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  1. Hi everyone. I know I haven't been visibly around for awhile, but I do visit and read every now and then, when my internet is working. This post struck me enough to reply. Or at least part of it did. I know what you are saying about unnecessary medications. My grandmother was on so many at one point in her life that she would be taking whole handsful at a time. Then after several years of this, my parents moved her our west to where we live and the doctors here changed her meds. She was cut in less than half of what she was taking. Apparently what had happened, or what we could figure happened was: her doctor would put her on on medication, then she would need another for somthing else but the first one continued, she would go to the hospital and they would perscribe something new, but not take her off what she was on and so on...until she was so many unnecessary medications that it would boggle the mind. The doctors out here were shocked and promptly removed her from a good portion of them. She felt better that she had in a long time and lived for many more years, than her doctors in her home town had given her to live. Now the second thing: Someone mentioned depression and medications. I just want to say that all my life, for as long as I can remember, I have not felt normal.(jokes aside) I was always an extremist. One end of the emotional spectrum to the other. High highs, low lows, and not much in between. This was "MY" normal. I inherited a trigger temper, so that didn't help matters. I was stubborn too. But I would do things that were just not "right". Nothing really "bad". But things that the average person would think were bizzare. In fact part of me knew that this was not normal behavior. But I could not control myself. As a teen they told my parents that I needed medications. I was a normal teen, but the meds would "help" me to cope. Boy were they wrong. It intensified the situation. I got way out of control. I was bouncing of the walls. I went off the meds on my own, as I "knew" that they were not helping me. I became bulimic and anorexic at 17. By 19 I had the anorexia under control. But bulemia is like being an alcoholic. The tendencies to "fall off the wagon" are always there. It's just what you do to "control" them. Once you are bulemic you always will have those tendencies. It becomes a form of control you have over yourself. (yet, in fact, you are "out of control") I lived with my odd extremes of behavior for most of my life. When things happened to me (ie: the death of my grandfather, the death of my husband), I would lose control entirely. I would "become" actively bulemic. My moods would swing, to extremes. I would become depressed. But no one would diagnose me as "depressed" or otherwise. I lived with this until one day I could live with it no longer. I found myself at a crossroads, yet again. But something this time made it different. I was about to make one of my "odd/extreme" choices, but instead went to my doctor. (a different doctor) I cried in her office for an hour. She kept checking in on me and gave freely of her time. I was brutally honest with her about "ALL" my strange thoughts and behaviours. She perscribed something for my obvious depression. Then my sister told me about a web site with information about bipolar disorders. I wnet and read whatever I could get my hands on. I read other things as well. I went "informed" to my doctor and gave my findings and my history. I was placed on another medication, that as far as I am concerned, between the two, have saved my life. For the first time in almost 40 years, I have been living what seems to be a normal live (for about 1 1/2 years now). I feel happy (yes, I can still feel sad, angry, etc.). I feel alive. I have no bulemic urges. I have no extremes of anger or elation. I feel as if I can finally live life. To me it has been an incredible change for the better. My family can stand me now. I can finally stand myself. No more weird thoughts. It is how it should be. So basically, what I am saying is several things. Finding the right doctor is important. Talking to your doctor is very important. Being informed is too. And sometimes medication "IS" a necessary part of your life. Ask questions, read information. Do your homework. And most of all, if any one of you, see yourself in this at all, in any way - Stop the insanity and get help. Right now!! Before the next stupid thing you do. Just stop!!! Do not pass go, head straight to your doctor's office and tell them you need their time and help. If they can't do it, find a doctor who will. Life can be good. I finally am living my life not just existing in it, waiting for the next disaster to happen. Be strong. You can do it.
  2. Ed, buddy, you are forever in our hearts. Never far from our thoughts and always missed more that words can ever say.
  3. Tee, Hee, on you Brigie.... ....okay so you don't have such a variance of weather. Yes, maybe I too, at one time, if I could have afforded it, moved to your part of the province. But I'll make do here. Love ya Sis in law!! ------------------
  4. lowlander

    04:22 AM

    I'm so sorry for your friend, Reci. Chin up on the diet, they always get boring...but are you gonna let a "diet" get the better of ya?!!? Keep pluggin, girl!! ------------------
  5. Oooooooo.....nice...and gooey!!! ------------------
  6. WAIT!!!!! STOP the presses!!! "In"portant Announcment??? No one caught that??? I just did. Boy was I sleeping, or what!?!? ------------------
  7. Oh I liked that movie. And yes the planes were well dressd!! Brigie, my suit, frightens small children and animals!!! Hope you fare better!! ------------------
  8. You are most welcome....but "YOU" already knew all that, sis!! After all we do live in the MOST climatially perfect place!! ------------------
  9. Mmmmmmmmm love marshmallows and chocolate syrup!!! Thanks HG!!! Oh and Cat....you're in for it now!!! ------------------
  10. Brigie, I'm so happy for you!! And for your family, that is such good news!! ------------------
  11. over at Circle of Friends..... ------------------
  12. Just in case anyone wanted to know why ........ Chinook Winds: Indian for snow eater, a chinook wind comes from over the Rocky Mountains and sweeps across the foothills and other parts of Alberta. The warming effect can reach as far as Edmonton in central Alberta and can reach Swift Current in Saskatchewan. But the strongest effect from the Chinook is felt is southern Alberta. In Crowsnest Pass, where the Chinook effects are the greatest, they average 30 Chinook days per year. At the foothills, Calgary averages 25 days. And in Medicine Hat, near the Alberta border, they average 20 days. The Alberta Chinook The Alberta Chinook is part of a class of winds called foehn winds. As the warm, dry, gusty wind descends down the mountain slopes, temperatures can increase many degrees in minutes. The temperature usually goes well above 0°C (30°F) and snow melts while spirits soar. The view as a Chinook rolls over the Foothills is unique. An arch of wispy, white clouds appear in the western sky paralleling the the Rocky Mountains. The clouds look like ghost-like fingers dancing across the sky. As the Chinook affects increase, winds begin to gust from the Southwest or West. The winds reach speeds typically between 40 and 80 kilometers per hour (25 and 50 miles per hour). They are capable of reaching tree bending and breaking speeds of up to 160 kilometers per hour (100 mile per hour). The Making of a Chinook The process of making a Chinook wind starts not in the Rocky Mountains but in the Pacific Ocean. Over the Pacific Ocean a westerly winds begins blowing and collects the warm, moist air toward the west coast of British Colombia. As the moisture-laden air reaches the coast,the air encounters the first set of mountains before reaching the Rocky Mountains on the western Alberta border. As the warm, moist Pacific air meets the Coastal Mountains range it begins an upward ascent over the western slope of mountains. As it climbs the mountain the air begins to expand and cool. Some of the moisture in the air condenses and falls to the ground as rain or snow. As the precipitation falls great amounts of stored heat is released. The air that descends down the eastern slope of the mountain is drier and warmer, warming at a rate that is twice the cooling rate. As the air moves eastward, it encounters a second set of mountains in B.C.'s interior. This process repeats a second time at this mountain range. So more water has been rung from the Pacific air,resulting in still warmer weather that is approaching Alberta. As the air approaches the Rocky Mountains, the process begins a third time. The compression of the air by the mountains raises the temperature by 8°C to 10°C over the Pacific air that started out over the ocean, at the same elevation on the west side of the Coastal Mountains. The Chinook wind is a welcome winter rest from the regular winter weather. Residents dig deep into their closets and haul out their spring and fall garments. For a few days they enjoy the warm, sunny weather before encountering winter again. thank you!! ------------------
  13. over at Circle of Friends.... ------------------
  14. Happy Happy Happy Birthday to you Happy Happy Happy Happy Birthday to you Happy Happy Happy Happy Happy Birthday to youuuuuu Happy Happy Happy Birthday to youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu, Snowmommy!! ------------------
  15. I love you too, sweety!!! ((((((((((((((((((((You))))))))))))))))))))) (((((((((((((((((((everyone here at Mrs.Survival)))))))))))))))))) ------------------
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