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Well....you gals are so windy that it hit two pages again!;)

My arm felt a little better today and it was so nice out I did some work outside, but I don't think I over did, never know what you can get by with. I hope this treatment is working so I can get some things done.

Happy, it is just my arm in so much pain, the rest of me is doing pretty good and I think it is the way I am eating. I take something called grape seed exract ( antioxidents) and some other suplements.

Mima, you have a good time?

Alley, Welcome back..how did your Fibro handel the trip, sleeping and stuff?????

Meme, Your decorations sound delightful..I just put a few things out cause my arm wouldn't let me do too much! Take a picture so we can see! That is cheap for a camera..I need to get a digital I guess so I can get instant pics! Are you not keeping the kids anymore??? Did I miss something???? Tough call on the chocolate, it's a trigger food alright for lots of things!:lol:

Hi Joanne:wave:

Marigolds that border the garden:)

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Candice-Your pictures are wonderful.I have a digital camera that I bought with my retirement money and it has a disc so all you have to do is put it in the computer. It is a Sony and very expensive and doesn't take good pictures inside but they have improved I'm sure. I use this forum to vent sometimes-I live alone!!!Sometimes that's not too bad but in these times I would like someone to lean on. And I have you guys!Candice-Thank you for starting a new forum and I'm glad your arm is better. Don't overdo it like I do when I feel better. My back is better so now I need caution.Hey Meme-don't overdo it but your house sounds beautiful.Today I'm going to take my grandaughter out for icecream. She's visiting her father close by.Stepgrand-that is. Hope Joanne and Happy are having fun and Ally is resting.Have a good day-Mima

Hi Candice...... Fibro was in remission, thankfully during the trip. My sister-in-law snored but this time I had ear plugs. BUT, I twisted my ankle stepping off the side walk into dirt and slammed my knee to the side-walk. And I was SOBER!!!. It was in Chinatown and all these little men came out to try and lift me to my feet. How embarrassing.
I need to get rid of the carbs. I have cheated all weekend giving myself a few days before i get back to my routine.
Did anyone watch the VH1 concert last nite. Lots of old rock bands. Very nice.
Am watching football...anyone else do that? I got into this a few years ago as someting to do on Sunday. I knit and make cookies all day.

If I fell on my knees I'd wind up in the hospital...been there...done that! Had surgery on both of mine already! Hope you didn't hurt anything too bad! I have a mental pic. of you and the little Chinamen...delightful! :lol: I've been cheating this weekend, too...got to quit that...bad Meme!!! I overdid it yesterday...moving the furniture and cleaning about did me in! I've been hurting really bad today so I'm planning to take tomorrow off completely. No kids so I can do that until time to teach. (And I'm thinking about cancelling lessons and taking the night off, too...I can do that since I'm the teacher!)

Candice...my daughter finally got the little one, Jenna, in daycare at the hospital where she works 3 days a week so I only have Ross after school for a couple of hours and then Jenna all day on Thur. and Fri....that is so much easier. She will be able to go full time as soon as they get an opening for Thur. and Fri. then I will only have to go pick Ross up at 3 and keep him until about 5:30 or 6. I will have to keep Ross on holidays and the other 2 kids occassionally, too, but at least it won't be on a FULL TIME basis...that was about to kill me. I never had any energy...was always tired and didn't feel like cleaning...let alone decorating. I just feel like I'm getting my life back. Is that terrible of me...to feel that way? They're my grandchildren and I love them to pieces but they just wear me down!

Mima...I know just how you feel about the board...I feel the same way sometimes...almost feel as close to you guys as I do my FAMILY! Funny, huh? And no one (who hasn't experienced it) would understand that feeling, would they? They'd think we were nuts! What do you guys think about the "meeting" notice posted on the board? You going to try to go? I wonder where it will be...

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Happy Monday!I got in touch with some feelings yesterdayabout being lonelyetc. That's when I think I have to care for others but I really need to take care of myself. And I have been eating compulsively at night. Good thing I only have low pt. stuff in the house-Craving carbs and sugar and now I feel like I have a hangover. From eating!!Hope you are ok Ally. Everything in moderation Meme. Haha from me who needs to learn that!!!A little work-A little play-I'm going to make cookies and brownies today to send to Florida and bring some to my rheumatoligist-who lost his wife.He has a lot of kids.And I will rest. Got to make a decision about a friend coming to visit me in Fl.-she drinks too much-when she came last year I went nuts. I have confronted her-by putting that off she already made reservations for this year and she was going to stay with a cousin this year for a week but that is not going to happen so she wants to stay with me for 2 weeks. Any advice. I have dealt with other people's drinking my whole life!!!!!!!Oh yeah-she says she will control it!!!Bye for now-please respond to my dilemma. Hi to all. Mima

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Mima- I can understand your feelings about having someone around who drinks too much.. I would have to tell them that " I enjoy your company ,but I need this time alone right now." I would suggest they rent a place for themselves.A person who drinks will tell you anything, Then you are stuck and unhappy.
Meme- You sound like you are having so much fun! Wait till those children get into that hay bale!!One of the teachers where my daughter works did that in her classroom. Hay everywhere!
Candice - I hope your arm keeps right on getting better. I don't do much more than try to keep my house clean until Christmas. I think This year I will put up a little more. It looks like the family will all be here again.
Helly Ally-Happy- I have had a fat weekend and now I have to get back into my routine. I haven't gotten on the scale. I think I better wait a day or two.
Bye for now...Joanne
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I think I clicked wrong and ended up on another thread.. Sorry I messed up. Hope you guys find my message. ..Joanne:dizzy:

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Candice - glad that your arm is improving - even if it is just a little, that is better than nothing. Just don't strain it.

Meme - Glad you are feeling better. Then you go and do what we all do when that happens, and that is over do it. It is fun to decorate for the seasons. I don't do to much for fall, but put a fall runner on the table with a fall basket full of fall flowers. Looks nice. Won't be long before I change it to Christmas decor. It is coming. I do hope you get some rest today.

No Meme, you are not a bad person for not wanting to babysit. Firstly, we have to remember, they are NOT our children. I could do the same thing, and be running back and forth to my daughters, and I will if it is an emergency or if my little gal is sick. I would be there for them in a heartbeat. Daily, however, they must learn to fend for themselves and they do just fine. If they know that MOM is always there, then they have no insentive to look for alternates. So just do what you can and be happy you can do that. Meme, my friend, you put WAY to much stress on yourself. You are a wonderful, caring person, but someone needs to care about you as well.

Mima - This does feel like home doesn't it. We all understand where we are coming from here on the board. At times we have issues that nobody else could possibly understand - no matter how much you tell them. This is a place for dieting, but all of our emotions and pain run right along with that, so we can always feel free to vent here. I am glad that your back is better.

Joanne - you are right about drinkers. Can't stand to have them around me. I am, of course, not talking about a casual drinker, but about an alcholic. They really are a sad lot of people with bigger problems than I can deal with. I guess it is like FM, and I don't understand why they do what they do, just like people don't understand FM.

Ally, so glad you had a good holiday. Like Meme, I can just see you in China town with the little men rushing to help you. I had a terrible feeling when I was in chinatown. Kept expecting to have someone jump out from between those old building with a big knife. I think I watched way to much TV at the time.

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Now, I have to tell you the story of my exercising regime. I went to the Chiro a week ago and felt pretty good. He gave me some simple stretching exercises to do, and I started them very slowly on Tuesday. Did them once a day, and didn't try to do more than it said. By Friday, I had such pain in the lower back, I went back to the chiro. He said the alignment had held, but the muscles on the right side were inflammed. He sent me home to put ice on it. This I did, and then I used my wonderful Dr. Ho unit and that really helped. I took a couple of Tylenol 3's before bed and had a really good sleep. Saturday, I repeated the steps, and then left for my daughters (2 hr. car trip). I took a MEP 282 (asprin with codeine and muscle relaxer) and had a really good trip. Used Dr. Ho that evening and had another good sleep. By yesterday, felt a whole lot better.

I have not had much pain since I started the Upper Cervical Treatments, and the last one held for 5 weeks, but this pain was the every breath hurts type of pain. I could hardly walk and I am a big suckie now, I think. Whatever, I am glad it is gone. I think the Specta 12 that I take really helps me as well. My cold that I had (thought it was strep as my throat was just on fire), but it only last a few days and was gone. This tells me my immune system is functioning well.

That is my story, and I am NOT doing any more of those stupid exercises. I will take a weak back without the pain, thank you.

What is a Dr. Ho?

What is Dr. Ho?????
 

I think I have posted this before, but it is simply the most amazing little machine you could ever own. I have had mine for almost 3 years and could not do without it. It works sort of like a TENS machine but it has up to five different currents that stimulate and massage the muscle, so that your body never gets used to it. With the TENS machine, it is always the same current. I see they have a new one now, with 4 pads, and that would be great. Mine only has 2 gel pads.

You can go see it at http://www.drhonow.com/ It truly is one of the best buys you could ever make. It really helps with muscle pain and the pain from o/a. I love it and nobody can take it away from me. I know several others who have bought it( upon my recommendation of course), and love it. You always get a 30 day money back guarantee so you have nothing to lose, except some pain and to me, that is a good thing.

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Thanks for listening guys-I think I'm going to say she come come if she can stick to the agreement but ask her to leave if she doesn't. I thought about saying no but she really is a good person who likes to drink and it's out in the open now. Happy-you sound like me-everytime I try to do the stretching I get in trouble. I can walk and swim.Gotta eat !But not too much. Sent cookies off and only ate one. Mima

Hope you guys are chuckling when you see me flat on my face on the sidewalk in Chinatown. And get this, I had just had dinner at the Stinking Rose restaurant and had the 40 clove garlic chicken. Those poor little guys....
Mima....I gave up on trying to catch up on old posts so I missed whatever you said about a drinking friend. But I had a tough time with my sister-in-law too. She used to routinely drink a few glasses of wine before dinner, but she never acted intoxicated. This time she seemed to "need" that wine and then would get downright schnockered. And this was not pleasant. I felt like a hypocrite cause we were on vacation and I had a few drinks too...but not to the point where I couldn't talk or read a menu. I got mad at her a couple of times, and one night left the room and walked the treadmill for a while.
What do you say to someone like this??????

Are you SURE you didn't drink too much Ally??? Maybe that's why you fell in Chinatown!!! :lol:

That's something I had to deal with growing up...my Dad drank too much on the weekends...I've taken many a beating because of booze! Thank God everyone in my family now are teetotalers!

I'm going to ask for one of those Tens thingies for Christmas. I used to have a Tens...cost a fortune back then but it worked pretty good...finally quit on me and I didn't get another. I think I remember you telling me about that before...I'd forgotten what it was called...sorry!

Looks like I'm taking on another part-time job in a couple of weeks. I have to go through an orientation at the hospital the first Mon. in Nov. (all day thing...hope I can make it that long!). Then I will be doing word processing for them at home. My daughter is so far behind she said she'd never get caught up. I type really fast so she asked me if I'd like to help her out...I said if it paid enough! ha Actually the pay is fairly decent to get to stay home and work my own hours. She said she would need me to work at least 20 hrs. a week for the first few weeks...all the nurses manuals have to be reconstructed and updated. She had a girl there to help her out but they moved her to another department so now she is swamped. But by going on as a part-time employee of the hospital (which is what I'll have to do to get paid) anyone in administration can use me...of course I can turn them down if I don't want the work! So...I have 2 weeks to learn Microsoft Word...I've always used Works! I've lost a few piano students...2 moved away, one had to quit because her dad lost his job and one wasn't getting anywhere and didn't really care so I let her go so now I have Thur. night free and since I only have Jenna 2 days a week now I think I can swing 20 hrs. a week. I guess we'll see...

I just sent off my fourth test for my Design Course...It took me most of the day to do it...hope it is right!!!

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Meme-you are too much!!!You are so good on the computer .No one would ever hire me to type. Word isn't that much different from works-I have both.I only use it to edit a monthly newsletter.Ally-my friend came to visit me in FL. and got drunk almost every night. When she told me she was coming for 2 weeks I told her how uncomfortable I was with her drinking in excess and it was no fun for me. Years of Al-anon taught me to keep it on myself. She says she will keep it under control while she's there.If not I can say something because the cat is out of the bag.I also like to have a drink or 2-specially on vacation. But I do stop.My mother and 3 of her sisters drank -ex husband too-so I am very uncomfortable being around excesive drinking.I have choices whether to be with these people or not.Looks like rain and I want to walk with my aunt. Have a good day everyone. Mima

Well Mima, you may have rain, but my ground is white and it is still coming down. Supposed to stop snowing sometime today, and then flurries off and on for the rest of the week. It is only 34 degrees this morning and probably won't be much warmer today.

Good for you Meme. That will keep you out of mischief and still keep you busy. At least at home you can work when you can do it. That is something I would love to do.

Hi, Candice, Ally and Joanne. Hope you ladies are all having a great day.

I'm soooooo jealous....I WANT SNOW! Send me some! It is in the 70s here and looks like it's going to start raining any minute. I have to go to town and do some running around...hope it holds off until I can pick up Ross and get back home!

I PASSED MY EXAM! there were 35 problems a form to make and an image map...that's one of those big pictures you see on websites that have different areas in them that you can click on and go to other pages...the only thing I did wrong on the whole test was he said he could click ALL my little check boxes on one problem and he was only supposed to be able to click ONE of them! Guess I wanted to give the people more than one choice... :lol:

I feel a little better ...more rested! I'm so hungry...haven't eaten yet today...I'm trying to wait until I get hungry to eat, that seemed to work really good for me before when I did that. But now I'm really hungry so I think I'll go to McAllisters and have a chicken salad sandwich...hope you all have a good day.

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Again kudos to you Meme!!Working on the computer is better than doing housework all the time-and babysitting.But some is good. I think I'll go to yoga at the senior center and be careful. Went for a long walk with my aunt yesterday.And lunch.The waitress now knows what we like to drink-but we only have one and I take a nap when I get home. My stomache has been flipping out in the evening and it might be from the osteoporosis med. which I am taking for 2 weeks.I won't take it today and see. Snow!!!It will soon be here also.But today it is in the 70's. Have a great day everyone-Hi to all. Mima

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Happy- In the 30s and snow! In the 70's for Meme. It is supposed to be in the 80s here today. It has been very humid here.
Meme - You are so smart! I do well to do the little I do on the computer. I got started late. I typed in H/S and then didn't touch a typewriter till just a few years ago. That is almost 50 yrs.
Mima- I hope you feel better . Maybe your vacation will turn out to be great.. I hope so..
Ally - I fell flat of my face in Mexico once- Not because I had 2 beers but because the sidewalk had a crack in it and I am a cluts. :lol:
I have been having some fairly good days. I just seem to be busy all the time and have no free time for myself. Something is always there for me to do. So on that note.I guess I will strip the bed and get started...Bye you all..Joanne:wave: :angel:

Hi Guys.....Had things to talk about but I have to go kill my kids. My sons have gotten too big for their britches. One son had a party while I was gone, the other one just got home over an hour late from work and I was frantic.
Gonna call their dad and say that these stupid cars he helped them get are outta here.
Arrrrrghghghghggh!
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Hi all!Ally-when my son got his car he got out of control but you can control the keys I hope.It's so tough bringing up teenagers as a single woman. I can't believe I survived and my middle one sent me on a run. And he's great but h had to learn consequences for his action and it took a while. Hang in there and do your job and don't give up on them.I don't know if I had a stomache virus or diverticulosis attack but my stomache has not been good.That's enough!!!!That's the third thing I've had in 3 weeks. And none real bad.Got a call from my close friend whose 8 year old is in the hospital with swollen cheeks and they don't know what's causing it.I hope it's nothing serious.Have a good day wherever you are!Mima

Don't worry... I didn't kill any body. BUT one of my sons got a speeding ticket which means he looses his license for 60 days. Yeah. They got independent too soon. Once they can grab their keys and hit the road, you loose your ability to keep track of them.

Gotta weigh myself tomorrow. I was feeling that I might not have gained while on vacation, but today I am in PMS and ate cookies.
Also have a bunch of brand new broken veins on the knee where I fell. Wierd. I don't know why this happened a week after the big fall.
At first I thought I had Anthrax........
I'll let you know what the damage is tomorrow. If you don't hear from me figure that I am starving myself........... :dizzy:

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Meme - first of all congratulations on passing that exam. Good work. Also, I hope your job works out great for you.

Mima - I do hope you are feeling better. If it isn't one thing it is another.

Joanne - Hi. Well our snow is almost gone. By the weekend it will be. This is just the teaser, to let us know what we can expect:lol:

Ally - I feel sorry for you. Two teens, the same age - WOW!! with cars. Mine we 7 years apart, so I had one grown when the other started. I can tell you the worst day of my life, was when I saw my daughter drive away in the little truck my hubby had. It was a small Datsun and only held one other person. Felt reasonably safe she couldn't get to many in the cab . Also, she was a speeder. My son is a responsible driver - always was. His old truck he bought didn't even have a working speedometer, and still he was never speeding. Thank goodness they do grow up.

Hi Candice - hope you are doing ok.

I pulled the muscles in my back over a week ago. It felt really good on Sunday and Monday and then on Tuesday, it is like the rib thing in the front, but it is in my back. Still at the side, but instead of going into the front, it is coming around my back. Hurts like he**. I have to think this is a flare from my last week inflammed muscles. I just wish it would go away, because it hurts to breath. Yes, I am complaining and I am sorry, but gee whiz, it hurts.

Hope the rest of you are feeling good.

NOT...feeling good that is! Thanx for the congrats! The next 5 lessons are on writing java script...hmmm...might not do so good on that...it looks really hard. You know the little boxes that pop up when you go to a page and you have to click ok on them and sometimes a page has moved and it says you will be directed to the next page in so many seconds etc...well...that's done with "java script" codes...so are all the applets that run on pictures with effects like lakes, snow etc. Complicated stuff! I got one of those stupid things in the mail THREE times in one day that kept popping up and saying are you getting mad yet, etc...lasted so long I finally closed down my computer and started over with the last one! 2 of them were from the same person and I sent her a nasty email and told her if she sent me another one I was blocking mail from her. Hubby got one of those where he works and couldn't get out of it...nearly crashed his computer. I made one last night that popped up and said, "Don't forget to bookmark this page"...it wasn't too hard to make but I dread the really complicated ones.

Cookies...UGH! Had the kids over for dinner tonight...fried chicken of all things...and made those Pillsbury cookies that the dough is cut in the little squares and all you have to do is bake them...long story short...I ATE THREE!!! I'm not losing anything!!! I'm going to join WW in Cookeville next Tuesday...I've already decided.

Have to go Birthday Shopping for my granddaughter tomorrow...I can't believe she'll be FOUR already! Then tomorrow night I'll have to get groceries, along with eating out and going to the funeral home. A good friend of ours died yesterday. So sad but he was in so much pain...cancer. He'd been sick for about 6 years. Then Saturday I have a funeral and a BD party BOTH AT 2. I asked Daugher-in-law to move the BD party up to 3 but she won't...said her sister had to be back in Nashville for something...whatever!!! Guess we'll just have to be late...can't be helped.

Do any of the rest of you hurt really really bad in your neck, shoulders and upper back? Mine is absolutely killing me! And since all the rain, my LEFT hand is now hurting almost as bad as my right one. Both knees are swollen to the max and my right foot hurts so bad I can't stand it. BooHoo...crycry...complaincomplain! Sorry...have to let it out sometimes. Too much to do and don't feel like doing any of it. Wish I didn't have Jenna tomorrow. By the time I drag her all over Cookeville BD shopping, home for nap, back and get Ross at 3, home and get ready for the funeral home, back and eat, funeral home and groceries...I won't be able to do Saturday! WhineWhineWhine!!!


I'm losing this weight!!!
WW here I come!!!

I'm through now!

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I'm feeling better-Boy Happy-can I relate to you. Right now it's only my neck but I'm going to the Y to swim this am. Took an hour for me to figure out that my car battery was dead-not my remote starter-AAA came in 10 minutes so off I went. Fibro sucks and I think the change of seasons makes it worse.I slept lousy last night-kept waking up and when sleeping, I was having usual nutty dreams. My little friend is home from the hospital and they don't know what makes his cheeks swell. Gotta go get ready-Have fun everyone-Meme, Happy Ally Candice feel better. Mima

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Hello Everybody- We may finally get some cooler weather for this weekend.
Meme- I think you will like WW- I have been with them it seems like forever. I have not been able to get off these last few lbs. I want to lose though. I just stay the same no matter what.
Ally- Teen agers are really hard. Losing his driving for sixty days for speeding should tell him something. They have to get into their 20s sometimes before they wake up to the fact that they don't know everything. All the parents can do is try to protect them.
Happy are you sure you don't have a cracked rib? I sure hope you feel better soon.
Mima, Candice , Have a good weekend and I hope you are better soon.
Yesterday I went for my usual walk but was only able to do 2 miles. I think every bone I had hurt. I guess it is just the weather. It was real humid. Things should be better soon.
Bye for now...Joanne

Hi. I was just thinking that if any of us came in contact with Anthrax - would they just tell us it was FM. All those flu like symptoms, that is what we experience most days! Just thinking outload.

Well I spoke too soon for my arm the last 3 days it has been bad and my right one too. I have been trying to behave and not use it too much! I had to cancell two therapy sessons this week cause it was too windy for me to drive with my bad arms and it is a 45 minute drive on the interstate! They even had wind advisorie out! I will go again Monday. They lady who helps me to clean was here Tues. and I may have over did but it didn't seem like it at the time!!!!!!!!!! I am suppose to stay off the puter too!


It is too cold for me..I can't seem to get warm since I have no insulation!!


Meme...Congrat too! You are just so smart, wish you would share your brain with me!:lol:I am just sticking with my WW program and am determined not to have a break down and eat junk all the time or too much ar once. You just have to learn your limits and watch your portions and sweets....or carbs..just everything in moderation. I need to get back to exercising but PT won't let me do any upper body right now! Just had an english muffin and a hot cup of lemon tea! 2pts!!!!!!!!!!! I try not to eat out much either. If I am out I eat one of those shaker salads for McDonalds(ceasar chicken..yummm!)

Hi Ally, Happy, Joanne, and Mima...........Happy you are right about the FM and anthrax...they would never believe us!

Too much typing ..I gotta go!

Here is me and DH..........

Nice picture Candice...you two look like newlyweds.
FIBRO PAIN.....oh yeah. It has to be hitting us all cause it is the change of seasons. We may get snow this weekend. And it is PMS time for me so I am cold and feel like I broke my back...
Happy....yeah, we probably all have anthrax. The only thing I know is that I feel we have strong immunity as our systems fight so much to keep us healthy. I remember my Doc telling me to skip the Flu shot; that Fibro people don't get really sick all that often as their body is usually in a pre- sick mode.
Teens....OK, I got one kid from behind the wheel. And the other I just caught letting his girlfriend (bimbo plus) drive his car. I am Sooooooo mad at him, and his girlfriend laughed as I yelled at him in the parking lot of his job. This is scary....when your son all of a sudden thinks that his friends and girlfriend mean so much more to him than his family does. He was playing "cool" in front of me....
The good news is....I didn't gain any weight on vacation. I suspect I may even have lost a pound or two but those cookies and a few other miscellaneous treats didn't help. Meme, someone's kid I work with was selling boxes of those frozen cookie dough things and I baked them all and ate part of the batch that burned. No more.

That's odd...the Drs. all told me I SHOULD get my flu shot because I was "prone" to infections anyway. I guess it was because my blood count is always so low due to the gold shots, though, come to think of it. I have no resistance to infections.

I am really disappointed...I wanted to start WW on Tuesday but they meet at 10:45 and my mom has a dentist app. at 10 so I'm not going to get to go. Seems something like that always happens to me. I can't tell her to change it because she has had it scheduled for 6 months and also I don't want her to know I'm trying to lose weight. She always trys her best to get me to eat if she knows I'm on a diet (also, she tells everyone she knows that I'm on YET ANOTHER diet! I checked WW out on the net and I can join via the internet and have access to all kinds of neat stuff. I've talked it over with hubby and about decided to do it that way since it is going to be such a hassle for me to go to meetings...plus it is about 15 miles from here, too. He said he'd try to do it with me if I can figure out how many points he should be eating. Do any of you that are on it have a chart or something? He's 56, 6'4" tall and weighs about 245. And how about me (if you have a points chart). I'm 54, 5'9" tall and weighed 192 this morning!!! :eek: I need to lose about 50 pounds...maybe a little more! I don't even like to think about it!!!

Not only did a good friend of ours die Wednesday but I just found out today that my Uncle in Michigan had a massive heart attack and fell in the shower and broke his hip sometime yesterday. He lives alone and a friend found him this morning. He is now on life support. Then I found out I have an Aunt in NC who is in the hospital and my Dad's brother (also in NC) fell and broke his hip AND his kidney's are failing so they couldn't do surgery right away! Talk about when it rains!!!

About the FM and anthrax...the symptoms of FM are so similar to the flu I never know I'm getting Flu until my temp goes up over 100 and/or I start throwing up or something. I was coming down with one of the worse cases of flu I'd ever had PLUS strep the day my son got married and didn't know that's what it was until the next morning when I woke up and couldn't swallow and took my temp and it was 103. A friend of mine Who I hadn't talked with in several years called me a couple of weeks ago and said she'd been diagnosed with FM and wanted me to tell her about it. I described it as best I could (there are sooooo many symptoms) and she said well...how do YOU feel when you first wake up in the morning...I said most of the time like a Mac Truck had run over me but sometimes, if I was lucky, it just felt like I was coming down with the flu!


Here you go Candice..you can have it all...and it is barely used!!! :lol:

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You guys are so funny!I will try to find your pts Meme !I have been doing pretty good because I have nothing in the house more than 2 pts-snacks that is -unless I eat it all which I feel like I'm going to do with the low fat tortilla chips. But I did swim and walk yesterday. To me that is the secret-Can you swim Candice? I mean do you have a place to swim. ?Ok Meme-here's my list for sick relatives and friends updated daily. Yesterday my brother was diagnosed with hepatitis-don't know details yet . And it is being attibuted to his love of beer. I told my sister-in-law it may be a blessing in disguise as he can't drink. But I sur hope he gets better. He is such a great guy.Then there's my best friend but maybe her pulmonary disease is related to her sleep apnea-then my little friend who just got out of the hospital. Enough already!!!Because of the world situation, I feel that this is affecting me more than usual.I think I'll go to the Halloween Dance tonight. I have a mask from New Orleans and some beads.We have 3 raccoons in our dumpster.They cut a lot of trees down so they may have been displaced. have a great day everyone and feel better all. Mima

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Meme- Occording to my W/W material your husband should be eating between 26-31 pts and you should be eating between 22 and 27 pts. You can add 1pt for every 20 min. of exercise to that. I try not to use those points. Try to stay mid-range or lower. Never below your range.
Hope everyone feels better soon.
Have a good weekend...Joanne:wave:

Meme....You are tall, you can handle some extra weight. I don't know where I saw it but it was a weight chart for women over 40. It gives us 15-20 pounds over what we were supposed to weigh when we were youngsters. I am thinking that 150 is THIN for me anymore, although I was 130 for years.
I would have to starve for a year to weigh 130.
Good luck on your diet.
Mima...sorry to hear about all the ailments in your world.
It was hailing here today....have gotten wet everytime I walk outside.

Ally...the WW charts say I need to weigh between 135 and 169. But I have very small bones so I would probably need to be on the low end of that. I weighed 135 when I got married but I'm thinking about 140 or 145 now. Just have to do it one day at a time I guess...can't think about the whole thing at once or I'll just give up on myself. One problem is going to be that I can't exercise. I can't even walk because of my knees. I'm going to try doing the Oxycise some but I'll have to be careful and not hurt my ribs. I HATE THIS STUFF...it really limits what I can and can't do. I think my son and my daughter both have it, too. I feel so bad for them. (Almost guilty...even though I know it isn't my fault! Does that make sense?) At my granddaughter's BD party today I saw my daughter bending her head to the side like her neck hurt and flexing her arms, then later she was massaging my son's neck and shoulders...and they are only in their 30s. My daughter went to a new Dr. last week and I can't believe what he said to her. She told him I had FM and she thought she might have it, too, and he told her that he (with emphasis) WOULD NOT diagnose her with FM because once he did she MAY AS WELL GIVE UP! Can you believe that. He said FM was a sleep disorder and there wasn't anything that could be done for it. I thought that was soooo strange!!!

I have a migraine...need to go to bed.

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Good morning from the dancing Mima. I had fun last night-had a couple of drinks-asked men to dance-a couple asked me including a nice gentleman-who was with someone else-but was a wonderful dancer. And the women too-we do group dances especially to Shania Twains I Feel Like a Woman.It sure took my mind off of everyone. It looks like my brother's prognosis is pretty good-especially if he doesn't have hepatitis.Meme-your daughter's doc doesn't sound informed. As for exercise-is there somewhere you could do the arthritis in the water program. Do you have a YMCA or YWCA near you.?Just don't overdo it.Well-I only had 6 hrs sleep-doesn't matter when I go to bed ,I always wake up early. But I went to Mass yesterday.Have a great day everyone. Mima

Yeah...I know...that's why it wasn't used much...didn't work all that well for me, either!

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Good Monday! My body needs to adjust to the new times-I had a hard time staying awake last night but then I woke up at the old time!!!Had a boring Sunday but I read a whole book and made some kind of concotion with ground turkey, vegetables,and whole wheat pasta.I'm feeling funny not working but that won't last forever. Gotta enjoy it while I can. Have a great day everyone. Mima

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My body says it is time to get up on the old time. I guess that is o.k. I will try to get more done. My days are pretty much the same most days anyhow.
Hello to all my friends.. Joanne

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Well, at last all the pain has gone out of my back. I think it is what I figured. By doing those little simple exercies I inflamed the muscles in the lower right hand side of my back. That brought on an acute pain, which then triggered the FM and that went on for a good week - pain from the waist up to the shoulders on the right side and it hurt like he** to breath or do much of anything else. Like I told my hubby, if I go to the Dr., by the time he does xrays or other test, by the time the results come back, the pain will be gone. It is just a fact of life with FM.

I am off to Edmonton (2 hr dr.) My SIL's mother passed away and the funeral is tomorrow. I find it hard to sit for a 4 hr drive plus all the sitting I do up there, so I split it into 2 days.

Hope you all have a good afternoon and evening.

Anne

Hey guys. Mima...you dancin fool. I envy you. I have never ever had a man in my life who liked to dance. I would always have to go to the dance floor with the girls and then we would have to shuffle off when they played the slow dances.
When I dance in front of my kids they tell me I look like a geek so that is how I see myself now.
Meme......hope you can make it to the weight you want. I am still so happy that I didn't gain on vacation that I consider that a triumph. Next I will try for another 5 pounds, but that is as fast as I can move.
Happy.....I keep forgetting to check out that fibro site you directed me to. I will get there.
Joanne......my days all blend in together too. I have a man friend going thru a divorce and he is soooooooooo lonely. Brought his kids over to my house to watch football yesterday. I think this could turn into something else but I do NOT want to raise someone else's kids. And they are young ones. He wants to know how I keep from getting lonely. I live with teenagers. That is how.
Peace and quiet. That sounds nice.