pssst...julie....go check out the social chat forum. you might find a little surprise.

all you Scorpios!

I'm glad you feel thirty Mel that's a good thing. Brian i really understand,the pictures,do seem like yesterday,at times. And just Happy Birthday Julie K,
47,was a good year..Would you mind passing the cake and muffins???
And Bob i forgot 8 little one's and bathroom time..heh heh Sue

Thanks Julie K

I can't believe how many Scorpios we have on this forum.

SCORPIOS UNITE!!!

I always wanted to say that....lol

Melody

Oh, guess what we did this morning. I took a plain magnetic insert and cut a whole where Alan's foot ulcer is. Then he put bacitracin (it's healing nicely, but this doesn't mean anything, it ALWAYS heals nicely until he puts pressure on it). So while we are waiting for his re-fixed orthotics to come, I figured, why not turn his Cam Walker or Slipper or whatever he is wearing, well, why not turn it into an OFT LOADING THIGAMAJIG, right??

So I knew exactly where to make the hole in the magnetic insert thingee.

Alan put some bacitracin, a little bandaid over it. Then his sock. Then we put the insert into his slipper. He's doing just fine.

If he has to go out, he'll put the magnetic hole thingee into his Cam Walker which will then allow his ulcer to roam free and not have any pressure whatsoever. At least, that's the plan.

He goes to the podiatrist next week.

He hasn't bled all day. So we shall see.

Oh the stuff we have to invent when no one else does!!!!

lol, Melody

UPDATE........ he just told me, this thing is not working, so I just pulled the slipper off, pulled the sock off, then I put the insert (with the hole), right over his bandaged area. So I then put his sock OVER THE FOOT INSERT. Then he put it back into the slipper. He said "oh, this is better. So try and picture this. Alan is wearing a foot insert INSIDE HIS SOCK and this insert has a hole in it, so his ulcer (which only has a small bandaid on it because it looks perfect fine), is able to roam free.

We shall see.

Melody

--is an important day that should be noted by all endocrinologists.

She's so much better than she was years ago, and an inspiration to us all.

Happy birthday, muffin lady--and remember to go watch the marathoners tomorrow.

Many happy returns of the day to Julie k
& wishing a great day today for Melody

MUFFIN POWER. Melody! And best wishes to all you birthday girls! Why don't ya'll go out on the town together and knock back a few? A few lyrica, a few fentanyl patches..... Party on!

BTW, I lived to be 55....in my family, to do that with full faculties ain't that bad.

Well, I just had a most unusual experience. I had a cry. I had been wandering about my house just thinking of my son (who left us 6 years ago and whom I haven't seen in all that time). I kept saying out loud "my god, he just up and left us and never looked back". Alan came over and saw that I was having a bad time of it. It hits me sometimes. Doesn't happen often, because I have boundaries put up (a psychiatrist from the neuropathy association told me to do this a long time ago), I have had great practice doing this.

But once in a great while, maybe it happens on a holiday, Christmas, a birthday, whatever, sometimes, the feelings just wash over me and I get, well I guess the correct terminology would be melancholy. I haven't heard or used that word in a long long time.

I'm not trying to hijack this thread or have a pity party, but it's just that by the time I reached 60, I thought I would have completely different life. Life throws you curves doesn't it??

Alan will take me out to Dunkin Donuts, and later on we'll go to our favorite Japanese Restaurant around the corner for our early dinner. I'll have my usual grilled Salmon over bean sprouts and brocoli, with some miso soup and a small ginger salad. It really is a nice Japanese Restaurant. I would always wonder if I could sit with my legs folded under me like many of the patrons do but I'm afraid with my arthritis, I'll get stuck.

So after tomorrow I'll be back to my usual cheery self.

I do thank all of you for your well wishes. I only wish I could feel like a mother again. You see, i just told Alan, "I don't feel like my son's mother", I can't help myself... and my legs and feet were burning. This happens when i think of my son. I have to get more control over this.

Alan has told me "you have to make a choice, you either have to sever ties with Frank and go on with your life, or you have to accept his calls and deal with it.". He thinks I should sever ties. I really wish I could this. He is not good for my health or for my neuropathy, beleive me.

But the guilt a mother feels (even though I just wrote that I dont' feel like a mother, well it has to come out of me. I'm entitled to my feelings and I just vented. Feels a bit good to say what's on my mind.

So to my fellow Scorpios, I hope you all have a very merry Birthday. Hope it's filled with lots of kids, lots of noise, and lots of gifts.

Bye for now, Melody

Nothing can cause us pain like our children, can it? Whether they are hurting or they are hurting us. I hope your melancholy passes soon.