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That is so cool! I hope you are wildly successful with this.

"I resign."

If you think you were diagnosed wrongly, seek a second evaluation. Without a correct diagnosis you will not get the correct treatment. Correct treatment makes life better.

But ugly hard illnesses do not go away because you don't want to have them. You can't think them away or ignore them.

The brain is a physical organ and can have illness that affects moods and thoughts.

Fridge is full: Many condiments and salad dressings, three jellies. Gallon of milk. Gallon of homemade turkey soup for dinner this week. Pitcher Ice tea. Lean ham for lunch. 18 pkg eggs.Leftovers from the turkey we don't want, to feed to cats. Sliced Swiss cheese, Cheddar block, tortillas, 2lb lean hamburger. Bag homemade venison jerky. Buttermilk for baking. 10 yogurts. In those new green bags for longer life:Celery, carrots, green peppers, 3 lb apples, bagged lettuce, cabbage in drawers. Dec supply of insulin. Lb of butter, tub of low everything margarine.

Some food(cheese and tortillas has marker writing--For dinner ) so the kids won't inhale for snack.

Small freezer is full( we have a bigger one in the garage) 2 boxes Crystal Lite popsicles. Ice . Bags of turkey pieces for stirfry or whatever. Mango ice cream. Two loaves of bread. 2 bags frozen broccoli, 1 bag mixed frozen veg, 1 bag frozen strawberries.

Family of 5 , three teens.

Menu for dinner: M Soup and grilled sandwiches. T Beef burritos. W Spaghetti, TH Broccoli/Cabbage stir fry. Friday is leftover night. First one home starts cooking.

Glad you have such a good friend.

Meds sure can be hard to deal with. Currently I'm on two that make me nauseous and one that affects my short term memory. Yuck. But they are temporary.

I no longer think it is possible for a human being to have more than a glimpse of spiritual truth.The best we do is find symbols, beliefs of what we think might be, what settles in each person's heart as truth or understanding. What makes sense.

Most doctors really do want to help ease suffering Roy.

Many people with mental illness have been helped with medications, and some find counseling helps too, to talk with someone who understands what you are going through.

I do not think the doctors and those that want you to see a doctor are trying to hurt you, but are trying to help you feel better.

If your life is full of trouble, maybe seeking help from doctors and medications would help ease things. There is nothing wrong with getting help. I know that taking the meds, and maybe having to have them try different ones until they find the right ones for you is really tough. But it can be done.

Have you heard of Nami? http://www.nami.org/ They have a good website.

I have a brother with Paranoid Schizophrenia, bipolar and OCD.

Can a person practice the law of believing without condemnation creeping in?

If you believe your believing is responsible for all the ills you experience in life, isn't life one big check up from the neck up? Especially when bad/sad things do happen unexpectedly? An illness, a lay off, a child's accident... Doesn't the mind then go to 'Where did I miss it? How could I have blown it this bad?'

Seems to me that is a built in part of the Law of Believing in practical application.

Inanna descends to the underworld, a death or death like act, though the poem has many interpretations. Some say it was an attempt to conquer the underworld, some call it a wisdom journey, or an acceptance of her darkside. Nevertheless, she ascends from the Underworld, a resurrection for the world of death.

Sorry, I just could not resist this after I read onephile's "gift" of a quote:

Okay! so, you can have your poop and eat it too! Stay in it! Wallow in it! Yumm!

Maybe you are much much younger than I initially thought.

Acute bronchitis, yay not pneumonia. I still will get the flu shot since I seem to get the flu always followed by complications like bronchitis or pneumonia. I've never had areaction to a flu shot, but sure have been kicked around by the flu.

So have a short burst of steroids and all kinds of other meds to try to tame the asthma. Not fond of steroids but this is just for 6 days and my breathing isn't clearing up with the other treatments. Hard to do anything when you can't catch your breath.

Rescued a cute little tom cat, maybe 5 months old. He's at the vet for shots and a fix, then will go to a no-kill-no-cage shelter about 5 hours away in a few weeks(housed at a volunteer's home until then). Sure would like to see a no-kill open up here, but they do take funding.

What do you really know, Clay Jay, about the actual real lives of the posters on this board? How can you be so positive they haven't 'moved on?' And why do they have to 'move on' Sounds like they make you uncomfortable. Should never speak a negative, the boogey man will gitcha.

Yeah, we all remember that Way doctrine. Very helpful to keep info down about abusive situations and leaders! Lest the ministry be blamed.

Let's all pretend everything was perfect!!!

Do you really think posters here have whole lives that revolve around posts on GSC??? Live their entire lives in the PFAL past, alone and feeble because of all the evil their negatives have brought down on their heads?

Fooey. That's VPW induced fantasy.

Too many times poster with the agenda of shushing negatives about TWI/VPW come on here and pretend they are just 'Speaking the truth in love' when what they really have is a desire to stop seeing their beloved doctrine and Man o God disrespected. So far you look like one of those.

My fever went away and I went back to work but shucky durn, things took a turn(I have severe asthma) and I need to go in for a chest xray for possible pneumonia.

I usually do get the flu shot for this reason, but the swine flu vaccine was hard to get here.

Amazing how many times someone comes along wanting GSC posters to shut the heck up. For our own good, of course.

The really sad part about the law of believing was how it played out in the group of believers. Everyone would have ups and downs, things that didn't come to pass...but when a faithful believer was struck with a tragedy, say a death or a terrible illness, there was no comfort. It was 'check up from the neck up' 'how did the adversary get in there' reproof and correction. Cold shoulders because 'weakness brings down strenght. Perhaps in TWI(90's) it would be a case for a LOA.

While in other churches, those same issues would have galvanized the church into prayer, perhaps meals organized, volunteer sitters and housekeepers, fund raising for bills--you know, a caring community pulling together to help one of their own. heck, even my Dad's Moose Lodge did that type of stuff!

I was in TWI 20 years, never saw it happen--though we did provide meals and cleaning for leaders.

I see I was a mom on this thread. Five years!

Happy to say all my kids are alive and well and a foot taller than I am.

We've seen the 'it comes back' thing, too. One of my kids went back to school Friday after missing 4 days, then came up the stairs Saturday with a temp of 102, full blown symptoms once again.

In our school district if they miss more than 3 consecutive days they need a doctor's note. Sheesh. So we have to drag her to the doctor to get a note to say she had the flu(they won't test now) when everyone knows the swine flu lasts longer than 3 days--and they don't want them back still sick. I think I'll call the school and complain, there should be an exception for this flu. ALbuterol makes me cranky.

I'm still home though my fever was just over a 100. But I have asthma that is really kicking up and there is alot of chest congestion with this. ALOT :unsure: I haven't had the flu in years, the last time I ended up in the hospital with pneumonia, so I don't plan to go back to work until I'm really over it.

Hubby has it now.

Kids are so busy--debate season has started, drama kid has play practice every night this and next week, plus weekend performances. Hoping we are all done with this by Thanksgiving.

Still running a fever of 102. Ate a piece of Halloween chocolate. I don't recommend that.:unsure:

Two brass players in my kid's band were tested with swine flu, then two of my brass players got it...then the woodwind...then me. They almost closed the school, with 4 more absences they wouldn't have been able to count it as a legal school day. This was during mid terms so everyone is trying to retake labs and tests etc.

I'm on day three, with bad asthma due to the lung congestion, but I went on antivirals to try and keep it from getting too bad. We're taking one kid in this afternoon for a strep throat test.

Our school was infested before any vaccines were available here.

I can't go over to my witchy friends get together(swine flu, severe asthma, I'm tied to the nebulizer), but we are making this:

Might make popcorn balls, too.

Starbucks Caramel Apple Cider

Cinnamon syrup- a couple of squirts (sold in the store)

Treetop premium apple juice

Whipped cream

Carmel syrup drizzled on top

Heat Apple Juice in microwave-safe mug for about 2 - 2 & 1/2 minutes or until the temperature that you like. Blend cinnamon syrup with apple juice. Top with whipped cream and carmel syrup.

[ via Simpson Family Recipe Journal ]

Maybe I'm totally missing it, but this JL email seems to scream me me me I I I.

Another reason I'm glad I leaped off that crazy train.

Fiercely independent.........from "it takes a village" collectivism.

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As far I can tell TWI had no cooperative-this is best for all of us-lets work out a mutually beneficial schedule/activity/system to meet needs attitude. People TRIED to act like a community that cared for each other, but more often than not, those with 'needs' were dumped, the peasants served whether it was best for them or not, best for their family or not. Leaders of course, benefited, because they arranged things to make their own lives easier, to which the peasants could only say 'yes sir'. People scrambled to try and get their needs met, secretly stressed, while trying to keep up with the latest hoop jumping requirements.

It's hard to have any type of village or community when people are desperate and self involved, with no time or--eventually--no resources or desire to help or give.

Scare tactics abound.

I haven't noticed less freedom. Nor do I think foreign countries or illegals are the cause of our ills.

I have noticed less buying power, since prices have gone up and hubby's sale's commissions are down. Ranchers are doing more things themselves they used to bring in to a shop, so we are doing things ourselves that we used to pay someone to do--brake jobs, chimney cleaning etc--so now those businesses are making less.

I'm hopeful 'insurance reform' will keep our insurance from going up, as it has done every year(higher premiums and higher deductible) though it probably won't trickle down to us anytime soon. My congressmen love the insurance industry with a burning hot passion, so if they must choose between something beneficial to me, working class person, and the insurance industry, I already know who wins.

Well, as long as they are just burning the heretical books and not the actual heretics!