Marcia's Live Journal

A fellow Duranie needs your help...

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:15:12 GMT

Some of you might know her from several message boards. Last night, there was a fire at Suz's house. Everyone made it out safely and is fine. I don't have all the details, but it started in the kitchen. They lost pretty much everything. As soon as I know more, I will post it.

In the meantime, if you would like to help out, please leave a message here for the info. Thanks to Rho and Wendy, who so graciously set up a paypal account and are accepting donations of clothes, etc. They are also going to go see Suz later in the week to take her some things. Again, if you can help out, please ask for me for the paypal account.

Let's keep Suz and her family in our thoughts and prayers.

sometimes its fun to be naughty!

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 03:13:00 GMT

Dear Santa...

Dear Santa,

This year I've been busy!

In August I stole sundgirl's purse (-30 points). In September I farted in an elevator (-6 points). Last week I broke happywife84's X-Box (-12 points). In July I put gum in dravens_haven's hair (-12 points). In January I turned frannie12 in for tearing the tag off a mattress (3 points).

Overall, I've been naughty (-57 points). For Christmas I deserve a moldy sandwich!

Sincerely,
lovinglebon

What Do You Have To Say? - Music: My First Favorite Band

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:40:16 GMT

What was the first band you became a fan of?

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Well I loved Shawn Cassidy...but my first "band" was Def Leppard.

Listen to this!

Sun, 08 Jul 2007 17:18:41 GMT

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:15:09 GMT

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Sounds good! LOL

Tue, 15 May 2007 12:59:32 GMT

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Mon, 30 Apr 2007 01:54:34 GMT

What Be Your Nerd Type? Your Result: Literature Nerd Does sitting by a nice cozy fire, with a cup of hot tea/chocolate, and a book you can read for hours even when your eyes grow red and dry and you look sort of scary sitting there with your insomniac appearance? Then you fit this category perfectly! You love the power of the written word and it's eloquence; and you may like to read/write poetry or novels. You contribute to the smart people of today's society, however you can probably be overly-critical of works. It's okay. I understand.
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doll maker..

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 01:18:25 GMT

i know its not GREAT..but its my first try at it.

tickets

Sun, 24 Sep 2006 18:28:21 GMT

well its two weeks away!! i can't believe its actually that close already!! agh!! LOL ok i want to know if you all will gather together and ask your friends, coworkers and family to donate to the cause... i read rebeccas last blog and cried. she had to go back to the emergancy room. i can't stress how serious this is. if we all ask everybody we know for $15 for ticket sales and buy them ourselves.. we can will call them..and then if we do happen to have a miracle and sell out we can resale the tickets and make more money for rebecca. so PLEASE ask everybody you know. i know its embarrassing to ask coworkers and friends for money...but how about copying rebeccas last blog into a email and sending it out and asking for donations that way. here is her latest blog from myspace.

What a week
What a week this has been. Bless Karen, she's been keeping an eye on things for me because I've just been unable.

Part of that feeding tube finally came out. That's good, but it was painful enough for me to lose consciousness. I'll have to have more testing and all of that good stuff. Fluids, antibiotics, pain meds, blood...you name it. To top it all off, I fell and sprained my right ankle! Ugh.

know that a lot of people haven't heard of gastroparesis. We never heard of it until my diagnosis in October of '04. I've made the offer that if anyone has a question, I'll do my best to answer it for them, or find someone who can.

I've been chatting and emailing an 80+ year old for some time. She finally started asking me questions about it. Basically, she wanted to know why I said it was so awful when it only affects my stomach(gastro). That to me was a fair question, but one from someone who's obviously never had a lingering illness of any sort - and I'm thankful she hasn't.

Here's what I told her: I started out with the yes, you're right. Gastro Paresis translates to Paralysis of the stomach. Here's the problem with that, though. With GP, you can't eat. If you're lucky enough to take in some solid foods, it's never more than a couple of bites, and you usually get violently sick(vomit) within 30 minutes of eating. A key symptom of GP is getting sick first thing in the morning. I've neraly choked because of it. That's a scary thought.

Our bodies depend on food for so many things. When you get to where you can't take in food...well...here's just some of the things that I've found have happened: Bleeding stomach ulcers - my stomach muscles don't move, so food and such would sit in there way longer than it should have, and caused more damage than in someone who's stomach does work. These ulcers have resulted in me having blood transfusions, and the risks there are astronomical.

Chronic sickness or getting violently sick(multiple times per day every day) I've found these problems with those: Dental problems...the acid eats through the enamel on your teeth. Sore throats, pulled muscles, broken rib, tears in esophagus and stomach lining, weakness, fatigue.

Your vital signs change: the lower my weight got...the bigger the changes. The lowest my blood pressure was...60 something over 40 something. One night, they even had to give me a shot into my heart. Luckily, I don't remember, Steven told me. My pulse stays around 120 - 130...even while sitting. Is this good for my heart? No.

Decreased food/liquid intake causes lower output of urine...leaving doctors to wonder about organ failure, and running the risk of urinary tract infections.

Then there's the whole emotional state. You don't know what's going to set it off, you try to be prepared, but...You see people look at you're some kind of hideous monster or they look at you with such an air of pity...You lose interest in doing things you've loved(like with me, my beading and cross stitching have been put on hold) You get irritable.

Also with GP, a complication can be pancreatitis. Your stomach gets inflamed/aggravated, and your pancreas is right behind it, and they touch. Pancreatitis is horrifically painful, and it makes you just as violently sick as GP. Your pancreas creates insulin, so then you run the risk of that production getting screwed up and all of the complications with that.

Then there's your colon. Food not going into the stomach, means no food and such going through the intestines. The slower this process is, the worse of a risk of you becoming "impacted". That is NOT a good thing, and is very dangerous on so many levels.

So, you see, even though it's my stomach that's paralyed...it directly affects all these things I've mentioned, and I'm sure that's not everything. That is why it's so important that we try to get attention drawn to this disease. Research desperately needs to be done.

And I know that some may be aggravated with us constantly reposting about the benefit concert. Without this gastric pacemaker, I'll die. I'm 32 years old, and still have a lot I want to get accomplished. With all of your help, I'm making progress. Please, help us with that too. Even if you can't make the concert...if you can spare the price of a ticket, it still gets turned over to the benefit fund. If you can make it to the concert...go and have fun. It will RAWK!! *hugs* ~B~

so please come together and ask everybody you know to buy a ticket or to give you the money to do it!!! i know we can make this a sucess..and we have two weeks to do it!

Rebecca Benefit Concert!!

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 16:17:04 GMT

Thu, 31 Aug 2006 01:45:56 GMT

well its happening!! i have a official line up now...

lylah
mannequin (or young americans)
sink to see
crash
curious
rome to paris
clear static

just waiting to hear back tyler on which band him and michael are going to be playing as. and then contracts are going out..and then we can promote the thing like crazy!!! everybody is playing 30 minutes except for clear static..they are playing 45.

FRUSTRATED!!

Fri, 07 Jul 2006 15:53:54 GMT

ok i was all excited about this interview..and i just got a call saying that the person that is doing the interviewing is sick. so im dressed up with no interview!! damn!!! they are going to call next week and reset up the interview. i really want it. so now i have to wait a week just for the interview!

AGGGGGGGH!

going to SF

Tue, 20 Jun 2006 14:07:42 GMT

ok all of u know that i have been stressing over work... well lack of work. and i know that i was getting close to depression. well things looked up a little yesterday.. i applied at like 5 different places for office work, which is really what i want. and i applied at a store that does UPS services. so that brought my spirits up a little...now i just have to hope they all call!! lol

AND... i found out that i will be able to afford to go to SF this weekend. i won't have alot to spend..but at least i can go! i need to hang out with my fellow JCAers. steph u will be missed!!

and robin... i have been posting about requesting our boys and the key club like crazy. and i called KROQ alot yesterday. sure they were sick of me! LOL ill call tonight!! determined to help them in anyway i can!

ok i need to get up and go feed my dogs.