The latest news

It's been awhile since my last update and it's time to let you know what's been happening.
I know I haven't posted any pictures from Becky's vacation and I'll try to get to it but there are no promises. We had a great time and I was tired by the time she went home.

My friend Maggie has been having some major medical problems lately. She has had a terrible pain on the side of her face. She thought it was because of her teeth. She had her teeth taken care of but the pain persisted. They finally figured out what was going on. She has a condition called Trigeminal Neuralgia. It has to do with the nerves that run from the brain and they hit up against the blood vessels. There are up to 3 nerves that are involved and in her case it is all 3 nerves.
They have her on some big time medications. She is loopy, she is so doped up. She can't drive, she can barely do anything.
If the medications don't work, they can try and injection to block the nerve or do surgery. Right now they can't do anything because she has a kidney infection.
Before they do either the injection or surgery, they need to do an MRI to rule out a brain tumor.
That is scheduled for next week.
They are also doing test to make sure she doesn't have MS. This can also cause the condition she has.

And just in case her husband Charlie wasn't enough of an insensitive jerk, he signed them both up to be on a committee to represent their district. And the worst part is, it has to be a husband and wife team. He didn't ask her, he just did it. She is not at all happy about this.
We figure he did this just to make it harder for her to leave when she is able to.
I told her, don't let this stop you from leaving. She needs to take care of herself.

Oh and I have some good news. I started seeing a nutritionist a month ago and I went for my first follow up visit today. I have lost 7 pounds and 1 1/2 inches around my waist. And that's with very little exercise. I am excited.
I am sending the information that I have to Maggie so she can work with Ryan on getting him to eat better and have a variety of foods. My nutritionist even gave me a "fast food guide" that I can send to them. Maggie will also share the information with Tracey because she needs to lose some weight.

On the subject of Robert. I have no idea what he is doing right now. I haven't heard from him since Tuesday morning.
We talked some on Sunday. I asked him, "what do you have left to do before you will be able to move?"
First he started to tell me some things he was trying to do in order to get his bills paid. When he finished, I told him, that was nice but could he now answer my question - what did he have left to do? He is great at not directly answering my question.
So, this time he answers:
He has a student loan that he is paying off and he has car taxes to be paid off. This has been on going for a while. We all know that dealing with the town hall and trying to get things cleared up can be frustrating but he has been draging this out. He needs to go down to the town hall and get a print out of his account and check it against the payments he has made. He just hasn't been proactive in doing this.
When we spoke on Tuesday morning, he said they didn't have a lot to do at work and he would probably get out early. I told him it would be a good time to go get the information about the taxes. His response was, if I remember.

Back to Sunday - I said to him, so, when you get the taxes cleared up, you will be able to move and pay the other bills once you move.
He says, what other bills (being slightly defensive)? I said your student loan and whatever other bills you have.
I didn't come away from that conversion with a real good feeling.

Once we finished that conversation, he said can I ask my question now. I said sure. I was expecting some serious type question. He has been grilling me for a couple of weeks.
His question was: am I still going to buy the bed? I said, yeah but not until the bills are paid down. I'm not taking on any more debt.
To me, the new bed isn't that important. Obviously to him it is.
I have a bunch of other things to talk with him about but I figured it would be best to do them one at a time but it doesn't look like he is going to give me the chance any time soon.

So there it is - what's been happening in my life. More to follow soon.