Re: Just a couple of questions to Chrissy

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Chrissy,

You won't like my answer to your first question, which is to tell the

doctor, find out what it is, and have it fixed!!! You can't tell me

that you would be willing to wear an uncomfortable, hot, pinching

girdle, or tummy tucker for the rest of your life to avoid having to

have that spot fixed! If you're really serious about that, I have an

article that I'll gladly give you, but not without a lot of grief.

I bought this boned, elastic girdle-type thing that goes from just

underneath the bra to down beneath the waist to hip level. I got it

to wear for our second vacation to Belize, in case we had to go on any

bumpy road treks or bumping boat rides, to try and keep my pancreas

and abdomen from being sloshed around and bumped up and down.....lol!

Anything to avoid another attack like the first time we went!!! It

turned out that the morning we were going out to the Monkey River, the

water was very rough with large swales, so I wore the stupid thing.

I'll tell you, I had to take it off after the first 30 minutes,

because it was so hot and uncomfortable that I thought I'd either

faint from the heat, (it was only in the low 80's), or be sick to my

stomach from the discomfort wearing it. It was the right size, too, I

had the clerk in the ladies lingerie measure it correctly for me. So

if you want to spend the rest of your days wearing something like

that, you're welcome to mine. But I think you should have the problem

fixed, my girl.

As for the sharps, I throw mine away in a large, empty gallon water or

milk container. At first I bought one of those expensive store bought

sharps containers, and when I'd filled the first one up, I called the

pharmacist and asked him what we were supposed to do with them. It

turns out, that in this county anyway, there aren't any special

provisions for sharps, and all the pharmacists do is put them in the

regular trash!! I can do that as easily as the pharmacist can, so now

I just put them in a large gallon size container, put the top on, and

they go out with our regular trash. You need to call your local

pharmacist, or the hospital, and see how they dispose of them in your

county. It's ridiculous, but that's how it is down here, hard to

believe, isn't it?

With love, hope and prayers,

Heidi

Heidi H. Griffeth

South Carolina Rep.

Southeastern Regional Rep.

PAI

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