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OH! And Slim, if she even thought about hitting me in the belly--------like she did your DH, she would have her wish! She would get 3 hots and a cot--right at the local county jail house. She would NOT raise a hand to me I don't care who the hell she or her son think she is! If it comes to that, I'LL come kick her A$$!! Kat

My MIL has wonderful points and not so wonderful ones!!! Her memory is horrid, but she chooses what she remembers!!! She loves to tell everyone about the day DH and I got married, how she did this and did that. In reality, she was out of town!!! Both sets of parents were out of town and we took advantage and hit the judges chambers!!! That way no ones feelings were hurt! But she remembers it differently! Oh well! She LOVES to comment on my weight. I have issues with that!! I need to eliminate or correct my ticker, but have recently gained some back-------and she has commented on EVERY ounce! She is opinionated, and manipulative-she pouts with the best of them! BUT----if I need anything, she will die trying to be there for me. She loves her kids, and would and has done without to provide for them. She introduces me to anyone and everyone she knows and seems to have pride in doing so--and always talks like I am the DIL from heaven! She is 80+ so I just try to overlook the memory issues, and DH is awesome about standing up for me whenever anything has come up. He will not sit back and allow her to run me over! That said....she is on my SH*T list right now. DS and DIL have split up, and without missing a beat she is siding with DIL, and is trash talking my son....and I cannot sit back and let that happen!!! We are going to their house for dinner tonight because my brother in law is in town from Denver, so I have a feeling it might be a bit tense. I will think of you when I get overwhelmed tonight Slim, and am sending extra strength your way!!! Good Luck Girl!!! Kat

I was anemic for years, prior to my hysterectomy. And during my cancer treatments, they ask about everything-including that. They (seriously) even ask about brand of toothpaste!!!! I took mulitvitamins with iron for years because of it, and the fact that the iron supplement straight give me horrible stomach aches, and constipation. Sorry about the TMI situation, but it did!!! Even now banded, they do make kids chewables with iron added. I have not needed it since, and continue to donate blood and pass!! Tell her to get some Flintstones with Iron!!! Laura, the only problem I see with Mabubbles---is that for awhile the bay will stick to the strong syllable--and he will likley call her Ma. Keep in mind that may well stick. Manda's ear continues to look better! The color is going back to normal. Such immense relief passes through me when I look at it now, it is physical! Same as the gut wrench I had when I would look at it at its worst. Now it is relief! Kinsey and I are going to go buy groceries today....going to attempt to make it a healthy trip. It is always harder with her!! Also watching the weather, and think next week might be my chance to head into CO for a fill. It is beautiful here, our high today is in the low 60's. But the western slope of CO I have to go to is getting snow today, just not sure of how much. Maybe she will make an exception and see if he will do a fill on Monday. He usually sees other surgical patients on Mondays----but Rick is off on Mondays to drive, he is so much better at winter driving in the mountains! But if I do not get a fill soon, I am going to have to break out the clothes in the give away bags....sad but true. My Mom and Dad have chose to give up coffee for lent. That will not work for me, I don't DO coffee!!! Have my grandsons 3rd birthday next week. I need to make a decision on what to get him. He is an outdoor boy....so something he can be outside with. Maybe some of the big old fashioned Tonka Toys. Well I am going to go fix miss Kinsey some breakfast. And call and check on my folks, Dad has been down with a terrible cold. Will talk to you girlies later! Kat

snt-I am so sorry you are being bombarded with bad news! My great Grandma used to tell me deaths come in 3's. She used to get very upset when waiting for the 3rd to happen, and no amount of telling her it was an old wives tale would ease her mind. And eventually of course someone did die! At least if my DGGM was right, yours are all over now for awhile. I will remember you and your extended families in my prayers. Hugs Kat

Hey girls~ I chose to be Granny as a smart aleck response to my MIL saying I was too young to be a Granny.....nope, I am Granny, and the only one any of them have!! Actually my 2 oldest call me Mam. And while they have never been any further south than we are here, they draw it out into 2 syllables!! Ma'am. They sound VERY polite, when in actuality it is just what they call me! My Mom is Nana to all of them. She really wanted my kids to call her Nana, but they have always simply called her Grandma. MIL is Ema (EEEE Ma)--- to her DD, my SILs kids while SIL is Ahma (Ahhh-Ma) which is Yiddish or something!!! To the grandkids in Denver my MIL is Memaw (Mee-Ma). Becky calls herself Granny, but her DIL insists on her son calling her Gma (GeeMa) and Becky's Mom is GiGiMa (shorthand for Great Grandma). The grandson does not call them that, but his Mom does!!! He calls Beck Granny, and he never sees her Mom but once a year maybe...proving, most of the time, the kids will decide!!! LOL My former Son in law called his Grandma Sprinkles----no idea why, I was always unsure about asking as strange as his family was!!! Kinsey calls his Mom her Daddy Gramma! Cracks me up, it sounds just like saying Baby Daddy!!! LOL I have the DW loaded, but need to clean counters, and mop....just don't wanna!!! Rick has a friend over, yakking, so I am trying to give them some peace and not interupt into the work conversation!! I do have to say, and I do not mean this in any racist manner, that they are sitting here talking about how racist the shop is....and they are meaning it in regards to how many Navajos have to be hired in relation to any other race. The comical thing about them discussing it being racist, is Rick is white, his buddy is black!! And that has not entered into the conversation at all! Well, I am going to go do the work whether I want to or not. Will check with y'all tomorrow!!! Hugs! Growing up I had Grandma's....that was all. I had a Big Grandma and a Little Grandma. Which had nothing to do with size really. My Little Grandma----their last name was Little, so as a small child, when one was Grandma Little, the other must be Grandma Big!!! LOL We spent the day with Kinsey and Connor. Ali went to the Dr. had her US. There is only one baby, but they moved her due date up by almost a month. The picture they got was sooooo good! Perfect profile ultra sound. Unable to tell a sex on the baby yet! She says she would love for it to be a girl, but she also feels like she wants another boy....so guess she is ok either way.

Well is everybody ready for this news tidbit?????? Manda went to work this morning!!! She took her IV stuff with her, and away she went! One of her guys she works with lost his brother and father in an accident, and she said she has lots to organize for that, and lots of work to catch up. She has a private office, and a note from her Dr. that she is not contagious and is able to work. So life resumes some normalcy.... She has always been this way, it shouldn't surprise me, but it did!!! She come in and was so excited to get back to work, and her ear looks amazing! I am almost afraid to say it, but it is looking like less and less of it will be lost! Soooo happy! Judy tell the Bobster he is a sweetie, and I appreciate his concern over Manda. It has been a really scary ordeal. Well I am off to get dressed, (yeah still in jammies) then out to my inlaws to babysit for Connor while DIL goes to the OB, and Rick replaces a fuelpump in her car. BBL~~ Kat

She Smiles, until you can get into the dentist, try some Midol, it helps more than other OTC pain killers, not sure why, but was given that suggestion years ago, and it works! My ex was abusive, and knocked my teeth a few times, and the Midol seemed to help with the throb where Ibuprofin and all didn't so much. My DD....what an ordeal it has been. She began about a month ago, the glands under her ear swelled up. She saw the Dr. was given antibiotics, and sent home. About a week later the ear itself began swelling. Not the lobe but the cartilage part of the ear, got HUGE....I am talking a girl with small ears, and the thickness of the cartilage area was easily an inch or an inch and a half thick, and it was purple! They changed her antibiotics, and it only continued to get worse. They thought it was cellulitis, and treated for that, with no response. All the while the lobe remains normal. Eventually it swelled to a point the skin split, and she had open sores. All the visits to the Dr, and the ER, she ended up with MRSA in it! So they admitted her to the hospital, and began the IV meds for that. No change. They inserted a PIC line, so they could use stronger meds. Finally her tests for the MRSA come back good, but the ear is worse than ever, it is not even resembling an ear any longer. They operated and removed the carotid lymph node under her ear to biopsy and test. They made an incision about 3 inches long, and only sutured it in 3 places trying to allow it to drain, it never even bled. The surgeon said cutting into the area was like sawing wood. Very tough. The communicable diseases Dr. of our local hospital called the family together to tell us she thought my DD had a disease called Relapsing polychondritis. Which is an autoimmune disease, that begins in the cartilage of either the ears or the nose, and disfigures, then moves to the cartilage in the joints, causing disability, and eventually either collapses the trachea, or destroys cartilage bands at the base of the arteries in your heart--causing death, usually in the neighborhood of 10 years from onset. We were totally devastated. She is 27, has a 4 year old DD herself, and is a beautiful, otherwise healthy, vibrant girl. Then while we are trying to deal with the Dx, suddenly the ear lobe swells---and the glands all swell again. So whatever infection she has is worsening, BUT the RP does not affect soft tissue, only cartilage---so that goes against the diagnosis. So while she is getting worse, in our own way we are celebrating! With this change the Dr.'s here give up and transferred her to a larger hospital in Albuquerque. She got there, and the infectuous diseases Dr. said almost immediately it was not the RP, but it was similar, it was an affliction that mimics the RP, called pseudomonas aeruginosa perichondritis. Which is an infection of the cartilage, and it is a one shot thing, it is not going to spread to the other parts of the body, nor is it fatal! They got the proper antibiotics going in, and the change was drastic and almost immediate! She was in the hospital for over 2 weeks, but is home now and will be on IV therapy through her PIC line for minimally 6 weeks. When that is done, they will excise any remaining dead tissue. She will likely need PS to restore normal look to her ear. But that is nothing! It has been an emotional roller coaster! One I am totally glad to be off of! Thanks for all your support--some of you both here and on FB. Y'all are great! Kat

Hey y'all~ We just walked in, we went for a nice ride up into Colorado. We were supposed to go with Becky & Gary, and another couple we ride with regularly, but Beck was a bit irritated (read thoroughly pissed) at Gary and refused to go!!! We rode up and checked out a new casino, I won $12.60---but only dropped my $10---and cashed out when everyone was ready to go with $22.60----played for about half an hour, had fun. Then we all rode back and met at the local Chinese restaurant, and had some late lunch/early dinner---it was not quite 3. After that we rode to the other couples place, they are living in a modular home, and are building a new, huge home! He is in the process of stucco-ing the exterior, it is looking really nice. But I keep telling myself, my house is not that big, nor is it that new....but it is mine, it is paid for, and in this economy, I am lucky! Felt so good to get on my horse yesterday, and then today to let the wind blow, it seemd like it had been forever! Even before Manda got sick, the weather had kept us housebound for awhile. I promised Kinsey sometime next week I would take her riding. Last week she come prancing in to the LR, and she had on this little black hoodie she was given, that has a white skull on it (yes a little girls....???) anyway, she had on shorts in the house, and had put on her dress shoes, and had her purse on her arm. She informed me she was goign on a date. I smiled, and went along with her, I ask her who she was going out with, and she answers "Fraggy Handsome". It took everything I had not to laugh! I repeat Fraggy Handsome? She says yes. I ask her what he is like and she tells me "he is just a lregular guy" yes with the stray l thrown in regular. She cracked me up!!! Then that night when we went to dinner with my parents, she ask Rick if we could double date! That afternoon a show called iCarly was on, and she had never sat and watched it, but something caught her attention and she watched it intently. She kept asking me why they were being mean to this boy-he films the show they put on on the series. His name on the show is Freddy. I think she misunderstood the name, and has her first crush!!! LOL She still goes on about Fraggy Handsome.....cracks me up! Michelle--I don't know how I would handle it---I agree it is liable to be a waste of time and energy, unless he is one to keep it up, it would leave me with a sense of futility. If he is someone you can seriously talk with, I would suggest to him someone who could come in on a regular (lregular) basis, and keep things up, so that is does not become an issue with his son. I mean in all reality, if they do not pick up a dropped straw, when do you imagine the last time the sheets were changed? Or the toilet scrubbed? It sounds like something that needs steady, attention, and if it is something he could afford, I would suggest that. I am opposite of Jane, I do not want anyone coming in and cleaning my house, unless I hire them. I do not want my Mom cleaning, or my freinds--------it is totally different if I am paying help!!! Pamela, I flew into SD when I was banded. I was banded in Mexicali, which was someplace very special to my Grandma, and every step of that trip, there was something reminding me of my Grandma. It had been longer since the loss, so I found it a great comfort, that I was making the right decision--but I know exactly what you mean, about feeling him with you. Glad you had a special day tho!! Well I am off to check some email, and maybe.....just maybe get something done. Then again I may do NOTHING all evening long----what a excellent idea!!! Kat

I agree with Carrie and Plain among others, that Caylee was likely chloroformed so Mom could go paryting, and I believe part of what has Grandma so wild about it, is that she may have finally put her foot down and refused to babysit while Casey hit the bars..... So she tried to make her sleep awhile in the trunk while she had a good time, even if her mother wouldn't babysit, and she overdid it! Personally, the chloroform we had, was bought at a local feed store, and was OTC at the time years ago. To be used on the ranch to put an animal down. As I say that was years ago, now I am sure you would have to buy online or something.... I heard about a decal being on the duct tape right over her mouth, a little heart sticker.....but had not heard of the Water bottle, syringe and all. I too catch bits and pieces on NG, but Mom can talk about nothing but herself----seems that has always been an issue....me me me Kat

My favorite that I have says "Roses are Red, Violets are Blue, I am Schizophrenic, And So Am I!" People look at it like it makes no sense at all....makes me laugh anyway!! I have 2 nephews who are half Navajo Indian, they bought me a shirt (which is now too big sadly...kinda...) that said "My Indian name is RUNS WITH SCISSORS" Gotta love kids..... Kat

At a truck stop in Abilene TX, I bought DH a tshirt that says "My Anger Management Class Pisses Me Off!" He has had more questions about that shirt than any other he has ever had!!! One guy even offered to buy it off his back!! Kat

That's ok--------all us yokels can yuk it up together--I love it too!!!! Kat

My DD used to love me to read Dr. Suess to her, until she discovered the poetry of Shel Silverstein---then she was addicted to his books---she now reads them to her DD!! Plain you surprised me though, none of the Dr. Suess we read had a Forum section....... Kat

Hi girls, Wanted to stop in and update the DD thing. She is home now! Insurance decided she could do what she is doing at home as well as in the hospital. And really with her medical background (nursing) she probably can--well is! She has her PIC line in,and it will remain in for 3.5 more weeks, then they will change it---and she will be on the home IV meds as well as oral meds for minimally 6 weeks. At the end of the 6 weeks, they will decide how much of the dead tissue will need to be excised. And do the surgery then. She is hoping to go on back to work, and just do her meds on her lunch as needed, and work the others around her work schedule. Kinsey is so happy to have her Mommy home!!! Thank you all so much for the support and love while I dealt with this, it has been an emotional roller coaster ride to say the least. The infectuous disease Dr. in Albq. thinks the Dx in our local hospital was wrong, he thinks it is something called.....pseudomonas aeruginosa perichondritis......as opposed to relapsing polychondritis. They sound similar, because the one she has mimics the other. It however is not fatal! Thank you GOD!!!! It is limited to the one area of caritlage affected. Which happens to be her ear. She will likely lose at least part of it, but after what we thought she was facing, that seems very minor. Like she said, that is nothing, boys are coming home every day from Iraq missing much more than an ear, she can do that. She is being strong, and is very happy to be home. Again------thank you from the bottom of my heart!!! What a wonderful group you all are!! Kat

Just a quick update....my DD is home, she is going to be on antibiotics through her PIC line, as well as oral antibiotics and other meds for minimally 6 weeks, and then they will look into how much surgery is needed. She is feeling good, and has hope! Thanks so much for your care and concern!!! Kat

I don't have MySpace, I do have Facebook, but that is it, not enough time to fit other stuff in!!! LOL Heck I don't even get much moderating done here, I monitor a few threads here and there, but am not doing like I probably should. Manda called this morning, she was crying, and scared the crap outta me. SHE is fine, but a friend had died, and she doesn't know how or what happened. She works with his brother, and she said he was crying when he told her and that of course got her going. She said the sleeping issues have improved, and she feels much better, the drugs are moving out of her system, and she is doing better. We talked while she gave herself the push IV....so she seems to be doing fine. She sees the Dr. on Tuesday and is hoping to get a release to go back to work. Rick is on jury duty for the month of March. The schedule shows him having to appear in 3 different courts a total of 9 times through the month, and then we got a postcard adding one more. It is going to suck in a major way, they are not being allowed to comp any time at all, so time lost he will completely lose....while the courts will pay him only if he is chosen for a jury. So when he appears and wastes all morning while they do the questionning of potential jurors----he is just losing time at work. When we can least afford it, and he should not be gone from work....he is not thrilled! Waiting anxiously for the temperature outside to warm up a bit, and I am going riding! So excited!!! Well I need to look up an order, and get busy, my house is in need, everything is....I let it ALL go!!! So I better do something. And oh yeah, I should peruse some threads!! LOL Talk to y'all later!! Kat

Well I think Manda has her meds under control. Good thing she has the background she does as a nurse! OMG the amount of stuff to keep track of and keep straight. The Dr. sent a home health care woman to come and help her get things set up and Manda was more with it than the woman by far. To begin with she got off on the wrong foot with Manda! We were all in Manda's room, with her sister, who was trying on a dress that my DIL give her for prom (had to laugh at Pamela's remark...again!) when we hear someone knock on the door and she went maybe 2 steps and the woman just let herself in. She was VERY domineering, and did not like Manda contradicting her on any of the procedures, and made light of her having experience of her own. Manda was telling her that right now the worst part of it all was the narcotic withdrawal--she about chewed her up telling her she should have known that was going to happen, she had just claimed to be a LPN---just being witchy! Manda told her, that yes she did know all the while taking the pain meds that eventually she would have to ditch them, but it was harder than she expected, and she tried to tell her it was not the drug she wanted, or craved, it was the cold sweats, and sleeplessness, and restless legs, and anxiousness that were making her crazy, not a need for the drug. But sure enough this morning the chart in big red letters reads NO NARCOTICS!!! She was pissed! Cancelled the service, said she would contact another home health care service. Then she called the supervisor, it was a mess! But it give her something to fight about I joked! Otherwise she is doing great. The ear is still really swollen, and red and now scaly, but it IS an improvement none the less!!! Her sister is going to stay the weekend with her, I was with her through today, so now I get some down time!!! I looked at the paper and it says we will have a high of 60 on Sunday---I told Rick he better be ready to ride!!! Tomorrow I am saddling up come hell or high water! LOL Denise, I am so sorry to hear about your DD. I know you have been through many battles with her, and it sounds like it remains a struggle. I am glad you have the baby, even though it is hard, he needs the security of consistency, and you can provide that. Please know we are always here, and these women are strong!!! You and your family will be in my prayers. Judy----you watch Grey's Anatomy right?? The stupid nurse showed up right when they showed that Izzy had ended up with the blood mix up---and then I caught a glimpse of Derek wigging out---I need caught up....PLEASE! Oh, and if I send you an email with a pic of my flowers, and maybe one of her ear, would you size them or post them or sumpin for me???? Jenn---feel better soon! gotta go bbl~~ Kat

Glouc, there is really no way to give you any info on 7 Pounds without giving away a vital part of the movie. It was worth seeing.....should be out to rent soon, it has left the theaters here. LOVE kids movies, but my granddaughter has to watch them over and over when they first come out...I can almost talk word for word with Alvin and the Chipmunks, and Ratatouille!!! Kat

I'm home! What a day! Got to the hospital about 9:30 (3.5 hour drive)--talked to Manda while I was attempting to park. Valet was full, parking garage was full, 3 parking lots roped off---security at all entrances, directing. Kinsey and I walked probably half a mile to the hosp....SERIOUSLY! I thought I was going to pee my pants before I got there. We go in, and in minutes here comes Manda's nurse, saying she had bad news. Since home health was not going to be able to meet with us until late afternoon, since we live so far away, she had to have another dose of one of her meds--it takes 4 hours to drip in! She rushed it to 3. So finally we leave the hosp. and the directions they gave us to the pharmacy for her infusion drugs were wrong. 3 calls later, we finally get there. The woman tells us, the meds have been pulled, they just need to label them, and it will be about 15 minutes. 45 minutes later, there is this ear splitting (and 4 year old waking) screeching sound.....it is a fire drill for the facility. So all the patients there being infused, and all the employees, and us of course have to leave! So we stand around outside, while half of them smoke---which was the only fire around. And we eventually get the meds, and there are 3 HUGE boxes of them! This is a weeks worth of PART of her meds! She takes 1 bag by gravity drip once a day, and 3 push doses. Which is a syringe that is slowly pushed into the PIC line over a 15 minute period. For each dose...so 4 of them, and then once in the morning and once at night, she has to flush the PIC line with heperin, and then saline (or maybe the other way...I dunno) Anyway EACH of these doses is preloaded into a syringe, and labeled like a Rx. So there are boxes full! They sent an IV pole, a sharps container, boxes of alcohol swabs, boxes of gloves.....TONS of waste!!!!! And then we had to go to Walgreens and get the oral meds! She will be doing this for minimally 6 weeks! She has to go back for a 1 day treatment at the local hospital in a month to have her PIC line changed, they are only good for a max of 6 weeks. Finally got her home, and she is at HER house. But one of her sisters is staying with her, But home health care wanted to set her up where she would be for the infusions....and she does not want to stay here for the next 6 weeks! She was worn out. Heck I am worn out! But, the ear is looking better. It actually looked pretty bad today, but it is scaling badly, from the skin being so stretched, now it is peeling off, so I think after her shower it would have looked better. Kinsey was awake the entire trip! She did not stop singing----she mixed every song she could think of!!! She had monkeys jumping on the bus all through the town, and E I E I Ooooooooo!!!! Crazy kid! Son is not staying at home tonight.....is causing some issues with the family. My inlaws are siding with DIL, and making it everyones business when in reality it is none of our business, it is the kids. Rick and I have chosen not to discuss it with anyone (besides each other) unless the kids come to us with it. His Mom was offended by our attitude. So the hell what! For years DS could do no wrong in their eyes, he waited on them hand and foot, hauled their wood, took care of their garden etc. And now that he is in this position, they decide he is at fault, and are mad as hell at him. We aren't thrilled with his actions, or timing, but we don't live in that house, and do not know what is going on.....neither do my inlaws!! He has ask her to go to counseling with him, to a marriage counselor. Her only response was he would go, but he wouldn't listen so why bother...... yep there are lots of problems there! Tracy, I hope your birthday cake was wonderful!!! I too know lots about my neighbors, but learn most of it from the woman next door, she is a HUGE snoop!! Well I am off to bed. I promise to be less self centered! I do not know how to tell you all thank you for the way you have held me up through all of this. And while we are not completely out of the woods, and surgery is yet to come, I feel such hope where I felt dispair before. Thank you from the very bottom of my heart. You are all so special to me---I consider myself so lucky to have you in my life. Night! Kat

Has she ever been not pregnant for long enough between all these children to have SAFELY had PS??? I will admit right here and now, I missed a couple of days and only scanned through all the posts, and saw where someone was looking at pics of her with a child on her lap, looking like she USED to before inflating the lips, and deflating the nose..... Was there ever enough time between? To PAY for both in vitro AND PS? On a tech's wages? All the while supposedly going to school? Or at least getting money to do so? I would love to see a time line, of when each of her kids was born, and relate it to her looks. PS is obvious! Kat

I'm home.....and I AM HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Manda's ear looks 70% better already!! We went down this morning, spent the better part of the day, and it was so nice. She feels good, she can tell it is improving, and she knows even if she ends up losing part of it, it will not be the entire ear, and she is ecstatic! I had a helluva time driving home, I think I FINALLY relaxed and it hit me! We got about 50 miles from home, and she called---insurance is booting her tomorrow, they say there is nothing being done for her in the hospital that cannot be done through home health care!!!! So....tomorrow morning, back I go! But I am bringing her home! The top of her ear and the inner part of the lobe by her neck are almost back to normal color. The center where the wound is, and the outer lobe are still maroon in color. She has had 3 different Dr.'s tell her the surgery she had was useless, and quite dangerous to her situation, and now the wound looks horrible! The surgery wound, not the ulceration on the ear I mean. Anyway I am totally exhausted, but I had to share.....I am going to bring her home tomorrow, and while it is not over, it is improving! She will be on 3 different IV meds and 2 orals at home, but is sure will be easier to see her! Will check in when I get back from Albq!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOMORROW TRACYK-----Love you lots and hope your day is as special as you are to all of us!! XOXOXOX Kat

Let's see the last few we have went to see were Seven Pounds---was not what I expected, and I left the theater in deep thought about the movie, but all in all I really liked it. Gran Torino---Dh and I both liked it. The people in the theater actually applauded when the movie ended, and there was not an open seat in the theater. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button----I found slow, and it was made to be a realistic movie, and yet no one questioned his aging issue....I had a hard time with it. Was glad we saw it on a dollar night bargain movie. I want to go see Taken next, or Reader.....but life is not cooperating with me seeing movies right now! Kat

Eh Terry, some days they are not too bad, other days my hives have hives....go figure. Manda said her Dr. come in tonight, and was thrilled with the progress of her ear. He said he will likely keep her through the week, and possibly discharge her to home to finish up with the antibiotics, then when they see how much is healed with the drugs then they will discuss excision of the dead tissues. I am so beyond happy I could just dance! Anybody wanna dance???? Kat

Just talked to Manda, she has not seen the Dr yet, he does rounds after office hours I guess. But she said she thinks it is losing some of the redness. Oh how I hope so!!!! On a different note....my DS and DIL are talking about splitting up, and they have another baby due in August. Morons I swear! Kat

snt---if you get up in the morning, and feel super tight...be careful!! That was my first real band scare. I was sick, and had lots of mucus issues like you are saying, and basically plugged up my stoma!!! I was ready to go 6 hours for an emergency unfill with a Dr. I had never seen before, when a Fill Centers Dr. suggested drinking sips of tea just as hot as I could stand it. Voila!!! it worked! Thanks, it has been a scary time with my DD, I appreciate the support. Kat