WHATS HAPPENING ON ANOTHER GREAT MONDAY

Now the lean to shed is done , roof and all. I have all of the Christmas plastic boxes ready to go inside there on the back wall. Seems a good place to put all of it so that they are out of the way. Will do all of that in the morning before it gets too hot. Suppose to be another scorcher again tomorrow.

 

We have to get the kitchen sink in the trailer unclogged tomorrow sometime. Seems like it is always something. Hope to be able to finish up some stuff in there this week .

At least I told Joe it wont be quite as hot in there working as it is outside.

Well I don’t guess anyway. All we have over there is a window air conditioner in the living room , we really need a small one to put in the bedroom too but don’t have one. Have been looking for one at garage sales and such but haven’t found one yet. Just need a room a/c. The a/c we have in the living room has been big enough to cool the house until this heat wave came. We loaned them all of our fans and they had two so it helps.

Tonight I told them that if it is too hot over there to be comfortable to come over and we would put the air mattress in the living room floor and the 2 kids and one of them could sleep on that and one of the adults can sleep on the couch. But so far they haven’t so I guess they are ok.

 

I talked to Becky while ago and told her that everyone will be praying for her tomorrow about her gall bladder surgery. Her blood sugars and her blood pressure both have been really high this past week. So guys pray that she will be ok. She is such a good Christian girl and such a sweetie. I sure hope she gets this taken care of and has no problems from it.

 

I have been watering and watering and watering more , every where there has been shade at today I have watered and gotten it soaked. Things didn’t seem to wilt so bad today and it was really hot again. If we can just make it thru the next few days maybe , just maybe things will get back to just hot August weather.  Not this horrendous horrible heat.

 

Did everyone that wanted flower seeds get their orders in to me? The only thing that I don’t have any of is the Hibiscus the seeds  This heat has totally ruined the seeds, I went to get them and they were just dust in the pods.

 

Oh my Lord I just heard on the news about the shooting in Neosho . That is so sad. Do any of you live over there? I hope none of the people were any of your families or anything. We need to pray for all of them.

 

TAMMY: so glad that your little angel wasn’t hurt anymore than what she was and isnt afraid of the place now too., That could have been a big tragedy.

Get all those smooches you can, they are sure sweet aren’t they?

Oh are you and Brenda coming to the COF meeting on the 20^th? I think I told you but if not the offer still stands to come stay all night at my house if you need to. Ok?

Not the Waldorff but it is clean and hopefully comfortably.

 

 

RACHAEL: I second the motion that you and your girlfriend come to the OH Reunion on the week end of the 8^th of Sept. It is close enough that you could go there on Friday and Sat come and spend the day with us then go back to Eureka Springs for Sunday. Or just stay there at the resort in West Branson . Probably a whole lot cheaper than Eureka Springs.

 

Will be a lot of people from the board there. Would love to meet you .

 

 

VESTA : Your elephant ears look good and healthy. Mine too. I have one patch of mine that are that big , Do you did yours up every year? I always have until last year. I have so many of them about 50 or so and this lady that lives across the street from me said she didn’t dig hers , so last year I left them in the ground. All except about 10 bulbs., which I dug. I dug those up just in case this didn’t work I would have a start again of them.

Well I covered them with about 6 inches of straw and they did just fine. Some were on the south side of the house and some on the north side. But I figure that if they made it thru last winter and the cold we had that they will be fine. So they may really be big this next year. Lol. I also left my cannas in the ground last year and they are big and healthy looking too. Im glad because that is always a lot of hassle to dig and store all of them.

 

 

 

JANET: boy sounds like you were really busy with all the moving furniture and stuff out of storage.dont envy you all doing that in this heat.

 

Oh lord sounds like the boy, Cody is straight from a mothers nightmare. The only thing you can hope for is that with this counseling , Steph will see and send him packing.

People like that are usually a lot of hot air but there are those that aren’t . He doesn’t sound too bright to me, Someone that braggs like that and talks all that is usually not very smart. I hope Steph will see this soon. We will all be praying that she does. And like you said that train wreck needs to be stopped now before it goes any futher. Maybe you need to hire a couple of really big men to take him on a field trip.

 

I don’t know if it were dumping or not but I still didn’t feel too well today , I have slept most of the day. I took a nap this morning about about 2 hours and then this afternoon I took about a 2 hour nap. After the second nap I feel pretty good. It may have just been that the heat and plus the food and what ever. Anyway im back to normal now. I hope lol

 

 

 

TAMMY V: So sorry to hear about your cousin. That is very sad. She was a very  young person to have to die like that. ? Know that we will keep your family in prayer for traveling mercies and for the grief to be handled well.

Take care of yourself on your trip,and let us know when you return.

 

 

CHELLE: sounds like you had a great football party, and a really good menu.

Fed everyone well didn’t you.

It doesn’t bother me to cook a big meal for guest either. Most of the time , since I am close to a year out I can eat a tiny bite of most everything well not everything but sometimes when the pouch is acting up it still cant be done. But I cooked supper for all of them tonight , Ham , mashed potatoes, green beans and sliced tomatoes. And Hot biscuits.

The only thing that really tempts me is the biscuits. I just know I could eat 2 or 3 of them dripping with butter lol. But do I , no. I took a bite of one of Joes and that was enough. And the rest I ate was a small piece of ham and a spoonful of green beans and a slice of tomato. But it doesn’t bother me to just do a protein shake while someone is eating this stuff.

Way to go girl, the world doesn’t stop because we had surgery, we have to adapt to it , not it to us. Lol.

So your reward was the losing of 3 pounds that is great. See it pays off. Lol

 

 

 

BARBARA: don’t really know if it was or not but I know I sure have felt bad today. More so than  last evening. I  felt like I was walking thru syrup most of the day. You know I have eaten bratworst befoe and it never bothered me that way tho. Who knows I did have diahrrea this morning too so maybe it just wasn’t good or at least not on my stomach . I don’t think I will be eating any of them again soon.

 

 

 

LOVE AND JOY AND PEACE ABOUNDS

JAN

 

 

 

 

Well I have enjoyed myself the last 2 days....miniature club on Sat and support group on Sunday. the group leader is going to try and get us a plastic surgeon to talk to us. so Im looking forward to that!  today I took a trash bag of clothes for a new friend. and it was weird  how I felt about it. I had to go rescue my favorite shirt...or uniform as one lady at group put it. it was my uniform of choice. so Im keeping the shirt and a pair of drawstring pants for awhile.  was really glad to get 2 outfits from Catherines gave to me. brand new with tags I exchanged one and kept one. so now I have pants that fit better...LOL my drawstring pants are getting VERY baggy!  I find this weight loss unbelievable. I just dont see it in the mirror but in the photos I added to my profile you can see the change in my face. I see it better in the photos than in the mirror. so Im innterrested in that aspect of it....how do you see yourself.....I know that I am larger than large and I see it in the mirror but I never "saw" myself that way...even though I couldnt walk. so Im wondering how its all going to work out! the shrink who did my eval told me to come back and see him he thought he could help me with some aspects of the eating and image issues....should I have them which clearly I am! so I will mull this over and see if I want to go see him. today I have to call my PCP about my B-12 shot....I have the stuff but not sure what needles to buy and where/how to do it. so Ill go see him and maybe they can give me this one and I wont have to worry about it for another month! all this talk of Elephant Ears makes me rember when I grew them once. under a window in the mostly shade. they grew pretty good....I didnt know full sun was best for them. or to dig them up and store them....so I only planted them a few times. next yr Im getting some....and Calla Lillies. I also love to grow Mums. I have this area by my kitchen where I had wonderful bed of mums.    Jan I really enjoy this particular post and look forward hearing about everyones days! I hope all who feel poorly feel better real soon! the healing is the shortest part!  The sun has not bothered me much because the new van has airconditiong! and a radio!! I was jamming at Casey's yesterday before leaving for group. didnt know it was as loud as it was...I was parked on the side...they heard me when someone opened the door to the store....Catie is like "MOM" I knew it was you!  the song was "wild thang" one of my favorite Loud songs and well I had to see how loud it would go?...didnt I? she should just have been glad it wasnt "stroking" by Clarence Carter....I would have been singing too! Have a safe day in this heat! and have a great day! Neosho is in my thoughts! nutti

 

Dear Jan and OH Family, First-Let me say we have a surgery today-Becky-she doesnt post much-but she is on everyday reading-PLEASE pray that she has a safe surgery and very speedy recovery-Jan, will you be posting when she is out of surgery to let us know like you did for Sugar? Please do, if you can, or I will worry about her all day-LOL.... Good Morning to you all~PLEASE, IF you are going to be outside this week-BE CAREFUL-I am saying a prayer for ALL of you-This weather is as scarey as the ice storm, just on the reverse level. Our air was on 78 yesterday and through the heat of the day-it was 84 in here-just couldnt get it any cooler. Once you stepped outside and back in though (after couple of minutes) you appreciated the 84-thats for sure! We got in the pool after dinner, but before sundown. We were still in there when the first stars came out-and one we call the Corbett star-it makes Jon so happy to see it when we are out there. We keep telling him about shooting stars-and so he wants to see one-but doesnt have the patience to sit and watch the sky-LOL.... Unfortunately, I have some things to do today-I informed the kids last night when I saw on the news that its gonna 103-105 AGAIN today that we are leaving EARLY or we arent going shopping for Stephs pants-I refuse to run all day-with no air, in and out and in and out of stores.....So-as soon as they get up, eat their breakfast and brush their teeth-we are OUT OF HERE!! I fed the family roast yesterday-made onion, potatos and carrots with it and then biscuits and cranberries. I even ate roast, for the first time, I didnt dump. It was so tender though, it pretty much melted in my mouth. I have enough left over to make beef stew-which I will make tomorrow in the slow cooker. Tonite will probably just have some BLTS or something else thats really easy and not to heavy. **Jan-I have 2 people that I know HAD window air units for sale a couple of weeks ago-as they offered to sell them to Megan and Aaron. I will call here in just a bit to check on that for you and then I will send you an email and let you know. IF you want it, I WILL pay for it now and bring it to the group on Monday-is that ok?  Well-I wont tell them for sure until you say for sure-ok? I know its soooo hot-I just cant believe HOW hot its been and for how long now. I WELCOME rain just like we were getting-thats how hot it is. We have been running sprinklers too and our grass looks horrid-we worked so hard to get it nice and green-we planted so much seed and such the past 2 summers-and this summer it FINALLY looks thick and lush and easy to walk on cause its so full-but now it looks like hay sort of. Is crunchy when you walk on it and we dont want to mow just yet because we dont want to kill it off. That shooting at the Neosho church-holy cow-that church shares a parking lot to Mikes work-I just cant believe that happened. I was in shock last night! Its not a large church, but it sure isnt the smallest one Ive seen, either. They said the shooter and one of the families had an arguement or altercation the night before-so that psycho goes into their place of worship and kills 3 and injures 5-6 others? What the hell is this world coming to? You cant even feel safe at church anymore? This is VERY bothersome on so many levels. I know so many people who live in Neosho-I am smack dab between Neosho, Joplin, Diamond and Carthage-We also have many who post here occasionally who live in Neosho-Like NurseAmy, Bad Sheepy and I know there are others-but I was trying to think of people I know personally and where they go to church. I prayed for that whole congregation last night and I hope everyone will join me in prayer for them today as well. What a nightmare! It really does sound to me like you dumped-whether you had a little bug or something else-probably, but those ARE classic dumping signs, its just sometimes its so much worse than others. I have had MORE than MY fair share of dumping and what you described is what happens when its a bad dumping episode-but add the elephant sitting on your chest feeling and you have mine. Those are the times I hate this surgery...its not like we are eating things like sugar or donuts - regular stuff, you know? Anyway-welcome to the dumping club and Im sorry-I know it sucks and your miserable. Im glad to hear you feel better tho. I hate it when you dont feel good! **Nutti-I laughed my rear off reading about you thumping your radio to Wild Thang-it brought memories back of Mel and I and one of our trips to Columbia and that song came on and we were just letting loose-well, I got out to pump gas-had to get the card out of my purse and bent down (purse was on floor board) and Im not used to that small car-well, when I raised my head up to get back to the pump-I about knocked myself unconscience, which sent Mel and I into the biggest laughing fit you ever saw!!! Or maybe it was Funky Cole Madina-cant remember-but it was one of those-we always do that-certain songs HAVE to be played loud and yes, you MUST sing to them, no matter if it embaresses your kids or not-right? Wow-you sent out a very good question about how we see ourselves-I STILL dont see myself as losing as much weight as I have. Until I look at pictures. I STILL fold clothes and cant see that I fit into something that small (to me, of course) and sometimes now, I have to really look at something to know if its Mikes or mine. I, like so many others, just cant wrap our minds around it. You are so right-the surgery IS the easy part of this all, the mental aspect can bite you in the butt-for sure! Sometimes its very hard-ecspically when someone you havent seen since before surgery doesnt recognize you and so on-you just dont ever get used to it-you know? I guess it wasnt until I saw my collar bones for the first time in my whole life-did I realize really how much weight I lost-that hit me like a ton of bricks. I have NOT been this size since I was 17-and now I am a couple yrs older-LOL.....22 to be exact.  Funny story-I had posted about protein powder-because I kept buying the wrong stuff-It was the ON brand-but soy or whatever and it just gagged me-well, Melissa (Mel) told me that the next time I went to Joplin to let her know and I could come to her house and pick up some samples, so I called her, she gave me specific instructions to get to her house and even said she would be waiting for me on the front porch-well, this was September and she had her surgery the end of April of last year-ok? Well, I get to the street-looking for the house on the right and I see this lady on the porch-but she doesnt look ANYTHING like her avatar picture on here-AT ALL!!! So, Jon and I get out of the car and I am walking up thinking - this must be a sister or a friend of hers. I said Im looking for Melissa-and she just looked at me like I had lost my marbles or something-and I said Melissa? And she was like-Yes, thats me-and I about fell off the porch and I said to her-I dont mean anything by this-but WHY havent you changed your picture on line-because you dont even look like that person anymore-NO ONE would recognize you!!! Her old pic, when she weighed 200# more-with long long curly hair-and now this little person with shorter hair with red highlights-I had to sit down-when I left there-I mean to tell you-that IS the ONE moment that ALWAYS sticks out in MY mind-It amazed me, it gave me inspiration and hope-BUT-for Mel-she couldnt see the changes that I saw-and then she did put up a new picture here and no one here could believe it either!!!! When I got home-I felt like a little kid that had gone to Disneyland! That is the ONE moment that reality hit-that "I" too, could lose a lot of weight and "I" really could change my life-just like she had! I felt like a lottery winner-and I bet Mel thought-man, that girl is off her rocker-but I just couldnt soak in all the changes in her since her surgery and her pictures-it was just mind blowing....I know that now she still doesnt always see how small she is becomming and how tiny she looks. Jan never thinks she is as tiny as she is either-Lana either-you will see. I had told Claudette that I would really like a group dedicated to the mental aspects-because I am going through it right now-and I know a lot of others are too. I have NEVER been normal sized since I was a toddler-so sometimes I just cant comprehend that I am getting closer and closer to "normal"......I hope that this months group will be about that-cause I need it. Hey-is the psych you saw here or in Arkansas? I loved the psych I saw in Columbia-but she specializes in pre-op counseling type thing......By the way-YOU look wonderful. I emailed you personally, but I never heard back from you-is everything else ok? I figured you just got busy. I hope we can get together and go to the group on Monday.....DO you still want to go?  

**Chelle-your feast sounded like a buffet!!! I wanted to come eat at your house-LOL....WOW......Im not like you-I dont particularily "like" to cook-every once in awhile I do-but its not too often, but I was like that before surgery as well. Im glad you lost that 3#-WAY TO GO.....Sometimes it just takes too much energy to TRY to figure out why the scale does or doesnt move, you know? Keep up the good work. Love ya girl.

**I miss alot of people lately-BOTH Bevs, Sherr, Brenda, Deb M, Connie, Rianne-and Chelle came back to us-YAY.....Where is everyone else? Did Rianne say how long she will be gone for? I cant remember. Its suppose to be 103-105 here ALL week!!!! ARGH....I have to get going though, I have to call Mikes ortho (hes my ortho too) and get an appt made-BOTH knees are now discolored and his right leg-from his knee down, he cannot straighten it out-it gets crampy AND feels like a charlie horse-Im afraid it might be a blood clot-because thats HOW mine felt when I had it in the calf of my right leg. Its really bad. He has braces on BOTH knees now and he cant walk by himself. Uses wheelchair or crutches and then sometimes he still needs help since its both of them now. Dang it. I know they will squeeze him in!! So-I have to get off here and get some calls made.  Love and Prayers to all-Stay safe in this heat and take care. Love, Janet

Good morning everyone...hope everone had a nice weekend...I dont take up my elephant ears, i just cover them..yes I would like some seeds..I will bring some seeds of what I have..Jan I hope ypu are feeling better. this heat is really something, everyone be careful you can get to hot without knowing it .....vesta

Hi all, Another scorching day. Its either way to cold or way to hot, never a happy medium. The state fair is going on this week and I don't see how people are standing it. I haven't been to the fair in years. I would like to go but this weight will never let me do it. Maybe one of these days. Well I know you all are anxiously awaiting the results on my back. I have to say it feels alot better. I walked out into my back yard and didn't have that crushing pain like before.  I can walk a little better but my knees hurt so bad I can't walk far. So I would say I am not sorry I had the nerve ablation. Hopefully it will get better as time goes on. What do you do after you have the surgery and you can't walk good. That is a real concern for me. I know I am not the only one that has knee problems. What did you do?  Janet I can feel your frustration with your daughter. When my granddaughter was a senior in high school she met a guy from hell...well actually the summer before school started. Within a few weeks she went from a very sweet church going young lady to a foul mouthed little **** He stopped her from seeing any of her friends, stopped her from going to church and caused a hugh problem between her and her mother. But my daughter is VERY bullheaded. She bulled up just like an ole momma bear. It was a couple of months of pure crap..Hillary was gonna quit school and move to kentucky (where he was from) this child is a straight A student. Hillary had just turned 17 at the time and decided she was going to go get imancipated. Her mother and her went down to the judge and he told her that missouri does not recognize imancipation. And until she was 18 her mother could lock her in her room if she should choose to. My daughter called the boys parents and told them that she would have their son in jail if he tried to take her across the state line. I don't know if the boy got tired of all the harrassment or what but he left town, was supposed to come get her after she turned 18. Thankfully that never happened because after he left the romance??? ended and she returned to her sweet self. She has told her mother how grateful she is that she fought for her and kept her from making a big mistake. She graduated from high school with a full scholarship to wentworth military academy. Alot of prayers went up at the time also. God has a plan for each of us. So just hang in there and I hope things get better for you. . Hope everyone has a great day. I am praying for those of you that are having problems.  Try and stay cool....and sip sip sip....

I would love to come to a COF mtg but I return to work on the 20th.  Got to work up the courage to tell my grandchildren I will not make it down to SPF until Labor day weekend.  I have not been to Springfield since the last of April.  I had warned everyone that I was focusing on me.  It's just a little hard for a 6 year old and a 3 year old to understand all thats going on with me right now.  Shana did tell her other Grandmother that "Grammy" got a new stomach to make her skinny (out of the mouth of a babe).  I really had to chuckle with that.  We had a very severe storm last night. was without power from 8 something to 3:30 this morning.  Slept on couch with front door open to get a breeze.  Several trees and power lines down  up & down the street. Stay cool today & keep the fluids going in! Shannon

Howdy Yall.... I missed the news last night & this morning...I only first heard about the shooting this morning as I was reading posts!!!! I'm with Janet...OMG you can't even know your safe even in  church now!!!!! We really need to pray for our whole world! There is way toooooo much violence out there!!! And the issue of the heat!!!! My pool water feels like bath water lmbo!!! It's still relaxing and all but wow is tha****er warm! And I know there are so many people out there that DO NOT have AC's!!! Even some that do, do not run them because they know they can't pay the electric bills if they do run them....And with the heat running at the rate it's suppose to run this week I know we will hear about several deaths on the news!!! If you know of anyone that does not have AC, tell them to try a lil trick my mom use to use when I was a baby...WE did not have AC when I was a baby and she use to freeze milk jugs to make chunks of ice and put them in a tub in front of a fan to help it blow cooler air...It wont be as good as what a AC would be but it could be some reliefe!!! Jan....Thanks sooo much for reminding me about the open invitation!!! I will get back to you as soon as I know for sure what we are doing....As far as I know we are still comming to the COF meeting next week. But I have not talk to Brenda in a few days so as soon as we get a chance to chat and get things worked out I will get back to you and let you know for sure.... I mentioned in a post a week or so ago about wanting some of your flower seeds so if you are bringing some to the meeting I would love to have a little of what ever you are sharing.....My elephant ears that I planted last year are not doing real well...They come up last year and this year but they are sooo small! But I have them planted where they are in the shade...Would it help if I moved them to where they would be in the sun??? And I wanted to ask you if you have any of that moss that blooms and comes back each year? I have bought some several times but I keep getting some that dosen't come back again....I thought it all did but mine didn't..... Janet....I am begining to think we need to all get together and have a meeting about our kids!!! LMBO...I know it's not actually funny...It is tiersome and gets old after awhile.....But it seems like it is really going around everywhere at the moment!!!!! What in the world is going on with our yungens!!!  And I can not believe your daughter didn't find anything wrong with the way that boy was talking in your house  and the way he was speaking to yall....I would have told him that you treat all the kids that come to your house like your own...And since you would not tollerate them talking like he was talking and talking to yall... that he was about to get his teeth knocked down his throat!!!! I hope you find out something on him so you can get something lawfully done about him!! If ya want you can borrow my Bessie....I got her passed down to me from my mom...She is a 20 gauge double barrell!!!! And it has a good kick, but you are plenty sturdy enough to handle both barrells!!! LMBO!!  Sorry to hear Mikes knees aren't doing any better...I will be praying that it's not blood clots!!!! Keep us updated on how he is doing!  When is Mel suppose to be back from the funeral?? I hope she does ok with all that traveling!  Susan...I hope we all get to chat soon...I would love to talk to yall more often but it seems everyones so busy any more that I never know when a good time to call...But I think of all of yall daily! Hope things are going well you way....Luv ya... Love hearing from and about all of you....I can't wait to see some of you that will be at the COF meeting next Monday night!!! And I'm really looking forward to seeing more of yall at the reunion next month...I hope everyone will try their best to make it even if it is just for the day! I just know we are all going to have a blast!!!! Hope you all have a great Monday....                              God Bless you all....                                                     Luv & Hugs...Tammy~ammy

Good morning OH Board,           Praise God for school!!And everything else too of course!!I love my kids but geez  I'm so tired of "I'm bored" My 8 year old has two bad earaches and isn't feeling to well and I'm playing nurse today.Bless his heart he's had these earaches all summer it seems and I think it's from swimming in my mothers pool.The kids are excited too about school starting.My 14 yr. old is going into high school and he was looking at the girls today at registration like "wow" I just told him to concentrate on studying not girls!! Like that sunk in!!My 12 yr. old daughter is going into Jr. High ans she's scared,not so much about the new kids, but because she has to go from room to room and she's worried she's gonna be late and get lost.Silly kid!!         I talked about my sil a couple weeks ago and she's OK but had a few complications.She went to have that nerve ablation(sp) to the back of her heart and they saw her  left side wasn't even working right,so they fixed that.She was only supposed to be in the hospital 3 days,but it's been 8 days now.They had to put a pacemaker in today cause her heart won't hold a rythm.It's so bad cause she's only 42.But she's doing good and they expect to let her out maybe tomorrow ,so we're happy here.        Not to much going on here just staying in the house where it's cool and doing any errands early.I'm just spending this week waiting for the psych letter and pcp letter so I can mail in my packet. Then wait some more.        Well, I'm gonna go and do some housework and then wait for something to happen.I"ll be seeing you at the COF meeting Monday. Take care to all and may good things happen to you this week!!                                                         Connie

 

Hi OH and Jan Well I'm posting late because I didn't get to bed until 3;30 this am and couldn't get to sleep until 5:30.  My three year old grand daughter started complaining of having problems urinating at about 4:00 pm yesterday. She has had about 3 or 4 UTI'S in the last 4 months. So I started giving her cranberry juice. Well to make a long story short at 7;30 she is still complaining and hadn't pee's since 4:00 so I loaded her up, picked up her  mom, and went to the hospital lastnight at 8:45. Well we get her checked in and there are about 15 people in front of us who are mostly sitting around visiting and laughing and joking. They are also leaving and going to quick trip to get sodas. Meanwhile my baby GD is sitting holding herself and SCREAMING at the top of her lungs how bad she hurts.  I was feeling so awful for her that I knew I was going to cry. I looked down at her and said "would it be okay if nana cries with you?" and when she looked up and met my eyes and cried loudly "yes nana please cry with me everyone is looking at me" I could no longer hold back the tears and we both sat and cried together. It still brings tears to my eyes right now just thinking about it. Well finally I told her it's okay to close your eyes we will be right here" She closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep.  Well not long after the triage nurse said she had a room ready for her because she could tell she was in bad pain. We went into the room and the doc came in. We explained to him what was going on and he looked at her and said yep it looks like she has a UTI so we will have to cath her to get a specimen. Well the nurse comes in and wants to wake her up to draw blood and said the cath team would be there in about 10-15 mins. I asked her if we couldn't just do it all at once because she doesn't like doctors and thinks that all they do is hurt her. So it was agreed that we would wait. 30 mins later they come in after the baby's mom had asked how much longer. We were afraid she was going to lose control of her bladder while she was sleeping and then we would have to start at square one again.  We wake the baby up and immediately she starts to cry because she could feel the tension.  She looked at me and said "nana I want out of here!!! I want your house I miss my daddy and my papa" I felt so bad for her. She started to cry and it just got worse from there she evetually was hysterical. They did the cath and then decided they didn't empty her bladder all the way so did it again and she continued to cry and beg and plead with me to take her back to nanas. After that they had to draw blood and she is still screaming how badly she is hurting in her private areas. I am holding her and crying with her. I try assuring her that they are all done and nana won't let anyne hurt her again tonight. ths is at about 12:30 am at 2:00 am she is still screaming and as hysterical as she was when they were doing the procedures. I asked her mom to ask for something and they brought her tylenol which has no effect. She is so worn out not to mention her mom and myself physically and emotionally. Finally we ask if they can't give her something to help her sleep or with anxiety or a better pain med. The docotor explained that HE IS NOT WILLING TO DRUG A THREE YEAR OLD. This was implying to us that we just wanted to drug her  and that wasn't the case at all. She was in severe mental anguish and physical distress. Then he went on to say that they did just cath her and that was scarry for her it's just like being abused because she didn't understand why anyone was down there and that she was JUST traumitized. OKAY this was all I needed to hear. If this is so traumatizing to a child why not give them some versed so they won't rmember anyone doing this to them and why in the HECK wasn't that explained to us that this is so traumatizing to her and to her it would seem like abuse because believe me we would have thought differently before letting them do it without some kind of help to her!!! So anyways she is still screaming wore out and falling off to sleep between sobs and then would jerk like a stabbing pain wa****ting her and start crying again. It was heart wrenching!! Her mom and I made the comment that they would give an adult medicine if he/she were acting lke this and then give them more to go home on whether they needed it or not but  to let  a three yearold to suffer like this was awful. We got her scripts and started for the door thats when the NURSE told us about an over the counter drug to help with bladder spasms. She said she thought GB was having bladder spasms. NOW WHY IN THE WORLD DIDN'T THE DOCTOR TELL US THIS?? Oh it was an awful night and my blood is still boilong today.  I want to cry everytime I think about it. GB is doing much better today she said she feels all better down there and the doctors helped her feel better but didn't have any problem telling me "nana it hrt so bad" She looked at me today and said "nan I sorry for making you cry did the doctor hurt you too" I said no but baby nana's heart was hurting because you were hurting so bad" She then told me that her heart hurt when I was in the hospital making my tummy smaller. awwwwww Sorry so long and that this was just a rant I just needed to vent I have been so mad all day and felt so bad for her lastnight. I have read everyones posts and ope everyone sho is not feeling well is feeling betterand everyone who is doing well will do even better tomorrow. Stay cool and I'll talk to you guys tomorrow. Hugs