clewis, I thought of that, but I was thinking we probably shouldn't bathe him right now because he just had the Frontline put on. Wouldn't that just wash it off?

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.

deltamaster wrote:

It is all on Vic's shoulders to take our advice and run with it... take our suggestions and apply them.

Your Right!, It's all on my shoulders. It always has been.

Remember when Snipe gave me numbers to call?

Here's my the post.

It's frustrating when you call and hear from different organizations. We can only help with a electric bill. If you have a cut off notice. We can only help with rent, if you have a court order eviction notice. We can only help you with food.

Once you get a court eviction notice. It's totally up to the landlord as to. Whether or not he accepts or deny that payment. So if he doesn't accept the payment. Your out on the street. That's the way that works.

I don't mean this in a disrespectful way. I'm not a know it all. But I have actually been down this road before. I do speak from experience.

My son and I will be in a shelter at night and out on the street. Pounding the pavement by 7am. Day to Day, That's how shelters works around here. That's how the homeless are treated. You get a place to sleep, something to eat. And thank god you got that much. But don't expect them to hold your hands. That's not happening.

Never explain - Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Buddy had been on Prednisone. I hadn't thought of that. They stopped it a while back to see how he'd do, and he was great for months. Just started back up with the biting a few days ago.

My allergies are much worse in Fall. Maybe his are too? I'll check about putting him back on the Prednisone.

Thank you ((((clewis)))). I feel much better.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.

adrienne2238 wrote:

Vicky, glad the stress test is behind you. Sounds like the things you had with that are some of the same things they said I might get when I quit smoking. Fun and games.

 

Oh wow...I thought you had said your sister only had a sprained ankle and broken ribs. I didn't realize she had broken bones in her leg too. I agree with you, I doubt she'll be home today.

That's what my sister told me at first. Broken ribs and a sprain ankle. Come to find out it was more serious then she thought. Until the doctor told her what the Xrays showed.

I only found out about the surgery yesterday from my younger sister.

Never explain - Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

clewis3888 wrote:

Vicky....I have had you on my mind for the last 24 hrs.  I must get this off my chest.  So take it in or blow it off...your choice but you keep putting personal information out here....expect reactions~

I do it to get it off my chest, To vent. Believe me, I take No Offence to what others say. I don't bruise that easy. I have tough skin.

clewis3888 wrote:

You haven't even tried...based on your posts here.  You just state that you HOPE they don't expect all of the normal standards.

Yes, I'm afraid if they want those things. I can't not provide them. Please never assume I'm not trying. I don't tell all, Just bits and pieces. When I'm frustrated and I want to pull my hair out. 

clewis3888 wrote:

ALSO....millions and millions of people are upside down and filing bankruptcy and have gone tru forecloser.  These people still find rentals....even with BK's and Foreclosures.

I can certainly relate to that. I was one of those millions that's lost their home to forecloser. That's how I end up moving back here when that happen. I rented the biggest Uhaul I could drive without have a CDL. My sisters and I loaded it up and moved on. Never looking back.

clewis3888 wrote:

And finally and the most important issue.....YOUR SON.  If you ALLOW yourself and he to become homeless and live in the van.  Who's gonna drive it to move it from here and there because believe me...you will not be allowed to stake a place without being reported and ticketed and towed away.

That I'm aware of.  I'm working on a solution. I'm trying to come up with a plan of action.

clewis3888 wrote:

YEH..your meds say don't drive but sweetie..YOU are in survival mode.  You will have to to avoid unlawful loitering.  So be unlawful now and be proactive. If the meds are working....get moving! Drive the dang van and find a new place that is affordable even if it is one room.

My doctor is the one that said I couldn't drive. Not the printed words on the prescription bottle.

But hey, I got to do, what I got to do. I know that.

clewis3888 wrote:

Here's the last kicker.....if you allow yourself to become homeless.....your son will be too.  Social services COULD take him into foster care. Do YOU HEAR ME...You could lose him!

Guess you don't know. My son will be 18 next month. I would give my life for my son if that meant he would have a better life. I truly mean that. It's a good thing I don't have a life insurance policy.

clewis3888 wrote:

I truly, truly am not saying these things to hurt you but to open your eyes on how you are so tetering on disaster.  Go for broke....ask people to for than what you think they would NOT accept....current LL and future potential ones.  You have nothing to lose except your son.

I am praying you get a break.  You just need to open up your mindset.  Again God Bless You!

From the bottom of my heart, I Thank You. 

Just know,  I meant no disrepect towards you or anyone else here.

I will certainly tone down my responses.

Never explain - Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

pins-n-needles wrote:

Drive by posting...

 

Been down in the sewing room - talking to my MIL and sewing bags. I am turning into the bag lady. Ack.

 

Now I have to get cleaned up - see Dr. at 1:40 - follow-up from June's appt. when he tried to scare me with the 'you must have cancer' schtick. I have a schtick for him... May be looking for a new doctor by 2 p.m. this afternoon.

 

Okay, so everyone behave themselves and continue to assemble peacefully until I get back.  Then, we riot.

In some people's eyes...Being a "Bag Lady" is a compliment Pins  

She who creates purty, functional satchels...

I'm all in for a RIOT--if it will entail a riot of colorful fabrics on display.      Or some flavor of humor...that is a RIOT.   Yoo Hoo...Have2  Toneee  ???? 

Got a late start on my walk this morning.  I need to stop getting on the computer before I put on my walking shoes.   I am so easily distracted. 

My walking trail, is a fitness path, and there are fixtures along the way, for exercise, like hanging rings, chin-up bars, a balance beam, and so forth.  Most of which are completely useless, for my pathetically weak upper body.  There is this one contraption, which is called the "hand walk"  though.  It sort of looks like parallel bars.  And you are supposed to hang from the bars, and carry yourself across.  (monkey bars for grown-ups?)   Anyway, I cannot accomplish the hand walk either, but I have been using these bars for stretching exercises, after my walk.  And doing some isometric exercises for my upper body.    Which I certainly felt in my muscles the last time.  

Anyway...I just wanted to offer you some encouragement Pins, as I know you have been going to Curves.   I have been reading from my own library, and came across two seperate studies, in completely different books.  With regards to patient studies Tufts University conducted on weight training.  And it showed that women who combined weight training, with a diet, lost 44% more fat, then those women who dieted alone.  

And then in Deepak Chopra's book, Ageless Body, Timeless Mind, he relates another study, in which Tufts Gerontologists took a group of the frailest residents at a nursing home and put them on a weight training regimen.  Within eight weeks, wasted muscle had come back by 300%, balance and coordination  improved, and overall a sense of active life returned.  Some of the subjects had not been able to walk unaided, could now get up to go to the bathroon in the middle of the night by themselves, an act of reclaimed dignity that is by no means trivial. What makes this accomplishment truly wondrous, however, is that the youngest subject in the group was 87, and the oldest 96.

Pretty awesome huh?  

Just sharing some inspiration....now, perhaps I should go dig my weights out of storage, and work on building some of my muscle back.  Since, I cannot rely on steady book sales, to suffice, as my weight lifting, on a regular basis.   Maybe I should stack weights on top of a box which holds my cigarettes? 

And you didn't mention what "kind" of cancer your Doc is scaring you with Pins   I would hate to see you go through the Ducking Foctor routine, that TempestGrace recently had to contend with.   

That natural medicine Doc I mentioned before, Jonathan Wright, has a clinic in your geographic area, called the Tahoma Clinic.   In the event you wish to check him out for yourself.  www.tahoma-clinc.com 

Ta Ta for now...my friends on the PLU.

Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. ~ Harold Whitman

Adrienne...I would never tell you to not see the vet.  Even a Veterinarian would not say don't come in.  Its always better to be sure.  10 -1 its just a flare up of allergies but see how he's acting tomorrow and then make that decision.  Try the aloe or a soothing bath and see if it is soothing for him.  If so....its probably allergies.

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I'm back.

Now he wants to do an UPPER GI/ENDOSCOPY. I said NO! Actually, what I said was - let's find out if I'm still ANEMIC before we schedule ANY MORE TESTS... amazingly, he agreed. So he the lab draw some blood to check for anemia, iron levels and double check my TSH (thyroid) now that I'm not self-medicating with an extra half a pill.

So should know in a day or so what those tests are and will have to go from there.

Moon - he said that anemia=colon cancer so I needed a colonoscopy. But, that didn't prove true since the dr. who did the colonoscopy said everything looked perfectly normal in that end. I think he's on a fishing expedition. But, the lake has now clearly put out a 'no fishing' sign...and I'm not taking it down until further notice.

And that's that...and I think we should have a riot of color! and fabric! I stopped at JoAnn's... well, actually, I went to JoAnn Fabrics on Monday - and got a couple things I needed and they gave me a 30% off total purchase card, but I had to use it by Friday. So stopped in today and used it - on Halloween fabrics. And I'm gonna make some treatbags for kids - that I can sell inexpensively at the gift show...which is in 3 weeks and I am in a lot of trouble if I don't redouble my efforts in the sewing room...

So that's where I'm off to - right now.  Have fun storming the castle!....

OK I see now that you had a colonoscopy with nothing wrong.

Geez. I need a new doctor but all of them that I had talked to were pompous idiots.

You may just be low on iron etc from slowing down with being active and not eating as well as you may have in the past. We've all been programmed to think that red meat will kill you as will fats, and we need fats to dissolve some of our vitamins, and we need the iron from the meat. Pasta is not a health food! With what they've done to corn, I'm about afraid to eat anything made from it anymore.

Is the morale improving around here yet?

Burns, doctors can definitely be morons. I was having heavy periods that lasted from 2-4 weeks, with only a week or so break in between. They decided I was anemic ONLY after I went to the hospital and checked myself in, thinking I was losing my mind because THEY all said it was just the panic getting worse.

((((Pins)))) I do hope that your doctors get their act together. Oh and I'd be honored to be a bag lady, if it meant I could create the beautiful bags that you do.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.

Delta, if it gets that bad, we won't be able to get under the trailer. On the bright side, we could get lucky and have temps in the 60s this winter, like we did last year.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.

victorian_spirits wrote:

My son and I will be in a shelter at night and out on the street. Pounding the pavement by 7am. Day to Day, That's how shelters works around here. That's how the homeless are treated. You get a place to sleep, something to eat. And thank god you got that much. But don't expect them to hold your hands. That's not happening.

 

A shelter is better than a van.

Will Smith starred in a movie based on the life of a now wealthy man that did just that.