I've used it with slight burning for 3-4 days.

You have to go through a little evaluation with your animal, but they have cat days and dog days and you can bring your pets.  Walter is a huge patient sweetie - 120 pounds of shiny black fur and muscle - he is quite young and very solid and built.  Some of the residents love him so much.  He will just slowly walk up to someone he feels might be receptive to him, and when they put their hand out he gets under it and next thing you know he has his big head in their lab and they are slowly petting him, over and over and over.  It is so heartwarming when you are watching.... I mean literally your heart is so full you can feel it in your throat.  I've had to hide my tears every time. 

Sometimes a resident, usually a gentleman, will talk about a dog he used to have with the clearest memory. 

A funny thing happened when Walter was getting some attention from a women in a wheelchair and he leaned against her and I saw her wheelchair was slowly being pushed across the lawn. 

I had a 1-hour massage 2 days ago.  I have problems most with my neck and upper back being tight and sore, limited ROM...wonder why?? lol

This morning I had a fullness in the right supraclavicular area, kind of fluidy, and a sense of it being "full" but no pain.  Later on I noted numbness, tingling and very slight swelling in the right side of my face. 

As far as I know, I didn't get a bug bite or eat something I am allergic to.  This happened last year two or three times, but much more swelling and numbness (looked almost like Bell's palsy).  These other times I never felt the fluidy fullness in my neck like today...this time because it started in my neck, I was worried it was due to some lymphatics draining in my neck.  The fluidness feeling is gone but I have a more definite area of supraclavicular swelling and it is painful to palpate.

I am thinking of going to our ER/walk-in clinic to get it checked out...or should I just wait it out and see what happens? 

BTW, I am waiting for my Rheumatology referral, due to chronically elevated sed rate (76 last time), low positive CRP and slightly positive RF.  Joint and muscle pains abound...

Thanks in advance. 

How do ya feel about cats?  That's what I'd do...get a cat...but I love cats and love it when they bring me 'presents' of dead varmints. 

If that's not an option, and you're not comfortable with baiting, glue traps, or that sort of thing, it'd be worth it to hire a professional 'cridder ridder' or exterminator.  Those things will chew up your walls and floorboards like you have no idea and cause incredible amounts of damage.  Good luck in your jihad! 

The faster the better on these fraud things - your daughter is going to wait a few days?  This is VERY_BAD.

She should have already gotten a police report (takes 4 days to physically get it in her little hands) - and then she should have ALREADY called the bank to freeze her account, open another account.

BTW, my daughter had her purse stolen from my car - she called me immediately - I was on the phone with the bank, every credit card company, etc. (this was on a Sunday), and on Monday - I showed up at the bank and the perps got NOTHING.  Time is of the essence on these matters.

When my daughter first moved out of the house back in 1999, someone stole checks from her house/desk.  They got all her $$ which was $1400.  She went to the bank - and the bank, at first, didn't want to give her the $$ back - but in the end, they did !!!  All the $$.

Again, time is OF THE ESSENCE!  Hopefully, while I'm typing this, I'm thinking you are SURE to tell me that the bank was notified via phone when it happened.

*fingers crossed* 

to get back to me. I am concerned for them. I can image how she and her husband feel. I saw them today and she, especially is shaken by this. Thanks for caring.

I work on a clinic account - easy peasy and I love it.  I have one doctor who is from Croatia.  He tends to eat his lunch as he's dictating and he's always eating carrots or something very crunchy.  I've learned to work around that and rarely leave blanks.

Not today, though.  Boy howdy my ears were just not hearing what he was saying and I had to leave 5 blanks for QA!  I've never left that many blanks on this account.  Three of them I just flat out had no clue what he was saying and two I thought I had it, but didn't want to guess.

And he wasn't even eating his lunch when he dictated this!!!  Oy. That was my first report so far today.  Here's crossing my fingers that the rest of them go a little bit easier.

Maybe more caffeine.....................

I don't know whether I'm coming or going.  Thank God I have the luxury of working from home as an SE -- setting my own hours to work around all their ball schedules.  Whew!  Some days I wish I would have waited until I was later in my 20s or even early 30s to start, but other days I'm glad I'll be done raising kids when I'm still young enough to enjoy my retirement and maybe grandchildren.  I can't imagine being a grandmother yet, though.  That seems so strange to call myself that. 

It's hard when you're adjusting your intake amounts and type of food, but it's sound science to lose weight with.  However, the biggest key for me was changing my mindset.  I had lost and gained several times in the past--65 pounds, then 42 pounds, 5 pounds, 10 pounds, etc.  I scared the crud out of myself at age 25 and was finally scared straight. 

When I was 25, I had a bunch of weird neurological symptoms and had an MRI done.  My neurologist asked me, "Why are you having strokes?"  Holy cow--what?  I was a healthy, obese woman with two young girls, not having stroke symptoms.

That night I thought about my baby girl and 3-year-old girl.  My husband would run off to work in the morning and be gone until 5 p.m.  I would be lying motionless on the bed, unable to care for my little girls because I ate my way to a massive stroke. My baby would be crying out for me for food and a pants change.  My oldest could throw her some Cheerios but that's about it until my husband came home. 

I know it is not completely rational, but that was the catalyst that got me going.  I started with my old WW calculator and went down from 235.5 pounds to 112 pounds.  I'm 5 feet 5 inches and 28 now.  I've kept the weight off for over a year, most of it for 2 years (most of the weight came off in about a year), and even kept it off through a pregnancy.  I was at my prepregnancy weight at 3 days postpartum.

Anyway, I'm rambling.  My tips for you--don't drink your calories, eat high-fiber cereal every morning, and save some points for whatever you like to eat.  I always saved a couple points every night for ice cream.  Oh yeah, and weigh every day.  That way you'll know what foods affect your weight and which don't. 

I haven't counted points for a couple of years.  I weigh every day and know when I need to forget a snack for the night by my weight in the morning.  I have control of this beast called weight control, and it is a beast.

Be prepared, though.  People won't tell an obese person that he or she needs to lose weight, but people will take every liberty to tell a formerly fat person that he or she needs to gain some weight, never mind the health part of weight gain.

Good luck!