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Post by bannanny on Oct 11, 2010 14:56:06 GMT -5
I just wanted to post to let you all know I haven't forgotten about you and I'm still out here! Mom came to visit from California and we've been doin tons of sightseeing so I haven't even looked at my puter for a week! So far we've gone to Sugarloaf Mtn., the Potomac, Gettysburg, DC, and all around Maryland as well! I know where you live now too pdidit... cuz we went to Alexandria yesterday!! It was soooo beautiful there at the pier along the Potomac! We'll have to meet there for lunch one day cuz it only took us 35 minutes to get home from there! This is where we were. Do you know it? Anyhoo guys... I just wanted to poke my head in and tell you I love you... and I see we have a couple more new peeps here, so I wanted to welcome you to our incredible family too! I'll try to catch up little by little in the next week but mom's here for another 11 days and we still have lots of things to show her! We're havin a blast too... even tho the traveling around is causing me to be a bit too morgified, but I can handle it as usual! Hope everyone's doin good... and I know you new folks here are gettin all the love and support you deserve! I'll be back around when I can guys... but probly not much while momma's here! Just want you to know... I love ya's big bunches ~~ bannanny
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Post by kmarie on Oct 11, 2010 16:09:11 GMT -5
Love you too --------------- and such beautiful photographs.
Thank you so much for sharing. I've never been to the East Coast before and so I really enjoy seeing these.
Don't stay away too long again, cuz we sure miss you here!
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Post by toni on Oct 11, 2010 18:56:26 GMT -5
I enjoy your pictures too. They're fun and alive! Thanks for sharing.
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Post by bannanny on Oct 13, 2010 12:29:38 GMT -5
Glad you liked the pics guys.... I'm gonna try and catch up on the board today, but since you enjoyed the pictures so much, I thought I'd throw a few more in here for ya first! Yesterday we went to Great Falls on the Potomac and also Glen Echo Park... an old amusement park that's been closed down since the 60's but still in great shape, except for the old wooden roller coaster that had to eventually be torn down. First, here's some pics of Great Falls (not far from where we live)... and here's some of Glen Echo Park (it's a very nostalgiac place with a creek of its own as you can see in the first pic!) That's Tom and our doggies above on the right.. as you can see, we were about the only ones there! It was pretty cool too cuz you could almost see and hear the people that were there back in the 30's when the park was open! Pretty eh? We're takin the day off today and tomorrow since we're expecting a big storm... so hopefully I can spend some time with you guys now! I've been missin you alot too... especially since I'm cycling again (maybe it's cuz of the storm that's coming, I dunno.) It started yesterday tho and my head was real bad... felt like someone was holding the strongest ever of live electrical wires on it and I almost passed out with it this time. I got real dizzy, turned chaulk white, and the whole left side of my head was literally buzzing with electricity. I didn't want mom to see me so I took some deep breaths, went in the bathroom, put Neem and Peppermint in my hair, and came out and told Tom and her we should go check out Glen Echo... I just wanted to get out of the house and get my mind on something else. It worked prettty good too, especially since we also went to Great Falls and I'd not been there yet myself. The beauty of it was just so amazing and the fresh air made everything seem so much better for me. I only had a little tiny bit of buzzing after that and it's the same today... which I can handle just fine. I sure hate those big ones tho... it's like you can't even think let alone talk. I hadn't felt one that severe in a very long time too... but immediately getting out and going somewhere was alot better than staying home and trying to make it stop (since that never works for me anyway, duh!) I know it'll pass too... it always does and always has these last 7 years! Course I've actually been thinkin it was never gonna happen again like it did yesterday... cuz my hair's been looking shiny and feeling kinda like hair again too. You'd never know by these pics Tom took that my head feels like a circuit board that's shorting out or like it's filled with radio active materials from all the "buzzing" either, but it does... Above is me and momma when we went to Gettysburg and the first one was at the Old Town train station (just down the street from our house.) My hair looks normal tho now doesn't it? But when I got up today it was all curled up weird and kinda frizzy... sure hope it isn't gettin ready to fall out again!!! Anyway... gonna go catch up with you guys now! love ya's ~~ bannanny
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Post by Lynn on Oct 13, 2010 13:13:36 GMT -5
Hi Benanny Great pics. Glad you are having some fun. Makes me want to cry. Miss my momma. Enjoy your time and bueatiful pics. In Light Lynn
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Post by pdidit on Oct 13, 2010 14:25:09 GMT -5
Yes great pictures Bannanny and good that you just got out of that frame of mind, even tho you were probably uncomfortable...been there many many times. Glen Echo is halfway between you and me, but fairly close to Old Town, which is in the heart of Alexandria--about 20 minutes away. You should take a trip down there sometime as it is quaint, historic and lots of cute little shops. $$$ though.
I do think it is good to get out at least once a day, however MOST of the time, all i do when i get out is stock up on what i am out of...cleaning, supplements or otherwise. Hope this changes soon, as i try to simplify things.
One thing I am now doing more aggressively is the albenza, ivermectin and doxy protocol for strongyloids....wow, knocked me out with just the first four days of trying this. I must have a trillion of these things in my body...but will keep at it, since i think it will also add to the positive effect i have had on my hair...
Wonder how you are doing Lynn??? I too, miss my mom very much [died of cancer 12 years ago] But maybe it is good that she didn't have to go through this with me and see me suffer so much...so often have wanted to call her up to cry...and laugh... and give her a hug.
xxoo pdidit
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Post by bannanny on Oct 14, 2010 13:14:45 GMT -5
Ok then pdidit... after mom leaves on the 20th I'll finally be meeting our freaky girl here on the board on the 21st! Her and her hubby are coming up from Texas to do the DC thing so we're gonna meet for dinner! So after all that, me and you will have to get together ok? We'll have fun... we can laugh and we can cry if we want to too!
I can only imagine how hard it must be for you guys to not have your mom's here anymore. Momma is 80 now so I know our time together is becoming less than I want it to be... but I also know what Heaven is like. I went there when I flatlined 3 times during surgery and saw my cousin Johnny who was murdered. He was more like my little brother tho cuz he and his sis were raised with us when we were little. He walked up to me amidst colors of green and blue like you've never seen here on earth and simply said to me... "you can't come home yet." But I'll never forget how peaceful and beautiful it was there... and that's where mom's go too when it's time for them to go home. So just know they're in a place that's so amazing and peaceful... and they'll be there always waiting for you when you go home too.
I love ya's ~~ bannanny
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Post by kmarie on Oct 14, 2010 15:34:44 GMT -5
Love the new pictures and so glad your Mom came to visit and you seem to be enjoying the visit.
Keep the pictures coming!
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Post by kitkat on Oct 14, 2010 17:22:09 GMT -5
Those pics are breathtaking! Thanks for welcoming me, and nice to meet you...
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Post by bannanny on Oct 15, 2010 13:21:43 GMT -5
Ok... I'll keep 'em coming! We're takin a break now tho cuz of the rain and all. I think we're gonna go to Antidum and Harper's Ferry next (maybe tomorrow or Sunday) so when I get pics from there I'll post some more for ya's!
Great to meet you too kitkat! This board is my home away from home and everyone here is family... I know it'll become that way for you too cuz the people here are aaaa-maaazing and full of love!!! They were and always will be my lifeline too!
biggest hugs ~~ bannanny
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Post by bannanny on Oct 17, 2010 17:18:21 GMT -5
Well... I've been bakin cookies all day! Made way too many too, but momma unfortunately has gotten sick. She has a very bad chest cold... but still wanted to go out yesterday to Harper's Ferry. She's resting all day today tho... in fact she's sleepin like a baby right now so I wanted to check the board and also post some more pics for you guys from yesterday. Harper's Ferry is in W. Virginia and the town has been kept to look just like it did back in the 1800's. It was pretty cool too! First, let's celebrate our marine's! They played some really cool tunes while walkin thru town... Now for the town itself! A pic of the old pylons on the Potomac that once held the bridge... The canal that runs thru... We also found this old abandoned house that mom went nuts for (she's a civil war fanatic!) I walked up to it and took a pic of the inside too... but of course the 2nd and 3rd floors are gone now! I've got so many more pics but don't wanna take up too much space here! You know me and pics tho... I love 'em!! Hope you enjoy!! love ya's ~~ bannanny
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Post by pdidit on Oct 21, 2010 10:28:40 GMT -5
Hi Bannanny,
Thanks, this sounds great...am trying to get ready for the fall and winter...still can't wear things from last year and if I can, clothing has holes in it. So as soon as I get a few more things to wear, lets make a date.
Hope you have enjoyed being with your mom...I wish I could give my mom a hug, so instead, give your mom a big hug for me...!
xxoo Pdidit
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Post by bannanny on Oct 22, 2010 12:52:09 GMT -5
Whenever you're ready pdidit! You have my number right? I'm sure I gave it to you but if I didn't just let me know in a PM ok?
I so very much did enjoy mom bein here... and I gave her lots of hugs too. She's gone back to California now tho... bless her heart she came down with walking pneumonia the last few days she was here. But we got her to urgent care and on some strong antibiotics so she'll be fine. She's one tough cookie... and where I get it from!
love you ~~ bannanny
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Post by pdidit on Oct 23, 2010 11:54:42 GMT -5
Hi+ bannanny, Ok, thanks. I am at the moment taking antiparasitics and had a huge die off reaction yesterday, so things get put off because of this too and then I get even more behind in everything else...I am slighly recovering today, but this has been such a yo yo effect for me...I used to get horrific migraine headaches etc when I had a die off, but now go into a state of confusion and disorientation, with sobbing, feeling overwhelmed..a hard emotional state that is unlike me generally speaking, so it is really weird. But at least I haven't the migraines much anymore! Anyway, I reset when my body expels this stuff...sometimes have to back off of meds [stromectol cream and wormwood drops] to kill the parasitic part of this--just keep listening to what my body tells me . I do see results but it is in such small increments because my body has been so weakened. But with each time, I gain a tiny bit of my strength back with hopefully the idea of my 'terrain' being restored. I was sick for quite a few years with vague symptoms, like intestinal problems, exhaustion, losing weight etc. right before I got hit with the main symptoms of Morgellons. And I had yeast problems [maybe parasitic??] for over 25 years that caused havoc if I ever ate too much cheese, bread, sugar etc. not to mention wine--yikes--had to finally give that up, with an occasional glass here and there now. Am still a bit overwhelmed right now and have been trying to regroup ever since i moved...this put way too much stress on me and has not proved to be easy. It brought on new challenges ie. moving into a condo with no space for storage [and getting the help to make the actual move!] Strongly independent before, so hope to get back on my feet sooner than later. Now I have most of my stuff in storage units that has to be eventually dealt with because it is costing so much money...this is looming over my head, among a thousand other things that got turned upside down when I finally did move before the summer of last year. I lived in a hotel for a while, then a friend's house, during which time I would get up the courage to go over to incrementally clear out my house, knowing I would get bitten. Paying the mortgage, hotel costs --whoa, this was maybe not the best option, yet at the time wasn't getting help dealing with fixing the house problems correctly. I keep wanting to go back there after the current renters lease expires in April, but have to remember I always had more symptoms and felt worse after going over to look through the 'stuff' in my house-- I lived there with my 2 kids for 12 years so you can imagine the amount of junk that had accumulated! All, which had become infected--and I had to do this was while I was at my weakest, sickest point...it took me forever to do this cuz I could only go over there when I was feeling a bit of strength. I separated from my husband a few years before all this hit me, so have essentially been dealing with this mess by myself...whew...who whadda ever known? Talk about life's curve balls!!! The positive is that my former husband and I are still friends to some degree and he is devastated and very supportive of me, wanting me to get well and helps from time to time when he can [no money though ] But I know we all have had our struggles and challenges from this, so realize I am just one of many who are going through a 'crisis' during this time. Am glad you were able to visit with your Mom, but oh golly, so sorry to hear she got sick-- tis good you got her to urgent care before she left. Does she live by herself out in California? Don't know if I am remembering this correctly, but you used to live out there, right? California seems very appealing to me right now, especially since fall and winter around here seem to always make me feel worse. While the fall used to signify for me beauty and changing colors etc., now it brings on a feeling of dread, trying to gear up mental and physical strength to get through it. I became very allergic to leaf mold when my kiddies were very young, so guess this is one of the reasons why a climate with more moderate temperatures appeal to me--am hoping that my daughter gets accepted to a graduate program in San Diego and if she does, I think I might hop on a plane with her [thankfully, she wants me to] Some apprehension though because as we know, California, Texas and Florida are the three states where this disease is more prevalent, but am not sure it makes a difference at this point. Also heard that while San Diego has the most beautiful weather/temp throughout the year, it also has a high pollen count and bad for people with allergies [?] But I want warmth, sunshine, to eventually have a garden again and to be able to slip on my flip flops and a pair of shorts without having to spray my coats, etc. Tis more work in the winter, but guess there are added benefits too, like less bugs in the winter. Well hope your symptoms have abated and you are back to a more 'normal' place as far as health goes... You always sound great and can feel the love through your postings...such a wonderful place and state of mind to be in... Sending the love in return, Pdidit
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Post by friskers on Oct 23, 2010 12:16:40 GMT -5
Nice pics Bannans
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Post by bannanny on Oct 23, 2010 14:21:20 GMT -5
Oh I understand how we get with this thing pdidit... I'm in a nightmare cycle again myself right now. So it'll be better for me too if we both let it play out before we get together! I also understand everything you're feeling... right down to having to back off whatever we take for awhile. In fact I've backed off everything for now except for putting Neem and peppermint in my hair. I sleep alot too when I get like this... I figure if anything, sleep is what heals the body so I try to get as much as I can when I cycle. I'm also a "migrainer"... I've had 2 of them recently but they're nothing like what I used to get when I was younger, thank God!
Thanks for asking about mom... she's doing good now. Yeah... I used to live in California too. We went in on the house there together after my 2nd divorce. Had to leave with nothing and start over again so we decided to get this beautiful little piece of property up in a canyon on a hill. She's still there and loves it... even tho I hate her being there alone. But she's stubborn and has decided to stay... my sis looks in on her tho and mom's also a bit of a traveler, so she's off visiting family and friends all the time.
San Diego is beautiful if that's where you end up. In fact that's where our friskers lives... so you'll have a morgie friend there too! Glad you liked the pics friskers!! Thanks for your feeling the love too pdidit... it's the one thing I won't let this mess take from me!!
big hugs ~~ bannanny
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