Comments on: i was all right for awhile, i could smile for awhile

By: betsy

betsy — Tue, 18 Mar 2003 14:22:22 +0000

Maybe your folks should hire someone who isn’t working full time to work for them at the bowling alley. It isn’t your responsibility to keep their business going, even though you may feel it is your daughterly duty. this kind of stress is not healthy for you. If you lived in another state no one would expect this of you. Time to take care of yourself first, only take on what you can handle, because if you continue this way, you’ll really start to resent it, and then feel guilty because of those negative feelings toward your loved ones. I’ve been there and done that and sometimes in trying to be “good and nice” we assume much too much responsibility. Same goes for baby sitting, etc., yes you love your niece and nephews but it’s not your job to be available at all times, just when you have free Jodi time and want to give and get all the love you can from them. Please don’t buy a house next door or down the block from your sisters, we know what can potentailly happen. Another state would be best, because then you’d probably start relationships with others other than your family, but of course you must make those decisions for yourself, I too, while not being a dip, am a dweeb.

By: courtney

courtney — Mon, 17 Mar 2003 17:59:46 +0000

“…it’s when you cry just a little, but you laugh in the middle…”

By: jodi

jodi — Mon, 17 Mar 2003 16:11:04 +0000

you aren’t a dip! but the fact that you called yourself one made me laugh.

By: dainec

dainec — Mon, 17 Mar 2003 16:08:03 +0000

Jodi, you already are loved. You are perfect as you are. Buy that house, read those books, enjoy your body, enjoy your mind.

Your life is right now. Tomorrow will get here when it gets here.

I know I probably sound like, blah, blah, blah… but it’s true even if I’m a dip.

By: UH

UH — Mon, 17 Mar 2003 15:52:55 +0000

Welcome to the club, Thomas. I’ve got two blown disks myself with L4-5 being fragmented.

I didn’t have surgery, though. I’ve been doing stretching and flexibility exercises for the last nine years instead, and I feel a thousand percent better. My father had two disks removed and the vertebrae fused and he’s no better off now than he was before the surgery.

Here’s hoping it works for you, whatever you do.