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Good Tuesday Morning Ms Cylene! I hope today is being good to you! I know you were busy all week-end with your grand kids so I hope you've been able to get some rest a "recover." I'll bet y'all had a blast together!!

I didn't get my "project" finished yesterday because a friend of mine was having trouble trying to transfer pictures from her new digital camera to a cd and asked me to help her. I checked her laptop and there isn't a program on it for making cd's. I tried to install the one I use, but it didn't work. We kind of suspect it's because she has VISTA on her laptop. She needed to get the pics onto a cd yesterday so I put her camera's memory card in my card reader, plugged it into my computer and was able to "fix up" all of those 50+ pictures for her and get them onto a cd. She had gone to her one grand daughter's graduation over the week-end and the grand daughter was going to be stopping by last evening to pick-up the cd so she could make prints of the pics she wanted. It was no big deal helping her. I can find just about any excuse needed to play around on my computer instead of doing things I should do.......but now today I have to finish off what I started on Sunday. Oh well, as uncomfortable as I've been these past several days, it's best for me to just take it as easy as possible anyway. The less pain I'm in, the happier I am. LOL!!

Well, I hope your day is a good one today! Many blessing to you my friend!

Moki

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Hi Sweetie,

I am so sorry I haven't gotten back to you. I was in for a bit yesterday, wrote you a book. I pressed send and it disappeared. I couldn't bear it, I just cried. One of those days you know what I mean.

Anyway I am keeping my babies tonite and since they are all asleep and snuggled in. I will take a few to write another book! haha Nah wouldn't bore you that much.

We had a great week end though it was so awfully hot. I went out for 10 minutes with them and got so sick. Had to come in and lay down, slept for an hour and felt better after that. My son stayed with the girls and played a board game or something. Haven't had that experience before and sure pray to never have it again. I know to be more careful with the heat. With my seizure problems, have to anyway. Tomorrow I have some things for them to do for Father's Day. They are leaving for Universal Studios on Thursday. Will be back on Sunday, but it will be a great time for them. They have a camper they pull behind their van. The girls really love that and will have the best time. Universal is really great fun and lots for them to do. Lots different than Disney World, they have been there many times. Their other Grandma bought them season tickets for that. And they are able to go down with them a lot. Grandma and Grandpa are both retired. They travel all over the world too. Think I heard they will take them all to Ireland, that is their homeland or something. Should be very interesting and lots of fun. Not sure when that is going to happen though. Seems they have a castle over there in the Bullen family!

I am still suffering with my shoulder and left arm. My daughter told me to get ahold of my doctor, but I am just so fed up with doctors and insurance companies right now, it will have to wait till I can handle that. So since I am doing that, yeah I will suffer the pain and go on with my mean self. Those menthol patches seem to help though, somewhat anyway. So I will be ok till I decide what I want to do. I also broke a tooth, well a big filling fell out. It was over 20 years old though. But that doesn't help anything. I gotta go get that fixed, but now that will take some building up to on my part. One place I am scared to death of, "Dentist"! Just have not had the best experiences with them unfortunately.

I see you are still having trouble with your legs missy. What are you suppose to do about that when it happens? Doesn't sound like much fun and I sure wish you would call your doc or do whatever you should or can to help rid yourself of that. I would think the relaxing in the pool would help some. Doesn't seem to though? I sure will be praying you can rid yourself of that.

We had terrible storms today. Lots of rain and winds. It started around 8 this morning and I hadn't been to sleep but about 3 hours, but it woke me right up. Thunder was so loud. We lost our power for about 2 hours. My son got worried it might be a long time and started up the generator and hooked up a window unit air. He can't stand to go very long without the AC. He said since it was the first time since we got the generator it was good to know it worked! haha So guess he feels better about that. Year before last we lost power for over a week and he was so very miserable, I wasn't sure he would be able to make it much longer. We had battery operated fans and tv of course radios. We didn't have the generator then but got one shortly afterward. He was not going thru that again. It was miserable I must say. My daughter was longer so they came up and stayed with us as then her husband working nights and sleeping days was miserable also. It was very nice. Except I let them have my room, where my computer is. Gosh I thought it would never be time for him to go to work, haha.

We are in hurricane season now, so not sure what to look out for. But we are ready, well need to make sure our food supplies are stocked. Since we mainly eat frozen food because of Daniels food restrictions and mine, that might be a problem for us. But he can not eat canned foods, no way. So much sodium in them, so will have to make sure the generator will work our frig as well as whatever else he wants it too. Think it just might. I am sure he bought the one that would handle all those things! ha Had to look out for what was important before he spent a nickle. Very price conscience and value smart.

I said I wasn't going to write you a book and look what I have done. It seems a week since I have been able to talk with you. I couldn't even get online Sunday or Monday very much. My computer wouldn't get on. Finally Monday after me trying everything I asked Daniel to see what he could do. After messing on it, well it was a port or something. The connections weren't connecting, ha, whatever that means. But he fixed that and I have been fine. He also bought me another Spy Bot that is amazing. I have Spy Sweeper and also this new one. I had over 1400 bugs and things on my computer. It cleared them out instantly. And it is fast, doesn't take forever like Spy Sweeper. So now I have both and should be very protected. Plus I have Norton whatever that is. Windows has it's protection system also. I hope I will be safe as I crashed last year and it was so horrible. Lost everything. I cried over that also. Big baby!!

I had told him how slow mine was running, so he checked this spy system out and decided it was going to be best for me. Hopefully no computer repair this year.

OK, sweet friend, I will hush and get to bed so I can be fun for my girls tomorrow. I have decided on lots for us to do and I don't want to be so sleepy I can't handle my end! haha

I love you and thanks for keeping me up to date on what has been going on with you. I know that isn't really the easiest thing when you don't hear back from your Buddy. I do hope you will forgive me this time.

Hugs and lots of Love,

Cylene

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Good morning my friend! It was great to hear from you this morning, but I over slept so I have about a half hour to get myself together so that my aide and I can go out and I can buy a tent so that we can attend a camp-out this week-end.

I hope that today is being good to you and I promise to answer your email and post after I get back home. I've got an email to answer first and then it will be on to yours. I'm sorry for cutting this short, but I gotta scoot! LOL!! (Moki? This was NOT the morning to oversleep was it darlin?)

Hello there dear lady! My word this has been some kind of day! It all started with over-sleeping and kinda went goofy from there on out. We had alot of fun while looking for a tent. In fact, we found one that will be perfect. It's alot more tent than we had planned on buying, but it was such a good deal we couldn't pass it up. My legs were all swollen by the time we got home so my aide went back out to the store and bought the tent while I got my feet elevated. They're still pretty gross looking, but they don't hurt like they did earlier. It will take a few days for the swelling to go away and to be able to see something besides tree trunks down there...LOL!

Yes, I know what you're talking about when you speak of writing a book to someone and then have it disappear before your eyes. It really gets on my nerves when that happens. Especially if it was something very important and you wanted it just perfect before you clicked "send."

I bought a new swimsuit while we were out shopping this morning and had every intention of initiating it today, but the temps outdoors went to 103°, so I decided to stay inside! It would be ridiculous for me to go outside for any length of time in that kind of heat! It's suppossed to do the same thing for the next week too. I won't be going to that camp-out if it stays this hot. That would just be begging for trouble.

So your grand daughters are going to Universal Studios huh? I've heard that that place is pretty neat. My sister and her husband used to take their kids down there and to DisneyWorld every summer. Heck, I live in California, and I've never even been to DisneyLand! LOL! I've never been much for places like that though. I'm more of the camping in the woods type. Drop me off in the middle of a woods with a few supplies and I'll be in seventh heaven! Heck, when I was younger I used to take folks on 7 day canoe trips! I loved it!! It gave me the opportunity to introduce alot of folks to the great outdoors, plus I got paid to do it!!

I can sure relate to it when you speak of being fed up with doctor's, insurance companies and the like. There have been times where I've thought that the doctor's should be paying me because I knew more about what was going on with my body than they did. Most of the doc's I see nowadays have gotten to know me well enough to know that I will NOT be a guinea pig or a pin cushion. One of my first neurologist used me as a guinea pig, without even telling me!! I got soooooooooooo sick!! I couldn't figure out what was wrong with me, I was sooooo sick! When I was admitted to the hospital and he was called in he told me that he had expected I would get sick, but didn't figure it would be as bad as it was. Let's just suffice it to say that he's lucky I was so sick and very, very weak because I probably would be in jail for the rest of my life had I been able to get out of bed. I was absolutely irate with him and told him to never come near me again. I called a nurse into my room and told her to get him out of there and to send for a new neurologist because that one was to never come near me again. She came to talk to me during dinner that evening and I told her what went on and she totally understood what I had done then.

You've spoke of some kind of menthol patches for pain. I've never heard of such a thing. Would you tell me more about them please??? I may want to give them a try. I don't like what this morphine is doing to me one little bit and I'm weaning myself off of it. I know what I'm in for when it comes to pain again, but that morphine has got to go. It's turned me into a space cadet most of the time. I'm turning into somewhat of a zombie and I do not want that. I'll endure the pain before I'll let that continue. I don't remember things on it and I hate not following through with things that I say I will do. I just totally space them out and then I'm embarrassed to death. That's not me at all. If I say I'll do something, I will definately do it! I've disappointed folks alot in the past several months and that kind of crap has just got to stop.

Eeeeuuuuuwwwww!! The dentist!!! Mercy me!!! Ohhhh how I turn into a basket case!! They used to have to put me to sleep just to poke around in my mouth....LOL!! My teeth are like stars -- they can come out at night -- and I still get antzy about going to see a dentist. When I was pretty young I had a dentist pull a tooth in the back of my mouth without telling me what he was going to do and no novacaine or anything. He just started twisting and tugging on it while my mouth was blocked open until it came out. I will probably never forget that.

Yes, I'm still having problems with my legs swelling. Today has been the worst day too. It felt so good to get home from our shopping expedition and get my slacks off. They're so swollen that my slack are tight on them. The doc gave me a prescription for some lasix, told me to drink lots of water and keep my legs elevated. I keep them elevated as much as I can, but on days like today, well, I really shouldn't have gone shopping actually....LOL! (bad Moki!! Bad, bad girl). I haven't been drinking as much water and cranberry juice as I'm suppossed to and I dehydrate extremely quickly. When I dehydrate my legs fill up with fluid for some reason and my kidneys and bladder don't eliminate it on their own. I go into to see the doc on Friday again. I've started eliminating a small amount of fluids though so that's a good thing. I really don't want to end up in the hospital with renal failure again. That's was scarey as all git out man! I bought another case of water today as I was down to 1 bottle left and the water here tastes horrible so I drink bottled water. I'll probably come out of it ok within a week I think. Once I start eliminating it again then I'm usually alright as long as I take it easy. Believe me, after this morning? I'm taking it easy! LOL!! I should set-up my laptop so that I can go online with it. Then I can sit with my legs elevated and be online. Otherwise there's no room under my desk to elevate my legs. It's a big roll top desk and it has a back and 3 sides where your legs go and there's not enough room to get my legs up and still be able to reach the keyboard. LOL!!!

It's great that you've got a generator to use when your power goes out. With all bad storms you folks get out that way I would imagine alot of folks keep generators at the ready. I eat alot of frozen meals also. I love those Stouffer's entree's!! They're just the perfect size meal for me and they don't have as much sodium in them as canned stuff has. Sodium is something else that will make me hold too much water in my system. I'm more careful about my sodium intake than I am my sugar intake and I'm a diabetic! My sugar stays right where it belongs about 99% of the time. I take one pill a day and it does the trick. Sodium, on the other hand, is harder to control sometimes I think.

I used to use Spy Sweeper all the time. Loved it! I used that and Microsoft Windows LiveOneCare. Welllllll, Windows Live OneCare worked quite well for quite awhile until one day when all hell broke loose on this thing. Come to find out it wasn't catching all of the viruses, trojans, etc, etc. and I had a big problem on my hands. A friend of mine in Michigan told me about a program called Avast so I tried it and I tell ya what. It's fantastic!! I use it and Zone Alarm and haven't had a lick of trouble since. I've used Norton and I've used McAfee and had major trouble with them. Everytime I turned around there were all sorts of bugs in my system. With this Avast, noting seems to get past it!! I lost soooooooo much stuff when this thing crashed! I cried to so don't feel bad....LOL!! But ya know what??? Now I back-up everything before I go to bed each night. Any graphics and anything I don't want to lose gets copied or transferred to a cd or a flash drive so that I don't lose a whole mess of stuff again should something happen.

Gosh, look at how I've rambled on at you. LOL!! And I haven't really said much outside of answer you post! I know, I promised I'd answer it earlier today, but I totally spaced it out -- along with several other things I had wanted to get done today. Grrrrrrrrrrr!!! See what I mean??? I hate this morphine!!! Sometimes I think I'm lucky to remember my own name. Well, it shouldn't be all that long and I will have myself weaned off of it. I've started it and will be talking with the doc about it on Friday when I go in to see her again. It's just got to go though.

I want to thank you once more time for allowing me to join Windzzz. It's one of the best things I've done in a long time! I really value the friendship we've established with each other also. I hope and pray that we can continue it for a long time to come. Ohhh geez! Ijust remember something!! Dangit! DAR had posted a note to me about why I don't open my instant messenger and I was going to respond to it, but forgot it. She probably thinks I'm ignoring her or something. Geez Louise Moki!! Use your head for something besides a hat rack girlie!!! I haven't used my instant messengers in so long they're probably way out of date. I just got out of the habit of being on them almost all day and night and now I'm not using them at all. I need to find a happy medium with them, don't I? LOL!!!

Well, listen, I'm going to go answer that post while I'm thinking about it and then probably go sit back in my relciner again so I can get my legs up for awhile. Take care dear lady and may many blessings come your way.

Much love,

Moki

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