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[crazycanuck]

SK & Salsa-I haven't encountered sicknesses with either of my parents but can totally understand the stress/feelings you are feeling now.
I send you and your family my thoughts, wishes, smiles, hugs & hope.

Knotted-good to hear you have a better idea of what's going on!

Lise-good luck at the pleasant prarie tri.

Nanci-how far did you ride with your pj's on???

Fish-how many more slides do you have to complete? How far from your present town to the bee job? Tell us the buzz..did i just say that...booooooooo

Good night kids.

c

[Tater]

SadieKate and Salsa, I wish you both well in the coming days. May you both be strong.

[KnottedYet]

Nanci - there's nothing to do about the brainstem and the blood acidity (or lack thereof) The researchers have only just started figuring this one out, and the only "treatment" out there is just being aware and controlling the breathing when the symptoms erupt. And keeping an eye on my mitral valve noise.

I'm betting there's something dietary I could do, there's gotta be SOME way to either increase my blood acidity or increase the buffering in my system. (hey, I could drink vinegar and eat baking soda! jk!) It kinda looks like something in the spring is kicking off my gut, and then my gut is kicking off the brainstem thing. Neuro #2 said can't do much until it comes back again next year.

It's all chemistry. I should've been paying attention in chem classes....

[Lise]

SK, thanks for the book recommendation.

Thinking of you and your family in this tough time. L.
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fish--I grabbed an hour's sleep from 5:50-6:30 AM, but had three laboring pts all night. Home now to bring the Bianchi to LBS for her pre-tri tune up, and then to bed (for me).

[chickwhorips]

sk and salsa, i hope things go well with your family. i just got an email from my stepmom saying that they think my dad will have to go into a fulltime nursing home in 2 months, and he's only 67.

kelownagirl thanks for the entertainment.... did you ever find the white button?

nanci thanks for the updates on the new saddle. i was going to get that one but i ordered the damselfly to see how that one worked. i haven't found one that will work, let alone more than one.

on the upside, its a great morning in my world, no still no sun, but the biologist made home made strawberry bread, with real wild alaska strawberries. yup gonna have to run or ride (oh wait can't ride no saddle) extra long tonight.

[kelownagirl]

kelownagirl thanks for the entertainment.... did you ever find the white button?

Young son says there is no white button. He found all the red ones and pointed them out so I didn't have to try every one. We'd had a couple of glasses of wine when he showed me the game so of course I found it very amusing reading it out loud...

[Lise]

Oh, f*cking h*ll!!! I'm sitting here doing a little light reading on TE before going to bed, and fighter jets scream past over my building. It's the acursed Air & Water Show. I hate this thing. Jets roar through the sky all weekend. But Lise, you say, it's just Thursday! Right. Well, they practice half the week, too. Freaks me out, and makes it very hard to sleep during the day when I've worked all night.

OK, AC + Ear Plugs it is. I forgot it was this weekend--but I couldn't *do* anything about it anyway. BLECH.

[chickwhorips]

good luck sleeping lise.

want me to sing you a bed time song?

[SadieKate]

The Blue Angels practiced over my office complex for a couple of afternoons. Great view out my office window but then I don't need to sleep during these times either.

Salsa - I finally found your post about your mom, back on page 172. My, we're a chatty group. How're things going? I'm in a bit of a fog today. Bubba's mom is truly showing signs of old age (the forgetfulness and personality change kind of stuff -- at 96 ) and I think my dad is also having TIAs like her, so Bubba and I are really leaning on each other a lot. I am so grateful for him.

[DrBee]

CC - only 2 or 3 slides left. Problem is - I can't get a spare 5 minutes to work on them. Why does everything have to go crazy at work right before I have an interview???

Lise - good luck tuning out the planes. That sucks! I hope the Green Hornet gets a good checkup!

[Nanci]

http://tinyurl.com/o7uzr

My "saddle advisor" suggested this as the perfect womens saddle- it's apparently won some award. At the time, I told him I first had to try the Blackwell FLow, so I could be the first unsatisfied customer ever, and now the Terry Zero X, which is not looking good...

[salsabike]

The Blue Angels practiced over my office complex for a couple of afternoons. Great view out my office window but then I don't need to sleep during these times either. As long as they don't keep you awake during those meetings...

Salsa - I finally found your post about your mom, back on page 172. My, we're a chatty group. How're things going? I'm in a bit of a fog today. Bubba's mom is truly showing signs of old age (the forgetfulness and personality change kind of stuff -- at 96 ) and I think my dad is also having TIAs like her, so Bubba and I are really leaning on each other a lot. I am so grateful for him.

What a good TD gang you are. Thanks for all the good wishes. I hope you are glad to know, by the way, that Mr. Salsa calls you my hooligan friends, as in "Yeah, you and your hooligan friends on TE." That means he thinks y'all are cool. He likes bad girls (and good cyclists).

SK and CWR, so sorry about your dads. Please keep us posted. And Nanci, losing both parents too early. Ugh. Such hard stuff. The brief report on my mom is that she went into the hospital two weeks ago with a very rapid heartbeat, dehydration, lethargy; was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism; all was just getting under control and we were doing discharge planning for a week or two of rehab, when she had a very scary GI bleed this past Saturday night. They found a huge ulcer just past her duodenum. Medicines have been stopping the bleeding and she just got the NG tube removed tonight (she was giddy with joy). The double-scary part is that she has a mechanical heart valve but cannot take Coumadin right now because of the ulcer, so is at significant risk of an embolism. She's 80, and her system is being very taxed by all these events, BP very high right now, starting to get some hospital-induced problems...etc. She's cool, a real adventurer, traveler, opera and ballet lover, former speech pathologist, brave, stoic, a smart-***. Anyway...things are dangerous but better than they were a few days ago. My anxiety level is somewhere around the newly IDed 12th planet's orbit, I think. Whoof.

I emailed the name and author of SK's book to myself so I can look for it on abe.com once I regain some form of consciousness.

Our cats are MUCH smarter than we are about sensing earthquakes. They're always getting themselves under the coffee table already while I'm still sitting up further on the couch, furrowing my brow, deep in thought, and saying useful things like "Holy ****...I think that's an earthquake..."

Lise, that story is a classic.

Bubba sounds pretty darn cool, actually. So is Mr. Salsa. I got lucky in that respect. In '96, we lost my dad AND his mom so the mutual leaning system got well tested that year. He's a doll (cute, too). Thank God for a guy with a cool, sweet temperament.

I want to try a Vitesse.

KY, so interesting about this neurologist's info. Glad you finally got some satisfaction. Helps to be taken seriously, doesn't it?

Fish, I'm sure you've said it elsewhere, but I too would like to know where the bee job would be.

CC, the house thing sounds great, actually--congrats!

I think Snap's tire-tread smiley-grumpy face is very funny. Not sure what this says about me.

I think Lise is correct about crackers making a fine dinner.

I think FishJr sounds like a very cool kid.

I would appreciate it if someone could call the spaceship and let them know that I'm ready to go to another planet for just a little while. I promise I would send postcards.