Thursday

Oh, I am so glad...only one more day after today! LOL! I know. I'm wishing my life away. I just REALLY would have enjoyed sleeping in today. It seems like I'm no sooner getting the darn TV blocked from my mind and it's time to get up. So yep..another day!                                             I had my appointment with Dr. Bergman yesterday. The place on my belly button that was seeping...she cauterized it with silver nitrate. Then I had a lump on my leg along the incision line for the thigh lift and close to the knee. She had drained it once before (during the hernia surgery) so she drained it again. She got out ~30-40 mL of fluid from it. It felt like it was already filling back up this morning. I go back to see her on the 18th so she can check both. We talked about the swelling. After her feeling around my belly, she thinks it's due to my intestines still swelling up. She did think that was strange though because when I had the hernia surgery, she said that my intestines looked good & weren't swollen...but now they are. She was glad to hear that a gastroenterist is over-seeing that portion of my care now & that I'll be seeing Dr. Gupta again on the 9th (so she can check to be sure the mesh is holding good on the hernia repair). I talked to her about some pins & needle sensations I've been having at the top of the hernia repair incision line. It only happens sometimes when I cough or something like that. She said that it was the body's way of regaining it's feelings. I think I'd reather have the numbness...lol.                                       

Well..today will be the last day of the computer project I'd been working on. I'll be done with it by noon...then it's back to boring stuff. Oh boy. come on Friday evening!!!                         Have a good day everyone!                   Sherri

Good mornin' Posse! I am soooooooooo happy to have a job!  I have been up and attem since about 6:30 and only have a couple more things I HAVE to get done today then wooooooooohooooooo Janene time! This " work at home "  is GREAT! Already have in 20 hours since Tuesday and only have to do 10 more! Eventualy will turn into a 40 hour a week job. What is up with this dang COLD WEATHER the end of MAY!  Mark had to put on his long johns to ride the bike to work today!  LOL What a sight that was END OF MAY!!!!!   Well today is the last day of school for Zach. He and buddies went out for breakfast this morning before school. He has applied a the 2 grocery stores we have here and hopefully will land a job at one of them. He has applied at Walmart...but it is all online and has never once talked to a person!  LOL  Also we are getting a Big R soon...so he will try there also. He is really wanting to get a car....soooooooo he NEEDS a job!  Pray for him! LORD I MISS Y"ALL...I can't wait till my next doc appt. and the clothing exchange. Maybe sooner since I am now earning a paycheck and MAYBE can afford to put a tank of gas in the car once a month!  LOL  I do have to make a trip down to Fry's....wooooohoooooo new puter and printer for me...but have to wait for a couple of paychecks.  Hopefully can meet up with a few of y'all then! Enjoy the day! SMILE and be thankful you are living life now instead of watching life pass you by! I now I am! huggggggggggggs Janene

Good morning all! Not much going on today, just working. Just wanted to pop in and say hi.  Hope everyone has a great day!

Goooood morning all my fellow Hoosiers Losers and those soon to be!!! Bill and I already got into a disagreement and it isn't even 7:30! I went to get on the internet and nothing would happen. Well, I found out that the modem had no lights that was on. I called cable (with the cell phone since we had no phone either) and she told me that it was getting no power. I told Bill what she said and he was checking everything but what I told him. Of course he wouldn't let me check anything either since HE is the MAN!!! So I told him to do what he wants and I went in the bedroom. Then he came and told me that he got it fixed and know what the problem was?........there was not any electricity getting to the outlet! DUH! Before I went into the bedroom he told me to stop yelling at him and I told him to stop treating me like I was stupid! When he finally came and told me that it was working and what he did I told him that was what the cable lady said and he better shut his pie hole once in a while and realize that some people know about some things that he doesn't. I hope that isn't the start of today!! I hate getting into arguements. I just like to live nice and quiet and calm anymore.  I have to make a big pan of mac and cheese this morning to take for a funeral dinner at the church later on. I hate doing stuff like this but what is a person to do? I feel like I should stay and help at the dinner but the other part of me is saying no I don't want to really do that and I think that part of me is the one that is right. lol I hate doing any kind of kitchen work at the church. I will do just about anything else but don't ask me to help in the kitchen. I use to help out at the soup kitchen that the church did and that didn't last long! lol I got a call from my urologist last night and he told me that the blood work that I got for this new medicine he has me on is normal and so that is good thing. I was kind of sweating it but since it nornal I am just going to keep doing what I am doing.  Nothing much is happening here. The sun is out and it is still cool but it is suppose to start warming up bit by bit. It won't come a day to soon for me. It got up to almost 70 yesterday and that was higher than it has been getting.  I better get going. I hope that all of you have a wonderful day and I am keeping all in my prayers. Special ones are going up for those who need them. I am sending love and hugs to all.  P.S. I got the info from Hope on the camping week end and the cabin and I think we are planning on going. Bill won't get off wor****il later Friday night so we are planning on starting out on Saturday morning and spending Saturday night with you all. The price on the cabins are pretty reasonable and since I am NOT a camper and never will be that is the way I camp. lol Bill is talking about going down next month for a couple of days when he has his vacation. Not sure on that but it is in our minds running around!

Brenda, I'm so glad you & Bill are planning on going to Hope's! We had such a good time last year. There's a little festival going on in Middlebury that weekend. We enjoyed the parade last year for it. In the evening, we kinda all met up at our RV for a pitch-in & sugar-free schmoor's (Ellen's hubby is our fire master...lol!). Hope will try to group all of our folks together. Last year, we were right next to Dana & Ellen's rig..which wasn't far from the cabins at all. Floyd & Brenda stayed in the cabins and I think they were pretty satisfied with them.                     Sherri

Good morning everyone!  Well yesterday was my day to take my son and his friend to Kings Island.  It is always such a humiliating day for me to not be able to ride anything. I used to love to ride everything when I fit in the seats. About three years ago I tried to get on a coaster with my son and couldnt fit so had to get off I felt as though the entire park was watching.  Of course the kids want me to get lost so I did.  Walked the park five times alone sitting on benches all day.  Got burned to a crisp, but only on my lower arms..ugh.  I loved the people watching part of it though, and have decided to get my hair cut and colored soon.  This year was a little different than the past years when I would tell myself for an entire day that "this" would be the last year I wouldnt fit but it never was.  I knew in my mind that next year I will fit and it was surreal.  I even had to go to my car and cry.  I am so greatful to be having this surgery and moving on in my life.   Today is Bible class day, my mom is the teacher so normally we will hit a few yard sales after class. 

My sister went for her MRI but wasnt able to finish because she was too large for the machine.  She has only been morbidly obese for a couple of years so it was a horrible experience for her. 

Today, I will keep my chin up and try to be proud of myself.  I know in my heart that I have done great things on this earth and most people who know me do not care that I weigh too much, just some days it is hard and I really feel judged.  I guess you have figured it out by now but....  I am having a not so good day!!! lol  Jeannie

Good morning all! It is going to be a beautiful day here in the hills, so we are taking the girls to Marengo Cave and spend our last FULL day together as a family before they go on vacation.  They leave Monday, and I have to wor****il then, so this is the last chance to just enjoy their company.  I love my girls and will miss them so much! Hope everyone has a great day.  Get out and enjoy it. I am going to! Take care and ttyl

Wow...this day looks like it is going to be a beautiful one! I had my PT this am am at work now. I have my daughter's 8th grade graduation and then she is out of school for the summer! I am so proud of her...she has earned alot of honors this year and worked very hard for them. It seems like yesterday she was going off to kindergarten! Ok...let me dry up the tears now...enough time for that later on!  Jeannie...I am so there with you on the amusement park rides and the size of the seats! I think there should be a discounted rate for people who cannot physically ride the rides but are taking their kids, etc... We used to go to Busch Gardens in Tampa 7-8 times a year and slowly those seats started shrinking...I know they did! But soon enough I cam to realize I had gotten huge and my butt is what needed to shrink to be able to fir into those seats again. I am working hard for that and will one day again ride those coasters! I went to my daughters concert T school and sat down in the auditorium seat without even realizing I did not have to wedge my butt into it like usual. When it finally dawned on me, I cried. I could not believe it and I was even able to spread my knees apart 3 inches. My family thinks its weird that I do not see the lose, I still see a fat blog with a head and arms-legs. I wonder if I will ever see a thinner me?! Since doing the PT I have noticed no pounds are coming off but I sm dropping some serious inches! I am into clothes that were way too tight last year...especially pants! Two sizes down already! The band is so hard to lose with...but that is why I chose it. I wanted to have to work for this and modify my life!   Oh....have your sister check into the open MRI instead...there is no size restriction on it since it is open sided and just as effective!  Sherri...hope those tinges and sensations ease off soon....sounds like you are improving depite the discomfort! Janene....glad your work is giving you a smile and making you feel so good! Congrats again on landing that job!  LaChelle....enjoy your day and have fun with your girls! Hope things are going better with hubby and his endeavors!  Everyone else....have a sunny and beautiful day! + I'm outta here!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi Everyone,  I have the day off today- to clean up the house and get ready for Greg's graduation party Sat. We are going to the ceramony Friday in Noblesville,  & they restrict how many can come- I don't like it, but what can ya say? So  we are holding the party here on Sat. PLEASE PRAY FOR SUNSHINE~ I don't want mud tracked in & the lil kiddies need to be able to play outdoors! We can always set up a place in the garage if we have to. Our house can hold 15 fairly comfortably, but it is "cheek to cheek"hee~hee!!! Sherri, glad your appt. went well, now on to enjoying the summer!!!Jodi, the count down is on, your special day will be here before you know it! Give the boys/Mom/Matt a (((hug))) for me. Brenda, once in a while we are right, hee~hee! Leanne, you are doing great! LaChelle, oh boy, the fun begins- summertime ,girls, all the fun you'll be able to have this year with them!  Jeanene- yeah haw, girlfriend-get on that pony & ride ,you are so special tome. I Don't want to leave anyone out, so know I miss you ALL when you aren't on here, or I'm "busy' myself .l me!!  " Today, I will keep my chin up and try to be proud of myself.  I know in my heart that I have done great things on this earth and most people who know me do not care that I weigh too much" Jeannie~~oh, I love this quote, one we all need to remember pre-opt or post-opt!We aren't defined by what we weigh, but who we are~ God's child!!!Thanks for posting this!!!!!! Now for my news- the Neurologist was'nt happy when I saw him Tues. No one had  sent him my records,the former Nuerologist had moved & let me know where he'd moved to. After 3 tries, he found his number, but decided he would take me as a patient.  I have to have 2 MRI's on my brain June 5th. Plus blood tests, and then he'll see me July 17- our 43rd. anniversary. He is going to test for TIA's & deplopia, which I have had a couple of episodes of last week or 2, I had double vision & sharp pain in my left side brain lately, so we will see.My Trigiminal Neuraglia is getting worse, so if I say something weird Please don't think anything of it, ok? Yesturday I was talking to someone & she said "it is like having swiss cheese holes in your speech,'cause I did when I had one.""I said ,right, like cottage cheese holes(twice,)& was corrected by someone else. She hugged me & said, it's ok, I understand what you mean."She is a nurse, & gave me several ideas to try to help. So anyhoo, I am trusting we'll figure out what is going on- could be my meds. need changing.That is why I am glad we have a spell check on here, atleast I can change my wordsonline,hee~hee!  I know several of us are going thru some "rough spots " in our road of life, but keep on keeping on, my friends. God never promised the roses with out the thorns of life, so pluck those suckers off, one at a time, and enjoy the beauty & fragrance they bring! For every bad experience I have had ,I can see some good out of it, It may take me YEARS, but there is something important God wants me to learn- about myself,my situations, my world.  Have a wonderful Thursday, know I am thinking of you all with love.Hang on, the road may be "bumpy' but always more enjoyable when traveled with friends!Sharing, caring, experiencing, trying ,failing, falling, getting up & going on, we are in this together~ I love ya!!!! (((((((((((((BIG HUGS))))))))))))))) Ellen

Good Afternoon, I couldn't sleep at all last night, so I guess I fell a sleep a little later this morning. I do remember hearing the birds singing.   I went to see my PCP yesterday, he want me to drink as much water as possible, so I don't end up in the hospital (NO WAY) I'll drink as much as I can. So if you see me flooding point me to my house !! lol. Well i have no plans but to stay home and drink water.I hope everyone enjoys the   sunshine  . I wish healthy wishes to those in need, Love to All.   Hugs & Blessings, Gail