Hi everyone!

[Guest guest]

It seems like so long since I have posted here. I hardly ever even

get a chance to read the posts or check my email! Our daughter had

lined up a babysitter for her kids (triplets will be 3 on Sunday, TJ

is 5 going on 16) but the sitter was not dependable and not good to

the kids. So we have been doing child care 12 hours a day, 5 days a

week. The only difference between 2-year old attitude and 3-year old

attitude is vocabulary!

Meanwhile, amid bouts of stomach flu and colds that the kids passed

along to their Nonny, the stress of the job sent me into a major

flare of my Dercum's Disease, and on top of everything else, when I

was trying out a new elliptical trainer at the health center, a pedal

broke off due to improper installation, and I injured my leg.

so we have dipped into our savings, and are paying for the little

ones to go to a quality daycare center near our home so that Ron and

I can recover and get some strength back. Meanwhile, daughter

has decided to move to Gainesville Georgia and start a new life for

her and her kids. She has job interviews in 2 weeks, and hopes to

make a move by the 1st of April. While I hate to have her and the

kids so far away, I think it is a good move for her--she wants to put

as much distance between her and her exes as possible and start again

in an area that has more promise. Our little town is a dying town,

and we may join her...after we see how things go for her there.

Well, this has turned into a novel, but I do think of all of you

often and hope you are getting a break from these lousy diseases. To

the new people, don't lose hope or give up--there is always a reason

to take just one more step, even if it's in a motorized chair (my

next step if the 2 new meds I started last week don't help.)

Peace and grace,

Judi