Hello and welcome to my world,

Actually I am suppose to be in hospital being prepped for surgery but due to abdominal infection my 16th surgery has postponed until Sept 14th instead.

Seems like forever since I posted here and a million things have happened. I was so excited to be back writing again I almost forgot how much pain I am actually in! No i did forget!!

Nothing new and exciting in my life except I have had the opportunity to meet a lot of new people and making plans to do some traveling soon. BUt even though my life is changing I still miss my friends here in journal land. I always come back to the journals.

Been working on WW's program, Dr. Phil Forum and Snow Angels and getting them back up to date and working hard on losing weight myself again. With last few months and the up and down weight thought it was time to come here and fess up and start over!

I need to lose 100 lbs. Not I want to or should I have to or die simple as that. I no longer have the luxury of playing and cheating on diets. I either get it together or die. Has taken me a lifetime to realize that in order to lose weight all I have to do is to eat a well balanced diet and skip all the junk. Because if I eat a well balanced diet I have no room for junk food and all the extras!

Some of you may remember last year I bought my hubby for his birthday those six twigs called raspberry bushes. Well I just ate a cup of them. The twigs grew and grew and low and behold they produced more plants. Well this spring about 50 plants came up in stead of 6. I have a gallon of raspberries in freezer and tons more almost ready to pick. I also have 10 gallons of black berries and 8 gallons of strawberries frozen. So have all fruit I need. Funny how something you grow yourself tastes so much better than any other on this earth!!

Omg it is 6:30 in am and I have been writing all night. Well off to bed and in couple hours up and starting my new day with lots of energy and resolve to get my life and diet in order.

Have a great day and I'll be back.

Love and hugs,
Lizzie

Hi Lizzie !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

It is super to have you back to journals :hug:

Beth :dn

Hi Lizzie

Welcome back. It so good to have you here again.

Carol

hello my long lost journalling pal...i have missed you :hug:
i like your no nonsense attitude..sometimes we just have to tell it like it is..
i am sorry that your surgery was postponed...you havent had a very good run of it with your health have you sweetie?
All that homegrown fruit sounds delicious..i am jealous!!!
i am thrilled to have a place to catch up with you again...you keep posting gal..i always like hearing how you are doing.
hugs bell :)

LIZZIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So GREAT to have you back sweetie..You've been MISSED!!!!!!

Hi Everyone,

Sure does feel good to come back to the journals!!!!!! As usual I am in procrastination mode but not for long. I have doc appointment at 10 am so better get my self to bed. Sure like that will happen. I just have so much to do I really don't have time to waste but I manage to waste it anyway.

Having terrible time with diabetes and getting blood sugar down. With major pain in right knee and right shoulder that seems to keep blood sugar up then add in swelling in left leg and infection and then abdominal infection well guess that could create a problem. Insulin had opposite effec and helped keep blood sugar up so start new insulin tomorrow.

Well I see it like this I have several new friends in Florida and just the minute I think I can travel I am headed to Florida. Can not wait!! But then Hurricanes may prevent me from going. Yal right I am going Hurricane or not!!

Had this huge pity party last night and no one came but me. Believe that was enough!!

Just woke up a few minutes ago.

Hi Jojo, so glad to see you and must find out all that is going on and who got married!! Are you grandma yet????? Still look cute as a button in picture!!!

Hi bell,
How you doing sweetie? Yep I have missed you too and hope you are ok!!
Going to have to go to your journal and see what you have been upto also. How are things down under?? I am so glad you stopped by!!

Hi Carol,
Good to see you also! Missed hearing from you too. Looking forward to hearing about what has been going on with you TOOOOO


Hi Beth,
You have been missed also. Hope to connect with you soon. How is your new grandbaby? Hope to hear more soon!! Time for me to scoot

love,



Lizzie

Lizzie - come on over to my journal and you can see pictures of her that I just posted tonight :)


You were talking about procrastination - that is my biggest down fall in all areas ( except work ) of life 8-|

How is your stomach infection doing?

Beth :dn

LIZZIE!! :x

Hello and Welcome to Lizzie's World,

I seem to be on the poor health cycle that just will not stop. I had to postpone surgery because of infection. Then I had to go to hospital for ultra sound on both legs for possible bloodclots! Now legs are both swollen twice the size and I am on leg elevated and ton of meds. Then doc found mass in abdomen and had to go back to hospital for Ct-scan to determine what that is all about. Well you know me something has to go wrong with ct-scan.

Well actually pre ct scan. All they wanted to do was inset IV for contrast and you won't belieive the trouble they had getting iV in. The first time the blood clotted so fast it clogged the needle so they had to remove it. The 2nd and 3rd time blew vein. Fourth time and third person to do IV decided to apply hot compresses on site and then try with smaller needle. Worked like a charm!! Had to use back of my left hand since good IV arm was not able to use because of fracture with shoulder and coulds not use good vein on left arm because of scar tissue. What a time!! Now have to go back Friday to have more blood drawn! Life can it be much more fun!!

I have to heal within the next 2 weeks or I will have to postpone shoulder surgery again. In meantime I am hoping nothing major is happening with abdomen. Find out in a couple of days.

Actually found out just a little while ago about ct scan. They did find mass as expected and also found tumor. So I have to go back for more tests tomorrow and tests scheduled for next week. Well looks like poor health cycle continues.

Anyway that news took wind out of my sails for a minute. But can not worry about that have other things to do! I need to can some peaches!!

Be back later.

Love an dhugs,
Lizzie

Hi Lizzie,
WELCOME BACK :spring:

Boy, have you been missed. I have been thinking about you and hoping you were doing ok.
I will continue to pray for your complete recovery and a bounce back to good health.

Love ya :hug:


Vickie :pass:

Hi Lizzie... I haven't been around much either, so I didn't know about your upcoming surgery. I'm sorry to hear that you are still suffering and SO sorry to hear you've just found out about a tumor. I'll send up some prayers for you and your health.... just doesn't seem fair that one person has so much to shoulder.

Your fruits sound wonderful. Eventually I want to plant some blackberries and raspberries here, too. That sounds so exciting to have all those berries! How long till you saw fruit from when you planted? My husband has very fond memories of picking wild blackberries for his mom when he was a kid in Wales. That's why I'd like to do blackberries... besides that we all love them! One of my dogs LOVES red raspberries.... lol Figures.. the most expensive fruit to buy!

Welcome back and take care of yourself!

Hi DJ,

Can seem to find your journal!! I am so happy to see you. I decided it was time to get back to basics and start new and fresh not knowing I was packing a mass of some kind and a tumor!! But I decided not to worry about it you know ignorance is bliss. Well going to keep my head in the snad for a few more days!!

Oh girl I love the fresh berries!!!!!!! I planted red raspberries last spring and had berries by fall. This year we had a zillion fruit bearing raspberry bushes. The kind I have produce fruit all summer. Balck berries took longer like maybe a couple of years simply because I got tired of waiting!! So if you plant them and leave them alone should have fruit the next season. I have had mine for several years now and this year had 10 plus gallons of blackberries. I made 28 jars of blackberry jam and wow is it good!!!!!! Plus baked a couple huge blackberry cobblers. Yummmmmmmm!! Oh and they spread all over the place so have to watch out!! I bought mine at Park Seed from Catalog. You can also buy online which I did with raspberries!!!!!

Well going to look for your journal again!!

LOve an dhugs,
Lizzie

Hey, Lizzie..... thanks for the info on the berries. I guess with our winters, I'll try getting some bushes and planting in the spring. Probably too late to plant now, but I'll shoot for spring. That's awesome about the jam and all. I used to do that every year with strawberries and miss having it. I've been buying Smuckers sugar free blackberry jam and it's really good. Wonder how it would can with splenda? Hmmm..... something to try for the future.

Don't worry about finding my journal. I got discouraged and closed it awhile back. I've been thinking about starting another one, but am having surgery (total knee) on October 4th, so I'm thinking maybe I should wait until after that to begin another one. Sometimes I feel a little displaced here, too..... something I'm working on.

Thanks a bunch for the encouragement..... you're a wonderful lady and I'm in awe of your spirit. What strength you have...... take care and have a great weekend!

Hi Lizzie

Just wanted to stop by and say hi! Haven't been around much this summer but am hoping to get in the swing of things again and yours is the first journal I stopped at:)

Feel better soon.
renee :D

Hi, Lizzie, I am so glad I found your journal, and I am so sorry to hear about your health problems. It so often seems like it is just one thing after another, doesn't it? But the only solution is to just keep plugging away, taking it all a day at a time, and doing the best we can with what life dishes out to us.

I have been absent from DT for a couple of weekswith computer problems. But I am back now and trying to catch up with everyone.

Your mentioning the raspberries reminds me of how we get our raspberries. Our neighbor has some, and they keep crawling through the fence. So what is on our side of the fence is OURS. At least that is what the neighbor says, since she is a sweet neighbor. They sure are good.

Anyway, hope you have a good weekend, and get a lot of canning done.

Keep smiling -

Hello Everyone,

I know that we all face crisis' at different times in our life and I am happy I don't have any. Well may be just a couple. On a more serious note I decided to start this thread because I needed it and I am being selfish tonight. But i am sharing this thread with all of you who need to say I am sick of being sick!!! I need to just vent a little.

I saw my ob-gyn today and learned part of my fate. I will have surgery within the next 2 weeks to remove a tumor the size of my fist that is currently residing on my right ovary. At time of removal of tumor biopsy will be done and depending on if tumor is cancerous will then determine what will happen. Doc explained it will be a tough surgery because having to go so deep to remove tumor and ovaries.

Of course I hope I get good results and all I have to do is recover and come home in a few days. I am not even going to think about chemo and all that unless I have to.

However I have a surgery coming up Wednesday the 14th of September. Having second surgery on shoulder this time to fix rotators cuff which I managed to damage somehow.

I have two surgeries coming very quickly and then they are over!!
I don't know what will happen and guess what I am not going to worry about it!! I have other fish to fry. OMG fried fish and chips with potato salad and home baked bread yummmmmmm. Oops got side tracked.

I will play the hand that is dealt me and move on!! Right now I am not worried about surgery just wishing it was over. Now I must go foward and take very good care of me and diabetes( now complete insulin dependency) and make sure sugar is under control.

My journey to fitter and healthier me is in full swing with me watching what I eat and eating using common sense.


You all have a wonderful day,
Love and hugs,

Lizzie
__________________

I hope you know it goes without saying I AM HERE FOR YOU ...

The road we travel isn't easy but AS I WAS SO OFTEN TOLD .. NOTHING IN LIFE IS EASY BECAUSE IF IT WAS WE WOULDN'T APPRECIATE IT.

I will be keeping you in my prayers ... REMEMBER THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN'T ACHIEVE. I am as always, Monica :hug:

(((Lizzie)))

I am so sorry about all the health problems you are dealing with. But I know you can deal with them. Just take it all a day at a time. And you are in my thoughts and prayers.

You are one strong lady Lizzie and i am sending you lots of positive vibes to help you keep your chin up in the coming weeks.
Know that i am always here for you and cheering you on with every step you take.
hugs bell :)

Lizzie..
Our prayers are with you. Don't worry.

good day.

Wow I am so blessed with such a wonderful bunch of friends!!!!!! I finally just broke down and cried today hoping that would take away some of the stress. Alas all it did was give me a headache!!

Granddaughter just turned 16!! Must be a mistake I am only 20!! lol yal right!!

Thank you all for well wishes and all the lovely things you share each day!!!!!!

Love and huugs,
lizzie

sometimes a good cry does the world of good..i know it works for me sometimes..it helps to get all the frustration out and then get on with dealing with whatever problem i am facing.
you can do it!
hugs bell :)

Hello Everyone,

I am happy to say I am truly on the mend now and feeling stronger every day!! I am happy to be alive and talking to you all now. Now to stay alive the weight has to come off and it is 28lbs lighter. My husband is learning to cook like Monica!! lol Thank you Monica for recipes they were excellent!! I

I still have a tall order to get Diabetes under control. I am taking 5 shots of insulin a day and one oral med. That really messes with my day and time. But at least I am alive and still able to make choices. So much has happened I forgot wher I was on life's journey so I am starting sort of again.

I knoiw I have some big decisions to make about lifestyle changes and possible relocation we shalll see. Then again I need to get my house all the way in order but I still see big changes and all good ones!!

I plan on being back every couple days until I get caught up on everyone. I am so out of the loop forgot what a loop was.

I have now Christmas to deal with. Well all I do is enjpy it and all the decorations and stuff. Then after Christmas my poor little house needs serious attention I LOVE THE HOLIDAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

See you all in couple of days!!

Love and hugs,
Lizzie :hug:

i m happy you are better now...and it will be great seeing you more often...take your time and enjoy the holidays, the house will be fine someday,but dont rush things ....

take good care of yourself...

Hi Lizzie

I'm glad you are doing better! You've got to get that diabetes under control so you don't have to take some many shots - 5 shots really bites. I love the holidays too! That is one of the first things I did when I got back in town - was to decorate the house.

Take care of yourself.
Renee

Hi, Lizzie:

Thanks for visiting my journal.

I am working on getting my house decorated for Christmas. It is slow when you really are struggling with just getting things done on a daily basis. But so it goes.

I noticed that my being a sicko has been affecting my blood sugars. And I expect that as I continue to recover the blood sugars will calm down. I imagine that it part of your current problems, too. Things just don't always work like we would like for them to work. We just have to do the best we can with what life deals us.

Keep smiling -

Dear Liz,

You haven't posted in your Journal for quite a while ... I am sincerely hoping that you are doing okay ...

WISHING YOU AND YOURS THE BEST OF GOOD HEALTH AND HAPPINESS IN THE NEW YEAR. :cheers: I am as always, Monica

HAPPY NEW YEAR
Lizzie..AND ALL THE VERY BEST FOR THE COMING YEAR :party: I pray that you are blessed with good health in 2006

LULU

Hello Everyone,

Has been a while getting back in the swing of things Then I get hit with more bad news. So Tuesday I go in for more tests and xrays and hopefully find out where and what is causing blood clots in intestinal tract.Plus what is causing pain in right hip. All I want to do is get well and take a walk on the beach.

In the mean time I am maintaining my weight and not gaining and that is important. I love you all but just to fatigued to write. Hope you all had a Merry Christmas and the Very Best New Year!!~!!!!

PLEASE BE SAFE AND HAPPY THIS NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love and Big hugs,
Lizzie

I will keep you in my prayers for good health in 2006! My goodness, you deserve it!

Corinna

Ah, Lizzie.... at some point, you're gonna get a break! You just have to..... let's hope that 2006 will bring you good health and much happiness!!

Happy New Year!! Have a wonderful holiday!!