I'M STILL ALIVE.........

Hi everyone!!..Yes, I am still around.  I've been to Idaho and back and have our daughter from Boise back  here with us for a while.  She is fighting severe depression.......(my side of the family).  Having clinical depression and then having the economy out there take a dive in broadcast radio (her profession) and many other things on her plate right now is difficult to deal with so talked her into coming back home with me to seek some professional help here .  Just taking it a day at a time and saying alot of prayers.  I check the OH board occasionally and have certainly NOT forgotten all my friends  on here.    I am doing fine with my weight and don't haven't had any problems EXCEPT for sipping the rest of my grand daughter's RootBeer Float one day and boy did I get sick.......Perhaps it was the combination of carbonated rootbeer and the richness of the icecream.....which I hadn't had since before my WLS in Nov. of 2008.  It just made me realize that my pouch was telling me NOT to have that ever. 
Love and greetings to all of you.
Sandy

Hi Sandy:

Yeah, I sure understand about the economy taking a dive in your profession (mine is newspapers ... I got laid off in February, but tell your daughter that there is still life out there ... I got a job in my profession at my age ... 55 ... after only five months of layoff ... pretty damn good!). I sure understand depression too ... I wouldn't have made it through without drugs, therapy and good friends.

Ice cream and me don't get along, either ... A spoonful or two is OK, but I can never stop there.

Welcome back.

Thanks for the reply Eileen......I was so happy to hear that you had landed a job in your field.  I will be anxious to hear all about your new job and home in the south.  I will certainly tell Melissa about your particular story in being laid off and finding something so SOON.  Right now she feels totally devastated and alone but she is a professional and does such good voice work that it will just take time to find the right job again.  She is planning on doing voice over work and working from her computer and mix boards here at our house and sending her work all over the USA.....We don't see the economical hardship around here so much as we have such a big Oil Boom going on around us in NW North Dakota.  Our small town is having a time handling the influx of so many workers and people coming from all over the USA coming to find work.  We have housing shortages and it's been crazy to say the least.
Good Luck in your endeavours Dear Eileen.

As Ever,
Sandy

Hi Sandy,
Prayers and hugs for your daughter, depression is hard. One day your daughter will find a job and life will be even better for her.

Icecream...yuck...doesn't agree with me either.

Hi Sandy...great to see you here this morning!

Depression is so debilitating....my heart goes out to your daughter. Depression runs in my family too. I deal with it everyday at some level.

I have a wonderful and caring mental health team....I pray she finds a good one too.

My thoughts and prayers are with your daughter....and you.... as you struggle through this difficult time.

Love and hugs.....connie d