Sending you lots of white lite, and prayers to get thru your surgury, keep us posted as sooon as you can.

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carolyn in texas
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onward thru the fog

thinking of you, april. i'm sure everything will be just fine. can't wait to have you back online!

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Happy Easter April!!

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Happy Easter !!!!

Hope its a Great one!!

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215/?/165 I Can Do This!!!
3/15 192 - 4/12 186 - 4/18 185 - 10/14 184

April - where are you girl?? how did the surgery and easter go for you?
come back here -we need you!!!

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2009 WW - 228 / 204

I want a Christmas Onederland!!

I agree we do need you! But resting the hand will get you back here in better shape to stay with us. So take whatever time you need.

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Well, this is the first post I've made in a few days. I'm sitting here fighting back tears. It's all your fault, you guys. Your comments about "we need you" have me feeling wanted and needed, and just now....I need that.

So, THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU!

The surgery went fine. This half cast is killing my wrist. The stitches and cast will come off Monday afternoon. I can't wait. My left hand and fingers kept me up walking the floor at 5:00am because I forgot to put on my wrist splint. John accidently deleted an entire database at work last night and his shift usually ends at 11:30pm, but he didn't get home until 7:20am because he had to stay and restore it. I fell asleep with my clothes on and didn't have the wrist splint on. Usually when John comes home around 2:00am and finds me in that condition, he wakes me and helps me into my jammies and my wrist splint. Since he wasn't there last night, I paid the price.

I won't forget to wear the dang thing tonight.

Easter was okay. I made Easter dinner on Saturday since John had to work Sunday. I made it through just fine until Sunday afternoon and then I just HAD to have stuff I shouldn't. I went back to work Monday, but left at 1:00pm because my wrist was killing me. The stitches pull sometimes and it really hurts.

I bought an acorn squash and brown sugar Sweet-n-Low and fixed it in the oven and it was great until I realized how many carbs are in an acorn squash. Won't be indulging in them again anytime soon.

I'm still eating the plain Dannon yogurt (at 14 carbs per cup) with 3/4 cup of raspberries (at net 14 carbs) about twice per week. It's really good and filling.

Thanks again, guys, for checking in on me. My wrist is burning from typing this (and working all day using my wrist) so I hafta stop.

I've missed being here amongst friends....

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Glad to hear surgury went well, and you are on the repair. Monday you will be feeling much better when the cast and stiches come out.
Good to see you posting today., take care
c :jump: :jumpgreen

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carolyn in texas
started 8/11/03 327/268/177
5/20/08/ - 348
onward thru the fog

I'm glad you are doing okay. Sorry you are hurting. Just wait until you are comfortable - just didn't want you to disappear on us.

you come back when ready - we'll be here - needing you.

and, in time, this hurt should go away - and the hurt that had been there for so long should also go away. and that is what it is all about.

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Mary Kay
2009 WW - 228 / 204

I want a Christmas Onederland!!

I sure agree with everyone we do need you. I love reading all your post. your an inspiration
jenny

I keep forgetting to post in my journal. *sigh*

Oscar finally quit leaving presents on the porch. John says it's because he's eaten all of the baby rabbits and there's none left. Yeesh.

Seeing the picture in Rob's journal this morning of Sophie with the horses reminded me of the horse we had when I lived in Kentucky. Tony was a good horse. He was old and sway-backed, but he plowed well. Actually, I thought of Tony in the grocery store last night when I was writing a check for my groceries. The lady asked me if I had had surgery for carpal tunnel and I said yes. She said she needed it, too. The elderly couple behind me in line said that people from their generation never needed surgery like that, and that their generation just went ahead and did what needed to be done without complaining about it. The tenor of their comments were of disdain and they immediately judged me as being someone who had never done a lick of hard work in her life.

I just looked at them and smiled. If only they knew. For more than 7 years I had hooked the gears up to old Tony, stood behind him with weathered wooden plowstock in hand, and the leather gears around my own shoulders guiding him to make straight furrows, so that we could raise a good garden each summer and put up food for winter. On the drive home after putting my groceries in the trunk in the pouring rain, I kept thinking about my life in Kentucky and the judgement those sweet old folks made of me. If only they knew the times I went to the coalbank across the creek to dig coal out on a cold Fall morning to use in the wood-and-coal burning stove to heat the house. If only they knew the many cords of wood I have chopped, the thousands of jars of greenbeans, cabbage, corn, sauerkraut, apples, et cetera I have "put up" for the winter in the heat of the summer, and the endless buckets of water I drew from the well so that we could have water to bathe with and water to drink in the house.

Even after I left Kentucky and moved back to the city four years ago, if only they knew the many boxes I heaved into two trucks every morning when I worked the pre-load at UPS in 102-degree temperatures.

*sigh*

I've got a very good life. I'm glad that I don't judge people. I'm glad to be in the circumstances in which I find myself. Life is good. I'm glad to be alive.

I'll shut up now.....rambling......

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April

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hi april, i sent you a PM the other day ....
how are you doing?

you know, by the sounds of this post - it seems like you're very close (if not already there) to self-actualization. the top of the human needs pyramid (Maslow). almost like finding the meaning of one's life ....
very impressive, takes many years of introspection. very few people every get there in their lifetime.
that's why you're such an inspiration - a very strong and smart woman!

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april...
just wondering how you are doing.. how the wrist is doing... hadnt seen ya around.. somehow missed your posts.. so tracked ya down here..*L*

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Yesterday I was in meeting at work until noon. Then, I left about 3:45 so that I could go home and finish some things because John's parents will be staying with us for a few days on their way back home to New York from Florida.

So, as soon as I got home, I put the eggs on to boil to make deviled eggs, made the pineapple upside down cake, the kids left for a few hours with their mother so I took the opportunity to vacuum the entire downstairs, dust everything in sight, swiffer and mop the kitchen, clean off the dining room table and put a nice table cloth on it, cleaned the 3 bathrooms, washed the windows, picked up and put away all of the kid's STUFF, did a load of laundry, washed all of the throw rugs, Windexed the mirrors, got Abby to take her bath and and gave her a snack and then I finally hit the bed at 10:30pm.

This morning I got up and threw the ingredients into the crockpot for the broccoli chicken dish for dinner before I came to work. I'm pooped and won't be online much until about Sunday afternoon.

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I'm not a fan of country music, but the song by Barbara Mandrell, "I Was Country, When Country Wasn't Cool" rolled around my head this morning for some silly reason, and I substituted my own lyrics: "I was Low Carb, When Low Carb Wasn't Cool." Because, I was. I first tried it in the late 70's and was told by my grandmother that I would die of heart failure. Then when I started it again in 1998, I was told continuously that I would die of kidney failure. I twisted the words around.....

"I remember eating ground beef and cheese, bacon
and eggs even when they weren't in style.
I remember counting carbs instead of calories...
It drove my mother wild.

And I was reading Dr. Atkins
When all of my friends
were diggin' Ornish and low fat and the food pyramid...
I was low carb, when low carb wasn't cool

I remember circlin' the drive-in,
pullin' up and hiding my Fresca
I remember when no one was lookin'
I was putting pork rinds in my mouth

I took a lot of kiddin'
'Cause I never did fit in
now look at everybody
tryin' to be what I was then

I was low carb, when low carb wasn't cool."

All righty, then.......*sigh*

Hey, this is my journal. I can say these things here. LOL.

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April

The face of a child can say a lot -- especially the mouth part of the face.

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