Tuesday Morning

Hi everyone,

 Sherri you are so blessed with your work situation. The time off you have is amazing.  But I am sure you have worked hard to get where you are and put in the time to deserve all of that.   I had to leave the job I loved (911 dispatcher) due to my hearing getting worse a couple of years ago.  I landed at a different job but miss the family like atmosphere I had dispatching.  The coworkers at the new place are so cold and calculating.  They all have the "what's in it for me??" attitude.  I need to be around people that I can be friends with.
Gail, I wish the pain you have will ease soon and the recovery will be swift. I am praying for you.
Jeannie, I am glad you had a good day at your new job.  Training for a new job is always nerve racking. I am so sorry your son is having to deal with such a tragic event so young.  Bless his heart.
My brother found out that he has a mass entwined on his spine in his middle back yesterday.  He has been plagued with problems for a while now and I never felt they had found the true cause yet.  He was being told he had MS or that it was all in his head.  I am grateful they found the problem. However, the surgery to correct the problem will be very delicate.  And there is always the chance the mass will be cancer.  That is what he is worried about most at this time.  He is a single father of an 8 year old.  He said the Dr told him the mass appears to be liquid filled.  So that sounds encouraging to me.  He originally just twisted his back and has gotten worse over the last couple months.   I know how he feels since I had a pelvic mass removed last February.  Mine was benign.  But until you know that for sure your mind messes with you!
I am still kind of down due to the "stall" I am experiencing.  Six weeks out and I haven't lost a pound in week.  It is so encouraging to see the scale dropping lower.  I know the inches are still changing but it doesn't seem the same.  I have a problem with anxiety and I start worrying that I have messed up my surgery or something crazy like that. 
I hope everyone has a great day. I will be working on my attitude and choose to be positive!!

Tracey,
You are right on! It is so much more, and we are glad you are part of the "family" of Hoosier Losers. Sending you cyber (((((hugs))))).

Hello everyone. No big plans here except to take my youngest for his speech therapy appt. I need to get some meals cooked up and frozen for the family for after my surgery. I also really need to get my Christmas shopping finished up (guess I'd have to officially start first wouldn't I?) Dec 17th surgery date will be here before I know it.

Just realized yesterday that Thanksgiving is next week. I have so much to be thankful for this year as I will be preparing to begin the new healthy me. We have no plans for Thanksgiving, probably just going to hang around home. We aren't going to drive back home to Fort Wayne because we will be going back 2 weeks later for Christmas.

I will keep everyone else's current concerns on my prayer list!

Whoo Hoo!! Goal!!! Good for you!!! Heck I don't even know what my actual goal was.... the first goal was anything under a size 20!! I made it!!!

I have lived in the same house for 30 years... Leaving it would be VERY Hard... but wow!!! To actually start over with a clean house and everything in it's place,... hum...IF I ever die... or my hubby does... my kids are going to go nuts finding enough dumpsters to put our "collections" in!!! heheh We just kept adding sheds... sheds we dont even visit often!!heheh

Gail... I'm with someone else.... think of those sirens as angels speeding along to help someone.. saying a prayer to get them there on time and safely... WOW it would be like you were part of the rescue team!!

Linda Kay

Good Morning all! Another day is here and I am so glad that the sun is out! When it is gloomy I do not feel as good. SO YIPPEEE! Maybe I will feel like doing something around here!
 Linda I hope that this next year will be better for you, I and others who are having problems financially. We have been contemplating filing bankruptcy also. It is a hard decision to just up and not pay your bills. Right now we have to decide which is more important to pay the mortgage or the credit cards. Well with me the mortgage, gas, and electric come first. But sooner or later we have to decide, if my husband continues working at Bloomington, what to do about living. He as some of you know is living in my cousins camper outside of Paoli and driving an hour to Bloomington daily. He then comes home on Friday after work ( 3:30p.m.) and is home until 4:30 a.m. on Monday morning. He can't continue to take advantage of my cousins generosity for ever. SO after the first of the year it is going to be decision time!
 Of course with Christmas coming up and us being distant with his siblings(their choice not ours) we will not be buying presents for anyone including ourselves. On Thanksgiving I am meeting him for lunch somewhere in Mooresville or Martinsville. Then it will be back in separate abodes. Does anyone have any ideas what will be open down in that area? Also do they have a movie theater close? If you could let me know I would appreciate it! Well got to go call some doctors! You all have a great day and take care! Michelle

In a somber mood today.  I don't really have much to say about me today but as I'm reading these posts it makes me think of the children's message I did at church last weekend.  It was about friends and how God wants us to have companions.  I can't tell you where exactly in the Bible it is but God spoke about a chord of three strands is not easily broken.  As I was reading today's post I started thinking about the strong people we have on here.  Just to name a few:  Linda, Emil, Ellen, Gail, Sherri... of course there are others but names escape me.  it's amazing the things you've each endured this past year yet you are the very ones who lift each of us up when we're down.  The light of Jesus shines even through a computer screen and keyboard!  My prayer today is that you are each as blessed as you've blessed me.  My life is different because of you.

Smooches,
Jacqui 

Michelle I live in Martinsville and will be cooking a nice thanksgiving dinner.  You and your hubby are more than welcome to have your dinner here with us, we would love to have you. 

Jeannie

Good cold morning everyone
Today is going to be a good day.
Andys foot is looking better,lucas's doctor thinks its arthritis  so that makes me feel alittle better.
Linda you are such an inspiration you take everything that is bad and make it good,you never boo hoo for yourself,girl you are amazing and at goal...you are remarkable.
We are having 3 thanksgiving maybe 4, i fix dinner for my little family my parents and brother and friends that have no where to go thanksgiving noon at 6 we go to my dhs sisters resturant where they have a buffet.
Then the 30th to my dads family and on the 6th of dec bfast with my moms family in indy...wheeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwww glad i cant eat much,but poor neil can and does.lol
I wonna thank you all for your kindness and i cant wait to see all of you on the 6th.....
Everone have a good day and you my family friends are all in my thoughts and prayers..

Hello fellow losers or soon to be losers or future losers......

Busy morning this morning, been to workout w/ the trainer. I have femoral arthritis in both knees. The space behind my knees aren't there anymore. Its bone on bone and is like "80 grit sandpaper" the doc. said. I have been instructed what exercises I should and can do when It comes to my knees. I have a brace the fitted me for. it seems to help alot but the wanted me to wear 2....Its pretty bulky, so I went with 1.
I recieved an email from Richard Bales from Clarian support group. Monica, the one who organized Annessa's babyshower, lost her twins on October 30. I hadn't heard yet, and since I won't beable to make it to support group until I get my scheduled switch back.. By the way the email went, this looks like this is the second set of twins that she has lost. OMG Prayers out to her...that's for darn sure.
I need to get going and jump in the shower, I have a few errands to run before I have to go into work. Have a great day....If you haven't read my thread from yesterday...I am throwing out there a Turkey Day challenge you can.

Lots of hugs and kisses out to everyone, esp. those in dire need for it.
shanna

Hmmmm what to say..

Well I don't really know. I guess I'm "okay." The holidays coming up make me kind of sad too sometimes because I miss my dad terribly and then with the miscarriages I have had it's kind of one of those times that I day dream about what Christmas morning would be like had I carried them. I don't know I'm just really bummed out. I try to think positive and do things to get out of the house and just be still and know that God is in control but it's hard lately.

My brain racing is really tough on me because I cannot concentrate or function hardly. Like I was cleaning the other day and DH wanted to help but he said he couldn't figure out what I was doing, I'd start in the living room, next thing you know I'm in the dining room, then the kitchen then back to the living room. By the time I was tired out all I ended up with was a few partially cleaned rooms. The depression stuff is just really beating me down no matter how hard I try to fight it off. I just want to be "normal" although I'm unsure what that is anymore. I want to be a better support person for you folks but I'm soo consumed with fighting my own demons that I don't feel like a good friend. Dec. 11 cannot get here soon enough for me though. I'm hoping to get some relief although I know it won't be immediate, I really need to figure out the right combination for me.

Anyways enough bout  me. I really need to work on cleaning again today but the energy isn't there.