I Have a Computer Again :-)

"Chris Braun" wrote in message
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On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:43:09 -0400, A Ross
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Chris Braun wrote:

Well, I'm finally back to normal here. A couple of weeks ago I
spilled a few drops of wine into my keyboard and killed mine.
Unfortunately, the damage was severe -- took out the system board. It
would have cost as much to repair it as to replace it, so we bought a
new one (IBM Thinkpad) and kept the old one for parts. And DH took
out the old hard disk and RAM and put them in the new one, so it looks
and acts exactly the same (though it has the little fingerprint
recognition feature, which I didn't particularly want). Anyway, it's
nice! And I've started back in again today logging my food, now that
I can do my spreadsheets. I didn't gain any weight in the interim --
actually went down a couple of pounds (though a couple of wine events
yesterday may have made up for that :-) ).

Anyway, I'll be back to doing my old Food & Exercise posts!

(No news on the Mom front, by the way. She's still there physically,
not so much mentally.)



Chris
262/130s/130s
started dieting July 2002, maintaining since June 2004

Welcome back, Chris.

I've been spending a lot of time at the hospital with my grandmother.
That woman is a piece-of-work! They'll send her home soon just to shut
her up.

It's been sad seeing so many seniors in conditions similar to your
mother's. I really feel for you.

Take care!

Thanks, Amy. I just talked with the social worker at the nursing
home. Not much change in Mom's condition -- maybe a little more
gradual decline. She now doesn't make much attempt to feed herself,
so they do that. She's on total life-care -- bedpans and such (but no
artificial measures). She talks very little, and sleeps most of the
time. At least she doesn't seem to be particularly discontented -- is
too out of it to really know what's going on, and doesn't seem to be
in pain (they give her meds for that).

Chris

So sorry Chris, it's miserable knowing that the end is on it's way and
there is nothing you can do. It was like that with my Dad and we were told
it was best to just let him go but it's rotten to be the family there
watching. I empathise.

--
Rachael