Actually, we have been PRAYING for this move for weeks now. He has been at this facility since mid-June, and they haven't wanted to do anymore tweeking of his meds for at least the past month, and I'm not sure the meds he is on are doing enough to bring him out of this fog, or whatever you want to call it. Believe me, it's been a very long road to this point. He spent from January 18th to March 24th in a hospital for his burns, came home (well actually we had to stay in a Holiday Inn until we had closing on our new home). We moved in here on April 17th, and he did quite well until he asked for help in mid June...which brings us to where we are now...

We'll take things as they come, and perhaps it won't be necessary to formally change his status from voluntary to involuntary. The main reason that was to be done was so he could gain faster access to this new hospital where, hopefully, we will be able to speak with his new pdoc. He will already be in this hospital before the hearing, though, so I'm not sure where this leaves the situation. His pdoc on the 'outside' hasn''t seen him since the last day before he was hospitalized. He is up on all the latest medications and I wish he could treat him while he is hospitalized, but I've been told that the facility pdoc must be the treating doctor. Doesn't really make a whole lot of sense to me.

Dear Jacquie

At least two long posts of mine to you got "zapped" by timeouts due to my inattention... multitasking... packing before i left for vacation (i don't like to use the "remember me" option)...

so i don't even know if you heard a peep out of me, not even the initial WELCOME BACK made it i fear...

i am so sorry for your losses and all that has since evolved...

now trying to catch up with this thread/situation now... was too agitated to sleep... now sleepy again... so gonna head off...

but not before a QUICK post to say hi, send ((((((HUGS)))))) and prayers and positive energies for you and your hubby...



~ waves ~

{{{{{waves}}}}}

So sorry about your 'lost' posts. That happened to me the other day, too, gr-r-r-r....

Try to relax and get some rest, and thank you for the welcome back!

I lose an amazing amount of posts here too. Any idea why?

Sure!

when you log in, you are assigned a "session" so that Neurotalk recognizes youu as YOU and allows all the privileges that come with being a registered user - posting, searching, PMs, viewing personal pages, etc...

Now this "session" doesn't last forever.... if you don't perform any requests (i.e. browse around or post) it will "expire" after a certain amount of time - i don't know what the exact number in minutes is... could be about 30 mins. anyway, at that point, you are no longer seen as "logged in" and if you were in the middle of writing a post, when you hit submit, you will get a message saying no can do, please log in.

this is because, while you are typing in the post editor, you are not actually "active" in the sense that you are not requesting pages from the web server.

--- workarounds available ---

1. use the "remember me" option. the next time you log in, check the box that says "remember me" - you need do this only once... thereafter, Neurotalk logs you in automatically when you access a forum page from the same machine. You can start a post today and hit submit tomorrow and it will accept it. you will not be actually logged in that entire time, it's just that the forum logs you in as needed basically.

2. prepare the post elsewhere, then log in, hit reply, paste it all in, add smilies if need be and hit submit. this way you do not hit the inactivity limit if you spend a lot of time composing the post.

3. keep the session active while you are typing the post. login and compose post in the editor. you have full access to smilies so you can put them in as you go (more natural than adding later). use the preview post button frequently, or keep a separate page open on the forum and refresh that. either of these resets your inactivity period to 0 so you don't get "logged out." As a safety net, always select and COPY the entire post (CTRL-C or CMD-C) before hitting submit. if you are forced to log in again, once you get yourself to the compose-post window for the thread you want and just PASTE. you will have to manually retype the post title and reselect the post icon, and then submit.

call me crazy but 3. is the one i use. i'm really used to it so i don't run into problems generally.

#1 - remember me is hands down the easiest, most transparent one to use... BUT it won't work if you log in from different computers or even alternate between using one of a few.

hope that helps. (hope this posts.... but i'm going to do a copy.... )

~ waves ~

In my case.

I type a whole thing. And forget to type send'

And then go somewhere else and think I have.

And come back and delete the post by mistake.


Donna

i just stay logged in.....

You are amazing.

I did learn from sad experience very quickly that I'd best check that "Remember Me" box before even doing the log-in or all would be for nought.

I guess, over the weeks, I have sorta stumbled into the #3 method but without focus. Now that you have so clearly explained to me what I was bumblingly & unconsciously developing into a process, I'm betting I can get a whole lot better at it.

Yeah. I was doing a lot of what you describe. Funny. If you had asked me what I did, I prob'ly woulda said, "Can't say those words here. Admin edit, donchano."