This is a website I help administrate. It is a graphic website and we do some PSP and have a few graphics which we change regularly. If you like something feel free to take it and if you want your name on something to use as a siggy, please just leave a message and that person will do it for you.

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We are a bunch of women with Fibromyalgia and other chronic pain problems such as RA, OA etc. It is a closed board, but that is because we were running into problems from a gal from another site coming in and harassing some of the members.

Hey There
 

Stirfried- No user name.. Just me.. No the neck is not much better. I am sure it is oa. I can't take any of the meds for it. Over the years I have run the gamat of all of them. They ruined my stomach. . I can't get the hang of the graphics either.My daughter put a special thing on my computer and I haven't learned to use it yet.I enjoy seeing what all you girls are learning..
Happy- we are having a good time together.( my daughter) We ate out 2 times today. We came home and got on the treadmil for an hour in between meals. Maybe that will help.
You girls are sure yappy.. I was here this am and I think there were 2 pages.Now 4.
Hello everybody..
Tomorrow the beach if it doesn't rain...Bye for now...Joanne

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This explains my absence from the group for the last few days. We have had Vacation Bible School at our church and we had our 6 y/o grandson here since Monday afternoon. I really enjoyed him, but needless to say he had lots more energy than I did. I had touble keeping up. I pushed myself all week so now that it's over and he's gone I feel like just collapsing in the recliner for the rest of the week.

Well, I had never heard the expression "snaggables" but I sure had fun searching for them. Now I'm going to see if it worked. One question ? What do you do if the graphic you snagged was a bitmap and you need it to be gif? is that easy to change, or impossible? or is that more than one question?

Hope everyone has a great day. It worked!!!

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Ageoldie
The great thing about looking after Grandchildren is that you can give them back....You sound as if youre a very busy lady so treat yourself and curl up and relax today. Get yourself a good book and a cuppa and find that spot in the garden that nobody else will disturb you in and take stock. Does us the world of good. Recharges the batteries for next time the kiddiwinkies come calling.

Joanne

Hi, I too have arthritis in my neck so I know what youre going through. Trouble is the more you try to relax it the more you tense. I have a collar they gave me at physio that helps a bit, kind of takes away that feeling of you dont know where to put your head. I also get pains in the base of my head do you? Theyre awful. Everytime you think one bit of your body is clearing up the pain pops up elsewhere, drives you crazy as well as miserable.
I do hope you feel better as its nice too feel good if you have company and places to go. Enjoy the beach and try to relax. :sunny:

Anne and Laura

You two are becoming quite the double act on here and are fun to watch in your posts. I do hope you manage to master the graphics Laura as it ca be fun finding them. Anyway you pair as you both asked the same questions here goes. Its my youngest Son getting married in NJ on 3rd July. Only 3 weeks away. My eldest Son is married to a girl in CT which is how I get to fly out to the States so often. My youngest Son Graduated from Uni May 2003 and now plays basketball professionally. Hes hoping to play in Europe this coming season. Last year he played in Finland.

Charlie

Where are you? We have missed you and its only been 1 day. I do hope youre not feeling so bad you cant come on your PC. If you are poorly I wish you well asap. If its cos you are busy then thats good too as youre getting done all the things that you needed to do and you will be less stressed I hope. :lol:

Rita and anybody I have missed

Lovely that you popped in, do hope that you are having pain free days and will fill us in on all your news soon.

ME!!!

Well I am same as usual......nutty as a fruitcake.....achey as anything but I see the Rheumy on Tuesday......I see my consultant this afternoon re my surgery on my face and I think he will probably discharge me. Can you believe its six weeks since I was in hospital? I cant. Anyway girls have a nice day! :coffee: http://img70.photobucket.com/albums/...0Pics/dd61.gif

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Anne,
Hi I am going to go to that site as soon as I have more time. Today I have my brothers here in town.
Charlotte,pam Joanne D,Anne, and evryone else,
I really want to thank you all for your help,As I was telling anne I can't start it today. I am thinking when I go visit my daughter Jenny, her fiance know a lot about computers,so when I get there either tomorrow or next tuesday we can try it then. I might not be able to post for a few days,I will let you know. UNtil then I hope your days are good ones and that you have no pain

so take care of eachother through posting.It helps me a lot to come in here and chit chat with you girls.

starting weight 5/15/04
196
today weight
187
goal
135-140

Bye Laura

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Wheres everybody gone??????http://img70.photobucket.com/albums/.../awwshucks.gif

I hope I haven't bored you all.....youre not all sick? :nono: I know youre all down the beach, on vacation, having a lovely time while I am sitting here talking to a computer that is constantly giving me grief. Well I hope youre all pain free and having a wonderful time. :sunny:
Well I am gonna share my news with you anyway...sometime you will read it. The consultant has said my face is clearing up beautifully, I can start using makeup again, not that I use alot anyway, only really when I go out and thats not too often. Best of all I dont need to see him for 6 months. Great news eh? Anyway wanted to say thankyou for being there for me when I needed to chat about things prior and post my surgery.http://img70.photobucket.com/albums/...thnkuhrtd2.gif Have a great start to the weekend and catch you all soon....Byeeeeeee

I sure be gone
 

Hello everyone, I should be gone by now. I was supposed to be visiting my daughter Jenny. Wow! Guess What? As I sit here writing to you guys, My cousin just came over and told me she would lend me the money to visit Jenny. That was one of the problems I was having. I had the money, but then my oldest daughter sarah needed to borrow $120.00 She was suppose to pay me back ,but as usual things with Sarah do not always turn out like she wants them to. So I wasn't sure was I was going to do. But Thabk God for my cousin Tina she said she would loan me 50.00$ and my son is giving 30.00. I get to go again YEAH ME !!! I only get a disbility check every month under $600.00 and that I live on, which is pretty nice, since I can't work and I am not married anymore. I live with my aunt who is only 9 years older than me and she is disabled to and get disability also so we are lucky because we spilt everything like rent electric ect. So Not always a lot of money, but we get along fine with what we have. So loaning Sarah money and her unable to pay it back can hurt me finacialy, Sarah always manages to pay me back not all at once but she does get it back to me. It was just that I really needed it this month.

Pam so your son is getting married? Are you excited? I can hardly wait for my daughters wedding in sept. She bought the most beatiful wedding dress for herself,she looks so beautiful in it.

Anne I did go to that site the one for parenting. I am waiting for them to email me. I hope I filled out the form correctly. I did not understand what some of it meant. Well I will wait and see what happens..


charlotte, I think your graphics are nice also. I am like Joanne I love to look at them. How are you feeling?

Joanne D. Is your neck getting any better? How come you do not take a normal pain pill not just the antiimfamitory, but a real pain pill? Thats what I have to do, on top of all the R.A. meds my rheummy gives me. The Doc is trying to cut me back down off of them. I was taking 9 pills a day of methadone. Its a lot. I have been on it gor over a year, so as my pain gets better we lesson the dose, now I am down to 8 methadone a day.
I hope I can learn how to do the graphics they look so neat and some are so beautiful.


Well I guess that all for now. I am so Happy I get to go..Yea ! Yea! Good for me!!

Heres hoping you all have a nice day and let it be pain free...

Laura

oldolodie
 

Hello My name is Laura . My iser name is stirfried. I just thought I would introduce myself. Take care of you

Laura

oldolodie
 

Hello My name is Laura . My username is stirfried. I just thought I would introduce myself. Take care of you

Laura

Pam, since I am the new kid on the block, do you mind my asking what kind of surgery you had on your face, and why?

Good Afternoon Ladies.


My son and his girlfriend came yesterday. They just got engaged and wanted to show us the ring. It is beautiful. I think they should be really happy together. They will get married 16 October. Just want a small wedding with immediate family and their friends. They are going to go to Cancun for their honeymoon.

They have now started on their way back home.

Laura - have a nice visit with your daughter. That was nice that your cousin loaned you the money so you could go. Now enjoy it.

Pam - good news from the Dr. I am like ageoldie and don't know what you had done to your face. So your son is getting married. That is nice. How many kids do you have? Do some live in England?

Angel - haven't heard from you for a couple of days, so hoping you are doing ok, and are just busy with the house.

Joanne - busy with your daughter as well! I know you will be having a good time, just hope the neck has settled down some for you.

Hope you are all enjoying the weekend.

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Ageoldie

Nice to see you back.In answering your question I had three skin cancers removed, 2 from the side of my nose and one from just above my lip. They had to rebuild the side of my nose which was done by taking skin grafts and cartilage from my left ear. Then they cut open my lip and above and took a "slice" from there but its healing beautifully and looks nowhere near as bad as I had imagined. Its six weeks since I had the surgery and I was so scared at the time and I have a real fear of hospitals so went through a pretty grotty time but they were all so nice and now its over I hope. They say my skin for some reason is very sun sensitive and its very possible I could have more. I have to go straight back if I have anything else suspect that wont heal. Thats it. Hope I have explained it all ok and answered your question. :)

Anne

In answer to your question Anne I have 4 children, two in the UK and two in the States. I have two grandchildren , a grandaughter of 13 over here and a grandson of 10 months over there. I also have three step daughters of which the eldest daughter has three boys. Strange but true I see more of the two sons in over there than I do any of the others put together. My eldest son who lives in CT comes over with work about once a month and therefore I see him then.

Laura

Hope you enjoy your trip, its lovely to spend time with your family. We have all fallen on rough times at some point in our lives I am sure I know I have, so we know how hard it is financially getting by which makes it more special when youre able to acheive things you like to do but cant always manage it.
I spent 10 years on my own between marriages with 4 children but we coped and to be honest they wouldnt be where they are now if we hadnt had that time in learning to survive. They are all now very successful adults who have very good lives and I am so proud of them.

Charlie

Where are You? We have really missed you! Hope youre ok ....... :angel:

Well I am still aching EVERYWHERE, two more days til I see my Rheumy and I cant wait. Hes got to give me something as I will never be able to sit on that plane for seven hours in two weeks time on Wednesday. Ooooooooooh Its getting very close now. I am getting excited. Right I am going for another cuppa to set me straight for the day....... :coffee: TTFN! [/COLOR]

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Hey There
 

Well, here we are on a monday..We had a good rain last night and they say we will get more today. My daughter was here last week for a few days so yesterday was catch up. I am still at it..My neck is still hurting .At times it feels better and at other times I don't know what to do with it. I do take a pain pill at night. If nothing else ,it helps me sleep some. My son moved to one of his houses. Just not having his dog to clean after is a help. My hubby doesn't understand ,but that is too bad. The dog is old and is 100 lbs. The son has to carry him up and down the stairs 4 times a day to go potty. He won't go up or down on his own steam. He has arthritis . I told him to fix a place in the garage and leave him there during the day. His problem!I bet by next weekend he will resolve the problem.
We went out in the boat for part of the day sat. It was really hot. We caught a few fish but threw them back.I didn't want to clean them.Yes ,I do that too.
Well ,I just wanted to let you guys know I am still around. Got lots to do so will check in later...Joanne

So Sorry I've been away so long!

It's been 96 degrees & higher here & we have no air conditioning because of the roof being put on. PC is in the room I'm cooking in....hottest room in the house. Can't stand to stay in here to read & post....so have been reading. DH says it wouldn't do any good...but, I beg to differ with him! :o Well, that changed yesterday, when a large rain came before we got home from church. We knew it was suppose to set in raining, but thought it was late in the night. To our surprise we came home to a drowned house! :( See....everyone was going to get together yesterday and put the top wood (whatever it's called) on...but, didn't make it in time. Now, we've got a big mess! Clothes, food, etc, got all wet!! Floors were all soaked. Not floorcovering down yet, but, have to keep baskets of clothes, etc on floor.

So, since it's suppose to rain all week...we've got our hands full.

We also have our son living with us & his week to have his 2 little girls & my daughter from South Al is here this week working close by & staying with us & brought her little girl. I love them all.....BUT!!! :^:

I'll be back soon as I can.

Gosh, you guys have been busy!

Life has been so hectic lately, thank gosh school is going to be done soon and I can regain some of my sanity!

Feeling okay. Not great. But okay, and that's sometimes as good as it gets. We've just decided to go to Disney next year so I need to kick this weight loss into high gear so I can enjoy myself and not need a wheelchair. :mad:

Anyway, here's a lovely photo of my daughter's prom this past Friday.

Ok, won't let me add the link to the image. Need to keep posting....