looks like medical advice day @ jwd.... does anyone know about rotator cuff injuries?.
symptoms?.
treatment?.
start icing, Ibuprofen (advil, motrin) atleast 600 mg works, your doctor may prescribe more.
you may be able to avoid surgery if you opt for physical therapy first...your doctor can reccommend a good P.T. and write a prescription for it.
I use to work in a PT office we had many rotator cuff problems, some post surgery some no surgery....go for an MRI see what the doc reccommends and then go from there. Depending on the degree of the injury or pain either PT or surgery should work. Good Luck!
i am 20 years old and i left the organization when i was 17. there are of course many gorey details which i will not get into right now... but i just wanted to say how happy i am to have found this fourm.
as many of you remember, we were always instructed not to read anything about jehovah's witnesses that wasn't written by the organization.
well, that instruction stuck, and this is the first time i three years that i have dared to even look.. needless to say, i found some very disturbing information.
Welcome Krystal
It took me 9 years being out b4 I started looking at the forbidden literature or even finding a website.... after buying COC I hid it under my bed just in case somebody saw it (no witnesses in my household even, go figure).....it's a shame what brainwashing does to you.....
Enjoy the forum!
Eva
when you have work to do around the house?
mine is driving me crazy today and i can't get anything done.
what do you do?
fingerpaints...what kid doesn't love to be occupied with that? anything to make a mess, give them a work area lots of newspaper that you can clean in one swoop and voila
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i know people have left for people issues but what about jehovah god and jesus?
what have they done?.
Once I separated a relationship with him from dedication to a manmade organization he became so much more real and so much more loving... I became so much more tolerant, accepting and approachable, which are qualities Jesus had that so many JWs do not. It's much easier for me to love God and appreciate Jesus's sacrifice now that I truly feel worthy of benefitting from it
very well put. I feel the same way, and I've never felt more blessed by Him now than ever before. 'tolerant, accepting, and approachable' because I'm now less judgemental of how I think people should be.
has anyone within bethel happened to check the jewish calendar?
yesterday my stepdaughter was trying to figure out if she had the week off from school.
so i looked up the nyc board of education calendar and was shocked to discover that she won't be off until april 21st - 25th.
yes you are correct Joseph, I think most here are confused as to what calendar the JW's were looking at when they set the memorial this year as March 24th?
has anyone within bethel happened to check the jewish calendar?
yesterday my stepdaughter was trying to figure out if she had the week off from school.
so i looked up the nyc board of education calendar and was shocked to discover that she won't be off until april 21st - 25th.
this had bothered me too, especially since I have a Jewish calendar hanging in my kitchen (my husband is Jewish) and it clearly shows Nisan 14th as April 23rd.....
the moment arrived.
i have sent out my first three letters: one to the local congregation, one to the governing body (right, right, like i'll get a reply?
), and one to my family.
that was a great letter...just sent you a pm
perhaps i'm wrong, but this is a possible explanation.i was always taught that a new system would soon replace the old one.
in this new system there would be no more war, everyone would eat from his own 'fig tree', they would build houses and love one another.. .
in every publication that depicted this new system.....it was a picture of a beautiful lush productive earth, people were carrying baskets of vegetables and fruit walking together being of different decent, the men were bulding houses with smiles on their faces, and the children were playing with the animals.
I didn't want it to come, I hated the thought of the earth being destroyed and everyone being one big happy family. I love the idea of travel, learning about history, different cultures and people....I didn't want everyone to be the same....how boring!
well, it has been almost three years since i silently and dramatically vanished from the world of the watchtower.
moving an hour away from my congregation's territory and not answering phone calls was all i needed to avoid having to wear the letter "a" on my chest.
but, that could all change this saturday.
Bradley so nice to hear from you!
I'm sure it will all go well for you this Saturday, sounds like you'll be keeping busy with the kids and that's good. You got a lot of good advice, so I"m not even going to add to it.....but the 4 martinis b4 is not a bad idea.
As long as you kind of know what to expect. No doubt someone will want to get together with you to encourage you to come back, cuz well, that's what they do....you're smart, you'll do fine....no worries......cheers!
Keep in touch! Let us know how it all goes.
Talk to you soon!
Eva
Hey Paul! Great song! Great Lyrics!
....from my mom.
i hadn't heard from my parents since last summer after 2 fiery letters and me da'ing myself.
they even mentioned to my df'd sis how i "went apostate".
I'm so sorry...I remember getting letters like that. When I left Arizona to move back up here in Chicago, my dad said to me, the door is always open if I ever decide to come back in the truth (yeah, I like that 'if') so I simply responded.....'well, my door is always open to you, if you so choose to come in'.....they didn't know how to respond. I don't think they realize that they are making the choice to cut themselves off from us.
