WHATS HAPPENING MONDAY

Today sure was rainy wasn’t it? Bull Shoals lake is completely over all of the park in Forsyth. Not many buildings are left showing the roofs. It is up that much. From out house you can really see the lake thru the trees and most of the time you don’t see it at all. The water was running over the highway in a couple of places on our way to Lowes.

If it keeps raining like it has been and like they are saying it is suppose to no telling where all this water is going to go.

 

We went and spent quite a bit of time and money in Lowes. Bought everything from soaker hoses , flowers and another tall stand up cabinet for our house. I am so sick and tired of not having enough room in the house for my pots and pans or dishes. Especially the ones that you doint use everyday , you know the ones , the cookie sheets , the pizza pans, the big pots , loaf pans all of those that don’t get used on a regular basis. The fancy set of dishes that don’t get used. The pretty glasses that I don’t have a place for.right now

Anyway it will be full im sure.

 

I bought 2 large bags of potting soil too that I will mix other stuff into but like to have some of this on hand for plants that I need to plant up quickly.

 

My goodness there was a lot of talking on the post today. I love it.

Will try to answer all of you if you were talking to me lol

 

SHANNON :::: Will be praying that all of those test come back with nothing bad on them. I know they can scare you sometimes with the what ifs. Please don’t go there till you have to. Most of the things we worry about don’t really happen so we wasted time with it.

 

Your kitchen garden sounds like a nice ray of sunshine. Keep concentrating on that and let the job of it help you thru all of this. I will continue to pray.

 

 

TRACI: lol they were really loud storms here too about 6:30 they woke me up so I stepped out on the back porch to see what all was going on and I could hear the rain coming up the valley toward us. It poured about a minute and was over with. I said boy that was a lot to do about nothing lol

 

I hope you didn’t get any more flooding up there.

 

 

 

BEC::::: so good to have you back home. You are such a ray of sunshine (and we sure need all of our rays of sunshine)

I love Tea rooms, I love the atmosphere and the charm and all the pretties they usually have sitting around. Some of them are antique shops too. The one in Forsyth is also a floral shop too. Joe even loves going there for lunch. They serve big delicious sandwiches that he just loves. And their soup is what I usually get , They have never had the same soup ever when we go there. But it is always soooooo good.

I really could see the red hat lady and granddaughter having their afternoon tea there. Sounds so nice.

 

Im so glad that you are already on your third month? wow time is going fast for me is it for you? Have you been approved by your insurance company or they want you to do all of this stuff first?

 

 

SHEILA::::: Well did you get your tiller you were hurrying off to get?  

Sounds like you had quite a few wow moments with your daughter.

The Strawberry pie sounds great but I like anything with Strawberries. My favorite fruit.

I have one of those pyramids that you can buy and put strawberries in, I had all kinds of strawberries last year, so I ordered me another one  to put by it so I will maybe have enough strawberries to put up in the freezer.

 

Did you see the name of the protein that you can put with hot drinks? it is called  ==Any Whey. So maybe you could try some of that. Just google it and see if it comes up with their web site. I don’t know where you can buy it. If you find their web site you might ask for a sample most places will send you one or two samples to try.

Also the Necture protein, that has a koolaide taste I think that is mixed with water.

So you might try those  to get your protein in.

 

 

PIXIELF:”””” oh wow it has been a long time since we heard from you!! So nice for you to come and talk to us …I know you stay really busy  but we still miss you. Havent seen you at a meeting for I know a year at least hasn’t it been?

That is neat that your son gets paid to play games wow

I bet he is envied by the other kids lol

 

You know I have never gotten locked into needing to be a certain weight. I figure I will know when I reach the size I want to be. I like looking healthy so don’t want to be skinny and that look isnt the best at all for an older woman my age too. We tend to look like old hags if we get too skinny. Lol Well that is what I tell my self anyway. That way I don’t have to worry if size 8/10 is the smallest I can get into . I think if I went and had my tummy tuck then I would be wearing all size 8s.

 

Are you still doing the exercise thing as regular as you were?

 

 

CHRISTINE::so glad that you and Nancy got to meet up. Hope you got your house all cleaned up and did you stay in your pajamas all day? Sometimes that is a good way to be.

 

 

MEG: seems there are a lot of us on here that have used Dr. Hornbostel. I of course think he is awesome, cant be beat.

I think he is doing his own support groups now on Sundays I believe.

For us that are suppose to come in now once a year he is saying that if we come to his support group meeting that will count as our yearly checkup.

Hmmm wonder if he weights you and everything in front of everyone lol But I guess that would be alright , weight doesn’t bother me anymore.

 

I didn’t have Nancys nectur protein but I did do protein shakes 2 a day before I had surgery and then after as soon as I could have them and I know that getting in the protein that you are suppose to get  helps your body heal fast. I was up and going  and pulling weeds in my garden 2 days after I got home. Never had any trouble at all. about nothing.

 

 

LO::::: Great to see you on line, another of Dr. H patients huh?  It is good that you are starting your walking program now. After your surgery you really need to walk several times a day to keep the blood clots from forming. And is also good to help get your strength back too.

 

 

You know girls that I don’t think there was not a one of us that didn’t wonder if we  could just one more diet and we would be ok. But we knew and you do to if you have come this far that it doesn’t matter how many more diets there were for some reason they didn’t want to work for us. Or if they did as soon as we went off the diet we gained it back. So we all knew that we needed something that we wouldn’t be able to go off the diet with. Something that would give us that will power to only take a bite of something and that would be enough, not eat the whole pie or cake or box of donuts or the whole bag of chips .  Now you will have that tool. And that is all it is is just a built in mechanism that will help you if you want it too. Oh yeah you can make it be in the background so much that it doesn’t work real well but if you want you can always drag it out and start doing right again.

 

Just remember the protein shakes in some form or the other will be something that you need to do for the rest of your life to stay healthy just like the vits. So don’t short change yourself.

 

Take care of yourselves and hope no one is getting flooded out

 

GOD BLESS  

Good Morning MO Peep's      Long time no see. Yes, it's actually me here in the sort of flesh. lol All is quite here in the house so I thought I would get on here and post a few lines.    I have been traveling back and forth from my home to my parents house. Mom is back to receiveing her Chemo. This type of chemo is alot stronger then what they gave her the last time she went thro this. She only gets it every 3 weeks. She went in for her 2nd one on her birthday (27th). She has already lost all of her hair. So I have been checking out websites that sell the hats for her to wear. My sister came up and cut it short for her. And we all bawled while she was getting it cut. The doc said that he wants to do chemo for approx 6 months. Then he may do radation for awhile. If she ends up having radation then we will get hospic in the house for her. To help with the things she will need. Mom's doc said that the chemo is only going to buy her time right now. That it wont get rid of the cancer totally. It may just shrink it some. But it will grow back and fast. So right now we are all just taken turns spending as much time with her as possible.    Terry & I are in the process of adopting the 2 kids that we have had since Sept of last year. We already have an attorney and are getting ready to do the home study. We meet up with the attorney last week. And she asked alot of questions. Then had to sign papers for a back ground check and criminal back ground check. Then when that comes thro she will call and set up a time to come to the house to check it out. Dad's already gave us permission for this summer to add on another room to the house. So we can put the kids in that room. You would be surprised how much crap you can stuff into a room when you have too. lol    We've had more police and social workers here at our house in the last 2 weeks. Then I've seen in my lifetime. My brother-in-law has been calling social services and reporting that Terry & I are abuseing my father-in-law. That he lays in urine soaked sheets. That he has bedsore all over his body, there is no food in the house, ect. you name it he has said were doing it. So Terry & I hired a RN to come in and do an inhome study. Then they sent the report to Dad's PCP. Dad actually woke up one day last week after we hired the RN. And said he would go to see his PCP. So they did a butt load of blood work and several x-rays. The x-rays show that Dad has phnomia, and he has 2 hernia's in the groin area, and the screws that are in his hip are displaced. so needless to say he has several doc appt the next 2 weeks. Plus now we have home health coming in 2x's a week to help dad with bathing and physicaly therapy. Plus that gives us a break from it.   The kids are growning like weeds. Adrian has 4 teeth now. He says da da & Ma ma. And lot of other jibberish. He pulls himself up to stand. He loves his Johnny Jumper. Good grief I sometimes worry that he is going to jump right out of it. He gets so wild in it. lol Clara is sometime else. She gets to start school this fall. Terry & I put her in a private school (pre-school) 2 days a week. So that way she will be ready for school this fall. I'm going to call the local school to see if they have a summer program that I can get her into. She is in Daisy's which is the begining of girl Scouts. Once school starts she will move up to Brownies. YEA!! She got to help sell cookies this year and sold by herself over $200.00 worth of cookies. I'm so proud of her. She is such a big help with her lil brother. But she has got an independant streak something ferce.    Dad is doing pretty good. He has been up and down for the last 2 days talking nonstop. He is actually up right now just a talking up a blue streak. Terry went to the store and to run an errand. He has court in the morning. Because of his brother. I go to court myself on the 7th I believe cause of the death threats he has made to me on my phone. so we will see how that all turns out.   I'm doing pretty good. NOT!!! but since there isnt anything I can do about it why ***** and moan. I'm seeing a pain management doctor in KC. Janet will be seeing the same one that I have been seeing. She is such a wonderful on careing doctor. Right now she is trying to get me as close to being painfree as possible. It's not working right now. But I go back to see her the 17th of next month. Thank god. Were just trying to buy sometime until I have the surgery on my back. The ortho doc that I went to see said that I have 5 ruptured disk and 3 of the vertabra (sp) are crumbling/diterating. And now it is traveling up my back into my neck. to where my neck locks up on me when I'm sleeping. And I'm loseing feeling in my hands and arms. The ortho that I was seeing wants to put several screws and a steel rod in my back. And I would lose approx 25% mobility in my back and he didnt guarentee that would take the pain away or that I would be able to walk either. so right now that is on the back burner of things to do. That to do list is growing longer and longer fast. lol  Well I hope everyone is doing great. I can see that his board is busy busy busy always. Your all in my thoughts and prayers always. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I will be able to make it to the support meeting this month. It would be great to see everyone for awhile. I miss posting and getting to see ya at the meetings. So Lord willing I will be there this month!!! God Bless Melissa (Mel)

Morning everyone Thankfully I slept well last night and no storms woke me up.  I think it's supposed to be stormy again today though.  I'm not sure where all this rain is going to go.  It's going to be a usual Monday with my kids home and my grandbaby here.  I have some work I need to do, but that may have to wait until tomorrow to get done.  It's been great seeing so many posting!!  Yay!!!  I try to read all the posts and post to those where I feel I can help, or offer help that hasn't already been said.  So please keep posting!!!!  Have a great day everyone!!

Morning ALL Jan... yes i did get my tiller i hurried off to get . actually its a cultivater so i may still need a tiller to do 1st work up but this will for sure help me keep it cleaned out when plants start coming up and give me a good work out, plus i can use it to make NEW and MORE flower beds haha its a ryobi and i got it for 35.00... please tell me more about this pyramids for strawberries....i wanna plant some to this year...   i am going today after work to buy me the mr coffee new hot beverage maker and im gonna try  the left over protein powders i have here 1st then if that dont work i will have Traci order  the any whey for me ( no credit card here ) lol and the necture protein sounds like it might be my thing too........will look em up and thanks!!!  wish weather would clear up and stay clear i need to start walking again...im just not  much on exercising so i try to get my work outs cleaning and etc.

hope every 1 has a GREAT day

love and hugs

Hi, Jan & MO Peeps:

 

Yesterday was one of the longest days of my life.  My son, Luke, (age 17), had one of his friends die in a one car accident just about a mile from our house.  This young man’s name was Garrett George.  He had been drinking and was driving home around 3am and missed the 4 way stop and skidded off the road and over a fence. And no, he did not have his seatbelt on.  Please pray for this family.  As most of you know, Luke is going to this summer on a mission trip.  Ever since he said he felt the Lord wanted him to go on this mission trip, we have been in spiritual warfare!  I have claimed victory in Jesus and I know His Will, will be done! 

 

Please keep Luke and our family in your prayers.  David and I have told Luke numerous times that just one bad decision, age at 17, could ruin the rest of your life.  I remember being 17 and of course thought I was invincible.  It grieves me to see my son going thru such heartache.  I wish I could bear it for him.  I just have to trust the Lord and know He wants what is best for Luke even more than I do.  It’s hard lesson to learn.

 

I’m so glad I have all of you for support!  You will never know how much I love each and everyone one of you (most of whom I’ve never met in person) yet feel like I’ve known you forever.

 

Well, it’s only 10:45 and I am exhausted.  I had my bi-annual blood work drawn today.  They took 8 vials of blood.  I guess it will be close to 2 weeks before all the results come back.  I just drank my protein shake and am thinking about going back to bed for a much needed nap.

 

Hope everyone has a good day.  Thank you for your prayers.

 

Debbie D.

 

 

My prayers are with you and the boys family, I know all about losing a son ,I lost mine in a car wreck when he was 18.....vesta

Oh Debbie!  I'm so sorry - I'll certainly be praying for this family and your son.  {{{hugs}}} Only 8 vials - you got off easy girl, they took 14 from me this last time.  I should get my results back this week.   It's a wonder we have any blood left after these tests, isn't it?!