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  • Been hesitant to post this for fear of sounding like an insane person.....I.have been randomly noticing a strange smell, . It comes and goes but today I've started noticing it when I pee. No itching, burning or urgency and urine is not cloudy. Anyone have any 

  • wren44
    wren44 Posts: 8,074

    Are you eating asparagus?

  • jwoo
    jwoo Posts: 936

    Wren! you read my mind!

  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Posts: 15,889

    Morning owls :)

    Nettie  just a skin eczema problem thingy, always sumpin. The smell thingy 1. either the urine smells different  or 2. your nose is working better, or 3.smell hallucination.  :0    BTW re: the leg thingy when you lay down. Neuropathy is generally associated with a constant pain or change that is attributable to nerves. Your's sounds intermittent positional nerve pain occurring when you lay down. Technically you could call it intermittent neuropathy. It's likely related to the back thing. The MRI of the spine that I've suggested in the past would identify any impingement on the spinal nerves. Origin of problem is likely degenerative process with your scoliosis.

    Consider putting a firm cushion under your legs--knee & lower leg elevation when you're on your back, and between your legs when on your side. Straightens out the lumbar when on your back, reduces hip strain when on side. Also, evaluate how old your bed is, maybe it's time for a new one. :) Consider that bed that you can control the firmness. In a do over I would have gone that route :)

    Jwoo, I didn't sue the company. I may know when too sue. But have never done it.  Is that artist related to Tim Burton? How's your friend doing?

    HI1, How's DH? Like how you change your avatar so often :) I used to change them, but lost the file with the old computer. boo hoo. Haven't downloaded anything. Really tired of the butterfly even those she's pretty.

    Milestone---Cleaned out all my nursing continuing education documents from 1992-2009. garbage bag full. Required by law to keep for six years.

    Where is Littlegoats?

    YOOHOOOTIE who to everyone Have a Beautiful day :)

  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Posts: 10,258

    Ha, ha!  Sass!  THAT is hysterical!  You said "smell hallucination!"  MG that is funny!  YOU sound like ME sometimes!   

    Okay, so and yes..... when I had back problems, I was told to sleep with a pillow between your knees.  I STILL do...  It align's your back properly...  and if THAT don't help, go in for surgery.     See?  I did all those things....  You TRY every suggestion.... then give it up, and go get surgery.

    Now how's THAT for misinformation?

  • Thanks for the replies. I do not eat asparagus :) 

    Sas, I also have skin issues, always have. Itch like crazy at times and break out or have very rough dry skin. I've had that since I was a child, I'm beginning to think it also comes along with thyroid issues. Or at least is helped along by bad thyroid.

    Still waiting on insurance to approve mri. No luck so far.

    Good morning to all.


  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Posts: 15,889


    Nettie, yes, eczema is/can related to thyroid. Hence my difficulty now, but hopeful once FINALLY regulated on right dose all will be better. Debate on origin of eczema and psoriasis, but there is a connection. Chemical sensitivity is also sited as an origin for eczema, not sure about psoriasis

    Chevy, I C&P'd that video to W&F's . MY furbabies talk too. Schatzi is cute and funny. Dini is learning to talk, but sounds menacing LOL.

  • Good morning! 5:30 am here, got up to use the restroom, found out I have a webinar at 6:30 so can't go back to sleep or I'll sleep thru it. 

    I am officially jumping in and not going back. 

    Jwoo and Chevy, thanks for the help with gmail. It worked! I wasn't googling the correct thing (gmail problems didn't cut it). 

    Awesome day yesterday! Got a text in the afternoon that DD would be stopping by (giving private swimming lessons in the area) and staying for a couple hours (thru dinner). Ran to the store for food, had to stop at a copy place to print a job app (our Mac doesn't print it correctly, blurs sections). Get to the market, no cell, almost panic, ran back to the copy place, I must have left it there. Miracle someone turned it in! Actually cooked dinner (way too hot for cooking), DD was so sweet and talkative. Wonderful  couple of hours! Even DH got home early enough to spend some time with her AND she talked with him a bit. This hasn't happened in a long time. 

    Need to get the coffee going 

    Happy Thursday all!

  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Posts: 10,258

    Oh 2222222222!  That is GREAT news!  About your Daughter!  I'm so happy for you guys!  She'll be back.... xoxoxo

  • luvmygoats
    luvmygoats Posts: 2,484

    Hello all. Sassy was sweet to check on me today. Know I've been absent. Just life. Car went for major break repairs last week and then brakes froze up with burning smell when DH drove it to work - well part way - today. So I had to retrieve him as car was being towed away. Finished continuing education for my license. That is a BIG whew out of the way. Now I have the nastiest of nasty colds. Bedded down on the couch. Choked down some tomato soup and Ritz crackers. DH thinks I'm cooking chicken for dinner. NOT. Maybe a chicken TV dinner. I stock up on Stouffers bigger 30 oz. dinners when on sale. I think I have a chicken/rice in freezer. Sorry I can't speak to you individually. Strength waning more Nyquil.

    Chevy when do you go to Orlando? That's the only thing my brain remembers happening.

    HAHA Break - get it. Didn't proofread very well. But actually break is probably a better description. Car may break the bank account.

  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Posts: 10,258

    We are going on the 24th.... And coming home the next Monday..... Meeting Sass and Spookie on Thursday, the 25th.... come hell or high-water.... probably high-water, heat, fire-ants, love-bugs, gecko things, and humidity so much I will soak all my clothes.... Ha!    But I will love it.... I'm anxious to meet the dogs too!  My DD has Penny, and several cats that call their place home.... or more like  a place to eat & hang out....    She has ONE.... named Jack, that every night he goes out scrounging the neighborhood, and brings them home presents, like candy wrappers, plastic bags,  and insignificant things, but they must be his presents to them!   

    She takes pictures of his gifts every morning!  MY cat used to bring home dead birds.... etc!

  • Oh please no high water! That could be a bad thing!

    SCORE!!!!

    I'm excited, and it apparently doesn't take much  when Spookie got her new winter coat, she needed a new bow to go with  I've been looking everywhere  found one on Amazon last night for $15. Plus shipping.  Like that was going to happen!!! Stopped at a new pet store today  They had 2 perfect bows for 10 Cents EACH !!!!

    WooHooo

  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Posts: 15,889


    Spookie that's my kind of price Lol Cheap cheep cheap cheep.

    Littlegoats, so sorry you have a nose cold. Hot Toddy time. tea ,whiskey, lemon, and honey. Wonder if anyone actually did a study. Any excuse right. Seriously, haven't done one in years, but when I did two , I  didn't care about the cold. Suppose the effect is the same as with Nyquil, but you can't savor it. Hope it calms down quick. Those brakes sound like a foul up? burning up? It's always sumpin. You must have spent money on sumpin you wanted before the brakes had to be fixed?

    DH and I learned as young marrieds to think about what might break when we were thinking about making a purchase. It always seemed whenever we bought sumpin, sumpin of equal value would fail. We got to the point we would make sure the same amount was in savings for the "whatever" as to the amount we would spend. Things have never changed. Just last month I bought 300$ worth of patio stones. What broke? The garage door lift. I'm 64 have no idea how much longer I'll have this house, but they are going to get a place that's updated for sure the way I'm going. Guess I should start saving for the a/c unit, it's about time. DBF thinks it should be done now. BUT it's only 16 years old!. That's old for Florida. Same thing in June and July, remember I had to buy two cars b/c the first one hurt me. Sheesh. BTW the hip pains gone. It was a very expensive lesson AND a very expensive seat. About a 13,000$ lesson.

    Chevy List to do to see you, 1.Get waxed me not the car, 2.cut Shat's hair. 3 Iron something. Yes, I'm going to iron something. Don't often do that, but Smarrty wants pics, so I mustn't be wrinkly. Lose 30 pounds, hmm next week. Well that's off the list and this isn't the high school reunion.

    Is Cami SICK?

    If anyone here or lurking isn't checking in on Warm and fuzzy thread, you should.  lot's of funny stuff. Maddy, Smarrty , and Spookie go there I know b/c they post. There's a transporter link in both topic boxes. Beam me over Scottie :)

    Smarrty, you sound happy with your choice YAY double foob YAY.

  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Posts: 10,258

    Oh?  So Spookie got a new Winter coat?  What does it get down to?  80?  Damn!  You guys will freeze to death!  I remember it was down in the 30's one time....  I just laughed my butt off!  

    Sass, I don't know where that Cammers is....  I thought for sure we would hear from her by now!  I will email, to see if she is doing something we should know about.  Or not.

    Also.... you get waxed?  For WHAT?  Can't you just SHAVE like normal people do?   Yes, let's lose 30 pounds like by next week.  

    And I can't barely even keep up HERE, much less post everywhere else....  Seriously!  

  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Posts: 15,889


    Chevy it's really Smarrty's fault ! She sent every damn pound that she lost right over to my belly and hips!. I didn't catch on until none of my new skinny(well kind of skinny) clothes were getting tight. Now I'm huge. Feel 10 months prego. So pics only from the shoulders up. Hey, I had to wear socks and pants the other night to go to dinner. Yes, I get my lip and chin waxed now. Oh yeah, eyebrows too. Should have started right after the trouble of '09. Lol. First trip to the hairdressers to get the first curls trimmed, I had this really long hair on my FACE. Really long. How LONG? Many inches long. It was how could I not notice it. Oh yeah, can't see either.

    Blessings, your post about getting an audiogram LOL, rang a bell for me. I should have had an updated echocardiogram before the whole thyroid thing. This hypothyroid schtick is wreaking havoc on my cardiac status. So, I will get one asap. Damn our docs just don't protect us from nothing.

    Blessings did some more reading on Dr Rinds web site. He's Holistic. Board certified in Anesthesia, but over his career went into pain mgt,  and then migrated to Holistic medicine. He has a whole section on post head injury care. It's very interesting. I know it will be something you will enjoy. I'm looking at him for thyroid/adrenal stuff. He is a superb teacher.

    http://www.drrind.com/

     

  • Smaarty
    Smaarty Posts: 2,615

    oh no sass! Not my doing. You can blame the thyroid doc. Yes, I'm happy with the new PS. I still need to send her a thank you. I was really expecting the opposite when I went in. 

    Sewed Christmas stockings for foster kids today with my quilt guild. We do this every year for the last 3 years. 

    Enerva, how you doing? Staying off that bike?  Is it getting cold up there? I'm going to Detroit next week for 5 days. We have always missed the snow, how we do this year too.

    Anybody here from Tang?  

    I think most of you are in bed by now. See ya tomorrow.

  • Hi All! Thank you so much for welcoming me!

    Patty, I certainly agree with you about being lopsided if you just go with one side. My BS said that I could spare my nipple on the good breast, but, after talking to the PS, I decided to skip that. Apparently, my breasts are 'very relaxed' and if I kept the nipple, it would be - well, pointing south next to the perky one. I guess I would be cockeyed!! LOL!

    Luvmygoats, sorry you have a cold. I agree with SASS on the hot toddy or cold beer or wine...  :-) Hope you feel better soon. 

  • Nettie - there can be a strange chemical-type odor in the nether regions if there is the tiniest bit of bladder leakage. You'd notice it most when urinating or even taking a shower. The odor is not like urine, like you might smell in a nursing home, but almost metallic. Weird.

    2TA - happy, happy, happy about your good day!!!!

    luvmygoats - so sorry about your nasty cold. Tell DH to go pick up a rotisserie chicken at the store. Next best thing to home-cooked. And you can boil the bones to make soup!!!

    Chevy - sending you out on a mission to find the Camster...

    Sassypants - good idea on the baseline EKG. And thanks for the link to the holistic doc. Of course, I went to the "Brain Injury" section first Loopy. Not sure I'm into Chelation Therapy, but interestingly enough, I do take a lot of supplemental magnesium along with my calcium, and next Monday morning, I go in for my SECOND round of Obstructive Sleep Apnea testing. The first test was run a few nights after my head injury, and I was in so much pain they couldn't get enough results. So now I need more sophisticated equipment, but still get to sleep in my own bed. 

    DH has had his APAP ("Adjustable" CPAP) machine for a few weeks now. He won't go anywhere overnight without it! His has adjustable air pressure, plus a humidifier. He said he sleeps completely through the night instead of tossing and turning, and when he wakes up, he feels refreshed, and never feels like napping during the day. I want that! So maybe, just maybe, I may be getting some oxygen therapy of my own soon.

    Smaarty - have fun in Detroit! It's true... here in California, we really don't have "seasons".....

    Hi, SummerSun..... I had the same issues with my Original Girls. When I asked about "nipple sparing mastectomy", I was told that because the girls were huge and hung to my waist, the nipples would point due south from the get go. Needless to say, I didn't go that route.... Winking

  • envious about the get-together next week.

    For the record, I lurk when I can. Funny thing happened when I was using the desk Mac (not laptop): my silly cat knocked over a small glass of water (she doesn't usually paw at the glass) and I think a small amount of water got in the keyboard, it was working for a bit, then some keys not, then all of them. Not my week for technology! 

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  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Posts: 10,258

    See you guys? She sounds just like me
    now.... I have somehow influenced MotherMayI and she is sounding more like me
    every minute.

    At least it's something I can understand.... instead of
    all this DoctorResearchCollege stuff.... 1/2 the time I am lost... But she
    knows this.... she keeps me here, NOT exclusively because of all my expertise,
    but for my uncommon approach to life......

    Oh now there she goes, saying all big words and stuff...
    like "people are migrating to holistic blah blah...." and we just smile and pat
    her on top of her head, and say "okay Sass.... yes, that is powerful" and we
    go on trimming celery or something.

    And Summer brought up nipples here....
    My nipples are so relaxed, that they are always sleeping.... yes, you could say
    relaxed, but that would be a nice way of saying I can't even SEE them unless I
    DUCK tape them back to where they used to be....

    See, this is what happens if you are lucky enough to get
    to be as old as I am... Things just go South! I mean the whole body just
    relaxes and needs pulled in, taped up and shaved off.... like
    Sass's.

    Blessings! Good Morning
    OneWhoBoldsOurNamesSoWeCanAllFeelIncluded!

    YOU are so organized!

    So glad your DH is getting some much needed relief now!
    Next, we have to work on you!

    Oh Ha, ha! 22222222222nd! Ain't that a pickle? I mean
    when we accidentally spill something on our electronics?

    SURE.... "a small glass of water!" SURE it was! It was
    probably more like a 2 litre of flavored VODKA with 2 slices of LIME that
    tumbled out of your hand onto your keyboard!

    Your "cat"..... SURE.... blame the cat.... you don't
    even HAVE a cat...

  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Posts: 10,258

    Crocodile

    Getting ready for Orlando!

  • Well good morning to whomever is up.  Had a bad night.  Woke up peeing in bed.  AAaaaggghhh!   Went to bathroom to empty bladder and wow did it hurt.  Drank water, dried sheets, changed gown.  Made appt with my gp. Beck to sleep.   Woke a little later.  Emptied bladder again, pain.  Drank more wate. Sleep.  Woke at 6 am emptied bladder again, no pain.  Cancelled gp appt.   Going to call the chemo doc at 9.  What the heck?

  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Posts: 10,258

    Ah geez ZZZZZZZZZZZ!   I'm not sure, but sounds like you have a UTI????  Yes, go see someone!   Get to feeling better FAST!

  • Ok ladies, I wasn't going to post the following, but since you guys brought it up....well....

    Please note:  If this offends anyone, I will remove it immediately! 

     

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  • Nettie - Hilarious! I'm at 1974 now. I guess I won't have to worry about that much longer. My DH doesn't like to say I am having a DMX, he calls it an add-a-rack-to-me surgery! He is awesome and has me laughing all the time. I wish I would have videoed him in the PS office after they left us alone with a giant pile of implants on the counter. I think he took every one of them for a test drive LOL!! I was in tears!

  • Smaarty
    Smaarty Posts: 2,615

    so funny Nettie, mine will never go there. With the new girls they should look like my 13 year DGD's, she starting to get a good set on her. I'm just hoping she doesn't end up like her other grandmother who has one of those pigeon type chest. Since she isn't even 5foot tall yet, she'll always look like she ready to fall over!

    Chevy, you plan on having lunch with one of them gators?  Haha

    Blessings, you're sounding more normal all the time! Well, as normal as any of us.

    Have a good weekend everyone. Thinking of you guys, 4sew, enerva, tang, and Susan. 


  • Yes, I think my hubby was kind of hoping I would "go for it" (DMX), but it was not suggested as an option at the time!  But who knows, this may not be over!   I hope it is, but Summer, my DH would have been the same, he has kept it light at all of my appointments!  Even sometimes through my tears!

  • wren44
    wren44 Posts: 8,074

    Absolutely hilarious cartoon!!!