MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN 40-60ish

I basically said it was terrible and don't waste your time reading it. RuthBru posted some reviews that had been published in the newspapers.

Thanks, el, but I am not leaving here! I can have two homes! I guess i really AM picky! Sorry about the bad tooth. i don't have any of my real teeth on the top, due to a series of awful events. In a way, it's nice to not have to worry about them anymore, but shucks. I do get jealous sometimes when I see a really strong white set of teeth in somebody's mouth. The precipitating event that started me on the road to toothless old hagdom, happened in my early twenties, when I was mugged and kicked in the teeth. I even like to look at peoples real teeth, even if they aren't straihjt, or if it appears they have too many of them! I especially like that.In the same way that once I aquirred lymphedema, I was watching basketball, and began to notice that I was staring intently at the players arms, with well defined bones and musculature, really hating my fresh new bigarm. SDB is something else, I do enjoy her terrifically too.

Thanks for the heads up about the book. I haven't seen a good review.

My first experience with cicadas was when I went to No Carolina to visit my daddy. They are huge and there are so many of them. I remember them smashing into the windshield and crunching under my shoes, even though I tried to avoid them They are soooo loud.

My DH has "husband ears", too!

Minus Two, I think I did visit that thread once or twice about the time I was scared witless from diagnosis! Lately, I have been to my TX place, to attend a smoking cessation class. I am pretty hard core, altho I came to smoking late. But, I have asked the heart doc who leads those meetings, really is a gentle old soul, whether he would give me chantix. Two of my friends have used it to stop. So, the man looks at me a little fearfully, ...I think he has read my medical records. The part about where, on the second meeting with my bs, before surgery, she wrote that I was emotionally labile.... well really? That means: all over the place with my feelings. Well I WAS having a lot of feelings, and I was expressing them. That bs and I had a real tough time together, i don't have her anymore. to push me around with her christian laboutine spike heels anymore. She would make a great dominatrix but I am getting off subject.... what was the subject? Oh yeh, smoking. I will come see you guys there at your thread,minus.

Oh Eli, missed the header change. Hmmm - it looks like there still some daylight in the garden so I'd be strolling & looking w/o worrying about mosquitoes.

To answer your question, el, I would be wondering if I was going in the wrong direction, as if it was a one way path. And then I would run up closer to something off the path to have a better look!

(brief talk on weather, sorry)  

Eph:  it is unbelievable how hot it is in the Northwest. It's worst than being here in FL. Can we say global warming??  Enjoy the beach!  I'm heading to Daytona Beach on Sunday for 3 nights.

If MJ is legal in your state, why is it an issue with drug testing? I do understand you want to be "clean" going into the job, but if it's legal?? Just wondering about that.

Off to a history lecture on not so well behaved women who made history.  Today's time period is around WWII. A friend who is ex-university history professor giving the lecture at a local senior center. Should be interesting.

Hope everyone has a great day.

OK, can I whine or vent or whatever for a moment? So, I am almost 4 years out and my doc is amused, surprised and delighted that I am still alive, yay me! My daughter finished college, moved back home with the boyfriend, then finally moved out a month or two ago. Greece is in crisis, but our banks reopened recently and things seem to be chugging along somehow. So, life should be ok, good even.

My husband supposedly had piriformis syndrome (backache basically) 4 months ago, then again 2 months ago. Last Monday, he suddenly had pain again, a bit further up and felt ill. This went on for 48 hours, where he mostly slept and sometimes puked. When I finally managed to drag him to a doctor, they found that he had a serious kidney infection. He had a CT yesterday, with contrast, and there is definitely a big mass on his kidney (the tech knows me and likes me, so he showed me on the screen). We won't have the actual results till Tuesday (vacation time down here), so I can't know if it is cancer or just backed up fluid or what the $%^&*# it is. Dh feels ok at this point, because they gave him antibiotics that are clearly dealing with the infection. But something ain't right. Keep fingers crossed for him.

Hugs Momine! This has to be so frustrating for you. I hope that does not come off sounding bad. Yourself and your family have earned some good living time. I hope this is an infection and your dear husband gets well very soon.

Thinking of you and your husband,

I had gone back up the page to re- read, cause I didn't remember reading up there, and I even re-read my post about my teeth. I am pretty sure I didn't type "shucks"!! It must have been auto-correct. But i feel the same way, Momine. Well, fuck.

I almost want to hear them! I wonder if the naked and afraid people would eat them!

Somebody must be eating them, then!!!

Momine--praying for your DH.