This is a great result ....

Well done Jillar.....success indeed 👍😁

You have not only created a better situation for you but for others in your community.  For so many healthcare is neglected because they do not have the means to travel any distance just to see a doctor.  This is compounded when your health is bad and you do not have the strength or energy to get there.  I applaud you for being an advocate for so many, I just wish you did not have to struggle.  Most people can not imagine what you have to do to just to see a doctor. I get it, you have to load up oxygen, walkers, wheelchairs, blankets, pillows, food and drink just to be out of the house for a few hours. I live in a large metro area and the doctors are here and it still is an ordeal for so many. I ask those of you that are able bodied to be aware of people that are struggling.  Offer to help them unload a wheelchair, if you have time offer to see them to the doctors office, Carry bags, open doors. push the wheelchair etc., it makes a real difference.

@jillar Congratulations for you being an advocate for yourself and others!!

It is sad in this day and age we have to fight for good health care!! Kudos to you!!

I'm not in a wheelchair @Kris, my worry is just having enough portable oxygen to get to and from the Dr visit. And thankfully come the end of March I won't have to worry anymore 😊

I am glad you do not have problem with mobilty. I was people know that sometimes others can use a helping hand.  When my husband was ill I did have struggles with his tank, wheelchair and walker sometimes. I really appriciated when a man would help me get the wheelchair in and out of the car.

Packing! Heading up to Long Island, New York for Christmas....w a pit stop at a friend's in VA first!

waitng for my ambien to kick in. can't believe she finally gave me something to help me sleep. In the soon to be grogginess I thought of @Opah and his pizza dreams.  I have been craving pizza for a couple of weeks.  Most all are takeout or delivery these days.  I am thinking back to the seventies.  There a lot of pizza places that were like a restaurant.  They were most decorated in red and black and dark inside.  There were wall sconces and tiny table lamps that made the room glow. It was the place to go for a date back then.  Teenagers found them to be a romantic place to take your girl and more often than not your friends would also be there on a date.  They were always open late so you had another place to go to when a party was over. Hopefully soon I will be able to tell you how bad I burned the roof of my mouth or bottom lip/chin with hot molten cheese.  Wishing you pizza pidancing in dreams tonight.There is a famous Christmas movie that has the line "Youth is wasted on the young"

Cleaning vomit from my daughters shoes and cloths.

Dang @notsmokinjo I hope she's ok.  

4 hours ago, notsmokinjo said:

Cleaning vomit from my daughters shoes and cloths.

Bugger! 
but why?

Boo @notsmokinjo, definitely something going around here too. On December 4th I had a stomach bug and threw up probably 25-30 times between Saturday afternoon and Sunday afternoon. And the first time it came out of nowhere resulting in me, my sheets, quilt and even the cat getting some. It was horrible!

Hope Birdie feels better soon🤗

8 hours ago, notsmokinjo said:

Cleaning vomit from my daughters shoes and cloths.

Aww....Feel better soon Birdie ....how crap !!!!🙁

The joys of motherhood, wish I still got take care of my son when he is sick, but no, he went and grew up on me, now has a beautiful wife to take care of him. And life goes on in a circle, someday your daughter will be there to clean up a mess, give you a bath and tuck you into bed. She will feed you broth and you will tell stories of long ago and nap together, her dreaming of you being her daughter and she dreaming of you being her mother. 

Okay @Linda I have just finished making a large pan of lasgana, counting on you for the salad and garlic bread.  What time does your flight arrive? who else shoud we invite to an virtual dinner party.  I am thinking @jillar and @Doreensfree because they do so much for us. @Gus is celebrating a big success.  Maybe @Boo, but he can't make it, he is at home rubbing Sugar Britches tummy in anticipation of Boo2's arrival.  We can't have @Opah they won't allow his guns on the plane and if he is coming to Texas he will want to hunt.Everyone in California would not to come because let's face it, it is California, I would like to be there. Maybe the down unders would like to visit.  Sorry guys I am just feeling fun today!

@Kris  You can count on me for the salad and garlic bread and I

think your guest list sounds good!! 😀😀 Yes I agree I would like to be

in CA also it is cold here in Michigan today. I'm glad your feeling better

I love reading your post, they make me smile. I'll let you know on

the time of flight arrival. 😀😀 🍷🍷 Get the wine chilled!!

Throw in some sausages and I'll get the first flight out ...

Pour me a large glass ...👍😁

Okay lets go with a plan change, I will come there because it is still like summer here and I want it to be cold.  After I put the lasgana together I started a pot of taco soup.  I tend to cook a lot one day so I don't have for a few days.  Pan of brownies in the oven next.  I think our California folks woul be willing to come there and enjoy the true weather winter. I have only been to snow areas twice, once to Lake Tahoe Nevada, where my husband skied and I fell on my ass repeatedly. Second time was a business trip to Minneapolis/St Paul. That was really an eye opener, the streets were plowed and the snow was higher on the edge of the streets, like running a gauntlet.  I must admit I am out of wine again but have a list going. Hope you and Lily are snuggled up under a softie ( what my grandson calls my blankets) with a roaring fire and a cup of hot chocolate or soup.

@Kris lily and I snuggled in and she is playing with stuffed monkey🙈🙈

Sorry to say we have no snow just cold today. Yesterday it was 62 in the AM

which is unreal for December in Michigan, but by evening it was 32 crazy!!

@Doreensfree I will bring the sausage and bring big glasses for our wine🍷🍷🍷😂😂

Doreen, What type of sausages, I know from here to there we have different ideas of what suasage is. Are you talking a blood sausage (eww), a traditional pork, beef, chicken  or venision (again eww) or a combination?  I know you enjoy different things there.  I have been trying to work  up my courage to try beans on toast.  I love both of these things but have not tried them together.  Isn't life funny, that we all eat different things all over the world and till we have the chance/courage to trythem we do not know what we have been missing.  Let's take calf fries, they are the testicles of a young bull.  They are sliced then, coated and deep fried and served with  dipping sauce.  I hae lived in cowboy country my whole life and have never eaten this, but they are very popular.  Tell us about one on the weird things on the UK menus.

I'm in California too @Kris and I hate the cold so you guys have fun, I'll attend the party virtually over zoom lol😂

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You live there and you may be tired of it, but I will take the 32.  I do not mind the snow and ice as long as I don't have to drive in it.  That is why I keep a big stash of everthing, if I don't want to go out, I don't have to.  I know it is a strange thing to love the cold, dark and the rain.  There are many people that suffer depression in the winter, they need the sunlight for their body function correctly.  I on the other hand pray for the fall and winter. I find the long hot days of summer draining, I do get out there, I love having a vegetable garden but I tend to be out early or late.

I had an awesome DAY!!!! Some of you had heard me talk about my

friend who is terminally ill. Well she is an inspiration to all!!!  She wanted to

know if I and another friend would take her Christmas shopping. We loaded

her and her wheelchair and of we went!! She also wanted to have lunch!!

Which we did!! Laughed  and had a great day!!! Memories were made, what

a great Christmas present for me!!!  The message is enjoy every day, life is so

fragile and none of us have no guarantees.

@jillar did not realize you were in California.  Most people adore everything the state has to offer.  I will admit I am weird because I love the cold. In my mind I am thinking you are a tiny little thing that has a hard time staying warm.  I am now a very fluffy girl and I think my weight plays into the fact that I run warm.  I was not always fluffy but even then at a light weight I still preffered cold weather. I think is is just genetic as my family generations go way back on the east coast.

 

I would zoom you to dinner, but you know me, not a techno wizard, dont know how to zoom

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Linda, I am so happy that you had a chance to spend this special time with your friend.  So much fun for a group of ladies to get out together, be silly, just like we are teenagers and cap off the day with a great lunch.  We may be older now but we still now how to have a great day!!

Oh @Linda, that is just what you needed! I'm really happy for you and your friends🤗