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Texasdeb
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05-23-2003

Friday, December 03, 2010 - 3:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texasdeb a private message Print Post    
War, Argh! is right. Play a little joke on him, and put him out a bowl of dog food for dinner! tee-hee!

Jmm
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08-15-2002

Friday, December 03, 2010 - 3:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jmm a private message Print Post    
Here you go, War, you can serve him this for supper.

wa

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Friday, December 03, 2010 - 4:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
LOLOLOLOL Jmm!!!!! Wargod, serve it up when he gets home!!

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Friday, December 03, 2010 - 8:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    


Wargod
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07-16-2001

Friday, December 03, 2010 - 11:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
LOL, you guys are nuts.

After I asked him again not to leave messages like that, found out it was good news he wanted to talk about. He found out he can order something we want for Kota for Christmas through work and get a better deal than anywhere in town. It's not jump around the house cuz the savings are so great, but pretty good and he wanted to run it by me before he ordered it.

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Friday, December 03, 2010 - 11:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
So, what is it???

(And glad Darren's topic was more towards the granola...)

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Saturday, December 04, 2010 - 12:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Oh, sorry, lol!

It's an ipod touch. $20 less than in any store here, free shipping, and free engraving on the back of the ipod. And because it's through his company, it will be shipped to him at work, instead of at home so I don't have to worry about being here when it comes or the kids being home and being nosey.

Because they're both getting one big, kinda pricey gift (Caleb's getting a laptop,) they're not going to get much else. Saving $20 on the ipod touch is gonna stretch our budget just a little bit further and she'll probably get the boots she saw at the shoe store she liked.

And yeah, I was thrilled with the topic of discussion! His mom hasn't been doing that well lately, so that was my #1 worry when I heard his message. #2...his company is talking about having his department run three shifts instead of two, we've already discussed that and decided if he has to choose between swing shift and graveyard, he'll go to graveyard. That way he can sleep during the day when the kids are in school and then be home during the afternoon/evening when they are. There's been no decision yet, but we're expecting one pretty soon so hearing his message, after his mom, I start to worry he's going to tell me he's going back to graveyard shift.

Texannie
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07-15-2001

Saturday, December 04, 2010 - 5:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
My husband who had a massive heart attack 1/29/09, double by pass and two stents because he smoked has started smoking again!!!!!

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Saturday, December 04, 2010 - 6:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
(((Annie))) Some addictions are just so damned ferocious.

Christy358
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07-10-2007

Saturday, December 04, 2010 - 7:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Christy358 a private message Print Post    
My mom who is on oxygen still sneaks outside to smoke. I don't nag, but will not go out and talk with her while she smokes.

Texannie
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07-15-2001

Sunday, December 05, 2010 - 6:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
I smoked for years. loved it! had a great figure too! LOL i quit when he had his stroke in 2000. We had always said we would quit together; he lasted about 3 months. My quiting was a real god thing. I had gotten on the patch and it was making me crazy. Steve was in and out of the hospital and I would take off the patch, smoke and then put the patch back on. I woke up one morning with God saying as clear as a bell 'take off the patch and trust me' and i never smoked again or had a craving.
I never nagged him back then about not smoking or anyone for that matter. I truly know how addictive and how great it can be.
He is very disappointed in himself and wants us to nag him when he tries to go outside to smoke.

Colordeagua
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10-24-2003

Sunday, December 05, 2010 - 8:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
Nothing new hear -- my Dad died of smoking many years ago - May 7, 1973. And the only guy whoever mattered to me (he moved on but I think he never forgot; I never married) died of smoking last December 26.

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Sunday, December 05, 2010 - 7:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
It is one HELL of an addiction, Texannie, but alas, nagging does not really help. The only one who can get him to quit smoking is him, and he has to find the strength to do it somehow.

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Sunday, December 05, 2010 - 7:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
Texannie, I am so sorry. I wish cigarettes were illegal. I lost my grandma to lung cancer when I was seven and I miss her terribly every day. I wish my dad would quit. He hacked the entire time he was here last week. Sometimes you can't tell these men anything.

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Sunday, December 05, 2010 - 7:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
see if he will try Chantix

Texannie
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07-15-2001

Monday, December 06, 2010 - 4:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
Chantix does not look like a good match for open heart patients for what i have researched.
juju, i never nagged him in the past, but if he thinks it would help...free nagging, who am i to resist?? LOL

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Monday, December 06, 2010 - 6:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
This might be off the wall, but do you have any reminders (pictures or cards or anything) that might bring him back to the days right after his heart attack? Something that might strike him kind of hard and work as a "stopper?" If so, maybe stick them by the door he'd walk out to smoke?

Texannie
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07-15-2001

Monday, December 06, 2010 - 1:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
He has a scare down the middle of his chest and 3 smaller ones below it...that should be enough, don't cha think??? grrrrr!!!

Tishala
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08-01-2000

Monday, December 06, 2010 - 2:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tishala a private message Print Post    
Annie, after I was diagnosed with heart failure, I had to stop--they started feeding me Wellbutrin in the CCU, in fact. It was so easy, I stopped taking Wellbutrin when I got home and never really had any problems. Well, until I got severely depressed. Then I started smoking again. And, to my great shame, I am still doing it.

Perhaps he can try Wellbutrin? It does increase BP a bit and speed up the heart rate, but it's worth it if it works because, after all, smoking does the same thing.

Denecee
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09-05-2002

Monday, December 06, 2010 - 3:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Denecee a private message Print Post    
My husband quit smoking after some accupuncture(sp), but started a back a year later. He only smokes about 4 cigs a day but still that accupuncture seemed to help.

Texannie
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07-15-2001

Monday, December 06, 2010 - 3:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
He is taking zoloft already; it's part of the cocktail with another med that prevents his particular type of stroke from reoccuring. I am not sure he could do both, and I wouldn't want him to stop the zoloft.
I am just surprised that almost 18 months later he started back. he says he is so stressed with his new job that he 'needs' it.

Jmm
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08-15-2002

Monday, December 06, 2010 - 3:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jmm a private message Print Post    
Maybe he doesn't "see" the scars anymore, Annie. They may have just become a part of the landscape now, like an old accident scar you don't notice anymore. You might want to take a picture of his chest and, like Julie suggested, hang it by the door where he goes to smoke.

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Monday, December 06, 2010 - 3:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
Maybe accupuncture will stop my food addiction

Texannie
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07-15-2001

Monday, December 06, 2010 - 3:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
The irony is I probably have more scars from his whole ordeal than he does. He doesn't have any memory from the day before the heart attack until after his last surgery...almost 2.5 weeks.

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Monday, December 06, 2010 - 3:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
Well, knowing how hard it was on you should be enough for him to quit. I am sure this goes without saying, but have you told him how difficult it is on you to watch him do this to himself, after all you went through and how much you love him?