WHATS HAPPENING MONDAY

I sure could have used some help yesterday. Because it was raining out and we couldn’t get outside to do some much needed work, we cleaned inside. We cleaned all the wooden blinds in the house. (I think I was stupid in getting them, and wish I could sell them ) Cleaned all the ceiling fans(love them and would never get rid of them) vacuumed all the furniture,(we are beginning to need new, guess I know where some of my money will go) and swept and moped all the floors, glad we have hardwood. And I even dusted all the baseboards, all the pictures, cleaned the counter tops , scrubbed  down the bathroom, washed all the bed linen, and throw rugs , no telling when the rugs will get dry as I hung them on the back porch hoping they will dry sometime . may take them out and lay them on the shelves in the green house they will dry fast there.

Anyway it was an all day job. Lol

Except for a break we took about noon and met my son and granddaughter, Stephani she is 8 and she came down to our house till after he gets thru with the show at 6pm. We had lunch at a Mexican restaurant in Forsyth. Really good place to eat. I had Shrimp wrapped in bacon and stuffed with Jack cheese, grilled veggies and refried beans. Of course I brought more home than I ate lol. Will have enough for 2 more days.

 

I have got the urge to move all my furniture around even my computer but I cant move it because the cable in from the satalite is only so long lol.

 

I never think I have cleaned house really well until I have moved all the furniture around lol. But our house is sort of on the small side and there is only one good way to put stuff. We arrange it different and then don’t like it so go back to the original way always.

 

Washed all the covers on my throw pillows. I hope they don’t shrink. But if they do I will buy some more I guess. They were to the point that they needed to be washed or else.

 

 

CHELLE: you will make it just fine on the pre-op diet. Just keep remembering what you are doing it for. It isnt forever and you need to do it. Ok? As I say Keep your eye on the Prize.

Eventually you will get to eat some of those things again. But by then you may not even want them , really . I know that doesn’t sound logical but it is the truth.

 

Did you for get that Rianne is on vacation with her mom in La. ?

 

Just relax and take it easy the next few days.     

 

 

 

BEVERLY B. the Ark will be by in a while to pick you up. Man if it rains anymore here we might really need it.

 

LOL yeah I reamember that paper work for the doctors. That is something else isnt it?

I thought I would never get thru it.

Hope everything is doing ok for you. And you will get those papers filled out soon.

 

 

RACHAEL: I hope you have a great time on your vacation and can come back all rested and relaxed. Will be good that you and hubby can be free of kids for a while.

What all are you doing in Calif ? Anything special or just the beach and stuff ?

 

JANET:  Be sure and tell Melissa how much we all love her and how much we are praying for her. Cant wait to hear from her our selves on her laptop. I know she is still in a lot of pain and that fool that caused her to hurt like that should be fired.

You go girl we are all behind you .

 

Hope you and Mike have a lovely time going on your date. Joe and I talked today about that very thing. I told him I would love to go and see if we still love to dance like we use to. We had some pretty good dance routines worked out especially to the texas two step.

 

Oh my gosh , that is awful about Melissas Sister. We will be praying for her . What hospital is she in?

 

Honey don’t worry about a car it is just a thing. When you get back on your feet and can work again you will and Mike knows that. It will all be ok.

Love means more than money any day.

Things will all work out for the Glory of God.

 

 

DEBBIE S. Was so good to see you too sweetie. I didn’t recognize you until you said something I guess tho. But I remember those pretty eyes. Wish I hadn’t been so busy so that I could have talked to you more. Come back to the COF meeting next month. It will be at the Library from now on tho. It will be on the 23^rd would love to see you there.

 

 

LOVE AND JOY AND PEACE ABOUNDS

JAN

 

Good morning Missouri... Yes I am already at work.....I only have one more whole working day left before I fly this coup....

We are going to do the beach thing, Disneyland, Seaworld and all that fun and exciting stuff...

So sorry to hear about Susan...I will try and place a call to her today on my lunch as well as to my Mel-Mel....My mom was asking about Mel yesterday so I will call and give her the numbers so she can call Mel also... Know this that everyone is in my prayers today and always... God bless Rachael

Good Morning Jan and OH Peeps~ Jan-come on over to Diamond if your in a spring cleaning kind of mood-LOL-I could use a lot of help in that area right now-I was going to have that all done last week for another sale this past weekend-but we all know how that turned out-so I still have a lot of that left-but happy that most of my bedroom is done-just had to get closets switched around-and gave myself the walk in-since it has 2 hanging rods in it-so one will have clothes that fit now-and clothes to grow into....I want to rearrange my furniture as well-but have to wait until I have everything done and then the kids can come and help me with that.

The lunch you had sounds really good-yummy. I still cant do shrimp-Mel suggested that I try it battered or made a different way-the only way I have had it is boiled and broiled and it was just too chewy and knew if I swallowed it-it would come back up-so have tried it 3 times and it hasnt agreed with me yet. Im glad you got time with your granddaughter. I bet she likes coming to see Grandma and Grandpa!!

Let me know if you and Joe go dancing. That sounds so romantic and fun. Mike and I dont really dance-we have a couple of times, at our wedding and my cousins-and thats it. I think we will stick to dinner and a movie-LOL...I think we may harm some body parts if we got out and tried to bust a move!! Wish we would have had some money to go somewhere for the night or weekend-since he is off until Thurs-but-the time away from his stressful job will do him some good no matter if we get away or not. My mom and dad are taking the kids for most of the day and night on Tues-so at least we will have some peace and quiet-that will be nice by itself....Love the kids-dont get me wrong, but sometimes its nice to have some R&R and sometimes they like to get away from the same ol, same ol as well. I have been telling Mel what everyone says-I cant say she remembers all that much-because just yesterday she was asking me all kinds of questions again and didnt remember talking to me earlier in the day! I had the longest conversation with her that we had had in a week or so, and so that was really nice-and I dont think she realized how sick she was before surgery or how close we came to losing her. I think it surprised her that most of her family showed up and how many of us were up there. I told her that I got to talk to the surgeons and even left them a note on her chart about how to cut her (LOL) they had originally said they were going to cut from like hip bone to hip bone-but I really was adiment-that IF they could-to cut her vertically because the weight of the extra skin (apron) wouldnt be a constant pulling on her and make it riskier for it to come open-that scared the daylights out of me! I had 3 c-sections-all cut vertically-and I knew it wouldnt be as bad as horizontally. I also told her that when they were talking about all the risks and would happen to her-that I pretty much just told them to do what they had to do to bring my sister out alive-We would just deal with everything else-I didnt want ANY added risks! I knew some things she wanted-but wasnt worth her life-thats for sure-and so that was my biggest concern was her life-She sounds so much better-she got the tubes out of her throat and nose and so she said that was a lot better-and she has only drank a little bit of water and some sprite zero-pretty crappy way to lose weight, dont ya think? LOL....She still has the pain pump-and will prob have it for awhile-We are going up in the morning to see her again and check in and I will see if she wants me to get into the laptop and read all the kind things everyone has said about her- She said the respitory therapist-the one I filed the complaint on-he came into the room and told her that he would not be bothering her anymore-and she said that this time he was really nice to her-and I smiled to myself on the inside-

Rosemary isnt in the hospital anymore-she did get released, but she is pretty banged up and bruised. Her airbags didnt deploy-neither of the front ones-and it was head on-so they are going to be talking to Pontiac about that. Poor thing, she just got that car about a month ago-and it was brand new. Im just glad she will be okay, and hopefully wont have any long term physical problems because of it. She is such a sweethart!! Terry will be going to get the pics of the car and the where the airbags etc are-so when they come back through town, they can pick up the pics and have all the evidence etc that they need.

Yesterday I also got a call from Susan-I was shocked to learn she was back in the hospital. She had been there since Friday night/Saturday morning (think it was late Friday night)-I hadnt talked to her since she got her drain out-and was on the way to her favorite uncles wake and funeral. She said she would call me-and I was just waiting to hear from her-thought it was funny I didnt hear from her with the whole Mel thing-but thought maybe she got on line and checked up on her-and thought they were just busy with the funeral and family. Poor thing. I will be calling her later on today to check on the test results-they are going to be running some tests today~Dr. Scott believes something happened when they took the drain out (theres a no-brainer) because she said it was the most awful pain she has experienced and the pain afterwards was unbearable-told her that I never had that-I did have pain afterwards once in awhile-but nothing that lasted more than a few seconds or whatever-she said hers was constant and then she got so bad she couldnt even move. Please keep her in your prayers. She didnt have her cell phone-so if anyone wants to call her-you will have to call her room and I posted that phone number last night. I know the car is just a material item-and I am not a material kind of person-I really am pretty laid back-and I dont care to keep up with the Jones's or how people perceive what I drive or what my house looks like-(I am proud of it-dont get me wrong, and its nice-but didnt get this house OR the car to impress anyone else-and didnt and dont keep things we cant afford just to have something nice) Im not like that at all-I guess the reality of it all hit me when I watched them load it up-and I felt guilty and sad. I know I didnt ask to have to go on disability-I really loved my job-and most of the time, didnt feel like others did-I loved going and never felt like I worked-heck, to be honest, most of the time, I would have done it for free-thats how much I loved it! I DO want to go back to work-it was in the top 3 of my goals post op-but now the doctors are telling me with the severity of my back problems, I wont ever go back to work-I have always been the type to think its mind over matter-and you can overcome obstacles IF I put my mind to it-but this time, its truly kicking my butt-and so its been a jagged pill to swallow-because no matter how hard I try-the pain gets the best of me. Maybe it will all change after surgery this winter-but I am not going to set my mind to it and then get bad news-Im going to just accept what they tell me-and IF I get to go back-then I will be very happy. I know in a year or so-I can replace the car with something else-with a reasonable payment-and we wont have to worry about getting behind in payments if something happens. We were upset down when we bought it-had a large balance on our van when we had to trade it in, so that made the payments even higher-and so its just what happens. I dont do a lot of running now because the Suburban is a gas guzzler and I just cant afford to be putting gas into it every day! It takes $120-$140 to fill the tank and I think it gets like 8 miles to the gallon-YIKES...so I do everything when I go into town~ I have a lot to do this week in preperation of the wedding Sat. Still not sure whats going on with that-or if Mel will be out of the hospital. I told her about the kids changing the location and she was upset-just like I said she would be-and keep telling the kids that she may not even be out of the hospital yet since they are saying she will be there 3 weeks-but Megan is adiment that her other mom be there-so heck, it may end up being at the chapel at the hospital or out in the courtyard-LOL...no, we wont do that-but Im sure IF Mel is still there-that we will be going to the hospital in her wedding dress and seeing her. Anyhow-so I am taking her to get her nails done and then Sat to get her hair and make up done in the morning. I have to call the church today where Mike and I were married and see if we can just use the church for the wedding-we have our own officiant, and dont need the reception area downstairs-so I am hoping that will work since its so beautiful there and only a couple of minutes from here-so the ride wont be too bad on Mel if she is out then. **Chelle-I hope the diet goes good-I am praying for you. I munched on gum and chewed sunflower seeds and spit them up-it gave me something to chew and I told the NUT I was doing that and she didnt say anything to me about not-so it worked for me. I know you can do it-and IF you fall off the wagon-just start over immediately-you will see-it will all be over before you know it-and in no time at all, you will be right back on here posting about things you can have again. Jan is right-a lot of things I THOUGHT I would yearn for or crave-I didnt and still dont and I am now 7 mos out. I thought I would crave my ho-ho's, they used to be my fav, but I dont-I dont even think about them ever, to tell you the truth-its awesome!! Love ya-keep your chin up! **Rachael-Have fun on vaca-what are you gonna do in CA? Where are you going there? I lived in Southern CA for a year and loved going to the beach-well, I called it the Ocean, but they all call it the beach-and I loved being there at sunset or sunrise-what a breathtaking view that was!! Ecspically when the boats would be right by the sunset-looked like they were right in front of it-were the sun met the water-Man-talk about beautiful-I hope you enjoy your much needed time off and have fun!!

**Tammy-Ammy-Where are you? Are you ok? Get on and post so we know how you are. I have been praying that you feel better soon-I hope your ok. **Bev-dont get discouraged by all that paperwork-just try your best to remember dates-I know that all my dates werent exact-but I listed every diet etc-just had to guess sometimes on the dates because I have been on every diet known to man and fat for most of my life-so I made sure and listed them and sometimes just guessed on the year or whatever! It wont be so bad when your done-thank goodness you dont have to do much more paper work wise than that!! Thinking about you!!

I spent a lot of time yesterday napping-I was even falling asleep sitting up in the chair-dont know what was up! All I can think of is that I have been so tired from being at the hospital and then helping my dad out-and havent been sleeping very well-between that and the pain-its been a long time since I slept good-I even woke up 4 times last night because of the pain and finally just stayed up at 3:45 because I felt like it was a losing battle to keep trying to sleep. Maybe a little to do with the weather too and my arthritis and we are suppose to get even more rain and storms today-so I hope that this is the last day of this for a bit. Well, I am gonna get off here and get some emails off and then go sit with Mike before the boys get up. I hope you all have a wonderful Monday and a great week. Love and prayers to all, Janet

Hello Missouri, Don't really have much to say - talked to Susan at hospital and they think it may be her gallbladder. I sort of hope that's what it is because that can be taken care of pretty simply.   Am so anxious to hear about Mel again.  She's a tough girl, has been in so much trouble since that hernia mesh mess earlier.  I'm suspicious this abcess may have been there for a long time and just reached critical mass!!!  Still praying that the masses are benign and I believe they are. I got some new scales that are digital.  I just couldn't get a precise measurement with the one with a dial.  Love them!!!  They weigh the same as the others (I think) but I can read it.  Got them at Sam's and they were $31 which I consider a good investment.   We have many plans for fourth of July.  Our development does the fourth up in style.  There is a pulled pork supper on Tuesday night, a parade and brunch on Wednesday AM and then we are grilling with our next-door neighbors on Wednesday evening.  I love holidays!!!  I am fixing food to take to each of the events - won't be for me but I can eat pulled pork and at the brunch there will be some quiche/egg dish I can eat I'm sure.  And fresh fruit this time of year.   I tried a peach frozen smoothie this AM and, of course, I drank/ate it but can't say I enjoyed it.  I am just going to stick to bullets I think.  I get most of my protein from regular food now but when I think I'm short of protein I just use the bullet.   Hope all of the newbies and new post-ops are doing well.  I am not good at remembering names, but I pray blanket prayers for all of you - just ask for God to bless all the OH Missouri board people.  Sorry, but I'm not detail-oriented. Hugs and love, Lana

hey girl    sounds like u have a GRAET 4th planned hope u have fun, now here comes blondie again hahaha  whats a bullet???? i know im a blonde , tks

Sheila, A bullet is New-Whey liquid protein.  They have 42 grams of protein in 3.1 fluid ounces of liquid.  Lots of folks don't like the taste, I use the grape, but for me it is lots of protein in a small volume of liquid.  There are those who say we can't absorb more than 30-35 grams at one setting but I just go ahead and drink mine and figure if I waste 7 grams - no big deal.  I order them on-line.  There's usually an advertisement along the left side of the main forum page.  If you can't find it, let me know. Hugs, Lana

Well, I'm back in limbo...........waiting for the surgeons to decide what the safest surgery will be.  After having time to think about it, I am really lucky they are studying my case and not just jumping in with both feet.  After having adhesions and a punctured bowel, I don't really blame them for being cautious.  I just need to be patient. My daughter and her two kids are settled now in St. Louis.  After having our granddaughter with us for 9 weeks was awesome.  She's just starting to coo and smile.  It has been rather busy here since they moved home in April, and now I sit with the dog and cat.  Steve gets home around midnight, so I guess I'll go back and adjust to his schedule. I had another phone conference with the Dietician from Healthy Roads today, one more and I'm done.   I thought I completed the program last week but United wanted to be sure I have all the info I need for after surgery.   I have up to 12 sessions with the coach/dietician after surgery, which will be great when I have questions . After catching up on the posts, I realized there are a few of us that are having problems.  My prayers go out to all of you.  As close as this group is, I'm sure prayers are going out by the minute, which is a wonderful thing.  I always seem much more relaxed after talking with our God.   I need to get out and get my protein water and powders to see what I like.  I've put if off and now my dietician wants me to experiment this week.  ANY SUGGESTIONS would be helpful.  I'm off to read my required reading from the surgeon.  Love and prayers to all.