Agreed. When my husband’s grandmother was dying, she wanted to sign a DNR, but her kids talked her out of it. She ended up having terrible breathing problems, so one of her kids (who had medical POA) told the doctor to put her on a ventilator. Although she did come off the vent about a week later, the rest of her life…

I wish I could show your story to my mother. There are days I think, “Thank goodness I’m never going to have kids” because I just know my mother would drive me up a wall. She thinks the idea of PPD is hogwash, you might as well murder your baby if you’re going to feed it formula, it’s terrible for a mother to go back…

Good thought. Tracking/map apps aren’t always accurate. When I look up my friend’s house on Google Earth, it shows the little convenience store a few buildings away. I can *just* see the corner of her house on the far side of the photo, but it shows the convenience store as if that’s what is at her address.

Your friends are officially way cooler than mine. A Phantom/Les Mis sing-a-long is my idea of a great time!

I was supposed to go see this when I was in 8th grade, but my mother got pissed at me and tore up my permission slip. I finally got to see it about three years ago, and it was every bit as spectacular as I imagined. The only bad part was when a cap gun went off and I, startled out of my mind, reflexively punched the…

I JUST started watching RHONJ yesterday. I’m trying not to look up info about any of the cast members, but it’s hard to avoid them in the tabloids/news. I definitely don’t like NJ as much as I like the Beverly Hills version.

YES. That’s a perfect description. It didn’t cause any problems until I’d been on it for a few months, though, so at first I didn’t think to taper off of it. When I did, I could finally breathe again. I started walking 2 miles/day, four or five days per week, being more productive at work, etc.

I’m between doctors now (new insurance kicking in on 2/1), so I can ask about it when I finally get in for an appointment. I am not diabetic; I just have neuropathy for seemingly no reason. I have lupus, so I guess that could be the cause, but I don’t have diabetes or any kind of nervous system disorder. For a while,…

Has anyone here ever had a bad experience with Neurontin? I started taking it a few months ago for neuropathy and lupus-related pain. It took away the pain, but after a while, I felt really depressed all the time and had no motivation to do anything. Then I started having shortness of breath to the point that I…

If you’ve been had, it sucks, but try to comfort yourself with the thought that you’re a nice person who’s willing to help. At least that’s how I consoled myself when I sent someone money to keep her and her kids from being kicked out of their hotel room, only to have one of our mutual friends send me a pic of the new…

My best advice would be to do what you want to do and ignore everyone else (unless someone else is chipping in $, you have no obligation to acquiesce on anything). My biggest regret is that I didn’t just do whatever I wanted from the beginning.

I made a batch of homemade meatballs on Thursday night and froze them. I put half of them in the slow cooker with a jelly/barbecue sauce mixture last night, and then I did the other half with marinara sauce and pasta today.

<i>Voices After Midnight</i> by Richard Peck. I can’t remember the entire plot, but I think a family goes to stay in an old house, and somehow the kids are able to travel back in time? It was really good.

Oops! Never mind.

The last time I went to the National Zoo, there was a panda eating a tub of ice cream. He dripped it all over himself and then ended up licking it off his own stomach. Best thing I’ve ever seen. As an added bonus, I got to overhear some lady genuinely asking her boyfriend why the panda was behind glass and not allowed…

I think it’s equally ridiculous to pay $350 for a belt and $600+ for a phone, so...

Roaches aren’t necessarily a filth-based bug, though. They can go a long time without food, so they are often attracted to sources of water. If you live in a damp environment, or have a leaky pipe, they can march right in and set up camp.

It was not! I’ll spill; it was the Ramada, and it was actually in Hazelwood, (we were on a long road trip, so we stayed at budget places; the $29/night Microtel in Louisville was clean and beautiful; the Ramada in Hazlewood was awful).

Ugh, yes. We picked them up at a hotel in St. Louis, and it was disgusting. We actually didn’t tell anyone, except my parents, about them; people just assume bugs=dirty, even though that’s not always the case.

I listen to the Dave Ramsey show occasionally. I can’t stand his political views, but I do think his money advice is sound. His “baby steps” are to 1) Save a baby emergency fund of $1,000. 2) Pay off all debt except your mortgage. 3) Save three to six months’ worth of expenses. 4) Put 15 percent of your income away…