What's New Saturday?

Happy Saturday, Cindy, and Everyone,

I'm sorry about your mom, Cindy.  Went through that with my dad and it's so very hard.  Would see him about every two weeks and the first time he said he didn't recognize me was tough.  Sounds to me like you have an understanding about this and will handle what comes your way.  Enjoy your breakfast!  Sounds like fun.

Candy - You simply ROCK!  I know you'll WOW them at the shower today and I know you'll get your floor ripped out, too. 

I survived the dental visit yesterday.  Only drove by the mall but didn't even try to park the car.  Ate too much food yesterday.  Don't exactly know why but I did.  I'm not sure if it was "reward" from doing something I didn't want to do or not.  Working on that today as I was too tired last night to put that much thought into it.

Today is fasting lab draw for next week's visit to the WLS office.  Oh joy.  Then I'm getting my hair cut.  After that..... we'll see.  Hubby is sick yet again with a sore throat and, of course, it's the worst thing that ever happened to anybody.

Have a great Saturday each and every one.

Kathi

morning cindy and my OFF family!!!

cindy i can so relate to what you are going through and my heart goes out to you...

annette...i am so very sorry that you lost joey...i read about it last night and i couldn't respond...the tears were flowing big time for your loss...brought back memories of my two most loved dogs...max and spike....it takes time to get over the loss so just hang in there and accept the love from the others black beauties you have....

george omg i sm so sorry about your buddy getting hurt and happy that he is going to be ok!!! wow!!!

margaret i am sorry about your dog also...hope she can get better soon!!!!

well we are still under a winter storm warning and the snow is falling about an inch an hour here....lots of snow here already thats for sure!!! still calling for another 5-8 inches or so before it stops. hope i don't get stuck trying to get to and from work!! we are located off the main road and the hospital is on this road so i shouldn't have any trouble. its just this apartment complex that will be tricky...they don't clean it out very good at all!!!!

finished the 5 day pouch test and feel great!!! i weighed in this morning and i lost 4 pounds!!! the bloat is gone and i am not craving any of the bad foods i have been eating!!! so thats a good thing!! we will do this test again maybe around easter time so if you are interested keep watching for the group starting it again and all are welcome to join us!!!

yes cindy lots has happened on the OFF board this week and i am still furious at one in particular for using my name for her example....i my honest opinion she is a bully like back in grade school....just can't leave well enough alone...end of story. AMEN.

well the woman that we worked with in the food court has quit...her last day was thursday night and i opened yesterday morning to again find things moved and in disarray...glad that she is gone!!! such a vindictive woman she is!! hopefully things now will be relaxed like it was before she started there. they had a shinning star award yesterday at the breakfast they had. suzanne won and i am happy for her!!! ( i wasn't nominated because i haven't been there for a full year yet) had one customer ask why i wasn't in the meeting in the break room...well i told her i had to work the food court so i couldn't attend that..she asked what was happening and i told her about the shinning star award...she told me she thought i was a SHINNING STAR!!! awww that was so nice of her!!! she made my day so much happier let me tell you!!

bandit has a nice short haircut now and is freezing when we go outside...they used a medicated shampoo on him and they told me he can't wear a sweater for a few days because it would irratate him...so not til tomorrow can he wear his sweater that he hates so much...but he looks so much better now with all his matted hair gone!!! before his cut he looked about 20 pounds and now he looks 10 lol he is happy with it all cut off though.

well not much else happening except for the snow falling and i have to get ready for work now. 12:30 to 9 tonight. yippeee just hope we are busy and not dead because of the weather. but then we are usually busy when it is nasty weather...go figure...lol

hope you all have a great day and prayers to those that need them...

hugs

Hi Cindy,

It's so good to see you this morning. We're still getting pounded by the wind which is coming from your direction. Are you? I am so ready for spring.

It's so hard watching a loved one decline. Kind of like a slow motion mudslide. We know it's coming, not sure when or if it will slow down and stop. And it is so hard on everyone in its path. Is your mom still making all of her own decisions? There may come a time when you or another sibling will have to start doing that. My mom was able to continue to make her own right up to the time for the Hospice decision. Her PCP, also mine, told us it was time but that "Fay has a right to make that decision. After all it is her life and her death." It was so hard but when the PCP brought up the topic, Mom looked her right in the eye and said "Yes, I agree. It is time and I am ready." It still brings tears to my eyes to remember that day. She was making a decision to die with dignity. I grieve with you.

Mike and I also went to see "Gran Torino" last night. I go to movies by myself a lot. Mike seldom sees one that he's willing to go to a theatre for. This was one. It was difficult in many ways, but handled some very difficult topics with humor. The lessons were there, couldn't be missed, not for everyone but I liked it and so did Mike.

Still working on sorting and emptying boxes. Took another load to Columbia Industries yesterday. No two people need 3 sets of every day dishes. Finally am able to give up some of Mom's perfectly good things that I sure don't need. Someone else will. I've freecycled a lot also. Yesterday I just wanted it out of the house and NOW so I took it to the Columbia Industries thrift store. They run a sheltered workshop similar to Goodwill but it is just a local thing. They get contracts for paper shredding, cleaning, making wood pallets, that kind of thing. They employ a lot of people who would otherwise be just sitting at home.

Cindy, Hang in there. I know it is so hard.

Good morning to you, Cindy and my other OFF family. Today is Saturday and I love that day! Even if Lucy isn't on at all here today. I am not sure where she is but it isn't either TVLand or Hallmark here. I miss her so much since I Love Lucy! Sorry for the pun. But it is the truth.

It is snowing to beat the band here. I am so sick of snow. I see it in my sleep at times and that isn't good. It makes Brenda a very sad and unhappy girl and Bill hates living with that Brenda. But then again when Bill is sad and unhappy I hate living with that one too. The snow is blowing with the wind and I am not sure just how much we are suppose to be getting. I thought that the snow was stopping today but I must be wrong. OPPS! I am never wrong only mistaken on occasion! Yeah right and if you believe that one I got a bridge for you to buy. But......if you ever tell anyone that I said that I can be wrong I will say it isn't true to the death!! ha ha

Nothing much happening here today. I have to go get Bill's cousins granddaughter from work this afternoon. I went and got her last night and then I took her to the movies so she could meet her friends. They went to see some movie about a girl that's twin died before birth and now it wants to be born so it is out to kill her. Oh my, what nonsense that is. She told me that she got a ride home or so she thought. I told her that if it fell through just call me and she didn't so it must not have fallen through. That is good but I had a heck of a time getting to sleep last night anyway.

I guess I had better get going. I have to sit a more comfortable chair since my back is just hurting so bad again today. It started yesterday and I am just hobbling around like a little old bent over lady. It is just hurting so bad I think I might take a pain pill for it. It will probably knock me out but at least when I wake up it won't hurt as bad. I know it still will but not as bad and that sounds like a winner to me. Any improvement in pain is good!

I am hoping that everyone has a great day and stays warm. I think it is pretty much colder everywhere since this is winter all over the country. Even if the temperature is warmer than here. I am sending love and hugs to all and special thoughts to some and special prayers for others. Which ever you prefer. Keep smiling since it not only brings joy to you but to others too.

Good Saturday morning to all of you. Its a quiet one here, and Im not feeling the greatest but not really sick, just kinda yukky if ya know what I mean. I did get about ten hours sleep lastnight, this after severeal weeks of insomnia. I started back on the melatonin and it takes about a week to get into my system enough to make a difference.

Hate to ehar that about your Mom Cindy. I can relate. My mom had Alzheimers for ten years before she passed. Its so heartbreaking to watch dimentia take over. I hate that disease, or condition, or whatever it is. My thoughts and prayers are with ya.

So sorry about those of you who have lost pets too. We lost our 9 year old Yorkie a year and a half ago, broke our hearts, My husband cried harder than I did. But now we have Sugar, our 1yr old miniature Schnauzer, and Taco, our 9 yr old long haired CHi,,and they keep us busy, Little people with hair, thats what pets are, and so easy to love. But they are worth the cost because they add so much to our lives.

Today is house cleaning day for me too, and Im gonna do some soup cooking for the freezer. We are supposed to get some freezing rain and sleet today , so hot soup will hit the spot.

Gotta go get dressed, Im still in my jammies.
have a great weekend everyone.
Blessings
Betsy

i got a call this morning.about our antique shop,its under water,thank god it was not near my brooths.i feel bad for the others.they have to go in later when the water subside down enough for them to take down what was damaged.we have had rain here about everyday since monday,monday was the bad.but raining and sprink off on during the week.its about 6 inches,they said it was from the back up from the streets where the gutter could not carry it off.if they didnt have the man hole where these people have they brooths it would not been like that.this use to be a old old older -----where they made bedspread the ones our mothers use to have on there bed and our.nothing like we have today.there is one as you enter the shop hanging up.people has asked for it,but there want sell it.but his is our saturday is going here in rome ga.im leaving to help the others.


marylyn

Hi Cindy,
Great to see you start the morning thread. 

My MIL is in a nursing home, she has Alzheimer's,  The decision to put her there was heart wrenching and we still feel guilty about it sometimes.  We know that we could no longer care for her here so have to accept the fact that she is in a safe environment and all her health needs are met.  Some days she knows who we are and some days not. On those few clear days she has that is when we struggle the most with the decision to place her in the nursing home.  Those days however are getting fewer and fewer.  It is very hard to reach that decision we placed out trust in her doctors and they felt it was the appropriate thing to do.

Enjoy your lunch out.  Earl and I no longer go out to dinner but do enjoy going out to lunch once a week.  The portions are smaller and  so is the price.  We are almost at the point where we can split a lunch LOL!

Have a great weekend.
Paulette

Good Morning my OFF friends,

Went to the doctor yesterday, had a chest x-ray.  he doesn't think I have pneumonia, just lots of inflammation and some congestion in my lungs. So yesterday I started 2 new meds. One an inhaled steroid and the other Prednisone.  I do feel some relief this am already. 

My daughter is having a get together this afternoon at her house.  Not sure if I am going or not.  I'll see how I am feeling later.  There will be some friends of hers and mine there that I haven't seen for awhile so I really would like to go.  Just depends on how much I am coughing.  I've been through the antibiotics so Dr. didn't think I am contagious or anything just run down and residual effects from the virus and infection in the lungs.

We got another 4 inches of snow last night, some nice young boys stopped by this am with a snow blower and did our driveway for $10.  So at least my DH doesn't have to deal with that now.  I also sent the boys down to my daughters to do her driveway, so DH doesn;t race down there to do hers.  DH is having surgery Tuesday on his right thumb and wrist.  They are removing the thumb joint and replacing it with a tendon to cushion the space between the bones.  They are also doing a revision on his carpal tunnel surgery from 5 years ago to remove scar tissue and the synovial sheath covering the nerves in the wrist and thumb.   They will replace the sheath with a synthetic material that won't allow scar tissue to regrow over the nerve.  The Dr said this surgery has a 90% success rate. That he should regain feeling in his thumb minus the pain.  So I'll be praying the surgery goes smoothly and will be a success for my hubby.

Hope you all have a great weekend.

Hugs, Paulette

Hi Cindy and my OFF family:

Snow, snow and more snow. We are supposed to get pounded with a lot of snow, and then it's supposed to get really cold. Well, I don't have to go out anywhere ... I can't drive, so I can just stay home in my jammies. I haven't gotten out of them except for Thursday. I need to wash what I have on, though, so I will do some laundry today. Then it's football from 3 p.m. on.

I really want to get to the chiropractor, though. I have something pinched in my back ... I can tell because I wake up every morning with tingling in my left foot. Today is worse than usual. It's in my heel. Usually, once I get going, it subsides, but not today. It's horrible. I've tried everything I usually do to get the burning and tingling to stop, and it's not working. Maybe I'll increase my B-12.

I wanted to check out some PT places yesterday on the phone, and spaced it out. So I'll have to do that Monday. Because my home PT ends next Wednesday. I'll wait until the following week when I can drive to start outpatient PT. That way I won't have to pay for rides. The therapist yesterday looked at my list and gave me some recommendations.

Cindy, sorry to hear about your mom. I guess I'm fortunate that my mom is still fairly healthy and her mind is active enough at 84. I wish she would do something about her hearing, though ... it's not good and she won't have it tested or get any help. I find seeing a therapist is good for me, too.

Well, I've been at the computer long enough. Cleaned out the litter box here while I've been sitting here (completely dumped it ... it needed it), so I need to tend to the other two litter boxes.

Annette, my heart goes out to you and your furbabies at the loss of Joey.

Have a good day; stay warm, safe and dry if you're in the storm areas.

Eileen, Just curious. Is the foot tingling on the same side as the new knee replacement? If so it could still be from that. If not, probably not. Sitting as much as you are probably doing right now also could add to the problems. Hard not to do it tho I know. Hang in there. I can't wait for warmer, drier weather. All of my joints, both real and artificial, ache in the cold!