Black Team - Week 18

janiebeth

OOPs - guess I jumped a head a week.

OK, guys - here is the challenge this week..

We are all worried about Marla - and she has not checked in lately (weird).

Your challenge this week is to post a daily prayer or well wishing for Marla. We need her back!!

Thanks all..

Janie

janiebeth

OOPs - guess I jumped a head a week.

OK, guys - here is the challenge this week..

We are all worried about Marla - and she has not checked in lately (weird).

Your challenge this week is to post a daily prayer or well wishing for Marla. We need her back!!

Thanks all..

Janie

musicmom04

Marla- we miss you and are thinking about you, i hope you're ok :flowerforyou:


lori-i know what you mean about getting out of the house once in a while. dave and buster's is awesome, i'm glad you guys had so much fun

janie- what a nice idea for this weeks challenge :flowerforyou:

i've been having a weird couple of weeks weight-wise. first i gain like 3 lbs thinking it was TOM, then i go back down to 168, then this past week, i lost 2 lbs, which is great! then i get on the scale this morning, and the scale says 163.8! i couldn't believe it, 2 lbs since yesterday? i thought there was something wrong with the scale, but my dear hubby said he rebooted it, checked the settings and ran diagnostics on it (whatever that means :laugh: ) anyway, he says the scale is right. i checked it like 10 times already, so now i'm just gonna go with it. have a good morning guys!

jimswmn

Marla, We are praying for you. .:flowerforyou:

SatelliteCrush80

This is a good one...

Marla, I hope you're OK...sending good thoughts your way. Miss you!

:flowerforyou:

Tri_Dad

Marla - its easy to see how much of a family we've become. We hope you are feeling better and being well taken care of.
All our love and prayers are with u.

Tri_Dad

Marla- we miss you and are thinking about you, i hope you're ok :flowerforyou:


lori-i know what you mean about getting out of the house once in a while. dave and buster's is awesome, i'm glad you guys had so much fun

janie- what a nice idea for this weeks challenge :flowerforyou:

i've been having a weird couple of weeks weight-wise. first i gain like 3 lbs thinking it was TOM, then i go back down to 168, then this past week, i lost 2 lbs, which is great! then i get on the scale this morning, and the scale says 163.8! i couldn't believe it, 2 lbs since yesterday? i thought there was something wrong with the scale, but my dear hubby said he rebooted it, checked the settings and ran diagnostics on it (whatever that means :laugh: ) anyway, he says the scale is right. i checked it like 10 times already, so now i'm just gonna go with it. have a good morning guys!

Well look at you my love. That ticker is almost half way there! Wtg hun!

musicmom04

Marla- we miss you and are thinking about you, i hope you're ok :flowerforyou:


lori-i know what you mean about getting out of the house once in a while. dave and buster's is awesome, i'm glad you guys had so much fun

janie- what a nice idea for this weeks challenge :flowerforyou:

i've been having a weird couple of weeks weight-wise. first i gain like 3 lbs thinking it was TOM, then i go back down to 168, then this past week, i lost 2 lbs, which is great! then i get on the scale this morning, and the scale says 163.8! i couldn't believe it, 2 lbs since yesterday? i thought there was something wrong with the scale, but my dear hubby said he rebooted it, checked the settings and ran diagnostics on it (whatever that means :laugh: ) anyway, he says the scale is right. i checked it like 10 times already, so now i'm just gonna go with it. have a good morning guys!

Well look at you my love. That ticker is almost half way there! Wtg hun!

thanks:smooched: i just realized, too that if i really am 163, i've reached my goal for the BL pound for pound challenge! i guess i can report my loss :drinker:

nickybr38

done

Nonibug

Our prayers and thoughts are with you Marla, we really you here and miss you!

arewethereyet

Marla, prayer for you........and I did 20 crunches in your honor. Each time I do my crunches, I will offer up a prayer for your health and well being!

:flowerforyou: Jeannie

(I dont know if the priest will be pleased :ohwell: )

3babybeans

I'm going to try to find her phone number through the internet world today & scare the crap out of her husband. I have her address so if nothing else, I'm sending her a card.

sanifrey

Hugs & prayers Marla!!

3babybeans

Well, I found her phone number but I'm going to wait a little while longer to call. There is a reason I'm waiting, I swear, but I don't think I should share it here. If I don't hear from her by Saturday, I'll give her a call. For now, let's continue to send up prayers, good thoughts, whatever. Hopefully she's doing okay.

jimswmn

I'm going to try to find her phone number through the internet world today & scare the crap out of her husband. I have her address so if nothing else, I'm sending her a card.

Good idea Sara!

3babybeans

I'm sending out a card to Marla tomorrow. If you like to add something for me to quote in it from you personally, let me know in a PM. Thanks for the idea, Bobbi!

loreeb18

Is there a results post yet? I wasn't sure if I just missed it.

janiebeth

I havent seen anything yet.. Sam must be pretty busy

Girlmom282109

I havent seen anything yet.. Sam must be pretty busy

sam's not busy just lazy. I'll get it out soon.
sorry guys still kinda bummed after gaining.

nickybr38

I havent seen anything yet.. Sam must be pretty busy

sam's not busy just lazy. I'll get it out soon.
sorry guys still kinda bummed after gaining.

Hang in there.

Girlmom282109

I havent seen anything yet.. Sam must be pretty busy

sam's not busy just lazy. I'll get it out soon.
sorry guys still kinda bummed after gaining.

Hang in there.

Thanks. I'm starting a new running schedule so hopefully that will change something.

janiebeth

I'm sure it will help. You are strong, and doing all the right things - this is a short setback..

Hang tough..

Janie

Marla64

oh, you warm my old lady heart, you blessed people...
Greetings from Hunterdon Medical Center. I arrived Tuesday afternoon and waited an agonizing two hours in the waiting room. Ugh.

Doctor examined me and said it seemed to be my gall bladder and sent me for an ultrasound. I was in the ultrasound forever...man, they check everything. When I got back to my room, my husband had arrived....my daughter drove me. Hubs looks at me, notorious jokester that he is, and said, "Well, your gall bladder is extremely infected and has to come out immediately." "Are you messing with me?" I ask. "No," and then he goes on with more medical gobbledygook. I look at Sarah, "Is he messing with me?" "NO, MOM."

That #$@! potato salad that I knew I shouldn't have, put my gall bladder over the edge. Seems now in hindsight, I've had several of these episodes over the years that I thought were acid reflux...and always during bbq season when I make my truly mean salads. (the word "mean" now taking on different meaning, natch)

Surgeon visited and said, however, that he was concerned about my bilirubin level which was elevated, that perhaps I had already passed a stone that blocked the bile duct from the liver or something...blah, blah, blah. (my eyes glaze over when I hear medical crap...to my shame...) So, he wanted to wait until Wednesday to do the surgery to check my bilirubin in the morning....which, to make a not so long story not as long as it needs to be...not my forte, as you all well know. Bilirubin was fine yesterday and surgery was scheduled for the afternoon.

All went well. Doc said it was tremendously infected and enlarged nearly 4 times its normal size. No wonder I was in such blasted pain...oh em gee. I was still feeling like crap when he visited this afternoon, so he kept me another night. I am now off the IV and all antibiotics and pain killers...although I may ask for a tylenol for a headache.

I had been taking a lovely pain killer...dilaudid, which eventually began making me really whacko. Well, more than normal. I couldn't even sleep this afternoon because after the dose, I couldn't close my eyes without visions of bizarro things taking over...almost psychotic. STRANGE.

So that was noonish, and I haven't needed anything since. I was finally able to eat tonight...half a sandwich and a bowl of soup. First food since Sunday. Maybe I'll make it to goal by my birthday after all. I just had to cheat to do it. ha.

You are all just incredible people, and I couldn't thank you enough for your thoughts, prayers and concerns. Sara, I don't know if the phone number you got would be the right one. We've moved a couple times, and I don't think whitepages.com kept up with us, if that's where you got it. But, I don't feel so bad...I tried to get your number from 411 and yours is unlisted. I was going to call you Wednesday night to fill you in.

Congrats to all on your losses and success this week. I hope to blow all your doors off with my incredible, surgically reduced weight next week, once all the water weight from the blinkin' IV and all the crud they've been pumping in me finally goes away.

I'm heading home tomorrow, and will try to head back to work. Last I posted about work was Sunday night when I told you I had to type like mad this week to catch up or else we were dead in the water...and then this. Truly amazing sense of humor the Lord has, eh?

Oh well...no bicching tonight. I thank you all from the bottom of my heart.

Girlmom282109

oh, you warm my old lady heart, you blessed people...
Greetings from Hunterdon Medical Center. I arrived Tuesday afternoon and waited an agonizing two hours in the waiting room. Ugh.

Doctor examined me and said it seemed to be my gall bladder and sent me for an ultrasound. I was in the ultrasound forever...man, they check everything. When I got back to my room, my husband had arrived....my daughter drove me. Hubs looks at me, notorious jokester that he is, and said, "Well, your gall bladder is extremely infected and has to come out immediately." "Are you messing with me?" I ask. "No," and then he goes on with more medical gobbledygook. I look at Sarah, "Is he messing with me?" "NO, MOM."

That #$@! potato salad that I knew I shouldn't have, put my gall bladder over the edge. Seems now in hindsight, I've had several of these episodes over the years that I thought were acid reflux...and always during bbq season when I make my truly mean salads. (the word "mean" now taking on different meaning, natch)

Surgeon visited and said, however, that he was concerned about my bilirubin level which was elevated, that perhaps I had already passed a stone that blocked the bile duct from the liver or something...blah, blah, blah. (my eyes glaze over when I hear medical crap...to my shame...) So, he wanted to wait until Wednesday to do the surgery to check my bilirubin in the morning....which, to make a not so long story not as long as it needs to be...not my forte, as you all well know. Bilirubin was fine yesterday and surgery was scheduled for the afternoon.

All went well. Doc said it was tremendously infected and enlarged nearly 4 times its normal size. No wonder I was in such blasted pain...oh em gee. I was still feeling like crap when he visited this afternoon, so he kept me another night. I am now off the IV and all antibiotics and pain killers...although I may ask for a tylenol for a headache.

I had been taking a lovely pain killer...dilaudid, which eventually began making me really whacko. Well, more than normal. I couldn't even sleep this afternoon because after the dose, I couldn't close my eyes without visions of bizarro things taking over...almost psychotic. STRANGE.

So that was noonish, and I haven't needed anything since. I was finally able to eat tonight...half a sandwich and a bowl of soup. First food since Sunday. Maybe I'll make it to goal by my birthday after all. I just had to cheat to do it. ha.

You are all just incredible people, and I couldn't thank you enough for your thoughts, prayers and concerns. Sara, I don't know if the phone number you got would be the right one. We've moved a couple times, and I don't think whitepages.com kept up with us, if that's where you got it. But, I don't feel so bad...I tried to get your number from 411 and yours is unlisted. I was going to call you Wednesday night to fill you in.

Congrats to all on your losses and success this week. I hope to blow all your doors off with my incredible, surgically reduced weight next week, once all the water weight from the blinkin' IV and all the crud they've been pumping in me finally goes away.

I'm heading home tomorrow, and will try to head back to work. Last I posted about work was Sunday night when I told you I had to type like mad this week to catch up or else we were dead in the water...and then this. Truly amazing sense of humor the Lord has, eh?

Oh well...no bicching tonight. I thank you all from the bottom of my heart.

Well I'm glad you figured out what it was! I'm also glad your ok. It just sucks that it had to happen to you!!

My mom always tells me if you want to make god laugh tell him your plans and sounds like to me you did. We miss you and take care of yourself.

Tri_Dad

Such a sense of calm and relief at hearing that your ok. The DW had her's out and had similar pains. Never as bad as it got for you. I'll have to call her Dr. beth from now on for diagnosing you correctly in last weeks thread. Soooooooooo glad your ok. Get some rest, we'll be waiting with bells on.

:flowerforyou:

musicmom04

Sooo glad you're ok, marla!!!


:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:

Marla64

Well I'm glad you figured out what it was! I'm also glad your ok. It just sucks that it had to happen to you!!

My mom always tells me if you want to make god laugh tell him your plans and sounds like to me you did. We miss you and take care of yourself.

your mom sounds like a wise lady. There's a verse in scripture..."To man belongs the plans of his heart, but the Lord determines his steps."

Thanks, Sam!

Marla64

Such a sense of calm and relief at hearing that your ok. The DW had her's out and had similar pains. Never as bad as it got for you. I'll have to call her Dr. beth from now on for diagnosing you correctly in last weeks thread. Soooooooooo glad your ok. Get some rest, we'll be waiting with bells on.

:flowerforyou:

xoxo Batman...thanks so much!!!

Marla64

Sooo glad you're ok, marla!!!


:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:

And xoxo to you, Dr. Beth...You nailed it. I think I saw Sara was on target too....smart ladies.

Thanks for the concern...so appreciated!!!

edited to add...and you're awfully young, from what they tell me, to have your gall bladder removed. Yipes. They tell me it's primarily in the 3 F's...forty, fertile, female. You're two out of three...guess that's enough, eh? Yeesh.

3babybeans

Thank the Lord you're okay! *BIG HUGS*

musicmom04

Sooo glad you're ok, marla!!!


:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:

And xoxo to you, Dr. Beth...You nailed it. I think I saw Sara was on target too....smart ladies.

Thanks for the concern...so appreciated!!!

edited to add...and you're awfully young, from what they tell me, to have your gall bladder removed. Yipes. They tell me it's primarily in the 3 F's...forty, fertile, female. You're two out of three...guess that's enough, eh? Yeesh.

i think it's affected by being overweight, too (which i have been since high school) and pregnancy. i started having attacks right after ds #2 was born


thanks for saying i'm young