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ditto sharyn...I got the VA rep here today and she can take over managing all the finances not just the VA benefits. As of next month I will not need to deal with that at all....giving me more time for MA and this issue! She Is looking for an attorney for me! OMG Amazing!
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What is Celibacy?
Celibacy can be a choice in life, or a condition imposed by circumstances.
Whileattending a Marriage Weekend, Frank and his wife Ann listened to the instructor declare,
It is essential that husbands and wives know the things that are important to each other.
He then addressed the men.

Can you name and describe your wife's favorite flower? Frank leaned over, touched Anna’s
arm gently, and whispered, Gold Medal-All-Purpose, Isn't it?
And thus began Frank's life of celibacy.
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why do they bite? horseflys?


just watched double rainbow...hey they are that cool...

no worries cattails come and go as you wish if it is time to move on thanks for being here...

sand frog videos still makes my cat go loopy...

I almost sank a sail boat....uncle had one, it were my turn to steer....rrrrraaaaaaaaa

"JENNIFER!!!!" HEHEHEHEH took to tight a turn ended up at say about a 45 degree angle hahaha... was 11. No one died!
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agree with mame...nothing is safe if you write it down...and least of all if you write it and click this is an open forum. be careful what you say...
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S'mores are good, very, very, very, yummy!!! I sure wish I could share my s'mores with you! But I cant cuz they here with me! Oh well had a looonnnngggg nite taking care of my mama. Now I know we can leave outta town tonite, no worries and have such a nice time visiting my BFF, and we are going house hunting, see whats on the market. gotta decide if we rent my place out and rent down their or what the houses look like in our budget. maybe we could buy still, IDK....doubt it, never be able to sell this pit I bought us! ugghhh real estate law Is way diff in cali that Oregon....I got screwed on this deal too....I don't know if I ever told you guys that I happened to land on the one house in "??? that went down the hill in mudslide, we didn t find out till 2 dys before closing...I had no more house in cali...mom n everyone packed up moving van loading up..I had no choice but to just go for it and then flip it when I got here.. and the rest is STI history, haven't caught a break since...oh like the handyman who went to get supplies in my car. that is a good one. a "friends?" babydaddy. So like after bout 30 min of "where are they" Can you get some chains and my brother I got the car stuck down by the river. I get there it is not stuck by the river....they were hotrodding my one splurge a reliable Subaru wagon for us to play in the mountains n snow and get ma's Wheelchair n the my babies!
anyway I arrive to find my car halfway submerged in water, took me 6 mo's to get it to run and has been a piece of crap ever since, hanging on by a thread.. my other car Is not suitable for ma at all and I cant afford to insure and register both so if it does die least I got back up but it has been stored for years. oh ya my brother blew the tranny and gave it back to me smashed front end too. it is 91 Mustang GT convertible, red on black...runs so sweet only 122k miles but body is messed up and top worn..a fun car tho, so I put a tranny in it and now it sits. cost 2k and cosmetic damage for loaning to my bro to help him out, that was just before that BS with mom and the courts. I tell you guys if I didn't have bad luck id have no luck at all...and now....I can't believe this..i cant I cant I cant!!! .Once you put the greater good in your sights look out I is nearly miraculous...I am gonna start packing for our trip
I hope you all are doing well
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oh car thing should have said
30 min of where are they, and the phone rings, bring chains n his bro
its moldy that was my car for mom we need it and this STI did this to ma. if he had pot to piss in, it would be mine but who wants a pissy pot!

I am sad bout sis...she limpin real bad last couple days, guess I gotta take her in, ughh just more cash out the window but I love her..
Oh ya I finally got my DR apptm today, I do have osteoarthritis developing, that scares me cuz ma has it bad!! oh and my severe back n neck pain is stress, ha...wonder where that comes from, I have no idea??? and I am diagnosed with compassion fatigue. I hate pill poppin but an occasional Xanax can work wonders! did this week. I found one in the travel kit, I had seen it at beach house, thank goodness!
LOVE N LIGHT!
Juju
OMG I have been writing so many emails lately I almost signed that sincerely and full name....that is too funny! I am cracking up!
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OH Sharyn! My heart aches for you and your mom! Change is so difficult! Hang in there...it will get better. Hugs to you!
Got out and had a good time last night. Dinner & drinks and good conversation. Still haven't talked with hubby about work...will do that this morning. He never showed up at the restaurant-texted telling me he still couldn't leave... I was disappointed but what could I do? So, I just enjoyed my friends. He came home and my sis was still there with mom and me. We were putting mom to bed and he seemed ok. So, I will keep you posted!
Happy Saturday-or as happy as it can be. Hugs to everyone! Mame
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I wanna say sorry I am self absorbed again all I talk bout is me, but I proud of how well I am taking care of mama! Im exhausted from it.. cant see to read anything barely I wish I could cuz I am relaxing rest of weekend as should be! But all I can say is MIRACULOUS! my Angelique is truly my Angel and all you guys tooo...
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Fathers Day dinner for Step Dad tomorrow. Going to cut a big vase of flowers for the table, so I don't have to watch him chew. Poor guy he has a terrible time chewing, and a feel sorry for him, but it is still gross.
Sharyn, so sorry about your Mom, that has got to be stressful. But, you are doing the best you can for her, and her dog.
Mame, so glad you had a good time last night. Hope your husbands news isn't too bad. Maybe he just wanted an excuse to not go to dinner???
Jen, horse flies are blood suckers. The one advantage of having a horse, is they prefer to bite the horse, and not me. My old horse Kid, would stop in his tracks, and turn his head around so I could swat the fly off his nose, or shake his head towards his tail if it was on his rump.
Juju have a good time with your BFF.
Hey, Bobbi, what is the cat catching at your new port?
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Hmmn big vase of flowers...and I have been holding up napkins to block the blow chunks...let me see what we have in the yard....
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Too late...breakfast and the explosive choking...I know it has something to do with me, he thinks to say something every time I GET UP and so he has food in his throat and starts a hawking it across the room. turns purple...moms upset he's upset so upset he doesn't have breath to blame to food this time....God just let this end soon please...
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Good Evening Crew,

Jen, ewww.... it will end. All you have to do is outlast it. Outwit, outlast... how does the motto for Survivor go?

We are getting used to the new marina. It's very quiet with no My Cousin Vinny Train. I have to admit, I don't miss that at all but miss hearing the train horns every once in awhile, but when the train horn is followed by 125 cars about 10 times a day.. woohoo!

Shirley I have no idea what the Cat will find out there. So far she has stayed on the boat and when someone she doesn't know comes down the dock she will come inside the deckhouse. I know that there are crab here but the dock is in far better shape than the last place so the little crab don't come up between the planks and tempt her off the boat.
How is your foot doing Shirley?

Sharynmarie, ow ow with your mom calling from memory care. That has got to be so hard and I hope that you are finding the strength to cope. I know it's so hard and my heart goes out to you.

Mame! hope you are doing ok and had a great time with your friends.

Cat! Deef! Rip!! All the crew, past and present, I sure wish we could have a convention somewhere.

I hope everyone is doing as well as they can with what they have to deal with.

lovbob
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Hey cuz. Mike goes to the dr tuesday to find out if they are able to do anything with his legs. He has a hard time walking now and it is getting worse. Everybody else is doing great. Love ya
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ps glad ya like the new address
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Cuz, sorry about your brother, hope the Dr can figure something out.
As for my foot, I just finally had it with the cast, (it's been on 9 weeks, and 10 weeks since I broke it).. Took it off today. Still wearing the soft splint (heavy ace bandage). Feels pretty good so far. (haven't told the Doc yet).
Fixed BBQ ribs, deviled eggs, and sugar free chocolate pie for my stepdad, and put a big vase of flowers in the middle of the table. But, he doesn't spew food yet, eww, so sorry Jen.
Both the dogs got a bath today, they love to play in water, unless it involves soap. Go figure.
Hope everyone has a good week. Love Shirley
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Felt sick, didn't eat dinner, cut up some branches to put in bin for yard waste. Lay down on swing of grandmas and just wished it would end...
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Have a good Monday everyone :)
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Yeah it sucks big time right now. Mom is on a true rampage (her normal behavior as we have always known her to be). I called the community asking if they could remove the phone from her apartment. We are not visiting until she calms down, her behavior Saturday when we were there was very bad, screaming, yelling as loud as she could. Yet they tell us she is fine when we are not there, except for the phone calls. This too is her normal behavior where she treats family horribly but is nice and sweet to others. She is eating well and participating in activities. I don't know if increasing the antidepressant will help or getting her on an anti anxiety medication...I have concerns about Ativan, any suggestions...Seroquel, Risperidone??? Any of you have any experience these drugs...We don't want her to a zombie either. It is very heartbreaking and I can't handle her when she gets like this...it brings back too many feelings from our childhood, the memories of the abuse...this is why she can't live with me. The med tech told me to not visit for a few more days which I wasn't going to anyway because I know as soon as she sees me she will start a scene.
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Morning everyone,
What a nice day I finally got 2 solid nites of sleep! whew...feels good.
I still no time for catching up on you all...did graze over this page barely.
I have to say, I totally agree with Bob. I had sed that somewhere else...."wouldn't it be great if we could all just meet up, we share and know so much intimately...be fun to just all get together n get hammered"
I am nice n rested..ready for the battle of my life and could not be more happy about it. I tell ya they have messed with the wrong person this time.

Wow it's a sad state of our society when your tell your story bout how your mom was butchered in our hospital....and the response is "yup. took out two of my friends also" .that Is the second time in a week to hear that

To the sink to throw up....and boy o boy I can see why...if these files could talk!

There is more quality control in building an antenna for the navy than the system that is supposed to take care of our sick loved ones"

I gotta take Ciara to the vet on top of all this..I'm praying it is arthritis rather than tumors...I hope so I need my girl here with me!!! And I think I may just have to put the cat down..i just cant take the shitting everywhere and now it warming up he will roam, and sometimes for a day...I worry so...as he is so old...that he may not be coming back, etc....got into it with a coon or Mlion or bear etc...they all just up the mountain ....idk it is a heartbreaking decision for me...but cleaning up after him is hard, he throws up all the time too.. just clear liquid..so I don't see it, I slipped in it the other day...so I just feel with mom going downhill so fast in matter of weeks. He will be my breaking point. I have to much stress in my life already. this is going to be tough one to decide..he otherwise is happy healthy boy....Romeo, the roamer!!
I guess I will see how it goes this week with home health etc...and I need to get some darn glasses for myself. I can type but barely read..it's all blurry, etc and when I tired like this lines start jumping, lol!!!
Hope you all have a great day...I am busy as heck...LOVE AND SUPPORT to you all!
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All I can say is if we can pull our lives out of the crapper my goals have changed. I wanted to go for wildlife biology/environment etc... They got enough help there. I want to help these poor elderly folks being neglected by the system. I even now am upset with the VA... As I talked with our contact and asked her to go look into retro. she sed they don't do that, don't go retro, I sed yes they do cause they gave me 1 year already and if they gave me 1 why cant they give me the other 7 lost out on. I am upset because when I did find out about it was in my CG sppt group her at a facility, she came out and told us it is they promoting it, it is underused. and I called the VA when dad past explained our situation and they offered my only his burial....so why not go back all the way?
anyway, just rambling...it's only 6 here and cant call anyone after 8. I am organized and ready to roll....
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I have to add :
Cattails......

I am so sorry to see you go. Just as you gave me a litebulb to pull me thru that bad day....The ALZ walk...I now have one positive goal in this sea of chaos. All because of you!!! and I hope to have inspired a few "friends" too. We shall see!
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Mom's taken fp to get new glasses...he doesn't want, and mine are starting to make my eyes go funny but I don't care...I have gotten so low, I don't brush my hair what is left of it, I dress like a slob, don't bathe for days on end...The real thing...Really enjoying the hole....
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Oh Jen,
I hate that you are not being cared for properly! Unjust! Please look after yourself because, as you are painfully aware, no one else will do it, not even your own mom. There is a future for you as a human being and as a very talented writer. Those of us on the other side are living proof that we can come back from this. But only when we take dramatic measures! Please Jen!

lovbob
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So sorry Jen...
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Jen, I'm throwing you a lifesaver (no not the candy). Grab on girl.
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Jen~As the others have said grab on...you are valuable to all of us so please take care of yourself. Let us know what is going on and how you are doing!!
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This is just the funniest thread I've ever read in my life, and it is real life! Is this real life? Too freakin' funny! I thought only my Mom grossed me out what with chewing and smacking, and not flushing the toilet or even putting on the fan, so we can hear her poop, uggg! Here's a good one, she smokes so she spits in a little red bucket in the backyard, talk about gross!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ewe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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omg Frustrated. Yup, this is the real deal and boy oh boy it can be the most insane pressure test. arg.
For some reason all things poop become the big events of the day and there ain't enough AirWick to go around...
Little red bucket, eh? Nice. haha

Jen! how are you doing? I know it's rough but please check in and let us know. C'mon beautiful girl.

lovbob
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Bobbi is right Jen, we all care about you. Your so smart, and talented. Hang in there. Sharyn, your Mom sounds a lot like mine, don't let her get to you. She is just trying to manipulate, and lay on the guilt trip. Take care.
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Meanwhile-thank you, we removed the phone from her room so she cant call us when she calms down we will return it.
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