Hmmmm after spending most of June/July with a nasty MS relapse (lost my hearing in left ear, face paralysis, very bad vertigo) I'm doing smashingly well now. Every day I can get out of bed and hear the birds chirping, or smile/raise my eyebrows is a Good DAY I fully recovered....THANKFULLY!!!! I'm on MS drugs now taken by injection 3x a week. They are supposed to reduce relapses by 30%. I guess we'll see.
Do you still see or talk to J - I often think of her. I hope she is doing well, as well as she can be.
So what is new with RW? Are you done school yet? How's the weather been where you are? We are having our summer in September in Ottawa.
I often think of the friends I made on this website (some of who I've gotten a chance to meet) and wonder where their lives have taken them. It is soooo quiet around here, but maybe that means we've all moved on with our lives, so perhaps that is a good thing!!
Sounds challenging Kid. I know Jbean doesn't do the shots.
Glad you came out of it again.
I graduated and am working on passing my boards. I'll be moving out of here soon so I'm getting rid of everything. Time to lighten up on stuff and stress. Will be searching for a new job soon too. Texas? Wisconsin? Australia? Sri Lanka?
Spent some time with friends in the WI and MN woods lately too doing history re-enacting (French Fur Trade). That was a lot of fun. Met many very interesting people involved in that.
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On a 'strange' note - my mother informed me yesterday that she called my X to see how he was doing etc. She got his new address (affair partner's house)! Who would have ever thought....my mom has that address now after all that hell. He also informed my mother that he isn't all unpacked yet. I suppose it's difficult get all his stuff put into the spaces that her X husband owned.
My friend's son is just now beginning to find out about his wife's affair. They have 2 small children and just bought a house. He had a gun to his head yesterday.
I couldn't think of a better person to talk to your friend's son. He sounds like he is in serious need of somebody to talk to. Guns and affairs really don't mix!!
Your life sounds busy as always. What a wonderful problem to have to resolve - being able to live anywhere and just not knowing where yet.
Goodluck with your new career and wherever your travels may take you. It sounds like your heart is still in Northern parts of the US though. I've always loved it up there, especially right now with the leaves changing. I could do without the snow and cold though lol.
The MS meds are currently costing me $1625 a month so I could see why they aren't for everyone, which I find sad. Health care such as that should be accessible to everyone regardless of income. Thankfully I have a benefit plan that pays a good majority of it!! Until they find a cure for this horrible disease it is my best option to stay as disability free as possible.
I find stress has a huge impact on the disease. I imagine with everything Jbean has been through affair related, it can't be of much help to her condition. It's horrible that other people can dramaticallly affect our lives and not even realize or care, isn't it?
As for your mother, wow. I'm not sure how i'd feel about that. It is almost as if you draw a box around you and make it a safety no ex zone and then somebody like your mom breaks into that safety zone by contacting him. Maybe it is different since you have kids together.
That's awful for a medication price. It's probably best that you're in Canada and not the United States - where people are never sure what might happen to their health coverage, and where people can not get it because they have a pre-existing illness.
I think my mother was just trying to keep a little communication line open, but it's still a bizarre story to follow.
Some of us are hooked up on Facebook now. The forums have been allowed to go pretty quiet. It takes some push to keep them active and everyone seems intensely busy with their 'new' lives.
I still help people out as the situations arise. We have experience and resources to share, so that can always continue on.
RW
This message has been edited by Red--Wolf on Sep 25, 2009 10:33 PM
New life, indeed. Both sons are grown. Both are US Marine Corps reservists. Both have jobs...on active duty (one is "just" training and will return to college next semester, one is training for his upcoming deployment in a mountainous war zone).
There's a new special responsibility: grandfather, filling in as part-time father figure during deployment. I ran into some business acquaintances today; one knew I'm a grandfather and the other laughed and said it was good that the first person said something because she might have assumed the boy was my son.
Whew. He's a cute, sweet, easy kid but I'm finished raising kids. A day every couple of weeks is enough.
I was wondering the same thing, although I vaguely recall a Quinn Boysenberry hanging around in our midst. It would be interesting to hear from him and the rest of the gang.
This message has been edited by Canuck_Kid on Sep 27, 2009 12:39 PM
I saw Jbean yesterday. Pushed her around the lake twice in her wheelchair as her walking around the lake days are over. We knew it would come eventually, but it still sucks. I HATE MS!!
You and me both RW
It is like sliding on black ice, slowly moving, knowing where you are headed, scared to get there but knowing you will. Having to watch your friend go through it must be almost as bad as having to go through it yourself.
For now I just have to hope that a cure will be found in my lifetime and the drugs will do what they are supposed to.
God has some whacky sense of humour
This message has been edited by Canuck_Kid on Sep 27, 2009 3:29 PM
"black ice, slowly moving, knowing where you are headed"
Onward Quinnward!
Well we enjoyed it. I drove the chair and she watched. We saw a couple blue heron and a couple turtles, and several interesting people from the global village who frequent the lake. You see every color, shape and size. I like that about this town.
I appreciate it more after my 6 month 'sentence' in primarily white Christian country western-minded Kansas.
Sorry Kansas, but you got a reputation for a reason!
LOL RW.
I can definitely relate. I feel like the last year of my life has been a prison sentence in a trendy, fasionable city that I just don't fit into. Going for $10 latte's as opposed to Tim Hortons $1.39, dressing to the 9's to go anywhere, seeing suits in the grocery store...it is all a little overwhelming to feel like a strange fish in a big pond. It kind of reminds me of public school when you felt like you really didn't belong and had to wear some funky outfit your mom put together of your sisters handmedowns, and it's picture day!!
Oh well. For now I will continue my course. I know I want to be back in Northern Ontario. I'm glad I took this opportunity to live elsewhere in the country, but my heart is where my heart is.
Big city living and paying $18 a day for parking just ain't for this hearty country girl lol.
I've been to Ca. exotic in it's own way. As far as another country, I haven't been anywhere.
But, next yr... I've been invited to an orphanage in Cambodia. We'll see. It's difficult to get away when both parents are ailing, and my sons are in college.
Nice to hear from you MM. Yes it is difficult dealing with anybody who is ailing. I'm so sorry. Unfortunately one of those life's guarantees, whether or not we want to deal with it.
Your parents are in good hands, as are your children
You haven't missed any of the nice weather I promised you that Ottawa has, it hasn't happened yet lol. It has been a horrible summer and I really need to find me some sun very soon!!!
Came back to check in. It's Jean150, but I had to use a different login.
Kid, I'm sorry you've had a set-back.
Nice to see everyone here!
I've been doing well. Kids are doing fine, although my son is just recovering from mono. I'm getting more writing jobs, which makes me happy, I've photographed two weddings and am booked for a third. I lost some weight and I fell in love this fall. :-b Wonderful experience. Expertly, wonderfully pursued for a month. I had never in my life had that happen, how he did it. You can just imagine...I'm 43 and was having a ball. Then after several weeks the guy freaked out and said he couldn't do this anymore... because I was getting attached (well, duh), and he is not over his old relationship yet... He broke it off, but but he called me tonight and he's taking me out for my birthday next week.
May I tell you all something? I haven't had sex in about 9 years. I haven't had good sex in about ...this is embarrasing... 23 years. (No, it was never really good with the husband, sad to say.) I know that I could have it on my birthday next week if I just said "yes." Ahhhhhh..... I am tempted, but I don't know what it would do to my heart. He's kind, and he's a friend, but he's not ready for a relationship. And I know that.
As for sex...don't do it unless you can handle the friends with benefits scenario. Sex tends to bring expectations and if either of you aren't ready then I say wait until everything is perfect. It's been awhile for me too!!! Maybe it will be worth the wait
I also have someone very special in my life who isn't ready for a relationship because he was hurt really bad before. He is a great friend and we go on dates whenever I go home to Tbay. He is definitely dating material....first one in a very long time I'd say that about.
I am sort of having the time of my life. I think I am beginning to come into my own, to finally have the emotional and physical energy and health to be creating the kind of life that I want. I was hoping I would be able to get t this place in my forties, with the passage of time and the growing of the kids.
The man is still in my life. We're going for a walk today and out for dinner on Saturday. Neither one of us knows where it's going, but I think I'll just enjoy the ride. He is a nice person spend time with.
Finally came up for air eh?
