OT: It just figures!

Aspirin may be the best anti-inflammatory around, but it's my experience that it doesn't relieve my symptoms. That's why I choose ibuprofen. According to my general practitioner, it's not unusual for aspirin to simply not work for some people.

Elizabeth

What sins? Studying too hard and dating all the wrong guys?

My GYN told me that taking ibuprophen around the clock during your period will help keep the flow from being as heavy. If I'm remembering the reason right it was that there is a vein to the uterus that closes off during the beginning of your period, but opens up again about a day in. The ibuprophen keeps it shut down, thus less blood.

I tried it, and it does help.

Caryn

I was thinking of body abuse - sports - heavy contact sports. I used to race horses and took some terrible falls, one of which I could not get my feet from the stirrups and was dragged, that's what did my knees in. Bad enough at the time but I just shrugged when the doctor said I would pay for it later. At that point, anything past 20 was one foot in the grave !

I did gymnastics and ballet in my youth, and my knees hate me dreadfully now.

I did at least find out why I seem to sprain easily, at long last. Orthopedist rather painfully demonstrated how loose the ligaments in my ankles are, one misstep and I sprain. The loose ligaments in my knees mean that my kneecaps move too much, and rub on the bones behind them. When I was young I was considered "limber" because I could easily stretch further than other girls in my ballet classes. Now I know it was the loose ligaments and not a good thing at all!

Caryn

Sorry that double posted, I got an error message when it sent. Guess Google and/or AOL burped again!

Caryn

Actually, I know why my left knee aches. It still has to dating the wrong guy. He talked me into going climbing too soon after hurting it the first time.

Cheryl

Can you find him and make him pay for that ??? lol

NO - I paid to get rid of him!

Cheryl

Now you have me really curious - and others I am sure ????

I also married the boy. First court date had me paying support because he was still in school (finishing PhD). I later found out he was making $$ under the table as a software consultant - at 3x my hourly rate. At final decree, the judge offered me support which I turned down. I just wanted it over with.

The funny thing, I meet his wife someplace (women engineers workshop) and if allowed, we'd have been great friends. She and I run into each other in odd places and enjoy talking. She also told him to shove it when he told her not to talk to me after that first encounter.

Cheryl

Yes, I can see that lol My daughter with her new salary will be caught in a jam. She now earns considerably more than her ex and the divorce agreement was for joint custody of the two boys and each year end they turn their record of salaries in and any difference is split. She has earned somewhat more for quite awhile but he agreed she keep it as she buys all their clothes and pays for things like camp etc. Now the dollar signs are whirring since rumour has reached him. Her dilemma is that she wants to put the big difference into an account specifically for the boys university, it is already clear one of them will want to go. That way, it won't go through Paul and get spent on the son of another liaison. I don't think he will agree without a fight, but it seems fair enough to me. Perhaps I am biased, but we both see it that way, it's frustrating. Meanwhile, instead of ever buying them some clothes or taking them places, he re-mortgaged to buy a Harley lol

Ha! A friend's ex's new GF was their son's teacher. At some point, she went for a parent-teacher conference, and the two of them hit it off. She warned the new GF about some things the ex did which resulted in their divorce, and, sure enough, a few months later got an e-mail that he was doing the same in the new relationship. Knowing what it had escalated to, the GF got out while she could.

I wish I could've talked to my ex's ex before we got married. I might have found out a few things that would have made me think differently about him. His public persona to the people at church was 180 from who he was at home.

Huh?

What the hell do you mean ?

Ankle is fine now, which is good.

Cold is worse, which is not.

Today is Asst Mgr's last day and the only word from the district mgr who has to do the hiring for our store is that he's thinking about what to do.

That was on Wednesday.

The store is open from 10 am to 9:30 pm tomorrow, I fear I know what I'll be doing all day!

Not sure what he's going to do about Sunday, because I have a prior commitment, which I will not change. Once in a lifetime opportunity (luxury suite at a Capitals game in D.C.) and my job isn't worth missing it for.

Caryn

" But then you also perpetuate other lies, so I guess this is just more of the same from you." Caryn

Yeah just the same as you always go on about Karen C moaning about her health - but you don't do that, do you ?? How many days have we heard it now, two or three, oh poor Caryn.

Here's a thought, if you don't like my posts, stop reading them.

But you won't because you need, desperately and sadly, someone to be nasty to at all times. You really are one of the nastiest, most spiteful people I've run across in my life.

I was venting on Tuesday, and my post today was just an update to the vent, as part of it has improved, while part of it continues. I post on other topics, I don't try to make RCTN about me at all times, unlike some.

You took something I said in another thread and dragged it here, poor netiquette, but that is you in a nutshell.

You claimed you plonked me, another lie from you. Try following thru this time, eh?

Caryn