I couldn’t agree more.  We’re in San Diego and it is SOOOO expensive to go to ANY game.  Whatever happened to the days when anyone could go to a football or baseball game?  Oh yeah, we decided to pay the players 50 times more than they are worth for playing.  I’m not nor have I ever given in to this frenzy. It is rediculous how we glorify sports figures, but the real heroes are our teachers, firemen, ER, nurses, you know the list :-( And we’re ALL broke and suffering.

When I was just a little girl, I asked my mommy what will I be?  I always wanted to be a dancer.  I took ballet lessons for a month, but it was too much of a hassle for my parents to pick me up.  I wanted to be a Chef, but never had the opportunity to go to culinary school.  When I was diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease, most of the dreams died, it was now just survival.  So I’m still alive, this disease almost killed me last year, but I’m a fighter!  I’m a mother and enjoy taking care of others and crocheting… oh my God I’m my Grandmother!

I grew up in a upper middle-class.  We weren’t rich, but we weren’t poor either.  The friends I hung around with had very little, my dad use to show his love by handing me money.  I was always pleased to share what I had, I always brought stuff to school and just handed stuff out.  Friends that hung out with me were always treated to lunch.  When I went over to less fortunate kids, that didn’t even phase me, I always envied everybody else because their parents were loving and there for them.  So, the  moral of the story, I’d rather be poor and loved and wanted then rich and neglected and unloved.

I’m on immune-suppressors, there is NO way I’d be able to fight it off if I got it, so yes I’ll take a chance!

I was in the 2nd grade and had gone to a Brownie meeting (this is what you are before you become a girl scout.)  I was behind on my membership fees, we were a very well-to-do family but had just forgotten to pay.  When I got to the meeting, I was "reminded" I needed to pay again, I was told where the money was kept, so I went in with the cash and left it where instructed.  The next day, a classmate who lived at that address and who’s mother was the den mother (or whatever they are called) said I stole all the money from the pot.  I knew I didn’t, but at that moment I was shunned because all the girls thought I didn’t have money to pay.  It is something I will never forget.

No idea, she died when I was 16 and she was a raging alcoholic years before that.  I wonder if I am, but I will never know.

Nancy I’m so HAPPY your grand son made it through such an ordeal!  We had a similar thing happen to us with my son.  He was having strange symtoms, he had "jerking" motions and looked like his head was being forced backwards.  I took him to the doctor, the doctor said "oh he’s fine."  Well the situation kept getting worse and worse, so I kept calling the dr.’s office trying to get some advice on what this could be.  I finally just took him to Urgent Care, turns out he was having an allergic reaction to the compazine that was given to him for nausea.  The urgent care called San Diego’s children’s hospital and they adviced what to do to stop this, by this time his head was all the back to his shoulders, if he would of been an adult, it would of snapped his neck, he was terrified and screaming.  To make a long story short, we ended up taking him by ambulance to Children’s Hospital where he was administered the "right" dose of Benadryl to stop the reactions.  I never thought of suing the stupid doctor, but I did call to let them know I will NEVER be back and I will tell everybody I know this doctor doesn’t give a crap about her patients.  Just an FYI, Compazine is an amazing nausea medication, I used it years ago to help with my nausea but I too am allergic to it.  It’s called Parkinson’s like symtoms, my son reacted that way, I curl into the fetal position, I had it happen to me last October after my 2nd surgery, I kept telling the nurse I need Benadryl, you gave me something with compazine in it… finally after having my BP shoot through the roof and my husband standing in front of the nurse screaming to give it to her now, I got the medication that stopped that reaction.  Our healthcare system is truly screwed up.  I’ve had wonderful, loving, caring nurses, then I had other ones that abused the crap out of me.

 The important thing is that your grandson is healthy and happy and I got through the surgeries without dying!  My son is fine and he knows never to take that medication again.  We do need to fix these "flaws" in our healthcare system before it’s too late.  Just my opinion….

Thanks Nancy.  I did try to sue him, but I was informed it would take 50K at least to do it and these type of cases are very difficult to win.  Considering what I’ve been through, I decided it wouldn’t be worth it.  At "least" the GI doctor that referred me to this idiot, doesn’t refer any of his patients to him anymore, so he did lose future patients.  Anybody that has Crohns/Colitis NEEDS to have a colorectal surgeon NOT a general surgeon.  At least I lived through it and I’m wiser for it :-)

Almost dying last year due to having Crohn’s Disease for 28 years.  I have had bad experiences with western medicine and was going alone.  It almost killed me.  After the emergency surgery in February, by the end of March, the pain was so excruciating, I decided I was going to stop eating and just die.  My kids, friends were all calling me, trying to encourage me to go on.  "If" I ate, I would have up to 80 bowel movements a day.  It hurt way too bad to eat.  If it wasn’t for my son’s 12th BD that upcoming weekend and him asking me to please eat for a BD gift, I agreed to go on.  I spent the next 6 months trying to find somebody that believed me that my surgery was botched and I needed a surgeon to go back in.  Finally, I found my surgeon at Cedar’s Senai, in Los Angeles.  He came up with an idea to give me a Capsule Endoscopy with hopes it would get stuck so they’d have to go back in.  Well that’s exactly what happened and they found a stricture 6" long, an area the surgeon had completely missed.  It was repaired and it took me a good 5 more months to recover enough to eat.  Our medical system is bad.  I suffered last year needlessly.  There is only so much pain and suffering one can endure and I had reached mine.  I still have problems but nothing like last year and I PRAY that it stays this way.  I still can’t work, still need to work 6 months for social security to help me, which I can’t.  So it looks like we’re going to lose our home and there is nothing I can do.  Gotta love America.

Rest in Peace Mr. Kennedy.

So those of us on immune suppressing chemo isn’t at risk?  This is scary, I have a child in school already… why not keep the kids out until we have our first shot at least?

This blows chunks, we replaced everything we had LAST year and didn’t get a dime back.

We are from CA and were coming into the city when we saw all the helicopters covering this event.  It seems whenever we come into NYC something happens, maybe we should stay away :-(  The last time we were here, they discovered "bones" at the 9/11 site.  And the time before, a single engine plane flew into the side of a building.  Scary this could happen, I feel for all of the victims of this horrible, horrible trajedy.

This is awesome!  I wish I had it on my 5-1/2 hour flight to NYC tomorrow :-(