I posted this there and HERE as well on the main board: Hello, just wanted to say this. This post started out not being about Amy - who is a fellow July-er like myself. This post started out talking about another person and her habit of posting to her own space and immediately the wise cracks came up - about clogged arteries and such. I just want you to remember that when we were in that place before when people made fun of the way we looked for a moment. It seems like all of a sudden the "Mean Girls" thing is happening here. Now, some of you feel you have the right all of a sudden to say this and that and the other - never realizing for a moment you are demeaning and dehumanizing another human being - for attention or for whatever you may need to fulfill yourself. I am pretty upset about this. Amy Jo may not be a nurse or she may not be in your "class" of people or she may not wear her hair the way you think it should be worn or whatever the beef is with people who proclaim an all-encompassing knowledge about what this woman "should be" to survive in this life. I think a lot of you forgot that we are exposed to 33,000 media messages a day about what we should look like or talk like or think like. I think some of you bought into it and truly believe (erroneously) that if you aren't in that cookie cutter portfolio, you aren't "the right fit" so obviously you have a mental or physical "condition as some people hjave pointed ouit in this post and on the OH posts. I think that is awfully presumptuous and rude, not to mention mean-spirited. And the fake "oh, we are just doing this for YOU because we care about you - we're telling you this because we are worried for you .... etc." crap is also ******g me off. Hannah is about the only person I believe in their honesty on this. Amy Jo is a decent, loving person who loves her family. She may not be in the same position you are in; she may not have the income or the knowledge you do; she may not subscribe to the way of life you have chosen for yourself. But for goodnes sakes, stop this nonsense and give the woman the opportunity to create and live her life without exposing her to a judgment of it by complete strangers. Back to my original point: whoever started this thread about the lady with the recipes and all the ones who mocked her for it afterward - shame on you. Nannygoat.

I don't see anything either but I am sorry they upset you. I believe in Karma...so please keep coming on here. I enjoy everyones posts. You seem like a such a sweet person

Thanks Dave and BTW, you look DAMN GOOD!!! I barely recognized you ... you've done so well!! Hopefully I'll be a regular again on the boards once things settle down so I can catch up with everyone! Take care and keep on doing whatever your doing cuz you look awesome!!!!

I wish you could see it. Boy they tore me a new @ss..............Women can be so mean to other women. I don't enjoy not being able to take care of my children everyday. I don't enjoy not being able to get out and do things. I work and go home and not bother anyone..........Well if it wasn't me it would have been someone else... It was just my turn to get bashed............Old saying ..........Damn if you do and damn if you don't......... Thanks for everyone on this board for being so good to me.......... God bless amy

Marlize: Remarkable, competent, and busy lady: Congratulations... head of the class, please... What a whirlwind you are weathering: surgeries,job changes, move, mom. You will lose some more. Step back when you can, sleep in, and enjoy. I hope your trip is a great one. Dave