Billye &Laptop
 

Here is the promised photo. I even dressed up with a fresh gown: http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/sh...05&postcount=4

thank you all more than you can even imagine. It is so nice to take the weight off my behind. Gives me a few hours a day of considerably less pain. Hubby said "grin". I'm still learning every time I open the laptop, but it is beginning to feel like it's part of me. I don't know how I ever did with out it.

Love to all,
Billye

My oh My
 

Billye,
your description was dead on as was my assessment of your description - truly a lovely photo. Thanks - it's always very nice to put a face to a name or a voice.

Alkymst

Well, aren't you a pretty little thing. And you're tiny!!! I'm not standing next to you!!!! And the laptop is so cool.

Enjoy!!

Mel

Beautiful
 

Well, well, who would have guessed that our Billye was so beautiful. It is a fabulous photo and I am going to do as I said and mount a copy over my computer.:cool:

So glad you are getting the hang of the laptop and please send us some more pics ASAP.:wink:

Get well soon – love
Tony

That is a beautiful photo!!
 

I am very happy for you, and it's wonderful to finally see the redhead that I have imagined.

HI Billye!
It's great to see what you look like! You're SO pretty! I wish I had a laptop! Roxie

Well I'll be darned....
 

we got a fox right here on the ole' PN Forum!!

Billye
 

I just knew you be a babe, my mom's name was Jonnie Joe,and she
was a babe as well. Was fun seeing you.at last glad your happy being
off your boo boo. Now let's see the hubby, bet he's :cool: Sue

It is GOOD to ....
 

see NEW TOY! NEW TOY!!! in hand, working and, that it's being put to WORK!

Yep, definitely RED! No doubt about it - j

Yea
 

Well, you might not feel like it but you LOOK great! (awesome hair cut by the way)..... and looks like the 'puter is part of you already:)

WOW! Beautiful and talented with a top lap top! :hug:

Texas style babe! Not a day over 40... :) :) :)
Cathie

Most aussie blokes would look at your picture and say " yep, that's one good looking shella, alright ", but i would say " that's one good looking lady, a nice face to match her nice heart ".
oh yeah, pretty snazy [ nice] laptop too, its looks like it was made for you.:)
take care
Brian :)

You are beautiful Billiye--I love the paisley!!!!!

Ah, so that's what you look like.
 

I admit, I kept imagining you with silver hair--the screen name and all (even though I know it has to do with jewelry).

Nice pose with the laptop, too.

A couple of people wanted to see what I look like, perhaps in an avatar picture, but I warned them, my face dissolves camera lenses. :)

Photos ?? posting 'em ??.......Mine looks like
it was taken thru a fun house mirror.
I can't seem to get rid of all those chins !! :(

Well Bob, I am sure you are exaggerating. Don't feel bad though, even if you are not. If I ever learn how to work my digital camera, I will post a picture of myself. It might be a little dated though, like maybe back in my senior year in high school... :)

Cathie

Brian:

Do you mean that all us "adorable female creatures" are actually Sheilas???

I love this!!!

Melody

Wonderful!!!
 

Great photo! You're gorgeous and you certainly don't look ill. That's a good thing. :wink: I love that gown...

I have this thing about nightshirts and gowns. I buy them frequently. If I don't have to go anywhere and it's not busy here I'm usually found lounging around in a nightshirt of some kind. That's only because I can't run around nekkid! :D

Thanks for posting the pic! It's nice to see how you're getting on and how well the laptop looks on you. :hug:

Yep , sure are :) one of the threads here, i can't remember who right now, but the word, and your going to laugh your head off :D , i know, but someone mentioned the word " Ketchup " i thought what the heck is that suppose to be :confused:
I finished up asking a friend and i was told it was " it's tomato sauce you dill ":D :D now why can't it be something easy like " pass the dead horse please " now that's plain english to me.:D :D

Thanks to all of you
 

I appreciate all of your comments. They made me blush. I certainly don't think of myself as pretty.:o

You know, that's been one of the worse things about the disease I have, and a big complaint I hear on the Sjogren's forum. "You certainly don't look ill." You would be surprised how many of the members have gone undiagnosed and in terrible pain, been accused of malingering, etc., lost jobs, lost family because they don't look ill. Sjogren's is a sneaky disease. It destroys us from the inside out by drying up everything inside us. There is a lot of theory that the dryness affects the myelin sheath. I can certainly believe it. It affects everything else. And I think it possibly affects the brain itself, since it seems to affect the nervous system. I know mind and hand don't seem to be as coordinated.

When we were at Mayo, I was examined by a number of doctor's and I've read my records. Most of them said "attractive, pale female, looking extremely normal except for weakness and seeming inability to walk". Then the test results came back in. They proved I was ill and the doctor's changed their tune.

Mrs. D mentioned that maybe I "presented well" to my doctor's here. That perhaps I didn't look sick. I just look this way, I don't do anything much to make myself look the way I look here. And my husband could make an armadillo smile. He teased me until I smiled. He finally lifted my fat little chihuahua up to help make me smile.

It took me several days to get this photo made. I didn't want to "look sick" for it. I live in my gowns too. For this photo I took a shower, put on some makeup and picked out my most colorful gown. I "dressed up" for all of you.
It took a lot of energy to do this. I can't believe I was doing this as a matter of routine several years ago. Getting dressed, I mean.

It's funny...I don't think of myself as sick. I'm just not mechanically functioning and my body needs spare parts. My mind pretty much feels the same. I have no heart, lung or kidney problems. Just the digestion and nerves are not working right. And the lacrimal and salivary glands. No moisture in eyes and mouth. But most of the time, I don't feel ill. Just sore and in pain. I guess I don't really know what sick feels like. I've been this way so long, it just feels normal except for the pain.

But then, I hear this all the time on the Sjogren's forum.

Just musing here tonight and thanking all of you so very much.
Billye

Billye:

There's a new series coming out on Wednesday nights very soon. They did a remake of the old Bionic Woman. In the promo it shoes Jaime laying in bed and someone is comforting her and saying "they had to give you new legs and an arm". And she throws off the covers and she sees two skinny artificial prosthetics (not yet actual legs). Then she throws the guy across the room. I never laughed so hard.

Makes you think "hey someday, spare bionic parts". I think "hey, spare bionic nerves". You never know.

At least it will make us laugh!!!

Take care,

Melody

I really like your hair cut and color. Its so shiny. I'm glad your enjoying the computer.