I am home. . . . .

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I had a long thread all ready to send with color and smilies and real cute to thank everyone for being so special while I was gone and I went to send it and I must have done something ignorant and I lost the whole f---ing thing!!! It took me an hour to type it and set it up and now it is gone. . . I am so upset I have been crying until I can't catch my breath. . . I will have to come back and try later when my blood pressure is not thru the roof. I love you all and it meant so much to me to present a cute thread and then I went and screwed it up and I don't know how to retrieve it!

Darlene
 

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All of us missed you so much, and hey, don't sweat the small stuff okay- a missing thread is really no big deal considering what you just endured. I am just glad it allowed you to release all that anguish you have been trying to supress!



Welcome back sweetie!
 

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Welcome back!! I am sure the thread was lovley. Just knowing you are back and okay is better though!!
 

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WELCOME BACK DARLENE!!!

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Oh Darlene....I know EXACTLY how you feel! I have spent time making what I considered to be witty and profound posts...
and dang it if I didn't go and lose it all. Pisses me off!!!!!! LOL

The main thing is that you are back...and we have missed you terribly...and we are so GLAD to have our threeleggedkat back home!!!!
 

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I can't think of a better thread to post my 600th on than to welcome you home, 3LK!!!

You have been sorely missed. I sincerely hope you are feeling better.

Don't feel bad about the special post, the most special part is that you are back. Stay healthy!

By the way, please thank your sister for keeping us updated.

Love ya!

 

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Yipee! You're home! Hooray!



I can really relate to losing a Post of the Century; but, as others have already stated, having you back is all that matters!

WELCOME HOME!

 

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just had to say one more time that I'm glad that you are back!!!!!

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and just for old times here are a few more of these guys


:jarswim: :jarswim: :jarswim: :jarswim:
 

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You have been missed! I hope that you are feeling better and that you'll be all the way back on your feet soon! I'm here when your ready and feel well enough to talk.
 

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Weclome back!!!! Glad to see you posting, even if the cyber gremlins are in force...:martian: :martian: :martian: :martian:
Hope your health is much better too!!
 

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Darlene! Where did you go???? We MISS you!!!!!! I hope you are not still upset. We love you so much here, and we want to hear from you again, soon!
 

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Yeay! TLK is back!

Never mind the darn thread! You're back!!!

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How are you feeling?
 
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ANNE, and Everyone;

Your concern is very appreciated. I am doing fine (for a crippled old woman who is too stubborn for her own good)


I will be okay, but I am having trouble accepting some of the "changes" my family wants me to make; "for my own good".


I have always taken care of myself and I always will!!!!!


I did not always make the RIGHT choices, but they were MY choices and I never asked anyone to pay the consequences for my mistakes. . . .


This is the way I feel about their new ideas and I'm gonna have to pray long and hard to find some workable compromises. :angel2:
 

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Darlene, what is all this about? Whay changes are you going to make?
 
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Okay, here goes, I will try not to get too upset. . . .


My sister wants to sell the house. It is in her name but I helped with the down payment 23yrs. ago and I have always paid her $200 a month rent and helped with groceries, paid my own phone and paid for anything that my cats needed. (Not to mention that my sister got free daycare for both of her daughters and I took care of our Mom for the last 5yrs. of her life, and I still worked part time; evenings and holidays and free-lance from home) Okay, I am through venting, I promise,
and I will go back to the facts. . . .


The house is too-o-o-o-o big and old (built in 1904) and it is in need of too many major repairs that a couple of ageing women can't perform. . . .
Dorothy has her own apt. and Sandra will go away to school in the next 2 yrs. Diane wants a smaller house all on one level and out of the city (where the neighborhoods are constantly changing: mostly not for the good). She wants to take her time and find the "right" place and Sandra will still be in high school (private Christian Academy less than a mile from home) so she has 2 yrs. to look.

My doctor says I CANNOT continue to climb stairs without serious reprecussions! So my family has decided that I should move into a government subsidised apt. for disabled seniors. I would not mind except: I would not be allowed to have any pets
It would be quite a ways from Diane and the girls.

I would be alone. (other people in building, but no one I know and most a lot older than me and from different racial, social, and economical background. ( do not mean to sound prejudiced but I feel that they would exclude me; not the other way around. . . . . .)
Also the building is in a "rougher" section of the inner city.


Diane says that once she has the new house we can move back together, but I know it will just be easier to leave me where I have been put and that will never happen. . . .

Dorothy and Sandra promise me that the cats will be taken care of, but they will be so unhappy and scared without me. (not to mention that I will die of a broken heart. . .
and just fall apart.

So, basically, that is what I am facing. I welcome all suggestions for solutions. . . . . I have to go now before I get upset again.
 

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Darlene

i know you PM'ed me about this awhile ago, and since then i have worried.

i dont understand why you think your sister would just leave you there?

this is a sad situation. you should be spending your life the way that makes you happiest.
and with the things that make you happiest, and most comfortable.

why cant you make your home downstairs so as to avoid walking the stairs?

is there room? can you make room?

dont allow yourself to be moved from your own home if there are other options, please!!

i can hardly bare the thought of you in a seniors home without your family or your cats.

there must be another option.

do you and your sister not get along? is she looking for an excuse for you to leave?

i'm so sorry this is happening.

tell me, will that work? can you make a living area for yourself downstairs?

love you, angel. i'm here for you 100%

 
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