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"jmcquown" > wrote in message ... > On 2/19/2015 7:01 AM, Julie Bove wrote: >> >>>> On 2015-02-18 10:56 AM, jinx the minx wrote: >>>> >>>> >>> Which ain't gonna happen with only a 2 year junior college degree. >>>> >>> >>>> >> Yep, that was rather my point. :) >>>> >> >>>> >> Jill >>>> > >>>> > Not to mention no math, no history, no pre-college track classes in >>>> > high >>>> > school whatsoever. It's really no wonder why a career at KMart was >>>> a > better >>>> > option than college for her. Something has to give! >>>> > >>>> > Notice she skirted nicely around the question about having been told she'd > have to attend a 2 year college for *five years* before she could take any > law courses. Painted herself right into a corner and couldn't justify the > answer. So now it's about her health issues... again. No I didn't. I did answer. Read it again. |
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Julie Bove wrote:
> > "jmcquown" > wrote in message > ... >> On 2/19/2015 6:07 AM, Julie Bove wrote: >>> I didn't *think* that what I had was a 401K. I even asked about it >>> when >>> I retired. I was told that I didn't have to roll the money over so I >>> spent it on furniture and appliances when we moved to Cape Cod. But >>> when I filed my taxes, I learned that it was! I was penalized, and >>> ****ed. I called the people in charge and they told me that they had >>> changed the plan at some point. >> >> 401k's have been around for a long time. What you apparently had was >> not a Roth (taxes prepaid) IRA, but a traditional one. You can't just >> cash out without paying taxes on the money. > > I have no clue what it was. I only put the money in after reading the > prospectus and talking to the person in charge of the plans. We had > four to choose from and they held a meeting with us all to explain > these. I had specifically asked and was told that it was not a 401K > or an IRA and the money could be taken at any time with no penalty. > > But as with many things K Mart, at some point, they changed the plan > and didn't tell us. They did the same with our pension plan. > You clearly misunderstood them. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com |
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Julie Bove wrote in rec.food.cooking:
> > "cshenk" > wrote in message > ... > > Julie Bove wrote in rec.food.cooking: > > > > > > >>"Dave Smith" > wrote in message > > > ... > >>> On 2015-02-18 10:56 AM, jinx the minx wrote: > > > > > >>> > > > Which ain't gonna happen with only a 2 year junior college > >>> > > > degree. > >>> > > > > >>> > > Yep, that was rather my point. :) > >>> > > > >>> > > Jill > >>> > > >>> > Not to mention no math, no history, no pre-college track classes > >>> > in high school whatsoever. It's really no wonder why a career at > >>> > KMart was a better option than college for her. Something has > >>> > to give! > >>> > > > > > > > > > > >>> Career? It was the best she ever attained, and it didn't last very > >>> long. > > > > > > 17 years isn't very long? > > > > It is. If you also got whatever they have towards stocks, 401K etc > > savings, you will have something more to show for it because of the > > longevity. > > I did well for myself way back on the stocks. I didn't think that > what I had was a 401K. I even asked about it when I retired. I was > told that I didn't have to roll the money over so I spent it on > furniture and appliances when we moved to Cape Cod. But when I filed > my taxes, I learned that it was! I was penalized, and ****ed. I > called the people in charge and they told me that they had changed > the plan at some point. Apparently not only was I not notified but > nobody else in my store. I was the only person to have put any money > into that plan from my store because it was not a guaranteed safe > plan. I could have lost or gained money but if I gained, I would > have gained more than with the other plans. I only put a very small > percent in there each week for a few years, figuring that the amount > was so small that it wouldn't matter if I lost. Turned out that I > lost by not rolling it over which I would have done had I known. Happens. I had to cash one out and it was a painful sticker shock later when tax time came. I did know I would have a penalty but not that it would be as much as it was. I missed rolling another over in time so will have to carry it with that company until withdrawal time but that's ok. > > I still have a pension coming to me. Technically I could get it now > but I will wait until I am older because I will get more. It won't > be a lot but to me, something is still better than nothing. I > retired about a month before they did away with the pension plan as > it had been. So I was lucky. Yes, they used to be really decent when Sam ran it. hen he died, his kids destroyed it. > My husband is already getting military retirement and is back working > for the military as a civilian. So if he puts in 5 or more years > with that, which he very likely will, he will get a pension from that > as well. Grin, works well! I ended up contractor after my 26 years Navy but I'm ok with it. > People can poke fun if they want. I did try to get other jobs but at > that point in time, nobody could give me the benefits that I had. No need to poke holes. Sometimes you can't get the same bennies at the nexy place. > When I retired, I had 5 weeks off per year of paid vacation, I think > it was 6 days of sick leave...maybe 7, and one personal day off per > year. I had good medical and dental insurance and life insurance > that I didn't have to pay for. And I had been there for so long that > it was highly unlikely I'd be fired or laid off. They were laying > off some of the management but I wasn't high enough up the ladder for > that to have happened. My retirement was forced in that I got > married and moved to another state. In past years they would have > made an effort to find me a suitable job on Cape Cod. But they > stopped doing that. 5 weeks seems a bit much. 3 normal with a good company. 4 at some. > > None of us are lawyers and I suspect most just make ends meet. > > According to most of what I see on the internet, it's really the job > > swappers who lose out in the long run. Swapping up if you have the > > skills can be good, but steady work that matches your skills wins in > > the long run. > > And lawyers don't necessarily make a lot of money. The ones I know > do not. In one instance, they are both blind. A married couple. So > they pay people to do some work for them that they wouldn't need to > have to pay for if they were sighted. The other guy doesn't want to > handle divorces or go to trial so he basically works for as a legal > assistant for other lawyers. Hey, if it works for them, it's ok. Carol -- |
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On 2/19/2015 8:19 PM, cshenk wrote:
> Yes, they used to be really decent when Sam ran it. hen he died, his > kids destroyed it. You have no idea what you're talking about. Julie worked for KMart, not WalMart. KMart was a subsidiary of Sears. No Sam, sorry! Jill |
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On 2/19/2015 6:19 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
> > "jmcquown" > wrote in message > ... >> On 2/18/2015 6:29 PM, Julie Bove wrote: >>> >>> "Dave Smith" > wrote in message >>> ... >>>> On 2015-02-18 10:56 AM, jinx the minx wrote: >>>> >>>>>>> Which ain't gonna happen with only a 2 year junior college degree. >>>>>>> >>>>>> Yep, that was rather my point. :) >>>>>> >>>>>> Jill >>>>> >>>>> Not to mention no math, no history, no pre-college track classes in >>>>> high >>>>> school whatsoever. It's really no wonder why a career at KMart was a >>>>> better >>>>> option than college for her. Something has to give! >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Career? It was the best she ever attained, and it didn't last very >>>> long. >>> >>> 17 years isn't very long? >> >> Considering KMart seems to be going down the tubes, you should >> probably apply for that pension before the entire house of cards falls >> down. > > That thought has crossed my mind but the money is put aside in a secured > account. Or so we are told. I'd be making sure of that if I were you. I make a point of knowing where my money is. Jill |
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Julie Bove wrote in rec.food.cooking:
> > "Bryan-TGWWW" > wrote in message > ... > > On Wednesday, February 18, 2015 at 12:08:40 PM UTC-6, Dave Smith > > wrote: > > > On 2015-02-18 10:56 AM, jinx the minx wrote: > > > > >>>>> Which ain't gonna happen with only a 2 year junior college > degree. > > > > > > > >>>> Yep, that was rather my point. :) > > > > > > >>>> Jill > > > > > >>> Not to mention no math, no history, no pre-college track classes > in > high >>> school whatsoever. It's really no wonder why a career > at KMart was a > better >>> option than college for her. Something > has to give! > > > > > > > > > > > > > Career? It was the best she ever attained, and it didn't last > > > very long. > > > > Now she has a better gig than anyone here. She sits on her ass and > > collects "disability" welfare. > > Hardly. I don't make enough to live on. Not in this area anyway. > And I really do miss working. I am a people person. You don't see > too many people sitting at home and there isn't much I can do to go > out and interact with people since I can't stand up for long or walk > very far. I can't even sit for extended periods of time without > extreme pain setting in. > > I have had really extreme leg pain since Sat. I can barely walk and > each and every time I have to get up or down, I have to really think > about it and decide if it is totally necessary because doing so > causes me to howl with pain. Driving a car is torture because to > lift my foot from the brake to the gas causes me to howl like a wolf > and getting in and out of the car is sheer torture. > > Worse still is lying down. You would think that would bring some > comfort, but no. Only makes the pain worse. And nothing is helping. > Not heat, massage, Tylenol or even trying to walk it off or stretch. > I don't know the cause of it is but I may have to go to the Dr. if it > continues. I had planned to do the spring cleaning now when Angela > is out of school. I did manage to do a little bit but if things > don't get better then not much more will get done now. > > Did not help that the front door knob fell off this morning at 5:00 > a.m. I had to find a 24/7 locksmith then wait for him to come. I'm > sure he wondered about me. I was still fully dressed but had a > bathrobe on over my clothes to try to increase the warmth to my leg > muscles. I could neither sit nor stand well so I was partway on and > partway off of the unreclined recliner, thrashing this way and that > trying to seek relief. Thankfully he was a fast worker so I was able > to get to bed around 8::00. And while that didn't bring relief I was > able to sleep for a few hours and when asleep I mostly don't seem to > notice the pain. Although sometimes it is bad enough to wake me. > Just takes a while to get to sleep because of the pain. > > My neck is also so stiff that I can barely move it and my right arm > muscles are as the rheumatologist put it once, like iron. Normally > when they are like this, Fibromyalgia is the cause but that almost > always affects both sides equally. Right now it is only the right > arm and the right leg is far worse than the left. > > I wouldn't wish this sort of pain on anyone. It's not a fun way to > live. Julie, You seem to have a slipped disc in the neck and probably lower back. I have 5 ruptured ones (sounds odd but it's true). If the lower back one is right and affecting both legs, you have a potentially *serious* issue. It can stop the nerve telling your body to allow you to pee that you need to pee or allow you to do so. It's actually emergency surgery stuff. I get warned about it every trip to the spine doc. I don't know if Fibrom causes DDD but have that checked. If it is DDD, you will need to make life changes. The good news is the pain will ease. The bad news is it will come back if you do not let things heal up and continue the pattern that caused the problem. Note i virtually 'pinged myself' with this topic because I am about to clear the crap mail out and want to see if I can help you. For now, lazy boy chairs can help. Flat beds do not work for me but a sofa that prevents me from sleeping on my side but with a side blanket under my knees and a memory foam pillow down low along my back and supporting my neck with another under it to make a 'ramp' works. One arm above my head helps a lot too, especially sleeping. Ask for a spine specialist review and do not take no for an answer. This isnt fibrom. -- |
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sf wrote in rec.food.cooking:
> On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 04:01:23 -0800, "Julie Bove" > > wrote: > > > Fibromyalgia is the cause but that almost always affects both > > sides equally. Right now it is only the right arm and the right > > leg is far worse than the left. > > > > I wouldn't wish this sort of pain on anyone. It's not a fun way to > > live. > > No, it's not. I know two people who have it and another one with > neuralgia - but theirs is not as debilitating as yours seems to be. Correct, not fibrom. It;s an almost picture perfect vision of spinal issues. I do not know if Fibrom leads to that though. Doesnt matter even if it does lead to it. She need an MRI, lower and upper. Carol -- |
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Julie Bove wrote in rec.food.cooking:
> > "sf" > wrote in message > ... > > On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 04:01:23 -0800, "Julie Bove" > > wrote: > > > > > Fibromyalgia is the cause but that almost always affects both > > > sides equally. Right now it is only the right arm and the right > > > leg is far worse than the left. > > > > > > I wouldn't wish this sort of pain on anyone. It's not a fun way > > > to live. > > > > No, it's not. I know two people who have it and another one with > > neuralgia - but theirs is not as debilitating as yours seems to be. > > I also have neuropathy, venous insufficiency, scoliosis and psoriatic > arthritis. So it can be hard to suss out the source of the pain. Scoliosis might be related. Something already slipped, slipped worse. I used to have normal shoulders. At age 40 it changed and now one is a good 2 inches higher than the other. -- |
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Roy wrote in rec.food.cooking:
> On Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 5:01:37 AM UTC-7, Julie Bove wrote: > > "Bryan-TGWWW" > wrote in message > > ... > > > On Wednesday, February 18, 2015 at 12:08:40 PM UTC-6, Dave Smith > > > wrote: > > >> On 2015-02-18 10:56 AM, jinx the minx wrote: > > > > > > >> >>> Which ain't gonna happen with only a 2 year junior college > > degree. >> >>> > > >> >> Yep, that was rather my point. :) > > >> >> > > >> >> Jill > > >> > > > >> > Not to mention no math, no history, no pre-college track > > classes in >> > high > > >> > school whatsoever. It's really no wonder why a career at KMart > > was a >> > better > > >> > option than college for her. Something has to give! > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > >> Career? It was the best she ever attained, and it didn't last > > very long. > > > > > > Now she has a better gig than anyone here. She sits on her ass > > > and collects "disability" welfare. > > > > Hardly. I don't make enough to live on. Not in this area anyway. > > And I really do miss working. I am a people person. You don't see > > too many people sitting at home and there isn't much I can do to go > > out and interact with people since I can't stand up for long or > > walk very far. I can't even sit for extended periods of time > > without extreme pain setting in. > > > > I have had really extreme leg pain since Sat. I can barely walk > > and each and every time I have to get up or down, I have to really > > think about it and decide if it is totally necessary because doing > > so causes me to howl with pain. Driving a car is torture because > > to lift my foot from the brake to the gas causes me to howl like a > > wolf and getting in and out of the car is sheer torture. > > > > Worse still is lying down. You would think that would bring some > > comfort, but no. Only makes the pain worse. And nothing is > > helping. Not heat, massage, Tylenol or even trying to walk it off > > or stretch. I don't know the cause of it is but I may have to go > > to the Dr. if it continues. I had planned to do the spring > > cleaning now when Angela is out of school. I did manage to do a > > little bit but if things don't get better then not much more will > > get done now. > > > > Did not help that the front door knob fell off this morning at 5:00 > > a.m. I had to find a 24/7 locksmith then wait for him to come. > > I'm sure he wondered about me. I was still fully dressed but had a > > bathrobe on over my clothes to try to increase the warmth to my leg > > muscles. I could neither sit nor stand well so I was partway on > > and partway off of the unreclined recliner, thrashing this way and > > that trying to seek relief. Thankfully he was a fast worker so I > > was able to get to bed around 8::00. And while that didn't bring > > relief I was able to sleep for a few hours and when asleep I mostly > > don't seem to notice the pain. Although sometimes it is bad enough > > to wake me. Just takes a while to get to sleep because of the pain. > > > > My neck is also so stiff that I can barely move it and my right arm > > muscles are as the rheumatologist put it once, like iron. Normally > > when they are like this, Fibromyalgia is the cause but that almost > > always affects both sides equally. Right now it is only the right > > arm and the right leg is far worse than the left. > > > > I wouldn't wish this sort of pain on anyone. It's not a fun way to > > live. > > Creative writing at its best, eh Julie? Way to go. Roy, if so she had to research both lower disc issues and upper disc ones to come up with an almost perfect situation on how it acts. I for one give her the time to get a diagnosis. I was mis diagnosed for 5 years due to non-spine specialists. It was not a fun 5 years. -- |
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Julie Bove wrote:
>> "Dave Smith" wrote: >>> >>>>> Did not help that the front door knob fell off this morning at 5:00 >>>>> a.m. I had to find a 24/7 locksmith then wait for him to come. >>>> >>>> I guess in bove-world there is no back door to use for a few hours, >>>> then get a cheaper locksmith to sort the problem during normal >>>> business hours. Or let a neighbour, husband or whoever fix it for >>>> you for free. >>> >>> Of course the door knob would spontaneously break off at 5 am and >>> require the services of a locksmith. Any jackass can figure a way to >>> secure a door closed for a few hours, go to a hardware store and buy a >>> new door knob and lock set. It is a 5 minute job to replace it. Any monkey can replace a lockset... a lockset includes knobs. Remove the old lockset, bring it to the hardware store and they'll match up those that will fit for you to choose from. There are only four phillips screws for a lockset, two at the latch and two for the lock itself. In most neighborhods one doesn't really need a door lock, locks are only to keep honest people out... thieves don't enter through the front door, much easier to go round back where it's dark and bust in through a window. |
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jmcquown wrote in rec.food.cooking:
> On 2/19/2015 8:19 PM, cshenk wrote: > > Yes, they used to be really decent when Sam ran it. hen he died, > > his kids destroyed it. > > You have no idea what you're talking about. Julie worked for KMart, > not WalMart. KMart was a subsidiary of Sears. No Sam, sorry! > > Jill Sorry, thought it was walmart. -- |
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On 2/19/2015 9:16 PM, cshenk wrote:
> jmcquown wrote in rec.food.cooking: > >> On 2/19/2015 8:19 PM, cshenk wrote: >>> Yes, they used to be really decent when Sam ran it. hen he died, >>> his kids destroyed it. >> >> You have no idea what you're talking about. Julie worked for KMart, >> not WalMart. KMart was a subsidiary of Sears. No Sam, sorry! >> >> Jill > > Sorry, thought it was walmart. > Just proves the point, you're not on RFC enough to know. You often make proclaimations without having bothered to read an entire thread. Jump in with both feet, blindfolded. Jill |
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On 2/19/2015 9:00 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> Julie Bove wrote: >>> "Dave Smith" wrote: >>>> >>>>>> Did not help that the front door knob fell off this morning at 5:00 >>>>>> a.m. I had to find a 24/7 locksmith then wait for him to come. >>>>> >>>>> I guess in bove-world there is no back door to use for a few hours, >>>>> then get a cheaper locksmith to sort the problem during normal >>>>> business hours. Or let a neighbour, husband or whoever fix it for >>>>> you for free. >>>> >>>> Of course the door knob would spontaneously break off at 5 am and >>>> require the services of a locksmith. Any jackass can figure a way to >>>> secure a door closed for a few hours, go to a hardware store and buy a >>>> new door knob and lock set. It is a 5 minute job to replace it. > > Any monkey can replace a lockset... a lockset includes knobs. Remove > the old lockset, bring it to the hardware store and they'll match up > those that will fit for you to choose from. There are only four > phillips screws for a lockset, two at the latch and two for the lock > itself. In most neighborhods one doesn't really need a door lock, > locks are only to keep honest people out... thieves don't enter > through the front door, much easier to go round back where it's dark > and bust in through a window. > Even *I* can install a new door knob and also deadbolt locks. BTDT. It sure doesn't sound like there would be any reason to break into her house. ;) Jill |
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On 2/19/2015 8:27 PM, jmcquown wrote:
ou have no idea what you're talking about. Julie worked for KMart, not > WalMart. KMart was a subsidiary of Sears. No Sam, sorry! > > Jill Sears is a subsidiary of K Mart. They were bought out in 2004 K Mart of course is a descendant of SS Kresge. It was started in the early 1960s. |
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"Someone Else" > wrote in message ... > Julie Bove wrote: >> >> "jmcquown" > wrote in message >> ... >>> On 2/19/2015 6:07 AM, Julie Bove wrote: >>>> I didn't *think* that what I had was a 401K. I even asked about it >>>> when >>>> I retired. I was told that I didn't have to roll the money over so I >>>> spent it on furniture and appliances when we moved to Cape Cod. But >>>> when I filed my taxes, I learned that it was! I was penalized, and >>>> ****ed. I called the people in charge and they told me that they had >>>> changed the plan at some point. >>> >>> 401k's have been around for a long time. What you apparently had was >>> not a Roth (taxes prepaid) IRA, but a traditional one. You can't just >>> cash out without paying taxes on the money. >> >> I have no clue what it was. I only put the money in after reading the >> prospectus and talking to the person in charge of the plans. We had four >> to choose from and they held a meeting with us all to explain these. I >> had specifically asked and was told that it was not a 401K or an IRA and >> the money could be taken at any time with no penalty. >> >> But as with many things K Mart, at some point, they changed the plan and >> didn't tell us. They did the same with our pension plan. >> > You clearly misunderstood them. No. After I called, I was told that the fund didn't used to be that way but at some point, it changed. Just like our pension plan changed. Used to be you could opt for a lesser sum upon retirement. But everyone was going for that because the company wasn't doing well. So they changed that and we couldn't get it until we reached age 55. We still get more if we wait longer. I was the only person in my store of about 150 employees who had this particular plan. Which is likely why I was not notified of the change. But I did specifically ask about it when I retired just to make certain that I could in fact cash out and that I didn't have to roll it over. The personnel manager even made a call to someone while I was sitting there and she was told that it was merely a savings plan and the money was mine to do with as I pleased. Obviously not. It could have been worse. I put very little in there so there was only about $2,000 that I had when I left. |
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"cshenk" > wrote in message ... > Julie Bove wrote in rec.food.cooking: > >> >> "cshenk" > wrote in message >> ... >> > Julie Bove wrote in rec.food.cooking: >> > >> > > >> >>"Dave Smith" > wrote in message >> > > ... >> >>> On 2015-02-18 10:56 AM, jinx the minx wrote: >> > > > >> >>> > > > Which ain't gonna happen with only a 2 year junior college >> >>> > > > degree. >> >>> > > > >> >>> > > Yep, that was rather my point. :) >> >>> > > >> >>> > > Jill >> >>> > >> >>> > Not to mention no math, no history, no pre-college track classes >> >>> > in high school whatsoever. It's really no wonder why a career at >> >>> > KMart was a better option than college for her. Something has >> >>> > to give! >> >>> > >> > > > >> > > > >> >>> Career? It was the best she ever attained, and it didn't last very >> >>> long. >> > > >> > > 17 years isn't very long? >> > >> > It is. If you also got whatever they have towards stocks, 401K etc >> > savings, you will have something more to show for it because of the >> > longevity. >> >> I did well for myself way back on the stocks. I didn't think that >> what I had was a 401K. I even asked about it when I retired. I was >> told that I didn't have to roll the money over so I spent it on >> furniture and appliances when we moved to Cape Cod. But when I filed >> my taxes, I learned that it was! I was penalized, and ****ed. I >> called the people in charge and they told me that they had changed >> the plan at some point. Apparently not only was I not notified but >> nobody else in my store. I was the only person to have put any money >> into that plan from my store because it was not a guaranteed safe >> plan. I could have lost or gained money but if I gained, I would >> have gained more than with the other plans. I only put a very small >> percent in there each week for a few years, figuring that the amount >> was so small that it wouldn't matter if I lost. Turned out that I >> lost by not rolling it over which I would have done had I known. > > Happens. I had to cash one out and it was a painful sticker shock > later when tax time came. I did know I would have a penalty but not > that it would be as much as it was. I missed rolling another over in > time so will have to carry it with that company until withdrawal time > but that's ok. That's the thing! I could have easily rolled it over. I didn't technically need the money. But I was told that there would be no penalty for cashing it out. I was told a lot of wrong things by that personell manager. Including that I had another paycheck coming. I did not. > >> >> I still have a pension coming to me. Technically I could get it now >> but I will wait until I am older because I will get more. It won't >> be a lot but to me, something is still better than nothing. I >> retired about a month before they did away with the pension plan as >> it had been. So I was lucky. > > Yes, they used to be really decent when Sam ran it. hen he died, his > kids destroyed it. > Sam? >> My husband is already getting military retirement and is back working >> for the military as a civilian. So if he puts in 5 or more years >> with that, which he very likely will, he will get a pension from that >> as well. > > Grin, works well! I ended up contractor after my 26 years Navy but I'm > ok with it. > >> People can poke fun if they want. I did try to get other jobs but at >> that point in time, nobody could give me the benefits that I had. > > No need to poke holes. Sometimes you can't get the same bennies at the > nexy place. Uh...? >> When I retired, I had 5 weeks off per year of paid vacation, I think >> it was 6 days of sick leave...maybe 7, and one personal day off per >> year. I had good medical and dental insurance and life insurance >> that I didn't have to pay for. And I had been there for so long that >> it was highly unlikely I'd be fired or laid off. They were laying >> off some of the management but I wasn't high enough up the ladder for >> that to have happened. My retirement was forced in that I got >> married and moved to another state. In past years they would have >> made an effort to find me a suitable job on Cape Cod. But they >> stopped doing that. > > 5 weeks seems a bit much. 3 normal with a good company. 4 at some. I would have gotten more had I stayed until 20 years. We had *very* good benefits. The medical had been better when I first started there but people were seriously taking advantage of it and we had no dental. In later years, they offered us a variety of plans to choose from. All optional. > > >> > None of us are lawyers and I suspect most just make ends meet. >> > According to most of what I see on the internet, it's really the job >> > swappers who lose out in the long run. Swapping up if you have the >> > skills can be good, but steady work that matches your skills wins in >> > the long run. >> >> And lawyers don't necessarily make a lot of money. The ones I know >> do not. In one instance, they are both blind. A married couple. So >> they pay people to do some work for them that they wouldn't need to >> have to pay for if they were sighted. The other guy doesn't want to >> handle divorces or go to trial so he basically works for as a legal >> assistant for other lawyers. > > Hey, if it works for them, it's ok. Yep. |
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"jmcquown" > wrote in message ... > On 2/19/2015 8:19 PM, cshenk wrote: >> Yes, they used to be really decent when Sam ran it. hen he died, his >> kids destroyed it. > > You have no idea what you're talking about. Julie worked for KMart, not > WalMart. KMart was a subsidiary of Sears. No Sam, sorry! Not was when I worked there. |
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"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message ... > On 2/19/2015 8:27 PM, jmcquown wrote: > > ou have no idea what you're talking about. Julie worked for KMart, not >> WalMart. KMart was a subsidiary of Sears. No Sam, sorry! >> >> Jill > > Sears is a subsidiary of K Mart. They were bought out in 2004 K Mart of > course is a descendant of SS Kresge. It was started in the early 1960s. And Land's End is in there too. Not sure about Furr's cafeteria. They used to own that and also some sports place. Sports Authority? I think. I retired from there almost 25 years ago so many of these changes took place after I left. But the paperwork I now get regarding my pension comes from Sears Holdings. |
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"jmcquown" > wrote in message ... > On 2/19/2015 6:19 PM, Julie Bove wrote: >> >> "jmcquown" > wrote in message >> ... >>> On 2/18/2015 6:29 PM, Julie Bove wrote: >>>> >>>> "Dave Smith" > wrote in message >>>> ... >>>>> On 2015-02-18 10:56 AM, jinx the minx wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>>> Which ain't gonna happen with only a 2 year junior college degree. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> Yep, that was rather my point. :) >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Jill >>>>>> >>>>>> Not to mention no math, no history, no pre-college track classes in >>>>>> high >>>>>> school whatsoever. It's really no wonder why a career at KMart was a >>>>>> better >>>>>> option than college for her. Something has to give! >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Career? It was the best she ever attained, and it didn't last very >>>>> long. >>>> >>>> 17 years isn't very long? >>> >>> Considering KMart seems to be going down the tubes, you should >>> probably apply for that pension before the entire house of cards falls >>> down. >> >> That thought has crossed my mind but the money is put aside in a secured >> account. Or so we are told. > > I'd be making sure of that if I were you. I make a point of knowing where > my money is. I was sure of my savings plan too and that was wrong. One of my friends has made it a point to keep tabs on the pensions for us and so far everything he has said has been correct. |
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"Dave Smith" > wrote in message ... > On 2015-02-19 17:46, jmcquown wrote: > >> Notice she skirted nicely around the question about having been told >> she'd have to attend a 2 year college for *five years* before she could >> take any law courses. Painted herself right into a corner and couldn't >> justify the answer. So now it's about her health issues... again. >> >> > Did you expect something that Julie said to be true? Did you expect it to > come anywhere close to something credible? If I could give her credit for > enough intelligence I might almost believe that she was baiting people and > mocking them by dropping hints that it was some sort of spoof. The problem > is that she is a pathological liar and like many others of her ilk, she > lies for sport. She lies so much that she may not even realize that she is > lying. It doesn't really matter because it gets her the attention she > craves. There was no lying. I was trying to get an AA certificate in legal assisting. Do you think such a certificate would come to me without taking any law courses? This was a new program when I went to college and they told me that so far nobody had graduated from it but that they had to warn me that I would not be able to take any law courses for 5 years with the way things had so far played out. I don't lie for sport and I just don't lie! I might get things wrong sometimes. We all do. But I certainly do not lie. |
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"cshenk" > wrote in message ... > Julie Bove wrote in rec.food.cooking: > >> >> "sf" > wrote in message >> ... >> > On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 04:01:23 -0800, "Julie Bove" >> > wrote: >> > >> > > Fibromyalgia is the cause but that almost always affects both >> > > sides equally. Right now it is only the right arm and the right >> > > leg is far worse than the left. >> > > >> > > I wouldn't wish this sort of pain on anyone. It's not a fun way >> > > to live. >> > >> > No, it's not. I know two people who have it and another one with >> > neuralgia - but theirs is not as debilitating as yours seems to be. >> >> I also have neuropathy, venous insufficiency, scoliosis and psoriatic >> arthritis. So it can be hard to suss out the source of the pain. > > Scoliosis might be related. Something already slipped, slipped worse. > > I used to have normal shoulders. At age 40 it changed and now one is a > good 2 inches higher than the other. Could be. Oddly enough, I rarely have back pain. My shoulders are off as are my hips. My spine is an "S" shape but they didn't catch it soon enough to really do anything about it. Yes, they probably could have attempted to do something about it but it may well not have helped. I had a roommate who had very severe scoliosis. They had to put rods in her back. She was in constant pain, could barely move her neck and couldn't bend over. So had they attempted to do something, I could have wound up like that. Same for my bad knee which I no longer seem to have. The Dr. said that the operation they could do at the time would only create more scar tissue. The vascular surgeon said the problems with the knee stem from the bad veins. The blood can't get to the muscles, the muscles get weak, the knee slips out of place. Since being on the treatment for the veins, I have only had two incidents of the knee slipping out of place. Used to happen at least once a month. |
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"jmcquown" > wrote in message ... > On 2/19/2015 6:24 PM, Julie Bove wrote: >> >> "Dave Smith" > wrote in message >> ... >>> On 2015-02-19 14:54, wrote: >>> >>>>> Did not help that the front door knob fell off this morning at 5:00 >>>>> a.m. I had to find a 24/7 locksmith then wait for him to come. >>>> >>>> "Hardly. I don't make enough to live on" Uh-huh... :) >>>> >>>> I guess in bove-world there is no back door to use for a few hours, >>>> then get a cheaper locksmith to sort the problem during normal >>>> business hours. Or let a neighbour, husband or whoever fix it for >>>> you for free. >>> >>> >>> Of course the door knob would spontaneously break off at 5 am and >>> require the services of a locksmith. Any jackass can figure a way to >>> secure a door closed for a few hours, go to a hardware store and buy a >>> new door knob and lock set. It is a 5 minute job to replace it. >> >> The door was secured. The door wouldn't open! And neither would the >> storm door which I had locked. I don't know how to remove a broken door >> knob much less put a new one on and I was in far too much pain to >> attempt to tackle that. Plus I wanted a new deadbolt and 4 keys. >> Whatever. The job is done now. > > So, you secured the door but still had to call an expensive after hours > 24/7 locksmith? Because that's the only entrance/exit. You couldn't wait > a few hours? R i i i g h t. Funny stuff, girlfriend. There was nothing funny about this and that certainly wasn't the only exit/entrance. I was sleep deprived, ****ed off and in a whole lot of pain. So when I found someone who would come out and fix the problem almost right away, I went with it. I wasn't about to wait here all day in the hopes that someone might show up. As has been the case with previous repair people. I'm not your girlfriend nor would I be. You do what you want to do and I'll do what I want to do. K? |
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"jmcquown" > wrote in message ... > On 2/19/2015 9:00 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote: >> Julie Bove wrote: >>>> "Dave Smith" wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>> Did not help that the front door knob fell off this morning at 5:00 >>>>>>> a.m. I had to find a 24/7 locksmith then wait for him to come. >>>>>> >>>>>> I guess in bove-world there is no back door to use for a few hours, >>>>>> then get a cheaper locksmith to sort the problem during normal >>>>>> business hours. Or let a neighbour, husband or whoever fix it for >>>>>> you for free. >>>>> >>>>> Of course the door knob would spontaneously break off at 5 am and >>>>> require the services of a locksmith. Any jackass can figure a way to >>>>> secure a door closed for a few hours, go to a hardware store and buy a >>>>> new door knob and lock set. It is a 5 minute job to replace it. >> >> Any monkey can replace a lockset... a lockset includes knobs. Remove >> the old lockset, bring it to the hardware store and they'll match up >> those that will fit for you to choose from. There are only four >> phillips screws for a lockset, two at the latch and two for the lock >> itself. In most neighborhods one doesn't really need a door lock, >> locks are only to keep honest people out... thieves don't enter >> through the front door, much easier to go round back where it's dark >> and bust in through a window. >> > Even *I* can install a new door knob and also deadbolt locks. BTDT. > > It sure doesn't sound like there would be any reason to break into her > house. ;) Well maybe you can. Are you disabled? Thought not. As I said... I was in excruciating pain and was seriously sleep deprived for reasons I will not get into here. I had a problem. I wanted it fixed. I got it fixed. It's done. Stick a fork in it. |
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"cshenk" > wrote in message ... > Julie Bove wrote in rec.food.cooking: > >> >> "Bryan-TGWWW" > wrote in message >> ... >> > On Wednesday, February 18, 2015 at 12:08:40 PM UTC-6, Dave Smith >> > wrote: >> > > On 2015-02-18 10:56 AM, jinx the minx wrote: >> > > >> >>>>> Which ain't gonna happen with only a 2 year junior college >> degree. >> > > > > > >> >>>> Yep, that was rather my point. :) >> > > > > >> >>>> Jill >> > > > >> >>> Not to mention no math, no history, no pre-college track classes >> in > high >>> school whatsoever. It's really no wonder why a career >> at KMart was a > better >>> option than college for her. Something >> has to give! >> > > > >> > > >> > > >> > > Career? It was the best she ever attained, and it didn't last >> > > very long. >> > >> > Now she has a better gig than anyone here. She sits on her ass and >> > collects "disability" welfare. >> >> Hardly. I don't make enough to live on. Not in this area anyway. >> And I really do miss working. I am a people person. You don't see >> too many people sitting at home and there isn't much I can do to go >> out and interact with people since I can't stand up for long or walk >> very far. I can't even sit for extended periods of time without >> extreme pain setting in. >> >> I have had really extreme leg pain since Sat. I can barely walk and >> each and every time I have to get up or down, I have to really think >> about it and decide if it is totally necessary because doing so >> causes me to howl with pain. Driving a car is torture because to >> lift my foot from the brake to the gas causes me to howl like a wolf >> and getting in and out of the car is sheer torture. >> >> Worse still is lying down. You would think that would bring some >> comfort, but no. Only makes the pain worse. And nothing is helping. >> Not heat, massage, Tylenol or even trying to walk it off or stretch. >> I don't know the cause of it is but I may have to go to the Dr. if it >> continues. I had planned to do the spring cleaning now when Angela >> is out of school. I did manage to do a little bit but if things >> don't get better then not much more will get done now. >> >> Did not help that the front door knob fell off this morning at 5:00 >> a.m. I had to find a 24/7 locksmith then wait for him to come. I'm >> sure he wondered about me. I was still fully dressed but had a >> bathrobe on over my clothes to try to increase the warmth to my leg >> muscles. I could neither sit nor stand well so I was partway on and >> partway off of the unreclined recliner, thrashing this way and that >> trying to seek relief. Thankfully he was a fast worker so I was able >> to get to bed around 8::00. And while that didn't bring relief I was >> able to sleep for a few hours and when asleep I mostly don't seem to >> notice the pain. Although sometimes it is bad enough to wake me. >> Just takes a while to get to sleep because of the pain. >> >> My neck is also so stiff that I can barely move it and my right arm >> muscles are as the rheumatologist put it once, like iron. Normally >> when they are like this, Fibromyalgia is the cause but that almost >> always affects both sides equally. Right now it is only the right >> arm and the right leg is far worse than the left. >> >> I wouldn't wish this sort of pain on anyone. It's not a fun way to >> live. > > Julie, > > You seem to have a slipped disc in the neck and probably lower back. I > have 5 ruptured ones (sounds odd but it's true). If the lower back one > is right and affecting both legs, you have a potentially *serious* > issue. It can stop the nerve telling your body to allow you to pee > that you need to pee or allow you to do so. It's actually emergency > surgery stuff. I get warned about it every trip to the spine doc. But wouldn't there be back pain? My mom has disc problems as do some of my friends and they have back pain. My back seems fine. The pain is mostly in the right leg and it seems to move around. But it is often near the hip area. I have also had some pain in my right arm and some pain in the left leg but that could well be from my altered gait. Doesn't take much of anything for me to have neck pain ever since I got whiplash back in the 70's. > > I don't know if Fibrom causes DDD but have that checked. If it is DDD, > you will need to make life changes. The good news is the pain will > ease. The bad news is it will come back if you do not let things heal > up and continue the pattern that caused the problem. I have no clue what DDD is. I tried to look it up but nothing is coming up. I think this pain could partly be to low estrogen and partly due to stress. I can not and will not get into the stress part here except to say that my plate is full and not with food! > > Note i virtually 'pinged myself' with this topic because I am about to > clear the crap mail out and want to see if I can help you. > > For now, lazy boy chairs can help. Flat beds do not work for me but a > sofa that prevents me from sleeping on my side but with a side blanket > under my knees and a memory foam pillow down low along my back and > supporting my neck with another under it to make a 'ramp' works. One > arm above my head helps a lot too, especially sleeping. > I can not do recliners. They put pressure on my legs that aggravates my bad veins. > Ask for a spine specialist review and do not take no for an answer. > This isnt fibrom. I'm not sure that it is what you say either. Things are somewhat better at the moment. I did do a lot of walking today. Right now my only sources of pain are to the back of my neck and the outer part of the right thigh. It's sort of a burning pain now. But yesterday, even my cheeks hurt. If it was a back thing, I don't think it would affect that. I just had so very much stress that I was clamping my jaw shut even though I was trying not to. I only hope I will be allowed to sleep tonight...or tomorrow as it will be since I don't usually sleep at night. But if this isn't better by Mon. I will try the Dr. I just don't usually have much luck with Drs. They tend to misdiagnose or only want to prescribe pain pills. And I don't like pain pills. I will take Tylenol once in a great while. I have taken 3 doses this year and that's more than I have taken in the past 10 years prior. I just don't usually do pain pills but I have been driven to it now. The other two times were for what I am pretty sure was a virus as Angela had the same symptoms. Headache and body aches among other things. |
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"cshenk" > wrote in message ... > sf wrote in rec.food.cooking: > >> On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 04:01:23 -0800, "Julie Bove" >> > wrote: >> >> > Fibromyalgia is the cause but that almost always affects both >> > sides equally. Right now it is only the right arm and the right >> > leg is far worse than the left. >> > >> > I wouldn't wish this sort of pain on anyone. It's not a fun way to >> > live. >> >> No, it's not. I know two people who have it and another one with >> neuralgia - but theirs is not as debilitating as yours seems to be. > > Correct, not fibrom. It;s an almost picture perfect vision of spinal > issues. I do not know if Fibrom leads to that though. Doesnt matter > even if it does lead to it. She need an MRI, lower and upper. I looked up the Degenerative Disc Disease and that does not sound like my symptoms. But I could be wrong. And no, Fibro has nothing to do with discs. |
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"cshenk" > wrote in message ... > Roy wrote in rec.food.cooking: > >> On Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 5:01:37 AM UTC-7, Julie Bove wrote: >> > "Bryan-TGWWW" > wrote in message >> > ... >> > > On Wednesday, February 18, 2015 at 12:08:40 PM UTC-6, Dave Smith >> > > wrote: >> > >> On 2015-02-18 10:56 AM, jinx the minx wrote: >> > > > >> > >> >>> Which ain't gonna happen with only a 2 year junior college >> > degree. >> >>> >> > >> >> Yep, that was rather my point. :) >> > >> >> >> > >> >> Jill >> > >> > >> > >> > Not to mention no math, no history, no pre-college track >> > classes in >> > high >> > >> > school whatsoever. It's really no wonder why a career at KMart >> > was a >> > better >> > >> > option than college for her. Something has to give! >> > >> > >> > > > >> > > > >> > >> Career? It was the best she ever attained, and it didn't last >> > very long. >> > > >> > > Now she has a better gig than anyone here. She sits on her ass >> > > and collects "disability" welfare. >> > >> > Hardly. I don't make enough to live on. Not in this area anyway. >> > And I really do miss working. I am a people person. You don't see >> > too many people sitting at home and there isn't much I can do to go >> > out and interact with people since I can't stand up for long or >> > walk very far. I can't even sit for extended periods of time >> > without extreme pain setting in. >> > >> > I have had really extreme leg pain since Sat. I can barely walk >> > and each and every time I have to get up or down, I have to really >> > think about it and decide if it is totally necessary because doing >> > so causes me to howl with pain. Driving a car is torture because >> > to lift my foot from the brake to the gas causes me to howl like a >> > wolf and getting in and out of the car is sheer torture. >> > >> > Worse still is lying down. You would think that would bring some >> > comfort, but no. Only makes the pain worse. And nothing is >> > helping. Not heat, massage, Tylenol or even trying to walk it off >> > or stretch. I don't know the cause of it is but I may have to go >> > to the Dr. if it continues. I had planned to do the spring >> > cleaning now when Angela is out of school. I did manage to do a >> > little bit but if things don't get better then not much more will >> > get done now. >> > >> > Did not help that the front door knob fell off this morning at 5:00 >> > a.m. I had to find a 24/7 locksmith then wait for him to come. >> > I'm sure he wondered about me. I was still fully dressed but had a >> > bathrobe on over my clothes to try to increase the warmth to my leg >> > muscles. I could neither sit nor stand well so I was partway on >> > and partway off of the unreclined recliner, thrashing this way and >> > that trying to seek relief. Thankfully he was a fast worker so I >> > was able to get to bed around 8::00. And while that didn't bring >> > relief I was able to sleep for a few hours and when asleep I mostly >> > don't seem to notice the pain. Although sometimes it is bad enough >> > to wake me. Just takes a while to get to sleep because of the pain. >> > >> > My neck is also so stiff that I can barely move it and my right arm >> > muscles are as the rheumatologist put it once, like iron. Normally >> > when they are like this, Fibromyalgia is the cause but that almost >> > always affects both sides equally. Right now it is only the right >> > arm and the right leg is far worse than the left. >> > >> > I wouldn't wish this sort of pain on anyone. It's not a fun way to >> > live. >> >> Creative writing at its best, eh Julie? Way to go. > > Roy, if so she had to research both lower disc issues and upper disc > ones to come up with an almost perfect situation on how it acts. I for > one give her the time to get a diagnosis. > > I was mis diagnosed for 5 years due to non-spine specialists. It was > not a fun 5 years. I upped my dose of phytoestrogen cream for two days and the pain has seemed to lessen, at least during the day, once I have gotten up. And when my sources of stress are gone, there is much less pain. Right now there is just a burning pain around my leg. Seems to go from the thigh down to the back of my calf. It is only on the right side. And not really shooting down or traveling. I will have pain in one area, then the other. Am having some wrist and finger numbness/pain but I have carpal tunnel as well. Normally that is not a problem unless I have done too much. I don't think that I have but I am also not typing in a normal fashion. Somehow my keyboard pullout got pushed in too far and I can't figure out how to get it back out. I did it before but what I did before isn't working now. So I am typing with my hands partially under the desk. |
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On 2015-02-20 09:38, Janet wrote:
> In article >, says... >> There was nothing funny about this and that certainly wasn't the only >> exit/entrance. I was sleep deprived, ****ed off and in a whole lot of pain. >> So when I found someone who would come out and fix the problem almost right >> away, I went with it. I wasn't about to wait here all day in the hopes that >> someone might show up. > > "Wait here?" You were already housebound, remember? According to you, > that day you were in so much pain you could neither walk nor drive. > > Damn. Julie is caught in yet anther lie. |
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Bove wrote:
>cshenk wrote: >> >> I don't know if Fibrom causes DDD but have that checked. > >I have no clue what DDD is. With DDD some back pain is inevitable, Amazon has help: http://tinyurl.com/pucrs9j http://www.amazon.com/s?rh=n%3A10449...n%3A1289831011 |
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On 02/19/2015 10:09 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
> > There was no lying. I was trying to get an AA certificate in legal > assisting. Do you think such a certificate would come to me without > taking any law courses? This was a new program when I went to college > and they told me that so far nobody had graduated from it but that they > had to warn me that I would not be able to take any law courses for 5 > years with the way things had so far played out. > > I don't lie for sport and I just don't lie! I might get things wrong > sometimes. We all do. But I certainly do not lie. This doesn't apply to Julie, since she lives elsewhere, but in California, you don't have to go to law school to be a lawyer. As a matter of fact, you don't even have to go to school. You *do*, however, have to pass the state bar exam, which is extremely tough. Every time it's given, 5 out of 6 people fail. However, I have known a couple of people that eventually passed after self-study only. One was a railroad property manager and the other was a timber worker that wanted a better life. Neither volunteered how many tries it took, but you get unlimited tries and only have to pass once. |
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On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 22:30:01 -0800, "Julie Bove"
> wrote: >I have no clue what DDD is. Degenerative disc disease. You're welcome. Doris |
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On 2015-02-20 11:17, Whirled Peas wrote:
> This doesn't apply to Julie, since she lives elsewhere, but in > California, you don't have to go to law school to be a lawyer. As a > matter of fact, you don't even have to go to school. You *do*, however, > have to pass the state bar exam, which is extremely tough. Every time > it's given, 5 out of 6 people fail. However, I have known a couple of > people that eventually passed after self-study only. One was a railroad > property manager and the other was a timber worker that wanted a better > life. Neither volunteered how many tries it took, but you get unlimited > tries and only have to pass once. > She might have been good at law. Just about every lawyer I have dealt with has been a liar, so her chronic conflict with reality could be an asset. The major problem for her would be to keeping her lies straight. |
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On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 14:38:01 -0000, Janet > wrote:
>In article >, says... >> There was nothing funny about this and that certainly wasn't the only >> exit/entrance. I was sleep deprived, ****ed off and in a whole lot of pain. >> So when I found someone who would come out and fix the problem almost right >> away, I went with it. I wasn't about to wait here all day in the hopes that >> someone might show up. > > "Wait here?" You were already housebound, remember? According to you, >that day you were in so much pain you could neither walk nor drive. LOL :) |
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"Doris Night" > wrote in message ... > On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 22:30:01 -0800, "Julie Bove" > > wrote: > > >>I have no clue what DDD is. > > Degenerative disc disease. > > You're welcome. I have since found that out and I don't think that is what I have at all. |
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"Janet" > wrote in message ... > In article >, says... >> There was nothing funny about this and that certainly wasn't the only >> exit/entrance. I was sleep deprived, ****ed off and in a whole lot of >> pain. >> So when I found someone who would come out and fix the problem almost >> right >> away, I went with it. I wasn't about to wait here all day in the hopes >> that >> someone might show up. > > "Wait here?" You were already housebound, remember? According to you, > that day you were in so much pain you could neither walk nor drive. And I wanted to go to bed. Which I couldn't have done if I had to stay up and wait for a repairman to come. My bedroom is in the back of this remodeled house. No way can I hear the doorbell from there. Even in this room, the only way I can tell if someone has come to the door is to open it and just have the storm door there so that I can see when they arrive. I couldn't do that so all I could do was sit in my husband's recliner in the living room. Recliners are very uncomfortable for me to sit in on a good day so I wasn't liking that option either. At any rate, it's all fixed now so let's all move along. K? |
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Julie Bove wrote in rec.food.cooking:
> > "cshenk" > wrote in message > ... > > Julie Bove wrote in rec.food.cooking: Hi Julie, bunch of trimming down here so it's easier to deal with. > > Julie, > > > > You seem to have a slipped disc in the neck and probably lower > > back. I have 5 ruptured ones (sounds odd but it's true). If the > > lower back one is right and affecting both legs, you have a > > potentially serious issue. It can stop the nerve telling your body > > to allow you to pee that you need to pee or allow you to do so. > > It's actually emergency surgery stuff. I get warned about it every > > trip to the spine doc. > > But wouldn't there be back pain? My mom has disc problems as do some > of my friends and they have back pain. My back seems fine. The pain > is mostly in the right leg and it seems to move around. But it is > often near the hip area. I have also had some pain in my right arm > and some pain in the left leg but that could well be from my altered > gait. Yes and no. The main pain for example may be a sharp spike down the leg (I am actually glad to see it's mostly just one, more apt to be the disc above the dangerous one from my understanding then). The 'shooting star' can be so fast, you can't describe just where in the leg. I described it for years as 'like the bone was on fire, fast and furious then over in a blink'. If the bottom of your foot (or both) tingle often like asleep but not asleep, you have nerve damage to the leg from the spine. Earlier you had neck pain and describe whiplash from long ago now. That can come back on your later with nerve damage to the ones that run to your arms. One of the classic signs there mimics carpal tunnel with write and elbow pain (may have one without the other) but tests of the nerves to the hand negative. Thats because the type of test used only shows that portion is normal. > > Doesn't take much of anything for me to have neck pain ever since I > got whiplash back in the 70's. Yup, and over time it can degrade. > > > > I don't know if Fibrom causes DDD but have that checked. If it is > > DDD, you will need to make life changes. The good news is the pain > > will ease. The bad news is it will come back if you do not let > > things heal up and continue the pattern that caused the problem. > > I have no clue what DDD is. I tried to look it up but nothing is > coming up. Sorry, DDD is Degenerative Disc Disease, DDD for short. Some are progressive and some are not (meaning some get worse, and some with proper care stay stable). I think this pain could partly be to low estrogen and > partly due to stress. I can not and will not get into the stress part > here except to say that my plate is full and not with food! Nope. Low estrogen and stress do not cause either sympton set you describe. Rheumatiod Arthritis (RA) and some versions of Lupus (SLE-RA) do. Both of those are progressive and care needs to be taken or it gets a whole lot worse. > > > > Note i virtually 'pinged myself' with this topic because I am about > > to clear the crap mail out and want to see if I can help you. > > > > For now, lazy boy chairs can help. Flat beds do not work for me > > but a sofa that prevents me from sleeping on my side but with a > > side blanket under my knees and a memory foam pillow down low along > > my back and supporting my neck with another under it to make a > > 'ramp' works. One arm above my head helps a lot too, especially > > sleeping. > > > I can not do recliners. They put pressure on my legs that aggravates > my bad veins. Ok, a softer sofa with a thin blanket folded under the knees to raise them slightly helps a lot. It eases the spine. Less 'incline' used, we are talking 3-5 inches (test for your own comfort). That is for the lower back. For the neck, memory foam pillow and in my case, ramped on another one but low down so the 'lump' hits my neck just right for me. I'm probably 5degrees at the knees and 10-15 at the head here but it's one of the things you have to test on your own to see what works for you. > > Ask for a spine specialist review and do not take no for an answer. > > This isnt fibrom. > > I'm not sure that it is what you say either. Things are somewhat > better at the moment. I did do a lot of walking today. Right now my > only sources of pain are to the back of my neck and the outer part of > the right thigh. It's sort of a burning pain now. But yesterday, > even my cheeks hurt. If it was a back thing, I don't think it would > affect that. I just had so very much stress that I was clamping my > jaw shut even though I was trying not to. I only hope I will be > allowed to sleep tonight...or tomorrow as it will be since I don't > usually sleep at night. I still suggest you have that checked. Yes, it does affect like that. Watch also for shoulder pain that feels like you have glass shards in your shoulder and a broken collar bone. Also serious pain under the shoulder blade. Thats the neck and will be on the side of the affected arm. There can be frequent spates initially of hand feeling asleep then numbness in later stages if not fixed. > > But if this isn't better by Mon. I will try the Dr. I just don't > usually have much luck with Drs. They tend to misdiagnose or only > want to prescribe pain pills. And I don't like pain pills. I will > take Tylenol once in a great while. I have taken 3 doses this year > and that's more than I have taken in the past 10 years prior. I just > don't usually do pain pills but I have been driven to it now. The > other two times were for what I am pretty sure was a virus as Angela > had the same symptoms. Headache and body aches among other things. Pain pills are something i do not take either except for the occasional bad flares. At that time it is the lower dose sorts like Tramadol and robaxin. I taper them off as fast as i can because I do not want to become resistant to them. Aspirin is different. Take as needed. -- |
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"Dave Smith" > wrote in message ... > On 2015-02-20 09:38, Janet wrote: >> In article >, says... >>> There was nothing funny about this and that certainly wasn't the only >>> exit/entrance. I was sleep deprived, ****ed off and in a whole lot of >>> pain. >>> So when I found someone who would come out and fix the problem almost >>> right >>> away, I went with it. I wasn't about to wait here all day in the hopes >>> that >>> someone might show up. >> >> "Wait here?" You were already housebound, remember? According to you, >> that day you were in so much pain you could neither walk nor drive. >> >> > Damn. Julie is caught in yet anther lie. There were no lies. |
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"Whirled Peas" > wrote in message ... > On 02/19/2015 10:09 PM, Julie Bove wrote: >> >> There was no lying. I was trying to get an AA certificate in legal >> assisting. Do you think such a certificate would come to me without >> taking any law courses? This was a new program when I went to college >> and they told me that so far nobody had graduated from it but that they >> had to warn me that I would not be able to take any law courses for 5 >> years with the way things had so far played out. >> >> I don't lie for sport and I just don't lie! I might get things wrong >> sometimes. We all do. But I certainly do not lie. > > This doesn't apply to Julie, since she lives elsewhere, but in California, > you don't have to go to law school to be a lawyer. As a matter of fact, > you don't even have to go to school. You *do*, however, have to pass the > state bar exam, which is extremely tough. Every time it's given, 5 out of > 6 people fail. However, I have known a couple of people that eventually > passed after self-study only. One was a railroad property manager and the > other was a timber worker that wanted a better life. Neither volunteered > how many tries it took, but you get unlimited tries and only have to pass > once. One doesn't even need to go to college to get a degree either. Some colleges will allow life experience or let you challenge courses. Then there are honorary degrees. |
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"Dave Smith" > wrote in message ... > On 2015-02-20 11:17, Whirled Peas wrote: > >> This doesn't apply to Julie, since she lives elsewhere, but in >> California, you don't have to go to law school to be a lawyer. As a >> matter of fact, you don't even have to go to school. You *do*, however, >> have to pass the state bar exam, which is extremely tough. Every time >> it's given, 5 out of 6 people fail. However, I have known a couple of >> people that eventually passed after self-study only. One was a railroad >> property manager and the other was a timber worker that wanted a better >> life. Neither volunteered how many tries it took, but you get unlimited >> tries and only have to pass once. >> > > > She might have been good at law. Just about every lawyer I have dealt with > has been a liar, so her chronic conflict with reality could be an asset. > The major problem for her would be to keeping her lies straight. I don't lie, Dave. You just vaguely accused me of lying in another post. Where was the lie? :) |
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