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Hope you feel better soon Kristi! We have dreary rainy weather today but that's better than snow! Jewel, congrats to Jake. Think of all the packing as exercise! Good luck on the move!

Linda, I am so sorry for your loss, heartbreaking.

First of, HAPPY BIRTHDAY Eva!!!! and also to Apples DH!! Linda, so sorry to hear of your brother. Can you try to get out there and see him before he passes to say good bye? Hugs to you. DD just called and I am going to do my first babysitting! She is going back to work this weekend and therefore works on Sat the 30th. We were going to be going to Denver that day anyway for my Grandma's 102nd birthday on the first so she asked if I wanted to babysit on Sat. as her DH has a class he is taking that day. So I jumped on it, it will just be from 8am til noon. Regarding the few who said to get a 2nd opinion on my neck/throat thing, this was my 2nd opinion. I feel confident in the dr, he used to practice at the Huntsman Cancer Institute, etc. So I am going to go with the 4 weeks of Prilosec and follow up with him next month. I had just never heard of this type of reflux but did some googling, it's also called Silent reflux sometimes I discovered. Melissa, good luck on the job interviews. meat cutting sounds like hard work. My DFIL is a retired butcher, lifting and moving those sides of beef around. Janet, glad the vertigo seems to be improving some. I can't imagine feeling dizzy all the time. Laura, poor Nelson with the ball hitting him. So much for conquering that fear or did it help anyway? maybe now that it happened and he survived he'll be okay?? I always hated it when my son wanted to play catcher, he was so tall and couldn't scrunch down far and got hit easily.

Forgot to ask Linda just saw the tornado damage in Iowa on the news is that by you?

Still can't find the font when posting from iPad. Phyl, any idea? I know you have one and are techy. Eva, thanks for asking, the grandbaby is good. She went to the dr and went from 6 lbs 7 oz to 8 lbs 3 oz in three weeks. Sheds having some troubles nursing so may switch to formula. She's six weeks old already. I went to the dr today for a weird throat neck issue i am having. The ENT dr thinks it could be something called phyangeal (sp) acid reflux. I have no other symptoms like heartburn, taste in my mouth, etc but the back of my larynx is a little irritated. Laura or Phyl any ideas have you heard of this? I don't feel too tight or anything. I see my lap band dr in Denver on May 3 so will mention it to him as well. I am to take Prilosec twice a day aforementioned four weeks and go back. I also have an inflamed or benign lymph node that hurts. He said it was very confident it was nothing like a growth or anything.

Good morning! At least it stopped snowing and the sun is shining. Think it might hit 60 today. DH is glad he fertilized before all this moisture hit so hopefully we'll have a green lawn soon. Arlene, I can post from my IPad but can't figure out how to get my font and color. So when you don't see my color you know I was on my Ipad. LOL If you figure that part out let me know. Oh and I think Linda said her bro was 62. Apples, good to see you posting. Get concerned when you vanish. HOpe the family issues are soon over. Eva, bet your cushions are going to be so nice!

Great pics of Laura and Meredith! Thanks for sharing. Meredith, you have such a tiny waist.

Welcome Merrimish, my guess is that it is from being too tight or swollen after surgery. As you heal the swelling should go down and that go away, but to be sure you might want to call you dr and ask. Good afternoon, well it stopped snowing so hopefully we will get some spring finally. I am very excited, DH & I booked our vacation yesterday. We are going on an Eastern Mediterranean cruise next month. Last year we went on a Western and enjoyed it so much so looking very forward to it. It leaves from Venice, Italy and goes to 2 places in Croatia, Izmir, Turkey, and Athens, Greece. We are going a day ahead and spending a day in Venice, it's been a dream of mine to ride a gondoloa. Told DH he had to seranade me. LOL He looked at me and with no thought at all said he had the song already, a country song, called something like Woman, you don't treat me no good no more or something like that and then he cracked up laughing. LOL We saw this cruise a week ago and then I didn't book it as this week was so hectic and when I looked yesterday it went down in price so I jumped on it. Apples, miss ya, I've been gone awhile from the boards but haven't seen you post for awhile. Hope all is well. Janet, hope that vertigo clears up, is it affecting your exercise? Do you get nauseous? Eva, wanna do my lawn chairs? We have some that the hailstorm last May in Denver on our moving day destroyed. The insurance totalled them out and gave us money for them, but DH has it in his head he is going to restrap them, but there they sit in the meantime. They were so comfortable he doesn't want to get rid of them. I got a kick out of you saying it was too cold for sandals the other day. When I was in WI it got to the 50's and shorts and sandals were out everywhere. LOL Arlene, soon you will have to color all those eggs you are boiling for Easter. LOL

Greetings! Well I think I am home for a bit now. My house looks very neglected so guess I know what I'll be doing with my time this week. Got laundry going now. I am having a hard time typing my fingers are frozen. DH wanted to organize the freezers in the garage. Number 1 it is freezing out there (snowing outside and freezers are in garage) plus handling all that cold stuff. We tend to buy stuff and put it on top so we needed to get the bottom stuff moved to the top and also see just what we have. He also wanted to see how much of his game meat he actually had left, therefore, that he needs to eat by summer so he can replenish. LOL He has very little left so that is good. We bought a bunch of filets for me at costco so we grill a lot and I have one of those and he has his deer or elk. I also got laundry going and we just got home from Target and buying a 'pack and play' so we have a place for DGB to sleep when she comes to visit. DD is trying to work out a time to come visit but she wants to come while DH is home and he's travelling a lot. Our weather is awful. Here I carried a coat the whole time in Wisconsin and never wore it until I got off the plane in Utah yesterday. We have a huge snow coming down, by huge the big white puffy flakes, but they aren't sticking much. Last weekend we were sitting on the patio. GRRRR I am very behind in reading posts, but sounds like we have lots of vertigo going on. HOpe that all clears up. Is it caused by a virus or something? Regarding plastic surgery, I've heard of people that are never satisfied. I suppose that comes from poor self esteem as well and thinking if only my butt were different, or if only my tummy, etc. yet just like anything else, when you get it, it's not enough, etc. I hope Arlene's friend can be happy. If I could or would do anything it would be my legs. Linda, I hope your brother is doing better. Last I remember he wasn't well.

Just an update, thanks for the layover offers but we finally got on an hour delayed flight and am in flight now headed home. Gosh even if I had tons of money not sure I'd get that much plastic surgery not saying I'd never get any but that seems excessive to me any way. But if that's what she nneds to be happy then go for it as long as it does make her happy.

Here I sit stranded in Minnesot-tah, ya you betcha! Lol. Having troubles getting home. Most of the time my free, standby flight benefits are great but once in a while it's a real challenge. We got to the airport at 0-dark thirty this morning only to not get on. The flight filled up, no problem, the next one was wide open. That is until it had a mechanical and cancelled. Our choices now were very slim as all the cancelled people would be trying for the later flights in front of us. So rather than sit and wait for four and a half hours for the next flight we opted to rent a car and drive to MSP for three hours. Only to get here and have this flight full. We have two more shots or I might be shopping at the mall tonight. I'm exhausted too. This trip has turned very costly but I am very glad I came. It was good to see my aunt and cousins and pay my respects but also to reconnect with my roots. I've been reading, okay, skimming trying to keep up. Sounds like I missed an interesting show on dr oz, though I generally don't like to watch those shows, Oprah, him, Dr Phil, etc.

Good evening from Wisconsin. Just have time for a quick checking. Just got home from my cousins house and saw family I hadn't seen in over 20 years. I am so glad I came. Family is hanging in there but tomorrow will be tough the funeral and all. Trying to read and keep up but a, falling behind here. Will be back soon.

Hi there, this is a quick check in from Denver. Sorry I've been a bad board buddy this week just not much time to post but trying to keep up reading. I came to Denver today to see grandma and grand baby. Tomorrow it's surgeon (also happens to be my lapband doc) with DD to see about her gall bladder. He usually only does bariatrics but he's seeing het because she's my daughter which I thought was awesome. I fly home tomorrow afternoon. Then on wednesday am leaving for Wisconsin for my uncles funeral. He died yesterday. My parents aren't even going. Some other stuff going on that I don't care to mention but have been under lots of stress. Also got my first ever stye in my eye it was awful. I will be back more regular soon. In the mean time I miss you and sorry I haven't kept up on responding individually.