WHATS HAPPENING SATURDAY
Man you want to lose some weight ? Anyone? Come follow me around . I ran and ran some more all day. Well not really run but sure was blazing a trail today and what time I wasn’t fast footing in back and forth getting bras for ladies I was on the register ringing up sales as fast as I could . I think this was the week end for mamas and daughters to go school shopping. 150 to 200 dollars was the normal sale today. We had a fantastic day again.
I had a message on my phone from the administrators sec at the Forsyth Nursing home about the Van Job. Don’t know what happened to the guy they hired but evidently something happened. She wants me to come in Monday morning to talk to the Administrator. Hmmmmmmmm would sure be a lot easier work I think don’t know
Might do that and then do the nursing job on the week ends at night ,,,,not!!! Joe would have a fit. Wanting to know why I needed to do that for. I just want to make some money to save up to be able to next spring buy us a Gold Wing Trike. That is what I have been doing since I started to work so far is putting most of my money in a fund for that. Just don’t have a lot so far lol.
BRENDA: Ouch on the yeast infection, those are nasty and be sure that your pcp documents that often in the chart because Medicare will pay for the T.T. if it is documented.
I would call the hospital in
Hey it will be fun Monday night. I have already told my boss today that I don’t want to work Tuesday because I will have company for Monday night and I don’t want to get up and run off. Lol
I hope you all don’t think we are taking you into never never land when you follow us home Monday night lol. We really do live in the boonies. There is one way in and one way out ONLY. Lol
I hope the two things together will help you all out till Dennis can get his disability.
We got a lawyer after they turned Joe down the first time.
Don’t know how much any of you know this but …..No medicare doesn’t pay for everything but if you apply to the hospital that you are using for a reduced amount that you have to pay they will do a charity write off. According to your amount of money you have coming in. Will reduce it from 25 % to 100%. You call the billing dept and tell them what you are wanting to find out about then they will send you papers in the mail and you have it notorized and send them coppies of your yearly income. Like the paper that medicare sends you yearly about what your monthy pay will be and they make their decision from all of that. I know all of this because I just helped my neighbor do all of this. They had some huge bills at the hospital in Branson and they wound up only having to pay about 10 % of what medicare didn’t pay. And was for all of the doctors that were associated with Skaggs too. So all together they are only going to have to pay about 1000.00 instead of about 10,000.00. pretty good. Just thought I would tell you all of this in case there is someone out there that needs to know.
SHERR: well good grief don’t know why I typed brother on the post to you. Lol Maybe sleepy. I know Dylan is your son. Maybe I was crazy at the moment. Lol
You have had so many things wrong with you that you must be a lot stronger than you think. Most people couldn’t stand anywhere near that many things wrong with them honey.
Lol I had to laugh about your poor little rich boy. Don’t it just chap your b—t when someone that has never had to work a day in their life for stuff gripe about money. Lol
Or the person that gives it to them. Im like you I have had to work my fingers to the bone for every penny I ever had. He wouldn’t have liked me and my take on reality either im sure lol Probably would have thought I was a stupid old woman. Lol
You take care of yourself and tell your Mom Hi for me and tell her I will be praying for her when she has her knee surgery.
TAMMY –AMMY: Sounds like you have several days of hard work lined up before you. Seems that is the way we women do to take a day off away from things lol right?
It is just been lately that I feel like I can go away and not worry about if Joe will have something to eat or not.
You know I still have a problem with eggs too most of the time. I can eat them soft scrambled fairly good. I beat them with some milk and then just barely cook them to where they are done but not hard. But if they are hard then that is the way they seem like they stay Hard and just set there in my stomach.
JANET: Oh sweetie im so very sorry about the little Kitty. I know sweet little Jon is heartbroken but really he will be ok. I know it is hard to watch a little one his age deal with death . That is a hard concept for them to deal with. I had a friend that told her little boy that grandpa when to sleep and woudnt be waking up. This poor child didn’t sleep for almost 6 month. He would scream and scream when he was made to go to bed and they (of course ) didn’t know why. Finally a counselor made the connection and ask him some question and that was it. Amazing what their little minds think they are so literal. But Jon is so bright and sweet , He understands that God will take care of Gabby. And like Lana said the lesson to be learned might be that your boys watched you and Mike take care of something that needed caring for. We never know why God puts things in our pathway we just know that we cant not do anything when they are there.
We all love you for caring for that baby kitty . Wish I was close would give all of you a special big hug from me.
I know you have been having a plate full with your mother, Steph, and the kitty. But hang in there girl . My motto or mantra has always been all of my life. -----Nothing ever stays the same, Nothing ever stays the same. And it doesn’t. Sometimes it might get worse but it never stays the same forever. . Im not being glib about your problems. They are real and they are serious. It is hard to have to deal with horrible , problems everyday. It isnt fair that some people have nothing but good luck and others have horrible luck all the time. But look how much you and Mike love each other and he is always there for you. He is steadfast and isnt going anywhere. Look how much your older son has changed over the past year. That is a miracle. Look at Jon , beautiful sunny shiny Jon. What a blessing. And Steph even tho she is going thru some hard times right now. She is a miracle that she is here in this world now. I know she is giving you problems but there will come a time.. I know at times it seems as if nothing is going right and we don’t know what lessons we are suppose to be learning from all of it. But maybe it isnt you or Mike that is suppose to be learning, It might be someone else that is needing to learn something from your problems. We never know. Just know this that we all love you on the board very very much. And we all care for you deeply.
Have you heard anything from Melissa about her cat scan? We are all on pins and needles about it.
Oh on the protein I don’t need any of the strawberry I just thought you might bring a couple samples to the COF meeting for Sheila and Connie. But that is ok. I have a big jar of the vanilla and will bring some for samples of that for them.
No you don’t need to bring me any baggies sweetie. I will get some tomorrow somewhere to put the samples in that I am bringing , I just cant find the snack size ones anywhere I look.
Yeah if you have a couple of 3x around I will pay you for them . I am getting together a box for her of stuff right now and am going to the thrift store tomorrow to see if I can find some things in a 3x for her if she isnt in them right now she should be soon.
LANA: Hi sweetie , I know you are upset about the kitty too. You are so tender hearted with our furry little friends.
You are always so smart and right on target with your lovely advice . We all love you mucho.
I know I feel the same way as you about Steph but don’t know if I could follow thru and let her really go out there. Lol It is easy for me to say that when it isnt my child. Altho I went thru a lot of stuff when my youngest daughter was about 14 thru 20 lol Maybe older than that lol
FAYE: So good to see you on here again. Yea they say what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Lol got news for them , the knees aren’t getting any stronger lol
Glad to see you on here. Yeah I am a chronic list maker. And when I was out good lighting to be able to see people. Lol
RIANNE: So good to see you posting. And laughing and remembering when I was a few days out and thinking wow if I could only keep losing weight this fast I would have all the extra off in a few weeks lol well sorry to say it slows down. Of course it is a good thing. Losing weight that fast you lose muscle too . Sounds like you are doing very good. Thank God for moms. Sounds like she has you doing all the things you are suppose to do.
Mind your Mother. Lol
CONNIE: So glad that you got the seminar under your belt and you are on your way now. Wont be long before you will be saying well I have a surgery date.
I am so glad that you are less worried about everything now. Yep anyone that has a BMI over 40 is in pretty good danger of having something bad happen to them fairly soon if they don’t have it now they will have. Am glad that you will maybe bypass all of those things by doing the surgery before it happens.
NUTTI: I hope you didn’t make yourself too sick by going to see your Grandmother. Did you drive yourself? I hope you didn’t do any damage to yourself .
Im sure you will feel better when you get the drain out hopefully. I think a lot of people have byers remorse but hang in there really and truly it will get better. You are having a lot of extra stress with your grandmother and her health. Know that we all will be praying for her , she is on my list . I guess we wont be getting to meet you at this COF meeting either ??? Hopefully next month.
BEV: your puppies sound adorable. Would love to see a picture of them. That is great news that you have a date to meet with Dr. H. He is the best I think. I know one thing I am so proud that I had him for a surgeon and so glad that he doesn’t use the drains that some of these other doctors seem to think are necessary. Evidently they really aren’t because he doesn’t use them and I have found a few others that don’t either.
Now your diet will seem more important. Hang in there wont be too much longer.
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JAN
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Good morning Missouri.... Just got back from picking up my nephew and we are getting ready to eat some lunch and then my two kiddos and nephew and I are going to the pool for about an hour.... Got some much needed house cleaning to get done this weekend...my closet looks like a tornado came through it and I think it is time to get rid of all my "big" girl clothes....lol Well I hope this post finds everyone doing good....Hope everyone is getting better...Mel you are still in my prayers as well as everyone else... God bless Rachael
Dear Jan and OH Family: Its been so crazy here, I havent had time to get on this until now. I got on about 3 am, but really didnt feel like posting or anything else. Was up most of the night last night on and off with Jonathan, who was having a very hard time with the death of Gabby and although we didnt tell him that she went to sleep and wouldnt get up-or anything like that-all he knew is he went to bed Thurs night and she was there and Friday morning she was gone. What a heart wrenching day it was yesterday-Jon cried off and on all day-which, was a cycle-because it would make me cry and then during the night-it was tearing at all of our heart strings-its a fact of life, I know-but its so hard when your an adult, and the poor kids-its just heart breaking~~ He was afraid that IF he went to sleep last night-he would wake up and one of his dogs would be gone-or the bunny or whatever-he didnt understand~!
He asked me several times different things-like-"Cant I just ask God to drop her back off when he makes her better?". My personal favorite is-you know Mike has those RC airplanes? Well, Jon asked IF Daddy could fly the plane really high to get it to heaven and pick up his kitty? ALL day long-he would just be sitting there and tears were rolling down his face-needless to say, mom didnt get a lot done-I played with him most of the day, his cars or games to keep his little mind busy. He picked up his play cell phone several times during the day AND last night and called the kitty on his phone. Then-it was midnite and he was still just crying and crying-so I found one of the baby blankets that we hadnt used with Gabby (had to throw all the used ones away) anyway-he thought we had-and he asked if he could sleep with it-and Ill be darned if he didnt go get in his bed and he laid there praying to God and talking to Gabby and finally fell asleep-he woke up this morning, walked in the livingroom with that blanket and told us how he had dreams about her-and in his dreams, she played with him and she was healthy. I was thanking God for allowing little Jon to have such comforting dreams of that little baby kitty who captured our hearts.
I really wish that people who dump off pets in the country would have to see what affect they had on this family and that because of their cruelty-that little baby died when she may have been able to live had they just taken her to the pound or one of the shelters-but instead-they dump them where they "think" someone is there and will KNOW that those little animals are out there and need us-well, we dont always know about it until its too late. Of course, its not just the kitty, but all 3 of the property cats were dumped off-and Tigger-who is 9 yrs old-when they found him down in the ditch when they were mowing one day-he was near dead and the vet figured that he was thrown from a car window-and at 4 weeks old-his hip and both back legs were shattered-and Tim (the owner) took him in-they spent over $900 that long ago-to save that little kittens life-you know-its just frustrating-I hope I NEVER find the people who have done this or come face to face with them, because I cannot say I could turn the other cheek and walk away!! So-Mike and I counted all of our change out of our jar-and what we were short-Darrel, Megan and Aaron donated-and with all of us put together, we went to Pet Smart and adopted a 3 month old little girl kitty who was the last of an abondoned litter. We adopted her from a not-for-profit group called "For the love of Pets" where they are not a shelter, but Foster homes who give shelter to all pets. They had, I bet 30-40 kittens and adult cats there-and we were just about ready to leave-and I was walking back to the glass area and looked down-and she was in a metal crate-and I bent down to pet her-and she totally leaned into my hand and started purring-I took her out of the cage-and that was it-she loved Mike (rubbed against his goutee (sp?) like Gabby used to) and she loved on the boys-never scratching or acting nervous like all the other ones were.....Actually, she was the first one that Jon was even able to hold-all the others were clawing at him, trying to get away or just too skiddish...which is to be expected-they were really busy and crowded and then there were lots of dogs and then people who bring in their own animals etc....so-we knew she would be perfect for us-and the most like Gabby we would be able to find! They gave us a certificate to have her spayed (so it wont cost us anything, but have to wait until she is a little bigger), we got a free vet check for next week for a check up-she has already had her shots, worming and flea dip. We got a free $10 bag of Science Diet kitten food, and free heart worm pills. She only went through the house for about 1/2 hour investigating everything and then she was off-making us laugh and playing with the boys and snuggling up to them at different times-and then off again...she is quite the character. Not what I had planned on doing this Saturday morning, thats for sure-LOL, but I guess that life throws you curves and you gotta just go with it. Although she is a shedder, and thats the reason we dont have indoor dogs-because of the way Mike has to dress for his job and doesnt like animal hair on his work clothes-guess I will be getting some of those lint remover things and brushing her~! Jon insisted that he wanted this one to be named Gabby too-but he settled for Abby-cause it sounds like Gabby-LOL-and the other one was Rabby-which I protested-LOL.....this one has already been seen by a vet, up to date on all her shots and has already started on heart worm meds and been dipped for fleas etc-so she is in much better shape and although I know there are no gaurantees-Im hoping that this one will be with us for a long, long time-and bring much joy to our family and the boys. Other than that, I am baking some banana bread today and making a batch of home-made chicken and dumpling soup and cleaning, cleaning and more cleaning getting ready for our company.....We all are excited to see Mikes best friend-but to tell you the truth, wish I had a little more time to recouperate and get some more things done first. Megan ended up at Urgent Care, she thought she had strep throat, but it turned out to be tonsilitis and she has to be on an antibiotic and steroids for a week and then 10 days. She was going to be over with Aaron today to help with the yard and other clean up-but we are now shooting for tomorrow.
**Jan-IF the nursing home wants you to drive full time-are you just going to take the 24 hrs of the nursing job-which probably pays better? Trust me, I DO know how very lucky I am to have Mike, to have 4 beautiful children, a nice house and all of that. Thats what I told Mike just last Weds when the boys went to Megans-is that up until about 5 yrs ago-I used to wait for that other shoe to drop all the time-and I refused to allow myself to ever be truly happy-with me, of course, but always sat in reserve with my true feelings and such-because up until I met Mike-I really had a life of trauma and struggles, some things many people just cant comprehend. I have always said-I wouldnt change my life-because of things that DID happen to me-made me aware of certain things and I could better protect my own children-AND know that I would never talk to my kids or treat them the way I had been treated by various people, etc etc....I also have lived by the fact that I would NEVER raise MY kids the way that my parents raised my brother and I. I didnt pass the cycle down, rather-changed everything and I raised them or am raising them the way I wanted or wished I would have been raised-so, there are no regrets with how I have been as an adult-except for letting myself get so freaking fat- So-I told Mike, its been scary to me, to accept the happiness and be content and to feel so fulfilled-and then to just have everything outside of that be in an uproar all the time, and basically-since January, no break in one thing to the next-not really. He says, and I agree-between the extreme pain and then everything else-its just taking its toll-I know....constant pain alone-will make a person go from that happy soul they are normally-to down right tired and it wears away at your will and your personality. With Steph, trust me, with every ounce of my being-I would rather just tell her NO-you can go out when you turn 18-I would rather KNOW she is being taken care of, fed-who was being aloud around her-because Erics judgement obviously leaves a lot to be desired and of course, I am worried that I will not be there to protect her-and he is too selfish to put her before his own needs or desires. I just know that IF I dont let her go-and something happens to him before she does turn 18-that she will take a very very long time to forgive me, IF she ever does-and she will rebel in ways I dont even want to think of. This is prob one of the hardest decisions I have ever made-and one I dont like. Maybe this way-all of those fairy tale visions she has of her dad-will come to truth and she will see what the rest of us know and she will decide to come home before anything bad happens. That is my prayer. All I can really do at this point is to let go and let God-and believe that I am doing whats best for her. I would love to hear that he does right by her and IS the dad for once in his life that he could never be before. Thats my hope. I will be ready any time she calls to come home-if she wants, and IF not, I at least know I did what I thought was best for her emotionally. Her and I have a counseling appt with APO on Thurs morning. They are some sort of Aids program and will spend time counseling her on how to deal with his illness and all of that. She didnt want to do the group-so they are allowing us to do this individually-and I pray it helps her some, I really do.
Mel did call me yesterday after she had called the dr ofc about the cat scan results-of course, the doc wasnt in-so she will not be getting the results until Monday-so I dont know any more than I did the other day, except that she is still hurting pretty badly.
IF I am able to come to the group, I will bring some samples for the girls. Do you still want some snack bags if I am able to come? They arent hard to find here at all-and I will bring them if you want me to.
Also-IF I come, I will try and bring some things for you to send to your friend, cant say how many things I have in that size-on the shirts-I have some that I still wear in a 3x, because I like my shirts baggier and to hide my apron, but its time to cut loose with some of it anyway-so I will go through and see what I can find-and try to get them to you. Not sure on time, as I know we are having company and all, but I will sure do my best.
**Nutti-PLEASE take care of yourself and I will be praying extra prayers for your grams. Im so sorry you are going through this. I know its not easy. I will keep you, your mom and family in my thoughts and prayers as well. Please take care. Glad you will be getting that nasty drain out soon...you should feel better soon after! Love ya.
**Deb M-WE are going to stand in faith that the lump is NOTHING....In the name of Jesus!~ DO NOT let the devil convince you otherwise. Its prob just one of the cysts you have always had the past couple of years and thats what we are going to stand by-nothing else. I will be praying for you and David, your kids, grandkids, and your sister and hubby. It will all work out. I wish I could give you a hug right now. Take care of you. Whether you get mad, sad or hurt or whatever, please know we love you and want to hear ANYTHING you want to talk about or just vent-ok? Take care sweety and know we are thinking about you, ok?
**Brenda-you sound busy!! We were gonna do lawn stuff today with the kids since we are having company and then have the reception here next Sat-but its gonna rain, has already been sprinkling. You take care-I am still praying for you and Dennis and your situation and I KNOW GOD WILL see you through all of this-I just know he will!! You guys are very special and he always takes care of his children, right? He will do that for you both as well-make sure and keep us posted. How is the rash? Are you feeling better yet? I sure hope to see you and Tammy Ammy on Monday evening. Still dont know yet. Today, pain wise-is one of the worst I can remember-and Yet, I dont know why? Oh well-Ill survive, Im sure. All my love to you!
**Tammy Ammy-I WILL email you sometime today. I am NOT trying to avoid anyone-IM not!! This past 2-3 months have been a nightmare. The pain-well, I cant even wrap my mind, much less anything else around it and deal with it very well. Some days I feel like the only way I will feel better is to die-really. I went from a very happy, go lucky-new lease on life-to miserable, tired and overwhelmed-and whether anyone believes it or not, I dont even get to talk to Mel much-much less every day like we used to-maybe 2-3 times per week-seriously-and I havent talked to anyone really. I just havent had the time or the energy-and I HATE to call someone when all I can do is ***** and moan or feel like crying-and so, I guess, IF I had to guess what I am going through may be depression-because I have kind of just shut down and I just cant seem to get back what I want to be! So-dont you ever take it personally. I love you-and I love the people on this board-and I have even thought about stopping posting-but I have always told myself that I dont want to just stop like a lot of people do-its important to me, but its been in the back of my mind--and its literally the ONLY time you will see me on the puter anymore-is to do this. I think I have emailed like 3 times the past 2 weeks or so-and you were one of them. Im sorry for letting you down and not being such a good friend, I really am. All I know is that I do love you all, I hope you will all understand that I DO still love you all, Im just worn out-and I dont have anything else to offer to anyone right now. I can barely take care of what NEEDS to be done, much less the desires, but arent necessities. Im sure I will be back soon, please dont give up on me just yet....I do love you AND I am sorry. I really really hope you can forgive me~and that you remember how the old Janet was-I really want her back too!! Hope to see you all tomorrow-Take care, and I hope you all have a wonderful and safe weekend. Love, Janet
