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  4. A Birth Grandmother's Role

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    Winter has been a bit long this year even for our neck of the world.. Except for my girls who like it cold (don't know who they got that from) I can do without... Can't imagine living in a place that gets as cold as it does North of me :).. Sisters in law in Maine & Maryland make me get frostbite just by hearing how much snow and ice they've gotten plus those LOW LOW temps. I'll take my crazy SA weather anytime. :)

    Hope ya'll can get out to your gardens soon.

  10. A Birth Grandmother's Role

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    Humm, so I am starting to think I should be self- conscience or something…


    Someone I have known for more than five years commented that if I wanted, she “could give” me”the name of” her”hair stylist she does a wonderful job with color to cover up the grey” …. What…….. *%# …….. Did I hear you right??????? :o


    My first thought was “ok you’re kidding right?” But from the expression on her face, she was dead serious.. How Rude can someone be.. THE only people that I would excuse from telling me something like that are my MOM (because she will do it anyway whether I want her to or not :blink:) and my two girls (they are like their grandma in that way ^_^)..


    I know I should be satisfied with the embarrassed look on her face after I told her… :)


    “You know, I appreciate your concern for me But really GREY hair does not bother me one bit, and I don't care to or need to color my roots every 4 weeks like you. See I was born with numerous birthmarks, Beauty Marks I like to call them, these two which you see in my hairline, of course the one right in front is quite a bit smaller than the one here on the right side, and since the day I was born AND I’ve had hair those areas have been white. I just can’t believe I’ve known you for as long as I have and you have never noticed, it’s not like I try and hide them or anything, after all this one on the right is a pretty good size one with a big patch of only white hair.” :rolleyes:


    Talk about a mouth dropping moment…..a shade of red so deep I thought she was going to have a coronary…


    I know without a doubt that in the last several months I have started to acquired numerous/more (generous helpings :lol:) of thinish grey strands throughout my head, I’m 55 so I think I am allowed, although MY hair dresser who is about 10 yrs my junior says I’m doing great in that depart (she’s had her own generous amount of grey sprinklings for a few years now)..


    Though I’ve yet to meet someone with AS MANY and as different BEAUTY MARKS as me, I am sure I am not unique.. Because besides the white haired ones, I also have a bruise looking one Nevus O.. something or other on the lid of my right eye (looks like I have a black eye without make up on and with make up like I forgot to put shadow on the opposite eye which I have heard plenty of times before :P).. I know my maternal grandfather had the white/grey birthmarks, and my mom blessed me with an odd shaped one on my leg of which we both have, BUT I have no idea from whom the bluish green one on my eye came from, though when I looked it up a few years ago after getting the name of it from my dermatologist, it is found more in Asian or Mongolian :blink:..Yeah had a talk with my mom on that one, too bad my dad passed 30 plus years ago or I would have interrogated him as well.. :ph34r:


    Sorry just had to vent a bit, but you know after typing all this, I now feel better. My BEAUTY MARKS have always been a part of me, they have never bothered me.. I’m not going to let it start now.. Feel so much better!


  19. A Birth Grandmother's Role

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    Oh yes we sure did cover what we wanted to preserve.. We had the big tarp, hooks and power, though we had to ck often because we would get some pretty strong wind. Guess wanting them to survive two winters.. Was pushing it.. :)

    Did notice this weekend that my Easter Lillies are starting to come up, they plus my ferns are the only thing green in our flower bed. Lol

    Well gotta go now, class starts in 10min..

  20. A Birth Grandmother's Role

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    Thank you Tracey..

    I hope all of you who have had to endure this nasty weather finally get some much needed relief soon.. We hit 91 one day last week and today we are slated to hit 80.. though our weatherman keeps saying for gardeners not to get ahead of oneself and start planting anything, because we haven't had the last freeze of this winter yet.. shoot Lauranda and I are going to have to re-plant all her herbs, peppers/veggies even after all the work of covering her plants.. ... But that's ok, I'm looking forward to it, getting out there and doing the work..

    Yal have a GREAT week! :)

  23. A Birth Grandmother's Role

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    Thank you ladies, appreciate the good thoughts and prayers.. :wub:

    Sorry didn’t mean to leave yal wondering what is going on with me, just can’t type very well on my phone, which is the only option I have from home…

    In mid Dec. finally made an app. With an ENT, due to holidays and all he didn’t have opening until after the first of the year.. After going through the symptoms and reason I was there, he proceeded with testing. He then asked me about other symptoms concerning allergies etc.., so I gave him the info he needed.. He asked about heart burn, reflux…NOPE DON”T have that….Then he tells me I do have reflux, I know I must have looked at him like he was nuts, because I should know whether I have it or not :o.. So he told me that I have symptoms related to something called “Silent Reflux” , which is more of a head, drainage thing instead of stomach reflux… He has put me on medication and also had me cut back on caffeine, tomato based foods, spicy foods, hot sauce and salt.. plus a long list of other stuff.. He also found that I have a cyst on the back side of my tongue and an inflamed blood vessel in my throat.. Apparently these two things can cause me to choke with food or liquids.. I do sometimes choke with liquids, and I have always thought I swallowed wrong and it went down the wrong pipe. So he needs to keep an eye on them, eventually if they grow they will need to be surgically removed. And due to me taking a pretty nasty spill on Christmas Day down some concrete steps AND I told him I HADN’T EVEN HAD ANY ALCOHOL TO DRINK, at least if I had been drinking I could have blamed that.. ,,,, :lol: lol… He sent me for more MRI’s and referred me to the Neurotologist..

    Well last two weeks have been working with Neurotologist and I’ve gone through an extensive battery of test.. Part of what he thinks is wrong is that I am getting migraines that are not noticeable by extreme pain.. Since I did have a history of migraines diag back in the 80’s and though I told him I had had very few in the last few years, he said once a migraine sufferer always a migraine sufferer.. He put me on some vitamins that are suppose to taper this off.. (we will see) .. Lastly he said I have “an enormous amount of fluid in right ear” I have something called Vertigo Menieres Cochleovestibular, it has impacted my balance.. Wheww, and here I thought I was getting clumsy in my old age.. He said no, I could rest assured that I wasn’t, but if left untreated it could cause me to lose my hearing in that ear.. He is treating it with two different medications and I see him back in a month.. Once the fluid starts to dry up, I will need to go to physical therapy for my balance..

    So there it is… .. I am anxious for all these meds to kick in and start working.. So looking forward to not having these little dizzy and lightheaded episodes to deal with throughout the day…

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  24. A Birth Grandmother's Role

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    Finally looks like I'm on my way to resolving this nuisance light headed/dizzy episodes..last 4 weeks visiting an ENT more MRIs, he is taking care of partial problem and something else he found that I had no clue I had.. Then he referred me to a Neruotologist and after a couple of long long visits and almost 8 hrs of additional testing he found two things causing me the problems... So glad cause I was close to thinking I was nuts.. :)

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