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[RustyHen]

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I use large heated dog water bowls, they hold 1 gallon, only come on when near freezing. $15.00

 

[RustyHen]

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I can so relate to being cold most of the time. For me it's the worst when I am sitting at the computer. I have always been sensitive to cold, and it was much worse, for years after becoming very hypothermic on the last major hike our family under took. We had made it up to the Pacific Crest trail, when we got caught in the record rain storm for the month of August. We were not really prepared for that much rain overnight. By the time we hiked back to the trail head, there were several of us that had hypothermia. My brother and his friend hiked out faster than the rest of us, and they were able to flag down a logging truck. It's a good thing, because I don't know if we would have survive the night. The trail head was at least 20 miles from the nearest paved road. In the end a full mountain was called in for us. It was a good thing because my dad had fallen and messed up his knee. Another friend of ours hiked back up the trail to get my dad's backpack. It was a lot of fun when the local officers carried us kids into the only open business in Index that night. I was carried piggyback by the local cop into the bar. I was 15 when this all happened. I have never been overnight backing since. I have almost done it, but it just never worked out. Of course now there no way I could manage the back country.

I think for me the cold is part of the Fibromyalgia.

I really noticed the cold this year since I had LapBand surgery two months ago and lost 65lbs.Man oh man am I freezing.

I am considering Lap-Band, would you do it again, have you had any problems, outside of being cold?

 

[justbugged]

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You should try raising your own meal worms. I seem to remember that Kim Hunter has raised meal worms.

I've seriously thought about it, but I don't have a good location for them. Our house is fairly small. There's no garage and no power to the shed outside. Our laundry room is the most likely option, but it's not very big and my husband would probably have a fit, especially if the worms started to smell. Second best place might be our storage room/attic, but it's adjacent to DS's bedroom...not sure I want to go that route either.

Given that your son is 6, he may think that growing meal worms is the greatest idea ever. Little boys often think bugs are very good fun.

 

[justbugged]

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I really noticed the cold this year since I had LapBand surgery two months ago and lost 65lbs.Man oh man am I freezing.

I am considering Lap-Band, would you do it again, have you had any problems, outside of being cold?

I would have a gastric bypass in a heart beat, if only my health insurance company would help pay for it. I just don't have a spare 30,000 for the surgery. Dr Oh in Federal Way is one of the best doctors in the area. I have had many people recommend him.

 

[SadieSue]

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I am considering Lap-Band, would you do it again, have you had any problems, outside of being cold?

I would have a gastric bypass in a heart beat, if only my health insurance company would help pay for it. I just don't have a spare 30,000 for the surgery. Dr Oh in Federal Way is one of the best doctors in the area. I have had many people recommend him.

Dr. Oh has retired, but I've heard great things about his associate, Dr. Harai? Not sure of spelling. The doctor who who has replaced Dr. Oh is supposed to be very good. Dr. Srikanth is also at St. Francis and he was my surgeon. I was very happy with him.

 

[justbugged]

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Could be that your thyroid isn't working properly. That was my main symptom with my thyroid. Could never get warm, frozen hands and feet.


Justbugged and Stumpfarmer, can I ask you to describe your pain in more detail on your hip bursitis? I think I may have this. I can go for awhile and it is fine. Than it flairs. A dull constant pain and then shooting twinges right in the joint. I can totally feel the ball rubbing in the socket and have to move. I can not stay in the same position when it starts shooting and twinging. It has kept me awake as well if it's going on at night. I find it hard to get comfortable. This has been going on for the last 2-3 yrs and is getting worse. I went in two years ago for x-rays because something was tweaked in the hip. I could not lift my leg up to tie my shoe. It just would not go. When I went in for the xrays she put me in unbearable positions, but the next day the tweaked whatever was fine, and they said my x-rays were clear. But the flairs are worse now. So I think it's time to go back. I was diagnosed with JRA in middle school, but it only affected my knees for 2 yrs, and luckily I never had any more issues with it, but I worry that arthritis is lurking out there and gonna get me!! LOL! I've also been diagnosed with bursitis in both shoulders, but those flairs are very few and far between.

For me the best I can describe the pain in my hips is like having a very large severe bruise on my hip joints. So as I try to lay on my sides, I feel like I am laying all my weight on the bruised area. Of course it's not bruised, and it shouldn't hurt. I have very large hip joints, so exercising doesn't help much for me. It seems that as the bursa enlarges that it puts pressure on the joint. So by stretching out the joint it makes more room for the bursa. I just don't know why the bursa swells in the first place. I could manage the enlarge bursa, if sleeping on my stomach didn't create inflammation in my lower spine. The anti inflammatories make the difference between being able lay in bed and actually sleep. I am not fond of anti inflammatories, because of the side effects. But I am unwilling to give up on being able to sleep. It doesn't help that both of my shoulder hurt too. But they are more tolerable.
The other place that the bursitis causes me trouble is getting in and out of the car. I drive a Volvo wagon, and I seem to seize up while sitting in the car. So getting out is not fun. It takes me a bit to get going again. I also seem to cuss just about every time. The Fibro causes my legs to be very tender. It feels like bruises being touched hard whenever anything presses on the leg. Most often it will be one of the little dogs that is trying get close to me. Even the 5lb dog to too much weight.

You mention clicking and being able to feel the ball of the joint rubbing. That is way beyond just bursitis. I find that most doctors don't seem to know what causes bursitis, and there is very little treatment for it.

I knew about the thyroid, but if one's blood test come back reading in the range of normal, then it doesn't matter that a nuclear scan that came back abnormal matters.

 

[justbugged]

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I would have a gastric bypass in a heart beat, if only my health insurance company would help pay for it. I just don't have a spare 30,000 for the surgery. Dr Oh in Federal Way is one of the best doctors in the area. I have had many people recommend him.

Dr. Oh has retired, but I've heard great things about his associate, Dr. Harai? Not sure of spelling. The doctor who who has replaced Dr. Oh is supposed to be very good. Dr. Srikanth is also at St. Francis and he was my surgeon. I was very happy with him.

Thank you for the update on the doctors. It doesn't surprise me that Dr Oh has retired. It's been awhile since I looked into the procedure.

 

[justbugged]

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Really????????????????

That would be soooooooo cool!

I actually would love it if I got 3 cans..one for me, one for my parents & one MUST be for Jake Levi.
I have bragged enough about the awesome cheese, and he is quite the cheese lover...so I can mail it to him.
Please let me know & I can paypal $ or send a check or whatever!!

I'll check with my daughter and see if she'll pick some up to send home with my husband. I'll also let you know what flavors it comes in - all I've tried were SO good. I'll PM you when I have more info.

Okay now I want to try the cheese even if it's made by the wrong university.

I have been so good about thinking that I didn't need to try the cheese, but now I think I can even beg a little.

 

[justbugged]

Okay the night crew is out here, I need to get at least some sleep.

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

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This is kind of like asking some where does milk come from. Many will answer the store.

And that is my point. Just because you have your own well there is still a cost to get that water to come out of the faucet.

It is in your electric bill because unless you have a spring and are gravity fed (which is not real common). It takes a pump to get the water out of the ground (wel). Ok so school is out we now return you to something more important. CHICKENS !!!!

Hey wait a minute...my parents always told me that a cow had 4 faucets...one gave whole milk, one gave fat free, one gave chocolate, and one gave strawberry milk. Are you telling me they were wrong?

Hook me up to the strawberry faucet.