MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN 40-60ish
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Barbe - the Braggs is raw, unfiltered apple cider, the "mother" is what is used to make vinegar, it's like scoby (symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast) or vinegar starter.
I forgot the vinegar yesterday and hadn't taken it yet today, was having crazy hot flashes, drank the vinegar drink, and I haven't had one since (3 hours or so)
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Barbe, sorry I can't offer any helpful hints for the sweats... I tried lots of stuff when I was getting them regularly and nothing seemed to help.
Eli, love the decorating the room idea! The page topper (lots of street lights) is a good start! Hope things are still going a little better for you each day.
Joni, wowsers!!! Does he make house calls?
I got home early from work tonight so decided to decorate our front lawn. You don't think it's too much, do you?
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Love all the pics gals!
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Sherryc, so sorry to hear about your families struggle with your brother. Mental illness deserves so much more care and attention. It should be a priority.
To all, I'd like to apologize for speaking too soon after the massacre at Sandy Hooks. The first reports had stated handguns were used when it was a rifle. Not that it matters but I should know better than to speak out as if the facts are first to follow a story like that.
Regarding hot flashes, night sweats and dryness......they use to put women in towers and lock the doors when they went through menopause. They also thought they were witches when all they were trying to do is concoct a remedy!
I went into an early menopause at 35, my symptoms were still going strong 10 years later. It changed my hair, my skin and my lifestyle. Keeping notes to find triggers was a good idea however, my list was so long in the beginning! Between 45-50 the symptoms were so slight I hardly remember them now. After starting Arimidex the flashes are back and at times the night sweats occur. I sleep in a light tank top every night. Any source of heat sets off a flash...heating pad, opening an oven, walking outside in the summer, the seat heater in my car and holding my chihuahua ( she's a little hot box!) there is hope though......time seems to diminish the symptoms.
I will, however, try the braggs mother vinegar mentioned on this thread!
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Sherry - I am so sorry for what you have to go through with your brother. My friend has a brother who is also schizophrenic and lives in a group home and she has to worry about him all the time.
The most frustrating thing I've read about the CT tragedy is that there WAS a mental health bill passed by the state legislature in March to protect people from the mentally ill before they harm someone. CT is one of only 6 states that don't have some form of this bill on the books. It had to be passed by a Judiciary committee who let it fade away because of objections by civil liberties groups protesting that the individual's rights were being trampled on. I agree individual's rights need to be protected but if someone has shown the capability for violence, then that is who is this law was written for. And it ends up the shooter's mother had told one of the guy's former babysitters (when the shooter was 9 years old) not to turn his back on him and that he could get violent. So if this guy already had a known capacity for violence, he needed different treatment. Even the mother of the man who dressed like Batman & shot up the Colorado theater knew her son was capable of what he did - when she was first contacted by the media she said something like, he did something, didn't he?
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I wonder if that Bill has something to the affect like.....no guns are allowed to be in the home of anyone suffering from mental illness.......
I've heard reports that she used the guns as a way of building his confidence and having an activity they both could do together. If this is true, it shows poor judgement.0 -
I could adjust to the hot flashes, I think. What I'm hating now is freezing after a flash subsides. I wake up wringing wet and freezing now. I can't get enough layers on to be warm, until I'm way too warm then I'm stripping down, just to start shivering and having to bundle back up.
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Cindyl: I agree about the freezing afterwards! It's crazy to go from one extreme to another.
LindaKR: I'll give apple cider vinegar a try. I'll be visiting my MIL at Christmas, so it will have to wait until the new year, but I'll give a report back and let all know if it works for me. I'm skeptical, but I hope it works!
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Canadian gun laws. I do not own a gun, but family members do. They have to be registered. Any type of gun. The ones who don't register, obviously, are the bad guys. You'd have a hard time explaining why you need an AK47!!!! We do a LOT of hunting in Canada as game is eaten often. Our cops are heavily armed (unlike Great Britain where they aren't!!) and while I was an auxilary officer with the Toronto Police, I had to qualify on a handgun every year I was in uniform (7 years in total). They had us shoot rifles to get an idea about kick-back, but I had already shot rifles through my Dad's hunt club. In 7 years, there was only one time that a gun was drawn at a scene while I was involved!! We had tonfa sticks that were our first line of defence/offence.
A house I sold in 18 hours ended up going to gun-runners and was on the news getting busted into!! Apparently the basement was full of AK47s and other semi automatics. We should have asked for more money!!
So, I've been exposed to guns all my life and respect them for the killing machines they are. Just like cars. "Cars don't kill people, people kill people" could be said as well!! To put gunfire in the hands of someone with mental issues is just....mental!!
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speaking of mental--wherever that traffic light at the top of the page is must have a ton of CRAZED drivers.
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cindyl; YES!!! I just want a few moments of being comfortable. I'm either freezing literally my teeth can be known to chatter, or flashing. and if I bundle up because I'm so cold, a flash isn't far behind! aargh!
I got the Bragged last night and have taken it twice. fingers crossed... I went to a local organic store, but you can get it at the Vitamin Shop; if you have them.
have a great day ladies...Eph thanks for the hunk!0 -
Eph, LOL. Hubba, hubba, Santa Baby! The Traffic Light Tree is a sculpture by Pierre Vivant, situated within a roundabout (of course, but nothing can control traffic in one of those) in London.
Mar, Your house looks good, but where's that 6ft. neon pink candy cane I gave you last year?
LinsaKR, Thanks for the Apple Cider Vinegartip for hot flashes. I remember reading about that one and never did try it myself. Am so interested in the "experiment" with juneaubugg, to see if she gets some relief.
Juneaubugg, We all have been through various degres of discomfort from the flashes/sweats. Yours sound severe, whereas I only felt like my head was trapped in a sauna! Hope vinegar does the trick.
Over the weekend I was out and saw the flags around town lowered to half-mast due to the Sandy Hook shooting. With no disrespect to the tragegy there, I said to my husband, "Well, in America, you could fly it like that every day." Every day there is some tragic shooting (and I mean something other than in home invasion or defense scenarios,) although the magnitude of the CT shootings is "over the top" even by U.S. standards. So, it should be apparent even to those who want to own guns that a good number of them are getting into the wrong hands, be it the mentally ill or the criminal (and all the overlap in between.)
Happened to see a repeat of a Daily Show last night where John Stewart was announcing that NYC recently had a day where no one had been killed. It was an anomaly.
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Thanks for the shoes, Eli~. I would love to have a pair in real life. I'd wear them to Serve Christmas dinner. I think it would get a reaction from my kids. I love to shuffle things up! I can already hear the "Aw, Mom!!!"
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Yes. It's baaaack! Just as old Bob Crachit carried young Tim on his back, I will be sliding thru' the streets this winter while hoisting my slight chemo-killing "partner in a pouch" effortlessly across my shoulder. (You will see I have reconciled with my pouch for the moment, because it is no longer contributing to ripping my lips off my face.) I'm at a lower (hopefully still very effective) dosage. Other than a minor off-taste in my mouth, nothing out of line to report so far. God Bless Us Pouch Wearers, Everyone!
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I am glad you are back in your fighting gear, Eli~.
Try this festive bag for your "partner"
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Eli so glad you made nice with your chemo killing partner. Now if he can just behave and not rip your lips off anymore.
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Lovely, Meece! That would be chemo chic!
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Hot Flashes! I put flannel sheets on our bed, and found that it helps me sleep. With the other type of sheets I'd soak through, then the sheets would get cold and I'd wake up hypothermic (maybe a slight exaggeration), but the flannel sheets seem to absorb the hot flash better and they don't get cold, so at least I'm not waking up sweating AND freezing every night.
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Thank heaven it's a sculpture!
So you have decided to make nice with Adolph, E? Tis the Christmas season. I hope he behaves himself & your mouth continues to mend.
shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh E-don't read! (It's so icy here this morning, it's "snow"day for schools, etc. so my co-workers & I decided to do the same--boss is out of town, mice will play!!!)
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Eph snow day sounds fun, It is 81 degrees here in Texas, as usual the Texas weather can't make up it's mind if we are too be cold or hot.
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shhhhh Sherry-not so loud! But am looking forward to warmer temps when I start my cruise on Sunday!!!! Yippee!
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All dressed up for Christmas... well, at least I have the hat!
Eph - a cruise? Nice! Is this a Christmas cruise? Hope you warm your bones up!
Elimar - so, you shall call him Tiny Tim and hug him and squeeze him and pet him. Okay, maybe that's going too far.... just re-watched "Finding Nemo" the other night...
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So of course my DH decides to look at me instead of the TV and is wondering why I'm looking at porn!!
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Let him wonder, Police Force Barbe, many-faceted woman of mystery.
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Oh, y'all! That was just a picture of me super-imposed on what they call a "mask". Sorry, didn't have much choice about the "bod". Hope your eyes didn't burn!
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Eli - hope that you are feeling better every day and that your tag along doesn't cause you too much trouble this time around.
Eph - so jealous of your cruise. Where ya goin?
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This is what happens when domesticity removes every natural impulse. In the wild, jugulars have been ripped out for way less.
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I can't see the first pic...
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Western Caribbean for the cruise : Bahamas, Jamaica, Grand Cayman & some island near Beleize. Bittersweet-leaving town becuz my sister, DD & I can't stand the thought of this 1st Christmas without Mom, but on the other hand it's exciting to go somewhere new & wonderful.
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