WHATS HAPPENING THRUSDAY

Did you all see the news Wednesday evening about Rock a way Beach ? That is just above Forsyth which is just above us. It is about to flood there again and if it does that means that we will rise here again some more. They are predicting another 10 feet for Bull Shoals to rise. Maybe more than that since Norfork is above levels now so Bull shoals cant dump anymore into there.

Didn’t rain here any today but is suppose to start in the early morning hours on Thursday today. My bones sure are telling it that is for sure.

I went outside to try and do something today and like to froze so I came back in and did some more organizing of cabinets and such.

If I could keep all of it neat would be good. Lol

I looked in the freezers today and decided I need to find some people to cook for. Lol It is awfully hard to cook for one and a tenth person. Do any of you have this problem. What is the answer? I dislike having left overs. So far our dog is getting well fed on people food. Joe doesn’t even eat as much as he use to so he no longer eats like two people but one average one and my eating consists of two bites of this and a bite of that and maybe a smidgeon of that. I guess I could buy some of the compartment plates and make frozen dinners but then my freezer would pop more at the seams. What is the solution. Anyone???got some ideas?

 

It is right now 10:30 and pouring down rain again . It let up for a minute so I went out and looked at the rain guage , in the last hour we have gotten over an inch, if it keeps this up tonight we are going to be in trouble with a lot of places. Besides the water pushing all the wildlife, snakes, deer, rabbits, skunks, everything up in our yards. Good grief .

 

 

 

BEC:::::LOL I always get such a kick out of your post and emails. You are the most darling person I have known in a long long time. I do think I need a little Becky time tho. Have been missing you a lot. What you said about us not listening to God when he is trying to tell us something and us being so upset by what is going on that we cant listen. I think that is when that verse is good  “ Be still and listen and know that I am God”

 

I had Joe doing things in the house today too. I told him that since it was going to rain we can get some of the things done in the house and guest house that we need to do. If it would let up long enough to go get some lumber to do things with lol.

 

I agree about working so hard that you sleep the sleep of the dead. Not many times that I sleep all night but when I work like that I do. Feels good too.

 

 

BRENDA::::: great to see you again, Yes I will put you on the prayer list for continued prayer. I saw on tv the other day that they have some new pain meds for fibro. One is called Lyrica I think was the name of it. And it would make sence that that might be the source of the pain and not the disc.

Did the Flexiril help when you were taking it 3 times a day? If it did tell the pain clinic that and they will see to it that you get it back. It really isnt habit forming don’t know why pcps don’t want to prescribe that one.

 

 

VESTA:::: hey neat that you are going to get your plastic surgery taken care of. You give me courage to go see about really getting it done. How is the lake down your way?

 

 

TRACI::::::hey be careful and watch where you walk, those slips and falls cause a lot of problems to people in their own homes you know.

Take it easy the ladies that will be there don’t really care if everything is right or not do they.

 

 

SHEILA: :::::Glad that you are getting in all your protein now. I was worried and am always worried about anyone when they say they cant drink their shakes.

Sure hope you come to the support meeting on the 28^th.

No one will know you for sure if you are down to 169 already. Wow. Girl I need to get busy lol

 

 

CHELE::::; wow so good to see you and finally you are graduating? That is so great. You are amazing , and a trip to ??? By your self or with the boyfriend? Either way will be great.

Plus a job too and a new grandbaby. Need to post some new pictures for us.

 

Really haven’t been able to do a lot in the yard, just the yearly stuff is up already, so far they aren’t saying temps cold enough to hurt anything yet. Lets pray that they don’t tell us like we had last year.

 

BRENDA::::: You will be like Sheila soon enough and losing lots of weight and feeling great and ready to plant stuff in your yard by just about the right time. Not too long now.just a day less than 3 weeks wow.

 

 

DEBBIE::::: Yes I know what you mean , sometimes I feel like that too and I get really hoarse  too but use my throat spray and it feels ok, For me I just don’t want to have surgery unless it makes me and so far im not at that stage yet. Have they tried aspirating your nodules to see if they can reduce them in size? That isnt pleasant but better to me than surgery lol

Your walkway and arbor sound lovely, what about a red clematis with the yellow roses since you have red peonies there. I have a lady Banks rose planted on my pagoda and it has grown up all over the top of it already and started down one of the corners, I looked yesterday and it is loaded with buds. I sure hope it doesn’t get frozen out again this year.

It is a rose without any thorns. Beautiful have you ever seen one?

Great to see you again . please don’t be a stranger. Ok?

 

 

JANET:::::: Yes there most certainly is power in prayer and the more you have praying the more power there is.

Had to laugh when you called Granby MO. A city lol Only if Cedarcreek is a city. They use to be I think but isnt much there anymore. .

So is Kenny still holding on? Maybe one more day and one more day and one more day, you know until he gets better. And Yes you are right they really do think that people in a coma can hear you and recognize you too.

 

Sad that Jon lost his fish but if he is willing to get another one hopefully it wont cause him too much trauma.

Hey how can the girls dad come back down this way when he has the back child support hanging over him?

I think we need to have someone do the prayer list like Tammy use to do. It was a good daily reminder for all of us to include those people in our prayers for the day. Don’t know why she quit doing it other than she got so busy she just couldn’t .

 

I think there is an Ant killer called Toro but haven’t seen it around in a while. Seems like we got all of them and I hope we don’t see anymore . so hopefully they are all gone.

We tore the house apart and cleaned and put it back together so there shouldn’t be any.

 

What picnic are you talking about? Didn’t know of any Picnic. I must have missed someones post somewhere huh?

 

Glenna has a new email ,I will send it to you. She moved from Ozark to Springfield . Long move huh?

I have been to the Angels support group a couple of times just cant seem to get into Springfield that often. Wish I could tho. Why were you going to go to one?

Love you sweetie,

 

KELLY::::::lol well what in the world did Hubby do while you were out of town for 6 days, lol I think I would put him to work in there too. Glad to see you on the boards

How are you doing since your surgery?

 

BEV:::::: well sure your legs are weak right now. How long has it been since you used those muscles? I would faint to think that I had to ride a bike I think lol You are lot braver than I am. They say you know that you never forget how to ride a bike but im not so sure that I want to test that idea. Lol

Im glad that you got your period under control this month. Yes they say that your body hides lots of hormones in fat cells and as you shrink the fat cells in your body that the hormones cause some really unusual side effects.

Hey im with you I have always thought that all work places should give everyone a hours nap in the middle of the day.

 

You will get braver with foods again as you get farther out. don’t worry,. Just don’t let the carb monster get hold of you cause once he has you he doesn’t want to let go.

 

 

NUTTI::::::Yeah the place is hopping isnt it? Lots of people and lots of things going on. Lots of new people that are having surgery, or just have had surgery and some just now looking. will always be that way I guess.

 

Sure wish you would come to a meeting in Springfield again I bet you really are looking good now.

Shade gardens , there are lots of pretty things that can be grown in the shade , really the best way to figure out what you really want is to go to google and put in shade gardens it will take you to several web sites of plants places like Wayside, or Parks or Springhill, Springhill has some really good planting packages of shade gardens. That you might be interested in. One thing Shade gardens seem to not require as much watering most of the time if you have them mulched well.

So proud of you and your new life. Way to go girl. Have a job that pays money , which never hurts the pocket book any and you are feeling great and probably really looking great too. As your co=worker said    WELCOME BACK….that was a really nice thing for her to say and expresses it all doesn’t it?

Welcome back to life .

Sorry you lost your kitty recently , hard to give them up isnt it? They become such a part of our families our fur babies.

 

 

Love all of you

GOD BLESS  

 

 

 

Good morning Jan and board, my trip went real good yesterday,,I am up early because of storm warnings.. The lake i****ting an all time high (northfork) looks like no camping this year..... Jan will the water get close to you? do be careful... everyone please be careful..stay safe......vesta

Morning everyone I think we're supposed to get lots of rain today; at the moment, my weatherbug shows Sullivan in a bubble of clear.  Odd.  Praying for those of you in flooding area.  The home group went well.  It wasn't just for ladies in my church - but for the whole church!  It's home groups, so men, women and children attend.  Generally the whole church does not come, of course, but all are invited.  ;) I've spent so much time cleaning these past few times, and not hardly any time working in my office, so today I'm working in my office!  Have a great day everyone!

Hi Jan and OH Peeps~

Here in Diamond-we are seriously going to be stuck right where we are-as it seems that every direction to get out of here is flooded-and we are expecting more heavy rain and wicked storms this afternoon AGAIN.... In a little over 2 hrs last night-we got 3-4 inches-and I have NEVER seen our yard flooded so badly that its coming onto our porch. Our pond is overflowing and headed towards grandmas house-at the bottom of the hill and driveway. The ditches are up and overflowing, causing our country roads to close-they have several roads barracated off! My inground pool-the water is all the way up the 2nd step, which means there is more than 6 ft of water in the deep end, causing it to go to the shallow end-all 3 ft of it-where the steps are. Mike tried 3 different roads trying to get to work this morning before he finally found one that he could use-and he still had to drive through 3 different areas that were covering the road-not sweeping or anything-but standing water. He called and told me not to go anywhere today and if I needed something to let him know and he would pick it up on his way home. He may regret saying that! On his way to work (in Neosho) he saw a car drive into sweeping water-and it washed the car into the ravine-and the water was up to her windshield and she was still inside-he stopped with several other gentlemen-to get her out of the car- Some of our area schools are closed today. Some that are going-said the buses were running up to 45 minutes late-and that more than likely-those kids would only have 1/2 day IF the rain starts back up this afternoon, like they are calling for!! The kids are still making up snow days-now they will be making up rain days! I hope everyone is safe. I know a lot of people that live right by me-have their basements flooded-or their whole house-I hope all of you will pray for the people deeply affected by these floods. It is heartbreaking. A lot of them just got their mess cleaned up from the last flood-to turn around and go through it again now is just sad. So sad. I just pray that no one looses loved ones to the floods.

So-today Jon and I were going to go do some errands with Megan and go to her dr. appt with her-but she cant make it out here to get us-and I dont want to drive to meet her-too chicken-and also afraid that even IF I can get out-that I may not get back in if it starts raining before I am home again. I am going to do some work books with Jon, and then when he gets game time, I will mark some more stuff for the sale or my dads flea market booth he has.

This morning, when I went onto the porch (is covered and partially enclosed-3 1/2 ft up with pillars) anyway-it was raining so hard, that the rain was coming right through sideways and it was getting me wet, and Jon was right behind me, and he turns around to Abby (our PREGNANT cat) and says- "Oh Barnicles!!! Abby, its raining and your all wet. Mom, we need to move her food bowl" I started laughing, because now his favorite saying is Oh Barnicles-and I believe that came from Spongebob. Its so funny when he says it though, because he is so serious-like a stockbroker or a banker type-you know?

**Jan-you are right about the medication for fibro being Lyrica. My pain management doc had told me that IF the meds she put me on didnt work-that she was going to put me on Lyrica, to see if it helped any-since it actually treats your nerve endings-where a lot of the pain comes from, like the root of the problem. Im afraid for Brenda-when a doctor wont even give you ANYTHING for the pain, then what the hell kind of pain doctor is that? That is NO way to live-and I know-I did it for 15 months straight where I wanted to give up every day because the pain was so bad! (sure I had a pain med-but nothing to treat the symptoms and the pills only help until your system builds up a tolerance to them) I hope and pray that she finds a new doctor to really help her. I emailed her and gv her the meds my doc put me on and told her that if she wanted her info-to let me know. I have medicare too-so I know she does accept that and any secondary insurance to medicare that someone may have.

Yes, Kenny is still hanging in there. I keep telling my parents he is a tough old bird. Heck, I tell him that now- I still joke with him whether he is in a hospital bed or not. I hope when he gets better that he will remember me razzing him. I just want him to get better! I dont cry when I am in there. I wont let my voice sound sad-I will cry when I walk out the door-but not in there where he can hear me, I refuse. I keep telling him to hurry up and get better because he loves his Nascar. I dont-BUT...I razz him about that too-and tell him he is missing the races and that he needs to bet me, so I can win my money back from him!! LOL..

Cliff is still hanging in there too. He is in the same department as Kenny-so we see our friends when we go up there-and since they are up there 24/7-they also keep us posted on Kenny. What they see and all that. Thats nice.

You asked about my ex and HOW he can move back with all the back child support he owes. He is at the felony level for child support-and in the state of MO-IF he were to get pulled over or someone called the police and they ran his license-he would be arrested. I do not know what the laws are out of state, but the house he owns is in Galena KS-which is just 1/2 hr from here. I was told that before he moved back, that he was going to get the child support paid down below felony level-but that has not happened yet-and he is on his way back-he may even be back for all I know. I got a text from him last night and he was talking about his friends that live in Joplin, so he may be back. I know Megan has said that the first time she sees him in MO, that she is calling and telling them where he is so he can be picked up. He just went to court in Vegas because he was pulled over-and he was driving on a suspended license (thanks to state of MO) Anyway-who knows? He isnt going to tell me when he gets here-

Maybe I was the one who mistook the post I read. I thought there was a picnic in Sedalia like the one you guys had last year. Maybe it was done already. I dont know. Sorry. I was just being curious-since there are a lot of people that went last year that I would LOVE to get the chance to meet and give hugs to!!

Ok-Glenna moved, please send me her new email, OR send her mine. She may have emailed me when she got the new one, but remember I lost my internet because of the identity theft deal and she may have gotten a email stating that my mailbox was inactive or full? Thanks. Her and I always kept in touch with emails-so I was getting concerned that I hadnt heard from her. I was worried about Joey too-and how he was doing since he was pretty hurt last time I saw her.

**Has anyone heard from our sweet, lovely Lana? Im worried about her-its not like her to be gone so long from posting or emailing us. If you have-let her know I love her. Thanks.

Well, in closing I would like to say-Bec-Im sorry I missed posting to you yesterday! You are ALWAYS such a ray of sunshine, you are so inspirational, and uplifting and I love you to peices. Thanks for all you do!! Please keep Kenny, Cliff, Mel and her family, including her mom Theresa, my parents and my children in your prayers. I appreciate it so much. Maybe I will start the prayer request post again? I think I will......As always, your all in my thoughts and prayers-Janet

  Good Morning Missouri!   Goodness we are "floating" around here like so many in the state.... it has rained steady since about 10:30 last evening... my "3 rd" child didn't even get all that upset either and slept with me all night without getting down... but then it was a not a pounding rain... we have a metal roof and boy does that make a nice sound for sleeping when the weather is not threatening.  Sincere prayers for all those who are being adversely effected by all this water!    Well we got the pantry all beefed up and filled back up... I found things in there I sure didn't know I had... Jan, I decided I need to change my ways a bit and am going to work at using what I have up, I have that deep freeze problem too... I can feed Paul and I for six months without buying much!  and I'm pre-op! tee hee.  This empty nest thing is the pits!  As you know I love to cook and it just seems like... what's the use for just the two of us...... I too have to get me some COMPANY!!!! tee hee   Thank you for the very kind words... you are too good to me!   Craig posted a few days ago about having a picnic again when you all come for your annual appointments with Dr. H.  I think he was thinking you all could get them on the same day again so you could meet for the picnic too.  Hope I'm right about this.  I so enjoyed getting to meet you all!.  Janet, OH BOY would it be great if you could come!  If not, I just have to make a point to be down in your area, so we can chat in person!   I am going to do some craft painting today... I have not done any at home here for some time... and need to build up some gift pieces.     I have used that Terro for ant problems and it sure is good stuff... the ants quickly come to it at first, get some on their feet and take it back to the colony.  But any that use it,  be sure and keep it out of the reach of children... that was always my concern because it was sweet in nature and I was always afraid my little ones would decide to taste it and it is HIGHLY poisonous!  But found it did the best job of anything I ever purchased.    Vesta, I'm very curious as to the cost of the surgery... are you going to be self pay? or do you know the cost?  is it a tummy tuck you are going to have?  I know I would be self pay and am just wondering what I am looking at?  Does anyone else know?    My daughter works at Penney's in the lingerie department and she would say are looking for "shapeware" tee hee.... I remember the days it was a GIRDLE! ~ha  I'm so scared because I listen to all you dear dear post ops talk about "skin flying around when you are not" and mine does that now at this terrible weight... what's to happen to me! egads!   Brenda N.  I WANT TO BE SHEILA TOO!  169!  boo yeah!  seems only a dream to me....  Sheila, way to go lady!  YES, you do rock! tee hee   Traci, I clean house like that too when I'm having company and then so many of the times I was way too tired to enjoy the company and would say to myself, "next time I'm not going to do that" and then when next time came I did it all over again... add a lot of cooking to that cleaning and I was pooped!  But usually who ever came usually seemed blessed by it and that gave/gives me such a wonderful feeling.  When I was growing up even though she did not have or could not afford alot, my mom always put her best foot forward when any one came to our house and I guess that was instilled in me....   Nutti... I have a three wheeled bike and I love it ... I must say that it is harder to peddle than a two wheel bike... isn't that kind of ironic as the ones that usually get a three wheeled bike it is because they need it to be easier.... and in my case it does not help that my dear husband has put " all terrain" tires on it... I mean these things are dirt bike, heavy tread, mud gripper, "he-man" kind of tires! and that makes it harder to peddle too.  I live in the country on gravel roads and those thin line tires that came on it were always going flat.  So he went out and got the biggest, thickest, toughest ones he could find, and that defiantly did NOT add to pedaling ease!  I'm not complaining for sure because that trike meant the difference in my getting to go with my girls or staying home and I loved the time we spent together biking, they rode circles round and round me! and the memories are even more precious now since they are both gone!.... you would not believe all the "looks" I got on that thing, I only shudder to think what was going thru minds! ~tee hee  We rode the Katy trail, to the park, around the neighborhood, and so forth... I had a basket on the back and I would haul the pooch or drinks and snacks when we were going to be gone a long time... it was just fun!    Janet, goodness dear lady, you DO have your plate full! But there is just no other comfort like that that comes from prayer, there is no other peace so good as that that comes from our Lord who assures us that He can handle all our needs, that He is mindful of our concerns!  I'm so glad you were able to spend the much needed time with Him, and I know the relief that we get when we can turn our anxieties over to Him, and leave them the best we can.... Jan was so right with the scripture verse, be still, listen and know that He is God!  He can do ANYTHING!  oh that just thrills me to think of it!  I'm so glad to hear you say you have had some measure of relief from the pain you have been in so much of the time, I sure pray it stays that way!  Doll, you don't need to apologize to me! You also are just too kind to me, always give me an uplifting... thank you.  Know that I am praying for each you have mentioned, Kenny, Cliff, Mel, Theresa, her young charges, even her, BIL, your family, parents, children... please tell me how your husbands friend is doing... I pray for him muchly... has he been able to get approval for surgery yet?  I seem to have such a burden for him, since you fist told of his desperate need for the surgery. Has his wife come along side him yet?  I am still trusting a good outcome for him!   Brenda M.  Good to see you posting again, my prayers are with you and sure hope you can find the relief you need also.   My prayers are with so many, Tammy, your family, your friend, Janet... so many needs there, both Brenda's, new post ops, Susy, so glad you are home and doing well, I pray it stays that way!  the needs are vast!     Well, I better get to my painting, they say we are to possibly have a round of severe weather yet this afternoon...pooch will not be happy!   Blessings to all!  

Good morning OH family.... well, it's been raining some here I hope it stops I don't like rain!  When it rains I always feel sleepy..... Yesterday I had a bad food day it seemed like my taste buds were off or something cause nothing tasted good to me therefore I didn't want to eat much of anything.  I did try those chipolte marinated turkey breast that Debbie D. recommended but for me not sure if it was my taste buds being off yesterday or if they were just too spicy for me?  I also tried those flat wraps (got at walmart) didn't like those either.  I hope today is better cause I sure feel as if I'm not eating enough? I went bike riding a little last night before it started raining, and boy were my legs sore and weak.  I couldn't hardly get off the bike when I stopped cause I didn't have enough strenght in my legs to hold me up on one leg while getting the other leg off so I almost fell.  I guess I need to continue exercising to build up my muscles? I had a bunch of lab work done by my new pcp last week and I just got a call from them she wants me to come in and see her so she can go over the results with me.  I know they checked a lot of things they took 6 tubes of blood but it took them 5 trys and two visits to get it from me (I have bad veins they are small and they roll)  I know she was checking my calcium, potassium, iron, and a bunch of other vitimans etc... so this will be interesting to see how it all turned out I am going in tomorrow morning to get the results.   I was so excited yesterday after stepping on the scale.  Since I started my period my weight for a few days went up a few pounds but yesterday I am now out of the 280's I am at 278 so I have lost a total of 74 pounds in 11 weeks so I was happy about that.  Yesterday I had on a pair of sweats (my big girl sweats size 3x) they were hanging so bad on me it was hard to believe that just a few months ago I filled those out.  I do miss eating some of my favorite things but when I get on the scale and see the low numbers to me that taste better then the food that I'm missing. My dad informed me the other day that our family reunion is June 7th and I really want to go it's in Climax Springs MO. (close to Camdenton) there will be a lot of people there that I haven't seen in a few years so I think it would be fun to go and see how many actually can recongize me? Well, guess I better get some work done.  Take care everyone and for those of you who are near the flood waters please be safe..... Bev~

Hello Missouri,
I know I've been gone for awhile but I've just been feeling so bad. I hate to complain when I know my dearest Janet has hurt so much for so long but this RA has really hit me pretty hard for the past 6 weeks or so. Yesterday I finally had my visit with the Rheumatologist and I am starting Methotrexate on Sunday and will give that a few weeks to see if it is going to work at all. I hope it does because the biologics that are the next phase are soooo expensive and the Methotrexate is only $2.25/month on my insurance. Of course I have to have monthly blood work or no refill (to watch for liver problems) so that will add to the cost but still it is much cheaper than Enbril etc.
The main reason I haven't written is that my left wrist is so very sore and typing just about kills me. I can't seem to find a position to put it in that doesn't hurt. I ask you all to pray that this medicine helps me out because I am just worn down with hurting.
However, I refuse to let RA beat me so tomorrow DH and I are off to Texas for four days to visit friends who we knew in Las Vegas. Hope it is warmer and drier there and that that helps the joints. None of the people who will be there have seen me since I lost weight so it should be a real morale booster for me - I just don't want to look and feel sick or they'll think it's because of the weight loss and it isn't - it's the RA. I get tired of everyone saying I'm too thin or I look sick. I was really sick when I weighed 246 pounds but everyone assumes that you're fat and healthy and skinny and sick. RANT!!!
I love all of you and cannot wait til the 28th to see everyone.
Hugs, love and prayers to all.
Lana

good afternoon!!!!   jan..... yes its impossible to cook for 1..seems like i waste so much food now a days and ur gonna be so PROUD of me!!!! i CAN drink the strawberry protein drinks with strawberry water and strawberries!!!!    Bev.....i too am going thru the stage of where nothing tastes good any more.... Janet.......my daughter said she found me some spandex online and they have em at Target......   man i really need to go get me a pr to hold up all this saggy skin....need a fishing pole too so i can real the boobies up and put em in a bra LOL Barabra... i am so sorry for ur loss...prayers r up for u and ur family.. Connie .... i am so sorry for ur loss too and prayers are up for you...i lost my mom 5 yrs ago and still hurts me bad.... i would of kissed the Dr but i had just went in to weigh so it was the lady  at check out desk who says whoa u must of lost some more weight and then preceded to ask me  about wls...im still on cloud 9 !!!!!   hope eevry 1 is safe  from all the floods... good to see every body back online posting again

love and hugs