INSOMNIACS place to talk in the wee hours

Loveroflife

maybe this will help you rest

Chevyboy

Did you guys see that? Little pampered Peppermint is assuming that my candles will burn down the Universe! Hah! That coffee drip is what we all need! That time I was in the hospital with my hip/whatever, I asked if the kitchen could make me up a chocolate coke! So they sent me a Coke, glass of ice, and some chocolate syrup! I was so HAPPY!!!!!!

TRY that Peppermint! When they going to spring you? You go there to relax, or WTH is going on? You want to come help me with this weed-abatement problem I have...? I'm ready to throw gasoline on it, and get my long-handled fire starter! WHY did I let this go on for these 3 years like I did? Because I wanted to think it was beautiful............

Jazzygirl

Blondie- yay about getting to stay in FL a bit longer. Hope the boys make it home easily tomorrow.

Patty- I am sorry to hear you are still in there. Food in hospitals is the worst. I wish I could bring you something tasty to eat or drink.

Going to the BS today for my six month check up with her as part of the follow up from my mammo and ultrasound on 7/10.

queenmomcat

Patty: Another "I wish I was close enough to bring you something tasty to eat/drink."

Heck, let's all go to Florida. I wanna see bugs as big as my hand and go scuba diving.

luvmygoats

Oh my I need the IV drip coffee NOW! Days plans changed, have to go to "town" to get DH's tire. Not at local Goodyear but at Discount Tires. I see a bit of shopping b4 the heat starts.

Mags, you getting rain? We have clouds. Yippee. Only thing about clouds overnight is it holds in the heat. If they will stay until midday maybe keep some of it down.

Those goats - I think I posted fainting goats. I looked at so many. They don't know any different. Just fall over and get right back up. Very popular and bring a pretty price. One herd video I would have posted but I think it was kinda cruel - guy flashing an umbrella at them - and it was terrrrribly out of focus. Notice families tend to be the same color - wonder about inbreeding.

Yay for Blondie getting another FL week. This is your week without GSs. Partay time.

Patty - I hope I come back home and find posted that you got sprung from there. GO Girl!

Spookiesmom

y'all come on down!! Don't know about bugs as big as your hand though. No hurricanes in sight!!!

Hear2day

Thank you all for tips. Will do a "walk about" of sorts through BCO. Thought I'd leave kayaking pic of the Beavers condo nearby. Hope it amuses. Love their attitude. They do exactly as they please and don't mind me at all. Thanks again

sas-schatzi

Wren, (patting) "rice". and Littlegoats LOL "almonds" "coconut". We could have some fun with this approach. Problen with rain in California is the ground is so dry it will have trouble absorbing. Flooding and trees toppling. We went through this in Ohio in late 80's.

I've seen the PBS dust bowl thing a few years ago. Amazing when seen versus reading about. Words can't begin to describe the horrors.

Chevy, my birthday's the 30th. Make them take your picture over if it's a good one. One time I had a patient that hadn't eaten in about 5 weeks. Her craving when allowed solid food was a Mounds bar. Kitchen said they couldn't do it. LOL I got on the phone. She got her Mounds bar with my cajoling. TOO FUNNY "Seeing Noises"

Spookie Thank you, it came

YAY, Blondie, Dee's done right by you. Why not the rest of the summer?

Loverly, you joke, but IV caffeine is available. Rarely used.

Patty, everything everybody said and I love you.

Littlegoats, I wonder who's studying those goats. It's sympathetic/parasympathetic nervous system screw up. Would love to know what the results of a functional MRI would be. (shut up Chevy)

HI1 glad you are here more. The house stuff must be settling down? Pics?

Today , Mema, Jazzy Dutchy, Kathy, Paws, 2 Waving/////||\\\|//////|\\\\

Loveroflife

2day, thanks! I love it that they are so carefree and have no worries like us human.

Ms. BLONDIE, another week in Florida...yay! Still have a chance to wear the bikini to the beach if you haven't already done so.

For hand size spider you need to go the Big Island...

This is a Yellow Garden Spider we saw on the way back from the farmers market. I was curious to see what the other side of the spider looked like and didn't want to disturb it...so I gently maneuvered my hand below the web to find a good spot to take a picture and didn't think to get a top view of the spider...too busy praying that the spider would not get agitated with me for intruding its space. Told my kids and nephews later to NEVER attempt what I did

Wren44

There is a gelato shop here called The Fainting Goat. The woman who owns it said they were just so funny and so she named the store after them. Their T-shirt has an upside down goat. She also makes really good gelato.

Loveroflife

Ms Sas...so did you see iv caffeine used more in respiratory failure compared to serious headache then? Very sweet of you to provide the Chocolate Mounds to the patient.

Marlana, you saw Food Inc documentary?

kathindc

Hi Sas, glad you told me to came back as I've been off this thread for almost a year. Dear God, why did I do that?! I'm almost 400 pages behind. Thought I would try to catch up but forget it so I'm jumping in. Hello to all those I knew from before and welcome to all those who have since joined. Son and grandson come in from Japan on Saturday and I can hardly wait. We do Skype a lot but I do so enjoy when we get to see the grandchildren in person. Nothing like those hugs. We get one-on-one time with John when his dad goes to a conference. Figuring out all the fun things we can do. Boy for a lurker, I'm chatty today.

Chevyboy

Queenly! Yes, you will see bugs as big as your CAR! And they crawl on walls, sidewalks, and on your head.... Ha! Just sleep with one eye open, and a gun by your side.

sas-schatzi

Kathy, I was just thinking of you and there you were on W&F's, now here. YAY. I know you have been lurking So, glad you are jumping back to this side of the screen. Your good, the waters fine. That's neat that the kids are coming into town. Perhaps a few pages back if you haven't read in the last few days. Spookie. LMG, Wren, Chevy, JWOO, HI1, Patty, Blondie,Susan are active from last year when you were here. 2Ta/Phyllis, Paws, Dutchy(lurking) occassionaly post. Marley, Loverly, Queenie, Jazzy, Hear2day, MammaRay, Mommieof2 are new. Sheez, I will hear about it if I forgot anyone. See. told ya. I forgot Rosie and Megs, frechfrye

sas-schatzi

Silk spider real size.

I thought these were cute, till they were all over the screen enclosure. Crab spider small realy about 1/8 inch

sas-schatzi

Found these in Spookie's bathroom

sas-schatzi

This is why I got Slug-A-Bug

Wren44

Kath, Good to see you again! Welcome back. Enjoy the grand visit.

queenmomcat

KathinDC: my sympathies. I go away for a day, and I have trouble figuring out what's going on, but that may be because I'm new....welcome back, and hoping it's because you missed the camaraderie only?

Sas: so you're not on board with the trip to Florida? (I have a couple of acquaintances from the South/Florida, and they tell some hair raising stories about the bugs. We just figure life's like that: you have a choice between hair raising snow or hair raising bugs.)

Loveroflife

Umm...Ms. Sas...Ms. Smaarty is in San Diego still,I think. Rose is spending sweet precious time with her Dd2. Susan is sleeping. Is Mag on the road still??? I didn't know Jazzy is new. I think you left their names out on purpose to see if we are paying attention. That is a lot of people for you to remember. You have others on the other forum to take care too. Haha I don't know how you do it. Amazing!

Spookiesmom

Damn Sas, you have to tell about ALL my pets????

Queenie, Sas is in Florida. She's East coast, I'm west coast.

queenmomcat

Spookie (and Sas): (blushes) Right. Her location's right there in her signature.

Jazzygirl

Ladies- I go for a little appointment to see the BS, and I come back and you have spider pictures all over this thread!

Kathy- welcome back to the thread. I was here once, I left and then slowly but surely they lured me back. Don't worry about catching up, just jump on in!

Sassy- don't forget Mags, Rose, and think Mommy too?

Went to the BS today and everything is fine. We talked about MRIs and more genetics tests and all that is parked for now (or won't be covered by insurance). Her big focus today on me was to tell me I need to get my weight down further. Been working on that since last year with personal training, but as I am sure many of you know, the AIs don't help anything there. She told me protein and vegetables are the way to go and going to refocus on that plan to get some more pounds off. She said the extra weight negates the benefits of the AIs, which I know is true. So I am done with this part of the follow up, next week is the MO apt and then I am done DONE for six months.

Tomorrow we go the PCP and cannot wait to see what happens there!

sas-schatzi

Added Mags and Rosie. Mommy's in there, but by her screen name

Jazzy, when the docs have nothing to offer they say 'lose weight'. Second is exercise. Did you ever have a doc ask what you eat? More recently, they have questioned about exercise--last few years. ------------The old hospital, started a fitness thingy. Paid for pedometers. On my floor we were between 10,000 and 14,000steps(depending on wing assignment) on an 8 hr shift. That woke people up to why we were worn out. Walking and all the stuff we were doing. Then we went to twelve hour shifts which were really 13-14 hour shift. Then some idiot implied we weren't exercising b/c it was stop and start. Most threw the pedometers away. They made us tired. They used to joke about me." I'm walking like sassy". Post Polio, never knew when the legs would give out. I'd be walking down the hall dragging my right leg in particular. Another outrageous thing was I'd get a beep that a patient would need something. Sometimes it'd take two people to get me up. The most most outrageous was when I had to be taken to my car in a wheelchair. Picture that, your nurse going out in a wheelchair.

Jazzygirl

Sassy- one thing I know about doctors is that they know nothing about nutrition. I worked with a doctor a few years back on a project for one of my healthcare clients and he was talking about physician documentation around nutrition and said doctors are not trained around anything in med school with respect to food. I think the medical schools now are integrating more of that in their curriculum. It is the same with personal trainers, they can teach you how to exercise, but not how to eat. So telling you to loose weight and given their lack of knowledge is difficult at best.

My BS is a very petite slim woman who I think is a big time runner. I think she advised me what to eat based on what she eats. I am a pretty healthy eater, gave up sugar two years ago, eat healthy and not that much anymore either, but do find loosing weight on the AIs tough. When I went on them, I immediately gained weight. This is where the double edge sword is, they give you these meds that cause weight gain and drop your metabolism and then tell you to drop weight. I don't talk to too many women here who can loose weight easily on the AI meds.

We have all these fitness trackers, gym memberships, fitness boot camps, but we still have a lot of overweight people. I think our industrialized food supply has not helped anything. Go blame corporate america for putting crap into our food!

Spookiesmom

Kodac moment for sure!!!!

Spookiesmom

Even the Registered Dieticians and Certified Diabetes Educators aren't all that great with weight loss. At least in my experience with a few of them. And your right about docs not having it it med school. They pass you off to the RDs.

The neurosurgeon who botched my first neck surgery was overweight. But sat there and told ME to get the pounds off. Do as I say, not as I do. Grrrr

Spookiesmom

Ooooooh forgot Frey. She's in the Keys.

luvmygoats

Loverly - My 1st introduction to real spiders. We moved to Hawaii when I was in the 4th grade and I remember those suckers. We have golden orb that build in the corners and across unused pathways. They must be a related species.

Queen - naw has not much to be with being new. Like I couldn't figure out Sassy's almonds reference. We are moving at the speed of light lol.

Um Sassy don't think I want to picture that last comment. When I worked that 1.5 years palliative care it was 7 on, 7off. I had professional people nurse type that wanted to know if those were 12 hour shifts (haha typed it and left out the "f", knew that didn't look right). God help me 10 hour shifts were enough, left house about 1115 in the morning returned home about 1220 am (next day) if I was lucky (I live at least 45 min away from this hospital). The unit did not last too much longer on that schedule after I left, went with standard 12 hour shifts. It was a great way to bond with patients I will give it that.

Welcome back Kathy.

I think docs get a couple of hours at best in nutrition. Jazzy you have perfectly described my BS too. Shocked to find out she's in her late 40s - OK I snooped on google a bit. PCP is the one on my case about exercise which he could certainly use as well and only a few years younger than me.

No further word from Patty?

Loveroflife

AND SUSAN...YOOOHOO...Ms. Sas..