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Since my stroke I have not tried swimming b/c I was too terrified I couldn't do it. WEll I tried it and still could.(My hubby said I swam better than I walked)0 . I don't know for how long I would be able to do it, but range of motion with my affected arm could move freely (easier in the water than on land.) ~Amy

Hey Guys, I am on an anticipation rush now, b/c I made reservations for our family vacation. WE are going to Branson,MO to Silver Dollar City. I have not been since I was 3, and we haven't gone as a family, so I think it will be a lot of fun!! I picked a plain Jane motel. I tried to go economy as much as possible, not counting gas or spending while we are there is not going to be that bad. Hubby trusted me to do all our planning. It was fun. 2 more weeks then MO here we come!! :cheer: :cheer: ~Amy

My dog Shelby is very smart and since my stroke she has really become "overprotective" of her Mommy. She is also a very vocal dog, she has a happy growl when she is glad to see you. If I forget to fill her water fish up, she will lay beside it and whine a high pitch whine until I fill it. She also understands English. So My hubby and I have started spelling some words around her like t-r-e-a-t. Since my stroke I have been on a baking cookies kick and when she smells them cooking, she knows I will put one in her dish once one has cooled down. We have really bonded b/c it is just us during the school yr. when my daughter is gone during the day. I liked you pet stories, Pet stories are fun to read. ~Amy

Thanks Asha! ~Amy

Hey guys, I am lost. What is the shout box and how do you use it? I am slow at learning new technology things. I think I may have skipped over some sort of directions. ~Amy

Since, school has gotten out I have done a terrible job at a very important job:remembering to take my coumadin. So I have a summer schedule for daughter and I to enjoy that has rest time and park time. I also set a timer on my cell phone to go off at a certain time, so I wouldn't forget to take my meds. I feel horrible, I skipped one day last week and really need to get my INR/PT level back up. My doctor is keeping a close eye on me until it gets back up to theraputic(sp?) range.

Since, school has gotten out I have done a terrible job at a very important job:remembering to take my coumadin. So I have a summer schedule for daughter and I to enjoy that has rest time and park time. I also set a timer on my cell phone to go off at a certain time, so I wouldn't forget to take my meds. I feel horrible, I skipped one day last week and really need to get my INR/PT level back up. My doctor is keeping a close eye on me until it gets back up to theraputic(sp?) range.

Can you believe that I went with hubby and daughter, to walk beside a walking path in town and "look for snakes in the process" ?? Of course we see some swimming their pretty "S's" in the water. Big Black Snakes!! We are a safe distance from the snakes as they swim in the creek that runs beside the walking path. I must have been fatigued b/c right when we were about to our car my ankle gave out and I almost busted my bum in the parking lot. I am hoping the effects of my ankle turning will not push me back too far in my ankle strengthening process. It is always 5 steps forward and 7 steps back. Isn't it? I wasn't too crazy to go on their little adventure, but I am tired of missing out on the family fun, by living life in the house, or on the sidelines as to speak. We took some sandwiches to the Arkansas River for a picnic after our snake site seeing adventure was over. It was a nice Father's Day, Sunday afternoon. ~Amy

Nice Blog Denny, I did read it all the way through. ~Amy

I think I may drop out of this whole growing veggies thing. :blush: It was fun to plan and begin. My pepper plant died (I over trimmed it) My Tomato plants are not full grown, and are turning red. The little stake in the plant I bought said they were full size Tomato's. It may be due to not quite a 5 gallon container I have them in. I had such "high-Spring Hopes." Reality sinks in and it is way easier and cost effective to just go to a farmers market. I am sure next Spring I will be bitten by the garden bug, and go through this same old song & dance. Earlier this morning, I saw a man selling Tomato's in his front yard for 50 cents a pound. I pulled over on the side of the road and bought some from him. He seemed so peaceful, just sitting in his front yard under a shade tree with his scale and Tomato's. ~Amy

My Passion Party was last night and a success. I had 3 ppl book a party off of mine :Clap-Hands: PPL showed up, and I got some free merchandise. I am ready to take my hostess hat off for a while. I haven't laughed so hard in a long time. ~Amy

Great Job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :Clap-Hands: :Clap-Hands: ~Amy

My friend, got a wild 30 y.o. hair, to go to a local bar to hear her friend's band play, so she invited me to go. It has been yrs since I have gone out with a friend. It was very nice time except for this bad habit I have of playing with my wedding ring set when nervous/bored. I ended up losing my wedding band, and my friend was down on her hands and knees touching the dirty bar floor for it, and alas she found it! If it was lost it would b no biggie, b/c husband's on his 2nd wedding band. The same thing happened to him while playing with it except he was sitting on a lake pier. It was fun to be out last night-ok,maybe I feel a little too old to be going listening to a band play at a bar, but dang-it, you only live once. I really didn't know how loud the music was going to be and I couldn't sleep last night due to the crickets/locust sound I hear and still do in my ears . I know I should take better care of my ears. I will be a hearing aid candidate one day. The 2nd hand smoke about killed me when I got home and took my clothes off to shower. My clothes stunk so bad! When I was a smoker it is embarrassing to think I use to go to class smelling like that. My girl's night out is enough to last me another good yr. I'm not missing anything. Nice thing about having an off gait in a bar is, ppl just think you have had a little 2 much brew. :giggle: ~Amy

Vix, Way to go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is wonderful!! ~Amy

Hubby and I went out to eat 2night and I bring leftovers home as usual. Enough so I will not have to cook 2morrow 4 my daughter or I, but I always have to politely remind him these are my leftovers, "Please do not eat." It happens more than I can count, I have yummy food in the box, in the fridge anticipating eating the next day, to wake up and they are gone. He can't sleep some nights and my food usually calls his name. Better not tonight! :big_grin: ~Amy

The summer neighborhood sounds have returned. My daughter is in the front of the house running in the street with the rest of our street kids( did I mention my daughter is shoe-less and in her PJ's? My hubby is on duty now. The more I think about her being shoeless, the worse it sounds. She could step on a shard of broken glass or something. The summer sounds are contagoius. Now, all I need is a bird house full of Martins to eat some mosquitos for me! :big_grin: ~Amy

I can't believe it. I actually got gas for $2.49 gallon today. The week when I actually hadn't did much driving. I fill up my car every Tuesday, and the price has been up there close to $3.00. Thank Goodness I don't commute anymore, b/c I don't think I could afford to work out-of-town :big_grin: Today was my baby's last day of school. I am back being a short order cook at lunch now :blush: I can't remember what I use to feed her. ~Amy

I am proud of my brain today, by thinking ahead and following through with my thought. I have lots of good thoughts, but sometimes they never get produced due to brain damage. Well, My baby's last field trip was today, and they were going to this indoor maze where every child must have on socks or they can't play. I stuck 2 pairs of extra socks in my purse of my daughter's, in hope that a child would forget and wear flip-flops. I have made that mistake plenty of times at this place in the summer and ended up buying socks at the register they sell for a rediculas amount. I quietly told her "Maternity substitute" that I brought two pairs of extra socks if there was anybody that needed them. Well, what -do-you-know. Two kids were there without socks. I handed them to the teacher saying,"I don't want them back". :blush: For some reason I got lots of satisfaction out of that today. It makes me feel important. Tonight I am going to Riverfest with my brother, Mom and Dad and hubby and child to listen to Kool and the Gang sing. I know old band, but you gotta love Kool and the Gang!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I 'm excited about seeing my other 2 nephews who I never get to see b/c they live a long drive away. I better go make them some cookies to eat at my house. Chop-Chop! ~Amy

Sue, What a great idea!!! I can hold babies like my nephew but with some non-family's I feel dangerous or anxious about holding them. Thanks for your ray of sunshine! ~Amy

Yesterday at my DD's school, her teacher brought up her newborn baby for the kids to meet. She asked me if I wanted to hold the baby? "Me, with one arm hold the baby?"- Is what I thought. When going to public places a lot of times I put my affected hand in my pocket, that way it doesn't (hopefully) look as out of place. It's Friday, the last Friday I will have to get up early for a while. Schools out Tuesday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :Clap-Hands: :Clap-Hands: ~Amy

ASha, I used 2 hands but it really made my tone increase. My affected hand held it while my good hand did the fine motor work. It was enough work for me to feel a nap coming on :blush: My hair isn't that long maybe a 3 inch ponytail. ~Amy

Did what? You ask. Well it is a big step in my recovery almost 3 years post stroke ....smile... I put my own hair in a ponytail today :Clap-Hands: :Clap-Hands: It is a low pony tail. Probably looks like my child did it, but I tried and I did. I am proud to walk around with my hair maybe not the neatest, but it is off my shoulders and back in a Ponytail. I tried to do this last year but failed to do it.

I fell this morning outside in my back yard. I was planting some flowers given to me by a friend, and was walking the waterhose over to water them, when I stepped in a hole in our yard. I fell right to my knees on soft grass. I came close to reinjuring my affected ankle I have worked so hard to strengthen. I was quite embarrassed. I think nobody saw me :blush:. The holes in our grass are from when we first built our house and watered our sod too much and had to walk on the flooded sod to turn the water off. WE thought we had filled in all the holes,apparently my foot found one this morning. ~Amy

:Clap-Hands: Congrats, this could open a lot of different door oppurtunities for the future. Congrats!!!!!!!! ~Amy

Great Idea, Thanks! ~Amy