I'm bitchy, I moan, I groan.....anyway.

Oh, that does suck about your grandpa. I think the older they get, the better and easier to talk to, most anyway. Dont expect my mom to be like that. But its so much nicer when they are at least pleasant. I will pray for his comfort.

I do levothyroxine too and have diabetes, so I get checked about every 3 or 4 months.  .HOW DARE THEY NOT WANT US KNOWLEDGEABLE??... I would quickly change from that doc. I hate that because I WANT to know, ya know? and if they dont tell me, I'll be looking it up anyway. Ive had some ask if I work in medicine just because I understand and use some of the language. Um,, no.. I read a lot. is usually the response. I can't stand it when they dont want to talk about an issue, just dole out chemicals and expect blind guinea pig followers. I usually dont go back to that one. One time I wrote a nasty letter to a derm who was obviously intimidated by my rather large bosom with a nasty open rash. I can slam it in a letter. Much more trouble trying to confront, face to face.

~Connie

THAT'S A BIG AMEN. sister annettek girlfriend. you're funny and I'm glad you joined our bitch sessions.

big bad court trouble for dd#1 today. she was convicted of two large misdemeanors and has over 2k in fines and 240 hours of community service, 12 months probation, driv lic suspended and on and on. holy cow they learn the hard way.

Connie

jst reading you ladies,, i have had similiar instances, both growing up, and in my 1st marriage.. you guys really turned the waterworks on down here tonite. i know why im drawn to you all. like seeks like, many , ive found the same types of ple are drawn to me, whatever the venue; and vice versa/  i say we're siters from another mother lol      3jays

OMG, that DD... drove herself to work today. She had her lic. susp. yesterday!!!!?!?!?  She didn't attend the driver training class she was sched for last night cause she was too busy drinking wine and conjuring up images of the local law just kidding her by suspending her lic. She drove herself to work with no license. AND her sister told me that she RESENTED me going to court with her!!  So, when she goes back to jail for, omg, like driving without a license, driving with a suspended license, breaking probation rules etc,etc. I'm not going to bail her out, again. Three times was the limit and she knows it. oh, wait... maybe I was kidding too!!!    NOT.

~C

Connie, I did cut that chemical doler-outer off my list of physicians.  In addition to being condescending he was sometimes downright rude, I could never think of the right comeback right then, then would think of 12 when I got home.  I refuse to be talked down to by someone I am paying for care!  My new PCP is a woman whom I have heard so many endorsements of, that's why I had to wait so long for an appt..  Her first new patient appt. was April6th. I had to practice tough love many years ago with my daughter and a boyfriend I highly disapproved of over guess what, suspended driver's lisence.  Her boyfriend seemed to think it was an option of whether or not he drove my car without a licence.  When friends saw him driving my car that was the last straw.  They had been living with us and I told her that she could stay but he was leaving.  She chose to go with him, it broke my heart, tough love is very difficult.  His behavior, drugs and alcohol finally got to her and she left him.  We are best friends now, but it took awile for her to see the light.  Kudos to you for drawing that line in the sand, it has to done but it is difficult

Doctors who won't look you in the eye, dont deserve your patronage. They have a Holier-than-thou attitude and so many times they are just dead wrong. Its hard to change esp. PCPs but its worth it as testified above. I did it too, and I like the new one but he doesnt do some of the things I expected, like he doesnt do injections... sends me to a specialist for lots of stuff. And I'm mostly ok with that except when I asked for a Back Doc, he sent me to an ortho, but one that does knees and shoulders not spine. Now I have to wait some more for a spine ortho. bummer. Had and epidual planned, have had it planned 3 times and it seems to always get bumped by infections, they wont inject when you have any antibiotics going on and it seems like I constantly have some sort of infection. (lately its vaginal) and it takes me long to heal.

Stayed up late watching junk on tv and found a show called HungryGirl, she made brownie muffins with a Devils food cake mix and a can of pumpkin... thats ALL (heavy stirring) and they looked awesome. Gonna try that this weekend. We have our annual huge St. Patricks Day event comming up and I already planned to take muffins, just thought they would be banana nut or bran, chocolate is far preferable. 

Have a good day!  Its going to almost 70 today here - YAY, I'll be outside, soon. 

Connie

Right?!  She has a website under HungryGirl, I think. Can't believe I stayed up an extra half hour just to see what she put in those brownie/muffins.

It's a beautiful day here. I'm sitting on the back porch, in my comfy chair, watching the neighbors behind me raking leaves. Our leaves fall in the very late fall, usually all winter and then when the spring shows up the oaks drop their slick, thick little leaves and you have to do it ALL over again. So, we don't. We wait, letting the fallen leaves coat the lawn, protecting it like a layer of mulch against frost. When the oaks are done swapping winter leaves for summer then we get the riding mower out and cut, bag and mulch the hedges, the hydrangeas and along the back fence. Got some rogue bamboo coming up out there, it travels underground and can be quite invasive. I say 'we' like I have anything to do with getting them mower out, OR cutting, bagging... oh, yeah, I tell him where to put the mulch... hahahaha.

Speaking of neighbors. Last night, we were sitting out back chatting about the unusual new neighbors we have in the home behind us. The house is 300 ft. away and we have always enjoyed the beautiful yard. But the gentleman who lived there for 30 years passed and the family sold the house to what we thought was a young couple, him in the military. But there have been so many people over there it's hard to tell who lives there. There are 3 big dogs and a little white one. They have been very industrious setting up a funky little greenhouse and fencing and tending a garden patch. Once in a while they tether a dog outside and it's annoying but the dogs escape their back fence. Anyway, last night we noticed a red light, looked like it was on the porch, and for all the world it looked like a man was doing exercises? maybe? it appeared to be some sort of (for lack of a better word) ritual, standing shirtless at a table under the red light. We thought it was a window with a red curtain. But its not. It's a light fixture on one end of a pretty big porch. It was the strangest thing. DH said LOOK at this, GET UP and come look, so I did and thought maybe it was a big TV cause the movements were large and pronounced and the light so unusual, reflecting off this man. We got the binoculars. seriously. couldn't really tell much more except that it was definately a light fixture with a large red bulb and this dude was doing wide motions with his arms that looked like muscle flexing. It was 10 pm. Anybody got a clue why someone would exercise, outside, under a red lamp? curiouser and curiouser.

Enjoy this beautiful spring saturday.

Connie

Connie,

I think your neighbor might be a little bit, um, weird.  Yes, we sold our house...but then it un-sold (deal fell through).  NOT A NIBBLE since.  It is the land that is for sale for commercial so at least I don't have to show the house!  I guess that's something...but I am sure ready to go back to Georgia.

barbe, you are too funny

Sueper - where in tX?  i'm in west Fort Worth.

Ok... I'll bite.. what's Goat Creek Farm?

I'd be pissed at my daughter too.

WHAT??  WHERE DID EVERYBODY GO?

I DON'T WANT TO BE A THREAD ENDER, ESPECIALLY NOT THIS THREAD.

Ok, I promise to quit peeping at the neighbors doing weird things right in our field of vision.

I promise to only moan and groan. and to be plenty bitchy... ANYWAY.

Just come back!!!!!!!!!! There's so much left to rant;

mom, 81 had a colonoscopy, she's the drama queen's sister, so that was a blast.

I got blood drawn today, 4 vials!!!  and a 1/2 cup of teetee.

Got a lumbar epidural scheduled for Friday, hoping that takes the pain and stiffness out of my back and legs. I've had some injections before, SI inj, lumbar facet inj. and hip ones for bursitis. and , um  OW. Had the first one in my tennis elbow. Second one in the bottom of my foot... omg I could have bitten that docs hand off it hurt so bad. now I WANT one in my back. go figure.

Has anyone had reduction surgery on a rads breast? How'd it go?

~Connie

well, thanks, Day thats the best explaination I've heard. That makes sense, that red light would bring power and/or protection. I didnt mean to call anyone out, just very curious about what we witnessed. As we have never seen anything like it.

Connie, I can NOT believe that you are FINALLY getting the friggin' injection!!!!???!?! Didn't we talk about this a YEAR ago????? I thought you'd had it ALREADY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Remember, they will freeze you first and then you'll just feel pressure. My DH was allowed to watch me get 18 injections during a nerve block procedure but they wouldn't let him watch the one epidural injection....

I didn't get to see my kids born!! Waaaaaaaaaa.

There is a thread you MUST find called "Is this another UTI or what?" something like that. We've been discussing things like IC - interstitial cystitis. Check it out with Dr. Google. When I would give urine samples they would say they were contaminated with blood and make me do them again - thinking I was on my period. I had a hysterectomy 8 years ago!

I pay about $30 for the drug they inject. My insurance covers the injection. It's worth it. It may have to be done more than once, so don't be disappointed a couple months from now when your pain is back. My first lasted about 6 months, my second lasted years!