Hi everyone! LOL, yesterday was sleeping day for me. Caffine's effect fizzled. Not even Starbuck's could help me. :Wheel:

I took a five hour nap yesterday. :eek: Not usual for me, but hubby took it in stride. He was a little worried, but he let me sleep anyways. So far so good this morning. Believe or not, even got some sleep in last night.:rolleyes:

Kay, 'tis the season. Stay safe with the storm brewing.

Jmiller, Howdy! Nice to see your post

Sandy, How'd the meeting with Nic's g/f go? Hope she's a nice girl.

Renee, Yesterday was my nothing day, LOL. We all deserve one once in awhile.

Everyone, :grouphug:

Jenn, she's a sweet girl. They went out and saw Batman last night. She's on the ski team for NIU and seems to have her head on right. Haha!

I think she was taken aback when I said they couldn't sleep together. I meant "sleep together" not necessarily that they couldn't sleep in the same room. I told them they never know when I will walk downstairs! lmao

i took medication last night didnt hear a thing, deb said it got pretty wild here last night and for me to sleep through it is unheard of, for me

talked to becky on here pm'ed her to make sure she was ok she is ok just sad no one calls her lol just kidding
sorry had to type that

howdy kay do you use peasants in the bread or do they just help make it. is it like a friendship bread or that amish friendship loaf I got one of those from a friend and kept it going for about a year, each week another loaf, give anything to get a starter of that amish friendship sourdough bread again as i said before and I second sandys comment stay safe kay and hubby and duckies and all those other little critters yall got

ahh jaun valdez has graced me with his presence, yeah took me a while to get that lazy loaf up and brewing

sandy I stopped taking baclofen think i was at 25 mg maybe it was 30 bid twice a day, it didnt react well with me:yikes: my legs and my mental state

howdy Jim hope you feel better

again kay be careful



peace all

Frank what reaction did you have to baclofen? Jim's been taken it forever. lol

Hi everyone! It is too hot here to do much today. I also stayed in yesterday due to the heat. I've been reading and working on one of my syllabi -- only 5 more weeks to the beginning of the semester. I am sort of looking forward to it. It is always fun to teach political science during a presidential election year. I have not taught since last December (was on sabbatical during the Spring semester) so I am hoping I can handle it. I have one class that meets for 2 1/2 hours on Monday afternoons. It is a graduate seminar on the presidency. That will be the toughest.

Sandy, I don't think we had any storms down here last night. It rained a little yesterday morning. I am on just a very low dose of baclofen -- 10 mg 2 X per day. I have taken clonzepam a few times when I was experiencing painful spasms. I have talked to someone that uses mj for their spasms/nerve pain and they sometimes make tea with it. I guess you can google all kinds of recipes if you do not want to smoke it.

Kay -- Sure hope the storm misses you. Be careful!!!

Hi Frank, Jenn, Renee and everyone else!

Thanks Barb. Jim already uses mj but at a low dose. I think cutting back on his pills may be causing the riff, could be withdrawl, just not sure. It could also be the UTI. I put him back on Tizantidine and it's helping but he falls asleep now.

hey Barb ... I love teaching too ... just that I can barely stand during song-service in church without wanting to sit down! I'm still in the 'denial' stage about using a cane ... or be in a w/c ... not sure how to handle it ..

UPDATE
finally was able to get some of my shelving out of storage, washed it in the tub yesterday (what a job!) ... and started putting them together so I can put stuff away and get rid of the 'box' living ..

made a homemade pizza in my stove after church today ... mmmm, good!

have homework to do now .. procrastinated because of the move .. only been here 5 days ... and it's starting to feel like home ...

thought I better get an update so Frank doesn't send out the search party for me! :yikes:

Jenn - I'm still learning about the exhaustion issues ... some days I do 'okay' then there are maybe 2 days in a row - that I can barely lift my arms ...

carrying my coffee (when I walked out to my car to go to church) ... my fingers *fell asleep* ... I didn't spill, but it was hard to wake them up to 'let go' of the coffee cup without spilling!! yow-za!

okay - catch yas later!! ... Kay - watching the hurricane on the Weather Channel ... but, it's easier to get weather updates directly FROM the source, if ya know what I mean, jelly-bean!

hope everyone has a relaxing rest of the day ... will keep you posted .. and get back into the swing of things ... soon!!

I take 20mg 3x a day, but if I come off of it then spasms start right up.

Kay, stay safe looks as though its going to skim to your north. At least you wont be on the worst side of the storm.

Well now that I had my spankings, Ill just wait for the porch gathering at Mommas.

Hey all,
I hear ya Vonn on the exhaustion..and balancing how much you can do or not...

I tend to go go go..then hurt hurt hurt....

like last few days, on days off, did golf, and out and about...took longgg walk with stroller and the two kids...pushing the two...then golfed last night...woke today..and my wrists and ankles are in pain..never had issues with my wrists or ankles much before...uggg

suppose to take the two oldest girls out golfing today....still will go..not sure how much I will hit...as my wrists might not want me to....we will see...
might have to talk to dr about pain also..when in in september...going to discuss Neurontin now that been done nursing....the other kind didnt do much for neuro pain...lyrica..didnt help...so not sure neurontin will either...but also want to find out what I can take for regular pain too
hugss to all, sarah

Frank, peasant bread is a plain, simple, crusty no-knead bread.

kinda dense, but excellent for ferrying eggs to one's mouth if one has a tendency to JAB one's LIPS with a fork (*blush*) due to spasticity or loss of fine motor control.

my husband is very helpful with these issues, so he assists me a lot in this regard... like, it's also easier for me to use a spoon, held child-fashion in a full-fisted grip, than to handle a fork with it's sharp points, and with me sometimes missing my mouth by a centimeter or two, lol.

here's the recipe and directions:

http://ourbelize.net/phpbb3/viewtopi...09&hilit=bread

Sandy, I was on the same dose of Baclofen as Jim... 30 mg, 3x per day, (total 90 mg)

that was a lot, for me... but I was having unending waves of leg and foot cramps, so it was necessary to control them somehow.

after talking it over with my Neuro, we decided to try reducing it to see if the hideous spasms would stay controlled, or would return...

at this point, I only have the spazzes a half-dozen times a week, and I can grin-and-bear it, rather than taking the Baclofen, which at that dosage sorta made me zombie-like, and added to a rather large weight gain for me (I'm only 5 foot 2, eyes of blue - and got up over 200 lbs, so it was a big issue)

but Jim's taller and more heavily built than me, so the same, or even larger dose may not cause him a problem... (?)

all I can say is, I'm grateful for the Baclofen, and happy it worked when I needed it...

Everybody, they've named the approaching storm DOLLY, and all prayers are appreciated...

looks like the bulk of it will be headed north of us, hopefully...

http://www.wunderground.com/tropical...t.html#a_topad

Vonny, ha ha ha... think of me as the horse's mouth.

Barb, we're putting stuff away anyway, better safe than sorry, but we REALLY hope it misses us too, because the pond, AND the overflow are already FULL, and so are all three of our cisterns, the big 10,000 gallon underground one, and the little 700 and 300 gallon ones too, wow !!

Finny, everything's put away, and now we just relax and wait...

we have plenty of water, food, first-aid kits, kerosene lamps, hand-cranked flashlight, and radio, and some SERIOUS storm shutters built in to our windows, so don't worry about us... it's just the 61 new baby ducklings I fret about a wee bit, and wishing the emergency animal hurricane shelter was finished... it still has no ROOF, so we may be out there tomorrow sliding around in the muddy nursery, catching duckie babies, and bringing them into the house, cheep cheep cheep... LOL !!

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