Update for anyone who cares. due to the emails I've sm
Posted By: Regular on 2007-04-04
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received regarding "how I'm doing, etc." I thought I'd give a quick update. Thank you all so much for your kindness and caring for a total stranger and her family.It means so much to me that others are thinking of me.
I ended up going to an ER and they prescribed Cymbalta and Xanax. Didn't the Xanax filled. I have no intentions of zoning out on Xanax. All I need is to become addicted to something.
I am not too happy with the Cymbalta. We didn't even discuss Cymbalta. We discussed another med, but I can't think of which antidepressant it was, but it wasn't that. Was surprised when I got it filled what he prescribed.
In any event, I have good days and bad days. Got a 2 week work excuse which I haven't abided by yet, either. I feel work keeps me grounded. I may still use it. I do need to focus and deal with my grief. I haven't done that yet. Been too busy. I like busy. Busy doesn't hurt.
Love to everyone here. Love is all that matters now. Love is all we need.
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Did you ever get one of those emails --
Did you ever get an email where it says to forward it to 5 people and watch the screen for something funny or cool? I get these a lot and nothing ever happens on my screen when I forward them to the said number of people. Is it just a scam to get you to forward it or is my computer blocking the image I'm supposed to see?
I'm not talking about the emails where you forward it to 10 people in 10 minutes and wait for the phone ring.
It is so necessary to montior their emails. sm
You did not say what age, but completely through high school. The internet is a dangerous place and they have no idea how dangerous. My daughter hate it, but I definitely monitored her access.
It's apparently one of *those* emails - it's not true...
http://www.snopes.com/critters/malice/elephant.asp
I check everything out on Snopes :)
If you knew what the emails said, you may think differently...
this has gone on for a few years now, either she wants to know me or not. One thing is for certain, she sure isn't getting all my information without giving something back. If she wants to meet face to face that's fine with me and if not, that's fine too. While I have curiosity, I don't spend my time wallowing in what could have, should have or would have been. That chapter of my life has been closed for many, many years and frankly the curiosity fades more and more with time.
Urban legend emails
What are your thoughts about forwarding/deleting good luck/bad luck emails (i.e. urban legend chain emails). Example: I get an email from one of my friends. Says to read the story then look at the photo. The story goes on to say that the photo is of a young boy who asked his friend to take a picture of him at a certain spot, The young boy whose photo was being taken screamed and fainted and 2 days later died of a heart attack. When the film was developed it showed this boy (actually looks like a teenager of Asian decent) and there stood a ghost next to him. The email goes on about how some man received this email forwarded it to 13 friends and received all this good luck and stated another man just deleted it and his whole life was ruined.
I'm thinking how gullible are these people. Also I'm looking at the pic and the ghost is definitely from some horror movie I've seen before (maybe The Ring). Can't quite place it but I know I've seen it somewhere before, which I think I've seen this boy before too in some other picture. So I'm thinking how silly are these people (which by the way my freind sent to to exactly 13 people). So I look up the place called Sundarbans and this is some urban legend. If you put that name in Google up pops a picture of the boy and the so called ghost.
What I'm wondering is how many of you out there actually forward on emails like this believing that you just might have good luck (you know, things like win a bunch of money, get the raise you've been asking for or a promotion, they guy you've been wanting to date mysteriously calls you, or you are offered free chocolate the rest of your life) HA HA, and how many of you just delete them. I am one who deletes them, and it irritates me to no end that my friends go and include me in part of their montage of people they are emailing, so now all their friends have my email ID. I guess I'm supposed to be obligated to send this email to 13 of my friends or else I become afflicted with some sort of bad luck. What is even worse than this kind of email are the so called "religious - good luck emails (i.e. I'm sending you this Angel to watch over you, she was sent to me by my good friend and I usually don't forward these things but my friend wouldn't lie about where it came from and she received the promotion she had always been wanting, blah, blah, blah!
So just curious if any of you out there are as annoyed at these kind of emails than I am. I know I could very nicely tell her to please not send me any more of these emails (which most of them I just delete anyway as soon as I see the word "Fw:" in the email address), but I don't want to hurt her feelings. I don't believe in any of that stuff. Maybe I will try searching for an article about urban legend emails and how if you just delete them nothing bad is going to happen.
On another note, I too have been caught up in the "send this email to all your friends and you will receive 12 days of good luck". Can't tell you how many of those emails I have forwarded on in my time (mostly religious emails) and never once has any good luck been bestowed upon me because of it. Who knows....maybe "The Big Man upstairs" (as my sister refers to him) gets annoyed that people are exploiting him like this.
Chain emails! You know, the ones that say send this to 10 friends and...
something good will happen to you in the next 30 minutes. I absolutely hate those! No offense to those who happily forward them whenever you get them, they just clog up my inbox and annoy me to death. I'd rather my friends just email me and let me know what's going on with them. I don't need some teary inspirational story to forward to the people I care about so I can be blessed.
Work related peeves - doctors who practically whisper when they dictate!
I get emails like this all the time, but it doesn't mean it's true!
I checked snopes.com and they are "researching it" to find out if this email is even true. There are urban legends about this stuff all the time, but most of them turn out to be proven false.
Where can I get that little banana that does all those weird dances for my emails. nm
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if actual threats then report it; keep all records/emails/calls for reference
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Important to check source before posting/forwarding these types of emails and misinformation
Please, actually GO to www.snopes.com and read what they have to say about this negative e-email that has been circulating for months now. Right there at snopes, they debunk/clarify all of these mean-spirited accusations.
Specifically about it being factual and verified by snopes, it is NOT verified by them. Below I copied one paragraph from snopes.com but please go there read it in full so that you can hopefully choose not to pass on this Internet e-mail full of misinformation.
FROM snopes.com -
Variations: One version of the e-mail in circulation claims "We were told this was checked out on 'snopes.com'. It is factual. Check for yourself." and includes a link to this web site. It's our guess that whoever included that bit was counting on folks to not check, as our article says the opposite: that the polemic is not factual but rather is false.
Me again - Even if you do not care for Barack Obama, surely you do not wish to pass on lies or misinformation and engage in or extend the negative campaigning we all hope to NOT see much of... at least, I hope this is true, especially of people who talk about being Christian.
At least open your mind enough to read what Obama has to say about all of this misinformation. Between snopes.com and his own website, then make a decision whether or not to engage in actively passing on misinformation. Snopes is a great place to verify information that comes to all of us in these emails.
http://www.barackobama.com/factcheck/2007/11/12/obama_has_never_been_a_muslim_1.php
http://www.barackobama.com/factcheck/2007/11/12/obama_is_a_patriot.php
I sure hope all the good hearted folks on here won't flame me for encouraging us all to check things out before we post them or hit that FORWARD button.
Peace to ALL.
who cares?!
there should be a nonsense board!
and.....who cares?
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I don't think sis particularly cares...SM
She's highly wrapped up in herself and is convinced that Mom slighted her as a child and adult, though with 4 of us, and a farm to run, it was hard for none of us to not feel slighted. Sibling rivalry reigned at the time. She just never grew out of it. Now, we're just not her "kind of people".
Who cares if somebody is gay or lesbian..
I am neither and dont really care who is. If you dont agree with somebody's lifestyle move on. If you see something in a store you do not like move on. Nobody said you have to stand there and eyeball all the products just to see if there is something you disapprove of. Most stores are going to have something somebody doesnt like, so what. It is not up to us to judge what somebody else does. They are not looking for anyones approval just trying to live their lives.
Who cares about the money? --sm
She couldn't take it with her and it did her absolutely no good while she was alive. What about the baby girl she left behind? Why is everything always about money.
Who cares, don't you have work to do ?
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Gore cares?
The NES (Nashville Electric Service) reports that Gore's 20-room, 8 bathroom mansion in Nashville uses more electricity in 1 MONTH than the average American household uses in a year. And the article didn't mention the other 2 homes he owns.
Good for you! Someone who REALLY cares! nm
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He is lucky to have someone who cares. . sm
He sounds so much like my dad. My dad smoked 4 to 5 packs of cigarettes a day, so I think he knew he had some medical problems long before he died. He just wouldn't go to the doctor. It was his choice and no one could make him do it. It sounds like you have made your own nice little family.
Who cares???? I don't watch the
show, but my kids do. They are only doing it for the money. Their kids are the ones who have to suffer with having no kind of normal/private life at all.
Yummy! Who cares how much butter she uses?
She's rich ($$$$$$$$$) at this point.... :) Not another show featuring cardboard and fake cooking sprays? Do we really need another show for "light eating"? Our elders lived long lives on lard...... :) Keep on cookin', just don't eat that heavy stuff every day/night! Enjoy.... 
You are saying she cares about her dogs like her children
You, my dear, seem to be taking up for her. You do not let your children go out and murder just because you love them. A dog who would kill another animal might also try killing a small child. Give you my advice and I really mean this - I would have called the animal control on her. There are laws here just for this same thing. You do not let you dogs (kids) run wild and kill and mutilate other animals. It is really against the law. She could be my mother, wouldn’t care. Accept the response you have gotten. You seem to not even care about the little ones who lost their lives. Shame on you.
Are you kidding? That is ridiculous! Who cares? (sm)
People are greiving and he is worried about what everyone calls him? Is it HIS funeral? He is being extremely selfish to even think about something so silly. Just silly.
Do you ever feel like when you are sick nobody cares? sm
I am probably just being a baby but I am having some health issues lately and I feel like when my friends and family are sick I always try to check on them and take care of them but when it is me I feel like nobody even cares. If anything I feel like my husband finds it aggravating. Is it just part of the territory of being a mom??
who cares, the commerical guy is cute
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who really cares anymore? My SO and I will never get married
marriage is a dying tradition
Will answer about who cares about Simon
She stated when booted off, "I love you Simon but I really don’t care." She was asked by Ryan what did she say and it was repeated. Well, no one needs to care about Simon unless they want to continue to be on the show, get exposure for their work, land a multimillion dollar contract. Other than that I would say let her go with the wind. I thought she was a real twit. She was really the worst so I can understand her being targeted as votefortheworst, sounds like they picked the right one!
Your sister sounds self absorbed and cares about herself only.
I have 2 sisters that are pretty self centered and selfish. Can't understand it either; we grew up in the same house, same parents, and same set of morals and values.
I can tell you that as you love your sister, sometimes it is difficult to admit her bad traits, because as family members we tend to overlook and accept them and have loved unconditionally.
We don't want to see the bad in our own family; however, if you pull away a bit, you start to see things you knew were there, but they seem to become more vivid. If you look back, you will see she had those traits all along, and you just overlooked them and accepted them because you love her.
When you don't speak up for what is right, your sister probably thinks you are okay with what is doing or saying, etc. She will never believe she is wrong.
I take it, she has a dominant personality and you are easy-going and laid back.
Been there, done that.
Personally, I would have laid into her a bit. If she didn't want to talk to me afterwards, so be it. She'll get glad again.
sounds like you are chasing him too much. if you care, let him show how much he really cares. sm
you said you primarily communicate via phone, text, and emails. do you ever see each other in person? you need to back off as other's suggested and see what he does. when he asks why he hasn't heard from you just tell him i wanted to see if you cared enough to contact me since i am always the one contacting you. maybe that will get him to thinking. most guys like a chase, not being chased so just keep that in mind.
talk about Are You Kidding....who cares about your office affair
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Thanks for the update. I'm sorry about
your brother and his family. What a shame. I'm glad Sasha had a good day. It must be really hard for you, because you probably want to pour your heart out to your brother about Misha, but you probably don't feel comfortable doing that with his loss, too. Well, I'll be thinking about you and sending up prayers, now for your whole family. I hope tomorrow is a better day, and so on, and so on.
Thanks for the update
Hi Stephanie. Glad to hear that your trip to the doctor was helpful. I know I really need to
get into the exercise too. Never was that big on exercise before, but now with the pain and fatigue, it is really hard to get motivated. I will just have to force myself. Yuck!!!
Update
I should add that I already get weekly massages and have for the last 4 years. My therapist has been advising me to try chiro for about 3 of those years. Of course, I waited until I really hurt before I went! I asked a friend of mine where she was going and she said that she really trusted him, so I decided to try where she goes. He took a detailed history and 2 x-rays. He also gave me a little adjustment, which has helped a little. It was just gentle pressure. I go back tomorrow to see about a treatment plan.
Thank you very much to everyone who offered suggestions of what to look for. Your back is really nothing to mess around with!
Update on dog from below sm
The poor thing died. I'm so heartsick. The police want an official statement from all of us who saw this morning (there were 4 of us). The owner said her dog was "poisoned." I'm going up to the station in a while to talk with the chief. I'll have more information later.
Update on my vet job
So I started out just cleaning nights and giving the animals fluids/meds on the weekends and cleaning more. One of the day girls fell down some stairs so the vet asked me to fill in for her. I got a crash course in doing anesthesia! I really like it but have had a couple animals stop breathing a few times and one his heart actually stopped. I almost peed my pants when that happened. I also got to do x-rays and an EKG on a dog Monday. If only this job paid better than transcription 
Update......
Well, I just checked my account again and the $2420 is back in the account due to non-sufficient funds. There is, however, a $34 non-sufficient funds fee that will be refunded back to me after the dispute is over. I know that in the big picture of things this does not sound like a lot of money, but it's my money I worked for and intend to get back. I also called the bank back and made sure that PayPal could not try to take out the money again since it was reversed due to NSF. After the dispute and we know more information, I can totally freeze PayPal from ever taking any money out of my account again. Right now it can only be done for the exact amount they tried to take out yesterday. I also told PayPal to take every bit of information they had on me out of their system, that I would never be needing their services again.
The scammers just didn't count on me being a poor working girl with little money left at the end of the month. Maybe they should give working a try instead of trying to steal other people's hard-earned money.
Thank you all for your replies. This just makes me all the more aware of what I am doing on-line. I have bought many items on-line, and this is the first time anything like this has happened to me. If they hadn't been so greedy, I probably would have had to wait out the whole ten days.
Thank you for the update sm
I started to ask yesterday but didn't send my post through because I thought it might be to painful. Please know that many here are thinking about you. Prayers.
Thanks for the update. That was
enjoyable to read.
Sounds like the birds appreciate each other already.
Yesterday I had a great time watching several cardinals bathing in my sprinkler. It is so hot that they stayed in the water for hours. My impatiens appreciated the extra-long shower they received because the cardinals were so cute. It's not my day to water today, but the cardinals show up now and then, hoping.
They ignore the shallow birdbath.
Thank you for the update
At least the police know about the situation. Maybe they can have a talk with the owners when they return.
If you know anyone who doesn't live in your neighborhood who would like to have a sheltie - you know, if it were me, I would give it to them. The neighbors have been gone so long, if the dog disappears one night, who is to say what happened, right? They don't deserve to have a dog if they are going to treat it this way.
JMHO 
thanks for update
Hi Trose,
Glad you called your brother and went to your doc today....ERs on the wknd are rough. Hope you get feeling better soon. Keep us all updated. Cat
Update...
First of all, thanks to everyone for their thoughts.
I went to the hospital myself and began asking questions of the charge nurse. She was very helpful and reviewed the chart and also got on the phone to the various doctors to answer my questions.
The problem is not what I thought it was. He WAS evaluated by a doctor and even had a CT scan in the first 30 minutes after he was admitted. None of the family knew this as no one had made it to the hospital at this point. Apparently, FIL just did not remember this. I guess the moral to this is do not let a patient out of your sight even for a short period of time.
He is being kept n.p.o. due to the head injury and in case they needed to operate (which by the way they are doing tomorrow to relieve compression on the spinal cord.) He was not given dextrose through his IV because of its potential to cause swelling, which is not a desired effect in a patient with a head injury. He did get food trays today, but will not receive anything else until after his surgery first thing in the morning.
Thanks again for everyone's recommendations.
An update...
Well, I had a heart to heart with my daughter yesterday. I broke down in tears and just told her how disappointed I was in her decision to become sexually active and how my heart was broken for her. She cried and said she didn't want to do it again, so I hope she was being honest with me. I found out more disturbing information on her loser boyfriend having to do with some legal trouble he's been in. We are giving her a chance to break up with him (she doesn't know that we know about the probation, arrests, etc.), but if she doesn't, we may press charges against him, just to get rid of the loser.
Backtracking a bit, our son works for the sheriff's department, along with a lot of his buddies, who did some checking on this guy, and dug up a laundry list of trouble he's been in. Our son is talking to our daughter today, telling her what he knows, and giving her til tonight to break it off completely with this guy, or he's telling her he'll file charges himself against this boy. He's already checked it all out and there are things we can get him on, but we really, REALLY don't want to go this route. It would be so hard on our daughter. I just want the boyfriend to disappear, go away, and leave her alone. So now, it's not so much about s-e-x anymore, but about her getting herself into some legal trouble by association with this idiot.
AND...his mother told my DD's best friend and my DD that she would LIE TO US about the whole situation if need be. How can a mother allow a girl to hang out with her loser, ex-con son??? It is beyond me...if it were my son, I'd tell the girl to run, not walk, away from him, he's nothing but trouble.
Anyway, thanks y'all so much for the support and advice. I think I handled it ok. I think she was shocked and surprised at how upset I was. I just admitted to her that I didn't expect this so soon, that I really didn't know how to handle it, and that I was disappointed in her actions, BUT that her father and I both love her very, very much and we will always be here for her, no matter what happens.
It was really emotional, but good I think for the both of us. Her 2 best friends came in in the middle of it all, and they too spilled their guts to her, so that helped also. We all cried and laughed, and talked. BTW, I don't mention her father much, but he's here...we're married and living together...all 3 of my kids have the same father. We've been married over 20 years now. He's mad, upset, disappointed, and just chomping at the bit to get his hands around this kid's throat, of course...that's how men handle things, right? But overall, he's been great.
Thanks again, y'all!
Thanks for the update...sm
Hi Deb,
I'll check in with his mom's web page to see what kinda hats he prefers (baseball caps, knit caps, perhaps something felt, really funky like they wear at ski resorts, doo rags or those little wrap caps with flames that bikers sport) and what states he's already gotten hats from....Don't want to duplicate or bore him. Cat
Update
She came home from school today in a much better state of mind with regards to physics class. She spoke to her teacher who explained things a lot better not only to her, but to the whole class (she isn't the only one who was having problems). She had homework tonight that she did with just one question for her father. For now I'm going to let her stay in the class, but I'm going to keep checking up on her, and see what happens after her first test. Thank you all for all your help and advice.
update....sm
My husband does not know it yet, but we have a meeting tonight with the other parties involved. I have to see this woman's face so that I know what she looks like so I will know if she is anywhere we are. Both sides have agreed to no fighting or arguing. We, meaning me and the other husband, are interested in seeing the other person because we have both been thinking when we walk down the street, is that her/him??
I have booked an appointment for marriage counseling but we can't get in until Jan. 8th, and I have myself on the cancellation list to get in sooner if possible to talk to someone earlier if they have an opening.
Thanks again for all the support. I really appreciate it and thanks to all who have cared enough to e-mail as well.
update
They found this girl, dead, and are investigating it as a homicide.
oh and BTW --- update
Since her surgery probably 4 years ago, she's had a breast reduction and whatever that is that gets rid of all the loose skin on the belly. And she did some eye stuff too. Her husband is happy and she looks fabulous!!
update on above...sm
I did a search for this item. It is called *Mighty Putty* and it is for sale at 24.95, although I am sure you could possibly get it cheaper.
Update
Well we finally talked about it yesterday. Lately he's been picking these fights with me and he did yesterday. Like he got mad at me because I by mistake kicked him in the bed. I was asleep! I don't even remember it but anyways...he left mad and so I left and went to my parents. So he calls me and we talk and he tells me he has something he wants to talk about when i get home...i tell him i already know about it. he says the reason he called those numbers was to get back at me. I was like, to get back at me for what?! B/c about 3 months ago, he nosed into my yahoo messenger archives and seen where i had been chatting with my guy friends. big deal! it's just as friends. but he acts like i can't talk to anyone. and i told him well you ran up 150.00 on the cell phone and all he would say is yep all smug sounding. i wanted to punch him right through the phone. but he swears he didn't talk to anyone...he just listened to the little personal introductory messages and that he would never cheat on me. i don't see why he would have to call 30 different numbers to get back at me but whatever. i feel that it's childish and juvenile of him to do that and i also don't really believe that reason. but he is my husband and i love him and i want to trust him. so i told him to never do it again. we'll see how it goes.
Thanks for the update. . . sm
I'm sorry he is being so childish. It still sounds hard to believe. If my husband caught me chatting with male friends, he would probably get angry and have the internet turned off. I don't think it would ever occur to him to call a sex chat line (especially a male sex chatline!) to get back at me. Hopefully, this is the end of his childish behavior and you can move on. Good luck!
just an update.....sm
I posted back in December about finding out my husband was having an emotional affair.
I just wanted to post again and let you all know that we are in counseling and it is really helping us. We are communicating better than we have in years. My husband is realizing just how much he hurt me by his actions and I believe he is truly remorseful. We still have a long way to go. I still am having trust issues but he is doing pretty good at keeping in touch and letting me know where he is and what he is doing.
Thanks again for all the advice and e-mails.
Have a great weekend.
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