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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Grainne who wrote (31723)	2/25/1999 12:22:00 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Blackberry cobbler! Ummmm! Costco has six-packs of two cartons each of raspberries, blackberries and blueberries, imported from Chile. I poured them all into a collander and rinsed them, and have been eating them sprinkled on yogurt, but now I wish I had made a cobbler. A birthday cobbler is something different. A boy that our family knew a long time ago used to ask for, and get, a cushaw pie for his birthday, every year. Cushaws are squashes, the flesh is a lot like pumpkin. I am only 46, and I don't want to think about turning 50 just yet. I did not like turning 30, and I did not like turning 40, and I don't think I am going to like turning 50, so I refuse to think about it. Re: Celebrex. Go for it. Give it a try. It's good stuff.

To: Grainne who wrote (31723)	2/25/1999 6:40:00 AM
From: Sidney Reilly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Congrats Christine. A man takes it hard too. I'll find out soon enough. When I hit 40 I thought, I should be having some sort of crisis or fling or something. But I didn't.

To: Grainne who wrote (31723)	2/25/1999 11:34:00 AM
From: E	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 108807

Christine, at the site of a spinal surgery I had a few years ago, i developed some osteoarthitis. (My orthopedist says this is common at injury sites.) If you aren't already doing this, anyone who has arthritis might be interested in it -- a combination of chondroitin sulfate and glucosamine, taken two or three times a day, can create an enormous improvement. I know some people who claim it has 'cured' their conditions. When I first mentioned this to the doctor, he was skeptical, but now instructs all his patients with arthritis to take it. It's not a painkiller, it has some actual remedial effect. Regenerates cartilage or something. You can buy this combination at the health food store. All the vitamin catalogs carry it now, too. It takes a couple of months for the effects to kick in. About aspirin. A few years ago I read a small piece in the paper, probably the NYT, to the effect that lecithin taken with aspirin prevents the intestinal bleeding associated with that drug, and that aspirin manufacturers were exploring putting the two together in a single pill. The article mentioned that it was necessary to establish whether the lecithin would lessen the apparent heart benefits of aspirin. I didn't save the article because I thought at the time that everyone would immediately know about it, but that's the one and only time I've seen it mentioned. But since then, any time we take aspirin, we pop a couple of lecithin caps first, biting on them to release the lecithin. Or you could take the granules. It reminded me that there was a period of five years when I took 360 aspirin a month, a terrible five years during which I had a headache for 24 hours a day, and there were dreadful consequences, and my husband found a recipe for something they called 'tiger's milk,' one of the ingredients of which was lecithin. He made me drink a little of this disgusting substance (it contained brewer's yeast) whenever these symptoms returned, and it would clear them right up. We didn't know until i came across that article that it was the lecithin alone that was responsible. I was going to PM this, but maybe there are other aspirin users here who would like to know about this way of eliminating (certainly greatly reducing) the irritant effects of aspirin. The chemistry of how this works was given in the article, but I don't remember it.

To: Grainne who wrote (31723)	2/25/1999 7:01:00 PM
From: James R. Barrett	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

>>"Well, thank you for the happy birthday wishes. I have gone around the sun fifty times now, and I can feel every revolution, for sure. Do any of the women here want to talk about turning fifty? It does seem like a very major transition. I also wonder if it is as much of a milestone for the men. I feel a little better today having survived the event--I was too depressed last night.............."<< Let's face it Christine, you have one foot in the grave and the other on a wheelchair. You're finished, washed up, dried up, wrinkled up, and over the hill. Teenagers will think of you as an old hag and you will become invisible to them as you have probably already noticed when going through the checkout at the grocery store. The best part of your life is over, it's all down hill from here. You have reached the point where you begin to notice yourself becoming dumber and dumber every day. In a couple of years you will no longer be able to operate your VCR. Your hearing and eyesight will get worse and worse and the wrinkles deeper and deeper. The varicose veins will grow as fast as rhubarb. The aches and pains will occur more frequently and your doctor will become your best friend. Your hair will become thinner and you'll wonder if you are going bald. Having a bowel movement will become the most important event of the day. Your triceps will turn into marble bags and your peds will become a beach ball. Stiff hairs will start growing out of your ears and dark brown moles will sprout on your nose. Other than that I hope you had a..... Happy Birthday, Jim

To: Grainne who wrote (31723)	2/25/1999 7:04:00 PM
From: Rick Julian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Merry Birthday to you, Merry Birthday to you . . . (Why do we limit "Merry" to Christmas?) Merry Birthday Christeeeeeeeeeeen. Merry Birthday to you.

To: Grainne who wrote (31723)	2/27/1999 6:47:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

A belated birthday wish for you -- that you will enjoy the last half of your life even more than the the first half. Age 50 is a milestone too for men, a millstone rather. A two/thirds marker for the statistically average, a sign of progressive loss of youth -- the face that looks back from the mirror is not one many like to see. But considering the alternative -- always the alternative seems far worse than anything in life. Please remember that fifty trips around the sun is not repetitive, but the sun has moved towards its unknown goal, and earth has merely bored a distorted helix into space, and we have epicycled on it, you and I and everyone and toward our separate goals which are restricted to a narrow compass because we are human and bound to the earth. You've married, given birth, learned and sang and loved (not necessarily in that order!). You have so much ahead of you. And because you have already lived 50 years and perhaps made errors, you can make it your "practice life." The next moiety is for real. Make it beautiful. It is fully in your power. Happy birthday.

To: Grainne who wrote (31723)	2/27/1999 11:55:00 PM
From: MSB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Was just hob-nobb'in and caught your post about your last notch. Was wondering if the point of adding was somehow substantially different than it was last year or the year before that? Whats the big deal? Are you going to feel an even greater amount of what you felt this time the next time? Not trying to be insensitive, but I don't see what the big deal would be from year to the next unless you know for a fact when the expiration date is to come. (hadn't read any farther down the string when I posted)