will be finished next week. Next is the gutters. Then the driveway-hall-etc. Patience!!!!Have a good day everyone. Mima

[Candicej]

Joanne and mima.....hope your tummies are better!
Been fighting my IBS and stomach pain and back on Zantac and feeling so bloated nothing is
comfortable to wear. I just hate that bloated feeling..feel like I am about to give birth!

I have some baby cukes, zuckes and tomatoes growing!!!!! ....oh and weeds too! ;)

My son is gone for a few days...kinda nice and quite, today was cleaning day tired not to over do
with my back and it does seem better when I do not over do it.

My son belives in alternative meds and that we should all have the metal fillings taken out cause
they cause mercury poising and thinks we would get better by doing that along with diet changes
and other natural stuff. He gets mad at me and tells me I am not doing anything to help myself. (I
disagree but hey he thinks he knows it all!) he has a lot to learn.... I'm sure it might have helped
years ago but think it is too late now and too expensive and painful. What do you think about
that??????????

Happy I would love to try those if it is no trouble for you to send them. I will send you and email with my address or do you want me to send you some money first????? Glad to hear you are a Happy, Happy at home!

Ally..the intermittent thing might work for you. You make me hungry!

Where is Meme??????????????????

[Ally0306]

I can't jog....that will really kill me, but I will try power walking every few minutes.
Candice....there is no proofa lot of these theories work. The best we can do is to be healthy, eat better, get exercise. Too bad your son can't see that. Now if I could just stay away from that darned sugar. Ate a muffin, half a donut. This morning I thought I was going do die due to constipation. That is how quick sugar can clog up my plumbing!!!

[anagram]

Gee, sorry to hear so many still having problems. I guess it's our way of life anymore. Happy, so glad you're enjoying your new home and being close to the family.

Doing ok here at the moment. More tired than I'd like but that's sort of the rule. Once in a while I get a time when I'm not and then I am really happy.

Went to pool twice this week (and grocery store twice as well). DD supposed to come tomorrow evening. Now she's not sure - told her to let me know before I get the chicken out of the freezer. DH says we'll have a lot of corn to eat. Picnic on Sat. at sister's = should be pleasant but hot, hot, hot.

Hit a new low on the journey today. With all the water ups and downs I can't keep track of how much I lose/gain (well, could but too much effort) so now I'm just celebrating new lows. I'm at 207.6 today so it's about 2.2 or 2.4 lbs down in the last five or six weeks. Not much but it's DOWN. Taking a couple of days to enjoy food again.

Have a good holiday (or weekend after the holiday if that's your case).

[MemeToo]

Got an inhaler last week and my cough is almost gone but now I'm sneezing and my nose is running! Can't figure out what I'm allergic to ... told hubby it's must be him!!!

Ross has been going though a manic phase ... about to drive everybody nuts. His mom took him to the Dr. this afternoon. Sure hope they can get his meds adjusted better before school starts! I love him to death but I'm sure looking forward to 4 days without kids! I have to take hubby's mom to the Dr. on Monday - she is having a hysterectomy on Tues ... cancer.

We're supposed to go to a 4th family reunion/picnic Saturday. (Hubby's family) ... can't stand being around some of them (stuck up snobs) so I'm not looking forward to it, plus it's supposed to be 90! Son's out of town, daughter's busy with her family tomorrow and hubby's working on new church building so I'm on my own. Going to sleep in then go shopping!

Glad you got moved Anne. Hope the stomaches, hips and other aches and pains settle down and everybody has a good 4th of July!!!

[Happy Canuk]

Happy 4th of July Fibropals

Hope you are all having a great day. We celebrated Canada Day on July 1st. Hope your day is as good as mine was:lol

[Mima]

Beautiful attachments guys-couldn't get on the ----computer yesterday. 4 more days til DSL. Took it easy yesterday-went to eat and to the fireworks and lo and behold, lots of people from Brad's church were there-it was fun. What a spectacular ending it was also!!!!Most beautiful I have ever seen. Anyways-not much going on today. My weight was down yesterday but it won't be today. No TOPS this week because of the 4th. Sounds like fun. Anagram. Bye for now. Mima

[Joanne D]

We had a nice 4th at my house. My daughter was here and later in the evening we went to see the fire works. I don't know why but it seemed like every other house hold in my area were shooting off rockets and fireworks of some kind.Our street sounded like a battle zone till after 11 pm.
I ate wrong but what the heck. My daughter and G/daughter and I spent a few hours at the beach. I live just a mile but other than walking out there in the evening I haven't spent much time there. I have to change that. It was really nice getting in the water .
Hope everyone feels better sone..
Joanne

[Mima]

Good morning-boy am I glad we have air-conditioning-it's been warm but I'm not complaining cuz no rain. Brad had a service call at a pig farm last night so I went with him. Not much new-Have a great day everyone. Mima

[Happy Canuk]

Hope EVERYBODY is feeling good today!!! It has been raining here for the past couple of days, with a few breaks now and then.

Yesterday, went back to my old city for our God Daughter's wedding. Had a great time. I even danced, which I LOVE to do. Did a couple of polkas (my favorite) and then just a few other ones. Haven't danced for a long time, so as you might well imagin, I am RATHER stiff and sore today. It was so worth it, however.



Everyone have a great day.

[Ally0306]

Not so humid today in NY. took a long walk and have been power walking. I can feel it in my muscles. I bought a bag of trail mix in Walmart....oh so yummy and it appears to be better than Ex-Lax!!!!!

[anagram]

Evening, ladies. Just had to pop in and tell you that I'm feeling great. Flare seems to have subsided. Didn't even feel too bad with storms coming in tonight.

Had a good time Sat. at family picnic for BILs (and nephew's) birthdays. Then daughter was here with her family and the granddaughters worked their magic medicine and I have not felt so good for a long time. I'm not going to bed tonight so I can stay up and enjoy feeling good (just in case). Only kidding - I will probably go to bed soon but I feel like I want to enjoy the moment.

[MemeToo]

Anagram...that's our problem. When we feel good, we do too much trying to make up for lost time. Then when we over-do we feel bad again. Of course, most of the time, we feel bad anyway ... at least that's what I reason to myself. I do the same thing. I'll have a good day and I'll try to do everything at once because I'm afraid it won't last!

Have to take MIL to Dr. tomorrow then she has her surgery Tues. and I'm supposed to stay up with her at the hospital Tues night. (don't know how that's going to work after keeping Ross all day Tues.)! Then I'll have Ross again all day Wed., too!

[Mima]

I agree about the feeling good-I'll be happy to try new meds when I go to the doc next time-I can't even push the grocery carriage without the rib muscle acting up. I also have weird sinus pain under my cheeks-never had that before. Anyhow-we had a nice relaxing weekend.That was great about the wedding, Anne!!!Well-siding is suppossed to be done this week and they are going to start on the hallway this weekend-moving stairs around. Never a dull moment-I am losing 2 closets but gaining a bigger one with cedar board. We also brought half of the attic to a flea market to be held next week-donations-waht a great feeling to have that half emptied. Hope all goes well Meme-bye for now Mima

[Candicej]

Not much going on here..cooked on saturday since my son was home. Did some gardening on Friday and sunday with a walk with DH..boy was it hot and humid walking:eek:

Anyone use those self tanning products and do you know of one that does not smell?????????? I like to use them insted of the I can't stand smells!

[Joanne D]

Candice- I used one of those tanning solutions about 20 yrs ago. When I took a shower it came off in spots. Never again. Now I just sit out in the sun.
Happy - It is nice to get out and kick up our feet. There is always stiffness and pain afterward. Enjoy what you can ,I say.
Ally- You got that right. My hubby buys a couple bags of trail mix when we go to Sams. He needs them. I am real careful when I eat some of it. I am trying to get out and walk at least 4-5 days a week now. I go out to the beach and walk the parking lots with all the other retirees. :lol: It is cooler there sometimes.
Anagram- Good that you are feeling better. Don't overdo.
Meme- Hope your MIL does well.
Mima- You have been working on your house for awhile. I wish I had an attic that I could store in. I have a attic but I wouldn't put anything up there. It is really hot in summer and sometimes we get a squirrel or two up there. How I'll never know. We have worked to find all their ways of getting there. I think they tunnel under the house and go up. Florida living,that's part of it.
Well sounds like my laundry is ready for the dryer...Bye, Joanne

[Candicej]

Joanne..I burn too easily and my legs never get it just my back and no one looks at my back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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Makes 12 Servings - 6 Points Per Serving

1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa, powder
1/3 cup water, hot
5 1/4 oz unsweetened baking chocolate square(s), dark, melted
1 1/4 cup brown sugar
3 1/2 oz ground almonds
4 large egg(s), separated
2 Tbsp powdered sugar, sifted
5 1/4 oz light butter, melted





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[Mima]

Brad is doing a job today to fix something in an attic where squirrels or mice ate the wires so the air-conditioner doesn't work. Another hot one-I stay in most of the time but I am going to try and get a pedicure-I have been walking almost every day-well, night-we'll see if it shows up on the scale. My life is boring right now-not much to say-be well everyone. Mima

[Joanne D]

Candice- My problem is I tan on the front of my legs and not good on the backs. :lol: Otherwise no problem.
Mima- I wonder about all the problems that come with owning a home, sometimes. I sometimes tell my hubby we should sell and go into an apartment. He won't hear of it. I try to get him to hire help for the yard. Still he won't hear of it. Do you think he is stubborn? I told my son when he gets a extra five minutes maybe he can help us. We will just have go around him.
I am trying to walk 4-5 times a week. I would have had a loss if I had weighed today. Tomorrow it may change. What the heck.
I know all the meds we have to take keeps us from losing as much as we want. Lately ,I have been taking a lot of advil. I seem to hurt more.
Hello everybody.Stay well... Joanne

[Joanne D]

It looks like we all are hiding waiting for something different to happen..Tops tonight.. I walked last evening and paid the price for about 2 hours today. It usually takes that long for me to walk upright.
You all have a good day...Joanne

[MemeToo]

Not hiding, just tired and sleepy! Got through the last two days and nights. :tired: I had Ross Tues. then stayed at the hospital all night Tues. night - got about 2 hrs. sleep in and out - then had Ross all day yesterday and cooked dinner for FIL, hubby and son (DIL is on school trip). Have Ross again today and have to go to the Dr. and have blood drawn again. MIL is coming home tomorrow so I will have to cook for them over the weekend, too, and all next week I'm sure. I was feeling a little better until today ... guess I've over done it a little this week because I'm really tired today!

It's supposed to storm here tonight!

[Joanne D]

Meme- It looks like you really have overdone it. Somebody else in the family ,maybe, could take some of your load. How is your MIL? I think I would be going to the deli's. We get short rain showers. A good long storm ,we don't get often . The westerly winds from the gulf hold them back in our area.
Take care of yourself...Joanne

[MemeToo]

Joanne ... MIL is not doing good today. Ross and I went to see her about 2 and she had just passed out. The nurses had her up taking her to the bathroom and she went out cold on them. They had to carry her back to the bed. They called the Dr. (his office is right accross the street from the hospital). He came over and checked her out. They moved her upstairs where they could moniter her heart. Thought it might be that. I don't know if she will get to come home tomorrow or not now. She is confused, too. I'm wondering if she might have had a light stroke.

No, there isn't anyone else. She had two sons and the other DIL is worse than useless. "SHE WORKS" Get the picture? The other son has a daughter but she has a little baby and works and her husband is in Iraq. My daughter works at the hospital and is being a huge help there. Everyone there knows her including all the Drs. and nurses. She is assistant to the director of nurses so when the nurses see her coming they all practically stand at attention. You should see their attitude change when someone says, "She's Paula's mother." It's really funny. I was in my MIL's room the night I stayed with her when one of the nurses started saying something to the nurse who was taking care of her. She was wanting to patch something instead of getting a new one or something ... I didn't really understand it. The other nurse looked at me and said, "do you know who she is?" She said, No. So she told her I was Paula's mother. She said ... "Oh ... I didn't know that. So ... this is Paula's Grandmother then!" So she went and got a new tube and fixed it right. They were the same way when my mother was in there last year. I don't mind helping out with my in-laws as much as I'm able ... they are both sweet people. It's just that I'm not really able! It'll be easier if we can just get her home!!! They just live right down the road, not even a quarter of a mile from us. Of course, it would be A LOT easier if I didn't have Ross ... but I do and he's a blessing ... I'm not complaining ... I love him so! :p

[Joanne D]

Meme- Family support is so important. You will have a 'star in heaven'. I hope the ones that don't help, that can, feel guilty . You should report those nurses that wanted to just fix the tubing etc. They may do it with another patient with serious results.Every patient should be treated the same no matter who they are or whose G/mother they are.I spent many years nursing and I can tell you there are some horrow stories.
Take care of yourself....Let the rest of her family know they should care too..
Hello everybody.....Joanne

[MemeToo]

I'm sure you are right but I don't know enough about what she was doing to report it. I wouldn't even know what where to begin. I'm sure many of them take a lot of short cuts when they can! And I'm sure I wouldn't have known the difference if she had that time!!! :p

Familys just don't care like they used to. I know back 20-30 years ago it was unheard of for an 82 year old mother to stay alone in the hospital but there are whole floors full of them now. They took care of us for years ... then they get old and we put them in a home and leave them there to die. Some of them never have any company. I just can't do that. I got up at 5:30 this morning and went to the hospital. Helped her with breakfast and was there when the Dr. came. He's keeping her another day. Put her back on a soft-food, semi-liquid diet. They are monitering her heart today to make sure that's not what caused her fainting spell yesterday. He said they got ALL the cancer but said they got it just in time. The tumor was very aggressive and had already eaten half way through the uterus wall!!! My Son-I-L brought me Ross at 9 and I came on home. FIL came up at 9 to stay with her 'till this afternoon but he's not in real good health either. I think her Sister-I-L is supposed to come then.

Well... I'm going to lay down and sleep awhile (if Ross will let me). I've already lost almost 2 nights sleep this week!!! :tired: I'm about to get a headache!

[Mima]

Hi there-I reloaded my computer and lost mostly everything-still didn;t fix problem of not being able to hook up DSL-ordered a new Dell computer and was able to down load server again on old computer by using son's AOL. Anyhow-I'm back . The company that made my computer went out of business. What a fiasco. Meme-I hope you get some rest-this too will pass. I went to TOPS today and nonchalantly asked the leader how her vacation was. She told me her husband drowned while they were away. He had bad Parkinson's. Someone was suppossed to call me but they didn't I feel so bad for her-next week I'll get her a plant. Bye for now Mima

[Happy Canuk]

Mima - how awful for you. It was a question anyone would have asked and certainly would never have expected that answer. Too bad somebody had not contacted you to let you know. Glad you got all hooked up again. Nothing like PC trouble:lol

Meme - Take it easy. I know you are doing what you have to do. As for "sticking"people in nursing homes or hospitals, I guess I look at that a bit differently. In years gone by, women didn't work like they do now. When my Mom was stricken with Alzheimer's disease, all of us were working full time. Too have 24 hr. assistance cost well over $3000.00 a month and none of us could afford that! She also was diabetic and required insulin shots and also meds for Angina. It was the hardest thing we ever had to do, but it was the best thing for my Mom. She was never left alone that is for sure. She had tons of company.

I hope you were able to get some rest today.

Joanne , Anagram, Candice and Ally - hope you are not having too much pain and are out enjoying the weather.

Here, it is a spectacular day. There is a nice breeze and it should stay like this for a few days anyway, before we get more rain. We seemed to have lots of rain, but the ground is still so very dry. I think it could rain everyday for a whole season and still not get the water table back up.

Everyone have a great day.

[MemeToo]

Oh Anne... I did NOT mean it like that. BELIEVE ME! If my mother had not died when she did I would have put her in a rest home in a heart beat! I would not have had a choice. She couldn't eat ... couldn't even swallow. And, besides, I'm not physically able to take care of someone like that. We talked about this last year, remember? I meant there are a lot of people that put their parents in rest homes and just go off and leave them there to die. They sit in there week after week and no one ever even goes to see about them. I could not do that. It would just kill me. I'd have to check on them and make sure they were eating and had what they needed, etc. There are a lot of older people like that in the hospital, too. It's sad.

[Happy Canuk]

I remember when I had a mobile clothing store for seniors and we went to auxillary hospitals and nursing homes, how people WERE just put in these homes and forgotten - until they got their cheques. Some had nobody. Like I told my partner at the time, Abuse didn't start yesterday and there may be good reason why some of these people have no visitors. They say what goes round comes round.

I, personally, could never do that either.

[Joanne D]

Hello Girls- I was charge nurse in two different nursing(rest) homes the last 18 yrs that I worked. There is nothing that I have not seen. The beds they sleep in are awful plastic covered lumpy mattresses,urine odor all the time. poor care,when the nursing assistants can get away from it and so on and so no. I could write a book. Very few family members visit. It is true that most are put there because family will not take their ongoing abuse . It is not possible in some cases that family cannot care for them. In some cases it is the old trying to care for the old.The aides did not like to see me making rounds. I checked every patient under the covers. I made sure that they got the care they deserved. My director once told me I was hard on the girls. I said too bad. If they do what they should they don't have anything to worry about.
Family members are just as bad in some cases. I had one family member call me long distance and ask me to keep her mother alive till she could get there to get her money's in her name. I couldn't say she would live another hour. She passed away that night. Some family members on the other hand were the best. They would be there all the time and help with care. Some would just come in to help feed the patients. Those you have to love.
I retired 10 years ago. It was past time.
Didn't mean to write a book.. Take care of yourself Meme...
Hello everybody..
Bye...Joanne

[anagram]

Hi, all. Have been AWOL because I was so bad Monday evening I couldn't show my "face". I had a good day Monday and don't understand why I ever went on such a binge. I do little ones all the time but this was ridiculous. It wasn't even something I'm that crazy about..

Anyway, it's past and I'm getting over being mad at me. Did do three water workouts this week and some gardening. Everything else seemed to go wrong after the binge and we spent the rest of the week (and lots of cash) getting things taken care of.

I have to catch up on all the posts and get "personal" next time. Good weekend all.

[Candicej]

Most nursing homes are the pits I think..my grandmother was in one and as a young child we would go every Sunday after church and visit her...she was in her 90's and just wanted to die. I can still remember the whales and smells of that place, then my dad was in the same place for 8 months afer his stroke and mom could no longer care for him...we went and fed him and would take stuff to brighten up his room. My mom now needs to be in one but my brother still has her at home.

Yes it is cooler here and we got 3 inches of much needed rain but others got way too much and flooding! We have been eating zucchini and cucumbers and I picked a few cherry tomaotes today before I sprayed for insects and fungus. My arms hurt from lugging the gallon sprayer around. Took 4 gallons of stuff to get it all covered! But then we had unforecated rain so not sure if it will take.

The poor fish..he is just resting on the bottom of the tank with his fins dropping and some times looks like he is gasping for air. He just has no energy. I have treated him all I can....maybe it is his time to go like Siwa said....The dog is bad too, she can no longer get up the basement steps or down after we carry her up to go out. I am cleaning up after her all the time..too much for me!

Busy trying to get my sons stuff together for his big move...sheets, towlels pillows, and a few supplies to get him started..Aug 1 will be here before you know it!

[MemeToo]

MIL got to come home today!!! She's feeling a lot better. Guess we'll see.

This is where we are going on vacation in October with our daughter and family.

http://www.vacationrentalbyowner.net/listing6.html

I've got to lose some weight before I hit the beach in a bathing suit!!!!!!! :yikes:

[Happy Canuk]

Meme, we have started a new thread.

I copied your post over to it.