Spirited and Lively Older Women Thread

isabella: start, oh please, start writing your book!!!!i daren't say a word, about families, mine's such a wreck.. but i so do love hearing im not the only one...

    SHAME  on the "little price" some just are so nervy.. and thats such a shame about your mothers accounts..

  my dear friend; you have a heart of gold; always raking in the worst, the lost, the harried....i love you for it, and worry for you, as well.....

  im thanking the stars the worst ( and could bre ) the best part of the year is over.. i  don't care how long it takes to take it down, i've  decided... Marybe,, i think the little tree will be up when you visit... WTH!!!!!

   Marybe i know you had daddy cked for alzheimers, but they do use some of the drugs to enhance  memory, anyway..and, here, in
Fla we have volunteers to come in, visit, call.. we're checking them out know (i DO qualify for elderly care) how did THAT happen?

  im thinking i need to have someone here, in the late morning, to eat with me.. but, it has to be someone BIG enough todo the heimlech.. mur couldn't , so we'll see.. im not sure, if we find another car soon, i can just go to someone elses house, and id prefer that....

   hope my appt thurs yeilds some info. tryig a new dr. for thyroid.. a chiro who specializes in auto immune.. they both quilify ms; thyroid, and a few others hahaha maybe he can get me armour thyroid.. i can't get anyone here to write for an rx to canada... i don't blame them but aaaarrrggghhh!!!!

  later....3jays

Hello all, here is a family story for you.

In 1961 my sister at age 18 gave birth to a baby boy and gave him up for adoption. It was very hush hush and family scandal,as I was 12 I wasn't in on the secret. She never had other kids.  My sister and I were 6 years apart and she wasn't real enthused about me in the early part of our lives. It became really strained when I had my kids. Then she was diagnosed with BC at 40. Changed our whole relationship. She told me about the baby and we became very close. She started searching for him. But because he wasn't searching also she could not find him. Finally in Oct 2000, they reconnected. We had a family reunion in Feb of 2001, my parents didn't quite know what to make of it all but were there for the celebration. My sister passed 3 weeks later, we (my nephew included) were at her side. She made me promise to keep him in my life. It was such a blessing for all of us to still have a connection to her through him. He looks so much like her it is breath taking.

Maca,



Your story brought tears to my eyes. What a blessing to know your sister found her son before she passed. And how wonderful for him to be able to know his birth mother, however briefly. Gosh, there are millions of family stories, some funny, some tragic, heartbreaking and heartwarming, full of love, some not so much. You just never know what burden someone is carrying. Or what joy is right around the corner.



Wishing us all joy in this new year.

Mac, like 3jays I'm an adoptive mother too of one of my children.  How wonderful that they reconnected before your sister passed away. 

Sorry about the broken ribs 3jays.  I know they hurt, but you're still here and I'm very happy about that!!

Kathy

Thinking of you with doc appts today!

I admire adoptive moms so much!!!! I got to meet my nephew's adoptive family when he got married about 5 years ago. We had so much to be grateful for, that he was given life,then given love, then given more family than most of us. It was such a healing experience for both of them to meet and have 3 months to get to know one another. I guess I am thinking about it alot since they got to enjoy a Christmas and New Years together.

So I am in awe of all the women fighting our daily battles and still standing! 

3jays.. GOOD LUCK with the new doc. I hope he can find something to help ease at least SOME of your symptoms....without much expense. I cannot understand the way you girls have to pay for every little thing. HOW do you do it ? Or how do you meet the insurance premiums ??

I can't sort out what day it is yet, I always get like this after Christmas and New Year, everything inside out..nobody working...at least the kiddo's get back to school today, only to get soaked thru'. I have silly people ringing me up asking where their orders are, this is after telling them all orders would be delivered double 2 days before Christmas, and no deliveries until Jan 9th. Looks like I might have to turn out myself tomorrow with a few deliveries, just to shut silly people up ( or not to lose their custom !!) The people who run health food shops are NUTS. Just not like normal people, seem to live in a parallel universe !! Wierd hairdo's and sandals, the lot of them, always seem to be away with the fairies, no memories at all. I daren't say boo to them tho', they give me a reasonable income for not much effort !!!!

Isabella.

thanks, ladies. for asking about the dr... well, i THINK he may be legite, but he said some things i just don't believe in.. like the heavy metals theory of ms.. like 20 yr old filling with metal causes ms.. it was disproved YEARS ago, yet many ple have their filling taken out and replaced.. i don't have the $$$to do, nor the interest.. anyway, i've lost 4 teeth from chemo.. soon, they'll either fall out like them, or the fillings will come out. then we'll budget money to do them one at a time.. Kinda like the days everyone was going to mexico for Laetrille.. it wasn't helpful in the least!!!

   so, im gonna tsake a wait n see attitude.. we have  some $$ they take every payck for medical from murs pay, and we get jan 1st of every year..

  this dr. reduced a 3 1hr consult from 97 to 75.. so, we took it out of that $$, and im going back for the consult.. he wants a LOT of tests done.. but, i think my ent, whos been taking care of it, can order therm, then they'll be covered by ins.. the one i know won't be, is the adrenal insufficientcy.. a large part of MS.. he has a lab that does it for round $100.00; and i've wanted that done a long time, so will get that one done...

   he said the ms is the kingpin, and chemo the first domino to fall.. just what i was told in the beginning.. we'll see where he goes from there..

  i talked to him, and again, i ve wanted tests for parasites, and "leaky gut" syndrome done for yrs.. since a trip (an hospitalization in Mexico) so, im all in for that.. from there, we'll see...

  if he wants to put me on a permanent diet of nuts and twigs, ill be done.. thats NOT the QOL i intend to have!!!but i am willing to see one step at a time!!!

    we went and had a wonderful dinner of hamburgers and ceasar salad afterwards.. red meat may be removed from the menu for awhile soon.. we only have it sparingly, and chicken and fish, pasta, the rest....

   Isabella: what slays me, is that i have to rob peter to pay paul for tests, when we pay exorberant amounts for insurance, to begin with!!!i figure if he keeps me from seeing just 2 of my drs. i can afford the test!!!the txs, we'll see..

  His name is askdrherman if anyone wants to see him on you tube, and tell me what YOU think... he seems to say he has the cure for everything, so i just don't know HOW i feel...

   If he can get me out of bed, to the pool, and seeing my grands each week, thats' all i can ask for.. sounds like heaven to me!!!!

   hope you all are doing well... Isabella

Barb. We don't get many piercings and tattoos among the health food nuts here...they seem to be a very clean living bunch, not met any yet looking as odd as that !!

Isabella. 

Yikes Barbe! You had ER last night? On top of everything else, oh dear.  I hope this is an easy fix.  Take it easy, and take care of yourself. 

Barbe, I don't know what it means either, but don't mess around with it..sending hugs

What it does mean is that my heart is missing more than just a beat, it misses a whole pattern and then pops back into rhythm. The scary part will be the day when it doesn`t just pop back into rhythym and I stay in atrial fibrillation and die!! The ER doc was quite anxious for me to get the seriousness of this and even copied pages of info for me off the internet. If it`s not drug induced, I may need a pacemaker defrib combo inmplanted!!

Good golly miss molly!  Barbe you sure are copping everything but the kitchen sink!  I sure hope they get all that sorted very quickly for you................yeah, you are right.........scary!!!!

Love n hugs.  Chrissy

Barbe, hugs and prayers for a speedy diagnosis and treatment. I am sorry you have to deal with this.

GInger