Thread:Llyssa1020/@comment-35594152-20190626193146/@comment-38558458-20190628045657

Hello Sue! ~  I am so sorry to hear about your Kidney Stone. I am sending healing, get well wishes your way and hope this passes quickly for you. I've never had anything like that before, so I can't imagine the pain. The most I've had in regards to organ pain is my gallbladder, which they ended up removing and I was so glad. I wasn't able to get the surgery right away as we were going out of town to Chicago over the weekend. That was not the easiest to do since most of the time when you are out of town it involves good food/restaurants. Gino's East Pizza was on our list and I had to be so careful. I did not want an attack and be rushed to an emergency room away from home.

Speaking of Emergency Rooms, I took my Mom there on Tuesday night after our warm water exercise and dinner. We were getting in the car after dinner and I looked over and she was holding her left arm and I knew something was wrong. She said it felt like a blood pressure cuff was tightening high up on her arm. She had open heart surgery 10 years ago and they fixed her mitral and tricuspid valves. I was concerned she was having a stroke or heart attack. Since we were in the car, I immediately went to our Cardiac hospital here in town. We were there almost 6 hours - she had the same pain again an hour later and then a 3rd time but not as intense. The Doctor said she could make the case for my Mom to be admitted and then run some cardiac tests on her. My Mom also has a pace maker and it could be that it's time for a new battery. The thing is my Mom doesn't ever want to go through that surgery again and she doesn't want another battery. It's very difficult to see her in pain and I wanted them to run her vitals and make her comfortable. The Doctor released her and my Mom has an annual appointment on the 10th with our Family Doctor. My sister and I are going to take her and discuss all of her options and what to expect. We are also going to begin the process of an advanced directive, palliatative care, dnr and whatever else is involved. I want my sister to be POA for her health and I can be POA for financial. Mom will be 79 in August and she has been slowing down. Her mother passed at 68 and her father at 83 - her only sister was 59. She is a very strong Christian and is at peace and ready to go home. It's hard watching my parents get older. Dad will be 82 in December - he will be with us another 10-15 years but will probably get Alzheimer's like his mother. I've been slowly trying to help them make some financial decisions and will probably take that over in the next couple of years.

The game is a nice distraction and I've met so many nice people on this wiki. I do not post much in the General Discussion area, but I had to make the same comment I made to you about Candy World in the Eureka Moments forum - lol. I've found and added a few other friends who like this room and I'm getting some encouragement. I misquoted though, thinking I was at Sleuth level and was really at Amateur - it was the Bungalow room where I was at Sleuth level (oops). I just reached Sleuth today, and it has become so much harder. I am really looking into some of the other posts/threads about how to conquer this. Unfortunately the spreadsheet that is out there doesn't work well on phones or tablets. I will need to check it out later when I open my laptop. In the meantime, I'm going to check out the information posted under the guides/database section. I might even use my tablet to take a picture of my phone and then blow that up on my tablet - lol. It is going to be very slow going I'm afraid. Maybe it will get easier if I start to know and understand things, but from what I've read I think they throw more curve balls at you with other variants or something to that effect. I don't think I've experienced that yet, so I'm not sure what that means.

It's time for me to respond to a few more posts and then get ready for bed and play the game or visit friends until I get sleepy. My new friend Chilli suggested I have a glass of wine after she added me so she could send some beans my direction. I decided after the very late night I had at the hospital, that would be a very good idea. I happened to have a bottle of Peach Moscato and had that in place of my normal SleepyTime Tea. That was not a good idea - lol. I drank maybe a 1/3 of the glass and woke up around 6 am. I had intentions to reciprocate to my new Aussie friend and UK friend (who both had normal daytime hours) and send them about 25 passes and 25 screw nut fixers. I woke up to find my calendar set to a date in May and think I made 7 passes - not nearly what I wanted to do - lol. Then I chugged the room temperature wine and went to bed - another not so good idea. Anyway, I will be sticking with my SleepyTime Tea from now on at this time of night. It might be 5:00 somewhere around the world, but it is bedtime for me - lol.

Rest, relax and get better dear Wiki Sister! ~   Llyssa