There are all kinds of Mothers in this world and I think that I have seen or known just about every kind. My mother was very uncaring and selfish and became much worse after my Daddy died. I always knew that she loved my brother more than she did me, then she proved it after my Daddy died. She had me take everything that belonged to him out of her mobile home the day after the funeral. She said that she didn't want anything around to remind her of him. Then she took a trip to New Mexico, spent his whole $10,000 life insurance policy, met a 23 year old soldier on the bus coming back to NC and spent the weekend with him. When I wouldn't let her move in with us, she married a drunk 15 years younger than she was. He beat her and I called him and threatened him, she got on the phone and told me that if I ever came back to NC, she would have the sheriff waiting for me....  Read More

Most people think that the symptoms of a heart attack is 'Chest Pain', 'Pain Down the Arm', 'Shortness of Breath', and 'Nausea'. This is usually true when a man is having a heart attack, but heart attacks in women are more subtle and so many women (and doctors) don't realize when they are having a heart attack.

Symptoms are very different in women. Women may not even realize that they are having a heart attack when they have "atypical" symptoms, such as arm or back pain or nausea. The most common symptoms of heart attack in women is unexplained fatigue, shortness of breath, pressure in the lower chest, weakness and unusual fatigue. Other symptoms can be nausea, dizziness, lower chest discomfort, back pain and upper abdominal pressure. Another symptom that so many women (and men) ignore is 'just not feeling right'. Too many women ignore that last one...  Read More

When my Daddy was young he was always going hunting, mainly to help feed his family and my husband was also a hunter for the same reason. I had never been hunting and my Daddy and my husband talked me into going one day, this was many years ago before my Daddy died in 1975. So, here I go in my jeans and sweater carrying a 22 rifle. I really don't know what I thought that I was doing because old soft hearted me would never have been able to shoot an animal. But, we were having fun tromping through the woods in North Carolina where my Daddy lived after he retired. I was having fun just looking at all the beautiful plants that were still living in the woods and even pointed my gun at a rabbit once while saying 'there goes one.' Then, all of a sudden I was in extreme pain, looked down and I was standing on a yellow jacket nest and they were going up...  Read More

What could be more fun than spending a day with your two teen age grand children? We asked our 16 year old grand daughter and our 14 year old grand son if they wanted to spend the day going to thrift stores last Friday. We have been taking them since they were babies and we have turned them into thrift store junkies, they love them. Naturally our grand daughter texted her boy friend that we were going and he said that I hadn't beat him up enough and asked to come with us. Naturally we went by to get him. He is 18 and plans to be a doctor, puts up with anything that Lindsay says or does. I told her that she needs to hang on to him. Sad to say, she is just like me, but that is fodder for another blog. We started out about 11 AM, went to one Goodwill and one Second Chance Thrift Store and didn't find too much. I bought some paper back books and...  Read More

It sure beats the alternative!!

I have learned in my many years of being a daughter, a wife, a mother, and a grandmother is that young people really think that I don't know what I am talking about. I just sit back and smile because I know that one day they will be my age and hopefully they will look back and say 'my goodness, she was right all along.'

But as I get older, I feel those aches and pains more than I used to and when I have a strange new feeling, I head to Google to see if anybody else has had it and what in the world it is called. Seems like I am having more and more of those lately!!

I have noticed that as I become older there have been quite a few changes and one of them, being the frisky old girl that I am, is seeing the five gentleman a day that I have been seeing for awhile.

As soon as I wake up Will Power helps me out of...  Read More

Cataracts can be bothersome but they can also be wonderful. Why do I say that? Well, sometimes you don't even know when you have the cataracts, I didn't but the Optometrist said they were ready so in two separate visits to the hospital, I had the cataract surgery in 2006. To tell you the truth, I didn't even know that I could see better because the Optometrist still prescribed glasses for me and naturally the Optician was in his office. So, I continued to pay almost $400 everytime that he said that there was a change in my eyes. Imagine my surprise when the Opthalmologist informed me about 3 months ago that my vision was 20/20 and all I needed was reading glasses. It seems as though this happens to some of us when we have our cataract surgery. When I asked why the Optometrist kept prescribing glasses for me, I was told that an Optometrist was in business...  Read More

Well it is a new year and so far we have had rain, rain, rain and loud mouthed politicians. Are you as sick of them as I am? It wouldn't be so bad if they stuck to what they should be talking about....what they will do if elected. But no, they have got to bad mouth each other and that only turns people off. At this point, there is nobody that I want to vote for next year, but vote I will as I always do. I, for one, will be so glad when the 2012 elections are over and done with. The only problem is that I just looked at my calendar and realized how far away that is. Do you think that we will live through all of it?

As for the new year, I am bound and determined to make every minute of it count and enjoy my life and my family, especially the grand kids. I just wish that I could see the two that are in the Marine Corps more often....  Read More

This blog is dedicated to God, family and friends because without them I would not have been able to get through the trauma and the surgery for my brain tumor. I promise that this will be my last blog about the tumor, but I wanted to have this to officially thank every body and give credit where credit is due.

As we all know, God is so good and this time (as well as many times in the past) he heard all of the prayers and answered them by giving me a great surgeon and also having the tumor to be totally benign. I may have a shaved head, but I am alive and healthy and the darned hair will grow back.

My family was so supportive and loving, without them I don't know if I could have handled it. Was I scared? Yes I was, I tried not to show it, but it was always on my mind. I did have a feeling that God wasn't through with me yet and as it turned out, I...  Read More

As many of you know I wrote a blog when I found out that I had the brain tumor. Today I went to see the NeuroSurgeon at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. Supposedly some of the best doctors in the world are at Emory and I sure hope so as I saw a NeuroSurgeon there this morning and found out more than I wanted to know about the tumor.

I will be having brain surgery on December 1, 2011, I will go for another MRI and the Pre-Op on November 30. I have been told that I will be in the hospital for five days, the first two will be in intensive care. Mind you, this hospital is about 80 or 90 miles from where we live. I did manage to talk my husband into staying at home except for the day of the surgery. It is just too far to try to travel back and forth every day and after all, I am going to well taken care of.

The doctor said that at my age...  Read More

A couple of years ago someone dumped a darling little dog at our house. We thought at first that she was just lost and I put up fliers, when no one claimed her we took her to the vet and then found out why she was dumped. She was pregnant! The vet told us that we couldn't let her have the puppies because we didn't know what had gotten hold of her and if it was a big dog it would kill her to have the puppies, so he spayed her and took care of the problem. We named her Sunshine as she was bringing more sunshine into our lives.

We already had 3 dogs in a pen but because she was so much smaller we had planned on keeping her outside on a long leash. That was not to be, the big dogs would 'talk' to her through the fence and she would 'talk' back to them. We finally decided to take her inside the pen to see how she would get along with them. They...  Read More