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Journals
Interactive Alarm Clock!
- By GringoGrandma · Posted August 19, 2009
- 1 reply
- A new twist on waking up...when I want to. Calico decided to become my 'interactive alarm clock' , jump up and nip my toes through the sheet/blanket to remind me, 'she can see the bottom of her food dish ...
SELF PRESERVATION
- By Blkjewelz8960 · Posted August 18, 2009
- 17 replies
- This is another saying that is on my cubicle wall: The single relationship that is truly central in your life is the relationship you have with yourself.. It is rewarding to find someone you like, but ...
I Let Em' Have It Today! How Dare They?!
- By Unsure · Posted August 18, 2009
- 45 replies
- Anyway, how do you deal with people not really knowing what we deal with and the daily fight that we deal with feeling that they have the right to tell you that you need to fight? I am so sick and tired ...
Will I graduate from Inspire?
- By fish_server · Posted August 18, 2009
- 23 replies
- I'm not planning to graduate from Inspire anytime soon even though I am nearing my goals. I like my routine of breakfast, workoout and then Inspire for a bit too much. I'm happier because I am a smaller ...
.........OMG........
- By larchmountain · Posted August 14, 2009
- 15 replies
- I just received an email from someone that is associated with the marathon Flowerchild and I did in June. This nut wants me to join in a 100 mile bike ride from Seattle to Port Angles WA. Like only a ...
ACCEPTANCE
- By Blkjewelz8960 · Posted August 14, 2009
- 29 replies
- I have several quotes on the wall of my cubicle at work. But I kept looking at this one the other day and felt it must be meant for someone so I am posting it here now so that it can reach who it is intended ...
Cleveland Clinic Appointment
- By chris91 · Posted August 14, 2009
- 3 replies
- Hopefully someone can answer some questions for me. I was diagnosed with neurosarcoid in '07. I had an arachnoid cyst on my spinal cord. When they did the mri's they found that I had ns. After the surgery ...
5 minutes on the lysosome. Because it's time we know.
- By StephLynStill · Posted August 13, 2009
- 0 replies
- So did you ever wonder what happens to the tadpole's tail? Does it just fall off? No actually. Lysosomes eat it. (autophagy: the cell's ability to eat itself...) And the webbing in our fingers and toes ...
50 lbs gone!
- By larchmountain · Posted August 13, 2009
- 19 replies
- I joined this site a year ago, July 2008 weighing 207. This morning I weighed in at 157.0 What a journey. The truly amazing thing is everyone now knows my eating habits and my goals. It was wonderful ...
MYELINOLYSIS: Bye Bye DEMYELINATION,Till We Meet Again & We Will, My Friend
- By WhataBreeze · Posted August 12, 2009
- 0 replies
- An Afternoon For Thought with Franky and Breeze (it is simply not acceptable for patients to be harmed by the same "Health Care System, that is supposed to offer healing and comfort" January 2007's passing ...
One Day At A Time -- Compass
- By Blkjewelz8960 · Posted August 11, 2009
- 12 replies
- Going to try this again and shake the devil off. I wrote on this subject at 6 a.m. but when I went to POST I got a server is busy. Guess the devil was busy but he ain't gonna steal my joy!!!! This may ...
Scheduled maintenance this evening
- By TeamInspire · Posted August 10, 2009
- 13 replies
- All, Inspire will be performing database updates this evening starting at 8:00 Eastern. We expect the updates to take no more than 2 hours and the site will be unavailable at this time. We thank you for ...
4 Languages Learning Spanish
- By GringoGrandma · Posted August 9, 2009
- 5 replies
- No kidding, I have friends from Canada & Guatemala here. They are housed in a lovely posada-hotel nearby. They are Chinese and Korean. My friend from Guatemala is giving us crash courses in Spanish in ...
9 AUGUST IS MY BIRTHDAY
- By Blkjewelz8960 · Posted August 9, 2009
- 71 replies
- Today is my birthday and I truly want to THANK GOD for allowing me to see my 49th birthday. I want to thank Him for the peace and joy He has bestowed upon me. And I definitely want to thank Him for placing ...
The Myth of Exercise
- By fish_server · Posted August 9, 2009
- 19 replies
- Either Time or Newsweek has a feature article on the Myth of Exercise. The main premise is that exercise does not promote weight loss. It says that exercise may be helpful for mood or heart disease, but ...
Julie and Julia
- By fish_server · Posted August 8, 2009
- 17 replies
- I watched the movie yesterday. What I would like to comment about is the value of homecooking--not necessarily Julia's butter laden dishes-but healthy homecooking. When I was younger, I was caught up ...
Jam Today
- By fish_server · Posted August 8, 2009
- 2 replies
- Yesterday I indulged in a Dairy Queen soft serve ice cream cone. I had been wanting one for weeks. Just kept telling myself it was so much sugar, nothing good about it. Well, yesterday, I found myself ...
Battle against Avascular necrosis
- By greis · Posted August 7, 2009
- 2 replies
- I am Grace Emlano. For almost 7 years, I never care on how I walk. I noticed that my left leg is shorter. Before, it is okey for me...until I felt mild pain on my left leg...mild to severe pain. This ...
Planet Earth did the Rumba Again!
- By GringoGrandma · Posted August 3, 2009
- 12 replies
- 3 earthquakes today. The last was 6.9! Planet earth, at least in Mexico is doing the rumba or maybe the salsa again! Cha cha cha, never know when it's coming......just keep prayed up, know what to do ...
Off methotrexate today
- By nanomary · Posted August 1, 2009
- 4 replies
- Today is the day I usually take my weekly metho. Due to elevated liver enzymes my rheumy tols me to go off it for a month and then have enzymes rechecked. In 2 weeks I go off Enbrel so I can have hip ...
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