Too quiet

OK everybody kick the chatter into gear now - thats an order!!! I have been coming here on my lunch breaks looking for a diversion and nobody is here! I have a new job, and still dont know enough people to hang with at lunch. I have given out 2 Book of Mormons since I started a few weeks ago, and I sometimes talk to the people I gave them to, but they usually go out for lunch, and I am too broke! (plus I cant eat a whole lunch so its a waste of money to eat out for lunch!) -Sherrie (-92 lbs and from a size 34 to a 20 now yay!!)

Hi Sherrie...I'm like you don't go out for lunch to much anymore. Sometimes go to Wendy's and get some chili but only maybe once every two weeks. Thats great giving the Book of Mormon out. Can't wait till I can say -92. Thats awesome. Take care and good luck with your new job. Alfreda

So Sherrie - what's your new job? What do you do? As far as that goes, what job did you USE to have? Okay, lets start chatting. I agree, this board has been too quiet. I check it every day and am disappointed when I don't see any posts. I'll tell you about my job history. For 22 years I worked full time ambulance along side with my husband. I LOVED working with him. We own the ambulance service. It's not as impressive as it sounds. We live in a really tiny town in a rural area. We have about 30 ambulance calls a month. The two of us could handle it real well. We had a few volunteers who would give us a few hours off every now and then. This was a great job to raise kids with. I could stay at home and be "mom" and only leave when an emergency call came in. One day I got a phone call from an acquaintance who offered me a job in his pharmacy as a pharmacy tech. I LOVED this job. I studies out of a book and took a test and became a certified pharmacy technician. My boss allowed me to leave the pharmacy whenever an ambulance call came in (which wasn't often). Besides being MO, I also have Multiple Sclerosis. My disease deteriorated to the point that I could no longer walk and I had to quit both my pharmacy job and my beloved ambulance job. I miss both of them terribly. I still teach (although teaching EMS classes is getting too difficult for me too). My husband now has to take ambulance calls without me. We made a great team and I really miss the excitement. Now I get to sit at home and do all the paperwork (billing patients and insurance companies) and read about all the calls. I've always done the office work along with the field work but now I only do the office work. Your turn. Tell me about your life and your work history. Melody

I am working as an accounts manager in the airline division of an asset recovery company - we basically collect past due commissions from travel agents for airlines. Its kind of fun - I mean, collections is collections, but this is talking to people who get to jet set all over the world. I used to work for Aetna insurance - they were NOT fun to work for, so this is nice. My degree is in Speech Pathology/ Audiology, and my minor is in education - I will probably go into the schools next year - I have wanted to get to a normal weight before I go to work in the schools. This is the first time I can finally move enough to keep up with the kids - when I was 368 lbs FORGET about it - I couldnt even walk down the hall to the bathroom without huffing and puffing. I have 3 kids - one is autistic, one is bipolar, and one is VERY ADHD - and my husband has Aspergers... My family keeps me really busy - they are quite the bag of mixed nuts. LOL. I was born into the church, my husband was raised Jewish and converted (surprisingly to me!!) after we married. He took the missionary lessons just to learn about the religion his future children would be raised in - never intending to convert - but then he had what he calls his "JESUS DREAM" basically explaining that Jesus is the "telephone wire" that connects earth to God. - I dont quite get the analogy, but hey it works for him, and he has been a member for 9 years now! OK I want to hear about everyone else now - lets keep this board jumping!! -Sherrie

Good Morning. Man I am tired this morning. I agree this board is WAY to quiet. There are so many times I come, look, no new posts and then go back to the OVER 50 Forum..and man I'm NOT 50!!!! So as much as I like the members there I feel that I don't belong. We have a 10 yr old we adopted from LDSSS 6 yrs ago. He has BP, Reactive Attachment Disorder, ODD and few more things. So man do I know about the challenges you are going threw x 3...not sure I could handle that. Bless you my dear!! My surgery is on Tuesday. My initial gall bladder u/s was negative for stones. Then I have had problems the last few weeks and had a CCK test on Monday and it was abnormal stating I need it removed asap -- so that comes out on Tuesday too. I have no clue how to make it threw the weekend w/o pain meds cause it is not feeling so hot the last few days. Other than that..I am WAY to tired this morning. Had my DH in the ER last night. He is 2.5 weeks post op, -27 lbs and this morning I am sure he is down another 5 lbs. LOLOL...he basically was told to go home and poop. They gave him an enima and sent him home w/prescription for some stool softeners. Something about the small bowl had hard stool and usually that is only liquid. SO for some reason his bowels are not functioning quite right. Most likely the mixture of having had surgery, not getting enough fluids, not moving around enough -- bingo. I was really worried that he had a kinked bowl or something more serious and that I would have to reschedule my surgery..> Cause man if that has to happen it isn't going to be pretty.. Anyway, I am goin to go take a shower and hope/pray I can get woke up here. Love Ya and Take Care. Gala