I know....it has been quiet lately. Is everyone out on a mission we don't know about? Lunch would work for me if it's not on Wednesday. I have my doctor's appts. on Wednesdays. Maybe Jacquie would come with me. I haven't seen her on here lately....Jacquie???? You hiding out????? Well, I will talk to ya'll later, but if anyone's out there, post so we will know you are still here with us! Joni

Hey, Becky. My grandmother is in the hospital and I have been there for the past couple of days. She was transferred to Huntsville today. Now I don't have to drive so far. She was at Marshall Medical. I won't be on here much until we find out more about her. Linda

Get some You have mail, no rush to answer. I will be offline most of the day/night today. Sandy

Good luck on your organizing. I'm working on that myself. Not as industriously as you, but as much as I can under the cir****tances. I took about 2 boxes of stuff to my storage unit today...not much, but as much as I can carry at one time. There was a young couple parked in front of my storage unit with two cars blocking the whole drive. I had to park down the way and put my stuff in my shopping cart I carry with me and waddle up to where my unit was. They glared at me like I was in THEIR way. I just ignored them. I just pick my battles. I cannot wait to get all this junk into that storage unit. Well, I'm off. I've gotta cut out some 6-inch fabric squares for the fabric exchange at my quilt guild in the morning. I don't know if I'm going to make it for the meeting, but I need to get those squares cut out if I do. I have to clear off a spot somewhere to work on. I need some workspace desperately. It still hasn't rained here. It was kind of sprinkling this afternoon...just barely though. I'm sure it will get here eventually. Hope everyone had a reasonably good weekend and were all safe and dry. I will feel better when we hear from Gisela though. I'm worried about her. Love ya'll, Joni

Dang! Ya'll know that I am NOT telling my parents about the WLS plans. Well, a friend of mine called me on my cell phone while I was at my parents' house today and my phone is loud when someone is talking and you can HEAR what they are saying. Anyway, she was loudly asking me, "Have you had your surgery yet? I was talking to Olene today and told her about your surgery and was wondering if you'd had it yet." ****! What a close call! I was rather evasive and told her I would call her when I got home and she got off the phone, but I was freaked. I thought man, what if someone had heard her??? My mother wouldn't have because she can't hear anyway, but my dad can hear perfectly. Anyway, all's well that ends well, but it scared me. I know if they had heard that that they would naturally want to know what kind of surgery I was having. Whew! Plus, I had TOLD HER that I didn't want Olene to know about the surgery, but there she was telling her all about it. Anyway, it's okay, but the longer this crap goes on, the more chance there is of more people finding out and I don't want anyone else to find out about this surgery. I'm not ashamed of it, but it's kind of like the Wiccan thing. I'm not ashamed of Wicca, but I don't want people to think I'm what most people PERCEIVE Wicca to be. Same thing with the WLS. There are so many misconceptions about the surgery that I don't even want to talk about it with people who don't know what they are talking about...and most people don't know what they are talking about where obesity is concerned, much less WLS and obesity. Well, I am off to get some work done even though I just want to go lie down. I am in a lot of pain right now. My legs are worse than normal. I broke one of my walking canes Friday. Jacquie had taken me out and about (Thanks Jacquie! She also changed my sheets again and took out the garbage for me.) and we were going into a store to look for something for my sister for her birthday. I had to get her something so I had to go in and walk about for a few minutes. I can walk in my apartment okay without the cane, so I thought sure, no problem, I can do this. So I did and it was very painful, but I didn't think too much about it and now my legs have been to the point that I can't even walk in my apartment without the cane and the pain is horrendous. Luckily I have another cane, so don't have to do without. Also have crutches so I'm not going to be completely without, but still, it was upsetting to break the danged thing. I was just standing there leaning on it and POP! I guess I know what the weight limit is on walking canes now, huh? I hate that it broke though because it was my multi-colored Mexican one. Guess I'll know not to put my full weight on my other one. I don't know if my papers have gone off for this new attempt at WLS or not. They called from Dr. Stahl's on Thursday to tell me they didn't have my psychological clearance and I was like, "Oh yes, you do! Dr. Stahl and I talked about it and it was in there when I was there!" Well, it seems that my psychologist wrote the letter on plain paper and not letterhead and they didn't NOTICE that it had the psychologist's name, signature, the name of the counseling service, etc. I thought if they can't read, how am I going to expect AETNA to read it? Anyway, I told her to please put in BOLD PRINT that that was my psychological evaluation. Next time I see him, I am going to ask him why he doesn't have letterhead stationery. Weird. Well, I am off to hang up my laundry. I did my weekly laundry and have to hang it up. Can't hang it on the balcony since it's supposed to rain. So have to drape it around and about in the apartment. I know I probably owe everyone emails. Bear with me. I'm slow. Can't seem to get anything done. It just hurts too badly to sit in this hard chair. I need a computer that I can take to bed with me. Love ya'll, Joni