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TitanPa 
"Here four more"
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 Posted - 01/04/2011 : 13:03:23
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Most of you know me. I hardly spent time in the fourum last year. Been pretty busy. Some of you wonder what I been up to and how TitanMA and TitanKids are. lol.
It was a very eventful year. Well....it was more eventful towards the end of the year. As some of you know I lost my job the year before. It took me a long time to find a new job. A year to the week in September when I lost my old job is when I found my new job. I work for the state taking care of metally challenged individuals. I love it and it is a very rewarding job. Im now thinking of becoming an LPN. Its a kind of a nurse.
THe girls turned 6 and 2 this year. THe oldest started Kindergarten, which has been a rough transition for her. Kindergarteners these days need to know alot more than I did back in the day. And the youngest? Well she is turing into a tom boy and we decided she will be the one who visits the ER a lot.
As for TitanMA. After I found my job, she found a new job that she enjoys. She now has better hours, time to spend with the kids, and she even beams that she now has scheduled lunches....lol
It was wrapping up to be a pretty good year....that is until December rolled around. WHile at my job I was working one to one with an individual when he pushed me. It was unexpected. I could not catch my balance. I started to fall backwards. As I fell I could feel and see my legs bend the other way and both knee caps pop out. I hit the floor softly but I was in alot of pain. I yelled for help. While on the floor I could feel my left knee cap pop back in but I could hardly move the right. After I was found I was treated and taken to the hospital by ambulance. While I was in the ER I had X-rays (WHere I got the idea for the AV contest) done. It was found that I had tore my patellar tendon on my knee (THe one that helos your knee bend forward) I would need surgery right away. So the next day I had it done. It was painful, but am doing well now. My follow up is this Wed. They say I need 6 weeks of no movement in my leg to heal. I have a leg immobilizer on it all the time. I walk with a walker. So it seems I shall be on here a lot more. And thats my year.
Anyone else want to share?
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Chris C 
"Four words, never backwards."
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Posted - 01/04/2011 : 17:37:09
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Wow, I really hope that 2011 turns out to be an improvement on 2010.
My year was waaay more uneventful. On the plus side, I've started this year in the same job as I was in at the start of last year. Mrs C, BabyBear and I are all fit and healthy. I became a published author  , and met up with a number of fellow Fwiffers and Benj. What a great bunch of people. 
On the downside - not a lot apart from the great computer crash in the spring, and the loss of both our cats.
On the whole, a good year. Long may it continue. |
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BaftaBaby 
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 01/04/2011 : 22:50:52
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TitanPa how awful! The knee, obviously, not the job, wife, kids. My heart goes out to you, buddy. You know you'll always have a place here for our special kind of R&R. Your leg may be immobile, but your film-brain can race around the fwfr track at top speed!
And Chris - I'm so sad to hear about your cats.
Here's hoping 2011 shows itself to be a good thing.
xxx
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Sean 
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
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Posted - 01/05/2011 : 05:44:49
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Well, my 2010 wasn't too eventful personally, although for some people I know it sure was, and not in a good way...
In a nutshell, I...
- watched about 250 more movies
- acquired about 100 more CDs (mostly metal)
- ate very well as per usual
- drank plenty of delicious wine, as per usual
- expanded greatly into the awesome world of Belgian Trappist ales and some US microbrews
- ended the year exactly one year closer to death than I began it 
so everything's fine there. 
Also:-
- My favourite aunt's cancer returned in May after about 3 years in remission and she was pronounced terminal.  She's now responding very well to life-extending chemotherapy and appears 'fine' at the moment but obviously we all fear the worst.
- My sister (who has lived in London for about 20 years) made a surprise visit for Xmas (I knew she was coming but nobody else did). I wish I'd had a camera handy to preserve the look on my parents's faces when I rolled up the driveway with her in the passenger seat. 
- I got gout twice early in the year, which probably answered a few other questions (why I feel like I've been poisoned after eating too much rich food for a few days running); B-grade kidneys. They're OK, just not as good as I'd like them to be. I feel a bit ripped off at not being able to eat what I want when I want, but compared to other things that other people have to deal with it's a total non-issue so I definitely have no right to complain.
That's about it in a nutshell. My hopes for 2011? That my aunt makes it through to 2012, although the statistics say she won't. My gut feel is that she will given how well she's responding to the chemo. |
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 01/05/2011 : 06:24:46
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Goodness! Sorry to hear about the knees. As Mary Schmidt once said "be good to your knees. You'll miss them when they're gone."
And Chris - you could have elaborated on the published author bit. I would have liked to have heard more about that.
Wishing the best for Se�n's aunt!
As for me, 2010 has not been good. At the end of 2009 I was let go of a job I'd held for 22 years, just when my husband was also unemployed. But I got a temporary position for 6 months, which I hated and required exhaustive travel. When that ended, I didn't try to find another position with them and I've been unemployed ever since. Thankfully, my husband got taken on in a temporary position just as I stopped working. Now that job of his has been extended until June, so there's at least one income here. As for my unemployment, I'm going on tons of interviews only to be offered jobs that pay next to nothing or am told I'm over qualified. With all this, I think it really is time to concentrate on becoming a freelance writer, editor and translator. It is slow going, especially because I haven't been very well lately, but that's clearing up now. The next step is to get a web page up and start promoting myself (which is one thing I know nothing about).
But my oldest son was promoted at his job, and he's just moved into a bigger apartment with his girlfriend. My younger son is doing great in the air force in a technical unit working with radar, and he gets to come home most weekends. Since my daughter finished school she has been working two jobs and will be going into the army next month - and will be on a track for officer's training with a unit that does telecommunications. So at least for them 2011 looks good. |
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Chris C
"Four words, never backwards."
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Posted - 01/05/2011 : 06:29:15
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
And Chris - you could have elaborated on the published author bit. I would have liked to have heard more about that.
No need to - you were in the same book!! |
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 01/05/2011 : 11:26:01
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Originally posted by Chris C
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
And Chris - you could have elaborated on the published author bit. I would have liked to have heard more about that.
No need to - you were in the same book!!
Silly me!
(Of course, I was published before the FWFR book, but that's a long time ago. Now I mainly publish online.)
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Wheelz 
"FWFR%u2019ing like it%u2019s 1999"
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Posted - 01/07/2011 : 19:32:14
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I haven't been on the fourum for a while.
My last post was in early August, shortly before learning that my Dad's liver cancer had returned and was not responding to the latest treatment. I flew to see him for a few days, then went on my annual Baseball vacation, toward the end of which my brother called to say I'd better get back down there. Dad passed away over Labor Day weekend.
Since then I've spent a lot of time with family, including helping each other get through the holidays. For Thanksgiving, my Mom, my brothers, our wives and my nieces all went on a Bahamas cruise together. This had been planned over a year ago and was meant to celebrate Mom and Dad's 50th anniversary, which he missed by 5 weeks. The trip was great, but of course very bittersweet. We scattered Dad's ashes at sea.
I suppose I could have found time for FWFR through all this, but web-surfing hasn't been a very high priority for me lately. We'd known for years that Dad was going to go eventually, but his death affected me more profoundly than I'd expected.
I'm only just starting to feel "normal" again. Just today I thought, "I wonder what's been going on over at FWFR?" and figured this thread would be the perfect opportunity to jump back in. Hopefully I'll be around more often.
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BaftaBaby
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 01/07/2011 : 22:55:51
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Originally posted by Wheelz
I haven't been on the fourum for a while.
My last post was in early August, shortly before learning that my Dad's liver cancer had returned and was not responding to the latest treatment. I flew to see him for a few days, then went on my annual Baseball vacation, toward the end of which my brother called to say I'd better get back down there. Dad passed away over Labor Day weekend.
Since then I've spent a lot of time with family, including helping each other get through the holidays. For Thanksgiving, my Mom, my brothers, our wives and my nieces all went on a Bahamas cruise together. This had been planned over a year ago and was meant to celebrate Mom and Dad's 50th anniversary, which he missed by 5 weeks. The trip was great, but of course very bittersweet. We scattered Dad's ashes at sea.
I suppose I could have found time for FWFR through all this, but web-surfing hasn't been a very high priority for me lately. We'd known for years that Dad was going to go eventually, but his death affected me more profoundly than I'd expected.
I'm only just starting to feel "normal" again. Just today I thought, "I wonder what's been going on over at FWFR?" and figured this thread would be the perfect opportunity to jump back in. Hopefully I'll be around more often.
Oh, Wheelz, what sad news about your dad. But it's so great to see you back here. You've been missed! Let's hope fwfr can help ease you through those moments of pain and bring back some joy to your life. We're here for you, buddy!
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w22dheartlivie
"Kitty Lover"
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Posted - 01/08/2011 : 01:21:02
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| As most of you know, 2010 was fairly eventful for me. I had the stroke in September, which was followed by the giant crash of my computer the week I got home. I lost my beloved aunt in October, but we managed to hide the news of my stroke from her. I managed to tell her that it was okay, if she looked up and saw her sister, my mom, waiting for her, for her to go, and tell Mamma how much I loved her. Thanksgiving and Christmas was tough, and a bit lonely. I'm holding on to getting a subsidized apartment that is decent and get out of this place, where I grew up, but is now falling down. We successfully fought off the parole of the man who killed my goddaughter, a very kind person helped me secure a good computer, I have fast internet now, and not just dial up. My medications seem to be working fairly well, I'm tolerating them well and things FEEL better than they have. I'm grateful for the kindnesses I've received this year and pray life continues to improve. TitanPA, I have to say that I was a behavior clinician in a state facility for MR/DD, and I found the work with them to be some of the most honest and rewarding there can be. You can take things from that population at face value. Love is love, hate is hate, and most importantly, "I'm sorry" is real. I'm glad you are experiencing it. Take it for what it is. |
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Improper Username 
"inappropriately amused"
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Posted - 01/08/2011 : 18:01:35
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My husband led an Agribusiness Development Team in Afghanistan that was a partnership between the university and the Kansas National Guard. I stayed so busy at home that I was hardly aware of his absence. I did a lot of free lance web application coding jobs.
In the spring, I decided to reduce the size of my horse herd, and I gave away all my broodmares to friends who have stallions that I admire. I had collected some fancy mares and my friends eagerly snapped them up. It was the right thing to do, but it broke my heart and I am not all the way recovered yet.
My husband returned home safely and this fall he was promoted to Brigadier General. My daughter, who does IT work for the Guard, was promoted to Lieutenant, and she and her husband adopted a little shelter dog. My son got an IT job that he enjoys.
My parents' health is declining but they are still able to live in the house they have been living in since WW2.
I learned that I have Asperger's Syndrome, and this information has been so helpful that it is as if I have been handed the key to an encryption. Presently, I am trying to get my levothryroxine dosage for hypothyroidism balanced correctly, which will take a few weeks. I slept through December because of it.
I installed the kindle app on my Blackberry and have begun reading again. Book reading was something I had not done for a very long time and now I can hardly get enough of it.
I feel blessed to be a fellow fwiffer here.
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