It’s this weird line to walk. To need them to live a “normal” life ... but then realize you HAVE to keep a handle on it. It would be so easy to just pop another pill when you start feeling uncomfortable. But I know what time the next dose is acceptable ... and I push it further when I can. You’re right ... it’s a…

I’m *so* sorry for your pain. Yeah, iburofen ... it breaks my heart. This is the honest truth ... one day I decided I wanted to stop taking pain medication. Surely Aleve couldn’t hurt me that much? So for one week I took Aleve twice a day ... and only needed a Vicodin once or twice. Aleve worked SO well for my pain.…

Chronic pain is hard and so many people just make blanket statements without knowing the facts. I have a PKD ... a kidney disease that causes the kidneys to grow to the size of footballs. I have back and side pain along with pain from chronic kidney stones. In a perfect world, I’d take ibuprofen or Aleve which work…

Thank you for the kind words. It was a bad situation. Things are much better for me ... I’m not 100% sure for him. The last time I talked to him was a couple years ago. He called in one of his manic states crying saying he needed to hear me say I forgave him. I got him to calm down and asked, “Are you getting any…

My ex husband spent 30 days in jail after breaking an order of protection for the second time. His psychiatrist had called me at seven o’clock at night to tell me to be at the courthouse when it opened to get an order of protection. My ex was refusing all medication and treatment and was highly unstable. He’d already…

So I’m always hearing these horrific pedicure stories complete with photos of people with flesh eating disease from getting their toes done. Well, I’ve never actually had a bad experience ... until this weekend.

It resonated with me as well ... it was hard to hear. My grandmother held together up her deeply flawed marriage for her entire life ... and I somehow got the idea that it was noble to be the only pillar holding up the porch. It’s not.

My ex had mental health issues and struggled with it for years. It’s a hard reality to accept that you cannot fix another person. You can be there for them ... but eventually there comes a point when you may have to separate for your own mental health. I’m so sorry you’ve gone through all your stuff ... it’s a rough…

God, do I not want to be the person agreeing with a Kardashian ... but when I read ...

Here too. It was nails on a chalk board. The whole hyperventilating thing ... it just kills me. I honestly, swear to God, thought it was an act. A brilliant act! I even thought the rosary was a nice touch ... the whole time they were in the Savior’s bunker, I thought, “Oh, man Carol is gonna SLAUGHTER these women!”…

I get that ... and agree. There’s an underlying thread ... from burning the sick prisoners to “watch the flowers” ... that’s some twisted stuff right there. Which is why this new persona is infuriating. It’s not like Morgan “got to her” ... there was NO indication that she listed to Morgan’s philosophy and thought,…

THIS right here. THIS has been my problem with the new Carol. You don’t want to kill? Leaving Alexandria does NOT solve that issue. This is a new world where killing for survival in the random wild is necessary. Her leaving her gated community didn’t remotely remove the necessity of killing.

Same to you! I hope you don’t even need it for YEARS to come! :)

I’m not on any restrictions yet ... aside from sodium. Since I’m not retaining fluids yet, I don’t have to watch my fluid intake ... although I notice if I drink a lot, I’ll gain a pound for a day or two. It’s inevitable ... I’m just trying to put it off until we get home from a vacation in April. So you haven’t had…

I told the dialysis training RN that I wanted to put it off until May. He suggested we at least start either the PD port or fistual process ... because something as simple as a cold could knock my function down dangerously low. I told him I didn’t feel *that* bad ... and here’s what he told me. In cases of long-term…

The worst is having a degenerative disease ... and worrying if every little thing is part of it or something different or, in a worst case scenario, completely in your mind. I have Polycystic Kidney Disease. I was diagnosed at twenty and told I would be on dialysis around 50. My kidney function is down to 13% ... I’m…

That’s what I was coming here to say. That may work in the short term ... but in the long term, it’s going to be awkward for future relationships. Most people don’t want to “hang out” with their lover’s ex-wife or ex-husband. Plus this whole sleeping over thing ... I think it confuses the kids. There’s always that…

I also like to tell him how I’m “Fully actualized.” LOL

You have no idea how many times my fiance and I make this joke around the house. I don’t know why we loved it so much ... but we did! This weekend it snowed in Illinois ... and he when he was walking back from wheeling the trash can out on Sunday ... I was standing in the garage looking at the snow and hearing the icy…

I am the last person to defend KK ... but I agree with you 100%. I remember one day when I was growing up ... I don’t know fourth or fifth grade ... and my aunt was visiting. She was gushing on and on about how pregnancy was so beautiful and she’d love to be pregnant all the time. She went on and on about how her body…