[Abbie]

Hi all!!

First... I would like to thank everyone for helping me to get through the past couple of months. You are all very special people!!!

Ok... What does everyone have planned for the weekend???

Me?... just doing some reading and studying... I also have to pick up my food from angel food ministries. If you haven't heard of this you may want to check it out. www.angelfoodministries.com If there is one in your area...it is well worth the money... I get a bunch of food for less than $50. each month. Now I don't have a family to feed but there is enough food to last me for well over a month.

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend. I will be in and out.


Abbie

[Dmom3005]

Abbie

I have a 4-h fair to start with. We have to get up and have a microwave cake made and at the fair before 9:30 in the morning. And two pictures
in the other building too. I'm hoping things go well, I get a little stressed
when I have to worry about a last minute making of something like this.

Sure wish it could have been made tonight. But it couldn't.


Now for my really weird and I mean weird news. And its not something
I needed right now. I got a message on my home machine that said.

Please call so and so to schedule the catherazation on July 23rd.
Hmmm, just even found I needed one by mail on Tuesday. And was
trying to get more information on this. ANd then I have two very
packed weeks I can't change. Especially since its Derrick's appointments
that are schedule way far ahead. And then his camp. I am not happy.

THey can't just do this, I've never even met this doctor.

Donna

[Pamster]

Thanks for starting this thread Abbie, it's good to hear from you, I have a link you might be interested in that is similar to the one you shared:

http://www.sharewi.org/SHAREAffiliates.html

They do food buying at a reduced price too, check it out and see if you've got one in your area too, I looked but the one you posted isn't available here in my state yet. Thanks for sharing the link! I am glad things are better for you now, I know I have counted hard on the people here for emotional support getting through the pain in my life and it's remarkable just how much knowing people are out there that care about you really can help.

Oh boy Donna, call them and tell them you're nowhere near ready to have that procedure done YET and can they schedule a regular face-to-face meeting appt and let you TALK to the dr. before getting ahead of themselves? That is just ridiculous that you'd just blindly schedule a procedure like that without first meeting and talking to the dr. I would be leery of that too, has to be a misunderstanding on someone's behalf in the office, so call and check it out-IF You want to now after such a glaring mistake...I would be miffed about such a thing too if I was you...Hope you get things worked out to YOUR convenience, not theirs.

As for me, I am sitting here and 3am wishing the kid would go back to bed...I woke him up around 11:30 to go brush his teeth and get off the couch where he'd fallen asleep and he then would not go back to bed. I am so sick of how he gets up like this and wants to eat, eat and watch TV. I know, it's hard to put the tv on and expect him to fall asleep again, but I only do it after an hour and a half of fighting sleep myself, so because I wanted the computer on I gave in and put the tv on.

But he's so selfish about food. I wanted to make a can of tuna to share and have a small sandwich from and he tried his damnedest to stop me from being able to do that because he wanted the whole can...I get so sick of his brattiness, I figure that is just like a kid, not just a kid with autism but even so I hate being in an argument with the kid fighting to get a stinkin' sandwich....This isn't the first time this has happened and it won't be the last I'm sure.

I feel so tired right now and there he goes back into the kitchen, it sickens me. We're supposed to go out to lunch with Mom but if I don't get some serious sleep I won't be able to drive us to Wendy's and will have to call Mom and ask if we can do it later in the day which will screw our schedule all up. *Sigh* I laid there in bed while Jack watched Jackie for two hours, but I didn't sleep well because JAckie kept coming in there and I was afraid he was going to throw water on me because he does that if I am in bed when he doesn't want me there.

This is stuff I will not miss in a couple of months when I move out supposing things contine to get worse, I am not going to hesitate to get away if he gets violent again though, I have had enough of that crap...I want to get him and his dad off on the right foot but not at the cost of my quality of life, I am too young to be confined to a power chair because he injures my neck or my back or something you know? But that is what worries me.

Anyway I have been looking at cars and laptops/computers and cell phones the past few days, thinking ahead about the budget I have to work with in order to get on my feet again because I am NOT going to get the car, it's Jack's and I am fine with that, I want a little four cyclinder Chevy Cavalier anyway. Not sure I could get a job and work because of my health, but I need something to get to dr appts in, and one of those will do the trick nicely. It's cheered me up to think about a new start and I am willing to work with Jack to make it possible to keep Jackie out of a group home, but up only to a point...I haven't decided if I am going to try to help him get through this funeral trip in October or not yet.

[Mari]

Dear Abasaki,
You sound a little bit up in this post. I hope that you are ok this weekend.

Dear Pam,
I saw the time stamp on your post before I read it and was concerned that you missed your sleep time again. That stinks.

Dear Donna,
Maybe the dr's staff is messing up. I would expect that you would need to meet the dr before deciding to schedule a procedure, but what do I know.


Take care everyone.

Mari

[Pamster]

Yup, Jackie pulled an all nighter this time and I am going to have to call off lunch with Mother today. He's just such a little PITA during summer. I have coffee on right now and wish to God I could be asleep. It's just so unfair how he can do this so unpredictably.

[Pamster]

Well I got some sleep and we did go out with mother and had a great time. Jackie is still up and we're going to try to keep him up, he was good for us today though we didn't do our regular walmart run, we got gas, got crickets at the pet store for Mr. T and went to the library. It was a fun time.

[Mari]

Dear Pam,

No walmart. That's OK. It will still be there next time.

Thanks for keeping us updated.
I'm glad that you got to sleep and then got to do most of your normal day with your mom.

What do you do at the library? Do you get movies? One of my friends goes a few times a week. He's a big reader. Also, he drives in his truck a lot and listens to books on CD. I haven't been for a while. The last time I was there, it was in a completely brand new building. They had the same stuff but more room. And the same crabby bossy librarians.
When I was younger I wanted to be a librarian.

I hope Jackie goes to bed in his regular bed and sleeps through so everyone (including him) gets good sleep tonight.

Mari

[Pamster]

We get movies and sometimes I order books, it just depends. We got Mr. T some crickets today though, had fun listening to them chirping before they went into the freezer and watching them moving around. They remind me too much of roaches to keep them alive...so we freeze them for Mr. T and thaw them out before feeding. And boy does he love them.

It was so nice to get together with Mom today, I needed it, just to be around her and hear that it's going to be okay.

[Dmom3005]

Well I have no real way to even get a hold of this particular office.
Since I don't have a complete phone number but that is normal sometimes.

I am just going to have to do some detective work trying to figure it out.
Either way the test can't be done on Wednesday because its just not
possible. If they had bothered to ask before trying to schedule it they
would have known that.

Derrick and I took his microwave cake to the fairgrounds today, the rest of his stuff went on Thursday thanks to the help of a friend. His microwave cake, got grand champion, it was the only microwave project. But it still had to meet the requirements.

His lego project was champion of his division.

And his picture of a lego, I believe the judge just didn't care for 2-D projects.
He/She was giving weird things all the way around though, 1st and then 2nd's in the division, and champion, reserve champion.
So Derrick got a 2nd and a reserve champion.



Donna

[Mari]

Dear Pam,
I have a hard time keeping track of library books -- I'm late or I loose them completely. It's quite embarrassing.

Question about how freezing the crickets works: I'm guessing that you have to have them in individual containers. Otherwise they are clumped together when you try to defrost one. How do they sell them? Do they come as a group ?

Get some good sleep tonight.

Mari