Official CS blanket fort

[Lady Legira]

Oh noes!!!! Definitely not where you want to be. Just try to stay positive, mmmkay? Are they extending visiting hours so at least you can have someone with you?

Staying positive though a raging chest infection on top of asthma isn't the best thing to have. Two antibiotics on heavy doses and a sabutabol (sp?) nebuliser 4 times a day should kick it in the buttocks fairly quickly!

Probably not but the nurses are a nice crowd and most of the other people are friendly though one has Alzheimer's, so sad.

[Company_Slave]

Looks like I'm spending New Years in hospital *sulks*

Oh noes!!!! Definitely not where you want to be. Just try to stay positive, mmmkay? Are they extending visiting hours so at least you can have someone with you?

[AccountingDrone]

Sakka - I know what you mean. Except those on the internet, which I never see, I don't have any friends left. Even family rarely comes around any more.

Tonight, I am feeling a bit useless. The pain is still on the low end of the pain scale, thank goodness..but sometimes my body just will respond. My right hand shakes (not my left..have not yet figured that one out) and neither will hold onto things sometimes. My legs do not respond when I want to get up..and shake when I manage too. I know people out there have it worse, but sometimes I just hate not being able to do much. Might as well be a bump on a log for how useful I am. It's been 3/4 of a year..my body should have mostly mended by now. I'll be the bump in the pillows over here.

Hm, when I did the consult with the Parkinsons research group at Yale, in the course of discussing my family and case with the lead doc he told me that one indicator of Parkinsons was the shaking did not start bilaterally even though it would end up bilateral. This was because the placques and damage to the nerves was not even - it sort of happened randomly.

If your shakes are due to a neuropathy, it is very likely that it is not symmetrical so it is worse in one area over another.

Not sure if this is the case, I am not a doctor, just a diabetic with genetically tied neurological damage, and chemically induced neuropathy.

[Lady Legira]

Looks like I'm spending New Years in hospital *sulks*

[Company_Slave]

*discovers the fort and crawls in for the first time, bearing gluten free goodies and assorted cold medicines.*

No kidding I swear when I was on my way home from work today I was venting to the Fiance about work and since we're going to visit my bestie and her kids tomorrow I said that EllaBella and I might make a blanket fort and work will be lucky if I ever crawl out of it.

[Mytical]

Sakka - I know what you mean. Except those on the internet, which I never see, I don't have any friends left. Even family rarely comes around any more.

Tonight, I am feeling a bit useless. The pain is still on the low end of the pain scale, thank goodness..but sometimes my body just will respond. My right hand shakes (not my left..have not yet figured that one out) and neither will hold onto things sometimes. My legs do not respond when I want to get up..and shake when I manage too. I know people out there have it worse, but sometimes I just hate not being able to do much. Might as well be a bump on a log for how useful I am. It's been 3/4 of a year..my body should have mostly mended by now. I'll be the bump in the pillows over here.

[Sakka]

Can I be done with people now?

Had a few very close friends while growing up, who after high school moved to the coast for better schooling/jobs. I stayed here as I had no idea what I wanted to do (still don't). Every christmas or so, they come back to visit family, etc.

Each year, I send an email wishing them a merry christmas and that I'd like to hang out with them for a bit.
Well, another year, another bunch of photos/comments of them in the local area with the same people they hang out with at the coast (also from here), and not so much as a phone call or email.

[Pixilated]

A sad start to Christmas Eve, we had to have another piggy put to sleep

She's been getting tired & slow the last few days & this morning had totally lost her energy.
Now poor Cinnamon piggy is all on her own.

Oh Cazzi, I'm so sorry. That's hard enough at any time of year, never mind at Christmas.

Mytical, I'm sorry to hear Facebook ate your poem. I've lost a few things to the whims of the Evil Cyber-Demons, but I don't recall any of it being particularly important ... thankfully.

[Andara Bledin]

Awww... Poor Myt.

Always copy anything important to your clipboard before entrusting it to the whims of online forums of any kind. Or write it in notepad and copy pasta it over.

I have lost many a long and researched post to evil forum gnomes and learned that lesson the hard way.

^-.-^

[Mytical]

Finally had a poem ready again after almost a year or so of having a dry spell. Wrote it spur of the moment...and facebook ate it! GRrrrr.

[Cazzi]

A sad start to Christmas Eve, we had to have another piggy put to sleep

She's been getting tired & slow the last few days & this morning had totally lost her energy.
Now poor Cinnamon piggy is all on her own.

[MistressOfTangents]

My three-year-old black & white cat Mickey 'Mouse' passed away suddenly on Monday afternoon. He was acting normally that morning.

I'm so sorry to hear that AriGriffin, losing a pet is never easy. I still miss my cat

[Gizmo]

Dammit. Is it too much to ask to not ruin 1 christmas? Just 1 nice christmas for my kids, that's all I ask.

Hugs hun. Do not blame yourself - this isn't something that is easily controllable and as such you have no responsibility over when it strikes.

[AriGriffin]

My three-year-old black & white cat Mickey 'Mouse' passed away suddenly on Monday afternoon. He was acting normally that morning. He joined me out in the mud room while I talked to my cousin using my cell. After a while, he went into the house. I was walking through the hall to the spare room, passing the dining room, and I noticed him on the dining table. I told him to get down. When he didn't move, I went over to him. He was curled up in a ball, dead.

Smudge, my two-year-old b&w cat, was going around the house meowing for his 'brother' for hours on Monday. Molly, my seven-year-old calico, let Smudge sleep next to her Monday night- something she has -never- let him do before.

[Kanalah]

Was feeling better after my 2 months of no-breathing + coughing all night. Was even happy during this time of year for once.

And then all of a sudden 5 minutes ago everything just took a nosedive. I'm bawling my eyes out and thinking everyone is better off without me.

Dammit. Is it too much to ask to not ruin 1 christmas? Just 1 nice christmas for my kids, that's all I ask.