Hi Cassandra!!

Thanks!

Oh, congrats on your 65# too.... I'm really down about 120# since my highest in 2005!!

Lovin the townhouse....

I feel ya with the yard work... we did about 8 hours on Sun in the yard...and man or man was I sore on MOnday! LOL

Hope your doing well......

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Shell you look fantastic!! 70lbs is phenominal!! HURRAY for you!! I've lost 65 lbs total, but it was in stages over 10 years.

And happy townhouse owners too!

I'm just starting to enjoy some summer weather. Haven't even been out on the motorcycles much this year as we've spent a month doing work on the yard - including moving 26 tons of topsoil!

Good to see you pop in - I think of you now and again and I'm glad you're doing so well!

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Hey Shell! Congratulations!!! I thought of you this weekend, actually, when I made your delicious pina colada zucchini bread. YUM!!! Anyway, you look fantastic, and keep up the great work!

My big news, if you haven't seen my other posts, is that I'm 15 weeks pregnant! I am SO grateful for the support I got on these boards. It enabled me to stabilize before my pregnancy, and now that I'm pg, IBS hasn't bothered me much at all. I've had enough other things to worry about!

And I'll be in Seattle this weekend for the SubPop festival! I've never been there before, so I'm looking forward to it. Any recommendations you have on restaurants (I'm going to be in vegan heaven!!) is much appreciated. I found a great website that lists a ton of vegetarian places, so I'm going to hit as many as I can.

Good luck to you, good to hear from you!

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Hi Lisa!! Oh, I need to make that bread.... now that I have a NORMAL size freezer, I can bake and store! Glad you liked it!

Congrats on baby!! I'm glad your doing well...

Did you have fun in Seattle?? Sorry I did not read your post until now, but I see that Heather did...so hopefully you got some good ideas.

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You are absolutely amazing!!! Congrats on all your hard work and success - and ENJOY your new house!

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You look great, Shell. And congratulations on the new home.

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Hey hot mama!!! Good to see you and you look fabulous darling!!!

Enjoy the new townhouse, nothing beats having your own washer and dryer!!! I so loathe the laundry mat!

Not too much new with me, still struggling to get all my medical issues taken care of. The remicade infusions are working pretty well. Now I have on a 48 hour heart monitor, my heart rate is always high but I think I will do something silly to get it really high and see if I can freak the cardiologist out a bit!! I also see a urologist in 2 weeks and an endocrinologist next month. Overall, I am having less pain but more shortness of breath. Mentally, I am doing well, now that I have a name to my beast, I can learn to cohabitate with it! LOL!!

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I think of you often....even if I'm not on the board much anymore.

I hate the landromats too.... never again!!

LOL I hope you did not really freak out your cardio dr!!!

I'm glad you in less pain... but the breathing? Please keep me posted....even if it takes me weeks to reply sometimes!! LOL

Take care sweetie!

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Wow! You look great!

Ooh, your townhouse sounds fabulous. Congrats!

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You look great. Glad to hear all the good news. My hubby & I are tring for a baby & I'm going to be looking for a new job soon.
There's my update!

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How exciting you guys are trying for a baby!! Best of luck!! Also with your job search too!

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Seattle was great, and the weather was perfect!! We were aptly armed with a list of veggie restaurant addresses and a GPS unit in our rental car, so we had a great time! DH is going back to Seattle this weekend for work, and I've already requested that he bring some yummy vegan donuts back home with him. Hope you are still doing well

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Hey Shell it's good to see you! You look wonderful and I am so glad things are going well for you. I was just thinking the other day how much I miss some of the "oldies" here. I check in often but don't find time to post like I use to. I guess those of us that are stable and are doing well don't need the support like we use to. I am glad to see you check in and congrats on the new place too!

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I think your so right Angela.... once you get stable... you just don't "hang out" on the boards so much...looking for help...but I wish I still had more time to share. I miss some many people here and reading about what is going on....but man, there are so many newER posters....I'm lost! LOL

Glad to see you too!! See ya at the next check in!

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Why not post an "all call" for all "your friends" - a catch up reunion???? When you share a history with people, I know it's important to keep in touch.
I'm sorry there are so many of us "newcomers" and that so many of us just discovered this website and need help. There are days when people are lighthearted, but then there are days when people are desperate and don't know where to turn. If these things should not be posted under the "Living Room" - then please re-direct us. I've looked at all the headings and many times it's general questions - out of desperation - not diet or fitness or research or yoga or hypnosis related.
I think there's room for both - people who are stable and doing well and those just starting the nightmare and seeking help.
I believe everything we walk through and survive, is meant to help someone else at some time in our lives... But, that's just me.

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No need to be sorry. There is no right or wrong it is just different. Things change over time and different people need different things.

I think it is a natural course of the boards for people to drift away. Most of us feel very close to the friends we make here because each one of us knows exactly what others are going through, unlike those who do not have IBS.

It was not my intention to make you feel bad about anything that you post here or take away from the support that you or anyone else needs. I was just expressing my feelings of missing the way things used to be when I was on the boards a lot more and I knew most of the people who were posting.

I have certainly had many moments of feeling despair over IBS issues and other things in my life. It is very comforting to be able to come to friends who stand with open arms to give their caring and support. When I said I missed the way The Living Room used to be I really miss the feeling of comfort that comes from knowing others on the boards.

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Yeah, hold the phones....put on the breaks... neither Janey nor I were saying we have a problem with the boards or ANYONE on there... a few years back...there was just a "new wave" of newER posters...and that included Janey and I... it's kind of like the pregnancy boards... you get attached and "grow with" those that are in the same term you are in....you share things about your appointment, your plans for the nursery, your showers, your baby names....then you have your baby...post pics.... etc etc etc.... you come back for first time mother questions.... answer a few posts when your awake when baby starts sleeping thur the night...then before you know it....it's a few days before you post another comment to another new mothers baby pics or ask a new question, then it turns into weeks, then months, you post a "hello" and a few new pics... then before you know it.....a year has past and your baby is almost a year old... you go back to the board and WOW...guess who is also there??? Those that were posting several times a day with you a year ago...also "checking in"... does that make sense??? It's not that we don't need or not like being here...it's just that our questions got answered, we figured out what did and did not work... for us. At some point it really is a good thing when you don't need or want or have to post all the time....but if you do there is nothing wrong with that either... we all progress at different rates. Example: Janey probably knows WAY more about me, my IBS, my family, my strange sense of humor, my gym stories, my weight loss stories, Vegas, etc etc then she really cares to know...but because we "grew together" at the same time we relate with each other and also miss hearing the scoop about each other. But you on the other hand only know about me from the time that you joined the board...which by this time I was not around as much...so unless you went back and read my posted from 4 years ago...you don't know all that much about me. I'm so rambling on...someone stop me...!! We did not mean to ruffle any feathers here..... you keep posting please and we will keep checking in..... K?

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