D D Will WONDERS never cease

...but first of all ........Happy Valentines Day!

Remember I told you that I had my FIRST fruit yogurt just recently? Me...the one that can never let things go to waste ( just like the two left over egg rolls from the Chinese food we had last week (last night) . :0( 
Son Randy handed me my FIRST last week.....one tiny taste from the spoon to my lips and ................to die for!
Yogurt has "come a longggg way BABY!" I shit you not! That yogurt ice cream cone I took ONE LICK of back in the early 70's, has LOST IT'S YUCK! ;0)
Bought FOUR with different fruits in my grocery order yesterday. Ate one last night. 5 Points.  While VERY,VERY GOOD, I can't help but wonder how many W.W.Points are in the McDonalds strawberries and yogurt cup they sell, cause it is DEVINE!

Shocker! Tracie called me yesterday as I was getting ready to leave for my appointment and hubby's visitng nurse, Michelle was here .  Was waiting for his vitals to be taken before I left. 144/60 . While I thought the bottom number was low, the R.N. didn't bat an eyelash.   Lots of factors...stress/pain....
Told Tracie to call me back in a few hours.  Three hours later I went grocery shopping and she called while I was gone. Jill told me she sounded upset to find me not home, cause I had told her to call me back in a few hours.  sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh   Forty five minutes after I posted last night and deeply into The Batchelor, I heard my name being called.  Yep...it was Tracie.  Sorry that she jumped to conclusions................. I don't know what made me do that.          To be truthful, I have grown to like my evenings quieter.  NOW, I need to make it known and quite clear to her, that one, maybe two days a week will be the MAX I am willing to give her. 
Wish me luck! Either she will accept it...orrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr . Either way, I WIN!  It has nothing to do with hubby's wishes. I've been making NOISES to you that my evenings were becoming a Thorn in My Side with Tracie to entertain ( not being able to do what I'd do if she wasn't here ) I like being able to be alone with my "thoughts."  Unwinding from the day....the kind of stuff one does ALONE. Longer SIT on the throne, read a book, read m/f's posts....stuff you CAN'T SHARE. ;0) Also I don't need her reading over my shoulder when I am in my blog, nor do I want to have to close out before I leave my bedroom.   You get it?????????? Hope she does!   orrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...............
She left without saying so................but I'm sure she will be back here today.

While I was out yesterday that guy from the V.A. named Bill called. Hubby took the call. The V.A. in bedford no longer does that in patient eval on vets with dementia.   Hubby said he emntioned it's done in Boston now and could be done the same day he has another appointment there. I have to call him today and let him know hubby's next appointment there and he will try for the same day.  Apparently....quite apparently, this is not an over-night process anymore. I'm surprised that hubby even relayed this info to me.     Interesting.........VERY INTERESTING! 

Daughter Cheryl had her rotator cuff surgery yesterday and she too called while I was out to ask how my cortisone injection went.  Jill said she was wound up like a Forty Day Alarm Clock.  yaketty yak without catching a breath. I didn't call her back. Hoped by that time she was sleeping the "good sleep" from the effects of her pain med.  

Kathy should be here soon to help hubby wash up.  I enjoy her company....cause to be honest .....I'd let her know that hubby is quite capable of taking a shower ( not without risk, but he won't listen) .
Speaking of.....she's HERE! 
Took the opportunity to change sheets and vac and a scurry about our room doing six different things.

It's now 10:45 and Bill at the Lowell V.A. returned my call. Hubby has a Feb 24th appointment in Boston at
9:30 a.m.  GRECC   ...geriatric ????  . 

Jill made out an extensive list of the jewelry she is missing and brought it up to the police station this morning.
Will be visiting her son Gil today from 2-4 p.m. Did hint to her ...that this is not the rehab thing I am familiar with on Dr.Phil.  For X amount of time...no family is allowed to see them.  Here where Gil is...they encourage it ,she told me. It's their first stop before being sent to a rehab. They don't want them to feel abandoned.  Had to agree with her that drugs are a sickenss and I added to it, ( just like gambling and drinking and over-eating. ) Told her it wasn't a question of IF, but WHEN if she continues to get behind the wheel of a car. Will either kill or injure herself, worst yet..some innocent people and their families that doesn't deserve it. Told her that all I ask is that she get a ride home if she has been drinking.  Knew it would be dumb of me to say 'quit drinking'" That has continued to fall on deaf ears.  Got no response back from her, but I PUT IT OUT THERE! 

Great Dr.Oz Show this morning. Morbidly obese woman on the show. Some have seen REASON and others continue to poo-poo how serious their conditions are.  Some "laugh at any notion that they are unhappy with themselves and could die from the weight." WE KNOW....laughing is just a re-action for some people.  Have you ever heard of "feederism"?   Some of their mates are into this behavior. I for one am going to look that up on Google.  Smelling of the obese person's armpits and the likes. Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!  To each, his/her own. I'll PASS. i shit you not!
Already, I've forgot the one phycological question everyone that has a weight problem should ask themselves.
WHO in YOUR LIFE told you that you were worthless. 
With some of us...it's many negative factors ..... that shaped our lives. My parents never orally spoke those words to me.
 My dads actions when he chose to not interact with us after a hard day of  work was to drink at home or go  to a bar.
Watching my mother take the verbal abuse he heaped on her when he drank.....maybe...... 
He was by far........the worst parent. 
Hubby when I met him in 1967 had just quit smoking.  Three packs a day!  I would always hear from him..." the lips that touch cigarettes will never touch mine."  THIS is where I think after repeated verbal abuse , I mentally tried to become unattractive to him.   Could be wrong...................  Lit up a cigarette and began smoking ......Had already had one struggle with my weight in 1973 at nearly 200 pounds and after seeing myself holding my first grandchild,  lost that weight.  After 1986 when my mom passed away....... the weight began to come on again.  My weight in February 2011 was 213 pounds. While I wasn't morbidly obese, I was and am still obese at 183 pounds. 
Feeling better and better about myself already. :0)    .

It's noontime......am I hungry or do I just want to eat because of the time?????????????????  that is THE QUESTION????   Yogurt sounds appealing to me.   Question is...how filling will it be?
My sandwich would be the same POINT VALUE  PLUS as many half sour pickles as I want to eat. hmmmmmmm Decisions, decisions. ;0)  A nap sounds good to me too.   I shit you not!  Got out of bed at 6a.m. after broken sleep. My pain and my pain in the butt hubby. ;0) 

That's All Folks!
(((Hugs)))Pat