Happy Thursday

[Redwahine]

Good morning everyone, I don't get to eat this morning. Fasting for test this AM including an MRI of the C spine Two more MRIs tomorrow.

But I have coffee, tea, eggs, bacon, English muffins, milk and cereal. Come and get it!!!

Tyler is doing well. They removed 7 masses, but lab results won't be back until next week. I can't even begin to count the stitches. Biggest challenge is to keep him from scratching or chewing on the stitches. The pain meds keep him asleep most of the time. I have to remove the belly wrap to let him P

DH took a test drive in an 06 Winnebago View!! He could fit in the captains chair, but the peddles were too close together for his size 14 feet. Kept getting stuck and there was not enough room for him to move back to get just another inch. So that one is off the list. But he is going to test drive a newer model to see if it is different. Keep your fingers crossed.

The weather is not as nice. The hint of fall was a teaser. It is warm and sticky out, but not a killer like before. I am looking forward to visiting with Maggie this weekend while she is camping

Everyone have a supper day and stay safe. Aloha.

[carolb]

Good morning ladies! Glad to hear Tyler is doing well! Ha, I've been up since 4 , but this morning I've been preoccupied in reflective thought about our 4-legged companions -- the ones we've nursed through illness and surgery, and those we've sat with til their end. Certainly NOT a way to start our morning coffee conversation The sun has been shining brightly for quite a while now, and I have returned to treasuring the joy of life. Would love for someone to fix me a hot breakfast YUM! Cold cereal here, but the coffee is hot! Wishing all a great day, safe travels, and the blessings that often come from adversity. Oh my, much too philosophical this morning! Now aren't you glad Red started you off on a better note?!

[Sandersmr]

Keeping an eye on the weather forecast because I'm thinking it's going to be a soggy weekend. Originally the rain was supposed to move out after tomorrow, now they're saying it may be Monday. I haven't canceled anything yet.

I have to go get a new battery tonight for the Land Dinghy. The old one is dead. I checked to make sure the converter hadn't blow a fuse but that isn't the case. So, while I'm at it, I getting a larger size with more amps... thinking ahead to some boondocking.

[Echo]

GOOD MORNING SISTAHS!!!

Sun is shining and the temp wasn't to bad outside when I took Shade out to P. I haven't checked but think it's gonna be warm and sticky today. Blech! While not looking forward to winter, I am looking forward to cooler weather. The ants and fleas have been sooooo bad this year!!! My heart has really gone out to poor Shade and the ants have about drove me insane.

Went to the doctors yesterday for blood work and I'm waiting on a call from them to see how things are. They are trying to get my Coumadin regulated. When they call I am gonna talk to whoever it is about getting a handicap tag for the truck, at least for right now as it's really tiring to walk to far. I will soon have to start trucking my own butt around instead of Kelly doing all the driving. I have a couple of doctor appointments that I could not get rescheduled and they are set up for times that she will be at WalMart working. If they don''t call soon I am gonna call them. They are closed between 12 and 1pm for lunch but if I can get the handicap thing I would like to go to the DMV and get the tag this afternoon. Also while over that way I need to find the County Health Dept and pick up some paperwork.

For those of you that have quit smoking and remember? How long did it take for that killer craving for a cigarette to go away? Dang craving started last evening and is still raising he77 with me. I swear if someone looks at me crosseyed today I am gonna rearrange their anatomy by ripping their head off and putting it where the sun doesn't shine! They will certainly find it extremely uncomfortable to sit down! Up until this point the craving hasn't been unbearable but since last eve it's been really horrible.

OK, enough finger flapping and whining about cravings. Hope everyone has a good day, has fun, relaxes and stays safe all at the same time!

Love to all

[mitch5252]

Echo, when I quit, it was maybe a year before the STRONG urges waned. Maybe once a year or so now, I'll smell smoke and think it smells good. Then sanity quickly returns to my mind. YOU CAN DO THIS!

(I've been a PITA non-smoker for 12 years).



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[RitaMc]

Echo, I quit smoking in 1991. i had bronchitis and hadn't smoked for 3 day before seeing the dr( I could hardly breath without smoking, let alone enjoying a ciggie). When I told the dr I hadn't had a smoke for 3 days she told me I was over the worst of the withdrawl and not cave in. I didn't. Each day go easier and easier. What's odd i jut once, twice a year now I get a very strong craving for a cigarette. Hits me like a brick, I think "OK. I'll have one" and then reality smacks me along side the head and shouts."You don't smoke." I have to say I chewed pounds of gum for months after. Each time I wanted to smoke I chawed on gum. You can do this. If I could quit and keep off them you can too.

[Redwahine]

Echo, I quit 30 yrs ago. It took months for the craving to go away. Like Mitch, it still smelled good for several years. But now I get nauseated when I smell smoke. Back then they did not have those electric cigarettes or nicotine patches. The trick my son and I used was cinnamon sticks!!

These are real cinnamon sticks, not candy. They are found in the spice area of your grocery. These sticks are really bark from a tree. They come rolled, as wood shavings. 

Choose a bottle that has sticks as tightly rolled as you can find. The ones that look most like cigarettes. 
The next part is great for "having something to do" with your hands. You can hold it in your hand and fidget with it the way we fidgetted with our cigarettes. You can place it between your lips, like your cigarette. You can bite down on it to relieve that strange sensation you've been having in your teeth since you quit smoking. You can feel like you have a cigarette in your hand. And, it smells like cinnamon (but not a strong aroma). The smell somehow helps with the craving, specially right after a meal or with alcohol. Anyway, it helped me.

Good luck!!!

[JudyJB]

Good morning all! I took the advice and ran my generator for half an hour this morning even though my batteries looked fully charged. I have hardly run it in two months, and the times I did run it, it sounded uneven and made strange sounds. Yesterday, when I wanted to heat something up and it was wet outside, it wouldn't run at all. After running it for half an hour today, I have to admit that it sounded a LOT better, so I will do that from now on every few days.

I am dying for a hot shower. First, I ran out of water the day before yesterday, and then yesterday, I ran out of propane, or at least it showed almost out. So I ran and got refills for each, BUT then I cut my thumb fixing a sandwich yesterday afternoon and had trouble stopping the bleeding, so I was afraid to get it wet last night and just took a one-handed sponge bath last night.

Last night while I was awake in the middle of the night I remembered I had surgical rubber gloves for dumping, and I could take a shower tonight wearing one of those!! Yea! I will give it a try to tonight. The bleeding has stopped by now anyway.

I am going to clean out one of my storage areas underneath today. When I went camping with my son and kids, he just tossed clean and dirty stuff in together, and it is bothering me because that is where I keep water hoses and other stuff I want to keep clean. (His attitude was that we were just camping, and it was OK to be dirty. I finally told him that I was NOT camping and that this was my HOME! I think he finally got it but too late.) Just needs sorting and wiping out so I can do that with my thumb.

Going to try to take a walk today since it is sunny and no longer raining. Still cold, however, but that is OK. (Hard to type with sore thumb!)

[Nasoosie]

GOOD AFTERNOON TO ALL!

Once again, it looks as if my Adirondack summer 'resort' has the best weather in the nation----62 degrees expected to get as high as 80+ today-----and cloudless skies. Yesterday was as fine a day for weather I have ever experienced. I was able to wash the old caulking on my old trailer so that I can recaulk today and then paint the caulks white to brighten up the poor old thing. And I was able to get my pool all drained and dried out and packed away for another summer. I went for several walks, read the animal prints in the sand (deer, turkeys, mostly, and a few squirrels, geese, great blue heron, and moles) but no bear tracks. The visit by the bear during the Ruckus (which was evident by only his droppings) has not been repeated, much to my dismay. I would love to have a bear back on the acres.

Issy, Richard, and I had pizza for supper last night and then sat around a blazing campfire for some of Richard's original music via his guitar and voice. Richard heads home to VT today, and it will be lonely here thereafter. But perhaps, when tomorrow's rain shows up, especially, I will be able to tackle my home destuffing chores at last. Bit by bit I am getting things wrapped up for the winter. Where did summer go? It is always too short, which is why I am actually looking forward to more of the same weather back at my winter home in the Orlando area. I have missed riding my bike and canoeing.

Echo, just remember that stopping smoking, for you, means life, and that smoking for you is a road to death. Horrible as those cravings are, as others have said, find something else to do with your mouth and hands so you can live some more good years. For me it was the sociality of smoking that I was addicted to, as all my friends and family members smoked. Smoking for me was never a lone habit, unless I was alone talking to someone on the phone who was smoking, (I could always hear them smoking!) and then I would have a craving to light up. Addictions are very real, and, unfortunately, the only persons who can stop them are ourselves. Allow yourself to be a strong person with horrendouse cravings for another while, and eventually you will find it easier and easier----especially when your lungs recover even just a teensy bit so you can walk without panting. I am thinking of you and sending you the strength to heal yourself.

Red, I am hoping hat those MRIs will find everything in your body just fine, and that all you need is more rest to heal your brain after that concussion. Keep us up to date, ok?

I hope that all on the roads are having fine weather, as well, and that you all savor each and every minute, rainy or shiny! Happy middle of September to all.

[Acadianmom]

I just got back from Lafayette. Went to get a new air compressor from Sears. The old one quit when we were getting ready in case we had to evacuate for Isaac. It's so handy to have one here because it's so hard to find one that works in town. We have to have a big one for the tractor tires. Had Mexican food with my son and then heart burn. It's tomatoes that bother me the most but ate the salsa anyway.

Echo, find something to do with your hands. I took up knitting, not that I ever made much. The only time I would want to smoke was if I was drinking. I don't hang out at bars much(or at all) so it's not a problem anymore.

I was watching the weather channel and it's raining all over East Texas and there is rain all around us. I can't tell which way it's moving. We had a big rain yesterday and I had to put my kittens in the motorhome. I have a big cage on the carport for them but there was water blowing across the carport.

Martha

[Echo]

Some of you simply crack me up!!!

Thanks for the replies.