BEAUTIFUL SUMMER!
Mood:  happy
Topic: A Woman's Sharing Place
Hi,everyone, welcome to D L's blog!! Hope you are all having a wonderful day. I know I am, even though the new cable TV hook-up app't. for yesterday seems to have disappeared from the orders! But that's OK, 'cause the sun is shining, the sky is still there, and I woke up this morning, so it is already a glorius day, no matter what (I hope)--the eternal optimist--NOT LOL.

LET'S GET OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS OFF THEIR HINIES NOW!!!
Mood:  incredulous
Topic: A Woman's Sharing Place
Here is a sample of what has been happening all over North America, with drugs like Crystal Methamphetamine: In the month of June, 2003 a mother from New Jersey contacted a counselor about getting help for her Daughter. Our counselor recommended a rehabilitation program and Mom contacted this facility to get information about how to help daughter who was wanting help one day and not the next. Our counselor recommended an intervention and mom went ahead as planned. Mom contacted the facility to get information and then a couple days later called back to ask when she could come to check in. The counselor recommended that she be brought the next morning as daughter was very unstable and was likely to change her mind or even worse. Mom decided she would wait until Tuesday to bring daughter to the facility. On Monday daughter left without telling anyone and went to another state. The counselor from the drug rehab facility tried to contact daughter but was unable to contact her. In Late July, Mom contacted counselor of the rehab facility to inform him that daughter had overdosed, and that she was buried 2 days earlier. Mom was devastated that she had not taken the advice of the counselor to get her daughter to the centre the next day and she said she wanted to make sure that the counselor never gave up on anyone, and as well that she hoped any other family member out there would take the advice of the counselor and act fast so as to prevent the one last hurrah from being a deadly reminder of how real this problem is.

July 11,2005
Mood:  party time!
Topic: FALCON LAKE HOTEL
Hi, everyone, I am at Falcon Lake Resort, and lovin' it!!! Hope you all are finding ways to beat the heat and humidity. HelP!!! I'm melting. Love, DL

This last month in the news:
Mood:  irritated
Topic: A Woman's Sharing Place
Well, it's Independence Day in the U.S., and we just celebrated Canada Day this past weekend, as well. I was so glad to not have to see Michael Jackson's puss on the news, and Sir Bob Geldoff's, too. Now we have to keep being bombarded with Karla Homolka's story!!! Anyone else fed up with over-kill by the media, on negative, horrific people?

A Woman's Job
Mood:  incredulous
Now Playing: Why are we expected to fix everything?
Topic: A Woman's Sharing Place
Why is it that we women are expected to fix everything? From children's toys to spouse's woes, to finding our own diagnoses?
Why is it that it usually depends on my own adaptability and knowledge of resources, in order to find out, for my physician, what my symptoms may or may not be indicative of, when my complaints have fallen on deliberately deafened ears?
Perhaps it is as my doctor once shared, that his house is full of women. Could that be why he doesn't hear this patient?
Anyway, there will be a Webcast on Thursday, June 30, 2005 from 50+.com with live interaction and 4 qualified guest speakers. They will be discussing Multiple Sclerosis symptoms, such as Bladder and Bowel problems, Muscle spascicity/rigidity, and Cognitive impairment.

WHY WON'T MY DOCTOR FIND OUT WHAT'S WRONG??
Mood:  quizzical
Now Playing: WHY???
Topic: A Woman's Sharing Place
Why do I feel great 1 or 2 days out of 30, yet my doctor tells me everything is alright?

Anyone out there feel the same?

Let's talk, shall we?

signed, DL