Friday Whats Happening!!!!

Wow another week has gone by, and here the week end is again. Funny how it keeps doing that. Lol. It is suppose to be another hot one here in the Ozarks today. Yipppeee cant wait. NOT!!! We are suppose to have company come down for Sunday I think. Dhs niece and great niece. The great niece is the one that is 5 and up until a year ago we practially raised. We had her as much as her mama did. But we moved over to Cedar Creek and she didn't follow so we only get to see her once in a while. Love that baby as much as any grandbaby ,that is what she feels like.We really miss her. What am I going to do today? Not a lot outside. I think I will stay in and clean my bottom cabinets out , maybe tackle the cabinets in the utility room and in the bathroom. The guy that bought our old car is suppose to come today to get her. We decided yesterday to take the car on one last outing. So when we went to the pain clinic in Branson and then on to do a lot of other running around we put the top down and took the car. I think we both got way too hot and too much sun . We were so worn out yesterday afternoon. I think we should have stopped and put the top up silly us.I felt like I had been rode hard and put away wet. Sky: How was your one week checkup? Had you lost anything? How was the trip up and back on you? How are you feeling in one week? Lot of questions. Hope you will get on today sometime and tell us all how it went. Be sure and record all of each day in your profile too. It will make a nice journal for you too when you get down to a size 8. Pixielf: Wow I like your new work out song. I saw them Perform that on T.V. one day. Was sort of neat and I don't normally like that sort of music. Last day of work for this week. Hope that coffee works wonders again to wake you up for the day. Colette: I found the info about the meetings in Sedalia on Dr.Hornbostels, patient forum web site. Im sure that if you up your exercise , you will probably start losing again. They say that day to day living and working isn't enough at one time to really be of help much. You would think as much as you walk halls and stuff as a nurse it would count as exercise and it is better than having a sitting down job but it doesn't do much for cardiovascular or for losing of inches and weight. I know you are really excited about this week end. We all want to say : HAPPY ANNIVERSARY: to you and your DH of 50 years. That use to be a sort of rare thing as people didn't live much longer than that and look at us we are just starting to live at this age. WOW. Melissa: You are going to need that pool to be able to stay cool today. Great that you have it. Did you get it filled? If not I think I would go sit in it as it fills today that would be fun just sit on a raft and float up to the top lol. Yes I am really anxious to meet all of you too. How are you doing on your water and food intake? Wayne : Still missing in Action. Craig: Still missing in Action David: so very very glad that your surgery went off so well. I cant believe that you are really going back to work today. Hope you continue to feel better and better each day. Benny: Oh man I hope you are feeling so much better today. You have been on my mind since yesterday. I sent you an email about the weight you have to lose. I wonder is this something new that Dr. H. has started doing. He said at the seminar that I went to that he didn't do that ,just ask that you didn't gain any before going to surgery. Is that 10percent of your weight that he is asking you to lose? We all know that you can do it. Look how strong you have been so far to get all of the things done to get this far. You can do this part too.If you need any moral support just ask we are here for you. Drink lots of water and fill up on that. No sweets, nothing white, eat protein and green veggies and salads. We love you and are pulling for you. See you Monday at the meeting. Well I had better get this online ...I slept in this morning. Wow something I don't ever do . Watch out everyone the sky is falling. Jan

Jan I am doing great. The Dr. said I was doing great. I got up early this morning and walked around the block at 6:15am I wanted to get my walk in before it got to hot. I have to go back to Sedalia today as we forgot to get our youngest DD's glass's. We took them in and got her len's changed while I was in the Dr.s and guess what. Yep we came back home without them. Needless to say DD was not happy with me or her Dad. So I told her I would go back today and get them. I'm glad you are ok, I was wondering about you this morning when you hadn't posted yet. Take care and have a wonderful day and everyone stay cool. Sky

Jan , I am feeling alot better today and im in a good mood , i cant wait to meet you all at the metting either. I dont know why i have to loose 35 to 40 lbs , at the seminar he said his weight limit was 500lbs im 491lbs but when margie called she said if i didnt have it losed that they would rescedual and give me more time to loose it , i told her NO! LOL im looseing it by the 18th of aug , i have done that so many times even more lost that that but i stoped because i just gain it triple back. but i dont know they must of changed their rules . maybe its a medicare thing aswell they didnt say . i have to call them anyway and ask what time the assement is on the 18th of aug so ill ask why have to loose lol

Hello to everyone, The clan is starting to arrive, the kids from Ohio, Texas and Pennsylvania, and friends from North Carolina are very close. The plus of cell phones. Sky, Benny and all I am glad you are going so well. I guess I am the mom of everyone on here. Age does not count as far as I am concerned. LOL Have a great weekend. Colette

Jan, I was out of town for several days this week, so I am very behind on everything including this board. My DH and I are planning a vacation in July, so I am in a much better mood than I have been for a while. I saw my oncologist on Monday, and my blood tests show I am doing very well. I don't have to see him again for 3 months now. I have too many doctors and too little time all of a sudden. Tomorrow I am going with a friend to see Garrison Keillor's "Prairie Home Companion" movie at the Missouri Theater here in Columbia. I am looking forward to that. Tomorrow evening our granddaughter is coming over to spend the night. Let's pray she has a big day before she gets here, so she will sleep through the night. If Allison doesn't sleep Nana doesn't sleep either. Well that's my fast-paced weekend plans. I forgot to mention the weekly trip to the public library. Before I know it, I will be back in my office; and it will be Monday. Yikes!! I hate when weekends fly by. LInda

Hi Jan, I didn't get on here on Thursday, and if I'm not quick I won't make on Friday either. Been busy trying to get all my spring cleaning done (such as closets and deep cleaning), before I have my surgery. Some laugh when I say I'm still doing my spring cleaning but it takes me a long time to get anything done with my back in the shape it's in! I have found a way to be able to do more cleaning and to be able to sweep and mop, which I haven't been able to do for a long time because of excruciating back pain. I have a desk chair that I use when I'm on computer it has wheels so I've been rolling all over the house cleaning while seating, my back still hurts but not like it does when I stand . I am glad to hear everyone seems to be doing well now. Hang in there Benny! I know what it is to deal with depression. My journey of depression began when I was 18 years old, that was way back in 1971. My only brother and his wife and 5 children died in their home from carbon monoxide poisoning. Push forward to 1992 I had to have a total hysterectomy, which causes depression, at least it did in me, then in 1993 my mama died at the age of 66, which I thought I would never get through. Then in January 1996 my first cousin died at the age of 38 from a blood clot that exploded her heart, she had - had previous back surgery for the same problem I have. She was as close to me as a sister. Then in May of that year my baby boy Matthew committed suicide, he was only 22, I don't know how I ever got through that, only by the grace of God.There are still time periods during that time that I remember nothing about. My daddy died in 1998, and by this point I had developed fibromyalgia which feeds into the depression, with daddy's passing I felt that it was the last straw for my sanity. Then on the morning of daddy's funeral we got there to find that several keepsake items that my daddy wanted buried with him had been stolen off his body by who we never found out. But I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that God is the only saving grace I had. I turned it all over to him and I am getting through, I believe that if God brings you to it, He will take you through it. Praise God! I still have to take 2 antidepression meds. I pray that more healing will come to my soul as the pounds leave. I know that you will make it! Love Brenda