Have we all died?
I have been sick for 3 weeks and I got on here yesterday briefly and was SHOCKED that no one is posting. Whats up? Are we all too sick to post??
Hope all is well and you all were just busy enjoying the nice weather until today. I on the other hand am going to the lung specialist tomorrow at 1 in Little Rock, work in fast appt b/c I cant get well.
If they send me home I'll post tomorrow evening, if not, well, I'll post when I get back.
Hope all is well w/everyone,
Rhonda D. the one whos permanently sick
Hope all is well and you all were just busy enjoying the nice weather until today. I on the other hand am going to the lung specialist tomorrow at 1 in Little Rock, work in fast appt b/c I cant get well.
If they send me home I'll post tomorrow evening, if not, well, I'll post when I get back.
Hope all is well w/everyone,
Rhonda D. the one whos permanently sick
Hey Rhonda, sorry you're sick again/still. Hope the lung doc can get you better.
Dead? Not me, but this board sure is! Trying to get it going and keep it going is like taking a hammer to my head. I've been at this for over three years now, and I just don't know what to do. I can't make people post or ask questions for us to answer, so no help comes from here anymore. It's so frustrating!
Once Facebook and MySpace go going we had a big drop off. Guess they are more fun than we are.
So, I guess what I'm saying is is that while I still come to see if anyone posted, I mostly have lost the oomph to get those pompoms out and be the boards cheerleader.
Maybe someday........
Dead? Not me, but this board sure is! Trying to get it going and keep it going is like taking a hammer to my head. I've been at this for over three years now, and I just don't know what to do. I can't make people post or ask questions for us to answer, so no help comes from here anymore. It's so frustrating!
Once Facebook and MySpace go going we had a big drop off. Guess they are more fun than we are.
So, I guess what I'm saying is is that while I still come to see if anyone posted, I mostly have lost the oomph to get those pompoms out and be the boards cheerleader.
Maybe someday........
Susan
I've been lurking but I figure everybody gets bored with my nonsense. I have been having a little rough go of it with the samonella thing. I ended up taking abts for almost a month, first a 10 day round of Leviquin then a 15 day round of Bactrim DS before that cleared up. Then I started having horrible stomach pain in my pouch area. So I was put on double doses of Prilosec and Cytotec 4 x a day for that. Missed some work which we could not afford so that has added to our money woes. Meanwhile, my 91 year old aunt had to have surgery for a prolapsed rectum and we had to take her to Fayetteville for the surgery. Noone in Ft. Smith does the surgery. What started as an overnight stay turned into a 5 day stint after she went into atril fib. from the surgery. She is much better now though and smiling again. On top of all that, we took in our son's best friend. His mom has some major psych issues going on and she was ftixated on blaming him for everything wrong in her life. He's a good kid and a good student. It was a hard decision but I think we did the right thing. Sooo, he's settling in, our son is getting used to having to share attention from us, my pouch is feeling better, I got in a whole week of work without being short any hours and am getting close to being caught up there again. I got so stressed out I started drinking diet coke again and gained about 5 lbs in fluid. Crossed that off my list again real fast, lol. I've been a little depressed about my health because even though it's minor stuff, I'm not used to having something wrong so much. I guess tha's to be expected though when we go through such a rapid weight loss and changes to our bodies. Now it's time to start gearing up for the holidays. I'm just trying to get my mind wrapped around it. Ya'll have a good weekend.
Hi all. I haven't died either but my money has. I have been without internet for quit sometime. Acutally juat got it back last night. I have had several changes also. Hubby and I have moved to Harrison. Things here going ok.I myself am doing well. I am not having any real issues. Weight still holding well. Just wnated to drop in and say hi to everyone. I will be checking in often.
Carla
Carla
SORRY ALL!!!!! I have not been on here very much since the walk because school got a hold of me....All my focus is on that now.. I am so close to getting in the LPN Program, so Im fully focused.... I have lost 105 lbs. and am doing very well.. Wreight loss has slowed down for me, but im getting all my fluids in and protein and vites, so Im doing very well. I am going for my 8th month check up with Dr. Baker Nov. 12th. I cant believe its been that long already....
I LOVE you all VERY Much, and I promise you, I will try to get on here more once math is OVER WITH!!!!!
P.S. I GOT ME A NEW PAIR OF COWBOY BOOTS, AND IM LOVING THEM!!!!! SO THERE IS ONE OF MY GOALS COMPLETED!!!!
I LOVE you all VERY Much, and I promise you, I will try to get on here more once math is OVER WITH!!!!!
P.S. I GOT ME A NEW PAIR OF COWBOY BOOTS, AND IM LOVING THEM!!!!! SO THERE IS ONE OF MY GOALS COMPLETED!!!!
♥ Courtney Coleman †
P.S.S.
Rhonda.... Please feel better soon, your in my daily prayers....
Sybul..... I ABSOLUTELY LOVE reading your posts, and they do not sway people away from the board at all.... Keep posting =)
SUSAN..... I appreciate you very much for what you have done to keep this board alive and kickin!!!! You are AWESOME, and I ADORE you very much... You have done SO Much to help me, and I would be LOST if it were not for you and your encouraging POSTS!!!!!
LOVE YOU ALL VERY VERY MUCH!!!!!
HUGS AND KISSES, XOXOXOXOXOX
Rhonda.... Please feel better soon, your in my daily prayers....
Sybul..... I ABSOLUTELY LOVE reading your posts, and they do not sway people away from the board at all.... Keep posting =)
SUSAN..... I appreciate you very much for what you have done to keep this board alive and kickin!!!! You are AWESOME, and I ADORE you very much... You have done SO Much to help me, and I would be LOST if it were not for you and your encouraging POSTS!!!!!
LOVE YOU ALL VERY VERY MUCH!!!!!
HUGS AND KISSES, XOXOXOXOXOX
♥ Courtney Coleman †
Not dead. Just busy.
Y'all know I've been in the middle of a remodel that was going RELATIVELY well until the carpet got installed. It started literally coming apart from almost the moment they put it in. So for a couple of weeks, we were jumping through hoops (taking photos of the damage, scheduling walk-throughs of our house for the lowes managers to actually LOOK at the carpet, etc) so that the local store could warrenty the carpet back to the manufacturer. (The manufacturer has tested a SAMPLE of the carpet 3 times and swears nothing is wrong. All evidence to the contrary.) In any event, I finally got made a week or so ago and told them that I was SICK of jumping through hoops - I was SICK of my furniture being all over the house (we had moved it for the 1st install and never moved it back because we were continually told that they WOULD make sure it was replaced that they just had to go through their warranty process 1st) - that I was SICK of not being able to finish installing base boards/molding (we were told not to or they'd just have to be torn back up to install the replacement carpet) - that I was SICK of this whole affair, blah blah blah. The manager asked if I could take some more pictures. I FLIPPED OUT. What are MORE pictures going to show? The same damage that they had already actually SAW with their own eyes? The same damage that the INSTALLER saw with his own eyes? WTF? (I pretty much said some version of those exact things.) So the manager called me back and said that my replacement carpet had been ordered. End of jumping through hoops for me. So that's where the story ends happily, right? I wish. The new carpet came in at the end of this week. They laid it out at Lowes to make certain that its backing was solid & sturdy. Even though it was from a different batch, it was also defective on one side (backing coming off so that the loops would have come up on it too). So they called me the day they were supposed to install it (Friday) and said they weren't coming and explained about the replacement carpet. (Keep in mind, this is AFTER my entire family had spent Thursday night taking furniture apart & moving it (along with every single thing we own that was on the carpeted areas of the house) into the kitchen & bathroom where there's vinyl. So anyway, my husband spent Friday and some of Saturday moving everything BACK into the carpeted areas of the house. Lowes has at least done right by us. After this second batch was bad, they agreed to upgrade us for free to another carpet of our choosing. Late Friday afternoon, I went by and picked out a higher quality replacement on their dime. I showed it to my husband on Saturday. He wanted more of a pattern than I picked out, but he's fine with what I chose. It's a little darker than our carpet was, but it's still berber and a higher quality berber supposedly. So that's where we're at. If they can't put a rush on the order, it will take 2 - 3 weeks to special order it. If they can, it should be in within the week. So either way, my husband wrapped up our base boards/moldings and put them in the basement. We are sick of stepping over them in our living room floor.
My daughter and son are also involved in a lot more activities this year than they have been previously. My daughter started cheering this year. All us parents were forewarned when they had the try-out meeting at the end of last year about how much work cheerleading was for the girls and the parents. I did listen. I just didn't understand until we started living it. It is constant. Practice for a few hours every Wednesday afternoon. Games every Thursday afternoon. Fundraisers. Run-through meetings. It's definately a commitment. But my daughter loves it, so it's worth it. She loves it so much that I'll be sick if she doesn't make it every year from now on because I know how much she loves it.
My son is in football. They practice EVERY SINGLE AFTERNOON, then have their games every single Friday. Add that to FCA meetings/activities and band functions and his plate is full too. Some days/nights, I make 4 trips to the school (because my daughter's activities NEVER end when my son's do - she usually gets out around 5 or 5:30 - while he invariably gets out about 6 or 6:30). If it was up to them, I'd even TAKE them to school each morning at different times. My daughter likes to be there at 7:10 while my son likes to be there closer to 7:30. But I put my foot down and told them that I was dropping them off ONE TIME. So either my daughter would have to be later than she liked or my son would have to be earlier than he liked. They compromised and usually both get dropped off around 7:15. I am a beck-and-call-mom enough when I HAVE to be. I am NOT going to do it just to suit their preferences if you know what I mean.
In any event, I'm doing good otherwise.
I'm still in my 125 - 130 pound comfort zone. I'm closer to 130 than 125 lately, but as long as I don't pass 130, I refuse to freak out.
My mom is having plastic surgery in mid-November. She wanted me to do it with her. I always said I wouldn't - but honestly... I do NOT want my MOM to have a better body than me and it would be nice to have my clothes fit without "tucking in" my stomach skin. It would also be nice to have breasts. (I have 2 walnut size breasts covered in skin which fills in a size 34D. My actual walnut sized breast tissue underneath all that skin could fit into a training bra. I know... my daughter still had one and I put it on just to see. These are the same breasts that my GYN sent me to have a mammogram for last year because he thought the walnuts may be tumors. Mammographs of each reveiled that they were not, in fact, tumors.... they were just the only actual breast tissue I had left.) So anyway, I almost backed out a few times, but talking with my hubby (who I figured wouldn't care one way or another - but turns out he really wants me to have it), I decided to go ahead and do it. So, I've borrowed the money from Carecredit.com and I went in with her so we'd get a multiple-person discount. I'm having a tummy tuck and breast augmentation with implants. My mom is having ALMOST the same thing done. She goes in on the 12th (I think!) and I go in on the 20th. Wish us luck.
(Sorry this post is filled with run-on sentences, etc. I'm typing it fast because I have a hair appointment today that I have to leave for now. I missed my appointment yesterday because I count on that reminder phone call to remind me to come and noone called me - so I missed it. So I cannot miss this one.)
I miss all y'all and hope I can make it to group in November. If not, I'll see y'all in January?!?!?
Wen
Y'all know I've been in the middle of a remodel that was going RELATIVELY well until the carpet got installed. It started literally coming apart from almost the moment they put it in. So for a couple of weeks, we were jumping through hoops (taking photos of the damage, scheduling walk-throughs of our house for the lowes managers to actually LOOK at the carpet, etc) so that the local store could warrenty the carpet back to the manufacturer. (The manufacturer has tested a SAMPLE of the carpet 3 times and swears nothing is wrong. All evidence to the contrary.) In any event, I finally got made a week or so ago and told them that I was SICK of jumping through hoops - I was SICK of my furniture being all over the house (we had moved it for the 1st install and never moved it back because we were continually told that they WOULD make sure it was replaced that they just had to go through their warranty process 1st) - that I was SICK of not being able to finish installing base boards/molding (we were told not to or they'd just have to be torn back up to install the replacement carpet) - that I was SICK of this whole affair, blah blah blah. The manager asked if I could take some more pictures. I FLIPPED OUT. What are MORE pictures going to show? The same damage that they had already actually SAW with their own eyes? The same damage that the INSTALLER saw with his own eyes? WTF? (I pretty much said some version of those exact things.) So the manager called me back and said that my replacement carpet had been ordered. End of jumping through hoops for me. So that's where the story ends happily, right? I wish. The new carpet came in at the end of this week. They laid it out at Lowes to make certain that its backing was solid & sturdy. Even though it was from a different batch, it was also defective on one side (backing coming off so that the loops would have come up on it too). So they called me the day they were supposed to install it (Friday) and said they weren't coming and explained about the replacement carpet. (Keep in mind, this is AFTER my entire family had spent Thursday night taking furniture apart & moving it (along with every single thing we own that was on the carpeted areas of the house) into the kitchen & bathroom where there's vinyl. So anyway, my husband spent Friday and some of Saturday moving everything BACK into the carpeted areas of the house. Lowes has at least done right by us. After this second batch was bad, they agreed to upgrade us for free to another carpet of our choosing. Late Friday afternoon, I went by and picked out a higher quality replacement on their dime. I showed it to my husband on Saturday. He wanted more of a pattern than I picked out, but he's fine with what I chose. It's a little darker than our carpet was, but it's still berber and a higher quality berber supposedly. So that's where we're at. If they can't put a rush on the order, it will take 2 - 3 weeks to special order it. If they can, it should be in within the week. So either way, my husband wrapped up our base boards/moldings and put them in the basement. We are sick of stepping over them in our living room floor.
My daughter and son are also involved in a lot more activities this year than they have been previously. My daughter started cheering this year. All us parents were forewarned when they had the try-out meeting at the end of last year about how much work cheerleading was for the girls and the parents. I did listen. I just didn't understand until we started living it. It is constant. Practice for a few hours every Wednesday afternoon. Games every Thursday afternoon. Fundraisers. Run-through meetings. It's definately a commitment. But my daughter loves it, so it's worth it. She loves it so much that I'll be sick if she doesn't make it every year from now on because I know how much she loves it.
My son is in football. They practice EVERY SINGLE AFTERNOON, then have their games every single Friday. Add that to FCA meetings/activities and band functions and his plate is full too. Some days/nights, I make 4 trips to the school (because my daughter's activities NEVER end when my son's do - she usually gets out around 5 or 5:30 - while he invariably gets out about 6 or 6:30). If it was up to them, I'd even TAKE them to school each morning at different times. My daughter likes to be there at 7:10 while my son likes to be there closer to 7:30. But I put my foot down and told them that I was dropping them off ONE TIME. So either my daughter would have to be later than she liked or my son would have to be earlier than he liked. They compromised and usually both get dropped off around 7:15. I am a beck-and-call-mom enough when I HAVE to be. I am NOT going to do it just to suit their preferences if you know what I mean.
In any event, I'm doing good otherwise.
I'm still in my 125 - 130 pound comfort zone. I'm closer to 130 than 125 lately, but as long as I don't pass 130, I refuse to freak out.
My mom is having plastic surgery in mid-November. She wanted me to do it with her. I always said I wouldn't - but honestly... I do NOT want my MOM to have a better body than me and it would be nice to have my clothes fit without "tucking in" my stomach skin. It would also be nice to have breasts. (I have 2 walnut size breasts covered in skin which fills in a size 34D. My actual walnut sized breast tissue underneath all that skin could fit into a training bra. I know... my daughter still had one and I put it on just to see. These are the same breasts that my GYN sent me to have a mammogram for last year because he thought the walnuts may be tumors. Mammographs of each reveiled that they were not, in fact, tumors.... they were just the only actual breast tissue I had left.) So anyway, I almost backed out a few times, but talking with my hubby (who I figured wouldn't care one way or another - but turns out he really wants me to have it), I decided to go ahead and do it. So, I've borrowed the money from Carecredit.com and I went in with her so we'd get a multiple-person discount. I'm having a tummy tuck and breast augmentation with implants. My mom is having ALMOST the same thing done. She goes in on the 12th (I think!) and I go in on the 20th. Wish us luck.
(Sorry this post is filled with run-on sentences, etc. I'm typing it fast because I have a hair appointment today that I have to leave for now. I missed my appointment yesterday because I count on that reminder phone call to remind me to come and noone called me - so I missed it. So I cannot miss this one.)
I miss all y'all and hope I can make it to group in November. If not, I'll see y'all in January?!?!?
Wen
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