Thanks Sally. Yep, you know how much I hate steroids. I have done them so many times, you'd think I'd be used to this. I just hate them. I know I need to and I put it off as long as I could, but dang it...

You'll do fine, FG. The trick is going to be getting you to slow down and give it a chance to work!


I'm homicidal today, yet another phone has failed me! This is making me nuts, I tell ya'. The warranty system with these refurbished, crap-for-guts phones is about as low as they can go! My brand-new phone bites the dust and their answer is to replace the guts with a refurb? I want a new phone, dangit! I won't change models because there is no way I will increase my contract to the evil ones!!

It's miserable hot here today and that, and a couple other issues have me downright whiny. Bleah.

Cindy....That is it you have to invent, patent and manufacture your own line of cell phones..........I know you can do it...you can do anything.

FG I hope you on the road to mending....please take it easy and relax ....if you know how to that is........

Me.......well had the abcess burst in my mouth from my tooth yesterday. The dentist said I have to go another round of antibotics before he will touch me.....(just finished a dose thrusday am)......now my stomach is upset from the darn thing......Its HOT HOT HOT and humid here......I have a house full of comany on the way.....and just wanna go to bed and sleep. But cant, got laundry going and supposed to be vaccuming and sweeping and mopping right now....but sat down to drink a quick cup of coffee.

Thought I would check on everyone right quick.

Have a good weekend all......

Cindy ~ cell phones....I hate them but a necessary evil nowadays. I hate signing a new contract just to get a new phone. We're waiting it out for another year until the contract is up on our daughters cell then we're switching providers.

Cheryl ~ I hope the roids help.....good luck with them.

FFM ~ OUCH! Gotta love having company at times like this. What the heck, just tell them to go home

Me ~ WooHoo, WooHoo!! I went cold turkey with the Cymbalta (it's been 3 or 4 weeks now). Decided to use the treadmill 3 days ago, went one mile at 2 percent incline and have increased the distance....yesterday ( 1.15 mile) and today (1.25 mile). I even have more energy.

I am frustrated though. I need ADs to feel better mentally however they make me more tired, low energy and my physical ability is diminished. I have seen this happen everytime I take an AD. Everytime I end up blaming it on possible MS progression but see a physical improvement evertime I stop an AD.

What the heck!

FG...sorry that you need to start the roids. You have not had you every 3 month relapse cycle...maybe this will be the last one!

No kidding, Snoop, so much of this med junk is catch-22. Ya' just can't win, I guess. Man, I hate when stuff saps my energy like that. It's like most of the world gets a whole gallon each day and can dole it out in cupfuls, while we start with an eyedropper's worth and every drop is precious.

I really feel like I've gained, so far, being off the shots. Honestly, it's so minute a difference, even seasoned experts probably wouldn't notice it, but I do and I'm all that matters, right?

Okay! We're on re-gutted cellphone #4, plus the original, so that's 5 in six months. I have a letter in to Motorola and will be doing my notorious paper letters assault on the entire corporate block down there in Schaumburg. They'll get so sick of me, they'll beg me to take an apologetic free phone just to get the garbage off their desks! I am in my element— they're goin' down!!

I'm actually one of the wierd ones that hate cell phones! I think they are an intrusion on a persons privacy. Sometimes the time I have in the mall or in the car is the only time I have to myself and I don't need someone calling me just to talk. They can leave a message on my answering machine. If it was something I needed to pick up for them, well they just should of called me before I left. It will teach them to be better organized.

I remember the good ol' days growing up in a household of 7, one bathroom, one phone and one TV. You all had to work together. Schedules had to be written down, lists made and I loved my own private moments. To this day, my sister and I have strict rules that no one, I mean no one gets in our purses. That was the only thing we didn't share or have that was a hand me down.

I do have one of those TracPhones that I carry with me when I drive out of town. I do recognize that emergencies do happen. I remember one time driving home from Lexington seeing the grand kids. Lexington was having terrible storms. My other daughter was leaving Indianapolis and there was a tornado. We all talked to each other the whole trip home. Also we both have elderly mothers in not so great health and I do see a need for a cell phone for that. But my girls know that my cell phone is not turned on unless I need it.