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Oh Lord help me, as bad as high school was, elementary school was even worse....all the other kids were normal size...I was like some kind of amazon woman...at least a good foot taller than my classmates..including the guys...I looked like someone who had failed several grades and was held back...I looked that much bigger than them..not fatter, just taller and bigger....I have no idea why I sprouted that fast...I had straight A's all the way through school so I had not failed, but I sure did look like it...and then wearing the dresses and such instead of normal kids school clothes made me look more like a teachers assistant than a school kid...on top of that, the teachers always loved me and so that made me a target too...Ohhhhh...I'm about to hyperventilate just going down memory lane .....
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Sheradale, that sounds beautiful! Where do you live, if you don't mind me asking? I've never heard of Pepper Tree's before. Big amounts of land do cost alot to maintain on top of home repairs and maintenance, plus additions too! It seems there's never enough money when it comes to home ownership, does it! You have an interesting background fron what I've gathered, id bits here and there on the bplg, I would love to know more! You are especially kind as well!
SLIGO22, Irish huh, I would so love to go there as well, have you been? I think I'm in the early stages of dementia with my 85 yo FIL. It is really wearing! I'm sorry, it sounds as if you are going through it right now, and after reading so much about it, I'm terrified! To this point, it's been age related decline, but it definitely showing up in the day to day, around here. Sorry for your struggles!
Dreams. I always have the most Vivid dreams in the early morning hours, and if I tell my husband right away, I can remember them throughout the whole day, but unless they are really Crazy, like your's Jeanette, then there gone, like the majority of my brain these days!
COLORESUE, please join in to our conversations here on THE WHINE, I do want you to feel part of this Silly group!
EVERYBODY ELSE, I'll be out caring for a little 8 yo boy today, , my daughters SO's son, a darling boy, and haven't yet gotten caught up with you all yet, still about 20 posts yet to read, but I'll catch, up at dinner time, here Pacific Time.
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Jeanette and Hope, I was losing hair at this time last year when my Mom was in and out of the hospitals and rehab...and then it started again a few weeks ago. My hair dresser thinks it is from stress too. I am trying to make sure I take my vitamins and eat ok and get rest, though that is easier said than done!
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Hope, you crack me up! One of my mean nicknames was Amazon, wide at the mouth!
I was an excellent student and loved to talk in class so all the kids thought I was a show off. That didn't help anything.
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Well gee girls, at this rate we will be bald soon! My hair dresser first told me I'd had a dramatic loss of hair 3 months ago. Now I can really tell for myself when I shampoo it. It's so thin :((((((((((( I thought my stress was finally over for awhile... then my son up and leaves everything, drives 1800 miles by himself to his uhm, cough cough wife :/ then my brothers starting this whole will sh*t. I have ZERO problem showing it to them but moms affidavit is just gonna hurt some feelings and start more sh*t. If there was a way I could just give it to an attorney to verify it, notify one of them, that would be great.

I believe for me it's a combo thing. Stress, traumatic events, bad eating habits and lack of those vitamins. sigh I have my doc apt tomorrow, maybe I should just get some blood work done. Hate doing that.. hate thinking they might find something wrong. LOL

Hey Shar, hmmm, so you can only build one house eh? Does it say how big it can be? Can one house be like 30 houses in one? hehehe... a giant compound so to say. I hear ya on a animal rescue. And one of my favorite things is to lay out with my big girl, watch the sun go down and chill.

Busy day today.... one day I might just finish this all up haha.... not.
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Hair - falling out, not growing definitely stress. When I was married to my "practice Husband" I was so stressed out that my hair never grew passed the top of my shoulders. Once I divorced him, my hair started growing and now it is in the middle of my back and beautiful. Even in the stressful situation I am in now, it is still nice
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Stacey, thank you so much for the kind words. ☺️
Pepper trees are invasive nasty trees that just chokes out everything else. Plus when you cut them, the sap burns your skin and whatever you do, don't wipe your eyes. When we bought this land, my husband had to get front end loaders to clear out the dead citrus and the Brazillian Peoper. We didn't have any money to rent much less buy a loader, so we prayed about it and God kept prompting people to volunteer their loaders to help us out.
I also wasn't really thrilled about buying this place because I was envisioned oak trees when my husband said let's buy a ranch. We live is Southeast Florida north of West Palm Beach. I really want to love it and see what my husband saw when he looked at it so I prayed about it and God started to reveal oak trees struggling between the dead citrus and pepper trees. I walked every inch of the place tagging each oak tree I found and when I was done, there were over 200 oak trees living on our land. As my husband cleared the trees I would stand in front of the oaks so he could see where to take special care. Now after 13 years, the oak trees have spread out and look so beautiful. We have been blessed.
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Jeannette I was thinking the same thing, but I think there is a square foot limit on a family home.
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Mina so sorry about your friend.

Jeanette and Hope, I've read about a supplement that is supposed to help with hair loss and hair thinning. Its called Viviscal. Its available at Walgreens, Rite Aid and Ulta. I've never tried it cause I don't have this problem but its apparently drug free, all natural.

Yes, I got called Skyscraper when I was in Elementary school cause I grew to my full height of 5"10 before I even went through puberty. Tall and skinny and glasses with acne. Oh what fun that was. NOT! Thank God my skin cleared up and I found out about contact lens and I'm glad I'm tall now.

I had better dreams last night. My Mom was in one of them and she was happy.
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Skyscraper! That is bad, but not as bad as the name they called me in my neighborhood. Jungle Ape! So who gets the prize? I was the only girl in my neighborhood so ai was a bit of a tomboy. I played football and softball, fishing, war cops and robbers, land of the lost, all the games the boys played. Once I started to hit puberty and was taller, heavier, stronger than any of them but my brothers, I was fondly referred to as Jungle Ape! Needless to say, I never dated any of the boys from my high school or my neighborhood. Since I grew quickly and had a full womanly body by age 13 I was a target for my father's friends after he passed away, and my oldest brother's college friends. It was a very scary adolescence.
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Right I need all your advice please. I need to know how speedily bowel cancer kills - Now I know that sounds awful but I need to know for a reason...as you know we are selling up and moving - at this rate the we might become an I but as Mums POA I should not sell if she is likely to die in the next 6 weeks or so. If she dies before completion we will be sued for costs, everything has to go through probate and it all becomes a bloody mess. If it is going to be longer I can go ahead - I sort of know I am asking how long is a piece of string and I also know her heart could give out but all advice would be really welcome.....just a little more stress to my day ....deep joy
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Falcon, You and your Mum are in my thoughts and prayers. Did the doctors diagnose your Mum with this? It may depend on how long a cancer has been there to begin with. Could you get any answers out of her doctor? This is something you don't need right now and how can anyone blame you for what you cannot control! I too am going through something where the timing is just wrong and hoping my Mom hangs on till things are settled.
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Oh Falcon I'm so sorry. I've been googling around for you and the answer really is "it depends". It's really too early to even guess without knowing what stage it is and if it has spread, it is the rate of metastasis that is the main cause of death. It seems that things are moving forward regarding your real estate in any case, so worrying about it is only making you ill to no purpose. Try to put it aside and live day by day (easier said, I know).
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Shara and Gersh...Lord bless yall....well, after you hear mine you may actually LIKE your names....one of mine was "Lurch"....God help me...I am not joking...because I was so tall and as mentioned, looked more like a teachers aid than a student...looking at my pictures in elementary school...I actually did look kind of abnormal...hehehe....it was not helped by the fact that I had some older aunts (Daddy's sisters) who were jealous of my beautiful Mama, and so they didn't care much for me either...they were always saying hateful things like "what is wrong with you..you are weird...creepy..."...that on top of Lurch will do something to you....It's a wonder I never went postal on someone's beehiney
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For those who don't know who Lurch is ...remember the Adams Family?? that tall frightening looking dude? yeah..that's him
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oh no Falcon...I'm afraid I don't know either. As we all know by now, there is no time table or so it wold seem. I look at Mama after her fall...they gave her ZERO chance of survival, then, after she flourished in rehab, they saw she was a fighter, and so had to change their minds...That has been almost four years ago now...so who can say...I know my answer is not helpful...but life is so fragile...and any one of us could go before our precious ones...I am keeping you and your Mum in my prayers... That's a tough call to make.
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(((hugs))) dear Falcon.

Really, there is nobody that can answer that question. Pry her docs brain. Your mum sounds like she really is a strong woman and not ready to go anywhere yet. I know you feel pulled. Vacation/mom, vacation/mom.... as far as the legal aspects, I do believe you have a different system than we do.
Wish I could help more hun.
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Lurch? How mean Hope. Skyscraper doesn't seem so bad now. Of course when I got mad I became Towering Inferno. :)

Jude so sorry you have yet another problem to figure out. Wish I could help too but our system is different here in Canada. As far as prognosis goes, couldn't a doctor tell you that?
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The only name I was ever called was "my fat little sister". This is from the brother in another state whom is asking for the parent's will. First off, I was far from fat, truth be told, I'm short. Standing at a regal 5'2 and a 1/2... I carry my weight very well. hehe, guess I won't be hanging out with you 3!! LOL, he married someone I used to hang out with who was TWICE my size, pear shaped...he made my early teens hell. I personally like people who have a bit of eclectic weirdness to them. Boring people are just that. Boring.

Gersh, no, I never went to the grief counselor. They called and cancelled my appointment. She had to leave on an emergency for 2 weeks. Meh, guess I will just keep on sluffin along as always. OH OH...I do have to hit up walgreens tomorrow, so I will most DEF look for that product. Sucks that I finally grew my hair down to the middle of my back and now this.

Oh hey Stacey, I am 51. My son is 34. I know he's old enough but... up until I came here 3 years ago. We have always been very close and uhm, yeah, he lived at home. Little butt hasn't even told me if he made the 1800 miles or not.
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Viviscal...I'm going to have to try that. I am sitting here as we speak twirling my hair and wondering where it went...
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J have your thyroid hormone levels checked too. It can be related to irritability, lack of energy, hair loss etc.
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Hope, you can always be grateful that your hair is thin. In this heat, I have to put my hair up and I am a sweat all the minute I step outside.
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guest... I will do just that. Guess it's time to have it all checked.
Hey, how did you know I was also an irritable slug? hehehe...
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Sweatball, Sweatball if I do any housework, I am a Sweatball! Lol
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((falcon)) thinking of you and mom.
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Shara...I always had really thick thick hair...and I loved it because I just put it up and it looked nice...the lady who does my hair said it is still thick..but she just doesn't realize how thick it used to be....I miss it....I had my thyroid levels and all that stuff checked and they were all normal...I am betting it's the stress and lack of eating correctly...too much cheese maybe??
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Globtrotter, yes, I'm relieved the Old Ma's symptoms were nothing more than a simple Hernia which requires nothing more than stool softeners!
Thank you all for your well wishes!
Jude, I love hearing of your world travels! I loved my trip to the UK, that is exactly what I used my inheritance money to do, as I wanted to see my parents homeland, and my family there. Everyone was lovely to us, me and my 3 sisters. I dream of going back, someday!
I have been MIA today, as I looked after my daughters boyfriends son, who is 8. Such a cool kif, smart and so polit. I still have many pages to catch up here, but it will have to wait until later or early in the morning, so, see yall later! Stacey B
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Thank you, very kind of you to offer good words......I awoke this AM w/ the thought that I had to tell J.......something......you know....that something that escapes definition because it's buried in the dream.....the half waking thought....the thing that just disappears beyond your grasp as you finally become fully awake....and then ..... you come fully awake.....and realize...NO....NEVER AGAIN.....you can't just call, text, email that LO.....ever....again....
I know many of you have experienced this w/ your LO's....it's d*mn hard.....thank you for your kind thoughts.....
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Mina, I am so sorry to hear you've lost your BFF, and so sudden too! Your vacation with her all those years ago sounds like the perfect way to honor her memory.
Hair! Mineis super thick, but I do lose so much every day I need to clean my brush out. My problem is that it is coming in grey, who's isn't, ha! And really curly, where it had always been smooth before. ? Oh well. But I did hear about a laser brush/comb that you use every day, to help grow new hair, might be worth looking into! They sell them on HSN.
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As a teenager and young woman, I had a reoccurring dream/nightmare about my dad coming back. I would hear someone say he was back and I cased him all over trying to find him and I couldn't catch him. The other one was that he came back and he said it was all a big mistake and everything was okay. I didn't believe him at first, but when I finally did accept it, he died. I would wake up and be confused for a few seconds and then it would all come down on me. I just pray when It's Mom's time, I don't have any dreams.
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