[TMIC] vision testing
Hi, From the time I became diabetic,I've had yearly dilated eye exams. Insurance pays for them and I have a $20 co-pay. So far,my eyes are o.k. I use over the counter magnifying glasses to read. Get them through Dr Leonard's catalog 3 prs for $7.99 plus postage. Cheryl in Easthampton,Mass. Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses.
[TMIC] vision testing
Hi, From the time I became diabetic,I've had yearly dilated eye exams. Insurance pays for them and I have a $20 co-pay. So far,my eyes are o.k. I use over the counter magnifying glasses to read. Get them through Dr Leonard's catalog 3 prs for $7.99 plus postage. Cheryl in Easthampton,Mass. Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses.
Re: [TMIC] RE: Soc. Security/ SSDI
Alton, None of us can or will kick you across the parking lot. Were you able keep you health insurance? Our health insurance came from my employer (hubby is self employed.) Most of my SSDI will go toward our health costs beginning June 06 when I can no longer participate through COBRA. Our company didn't provide it for retirees so I was planning to work forever. So, TM gave me early retirement at 53! Patti - Michigan - Superbowl XL Alton Ryder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I made the mistake of NOT applying for SSDI. Born in 1934, I had not quite reached 63 when I was disabled. I had already retired from my career with continuing good health insurance and had a job in a hobby shop. I was planning to start drawing my Social Security a year later. I reasoned that there was little to be gained with SSDI. I was WRONG. Drawing SS at 64 meant 70% benefits for the rest of my life and Betty's. SSDI would have given me full SS benefits. As an engineering manager, I had been well paid. That 30% for life was BIG bucks. Alton, who should be drop-kicked across the planet p.s. Every financial decision I have ever made has been dumb.
Re: [TMIC] baclofen use
In a message dated 2/4/2006 1:16:38 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Cheryl and JudeMy torso and back cry out for Baclofen too! I have weened myself t0 40mg daily and have been considering trying 30mg daily. Jude, do you take baclofen and add the valium when you need it or are you just taking the valium as needed and no baclofen at all. I understand wanting to stay in control I "think" I have better mental functions since lowering my dose of Baclofen. My response to valium is fast and strong so I wouldn't need much either. Patti - Michigan - home of the XL Superbowl - with no predictions except snow! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 2/4/2006 10:17:33 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I have been taking 30 mg of baclofen twice a day since August 1995.I just started getting my meds by mail,and I was without it for 3 doses. The tightness in my trunk was unbearable;I didn't sleep or eat after the first missed dose,until I took it for 2 days. The past 3 weeks,I've still had more tightness than I've had in years. I will NEVER go without it again.Cheryl in Easthampton,Mass. _Yahoo! Mail_ (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/virusmail/*http://mail.yahoo.com) - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. Hi Cheryl, I too have the banding around my torso and it gets unbearable whenever something is wrong with me. A while ago, I tried to go off of baclofen too, and wound up like you, in extreme discomfort. Now, my doc prescribes me some valium which works much better, but I only take it when the tightness gets too much to bear. Maybe your doc will do the same for you. I only have 5mg. pills and take 1/2 at a time so they don't knock me out. I like to stay in control... Best of everything to you, Jude Hi Patti, Yes, I take the baclofen regularly and then add the valium when the banding gets so tight I can't stand it. Usually at night before bed so I can sleep a bit better and like with my broken legs, I've been taking it every day, a couple of times a day. I have to admit, that since I have the additional pain with my legs, I have been taking more baclofen than usual. I try to alternate a valium with a baclofen and tend to do that throughout the night. I am also taking a small dose of morphine when the pain gets real bad. But it tends to make me sleepy so I don't use it a lot. I bite it into halves and quarters and take it like that so I don't get too messed up. My body can tolerate a lot of medication at one time. Things that I do, as far as mixing medications, a lot of other people couldn't do. I do try to use my head and sometimes, if I'm real sick, I will even keep a log of what I have taken and what time...that way I won't overdose on something. I wouldn't recommend anyone else to play with their medications the way I do unless they really know their own body and know something about whatever it is they are taking. Best of everything to you, Peace, Jude
Re: [TMIC] RE:OT STEELERS VS SEAHAWKS
MY WALLET IS TELLING ME SO,OR IM HOPING IT IS,IF NOT IM IN TROUBLE."[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PITTS 35 SEA 28 JEFFHOW DO YOU KNOW ???pHDIPLOMACY DOES NOTWORK WHEN DEALING WITHNUT'S HELL BENT ONDESTROYING US. Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses.
Re: [TMIC] RE:OT STEELERS VS SEAHAWKS
MY WALLET IS TELLING ME SO,OR IM HOPING IT IS,IF NOT IM IN TROUBLE. OH, MY wallet is empty. I was told many years ago that half my brain was above my neck and half was in my boxer shorts- and the boxers weren't even mine. they belonged to her. pH
RE: [TMIC] February Birthdays
You can add me! Deb Casey, 2/11/56... it's the big 5-0 for me! and I'm going to be a grandma!My big wish for 50 was to go to Hawaii. Now my goal is to go in the toilet. Life sure is full of changes! --- On Wed 02/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: tmic-list@eskimo.comDate: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 08:02:29 ESTSubject: [TMIC] February Birthdays Happy Birthday!!! (Please send any additions or corrections to tmic-list@eskimo.com.) 2/2/63 Ursula ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 2/2 Lisa in TN ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 2/4/94 Isaac Sargent ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (returned) 2-5 Tita in Delaware ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ) 2-6-51 Barbara Alma ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 2-7-82 Barbara in Texas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 2-9-41 Frank Trascritt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 2-10-55 Sue ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 2/11/55 Mary ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ) 02/16/38 David T. Gibson ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ) 2/16/62 Diane Aja ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 2-17-40 JOAN FINK ([EMAIL PROTECTED] 2-20 Norma ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 21/02/47 Phyllis Pollock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 2/23 Erin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 2/27/53 Cindy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding.Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com
Re: [TMIC] RE: Soc. Security/ SSDI
On Feb 4, 2006, at 2:33 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Were you able keep you health insurance? Thank God, yes. I took an early special retirement package at DEC after 22 years there. DEC was bought by Compaq, which was bought in turn by HP. HP is a fine company. So I am blessed with the same benefits I had at DEC - medical, drug coverage, dental, eye glasses, and major medical. They picked up the whole tab when I was nailed, including an air ambulance to take me from western NY to NH. I've been on Medicare for the last few years, so they don't seriously kick in until I hit the out-of-pocket limit; last year was the first year I didn't hit the limit. The real blessing is the drug coverage. Not counting the baclofen pump refills, in 2005 my mail-order Rx drugs cost $8500, and my copay was a little over 2K.I keep praying that HP thrives.Alton, echoing a Roman slave, "He, whose bread I eat, his song I sing."
RE: [TMIC] Shots and cramps
Hi Mike in Marysville. I am wondering why you go off the baclofen? I suffer from cramps, really bad ones in my calfs and on my right side. the neuro increased my baclofen and neurontin, so that I'm taking another dose of each at night before bed. I don't take the baclofen at lunch, it makes me too tired, but it works great at night. I also think that it helps with my restlessness at night. I sleep better now.Another reason could be potassium. Low potassium will cause muscle cramps too.Take care, Deb C. in gloomy rainy Mich.--- On Thu 02/02, Mike Jill Hammond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:From: Mike Jill Hammond [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: tmic-list@eskimo.comDate: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 19:49:39 -0800Subject: [TMIC] Shots and cramps Well, it has been a while since I have posted anything. I do lurk and read a lot of the postings. I have to weigh in on one subject and ask a question aboput something totally different. First, while I did not have a flu shot before I came down with TM, I had just recently completed a Hepatitis B series. At that time the doctor told me that this may have also been a possibility. I am not sure what it was, but after a lot of reading about injections of different types, and especially the contents of a flu shot, I thought that I would rather get the flu than the flu shot. The one flu shot I did get several years before TM made me sick. My question concerns cramps. I have been reading some of the postings and still have questions. For some time now I have been having cramps in my feet, mostly at night. The cramps usually are in the ball of the feet. These cramps range from annoying, to feeling like someone dropped an anvil on my foot. At times, the only relief I get is by putting pressure in the opposite direction from the way the cramp seems to want to pull the feet muscles. Has anyone else experienced something like this, and if so, what have you done for it. I still have cramps in various locations in my body and when they get too bad for me I take baclofen for 3 to 5 days and they subside. Sometimes I can go a month or more without taking baclofen and sometimes it may be several times in a month. Sometime back I posted a question asking if anyone used quinine water to help with cramps and I did not receive any feedback. I feel that it does help a little. Mike in Marysville, Washington where it is wet, damp, rainy, soggy, mossy, and miserable. Othe than that, SEAHAWKS RULE!!!No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding.Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com
Re: [TMIC] RE:OT STEELERS VS SEAHAWKS
Jeff - NO WAY!! Linda in Bothell, WASHINGTON - GO SEAHAWKS! -- Original message -- From: jeff bernier [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK HERE IT IS,MY YEARLY PREDICTION,BY THE WAY LAST YEAR I WAS DEAD ON WITH THE SCORE. PITTS 35 SEA 28 JEFFDIPLOMACY DOES NOTWORK WHEN DEALING WITHNUT'S HELL BENT ONDESTROYING US. Brings words and photos together (easily) withPhotoMail - it's free and works with Yahoo! Mail.
Re: [TMIC] Shots and cramps
Mary Eden Finally somebody in my corner! Thank you. You know I have to root for my home team - this is the best they've done in years. I can remember about 15 years ago, you couldn't get a ticket to any of the games! Everybody had season tickets. Then the Seahawks went through many years of just plain being awful. But this is going to be fun. Thanks again for your support - I might add, unlike some people, whom I shall not name, are not Seahawks fans : - ) Linda in Bothell, WA -- Original message -- From: "Mary Eden Cochran" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linda! I have to go with the Seahawks tooonly because of you. I don't know diddly squat about either team, but if you like them, they have to be good. m.e. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: jeff bernier Cc: TMIC-list@eskimo.com Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 12:54 AM Subject: Re: [TMIC] Shots and cramps Uh Jeff - I was born and raised in SEATTLE, WASHINGTON - yes in SEAHAWKS territory and I WILL have a good day when you tell me YOU have stocked up on kleenex Oh what the heck - hugs to you anyway : - ) Linda GO SEAHAWKS!!! -- Original message -- From: jeff bernier [EMAIL PROTECTED] HELLO!!! BE CAREFULL WITH THAT BACLOFEN,I TOOK IT FOR 5 YEARS AND IT CAUSED ALOT OFMUSCLE PROBLEMS AND INCREASED WEAKNESS IN MY LEGS AND I WOUND UP IN A WHEELCHAIR,AS FAR AS THE CRAMPS I GOT THE SAME SYMPTOMS BEFORE I GOT HIT WITH FULL BLOWN TM. BY THE WAY THE COWBOYS RULE,I HOPE YOU SEAHAWK FANS STOCKED UP ON CLENEX LIKE YOU DID WHEN DALLAS LEFT TOWN AND LEFT YOU ALL SOBBING UNCONTROLLABLY,THATS WHY IT RAINS SO MUCH UP THERE. NOW THAT I WOUND IT UP A BIT.HAVE A GOOD DAY. nbs! p; JEFF CENRAL NY USA PS:DONT STEP IN FRONT OF THE BUS. GO STEELERS!Mike Jill Hammond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, it has been a while since I have posted anything. I do lurk and read a lot of the postings. I have to weigh in on one subject and ask a question aboput something totally different. First, while I did not have a flu shot before I came down with TM, I had just recently completed a Hepatitis B series. At that time the doctor told me that this may have also been a possibility. I am not sure what it was, but after a lot of reading about injecti! ons of different types, and especially the contents of a flu shot, I thought that I would rather get the flu than the flu shot. The one flu shot I did get several years before TM made me sick. My question concerns cramps. I have been reading some of the postings and still have questions. For some time now I have been having cramps in my feet, mostly at night.The cramps usually are in the ball of the feet. These cramps range from annoying, to feeling like someone dropped an anvil on my foot. At times, the only relief I get is by putting pressure in the opposite direction from the way the cramp seems to want to pull the feet muscles. Has anyone else experienced something like this, and if so, what have you done for it. I still havecramps in various locations in my body and when they get too bad for me I take baclofen for 3 to! 5 days and they subside. Sometimes I can go a month or more without taking baclofen and sometimes it may be several times in a month. Sometime back I posted a question asking if anyone used quinine water to help with cramps and I did not receiv! ! e any feedback. I feel that it does help a little. Mike in Marysville, Washingtonwhere it is wet, damp, rainy, soggy, mossy, and miserable. Othe than that, SEAHAWKS RULE!!!DIPLOMACY DOES NOTWORK WHEN DEALING WITHNUT'S HELL BENT ONDESTROYING US. Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. No virus found in this incoming message.Checked by AVG Free Edition.Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.15.2/251 - Release Date: 2/4/2006
Re: [TMIC] RE:OT STEELERS VS SEAHAWKS
Jeff, well not to be "mean" or anything, but if your wallet stings a bit tomorrow you could hear a snicker clear from Seattle : - ) Linda - WASHINGTON -- Original message -- From: jeff bernier [EMAIL PROTECTED] MY WALLET IS TELLING ME SO,OR IM HOPING IT IS,IF NOT IM IN TROUBLE."[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PITTS 35 SEA 28 JEFFHOW DO YOU KNOW ???pHDIPLOMACY DOES NOTWORK WHEN DEALING WITHNUT'S HELL BENT ONDESTROYING US. Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses.
Re: [TMIC] RE:OT STEELERS VS SEAHAWKS
Oh Frank - you are absolutely naughty - but a character non the less : - ) Linda - WASHINGTON -- Original message -- From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] MY WALLET IS TELLING ME SO,OR IM HOPING IT IS,IF NOT IM IN TROUBLE. OH, MY wallet is empty. I was told many years ago that half my brain was above my neck and half was in my boxer shorts- and the boxers weren't even mine. they belonged to her. pH
RE: [TMIC] February Birthdays
Well Deb - congratulations are in order #1 HAPPY 50th - it's a good one! #2 Big Congratulations on the upcoming Grandma - when is the baby due? #3 Congratulations for being able to go in the toilet! : - ) Have a Great Birthday - 50 is a special one Hugs Linda in Bothell, WA -- Original message -- From: "Deb Casey" [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can add me! Deb Casey, 2/11/56... it's the big 5-0 for me! and I'm going to be a grandma!My big wish for 50 was to go to Hawaii. Now my goal is to go in the toilet. Life sure is full of changes! --- On Wed 02/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: tmic-list@eskimo.comDate: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 08:02:29 ESTSubject: [TMIC] February Birthdays Happy Birthday!!!(Please send any additions or corrections to tmic-list@eskimo.com.)2/2/63 Ursula ([EMAIL PROTECTED])2/2 Lisa in TN ([EMAIL PROTECTED])2/4/94 Isaac Sargent ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (returned)2-5 Tita in Delaware ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ) 2-6-51 Barbara Alma ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 2-7-82 Barbara in Texas ([EMAIL PROTECTED])2-9-41 Frank Trascritt ([EMAIL PROTECTED])2-10-55 Sue ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 2/11/55 Mary ([EMAIL PROTECTED] )02/16/38 David T. Gibson ([EMAIL PROTECTED] )2/16/62 Diane Aja ([EMAIL PROTECTED])2-17-40 JOAN FINK ([EMAIL PROTECTED]2-20 Norma ([EMAIL PROTECTED])21/02/47 Phyllis Pollock ([EMAIL PROTECTED])2/23 Erin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])2/27/53 Cindy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding.Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com
Re: [TMIC] RE:OT STEELERS VS SEAHAWKS
You got that right!!! : - ) Linda WASHINGTON -- Original message -- From: jeff bernier [EMAIL PROTECTED] LOL!!! YOU WILL NEVER LET ME FORGET IT IF IM WRONG. JEFF[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff - NO WAY!! Linda in Bothell, WASHINGTON - GO SEAHAWKS! -- Original message -- From: jeff bernier [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK HERE IT IS,MY YEARLY PREDICTION,BY THE WAY LAST YEAR I WAS DEAD ON WITH THE SCORE. PITTS 35 SEA 28 JEFFDIPLOMACY DOES NOTWORK WHEN DEALING WITHNUT'S HELL BENT ONDESTROYING US. Brings words and photos together (easily) withPhotoMail - it's free and works with Yahoo! Mail. DIPLOMACY DOES NOTWORK WHEN DEALING WITHNUT'S HELL BENT ONDESTROYING US. Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses.
Re: [TMIC] RE:OT STEELERS VS SEAHAWKS
STEELERS..(hey if I cant have my Pats, this is the closest I'll get..) - Original Message - From: jeff bernier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: tmic-list@eskimo.com Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 10:48 AM Subject: [TMIC] RE:OT STEELERS VS SEAHAWKS OK HERE IT IS, MY YEARLY PREDICTION,BY THE WAY LAST YEAR I WAS DEAD ON WITH THE SCORE. PITTS 35 SEA 28 JEFF DIPLOMACY DOES NOT WORK WHEN DEALING WITH NUT'S HELL BENT ON DESTROYING US.
[TMIC] Novelty
HOW ABOUT KITTY LITTER CAKE?
Re: [TMIC] Novelty
Well Dex - I think that just about tops it! : - ) Linda in Bothell, WA -- Original message -- From: "Dex Packard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] HOW ABOUT KITTY LITTER CAKE?
