Welcome to new members

Posted July 22, 2000 · July 22, 2000

Welcome Annette and apologies to you and anyone else who received gobbledegook

down the line when they first joined. The egroup is configured to

automatically send 6 files to new members. The idea is that these will allo

new member to get a feel for the discussion fairly quickly and join in the

conversation that is already under way. There are two problems with this.

First, I have only just discovered (after following up new members' comments

that they did not have the 'secret code' needed to understand the information

they were sent!) that this 'circulation faciltiy' does not support Rich Text

Format files. It does support Microsoft Office files, so I have now replaced

the original RTF files with Word 6 documents. I use a Macintsoh computer,

which is not always friendly about communicating with other machines; in

particular my current version of Word (98) cannot be read by PC users of Word

97, although I think later versions can cope with it. Some folk have had

problems reading a Powerpoint file, also because of incompatability, but we

are all beginning to learn what we can do and what we can't with this form of

communication! I am attaching the six 'errant files' (in Word 6) to this

email, so anyone else who has joined the group in the last month or two and

wondered what they should have received may be pleased to open them. Hard

copies of these files have also been widely circulated in what was called the

'June mailing' so they will be very familiar to some members..

This brings me to the second problem, which is that they summarise the

discussion up to the end of May, but we are due to compile another 'two month

digest' at the end of July, so they may seem a bit out of date now!

Thanks for joining, Annette, and welcome again.

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Posted August 21, 2006 · August 21, 2006

the most aggressive form of brain cancer I know of is the glioblastoma multiforme((malignant brain cancer was told that was my husband had that)) I pray your friends mother does not have that and will pull through this without a problem. My prayers are indeed with your friends mother Hugs Potts <clonezfan100@...> wrote: I also want to welcome all the new members we have inour growing family! It's a pleasure to meet all ofyou. We have members, like me, that are content justto stay hidden & read. Others will post alot, butthat's ok too.One of our members, Helen from NW Ohio, is a fount ofhelp if you need websites. She's amazing. :-)I'm , live in Cincinnati, OH & deal withallergies/asthma/hyperthyroidism/mild depression. Most of the time I feel really good but then there aretimes that I just feel like blech. I know you allunderstand that.Off topic-one of my friends from high school isdealing with a huge

thing. Her mom was recentlydiagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer. So, if you all could remember the Glass & DunhamFamily in your prayers, that would be appreciated!You all take care. If you ever want to chat on-line,I'm on AOL's free IM & known as clonezfan. I'm also ahockey fan! :-) P.Music is a gift from God__________________________________________________

Posted August 22, 2006 · August 22, 2006

a_geeting1987@... God Bless and Keep you safe, and Sherry Knight--- forevermylove50@... wrote:From: Buergerhoff <forevermylove50@...> Subject: Re: Welcome to new membersDate: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 20:21:31 -0700 (PDT)the most aggressive form of brain cancer I know of is the glioblastoma multiforme((malignant brain cancer was told that was my husband had that)) I pray your friends mother does not have that and will pull through this without a problem. My prayers are indeed with your friends mother Hugs Potts <clonezfan100@...> wrote:I also want to welcome all the new members we have inour growing family! It's a pleasure to meet all ofyou. We have members, like me, that are content justto stay hidden & read. Others will post alot, butthat's ok too.One of our members, Helen from NW Ohio, is a fount ofhelp if you need websites. She's amazing. :-)I'm , live in Cincinnati, OH & deal withallergies/asthma/hyperthyroidism/mild depression. Most of the time I feel really good but then there aretimes that I just feel like blech. I know you allunderstand that.Off topic-one of my friends from high school isdealing with a huge thing. Her mom was recentlydiagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer. So, if you all could remember the Glass & DunhamFamily in your prayers, that would be appreciated!You all take care. If you ever want to chat on-line,I'm on AOL's free IM & known as clonezfan. I'm also ahockey fan! :-) P.Music is a gift from God__________________________________________________

Posted June 29, 2007 · June 29, 2007

Thanks Dave. Sounds like you have been through the mill yourself. The pain I

have today is the lumbar area it's about a 10+ I'm so tired of taking drugs I

feel like a drug store.

I was taking Amben cause I could not sleep but then it got to a point I would

sleep about 2 hours and that was that. so my Med Doc put me on Amtripline

because depression set in then came the anxiety and another med for that plus

oxy for pain all any of it does is makes like I'm not in this world I don't know

where I am.

I was working for Under Armour and I did an early retirement then I went back

part time and could not even do that.So I said the heck with it.They told me

later on if I want to come back I can but God knows when that will be.

I get my SS and out of that I'm paying COBRA for health insurance and I have

no idea what I'm going to do when that runs out that's what worries me to so I'm

trying to do everything I can before that happens then I'll worry about the next

step.

My husband is not good in health and it bothers him that he can't do anything

to help me so I try to always be positive around him but he told me today he can

see pain all over my face guess I need a new face.

I can't believe it has taken me 6 Dr's in the past 10 years to find one who

knew what I had. It's unreal.

Well I hope you are having a good night and have a good weekend.

Peace,

Ev.

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Have a HUGE year through Small Business.

Posted June 29, 2007 · June 29, 2007

Thanks Dave. Sounds like you have been through the mill yourself. The pain I

have today is the lumbar area it's about a 10+ I'm so tired of taking drugs I

feel like a drug store.

I was taking Amben cause I could not sleep but then it got to a point I would

sleep about 2 hours and that was that. so my Med Doc put me on Amtripline

because depression set in then came the anxiety and another med for that plus

oxy for pain all any of it does is makes like I'm not in this world I don't know

where I am.

I was working for Under Armour and I did an early retirement then I went back

part time and could not even do that.So I said the heck with it.They told me

later on if I want to come back I can but God knows when that will be.

I get my SS and out of that I'm paying COBRA for health insurance and I have

no idea what I'm going to do when that runs out that's what worries me to so I'm

trying to do everything I can before that happens then I'll worry about the next

step.

My husband is not good in health and it bothers him that he can't do anything

to help me so I try to always be positive around him but he told me today he can

see pain all over my face guess I need a new face.

I can't believe it has taken me 6 Dr's in the past 10 years to find one who

knew what I had. It's unreal.

Well I hope you are having a good night and have a good weekend.

Peace,

Ev.

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Get your own web address.

Have a HUGE year through Small Business.

Posted July 1, 2007 · July 1, 2007

At 08:57 PM 6/29/07, you wrote:

>I get my SS and out of that I'm paying COBRA for health insurance

>and I have no idea what I'm going to do when that runs out that's

>what worries me to so I'm trying to do everything I can before that

>happens then I'll worry about the next step.

In our State PA they have CHIPS program for kids to allow low income

children to be insured for little or nothing. I think it stands for

Comprehensive Health Insurance Program. The allowed income is

actually quite high up to $48K for a small family. But they also

opened the program up to uninsured Adults. Maybe your state has

something similar. The trend seems to be the states are taking the

lead in adopting universal health care, I know Massachusetts,

California, and now PA is looking at it. We can all only hope and

pray something will come through by the time we need it. I am

blessed and that I'm covered under my Wife's which is pretty

good. Before that we paid about $1000 a month for both of us for

several years. It was our single biggest expense. I become available

for limited Medicaid in November of this year. Hang in there, Dave

Posted July 1, 2007 · July 1, 2007