Worried about HIV/AIDS symptoms (oral thrush)

I have had bronchitis symptoms for roughly 4 weeks. I have been caughing up flem (phlegm), no fever. I went to 2 doctors regarding the problem. They listened to my lungs and told me that it was very mild and not worry because it will go away on its own. One doctor didn't think it was acute bronhcitis, but rather a virus. He gave me albuterol to ease the caughing. I was doing lots of wheezing. Then I developed symptoms like strep throat and I went to the second doctor. I developed these symptoms after spending a day with a friend that had simmilar symptoms (white stuff all over her throat). I drank from the same bottle of gatarode as her. My school physician (2nd doctor) diagnsoed it as strep, but did not take a throat culture and perscribed Zythromax. I have alerady taken it for 5 days and the white stuff in my throat (specifically on the lower left and right portions of the throat - I gues these are the tonsils) have not gone away. I have no fever. My friend's doctor took her throat culture and she didn't have strep. So I am a bit concerned.
I have been with a few working girls, but always protected. Never incidence of broken condoms, so in that sense I realize that I'm not in the high risk group. But the white stuff on my throat had not gone away yet after the 5 days on Zithromax and I still have some flem (phlegm) coming from the lungs. My tongue also looks white. I'm just concerned, paranoid and am associating these symptoms with oral thrush. Please comment on what condition could be and if I need to be worrying? Thanks.

[sunspot]

Please excuse my question but do you have Hepatitis?

[FlGuy]

Working girls, huh. At the very yeast, you should look into candida.

[mkeela]

OH, and by the way, antibiotics (zithromax?) can cause/make yeast worse.

[mkeela]

I would check an HIV/AIDS support forum. This here's for HCV folk. Please excuse me if you do have HCV, just wasn't sure by the sounds of your post. But as was mentioned above, candida (yeast) is the cause of oral thrush most...all?... of the time, so maybe you should check that out. Good luck finding your answers!

[jmjm530]

Saw the post. Thanks. I'll try and get back to you later today or tomorrow.

[Eisbein]

Sorry I am late.
Well, pre-diabetes is certainly nothing for you to worry about.
Fasting glucose between 100-126 is considered "impaired glucose tolerance", and more often then not pre-diabetes.
To confirm a diagnosis of diabetes, when numbers were within that range, they used to run the glucose tolerance test.
It's not often used anymore, because in order to get an accurate reading, patients need to be free of any acute illness. A number of medications interfere with results, diuretics, niacin, contraceptives, and more. There are no standards related to aging, and results have not been as reliable.
Charting the fasting glucose is the way to go now.
A reading of over 126 of course wouldn't require a challenge test anyhow, the diagnosis of diabetes would be obvious.
No endocrinologist worth his money, is watching a patients fasting glucose continue rising between 100-126, without sounding the alarm bells. This is the window of opportunity, often lasting a number of years,during which the ship can get around with diet and exersise.
HbA1c stands for Glycohemoglobin hemoglobin A1c, or Glycated Hemoglobin A1, and measures the glucose over the past 8-12 weeks.
It's usually not used for screening purposes, but rather by confirmed diabetics to monitor their progress, or the lack of it.
Hemolytic anemia, high dose aspirin therapy can give falsely low numbers.
So for those on Riba, the fasting glucose gives the most accurate reading.

As far as I know, metabolic syndrome must also include a diagnosis of pre-diabetes or diabetes, in order to be called metabolic syndrome. A few other things have been added to this cluster of disorders, high LDL, and abdominal obesity...can't remember the rest.

Looks to me more like you have a primary disorder of lipid metabolism.
This is what I suggest:
Follow the appropiate diet for 6 month, see if the triglycerides go down, and just maybe the HDL budges upward. If results are not encouraging, have a full cardiovascular screening, and do the fractional lipid screening, not every lab does them. Do Homocysteine and C-reactive protein, and assess your risk for heart attack and stroke.
In the meantime your liver had another 6 month to regenerate. Do the Fibroscan, and Fibrosure or Fibrospect, and if still stage 2, get on the statins.

Don't forget, that with SVR, and a healthier liver, total Cholesterol often rises, HDL goes down, and LDL up...an oxymoron all right. I don't remember Triglycerides being mentioned.
That was a most informative paper, long too, but I can't find it.
I see my cardiologist in early Nov. and I will find the hard copy or the link before, because he will eat this one up.

The brain can only utilize glucose, and will get what it needs before any other organ. With the recommended daily serving of fruit, your brain can not be deprived of fuel.
Why you feel the way you do on a low carbohydrate diet I don't know.
Since on a very low carbohydrate diet and exercise, I feel better all around. Alt 20, down from 26.
Before tx, Cholesterol close to 200, HDL 92, LDL 92, Triglycerides around 100.
Now HDL in the sixties, LDL 98.

Arteriosclerosis often comes with age, atherosclerosis should not, only in the Western World due to our atrocious diet.
My Carotid artery echo is clear, and I am your age. They can estimate the obstruction, and if you are 20% occluded in the Carotid, the small coronary arteries are probably occluded somewhat more.
I hope I answered all your questions.

I am taking a brake from the board, and will flag you down again....down the road.
Kindly leave me a note that you saw this post.

I truly wish you well,
Ina

[jmjm530]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I've pretty much investigated everything discussed over the years (tests, diets, etc) and have come to the conclusion I'm between a rock and a hard place. My lipids are pretty resistant to diet and only the most radical moves them enough, only problem is I tend not to stick to those diets. Therefore the possiblity of marrying MS Statin. BTW all the liverheads I've spoken to have no problems with Statins at any stage of Fibrosis and feel the warnings are highly overblown.  C-Reactive Protein has always been good and Homocysteine I believe as good last time as well, however many cardiologits, including my own, don't give them much value -- especially in light of my poor lipid panel, family history and cartorid doppler test.  

As to metabolic syndrome, it's one of those "do you have four out of the seven" and I have six or seven (high chol, high ldl, low hdl, high tri's, high bp)depending on whether I have pre-diabetes or not, which I'm still uncertain of after doing some research. As mentioned, I may buy one of those glucose monitors at the drug store and start sticking myself in the morning and after meals :)

Switching gears, I think I've gotten my rosacea as well as it gets without lasers. It took me the entire summer to calm down what I believe was atopic dermatitis (angry face syndrome) on top of everything else. No more itiching, or stinging, no matter what I put on my face.

I been continuing with mild non-soaps like Cetaphil with Clindamycin in morning and either metrogel or Sulfaced in evening. This past week I've been dropping the evening part some days and simply using Aloe Vera Gel which I also now use as my primary "moisturizer" with an application of Jojoba oil sometimes mid day. I may try getting off of everything for a while, just using Aloe Vera gel, Jojoba oil and maybe Sebanil cleaner to cut some of the oil.

Toward the future, my goal is to be able to keep my face in the condition it's in now and at the same time to be able to participate in outdoor sports, etc. Too "young" to baby myself like I've been doing all summer. (In fact, I may try swimming in a cholorinated pool next week and hopefully that won't set my skin back three monts LOL) Anyway...getting back to my old life, sports, sunshine etc, --  that's where laser (IPL) should help by getting rid of veins and cappilaries that cause flushing. I still will give things more time but may go the IPL or laser route this winter. Still haven't "tested" the sun since the last time I did two months ago was pretty bad. Maybe next Spring after IPL.

Hope this finds you well and your rosacea under control.

-- Jim

[Eisbein]

On a quick note.
I am heading in the right direction with the Rosacea.
Made a paste out of the licorice root powder, and applied all over the face...with very good results. I just might get the rosacea under control, but not much success with the SD.
At this point my cognitive issues are of more concern to me.

You once dismissed chelation, that's why I didn't bring it up again, but that would be my first choice, then statins.

If you are pre-diabetic, I'll eat crow...I mean it, real crow.
You can't have insulin resistance, and at the same time have
CONSISTENTLY a fasting glucose of approx 85.

When I unearth that "lipid paper", out of my one foot pile of Hepc related stuff, I give you a holler, unless you say you have it.
Actually I believe somebody gave a link from med help.

Don't go swimming yet...no no no...you have to be 36 weeks past the last flare up, to assure you have a chance at rosacea SVR :)

Ina

[jmjm530]

Glad your new regimen appears to be working. Thanks again for the suggestions.

-- Jim

[sunspot]

You are <i>hardly</i> dense. With all the cr@p you've been through, you are allowed a forgetful moment and more.
How's your cut finger coming along? I had such a fright when you posted about it. Gave me the shudders. I had my finger get caught in a end mill (metal working) at work and thought my digit was a goner but it was only a flesh wound. I almost sh!t myself. That was 29 years ago and only have a small scar on my knuckle.
See you for now, come on back anytime. I like you.

[Tater-ToT]

Hey Ya'll....
Sunspot...
yea I agree.. it is quite down here... & Quaint Too!!!
;)

NY...
Holy cow.... when & what did you do to your finger...??? I must have missed that post but from what SunSpot discribed... it DOESN'T sound good... Shish... Hope this finds you are holding up okay... I agree with Dana... you have been thru a LOT!!! Hang In There!
:)

[friole]

hay, sunny -- got them new choppers yet?  I am waiting for 2 crowns to be made.  Dental work it the pitts, isn't it?

tator - guess you missed ny's thread -- had an accident at work and blood was squirting everywhere and all she could do is yll "don't touch my blood."  It was scary but it cracked me up!

quiet weekend here is W Texas.  Coledest day yet - in the 60's.  I am loving it

[NYgirl]

Hey I found ya!

Not too much to tell except I was trying to cut threw a box with a box cutter to get it open and it got stuck on a thick piece of tape so of COURSE I pulled as hard as I could....(duh, doy) and it cut down to the bone on my thumb.

Of course blood started spurting out on the walls and the fax machine - like several FEET and of course one woman came running over to help me (they believe I have "cancer" because they know I am on "chemo") and there I stood screaming STAY AWAY FROM ME STAY AWAY FROM MY BLOOD~! at the top of my lungs.

My boss had some "police tape" (don't know why but hes a funny man) and came out and didn't say a word and just ever so slowly started to wind it around my "cube".  I'm so glad he did because I was really on the verge of hysteria and it made me laugh and calmed me down.

Of course I cut all the way down - threw the nerve so my thumb turned black all the way down to the wrist - but I just squished it together and wrapped it in paper towels and then bandaids on top.  No stitches for me - I'm too scared of getting them, it ALREADY hurt like hell LOL.

It still has no feeling on the tip top and I can barely touch underneath where it cut but...it healed. With no stitches. I HATE them....HATE.....

Of course I had to sneak around with Clorox and wash everything down because even being UND - there could be some hiding in there as the test was ONLY down to 5.

It was kind of hard to explain the Clorox bleach but I just said I had "poison" in my blood from the chemo and didn't want to take a chance.

I mean really - what could I say?

Had I known my "man" Steven Tyler was going to cop to having this...well I would have bragged ;)  I AM a foolish little girl in my heart (even if I"m an old old lady on the outside ;)

[sunspot]

Friole
The new choppers will be fitted Oct 3. What a long road it was, what with the HCV getting in the way. Oh well, I am getting some things done at last. I think you asked what kind of bone was used for a filler? It was artificial bone, not bovine.

Vickie
Go get your hair done up nice for your reunion and cut it short if that helps you look nice. How about posting your picture on the Aussie site? Lets see what you have to work with. I need to update mine as I took it in the middle of tx.
I came down with a sore throat yesterday and now have a runny nose. Seems like a cold coming on, something I never got on tx. I

[friole]

Sunspot -(Hey, I was looking at sunspots the other day thru someone's telescope - pretty cool)  I don't know what they put in me for that proposed implant - real or fake - think it was probably fake -- looked like little granuoles.  But then when I told the doc I had hep C and was going to put off the implant until after treatment, he said he wouldn't treat me anyway until I was "in remission."  Then he gave me some story about having hep C is the service and clearing with antibiotics.  Right there and then I decided I wasn't going back to him.  So I have a flipper now.  Now, since I am on Fosomax, I get the impression my regular DDS doesn't think I should have the implant at all (bone infection problems).  So guess I will just keep the flipper.

Tator - Sun -- must be the weather changes all over.  Think I got a sinus infection -- had strobing rainbows and headaches and my sinus cavity hurt ---- that was last week -- then yesterday hubby got same thing???? Don't think it is infectious, just weather changes.

I am going up top and call ny down here....

[friole]

where are you?  Tell tator about your office blood incident -- and tell us how you healed?  Are you okay?

[Tater-ToT]

WoW... yup I totally missed that one, & it's too hard to dig thru & find it now...

Pretty quite arond here this weekend too... I suddenly got sick after I got back from that last road trip & currently fighting off another one of those yucky ear infections now...

I knew something was up when I developed a small fever blister (but it quickly went away within a day) so I stayed in bed most of today & slept (it feels sooo weird to do that now, Ya Know..LoL)

Anyway, no TV back here in my bedroom... so I download a disney move to watch Don't Laugh... it's (Ice Age) bit I have never seen it so that ought to be entertaing ...lol

Needless to say I missed my walk.... I wish I had enough balls to do something with my hair like fish did,,,, I just know I am the worst at keeping up maintainace,,,,, I just want to do something anything to it,,, & I still not dare do a perm with all these sprigs... my hair hsut looks so ratty & I'd like to do something to look nice for the reunion... I leave in 15 days,,, Ugg!

[friole]

You turned black and blue to the wrist?  Geesh!  How could you keep typing - one handed?

In answer to your scifi question -- I think we are in reruns now.  Remember they are holding 3 stinking episodes of Stargate until January (really milking it I'd say) so part 2 will probably be then.  Next up in October will be Battleship and the new-and-younger Dr. Who.

Did you ever catch Farscape?  Don't think it was listed for the last couple of weeks.  If you ever see it check it out - you will get hooked.

So you are on 54 now.  I know how I felt at 54. (sucky). Think that is about where tator ended with her 1a1b.  I think you will make it to 72, Deb but if you don't, I bet you have it liked.  

Funny Hmmmmm do tou think FL guy is trying to say you and Steve were an item?  What were you - childhood friends or was it in your band years - enquiring minds want to know.

[friole]

glad you can read thru all my misspellings.  There re so many, no sense in correcting them.

Sun - so you are saying black is worse than bland and blue. Didn't know.  Now I am really worried about the future of deb's finger.

So you are a sci fi fan too along with ny and me.  I think I checked my tv guide that came in Sunday's paper (I am too check to buy a guide) and this next Friday is all Dr. Who -- I assume repeats of last season (they are so bad they are funny).  So I am prett sure we have to wait until January to see the last 3 episodes of this years Gates (both of them).  Then the original is cancelled and only Atlantis will have another season (that is sorry).

ny -  I am really worried about your finger _ I think you should get it checked out. ...and I really do want to know how you knew Steve Tyler.  I know you said one time your daughter was dating the brother of Mariah Carey, so I am getting a real upscale pic of your folks' neighborhood.

tator - once again I reiterate the fact that you are an accident waiting to happen.  Did someone punch out your tooth in the joint?  ha ha - too funny.  Yes your mom should have it dipped in gold.  Why does she have it?  Do you really think an old insurance company will pay for something this late?  We will just flip our flippers together (but mine doesn't really flip)

[Tater-ToT]

Hey Ya'll...I almost got lost on the way down, & I was going "Now WHERE The Heck Is That Thread"...

OMG, NY...
Now That is Hysterical... but I gotta agree with SunSpot On That One... U worry me woman... I mean Umm not inly risk of infection & your thumb falling off, but What about cutting thru a nerve or tendon or something that is "irrepairable without stitches"... I mean you could suffer some permanant damage there & ewww.... scary gal...

Hey I've stitches before... had to have a split in my lip sewed up from a lawnmower accident & the scariest part of that was being sewed up by a 3 fingered surgon (if they don't line up the pink on your lip just right you'll wind up looking like you have cleft lip) but it was just a few & he did a good job... & one other time I wound up getting 38 stitches in my head right next to my temple... the proceedure really wasn't that bad, or at least not near as bad as I THOUGHT It would be... (although I here tell the wound was).... & hey at least with my new TX wrinkles the scare just kind of blends in now... Ha!

Anyway your story is absolutely funny, I can really relate to how you must have felt... shish.. ya know I used to tell everyone about my HCV (but I wasn't in a work situation) & as time went by... I started just leaving it at CHEMO & letting folks derive at their own conclusions too... but when it comes to blood I would & Still do get in a panic too... I am sure folks think the worst case scenero when I react like that, but I just feel impelled ya know! Incredibly enough I still run across medical staff that KNOWING I have / had HCV attempt to not use gloves, ect when drawing our blood products??? I don't get it...If they are that careless with their own protection... kind of makes you wonder how much they value ours..???

Bean...
I still want my implant... but nobody would do it before I quit smoking for 6 months... originally when I was going to have it done they used donor bone... & actually where going to use my own from my hip ....

all this could have been avoided of-course had I not of gotten incarcerated & gotton proper care & if hospital emergency rooms had oral surgons on staff... I never even broke the root... but by the time I could get dental care a blood clot had formed & the "cuff" that the tooth sits in had such massive damage that the bone degenerated instead of regenerated... so I wound up with a flipper & a perfectly good tooth that my mother still keeps in a jar...LoL

I've always wanted to have it dipped in gold & wear it on a necklace, along with a real miniture "Ruby" & Diamond red slipper & a 3d Little guardian angel... I think that would be cool.. & appropriate too!

I hear that my insurance will still pay 100% on it... but it's always a fight with the Dentist as they always say No... most insurance expires in 7 years.... & everytime I go to get it done something happens.... last time I got ready to do it I found out I had HCV.... so there went 3 more years gone by... Ugg! Guess I'll end up always having a flipper! I saw this place in Alaska where you could basically get a new mouth with pretty white teeth all in one day... would LUV to know how they did that (as if was it caps, veneere's or what)..??? I bet it cost a fortune!!

Sunspot...
Haa, Haaa... now without a pic, I am sure you probably think I look like Frankinstien by now...Lol... I would post a pic on the Aussie site... but you have to submit them... meaning I can't delete them when I want to... Ha...

I really don't have any real recent ones... I'm ashamed to take any with this wild hair & the way I have Ballooned up post TX with the weight & all... I don't think I looked this bad while I was on TX for Christ Sake... Shish!

:)

[Tater-ToT]

Where is the post about NY's Friend Steve..???

I saw someone mention Oprah & Steve,,,, but unfortunately I am lost & missed that post too... Ugg... is it just me or are all these unlimited threads drivin everyone else nuts too....??

I swear I CAN'T Keep up & I am not even on TX right now.... Gezz!
:(

[sunspot]

Geez Vickie.
See "My FAVORITIST - Steven Tyler - Just Finished TX" posted today 9-25.
Hey, it's my 56 birthday.
You and Debby <b>have</b> to post a pic. I was the first one to do so and I <i>really</i> looked like cr@p. You may not be able to delete it but you can always have a better one replace it.
The second week in Oct, I'll have some teeth and I'll have mine replaced. I still won't be good looking but better then what's there now.

[sunspot]

Shooting blood. That

[NYgirl]

Yup.  Everyone in my town is filthy loaded rich - except for us.  Michael Crichton, Martha Stewart, Richard Gere, Paul Newman on and on and on.  It is very very common just to walk into someone - anywhere.

And I wonder why my kids grow up with self esteem issues.  It's one thing to SAY money is NOT important but...another thing when a whole BUNCH of their friends get Mercedes convertibles for their 16th birthday party (and the "poor" ones only get a $30,000 used Integra or something).

I hate it - even the RICH people when I was young were not like this you coudln't really TELL ... now...ugh.

People think you're lucky unti they have to realize - just cause everyone else has a butler doesn't mean we all do...got to be SOME poor people to work the non-movie star jobs hahahahahahahaha ;)

[Tater-ToT]

Sunspot... I have been having internet problems today for some reason... I'll put some pics up somewhere & put a link down here tomorrow (But then I'm gonna delete them)...Ha!!!!

Bean... Haa, Haaa... Yup definately accident prone... & SHOULD have had it punched out in the slammer ... but Nope... lost it in a car wreck but got incarerated in the process off all that...

actually I never lost it at all... never even broke the root... it was just loose & basically the socket around it got crushed.... it got pushed back all the way against my pallet...never even fell out of my mouth... by the time I got to the doc it was too late to save it... but we tried...& I wore a wire brace on it for 6 weeks (looked like braces (kind of welded it to the tooth next too it) to stabelize it... but the minute we took the brace off the tooth then decided to just fall out... it was disheartning for sure.... Whaaaaa....

Naa my mom kept it because she wanted it to be a reminder that I could have lost my LIFE vs a mere tooth... I should of been DEAD... that's where the ruby red slipper & the guardian angel comes from too.... I used to call my mom from jail & tell her to remind me to never leave home without my slippers (That Theres NO PLACE LIKE HOME, Click Click There's NO PLACE Like Home)... It was aweful... she actually sent me a guardian angel... but they wouldn't let me keep it because they didn't consider it a religious symbol... Humph!

Anyway, I am tempted to see if I can pursue the insurance again... last time I had to dig up the retired agent to verify it...LoL... hope he's not dead now!

NY.... well we didn't/don't live in that kind of neighborhood... but still basically the same thing... (I guess it's rampid)... all the rich kids (whoms parents had lake houses) got benz & lexus, ect for their 16th b'days.... & my kid got snubbed for getting my then only slightly used Mazda

Shoot it was a V6, Leather seats & bun warmers & had less than 25,000 miles on it when she got it & I was still paying for it... (only a couple of years old if that) I was actually glad when she graduated & traded it in & got her own choice of cars... cause that spared me from the payments.... (just in time to ease financial burdens during TX too) Whew... so glad my oldest turned out to be a responcible & finacially independant child!!!

:)

[Tater-ToT]

<a href="http://www.flashfiremedia.com/Images/port/Mrpotatohat.gif">Here I am</a></p>Just Kidding <a href="http://www.maskworld.com/pix/masks/056-party-face-gesicht-fasching-karneval-carnival-halloween-latex-film-movie-larp-theatre-theater-horror-rubber-gummi-mask-masks-maske-masken.jpg">Here I am</a><p>
Okay, <a href="http://pleikump.us/private/Vicki304.jpg">Here I am</a> March 04 @
3 months into TX First Round, <br>
For Round two <a href="http://pleikump.us/private/BirthdayJune05.jpg">Here I am</a>
In Alaska on my Bday June 05,
<a href="http://pleikump.us/private/TaterandHoneyBunnyOct05.jpg">Here I am</a>
with my better half on the cruise last Oct, &amp;
<a href="http://pleikump.us/private/DutyFree.jpg">Here I am</a> in the duty Free
Store in Jamaica last October... </p>
<p>And Last But Not Least,
<a href="http://pleikump.us/private/raineryakimatrip92206.jpg">Here I am</a>
last Friday... LoL&nbsp; </p>
<p>If you don't look Quick You're gonna miss em, I'm gonna delete them this
afternoon...&nbsp; Ha!<br>
I Think I looked best in October @ last years reunion... but MAN did that ever
take a LOT Of Work to paint on those fake smiles... every evening I'd just go to
my cabin &amp; COLLAPSE! Ugg! In My Most recent pic, I Think I still have that &quot;I
Don't Feel Good&quot; look about me!</p>
</p>
Hope this post I had to use all that HTML so it may screw it up!
:)

[honey11]

Hey I clicked on everyone of the Here I Am's and got only first 2!  I guess you already deleted.  You talking to yourself down here?

[Tater-ToT]

Haaa, Haaaaa.... I didn't think I was!!! Tee Hee...
Actually In The post above my last one I told Sunspot I'd post the pictures the next day.... (so I did).... but I deleted mine later that afternoon (I warned that I would).... Ha....

So I have no Idea if he got to see em or not..... but I can reactive em if need be, then delete em again.... I just don't like leaving up.. Ya Know!!! LoL
:)

[honey11]

Yep reactivate at least until tonight around midnight and then delete so everyone has a chance to look!

[Tater-ToT]

LoL.... Haa, Haaaa... Okay...they are reactivated for 12 hours (You've seen most of em) but the most reacent one doesn't do my spikes justice... there was a breeze blowing them down... (their like baby fine) I should get some moose & blow dry my head upside down & THEN Let ya look... it would be a rod stewart look for sure.. & if I did a perm right now I'd look like a poodle with a bad cut... Ha!
:)

[honey11]

haha You are funny!  Yeah I have seen all but last one and looks like you came out of tx with a pretty good set of hair to me!  Mine got so thin and is normally blonde and also got so dark! I think alot of it was that underneath of mine is darker blonde and when I started shedding,,,,left me with a wispy dark coat! lol And talk about looking like death lol  I should have taken before pics and during....Just amazing what that year does to your hair,,,skin and most of all your MIND!! ha
Nope,,,you came out of it looking cute!

[friole]

Tator - Missed the pics but think I have seen em before anyway.  I like the tx  rasta braids best. Now how do you do that?

ny girl - we got the same problem with the rich here too -- that is -  oil money - I have seen high school kids driving H2's.  Makes me want to vomit.  It is hard on regular kids with so many "haves" around.  I guess when your parents decide to sell their house (if ever) someone will buy it and bulldoze it for a McMansion  like they do in Dallas and Houston.  Every time someone does that a little bit of history is lost.

[sunspot]

I ben sick the last 4 days and havn't been on the putor. Cr@p, I missed ya.
I'm gald to see NY is getting straight on her meds. I had the insur co give me a fit or 2 and it ain't no fun.

[Tater-ToT]

... I know what you mean....(about that insurance thing) No Fun!

So you've been sick??? Mee Too, had an ear infection... what was wrong with you?

[sunspot]

Got em. You, my dear, are a nice looking lady. Okay, pics on the web of your self creep you out. Each to their own.
Do you travel by car or plane? I prefer flying as driving wears me out. In the last month, I've been to Atlanta twice and Huntsville once. I live 50 miles south of Birmingham and I think I'll stay put for a few more months.

[Tater-ToT]

All that just for a Pic... LoL ... Gee somehow I can RELATE To That, HeH, HeH!!!

Glad you're feeling better & got your Choppers too! I think I am gonna HAVE to go to the dentist soon, I either have cavity coming on or something .. I always clinched my teeth on TX & it's the tooth that always got the most pressure (so maybe it's something else, like cracked or something)... it doesn't hurt to chew or anything, but any kind of suction on it, it just feels WEIRD.. so I don't know what the heck that is, & just knowing about it makes me favor the other side! Maybe when I do go I can talk to them about my implant vs a bridge for my pre-existing situation!

No, I am back in Washington now... driving over to Yakima this afternoon for a few days, but Tuesday I'll be back in Ga for a day, the going to Charelston for my better half's vietnam reunion, then should be back here again by the following Monday... so I am traveling a LOT Lately, & dealing with some family issues & trying to STOP Smoking... just don't know IF now is the time I ought to be trying to quit because I look for excuses not to anyways, & the added stress might be a good enough excuse to cave, or be bitchy (& not an appropriate time for neither)...LoL (Dang Just The WORD makes me want one) Ugg!

Hey I reinstated the pics (just for you) LoL (all I had done was rename them so they wouldn't show up)... but when I get to Yakima tonight I am taking them back down FOREVER... Ha! So If you miss them this time, They're gone Bye, Bye.. LoL..Don't ask me why but I just can't stand the though of em popping up in an archieve or something... That kind of creeps me out! (Weird I Know) Can't wait to see the new ones of you!!
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I started with a mild sore throat and progressed to a minor sinus plug and run. I've had worse but it still dragged me down.
I got my teeth yesterday but I need to go back for better fitting. This weekend, I'll shave and put on some clothes for a new picture at the aussie site.
Other than your ear, how ya doin'? Still in Georgia?

[Tater-ToT]

Thanks.... Hey what did you go to Atlanta for, was that where you got your teeth done? That's quite a drive for you!

I prefer flying too,(actually I'd prefer just twitching my nose & miraculously appearing where I need to be... Ha!)  & I don't care much for driving long distances either (Unless it's leisurely driving across country or something), we drove here to Yakima (about a 3 hour drive) & will drive back in a few days... but then we'll FLY To Atlanta next week & from there drive to FT Bragg, then back down to Charleston (We have to because we are picking up some of our kids along the way so they can go with us)then we'll fly back... after all that I want to stay parked awhile myself!

So when ya gonna post a new pic..??? Let me know so I can go see!!!
:)