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Trev...good news you are safe so far.....has the storm completely receded from you and are you now clearing up after it.
Best wishes and stay safe...
Talking of lost keys I dropped mine down the elevator shaft trying to help someone else.Thought they would be lost forever in that black void.
The building manager gave me new ones and said I would get the old ones back when the elevators were serviced ...our building has three elevators.
Three months later they were returned.
Our weather is changing for the better though cold today it is very sunny...a lovely day for a brisk walk in the fresh air....
Happy Easter to Everyone..
 
I didn't get anything. Except your valuable good wishes....
I should have had a parcel from England from my family airmailed from there the first week of March....a second parcel airmailed a week before mine to friends elsewhere has also failed to reach its destination.No joy from the British post office norCanadian.....whose taking my mail then....very disappointing to say the least...
Winning....
 
Happy Easter (although I've got no idea what Easter is about)!

Glad to see that everyone is okay, especially Trev :D

Stay safe everyone ^^
 
CYY,

I hope you are well. We need to make cool projects and trade them. I'll make something robotic, you too and we trade. That would be fun.We need to start thinking of ideas. Soon after you school is out.
 
CYY..Easter is a Christian festival for those who believe.Jesus was crucified and rose again to join God the Father in Heaven.It's been pointed out to me,by a poster from the past, that I'm not a Christian,and I'm not,in the true sense of the word.
Mostly Easter is like Christmas, a time to over indulge and over spend.
Never the less,I wish you all Happy Easter, good / better health, peace,contenrment and love, whatever faith you follow,if any.
 
Hope everyone stays safe and well over Easter , hope you are doing well Trev after the bad weather , ye really are having a bad time of it down there .
 
I was really looking forward to going to the waterfront today for a nice walk. But I seemed to have sprained my ankle (I can't believe I did that while trying to get pants on 😂😂). So I'm stuck at home! How is everyone doing?
 
To be...or Not to be....that is the question..
Whether ''tis nobler in the mind
To seek the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune..
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing..end them.
Shakespeare....Hamlet
 
Howdy peeps...
Hope to find you all good today. If not i hope you feel better soon 💕
Im having my grandson today. So could well be a bit frazzled by the end of the day ☺.
Take care everyone 💕💕
 
Supposed to be sofa hunting in the sales today, but not sure I'm up to the madding crowds.There's a few hundreds pounds to save,but even that doesn't encourage me.
Have a lovely peaceful day all of you, especially you Mandy. You know you love it really.
 
The insurance agent called today. Told my mum that all the paperwork for my previous hospitalisations and consultations have been cleared by the insurance company. The only thing that wasn't approved was my Modulen and the MTX. They couldn't see why my being on a "leukaemia drug" and some expensive milk powder had anything to do with my Crohn's. Funny how my parents have to end up paying for the two most costly things for my treatment. Looks like I'll need to go ask my GI doc and the dietitian for an official memo explaining what CD is exactly about. Humph!
(´・Д・)」
 
CYY, when I was on EEN (Vivonex), my insurance wouldn't pay for it either. I had to pay out of pocket, and it was $624 for a 2 week supply! Eek! My mom said she'd help me out financially, and she sent me a check for the full $624. That was so nice of her. But when I went to the bank to deposit the check, I went back out to my car to leave - and my car wouldn't start. :( Ugh. That was a $400+ repair. That was a really expensive time for me. I hope your doctor can straighten things out with the insurance company.

Madhu, I can relate, I'm quite klutzy. I once sprained my ankle by walking down the stairs wrong. You know when you think you're at the bottom but there's actually one more step so you sort of step very awkwardly? I did that and sprained my ankle. Not fun! I hope you heal up soon!

Whether you're religious or you're just in it for the chocolate (I'm the latter!), happy easter everybody! And remember, tomorrow is a holiday too - it's discount chocolate day! :D
 
Wow, took me all afternoon but I finally caught up on reading what I have missed. Whew! (Word to the wise, don't get addicted to stupid internet games with timed deadlines and virtual rewards. It's a good thing I don't drink, I definitely have addictive tendencies. I deleted the game today.) But I'm b-a-c-k! (Tho do have my mom with us starting tomorrow for about a week and half, off and on, more on. Tell about it later)
The rest of post a bit splotchy, not time to say everything I want to. I really missed you all though. (Doug offered to read me posts sometimes, but I told him I was saving LOW for "dessert".)
I'm glad it worked out. It sounds really cool. Only a crohnie could appreciate a toilet so much hey. :ytongue: Thanks for being such a good friend.
Non crohnies can appreciate it too! Our former foster daughter plugged up our toilet every time we turned around (as well as normal things, we found out from a plumber she put EVERYTHING down it including hair clips and batteries), as well as ruining a washing machine by similar things from pockets overworking the motor. I won't mention the one time I found a ring of poo caught in the rubber gasket around the door of the front loading washer (she had bathroom "issues" when she didn't get her way), when I couldn't figure out why clothes were coming out smelly. I about had a heart attack! She was never allowed to use the washer again without supervision (foster care rules - state rules - precluded us from prohibiting her from using household things others had access to), then had to do her laundry at a laundromat after we went thru "human rights" committee that finally got her banned from using it altogether. (For a time anyways, but that is another story, and partly why we stopped foster care, as well as health issues.) Bottom line, we ended up with a new toilet that, and altho doesn't use more water, flushes thru much more forcefully, and a new washing machine. Kids are expensive! (I won't go into the damage Oto did to property.) (And oh, I want a bidet soooooo much!)
Trev, so glad you are safe after the cyclone.
Trysha, hope your scans come back ok.
CYY, I have a "bump" that is starting to have me a little worried too, especially when it appeared after a couple of especially bad D days. No discharge, tho, and I know it's not "hemmies," a little further away.

I'm hanging out with my other dog, Meika. She is missing a friend too. We are in good company. :)
I'm so sorry about your other dog! Broke my heart when Doug told me about it. (Hadn't read anything on LOW in ages, even before last couple posts of mine, but Doug had kept me updated on some things.) Allie is a dog we got after a previous dog had to be put down. Luigi (the dog we still had) was so lonely we got our dog a dog (Allie). When Luigi passed, Allie was fine as she seems to prefer people to dogs.
Mandy, I hope all goes (went) smoothly and peacefully with grandson.
Carol, I hope you feel better and soon. Being not well is not for sissies, is it? (I know all of you can relate.)
Allie's shots are not in joint, just subcutaneous, and I can do them. They seem to help, but now she has a urinary tract infectionand on antibiotics as well. Pictures of Doug in water coming soon.
If I did not mention you, it's not that I don't care about you. I think the world of all here.
(I'm doing better than have in long time, graduated from PT a few days ago! Helped a LOT! Now, have to keep it up. ☺)
 
Wow what a weekend, my kids came to visit, left this morning then my sister paid a visit, it was really nice to see them all but so tiring, will take me a couple of days to recuperate, i only ate to marshmallow easter eggs, how good was that, i hopd everyone is having a great easter and behaving the selves.
 
Trev,


I think you enjoyed the company but couldn't keep pace. I have been there(overdoing things) That's OK, now hopefully, you get a rest.


You know I'll misbehave. ;)

All the best.
 
I went to a pulmonary hypertension support group last Saturday, and the main presenter talked extensively about conserving energy. Its hard when people you really care about are involved though. Sometimes you just have to say no, send people home early etc. I hope my mother's visit this next weekI can follow my own advice and not let her place too many demands on me and I can take my needed rests. (The good thing is she doesn't have much energy either. But she can be demanding of others.)
 
Nice to see you,to see you nice,Sandy.I knew you were OK (ish) or Doug would have told us.
Didn't get sofas yesterday.All shops closed,except MacDonalds,of course.So thankyou for being there McDs.Not for the food,for the toilets.
I was in a right old fettle.I wasn't well,it was cold and the shops were closed.The good thing was there was loads of spaces in the parking lot.
It WILL be busy today,so sofas will have to wait.Going on the bikes soon.
 
Carol, when we were in Japan, we went to McDonald's a lot too - and like you, it was just for the toilets, not the food. They had reliably good and clean (and non squat) toilets with actual soap in the bathroom - oddly enough, many Japanese bathrooms, particularly in busy places like the train stations, didn't have soap in the bathrooms! We started carrying our own soap because it seemed to be a rare commodity there.

Sandy, so glad you're back! And that's great that you graduated PT, I know I felt really good when I got to graduate PT (for my hip arthritis) and I agree that it helped me feel a lot better too. Definitely do make the effort to keep up with your exercises, it's been about 6 years for me since I graduated PT and I've kept up with my exercises (not daily but frequently) and my hips still feel pretty good most of the time. It's very worthwhile.

I hope your mother isn't too stressful on you. I know firsthand that dementia can be really draining even if you're having a nice conversation - I have to repeat the same thing to my grandma 20 or 30 times and even then she still doesn't remember it. Take care of yourself and make sure to get some time away from her during her visit.

Bidet sprayers can be quite affordable! Mine was in the $40ish range on amazon (I got mine a couple years ago so they don't make that exact same one anymore, but I'm sure if you do some searching you can find an affordable one). I love mine and hubby said it was quite easy to hook up. The fancier the options, the more expensive it gets. I'd love one with a heated seat and warm water sprayer, but those start at like $300 which isn't exactly affordable. Mine is just a simple fresh water sprayer but it does the job and I really like it. I think it saves me money in the long run, too, because I'm sure I'm using less toilet paper because of the bidet sprayer.
 
I sure would love a bidet sprayer at the minimum, but alas, we would have to do some rewiring in the bathroom and we can't keep up with all the electrical work that needs to be done in our house as it is. Our house was built in 1968 and code at the time for building allowed for aluminum wiring. The builder with cheap and used it. It has been a nightmare. We are always having new electrical problems in our house and want to get it rewired entirely someday. I'm really afraid of the place burning down because of the problems. (Aluminum wiring tends to jiggle and become loose over time in light sockets and plugs, etc. On top of that the builder had his son put in plugs and he put them in all upside down. We are not the only house in the neighborhood with this problem.)
Carol, I sure wish you felt better. I really am doing a lot better physically. That doesn't mean I don't have my migraine and tummy problems myself, and my heart still races occasionally, but not as much, but I sure have a lot more stamina. This week will be interesting and testing with my mother here though. Speaking of which, I have to go finish getting her room ready and then go pick her up from the airport. The airport is going to wheel her out in a wheelchair to me and is aware of her problems. Thank goodness my little sister is on top of things and takes good care of her. Cat, I don't think her dementia is as bad as your grandmother's yet, but well on the way. In my mother's case she doesn't ask me to repeat things, but I have to, she just says you know I can't remember anything when I say I told her something before (doesn't seem to care). She also tells me a zillion times how big the sky is out there (no mountains to speak of to block the horizon) and always tells me she doesn't know why she is alive still because she feels like she is finished with everything she needs to do in life. Kind of breaks the heart. I tell her it is because some people need her around whether she feels like she needs to be here or not. I do wish she had more peace though. She also tells me several times each conversation how much she does not like the taste of the water there and how they have to use bottled water. But she can never tell me what she did that day, who she has talked to from family or friends, etc. and remember some of her grandchildren anymore . Well, I better get back to getting her room ready so I can go pick her up at the airport. Talk to you all later.
 
I had to take (another) break. I've been moving boxes out of the "craft" room. We need a four-bedroom house, one for us, one for the office (that is all set up with overflow from my crafts), one for crafts, and the guest room. You would think that two people would fit in a 3-bedroom house, time for a garage sale. Or for the house to burn down.:D
 
Deep breathes Sandy.It's not forever.You must put yourself first during your mom's visit.
Not easy I know,but do-able.x
 
Ok I am not sure I understand this game but I love playing with yaall it keeps my mind off my pain. Going for procedures at Tampa clinic wed thru the week yay! I think. Hope everyone is feeling as good as possible💜So do I win now?
 
Mmm Sandy sounds like its a 4 bed house or a shed ☺. Probably cheaper than a house 😃

Take it easy young lady ya hear 💕💕
 
My mother just can't see my house like this! It's my mother for Pete's sake! Aaarrrghhh. I tried to do it Saturday but my brain was fried and I had to stop. Doug was there and ready for when I needed boxes moved then, but the boxes were not ready. Of course, he's at work today. Aaarrrghhh, aaarrrghhh, aaarrrghhh.
(See I told you all I was back. ;) )
 
:cool2:Juulez, you won for a second or two. ;-). Nice to have you here. Stick around, Anything Goes. You can gripe, tell fun events going on in your life, or just say I win. We all care about each other here though.
 
Ok I am not sure I understand this game but I love playing with yaall it keeps my mind off my pain. Going for procedures at Tampa clinic wed thru the week yay! I think. Hope everyone is feeling as good as possible💜So do I win now?
Sending support and prayers.😁
 
Indeed we do juulez...glad to see you joining whats also know as the mad house 😆..

Sandy you know id be there to help you but for that darn large pond that keeps us apart hun. :hug:
 
Sandy, that's a little sad about your mother feeling like she's done everything she wanted to and is ready to go. I think my grandma feels similarly, ever since my grandpa died she's been wanting to join him. Some days she's downright belligerent about it, and threatens suicide. Other days she's mostly happy but still misses him a lot and doesn't really understand how her life became what it is now (she doesn't understand why we put her in a memory care facility - unlike your mother, my grandma mostly fails to grasp the fact that she can't remember anything - she feels like her mind is just fine, which unfortunately is another symptom of Alzheimer's). I hope your cleaning goes okay, that sounds really stressful already and she's not even there yet!

Juulez, yes, you won - for a short time! The last person to post wins, so right now I win, until somebody else posts, and then they win, and so on. So we all take turns at winning and we all just share whatever's going on in our lives too.
 
Sandy, I meant to add from earlier - about you needing a larger house, I feel your pain. It's just me and the hubby and the pets (one dog, one cat, and 2 gerbils) and we also have a 3-bedroom house. Sometimes it does feel like it's not enough! We've tried making some of the rooms multi-purpose and that's worked out pretty well. Like, our guest bedroom is also the home gym, so there's a futon and a dresser and a TV in there but also a weight bench and a treadmill and a stationary bike. :p I figure, our guests can't be too picky, if you want to stay over at my house then you're sleeping on a futon that's right next to a treadmill, and if you don't like it then go stay at a hotel. (Maybe I'm just mean though!) And the craft room also doubles as the pets' room except for the dog. We've got a baby gate on the door to that room with a small cat-sized hole cut in it, so the cat can get in but the dog can't fit through. The cat's food, water, and litterbox are all in that room, so the dog can't get in and steal the cat's food or poo (gross but I know it'd happen if she had the opportunity!). And my gerbils' cage is also in that room. So yeah, we kinda sorta make it work. But it still does feel cramped sometimes and really it is just the two of us!
 
Don't worry folks. I found a break in my work day and ran home. Sandy was picking her mom up at the airport. I was able to hide away several of the boxes in the garage and the basement. When I get home from work I will get to move the futon from the basement to the guest room / Craft room, etc.... Sandy is not in this alone. But she probably feels like it right now.
 
Sandy....take it easy.....don't be so hard on yourself...hope your mothers visit goes well and that you will not get too tired...your health must come first...and thank you for your kind thoughts..
Carol....hope you are feeling better...too bad that your furniture shopping was not a success...better luck next time.
Trev...good that you enjoyed your Easter company...go easy on the marshmallows....
Julie.... welcome to a different experience in these pages.....looking forward to your company...
Mandy...good to see you survived the baby sitting...
Doug...good you were able to do the mad dash home to help with chores etc
Everyone else hope you are doing as well as can be expected.
Today I saw the urologist who tells me I have some small stones in the right kidney..he also wants to do a cystoscopy,but cannot do a CAT scan with contrast because of the level of renal failure that I have.Scope booked for May 5-----never a dull moment....I hate those
things.All these things happening just as I am beginning to feel so much better.C'est la vie!
Winning....
 
You are old father William...the young man said
And your hair has become very white
And yet you incessantly stand on your head
Do you think at your age it is right.
In my youth Father William replied to his son
I feared it might injure the brain
But now I am perfectly sure I have none
Why..I do it again and again...
Alice in Wonderland...Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll was the pseudonym for Charles Dodgson who lectured in Maths at Oxford.
Best know for Alice in Wonderland and Alice through the Looking Glass...he also wrote popular poems including Jabberwocky and Hunting of the Snark,short stories and books on logic. In addition he created games and puzzles to help explain principles of logic.
 
Hey all,

I'm a Scot, Irish and English.

This resonates with me.

“a nod’s as guid as a wink tae a blind horse,” ........(meaning, explain yourself properly, and make your meaning crystal clear.)

Just thought I'd share.
 
Tee hee, I'm a great Dane!
Trysha, I had Jabberwocky memorized for a long time, can still recite most of it. I'm a huge Lewis Carol fan in oh-so many ways.
 
This is for those of us of a certain age,but your time will come you youngsters so take heed.
There is nothing the matter with me
I'm as healthy as can be
I have arthritis in both my knees
And when I talk-I talk with a wheeze.
My pulse is weak and my blood is thin.But I'm awfully well for the shape I'm in.
Arch supports I have for my feet or I wouldn't be able to go out on the street.
Sleep is denied me night after night
But every morning I find I'm all right.
My memory is failing,my heads in a spin.But I'm awfully well for the shape I'm in.
How do I know that my youth is all spent?
Well "my get up and go" has got up and went.
But I really don't mind when I think with a grin,of all the grand places my get-up has bin
Old age is golden I've heard it said but sometimes I wonder as I get into bed.
With my ears in a drawer and my teeth in a cup,my specs on the table until I get up.
When I was young my slippers were red,I could kick my heels right over my head.
When I was older my slippers were blue,but I still could dance the whole night through.
Now I am old my slippers are black,I walk to the shop and puff my way back.
Get up each morning and dust off my wits and pick up the paper to read the Obits'
If my name is still missing I know I'm not dead.......
And so I have my breakfast and go back to bed.:hallo3:
 
Hi Madhu ☺ how are you hun ? . The little buddha is doing fine thanks . He is here now fast asleep... its my sons birthday today and they are going for a meal. So im babysitting for a few hours. I cant belive the baba will be one in 6 weeks.😮
Hope you and hubby are well 💞
 
Hi Madhu ☺ how are you hun ? . The little buddha is doing fine thanks . He is here now fast asleep... its my sons birthday today and they are going for a meal. So im babysitting for a few hours. I cant belive the baba will be one in 6 weeks.😮
Hope you and hubby are well 💞
We're good. One is such a fun age. Glad to see you're enjoying :)
 
I have to add I think it's hard. I can't get mom to do anything if it is not her idea and what she wants to do. She wet her pants right away and refused to change (let alone shower) all day yesterday, insisted last night her bed be ready "right now" (we were working on it furiously for awhile and it was then about 7:30 pm, she thought out was 11:30 pm) then wouldn't go to bed for several hours afterward (long story, futon didn't work, she's on a queen sized air mattress, but she's quite comfortable), this morning insisted on going with me to small local grocery store for two items I forgot before she arrived, refused to use electric cart they provide (she can barely walk) so what would have been five minute trip took hour and I barely made it back in time for small half hour appt I had with a couple ladies from my church (she's fine being left alone as long as she is fed, etc., doesn't wander.) I have a LOT more similar stories, of course she's not well oriented on time, etc., but carries her kindle around so she can have time and date in front of her, but still constantly asking what day it is, repeats herself on everything constantly. Brought up again she doesn't know why she is still alive. ~sigh~. It didn't help this afternoon we had surprise visitor, Doug's cousin from Idaho drop in unexpectedly for an hour or so on the way to Salt Lake. Small migraine tonight but a lot better with diet coke and ibuprofen, both of which I'm not supposed to have. Yay, Mom went to bed before 10:30 tonight.
Tomorrow I get to drag her with me to my cardiologist's office while I get a heart monitor put on again, for a month, but I promise I'm actually better in that department (as far as I can tell), just checking because I've had a couple syncope episodes.
On good news side, mom is getting along with Allie and I think actually enjoys her at times. And there have been a few good visit times between everything else. And mom does try to be a good guest, as far as she is able.
Madhu, how is that ankle doing? Mandy, I wish that pond weren't so big. I hope Jaxon was good for you. Carol, are you any better?
Trysha, I'm sorry about the stones too. I hope they're not in an area where they are plugging things and causing pain. I found out when I had a CT scan a year or two ago (due other things) that I had a calcification in my kidney (ie stone) and that they don't cause pain and was told they don't worry about them unless they are plugging the renal ducts, I think it was. Of course, mine was only one, but I'm hoping yours will be similarly of benign consequence.
Well, better go. Getting late. Hugs to all.
 
Just came back from my appointment with my GI doc. The bloodwork results came back today, and they were all improving. My liver function is normal, so that means I'm tolerating the MTX well. Haemoglobin and white blood cell counts are in the normal range. CRP and ESR are still a bit on the high side, but they have decreased by quite a bit. Fecal Calprotectin puts me in the 200-300 range, although it's still considered elevated, I think it's already a huge improvement from my initial result of 949. The GI doc wants to keep me on MTX for the next few years to come, and he thinks that if I continue to improve at this rate, I should land myself in clinical remission in about 3-4 months' time. Hooray! \(^∇^)/
 
So happy that things are improving that well CYY! I hope you feel better with the improvement, and that the improvement just multiplies and multiplies. ☺☺☺
 
CYY,I hope you can begin to enjoy life as you deserve.You're a valuable part of this forum
and we're all privilaged (spell.?) to have you here.But of course we wish you didn't need to be here at all.
Sandy,I'm fine thank you,much better than you are that's for sure.But that's not hard,is it.hahaha.
Trysha,I'm really sorry to hear about your new problems.Honestly,you couldn't make it up could you.?.... The rest of you,just because I'm being quiet doesn't mean I'm not keeping a beady eye on you all.Not the girls of course,they're perfect.
 
CYY, that's fantastic! I hope you can have a nice, long remission and get back to the business of being a normal teenager.

Sandy, that does sound challenging. Your mom does sound like she's a bit better off than my grandma if she doesn't wander - my grandma does wander and was doing that behavior even when my grandpa was still alive. We're not sure how long that was going on, we only found out about it after my grandpa died. In their condo complex, my grandma would apparently go wandering perhaps as often as a few times per week, but when my grandpa was alive, he'd call the office at their condo complex and tell them that my grandma was out wandering, and they'd go out and find her and bring her back to my grandparents' condo. My grandpa never told any of us that this was going on, so we don't know how long this was happening. After my grandpa died, of course my grandma would still go wandering, and then there was nobody to call the office, so suddenly a lot of complaints came in about her. She apparently started knocking on random garage doors (not her own) and yelling, "This is my garage, let me in!" Eek. So very quickly the management at the condo complex said she's got to go, she's a nuisance, and we agreed that she needed to be in a care facility. So now she can't wander, thank goodness. But her dementia is really progressing badly. Textbook-wise, she's right at the cusp of being labeled severe Alzheimer's - she's recently started making faces at people which means she's losing her words and eventually will lose the ability to speak altogether. Dementia really sucks.

Anyway. I hope you continue to have some good moments during the visit. I'm sure it's going to be a very challenging time, but to have some good moments with her, that will hopefully make it worthwhile.

Oh, and that's funny you mentioned that your mom carries a kindle everywhere so that she knows the time. My grandma does something similar - she has at least 7 watches, and from what I can tell, at least 5 of them are broken. But she doesn't understand that they are broken, she won't throw them out, and she wants to know the time at all times, too. Last time I visited her, she was wearing 3 of her watches (and all 3 were not working). She constantly asks what the correct time is, checks her many watches, sets the watches, winds them, etc. I'm not sure what the obsession with time is, maybe it's one of the few things that she can still somewhat grasp the concept of?
 
I agree too. My mom isn't too bad yet and she's better when she is caring for me but it's unbelievable the changesrepeating things losing things getting lost. Confusion. Weird. I need to get used to it. Hope everyone is doin well
 
My Entyvio has been approved. I will find out tomorrow whether I will be going to an infusion center or a nurse will come to my house. Also, they found another squamous cell cancer. This time on my jaw.
 
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