Keep your animals!! If you give up every thing except one dog and one cat, he will want you to give them away later.  If you love animals you need a man that loves them , too!! My husband is the greatest man in the world, except he doesn't want any animals. I had a little dog when we got married and she stayed in the house. She was 15 yearas old and got real sick, and I had to have her put to sleep. three years ago. I didn't want to get another dog then, I said I'm never going to get another aniaml to love and then lose. I have one cat and she is 15 years old. This is the longest time in my life I've not had a dog and I miss that kind of  love. You know the kind that always loves you no matter how you look or how you act, they are just sitting there wainting to love you. I just "borrow" my sisters dogs and love them, when , I missing my little dog. The other day Chalres said when that cat dies I want you to promise me you won't get another cat. I said okay, and I've promised the cat if you die I won't get another husband!! LOL  Judy

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HI Marilyn,

its good to see you back!
we all sometimes need to step back for a while. I do it too. soemtimes i',m reading what people are writting and i feel their pain or happiness but just am so involved in my own termiol that i can't reply. then when i feel better i come back. is that how it is for you too?
Hope you get things worked out. I know you will you always reach deep inside yourself and pull that stength up out into the open.
there are times it has helped me to read what you've done and work at myself.
take care, god bless, pam
i remember when you were the bear lady!

Connie even when your in pain you add alittle humor to it. Smoke omthe water! O my god!
There are times that the sounds coming from my body amaze me and yes I too can hear music in them!
I do hope your feeling better.
isn't it something how even after 5 years we can go into dumping mode?
a couple of days ago i had dry tuna on a slice of whole wheat bread with a slice of cheese on top all melted in the micro. that was dinner and I'd planned on having some nice green seedless grapes. the haturalpathic doc has me eating complex good carbs along with my protein.
Green seedless grapes are very good for people with low blood sugar. they release the sugar stuff in them slowly when combined with my dense protein (tuna) and with the whole wheat bread and cheese all together makes this paste stuff that stays in my tummy longer plus makes me feel fuller. Yea a win win!
I was in a rush and not chewing as much as I should have. about half way into this little tuna melt i could feel that the tuna was a tinsey bit too dry....dry anything with me is a big no no!
so i tried to chew better slowed down how I was eating but continued cause I had things to do! places to go! people to meet!
But my stoma had other plans....
the pain was unbelieveable! ok so i'm exaggreating a bit but it hurt like hell! there was moaning. there was twisting.
The only thing that ended up helping me was that i got up and stretched and walked (slowly) aorund my little condo. I also chewed gum. I remembered that helping me all those years ago.
It still just amazes me that my surgery still is there and works just fine!
i'm holding my own with the weight. hovering between 170 and 182. truth be told i've not seen 179 in a month. but i know its out there someplace and i'm gonna see it by the end of summer!
i hope.
good luck and god bless, pam

Thank you Pammi...now its the waiting game....