Originally Posted By smedley {{{{mele}}}} Surgery is always going to be scary, but it sounds very much like you may have the same thing my mother had smoe years ago now (about 7), surgery is much advanced from then, and she came out of it ok, I won't say there isn't recovery stuff, coz that would be lying. What I do want to make a huge point of, is the amazing difference it made to her quality of life post recovery. She was like an entirely different person! Do it, it will be so worth it in the long run you wouldnt believe it was possible. {{{trails}}} {{{Chickie *D*}}} Come on girls, I love ya both, let's all go drink margaritas in the mellow room, and watch the sexy men walk past, we could even wolf whistle at them
Originally Posted By trailsend Thanks, mele, for always putting a logical light on something. I do appreciate it! And smeds ~ you got it babe ~ I'm there! Loveyou!
Originally Posted By chickendumpling <<Come on girls, I love ya both, let's all go drink margaritas in the mellow room>> Sheesh. What a bunch o'lushes. It's not even 8 am yet.
Originally Posted By chickendumpling I so don't want drama. Really, really, really, really. I made a joke, something went wrong, I'm sorry. Trailsend and I are totally fine with each other. I'm obnoxious and cross lines without meaning to. I'll try to work on it. I doubt I'll make much progress but I'll try.
Originally Posted By chickendumpling You know it's really hard to post when you are doing 4 other things and trying to get out the door for work in the morning. But I just had to post now because, as you know, its time for....
Originally Posted By bloona Oh Smedley, how awful, I hope the person who did this to you had a terrible nights sleep when they realise just how stupid they have been. What a piece of.........rubbish........Hope things are better at work soon for you hun xx Mele, I can understand you being scared , but I too know someone who put this off and when they had it done were very pleased with how much better they felt after they had recovered from surgery and wished they hadnt left it so long. ((hugs)) to you. Chicken dumpling, Ive never thought you had said anything wrong, I dont think anyone has. It just seems you two have a good friendship and bounce off each others comments! oh, hold on youre new arent you? Ive just read post 501. Hello, welcome to Lp!..lol
Originally Posted By pennyring Allergies. I've got them. I think someone opened a window. Tears are streaming down my face. Good thing I learned how to type by touch in high school. Yay for education!
Originally Posted By smedley Allergies are horrid. Big hug for you, but yay for the touch typing. I've gotten out of bed this morning with a nasty sinus headache, I'm hoping I'm not coming down with the same ick everyone at work has had.
Originally Posted By Tiggirl My whine: Mark and I were going to go to the Apple Store yesterday. So I head into the bathroom to brush my hair before we go. Step, step, step, sploosh. Hmmm… the carpet isn’t supposed to sploosh when I step on it. That’s odd. I opened the bathroom door and flip on the light… OMG! There was about 2 inches of water covering our entire bathroom and more was pouring out of the toilet like a lovely waterfall. “ACK!†I shouted. Mark shouted back “What’s wrong?†“ACK! Water!†is about all I could get out. Mark jumped up and ran to see what I was talking about. Run, run, sploosh! Mark ran over to the main office (thank Buddha they moved it right across from out place!) and came back with a guy named Don. Don was awesome. He helped us stop the waterfall, get the water out of the bathroom, called the carped guys to bring the shop vac that “could suck the hide off a rhinoâ€, told us our crapper had a bad flapper, gave me a high five for knowing the name Thomas Crapper, called me “Sissyâ€, told Mark he should take me out to dinner because I deserved it and is going to get us a full carpet cleaning. We love Don! Still we have a large patch of carpeted area missing padding now because they had to rip it out and we had toilet water all over our bathroom, towels and it even leaked under the wall into the kitchen. Ugh! Plis our bedroom is in shambles because we had to move everyhing into one corner so they could rip up the carpet. ~Beth
Originally Posted By bloona yuck yuck. The same thing happened when I looked after a neighbours house! They had told a friend he could come over to watch a football match on their Tv as they had satalite and he didnt. So I knew he was coming. I went that night to turn the lights on and close the curtains, as I did each night for them so the house didnt look empty. And when I went in the bathroom I got the same sploosh ( love that term btw!) under foot. He had flushed their toilet and left. It had carried on filling up!!!! I called the owners parents who came round and called a plumber. Oh Im a great house sitter, every time I looked after their house something went wrong! A hamster escaped, ate part of a joke book he found, swelled up and died once! the kids were devestated when they came back. The vet said it was a long standing illness, nothing to do with the joke book BTW A bird flew in , pooped on the cream sofa after eating black berries!!! The cat disappeared for a week. The alarm wouldnt set. The thermostat broke leaving the house freezing. these were over a few years by the way...not two weeks! they've moved house now ( wonder why?)
Originally Posted By LacyBelle Tiggirl, I just love this line, "told us our crapper had a bad flapper." It truly had me LOL. Sorry to hear about the water mishap, but glad they were so quick to fix it for you.
Originally Posted By MissCandice Better to hear that than live in the 1920's and hear that your flapper had a bad crapper. Hang in there, everyone!
Originally Posted By Tiggirl I'm annoyed. Mark and I have a very close friend whos feelins tends to be hurt very easily if he feels we are not paying enough attention to him (We see him usually once a week if not more often). He complains that we do not spend enough time with him. So I keep inviting him to do things with us and he will never commit. Today is a fine example. I told him several days ago that I was taking Mark to dinner for his 1/2 birthday (I like to celebrate 1/2 birthdays. Its a good reason to have fun and show someone you care!) and I invited the friend along. I called today to remind him about our plans for tonight and he said he would see how he felt after work and let us know if he wanted to go. He does this EVERY time. I find it frustrating that he expects us to wait until he gets off work just to see if he wants to go instead of commiting either way now so we can adjust our plans if we need to. GRRRR! Really, we like this friend a lot... he's just been on my last nerve lately. LOL! ~Beth
Originally Posted By mele Well, the hospital just called me and told me that I am so anemic that they are amazed that I am able to even stand.
Originally Posted By mele Yes, I knew I was anemic but wasn't quite sure how bad it was. I will be having a hysterectomy sometime after April 9th. My husband can't take any time off from work until then and the dr. wants me to try to get my iron levels up as much as possible. I really have been neglectful of my health. I am at such a high risk of heart attack right now and am lightheaded even when I am sitting down and barely moving. It was so stupid of me. I am pretty scared about the surgery right now because I'm high risk. It's always scary to have test results spell out how exactly how sick I am. ;-)
Originally Posted By sherrytodd I'm so sorry to hear this. I put off having gallbladder surgery for three years. In that time I just continued to get sicker and sicker. It was ruining my life. I had hit the point where I was starting to develop an eating disorder, because I was associating the pain with eating. I was pretty anemic as well and had to take iron supplements, plus my doctor was really worried because my vitamin K levels were so low. I finally decided enough was enough and had the surgery. It was painful, but I figured that I had already been through enough pain and at least this was a temporary pain and after it was over I would be feeling much better. Now my life is back to the way it should be. For the longest time I had to be very careful with what I ate because many foods would make me sick. I'm looking forward to a trip to DL in May when for the first time in three years I get to run around and eat anything and everything I want. Long story short, I'm understanding your fear, but it sounds like this will be for the best and you'll have the well wishes of everyone here to help get you through this.
