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« Reply #300 on: July 28, 2011, 03:24:16 PM »
Quote from: jbeany on July 28, 2011, 02:57:43 PM
I'm home from my emergency run to the hospital.  Ahhhh, nothing like sleeping, uninterrupted, in your own bed!

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?????????????????????  :o :o :o :o :o :o
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« Reply #301 on: July 28, 2011, 03:43:32 PM »
Whoops - I updated Karol, who posted for the mods, but it must not have made it past that.  I spent all of Friday heaving up my stomach.  By Saturday afternoon, I couldn't even keep water down.  Landed in the local ER Saturday evening, got lots of saline, and then emergency shipped by ambulance to my transplant hospital 2 and a half hours away on Sunday afternoon.  I had an infection in fluid trapped under the mesh they repaired the massive hernia with, plus an illius - or a section of intestine that just wasn't quite ready to return to work after the first surgery.  Yippie.  Finally home yesterday afternoon.
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« Reply #302 on: July 28, 2011, 10:03:50 PM »
WOW Jbeany, that is a good thing that happened to you, coming home that is, not the infection.
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     -cataract surgery twice on same eye (2000 - 2002). another one growing in good eye
     - vitrectomy in good eye post tx November 2003, totally blind for 4 months due to complications with meds and infection

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1st Dialysis - July 4, 1999
Last Dialysis - December 2, 2000

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Knee Surgery 2010
2011/2012 in process of getting a guide dog
Guide Dog Training begins July 2, 2012 in NY
Guide Dog by end of July 2012
Next eye surgery late 2012 or 2013 if I feel like it
Home with Guide dog - July 27, 2012
Knee Surgery #2 - Oct 15, 2012
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« Reply #303 on: July 29, 2011, 06:32:46 AM »
Quote from: Brightsky69 on July 27, 2011, 06:11:19 PM
I  received an A in my English comp class.   :bandance;  GPA 3.58
Yay! (But what's GPA?)

Quote from: jbeany on July 28, 2011, 02:57:43 PM
I'm home from my emergency run to the hospital.  Ahhhh, nothing like sleeping, uninterrupted, in your own bed!
Yay! (And Yikes!)
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« Reply #304 on: July 29, 2011, 10:37:15 AM »
The best thing that happened to me today was getting new batteries for our clock at work! I know it might sound trivial but looking at the clock a million times a day and it always being 8:35 drives me CrAzY!!!!
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« Reply #305 on: July 29, 2011, 01:24:54 PM »
Poppylicious, GPA is Grade Point Average. The higher the better, especially with financial aid! Not sure how the schooling works overseas.
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Neuropathy in legs age 10

Eye impairments and blindness in one eye began in 95, major one during visit to the Indy 500 race of that year
   -glaucoma and surgery for that
     -cataract surgery twice on same eye (2000 - 2002). another one growing in good eye
     - vitrectomy in good eye post tx November 2003, totally blind for 4 months due to complications with meds and infection

Diagnosed with ESRD June 29, 1999
1st Dialysis - July 4, 1999
Last Dialysis - December 2, 2000

Kidney and Pancreas Transplant - December 3, 2000

Cataract Surgery on good eye - June 24, 2009
Knee Surgery 2010
2011/2012 in process of getting a guide dog
Guide Dog Training begins July 2, 2012 in NY
Guide Dog by end of July 2012
Next eye surgery late 2012 or 2013 if I feel like it
Home with Guide dog - July 27, 2012
Knee Surgery #2 - Oct 15, 2012
Eye Surgery - Nov 2012
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« Reply #306 on: July 29, 2011, 02:36:21 PM »
Well, this really pertains to yesterday, which was my birthday, and I had the most wonderful pizza in the world.  And it was about as renally friendly as possible!  It was a thin crust, woodfired, true Neopolitan pizza topped with a few roasted cherry tomatoes, arugula, garlic oil and shavings of asiago.  I know...there were cheese and tomatoes involved, but there wasn't three kinds of melted cheese and a pint of tomato sauce on it, so it was the best I could do.  And my husband bought the the entire "Song of Ice and Fire" trilogy of books plus the new one, "A Dance With Dragons".  So, I have a LOT of reading to get done before "Game of Thrones" returns for season 2 in the spring.

Man, that pizza tasted good. :yahoo;
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« Reply #307 on: July 29, 2011, 04:24:49 PM »
MM  :birthday; :birthday;!
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« Reply #308 on: July 29, 2011, 05:05:29 PM »
Forgot, I went to Godiva yesterday after doc visit. Got a godiva shake, chocolate bars that were on sale, and free chocolates.
 
 :birthday;  MooseMom!
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Diabetes -  age 7

Neuropathy in legs age 10

Eye impairments and blindness in one eye began in 95, major one during visit to the Indy 500 race of that year
   -glaucoma and surgery for that
     -cataract surgery twice on same eye (2000 - 2002). another one growing in good eye
     - vitrectomy in good eye post tx November 2003, totally blind for 4 months due to complications with meds and infection

Diagnosed with ESRD June 29, 1999
1st Dialysis - July 4, 1999
Last Dialysis - December 2, 2000

Kidney and Pancreas Transplant - December 3, 2000

Cataract Surgery on good eye - June 24, 2009
Knee Surgery 2010
2011/2012 in process of getting a guide dog
Guide Dog Training begins July 2, 2012 in NY
Guide Dog by end of July 2012
Next eye surgery late 2012 or 2013 if I feel like it
Home with Guide dog - July 27, 2012
Knee Surgery #2 - Oct 15, 2012
Eye Surgery - Nov 2012
Lifes Adventures -  Priceless

No two day's are the same, are they?
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« Reply #309 on: July 29, 2011, 07:43:57 PM »
What are "fee chocolates"?    :P

Oh.. best thing that happened.... When I got home from dialysis today, Mom handed me the first book in the Harry Potter series, said that it's a loan from one of the ladies she works with.  So I can start reading now.. *G*
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« Reply #310 on: July 29, 2011, 08:30:44 PM »
Quote from: Riki on July 29, 2011, 07:43:57 PM
What are "fee chocolates"?    :P

 *G*

Suppose to be free and I corrected it. That did not show up on spell check.
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Diabetes -  age 7

Neuropathy in legs age 10

Eye impairments and blindness in one eye began in 95, major one during visit to the Indy 500 race of that year
   -glaucoma and surgery for that
     -cataract surgery twice on same eye (2000 - 2002). another one growing in good eye
     - vitrectomy in good eye post tx November 2003, totally blind for 4 months due to complications with meds and infection

Diagnosed with ESRD June 29, 1999
1st Dialysis - July 4, 1999
Last Dialysis - December 2, 2000

Kidney and Pancreas Transplant - December 3, 2000

Cataract Surgery on good eye - June 24, 2009
Knee Surgery 2010
2011/2012 in process of getting a guide dog
Guide Dog Training begins July 2, 2012 in NY
Guide Dog by end of July 2012
Next eye surgery late 2012 or 2013 if I feel like it
Home with Guide dog - July 27, 2012
Knee Surgery #2 - Oct 15, 2012
Eye Surgery - Nov 2012
Lifes Adventures -  Priceless

No two day's are the same, are they?
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« Reply #311 on: July 30, 2011, 12:57:15 PM »
Quote from: Riki on July 29, 2011, 07:43:57 PM

Oh.. best thing that happened.... When I got home from dialysis today, Mom handed me the first book in the Harry Potter series, said that it's a loan from one of the ladies she works with.  So I can start reading now.. *G*

Griffindorf rules!  Welcome to the addiction, Riki!
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« Reply #312 on: July 30, 2011, 01:40:47 PM »
Jbeany, I'm glad you got home from the hospital! Good Grief! You have been through the mill!

I received a lovely package from Newfoundland today!  :2thumbsup;

It has two DVDs and a "Downhome" magazine that I can hardly wait to read!

I have also been reading a nice little tome from Maine called, "The Secret Life of Lobsters." VERY interesting.

But best, best, best of all...I finished teaching my summer classes yesterday.  :yahoo; :yahoo; :yahoo;

I have a few days to get everything ready for school to start next Wednesday!

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« Reply #313 on: August 11, 2011, 11:58:57 AM »
Today I harvested my first ripe tomato, my first blueberries and my first raspberries!  This is the first year I've grown blueberries and raspberries, and the flavor is so incredibly intense and wonderful!  This is my 4th year with having fresh blackberries, and with all the rain we've had, they are enormous and so fantastically succulent.  It's so nice to be able to have fresh fruit and herbs grown right in your own little suburban garden.  I've got dill, parsley, 4 types of thyme, 4 types of lavender, rosemary and other bits and bobs.  Yum!
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« Reply #314 on: August 11, 2011, 12:01:56 PM »
Ooooh, can I come over for salad?  Yummy!
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« Reply #315 on: August 12, 2011, 08:43:48 PM »
Well one biopsy came back negative for skin cancer, and one guide dog facility responded out of 4 and did not disqualify me. However I need to wait for an interviewer to come to my house to approve me for either Jan or Feb classes or tell me what I need to work on before being allowed classes. The administrator already told me something I do need to work on before the interviewer comes to my house and the administrator will be talking to my cane (O&M) instructor about that issue and whatever other information they require.
 
Now waiting on results from Wednesday's cytoscope.
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Diabetes -  age 7

Neuropathy in legs age 10

Eye impairments and blindness in one eye began in 95, major one during visit to the Indy 500 race of that year
   -glaucoma and surgery for that
     -cataract surgery twice on same eye (2000 - 2002). another one growing in good eye
     - vitrectomy in good eye post tx November 2003, totally blind for 4 months due to complications with meds and infection

Diagnosed with ESRD June 29, 1999
1st Dialysis - July 4, 1999
Last Dialysis - December 2, 2000

Kidney and Pancreas Transplant - December 3, 2000

Cataract Surgery on good eye - June 24, 2009
Knee Surgery 2010
2011/2012 in process of getting a guide dog
Guide Dog Training begins July 2, 2012 in NY
Guide Dog by end of July 2012
Next eye surgery late 2012 or 2013 if I feel like it
Home with Guide dog - July 27, 2012
Knee Surgery #2 - Oct 15, 2012
Eye Surgery - Nov 2012
Lifes Adventures -  Priceless

No two day's are the same, are they?
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« Reply #316 on: August 13, 2011, 03:07:35 AM »
spent the day with my 2 favourite girls :clap;
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« Reply #317 on: August 13, 2011, 03:36:59 PM »
Waved good bye after a fabulous weekend with a good friend.  No one knows you the people who knew you when you were a kid!  We went to the local art gallery/botanical gardens yesterday, and stayed on for the evening concert.  Garrison Keillor and Prairie Home Companion on their Summer Love tour.  Too sweet - mostly love songs, with the usual Lake Wobegon quirky sense of humor.  (Although hearing Garrison do a duet of Tiffany's "I think we're alone now" was hysterical.)
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« Reply #318 on: August 14, 2011, 02:12:07 AM »
my footy team had a wonderful and unexpected upset win!! WOO HOO. GO Tiggers!

Unfortunately my tipping and betting has been terrible. haha ah well. all good fun.
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« Reply #319 on: August 14, 2011, 08:59:02 AM »
Today we finally, FINALLY sold our old Pottery Barn Kids bed with trundle for the price we wanted. We bought an amazing bunk bed set at Costco last year at this time, thinking we would easily sell our name brand set for what we paid for those beds. Well, it took a year, and 3 different Craigslist postings before a young woman actually made an appointment to see AND, more importantly, followed through and turned up. Liot was in despair about losing the trundle, but we cannot keep it for the two times a year we have kids spend the night, and that was what really sold it - everyone wanted the trundle, but I made them buy the bed (without mattress) to get it. It's gone! No more time wasters asking inane questions and trying to cut the price even further, no more idiots asking if they can just have the trundle (Can you read?! I said no!). And, I can restore all of the cash that we have had to "borrow" from the kids in emergency situations. Woohoo!!
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« Reply #320 on: August 14, 2011, 08:31:39 PM »
I went to the beach today. :yahoo;  I came home achy, sunburned, and smelling of low tide, but it was so worth it.  I love the beach. *G*
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« Reply #321 on: August 14, 2011, 09:25:32 PM »
Quote from: Riki on August 14, 2011, 08:31:39 PM
I went to the beach today. :yahoo;  I came home achy, sunburned, and smelling of low tide, but it was so worth it.  I love the beach. *G*

Is low tide smell seaweed smell?
Didn't know there was a different smell otherwise.
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Diabetes -  age 7

Neuropathy in legs age 10

Eye impairments and blindness in one eye began in 95, major one during visit to the Indy 500 race of that year
   -glaucoma and surgery for that
     -cataract surgery twice on same eye (2000 - 2002). another one growing in good eye
     - vitrectomy in good eye post tx November 2003, totally blind for 4 months due to complications with meds and infection

Diagnosed with ESRD June 29, 1999
1st Dialysis - July 4, 1999
Last Dialysis - December 2, 2000

Kidney and Pancreas Transplant - December 3, 2000

Cataract Surgery on good eye - June 24, 2009
Knee Surgery 2010
2011/2012 in process of getting a guide dog
Guide Dog Training begins July 2, 2012 in NY
Guide Dog by end of July 2012
Next eye surgery late 2012 or 2013 if I feel like it
Home with Guide dog - July 27, 2012
Knee Surgery #2 - Oct 15, 2012
Eye Surgery - Nov 2012
Lifes Adventures -  Priceless

No two day's are the same, are they?
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« Reply #322 on: August 14, 2011, 10:05:08 PM »
Hmm... how to describe low tide.. it's kind of a seaweed/dead fish smell.  I think it has to do with plant life that, at high tide, are covered with water, so you can't smell them. But, at low tide, when all you have are mud flats, you can smell it, especially on a hot day, like it was today.
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« Reply #323 on: August 14, 2011, 10:22:18 PM »
I think I know what you mean riki, like bad algea. I think I'll stick to the chlorinated pool ;D
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Diabetes -  age 7

Neuropathy in legs age 10

Eye impairments and blindness in one eye began in 95, major one during visit to the Indy 500 race of that year
   -glaucoma and surgery for that
     -cataract surgery twice on same eye (2000 - 2002). another one growing in good eye
     - vitrectomy in good eye post tx November 2003, totally blind for 4 months due to complications with meds and infection

Diagnosed with ESRD June 29, 1999
1st Dialysis - July 4, 1999
Last Dialysis - December 2, 2000

Kidney and Pancreas Transplant - December 3, 2000

Cataract Surgery on good eye - June 24, 2009
Knee Surgery 2010
2011/2012 in process of getting a guide dog
Guide Dog Training begins July 2, 2012 in NY
Guide Dog by end of July 2012
Next eye surgery late 2012 or 2013 if I feel like it
Home with Guide dog - July 27, 2012
Knee Surgery #2 - Oct 15, 2012
Eye Surgery - Nov 2012
Lifes Adventures -  Priceless

No two day's are the same, are they?
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« Reply #324 on: August 16, 2011, 05:51:30 AM »
It hasn't happened yet but my only GD will be here for a 10 day visit  :clap; :clap; Everything in my garden is getting ripe and ready to be picked and she wants to learn how to make salsa!.
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