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Does anyone know if there is a Fill Center in Illinois/Chicago? my insurance doesn't cover them and my doctor only does them under fluro at a cost of $500-$600....and I've heard that there are centers and/or doctors that would do fills for almost half of that.... Thank you, Elena:help:

Hello there, I'm curious to know if those who are pro-choice feel the same way and as strong in your opinion on the abortion issue ,if an abortion is performed during the second or third trimester. I know some pro-lifers are willing to make exceptions under circumstances such as rape, incest or if the pregnancy presents a threat to the mother's life, others feel that an abortion should not be performed under any circumstances at all. Are there exceptions for pro-choicers in certain cases as well?

YAYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!! You rock Green! it's not time to get stronger than ever! you beat it! I'm just so very happy for you! thank you for answering and letting me know, that made my day. Love Elena:thumbup:

Hi dear Green!!!!!!!!! I was about to post because I've been thinking about you! I know this was your last chemo treatment, when is it over? I really hope that after that you will start getting stronger than ever, keep us posted! Hang in there, I think you have overcome so much! we are all pulling for you. Love:grouphug: Elena

OMG Green! The trach is out!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is so good!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so happy!!!!!!!!!! I know how bad that made you feel and I can imagine what relief now, you go girl! Again, you crack me up with your descriptions, you are too funny! Sounds like you are doing fine with your headwear too! and you got things that you will be able to wear when you get all your hair back and that day will be here before we know it, I believe the worst is over Green, now it's time for you to recover completely and to keep going strong, Green I'm so proud of you honey, you have been so strong throughout all this, and look you are winning the battle, keep up your positive attitude always , you inspire me girl! and keep us updated, I'll be checking on you too:biggrin: Love E

Oh Green, don't you worry about the hair, let me tell you, you are a funny lady, you always make me laugh with your comments... and listen, the hair will grow back, the important thing here is that you get better and it looks like you ARE!!! You are going to win this battle, you already are winning! you go girl!

Hey Plain, I've been so darn busy and not posting lately, but I couldn't resist, I agree, I can't believe Obama didn't pick Edwards based on that gorgeous mane... who cares about the cheating? gee... but what I absolutely loved was that the text from Obama came out at 3:00am.....good slap at Hillary, who says Obama can't handle a 3:00am call? .... or text....:biggrin2:

Green, I just want to say it's so darn good to see you here posting girl!

Thank you for responding! I'm SOOOO glad you are feeling MUCH better! isn't it incredible how they go through the belly button now a days? you better believe that's a tremendous advantage, if you had a huge incision, you certainly could face a much longer recovery, so that's awesome! Listen, don't be nervous of gaining the weight, you are staying away from bread and sweets, that's half the battle won, drinking lots of water will help too, besides, you must get all the nutrients now so you can get stronger and 100% back to normal, the way you are eating, I doubt you will gain 10 pounds, so hanging in there. My day is freaking crazy here, of course my boss is slamming me with work as much as he can before I go on vacation...:crying: I may not be on LBT then for a little while, but I'll be back! and I know you'll be totally recovered by the time I come back, so keep it up! :eek::thumbup::frown:

I know you are joking.... but.... send them my way, I'll look for buyers here, the business is good here in Chicago....and I'm not joking...:biggrin2: Ok, ok... I am:tt2:.... Hey send me a little update today if you can and let me know how you are doing, tomorrow I won't be here.... I hope you are feeling better, man, I can't wait to be away from work for a while....ugh! (((((())))))

LOL! THis is the first e-mail I read this morning and it had me cracking up LOL! I totally agree, I'm thrilled to be from Chicago and not from Paris myself..... No offense to those Parisians out there...:ohmy:

BJ! I'm so sorry!!!!!!!!!! man, I promise you I was going to pm you yesterday because it had been long since I saw you posting! but I was busy as heck yesterday and today I saw you posting, so I thought you were ok, and now I find this out! Honey, you have all the right to whine! and as much as you want! You know, I had to google the ischemic colitis because even though I've heard the name before, I didn't know exactly what it was and as I read the symptoms , they looked familiar, they were somewhat similar to Diverticulitis.... which hubby had last year, he spend one week in the hospital, the week of Thanksgiving....:Banane33: But as I read more, I realize that it's not the same, it sounds painful and yes, dangerous, but the good thing is that you are home now! and doing better! thank God! I'm very sorry and I'm glad to see you here and getting better, please take good care of yourself and follow the doctor's orders. Is there a diet or a particular plan you have to follow now? hanging in there! and keep us posted. I'm glad to get to know you too, and that you have been able to see beyond my "nuttiness" (sp..?) LOL! I know, I know... I sure can be a little nuts sometimes...:thumbdown: Hey, don't even worry about remembering all our previous conversations now, right now you must concentrate on getting better and I know that we all slough off after taking all those meds.... right now, I want a little bit of those nice drugs for myself.....:huh2: I want to relax and feel no pain.... can you send me some? Listen I know that you'll be running to that booth in November! so I need to come up with a good plan so we conservatives can win baby! I think I'll start going door to door trying to convince people....now can I have your address please?:Banane48::tt2:, I'll be in your area sunday first thing in the morning... you better open that door! I'm taking about 10 days off from work, next tuesday I'll be off until July 1st, spending some time with my girls, tha's the plan so far, so I may not be posting much the next two weeks, but I will sure check on you before I leave. You take care now girl!

I'm sorry I can't offer much advise, but wanted to let you know that I'm sorry about your mom and what you are going through, it is indeed so sad that someone is capable of doing this.... I really hope everything works out, my heart goes out to you.

Fixed, my info now says Chicago , Illinois.. I remember my screen name used to be my first name and last name initial and I used to have the right city and state and long time ago someone mentioned that it wasn't safe to have our real names and real addresses in a public forum so I requested my user name to be changed, they approved it because they realized that I was using my own name so they didn't have a problem with that, but I never changed the city and state to my real one... But now is fine... and frankly I don't even care so much about the privacy, after all this is not some weird site or anything... Thanks for pointing that out! I was confused with the "republican/conservative from Paris" comment.... I didn't realize at the time that it was about me...:thumbdown: :eek: sorry....

My info? where the heck is my info? oh Lordie... I have to check it out, I'm thinking that back when I filled all that out I may have wrote it there for privacy... not sure now... but I must fix it...! Thanks for the sense of humor compliment... You know, when I first started posting in R&R on LBT a while ago ,I used to take a lot of it personal and I didn't know how to debate in a civil manner, I don't think I did it out of being mean, I hope so anyway..:thumbdown: , but out of being passionate about some subjects, but I think I've learned a little since then ... I have gotten to learn more about everybody here and even when we disagree on the subjects, I know that most mean well and they are just as passionate as I am, and I've gotten to like MANY of you guys here very much, so now my previously humor-deprived self lets it all hang out... and I feel better about it, and who would've thought? you even noticed!:eek: mi like it....

BJ where have you been???? I've missed your posts! I don't live in Paris, I think Di1138 lives in Paris.... but I've been there and it's a beautiful city and I wouldn't mind living there for a while....:thumbup: though I would always return, since my heart belongs to America.....:w00t: I live in Chicago! and work in Park Ridge, a suburb very close to Chicago, I work for the Mayor, remember I was telling you about it? I think....but maybe I'm losing it.... :scared2: ,he and a partner have owned an Insurance Brokerage firm for about 25 years now and I've worked here for 5+ years, since I moved from Florida, I do commercial underwriting mostly, but have done personal too... and my dear boss brings a lot of his political stuff to the office... so we are always updated here and find out all the interesting gossip... and we get to see the politician side of him... some of us have also helped during his campaign.. And since I'm on a roll here telling you about myself, I'm a 45 years old young girl , married for 17 years now...with two teenage girls, 14 and almost 16 , I was born in Cuba and raised there too for 14 years...remember? I think I told you about that too...and I'll stop now.... This is probably too much info in one day isn't it? LOL! Anywho, I was kidding when I said that Jesus would be a moderate republican or a conservative... seriously I was joking, someone posted about it and I was just acting up and trying to be funny... sorry....:wub: I really haven't seriously thought about it... but I think that Ready actually got it right, I would say He would be independent.... darn it, now you got me thinking and I'm going to have to do so homework about this... Good to see you here BJ!:w00t:

Yeah you are right, actually that pisses me off even more... because on top of being racists and prejudiced they are also being two faced hypocrites, lying to our faces, and making some BS excuse probably thinking that we are so stupid to realize the ugly truth... all of that makes it much worse...it's pathetic and sickening...

Kat, I believe you are right, like I said above, I think I am "a little" too hard on me when I convince myself that I'm 100% fully accountable for everything under every circumstance . Beacause you are right, we cannot be responsible for other people's irresponsabilities or mistakes, or crimes, etc...I think because my late teens and early twenties were some financially irresponsible years for me, yes...most of the times my fault..., it's probably a reason why I feel this way now, so I set standards for myself that are a bit too strict/harsh..., and I try to make myself solely responsible for absolutely everything (financially), I agree that is not necessarily the right thing to do and I may need to make some adjustments on this issue, for my own sake.., trust me, I'm not so strict regarding everything else or other people...:biggrin2: and I don't advise anyone to be like me either... I think Susan handled her situation perfectly, there is nothing more she could've done, she took full responsability when she was supposed to, and there is nothing she could've done different to prevent the problem, things happened that were just out of her control and other people made mistakes too, not her fault. Actually it made me mad and frustrated when I read Susan's post, it was a very unfair situation for her, and I also got upset when I read the initial thread by the OP, I found it unsympathetic, I know she explained later that she didn't mean it in that way, so it's cool. Your nephew's situation is another example of how unscrupulously some companies and people operate.... at his age I would've bought a more expensive house and I would've screwed up big time, and sure enough I would've blamed myself later, I mean, that would've been my bad choice really, and maybe the same thing with your nephew, but he is lucky he has guidance and knowledge and no one is going to take advantage of him. Good for him!

Nooooooo, I don't judge, never, ever... why do you doubt it? did you hear something?:Banane03:..I'm without sin, not guilty...:Banane11:..I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, there's no way you can prove anything!

Oh no Ready! involved with the Independent Party?????? but .. but... that means He would've voted for the independent candidate..... Ralph Nader ??

I know! I agree with you all! we told our boss about it and suggested we keep the cards for us instead of giving them to stupid people like that.... specially that we were the ones at the booth on our feet all day and sweating under the heat...but the boss didn't go for it... dang it!:thumbup: Miz, you are so right, by the time you get the card, gas will more than likely be up again...gee, and that's no joke... but not to worry, I'll send a $75 one to you to make up for it...:confused: Well Jack since you are being so understanding and paying for the postage, no problem! I'll send those cards your way baby!:biggrin2: And yes, you'd think it would've been a nice experience giving them away, you know, it's always nice to make people's day with a little gift right? well, not for some people! I tell you Plain, that's how I started my rant.... because it's so true, people never cease to amaze me.... just when you think you've heard it all, they just keep amusing me with their stupidity...

Some people never cease to amaze me....... The company I work for had a booth at "The Taste of Chicago" where we were giving away stuff with our name on them just as advertising.... Well, we also raffled off twelve $50 gas cards... all people had to do was put their names and phone numbers on a card that went into the raffle drum, we picked out one name every hour and then monday we started calling all the winners for them to pick up their gas cards... At least 10 out of the 12 people were complaining... some because the gas cards were from BP and Shell and they only like to buy gas from Exxon or Texaco, blah, blah.., or because our office was just too far from them and it was a little too inconvinient or because it wasn't really worth to drive to pick up a gas card now a days... someone said that we probably were giving away BP and Shell cards because they sell the most expensive gas.... WTH???????? what do we have to gain by buying gas cards from a gas station that has higher prices? one of them demanded we mail it to him because he had a feeling that it was a scam and he didn't want to get dragged in a time share presentation or something else...hello??????? they filled the raffle cards themselves, they saw the name of our company there , which is an insurance company, we called them and gave them our name, address and phone number, what does that have to do with a time share? We agreed to send it by mail and he demanded that we send it Fed-Ex or UPS because it could get lost.... we told him that this was a gift and that we were not willing to spend additional money by sending it with a carrier, but if he wanted to pay for the delivery charges, we could do it, well, he was insulted....I have never heard so many complaints and so much crap from people that actually won a prize...:eek: What the heck is wrong with people? I think one or two people were happy and grateful....the rest were all so darn rude. Ugh, I just had to rant....

Ok, that's it!!!!!!!! I'm highly offended by this comment!:thumbup::tt2: I'm conservative (moderate that is...:confused:) and I don't judge and I care for the sick and the poor.... Besides Jesus got everything right! so obviously he was a Moderate Conservative Republican... :biggrin: just like me......