Mama Carol

So did my brother in law who died of lung cancer. So did my mom who died of a stroke. Oddly enough, even my nephew's wife who has NEVER smoked but does exercise like crazy has been battling lung cancer for almost 10 years now. FWIW, my youngest daughter smokes and is training for the Peachtree.

Nobody is going read it. It might contain facts. Facts get in the way of opinion.

I remember back in the dark ages when I was medical assisting school, we learned that circumcisions were a healthier alternative. If medical science knew that back in it shouldn't come as any surprise now.

You took the words out of my mouth!!

Here is a map of Senate District 31. http://www.senate.ga.gov/senators/Documents/Maps/Map31.pdf Looks like the southern part of the county, particularly around the Nebo area is NOT district 31.

Go here and verify where you were supposed to vote and your district, etc. http://mvp.sos.state.ga.us/ Then you can see what was on the ballot. I think the previous poster was correct. You must not be in the district for Carruth and Heath.

Yeah, what's the point of reading the article. It might contain facts.

I can organize. I can keep stuff organized. I just absolutely HATE clutter especially if it's on the floor. Dust, not so much. I can live with dust. On a mission now to clean up and clean out. Going through every room in the house and decluttering and deep cleaning. I am not moving stuff I haven't used in 10 years.

Not cold hearted at all. I cried when I heard he died. Being sarcastic apparently escapes your comprehension.

Yeah, I hear you. My brother in law was a smoker who hunted, fished, camped, hiked, swam, worked outside in all kinds of weather (technician with AT&T), rode motorcycles and horses, didn't have an ounce of fat on him and oh, yeah, exercised in addition to all that activity. He died at 60 of lung cancer after an 8 year battle with it. Did I mention this was my husband's ONLY brother? Or that there was no family history of cancer of any kind in the family? Thank goodness he was as active as he was and it counteracted the smoking.

I had two really good, close friends growing up. They lived across the street from me and two houses apart. One moved to Paulding when I was in junior high and the other moved to Powder Springs after she got married, a few years before I did. I still see them occasionally. I pass another classmate's house every time I go to Hiram. Another friend lives just on the other side of downtown Powder Springs from me. She had been living there over 15 years before we found out! I've seen former classmates in Winn Dixie (when it was still on Brownsville) and at Kroger. One of my former bus drive

But honestly, would you want to now live where we grew up? Not me. I decided years ago that I didn't want to be right off South Cobb Drive again. I actually found my 20th class reunion directory yesterday. It was amazing how many of my classmates lived in Paulding at that time. I'm guessing that most of them still do. Heck, some of them might be reading this. When we grew up and got ready to move away from our parents, Paulding was the place to go because it was so much nicer than where we grew up was by that time and it was more like where we grew up was while we were growin

You probably do and don't realize it.

There is a HUGE difference in giving up and realizing that YOU can't make him sober. If you're enabling him, stop. He's a grown up and he needs to face the consequences of his actions.

When my sister in law was sober she was the kindest, sweetest, funniest, most loving person you'd ever want to meet. She was an excellent housekeeper, a dynamite cook, a wonderful mom, a wonderful sister, a wonderful aunt, a superior sister in law, a great wife. However, when she wasn't sober she wasn't nice to be around and on more than one occasion my mom read her the riot act and told her not to call again. She was in and out of alcohol treatments so much that for the longest time I thought my nephew, who is only 9 months younger than I am, was my brother. He lived with us for months an

No doubt. Bottom line for the drug companies will be much healthier, though.

The notion that he will change for you is false. He has to change for HIMSELF. Not you, not family, not friends, HIM. It's difficult enough to STOP drinking. It's even more difficult to stay quit. He can't change for anyone else's sake. Only for his. PLEASE consider Al-Anon.

Please consider Al-Anon for yourself. My sister in law was a lifelong alcoholic, so I understand what YOU are going through as I saw my brother go through it with her. Prayers said for him and particularly for YOU.

Well thank God I live in southwest Cobb and not West Cobb! Interestingly enough, while I don't live in Paulding and never have lived in Paulding, I'm pretty entrenched in it. I've worked in Paulding since 1986 and most of my friends (and a lot of my family) lives in Paulding. But we can't wait to get out of metro Atlanta. We would just move over to Paulding, as we like the county, or over to Polk, as we like Rockmart real well, BUT those are still metro Atlanta. We want out of this traffic, air pollution and "stuff".

So, is there a pill for it?

My original screen name was Mama Carol, which is what my stepdaughters called me for the first few months I was married to their dad. The name stuck long after they started calling me mom. Then when my youngest found out she was pregnant in 2007, I changed my screen name to Grandmama Carol (duh!). I stayed with that until my youngest had baby #2 in January 2010 at which time I changed my screen name to the current one, which are the names of my two youngest granddaughters. I didn't want to be Grandmama or Grandma or Granny (those were my grandmothers and my mom), so I decided to be Nana.

My aunt certainly proved that. Not that she was "high and mighty" just that she had NO risk factors other than the blood transfusion that gave her hepatitis.

I despise upselling, whether it is the cashier at McDonald's trying to get me to buy fries with that or a hygienist trying to get me to get a crown. I resist upselling, and to a large degree selling me a product or service in general.

I loved growing up in the 70s. Never had that lifestyle but still had a good time. I had to stay straight and drug-free to do the kind of work I wanted. Plus I lived with my mom until I got married at 23, so there wasn't a lot of opportunity to be a bad girl. I was definitely a late bloomer.

Donated blood is tested for it.