Thursday Roll Call

Good afternoon Delaware and friends ! How is everyone doing ? I see Deanna finished her 5 day pouch test . Congradulations to her ! You Go Girl ! I have had a good week. Tomorow is my day off. My email is down for some odd reason so if anyone has sent me anything in the last few days I couldn't read it. I quess I have to call AOL for it is only mine and no one elses.  WHY ME ONLY ??? WHY??? WHY??? I can't stand it. Hope all is doing well and has had a blessed day ! See you lighter. Joanne

Hi Joanne & Delaware,
Thanks for the Congrats, I got on the scale today and I have lost a total of 5.6lbs.  I am excited about that.  I continued today with my Day 6 and it very well.  Lots of protein and no carbs or junk.  I just finished packing for my weekend with the youth in Ocean City, MD at their annual youth rally, nothing like 5,000 kids worshiping God, I am so excited.  I am taking my computer so hopefully I can keep up with everything that is going on..

Hope everyone has a great weekend.

Hi everyone,
Thursday was very busy for me due to my upcoming surgery on Monday the 12th.  First thing in the morning, I took Sarah and Jason's EBT card to the Milford Sav-A-Lot and got tons of canned, frozen, and freezable breads and stuff.  You can sure get a heck of a lot more for the dollars there than at other grocery stores.  I had 4 full shopping carts and after unloading, bagging/boxing, loading into the car, and then taking it all in the house and putting it away, I was exhausted.  Then I had to scram for my pre-surgery visit with my doctor, then over to Beebe for an EKG.  Anesthesia was not satisfied with my most current one from last March. It shows all 3 of my heart attacks and they just wanted to be sure there's nothing new since then.  After all of that, I had to go to Rite-Aid and Food Lion for stuff I couldn't get in Milford.  When I finally got home, it was nearly 5pm and Thursday is scout night.  I couldn't do it.  All I wanted to do was get on the heating pad and rest, so that's what I did.  I also heard from my PCP about my rheumatoid arthritis screen...it was positive.  I am devastated.  I see how bad my mom has gotten over the last 10 years and it is so sad.  I just don't want that to happen to me.  I took my muscle relaxers and went to sleep.  It's all I could do after such a trying day.  I was just too weary to give any more.

I see my pain management doc today at 10, then I have to call Beebe after 2pm to find out what time I need to be there on Monday for my surgery.  It's outpatient and I will go home a couple of hours after, as long as there are no complications.  I don't anticipate anything bad happening.  Ed will go with me because they won't allow me to drive after anesthesia.

Something funny---after that long day, the thing that was the last straw for me was finding dog poo on both my shoes.  Insignificant but enough to make me give up and call it a day.  LOL.

Have a restful ( whatever that is ) weekend and we will be thinking positive thoughts for you on Monday.  Keep us posted when you feel up to getting on the computer.

((hugs))
Ellen