Goodness...that last thread was getting long! You guys have been posting A LOT! It's hard to keep up...and now that I've started a new thread and can't see what was on the old one...I can't remember what everybody has said.

I haven't been sleeping too good lately and can't remember what my name is half the time anyway. Didn't go to sleep until after 3 this morning and then my mom called at 7 and said she was dizzy so I had to get up and take her to the Urgent Care Clinic in Cookeville. She has fluid built up in her inner ear. By the time I did that, got her meds. and got her something to eat I didn't get back home until 12:30. Then had to wash clothes and go back up there and sit while she took a bath, etc. It has been an exhausting day and I feel like I've been running around in circles and didn't get anything done. Saturday is my only day to clean, etc. and now it is gone for another whole week! I'm so depressed. Seems like I never have enough time to do everything that needs to get done! OK...I'm through whining!

What the heck is that stuff that starts with a Q or a G or whatever that you all were talking about? Never heard of it and could someone PLEASE spell it correctly so I can figure out exactly what it is???

Hubby was going to take me to dinner and a movie last night but I was hurting so bad and so exhausted when he got home I didn't feel like going so he went to Cookeville and got us a movie and a pizza. We watched "Family Man" with Nicholas Cage. If you haven't seen it you should! It was really good.

Gotta go hang up some clothes...hope you all have a great weekend.

(Candice...that pic. looked like me watching the clothes today...she looked like she was spaced out on drugs and that's about how I feel!)

Ally. Here is the site for Guaif.

http://www.guaidoc.com/index.html

Have fun reading.

Mima - I don't think you are supposed to be taking the cough syrup, like Robitussen. I read something, somewhere that it is dangerous to do this. You need to prescription from the Dr. There is other stuff in cough syrup.

Meme - confused ? Is that because you were watching Candices' washer go round and round

Candice - only 1 more pound to go - good work!

Hi Tootie and Joanne. Hope your all having a great weekend.

Anne

Has anybody actually USED any of that stuff for any period of time???????

Thanks Anne for the tip about.guaf............I used to be a top speller til I taught 4th grade.I'd rather try the Spectra 12 but right now I have to take my osteoporosis med for 2 weeks.Don't know the side effects.Meme-I used to take care of my mom and I had small children at home . Lot of work.I did finally delegate to my brothers but she liked how I did things best.Only got 5 1/2 hours sleep but I danced a lot-mostly fast dances.We have such a nice group that goes. Good day everyone!!!!Mima

Yes Happy Anne...that is the book I just read.
And I don't know if I could ever get my Doc to buy into trying it. I just got changed to a new Doc and she doesn't even know me yet.
But the stuff about hypoglycemia hit home. I forget that things that are good for you may also have a high gycemic component. I was really eating a lot of fruit and even snuck some potatoes back in as they have a good fiber count.
Live and Learn.
Meme.......did you say you gave up the 5-HTP? I am tapering off and got my migraine headaches back...also lots of hip pain in the nite. That's why I want to try something new.
Lethargic weekend for me and I don't have your excuse Meme. Just too hot to do anything....

Hot and muggy here.I want to walk but don'tI am going to weigh in tonight-hope I'm not know if it's a good idea-my stomache hasn't been right. Like IBS stuff which I haven't had in a long time. Perhaps because I'm thinking of going to work part time.I am working on a beautiful cross stitch and I'll show a picture when I'm done-daughter has my digital camera-and my sewing machine-and my good tablecloth!!!!! I am going to weigh in tonight-home I'm not surprised-I don't want to pay.Don't have too much to say today-Have a good day everyone. Mima

Memetoo- I can relate to your taking care of your mother. At one time we had my husbands mother in a local nursing home, That should have been easy but they could not do anything with her so as I worked there it was up to me a lot. She was very difficult and always had been. Now my mother was also a difficult person who lived 2 miles away. My sister and I shared but it was still hard and on the other end of the scale was my sisterinlaw with terminal cancer to take care of. No wonder I had health problems... But I think God has a plan to work everything out in his own time..
Mima- Hope the weigh in was good for you.. I had to pay a lousy 9 dollers for half pound this week.
Ally don't you just hate changing doctors? They all have a different idea for what is best for you.
Happy Canuk- Thank You ,I did have a pretty quiet weekend. I got to talk to my brother when he called from Arizona to see how Barry treated us. One day of light rain is all we got. We need more.I seldon hear his voice since e-mail. I think I will call him back and say this is my doller ,lets talk.
Hello Tootie, Candicej ,How was your weekend? Great I hope.
Bye for now,you all take good care of yourselves...Joanne

I posted a big long message yesterday and my computer locked up so I just turned it off and took a nap!!! Then I just got through typing some stuff and accidentally hit the Escape button with a bag of chips and lost all that! It wasn't meant for me to communicate with you all I guess!

It's nice to know that other people have problems with their parents, too. My mom is driving me nuts. Yesterday she was over here about 8:30 and stayed until lunch. It would take several pages to tell you all the garbage she layed on me then. Then again this morning she came over and stayed until one of the kids threw water on her from their little wading pool on the deck....she went home after that (I swear I didn't put them up to it!)

Speaking of the kids, I have good news. Starting next Monday I was supposed to have to take Ross to Kindergarten every single day at 10:45 and go back and get him at least 3 days a week at 3....this is for a whole school year (he's going to a private school in Cookeville, about 8 miles away). Well...I talked to my daughter and told her it was going to be really hard for me to do that and take care of Jenna too (2 yr. old) with Mom the way she is! So she got him enrolled in "Stay-and-Play" at the same private school. Now they can take him at 8 on their way to work and I won't have him until 3. I feel like a huge weight has been rolled off me! Of course, if he starts misbehaving and getting into trouble like he did at the preschool (which I think was a made up crock!) He will still have to stay with me for 1/2 a day. I hope it all works out! I could use a little good luck!!!

Ally...no I didn't completely stop taking the 5 HTP. I stopped for about a month and gained 10 more pounds and started feeling a lot worse so I've started back taking it now. Are you still taking it?

Have any of you actually taken any of that other stuff???

It is nice here today, we stayed out on the deck for over 2 hrs. and it is usually so hot out there you can't stand it for that long. (Of course, I set up a fan on the patio table! Creature of comfort that I am!!!) Do any of you have "Dirt-Daubers"? They are in the wasp or hornet family and build nests out of mud in long rows on anything wood. Well...we have a log house and have those things around all the time. We try to keep the nests torn down as they build them but it has been so hot here (upper 90s) the last couple of weeks that we haven't been out much. They had built 5 HUGE nests and about 4 or 5 smaller ones out on my front porch. I went out Sunday to sweep and decided I was going to tear them all down. I took the broom handle and started chipping away at the dried mud and all these SPIDERS started falling out. They were everywhere and they WEREN'T DEAD!!!!!!! They were just laying all over my front porch barly moving their legs. A few tried to crawl off but couldn't. I swept them all off the porch (talk about smelling bad!) There must have been 50 or more of them. I told hubby about it and he said they couldn't have been spiders, must just be what they looked like when they first hatched out. I wasn't convinced. So I got on the net Sun. night and looked it up. Wish I hadn't asked. They paralyze spiders and carry them and stuff them up in their nests. Then they lay their eggs on the addled spider so when they hatch the young ones will have something to eat! And GET THIS! Their favorite kinds of spiders are BLACK WIDOWS AND BROWN RECLUSE!!!!!!! I figured I'd have nightmares Sun. night! To think of all those spiders wiggling all around my feet out there. They were flying everywhere as I was knocking them down! UGH!!!

Well...now that I've sufficiently grossed you out...I'll go put the kiddies to bed and take my nap! (Needless to say, I made hubby spray bug poison all over the front porch, under the porch, all around the porch and even all around the whole house and back deck!!!!!!! My scalp is crawling even now!

Meme - I would have run so far away, so fast! If there is one thing I can't stand, it is spiders, and that one crawling on your post is almost to much for me. Don't those things sting, like hornets or wasps - if so, what where you thinking

I found the 5HTP upset my stomach - just another thing to add to my list. Have not tried the Guaif? as you really have to be careful what you eat with it, as per the website I posted.

Joanne - Nice you could talk to your brother. I agree, that the e-mail has taken over voice mail and I really prefer the telephone. I LOVE to talk in case you hadn't noticed

Candice - What are you up to and do you have your arm back to normal yet? Did the last shot help you?

Mima - stressed out a bit with the thought of everything? That is probably what is causing all this. Try deep breathing or meditation and see if that helps.

Ally - Hi and Tootie - Hi.

Hope everyone is keeping well and doing well on their diets. I lost a couple more pounds but it is tough sledding. Anyway, I will keep trying.

Have a good day ladies.

Anne

Memetoo- Do you have any idea how sick you would have been if one of those spiders had bit you?? Both are equally poison. The one bad phobia I have is spiders. I can not even look at a picture of one . If something about them comes on the T.V I am out of the room. A VERY LARGE brown one jumped on me when I was a child. and I have never got over it. As children do in the summer back in the late 30's I was playing with out a shirt on. I tried to kill it on the wall with a broom. It jumped on my chest and clung . Of course you didn't tell your kids to wet your mom!!Did you think it?
Happy Canuk- I love to talk too.. I can't wait for my sister to get back down from N.Y. She is a talker too. I get really lonely sometimes.
Hello Candicej- Tootie- Mema
You all have a great night...Joanne

Meme.need your help again! Do you know of a good easy program to do mailing labes. The one I had was on the old computer and never could figure it out (my son did it since it was his old computer). We tried copying the list to a disk and transfering it to the new computer but it shows up overlaping the names and addresses. I was just gonna print them out and it wouldn't work! Remember I need something easy! I hate spiders would you please delete that one!

Happy..my arm is not better and I am upset about it! I don't think my doc knows what he is doing. I go back Wed and he will decide what we do now, he suggested that surgery but I don't think so! I might just have to immobilize it for awhile. He also told me to use heat on it and the net says ice. Maybe I sould try physical Thearapy if he will order it. Just hate to drive all that way!

I did some cleaning yesterday, but everything hurts my arm!


HI Toots, Mima, Ally and Joanne

I hate it when the puter freezes up! If it does it twice I just shut down too! That is why I haven't been posting much lately!!!!!! Gotta go take a bath and wash my hair, was out watering today and Meme If I were there I would have thrown water on your mom too!

#1. I'm terrified of spiders, too but I don't think there were any black widows or brown recluse in the nests...didn't look like any, anyway...can't be sure though.

#2. I had no idea that was what was in there until AFTER I smashed them!!!!!!!

#3. Dirt Daubers will not sting you unless absolutely FORCED to by you smashing them with your hand or something.

#4. All I was THINKING was that I wanted those nasty things off my porch. That is where I sit in my swing and where the kids swings are, too. I just spent nearly $500 putting rails and a gate on my 50 foot front porch last spring and wanted to be able to go out there...the baby was afraid of them.

Candice...I use "My Advanced Label Designer" by "My Software". It is a no brainer. You can get one at:
http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_g...9eaa79215161d4
for $29.76

I posted in the wrongplace yesterday-didn't mean to start a new thread-let's ignore it-Another suggestion-don't walk to the pool and swim and walk home. It defeats the purpose of going to the pool.Tis quite hot here-going to an airconditioned restaurant to meet my niece who lives near Syracuse NY.I take DEsyrel-Trazedone-50 mg. of antidepressant and it works well.Been on it for years. I sleep 7 hrs. straight. Not sleeping aggravates fibro. When I first got it I was awake every hour. Now I only wake up if I have to go to thebathroom. Did the Tai Chi video yesterday-very relaxing but not the right tape.But good on the breathing.In the fall-I'll find a good class-right now exercising is not at the top of my list-just staying cool.I'm sure everyone feels that way.Have a great day everyone.P.s I miss my best friend-she is on vacation and I haven't talked to her for three weeks. Mima

Well Meme, at least you got those things away! Yuk - that spider graphic you put up almost did me in Sorry to hear you are having trouble with your Mom again. I also hope that the arrangement for Ross works out well for both him and for you.

Candice - sorry to hear your arm is not getting better. That is a real bummer. Do you have it in a sling?

Mima - Our weather here has been fantastic - fluctuating between 75 - 85 degrees. A couple of times it has crept to the 90's. The most perfect day is at 75 degrees. It is warm, but not stinking hot, and you can actually sit outside and enjoy it. Hope your friend comes back soon.

Joanne - That will be nice when your sister comes for a visit. I don't have any sisters, just two brothers, but my sisters-in-law are great. I am closer to three friends I grew up with. They are all like sisters to me. Have known them since I was 5 and we talk and see each other quite often. One of them I see less of, as she lives in Chicago, and I only get to see her when she comes back home. We do e-mail however.

Ally and Tootie - Hi. Hope you are doing ok.

I must go to the chiro. this morning. That will be 3 weeks without any treatment, but I think it might need one today. We will see. Then, I have to go shopping and to the bank, so will be a busy day.

Everyone have a great day.

Anne

Well........I had my 3rd shot today..and if it is not better by Monday it is off tothe ortopedic doc!

Happy..no it is not in a sling, he told me to keep it ,moving but not to use the hand too much.

Meme..thaks for removing the spider, that was creepy. Glad you gaot all those little boogers off your porch.I do stuff like that all the time and DH tells me I'm nuts. Now I can say Meme does it too! Thanks for the program advice..you sure it is easy??????????

Need to rest this arm again, all I can do is walk these days, but at least I'm moving!

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