Robes

Sweetie,

God knows what you can and can't do, and He covers. There are others around her right now who can care for your sister. You just get there when the time is right...and that will be the right time.

You and your family are in my prayers.

hugs,

Robi

Thank you, NotAWayfer, for posting the obit. I wanted to see it here but didn't get to it.

Ya'll, thanks for your prayers for me, but, with all due respect, I'm sad for the loss of a beloved friend.

Tannis and her family have lost so much more with the loss of their brother, uncle, and son. That is incomparable. Their loss is tremendous. Thank you for keeping them in your prayers, as I know you will. This isn't about me...it's definitely about them. My heart aches for them.

You guys are the greatest support system in the world!

Thanks.

I was reminded, Albert Hendrickson posted as SherWyoMan probably on the old GS Cafe, or at an even older site.

Most recently he posted as WyoMan.

Regardless of which name we knew him by, his loss is just as sad.

Robi

Thanks, Linda, for this post.

I think you were posting it as I was posting the request for Tannis at the same time!

You are right...this family needs prayers in a big way.

They sure have mine.

No, Albert (SherWyoMan) hasn't posted in a long time. He got busy going back to college. He was an accountant for many years, but went back because he was bored and got a degree in history, I think. He then taught for a while before he opened a coffee house type place in Sheridan. He stayed very busy with that.

Then came this suprising illness and his subsequent treatment and death. How awful. It was so fast. The family has not had time to come to terms with any of it or to grieve.

God Bless them all.

Robi

I originally posted a prayer request for Tannis Walker and her family in the Memoriam section when I posted about her brother's death (Albert Hendrickson, AKA SherWyoMan & WyoMan).

In the weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas, Tannis has faced the sudden, unexpected illness & death of her beloved brother, Albert. She has also been battling the illness of her former husband, David Walker, 7th Corps, as he suffered from a brain tumor and the treatment & personality changes that come with it. David died a few days after he found out about Albert's death. Tannis had a heart attack after that...and had to have immediate 3 vessel open heart bypass surgery.

Tannis had no risk factors for a heart attack, no previous cardiac history. The doctors told her that she basically had a 'broken heart'. They said it was 100% stress related. I can understand that.

Tannis is now resting at home and doing as well as she can. She now has to deal with the grief of losing two people she loved and taking care of the children who lost their father and uncle.

Please keep Tannis in your prayers as she recovers. Please keep her family (her children and she and Albert's mother) in your thoughts and prayers, as well. They are all dealing with a very heavy burden.

God bless you, Tannis, as you recover. You are loved and supported by many. Know that you are in our prayers, my friend. We are here for you.

I have filed a injunction against him. I know I should have put him in jail but I was married to him for 25 years and four kids!!

I just was reading this. How did it work out?

Pinklady, if you are still here, reading, please know this: you need have no sense of loyalty to him. He BEATS you!

I say that out of respect and concern. As a former abused wife, I stayed with my husband because I'd made a commitment, and because we had 2 kids. I didn't want to separate my kids from their dad.

It took several other loving people to make me realize...HE BROKE THE COMMITMENT WHEN HE WAS ABUSIVE

and

The kids may be better off without a dad like that in the home.

To this day, my 21 year old son is still hurt and angry that his father was mean to him and me. He refuses to have any relationship with his dad at all.

I could have prevented that if I'd left my husband sooner. Their father is a better person now than he was then. But, then he was a bastard. I had to throw him in jail and get a divorce, along with a court order keeping my kids out of that stupid cult he was in!

Yes, I successfully negotiated language in my divorce papers saying my kids were NOT ALLOWED TO TAKE ANY TWI CLASSES. Nor were they allowed to go to any meetings. My daughter, who was older, could go on her regular visitations, if she wanted to. But my son could not attend ANY functions where there were Way people, even a darn picnic!

How did I get language like that in the papers without a big long drawn out court fight? I had the fool arrested for abandonment after he failed to make a child support payment and HE HAD TO NEGOTIATE to get out of trouble. He traded that wording for a dropped charge or something like that. Ha! The funny thing is that over the few years we'd been separated, he paid very little in child support...but my gut told me that I needed to do something at that time...and that was the only thing I could get him charged with (couldn't prove the stalking, etc).

Do whatever you can to get away from this man and get his children away safely as well! Prayers are with you!

Mononucleosis. Or just "Mono" (pronounced mah-no) for short.

That's it. Dunno why I couldn't think of it. Dain Bramage. Thanks, Rocky!

Psalmie...yes, I would like to see you get checked out.

hugs,

robi

Hey Psalmie!

Long time, no chat. I've been away from my 'puter!

I have a great ATL doc...one who tells me he doesn't need to see me unless I think I need to see him. Says he knows I'll come in when I need to! Scott ShulmanMD, & he has offices near 'Pill Hill' (St Joe's, NSH & Children's Hospital) and at Crawford Long.

About your symptoms....from your brief description, sounds like you could have something like Epstein Barr, which is a viral type thing sort of like, oh heck, what is that 'kissing disease' teens get? It can cause swollen lymph glands, aches, tiredness, etc.

What do you do for it? Rest, maybe take some sort of med...not sure if they even have anything for it...lots of fluids, vitamins, and more rest.

Of course, I'm not a doctor and I can't diagnose!!

But do a google search on Epstein Barr and see if it fits...and on that damn kissing disease that I can't remember the name of. Oldtimer's disease is a terrible thing!

Hope you get to feeling better!

hugs,

Robi

Many of you knew the poster named 'SherWyoMan'.

His name was Albert Hendrickson and he was from Sheridan, Wyoming.

He was the beloved brother of Tannis Walker, beloved brother-in-law of the recently passed David Walker, beloved uncle and friend to many who knew him.

Albert died less than a few days after Thanksgiving, after a very short illness.

Albert suprisingly developed leukemia, a very serious but treatable form of it. Unfortunately, he died from the complications of the chemotherapy used to treat the disease. He was not ill long, but had a problem, had blood work checked out and the leukemia was detected then. He died shortley thereafter so, hopefully, he did not suffer much.

I spoke with Albert's sister, Tannis, a few days ago who gave me this sad news. Please keep the entire family in your prayers. The family has some very specific prayer needs. Of course, out of respect to the family, I obtained Tannis' permission to post this information about her family before I brought it here.

Many of you know that Tannis' husband, David Walker, of the 7th Corps, had been battling a brain tumor. David had gotten to the place that he needed full time care and had good days and bad, mostly bad. He was very close to Albert.

When Albert got sick, it was a complete suprise. A bigger suprise that he died. The leukemia was very serious, but they were told it was very treatable. The family had wished to keep the news from David so he could pass his last days in peace, but he was told by someone. David died soon thereafter.

Because of the stress of her brother's suprising sickness and death, and then the death of David, and in dealing with the grief of her own, and that of her children (the children were very close to their Uncle Albert, and, of course, to their dad) Tannis found herself having chest pains. With no previous history of cardiac problems, and no pre-existing problems, Tannis then had a heart attack and was rushed to have bypass surgery. These two deaths and the bypass surgery were within the space of a couple of weeks.

Tannis' doctors told her she had a heart attack because she had a broken heart. Really. It was 100% stress related.

I may have some of the details very sketchy because while I was talking with Tannis, I was crying the whole time. If so, I'm sorry. I knew Albert and loved him dearly. Maybe when Tannis feels better and is stronger, she can come here and correct any elements I may have listed erroneously.

The loss to this family within a short period of time, very recently, is unimaginable to me. Before Tannis even told me about her own bypass surgery, I was crying with her and saying, "Tannis, haven't you been through enough?" Little did I know it was even more...she had the heart attack.

Tannis is now recovering nicely, but it is a very long, slow recovery. And she still has to deal with the grief of losing her brother & David, while caring for her kids, who have lost their favorite uncle and beloved father.

Albert will be missed. He was a wonderful man.

Please keep this entire family in your prayers....Tannis as she recovers, their mother for her incredible loss & the illness of a beloved daughter, and Albert's neices and nephews as they learn how to love their mom back to health and deal with the death of their dad.

It is, as I said, unimaginable.

Goodbye, Albert. I will miss you. Many of us will miss you. You were a very loved and respected man, one of great integrity.

Tannis: let my heart strength be yours as you recover. All the best to you, my dear friend.

To the family: cling together and rejoice in the love you have for one another. Don't allow anything to separate you...NOTHING is worth it.

We will see David and Albert again....and there will be no more pain, no more tears, no more sickness.

My prayers are with the entire family.

With love, and with the great joy of having known Albert in this lifetime, I am

gratefully yours,

Robi

I spoke to David's 2nd wife, Tannis, just the other day. That family has been going through some terrible, terrible times lately and I hope you all will keep them in your prayers. I will ask Tannis if I can post more about that stuff later.

Sudo, I did ask Tannis if David and his first wife had died of the same type of cancer of the brain and she told me no. It was not the same. Still, the coincidence is horrifying.

Please keep Tannis and the children in your prayers. They all have broken hearts, in more ways than one. It is so hard to lose a loved one close to the holidays. This will be a tough Christmas for them all.

Yes...a great quote about the whine in the drambuie bottle!

Thanks for the posts.

While I'd love to be the one to say that 'the love' still exists in this world and TWI could, and will, be salvaged, I just don't think it can happen. Part of it IS because, like someone mentioned, the times are different now.

Unfortunately, I was accused of being unloving, unforgiving, bitter, and, I think, hard-hearted for not wanting to entertain the idea that the 'youngsters' could swoop in and save the day. Gee...it's not that I don't LONG for those innocent, care free days when all I had to do was go to twig and get hugs...it's just that, as I said before, the TWI that we once believed in was NOT really there...

Lies, all lies...except for the other wonderful 'leafs' who made the place such a sweet place to be! And, of course, I miss that terribly!

But, miss TWI and the lies? Hell NO!

robi

I missed your birthday????

OH DARN IT!!! How could I??

Actually, I was busy moving...is that a good enough excuse? I still haven't figured out how to hook up my cable in one room and my internet phone service!

I hope it was a GREAT one!! I'm glad you were born because you have certainly added to the greatness of MY life by being in it!! Love you bunches, Raf! :wub:

hugs and squeezes~

Robes

There is a discussion going on at The-Way@YahooGroups on how viable the idea of the latest Way 'youngsters' (young people who have grown up in TWI) returning TWI to it's former glory is. I don't usually like to cross sites and carry on discussions, but there were a couple of points that were very interesting that I thought I might like to have some of ya'll's opinions on it all.

The original question (and I will leave out the lady's name who posted it because I haven't asked her permission to quote her...and I will change it up a bit so it's not a direct quote) was something like,

"I've talked to some of the TWI youth and there seems to be a renewed vision for TWI as they rise up. They have a fresh outlook and love for God and don't take much crap from the 'older generation'. Is TWI salvageable?"

The person she asked this of, someone who's written about TWI in the past, stated,

"You say "they don't take much crap from the 'older generation.'" But the 'older generation' was

interested in reform, while the new generation has been programmed to refuse to listen to anything

these "sticks" have to say."

"TWI salvagable? Not a chance, in my humble opinion."

My response is this:

"Please allow me to chime in on your question, and K's answer, to say that I, too, doubt that there is a chance that TWI is salvageable.

Why?

Well, because there are so many of us who remember how it used to be...or at least, how we THOUGHT it used to be. It was a fantasy land for so many of us. It never really existed. But it what we thought it was was incredible.

We could have anything we wanted just by 'believing'. Everyone was 'good' if they took PFAL and went to fellowship. We aspired to be a Twig 'Leader' and it was the greatest thing. We could 'love' people with the 'love of God in the renewed mind in manifestation' and that had no sexuall connotations whatsoever. We could be a 'family'. We could 'forgive and forget' completely and absolutely. We could put things in the 'lockbox'. We all believed the same thing. We just absolutely were 'likeminded' on the 'Word' and there was no arguement. We were responsible to 'obey' leadership. If they were wrong and we 'obeyed' then we were 'covered' by God. Our thoughts were the same. Our language was the same. Wasn't it great?

No. It was not.

We now have seen how dangerous all that thinking was, and can be. There is no fantasy land that is a true place. To be safe, one MUST question. One MUST make their own decisions. One MUST see how vitally important it is to make one's own decisions based on what they have learned in life. We MUST retain our identities and not conform to a cult's mind set and habit patterns.

I loved TWI when I was in it. I was in my early 20's. The Cinderella story was still able to be true for me then. It isn't now. Not for me, not for most of us. We know too much and we have learned too much.

Good God, if you can't trust and believe in the VERY PEOPLE who represent God to you, who can you believe in? And why should we?

Unfortunately those young TWIers may try to put together a semblence of the group we once knew but I hope to God that anyone and everyone reaches out and convinces them that it's the wrong thing to do.

How many times does one need to see utter failure before realizing something won't work? TWI had two dynamic, charismatic leaders who eventually became corrupted and toxic. Do you all really think it can ever come back and be clean and pure? There is no way. Not if the man who created it, loved it, and nurtured it himself couldn't stay pure. No one can do it. No one.

If we want that sort of thing, we must be content to waiting for the Gathering Together. It won't happen until then. It is not, in my opinion, available for a group to be completely good and idyllic in this day and age...not while we are still human. It's the human faults, the very things talked about in the bible, that keep a group from being Godly and all good. The greed. The lust. The jealousy. The struggle for power. The FEAR. And boy oh boy, if there ever was a group that was led by FEAR, TWI is that group.

Nope, as long as we are human, TWI can't be brought back...at least not in the way that we once believed it was."

What do YOU think? Can TWI be salvaged by the 'youngsters'? I'd especially love to hear an answer to this FROM some of the youngsters.

Robi

Yay Lisa!!

Congratulations!

Now, what can we do to help get BATE's Law passed?

http://www.bateslaw.blogspot.com/

Here's the link for anyone who hasn't taken a look. Lisa, if you could email me a cover sheet and the story, I will help circulate it around the ER and hospitals where I work. We HATE it when we see victims of child abuse and I would love to add some names to a petition, if that's the best way to handle it.

Any other suggestions??

hugs,

Robi

Robi2777@yahoo.com

Sogwap51,

Prayers for your daughter going her way.

I agree with Cynic, and those who suggested a Holter monitor. Please, please, please reconsider having the Holter. If she does have WPW (Wolfe-Parkinson-White) syndrome, it can be deadly.

Even though the Holter hasn't been successful in finding the problem in the past, or even in tracking the problem, it may be useful now, especially as she is having other things done.

Yes, electrolyte imbalances can cause the problem (low potassium, etc.) but it is unlikely if she has had this since childhood. But, it wouldn't hurt to have her electrolytes checked when she's had it.

My guess is that it is a combination of things. WPW can be cause by an area of sensitivity in the heart that then causes electrical conduction problems (you can google it and get more a more accurate description/cause...I'm just trying to make it simple here). Your daughter can have that. Then, out of whack electrolytes can contribute, as can stress, anxiety, etc. You've done the right thing trying to track all the causes...but it's hard when there may be a combination, as I'm sure you've figured out!

Anyways, good luck and God speed in finding the cause and solution! All the best to you and your daughter.

hugs,

Robes, RN

Shaz,

Thanks for the info.

I contracted Lyme Disease in 1990 and I have never felt the same since. I immediately began having arthralgias & extreme fatigue. Fortunately, I had a good doctor who diagnosed it and I spent several months on antibiotics. I had a tick bite 6 weeks prior to the symptoms, but no bull's eye rash.

Unfortunately, the antiobiotics made me sick as well, and when I went to another infectious disease doctor, he said he didn't think I ever had Lyme Disease in the first place.

Duh. Now I see why.

I got better for about 8 years, then began having the same symptons...extreme fatigue, arthralgias. When I went back to the Infectious Disease doctor (the other doctor was now in a different city), I told him I thought I was having a reoccurance of the Lyme's. He again reiterated that he didn't think I ever had it, did a bunch of tests, and told me I had Fibromyalgia. So now I live with that.

Who knows what the heck I have. I'm afraid to take antibiotics again since I got so sick from them last time (pseudomembranous colitis) so I ache, and I'm tired. All the time. It has changed my life. I can barely remember feeling good now.

I'm all for better testing that can prove Lyme's Disease when one has it. I'm also all for early, aggressive treatment. When I had it, in Macon, Georgia, another girl that I worked with had it as well. We both had IV antibiotics. I think that's what the medical profession has balked at...since there's a test that is basically hit or miss (as you know, if you don't get tested at exactly the right time, it won't show up in your blood system), they don't like prescribing antibiotics.

Thanks for bringing awareness to this. I hope you and your son do well.

hugs,

Robi

I'd say attempting to win child custody based on the 'badness' of TWI is a very difficult thing to do. Judges simply don't want to hear things about a religious group because in this country, we have religious freedom.

That being said, I was successful in obtaining full custody of my kids from my still 'in' ex-husband.

How did I do it? Well, several ways. First of all, I did my research and was fully prepared to win a case based on the cult thing, and my ex knew it. I had documentation, video tapes, audio tapes, etc. I had two large file boxes full of information.

Second, it dragged out for a few years, until my ex was dating someone who was also 'in'. I'd pretended I wanted to get back with him and started writing his Limb Coordinator (state leader) telling him we had children who were beginning to enter their teens and needed BOTH parents and would he (the leader) help counsel us so we could get back together for our kids! BOY did that stir up the pot !! That Limb Leader came down on him and got him moving on this thing faster than anything! He'd told the Limb Coord. (or allowed him to believe) that we were already divorced (we were just 'separated' for about 5 years) and it was the Limb Coord who helped fix him up with his ex-corps girlfriend. Egg on his face, for sure!!

Another critical thing...after all the times he was late making child support payments, or just didn't make them at all (and me trying to be 'understanding' and not doing anything about it). I finally TOOK ACTION when he missed a payment and didn't pay for 30 days. I had him arrested for 'abandoning his children' (the requirements are no money, no food, no clothing, NOTHING to provide for them for 30 days continuous, it's considered "abandonment").

It turned out that was the ticket. When we went to court to finish up the divorce and decide custody, he was anxious to get those charges dropped against him so he could save face in TWI and continue to be a good little 'believer' so he was willing to negotiate. He also wanted to continue his relationship with his new girlfriend. Lucky me.

He ended up negotiating away his custody arrangements. He got no custody. I got full custody, care and control of the children with a stipulation that they were NOT allowed to go to TWI classes at all. My daughter, who was 14 at the time, wanted to still visit with her father and didn't mind going to fellowships on the Sundays that she was there, so I allowed her to do that.

My son, who was 12 or 13, didn't want anything to do with TWI so he had me put in that there were NO fellowship meetings at all for him. He couldn't even go to a picnic with his father if there were other people from TWI there. Boy, was my son happy.

My daughter, who was still daddy's little girl, was a more delicate thing. I had to give her something or she would have rebelled and caused me a lot of grief. The way we did it...with neither of them having to go for visitation unless they wanted to made it easy for her to say no when she didn't want to be around them. Their dad used to force their visitations, even if they didn't want to go.

Now that my daughter is grown, and even by the time she was in high school, she had seen the light and wasn't very willing to go to her dad's, and even became somewhat resentful that she couldn't go over for a visit without Way people being there, or having to go off to a dumb fellowship somewhere.

Another point of resentment for both my children: they have seen me work my behind off to give them the things they needed, a stable home (not an apartment that we move from with different roommates every year), vacations, college. My daughter is so sick of hearing her father say, "It's not in my budget." There are two people making money in his household now (he married that woman) and yet all their money goes to TWI. My daughter and I paid for her college. Her father didn't help a bit.

Unfortunately, my son has very little to do with his father now. His father used to blame me but I threw it right back in his face and told him his own actions are what caused his son to be distanced from him.

Good luck with the case. It is a difficult one to win, but it can be won. Just keep praying, and when God tells you to do something, DO IT! I would have been in for a long, drawn out ordeal had my ex not screwed up and 'forgotten' to pay child support and had I not filed charges against him for it, when he'd done that for many years previously ! It was just that one time that counted...

Robes

Yay!!

That's great news!!

Give those doggies a hug for me!

Robi

Herbs,

I wouldn't ever completely quit my day (ok, night!) job. I only want to do this to make a little extra on the side from my hobby. I like making the stuff, but how much jewelry does one really need. OK, maybe that's a stupid question, but you know what I mean.

Anyways, I'd do it on the side, kind of like just making sales to support my hobby. The other thing is that since my kids are now out of the house at college, and since I don't go out much because when I'm not working I need to be resting, I have plenty of time to do something like this. May as well make money out of it. I also take painting classes...oils and watercolors...but I haven't become brave enough to think I could sell art!!

Thanks for the suggestions.

And Tom, I'll email Onion Eater. Thanks for the lead. That's what I wanted to do...talk with people who do this stuff. You guys have been very helpful!

Herbs...who was that up in the northeast that used to make jewelry? You guys used to talk on the phone and stuff, I think you even met in person or something. I can't remember her name but I know she lived in a cottage on cape cod or something. Did she sell her jewelry or just make it for herself?

hugs,

Robi

Herbs...

I'm not interested in selling anything at craft shows...for the very reason I am having trouble being a nurse! I am just exploring options should I want to sell via the internet. There's no way I could trudge anywhere with a stool, let alone a table and things to sell.

I'd be interested in the craftsman report, anyways. How do I get hold of one?

'82-'83 - I was a WOW in New Orleans, it was an Outreach City and very busy. I witnessed to, and then married, a guy who lived there. We didn't know anything was wrong at HQ, although there was plenty of signs of it in N.O. Tough year, but of course, we thought it was only because it was our WOW year and had nothing to do with things at the root.

My husband and I actually married in June of my WOW year and we told no one except my WOW sister. We had planned to marry in September, but he was from another country and was having immigration problems. The lawyer told us to get married or say goodbye...so we got married at a justice of the peace. Only we couldn't live together until AFTER my WOW year was over! LOL, how many people do you know who didn't live together until TWO MONTHS after they got married?? And the ROA really WAS my honeymoon! In a tent, no less...LOL!

1984 - I had a baby and then my whole family decided to meet back in Georgia to live close to one another. I'd originally taken the class there, so I hooked back up with old believers in Macon.

1985 - Went to twig some, but it was difficult since my husband decided he didn't want to go anymore and I had a baby...then got preggers with another.

1986 - Second baby came along. Ran into an old friend who'd undershepparded me thru my first PFAL & hung out with them some, went to twig with them occasionally.

1987 - Started nursing school with a 1 year old and a 2 year old. Had very little time to go to twig. Very little. This was God protecting my heart. I remember my friends, the twig leaders, told me things had changed in TWI, and many people had left. I couldn't believe it and I was sad, but damn! I was busy!!

1990 - Graduated nursing school. Began thinking about going to Twig but there was none in Macon, Georgia. Contacted HQ and got some books and tapes. Listened to old tapes a lot. Read old books. Homeschooled my kids and worked two jobs as a nurse.

1994 - Marriage was in trouble. Finally got my husband to go to church for counseling, and then to church service at an Assemblies of God church. It was nice, but I didn't feel the same as I had in the early TWI days...and I longed for that. Called HQ and got an address of a Twig in Atlanta. Drove 110 miles each way to twig, with the kids in the back seat. Good thing I was homeschooling! Husband started getting suspicious of who I was going to see...finally started going to twig with me. But...things were different...wooden...not as loving and tender. I was told to throw away all my old TWI stuff. I didn't.

1995 - After very ineffective counseling by 'TWIT Ministers' I finally threw my husband out after he threatened to kill me. The TWIT minister called and told me to change my mind. I said no. The Limb UnCoordinator called me and told me I was wrong, and that I should have told him we were having problems. I said, "Your TWIT Minister assured me that he kept you informed. Why would I have thought any different?" He told me to change my mind. I told him, "I'm an educated person. I will NOT stay in an abusive relationship." When he kept blabbing about how screwed up I was, I respectfully told him I no longer wished to discuss it with him....then I hung up.

The TWIT minister called me back, told me that when I 1) apologized to my husband, 2) allowed him back into our home, and 3) apologized to 'the Man of God for the State' THEN I could go back to TWI.

I said, "I don't think I'll be doing that," and I hung up.

I firmly believe that God protected my heart during the 80's by keeping me busy elsewhere. I often wondered how I allowed myself to fade away during that time when I'd been gung ho "I'll stand no matter what." Now I know why it happened. I remember being sad about VPW's passing...but I had two little babies to tend to. When there was more distance from the fog years, I re-entered TWI, but by then I had enough self respect and fortitude to handle the change...and get out when I saw it was bad.

I still mourned the loss of TWI more than the loss of my marriage. Go figure. I guess it was because they were the people who were supposed to love me with unconditional love and be my support system...then, when I needed them the most, they threw me out. Ha. Turns out I didn't need them that much.

Edited to correct grammar and punctuation, once again!

Thanks, Hap! It's good to see you again!

Hey, do you remember my IM name? Because I don't and I can't log in to the damn thing if I can't remember the name!! Let me know if you know it...PM me. I've changed computers twice since and now my son is not home to tell me how to retrieve everything.

Thanks for the info. If I have to set up a bank account then I'd better get busy making stuff!!

Hugs,

Robi

WayferNot,

I just re-checked the blog and I'm glad to hear that little Seth is doing well. I loved all the new pictures that were posted. Don't they grow fast!!

Here's to continued healing!

hugs,

Robi

Charley-doll! How are you?? The time away was good. I found I got burnt out on everything after my brother died...and it all crashed in on me. I had to be strong when it was happening and then when it was over, the grieving and everything got to me. It's good to be back and see my old friends!

I've thought of something like that. I may reconsider. In fact, I just sent an email to someone asking them about being a transcriptionist since I type well and know all the medical terminology.

I keep saying I'd hate an office job because I love nursing so much...but maybe it's just that I'm afraid of the unknown. Who knows?

Whatever I do, I can do it and still work in the hospital a shift or two a week, so I don't know why I don't just go for it. One thing is that I love working only 3 days a week (as a nurse I work three 12 hour shifts a week). The other thing is that I love working night shift. The other thing is I love being independent and nursing is kind of independent.

I appreciate your suggestion and I'll look into it. When you say good money, what kind of money is good to you? I'm used to making about $35-40 an hour, but it is at a high cost to me! Will I be able to make that much doing auditing?

(((((Charley))))

Thanks, Herb.

I went to a little craft show or something in Canton and there was a man with turned wood bowls. It made me think of you fondly!

I'll bet yours were even better!

hugs,

Robes