i was able to smoke outside on a patio, you just couldnt get out anywhere, there was high fences and they were alarmed. It was a long time i guess, i just hope i dont get any worse and i have to go back in. i see my pyiatrist next week sometime

I just talked to my lawyer. disability determination had sent him a form to fill out since my condition has gotten worse since filing for it initially......i'm also starting to get letters from my stepdad, and if y'all remember what was going on a couple of months ago you can imagine what i'm going through.......now he wants me to go to GA with him secretly......

if she is on blood thinners she will be cold or it could be poor circulation.time for a doctors visit.
Well the state came and so far all is well.Brandon starts counseling next week and hope fully things will start to improve with him.

hugs to all .

i would show those to the lawyer and ask advice.

hi jax, how are you doing??

I'm glad you got lucky Jax.......today's been a little better, then again i was finally able to listen to what i call REAL MUSIC......lmfao

better now.

Last night I got another chance to understand what the lady who gave us the lecture in anger before we got our license at the nursing school meant by, "He who argues with a fool is a fool." She had been in charge of the psyche ward in a town close to ours for 26 tears. I was helping to put a resident to bed who was in the demented stage. The aide was helping me to get the resident to bed when the resident became combative. She had hold of the aide's thigh and pitched it real hard bringing pain. An aide getting hurt is an occupational hazard. The resident was angry about something that upset her. I am not really sure what it was but I identified with the rage. It was like the rage went into me and the resident and me both had it. I lloked at her just as mean as she was looking at me. The resident called me a fool. I thought the resident made a correct diagnosis and I thought she was a fool, too. I immediatedly relaxed then and looked away because I remembered, "He that argues with a fool is a fool." The resident relaxed then and went immediatedly to sleep like nothing happened. To me it was like my higher power was talking to me and I got the lesson of, "When the student is ready the teacher will appear." It was amazing to me and felt like a spiritual experience.

if i do that, my dad will find out, and i'd just as soon my dad NOT find out......he's got a couple of loaded shotguns and ain't afraid to use 'em

sounds like you're always learning something, roy........

guess what y'all......I've lost a total of FIVE, YES FIVE, pounds y'all!!! woo!

so?problem solved.
congrats on the weight loss!!

Congrats. One step ata time.....you'll get there. just remember, the healthier and slower you take the wieght off, the better chance of keeping it off.

Hey, that is great, Amber. I have had to lose weight because of my heart. I try to eat heart smart food. Been trying to get more information on red yeast. According to the commercials it is supposed to help with chloresterol. I am trying to find natural foods that will take the place of Pravachol. I am supposed to take Pravachol, Lysinopril and an aspirin a day.

well i'm still in danger of having a heart attack......but i don't have the chest pains anymore......heart attacks at an early age runs heavy on my dad's side of the family.....

Yeah, dad told me that heart disease runs in our line. Dad died of a heart attack. When he died the aorta burst. I have had two. Actually one was a murmur. Asprin keeps the blood thin so it will pump easier for the heart pump. Smoking constricts the arteries. So what happens when the arteries constrict and the blood thickens you can have a heart attack.

i didn't know a heart murmur could be considered a heart attack??????

Ive been warned that if I dont't stpo smoking my COPD will kill me faster. I just started a no smoking plan but just can't seem to keep the fukcers out of my hands. Only two more packs and they are gone. I have done this before. I can do it again but this time it has to be for keeps. COPD causes heart attacks from making the lungs work too hard...no onygen and the heart beats harder till if gives out or your lungs do. Either way Im fukced, but I caught it ealier than most, so I can try to live better. Ive had two heart attacks, and they aint fun. The thought of slow suffication doesnt appeal to me either.

So please take care of yourself ok?

I might be wrong, Amber. It was just that the second time I had trouble with my heart it felt different. I took a aspirin and I felt better. The first time they put a wire through my thigh that had a camera. With it they opened the arteries that was closed and put a stent there. The heart doctor told me what the nitroglycerin did was to open the artery so blood could flow. It acts like draino to a clogged kitchen sink drain. I haven't any more trouble with it in a few years.

well i had a murmur just before i got pregnant with my daughter..........i swear to god it felt like an elephant was in the house that was sitting on my chest.....i couldn't breathe, had severe chest pain and a shooting pain going through my left arm.....i did call the EMTs and i was given a few baby aspirin and started to feel a little better then.

Good advice, Karen. Heart attacks can really hurt bad. I wanted to strangle the heart doctor when the wire went through my heart. He had the nurses to hold my arms down. The table I was on was cold to my back, too. I was watching the monitor of the wire go through my heart. The pain was excruitiating.