Friday Roll Call!!!

Hello everyone

I am feeling better today.  I can eat and keep food down.  I tried solid last nigt and that stayed down.  So it seems my band is just being very fickle.  I talked to my best friend yesterday and she says this kind of thing happens all of the time.  She said there are days she can't get much food down and other days she is wide open.  So I took her advice and just waited over the course of the day to see if I got better and I did.  I'm drinking warm water right now.  Trying to make sure my band isn't too tight before I start eating. 

Tonight I'm going out with a friend.  I can't wait till the end of the day...

Have a wonderful day.

I'm so glad you are feeling better!  Hopefully today goes just as well for you!

I'm excited, today I go see the NP/NUT for the 1st time.  Last night I sat down and typed out all of my medical history: surgeries, diagnosis, medications currently on and the amounts.  It was kind of depressing when you see all down on paper.  Makes me feel like what a mess my body is.

Yesterday I ended up going to Urgent Care for the lumps under my arms.  My doc's office was closed.  Turns out I have some sort of deep cyst that are infected.  Of course the most common cause for this problem is stress and excess weight.  The doc started to tell me about losing weight and I explained to him where I was going today and he was very supportive.  They also tested my blood sugar as he was concerned that I would be diabetic and that would also cause the skin problems.  But my sugars were fine so that was a big relief.  I'm always worried about getting diabetes.

Hope everyone enjoys their friday! I'm happy to see the snow melting too!  TGIF everyone!

 Hi Carol

Glad you found out what was going on.  Cysts are sooooo painful!  Ouch!  I have a question, where is there an urgent care center in Ottawa?  It sure sounds better than the emergency room option that costs me a minimum of $500 when my doctor is not available.  I am willing to drive to Ottawa to save $$$.  

Nancy

It's St.Mary's Immediate Care clinic, it's right on 23 before you get into Ottawa, behind the Southside Kroger, they just opened it last year I think.  It was the first time I had gone in there and they were so nice and efficient.  The entire visit took 40 minutes at the most.  They even have this automated medication dispenser.  If they prescribe something to you you can go to the machine in the lobby, enter your name and birthdate, the machine pulls up your prescription and then if you have a copay you pay with your credit or debit card, I don't remember if it took cash, and then the machine fills the prescription, dispenses the bottle along with your directions for taking it on the bottle!  The future pharmacy!

Strongly suggest going there instead of the ER if you do not have a life threatening issue.  Wayyyyy better than the usual craziness of the ER and less wait and less harried nurses/doctors.

I hate cysts, I think the antibiotics are working because one did break today (which also sucked but thankfully it waited until AFTER I took off my WHITE sweater that I had just bought!!)  Though now that it is not as big it definitely does not hurt as much.

Good Morning iL,
Going to see my tax lady to see what damage I did last year, did my exercise at 5am.  Starting on my early water in take and meetings all day. 

Have a great day everyone!

Good morning, IL
Glad you're doing better, every day seems like a learning process.  Got my stress test over with yesterday, now just wait for everyone to do their paperwork so I can get all my clearances and hopefully get scheduled.  Not doing much today, need to get the house clean first thing.  Going to try my best to stay off of Facebook!  Liking this warmer weather but would really like some sunshine.  Everyone have a good day. 

Lynn 

Good morning Crystal and the rest of Illinois!

Glad to hear that you are doing better.  I hope this is "it" for you Crystal.

Carol-----I SO remember that feeling of "what a mess" when I first started this journey.  I use that as positive motivation when I feel down about not losing to where I had hoped.  I am now off of all medicine and SO much healthier!  All I take now are my vitamins and protein!  I can do MANY things that I would never have thought of before.  Like last night....I participated with my middle schoolers in their improv class.  I would have just sat and watched "before".

Work today, then the yearly meeting at the theater tonight.  This will be my first big meeting since I joined the theater and I will be meeing all the other members.  It should be interesting.

I am wishing you all a splendid day and weekend!

Good Morning Everyone,

Nothing pressing for today, I just need to go to the store and pick up some cleaning we had.

Yesterday I finally got the car washed. I must admit, it is a very nice deep red that looks great without the addition of the salt white coating.
I was also able to get a dresser cleaned out. Its one that is filled with scrapbooking stuff. I was able to condense stuff down to 2 drawers, so I now have 2 drawers to put other stuff in. ( Such as all the Christmas wrappings).

Have a great day, stay warm, dry and safe.

Huggers,
Lisa

Crystal, glad to hear it is some better. Take it easy and experiment with what you can eat!  Good luck.

Georgie

 Good Afternoon Everyone!

Happy Friday!  I am glad it is the weekend but I do have a check class to teach tomorrow so no sleeping in for me.  I miss that.  

I have made it through my first week back at work.  Not too bad.  Wish I had asked for more than 2 weeks at part time because I could really get used to this!  Maybe it is good that it is only 2 weeks.  

I had a major accomplishment today.  I got up to do my moving around per doctors orders and did not use my cane at all!  I had it with me but did not need it!    It was such a feeling of freedom that I have not had in over 3 years!  I wi**** was warmer and I would go take a walk.  It is great to see progress.  

Crystal, so glad that you can get some food down.  That sure doesn't sound pleasant to not be able to eat or drink.  

Hope everyone has a great weekend!