I see you are your usual busy self! Have fun at the concert.
Joanne - good work!!! Well, at last we are having rain today! We sure do need it and it is supposed to be rainy for the next couple of days. Good for the ground BAD for the arthritis, but I am not complaining.
Candice - Hope you are less sore now. Just take it really easy.
I had a really great BD. Went to dinner with friends and then we went to a concert ... heard Gold City Quartet. Have any of you ever heard of them? They are great! It was a really special night. My friend's eleven-year old daughter, Megan, sneaked off and found one of the men that sings in the quartet and asked him to sing a song for me because it was my birthday. Well, they didn't just mention that it was my BD and sing me a song. They waited until the very end of the concert and then said they had a special announcement to make. They said it was my birthday and they wanted to know where I was. I was so embarrassed. My husband and friends made me raise my hand (they tried to make me stand up but I wouldn't). They then SANG HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME as their last song! Not too many people can say they had Gold City sing happy birthday to them!!! My friends all said they wish they had it recorded, it was so pretty!
I had TWO florist trucks come here today. Both my kids sent me flowers. I took a picture for you to see! Then hubby comes home with me the most beautiful sterling silver necklace and earings to match. On top of all that, my friends are taking me to a fancy restaurant to eat tomorrow night ... we had to eat somewhere fast tonight because we had to be at the concert at 6:30. AND ... my mother-in-law baked me a coconut pie and sent it over here right before I left for the concert (my favorite pie) ... it was still warm from the oven!!! I had to sneak a small piece on my way out the door!
Hmm ... I wonder if my doctor has told everyone some bad news that he hasn't told me yet?
I just got back from the hematologist's. They did a blood count today. Hemoglobin was 10.1 and Hematicrit was 31.2. It was down a little from last time. He said he wants to see me every month and do a CBC because the hemoglobin could slip down to below 9 really fast and when that happens I would need a transfusion. He wants me to start taking a male hormone! He said he had given it to a lot of female patients with cancer and their meds had caused their bone marrow to stop producing red blood cells. He said even if the hormone would make my hemoglobin go up as much as a half a point it would give me a lot more energy. He wrote the script and told me to try it. He said I could start out taking one pill a day instead of two if I was afraid of it (which I am!). I asked him about side effects and he said he had given it to a lot of women and hadn't seen any yet. I told him I had to sing at a conference next month and I didn't need my voice lowered. That's when he suggested I start out with one pill a day. Or, he said I could just wait until after the conference to start them. I also asked about facial hair and he said he hadn't seen any problems with that either. I don't know what to do ... I'll look it up on the internet and see what I can find out. Lord ... I told him I don't want somebody elses blood, either!!! He just laughed at me! He's a funny little man!
Meme-Happy Birthday!!-my girlfriend took tetodterone and didn't have any side effects. If my sex drive goes away from the reduced hormones, Brad may make me take it, Ha!!Doing of on half the dose of prempro. Only had to work a half day so I can get caught up a little like putting didhes in the dishwasher. Brad is out so I had a nap. A Gaither weekend!!!!!Wow!!!Love those people. We saw them in FL and will see them again next year. Let me know how it was. Bye for now. Mima Going to buy some flox this weekend.
Bought plants Candice!!!Now it needs to stop raining and brrr it's cold. Fibro is ok and IBS has stopped. I read that people with IBS may have been abused as children-that's me-and may have panic disorders-that's me too-and food sensitivities-that's me. I wish I could get a handle on it because it usually happens when I go away. And continues when I get home. Meme is going to the concert next weekend. Goingt to breakfast, church, buying more plants, planting? Napping. Bye for now Mima Latest pic of Evan shows red hair.
Feeling a bit like Candice - tired from working outside in all this heat. Really working on cutting down the required work but it's work to do it. Advertised free hostas and daylillies and had someone here yesterday and again today digging them out. Had some big shrubs torn out - replaced one w/dward Alberta spruce, not sure what I'm going to do w/others. Goal - simplification and cutting down on work for dh (well and me too). But it takes work to do that.
Overeating a bit some days but not majorly. Dh's H&H still down, Meme. Disappointing. But he's had a couple of days when he's felt better - probably because it's so darn hot and he's been outside a lot.
Thinking of a lazy week - doubt if it will be one.
It's my turn to be sore from planting but it's done-also made 4 cemetery pots-not sure if I saved that much money but.....last year I waited and couldn't find any to my liking. so next weeken we will be running around to visit the cemeteries. Just 2 but they are miles away from each other-back to work later but I want to watch Dr Phil before I go because it's the award day for the weight loss challenge. IBS ok for now. Going to try to be good this week. I should try yoga breathing. All day long. Mima
Hello Everybody- Another weekend of not eating just right. Oh Well! We had a family picnic yesterday. Like my sister Eleni I am not fond of picnics mainly in the summer. If we had been closer to the water it might not have been so hot. But we needed to be close to play ground for the children.
I have had the worst pain in the neck for the past week. I must have done something to it. Like everything else it too will pass.
Stay well everybody...Joanne
Went to Nashville to the Rheumatologist today. He put a shot in my ankle, gave me a script for a medrol dose pak and told me not to take the male hormone and drop the hematologist (which I was planning to do anyway - I had decided on my own he's a quack!) He said if I felt I needed a hematologist he would find me one in Nashville but I told him I was fine with having my family doc check my blood count once a month ... what's the difference as long as it gets checked ... they just send it over to the hospital and it costs me the same! Two doctors down and four to go! (I fired the one in Nashville who was "keeping an eye on" my fibrocystic breast disease, too. I decided to just have my mammograms here and let my family doc take care of that!) As for the male hormone, I looked it up and the side effects are horrifying. He said it didn't make any sense for me to take it in the first place and the drug was bad news.
Mima ... wasn't it you who was reading The Purpose Driven Life? I bought it at LifeWay today ... the guy who checked me out said I needed to read it twice, he said it was better the second time through.
Yeah Meme-that's the book . we read it once and are going to listen to it again plus we have some cd's about the chapters. There is a computer in the lobby here!!!!Yeah. Joanne, hope your neck gets better. Worked today=going out to eat even though I will miss Idol. Bye for now. Mima
Where did you get the CDs ... what are they about?
I went back to the wound clinic today (about my ankle) and they are CLOSING it. They told me today was my LAST visit! Thanks for the warning. So NOW what am I supposed to do??? They told me to go see my family Dr. but he's already told me he doesn't mess with skin ulcers.
He said he had given it to a lot of female patients with cancer and their meds had caused their bone marrow to stop producing red blood cells. He said even if the hormone would make my hemoglobin go up as much as a half a point it would give me a lot more energy. He wrote the script and told me to try it. He said I could start out taking one pill a day instead of two if I was afraid of it (which I am!). I asked him about side effects and he said he had given it to a lot of women and hadn't seen any yet. I told him I had to sing at a conference next month and I didn't need my voice lowered. That's when he suggested I start out with one pill a day. Or, he said I could just wait until after the conference to start them. I also asked about facial hair and he said he hadn't seen any problems with that either. I don't know what to do ... I'll look it up on the internet and see what I can find out. Lord ... I told him I don't want somebody elses blood, either!!! He just laughed at me! He's a funny little man! 
