[January]

((((( Liz )))))

I'm so sorry you are sick and I hope you feel better very soon. Coricidin Flu HBP helps me a lot. It's in a red box. Try it if you can.

[Kiya]

Liz, I'm sorry you are so sick! I don't know about melatonin… It is activating for me but certainly worth a try. Or you could get Valerian root capsules or tea. Smells terrible but works pretty well. I hope you feel better soon!

[Kiya]

I am pretty much recovered from my fall, but thank you. I think I am also recovered from the fatigue. I have another day to rest so we will see how Tuesday goes… Traffic it may change my Tuesday plans with literally something like 300,000 to 1,000,000 people in the Pacific Northwest. I will be glad when this is over.
I'm not going anywhere tomorrow- will be able to see it fine from here. We will get something like 97% coverage of the eclipse. More than anything else I am dealing with panic right now.
((((( all ))))))

Ps thank you Gus for the pretty flowers to the wall. I especially like that purple one that looks like a piece of fluff.

[Kiya]

Originally Posted by Gus1234U

I mean this one, not the purple one LOL

[Kiya]

Has anyone seen cake? Can we do a rollcall? I'm getting worried about everyone. Please sound off and check in!

[lizardlady]

Am here!

Haven't heard from Cake and haven't seen any posts from her in any of the other forums.

[cakeladie]

Here not doing to well. Lots of seizures lots of stuttering can't drive so I took my power chair to the bank because my daughter kept screaming at me to put money in her account and since I am not on her account I could not do it over the phone. Pissed off hubby he was mad at our daughter for harresing me and me for taking off in my powerchair because I could have a seizure in the chair. Learned a valueable lesson. My city needs to redo the sidewalks it's a good thing it has a seat belt our I would have been flying out of my seat.

Kiya you had me rolling about your mom. Ativan sure helps.

Jan how didnyour appoint go? I will have to go back and reread these posts

I have been up since 1:25 am thanks to tummy trouble

Liz sorry you are so sick. My other friend who works with kids who never gets sick got pneumonia and is in the hospital. Got to love those kids they can spread germs like you would not believe.

Still no word from Christina? Hope she is ok

Hugs to all

[January]

I am here.

Cake, you really have to do something about not communicating with your daughter. The appt. went well. It's not cancer, so that's a huge relief. I have to go back for further work and also the Dr. told me to go to a few specialists down here to help things. As always, I am a work in progress.

Liz, are you any better? I sure hope so.

Gus, as always, I love the flowers. I like the fluffy one, but I still like the tribble.

I am interested in seeing how Belle reacts to the eclipse today.
I've read that animals sense when it's coming. I don't know about that so we'll see.

Love you all!

[~Christina]

I'm lurking just not really verbal about my pain and tomorrow is 4 weeks and I feel no less rage. I have not searched further for a T. Financial it's just not an option, there are no local support groups for anything like this or even Bipolar..

I hope you all take best care of yourselves.

[January]

Christina, it is so good to hear from you. I'm sorry things are still so bad for you. Can you perhaps find online support to help you? We all love you and if you ever feel the need to talk to someone, I will be glad to listen. You have a right to your feelings, remember that.

The eclipse was not what I expected. Things hardly changed a bit. Belle didn't notice anything.

I have an appt. in the morning with the gastro. Things are so out of control and I've got to get it stopped. Gastro, fibro, Sjogren's and so much more all flaring and out of control at the same time. I wish the Drs would realize the body is one huge organism instead of picking it apart and trying to patch only one part. I am so weak and dizzy. How am I going to drive to the Dr. tomorrow?

[Gus1234U]

i seem to have lost a day,,, don't know where i've been, except sleeping~ missed what there was to see of the eclipse, perfect weather for it, too,,, cloudy with occasional rain...

i'm so glad you's like my flowers, there is so little any of us can really do for each other, except commiserate and console~

[Gus1234U]

ooh, i found the perfect tv show to sleep to~! :x it's a History Channel production called Lost Worlds (2005), about unearthing buildings and speculating on the lives people lived in them.... such things are fascinating to me, so i'll watch it again with my eyes open,,, hahahahah,,, i hope~



(i'm feeling very translucent,,, can you tell ?)

[January]

I would love that show. I so enjoy learning how people lived, what they ate, what they wore, etc.

Gus, what is that beautiful clear flower? It looks amazing!

[cakeladie]

This is really just a rant

My son has autism and mild retardation but he works. No he doesn't work 40 hours a week no he doesn't work 8 hours a day but he works. He only get minuumim wage which isn't a lot and he gets some money from SSA. Rent here is outrageous. A studio apartment is around $2,000 a month who can afford that. what he gets from SSA and work he doesn't even come close to that. Yet I got more paperwork in the mail from SSA asking what type of work does he do etc. it really made me mad because they said I had to have it filled out and returned in 15 days all the way to the east coast wth really. I got the same paperwork last year and his boss and I sat down and filled it out together. I kept a copy so I just needed his earnings from last year to current.

4 days later I got the same type of paperwork for me. I was so mad it wasn't funny. I haven't work but I paid into a long term disability program when I was working and now they think I am working WTH. Luckily I had a letter from the disability company explaining my disability program so I filled out the papers today and I am sending them a copy of that letter and the pay stub injust got in the mail.

I made copies of the blank forms for both me and my son and I am dropping off a set of the forms to the local SSA office and I am mailing a set to the office in Maryland. I also made myself a copy.

I have been doing paperwork for close to 5 hours but here is my thing. I can give them a list of people who is abusing the system yet the people who don't get penalized it's not right nor fair.

I have been so sick lately it's not funny and this just added to my stress and tomorrow I have to go to the rhemy. So inhave to go to the post office, the SSA office then to the rhemy after the rhemy the pharmacy and maybe the bank. I will be dead by the end of the day

[lizardlady]

Originally Posted by Gus1234U

ooh, i found the perfect tv show to sleep to~

Hehe, for me that would be almost any TV show! I frequently miss the end of shows because I nod off watching them!

[Gus1234U]

the "night blooming cereus", a southwestern cactus, is so sweet that it will knock you down....

Jan~ that flower is called a "Skeleton Flower" and is asiatic in locale. it's white until it's touched by water, then it goes all transparent... (kinda like me.)

[Gus1234U]

another one of those History Channel documentaries that i really enjoyed (and learned a lot from), is about the history of the bronze age in the Mediterranean area. i can't seem to find a good commercial-free link, but it's called:
Bronze Age - Rise of Civilization (a 3 part mini-series made in 2016).


this one is seriously distorted, and unbelievable:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcAeCIADlsA

[childofchaos831]

Ouch ouch ouch

Cyatic nerve getting hit something awful today... it's been going for a few days but today is so much worse... I was even debvating cancelling my T appt cuz I didn't feel like getting out of the house from it, and then T ended up needing to cancel, so I guess that works.

[Gus1234U]

[cakeladie]

Gus you would get along great with my hubby who loves the history channel.