Just another manic Monday ....

Well its 3:30ish and I'm awake, so I figured I'd start this mornings thread. I'm so restless tonight. I doze off for a few minutes and wake up. I'm going to call Dr. C's office this morning to see if I can get scoped and try and figure out what is going on. My tummy has not let me keep anything food wise down in 5 days hardly and I'm getting a lot of pain and stuff when I do try to eat. My allergy/asthma doc switched my antibiotics because the one I was on can be harsh on the tummy but it's not changed at all. I hope everyone has a good Monday!!

Dr C is not one to wait.. she will probably go in and find out whats up.. (Besides anything you eat).  I do hope you get to feeling better soon.  Linda Kay

Good morning all!   Hubby got me some SF chocolates for V day and I tried 1 over the weekend. I dont think they agree with me too well.  Then I got to thinking, well after you chew them up they still clump up and it was probably too much trying to pass through.  About a day after I ate it, I got really gassy too and a very noisy stomach.  Probably should stay away from them. I have to take my daughter to the orthodontist today to finally tell me when I am going to go in debt even more.  We started the orthodontist over a year ago and her regular dentist had to pull 2 of her baby teeth (both incisors) because the perm. ones were growing inward towards the middle and not pushing the baby ones out.  Even pulling the baby ones, they are still not coming down like they had hoped.  So now they are going to do the braces I believe.  They quoted me a price of $4500.00 last year.  Insurance will only pay $1000.00, oh well, just have to make payments.   Missy-Give that Dr. C a call and find out what is up. Hope you get to feeling better soon. Everyone else have a great day.

Good morning! Well...today is going to be a day of waiting for phone calls.  1.  Dr. Price office will be calling to let us  know what time Bill's surgery/procedure is tomorrow. I hope EARLY so I can get him back home before I have to go for my follow-up mammogram (1 pm) & breast surgeon appointments (2:30 pm). I'd hate for him to have to sit there and wait on me through all that time. He says he wouldn't mind...but he's a sweetie (at times! lol).  2.  I got an email from my supervisor where he got notified that I didn't send in the 'return to work' form last Monday...so I have a call in to Absence Management to be sure they have everything they need. They were suppose to have had it 2 weeks ago. So...I'm waiting on a call back from them. 3.  I'm waiting on a call back from either Dr. Greist or from Walgreen's. The Arixtra (kinda like levenox) comes in 10 syringe packages. I had asked Dr. Greist's PA to call in the script for a 30 day supply with 1 refill rather than a 10 day supply with 6 refills so that I didn't have to pay a $30 co-pay every 10 days instead of once a month (like it is with the rest of my meds). That would save me $60 a month. So..she did...but Walgreens called me and Anthem isn't wanting to cover a 30 day supply at a time (but would each 10 day refill!). So...Dr. Greist's PA has to call Anthem and get it pre-approved first for them to pay for it 30 days worth at a time. I tried to get this refilled last week...I think it was Tuesday. I had found out that Dr. Greist office dropped the ball and never called in the script (it was suppose to have been done the end of January!). So Walgreen's sent them a fax asking if they should refill it (and that was set up with 10 days at a time)..so the PA just marked 'yes' and wrote '6' for # of refills. So then I called her to get her to change it to the 30 days...and now this. I only have 1 dose of it left now! It's a good thing I started so early trying to get this, huh? So...I wait on the ringing of the phone.... Jenny...sugar-free stuff...especially sugar-free candy, has sugar alcohols. Some people have dumping syptoms with them just as much as they do with real sugar. I love the sf peanut crunch candies (they remind me of butter fingers). I can only eat one of them. If I try a 2nd one, I get very nautious. With me, I'm not sure if that's because of the sugar alcohols or the chocolate though because I've always, even pre-RNY, been like that with hot chocolate (if it's made with milk instead of water). The sugar alcohols can also be a huge attributor to having gas..as IF we need more contributors, huh? LOL! You may want to save those chocolates and savor them 1/2 bite at a time. Bet you never thought a box would last you so long, huh? Misty....I hope you get to feeling better soon! Hope you all have a terrific day! Sherri

Well I told hubby to eat the rest of them to get them out of the house. They were gone before the end of that day...lol

Hello all. How are you doing? I'm here. That's about as good as it gets today.  Mikey is still in Bloomington Meadows Hospital. They were talking possibly about the residential program last week. I don't know what's going to happen. I don't want my baby there 4-6 months, but I also don't want him feeling so badly either. I want him happy and healthy. I just hope he starts responding to the medication and therapy.  I am so stressed about all this. I don't know what to do. It was a blessing that we hadn't done our tax return as soon as we got our W-2's. Usually we do, and get it immediately mailed in. But this year we didn't. That was good, because we took it to HR Block and got a RAL which meant we were able to afford all the trips to Bloomington this last week.  Tomorrow is my angel Baby, Lucy's, birthday. She would have been nine years old tomorrow. That's not helping me to feel better. I miss her terribly every year this time of year. I remember the good things too, but the trauma of the night I found her dead is still burned into my brain. They tried to revive her at the ER, but it wasn't working. I had to be the one to tell them to stop. That still pains me.  Mostly I want to go home to sleep and hide from the world today. But I can't. I have to work here at the state, and at Sears. We need the money. If I don't work, no money comes in. Just another stressor. A co-worker today said she didn't know how I was handling all that's gone on in the last couple of months, that she would have just not made it. I shrugged it off. I mean, what else am I to do? I have to make it. My family's depending on me. It would be one thing if it were just me, but it's not. Besides, people say that all the time, that they couldn't handle such and such, but I think that you don't know what you can handle until it comes to you.  I'm going to see my therapist today. That should help atleast. She's a good person to talk to and helps me to stay on keel. I'm still unhappy over losing my psychiatrist doctor. I do have an apponitment with a new one, but I hate having to start over again. Well, I better get back to work.

Good Morning, 1st off Linda you and your family all in my Prayers. your little  is looking down on you.  I am going to clean my desk off. Sounds big fun!!! and go see my Pcp.  Misty, Hope you are feeling better as the day goes on. Jenny,  on chocolate. Linda Kay, keep smiling  Jenny, Glad you hubby ate them for you Sherri, ring ,ring ring, its for you I send Healthy wishes to those who need them,  Hugs & Blessings, Gail

I am not going to get this song out of my head all day now.   THANKS.

I know I was trying to sing while posting "It's just another Manic Monday" glad you cant hear me sing it  Gail

Misty, I hope you start feeling better soon! Sherri, nothing like being glued to the phone all day, just waiting for it to ring...here' s hoping your Dr, Walgreen's and Anthem can get everything straightened out ASAP! Linda, my heart aches for you, and my prayers are with you at this difficult time....I can't imagine what you are going through! Jenny, I'm still preop and can't tolerate the sugar alcohols in SF candies, so I told my husband to just skip it after my surgery.  My dad is 18 months post op (lap RNY) and can eat regular candy again, but I know everyone is different.   Crazy Monday snowy weather here....unreal that just yesterday I wore a sweater and no coat to church, as it was 56 degrees, but it's been snowing up a storm today! Nothing major new going on...my husband is calling today to cash out his 401K from his old employer.  Gulp.  We both cried about it, but we have to do it for many reasons, and we're young enough, we can start over.  Double gulp.  Oh well...as he said Saturday, "it's only money".  Sigh.  Oh well, not dwelling on that anymore.  Still haven't gotten our COBRA information, but the 401K stuff just came Saturday, hopefully the COBRA stuff comes today.  I'd like to get that all set up before I go down for my dietician class March 11, so I can take the paperwork up to Colleen.   Six weeks and two days....I packed up a box of sweaters that my mom and sister have given me, all size 18/20 or 2X, that I know won't fit next winter, and will take them back over this week.  I'm so ready for spring and warmer weather!! Because that means my journey is starting!! :woo: I did have a good moment yesterday, put on some size 22 cords for church and was able to push them off my hips while still fastenened, so that was definitely a WOW  moment for me.