Thank you

[Guest guest]

Courage, , , Jan, Kath - and those that emailed me

personally:

Thank you for the prayers. Please continue to keep my aunt and uncle in

your prayers. My aunt is just so lost. The viewing/wake will be Sunday

- Mother's Day. The funeral is Monday, and Tuesday is my aunts

birthday.

It is all so sad...having many melt downs myself but feeling His arms

wrapped around me.

I am grateful for the many caring people in here.

Sandie

[Guest guest]

> Thank you all for your warm welcomes. Today we sign a DNR form for

my Dad,

> and are just keeping him quiet and comfortable. It has been

difficult on my

> Mom, it was her desicion, following what he has always expressed he

wants. He

> is occasionally doing some of the things that Geri explained for

stage 7. He

> is mostly quietly lying in bed. We have appointments with hospice

reps

> tomorrow and Thursday.

>

> Josie

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

FyreMajick,

Well, thank you!!! It is good to hear that the messages are being used

and appreciated! The moderators need to hear this from time to time, so we know

whether we are on track with what you guys are wanting, or if we are totally

missing the mark. Feedback is helpful for us, and we thank you for it! Have a

super week! PJ

Majick Eyes wrote:

Just wanted to say thank you for letting me join this group. Even

though I have been a member for a short while, this group has been

helping me.

I love the positive posts. They give me something positive to feed my

mind-garden everyday.

Thank you,

FyreMajick

---------------------------------

[Guest guest]

:

Thank you for sending this message to us. I think I can speak for all the

Moderators...if we have been able to touch one person and help them become more

positive, then this Group is worthwhile.

I am happy you have found peace and happiness.

Charlene

Jen wrote:

I just wanted to tell you all that I really enjoy being a part of this

group! I know I don't post as much as I should but I enjoy all the

uplifting stories and words of encouragement that I get through e-mail. You

don't know how much that has changed my life as well as changed my outlook

on life and has given me a boost when I'm not feeling too up to par.

Thanks again everyone, glad to be here.

in KS

[Guest guest]

Hi :

So good to hear from you. Thankyou for your nice letter to

the group.

I am happy you have found things here which have helped

you.

Hugs

Live Long....Laugh Hard....Email Often

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 22:16:49 -0600 (Central Standard

Time), Jen wrote:

I just wanted to tell you all that I really enjoy being a part of

this

group! I know I don't post as much as I should but I enjoy

all the

uplifting stories and words of encouragement that I get

through e-mail. You

don't know how much that has changed my life as well as

changed my outlook

on life and has given me a boost when I'm not feeling too

up to par.

Thanks again everyone, glad to be here.

in KS

[Guest guest]

,

You are very special to our group, and we appreciate hearing this from you!

All of our members are special, and so many of them -- we don't get to chat or

visit with as much as we'd like. But, we realize that everyone gets busy these

days.

I would like to second what Charlene said -- if any of our messages can

help or touch someone, then thank goodness we are doing this!! I have to say

that this is very encouraging to hear a " thank you " sometimes, though!!! Jen,

thank you back!! Have a super week! Love & Hugs, PJ

Jen wrote:

I just wanted to tell you all that I really enjoy being a part of this

group! I know I don't post as much as I should but I enjoy all the

uplifting stories and words of encouragement that I get through e-mail. You

don't know how much that has changed my life as well as changed my outlook

on life and has given me a boost when I'm not feeling too up to par.

Thanks again everyone, glad to be here.

in KS

[Guest guest]

Lynette,

If this reaches you before your surgery, then Good Luck to you. Just

remember, it does get better. If not, then happy re-birthday today! This

is monumental in your life and you are going to feel so much better in a few

months. Everyone kept telling me that in June and the first of July and

after my surgery I thought they were crazy! Now I know they were right!

This is a great new life!

Hugs,

le

_____

From: DS_Friends_Keshishian

[mailto:DS_Friends_Keshishian ] On Behalf Of lynnccrn@...

Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 9:54 AM

To: DS_Friends_Keshishian

Subject: Thank you

Hello to everyone, My name is Lynette and I am having my surgery on monday

nov 14th, wow thats today. As I sit here nervous and trying to keep myself

occupied untill it is time to go to the hospital, I am thinking how lucky I

am

to be given this opportunity to start a new life. I am thinking that soon

there will not all the hassels that come with being overweight and most

important all the health benefits I will achieve. Well wish me luck as I

go out the

door to Delano. It by the way is a very good little hospital, I should

know

cause I work there. Catch everyone on the skinny side....

Lynette

Scrappenrn

[Guest guest]

Lynette!

Best wishes. It must be hard (I'm writing this now that it's over) to

have all your co-workers be your medical staff...you are so brave!

But it also must be reassuring to know that you are in good hands.

Happy new life1

Sue

>

> Hello to everyone, My name is Lynette and I am having my surgery on

monday

> nov 14th, wow thats today. As I sit here nervous and trying to keep

myself

> occupied untill it is time to go to the hospital, I am thinking how

lucky I am

> to be given this opportunity to start a new life. I am thinking

that soon

> there will not all the hassels that come with being overweight and

most

> important all the health benefits I will achieve. Well wish me luck

as I go out the

> door to Delano. It by the way is a very good little hospital, I

should know

> cause I work there. Catch everyone on the skinny side....

> Lynette

> Scrappenrn

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

>

> Hello to everyone, My name is Lynette and I am having my surgery on

monday

> nov 14th, wow thats today. As I sit here nervous and trying to

keep myself

> occupied untill it is time to go to the hospital, I am thinking how

lucky I am

> to be given this opportunity to start a new life. I am thinking

that soon

> there will not all the hassels that come with being overweight and

most

> important all the health benefits I will achieve. Well wish me

luck as I go out the

> door to Delano. It by the way is a very good little hospital, I

should know

> cause I work there. Catch everyone on the skinny side....

> Lynette

> Scrappenrn

Lynette,

You wouldn't be the Lynette that works on the Surgery Floor at DRMC

would it? When my sister and I both had our surgeries you were such

fun, if this is you. Reguardless, here's wishing you a speedy

recovery and welcome to the other side.

Terri in Paso

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Lynette,

I hope your surgery went well as I am sure it did. Dr. K is so wonderful. You

have just begun an amazing journey that is so worth it. We are here for you for

any questions that you may have for us in the future. God bless.

--

Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirthis heaviness.

Proverbs 13:14

-------------- Original message --------------

Hello to everyone, My name is Lynette and I am having my surgery on monday

nov 14th, wow thats today. As I sit here nervous and trying to keep myself

occupied untill it is time to go to the hospital, I am thinking how lucky I am

to be given this opportunity to start a new life. I am thinking that soon

there will not all the hassels that come with being overweight and most

important all the health benefits I will achieve. Well wish me luck as I go

out the

door to Delano. It by the way is a very good little hospital, I should know

cause I work there. Catch everyone on the skinny side....

Lynette

Scrappenrn

[Guest guest]

, thank you for your reply abd words of encouragement. I just got home

this afternoon and I am really gratefull for the " easy " recovery I seemed to

have. I went into this knowing there was going to be pain and all the

things I would have to do and I seemed to just breese through them. Dr. K is

so

wonderfull and the hospital staff went out of there way to make me feel at

home. I would definitely recommed this to anyone considering this operation.

Thank you again, talk to you soon, Lynette

[Guest guest]

Well, today is the coming home day and so far so good... No, that was the

other Lynette that works there. I am one of the nursing supervisors there and

enjoy my job very much. By the way, yes she was alot of fun but sadly she

moved on to a job closer to her home. talk to you soon, Lynette

[Guest guest]

Lynette

You were on my mind Friday. I was thinking it was about time for your

release. Thanks for checking in. I'm so pleased to hear that your

having a good recovery.

Do you happen to know my mom??? Louise? She works at Delano also.

Hugs

Jo

[Guest guest]

,

You are very welcome! And, in some ways -- it appears that January 1st may

have come early this time! Big Hugs, PJ

angelamdavey2300 wrote:

Hi Moderators of Affirmations to De-Stress,

I look forward to January 1, 2006 and the true focus of Affirmations to

De-Stress. Thanks again,

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AffirmationstoDe-Stress

A positive thinking, positive affirmations support group, discussing ways to

cope with the stresses of daily life. Come aboard! PJ and Gang

[Guest guest]

I think I'm a day late but I would also like to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY

PAT! You are such a sweetie and deserve the best!

Hugs!

Tracey

>

> Wow Jo,,,,That was reat singing!!!!

> thanks to all, and I am praying

> that all have a great day today.

> HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to all

> God bless,

> Pat

>

[Guest guest]

" WE WILL WIN "

Love Ya'll

" NEVER FIGHT FAIR "

Carole & Bob

Panama City, FL 32404

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http://www.stillsdisease.org/. Please make Tax Deductible DONATIONS to the

all volunteer, International Stills Disease Foundation Inc., 1123 S. Kimbrel

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-------Original Message-------

From: blondedolphin172@...

Date: 7/19/2006 4:00:55 AM

To: oldgoat378@...

Hi Bob,

Hello, I have not been well lately but I really need some info for my

nurse,doctor and family. My address is:

Danni Koche'

2782 Firebrand Road

North Port, FL 34288

Thanks in advance for all the help and for showing me that I really am not

alone and I have alot of Stilligans who give me the strength to continue to

fight. I want to thank everyone for the beautiful gift of fruit and nuts. It

really brightened my day.

Danni

Check out AOL.com today. Breaking news, video search, pictures, email and IM

All on demand. Always Free.

[Guest guest]

>

> hello everybody,

>

> thankyou all for the kind words and support.

> it really does help.

> my husband can take only so much complaining.

> it is hard to know what you are going through, unless you done it.

> thank you again.

> sarah

>

Hi Sara,

First of all, hang in there it does get better. Second, if he has not

already done so, have your husband look up and read all of the information he

can find on Hep-C. It worked for me as I have been helping my fiance through

this dreaded disease. The more I learned the easier it got on the both of us.

Once again hang in there and good luck. You and your family are in our thoughts

and prayers.

Chuck

[Guest guest]

Thank you so much for the kind responses to my post about my 14-yr. old DS- it

helps so much to know I'm not alone.

Third through sixth grade my son was at a wonderful private school but it only

went through sixth grade. He went to a private Christian school for seventh

grade, then public school in two different districts for eighth and ninth. He is

at the best public high school in the area. Obviously we need to look at totally

different types of schools since all three years have been rough for my son with

bullying and struggling academically due to his OCD and ADD. We are looking into

a small school for learning differences- his therapist thinks he would be the

highest functioning one there but I'm not so sure. I just don't think the

therapist understands how significant his ADD is, and how much the OCD also

makes it difficult for him to focus. He will have a complete educational

assessment in the beginning of May- I'm looking forward to finding out if there

are any additional problems like learning disabilities or maybe even mild

contributing to his problems.

I also would definitely home school but my son insists he wants to go to a

school and not be home schooled. I told him to keep an open mind about it

because we have very few options at this point!

We saw the psychiatrist on Monday- he is switching him to Lexapro from Paxil but

basically said he doesn't think there's going to be that much of a difference

because

they're all SSRI's! As we all know there can be huge differences in the way

people

respond to different SSRI's! I think he was just trying to defend his decision

to put him

on Paxil to begin with when you hardly ever hear of kids on that for OCD.

We switched from Paxil to Prozac because I had heard so much about how difficult

it can be to get off of, plus I thought another medication might be more

effective, too. Because of my concerns about Paxil, I resisted increasing the

dosage so he always stayed at 20 mg. The excessive sleeping didn't seem to

coincide with him getting back on Paxil...although there may be a connection. We

went back to

Paxil because it was a known- I wanted to get him back to relative stability as

soon as possible since he was feeling more irritable and was obsessing about

suicide on the Prozac.

Pam, I think the educational assessment will assess for NLD. He definitely fits

many of the criteria for that- disorganized, socially immature, a verbal

learner, executive dysfunction ...but definitely NOT perfectionistic!

Oh, and one thing I forgot to mention before is that my son considers me to be

contaminated because I drink milk, which he thinks is gross. Some of the

irritability and attitude is related to this- if I get too close to him or he

thinks I've touched something of his without washing my hands. His therapist is

going to use ERP for this but we haven't gotten started yet because there are so

many other issues to deal with right now. *sigh*

Thank you again so much for the support! I truly appreciate it.

OCD Mom, Texas

[Guest guest]

Oh, sounds like you know a bit more than the psych - " they're all SSRIs " - ha!

Hope the Lexapro works well, let us know. We only tried Celexa, it worked well.

But I know other parents have had to try almost all of them to find *the one*

that worked. Could have all the others have unwanted effects but then the last

worked great.

I say go with your gut for the school. Can you tour it first to get a feel for

it, the environment, the other students, etc.?

I wondered about NLD for , was going back/forth between that and

Aspergers, so similar, but am fine with the Aspergers dx, I do feel it fits. My

gut!

Milk and OCD - made me think of Monk on TV, scared of milk. I do miss that

show, and I both enjoyed it.

>

> Thank you so much for the kind responses to my post about my 14-yr. old DS- it

helps so much to know I'm not alone.

>

> Third through sixth grade my son was at a wonderful private school but it only

went through sixth grade. He went to a private Christian school for seventh

grade, then public school in two different districts for eighth and ninth. He is

at the best public high school in the area. Obviously we need to look at totally

different types of

[Guest guest]

We miss " Monk " too. It was a great show! One of our favs.

In some ways I think it made our son feel a bit better about what he was dealing

with, seeing that for Monk it was a " blessing " and a " curse " .

The only thing that bothered me was the fact that they did " talk " therapy as

treatment, on the show. I wish the writers would have done some research and

had him do some ERP.

BJ

>

> Oh, sounds like you know a bit more than the psych - " they're all SSRIs " - ha!

Hope the Lexapro works well, let us know. We only tried Celexa, it worked well.

But I know other parents have had to try almost all of them to find *the one*

that worked. Could have all the others have unwanted effects but then the last

worked great.

>

> I say go with your gut for the school. Can you tour it first to get a feel

for it, the environment, the other students, etc.?

>

> I wondered about NLD for , was going back/forth between that and

Aspergers, so similar, but am fine with the Aspergers dx, I do feel it fits. My

gut!

>

> Milk and OCD - made me think of Monk on TV, scared of milk. I do miss that

show, and I both enjoyed it.

>

>

[Guest guest]

Yeah, it lightened OCD in our lives too. I know what you mean about talk

therapy, but the show wouldn't have been as good without those

conversations/interactions with his psychiatrist.

I recall where his " helpers " had him try to get past some though. Remember one

episode where they had a lot of stuff he was afraid of, including milk, set out

on a table for him to pick one to get over. That may have been when Harold

Crenshaw had gotten over his OCD....

I really did love the episodes where it also showed the agony of OCD.

>

> We miss " Monk " too. It was a great show! One of our favs.

>

> In some ways I think it made our son feel a bit better about what he was

dealing with, seeing that for Monk it was a " blessing " and a " curse " .

>

> The only thing that bothered me was the fact that they did " talk " therapy as

treatment, on the show. I wish the writers would have done some research and

had him do some ERP.

>

> BJ

[Guest guest]

My 12 year old ds loves watching Monk because it makes him feel better about

himself and he can see the humor in the OCD.  We are watching it from season 1

all the way through right now on Netflix and it has been a relaxing thing to do

together, much needed after dealing w/OCD and school traumas  school all day.

 .............................................Larkellen

Subject: Re: Thank you

To:

Date: Sunday, April 10, 2011, 2:14 PM

We miss " Monk " too.  It was a great show!  One of our favs.

In some ways I think it made our son feel a bit better about what he was dealing

with, seeing that for Monk it was a " blessing " and a " curse " . 

The only thing that bothered me was the fact that they did " talk " therapy as

treatment, on the show.  I wish the writers would have done some research and

had him do some ERP. 

BJ

 

>

> Oh, sounds like you know a bit more than the psych - " they're all SSRIs " -

ha!  Hope the Lexapro works well, let us know.  We only tried Celexa, it worked

well.  But I know other parents have had to try almost all of them to find *the

one* that worked.  Could have all the others have unwanted effects but then the

last worked great.

>

> I say go with your gut for the school.  Can you tour it first to get a feel

for it, the environment, the other students, etc.? 

>

> I wondered about NLD for , was going back/forth between that and

Aspergers, so similar, but am fine with the Aspergers dx, I do feel it fits.  My

gut!

>

> Milk and OCD - made me think of Monk on TV, scared of milk.  I do miss that

show, and I both enjoyed it. 

>

>   

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[Guest guest]

What age group is Monk meant for? I wonder if there are any other suitable

shows for an 8 year old

AR

[Guest guest]

We started watching it as a family when my son was 9 or 10.   I found it

suitable and I am pretty picky w/what they watch but some might not.  You might

want to watch an episode or 2 by yourself to decide if it is ok for your 8 year

old....................................Larkellen

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Subject: Re: Re: Thank you

To:

Date: Sunday, April 10, 2011, 3:25 PM

What age group is Monk meant for? I wonder if there are any other suitable

shows for an 8 year old

AR

[Guest guest]

It was horrible when Stanley Kamel died. Despite them not doing the " correct "

therapy (lol), we liked Dr. Kroger.

Josh has all of the seasons on DVD. It was his favorite show (one of mine too).

It did show the agony of when they are stuck, trying to get past OCD, very well.

It also showed the courage it takes to live with it every day, while getting on

with life.

BJ

>

> Yeah, it lightened OCD in our lives too. I know what you mean about talk

therapy, but the show wouldn't have been as good without those

conversations/interactions with his psychiatrist.

>

> I recall where his " helpers " had him try to get past some though. Remember

one episode where they had a lot of stuff he was afraid of, including milk, set

out on a table for him to pick one to get over. That may have been when Harold

Crenshaw had gotten over his OCD....

>

> I really did love the episodes where it also showed the agony of OCD.

>

>

>