Tell Us....What Where You Doing At This Time 5 Years Ago? -nt-
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5 years ago....I was 17 and just about to graduate high school. Still living with my mom and step-dad. NO boyfriend at the time. NO IBS...
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Almost 35 and starting a new job which I later decided I hated and found something else later. I just agreed to have a "date" with a very good friend of mine who will be my husband for 5 years in October. My daughter was still a little girl! Had IBS with no clue what was going on.
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OK MAY 1999........
Let me see....that was 1-1/2 years after 8 year relationship ended. I had been with Shane for almost 3 months. I was working for a paper & plastics company as a customer service rep...(HATEING EVERY MINUTE OF IT)  And had my resume out everywhere! I was driving from work to Shanes place EVERY DAY after work (20 mins), staying the night.... getting up and driving home (30 mins away) to feed the cats, shower, & dress just to drive (45 mins in rush hour) back to work!! I tell ya...the things you do for love! LOL
I was taking Metabolife at the time (I know BAD GIRL)... I was loosing weight like crazy but was always sick to my stomach. I was eating like a bird and drinking water like it was going out of style. Would shake all the time and could not fall sleep for hours. I finally stopped taking that in 2002 just before the wedding...... and blew up like a balloon.....go figure!
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I was working for a paper & plastics company as a customer service rep...(HATING EVERY MINUTE OF IT) And had my resume out everywhere!
My mom is customer service rep and she abolutely HATES her job as well!! She answers about 150 calls (each is maybe 15-20 minutes long?) and she's completely exhausted when she gets home! She's searching everywhere for a new job, and unfortunately our town's ecomonical status is at a drastic low! So no luck yet....you got out of that job now, right? I hope so!! 
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5 years ago.. dangit, that's math.. hmm.. I was 17 yrs old (same as Melissa!).
I was a junior in my new high school - the one that I begged my mom to let me go to because all my friends were there. I had been with my boyfriend for 2 years (and had another 2 years to go!) and probably cut more classes than I attended.. bad girl.  I had also been working at Ross as a sales clerk for a year and was pretty much doing assistant manager work for a sales clerk's pay.
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I was working for a paper & plastics company as a customer service rep...(HATING EVERY MINUTE OF IT) And had my resume out everywhere!
My mom is customer service rep and she abolutely HATES her job as well!! She answers about 150 calls (each is maybe 15-20 minutes long?) and she's completely exhausted when she gets home! She's searching everywhere for a new job, and unfortunately our town's ecomonical status is at a drastic low! So no luck yet....you got out of that job now, right? I hope so!!
Yes, I was REALLY "jack of all trades" but only got the title and pay of customer service. I did all customer service, purchase & recieving.... worked 10-12 hour days will NO LUNCH..... it was CRAZY... I was the go to girl. I loved my job for the 1st couple of years but then we merged with another company, got a new owner,.... he did not know how to run a business... so he got into trouble money wise and then started letting everyone go.... he kept me, I took at many positions and got ZERO pay increase!! (*note: he is out of business now and lost his home over it) IDIOT!! I started the job I'm at now in July 1st 1999!
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I had just recently moved to Fort Wayne from Atlanta (formerly a small town in Tennessee) and I was being made fun of constantly for my accent! I was going to speech class regularly to correct so that I could speak with a "proper" American accent lol! But it worked. My new school was horrible and nobody really liked me except for one person, who was my best friend for the next 3 years. My mom had just married my (now ex) stepdad and I had gained 2 stepbrothers. They later had my little sister, Bailey.
It was hard, but now I'm at a better point in my life and I can't wait to see what's up for me next!
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At 42, I was helping my son (22) take care of a toddler and baby. He was going through a divorce, going for custody of the boys. He was working constantly trying to feed, clothe, pay bills and make a home for these babies. Many nights he would come by, read to the boys and put them in bed, he had to get up at 4:30am to drive to work, the long drive home put him there so late that most of the time, I had those boys in the bed waiting for him to come and see them. On the weekends he had them at home and took care of them. AT a time when I thought I was through raising my family, I had 2 little ones with me all of the time, I was the cheif cook, bottlewasher, I took them to the DR. when theyw ere sick, the little one suffered with asthma terribly. But we survivied!!Thank God, and many answered prayers later, he is remarried and they have a small child together. My grandbabies now have a mom who loves them and considers them her own. I also had a son in college and living at home, I was a blithering idiot. Seldom having time to do anything for myself and worrying for my oldest son and the direction his life was going. Taking care of these small children day in and day out wore me down. At the time my IBS was in remission, now it controls me and every move and thought I make. It was a very difficult time for my husband and myself, our son needed us and we did everything in our power to help him out.
Now, I look back on it and wonder how I survivied physically, my health has not been the greatest these last 5 years.
I am working on my diet, at least now I know what to eat and what not to eat. I am blessed with a very loving husband and family, they all try their best to help me and cook food that wont hurt me.
Now as I look at myself and think IT IS MY TURN!! I am determined to be the victor over this IBS thing. One way or another, I will.
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OH BOY.
#67446 - 05/04/04 02:27 PM
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wow. 5 years ago i was living in a crappy apartment that smelled. living above a woman who kept getting in "call the cops" kinds of fights with her.... ok, for lack of a better word let's go with "boyfriend." apparently before i moved in, some dude had thrown a molatov cocktail at the house, which subsequently caught on fire. (yet she wasn't evicted!?) while i was living there, she and her "boyfriend" got in a fight that ended up with her shooting him in the foyer. (i had been at work with the dog, and came home to a foyer full of blood and no idea how it got there.) she got evicted at that point, even though she was in jail for a while. she was only back for 3 days and REALLY manic and fired up. she had a loud religious meeting every night with a group of people who came over and screamed and yelled and sang. guess she was "saved" in jail. she moved out after those 3 days, thank goodness!
i was working as a Hospital Manager for a national veterinary company that shall remain nameless. i didn't have IBS yet- that would have been the next year. the hospital i worked for was run by an a**hole and when he sold the hospital to the nat'l company he stayed as Medical Director. it was way in the boonies and i had to drive 45 minutes to and from. about this time i started developing a rash every morning on the drive to work. (stress much?) the people were stupid and angry, and most of the clients either brought in "huntin' dogs" that they wanted to euthanize instead of treat, even for the most mild things (i can't even imagine how many dogs just got shot out in the yard), or they were Washington DC people with vicious pitbulls they had snuck over to our hospital because pitbulls are illegal in DC. i was to remain in this job 'til November, when i got transferred (at my INSISTENCE) to a slightly better situation.
i was dating and living with a perfectly nice boy i was no longer in love with but too confused to leave even though we made each other miserable. (he's still a friend and is getting married in 3 weeks! yay!)
and that about sums it up! (thank goodness that's in the past!)
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99? I was 16 and a junior in highschool. Hating the school and my parents because I couldn't get my driver's lisence because of a vacation we took in the summer that prevented me from taking driver's ed. I was failing chemistry, went to Spain for 2 weeks, and taking my crush to the prom! Looking back it's crazy all the stuff I did in highschool that year. I was in band, had meetings for my spain trip, in track... it was crazy! good thing I didn't get IBS until 4 years later.
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P.S. in Sept 1999 took Shane to my 10 YEAR HIGH SCHOOL REUNION!! EEkkkkk that means my 15th is this year!! CRAP!!
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Five years ago I was in seventh grade and I was twelve years old Hehe I was still a HUGE SF Giants fan, I went to a small, private K-8 school and I was almost at the beginning of my journey with all of these sinus infections/tiredness/headaches/ibs/ickiness, that I'm finally tackling Five years ago it was cool I loved to swim and play and draw and you name it..stuff..I liked it
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wow! I'd have to agree with the "thank goodness that's in the past." Lol..but way to go Jen. You must have lots of stories though...that sounds crazy 
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I was getting ready to graduate from High School and leave my crappy yet wonderful suburban childhood home for Bucknell University. I was still in a pretty bad relationship with a guy I'd keep dating for another year and a half, but life was basically good. I didn't have IBS yet, but my eating habits were pretty bizairre on their own. Still not sure if what I had counts as a full blown eating disorder, or if I was just a whacky and insecure teen. Either way, I was pretty darn skinny! All that garbage was kind of on-and-off from age 13 to 21. I've done some browsing on past threads and there seems to be a few of us who dabbled in the anorexic arts. I definitely believe there might be a link there -- something about getting our bodies used to extremely low-cal, low-fat diets, and then trying to resume normal eating. That's about when I got IBS -- right when I started relaxing about what I ate and stopped worrying that everything would make me fat. If nothing else, it probably made us fantastic IBS diet followers. Who better than a bunch of chicks who already know the exact fat and calorie content of every food in the world, and who are used to adhering to all kinds of strict eating rules? Haha, I knew my insanity would come in handy someday!
Seems I've painted a pretty grim picture ... but 5 years later, I live in a tiny yet adorable apartment in the best part of NYC, have many close friends nearby, am finishing my first year at law school, and am in love with the most wonderful man in the world. I guess things work out!
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Wow. You've been through a lot. But you're still such a nice person! Way to go for pulling through those rough times! And yes..good luck in the future too (BTW..kids at school CAN tend to be bratty, especially to new kids But they'll see who's successful in the end!)
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Five years ago? I was young, fit, vibrant, gorgeous...
Something went terribly wrong!
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Yes, I was REALLY "jack of all trades" but only got the title and pay of customer service. I did all customer service, purchase & recieving.... worked 10-12 hour days will NO LUNCH..... it was CRAZY... I was the go to girl. I loved my job for the 1st couple of years but then we merged with another company, got a new owner,.... he did not know how to run a business... so he got into trouble money wise and then started letting everyone go.... he kept me, I took at many positions and got ZERO pay increase!! (*note: he is out of business now and lost his home over it) IDIOT!! I started the job I'm at now in July 1st 1999!
OMG practically the same thing happened to her! Things weren't so bad for her at first (it's an insurance company) and she didn't mind work, but the business all went to a new guy who had no clue how to run the company and switched the computer programs they were using, he let go a total of 350 people in just our city alone (so far!) and everyone is in fear for their jobs! And now my mom and the other 12 people who are left in the call center have to cover a bunch of other jobs on top of all those calls. So when the phone rings now at home, I'M the one that gets to answer it!
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Shane's reply via email.....
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I don't remember.....I may have been drunk
I told him he BETTER remember.... LOL
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Shane's reply via email.....
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I don't remember.....I may have been drunk
I told him he BETTER remember.... LOL
Shane's 2nd reply via email......
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5 yrs ago..................I don't remember what I was doing. I remember WHO but not what
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Yes, I was REALLY "jack of all trades" but only got the title and pay of customer service. I did all customer service, purchase & recieving.... worked 10-12 hour days will NO LUNCH..... it was CRAZY... I was the go to girl. I loved my job for the 1st couple of years but then we merged with another company, got a new owner,.... he did not know how to run a business... so he got into trouble money wise and then started letting everyone go.... he kept me, I took at many positions and got ZERO pay increase!! (*note: he is out of business now and lost his home over it) IDIOT!! I started the job I'm at now in July 1st 1999!
OMG practically the same thing happened to her! Things weren't so bad for her at first (it's an insurance company) and she didn't mind work, but the business all went to a new guy who had no clue how to run the company and switched the computer programs they were using, he let go a total of 350 people in just our city alone (so far!) and everyone is in fear for their jobs! And now my mom and the other 12 people who are left in the call center have to cover a bunch of other jobs on top of all those calls. So when the phone rings now at home, I'M the one that gets to answer it!
Peaches:
I feel your Mom's pain.... tell her I wish her the best.... everything happens for a reason...just think of all those skills she has for her resume now!!
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probably cut more classes than I attended.. bad girl.
Jen... your such a bad girl... but we would not have it any other way!!
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I was being made fun of constantly for my accent! I was going to speech class regularly to correct so that I could speak with a "proper" American accent lol! But it worked.
Peaches... you really took classes? Yawl know... there ain't no such thing as a "proper" American accent.... eh.... LOL 
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Now as I look at myself and think IT IS MY TURN!! I am determined to be the victor over this IBS thing. One way or another, I will.
Now gigi....DON'T for forget that!! Wow... now THAT is a story... your one tough cookie!
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JenX... you have one heck of a time too!! geesshhhh.......
CRAZY neighbors.... idots who don't deserve pets.... and A**hole Mgt.... and then IBS got ya..... uuggggg.....
But THAT portion of your life is over...... we just get better from here! RIGHT?!!?!?
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Hating the school and my parents because I couldn't get my driver's lisence because of a vacation we took in the summer that prevented me from taking driver's ed.
rosiechica...Oh, that would suck!! I recall taking mine a during summer school.... that was so stressful for me!!
But then......PROM..... oh in the younger years!!
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Five years ago I was in seventh grade
tarabara: THANKS for making me feel so freaken old!! LOL
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Haha, I knew my insanity would come in handy someday!
AmandaPanda
LOL.... that was kinda funny! Well, not your eating disorder but what you learned from it.... discipline must be great.... I myself...have ZERO!! 
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Five years ago? I was young, fit, vibrant, gorgeous...
Something went terribly wrong!
Now Bevrs... that's not a good girl.... you should not say things like that about yourself. It's ok if I do.... but you can't
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5 years ago... wow. 5 years ago I was just finishing my freshman year of college. I was probably taking exams this week and then packing up and heading home for the Summer. I had recently broken up with my boyfriend of almost 2 years, Scott, which was really a good thing because even though he was a great guy we just weren't right for each other (Side note: he's marrying one of my best friends this Summer and I'm a bridesmaid!  ).
I was also getting over another guy, Adam. I fell hard for Adam after going on a choir trip to Mexico and really connecting with him. We hung out a lot during the last couple months of school (and he may have been part of the reason I broke up with Scott), but it was too good to be true. I was devestated when I found out that he was engaged. He graduated that year and I've only seen him once since. We keep in touch over e-mail, though... but I can honestly say I've never completely gotten over him, even though we were never really together and I've dated a few guys since. Is that pathetic?
OMG... now that I think about it it was 5 years ago either last night or tonight that I was hanging out at Adam's apartment and tried smoking a certain not-quite-legal substance for the first and last time. It was the night before a final, too, which is completely not something I would usually do (even though I aced the final). I guess I was going through my rebelious phase then...
I guess that's about it. It all has to do with guys, what's up with that?!
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I was working for a paper & plastics company as a customer service rep...(HATING EVERY MINUTE OF IT) And had my resume out everywhere!
My mom is customer service rep and she abolutely HATES her job as well!! She answers about 150 calls (each is maybe 15-20 minutes long?) and she's completely exhausted when she gets home! She's searching everywhere for a new job, and unfortunately our town's ecomonical status is at a drastic low! So no luck yet....you got out of that job now, right? I hope so!!
LOL! My mom's in customer service, too. She actually likes her job, but hates her new boss. Figures.
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while i was living there, she and her "boyfriend" got in a fight that ended up with her shooting him in the foyer. (i had been at work with the dog, and came home to a foyer full of blood and no idea how it got there.) she got evicted at that point, even though she was in jail for a while. she was only back for 3 days and REALLY manic and fired up. she had a loud religious meeting every night with a group of people who came over and screamed and yelled and sang. guess she was "saved" in jail. she moved out after those 3 days, thank goodness!
Wow, Jen. That's quite the housemate story... yikes.
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Hi Bev,you are still YOUNG,VIBRANT,FIT,GORGEOUS.remember you
told me you are only as old as you feel. Gerry
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lets see,not much of any thing.5 years ago I didn,t have a
computer,so it is 6:36 PM so I was watching the news on TV.
an at that time I didn,t know I had IBS.still had my gall
bladder.was doing a lot of running to the bath room didn,t know why.5 years ago no one knew nothing.Gerry 
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im' new. but i'll play
five years ago i was 33 years old and was a major marketing rep for a local psychiatric hospital. Cell phone, pager, briefcase, nylons, acrylic nails, hair done, makeup , big bucks....
in the past five years i've had 2 more kids, quit my job to be a stay home mama. Started a tiedye business online. Sold that biz and opened a new biz and i spend most of my days in my jammies playing with the kids, on the swings..sandbox...doing puzzles...making fruit loop necklaces. We swim. We go to playgroup. We cook and bake (now only ibs recipes lol)
life is good. and now following the diet i've not been sick in like 4 days straight so i'm happY!
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I was getting ready to graduate from High School and leave my crappy yet wonderful suburban childhood home for Bucknell University. I was still in a pretty bad relationship with a guy I'd keep dating for another year and a half, but life was basically good. I didn't have IBS yet, but my eating habits were pretty bizairre on their own. Still not sure if what I had counts as a full blown eating disorder, or if I was just a whacky and insecure teen. Either way, I was pretty darn skinny! All that garbage was kind of on-and-off from age 13 to 21. I've done some browsing on past threads and there seems to be a few of us who dabbled in the anorexic arts. I definitely believe there might be a link there -- something about getting our bodies used to extremely low-cal, low-fat diets, and then trying to resume normal eating. That's about when I got IBS -- right when I started relaxing about what I ate and stopped worrying that everything would make me fat. If nothing else, it probably made us fantastic IBS diet followers.
For those who have had eating disorders that resulted in IBS. Check this out....This is an editorial on a book from Ralph Lauren's niece.
This memoir about bulimia and its effects by Ralph Lauren's niece alternates between the gruesomely fascinating and tediously sad. Thirty-one-year-old Lauren, whose father (Ralph's brother) heads Ralph Lauren Men's Design, depicts in excruciating detail her odyssey through bingeing, purging, the debilitating sickness that ensues and her struggle to heal. Her story spans her life from the age of nine, when she's rejected by the prestigious School of American Ballet and subsequently embarks on her first attempt to starve herself into the perfect dancer's physique, to her torments as an adult running the gamut of traditional doctors and New Age healers as she tries to recover from a painful and depressing illness presumably brought on by her compulsive fasting, bingeing, purging and exercising. The pressure from her family to be beautiful and her alienation from her own body emerge as Lauren minutely describes her agonies over what she'll eat at each next meal, the clothing choices of everyone she meets and the intimate details of her bowel movements . This book raises the question of whether contemporary fashion standards pressure young women into the destructive behaviors of anorexia and bulimia. Lauren is intelligent, creative and a skilled writer, and she evokes empathy. She has a few encouraging epiphanies, as when, at age 30, she attends a Ralph Lauren fashion show and realizes, "The clothing is incredible as always, but who needs it?" The book's abrupt ending and dearth of conclusions, however, disturbingly portend that the reader may come away with more insights than the author.
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Oh boy you all are really makeing me feel very old.how about
you Bev.5 years ago how about 20 -30-40 years ago.I was young an very pretty if I have to say so myself.someday I,ll
send you a picture of me when I was 21.when I was 21 I was marryed an had 4 children.they where the good old days.I
could really tell you some storys.but they where happy days.my children an my hubby was the most wonderful things an still are.remember I have been marryed for 52 years.before any of you where even born.most of you are younger then my children.my youngest girl just turn 30.Gerry
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keep up the good work Supersilks.when I was your age I didn,t know what IBS was.I,m still working hard at it.Gerry
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First Flight
#67549 - 05/04/04 07:25 PM
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It's interesting that you picked today for this thread. I went and checked my flying log book, and 5 years ago today was my very first flying lesson. I had spent a year working really hard at my college program (they only took the top 37 of 154 students after first year to start flight training). My flight instructor at the time was a Russian guy who had only lived in Canada for a few years. He was 'sterotypical' Russian in that I could have sworn he was recruiting me for the Russian airforce.
I still lived in civilization.
After my lesson I went over to my girlfriend's house and we celebrated by going to Taco Bell.
Ah, how things change.
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OMG... now that I think about it it was 5 years ago either last night or tonight that I was hanging out at Adam's apartment and tried smoking a certain not-quite-legal substance for the first and last time. It was the night before a final, too, which is completely not something I would usually do (even though I aced the final). I guess I was going through my rebelious phase then...
Kree.... you naughty naughty girl you...oh my...I NEVER would have guess that about YOU!! hehehe You rebel you!!
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Hi Bev,you are still YOUNG,VIBRANT,FIT,GORGEOUS.remember you
told me you are only as old as you feel. Gerry
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Gosh, Gerry.... I did not think about that.... I had only had mine at home for about 2 years.
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HI JBI do you still have the same girl friend.if not you are very cute. Gerry
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Gerry!
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How are you doin', Girlfriend? How's your daughter? I've been thinking about both of you. Talk to me!
Bev
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#67558 - 05/04/04 07:36 PM
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Hi Bev,we don,t know nothing yet .she will fine out this week I think.all we can do is pray she doesn,t have MS.she is so young.thank you for asking.Gerry
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hehe Thanks,
nope, her and I broke up the following fall. We're still good friends; I actually talked to her last night. I'm single at the moment though.
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that is good that you broke up as friends.but you still are very cute let a old lady have some fun.how long have you been in the service?an how old are you.you look very young.younger then my son ,maybe my grandson age.Gerry
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Hi Bev,you are still YOUNG,VIBRANT,FIT,GORGEOUS.remember you
told me you are only as old as you feel. Gerry
I 2nd that!!
And I third it!
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It's interesting that you picked today for this thread. I went and checked my flying log book, and 5 years ago today was my very first flying lesson. I had spent a year working really hard at my college program (they only took the top 37 of 154 students after first year to start flight training). My flight instructor at the time was a Russian guy who had only lived in Canada for a few years. He was 'sterotypical' Russian in that I could have sworn he was recruiting me for the Russian airforce.
I still lived in civilization.
After my lesson I went over to my girlfriend's house and we celebrated by going to Taco Bell.
Ah, how things change.
Wow, Jamie, that was a big day for you. I bet it seems like a lifetime ago!
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Hi Bev,we don,t know nothing yet .she will fine out this week I think.all we can do is pray she doesn,t have MS.she is so young.thank you for asking.Gerry
Please let us know when you find out about your daughter, Gerry. I've been praying for her.
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Hey Gerry,
Thanks for the compliments.
I'm 24. although I've been told I both look younger and look older and act older but sometimes act younger... go figure  How old is your son?
I'm not in the armed forces, I just fly for a regional airline based in my area.
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... but I can honestly say I've never completely gotten over him, even though we were never really together and I've dated a few guys since. Is that pathetic?
I know EXACTLY where you are coming from. I had the same thing happen to me early last year. I met a girl, we connected really well, BUT, she had a boyfriend and things got ridiculously complicated. We don't even talk anymore and she moved back to Ireland, yet is dating a different guy in Winnipeg now. I have tried to e-mail her every once and a while, and she's sent me back a brief impersonal e-mail once or twice. Long story short I'm really disappointed that we didn't get to see how we'd be together.
But I think that's the whole reason why I'm not over her, because with other girls I've dated, I know that we gave it a fair shot, things didn't work out and we move on. But in this case, we never got to really see how we'd be together so there'll always be that 'what if?'
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like wow, you are to young to fly.an my oldest grandson is
19.no that is not true.I have 2 grandchildren that are liveing with my x son in law an he doesn,t let us see them.
they are your age.some day they while come around.maybe before it is to late.but I,m sorry you have IBS at a young age. Gerry
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Thank you Kree.an your new picture is beautiful.some day you will have one of me.maybe if you come to Vegas.I,ll let you all know about my daughter.you young people are so brave with this IBS.I just don,t know how you all do it.I pray for each an everyone of you every night.Gerry
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Well, I had just moved into the home we are living in now. We'd been through a flood which had taken ALL of our belongings. We had moved in with my sister and her husband and shared her little tiny mobile home for 3 months, until we could save enough to get our own place and furniture, too. Five years ago today I was very happy and loving my new home and my new stuff. My daughter was graduating high school and I was glad to have a home again, where we had a huge graduation celebration! What fun!!! Oh, I had no ibs back then, either.
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good night sweet dreams to all you beautiful people.it is my bed time.G o o d n i g h t.Gerry
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will here I,m again couldn,t sleep.so made a pot of Kree chicken stew.should mop my bath room floors but guess I,ll do them tomorrow.it is getting hot was over 100 today.so we try to do a lot of things at night time.get us real good an tired.so we can sleep good.goodnight again.Gerry
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I was... 16? Yeah, 16.. I was in High School, in the 11th grade. My little group of female friends had just fallen apart and I suddenly found myself with all male friends.. Was falling head over heels for one of said male friends (who I would spend the next nearly 4 years being hopelessly devoted to, even though he was a... *ahem*..). Oh, I had a boyfriend, though.. He was terrible. He used to drink and drive, dropped out of high school that year.. He pushed me down the outside cement stairs one time, then threatened to kill himself if I broke up with him.. Yuck, I haven't thought about him in a while.. He's married now, with a baby on the way. Apparently he is nicer now.
If that was 1999, I got IBS is 1992 so I had it.. it was just 'in remission', I think. I'd get belly aches every so often, but nothing like I am now.
I went on birth control that year (to stabilize my period), my mom thought I was having s-e-x and tore my room apart, looking for stuff. I wasn't, she didn't find anything.. I was still no longer allowed to hang out in a room alone with my male friends.
My sister was pregnant, but had to deliver the baby stillborn.. on Valentine's Day. My grandpa died the same day. I don't do Valentine's Day anymore, until this year when I decided to try.. and was throwing up all day for no apparent reason so I am back off of it.
That's it!
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about what was going on five years ago. I know I didn't have IBS. That would come a year later when little Meike was born. Did I just say little? She isn't little anymore. I can tell you Madeline was 15 months and adorable. I loved every minute I had with her. I got pregnant with Meike in June and it is amazing how much everything changed after that. I would love to go back and relive five years ago. I might have been overweight but it was easier and less stressful. More improtantly, Madeline was still my baby and needed me for everything. How can they grow up so fast? It really isn't fair. Oh well, life is good now but I'm going to send them off to school next year  . Well you know I will be a basket case in September.
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I totally understand the not being able to deal with it. My grandmother died 3 years ago, I still cannot talk about her without crying my eyes out, I could not cry when she died. I was working hard tending to everyone else in the family, I still have not afforded myself the luxury of greiving over her. I want to go out to the cemetary (I have not been there in all of this time), to leave flowers for Mothers Day. Afraid that if I go, I will have a break down. Ackkkk.
Enough sad stuff, just want you to know I totally understand it all. Hope it gets better.....
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I know EXACTLY where you are coming from. I had the same thing happen to me early last year. I met a girl, we connected really well, BUT, she had a boyfriend and things got ridiculously complicated. We don't even talk anymore and she moved back to Ireland, yet is dating a different guy in Winnipeg now. I have tried to e-mail her every once and a while, and she's sent me back a brief impersonal e-mail once or twice. Long story short I'm really disappointed that we didn't get to see how we'd be together.
But I think that's the whole reason why I'm not over her, because with other girls I've dated, I know that we gave it a fair shot, things didn't work out and we move on. But in this case, we never got to really see how we'd be together so there'll always be that 'what if?'
You know, it sounds a lot less pathetic when you put it that way, Jamie! You're right, it is that question about what could have been that keeps me thinking about this guy. It's that whole idea of the-one-who-got-away.
I'm sorry about your experience! Finding people who you connect with that well is so rare, I know how disappointing it is when it doesn't work out.
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Kree, speaking of being pathetic (and boys)...5 years I had just finished my first year of college, too. I was dating one guy and totally in love with his friend, who was something of an alocholic, but I didn't care. Let's just say I was indecisive and didn't know who I really liked. What did I do? Well, over the summer I broke up with my boyfriend. And in the fall, I started learning German, because that's what this other guy studied. Now that's pathetic! Not really though, since I love German and have long since gotten over both of those guys (sorta). I agree though that if you haven't give a relationship a real go, you always wonder what could have been! That's a lesson I didn't learn til the next year.
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Five years ago I still lived in Spain. My father-in-law died from Colon cancer. He was a wonderful man and like my father because my own father was never around. I was getting ready for my oldest daughters graduation from high school.
Now I am getting ready for my son to graduate this year in June. Times goes by so quickly. Seems it was just yesterday he was my sweet, shy, little tow-headed boy who only wanted to be with his mommy. Now . . . I am very emotional these days and cry at the drop of a hat.
I had IBS then and still have it now.
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