Sudokuaholics Anonymous 9A

Submitted By: MizTricia1 from Alabama, USA

The SA8 is getting sooo slow, I thought it is about time for a NEW thread, WELCOME TO SA 9A!
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   Suzy  From Oz
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Morning all,
I only slept 6 hours last night. Considering how tired I was I expected to sleep more.
12/Nov/10 7:04 AM
   Heidi  From Magnolia, KY    Supporting Member
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Take a nice nap later to make up the difference, Suzy.
12/Nov/10 7:48 AM
   Theresa  From Small Town Canada
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Heidi, I am sorry about your friend's mother's passing. Life will not be easy for them now ... I hope they can get past this.

Hi Suzy ... hope you can nap later.
12/Nov/10 7:58 AM
   Suzy  From Oz
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Theresa, thinking of you today. I wonder what time it will be here a 2.10 so I can sent thoughts across the cyber waves..
12/Nov/10 7:59 AM
   Theresa  From Small Town Canada
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Suzy, I watched the ceremonies on TV from Ottawa for Remembrance Day - so many emotions going through me. They showed vets with a tear trickling down their cheeks and I wept openly. Hubby was off work today and every once in a while he came into the room, never said a word and would silently leave.

May dad, whom (who?) I did not get along with, was in the Dutch underground during the second world war. He was in a concentration camp for quite some time and he went through horrendous things. He refused to talk about his experiences, which I think is a shame. A relative did say that my father had to shoot his best friend because it turned out this friend was a traitor. The group had drawn straws and my father got the short straw.

I have a feeling that the war affected my father in ways we'll never know, and if he hadn't experienced that he might have been the kind of father I could have loved. We'll never know.
12/Nov/10 8:06 AM
   Gail  From Cockatoo Vic AU    Supporting Member
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{{{{{hugs}}}}} Theresa, thinking of you. It never gets easier, does it.
12/Nov/10 8:38 AM
   Theresa  From Small Town Canada
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There is a bit of a story about my mom's passing that is interesting. I was the "baby" of the family (an accident actually) and my mom always treated me as the baby. She was always trying to protect me from things.

On Nov. 10, 1999 at 7:00 AM I got the call from the nursing home my mom was in saying her time was near. I called my sisters and we stayed with my mom during that day, all night, and the next day. Around 2:00 PM on Nov. 11 I left with my hubby for only about 15 minutes. When we got back, my mom had passed away. I sincerely believe that she was hanging onto life until I left the room because she was still trying to protect me. I suppose you think I'm nuts, huh? I mentioned it to my sisters when we were together in the spring, and they agreed with me that mom was still watching over me at that time.

12/Nov/10 8:52 AM
   Heidi  From Magnolia, KY    Supporting Member
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I heard from MizT's sister again, with an update on Al.....

Today they've been running tests on his stomach - looking at the feeding tube. Waiting for results now. Good news is no fever so far today, and he's had a good appetite - especially since they had him NPO for breakfast. Tricia says he's always hungry after he skips a meal. Tricia got to go home to sleep again last night & said she had a really good night.
12/Nov/10 8:52 AM
   Theresa  From Small Town Canada
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That is good news, Heidi. Hopefully the results will also be good.

I'm sorry if I'm sounding kind of morose today, but that's not how I feel. It's just a day of memories, mostly good.
12/Nov/10 9:08 AM
   Tami the Troublemaker  From Florida
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Theresa, I am sure your mom was watching out for you, even in the end. I also understand about your father not talking about his experiences. One of my uncles survived a concentration camp but never spoke of the experience. He never married and I wonder if he could not get over what happened. I did not know him very well as he lived in NY and I lived in Florida. I saw him about once a year or so. He moved south when I was 14 so I did get to know him a bit better then. He was a self made man and generous to his family.
12/Nov/10 9:21 AM
   Gail  From Cockatoo Vic AU    Supporting Member
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I know exactly how you feel about your Mum, Theresa. I am also the baby, and I feel Mum and I had a special relationship. Not long before Mum had the surgery that put her into the final coma, she had said to me "Go home and love your man", I had planned to fly back here for a day to be with hubby on our anniversary. I stayed with Mum right through her last night, and when I said goodbye to her in the ICU, I told her I was going home to do exactly what she told me. She died that evening. My sisters were all with her, as was my heart ♥
12/Nov/10 9:31 AM
   Gail  From Cockatoo Vic AU    Supporting Member
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None of us will ever understand what it was like in the concentration camps, nor during a war in our land, and I hope we never do.
12/Nov/10 9:32 AM
   Theresa  From Small Town Canada
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At the ceremony in Ottawa today they read a poem written by a 10 year old girl who had lost her dad in Afghanistan. One of the lines was, "Why can't we all be friends?" So true. How many lives are lost in the name of religion, but really for control?

Gail, sounds like your mom and mine treated us the same way, protecting us to the end. Thanks for the well wishes everyone, truly a day of remembrance.

Thoughts and wishes for wellness to MizT and Al, June and her friend, Suzy, Bean and her brother, and all who need them.
12/Nov/10 9:49 AM
   Suzy  From Oz
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I'm not the baby and my mother is doing all that. Drives me mad right now but I'm sure i'll miss it when it is gone.
12/Nov/10 11:38 AM
   Tami the Troublemaker  From Florida
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Suzy, I know exactly what you mean. My mom is going to drive me crazy, but I know I will miss her when she is gone.
12/Nov/10 12:05 PM
   Rolanda  From Perth W Aust
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Good Morning

((((HUGS)))) to All and Sundry ♥♥♥
12/Nov/10 12:11 PM
   Suzy  From Oz
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I went to a clinic at the hospital today and the woman asked me how I was doing. I said I need the people around me to relax. Hubby stresses if I try to do anything and Mum is giving me way too much advice and calling way too often.
12/Nov/10 12:28 PM
   Theresa  From Small Town Canada
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Suzy, if I was your hubby or mom, I would probably be the same way. It is their way of showing concern, but in your mind it's smothering. Somewhere there should be a happy medium. Just remember, to know you is to love you!
12/Nov/10 12:35 PM
   Victoria  From Fernlands Qld    Supporting Member
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Good morning all (just).

Suzy, they love you and they care for you and this is how they are showing it. Once they are certain you will be ok, they will relax and you can go back to doing your own things.

Sending hugs to MizT and Al, Bean and her brother, Theresa and her daughter, Nola and Greg and anyone else in need.
12/Nov/10 1:01 PM
   Suzy  From Oz
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Announcement; I have my first day of work as a teacher on MOnday- casual in Science.
12/Nov/10 1:52 PM
   Rolanda  From Perth W Aust
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Congrats Suzy, on a 'job'! xx
12/Nov/10 2:05 PM
   MizTricia1  From Alabama, USA
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Theresa, know what you mean about missing your mother. So many times these last few weeks, I wanted to pick up the phone and call mine. I need her to hold me while I cry a bit. Hugs to you Dear.

Heidi, I hope your friend is doing better today. A sudden death, even of an older person, is hard to cope with.

Theresa, I believe you, every word. Moms will protect their children to their dying breath. Mom waited another day to die, so that she would not die on my birthday. Nurses did not know how she held on for one more day. I was not the baby, but I was Mom's favorite.

12/Nov/10 2:34 PM
   Victoria  From Fernlands Qld    Supporting Member
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Congratulations Suzy. Well done.
12/Nov/10 2:36 PM
   MizTricia1  From Alabama, USA
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LONG VENT

First I want to scream AAAGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

Will doctors ever learn to listen to their patients? Al reeatedly told his surgeon something was wrong with that feeding tube. He has been asking for heavy pain killers for 4 weeks, and he is not a wimp. He has throat cancer, and a gut that was raw as meat from the chemo, he has had pleurisy and pneumonia, but he only asked for pain meds for his side hurting. He went back to the surgeon twice, and surgeon visited him twice in his room, each time Al complained of his side.

Today the infectious disease doctor reluctantly did a check of his side and the feeding tube. X ray, cat scan, fluoroscope and ultrasound. Guess what?? THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG with the feeding tube!!

Feeding tube is not in the right place and it is infected. It comes put, probably tomorrow. It has put my hubby through a lot of pain, cause no one listened to him.

AAAAAAAAAAAAGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!

I am just so glad someone finally listened.
12/Nov/10 2:46 PM
   Heidi  From Magnolia, KY    Supporting Member
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Why are they waiting until tomorrow to take it out? It's infected, for god sakes!!! Has that hospital ever heard of malpractice?
12/Nov/10 2:52 PM
   Gail  From Cockatoo Vic AU    Supporting Member
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They do not listen to patients because patients don't know as much as the surgeons/specialists do! After all, did we mere mortals go to God school like them?
12/Nov/10 3:07 PM
   Heidi  From Magnolia, KY    Supporting Member
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Tomorrow I'll be helping decorate a Lion's Club christmas tree. There's a competition and auction next door to the Lincoln Museum. We had the second most popular tree last year, and we made some money on it.
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12/Nov/10 3:10 PM
   Heidi  From Magnolia, KY    Supporting Member
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Then we start making the chili for the chili supper on Saturday. Chili always tastes best one day old.
12/Nov/10 3:11 PM
   Suzy  From Oz
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Afternoon all,
MizT, that is so frustrating! I'm so glad someone finally listened!! A good nurse or doctor would have listened - it's the cocky ones who don't.

Monday is going to be interesting - first because it is casual and kids like to test casual teachers out, but secondly because I forgot we were going to see Robin Williams in Sydney the night before.

I got a call from Mum today. Ebob has asked her for a reference so she can apply for a traineeship in a nursing home. I called her and said 'are you leaving school?' only if I get the traineeship she says. Why are you insisting on doing everything the hard way I asked? It's the right thing for me right now she said. I said 'what about in a couple of years, it won't be the right thing then. What's going to happen then. Three willbe full time in the Army. What about you and the things that will make you happy? This can't all be about Three. Are you and Three planning on getting a place? Yes, we've been looking for a while. I think that will break you two up I said. Do you? Why? Because you are too young to be getting a place together. I was soo calm, and she didn't give me any of her usual attitue and I didn't tell her I am working on Monday.
12/Nov/10 4:17 PM
   Heidi  From Magnolia, KY    Supporting Member
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Has she been told about the stroke, Suzy? If so, what was her reaction?
12/Nov/10 5:22 PM
   Heidi  From Magnolia, KY    Supporting Member
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I need to go to bed. I've been having too much fun surfing the internet tonight.
12/Nov/10 5:23 PM
   broni  From qld, australia    Supporting Member
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So much said in so few words today, want to respond to each and everyone of you but tears of joy and frustration are getting in the way.
12/Nov/10 5:34 PM
   Julie  From IL, USA
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Hello, Friends! I'm quite late getting here tonight/this very early morning. This will not be the day I get caught up on comments - will just read comments since I visited last night.

Hi, Suzy, Broni, Gail, June, Rolanda, CynB, Tami, MizTricia, Theresa, Heidi and Vicki!

Suzy, good for Ally pitching in to help with cleaning!

June, I've been thinking about you and your busy schedule and your friend. I hope all is going well with her treatments!

Rolanda, hoping for a speedy recovery for your Mum after her cataract surgery!

MizT, I hope the CAT scan helps discover why Al is having abdominal pain!

Heidi, condolences to you and your friend whose mother passed.

Cyn, maybe your Mum was engrossed because it was a subject she had never heard of before. It seems to have been in the news only for the last few years.

Suzy, so sorry you also have to deal with a bed sore. I hope it heals in record time!

Theresa, I hope the fond memories of your mother stay with you and fortify you! Some people think it gets easier as the years pass, but I'm not sure. Perhaps it helps when you think of the better place where she is. You're probably right about your Dad. I can't imagine what it must have been like for him, but it would certainly change a person! {{{{HUGS}}}}

Tami, I enjoyed the "Lite Brite" video. (I also didn't pay much attention to the song.)

Suzy, I hope you were able to fit in a nap today!

Heidi, thanks so much for the PM update yesterday and for today's update on MizT and Al!

Gail, it's interesting, isn't it, how your Mum and Theresa's tried to protect you from the difficult things. A mother's job doesn't end when her children become adults, as Suzy, Tami and MizT have reminded us. What special memories we all have!

MizT, no wonder you wanted to vent. Scream away, girl! Some medical "professionals" can be such a$$es! I am so sorry Al has had to deal with so much pain unnecessarily! I hope they get that infected feeding tube out and replaced correctly! Maybe they should be required to check its placement as soon as it's put in. {{{{{HUGS}}}}} to you and Al (very gentle ones, of course).

Heidi, good luck with the C tree decorating and the making of the chili! I hope they are very successful fund-raisers!

Suzy, good for you for remaining calm through that very difficult conversation with Ebob! Keeping fingers crossed that she comes to her senses. Would she listen to your Mum if she offered advice? I was also wondering if she knew about your stroke or about your teaching on Monday. I hope all goes well and the students are on their best behavior! And of course, I hope it's fun and rewarding for you!

Broni, there's no need to respond to everyone! We're all just glad when everyone is here and able to check in! I hope all is well for you!

Bean, thinking of you and your brother and sending positive vibes.

Nola, I keep missing you, but continue to think of you and Greg.

Gail, I hope the
12/Nov/10 6:08 PM
   Julie  From IL, USA
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Here's the rest of that post:

Gail, I hope the connection is working better and you and hubby are both able to get a good night's sleep each time he's attached!

Sending much love and positive vibes and prayers and {{{{HUGS}}}} to everyone and your friends and family!

I really must head off to bed now. Good night!
12/Nov/10 6:09 PM
   Suzy  From Oz
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Heidi, hubby told her, she didn't go to school on Monday because she was so 'worried' but from what I'm told she hasn't been to school on a Monday in a while anyway. Hubby brought her up to the hospital on Tuesday night.
12/Nov/10 6:31 PM
   broni  From qld, australia    Supporting Member
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Zusy ((((HUGS))))
Know you will do well on Monday, you are the BEST.
Give you something to take your mind off all the other sh!t.
12/Nov/10 6:41 PM
   Theresa  From Small Town Canada
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Good early early morning all - intermission time. My arthritis in the hips is flaring up and I just couldn't get comfortable in bed.

Congrats, Suzy, on your casual teaching job. How exciting for you. How casual is casual? If only the rest of your life (Ebob) was going so well. Why won't our kids listen to us???

MizT, if only doctors would listen to us, poor Al would not have been in that pain for so long. I was thinking the same thing as Heidi, why wait to change the tube, they should do it ASAP.

12/Nov/10 6:56 PM
   CynB  From Redlands Qld Aus    Supporting Member
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Good afternoon all - finally got home and on my pooter to talk to my friends!!
Hugs to Al & Tricia - the docs should have listened, to Heidi - sorry about losing your elderly friend, to Theresa and Gail thinking about their Mums and to Suzy, who also needs congratulations - Woo Hoo!!
12/Nov/10 7:08 PM
   CynB  From Redlands Qld Aus    Supporting Member
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Have spent the day at the funeral of my sister-in-law's father, who I have known for over 40 years. We had an hour and a half drive each way, Requiem Mass in a small crowded country church on one of our first hot days, then back to his home for the wake. There were many lovely tributes to a much-loved man, who left his wife, 11 children (my SIL is their 2nd child), their partners, 36 grandchildren and 6 great-grandies. He served in WWII and Vietnam and there were 2 busloads of vets (including his remaining Rats of Tobruk comrades) up there to honour him by placing poppies on his coffin.
RIP Percy Lyall OAM
12/Nov/10 7:16 PM
   CynB  From Redlands Qld Aus    Supporting Member
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Might as well take post # 17000
Mad if I don't, wish I had've (as my hubby would say)!
12/Nov/10 7:17 PM
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