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[silverhair67]

Morning,

 

[silverhair67]

Prayers are with you,

 

[Sally PB]

I often remind myself and hubby that our continued health is a HUGE blessing.

We have a friend we call our "daughter" (because she's young enough to be) who is in chemo for Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Another friend has huge, painful kidney stones. Have had coworkers with Type 1 diabetes, or acute allergies, or double hip replacements.

We have been very lucky.

Hope and prayers to those who need it.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Well quarterly blood draw in Morton Hospital make Dr happy see all my tics are still ticcing

 

[lovesfarms]

He still had a temp of 102° today. They changed antibiotics, possibly he's become resistant to these. He was supposed to get 2 teeth removed tomorrow but had to cancel now. They are considering having a dentist pull them at the hospital tomorrow if he still has the fever. They allowed me to assist with his shower,I realized the nurse stayed in the room and I nearly regretted assisting him when he broke into a fit of shivering. I thought he was going to land on the floor.
I'm having a crohns/colitis flare as well but it's silent. I became hypersensitive to sulfasalazine- it affected my kidneys and bone marrow. After that my other meds affected the bone marrow as well so they were just watching until it becomes active again.The last colonoscopy and biopsies say it's back and the Drs nurse kept insisting I take the sulfa again. She said it's the only meds I can take,I won't be able to tolerate the biologics. She then said, 'then don't do anything till you are real sick, then come back". I'd been warned many times not to do that. I tried to get an appointment with the top crohns specialist with the same group. The nurse called back and demanded to know what she did wrong. Arrghh!
After two months of waiting for an appointment,Last wk I saw the new Dr and he made me feel like there's hope for me after all. He said it's mild and he's doing some tests to check the level of inflammation and then we go from there. He said never leave it untreated and just because I couldn't tolerate one medicine didn't mean I can't tolerate any others. AND he didn't ask if I wanted to see him regular-he said he will be my Dr after this. He also said silent crohns is dangerous because it's causing scar tissue, fistula,etc and surgeries.

 

[Beer can]

and when the sun comes out, the fields are too wet for hay equipment and tractor!

Farm down the rd from us just chops their fields first cutting and fill up concrete bunkers they can't even get that done. Hundred acre field behind us they haven't even got to yet, should have been done a month ago, all knocked down and sopping wet right now. Second and sometimes a third cutting they do round wrapped baleage.

 

[Beer can]

glad my house is on a hill! might have to build an ark

 

[Beer can]

Happy belated birthday @microchick !
Our youngest boy's is tomorrow , turning nine.

 

[Beer can]

Boy's been hammering me hard to finish his airplane mom got us for Christmas. A Guillow's WW2 German Focke-Wulf Fw-190 balsa wood model.
When we first opened Christmas I was like omg... Never seen anything like it. Maybe some of you 'old folks' have. It's like a old timey hand built to scale complete replica of a real plane frame and all. Reading the instructions was wishing FIL was still alive, good thing we have google cause instructions were like original from 1950. Had to dope on everything. What the heck is dope!! Google? Well took some wording changes and found out glue mixed 50/50 with water... lol.
We had the frame all ready months ago, put it up and forgot about it. Boy actually did 75% of the work. Yesterday he made me get it out again been finishing it up with the tissue paper covering pretty sure that's what we'll be doing also tomorrow. Then paint and decals. Watched some vids of people flying them, runs off a rubber band wound few hundred times. Pretty amazing, vids showed the darn thing will fly hundred yards, couple hundred yards right conditions and tweaking so it flys back in a huge circle. Funny thing is even though it has been seriously difficult to put together with a eight yr old, if it flys good I think I want to do another with him!
American or British one next time.

 

[microchick]

Boy's been hammering me hard to finish his airplane mom got us for Christmas. A Guillow's WW2 German Focke-Wulf Fw-190 balsa wood model.
When we first opened Christmas I was like omg... Never seen anything like it. Maybe some of you 'old folks' have. It's like a old timey hand built to scale complete replica of a real plane frame and all. Reading the instructions was wishing FIL was still alive, good thing we have google cause instructions were like original from 1950. Had to dope on everything. What the heck is dope!! Google? Well took some wording changes and found out glue mixed 50/50 with water... lol.
We had the frame all ready months ago, put it up and forgot about it. Boy actually did 75% of the work. Yesterday he made me get it out again been finishing it up with the tissue paper covering pretty sure that's what we'll be doing also tomorrow. Then paint and decals. Watched some vids of people flying them, runs off a rubber band wound few hundred times. Pretty amazing, vids showed the darn thing will fly hundred yards, couple hundred yards right conditions and tweaking so it flys back in a huge circle. Funny thing is even though it has been seriously difficult to put together with a eight yr old, if it flys good I think I want to do another with him!
American or British one next time.

First off, thanks so much for the birthday greetings, Beer. I woke up this morning and I was still 68. It wasn't just a bad dream, LOL

As for the plane...DH and I both fly RCs and we have both built the balsa wood models. Take some sound advice from us....under no circumstances fly that model.

Seriously. Finish it, put it up, hang it up do anything with it besides flying it. It will not tolerate anything other than an ultra gentle landing without turning into an impressive pile of tooth picks.

They are beautiful but the balsa wood makes them brittle as all get out, especially since nobody really knows how long the balsa wood has been around before you get it.

I built a Stuka and DH has a balsa Cub that he has flown. I worked so hard on that Stuka that I didn't have the heart to even try to fly it.

@lovesfarms I am so glad that you found a doctor who listens to you and reassures you that they can help you.

I'm so sorry that you are dealing with Crohn's also. I have Irritable Bowel Syndrome and probably inflammatory bowel disease. That's enough to keep me miserable from time to time so I can sure relate. Take care and to both of you.