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I guess I have been of the missing variety. I don't know where the time goes. The kids were here a couple of days, and then off to Mike's mothers up in Leesburg. Then they got an internet deal at Disney and are spending the last few days of the vacation there. Mike has needed that kind of relaxation. His boss came around.
Today i am doing very little as at 8:30a.m. I had my tooth pulled. So far, so good. I just have to follow instructions and there should be no problem. I never knew that you shouldn't drink with a straw when you have an extraction. I do now. I will try to get some photo's of the new paint job. I still have the guest bathroom to paint, and that color now is just too close to the hallway shade, so am going to paint a nice light peach in there. i just have to wait until the extraction is well healed, as I got all sorts of instructions to follow. no straw, no carbonated beverage, a lot of 'no's but only for a short time. I am so glad Sally that you are home and doing well. And Patches is so cute. I agree that you both have that windblown look. Glenda: I have been reading about all the flooding, and how unusual it is for your part of the world. It seems that there is feast or famine all over. Peggy: According to our weather report, you must be getting some much needed rain now. I'm still watering flowers, and also a plant for a neighbors, who are gone for a month. Maria: I'm happy that your new computer is working out well. You must be relieved that Peta has retired from netball. It was nice to hear that Matilda was happy about it too. Kids know. I like the idea of the double flush toilets. We should take a lesson from those, here in the states. Jenye: Congrats on more weight loss. Keep up the good work. Did you ever try out the Netives.com site for games. Karen: How are you surviving in this heat? I am glad that H. Dean missed us, but feel sorry for those folks in the Carribean. Did you hear the sonic boom when the shuttle came in? We missed it this time. I was so glad that they made re-entry without any problem. That hole was a bit of a worry, for sure, knowing what had happened before. Gloria: How is the heat and rain in your part of the world? And Norma: Thanks for keeping us posted on Sally. I hope all is well with you and your family. Bernice: Where are you? Have you found another house yet? Last week I picked up some sort of intestinal bug, and I was really sick for a couple of days. Even a temperature, and then it was pretty much over. Just kept that 'crampy' feeling a few days more. I hate those kind of bugs. I never throw up, just feel nauseous and head to the bathroom. No fun at all. All is well now. Time to change my gauze once again. Talk to you all later and I will work on pictures. Ann |
G'day all,
I can relate to what you are saying Ann, I have no idea where the time goes:dizzy: We have just come back from having a lovely lunch with some friends who live right on the beach. Lots of dolphins in the water, just a delight to sit on their balcony overlooking the sea on a glorious sunny afternoon. Best part was that we were able to walk home, no worries about drink driving. Good to hear that Mike was able to get away and have a bit of a vacation. I will be going to hospital in a few weeks to have my implants done, I will be glad when that is done and I can chew on both sides of my mouth. Are you having an implant Ann? If it is only one tooth it might not be necessary, I now have no bottom molars on one side of my mouth so implants are a must. We have heard about the flooding in Oklahoma, hard to believe how bad it is. Hope you are keeping dry Glenda. Off to get ready for a customer who is calling in tonight. Hope everyone is well. Cheers Maria |
I'm here too. And I agree the time just goes by so fast.
Ann We did hear the boom when the shuttle re-entered. i was In the pool with no hearing aids and still heard it. As for the heat. i do my 2 miles in the morning and then not much else out doors unless it is in the pool. However my laundry room is out in the shed so i do have to go back and forth to that a few times a week. DH put a fan in there but it is not much help. We are going to put a small A/C out there one of theses days. Was glad H. Dean didn't make a stop here. That storm was massive!how is the mouth doing? Glenda glad to hear that you are not flooded out. What strange weather we are having. Try to stay dry! Maria I don't envy you your tooth implants. I think it might hurt. I've been dealing with the worry of a second mammogram and they also had to do a ultrasound of the left one. Waiting is a killer. Came back yesterday normal was very relieved. Also have had a sinus infection so had to visit the doctor for meds. And have a pinched nerve in my back that is causing me to have sharp pain when i move a certain way. Try not to do that. But was told that i need to continue to exercise as long as what I do doesn't hurt. So have just continued on. It is better now still have some pain but I'll live. I guess. DH is doing well. Although he sometimes drive me to distraction. Because he is always forgetting to carry his Nitro. So I am forever chasing him down to give it to him MEN!!!!!!! Well Big brother is about to come on . Must see who gets evicted. See you later. Karen |
It is getting warmer again. We have had about 5 days of 'fall' temps and it was lovely except I do like Summer better than Winter.
I am still on the lemon-water and 'loo' routine and nothing has happened yet. My right back flank feels so swollen and sore (uncomfortable) and it is making sleeping difficult. I can only sleep on my left side and I usually like to sleep on my stomach so I wake up when I accidently turn in my sleep. I go to the imaging center next Tuesday to have another CT with dye to see if the stone has moved but I think it has found a home and likes it there. :( The following tuesday I see the dr. to find out what is next. Possibly a proceedure in which I will be in a tub of water and they will use an ultrasound to pinpoint the stone and then bombard me with some sort of 'rays' or something to blast it. sounds like fun. I am still trying not to have animal protein more than once a day and no chocolate, nuts, salt....the only good side of this is I have lost 4 lbs. I hope this is the start of a good thing. Maria: Good luck with your implants. I have been very lucky not to have lost any teeth but have had 4 root canals. Also, happy to hear that the new computer is going great. Glenda: Hope the rain will stop with the changing of the seasons so you and your area will have a chance to dry out. Karen: So happy to hear that the mammogram worry has turned out OK! That can be very scary. Ann: That sounded like a nice visit with your family and it was good that Mike was able to get away and join you. Peggy: Your area has also been in the news with a lot of rain...glad you weren't affected! Ashe: More lbs. gone...congratulations! Sally: I don't know what is going on with our service...the support desk said that they removed all the filters from your area and you should be able to get thru. I will have to call them again and see what else can be done. Glad you are home and improving. I may not get mail from you direct but I do get it via the others. Norma: Hope all is well with you and your family. Gloria |
Can you believe that it is almost the end of August already???? We started school this week and the temps have been close to 100. Only a few rooms have ac and the cafe is not one. We had a 2 hr early dismissal because of the heat. It seems to be raining all around us but we are so dry. I keep watering the flowers but gave up on the grass.
Glenda - good gosh but you are getting so much rain again. I feel bad for all those that are affected. It must be so hard. That is cute about Kyle. I have never had one of the McD's ice cream cones. I am afraid to start-I might like it way too much. Ann and Karen I am glad that Dean missed you all. Karen glad to hear that the second mammo was better. You worry so much waiting for the results, don't you? Slavika how are you doing? I am glad you are home with Patches and feeling better. That was such a scary experience. I am glad that your son was close by. And Trudy thanks for keeping us updated. Maria implants don't sound like fun. Gloria wish I could do something to help. That is a heck of a way to lose lbs. And no chocolate either. We took P to Otterville last week. A big play place for little ones. He had a blast. He loved the squirting the fire extinguishers at D and pulling the handle on the water tank. It was so hot I am sure it felt good. This nana stayed out of the way. Peggy |
Update
I have lost another 1 kg this week but am finding it harder to get the monement. I am so down in the dumps that I don't feel like dieting let alone posting Anyway that is 5 kgs since I started.
Because of the way that I feel I have read all your posts but haven't got a clue what anybody said - lets hope that I can come good in a very short while. The doctor has upped my meds so it shouldn't be long. It sounds as if you are having ghastly weather over in the States at the moment, lets hope it doesn't last for all that much longer. I hope that it hasn't affected anyone in your area. Love to you all. Jenye. :) |
Hi Everybody: Now that I finally caught up on my emails I thought I would come and post. I am feeling good. I feel stronger every day. I'm sure that I had a "birdie" looking after me the day of the heart attack and am most fortunate that it was a minor one. The meds the doctor is treating me with are Plavix (which you all likely heard about), Metoprolol (for chest pain and high blood pressure) and finally Furosemide which is a "water pill" (diuretic). My doctor said since my heart attack was minor that I could drive my car again on Sept 8th. I am pleased, as I hate bothering friends for a ride. Trudy and her husband took me to the doctor the other day and ended up waiting over an hour for me I think and then we went out for din din's. I am lucky I have good friends like Trudy.
You all may have heard that dogs do not see colours, well I don't believe that. A couple of days ago I changed the two hand towels I have on my oven handle to quite bright and different ones to the ones that I had been putting up. Patches was outside when I did this. When she came in she stopped short, looked at the towels and started to growl at them hee hee :D :D She noticed right away that they were different and it wasn't their size as that was the same as the other towels. What do you all think? Yesterday I gave her doggie beef jerky and she had one of those hard rawhide type chews. She carried them each and put them side by side on the carpet in the TV room and then sat down and looked at them. She next moved the beef jerky a bit as if to line it up better. Once again she sat down and looked at her handiwork, appeared content, and lay down near them and had a nap. She is finally house trained and now allowed in the living room. She has had one accident since I had my heart attack and has been good since. I had her groomed again on Friday and she looks like a little beanie baby with the pink bow the groomer put on her. She will be spayed on Sept 4th. I wish that was over and done with. I enjoyed reading all your posts and getting caught up with your news. My doctor said it was ok for me to go to Texas this winter so now I have to find out how much the travel insurance will cost me. It would have been my 35th anniversary on Thursday, so it was kind of a sad day for me, but I am getting better when these special days come up. We are almost at the end of August and soon the kids will be back at school. The summer has gone so quickly. :hug: |
Hi Again Everybody: I looked on the internet and it appears that dogs do see colour but not exactly like we do.....I wonder how they know this?? Anyway, apparently they can see red and blue but green and red look the same to them. hmmm.
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G''day everyone,
How good to see all the posts! Karen pleased to hear mammogram results cam back good, always a bit of a worry having to wait for results. That must some 'boom' that were able to hear when the shuttle re-entered. Thank goodness that all went well, with the damage to the shuttle, the family of the people in the shuttle must have had a few nailbiting moments. Gloria i hope this kidney business of you is soon much better. Sounds all very painful to me. I believe the shattering of kidney stones is a fairly painless procedure. Good for you loosing 4 lbs. Peggy it is almost unbelievable that it is getting to the end of August, I think that is about all I will be doing, watering the flowers but not the grass. We don't have nearly as much grass as you do but it is still a bit pity to have to let it go, green grass looks so much nicer and cooler. Jenye well done on a 5 kg loss...wow, you should be on top of the world! I think Melbourne has also experienced some beautiful weather, that always makes one feel so much better. Slavika so good to hear you are well and feeling stronger every day. Patches will keep you on your toes, she sounds like a very clever little dog. I bet she is cute after being groomed. We don't have that law that you immediately are stopped from driving when you have a heart attack, it makes sense but must have been very inconvenient. Good to hear you will soon be able to drive yourself again. That always puzzles me too how they would possibly know what colours a dog can and cannot see:dizzy: We had a lovely weekend, we have a garage sale type market close by and sunday morning Matilda and myself went to have a look. I was only there 10 minutes and had bought 3 toys for Matilda, rather then come home with a million toys we left very soon again. Matilda went for a ride with Alan and I pottered around the garden. In the afternoon Alan and I went for a drive whilst the country side is still nice and green. All the almond blossoms are out and it definitly felt like spring has sprung! I am not too concerned about my implants, I am having three, I am more concerned about the cost:( It will be so good to be able to chew on whatever side of my mouth I want to! Have a great week all, Cheers Maria |
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Gloria: I do hope that your resident stones will decide to move out, but I do know that the water-sonor treatment is not too bad, according to our pastor who has had that and also a stent put in to help pass a stone. I have no first hand knoweledge. it is a hard way to lose 4 lbs, but maybe that may be the push you need to keep going. Maria: I did not have an implant. Just pulled the darn thing. it was the last upper tooth on the left, and having the start of an abcess, the Dr. felt that just pulling was the only option. it is doing well, but eating soft foods for a few days. I have lost a couple of lbs too, so I hope to keep up the loss. Karen: I'm so glad that your Mammo report came back all right. The waiting is the pits. It is sort of that one just wants to know, so you can get on with life. I hear you when you say 'MEN' they can be so frustrating sometimes. Did you get all this rain for the past 3 days? it is good to have some rain for a change. Peggy: I'm glad you escaped all the rain and flooding that has occured in your part of the world. And I don't envy you in a kitchen without A.C. And all those hot little bodies giving off energy. School has been going for a week here, but of course everything has ac here. Slavika: Your Patches is so cute, and what good fortune that she is now housebroken. She must be a lot of company. And smart too, to notice the difference in the kitchen towels. I don't understand how the 'authorities' can tell whether dogs can see color or not. I'm sure you will be happy to get to drive again. Good friends are a blessing. Maria; I have to adjust my thinking knowing that you are going into Spring and summer and we are going into Fall and Winter. Your spring ride with the top down made me a bit envious. How Matilda has grown. She is getting to be quite a young lady. Jenye: Congrats on another kg lost. And I hope that the spring weather will boost your spirits a bit more. Glenda: I can't even imagine what your friends must be going through with water and mud in their homes. And all the damage to crops. These floods are just awful. And all of the midwestern states are suffering from it too. I'm glad for you that you are all right. And your family. I hope that your DH is doing better with his meds. I'm going to the Dr. with my DH to try to get to the bottom of some of his problems. I hope we get some answers, and nothing that will interfere with our going north in September. Trudy: What a good friend, and then out for dinner. Slavika is lucky to have you nearby. Hope you and your DH are doing well. I guess those torrential rains didn't get to your part of the world. I have to get back to my book now. Am reading a J.D. Robb(Nora Roberts alias) and it is a good one. Remember When in two parts. The first part sets the story for the second part. A good thriller. Nite nite. Ann |
Hi Everybody: It's a cool day today. I took Patrches for a walk and I needed a sweater and jeans on. She loves to go on the walks now and it is certainly good exercise for me. GLORIA all my emails to you are being bounced back. I don't understand I did all that I was to do and "they" are still saying they try tried to deliver the mail two or three times to you, then it's just cancelled. Is anybody else having trouble with your server other then me??:?: Congrats to you all that are losing weight and hope that those of you with health issues are soon well. Thinking about you.
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Have any of you had any experience with stenciling on walls, after painting. I'm looking for suggestions. Thought I was going to get started with the painting today but not to happen, as DH had to go for blood work, and a cat scan. And I had a haircut appointment. I spent most of my day sitting around and waiting. such is life.
Slavika: Hard to believe that sweater time is coming we are still around 95deg. Warm. I didn't make it to the pool today. Just too much to do. More another time. Ann |
Girls, it seems like everybody is back! And with mostly good news. Yea! Slavika, you are feeling better and stronger and will soon be back to 100%. Karen had a good mammo report. Ann is doing her Energizer Bunny routine. Gloria, you are drinking that water. I do hope you will have good news soon. Kind of funny when everybody is rooting for you to do that thing a lot, isn't it? Peggy, you are back in school and sweating, huh? It is hard to believe you don't have AC in the kitchen. I have a problem with the start of school anyway. I just feel that they should start school after Labor Day, "the way God intended it!" Oh well, seems "they" haven't listened to me. Trudy, does Slavika look good? It is nice to have good friends for sure. And Maria, I envy you going into spring and summer. I just don't even feel that we have had much of a season with rains and floods. Just been weird.
We have a 3-day holiday coming up. Yea! I think we are supposed to go to my friend's house and paint one day. She should have the sheetrock redone and ready to paint. She will get new carpet then and wainscotting (sp?) and be back in business. What a darned mess! Guys, you probably get a little tired of me saying this, but I gave blood for my CA-125 test yesterday. Just pray for me that it will turn out good. It is not as bad as it used to be, but I probably will always get nervous waiting for the results. Jenye, congrats on the loss! The whole goal for you is to not get sidetracked now and to stay focused. This is when it gets hard and you can be distracted. Good luck! Bernice, what is going on with you? |
Never fails. If I post, you all disappear. Do I have cyber halitosis, or something?
BTW, just wanted you to know that dear hubby is doing much better. Now that he understands what he is like when he feels overwhelmed, he is catching himself before he gets there. So, we are back to fine. And actually, he is doing much better. Goes to show you that an old dog can learn new tricks. |
Hi all, I haven't been here in a week or so again. It's been a busy week. Tuesday night I started the prep for a colonoscopy. What fun that was. Everyone who has ever has one knows the prep is worse than the procedure that part is all done while you are asleep. Was clean as a whistle don't have to go back for 5 years . Good thing because it will take that long to dull the memory of that awful salty lemon drink! Funny tho this time I woke up crying for DH. That has never happened before. Now vomiting or with a horrendous migraine that has happened before, i guess i should just thank my lucky stars that it was tears this time. Any way I am all done with test for a while now .
You all remember my SIL who used to live with us. Well it looks like she may have ovarian cancer. She has had all the symptoms for a while now but it just hit us all that she should have that check out as their mother died of the disease. All this time the doctors have been checking the colon or the stomach. So she had an ultrasound of her ovaries an on is plump as a 25 year old. She is 71. So them she took the CA-125 blood test and now the doctor wants to see her. I'm hoping for a lesser thing. So keep your fingers crossed & pray. Got a panic call from my Daughter yesterday needing money to pay the electric bill. The company was there to shut it off. They have been struggling so this past 2 years. This is the first time she has called in a panic. So of course we payed the bill. her husband can't work because of the back neck and shoulder injuries he got in that accident a few years ago. They are involved in a law suit that i hope gets over with soon. They only want enough to help with schooling for her husband to be retrained to do some other kind of work that he can make $27.00 an hour so they can get back to living normal. We have been sending money each month to help but Can't send enough to really help. I feel bad But can only do so much. She won't ask for money unless it's necessary. Like it was yesterday. Enough of my problems! Have a safe week-end all of you Karen |
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