About the ants. I live in an apartment complex here in Port St Lucie. There are ant hills all around. The red ants. Ugh I hate them. I used to call and call the complex to spray for ants. They would and the ants would be back in 3 days. I would spray and the ants would be back in 3 days.

The only thing that helped was Terro Liquid Ant Bait. There are six in a package and it is a liquid inside. The ants love it and come to eat it and bring it home and die. In the summertime here it is the only thing that keeps the ants away.

Hope all is well in your world.

Definitely, it was right to resign immediately. You have to think about yourself. And it wasn't safe to drive, so you were endangering the kids, too, as well as yourself. Take yourself out of the bad situation.

Ladies,

We are waiting on the surgeon and the heart doctor to make a decision on when my husband can have his surgery. The surgeon called me last night and said that from the position of the stones and the damage from the inflamed gallbladder, he doesn't think he can do it by laproscopy so they are doing the huge abdominal cut and he said that the kidney surgeon is going to do some kind of thing  without cutting through DH's side. They don't think he can be out for too long so instead of one working and moving over, they are going to work side-by-side with two groups of scrub people...he said they have done this before and it is simply to get in and out and wake him up.  Also, they are doing a liver biopsy while he is out.  You know, he has battled prostate cancer and colon cancer for years and even though his last colonoscopy didn't find any cancerous things in his colon, the oncologists looked at the scans and other tests results and DH's liver has some large nodules on it that they think may be cancer so they are going to biopsy those. I am not telling my husband until we know because he would be so worried and already his heart rate is off the chart.

Our general practioner is such a good young man and he called me before the surgeon called and we talked and he gave me his phone number and said to call him after I talked to the surgeon, which I did. He told me not to worry because my lab results are back and things are not great for me.  I have to go back tomorrow and get some more lab test done.  I reminded him about my WLS and he said that we need to start doing the iron infusions and B12 shots again.  But also he said my thyroid is doing strange things.  Well, we are getting old so things do break, right?

Okay, my graduate student is here and she is in a panic about her dissertation...let me go see what's up with her.

Ladies, keep your fingers crossed for my DH...but whatever we face, he and I will do it like we always have, leaning on each other.  Last night he said, I hate having surgery because I don't want you to have to take care of me and I said, hell, you lean on me; I lean on you...if the time should come, we'll lean on each other and prop each other up...we are in this together and for always.  He cannot have cancer again...

Good Morning Trish!

Does sound like you have had yet another busy week...always alot going on with you. Glad your mom settled down after her initial shock of being left behind...by her own choice...lol! Enjoy your visit with your grandson.

Well I need to vent...just have you ladies listen...

I had an awful day at work yesterday on my afternoon run. They allowed two kids on the van who were already carrying on. These two continued their cussing, threatening, screaming, turning the radio up and down, etc. for an hour. I could have returned them to the hospital, but I have learned that only creates more chaos and anger among the problem kids as well as whining from the kids who just want to get home. So I kept trying to drive despite the ongoing distractions.

I was so tense and frustrated my focus was off and I backed into a mailbox after dropping someone off! I was like SO done at this point. The distracted driving causing me to become a nervous wreck is just not worth it. So I finished my run, called my boss and after telling her what happened told her I was amending my notice to an immediate resignation. She was understandably not happy!

I feel bad bc I have never left a job without proper notice, but I just feel too frazzled to drive safely. I don't want to risk having an accident or getting another ticket.

So that is my sad tale for the day!

You ladies chat on

What a wild week.  

My sister arrived last Wednesday.  At first Mom said she didn't want to go.  Then, she said she did.  So, Eileen got her a ticket, then she said she wasn't going.  Eileen made arrangements with my sis-in-law, Kathy for Mom to stay with her.  Mom thought she'd get to stay at Eileen's, alone.  The night before Eileen flew here, she took Mom over to Kathy's for dinner, and left her there, and Mom was not happy about that.  But, it turns out that Kathy had my nephew, Neil, stay there also, and Mom did very well once she got over the shock that Eileen left her there.

Izzy was in a play on Friday and Saturday.  Friday, Eileen and I watched the boys, so Colleen and Trent could volunteer at the play.  Then, We all went Saturday.  Sunday, they all went out, and I rested my leg.

I will catch up on all the posts later.  Frankie is here, and we are watching Paw Patrol, his favorite show.

Must scoot.

Hugs,

Trish