randoms again...

Sunday, Sunday... What a nice, warm day it was! About 80 & sunny! And it's still warm now at 10:30! Bro showed up Saturday at 1:00, cuz he's been in Scottsdale for a month, how cool is that life? His son is here, running the construction company, and building a frozen yogurt shop in a shopping center, and his son got it finished and open already! But I missed opening day...that's ok...so did Bro.. Haikus for the computer Your file was so big. It might be very useful. But now it is gone. The Web site you seek Cannot be located, but Countless more exist. Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent, and reboot. Order shall return. Program aborting: Close all that you have worked on. You ask far too much. Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams. Yesterday it worked. Today it is not working. Windows is like that. First snow, then silence. This thousand-dollar screen dies So beautifully. With searching comes loss And the presence of absence: "My Novel" not found. The Tao that is seen Is not the true Tao until You bring fresh toner. Stay the patient course. Of little worth is your ire. The network is down. A crash reduces Your expensive computer To a simple stone. Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred. You step in the stream, But the water has moved on. This page is not here. Out of memory. We wish to hold the whole sky But we never will. Having been erased, The document you're seeking Must now be retyped. Serious error. All shortcuts have disappeared. Screen. Mind. Both are blank. I LOVE words, you know? I get it from my Mom and her whole side of the family! Heck, Mom's little brother even teaches his dogs new words...throws a plastic elephant, then "Go get the pachyderm, Duke!" I was telling Bro about the home nurse that comes once a week to check my blood pressure, etc. He knows her, she went to high school with him...sheesh, between the 2 of us, we probably DO know half of our town...then if you add Tif in there, we DEFINITELY know everyone! Anyway, I've begun referring to this nurse as 'Negative Nellie'. Just because she's wound so tight that no matter what I say, she's got a bad opinion about it...hence, we really don't talk much, except how's my pt ? all that...so Sat before Bro left, I said, gotta tell you about negative nellie...& he knew who I was talking about before I said anything!...but we were just laughing about everything...she was getting a glass of ice water last week, & standing in the kitchen in front of the sink, 'where's your water?'...huh???????????? I pointed at the sink & said "right there"...and I held my tongue before I said "Duhh!". Nellie said, horrified, 'you drink tap water??' Holy cow! I have city water, not sulphur-smelling well water! 'Do you know what's in that stuff?' 'Well, Nellie, for all you really know, it might be exactly the same as what's in bottled water, but without all the wasted plastic...' Said with a smile, you know, cuz teasing someone who's that neurotic...can be fun. ;-) But, did I let it go? Noooooo....She said something about the chemicals added to the water, & I couldn't resist 'Like fluoride, ya mean?' In about ten years, all of America will be toothless, cuz everybody drinks "bottled water"! Then she said 'That's an old wives tale!' I just smiled & shrugged...why argue about something like that?? BoUnCeS!! LibbY!

neat little things...

http://www.break.com/index/how_to_lose_your_job.html ...Ya know, this is funny as hell to me now...but if I'da been that woman at that moment...holy shit!! BTW, that picture was in the paper yesterday afternoon...that's why I don't plan to wear shorts til June... Well, my BFF, Kim, damn near gave me a heart attack last night at 6, when she showed up with some dinner for me...she has her own key to my apartment, and I was taking a nap on the couch, & didn't even know she was here. She had been here for about 15 minutes, & I woke up because Truman was licking my nose...so I was sitting there petting him and talking to him, yeah, baby talk...SO WHAT??? lol! All of a sudden, Kim says, "Bout time! If I'dve had to pee at all, well, all I can say is thank God I didn't!! She was over snugged down in a corner of another couch that doesn't sit directly across from me! LOL! When I sat up & looked at her, she asked "Did you think I was the angel of death??" But I forgave her for that, since she brought me a big box of taco supremes from Taco Bell tonight!

I'm working on trying to go to a good nursing home here in town for a month or so for what my neuro describes as "intense physical therapy". So I'm getting PT at home, & my dr & PT home person both recommended it to my insurance co. Anthem said they needed a 2nd home health PT evaluation to recomend it! So I have another therapist here giving me home PT 3 times a week for another month!

My first boyfriend (from 31 yrs ago) that still lives in town...with his wife & 9 yr old daughter...emailed to ask how everything's going last week. I told him what's up & about maybe going to the nursing home for extra PT, & my dr wants me to go there & use their stuff. Then Kevin says (yes, he's a Kevin too!) that he & his wife had talked about it, & if it was just that my living alone made my dr unhappy, he & his wife wanted me to move in with them while I got PT at home. Damn! I love that guy! & his wife! I'm so glad they found each other! She's so much more perfect for him than I would be!

BoUnCeS!! LibbY!

random...

The trick is to be good at being bad without being bad at being good. ``````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
Anne-Marie S....words of wisdom from my friend in Spain....

She is a wise woman (even though she's way younger than me)! We started writing at least 10 years ago on a website for people with ms. At that time she was married & living in London...fast forward about 5 years, she's living in Gibralter where her family is again, says she'll never give up her country & family for a man again....& married again, to a cute Spanish dr! And she's as big of a Metallica fan as me! She & her husband were in New York City for the release of one of their latest albums! What a neat life!

Sometimes, when I read/watch the news, it really does seem like humans ARE de-evolving...we're losing the 'old-fashioned' stuff our parents taught us.......to be polite, say please & thank you, just to act like human bi-peds, and not like a bunch of savages! Am I just an old fuddy-duddy?? Hmmmmm...something to think about...

Parents need to fill a child's bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can't poke enough holes to drain it dry..Alvin Price

Personally, I think you have to balance that with a little humility...

BoUnCeS! LibbY!!

De-evolution??

...cant you see it's on the way to this???

libby

i honestly cant believe it!

I went to bed last night at 10, & woke up today at 8 am!! So I'm getting over the steroid 'rush' ('roid rush? is that an expression? should be...), & now I'm ready for the bummed feeling for a couple days...(sigh...where do I register my complaint for this kind of health? Is there a complaint department anywhere?)

I was flipping channels on tv the other night, & saw "toddlers & tiaras" on TLC, & I watched, transfixed by the obnoxious behavior...mostly of the little girls, but 'the moms, oh my God, the moms!' It showed us exactly where kids get their behavior training. Kids being spoiled, demanding brats, and the parents acting like 'She has personality...she's sassy...' as if 'sassy' is something every parent would want their child to aspire to...A generation ago, if a kid acted like that, like it or not, they might get their butt smacked...not now..."Isn't she cute?"...Sheesh, Tif had personality at that age too, but I made sure she was not obnoxious...she was likeable....someone that people like to be around, not someone people make excuses not to have to be around!! In about 20 years, these parents are going to realize they've created monsters...just think, when the parents go to a dr or lawyer, said dr or lawyer being 'sassy'...I may weep for the future, but, I'd just love to be a fly on the wall then!!

That's my girl up there!! One of the most favorite times of my life...she was so full of life (sassy? you betcha!...but she was never a spoiled BRAT!), that this was at the time she was a beautician at a salon, and also volunteered one morning a week at the local radio station...it came to be known as "Tiffany Tuesdays"! She was great on the radio, she & the head dj were a helluva team! He was always thinking up something for them to do...oh, my mistake....something for Tiffany to do....but it always worked well! My girl did the 'wacky stuff', for laughs...like the pictures above show, this was the 'laundromat lottery'...Gary made all the painted ping-pong balls with lotto numbers on them, they drove across town, & Tiff got in a dryer with all the balls, he'd start the dryer, & every so often, open the door & have Tiff give him a number! Or there was the time around Christmas where they had a contest for people to gargle & sing a Christmas song at the same time...they were always doing something funny!

The group of 3 pix up there is really there just to show the middle pic, which shows Tif's look when her uncle gave us a Dalmatian puppy for Christmas!

BoUnCeS!! LibbY!

Wednesday morning...3 am

Ummmmm...welcome to the excitement of solu-medrol, liquid prednisone! I'm up all night watching Fox News, Headline News, the History Channel, A & E...in between reading like crazy...and I watched Paranormal Activity one & two...I dunno...they should've scared me, even a little bit, but, nothin'! It's like...I dunno...I can't get scared...& that's no fun!!

I absolutely love Anthem Insurance...I still have them with the Cobra plan, & it's expensive, but I'll be able to have it until September, & I have the same plan that Kev had thru VZ, so 2 weeks ago, a lady called from the office in New York, went over a lot of stuff with me, & told me that my plan has a lot of stuff available, so she's making sure I take advantage of all of it! What kind of insurance company does that?? So she went over some stuff with me...then last week I got a call from a guy in their Denver office & he had a lot more info...today I got a call from a dietician at their office in Albany, & she gave me tons of stuff that I should eat to gain weight, & everything! She & the first lady are looking over my plan to see if they will pay for some home health aides that will do some laundry & cook & clean a little...holee crap! I almost feel somewhat guilty for it, but then, I pay for it, & I'll only be able to keep it til September, so...I'm just almost in shock...but, like I said, October starts my Medicare, so this'll be WAY gone then...

I've been watching the Libya news now...what kinda makes me worry is the fact that Iran sent 2 ships through the Suez canal...what are they up to? Just showing that they can, or is there a bigger, craftier plan besides trying to intimidate Israel? And where is the president, leader of the free world, condemning Qaddafi for shooting his own citizens? For God's sake! PERU condemned it!!! You cannot be too timid to do this!! Errrrrrrrrgggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh!!

Prediction...I think Chris Christie will run for president in 2016...that is, if the world doesn't end on Dec 29, 2012, like the Aztec calendar says....

Okay, I'm goin' to bed...g'nite!

BoUnCeS!!!!!!! LibbY!

yea, i'm on iv steroids every day til Fri, & i'll be doing that once a month now....

...not exactly the best news in the world about how the ms is going now, but, I gotta figure that I've been putting up with this shit since 1994, and now my neurologist is saying it's secondary progressive...with everything that's happened in my life since March 2007, what else could happen??

Yesterday after Kev's mom & dad brought me home from getting steroids, I went in to bed to start reading the book I got "Addict Nation" by Jane Velez Mitchell...so, see? I'm not a narrow-minded jerk that only follows Fox News...I get all the news I can, & sift through it to try to find any kind of truth...not easy, cuz I think you have to prove that you can lie to go to Washington DC...

ANY-way...About 3:45, Tiff & Talan showed up...with ice cream from the Jer-Zee, which just opened yesterday (!), & a big strawberry milkshake for me! I have the best daughter, did I ever tell you that?? Somebody raised her right...with the best grandson. I met his temper for the first time at about 4:30...!

...when the ice cream from his little cup was all gone...mind you, Talan never had ice cream before, but once he did...I im'd Kev last night & told him it's almost like Tif got my grandson hooked on crack, for heaven's sake! When she showed him the empty cup, and told him it was all gone, holee shit!! The boy's lungs exploded, his head did a couple 360's, he puked pea soup, tried to head butt Tif when she hugged him...I told Kev abt that, & he said, well thats something else he got from grandma...I'd never try to take ice cream from you...:-/

But eventually, he got over it, & we watched "Ellen", he LOVES that show!! :-D

I got 'friended' on FB last week by a girl I knew in the 80's in Fostoria...we weren't close friends, but got along...holy crap, who DIDNT I get along with? If we were in the same bar, & drinking, we got along! I'm not an uptight person, probably TOO easygoing, but...anyway, she emld me & asked whats up, I told her about my grandson, & about Tif & her husband, & at the end I told her about how I have ms & can't walk, but that's only a small part of my life. She wrote back & said she was sorry, & I was always a strong person & a fighter. Wow...she has a picture of herself & her 10 yr old daughter, and, OMG, they look like twins!! Quite obviously, she was, well is, a lot younger than me!

Okay...it's gettin' late, & I wanna go to bed with my leftover pizza, & Tif's leftover cup of ice cream she left me in my bedroom freezer! And that book...which talks about how everybody in America is addicted to something now; spending money, eating, sex, video games, drinking, drugs...I kinda have to agree with her

BoUnCeS!! LibbY!

history in the making....

Egypt is a hot mess this weekend...I feel awful for the people that live there (82 million of them did you know there were that many?) I hafta wonder, if they get Mubarak out, who comes next? Hard-line Islamists?...errgghh...

Talan had a great first birthday party! And Tiff made his cake, which proves why she had the 6th best decorated cake in Ohio when she was in high school & in culinary arts! I love that girl! Well, yeah, her boy too...

Well, I'm off again, I'm hooked on watching Egypt this weekend...

BoUnCeS!! LibbY!

when does spring get here??

Hey, I came back! I've just had a whole shit-ton of stuff to do, & I'm still falling behind! It's truly amazing how ms slows you down...especially when you used to be one of the fast walkers...not someone who meanders & 'moseys', y'know? I'm still totally & deeply in love with my apartment...& Truman, who is now healthy & getting back to his normal weight, 11 lbs, he even runs down the hall to my bedroom every night when I go to bed! And, he had lost so much weight in the first 2 months of living here, that I felt so bad for him, I used to have him on my lap in my electric wheelchair to take him back there. And I've never seen a cat with hipbones sticking up like his! But now he's back to normal, filled out & fluffy, & his skin is back to normal color, it doesn't have a yellow hue anymore! So I'm really glad that Kim & I went down the pet food aisle at the dollar store, cuz I don't think he would've gotten back to eating like this forever~! But that Fancy Feast appetizers is really great, it's not a can, it's a little plastic container with a paper lid.
Okay, more big important news...my grandson is gonna be a year old Sat!! I can't even believe it already! Sheesh!
It's almost 3 am, so I'm going to bed...
BoUnCeS!! LibbY!

Rabbit, rabbit!!

Rabbit, rabbit!! (thanks, tlp, for the reminder!)

BoUnCeS!! LibbY!

...# 800!! ...

Eight hundred posts?? Day-ummmm...that's more commitment than I'll ever promise to another guy in the future!! lol!

I am so obsessed with Care Bears (still!)...and there must've been some magic dust in the air, and it brought this handsome little garden elf to life for awhile...

I've been on a total rollercoaster ride of emotions in the last couple weeks...and, you know, it really sucks. Drama that you get because of any physical problems is a lot harder to deal with than the emotional drama that is nothing. Emotional drama is kinda like walking down the sidewalk and having to step over a pile of dog poop. That stuff doesnt frustrate me, it's nothin'! But ya gotta figure, I was in the hospital for a couple days with 4 broken ribs in the last month...Truman just got home from being boarded at the vet's last week...and I'm trying everything to make him keep eating...

Kim & I went out most of the day today...to the bank, the dollar store...where we "made a spectacle of ourselves" (did your parents use that expression when you were young? lol!) We were going down a big middle aisle, and ended up getting into a swordfight in the middle...using plungers, of course! The store was ringing with "En garde!!" "Touche!!" And keep in mind, I'm in a wheelchair, and Kim's running & jumping all over the place! FUN! Went to a Rite Aid to get me what's called a transport chair...it's a super light wheelchair, it doesnt have big heavy wheels or anything. Then we drove by the house I grew up in, it's getting painted now, so it's a 3 story house half peeling yellow paint, the other half bright yellow! It'll be nice...someday...

We also heard some songs on the radio that took us back to late 70s/early 80s...."Elvira...my heart is on fire...Elvira..." We also had a disagreement about the time that we were 16, she swears that we went to someone's house to get some stuff, & she swears that I made her wait outside cuz I was getting acid. Holy cow...I never would've made her wait outside! Sheesh~!! We talked about the time she peed out the window in the third story of that house...talk about making a spectacle of yourself...:-D

BoUnCeS!! LibbY!

...november...

November?? Already??? And....no more daylight saving time???? Crap!! The only thing sadder would be the end of January!

But...the coolest thing was that I was able to go to WalMart online & order some Christmas presents for Talan...just little toys I can keep here for when he's here.

We already got snow flurries here, but up by Cleveland, they got the 'lake effect' snow, and had 3 inches of snow yesterday.

My friend from school came over & took me out to grocery shop & go to the bank Friday, and we were out for about an hour & laughed & compared stories, since it HAS been since 30 years ago that we've even seen each other!! I totally freaked her out, though...I said, you grew up at XXX "this street", didn't you? She stopped the car & looked at me, and said "how'd you know that??" Well, really, I don't have a freakin' clue as to how I remember numbers! But pretty much, once I know a number, I won't forget it! Seriously. I still remember every phone number I've ever had...most of my old boyfriends' #'s & birthdays...So, guys...be careful what you tell me...social security #s, etc...hahaha...I'm totally joking about that...I know how to keep my mouth shut...

BoUnCeS!! LibbY!

random...that's my life now, i guess...

Well, now I'm making it official, my life IS truly a whole shitload of random stuff that would never happen to anyone else!

Kim and I have been getting together as much as we can again, and that's good...I know exactly what she's going thru, but I have no answers for her, except "Life happens, you just need to know you CAN get through this, and you WILL!!" Because, obviously, for most people, life NEVER ends up going the way you always thought it would! And, that's what keeps it exciting...I guess...:-/. Yeah, it might be hard and suck at times, but, there's always a tomorrow, and usually there's something else to laugh about! And it's really important to understand you HAVE to be able to laugh at yourself too! Honestly, if you're too "high & mighty" (read 'elite' here) to laugh at yourself, I'd want nothing to do with you. Kim reminds me of this stuff every day! There was the time I'd asked her to bring over bathroom cleaning supplies, etc for me...she said okay, then half an hour later I hear a car door slam out front. I went to the front sliding glass door & opened it, and there's Kim, running across the parking lot, yelling "Dah-dah-dah-dah-dumm!! In the melody to Scrappy Doo, singing Puppy Power!! Oh. and waving a plunger in the air :-) How could you NOT laugh???

...last night's 'random' happened after trick or treating out here at the apartments...It was from 5 til 6:30, and Kim came here to pass out candy bars with me (mini ones), & there were probly 100 kids altogether, &, OMG, she had more fun than the kids! I didn't even think about it, but she's never been able to hand out candy before! She's always lived in the country since 8th grade! Anyway, we had fun...we were sitting there watching the parade of kids go by, and saw two kinda sleazy dressed girls go down the street, and we looked at each other, and Kim said "Holy shit, there's Libby & Kim!" lolol!

So, she left around 7, & I ordered dinner from the ok pizza & barbeque (their barbecue nachos are the best! regular nachos with barbecued shredded pork as the meat..mmmmmmmmmm!). So I was sitting here, lol'ing at Two & a half men, and thought I heard something outside the door. So what do I do? Well, I went over & opened the door. Nobody there...but then I looked down...there was a freaking ANIMAL walking in my door!! At first I thought it was a rat or something, but it was white & furry & soft looking, & had a furry tail about 3 inches long, not a long hairless tail. Oh, and by the way...I was barefoot! So it waltzed its way on in here, while I just stupidly sat in my wheelchair. I finally woke up to this thing that I was actually seeing, & went over & got a phone, & called Kev...asked if he was busy, and if he wasn't, could he please come over & get this animal out of my house? It freaked him out a little too, especially since I didn't know what it was. He said when I said it had a little white tail...well, maybe it's a kitten...No...it has a triangle-shaped face...

Well, I left the front door open, & followed it around in here while it explored. It did make sure it stopped at Truman's food bowl for a snack, squeezed under the door to the pantry...when it started heading back to the bedrooms, I cut it off at the hallway, and started kicking it back to the front of the house...yes, kicking it in the face with bare feet...stoopid, but nothing happened. I finally got it close to the front door, gave it one last boot in the face to get it out, then shut the door!! WooHoo!! Then I listened, and it was frantically scratching to get back in!! wow. Just unbelievable! I heard Kev pull in a couple minutes later. He came in and asked where it was & I said I already got it out...he went out the sliding glass door, & around to the front door and looked and said "That's a ferret, someone's pet! No wonder it was so tame & friendly!" Never a dull moment here in my life, right?

Friday Oct 22

Okay, my last post was only about one thing I've had going on in the last couple weeks. Truman is still being boarded by the vet's office, he STILL will not eat!! He's not in the 'hospital', he's just being boarded so they can do the syringe/force feeding for me, he doesn't need medicine, just food & nutrients, through his digestive tract, to get it working again. Thank God he's not in the hospital...THAT would be major $$! Boarding is only $16/day, which adds up, but he's worth it to me. He's loved more than a lot of people in the world, for heaven's sake! Even the pizza guy last night came in & asked how he was right away! So, like I said, I'm looking at it taking a few weeks. He's not eating yet, but he is getting out of his cage out there and walking around...huh...kinda like being on vacation from me?? Flirting with Brooke & Courtney all day...meeting all kinds of new people...yeah....he's in 'his happy place'. I just called & talked to the receptionist & she said he's doing the same, they're feeding him twice a day, and he's got the run of the 'cat room' out there, they're hoping that if he gets up & gets some exercise, maybe that will get his appetite going...I'm going to ask Kev if he'll boil some chicken breast and take it out there, and they can try to feed him that...that's his favorite.

Honestly, with the way my life's been since I moved here, he's better off not being here, ya know? A couple weeks ago, I was in the bathroom, going past the tub...lost my balance, and fell on the side of the tub on my ribs. Kev was here, picking Tru up to take him back to the clinic, thank goodness. I hurt, but, when you fall or get a bruise, you hurt, you know? So he got me set up on the couch with an ice pack & aspirin, & I figured I'd be okay...about an hour later I called 911, cuz it still hurt even worse than giving birth with no pain meds (yeah, been there, done that too...epidurals weren't around back then, & I didn't want to hurt the baby), and they took me to the hospital, xrayed me, I called Kev & Tif, & I was admitted because I had 2 or 3 broken ribs...So I spent 2 nights in the hospital! Now I'm on vico-prin after seeing the pain dr! He's neat! Kev & Tif took me in to see him after I got out of the hospital a couple days later (my gp told me to go to him). Anyway, he's the only dr I've ever met that was wearing jeans! (& cute, too!). So, basically, that's what I've been doing while I was gone, and thank God for Tif & Kev, they've been coming out to make sure I'm ok, Kev's put my new bookcases & desk together, & my friends from going out have been calling & coming over & saying I need to heal up so I can go out and laugh with them again! Okay, this is just a small taste of my life lately :-/...

BoUnCeS!! LibbY!

Thursday, October 21

Hey, I'm back! Worn out and weary, but I'm here...I feel like I've been in a blender and survived...
Doris, just in case you stop by, I did have the hospital's sw come over & she and Tif & I did all my advance directives & living will & everything! So it's here & done, & I feel better...thank you for the extra nudge!

lipidosis...(please pray for Truman?)

Got what the problem is...lipidosis...or fatty liver disease in a cat. The article describes exactly what happened to Truman, to a T! So, it seems like the kickoff factor was the stress moving here...(cats really ARE homebodies, it seems!). But it kept on as an anorexic-type disease. He needs to start eating again & getting all his vitamins, and the only way to cure this disease is to syringe/force feed him, so he gets used to digesting food through his body & liver again. Because it seems to me (maybe I'm wrong), that he's just living off the fat in his body, that has no nutrients left.
All I know is it's awful! Thank you, God, it's not cancer...and is curable with diet & force-feeding for a few weeks, but that's the point I'm at with him now.
I thought at first I was going to be able to do the syringe-feeding myself here at home, but, after trying last night, there's absolutely no way I can...it's not that he's fighting me so hard, I just don't have the physical ability & stamina...Truman doesn't have the strength to actually fight with me...he's so weak he has a hard time jumping up on my bed...I watched him try last night & he hit the side of the bed & had to struggle up. :-( So, I have a call in to the vet's office to ask if I could board him there so he could get fed, or even keep him in the hospital there.
We are a pitiful looking couple, for sure...(yeah, me & Truman!). He's lost so much weight he's like a bag of bones (stick kitty!). He's having trrouble keeping his balance and walking and all that, so I've been putting him on my lap when I go to the bedroom to go to bed, taking my hoveround-type wheelchair, so we BOTH ride! And then I put him over on the bed, and I crawl in with him.
Okay, I need to go eat, before I get fatty-liver disease too!

Tif's gonna be 27 Saturday!

It's almost October!!! Yah-hoo!!

Well, Truman's still at Dr Y's. His liver was biopsied yesterday, but they don't have the results back yet. I talked to Dr Y at 4:45 pm, and asked him how's Trumie, & if he was eating yet...he is one of the nicest & most understanding people I know. He said, no, he still won't eat, they're having to syringe-feed him. And then he said the results may not be in until Monday! I kinda groaned, and asked if it would be ok if I left him there til the results were back, just because I'm having a pretty big ms relapse, and I can't hold Truman with one hand, and feed him with the other at the same time...shit, I have a hard time eating myself, when I feel like this!...ugggghhhh....but he was all, "That's fine! Don't worry about it!" It's probly gonna cost, but he's with people I trust, & that makes it worth it.

And my pretty little baby Tiffany will be 27 Oct 2...wow...where did the time go? Now she's a great enthusiastic mommy too! And in college to be a labor & delivery room nurse! She'll be the best at it, cuz she's very empathetic. I know I was very blessed to have her. But I'll never forget taking her up to Findlay to be babysat by my friend in the summer of '94 when I worked up there...Driving up was nice, I listened to WJR talk radio, & after about half an hour of extra sleep, Tif would wake up & tell me all the dreams she'd had the night before...they were always interesting...especially the one where she had been being chased around by a giant injection needle! Then every evening when we came back to Marion after I worked all day at the store up there, she told me about the fun she had with Kris's kids. When we drove in from 23, at that time, there was a farm (right across from where my apartment is!), and there were always cows out by the fence...Tif always rolled her window down and yelled "MOO!!" at them...great times!

Happy Birthday, Tiffany! I love you!

BoUnCeS!! LibbY!

Truman

This has been the worst week of poor Truman's life. Kev took him to the vet Tuesday, cuz he hasn't eaten anything since we moved here August 13th (Friday, remember?). So, he was found to be dehydrated, and got the iv started around noon Tuesday, and he's had it in since then...and, no, he didn't get to come home until today. They've been doing every test under the sun, all kinds of blood tests, x-rays and everything. I went in Wednesday to visit him, he just looked so sad & pitiful, laying in the vet's office with an iv hanging out of his arm. oh, he is a cat, I guess its his front paw. But he did stand up and lick my hand, give me a 'head-butt'. I think he got his xrays Wednesday, and the blood test results back that day. There was nothing wrong in any of them; kidney, thyroid, liver all were good, except that he has a "fatty liver" :-/ The dr said that his skin is yellowish under his fur, but the blood doesn't show anything wrong with his liver, but, he's on antibiotics for a few weeks. So he's home now, but if he doesn't start eating, I have to get him back to the vet for a liver biopsy. Also, his abdomen was mri'd yesterday...nothin'! Actually, it's good news on the face of it, but the vet can't figure out what the hell it is! When Tif saw him here last week before he went to the vet, and she said he was so skinny, he looked like an alley cat! And if he doesn't eat on his own, I'm going to have to syringe-feed him! Kev bought some chicken breast & boiled it & left some here in bite-size pieces, but Tru's not having anything to do with it, he just glanced at it as he walked by the dish. aaaaaaaaaaauuuuuuuuuuugggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh!

i went to see my ms dr today, good appointment, she's gonna let me do 3 days of iv steroids followed by 10 days of prednisone again...woohoo!

Okay, I'm tired, and Truman already went to bed, so I'll go see if he left me any room:-/

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saturday, sept 18, a week later...

I had fun last night...a friend from high school called me around 9, & asked what I was doing last night...I said...well, reading, watching tv, eating leftover pizza, mac & cheese, etc....Sheri, "no, you're going out drinking with me & Bounce"...hahaha! They came over about an hour later, & we went out just to, the American Legion...for the karaoke, for heaven's sake!! Not to sing, just to watch & laugh, & bs with each other! And that was great! Especially cuz we werent close in high school, we knew each other, talked sometimes, but that was pretty much it. Well, except for the time in tenth grade that Bounce kicked my ass, across the street from the school...that was actually the one & only fistfight Ive ever been in! And, yes, she kicked my ass well & soundly *hanging head in shame*...I don't even remember why it was, but I'm sure that my smartass mouth had a bit to do with it...Holy cow, I was only 15, for heaven's sake!

She & Sheri were friends then, so I mostly listened & laughed last night! Bounce doesn't drink, but she's exactly the way I used to be in the 80's, no inhibitions, say & do anything. Sheri & I were saying 'Thank God she doesn't get drunk!' ;-)

Since we took my regular wheelchair last night (easiest to get in and out of a car), it's good that the Legion had a seat on the back stairs to the basement that I could sit on & ride down the stairs. So,Bounce picked me up out of my w/c and sat me on the seat, & buckled the velcro belt around me, and then said the standard line that everybody around here knows from Cedar Point...keep your hands and feet inside the ride...stay completely seated until the ride comes to a complete and final stop...enjoy your day at Cedar Point! hahaha! How could you not know that you were in for fun that night???

By the way, that one picture up there is the one that I got in the little tickets they have like lottery tickets..I didn't win $$, but I got a ticket with 1983 on it, and to us, that was a good sign...that's when we graduated high school! And, yes, I did drink last night, but not drunk...a screwdriver & a Bud Lite.

Geez, it's been WAY too long since I went out with my friends, not just someone else's friends or family! And we've already got together on FB & one of our guy friends from school wants to come next Thursday, when we're going to an actual bar.

I did glean some informative tidbits from the night...

If you're just sitting there, listening to the music, and not talking, the drunk guy next to you is going to invariably put his arm around you and pull you close, yelling, "What's wrong? " over and over...

It was definitely neat to go to the American Legion-to listen to people doing karaoke, instead of to a dance club, now that I'm in a w/c...good friends are more important than you realize sometimes...

Sheri was laughing really hard at the guy trying to hit on me...or laughing at the looks I was giving her... :-/...She said, 'Well, we're not teenagers anymore...'..I said 'That's why we're here at the Legion...looking for sugar daddies, right?'

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sunday

The picture at the top is out my bedroom door to the hallway

The teeny little skinny door is a pantry in the kitchen behind the refrigerator....And the last is Mr Truman, thinking he can blend in & hide in the arm of the loveseat!

Most of the last few days I've been kinda hanging out in here, just looking at all the stuff I've found that I had & didnt know I had...of course, books I forgot about, & a big "Happy Mother's Day" sign on wood that she & Kev made out in the garage, where his woodworking tools were...it's a funky shaped piece of wood that Tif glued about 10 pix of herself to it from then (maybe she was 6 or 7?). & my old baby book, which has about ten bajillian cards in it, from people I've never heard of! Cuz at the time I came along, Mom & Dad & Bro & the older one lived in Dearborn, MI, and Dad was in purchasing at Ford (Mom was originally his secretary (yeah, ok, I know, it sounds like the beginning of a bad dirty joke...), but lay off it! They were great people! Then Dad transferred to Marion to be in purchasing at Eaton. Oh, and I just heard on the news the other night that Whirlpool is doing a lot of hiring lately...wow, that's really cool! I remember when I was about 3 or 4, Mom's best friend here in town was telling her she had to go & pick her husband up at work. So, me being me, I broke in & said "Where does he work?"...that got me a few chuckles. Mrs G said "Whirlpool"...I nodded solemnly, and said..."Oh, I see...is he a lifesaver?" Now I don't have to explain where the precociousness comes from, do I?

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