Mama Carol

Since our elected officials really don't want revolution on top of unhappy, discontented citizens, nothing will be done.

I hate to hear that. Not just that the picnic has been cancelled but also about Lucky. No, LPPT, you can't get involved in it. The doc would have a cow.

Sometimes the right person just happens to come along at that point. Even when you aren't looking to get together with anyone and particularly nobody in particular, if it happens, it happens. I have a friend who married again YEARS and YEARS after their divorce. Not sure that helped her choose wisely. At least she didn't choose the losers she dated in the meantime. She and her husband seem to really care about each other but they are quite different in some ways.

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My hubby and I went out on our first date on a Friday. The Friday before Labor Day. I was off work on Labor Day. I surprised one of my friends the next day by saying I had met the man I was going to marry. Literally, I knew within four days that he was who I wanted to be with for the rest of my life. Like you, we knew it was right. I guess God does answer prayer because I had prayed for a good, decent, honest man who would love me. I got just that. Papi, I admire you and Blondie. You two are so good together.

My husband had been separated from his first wife for over a year when we met. His divorce was final about two weeks after we met. We married about a week shy of 7 months after we started dating. Both of us had ended long term relationships a year or so before we started dating (his 7 year marriage and my 2 1/2 year relationship). We had our rebound relationships prior to meeting each other after those break-ups. The ones we rebounded with were all wrong for us but we both knew what we wanted when we got married. That was in 1978. We're still together and still very much in love. :wu

I think sometimes the relationship is over long before the divorce papers are filed.

Most of my family still has them, as do most of my neighbors.

I was just thinking the same thing. I think we have gotten two, one yesterday and one today. I guess for the next 9 days my phone will be set to answer on the first ring.

With ANY treatment, medical or alternative, do lots of research before committing to it. Side effects from some medications are at times worse than the problem you're trying to treat or at minimum require changes to diet or lifestyle. Most analgesics, particularly narcotics, are very constipating. Keep this in mind. Believe me, you don't want to have a blocked bowel.

It DID sound scary, that's for sure.

Yes, do LOTS of research on this product. Remember: just because something is "natural" or "herbal" does not mean it is safer than something that isn't "natural" or "herbal".

Breakfast at favorite biscuit place this morning with my favorite guy (my hubby). Short ride before going home. Played a few games online. Read Pcom. Did a little bit of work (not too much because it IS Saturday). Vacuumed. Another short ride since my hubby gets so bored sitting at home. Cooked supper. Cleaned up kitchen. Finished up one book and started another. A few more games online. Read Pcom again. Supper was beef stew.

You ain't kidding!! We're on the landing pattern and we're a good 12 miles from the airport, by air. I can't imagine how it is at my daughter's house that is so close to the airport they qualified for noise abatement help a few years ago.

With my sister in law's brother, he had had a troubled childhood and early adult years. We were both in our mid-30s when he committed suicide. He had not threatened it previously. I remember when my daughter went through counseling, the counselor told me that the most likely time a person would commit suicide was after they started making improvements in their depression. As a general rule, deeply depressed people don't have the necessary get-up-and-go to follow through. It's often the ones who have neither hinted at it who do it and often the ones you wouldn't expect. I a

If you don't need the OB and just a GYN, I highly recommend Dr. Suzanne Lowry. She is just south of I-20, off Thornton Rd near the Toyota dealership.

He apparently was a frequent visitor to the Thomasville, GA area as well, prior to going west. And it was my husband's great-aunts, not aunts, who knew him. Apparently the whole family knew him--great aunts, great uncles, grandparents. I recall seeing a photo of him with one member of the family.

I can say one thing--my hubby's first pain management doctor had him scheduled for an MRI just as soon as it could be scheduled. I think it was within a week of his first visit. We did have one *MINOR* problem. Neither the referring doctor nor the pain specialist thought to check to verify that the specialist was in-network. He wasn't. We were happy to pay the doctor at $125 a visit, as we both really liked him. However, since we were paying for COBRA already, it seemed pointless to have to pay all of the doctor's visit on top of the insurance. He switched to one in-network and we only

Depends. Do you need the OB part or just the GYN? Mine does not deliver babies.

Nope, my dad was born, raised and lived all his life in Cobb County--Smyrna to be exact. I am not sure HOW he knew Bonnie Parker but he did. I always thought that was cool...and a bit odd. But then again, my husband's aunts knew Doc Holliday.

I'd be interested to know the name of your pain management doctor and what treatments are working. PM if you don't want to post it publicly (please share, though). I am also vividly aware that pain is a SYMPTOM not a disease. Unless you treat the cause of the pain, you cannot take away the pain. Some causes cannot be treated. They symptom can be masked.

Wasn't he charged with bank robbery? Maybe I'm thinking Bonnie and Clyde. I heard about them all my life since my dad at some point knew Bonnie Parker. I was never sure how he knew her or when.

It was a casual friend who found her husband after he shot himself in the head. It was my sister in law who was on the phone with her younger brother BEGGING him not to when he shot himself. I knew both people who committed suicide and actually knew them pretty well, even going to the funeral of the friend's husband but not the other due to it being in another state. Also, my cousin's husband shot her and then killed himself.

Don't know if it's related but we got a sales call yesterday from a company that said they were going to be flying over, taking pictures and wanted to do advertising for us. Hubby was like WTF? Advertising? It didn't dawn on him that they thought they were calling a business. We had almost stopped receiving sales calls for our business we closed almost 2 years ago.

Finding a loved one after they have shot themselves is not something you want to do. Nor is listening to them do it while you're on the phone with them. I feel for all the families involved.