That BBW always leaves Gerbil sore, he tells all in Sharing 4-6-4!

[Heather]

woke up way late with a horrible headache. so i will be watching service online this am.

roughly 2.5 minutes after posting this I decided to quit letting my mind win and went to church. good thing about living so close to church is i was only 15 minutes late. i maybe missed 2 worship songs.....

we have a youth function called Unplugged every few months. i have yet to attend one but the youth pastor asked if i wanted to sing or do something at the next one on the 20th. me and another girl are thinking of signing a song. [i can sing, but mostly i'm just loud. it sometimes isn't all that pretty by church standards....] any suggestions on good songs? i want to do 'presence of the lord is here' but Jessica already said no.

[MelodyB]

Our latest saga:

They took some stitches out of dads stump on Tuesday. Well on thursday, I changed his bandage and where the stitches were below the small hole (that was healing and getting smaller) had busted open and now the small dime sized hole was about the size of a silver dollar. Deep and looking white and yucky again. We waited for the wound care nurse to look at it on Friday, cause I couldn't convince dad otherwise. She said it was bad, and that we needed to get it seen about, no later than Monday. So I let him slide yesterday, cause he had dialysis, but honestly, I was freaked out. I didn't want it to get infected and possibly have to take more of his leg off higher, and then we would be BACK in the hospital...more therapy, and longer recovery time when he has already progressed so far to this point. I was NOT having that.

So this morning on the way to church, while he was a captive audience, I lit into him. I gave him a lecture that wouldn't quit, and I told him that if he didn't voluntarily go to the ER this afternoon, or tomorrow morning, I WOULD call the ambulance to come get him. He said he wouldn't let me, I would be "in trouble" and I said I didn't care. I didn't care what he said or did to me, we were NOT going thru this mess again, so he better just go. 

After church (we had an AMAZING service btw) I went to get him in the truck and he asked where I wanted to go to eat. Then when we were headed to the resturant and he said that after we ate he would let me take him to the ER! I did a happy dance riding down the road! Whoot!

So that's where we are now. In the ER, waiting on the dr to see him and see what he says.

[MelodyB]

Parents are hard to get raised sometimes. Lol

[Heather]

I can't get mom to go get her MRI to get her meniscus surgery. Instead she just wants to hobble around the house and whine about it. One day I'll just have to take off work and drive her out to the hospital.

[MelodyB]

That's how I have to do with dad sometimes.

[Chseeads]

These parents just need whipped all soundly and put to bed.


Ooh, it's getting dark, like it might rain!?!?!?!?!  It sprinkled last night, could barely tell it had.

Please, Lord..... *looks at radar*  There's a bunch RIGHHHT under us....I hope to shout that it hits us......



Went to church at Sanders and came home, btw.

[The Purple Fuzzy]

I'm thankful that we got rain today.  It was pretty iffy but we got a nice shower anyway.

Hope it heads your way, Seth.

[Chseeads]

It rained enough to make it look like it rained, which is amazing.  lol  It's not doing much right at the moment but maybe a little bit more coming through hopefully.

[Heather]

i'm not sure rain would help us. probably just make it even more humid.

i hope this coming week is better at work than this past week. tomorrow is payday so that's good. the parents and sister start their journey back from Michigan in the am. It'll be weird to go from just me and the minions [cats] to me, the minions, mom, dad, and the dog [who mom insisted on boarding even though i've been home all weekend].

[Chseeads]

Didn't amount to much more but it did rain at least.  It's extremely dry, everything is dead.

[The Purple Fuzzy]

That's the way it was here last year.  Thankfully this year has been better.

[MelodyB]

We had a monsoon a few weeks ago, and now it's hot and dry.


The dr said that Dads wound was ok, but he needs to make an appointment with the surgeon this week just to be sure. They didn't re-stitch it. I'll continue to do the home care for him, and call his surgeon tomorrow. 

I'm just glad it wasnt infected. Thank you Jesus!

[Lynx]

I just found a soundtrack for "It's still the cross."  Now I won't have to make one. 

[Melody]

I don't feel like I say enough about what a good husband Nathan is, I'm afraid it'll sound like bragging.  But I understand the importance of building others up & speaking good about them.  It should them be that much more about my husband?  Idk, 14 yrs & I still don't have it figured out.  But he's a good solid Godly man.  No frills, through & through honest to goodness guy.  I'm so blessed. 

[Roscoe]

Morning, all. We need rain REALLY bad. Just ask Mini how dry it is over this-a-way.  Back at work. Hope everyone has a wonderful day!

[Heather]

We had some pretty bad storms from 11:30 to around 2 am. They honestly scared me a bit. Safe to say I remembered why I was so glad to live in a house. Any amount of wind feels like its gonna rip that trailer right off the ground. Sheesh.

[The Purple Fuzzy]

Morning. I'm at work.

[MelodyB]

I feel lucky to be alive. Seriously.

At 3am, I was jolted awake by a pain in my leg, I was screaming. My calf muscle was contracting and throbbing and I was liturally screaming in pain. Then my left leg started in. Waves of pain with BOTH leg muscles contracting and expanding. I sat up and held my legs in my hands and I could feel the muscles moving in and out. I was pleading with God, crying, screaming, rebuking the pain in Jesus name. I woke up the parents with my noise, and they were yelling trying to figure out why I was screaming so. I finally was able to yell back between waves of pain. Mom never actually go up to see if I was ok...dad can't. This all lasted about 10 minutes, finally the muscles stopped doing whatever that was, and I was able to get up and walk around and try to shake it off.

Now I am SORE and afraid to get out of bed.


I suppose that was what is described as Charlie horses. I have had that pain before, like when I flex my calf muscle too much and have a pang of pain, but never EVER like that, and where it just repeated over and over for awhile.

Oy.

[Heather]

That made my legs hurts just reading about it. Yuck!! Hope its all better now.

[MelodyB]

It's better. Both legs are sore today, but I'm up and moving around.

My sunburned skin is peeling and raw on my upper arms. But I am happy to not be in major pain this morning.

[The Purple Fuzzy]

Mel, make sure you drink plenty and maybe eat a banana.  Leg cramps can be caused by dehydration or lack of potassium.

[MelodyB]

That's just what I was texting Seth about. Yesterday was the first time in awhile that I have eaten bananas. And the last few days, I have been craving water and drinking more of it than normal. But maybe it was just a weird coincidence.

[Melody]

We need rain too.  I wonder what fall/winter is going to be like?  Anyone read the farmer's almanac?

No midweek service this week due to the holiday so I only have to do one thorough cleaning and I'm not doing it today!

Had a two egg, onion, green pepper, tomato breakfast.  Yum.  I don't always eat breakfast.


I miss Ruby's posts. 

[MelodyB]

I miss Ruby, period. Even though I still have open lines of communication with her.  

[Chseeads]