Hi All,
I know I have been MIA lately. I m sorry I havent been able to post. I have had some setbacks, one being a medication that was causing pretty bad tremors through my entire body. I logged into tpf to post, but my fingers had such bad tremors, and would jolt so much, anything I typed was illegible. My kidney is definitely in failure status (but they are doing all they can to maintain as long as possible before dialysis is inevitable), which makes me tired a lot and healing is going so much slower than the norm. It was hard to be up for periods at a time too, so I would attempt to catch up, and would have to go lay down. I was able to talk my doc out of giving the med that caused the tremors, and I have slowly recovered to where the tremors have stopped!! I did spend the last couple of days catching up as much as I could. If I forget anyone I truly apologize.
Cho Congrats on the baby girl. Woohoo!!
(Sugar and spice and everything nice, thats what little girls are made of
) Sorry about your moving frustrations. I wish I could help you. I actually like packing etc. Yeah, Im the one who like doing laundry and washing dishes by hand too. I agree, something is wrong with me. Regarding the jacket thing. Could you wrap blankets around yourself? That is what they did to me when my dh forgot to bring my winter jacket to the hospital 2 yrs. ago when I was being discharged in December!! And that pic of you with Otis and your belly. A.D.O.R.A.B.L.E.
By the way, that pic you posted of the hiney. How in HH did you get a pic of me leaving the hospital!!! I would surely (a nod to Leslie Nielson) appreciate you destroying the negatives!!!
MB So sorry about Mr. Cat, A terrible loss. Thanks for sharing him with all of us.
MT So sorry about your car accident. Im glad they will be able to save your car, and most importantly, that you are okay!! The hand warmers you made are precious. I really wish I could knit. I would just knit scarves to wrap around my neck. Im always cold!
Dream Glad your surgery went well. Do you have to do PT at all?
MD Congrats on the weight loss. That is such an awesome accomplishment. I had such a huge weight gain from them tripling my prednisone, adding another steroid, and taking me off the lasix. I tell ya, I was worse than Violet in Willy Wonka after the Blueberry escapade. You could have rolled me out of the hospital.
That was the cause of some other setbacks, the weight gain. It was making healing, etc. so much more difficult. Its taken a bit, but over 60 lbs. of it is gone!!!
Clutched and Luc Not sure where you guys are with the status of your divorces, but I hope all is going well.
Jenni The more I read your posts the more I want to go back to school and have you as a prof. I need to stay here, so why dont you and dh come here and be professors at the UW? Its easy, right!?!?!
Sally Your idea regarding black holes/tvs is great. The things you learn on tpf always amaze me.
Sacc Thanks for the cool postcard. I love the skyline made of stamps. I kept looking at it and noticing different ones!
Carlie - That is so great on the Ipad for Jace. I hope it does what you want it to and more.
Mishka - That tree and view are gorgeous. Safe trip home. And Chloe is looking precious as always. Hugs to her!
Nikki - Welcome back. Everyone has missed you. So glad others have been posting as well more often.(A shout out to
Jwhit, Brenda, GB, PIM, PG, MG, kdo, mib, jan, blammie, bri, pae, rmc, enga, jsenning, kate, chez and others I'm sure I've left out, but am not meaning to)
GB - And what a blog it will be!! Cant wait to read it. A bit jealous of all your yummy cooking. I usually go to my moms for one night of Chanukah and get my latke fix, but it didnt happen this year.
Lu I was so sorry to read about your loss. You will make an absolutely marvelous mother when the time happens. How could you not, being such an unbelievable marvelous human being.
And thanks for the email regarding the hhhotties thinking of me. Like I stated in my email back to you,
I want to say how much I appreciate you guys thinking of me. My woosy, crybaby heart is melting, as tears flow down my face. You all mean so much to me. I mean, I like myself and all, but spending every day, pretty much with just me can get a bit boring!!! lol Communicating with all of you always brightens my day (life!!!).
I know some of these relate to things that were known a month ago. I just wanted you to know I was thinking of all the events going on in your lives. I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. My three sibs from CA flew in along with my uncle from St. Louis, his two sons and families (one from Chicago and one who lives here), my family and mom and a few others. I usually do most of the cooking, but of course was unable to this year. I just gave direction to my sisters and let them do most of the work. (And my mom did a lot too) I did do a few things but I got so tired quickly. I like things a certain way (dont we all, especially in our own homes!!??), and at times got frustrated. I told my sister Im sorry for being such a bit**. She replied, Oh no you dont. You were being kinda bit**y, but Im the bit** in the family!!! LOL
And I can pretty much guarantee no one had a guest like my one cousin (the one who lives here or I could find a way to not include him). He put tin foil on his plate, loaded it with turkey, wrapped it up and put it in his jacket pocket. He then went and filled his plate to eat. Seriously, who does this?? Takes leftovers without them being offered, and
takes leftovers before there are actually any leftovers!!??!!! Last year he showed up early with his family and we werent even ready. He went downstairs to our family room and helped himself to a bottle of Grey Goose in the freezer in the little fridge down there. There were bottles of alcohol at the bar for drinking, but he wanted the good stuff. (It was my sister's. She had bought it during her visit in the summer, and had put it in there until she came back) What a poophead. Any ideas how not to include him from now on? It is so hard with his brother coming in from IL, and his father from MO. Geez, why can't they ever go to his wife's family for T-day!!??!!
Make way for babies!!
:shame:
Sorry.
me tomorrow???