Helen

[Guest guest]

Hi,

See i am posting LOL!! Just to say thanks for the nice welcome and to

answer a few of your questions.

Yes we did get the snow, about 5 inches of it, all the schools were

closed again for the day. Lots of roads closed, it was a real heavy

snow, anyone ever heard of a snowthunder storm? Well i didn't until

this morning, it snowed, it was lighting, and it was thundering.

Wisconsin doesn't get the tornados until April or May and then thru

the summer. I hate it when the winds pick up, makes me really

nervous.Where are you from? I didn't realize there was any where

there were tornados now. But then this has been one messed up winter

anyway. The kids have missed 5 days of school already,this keeps up

and it will be July before they get out LOL!

I came down with the arthritis about 1995, it started in my hands,

they were 3 times the size they should of been. I was seeing a

general practioner then and he doses me up with Predizone. It did the

trick but i didn't know until after i started taking them that they

had so many side effects. I am still on them but went from 25mg a day

to 4mg a day. I hope to get off of them completely. I started seeing

a reumytoligist short after i got the arthritis cause my general

practioner wasn't doing anything for me.I have been seeing her for

years and she does have my arthritis controled to a certain point.I

have had trouble with my back for a couple of years now. Been

thinking about physical therapy, but don't know if that would help

and how much it costs.

Yes my arthritis has alot to do with my back, but i have i cant

remember what all is wrong with my back but there are some disks that

are bad, my whole back is full of arthritis. It bothers me to walk

but if i have a shopping cart i am ok. My doctor says that i am

bending over with the cart and that eases up the pressure so it

doesn't bother. There is surgery that mite fix it, they do not say it

will fix it for sure, there isn't even a 50% chance that it will fix

it, but with no insurance there is no way i can have surgery done

anyway.

I have emphysema which i got from smoking. I know real stupid but now

it is really hard to stop.

I say mild diabetic cause most of the time i can control it with

diet, or atleast i try anyway. I started out with insulin but was

able to get off of it. I need to lose some weight really bad.

I collect mostly stuffed teddy bears. Just a kid at heart i guess. I

also like to collect porcelain cats. Just call me catlady, love cats.

My 2 are spoiled something terrible.

Sounds like you are a very busy lady with the crafts. I am not very

good with crafts. I love to buy them but only if someone else makes

them LOL!!

Well i will go for now, have a good weekend.

Hugs, Sharon