The days of black and white

"If you remember most or all of this you lived in the good years".... The Days of Black & White Red Skelton was soooo funny !!!!! "Good night and God bless.." --Go all the way to the bottom past the pictures. I think you'll enjoy it. Whoever wrote this must have been my next door neighbor because it totally described my childhood to a 'T.' Hope you enjoy it. Black and White Black and White (Under age 40? You won't understand.) You could hardly see for all the snow, Spread the rabbit ears as far as they go. Pull a chair up to the TV set, 'Good Night, David. Good Night, Chet.' My Mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread Mayo on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't seem to get food poisoning. My Mom used to defrost hamburger on the counter and I used to eat it raw sometimes, too. Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag, not in ice pack coolers, but I can't remember getting e.coli. Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then. The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a pager was the school PA system. We all took gym, not PE...and risked permanent injury with a pair of high top Ked's (only worn in gym) instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors. I can't recall any injuries but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we are now. Flunking gym was not an option... Even for stupid kids! I guess PE must be much harder than gym. Speaking of school, we all said prayers and sang the national anthem, and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention. We must have had horribly damaged psyches. What an archaic health system we had then. Remember school nurses? Ours wore a hat and everything. I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud of myself. I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations. Oh yeah... And where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed! We played 'king of the hill' on piles of gravel left on vacant construction sites, and when we got hurt, Mom pulled out the 48-cent bottle of mercurochrome (kids liked it better because it didn't sting like iodine did) and then we got our butt spanked. Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $49 bottle of antibiotics, and then Mom calls the attorney to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat. We didn't act up at the neighbor's house either, because if we did we got our butt spanked there and then we got our butt spanked again when we got home. I recall a friend from next door coming over and doing his tricks on the front stoop along with me , just before he fell off. Little did his Mom know that she could have owned our house. Instead, she picked him up and swatted him for being such a goof. It was a neighborhood run amuck. To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a dysfunctional family. How could we possibly have known that? We didn't need to get into group therapy and anger management classes. We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn't even notice that the entire country wasn't taking Prozac! How did we ever survive?

~Starting to worry about my foot...

Good Morning! Hoping that you are all feeling great today! :o) It really looks like it could just open up and rain today. Just hope if it does, that it isn't thunder storms. When it lightenings, it actually goes through me. No kidding. My fingertips have small redish "holes" {for lack of a better word}. I'm just an "all around odd" odd" person! LOL I think I'm going to try and look at my computer today. I hope with the recovey discs I have for it will work. If not, well then it will end up in computer heaven because I don't have the money to get it fixed. From the time before I was diagnosed with type 2 diabeties, on my left heel, has been like "raw meat." I've been putting the medicine on it like the Doctor said to do, and some of it still has black skin, and OMG sore! Last night when I was putting the medicine on, I noticed that I had a "crack" at the very back on my heel and inside was black. Bummer. I do know that it is bad inside first then works its way out to the surface, and then usually thats when you see it. Bummer. So....no matter how much I do for it, and others as well, I know deep down what will happen. But ya' know, if something does happen to it, I'm already prepaired for it. Right now in my life, I don't sweat the small stuff anymore. I have a mother that the last I seen her when I was in the hospital and she came in pissed at me for "not calling" her! I called all of the phone numbers I had for the woman...Geesh! And now, I don't see her because she "doesn't have the time" for me. LOL I mean...OMG...whats wrong with this lady!? LOL I've always been the "peace keeper" in the family, but I can't do that anymore, I need to look out for me for a change, not raise my mom and my youngest sister. Good grief. So......right now in my life, that is small potatoes. My daughter is just in aww of how my mother has treated her kids. She has two and another on the way! YAY! I can't help that, everytime I talk about the new arrival I just have to say that because of my excitment! :o) As we all know, YEP, I'm going to spoil this one too! lol :o) I just don't think I can have enough grandbabys. I'm addicted! lol :o) This little story is just too funny too me :) Andrew is now 1 and a few months now. LOL You know when your kids are little and you say: I hope you have kids that act just like you! Well, it really happened! LOL Andrew is now acting just like my daughter did! I'm not kidding when I say shes saying word for word to what it was that she did! When we were on te phone talking and she was tellng me something that he had done....and I finsed her sentance! ROFL! I think its funny..but if he gets to be too onry for her, I'll have to help her out in some way. She needs to take care of herself as well for the new one! Andrew was being so bad last week that Kayden even was shocked and told him that he was going to get in trouble! He was trying to save his brothers butt! That was nice of him but he didn't heed his warnings because he got into trouble. :o) Oh.....I just have to mention this.....I've gotten on this really cool program that pays for almost everything I need medically! I want to share it with all of you as well. I was called just last week and asked what I could use delivered to me. Well, I told her everything, because now I'm 97% home bound. Bummer. I just started out with diabetic and wound supplies. Within 2 days, it all started to come! I'm going to need a cabinate or something to store all of what I just got in, plus more is on its way. Whew! The company is called Home Care Delivered, Inc. Website: www.homecaredelivered.com Very nice people and very undestanding as well. I do need to go now. Remmber to laugh!

Hello all...hoping that you're feeling great today! :o) It's very beautiful here. Dh got the baby pool out and the slip and slide pretty much most of the water fun for my grandsons. It has been way too hot and humid for me.As soon as I get to the back door, I'm already out of breath! What it feels like is a "smothering" feeling. Ijust hand over the camcorder to someone that'll take it for me. Andrew wasn't in the movies, he was naping.When I can get another tape, then I'll get him! lol I've also been having the same troublams withmy lungs like I was when I was admitted to the hospital. But this time it's my left lung thats giving me a fit. bummer! So that kind of bothers me alot! Remember when I was in the hospital the last time, my doctor wouldn't even touch that lung to clear it out! Because it could kill me. I've been doing my breathing treaments and my daughter was here last night. She said, "Doesn't that put moore moisture in your lungs?" Yes, she's right and I'm going tp stop doing the nebulizer. I wasn't thinking about what that was for. Just too much on my mind I suppose. Dh took me to the ER last week. He was worried about me. I already knew that I had plerisy in my left lung. the ex-en I rayes showed that I had it in both ! :o( I've had {SP} plerisy before. I would get it all the time when I was younger. And boy it hurts so bad in my left lung. I also had another tia bummer#2. I can't even count how many times not to get me all upset and hurt my feelings. And I'm the one thats paying the price for it. The moor of those I whave, the closer a true stroke will happen! gggrrrr! And I don't want to have one of those. not yet. NOT EVER! Well, I've finally got it down on whitch pain is what now. Phew....Kind of took awhile, but I've done it. :o) I'm home bound. All I'm abole to do is to cash my check, with dh's help, go to my with my home health aides help, and then to CVS to fill my scripts, with dh or home health aide. And I'm not driving. So,my bed is where I live. Ick! I have to be in there because of bairconditioner. I havee it set on 60.Out heres temp is set on 71. Well, my son and his girlfriend have broken up. After almost 6 years together, and being i butngaged as well. Hes doing ok right now. She most have riped him to shreds! his self asteem has always been low,but OMG...when he showed up here...I just hugged him and didn't want to let go of him. Hes alot better, but no one knows what happened, he hasn't told anyone. I'w.d like to know because I'm a nosey mom, but also so maybe I can give him some help. He really needs our prayers right now. He's been keeping himself busy by helping around the house for dh. I did ask him for a favor for me...he made this room into a sitting room! YAY! So now when I have company, so now we can sit in here.:o) I need to end, i'm starting to get over heated. God bless you! Lisa

SSDD

Good morning. My last post was cut short because we lost power. I think threre might have been an accident somwhere close. So,I just went to bed early again last night. Theres nothing for me to do. I just run out of things to do. Then all that is left is to just sleep. This entry is really the ending of yesterdays.On my left heal, the bed sore, I think they {doctors} found the right medicine because it's starting to heel up. Which is great. I'm still coughing that "that squeecky" tight cough. Its starting up again. Who knows, that one "feeling" could be apart of this as well. when I get in bed, that softball in a sock feeling feels like my lungs and heart are just hanging and swaying, and it hurts. My head nurse didn't come this week. I still don't know what to think of new agansey {SP} I'm going through. I wish I could go back to my old one. I can't believe that they just dropped all of their clients that have wagers, which include the that really have no one else to turn to. That upset me. This is about all for now. I really do hope that all of you are doing and feeling better. :o) Because this stuff is for the birds. :o) lol

************Logging***************

Good Afternoon. I do wish all of you well on the gorgiues {SP}Day. :o) My computer comitted suicide 2 days ago. I'm using my laptop for now. :o) Ok...I've said this before and am now getting told that after I got out of the hospital, I haven'tal been the same. I do my breathing treatments and listen to what I'm suppose to do. Also, still seems like I have a ways more to get better. Well, at least I think. I Got out on Easter Sunday. I should have lisntened to my doctor. If I do go back in, this time I'm not leaving until "all of me" feels right. Now, I've got this new thing going on "in" my left side. It's kind of hard to explain. Here goes: When I'm getting in my bed, I have to crawl...and each time I feel thing the same thing. I feel "something" inside, like a soft ball size in a sock or somthing that size. So, when I'm getting in bed, I feel this "thing" just

hELLO...GOOD AFTERNOON.This is sort of a "touch base" kind of entry. My hands get all cramping. And when my daughter wants to talk to me she texts me. I just end up calling, makes my hands feel better. :o) On Sunday, dh took me out to Wal-Mart. Thats the second time I've been out of this house just this year. 3 if you count the hospital. We spent 2 hours in wal-mart! And he didn't do no growling either. :p I had my list and it took me all that time to find them. I guess you could say it was sort of like a treasure hunt. LOL Oh about my doctors appointment last Friday...I wanted my home health aide to go with me, because it's getting harder for me to talk anymore, she was my voise. She also has a better vocabulary then I do too! LOL I want to make thid short...The burns are 2nd degree burns, my left heal doesn't look good at all, pretty much have to look at it all the time to check on it, not good at all. I'd be very surpised if it does heal. My hands are getting so much worse. This time around it's my right hand thats the worse one. A big OUCHIE! The doctor just about fainted when she seen all of the things that I was trying to discribe to her on the phone so I could get in to see her sooner. And the main thing that made sit down while having her nervoise breakdown, was that I take insulin shots! Now see, I assumed she knew all of this and had my records from the hospital. That appointment went very good. I got all of my scripts, and maybe she'll understand that I'm not messing around when I tell her about something wrong. My son come in today. :o) He had his work cloths to wash and he wanted to take a shower as well. I Ordered take out and it was so nice to visit with him. :o) I really need to go. hands are killing me. gggrrr. Giving hugs to all of you! And My ciggs. are on the back porch. :o) Gods Blessings to all! ~~And this is what makes me happy! Just to dance.

Just a few words. I'm still weak and I don't get on the computer very often at all. Not like me. I've been busy getting used to this new agancy that I'm going with. They're from the hospital. I know, that doesn't make it any better either. :o) I'm just telling myslef that. lol :o) Somebody does come everyday. lol..it's to the point to where I had no idea who was who and for what! So I asked if they could please write their names down and what day they're here. I'm so grateful for having them come here to my own home. I'm just having problems with my hips and legs. This morning when I woke up, my left side of my face was numb! I looked in the mirror to see if their were any damage. I was really hoping it was a spider bite, or somthing like that. My home health aide comes tomorror. Yay! :o) We have fun together. It's dh's cousin. She comes on Tuesdays and on Thursdays. I got off track again....I'm trying to catch myself doing that. :o) My nurse this morning took alook at me and said to make a doctors appoinment. But don't worry about now. And to go get and bed and rest! Oh Sure...I can rest?! I don't think so. lol I know what I need...I don't need to be in that stupid bed all the time. What I need is to see my daughter and my babies! :o) They can heal me. lol My son has been coming to town everyday this week and of course he cheers me up too. lol The first night that he came over, I was up watching t.v. with my lights off. All of the sudden, my door s l o w l y crept open and it was him! Whew! LOL He scared the crap out of me! LOL I told him to come on in so he could get cooled down. It's so good to see him doing so much better now too. So at nights, I'll listen for him. :o) He's come all but one. He has asthma and I worry about him when it gets humid and hard to breath. He was a baby when he was diagnosd. Here lately I've been staying up watching those old movies again on TCM. Even the silent ones. Those are my favorites because they had to really make their face and body so believable to get it across to the audiance. Now thats acting. :o) I suppose I'm done talking. S0.....thats, thats then! :o)

A possible log

As most of you know, I really havent been feeling well. My regret was that I had a choice, stay until I'm better or get out for Easter. I should have sayed. So, Im back to squeer one it seems. My daughter, Kayden and my sister and her husband I know I wouldn't have made it through the night. I'm gping to write down what was said...and this was from the attending doctor......a stroke, secere bronchiris, Phemonia, black patches in both lungs. He couldn't really do anything becasw haw weak it was and he said he didn't want ne ri have a heaer attack. I'm Glad. I was also going in and out of conscsious.The next day, I had to ask my daughter and sister "What happened?" Then My sugar was going pretty high, so they showed me how to use the needle and everything. I did it and I didn't even feel a thing. :o) Before I left the hospital, they took a ct on my right sh`older. The doctor thought it might be a problem with my rotaters cuff. my best friend had that. I do have some great news! I've been practicibg this in my bedroom. I can walk with out my cane!!! "YAY" :p I can't be up for too lomg, but whar matters to me is that I do it! Crossing fingers toes and eyes! I've dot to get this down. lol May today be all you need it to be. May the peace of God and the freshness of the Holy Spirit rest in your thoughts, rule in your dreams tonight, and conquer all your fears. May God manifest himself today in ways you have never experienced. May your joys be fulfilled, your dreams be closer, and your prayers be answered. I pray that faith enters a new height for you; I pray that your territory is enlarged. I pray for peace, healing, health, happiness, prosperity, joy, true and undying love for God.

Wine and Water To my friend who enjoys a glass of wine...and those who don't. As Ben Franklin said: In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria. In a number of carefully controlled trials, scientists have demonstrated that if we drink 1 liter of water each day, at the end of the year we would have absorbed more than 1 kilo of Escherichia coli, (E. coli) - bacteria found in feces. In other words, we are consuming 1 kilo of poop. However, we do NOT run that risk when drinking wine & beer (or tequila, rum, whisky or other liquor), because alcohol has to go through a purification process of boiling, filtering and/or fermenting. Remember: Water = Poop, Wine = Health. Therefore, it's better to drink wine and talk stupid, than to drink water and be full of shit. There is no need to thank me for this valuable information: I'm doing it as a public service.

**********I GOT AN AWARD********** YAY! :o)

I'm so happy! I got an award! :o) Thank you so very much Sugar It's called, "Look How Cool Blog!"So...now I'm suppose to pick 8 people as well. :o) Ok...I do know who I'd like to give this award too, but I don't know all of your addresses yet. :o) I'll do my best. :o) 1. Katie....From (I hope I get this right) Turn the page 2. Gerry...From daughters of the shadow man 3. Connie...For the life of me, I can't think of her blogs name. You send me house mouse! :o) 4. Donna....From _____and a little bit of hockey 5. Kath.....From My Simple ryms 6. MJ.....From ________...She has MS as well. Again, I have a mind block right now. 7. Allison....From...LOL...I'm so sorry...Your Uncle is Phil the thrill! :o) 8. The beautiful Indigo! We all know who she is! I think she has touched eceryones heart. I know she has mine. :o) Ok....Now they have to come and pick it up and chose 8 of their favorite writers. :o) This was so fun! I really don't get awards! :o) Thank you Sugar! :o)