It’s all about me~ By Tracy

Tracy my co-host on The Padded Room posted this for our next show, hope you can join us, it will be at 1PM Texas time. Our show this Thursday is a must ‘hear’! We will be talking with Ruby Cantu, co-host of The Padded Room. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/rlrn/2010/04/15/the-padded-room–unloc… Ruby has suffered with severe Scoliosis for most of her [...]

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Thursday recap~

I woke up to my morning rituals, coffee, nets, news and such…I had one response for my book plea on freecycle and called the lady as she requested on her email. She asked what types of books I was wanting and I told her blood, guts, crime, murder, mystery, suspense, basically I will read anything….almost…so anyhoo she [...]

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☻Sunday Funday

Not fun but I’ll try to make it so. Today we head back to hell….aka Austin, this time it’ll be me and the 3 kiddos. I have an appointment tomorrow morning to remove stitches on my back and I’m sure xrays. I figured it would be better to break the trip down, get there, check [...]

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An update of sorts….

I came to hell AKA Austin, Texas on Wednesday, I did my pre admission and lab work then had to come back to the hospital and give them some of my blood. Then went out for dinner, then back to the hotel. Thursday was a long day of waiting around then on to my next [...]

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Ruby Tuesday Part Dos~

I busied myself and made appointments and registrations and reservations and then I went back to sticking my head in the sand.   I had a sense of satisfaction that I could take a breather from the madness of being put on hold and transfered here and there….anyhoo all that changed with the shrill of [...]

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Sometimes a bit (or a lot) of whining pays off….

Finally I am getting somewhere with all these damn phone calls made to the different players out there that are not working very efficiently. I will be getting a check for the last two months for my Long Term Disability YAY!!! Of course there won’t be any money left for anything fun, I have bills [...]

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Happy Happy…Joy Joy

With today being a holiday I had not planned on doing the phone thing…well it didn’t quite work that way…my doctors office called, I have an appointment Monday to review my discogram and do my pre-op stuff. Surgery is tentatively scheduled for Wednesday….not much time to think about it…which works for me…I don’t want to [...]

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56 things~

The news today wasn’t good….but I guess I have made a decision…. …and this time I will be prepared…..I found this list of things to do while recovering from surgery….some sound fun… Download music (legally) from the Internet; fill up your ipod from itunes Randomly explore the internet; see what the rest of the world [...]

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I don’t always answer the question…and why I don’t~

I grew up with a mother that never passed on answering the question of “How are you?” She would answer in detail……we are talking everything from bowel issues, menstrual, pms, you name it issues, real or imagined, In her case, mostly imagined, I used to cringe when anyone asked her, it got to the point [...]

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A chronicle of my first 2 back surgeries…

As a patient I was initially admitted for two days’ observation to ensure that I was in good general health. Which I was~ for the exception of a severe case of backne (back acne, I had acne on my face (facene) too but they weren’t messing with my face). On the third day, they proceeded [...]

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