I took Ambien for over a year...maybe even two years. I have a sleeping disorder and it really helped...but my doctor decided I had been on it too long and got me on a couple of small doses of antidepressants which work just as well and also help my depression.
But it's a good sleeping aid that is much less addictive than other pills "Dr." Cathy L.
i have the best of teddy pendergrass in mine.
i was just in the mood for some sweet mellow music.. what about you?.
dimples
My son's band Tree of Woe...their debut CD..."Withered Oak". One in my car CD player and one in my home player. I get up every morning and blast that baby and things just start looking up! Cathy L.
i had my surgery on the 15th.and life was hell.the doc found the rotater cuff had started to rot.yummy.he had to cut a large bone spur that had actually cut into the cuff causing the rip.then he found my clavical bone was being distroyed by arthritis, so the bone was partially cut away.i was in surgery 2 hrs.i am still recovering and on pain meds.lots of meds.i am just checking in .i hope you are all well and safe.kls
(((((((KLS)))))))
Wishing you a swift recovery and hope that the pain medication works for you. This is not the time to be stoic. When it hurts tell the doc and scream for better medication! This is one of those times when you can legally get some great drugs!!! lol Seriously...get better soon! Cathy L.
wednesday is the big day.i am going in for rotator cuff surgery and i am very nervous.i have lived in pain now for 6months not wanting to do this but the time has come.i am also going to have bone spurs dug out that have grown into the cuff.
the scarriest part is the pain ,i am in so much now and i know it will be worse.wish me luck and lots of pain killers.
kls
Wishing you well with your surgery (which I guess is over by now!) Take good care of your shoulder and follow all the doctor's instructions and before you know it you will be living in the fast lane again! lol Enjoy that pain medication while you can!!! Cathy L.
for those who have not met me my name is michelle.
(aka.mortons68)thank-you walter for the post earlyer last week for welcoming me.i have been wanting to do a post to introduce myself,but have not had the guts to tell my story.for one,i am very new to the computer , two, i was not sure about opening my life to complete strangers,and three ,my spelling and grammer is not that great at all.
vicki,thanks for leading me to this site.
(((((((((MICHELLE)))))))))
Thank you for having the courage to share your story with us at this website. Your story brought tears to my eyes and I wish you all the best in the future as you live a life happily outside of the JW cult. I am so happy that you were finally reunited with Vicki!! Welcome to the forum!!!
Cathy L.
ok.. firstly let me see i can explain this with out too much rambling..... for those who know me, know that i was disfellowshiped in june this year.
before this time, my mother, stepfather and sister shunned me.
since my disfellowshipping, i have not had contact with my parents and an occasional text message from my sister.. i found out last week that my sister was getting married on the saturday just gone (11th october) so i decided to give her a call on friday to wish her luck for her wedding.
Though my situation isn't exactly like yours...it does revolve around a wedding (oh how sad that at a time when everyone should be joyous...the witnesses make it hell for many because of their "rules & regulations on the correctness of marriage according to the watchtower, bible & crap society.)
Of course you have to do what YOUR conscience tells you to do; but along with many others here I would advise not making any hasty decisions after just going through such emotional turmoil.
My mother, sister and brother have been shunning me for the past two years and there have been many times when they first began this most barbaric and cruel practice, that I actually thought about going back to meetings just to keep my family. It would have been much easier for me in my situation because I am neither disfellowshipped or DA'd. But then over the past few months I have come to the conclusion that even though they are my flesh and blood...I actually don't miss them all that much. They were all very controlling and self-righteous even when I was a good little witness. To keep my self-respect...I refuse to jump through their or the watchtower's hoops anymore. Instead I have replaced them with other friends (not locally where I live; tho I'm working on it...but with many here on this website who really don't even know me personally but I feel that I know them).
I hurt for you and your family. Cathy L.
....save the "the day i got out" posts, surely some here can dreg up some happy times of when they were witnesses, it can't all be negative.
for me, i can remember some great people, some do's some co's some elders, some pioneers some just plain ol' publishers like me.
come on everyone.......dig deep now.....
Met my hubby as a witness...thank goodness we both came out together too. I suppose while I was a witness many things kept me happy...showers, weddings, cong. picnics (when they were allowed), my beautiful sons, etc. etc. etc. But nothing compares to the happiness that comes from being OUT...(sorry...I just had to say that),,,and free. Looking back, all those things were temporary happinesses (is that a word?) because you couldn't really be happy unless you were going to get in that new order...that's where your true happiness would come from. Cathy L.
p.s. if this post does not make sense it is because I just took a pain pill and that is making me really, really happy!
that question is raised on page 709 in the "proclaimers" book.
notice the answer the book gives.
"because they believe and accept what the bible says as to the identifying marks of true worshipers.
Delusion: A false, fixed belief, held in spite of evidence to the contrary.
Because they're all (and I include myself here when I was one of THEM) clearly DELUSIONAL!!
yep,.
i couldn't believe it myself - i've been posting here for over a year!
wow!.
(((((((((((((((CZAR))))))))))))))) Yup...time flies when you're having fun! Cathy L.
i hope this is not a duplicate:.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/6987929.htm.
posted on sat, oct. 11, 2003coral gables.
Hmmmmmmmmmm....when you see the way were "trained" as parents by the watchtower to discipline our kids using physical force if necessary and you see parents hauling screaming children back to the bathrooms for a little "Theocratic Adjustment" (which was really a good whooping/spanking/beating)...it makes you stop and ponder how far some JW's go to control not only their children but other people's children. As God's "chosen people"...I think a lot of JW's feel they have the authority to discipline in whatever way they think necessary...which many times includes physical punishment bordering on ABUSE! Cathy L.
