good morning dixie and all hens,

did you do some art yesterday? housecleaning, a necessary evil. good luck.

hippy, i'm sorry too. it's so disappointing when treatments don't work.

JC, got locked out a while back and had to start a new account which is no fun b/c you lose everything, so i hope DS can settle this for cindi. has she tried using different browsers than her current one. yahoo hasn't been working on firefox for me, so i have that open in safari. just quit working one day. could be something strange like that.

i talked to both my neighbors at once yesterday. it seemed ok, then later there was more drama. he's a drama queen and i just don't need it. if it blows over, good.

today i'm going to meet my mother and buy some plants and a couple of other things. it's a gorgeous day, so i'm looking forward to be out with her.

Dix for this procedure I have read if it doesn't work the first time it is just not going to work. I did a lot of research before I had this done. I am getting at the end of the rope. I felt fine this morning and fixed my hair, put on make up and my husband drove me in to town to shop. First time in forever I have done anything like that without having a doctors appointment. Fun at first. Then the thunderstorms rolled in and my neck felt like I had someone squeezing it and at the same time pressure and pain. Couldn't get home soon enough. I just can't hold my head up when this is going on and then it moved to a migraine and ice pick in my eyes. Tried ice, tried moist heat, used my compounded pain cream, reclined in chair. Nothing really worked until the storm passed through and now it is a little better.

I see the pain management doctor on May 5th. This is a follow up for the procedure. I am inclined to speak to her about pain management. My quality of life is deteriating and Iif my pain can be better manged to allow me to live a better life I am ready. My surgeon has already told me he would have to fuse from C2 to C7 and I would have no movement in my neck. Not really an option at 63. My son says I should be able to live the rest of my life with controlled pain. That I should have some quality of life. So I have avoided this but it might be what I have to do. I do know it is time for a professional in pain management instead of my primary.

So that is my sad story and vent. Feeling down. Very down when I often can't cook a simple meal or do what I know how to do around the house. I am sick and sad for the burdens to fall on my husband this time of year because we have three acres for him to maintain. He can't do it all. I manage some on my good days but not near enough and the good days are getting few and far between.

For Cindi, when I had my problems I was on Internet explorer. I switched to yahoo. I cleared all cookies and history. I then went to DS and created a new account with same name but added a different number. I was hippytoo and I created hippyone. Eventually I got back to hippytoo and I didn't loose journals or pictures.
DS has some kind of form to complete and I did that, it talks about it on the Daily Strength community Member site, I use safari on my iPad . I don't know if you can use it on a non apple product. Love safari.
Some Q. I think of is did she change routers? Was she away from home when she tried to sign in? Did DS accept her name but not her password. I sure miss you Cindi.