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Actually - It was a payment into my PayPal account instead of an actual check - I didn't even know I had a payment until Hubby ws trying to balance the bank account and there was a discrepancy between amounts paid out to PayPal..... A check - would have most certainly gone on the wall!!

Yes, indeed.... I got my first payment! What a big day in my life!! It was.... $6.28! Of course, I did not do it for the money - and I tried to price it so it would be very affordable. I could not cut out a royalty completely due to the publisher needing a cut of it. But Hubby and I had a good laugh! So, even though the money has started to "roll in"...... I want everyone to know I am still the down-to-earth person I have always been.... (ummm.... and, poor too!)

I had endometriosis... Had a hysterectomy when I was 36. My dad raised me so I was in my 20's before I realized it was not normal for a period to put someone in bed for 3-4 days a month clutching a heat pad!

Good luck! I will hold you in my thoughts, I hope they can make you feel bunches better!!!! BIG {{{{{{{HUGS}}}}}}}!!!!!

Hubby takes soma. I used to, and have forgotten to ask the doctor for some, so on nights when I'm really hurting I will take some of his. But I cannot take a whole one because it will affect my heart rythm, but I seem to be able to tolerate a 1/4 of one just fine. Then again, I might be able to handle a whole one if I didn't take 2 Vicodin with it!

Happy Birthday!!!!

Awww.... I'm SO happy for you!!!! And Donnie too, of course...

"Oh, I'm sorry I don't look good.... But it's a good thing I look better than I FEEL!" It has happened, especially since, a lot of times, when I'm on a downturn, I am really pale. But most of the time, it is more of hearing how good I DO look...... Which I find harder to deal with.

Like Ernie, as many men as women.... Hubby and I run a chronic illness/chronic pain support group and we have equal numbers of men and women. But we have been careful to be "welcoming" to men....

??? What??? Doctors that.... LIE?!?!? Never heard the like! Sheesh! The stuff we end up dealing with! Hope things start to even out for you!

They usually give me Demerol and Phenergan. One doctor insisted on giving me Nubain then they wheeled me out of the ER - called me a druggie! Let me see..... I went in once in 2001 with a migraine, and then in 2003..... The Nubaine did nothing - except cost me big $$$ Now my Primary Care gives me Vicodin and Phenergan to keep here at home so I can head it off before it gets a good start.

Yes, once you are through security you can buy drinks and food - but you cannot carry them onto the plane. Once you are on the plane they will serve water and drinks - but you should call your airline and make sure. I called my SIL who is a flight attendant and clarified with her.

Melissa, hope you get lots of rest!

WOW! Persephone.... good deal! And the scholarship - GREAT!

Sunfish! Hope you are back to being "Swimmy" real soon - the PICC line thing sounds like not much fun - and the surgical resident just needs a swift kick.... or maybe some of my sister's cooking! (THERE'S a fate worse than death!) We miss you!

It sounds like what I went through Sept 2002 - Jan 2003. I would sleep pretty much constantly. Hubby would wake me up to feed me. And he would have to help me to the bathroom and after MONTHS of that I would STILL sleep for hours and hours.... One day I woke up and felt like going ..... all the way to the living room! He is working on a book about his plane crash so he has been going through my journals.... He got into the 2002 one and said,"Hey! You quit writing in September!" I reminded him that I slept for the rest of the year!

Um.... mine started when I was 43......

Congratulations Nina!!!! Those are some impressive photos!

ROFLMAO!!!!! Good thing we don't have handles on anything! I spewed coffee on the monitor.. It IS a good housetraining trick, though!

Well.... we have some friends who come "borrow" a goat during the summer. They can keep it in a dog pen with a dog house at night and stake it out during the day.... Saves them mowing and they take care of the feeding and so forth while it is at their house. Nice thing about these little ones - they are quite portable!

Well, Nina, I live in the Missouri Ozarks... and out of town on 1 1/2 acres so, no, we don't have to have a permit. How much land?? Well, their area really isn't that big, just really inaccessible and difficult for Rick to get to with a mower - and behind their area is probably 1/2 acre that is totally wooded. It sounds like we bought a place like yours!! Overgrown really bad.... Fortunately, this place used to be a petting zoo so we have a wonderful assortment of barns and sheds - we even have (are you ready for this???) An EXOTIC BIRD HOUSE!!!! Hee hee!! We use it to store hay.... We have 4 goats - now 5, sometimes they kind of freak out my 14 year old son - he says they think they are dogs - they follow him around, one of them even tries to sit on your lap! But like I said - they are little Pygmy Goats and are pretty small.... Yes, they would LOVE your herbs and your carefully cultivated garden - unfortunately, they don't come with a "weed eater" attachment!

Awwww...... Melissa, you and your mom are welcome any time!

Nina, they are very self-sufficient, low maintenance, cute, don't use gas... With Rick and I both in the shape we are in they are a real win-win answer!

We have Pygmy goats - they perform the very important function of mowing! This morning this little girl made her entrance into the world!

He is a Carolina Wren.... the males build the nests, sometimes 3 or 4 of them - then they go court a female and impress her with his building skills!