I worry about anti-Hispanic sentiment over the whole Swine Flu thing. I know it's tempting to be fearful, but we have to be rational. I caught myself getting scared because DD has bad head cold symptoms and came down stairs last night crying about asthma and was on fire, burning hot. She was wheezing pretty badly, too. It's high allergy season here, and she was outside so much all weekend and I think it really got to her. The rational part of me was saying it's only an allergy gone haywire and now she's got inflammation in her lungs. The irrational part of me was totally freaking out because so many Hispanics work with DH and DD was around them this weekend, plus there are so many in kid's school. Many are illegal. We are in a heavy migrant worker area. DH told me I needed to not buy into the panic. I hope he's right. But I also know he had to be treated for TB thanks to some of his workers who got the drug resistant form of TB, so I'm not sure I'm being totally off the mark. Am I mad at anyone? No, just scared for my family. I worry for the families of these hard workers, too, as I know fear can make people pretty mean. They are all super nice guys that work with my DH. And none of them have been home in ages, it's just too busy right now to take off work.
Anyway, DD woke up this AM and no fever. She was just upset and it made her hot and sweaty. Pollen is on everything and so far, I'll chalk it up to allergies.
DS has been having trouble keeping his hands to himself at school. He needs magnets inserted into his palms and then his hands will automatically clasp together when he's not holding something.
Something I'm noticing about my DS. The older he gets (he's 6), the funnier that kid is. He can make people laugh like no child I've met at that age. He's wicked funny and can make the most subtle jokes, like word play. So basically if he's not totally annoying and poking people, he's cracking everyone up or being silly.
Tiggersih, you are welcome here anytime. I think we can all relate to your life story and it serves us well to have you in our ranks. I side with your PT, by the way. When I almost severed my own foot in a riding accident, I did my own PT. I tried working out in the gym, but that hurt, so I bought another horse and started riding again.
A year later, I was told by a doctor that my range of motion and mobility is remarkable for someone with my injury. He wanted to know who was the PT I used. It still hurts like hell to have an ankle that is permanently out of joint and a foot that has no arch, and plates and pins that rub together, but I keep trudging along. Your "normal" is just different from other people's. I'd say your attitude is very healthy and psychologists write books about how to think and behave like people like you.
Pudge, I'm reading a good book now called "The Four Day Win", by Martha Beck. It talks about anxiety and the underlying causes for eating or being a stress eater. I wouldn't call it a diet book. I'd call it a behavior study. My Aunt gave it to me because she sees me go a little off the deep end when I'm stressed out or upset. I must say it's very helpful. It's very funny, too. You'd enjoy it.
Bottom line: life is scary and hard. We can deal with it gracefully and with humor, or we can be angry and chicken.
Dole whips round the house, and fun with the Mouse!!
Are you kidding me?
to the right- maybe even getting a couple fast passes for the line again
to all 
I feel you can adapt in time and find some great tricks to deal with your bad days. It is not the end and you ought to sit on them ladies and do the dole whip drip on their nose but that would be wasting something good on them.
Need to check out the news tonight
and report back about my first one! Hubby said he'd take me for Moms day and I can have one
I couldn't send youngest DS to school if it gets too close, his immune system is so wacky. And no sense sending oldest DS 'cause all he'd do is bring the cooties home with him. And I work at a community college, you know college kids show up for class when they really shouldn't, colleges are big cootie factories that way. And DH works with, hmm, well... yeah... not the most responsible group of people. Although he does at least work in a freezer and therefore already wearing some facial protection. 
(That's actually not funny, but so predictable...)
