Friday. June 15

Again, no sleep, but what really woke me up was the unexpected proposal! WOW! I too snorted.

Paula and Ben May peace and love bathe and envelope you.

Cecily glad that you were out and about. Liz sorry that the trial fell through. Glad that all our friends with fur/?hair for a coat are on the mend. And Diane I truly hear you about paper. My parents had receipts going back to the fifties. Sorry if I have missed anyone.

so yesterday finally broke down and asked the Dr for pain pills and something to help me sleep. It has been 66 days post op and have been averaging 3hours sleep in the 24. Just plumb worn out. We have all been there am sure. Was given T3's and one just knocked me out. Slept for an amazing 9 hours, and of course was loopy for most of the morning. However we know they are addictive so am trying to take them only when necessary.

Consequently here I am pondering life's big questions like how come $70 worth of grocceries fit in three bags and there was nothing particularly wonderful in any of them . ( I live in a fairly remote part of British Columbia and all our food is barged in and that is why it is expensive. Or at least that is what we are told )

Have a great Friday. Again Paula keeping you in my heart.

Hey Carbon, I am awake late too in spite of a a half ambien. so it goes. Yeah we live in a remote area too and everything is trucked in and some of the road are winding so the super big trucks can't drive in. Hence high prices. Much more expensive than in the midwest. Oh well, we don't need to eat so much and there is some local food.

Hope you can get some sleep. I don't know what T3 is but I see no harm in using sleep aids for a time. Not sleeping is bad for health. I have cut back but its not alway good. And when I can't sleep at night I sleep later in am and get thrown off. A lot of activity helps but with your healing knee thats not always doable.

Take care and stay away from bears. Diane S

After I had taken Ambien for a couple of years it stopped working for me. Though I could have increased the dose, that's when I decided I better figure out how to do without (hence my sleep "rules). Strangely though, it worked when I had my apnea sleep study. They gave me one because I told them I had problems falling asleep in strange places. I conked out suddenly like when I had first taken it. Of course, this was at least 10 years after I had stopped, so I gues the tolerance wears off.

It is nice to see two posts already, but the lack of sleep being the cause is not good. Hoping for more rest and relief for both of you. Positive thoughts for relief and peace for Ben and Paula and family as well. Their faith is truly remarkable and inspirational. Our whole tribe is actually quite remarkable and inspirational, for that matter!

Go forth and conquer !

Weight 119.4, calories 1834. Clearly I am in vacation mode... I also need some good bathroom time.

DH is doing well (has adjusted) and I walked another 10 miles on the beach yesterday. Maybe I'm putting on muscle weight (LOL)!

Food here costs an arm and a leg of course - at least twice what we pay at home. But it is still cheaper to eat in than out.

Not much else, but I will think about the peace and the light I see here and wish the same for Ben.

Love to all but especially to Paula, Ben and their family.

ETA: I've been reporting 10 miles for walking but I recalculated it this morning while walking and it is more like 8.

Sleep is a big issue. I take meds for sleep. For the past 12 years. Wt up. Due to salt intake because of the heat. Farming is going good. First we burn the weeds with a mega flame thrower followed by a small seeder opening up the soil to deposit the seed then hooked to the seeder is a make shift hare to cover the seed up. The flame thrower is used instead of roundup. People around here have never seen such a thing nor would they consider not using roundup. (I worked in a chemical plant for 5 years. I hate that part of my work history. I learned a lot but oh what chemical plants do to our earth is criminal.) Got too hot a couple of days ago. Doing a 10 min job in the sun was hot. Doing a 10 min job that turned into 2 hours got me pretty quick. I found the AC for the last half of the day. Baby Adalyn is six months old and is very pleasant to be around when she is not sick. But now has her 5th ear infection. Other ear this time. Poor girl. Next month with ENT doctor. She slept for the first time in her life all the way through the night. DD#1 was jealous that she generally sleeps longer at our house than for her. We create noise and are super quiet. Have a great Friday. More later, David

Poor Adalyn. I'm sure those ear infections make it difficult for her to sleep. That's how I would know that DS had one (couldn't sleep and would pop right up if you tried to lie him down). The nurses on the phone at the doctors office would Pooh-Pooh me because he didn't have a fever (he never had one with his ears), but I'd tell them to check with his doctor. She would always say to bring him in and he always had one. Hopefully the ENT will help. DS never needed tubes (Augmentin always worked), but I know that sometimes tubes are the only solution.

My gardener used to get sick all the time and one of his customers told him to stop using Roundup. He did and hasn't gotten sick since. It may be deemed "safe", but anything that kills living things and can float in the air can't be good to breathe in or get on your skin regularly!

152.8 (down a little bit more- due probably to the massive amount of flesh sacrificed daily to various flying and biting Kansas monsters)- The truly down side of these buggers is that they chase me inside and I'm not nearly as active...the Bullies!

My mother's grocery goal every week was to average $5.00 a paper bag at the store. This was in the late 60's. There was always one bag neatly packed with 8 jumbo loaves of balloon bread- (big family with not much money)- @ about .25/loaf on sale- would allow for a more expensive bag with the meat (translate hamburger and other "beak and feet-snout and tail" type protein wannabes). Lots of rice, potatoes, and spaghetti. She was the queen of the one-pot-wonder dinner. It is not surprising that my comfort - emotional- go to cravings are for simple starch carbs- Mac&cheese- PB&mayo sandwiches- We never went hungry, and, bless her heart, she did her best.

Thanks you for the Price of groceries topic and a trip dawn memory lane.. I love and miss my MOM.

I miss my mom too! Every day...