INSOMNIACS place to talk in the wee hours

Options
1…14341435143714391440…1503

Comments

  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited November 2017

    Mimi - have you tried a hint of melatonin before bed? It helps me. I take 5 mg only so I can sleep it off.

    Jeneen - welcome. Sas - good image for us, owlettes in the nest. With food. Lotsa food.

    The new drug I take at night that is supposed to help w the cough reflex, that remains to be seen if it helps w that. But it does help me sleep through the night and not even get up for bathroom which I did about every hour before. Proof my bladder still works anyway. And I have not cried in three days and I was often each week, very often. And have not yelled at Hubby for days. So it is doing something for the anxiety. I think I will keep it for a long while.

    Caught up w reading.

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Loveroflife
    Loveroflife Member Posts: 5,563
    edited November 2017

    Bluebird, I am glad to hear you have positive side effects with the drug.

    WELCOME Mimi !

    Happy Veterans Day! Thank you to the men and women who made the sacrifice.

    image






    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • queenmomcat
    queenmomcat Member Posts: 3,039
    edited November 2017

    Sassy: sorry, I got sucked into classwork and prying my squirrelly veteran friend (the one from accounting last summer) off the ceiling after he got behind in *his* classwork--I haven't even asked around about the virtual private networks yet. Curiously enough, I'm taking a class in IT support and this very question (what computer should I buy?) is one of the ones we had to answer.

    The first question is not so much "Which brand should I buy?" but rather "What do I plan to be doing with it?" Desktop or laptop? The latter gives you more flexibility in designing your own, should you dare to go that route (it's not that hard for the brave and fearless Woman), as you have more choices in terms of upgrading RAM, graphics/video, hard drives within the computer, and wider choice of monitors. Well, OK: you have a choice of monitors.

    If a laptop: Working mostly in one spot? Toting it around from place to place? That'll affect size and therefore weight. How long are you going to be using it without access to an outlet? That'll determine how important battery life is. How are you going to be using it? Word processing-y sorts of things or streaming videos or heavy-duty gaming? Is it going to be your primary computer, or will you be using it in conjunction with a desktop?

    ....and so on and so on.

    I've had good luck with my HP laptops, and I'm hard on my toys, I mean really hard. But I've had equally good luck with Dells. There's alwo Lenovo and Asus....

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited November 2017

    I have an Asus laptop and use it as primary - huge monitor on the other side of table, regular quiet keyboard for me, laptop is off on the shelf to the right side of me. When I want it to go, just unplug and pack.

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Jeenee
    Jeenee Member Posts: 99
    edited November 2017

    Can't sleep. Woke up at 2:30 again. So, here I am... anyone here?

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Jeenee
    Jeenee Member Posts: 99
    edited November 2017

    Sharing some of what I do in my free time.

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Loveroflife
    Loveroflife Member Posts: 5,563
    edited November 2017

    Caterpillars in the vegetable garden? Just realized I forgot to let Mitzy out. Back to bed. Night night.

    Jeenee, hope the sleep fairy visit you soon.

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Jeenee
    Jeenee Member Posts: 99
    edited November 2017

    Thanks Loveroflife.

    Grabbed another hour. Its just not my night. Must be thinking about Liver biopsy on Monday. Would prefer to be well rested. Abdominal discomfort keeps me up. Think its digestive, not liver related, but has been a real problem lately.


    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • feelingfeline
    feelingfeline Member Posts: 5,664
    edited November 2017

    Jenee you are artistic! There is a members art gallery thread on here you might also enjoy. I will put a link to it here in case you would like to check it out

    https://community.breastcancer.org/forum/135/topic...



    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Jeenee
    Jeenee Member Posts: 99
    edited November 2017

    Thank you, Feelingfeline, Wow!

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • queenmomcat
    queenmomcat Member Posts: 3,039
    edited November 2017

    Jeenee: yep, tests'll do that to you, both winding up for them and calming down/recovering afterwards. Lovely work!

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Tappermom383
    Tappermom383 Member Posts: 643
    edited November 2017

    I’m interested that you have an Asus, Bluebird, as a young man at Best Buy recommended one to me (I need a new laptop as my current one is driving me crazy!). I don’t know anything about the brand so delayed my decision. I assume you’ve had good luck with it?

    MJ

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • queenmomcat
    queenmomcat Member Posts: 3,039
    edited November 2017

    Tapper/Bluebird/Sassy: if it's any help, one of my teachers this semester (GIS, mapping, WebDev) set up his classroom/lab with ASUS whatever the plural is, for student use and for his own use as live chat/video learning for the distance learner students.

    ....did that even make sense? A teacher who works in the tech end of things likes them. A lot.

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Loveroflife
    Loveroflife Member Posts: 5,563
    edited November 2017

    image

    image

    Is DH spoiling you with an opera and a romantic dinner?

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Loveroflife
    Loveroflife Member Posts: 5,563
    edited November 2017

    Oh Jeenee, sorry about the abdominal discomfort and the anxiety of the upcoming liver biopsy. Finger crossed and big hugs.

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Loveroflife
    Loveroflife Member Posts: 5,563
    edited November 2017

    Mia...the girl loves to have herpictures taken. If she sees a camera she will start smiling. I worry about this niece of mine.

    image

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • queenmomcat
    queenmomcat Member Posts: 3,039
    edited November 2017

    Lover: AWWWW, thanks! Opera and dinner, yes, but not on my actual birthday--remember, I'm the one that spreads the fun out over several days. Opera last Sunday--Die Walkurie Lemon Bundt cake (and just one humongous candle) today with my in-laws in Vermont. Presents Monday when the mail arrives. Lovely dinner sometime in January.

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Smaarty
    Smaarty Member Posts: 2,951
    edited November 2017

    image for queening! We’re you a hippy kind of gal, back when?


    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Smaarty
    Smaarty Member Posts: 2,951
    edited November 2017

    new baby in the family. This is last grandchild for my sister. Her oldest finally had a kid! He’s 41. Harrison was born Wednesday, came in a whopper! 9-1, 21”.

    image

    Lover, your niece is a cutie.

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • feelingfeline
    feelingfeline Member Posts: 5,664
    edited November 2017

    Baby photos are gorgeous!


    Happy Birthday Queenmomcat

    image

    image

    image

    image


    image

    image

    image

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • queenmomcat
    queenmomcat Member Posts: 3,039
    edited November 2017

    Feline: (snickers) I particularly like the "grumpy cat" and the 'one step closer' pictures. Thanks.

    Smaarty: I came in a bit after the hippie phase had faded throughout more conventional parts of the United States, though I did grow up within spitting distance of the Haight-Ashbury, where it never really went away. Love the image.

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 19,603
    edited November 2017

    Queenie, so we could say Happy Birthday most of the time and not get it wrong? sounds good a :)

    The a letter stopped working the other night. my IT service worked on it a couple of hours in the wee hours of the morning. He had to have me help by pushing the letters. Which meant staying up with him. The fella had me take the a key off and clean it. In putting back together one of the little white plastic pieces flipped over my shoulder. He wanted me to get on my hands and knees to find it. My knee caps are fine except when i directly kneel on them. Particularly on ceramic. Plus, the piece was essentially the same color as the floor. It'd be like finding a lost needle in the OR. No, I wasn't doing it. That meant going back to the on screen keyboard which of course started floating and getting over the top of where I was writing. Inexplicably, it started to work last night.

    But I am getting a new computer, but I am going to follow your's and Marj's advice. I will go back and cut and paste your question's then you possibly can cut and paste your answers. then back and forth. Maybe.

    I'm intrigued by the anuos (sic). bbut Mari had worked up some suggestions when I had trouble a while ago, bbut I have to go back and find them.

    My timetable is flexible, I'd rather get something that won't frustrate me like this one has.

    Security is a big issue. I understand MAC has better security. MY IT service won't service MAC's. But my fear then is I get into a problem and then what do I do. Bench fees for fixing a computer here start at 90$

    posting to save

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • marijen
    marijen Member Posts: 3,731
    edited November 2017

    Here they are Sas, I don't have a laptop so cannot help you more really.

    See other used & new offers from $620.00

    $599.99

    $829.00

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 19,603
    edited November 2017

    Smarrty, congrats on the new baby grand nephew , so cute. Nice weight and size. Steve was in that range, as soon as I heard the weight, ai gave a prayer of thanks it, was a C-section.

    Loverly, cute pictures of Ami. Love her hair and dress too!......... Would you mind finding that discussion on melatonin a number of pages back. ai want to do a thread on melatonin.

    One........I need your help on the laser thread. :) if you are up for it.

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 19,603
    edited November 2017

    Sassy's computer search.

    1. Laptop only---tough as nails.

    2. Use: Only internet searching, BCO, f, email----no gaming, no word perfect

    3. Security: Would unit need an outside security coverage. I have AVG at present. They are getting expensive b/c it's not a comprehensive package. Would new unit need an extra VPN coverage package. It seems companies want from 50 -100 $ for the upper level security. AVG's is 99$/yr over the 50$/yr I pay already. I'm really concerned about hacking. VPN then becomes a very important piece of the puzzle.

    4. IT service: Would the new computer be able to be serviced by an outside company? Hit multiple times by viruses over the years which the IT company was always able to fix. Their cost is 300$ for two years. Is there a better way to do it?

    5. Audio: oh vey, audio. I've had Gateway, Dell, Hp. None have loud enough audio. Is there an audio enhancer for the deaf?

    6. What operating system? Is windows 11 ready now? Should I wait until 11.2 comes out?

    7. Skyping and such not done now , but may want it if the kids get prego?

    8. wifi

    9. 360 rotation: Nice an convenient, but then I can't hear the audio :(

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • queenmomcat
    queenmomcat Member Posts: 3,039
    edited November 2017

    Sassy: a) yes, you can wish me happy birthday whenever you like

    b) The second computer mentioned above (business Dell) might do for you. Laptops don't have as much flexibility as desktops in this regards upgrading sound; is your issue volume rather than sound quality? Can you stand wearing headphones? (I've always preferred that, and my hearing's good enough to be getting on with.) On a side note, several of my friends/family members have ended up getting hearing aids, and wrestle with their computers.

    As for Windows 11, I'm not sure what Microsoft's plans are in regards the whole 'nother/next version. 10 looks to be around for long enough to just go ahead and get a new computer now, since this one's making you crazy right now. Let me ask around about VPNs; I still need to do that.

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited November 2017

    Someone asked last week which drug I am taking for the sleep, anxiety, sadness, cough reflex. It's called amitriptyline hcl 25 mg. Sas found it in The Voice Doctor info for cough reflex.

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 19,603
    edited November 2017

    Bluebird, Honey been like dying to know what you were taking, cuz you didn't say it was the amitriptyline. This is very important if it works for you. We should do a whole thread on the science thread. Especially, b/c of the Connective Tissue disorder, either or and, b/c of lupus /scleroderma. You knew what to take and study and your doc proceeded to give you a treatment that made the situation very bad. You can cut and paste your story and how you know what drugs to take.

    Then when I found a possible solution you knew how to evaluate the drug against your connective tissue disorder. Not asking you to write anything tonight. But I'm in a go mode. I will write the box and bring back the link Or maybe not.

    Perhaps it's best in the side effect thread. Hmmm that takes some thinking. They only allow for so many letters in a topic header.

    Okay, voice doc recommended starting at 10mg and work up. What did you start on? Tell the story with the doc? Did you take in the Voice doc's protocol? I'm excited. It's like Thorazine for hiccups.

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 19,603
    edited November 2017

    Blue, when you said later on you had pneumonitis, obviously, that was a concern and I didn't catch you had that dx., but cough can be a manifestation of that too. Anyways deliriously happy, that you are finding something that helped. AND I was sad it wasn't the amitriptyline. I was so curious with the Voice Dr.'s recipe approach, I really wanted to see if it worked. It is working YAY whopper. Can I write the voice doc? Or do you want too?

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 19,603
    edited November 2017

    Queenie,thanks. Does a business dell come in a laptop and have 360 rotation? I guess I will have to consider headphones. I was trying to do avoidance. Bo they have headphones designed to pick up TV as well as computer? Can I do it as a universal thing?

    I've never met anyone that had n easy time with hearing aides.

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Categories