WHATS HAPPENING FRIDAY

Joe got in with the kids about 7pm last night . Was wonderful to see them. you would lose your heart big time to the 20 month old little boy he is adorable actually. Dark curly hair, and the sweetest smile. Just lights up the room , their baby girl is 2 months old and is the most precious thing. Both are beautiful and look almost alike. The boy, Brendan , is a little chunk weights 32.5 pounds lol Loves to eat. He ate about 6 carrots from the roast I had made , he ate some of the meat and potatoes too but my granddaughter said he loves carrots. Cooked or raw. So I know what to keep on hand for him lol We got their stuff out of the truck and moved into the trailer and will go to the store this morning sometime so they can get a few things. Will be taking them to the food stamp office on Friday and he is going to apply for a job in Kissee mills that wont be too bad to take them back and forth for awhile until they can get a car. If anyone has a good running , although not so nice looking car that they would like to sell for CHEAP and I mean CHEAP like for under 500 dollars ???or would be willing to accept small payments let me know. Loljust something to get him to work and bac****il he can save enough money for a better car. Gosh wasn't today cold. Felt like winter again. This is some of the weirdest weather I have ever seen. TAMMY: You sound so good and sound like you are doing so well on your diet . I know you can do it . And I think you know you can too now. If you can move about any at all even if it is just sitting in a chair and doing upper arm exercises it will help you use up that fat too. I know that when I first started that is all I could do . I had some little 2 pounds dumbbells and I couldn't even do them at first but after about a week of it I was able to do them and then I had some of those big stretchy bands. I would put them under my foot and raise it up as far as I could and then push against the band. Wasn't much when I started but it gets better. You are doing wondereful and we are all so proud of you. Keep it up . DEBBIE M: Are you still dry or has the creek water gotten you yet? We didn't have anymore rain today it just looked like it was going to any minute all day. And was cold. Never got above 55 all day today. So how are your puppies. I saw the pictures looks like the mama may have been a little bit of a **** lol. Doesn't look like any of them look alike. MELISSA: Isnt it awful about how bad people can be sometimes. Cussing like that in a church. Sounds like they were never taught any respect for anything not even God. Glad you got the papers notrerized that you all can care for fil alright now. Hey good speech you made to the bil about how he had to care for the fil and that Terry had to go to drive since no one had a drivers lic. Doesn't sound like he will be coming anytime soon. VESTA: hope you had a good birthday today. JANET: So glad that your newest epidural didn't hurt as bad as the first one did. Sounds like your husband has a good job with a good future even if he doesn't get a vacation. I bet he could if he pushed it to the owners tho. Your family will take as much as they know they can get you to give. Believe me I know. Lol Your poor back and knees sounds like they wont last much longer rather than wait another year before surgery especially on your knees. Maybe we can get our knees done together lol. Im not really ready to have mine done yet either tho. Especially if these shots this time will work. Hey you need to quit speeding. You cant do it in real cars you know like you do with your remote controlled ones. Lol BEL: Thanks for offering to go see Sugar. I still haven't heard anything from them this evening. But will call them in the morning . I guess it is too late now. I figure that since I haven't had a call that things are the same or better. Well I am really tired again tonight. I am going to post this early. My legs are jumping like crazy and im out of my REQuip tonight. Please everyone keep on praying for sugar Iknow she would appreciate it. LOVE AND JOY AND PEACE ABOUNDS JAN.

Good Morning Everyone: Thought I would pop in here and say Howdy before I crawl into bed and pull the covers over my head. I am totally wiped out today. When I was posting last night and I said I heard Dad moving around. I went out to check on him and got him something to drink. He went back to bed then about 15 minutes later he was back up and in the bathroom. I made sure he got back to bed and was just getting ready to doze off. When I heard him up again. this time he came out into the kitchen totally dressed??? I got up and ask Dad if everything was okay and why he was up. He said because of Football Friday. HUN??? Dad has never been to a football game in his life nor watched football on tv. He started rambleing again talking like he was in the past. Well I freaked out and culdnt fall asleep for fear of what he might do. At 6am this morning he was still up and out of it. Terry woke up and took over to I could doze for awhile. When I got up at 8 this morning Dad was still up. Didnt sleep at all last night. I kept asking if he was okay or if he needed anything. He has went back to grunting when we ask him anything. Dad finally went and laid down around Noon. So I went to run a few errands. Was gone maybe an hour and when we came back he was sitten at the kitchen table again. Got him a shake he didnt want nothing else. Terry & I went to the living room. And Dad sat at the table for approx 3 hours just off in never never land. I would go in to check on him and he would look at me like he wanted to say something but forgot or couldnt quite place who I was. Got Dad back into his pj because he pants kept falling to the floor and I was so afraid that he would trip on them and fall. He would stand up with his walker and I was thinking to myself. Good now maybe he would come into the living room or go lay down. But nope he would stand up act like he was going somewhere then sit back down at the table. Like I said this went on for about 3 hours. Around 5pm he went in to lay down in bed and been there since then. He didnt get his evening pills taken yet. And I am scared to death to go wake him for fear of him prowling the house all night long again tonight. I honestly dont think I have it in me to pull another all nighter tonight. Figured he might be getting up here shortly and then I can give them to him. So I am headed off to relax in the recliner that way if he gets up I will hear him. Tummy has been notted up all day long but I think it is just stress and lack of sleep. I pray everyone has a great day today. Looks like it is suppose to be another beatiful weekend!!! God Bless Mel

TGIF: Hello Lovlies! Have been feeling under the weather this week...but nothing I can't live thru. Have a sweet thing to tell you guys....there is another Pre-WLS grrl from Poplar Bluff (Cindy) she comes here and to that semo.net site where I sell my stuff, annnyway... She needs a home for her little 2 year old poodle Coco, I am hoping I will find out today if he can come live with Bailey & Lucais. She just has too much going on right now, and he is a lil ole baby, like my Bailey...whom everyone swears should actually be my real life baby, the way he's soooo clingy to me.... She has seen the doctor (Scott) and has her letters in she needs, she comes here some, so if I am not around, please help her! It is looking dreary here today, and I have an appointment in Paragould this morning...I am sick of the rain. I hope it's not MORE rain, heard last night on the news today was supposed to feel more like FALL than spring...booooo. I just froze yesterday. I love you guys! S

Hi everyone, I hardly post much any more but feel the need this morning. It has been a busy week, it has flown by fast. Monday's COF meeting was great as usual, so good to see and meet newbies. The support I feel when sitting in the meeting is like no other. I can't describe the closness I feel. I encourage everyone who doesn't go to please give it a try. You will be glad you did. Monday was also the day my Mom had her angiogram, which turned out okay, thank you God. Now we have to still find out what is making her so short of breath with activity. Monday was also the day my DH went to Ok and picked up his daughter and two kids to come to our house for the week. I walked in Tuesday after work and my two year old grandson ran to me with open arms for a hug and to be picked up. Boy if that doesn't make your heart go pitter patter I don't know what would. See, the only kids I have are my precious daschunds, my husband of four years have grown kids from previous marriage. So this is all new to me, And I am loving it. So I also must share my weight loss, another 4.5 pounds off this week. I weigh on Fridays. So that sure makes me feel good. That is knocking on the door of 60 pounds down. I had no idea I would feel this good. My sister had soooo many problems after her surgery four years ago, I guess I expected to be the same way. She had a terrible time for about year but she has lost 165 and kept it off, and a size 6. I was born a size 16 I think. Jan please tell Sugar I am praying for her recovery, I worry about her daily. I hope they find answers soon. Everyone have a great day and weekend. I am going to play Jan this weekend and get outside and play in the dirt and plant some stuff. Also going to help my grandkids make a stepping stone with their handprints on it for their Mom for Mothers Day. That is a Grandma kind of thing to do isn't it?????? Hey, I'm learning!!! See ya, Tara.

Dear Jan and OH Family~ Jan-so glad that Joe and the granddaughter and her family made it back safely. I hope all goes well and that the grandson in law gets a job right away. I also hope they know how lucky they are to have you and Joe. You are so wonderful for helping them out......I will keep you all in my prayers. Jan-any news on Sugar yet? I am praying for her and hope and pray that she gets home and is healed completely!!! She has really been on my mind a lot lately-along with her family and her big sis-please take care of yourself too-ok? Love you all!!! The knees-yes I know-they are a pain to me too.....but, I am NOT going to have them done for at least another year. I will just live with pain-I guess I am bullheaded like you-LOL....wouldnt that be something for you and I to be in a room together after knee replacement? I dont think they are ready for us-LOL LOL....Although I do think we are so determined-that we would be all over the hospital walking etc to get out of there and back to our homes and all. I really pray for you that this series of shots works for you as well-and that they will continue to work for you until you are ready to have your surgery too. I have a question-you mentioned a doctor in Springfiield-is he a pain management doctor? The one that you got the shot in the shoulder from? I am being sent to Springfield to a pain management doc-so I was wondering if you would mind sharing the name of yours? Thanks. It looks like Jon and I will be replanted/potting our stuff today-the news said rain on and off-but right now it is nice-so we may go and do it now before it starts raining again.....We already have to mow again and we just did it!!! WOW.....and our track is going to have to be rescratched with the scratcher on the back of the lawn mower because all the rain just packed it back down....Guess we never run out of things to do here. Ok-I am going to be a little risky here-and say that my back is already feeling better. (KNOCKING ON WOOD-THANK YOU JESUS) usually after I say something-it reverses-but I took it easy ALL Day yesterday and stayed on the couch on the heating pad....and this morning I was tender and still have that exposed nerve feeling in the lower back-but nothing like before-thank goodness.....THANKS TO ALL WHO PRAYED FOR ME!!! I go Monday to the ortho and I am praying for better news. Maybe this will totally kick in by then-and IF it does-will just see about the 3rd shot that I am allowed this year. That would be such a huge weight lifted from me. I have really had a lot of issues with the pain and all since mentally I feel better than I have in so many years-when before I didnt care about myself-I do now-so its hard to be confined to the couch or what have you because I enjoy life so much....I love waking up now and I love life-and I dont want to be in constant pain when there is so much I can and WANT to do now!!! You all mean so much to me-and from the bottom of my heart-I feel so blessed to have you in my life-and your comments, your prayers and listening to me ramble every morning. You all are on the top of my blessings list!!!! **YAY-we have 3 new LOSERS on our bench-WELCOME Charlotte, Virginia and Pam. I am so glad surgery went well and I am praying now for a speedy recovery!!! Glad to have you on the losing side-Let us know if you need anything girls!! **Tammy Ammy-You are going to LOVE Dr. Halstenson-she ROCKS!!! You are going to feel so good when you leave her office-its contagious!! I wish I would have remembered at the time to tell her I say hi-she helped me MORE in 45 minutes than the psycho-I mean Psychiatrist here did in almost 5 hours!! I am praying for a very safe and uneventful trip. My daughter is at Stephens college this morning-and asked if I wanted to come with her and meet you up there-but I knew my back couldnt handle a 10 hour trip in her tiny little car that sits low to the ground-in the back seat no less!!! Please email or post when you get home or in the morning and let me know how that went. I am so very happy for you and we are so close to getting that date!! **Sherr-I sure hope you get that new pup!!! Im sorry your not feeling well. I have been praying for you, the fur family and the parents-that everyone is healthy and doing better. Dont see you much anymore-I hope all is well and good luck with the new pup...is it a girl or a boy? Have you met it yet? What color? **Deb-how is the mamma and her pups doing? I hope they are all fine. Have you decided what your doing with them yet? Any news on your friends wife yet? I have been praying for her and her family. I hope and pray the Lord heals her and that she gets to go home healthy. Well, Im sorry if I missed anyone...I am going to get my shake and vitamins and get my day started. I am going to go to Carthage to get my prescriptions and then stop so Jon can see his Aunt Mel. He is going through Aunite withdrawls. Poor little guy. I hope everyone has a great Friday and A blessed weekend. Love and Prayers to all, Janet

Good Morning Everyone!! I pray that this day is a good day for one and all! I have been up since about 6:30a....guess I went to bed too early (11:30p). Looks like it's beautiful outside....I just hope it's not cold! JANET...yes, I posted awhile back that Jake had made a miraculous recovery! I will look to see if I can find it and repost. It explained what we believed happened. He is doing just fine though. He is eating, drinking, playing and loving on anyone who will let him! Thank you Lord!! ************************************************************** Thank the Lord, we have been blessed! JAKE is fine! Yesterday he started pooping solid with no blood and he is back to drinking LOTS of water. I even got to play a little "fetch" with him and Gracee yesterday! Thank you Jesus!! Jan...I never found out exactly how or why Jake was sick but I do believe that with him eating the grass, it was making him sicker and not allowing his digestive system to heal! I found an article on a vet website about why dogs eat grass and that's where I found out about me needing to keep him from eating it until his innerds healed. Like most people I thought it was normal for them to eat grass when their sick but I will say that I will NEVER let them eat grass again...well, at least not while their sick! Thank you for caring! Below is the article where I found the information. Foreign Material Grazing on the grass! Nearly all dogs will occasionally consume grass. I disagree with the popular notion that "the dog knows he should vomit so he eats grass to make it happen". It's more likely that when dogs have a stomach or intestinal upset, or a sore or irritated throat, they will seek out grass, leaves, sticks and other fibrous material and consume them apparently out of frustration with that unending throat irritation or stomach ache. Once ingested, grass and the like are so irritating they can cause bleeding along the entire intestinal tract. You'd vomit, too, if you ate a swath of grass! Normal dogs eat grass simply because they enjoy the texture, odor and taste of it; so when fresh and damp grass is available they'll go for it. Don't believe popular myths that "grass is good for dogs" because it is in fact highly irritating and totally indigestible for dogs. Grass has about as much food value for canines as an equal amount of the Sunday newspaper. Dogs like to chew on nylon, plastic, compressed rawhide, electrical cords, expensive shoes, two-by-fours, rotten bones, wallets, and chair legs for one basic reason... it feels good. So, rather than thinking "the dog knows he should vomit so he eats grass to make it happen", (which really makes no sense), a dog will consume all sorts of fibrous, rough, non-food materials almost compulsively when the throat or stomach is irritated. Consuming these foreign substances adds additional stress and irritation to an already upset stomach and the dog then vomits the grass and other stomach contents. See the column written by Dr. Dunn in the March, 2005 issue of Dog World Magazine which addresses the question of why dogs do some of the odd things they do! ************************************************************** If anyone wants the website, here it is but I will warn you that it IS VERY GRAPHIC, showing feces, parasites, sick dogs and such! http://www.thepetcenter.com/exa/diarrhea.html#Foreign ************************************************************** David was saying that he was thankful that Jake made it because he is such a good dog and he knows what it would do to me to lose another Retriever so close to me losing Sam! I still have a hard time with her death and it's been two years! I think it's because I see so much of the love Sam had for everyone, in Jake! A LOT of the stuff he does reminds me of her! I had her 16 years, I can only pray that I'm that lucky with Jake. After that close call, we are thinking about having Jake breed a female retriever to where I get pick of the litter, hoping to find another a pup with the same demeaner as Jake. Either that or get a female retriever that has the same characteristics as Jake and let them breed as least once where I would keep one to keep Jake's gene pool alive. He is the best dog we have ever seen and that's saying something because I didn't think anyone could top Sam! The only bad thing about Sam was she loved to run and to explore! Anytime she got the chance to run, she did and she wouldn't come bac****il she was ready! It always made me nervous because we live very close to a highway! I would just cringe when I would hear those words "Sam's loose!" David hated that about her but he never broke her spirit, no matter what he tried! It was in her to run and she ran like the wind! I loved watching her run the back forty, her long blonde coat against the dark green foilage! She was my first best buddy! David and her went around and around sometimes but I think they both enjoyed it! He would pick on her and she would get even. I have so many stories I could share about her but I don't want to take up all your time! Well, I'll tell a couple stories....lol They are probably the shortest stories of her I remember. 1. Sam had gotten in trouble with David for something, early one day. That night for dinner, we had pizza. David got his pizza, a couple slices on his plate and headed to the front room. I was still in the kitchen helping kids and Sam was laying in between rooms. David got up to go to the bathroom, when he came back, one of his pieces of pizza was missing! He didn't have to ask, he knew who got it!....lol He said he didn't have the heart to go after her, he knew better than leaving a plate down where a dog could reach it and the fact that she only took one piece and left the other for him was unbelievable! He said, most dogs would of ate both pieces and the plate too....at least she shared!...lol 2. You needed to be there for this one but I will do my best. David, use to work the graveyard shift and would get home around 7:30a. It was summertime and Jason was sound alseep but was suppose to be up! The other kids had already moved out! Sam was sleeping in Jason's room, on the floor next to his bed. If she wasn't with me, she was with him, she usually was very protective over Jason and myself but she was getting older and wasn't much of guard dog anymore, just a noise maker but that was good enough for me. Well, anyway that morning when David came in, he decided that because Jason wasn't awake and like I said, he was suppose to be! David was going to scare him awake and proceeded to pound his fist on the bedroom door and started yelling like a DI...it woke Jason up but scared the you know what outta Sam! When David started making all that noise, Jason sat up but Sam jumped up, blind from sleep, started barking, whining, yelping and bouncing in circles instead of turning like a normal dog. David said she looked like one of those cartoon dogs!...lol Sam barked, whined and whimpered for the longest time! Needless to say, this woke me too...I asked David "did you give her a heart attack or what?" David, still laughing...but at this point, I'm not sure if he was laughing because of how she reacted or for fear that he might just of scared Sam to death! He did feel really bad afterwards, he didn't even know Sam was in there, he figured she was with me. The next day, when David came home from work, he peeked into Jason's room and there was Sam, laying there looking right at him. She let out a very low primal growl....one we had never heard before and never heard again! I told Sam, she should of bit him...I would of gave her a steak for it after what he did to her! Another time, I know, I know....last one, I promise! We were at a lake. David, Sam and the kids were all in this little boat. I was onshore. The boat started sinking, David put Sam overboard, knowing she could swim to safety, give him more time to get the boat to shore as the kids were bailing water. At first, Sam didn't know what to do and was trying to get back into the boat! Eveytime she tried though, David would lean over to get her and all three kids would lean the same way, almost capsizing the boat they were in. I was in a panic, with my kids (still pretty young at the time), my hubby and my buddy out there with a boat that's sinking! I hollered for David to grab the robe that was in the boat and give one end to Sam and to hang on! I proceeded to call Sam! David tied the rope to her collar and let go of her. He tied the rope off and grabbed the paddle and as he was paddling, I was calling Sam. She was swimming with everything she had. Between the three of us....we got everyone back in! Later that day, Sam killed a 4ft snake that struck at Jason as he walked by. Man, I miss her! I have lots of stories about her...someday maybe we will have time to share them all. As for your knees......oh my Lord! How do you handle that? I sat here reading your post and had to get up and walk away at least once! As I read that, I felt as tho my toenails were slowly being torn off.....one at a time! I was telling David about it later and he was cringing at the thought. I'm sorry that your having to go through that and I'm glad that you can handle that as well as you are. I pray that you find relief from all that some day soon! Until then, let the Lord carry you! I glad that you found the words and the strength to stand up to your family! You only get one chance at life and you don't need to spend all of it taking care of them. You and your hubby should be embracing the time you have together, not staring dangers at each other over the things being said or done by family members that don't belong there! As for Eric's wife..I posted an update..did you see that? Let me see if I can find it real fast... I got another email from my friend! ************************************************************** Right before I left today they said she was breathing on her own and communicating. They still have no idea why it happened but God was there. It just so happened that a cardiologist was there at a meeting when it happened and used the defibulater. She works right next to the hospital. ************************************************************** Continue the prayers please! We need for them to find what is wrong to get her healed and to keep it from happening again! Thank you! Deb M As for being to harsh about my boy...not to worry. After the way that boy treated his dog....I can't think of any words that would be "too harsh!" He has been avoiding me like the plague though. I thought it was funny this morning. I'm sitting here in my office which is the closest room to the pups. I heard Roy's car coming down the road (muffler noise) and then I heard him cut the motor so he could coast the rest of the way in. I just sat here typing....he's out in the pen telling momma dog to be quiet. If I were her, I'd be chewing on his leg or something after what he put her through! Anway, he filled her food bowls and filled her water bowl with a big jug he brought from his home, I guess. I'd say he didn't want to turn our water on, thinking it would wake me. Then he got into his car and as quietly as he could, he pulled out of the drive. When his care hit the road, he took off....so fast he sprayed a little gravel....lol Funny to think our 25 year old son still thinks I'm a bada**....lol He just knows he has messed up bad time and he hoping to fly under the radar until things calm down. With the love I have for animals...it's gonna be awhile! Momma dog and puppies are doing great!...pics are on my profile! Not sure what we will do with them yet but as soon as we know, you guys will know! My daughter just called and wants to know if I can babysit my grandaughter, the one that likes to sleep on me.....lol She may have a job and it would only be for a couple of days, I laughed and told her, no problem! JAN...I glad your grandaughter, bf, babies and Joe made it home safely! Your great-grandbabies sound adorable! I hope you get to enjoy all of them and they don't run ya down...that can happen when you have people staying with you! Take care of yourself first, you don't need to be sick! Charlotte, Virginia and Pam....CONGRATS ON YOUR SURGERIES AND RECOVERIES!! Where's Julia? Love & Prayers, Deb M