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[IWMP]

It seems while there is good in this world, there is also much suffering and sorrow. Thankfully, this won’t always be. Good, make that great, things are coming!

A update, Jerz, darling daughter hasn’t thrown up in a week. It was so good to see her munching on food during a FaceTime call yesterday evening, and looking like she was enjoying eating again. An improvement from when we were recently there to visit her. When we were there, it reminded me of when my dad would play at appearing like he was eating. I appreciate your prayers for her, Jerz. While not 100%, I’m thankful for this. I totally understand the PTSD you mentioned.

I am so thankful all went well with the kidney function testing. There is much love and caring amongst posters on the board, for which I’m grateful. Like Jerz, some of you know more about me than close friends and family. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting some of you face-to-face for the first time after all these years, and have felt like I already knew you, like really knew you, without ever having met F2F. May we always be a source of support and encouragement for one another.

I hope your daughter recovers. That sounds difficult to watch.

[Jersey Girl]

I'm glad to hear that at least some of these scary-sounding tests came out well. On the other hand it's frustrating that the digestive problems are still so stubborn.

Thanks so much, PG! The thought of that renal study about put me into oblivion stress-wise. As it turned out none of the tests caused discomfort except that which stirred around in my mind. And yes, this is all too frustrating and for far too long. It's definitely not an exact science by any means. It's more a case of trial and error. Sometimes the errors are terrifying.

I just heard a happier medical story which might at least bring cheer by its sheer silliness. If only everyone's troubles were so easily fixed. Anyway, a colleague told me that when he was working in Munich twenty years ago he had some serious kidney pain that was eventually diagnosed as some vein or duct being constricted. The treatment recommended by the Munich doctor was: drink one liter of beer every day. That's about three beers.

The pain quickly vanished and hasn't come back in twenty years.

I don't think my colleague can have kept up that beer regimen for long, or he would probably have other problems by now, but as an acute treatment it did seem to work. At least in Munich. The beer there might be different. Or the doctors. Or the kidneys.

Ironically, I've been purging things to donate to Buy Nothing. I found our set of huge glass beer glasses (probably 32 oz.) from the Oktober fest in Munich! Those were the days when I like to say I drank my lifetime limit of alcohol in 2 years time. We were young (and poor!!) marrieds at the time drove to Oktober fest and tent camped with another couple from base. The visit went like this...wake up in the morning, visit several beer tents, nap in the tent, visit a food stand, more beer tents, back for a nap, wash, rinse, repeat until long into the evening and when I say nap, I mean pass out. I don't actually think we ever sobered up until the end of the weekend. Came home with a collection of beer glasses that the other wife and I STOLE after ordering and drinking then shoving them into our big handbags. Yes, I was a drunken thief now purging out my stolen goods.

(I could read local German in Ramstein (and high German from 4 years in high school) but not so good in Munich apparently. Saw these spiral things hanging from a food tent that looked like a sugar covered confection. Ordered and soon discovered they were spiral cut radishes covered in salt! Let's just say that they didn't pair well with dark Lowenbrau!)

[Jersey Girl]

It seems while there is good in this world, there is also much suffering and sorrow. Thankfully, this won’t always be. Good, make that great, things are coming!

I'm counting on it, Weaps!

A update, Jerz, darling daughter hasn’t thrown up in a week. It was so good to see her munching on food during a FaceTime call yesterday evening, and looking like she was enjoying eating again. An improvement from when we were recently there to visit her. When we were there, it reminded me of when my dad would play at appearing like he was eating. I appreciate your prayers for her, Jerz. While not 100%, I’m thankful for this. I totally understand the PTSD you mentioned.

What an absolute RELIEF!!!! In the spirit of confidentiality and choosing my words carefully, I'll just say that all of these types of disgestive related situations wreak havoc in a person's life. One minute you're just going through every day life, eating your normal things and suddenly all hell breaks loose. You don't know what happened or why it happened. It puts you in shock and before you know it you're walking on dietaty egg shells. Afraid to do something you have to do every day of your life, multiple times a day to stay alive and you don't know what's going to cause symptoms, what isn't, until it appears that everything and anything can trigger symptoms.

I will be praying that this GOOD news represents the turning of the page for DD, this girl who I don't even know.

I am so thankful all went well with the kidney function testing. There is much love and caring amongst posters on the board, for which I’m grateful. Like Jerz, some of you know more about me than close friends and family. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting some of you face-to-face for the first time after all these years, and have felt like I already knew you, like really knew you, without ever having met F2F. May we always be a source of support and encouragement for one another.

I've always said that from about 5 years into the board experience which is now coming up on 26 years for me all total. The thing is, I think, that when we communicate via the written word we have to think and discern the meaning of what others are telling us and really get into each other's heads and we really, really, have to make a strong effort to be understood as well as listen with our eyes. I've met perhaps 6 posters from the boards over the years, and when I did just like you, there were no surprises. I already knew who they were deep inside of themselves and they knew me. There's something about this whole process where you have a chance to observe someone over long periods of time, for years even, and you just know them. I like to mention that the first post I ever made on a board was to Gunnar. Of course we know each other! by the way, that man is solid gold.

I absolutely agree that there is love, caring, and support in a community such as this. People who will come alongside you and walk with you through a hardship and stay with you no matter how long it lasts. I appreciate it so much when posters have done that for me over the years and on this very thread. I hope that others feel I have done that for them as well when a need was shared. It's been a little hard for me lately to keep up with communication but I have to come and go as I'm able to right now. It's not like I'm not thinking about who is communicating with me because I assure you I am.

[Jersey Girl]

I need to update that previous weight check. It was from memory of when I weighed last. Got on the scale last night.

84.2 pounds.

Doing the best I can during the day, nights are still miserable. Seems like the only neuropathy symptoms left are just in my toes now. Got the enzymes from AMZ. Still haven't tried one. It usually takes me at least 3 days before I take the leap with something new but I'll get there.

Playing catch up, cleaning, donating, crafting, gardening such as it is, and still dancing. Summer surf music lately.

[IWMP]

I need to update that previous weight check. It was from memory of when I weighed last. Got on the scale last night.

84.2 pounds.

Doing the best I can during the day, nights are still miserable. Seems like the only neuropathy symptoms left are just in my toes now. Got the enzymes from AMZ. Still haven't tried one. It usually takes me at least 3 days before I take the leap with something new but I'll get there.

Playing catch up, cleaning, donating, crafting, gardening such as it is, and still dancing. Summer surf music lately.

Aww <3

[Jersey Girl]

I am NOT going to say who this reminds me of.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aF1JEv4oJKo