A Day to Hold Onto

[Guest guest]

Hi all. As you know, I have been depressed, having a hard time with

the pain, and with being taken over by aliens invading my body and

not leaving very much room for me. Its been really tough.

The doctor prescribed Lycria for me last week. 75 mgs to be taken at

bed time.

OH MY OH MY My constant " stinging " , " itching " all but went away. I

had told my doctor the week before that there was not one single

moment that I didn't think about the disease because I was constantly

reminded.

Well believe it or not, I have had several slots of time now pass

where I wasnt completely absorbed in DD.

I went to my sons house, to babysit my three granddaughters while

their mom went to the oldest grandson's school to help out in the

classroom.

I had the MOST fun I have had in years !!!!!!! I had bought each

grandbaby a little coloring book that also had stickers and " tattoos "

in it. We colored pictures. We stuck stickers on each other. I put

their tattos on them whereever they wanted - it was so fun.

And then I put a couple of fake tatoos on me. A li'l butterfly just

peeking over my cleavage. And for my trashed knee, I put a flower at

the upper end of the scar, so it looked like the scar was the stem of

the flower.

We had fun fun fun. The little baby came to me on her own for the

first time. She is so cute, she knows you are going to lift her up to

your lap backwards, so she backs in to be picked up. HOW CUTE !!

My son and his wife received a Wii system for Christmas. So, my son

and I " went " bowling. When he was growing up, I worked for a bowling

alley making flyers for different functions, and they traded me free

bowling. There was often times when my husband and I would go down

and throw 10 games apiece.

Its been a long while since I bowled. BUT with this, all you do is

hold the remote up, then drop your hand in the action you would if

bowling. WHAT A BLAST !! It was so much fun, it really does a pretty

good job of simulating bowling. When I got home, my right arm felt

like a mass of lumps and bumps. I didnt know if that light activity

just brought more to the surface, or made new ones, but I really

didn't care.

My grandson said (he's five) when you can bowl, you can feel young

again.

He was soooooo right. Gosh, It was a blast.

Then it was time to bring out hungry hungry hipppo. We played a few

games of that, screaming and yelling and trying to chomp white

marbles.

Next it was Cootie Bug. We rolled for parts, and the race was on for

who built the fastest cootie bug.

Oh those sweet little hearts just gave me hope and life. We turned on

animal planet, ordered some pizza, and had dinner.

Then their mom and dad came home, and my YaYa job for the day was

done. Thats what they call me, I am their YaYa.

YaYa came home tired, but ever so uplifted emtionally. Slept for two

days but it was worth every minute.

It gave me an idea for Monday,when I go to see my knee doctor. He is

a really fun person. I am going to get some washable markers and

decorate my knee before I go in. I will put a nice big flower head at

the top, and then color the scar green all the way down and put a

leaf here and there.

I bet he makes his girl take a picture of it. I am looking forward to

our laughing together.

Well its almost 3 a.m. and I am tired not, but here's hoping and praying you all

have a day soon that you will want to hold on to too.

Love ya

Calle//Carin//Phx, AZ

[Guest guest]

> My son and his wife received a Wii system for Christmas. So, my son

> and I " went " bowling. When he was growing up, I worked for a bowling

> alley making flyers for different functions, and they traded me free

> bowling. There was often times when my husband and I would go down

> and throw 10 games apiece.

>

Calle,

I used to be on a bowling league and I wanted one of these. On the

commercial they say, so you can be young again when the older people

are bowling. I bet your grandchildren remember this. Well, GUESS

WHAT! I am going to WWW wrestling tomorrow night with a special

education student I used to teach. I have been tutoring him and he

treats me like a second Mom. I started watching wrestling so I could

have something in common with him to talk about with him besides

academics. Well he has invited me to go with him and the seats three

rows from the front. I like Cena and he has been out but he is

supposed to be there tomorrow so I will be jumping up and down with my

poster. I will let you how it goes. I will have my pain meds in my

purse but I am going. Bennie

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Dear Calle,

That was so precious. I know that when I'm feeling down my little

grandbaby is the only one who can get me out of my funk. She is so

fun to be with and everything she does is cute.

Your post just touched me so much. It's things like that, that makes

life worth living. Lyrica does the same thing for me. I've been on

it for quite a long time now and it takes a lot more to help than it

used to, but I don't care as long as it still helps. I take up to

900mg per day now. I know that seems like a lot but I say what ever

it takes to keep the nerve pain away.

I'm so glad you where able to spend that time with your grandchildren

and to actually be able to enjoy them at the same time. That is

exactly what these medications we are taking are supposed to do for

us. They are supposed to bring us a quality of life back that has

been lost to disease. When they actually work it is wonderful!

The best to you,

Carol (OK)

[Guest guest]

Hi Calle,

I am so very glad to hear the Lyrica helped you out so much that you were able

to have the most fun you have had in years! That is so wonderful to hear! We

used to have a Wii game system. When I could play it, I would. But, my husband

sold it because he rarely played it and he wanted a Playstation 3 with that

video game " Rock Band " . ha ha.

Love,

Becky in SD

>calle_kitten wrote:

The doctor prescribed Lycria for me last week. 75 mgs to be taken at

bed time.

OH MY OH MY My constant " stinging " , " itching " all but went away.

I had the MOST fun I have had in years !!!!!!!