4 pages ... Time for a new thread.

I found the silver patches on the internet ... they are $179 for a box of 12. You don't need a prescription to get them so the insurance is not going to help with those! What a surprise!!!

If I can get my Dr. to get me some numbing gel, I'll just get me a scalpel and take care of this stupid thing myself and cut out the middle man!!! I can do just as good a job as they do and probably not hurt myself as much!

Yikes Meme, now you are becoming a surgeon. I guess you could do ok at it, as long as you watch for infection, which you have to do anyway. Are you still taking Collidal Silver? Is it helping?

Joanne, what did you do to your neck? Take a couple of tennis balls, put them in a sock, and then lay on them. Roll them up and down the neck and into the shoulders and see if that helps. Sometimes it is just enough to release the trigger point.

Mima - glad you found a computer around. That is great.

All you guys with rain, send some our way. No rain and it will be yet ANOTHER dry year. We desperatley need rain. Lots of wind, which doesn't help matters any.

Not much going on with me. Started on the Glycemic way of eating but then went to Edmonton for 3 days and there went that. It is very hard to be on a specific eating plan when visiting. Lots of eating out, eating junk, and just plain eating. Put all that with NO willpower and boy - you have ME

Oh Well! today is another day.

No, I stopped taking the silver when I found out it will turn your skin grey!

Meme- Be careful with buying medication on the net. I have heard a lot of not so good things about them. It is strange that the Dr.'s have gotten their noses so far in the sky that they are unable to treat " whatever " needs to be treated. My daughter has the same problem in North Fl. as well as my brother out in AZ. She has to drive 60 miles for treatment with a Dr. and he sometimes has to go 80 miles. I would be inclined to search the net for a treatment that you can do at home. Hope you get some help with this. I used to do wound care when I was working. It is amazing some of the things we used to do. Using home remedies.
Happy. Now that might work if I had some golf balls in this house. I have a vibrating mattress that I might could unfold and try. Heat helps sometimes..As I said ,this too will pass.. Praise God for Darvocet n 100..
We heed rain bad too. They say another 2 weeks before the rainy season..When I see it, I'll say we got it..
Hello everybody...Joanne

It poured here tonight!

What I'm buying from the internet isn't really medicine. I DID find something I can do at home, though. It is the silver patches that you put on the wound and it is even made by the same company that makes the ones the wound care clinic uses ... the exact same thing. Then on another site I found some lanicane to numb it with so that I can clean it myself with the scalpels I found on yet another site (OUCH). Maybe I should have been a doctor! (Sometimes I scare myself.)

Meme, you seem to have everything under control. Perhaps we need to change your name to DR. Meme Seriously, I don't know how you will be able to do this. I sure couldn't, but then, I am a big chicken.


Joanne - I hope your neck is feeling better today. If not, perhaps you need to go the Dr. and get some PTherapy in order. I don't think you go to the chiro., but if you do, perhaps a trip to see him will help you out.

Oh Candice, Ally and Anagram - where are you?

Right here, Happy. Popping in to lurk from time to time but hectic here as it seems always to be. Had a cyst removed from just above braline (for the sixth or seventh time over the years). Two shots of numbing stuff and this time it didn't work. My nervous system was on HIGH the rest of that day. But no stitches this time so little discomfort. Had a better day yesterday and take bandage off today. go back Tuesday.

And dh is being set up for colonoscopy which means conferring with most of his doctors. Looks like they're working it out he won't need to be hospitalized for it. But I'll have to be giving him shots of blood thinner in the tum-tum again.

Which all sounds like nothing compared with Meme's situation - and I do agree with Joanne about everything becoming a "specialty" in medicine anymore. I'm fortunate enough to live close to lots of specialists but know the inconvenience of having to travel a lot for treatment because my parents had to. Even when my Dad was very ill, he'd drive halfway and I'd drive up and bring him the rest of the way. Of course when he got that he couldn't even do that, someone in the family would drive up and bring him down for radiation and then someone else would drive him back home. Of course, he wouldn't let any of the people in his town who volunteered do it. It had to be "family".

Anyway, you're brave to try all that but then you're also the one suffering with the wound, Meme. And you know when to stop hurting you which someone else doesn't.

Been fairly good recently. And did 3 hours of yardwork yesterday - which is why I'm doing nothing so far today.

Have a great weekend, all.

Meme- I am a nurse and I would not have the nerve to take a scapel to myself..
Happy- Still the neck problem.. I may have to go to Dr. The weekend to make up my mind.
Mima.. Enjoy the weekend.. TOPS had a surprise for me . I made KOPS so they had a surpise for me with gifts. I was sorta stunned. It was really nice of them. Weight Watchers does nothing like that. We have a nice group at TOPS.
My monitor seems to have a hiccup. Picture squeezed down and up. I guess a new one is in the picture. Just happened yesterday. Always something to upset me. If by chance you see me gone it will be that. But ,I will be back..
Dental appt today. I always hate that.
Anagram.. It is strange how our parents wanted us to do for them in all things. I guess they don't want anyone else to know that they had to give up their independence. I am now going through a lot of explaining about most everything with my hubby. He seems to get confused a lot and finds a lot of things hard to understand. Otherwise he is pretty healthy. I guess it is just one more thing in life to deal with..
Have a great weekend everybody...Joanne

We made it ... had a good trip up. The hotel is old but really nice, big rooms and right on the creek, sounds wonderful. Wish ALL of you were here, too ... we'd have a ball ... all of us in Gatlinburg at the same time ... can you imagine it???

Gotta tell you something funny that happened with my friend. We were on the road and she called me and said, "You bad, bad girl." I said, "Me, I'm not bad, what did I do?" She said I had sent her some PORN. I said I DID NOT! She said I sent her a joke and at the bottom of it in fine print there was a link and when her husband clicked on it, it went to a page with viberators, dildos and girls 'doing it' to themselves! She was cracking up. She said she was in another room and he yelled that I had sent her an email and then in a minute as she walked in the room he said, "Oh, noooo maybe she DIDN'T send you an email. I doubt that this came from HER." She said, "Well, let me see it." Then she just stood there and laughed and laughed. THEN, she told me he started clicking on the thumbnails and looking at the pictures!!! I couldn't believe he did that ... I go to church with these people! I told her I didn't know that was there, I didn't click it & my daughter sent me the joke and I'm sure she didn't know it was on there, either. I also told her I was going to start calling Randy the Porn Peeper! Then I sent them an email and told them we were here and I wish they were, too, but I guess Randy would rather be home doing 'you know what'!!!

Meme- I wonder how much it cost Randy to watch /click on those porn pictures. I heard it was something like 4 bucks a min. I would brain my hubby if I caught him doing that. Then hand him the bill.
I have been to Gatlinburg a couple times . It is a fun place..Have a good time. Joanne

Oh Meme-you know I wish we were there-this will be great for you. I need something spiritual too. Work work work. And my daughter is coming over today to use the computer to write a paper and Brad;s son is coming sometime this weekend with his new girlfriend and her 3 unruly kids-I heard they were unruly through someone else-course being a teacher I have the evil eye-but I need to do something nice and that doesn't do it. Plus my hormones are still out of whack. Trying the stronger dose of prempro. Good news-I didn't get IBS this week-I did a breathing exercise all day long where I took a breath in while I pushed my stomache out-its yoga-and I was good. That;s a break-probably only have 3 more days of work-no more 3 weeks-won't do it again. Joanne, that's so great about your surprise. I haven't gone back to TOPS but they did call me and I lost the phone number to call her back. Bye for now. Mima

I couldn't get this site to come up for awhile!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Had a wave of fatigue hit me Saturday with a ton of pain too, so it is take it easy for a few days for me! Darn that Fibro..........


Mowed today and banged my head on the birdhouse hanging from a tree I went under...OUCH!

Been looking through my cookie and bar recipes and trying to decide what to make for my son who
is coming home for a week....a coconut wafer sounds good to me but then I do not want to eat a lot either! He likes chocolate chip but so do I .... Well I decided to make the coconut, yum but a of of work! Got a fruit salad made for him too, he just loves that and so do DH and I, Oh DS is here now..........

My tomatoes are in and have blooms but we are getting storms again tomorrow so I had to drag all my pots into the garage again, just can't keep doing this..my arms are really bad from the lifting. Also the dishwasher door is broken, the spring that lets it go down and it just falls now so you have to hang onto it and it hit may bad arm the other day and it's all kinds of colors!!!!!!!!! That door is very heavy too!!!!!!!!

Do any of you know about birds? We have a robin that builds a nest buy our back door every year and I found some eggs in the yard after the last storm and put them in her nest and she is sitting on 6 eggs now, do think they will hatch and how long does it take?

Meme, maybe I should send my son to come practice on you! He loved cutting on the cadavers!!!!!!!!!!

Joanne..not golf balls...tennis balls, gold balls hurt..I have tried it before!

Happy..I hate wind and everyone around us is getting the rain but we aren't, more storms today.......Hope I wake up if they are severe like they are saying!

Anna, you have been busy, you and meme getting cut on...ouch! I hear ya on the yard work, sometimes it just seems like too much for me!

It always takes me days to get over yard work too. But I love plants, Have to go to 2 cemeteries today. I have been getting hot flashes and getting so depressed/ I upped the hormones to .45 but I don't know if it's worth it to go off my regular dose. Doc says it's in the first 5 years that women have problems and I have been on them for 15. suppose it wasn't a good idea to do this when working because I get tired, We will see. I have felt so good on them for so long. Any advice? Mima

Hi ladies.

Candice - I hope you are feeling less fatigued today. Boy, I have had more than my share of this the past couple of months. Just wish it would go away. It is far worse than any pain. I hate walking around like a zombie. I get fatigue but when I lay down, I can't sleep. Makes me mad.

Hope you saved the cookies for your son I know you are the cookie monster.

Meme - glad you are having fun weekend and that the concert was good. Just enjoy yourself. It seems like a long time since that has happened. So, before you become a surgeon, I am glad you get a brake.

Mima - I'll bet you are tired. Those gals got you up and moving anyway:lol Hope the IBS stays away, as you usually get that flaring up when you are working. I guess you were having a busy weekend.

Anagram - you are busy as usual. Hope you are feeling better. Hope everything goes well with your hubby. That must be a constant worry for you.

Joanne - I hope you are feeling better. We finally got rain, a whole inch. Well, every little bit helps. It is so terribly dry. Hope and pray for more.

Well, aside from the fatigue and sore hands and feet, for whatever reason, I am not doing to badly. Didn't do much this weekend and that was find with me. It was not much fun walking with these sore places on the bottom of my feet.

Hope you all have a good evening.

Oh Happy, I hope you feel better soon. Last night, I woke up with night sweats-the first time since lowering the prempro dose-things are getting worse and I am on 3/4 of the dose, not one half . I did eat some soy cereal today to see if it will help. It also has a lot of fiber. It's going to be a beautiful day today. We are going to the parade-it lasts about 10 minutes. They have to wait for the high school band to come back from the other town. Only 3 days of work left. I am still tired. Bye for now Mima