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Happy birthday Semee! 60 is the new 40, ya know :)
Ladee-I'll bet you are the best housekeeper who cares ever! I know it hurts when they say evil stuff. I wish we all had raincoats so it would slide right off. Maybe we could make them in the Laundry Room? LOL
River - just reading your posts. What a strong and smart person you are.
Mis-Please rest! You have been through so much. Hugs.
Today was back and forth day. No lung radiation, then I get a call to make an appt with that doctor. Mom's cold is better, then worse, then who knows. Pj's one day, dressed another. She really thinks she will just stay in bed until it goes away. She was hemming and hawing about going to her MRI on Thursday. You'd think the woman never had a cold before in her life. But I'm starting to wonder if something else isn't going on, I just don't know.
I'm still feeling stronger and more together. That is, until the next crisis! LOL
Warm thoughts to everyone. Oh, and yes, I am terrible at saying no too!
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Vic - glad your Dad is having a few good days. With a nap even! Thinking of you. Remember - worrying about when the good will end will not make it come any faster or slower. What will happen will happen in it's own time and worrying will not solve anything. I know it's hard, and I'm wishing you peace. Hugs.
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Back from dinner and it was good. Thank you Mis and
Burned for the well wishes. I ended up ordering a lobster bake. It was 3 lobster tails, shrimp scallops and mussels in the shell over linguini with a butter/white wine/garlic sauce. I also wanted and got calamari, which was REALLY tender this time, seafood stuffed mushrooms and fried broccoli as an appetizer. When hubby saw what all I ordered, he just ordered a plate.......no food.....and we shared the whole meal, so I just had enough room for everything.....except I had to bring the cheesecake home. All in all, a wonderful meal, including the cheese biscuits - hubby ate 3 - and garden salad. I look like a seafood stuffed mushroom about now!!

Kathy's mom is doing so well with her therapy that she isn't expected to stay very long at all. She can already go to the bathroom herself with the aid of a walker, she has walked the length of the whole building 5 x today.

Jam, they do have lobster rolls at McDonald's in Maine. Last time I got one, it was $5 and well worth it. They are only available in the summer months, don't know the prices now. When we go there this summer in July, we will drive and hit the first Mickey D's at the border of Kittery, Maine. Hubby never brings me one back when he gets his mom..........even if it would be a week old when I got it. They serve it in a thick piece of Texas sized bread sliced like a hot dog bun and put a whole section of claw meat on the top......really good......I get 2 at one time.

Ladee, I would like to hear more about this depression of yours. Send me an email. I thought things were going pretty good since you caught up with your boys. Please fill me in.

Everyone have a wonderful night, get plenty of sleep, Vic, and I will talk to you tomorrow. Love to all...............
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Thanks, notlike, but this 60 is hitting pretty hard. It's only 1 day older, but I am feeling the accumulation of all of those days.

Ladee, we haven't heard for sure if the mating took, but if for some reason it didn't, then we are looking at plan B, which is to say there are a couple of breeders in MO that have dogs for sale. Not to say they will have any when we are there in May, but it is another option. Hubby says I could drive out there and pick them out if I want, or get 1 dog from each breeder, but we are going to take a ride to Knightdale near Raleigh just to drive by and see where the dogs live. We went to a breeder in SC once and found out it was a real puppy mill. One male tagged every female every time one went in heat. He was happy as the ratio was about 7:1....... Like I said before this is the last time we will be able to get big dogs from puppies as we are getting too old to do it later, what with all the grooming they require.
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Jam- I got your email message tonight. I will try the tips you gave me on lily's biting. Thanks love and hugs stormyyyy
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Hi everybody. I had a lot of work to do! Which I hope it will last for a little time but I am not so sure of it. Sure the situation here in Italy is becoming very heavy. Lirpa I am sorry for your situation. All the other friends from USA can give you good advices about how you can ask for help. I can understand you as far as money problems are concerned. It is very stressful, sometimes it is more stressful than the problems of caregiving. If you combine the two, you literally blow up!
Stormy all my dogs when their little had their period of biting - and the kittens, their period of scratching - it just went away when they grew up. I think that Connor has just to be careful not to be bitten on his face.... When my brother and I were little and we played with my grandmother's cats we were always dripping blood... Well I think maybe we did something we should not have done. But we survived and the cats too! I remember I liked to make them wear the dresses of my dolls.
Vic, I am happy you are having some peaceful days.
Notlike, I didn't have to do with the disease your mother has, and so I don't really know how one must feel. I guess it has to be very hard.
Zoey I am happy you could have a nice weekend and I hope your sons will continue to be so cooperative.
Seeme happy birthday! and good luck with the dogs. It is about time!
Starry! Hi! Where are you and what are you doing.
Hadass: I read your story with interest. My uncle had the same treatment when he was 20 (those were the years '40) and though he doesn't hide it - all the family knows about it - he doesn't want to talk about it. I can understand. Those times you were depressed? No problem, a good shock! Terrible if you think of it.
Ladee! I am sorry about the ups and downs of Marie. You know better than I do that everywhere, when you work, you find some kind of problem and the ideal situation does not exist. Maybe if things worsen you could find a family where you have to take care of a person only, and the relatives are 99% absent so they don't piss you off. But I know you care about Sonny and you would be sorry to leave him.
I am having a very difficult period and try to keep myself alive but it is hard sometimes. Sometimes I don't write because I have nothing good to say.
Good night everybody! I am saving this message before I post it!
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Good night all; Dear Lord I know you love each of these precious ones who have given so much of themselves to others. Please bless them all tonight with a peaceful restful sleep. Strengthen them to go on another day. Wrap your loving arms around them and comfort and protect them .Help them to wake refreshed and with unexplainable joy. We need you Lord in our day of trouble. Remind us to keep our eyes on you and not on our circumstances. Love them through us Lord. Amen...
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hadassah thank you for that we need to be reminded at times who is in charge. Rosella drop in when you can we love you and like to hear from you-even to just say hi.
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Been up since 5:30 this morning. Connor woke up saying he didn't feel good. And then he threw up twice. Don't know if he is trying to come down with a stomach virus. Well he just threw up another time. ugh. So i guess we will be staying home today. I got to start making phone calls for dad. Sis is suppose to be off today but she is trying to finish taxes and bookwork. And our neice the one that done the mural at the church stayed last nite with my sis and dad cause she and her brother got into a fight and her and her mother are not getting along. Said she wanted to stay at grandpa's for a few days. But she knows nothing about dads care. But we might teach her some stuff if she is going to be down here with us. Well i guess i need to make a move and do something. Not sure what. So ya'll have a lovely morning. hugs stormyyyy
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Love ya'll.....
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Stormy maybe there will be a silver lining your neice could be a good help to you -she may be a nurse in the making-my daughter left a high stree job is social service and trained to be a CNA and is doing well and a lot less anxious.
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Austin- it would be nice if we could get her to help us out with dad some. We just don't know how long she will want to stay there. But it would be a big help to me and sis. Plus since brother has been sick with the flu for a week or longer and my nephew's truck got totaled just the other night he is fine. One of his friends was driving it and flipped it but he is fine also. The truck is not. And the lady that sits with dad in the afternoon well her car died two nites ago. So our family is having major vehicle problems... Ugh.... Seems like it is always something... And my baby feels so bad with this stomach virus. It's the first one he has ever had. He is finally asleep getting some rest. I hope he feels better when he wakes up. Love and hugs to all of ya'll. stormyyy
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stormy...sorry to hear the little guy isn't feeling well....hopefully this will be a short bout. What we have seen here, it doesn't last long. Usually the younger they are, the faster they bounce back.

I wouldn't think it would be too difficult to show your niece how she can assist with Dad.....a little Dad-sitting for a place to eat and sleep seems like a fair trade.
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I want some!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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We have the same virus here at 3000 miles distance! It must be the season. All the children that I know have it right now.
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Where did Bee's post go???? Sounds like Jam wants the pukes!!!!!!
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NOOOOOO..........I want to drink wine and pee no more................................just think about all the serious drinking that can be done without taking the time to go to the bathroom!!!!!!!!
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I want some wine too, a bucket and a funnel... then I'll be a happy camper.....naaaa, but I can wish can't I...... maybe chocolate, yeah chocolate as a substitute,,,, and I won't have to go pee.....
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Well, Connor feels a little better but still kinda weak. He only ate a saltine cracker today and 1 chicken nugget. So i will be keeping him out tomorrow from daycare again. And brother is going to stay with dad tomorrow. I guess he is over his flu. Sis called him to come stay with dad. Lord, I hope me or hubby don't get connor's mess. I hate those stomach viruses with a passion. Takes me 3 or 4 days to get to feeling half way normal.
Can ya'll tell me what is the deal with the new timeline on facebook? Why is everybody going to it? I hate it. I still have my facebook. Well i hope all of ya'll have a wonderful night full of sleep. Love and hugs stormyyy
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Chocolate is what helped me get my girlish figure..lol..
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Those of ya'll that went to my fb page and saw the mural that my neice painted, well she has finished it. And she has also put up a picture of the original picture that came out of a book. I have posted both pictures on my fb page if ya'll would like to take a look at it and compare the two pictures. Love and hugs stormyyy
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I on the other hand been feeling like crap...my right side is hurting instensely and my back has been crazy...I do not know if I have another uti or my depression is getting the best of me..I am doing all that I can humanly possible annd last few days I have woke up at 630 am to get my daughter ready for school and then fall back to sleep and sleep longer and longer.I just do not have the motivation but good news I am getting my wedding dress that my mom made from my sister finally but she had the nerve to call my children the devil spawn and my husband a slob and I turn called a nasty narcisstic selfish cow. It got the best of her and then she went on about my money and I said fyi those arent getting touch so get over urself and it all started with me politely asking about my wedding gown. typical arguement glad the buck stops there with her.
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Starri, me too... mine is an hour glass figure left in the sun too long....
stormy, hope Conner is feeling better today, and hope the neice will help with dad , that could be a win win situation....
Hope eveyone has a blessed day in some kind of way....hugs prayers and angels
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Morning all..burned hope you get to feeling better and glad to hear you are getting your dress..too bad it had to be so hard but glad you are the better one.
Stormy hope Connor has a better day..
As for me..ughhhh sinus infection pounding headache..dad is doing pretty good....
Caregiver that comes once a week has a regular partime job..her hours got changed...talked to another lady yesterday..we will meet her tomorrow...
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Sorry for that headache Vickie Vic... hope you have somthing to take that helps....and also hope your new lady works out..... I would come and help but then you would have to feed me.....
love and hugs to you today...
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Good Morning Posse!

Doing a drive-by this morning......woke up early, have already had coffee, taken the dogs out and listened to the "Spring" birds doing their thing......oh my are they in for a surprise. The grass is turning green and when it decides to be winter we'll all be miserable.

Sorry to hear you have a headache Vic.....hope you have something to knock it out.
burned....happy to hear about the dress and sorry you don't feel well. Gallstones, appendix, kidney stones, muscle spasms......?????????
stormy......hope everyone feels better today
seeme.....I'm thinking Red Lobster today....they are still having their 4-course for $15 here.....now to see if Target still wants to get up and get out of here today.
ladee.....sending good thoughts today that it will be a good day for you!
ASG, River, mis, notlike, Ro, Zoey, Lirpa, CMag, my brain has shut down......please check in and let us know how things are going....hugs to all!

Happy Trails,
Jam
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And STARRI....and AUSTIN.....and ADASSAH.....and LYN....................I had a brain cell kick in.....must have been the coffee......love you all!!!!!!!
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at least you have a brain cell-mine must be all gone. I wish my Mother would see people than she could give them her digs and barbs.
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It was fleeting Austin.....it's gone again....lol
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I guess someone didn't like the competitor's name being mentioned in the wine post. Oh well. I thought it was cute. I'm with you, Jam. Imagine a party with no bathroom breaks! lol But, like you, ladee, I'd better go for the chocolate - I like peppermint bark.
Gloomy morning here but not too cold for Feb. I can't seem to get motivated today and I really have things to do. Maybe I should go for a walk to clear my head and get some adrenaline flowing. Nope. I'll go later. I've got to get the laundry going and plan dinner before I call Mom and get the insanity going for the day.
Well, friends, hope you find some peaceful moments today. TTYL. Bee
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