Kris

Katgirl I am not in Dallas proper but I am only 30 minutes from Flower Mound. I will look forward to seeing you! K .

I am glad one of us is K.

Gosh, I just went to the store. I will try to get all of this next week. Will the ladies who are laughing tell me what is so funny? Maybe you are like me, I will do this backwards so I get as many calories in before noon as I can. I pick you to share with me and I will lose 4 pounds. I always heard don't eat after 6PM now I know why. K

Now Boo you know your are not to put your personal stuff on the internet. K

Yep they are swelling up again, don't worry going GP tomorrow afternoon about the quit. Will have her take a look. K

Sorry Boo, Doreen already won and has claimed her prize....I have to quit smoking! But for you, this exercise thing is not working for me. I have been walking briskly to the kitchen many times a day for almost 2 weeks.....I have not lost an ounce. K

Julia, I am so sorry you are going thru this after 2 1/2 months with your quit. I am only in 11 days, I am using a NRT, lozenges. I thought these would do better than the patch, it felt I might have more control over my step down. I have already started and find I can go 4 or 5 hours. What I am doing is putting the lozenge in my mouth, setting the kitchen timer of 2 minutes and then I take it out and put it on a saucer. When I get anxious couple to few hours later, repeat the procedure. I feel this is working pretty good for me so far. I do get very agitated at times. I suffer from depression anyway so was already on medication. I do not know your situation but if you are new to antidepressants if can take a few times (different medications that agree and work for you) you might just need a different med or adjustment in dosage. I will say I have encountered kick back from my insurance carrier because they don't want to keep paying for different meds till you find the right one. I am sorry but sounds like the Doc does not want to battle them to help you find the right med. It also sounds like the patch might not be the right NRT for you. Keep researching, if you feel the Doc is not paying attention or does not want to help, you may have to fight the insurance or consider changing Docs. It is like non-smokers have no idea how painful and difficult it is for us to quit. That angers me most of all. Don't judge us when you have no f........... idea. K

Come on Doreen, everyone knows what to do, just turn around, bend over and drop em! I learned that when I was two. K

looks like it worked fine, now I need to backtrack my messages because there are some people out there that think I am rude because they did not get a message back from me. Would it be okay for me just to start a new topic, that I messed up and some of my replies did not go thru. For anyone that did not get an answer to let me know. Kris

Okay, let me try this. I am such a dummy!

Perfect!! I already ordered it and it has arrived! K

Jillar, I go to answer a new message, the subject box come up fine, then when I get to the message box there is already a message there that I have sent someone else. I have been deleting the old message and typed in the new one and then hit submit reply box. If just seems that things are not getting where they should go K

Thanks for the replies, Yes I spend most of my time in the dark, hardly ever turn on lights. I leave the curtains and the blinds closed because I have a some sort of migraine everyday. Yes Katgirl, I have those same flashes but mine usually come with the pain, hope that does not happen to you in the future. I still have no idea why this started except I did not sleep well after my husband died and when I did, I would just stay on the couch, could not go back to the bed. Jillar I do stay in the dark, the massage thing does not help me. I do get some heavy botox, 200 units every 3 months. They inject my forehead, temples. behind my ears, the lower back part of my head and neck. then across my shoulders. This is and does keep my muscles from seizing up as bad as they used to. I also am big fan of ice packs and heating pads. They generally do not give oral pain medication, I just have a few, but they do give me Xanax for anxiety and promethazine for the nausea. I have learned to live with it but sometimes you just get so tired of dealing with it and taking medicine almost everyday. The headache will stay with me 4 or 5 hours of until I medicate, but I try not to do that unless I have to. Here I go again talking to much but I must admit that it keeps me from focusing on the headache. K

I have sent a message to MQ to take a look and tell me what I am doing wrong and or tell me what to do. Just wanted you I am here, just can't respond until I understand what I am doing wrong. K

I am really working hard for this. We really want it and we will have it. K

Okay that display just makes me want to vomit!!! K

Dear Abby, I am so sorry that your are suffering so much from the situation there. You are right to be concerned. Here, the fireworks would be cancelled ( and have been before) if conditions were to dry or even if there are high winds. I have to admit that we have people rebel and set them off when they have been told not to do it. I have called the police on irresponsible home owners that have done this. If they want to burn their own home down, they are not going to burn my down. If they want to other people in danger, I will not allow it. Everyone must stand together for the safety of the community. You would think that everyone would get this after what the world has gone thru with Covid but NO we still have people doing what they want without thinking of how it might effect others. How can people be so selfish. They can because they have never suffered the hardship that our elderly, ill or homeless population. They have not suffered the loss of their health , the loss of a job, the hardship of not having the money to pay their bills or put food on the table for their children. There are those of us that have suffered hardship that donate to the community, to the churches, to try to help in some small way. I will say that the people of Texas are good at trying to make a difference for people struggling. I don't speak of politics but I need to say that I am ashamed of the governing body of Texas and our country right now for spending all this money and time on constructing a wall to keep citizens of Mexico who want to come to our country to make a better life for their families. How do they think we all got here, just dropped out of the sky? No we came from other countries to build a better life for future generations. Many peoples ancestors were brought here against their will and forced to work for others. What the hell is going on? Why do people not see this? Why do people not have respect for each other? People for the most point only think about their own situation, as long as they have what they want they have no reason to concern themselves with others. Okay I will calm down, get off my high horse before I fall and break my neck. Sorry for this but your broken heart broke mine too. K

Acewhite If we do the diamond heist and get caught we will go to prison. We don't want that. I did not say smoke a pizza joint I said take over a pizza joint. I see where you are going with your idea, I could explain it to you but it will still wind up with a trip to the jail. Let's just stay with the take over, as Oprah would say, you get extra cheese and you get extra cheese. If the cops show up we just tell them Oprah forgot to pay the bill and we are covered! Don't you just love to be bad and have it turn out good. K

Katgirl, I am not offended by your method at all. Wish I was strong enough to do it your way. I am using NRT, lozenges, I am eleven days in and have already started a step down to get the nicotine of my system. I still have bad cravings for a cigarette, that is why I chose my method. I am going to my GP tomorrow for advice on how to get it done. Main point for me only is that I have not put one in my mouth. It does not matter how we do it but we get if done! Pray I can be as strong as you. K

Katgirl We are going to meet next time you are visiting. I am so excited. We will firm up some details when you are headed this way again. K

Thanks MQ(sounds like a James Bond handle, very good) I am anxious to watch as soon as my son gets my sound fixed on my PC. K

Believe me there are not many so you should enjoy what you can. Buying the most expensive and comfortable bed you can find, you spend alot of time in/on that bed. You are in charge of the thermostat, you get to decide how hot or cold (I like it really cold when I am having a migraine). In my house this is a oxymoron thing. I want it cold but to pull out my fluffy blankets and comforters to put on the bed. I want the bed to be soft and cozy as possible. This is why I spent as much as I could afford on my bed. When you feel bad you want food that makes you feel better. If you live in Texas the most important thing is ice cream . We have a company here called Blue Bell, that makes the most wonderful ice cream, we even ship this stuff to another sister in-law that lives in Cali. We have a second company called Braums. This group is known not only for their ice cream but the freshest milk you can buy. They also have a burger joint in their stores and make the freshest burgers you can buy. I am big(no pun intended) on ice cream. Cold stuff is better when you have a Migraine. So there is the short story of my migraines. K

Thanks for this, I knew the line but had no idea where it came from. I will save this to my trivia folder for future reference. I am sure everyone here> appreciates your research. Kris

Geez....drank some milk and took a pain pill. Who knows what I might say today under the influence. K

You know your a redneck when your porch collapses and nine of your best dogs are killed. told to me on a bad day at work by coworker, I laughed until I cried. You won't get this unless you are a redneck from the deep south in the US. K