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19410. judithathome - 5/14/2006 9:04:29 PM I gave it my best, though. 19411. Macnas - 5/15/2006 8:31:49 AM Grand Marnier, I have bad and hazy memories of that sticky orange booze. 19412. wonkers2 - 5/15/2006 3:10:46 PM Just returned from my first experience with a chiropractor or kinesiologist as he calls himself. Up to now I've been a skeptic. But he appeared to make sense about the cause of my low back pain--right leg shorter than left which tilts lower back out of line. Solution a heel lift for my right shoe. Anybody opinions on chiropractic for back pain? 19413. Adam Selene - 5/15/2006 3:19:12 PM The only complaint's I've heard are from "official" doctors. Gee... fill in your own punch line. 19414. Magoseph - 5/15/2006 3:19:15 PM That's very interesting, Wonks, something I should look into soon, for myself, I mean.
Mac, Flexy tasted the liqueur and deemed it execrable. Its only quality is that the content of alcohol is only 40%, he said. Some forty years ago, Flexy stopped drinking and since then, he believes that having a couple of drinks too many leads to perdition.
Yesterday, he was given a Mimosa and although he had to know there was Champagne in it, we were surprised that he drank it down and asked for more. We came back from the brunch at my son’s and his wife’s place loaded up with enough food to last a week. I never heard a pip out of Flexy on the way back home, a 22 miles trip usually scary for him. He was sound asleep and upon waking up, told me how well I drove this time. I think that I’ll take a thermos bottle with spiked orange juice every time we get out of town.
Today, he has his primary doctor check-up and Thursday the left eye’s surgery followed by another check-up Friday. Flexy has a friend who underwent the same procedures, both eyes having heavy cataracts. This man had all kinds of troubles during and after the surgeries. I was present when he said that most of his problems came from having a nervous wife at his side, a judgment I found harsh at first, considering that she is a wonderful woman. However, you know, she agreed with him and told me that her fears made him tense and nervous at the same time and this state of affair did not help his recovery.
19415. Max Macks - 5/15/2006 8:43:46 PM howdy , just checking in 19416. wonkers2 - 5/15/2006 11:41:07 PM Hi, Max. I was out in the Bay area last month. The weather was a bit wet and cold. The new museum (DeYoung) in Golden Gate Park is beautiful. Wish home prices weren't so high. I might move out there. 19417. judithathome - 5/16/2006 5:08:48 AM Just returned from my first experience with a chiropractor or kinesiologist as he calls himself.
This is so timely...today on our way to the airport to unload the Greeks on their Lufthansa flight home, we passed a truck which had a sign on it that said "Equine and Canine Chiropractic Care" and we nearly drove off the road laughing...we were making jokes about the short tables for the dogs to lay on and the manipulation of the dog's spines and the hole in the tables where their snouts woud go....I guess you had to be there, Wonk, for it to be as hysterical as we found it.
Maybe it was in part the exhileration of delivering our guests to the airport, at last. 19418. judithathome - 5/16/2006 5:11:38 AM Substitute an "e" for an "i" in that post. 19419. judithathome - 5/16/2006 5:12:45 AM Or whatever....HA! 19420. Ulgine Barrows - 5/17/2006 6:21:34 AM Magoseph
My husband neglected me on mother's day and well he should, my mother-in-law's cancer has come back. This may well be the last mother's day he has with her, and I don't mind.
He drove across town to make pancakes for her. He doesn't live with her. Your situation is obviously different, don't explain.
God I'll miss that lady, his mom, yet another loss. She's not doing the chemo this time cuz it almost killed her the last time. The kids are taking it hard and so am I. 19421. Ulgine Barrows - 5/17/2006 6:25:27 AM Actually I do mind...there was a bratty part of my brain wishing he hadn't made such a mess of the kitchen.
Hmmm. Proves I'm human. 19422. Ulgine Barrows - 5/17/2006 6:54:38 AM I'm going back to Houston to get me some pants.
~Beck 19423. judithathome - 5/17/2006 1:24:34 PM She's not doing the chemo this time cuz it almost killed her the last time. The kids are taking it hard and so am I.
Ulgine, having seen up close what chemo can do to a body...and even now, 33 years later, the effects are rearing their ugly heads...I can well understand why your mother-in-law would opt for her last days to be as plaesant as possible. She isn't chosing this road lightly. Nor is she thinking of anyone but herself in this choice...you guys may be hurt by her decision but the best thing you can do is stand by her and support it because she shouldn't feel the least bit guilty about it. It's right for her even though it's hard for you all...trust me, she has agonized over this and decided to do what she can bear the easiest.
I know you and your husband will understand and support her. And I know how difficult it will be for you both. My best wishes to all of you.
19424. Ulgine Barrows - 5/20/2006 6:49:35 AM judithathome, thanks, I am trying to turn my husband to that way of thinking.
I'm not hurt by her choice at all. My mom dropped dead one day. I actually think these kids are lucky to make peace with things. But maybe they would prefer her to drop dead, ya know?
The twists that life gives us.... 19425. judithathome - 5/20/2006 4:36:41 PM Oh yes, I understand that completely. Both my parents went quickly and unexpectedly. Seeing friends go through the lingering deaths of their parents has convinced me I was let off so easily. It was hard at the time but it was hard in a quick way... 19426. Magoseph - 5/20/2006 6:36:26 PM Hello, everyone—Flexy had the cataract operation Thursday and saw the surgeon yesterday who pronounced him fine. I think the next operation will be the early part of June.
Except for two kinds of drops given four times a day each and being careful not to do any hard work, there’s nothing to do for him, but sit in the sun under his wide black hat and dark glasses and poke his burning piles of wood. 19427. judithathome - 5/20/2006 7:28:26 PM Well, that sounds like a relaxing afternoon for anyone.
Glad he did well. You must be so relieved...and tired. It's emotionally AND physically draining to be keeping up with all you've been doing the past 5 months. You need to relax for a bit yourself! 19428. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 5/20/2006 7:32:42 PM All best wishes and give him a massage . . .
19429. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 5/20/2006 7:33:20 PM Or have him give you one!
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