Night vision decreases with age
March 27, 2007
How well do you see at night? If you're over 50, probably not as
well as you think, no matter how many carrots you eat. The typical

(I posted this under "You may not hear from WebTV users for a while")
Hi all.
I'm Nell of Bayville, NJ, who was introduced to this group by Donna G. and
who posted last year (or the year before? yikes) here w/ a different email

Sorry I've not been around much lately, but have been in a serious bout of
depression lately. Wish I knew where it all comes from. Woke this morning
and felt like I'm alive again. Been taking my meds so that should have
offset it, but it didn't. My meds have been handling it ...

Looks like golf maybe postponed for awhile. Right hand is gotten to the
point I need to have something done.
Sheesh, getting old sucks sometimes! I do like other aspects of it though.

I mean with all these diseases and such, and what they take from us, I
just wonder if any of you get just plain scared at times?    Ever since
I had the stroke, I deal with it ok most of the time, but every once in
a while it just kind of sneaks up o me and I get really scared as to

I lost over 100 pounds and _now_ my knees start bothering me!
I tore the cartilage in the right one in 1974 and  I  broke the left one in
1982. Both are unstable but the left one is worse.
The doctor gives me lidocaine/cortisone injections in them. It helps with

i don't know where to begin.  i'll try to condense a bit.  but i think this
will be longish, even though i'm going to leave out a lot.
dad had his cartoid artery surgery.  went ok.  recovered.  mom was doing ok
in the convalescent hosp.

And this is why parents drink!!!!!!!
A father passing by his son's bedroom was astonished to see that his bed was
nicely made and everything was picked up. Then he saw an envelope, propped
up prominently on the pillow that was addressed to "Dad." With the worst

Good Morning,
As I was going to bed last night.I was thinking about all of you, struggling with pain on a Daily basis, for a very long time, I had OA since 1998, first time I went to see a RA, after taking X Rays he told me, the cartilage was gone, but I was able to control the ...

It's been a rough week.  Last Monday and Tuesday morn, I felt fairly good.  
Then our latest weather roller coaster kicked in again.  I should have known
better than to think some recent changes were actually helping.  I made that
eternal mistake of starting to believe my hopes.  ...

My mother's , 82, health has been a huge issue this past year. She has
chronic nausea.  It was mild at first, for about three years actually,
but for the past two years it's been debilitating.  She's been in and
out of BIDMC in Boston for Acute Diverticulitus, three times this past

Can one of the moderators email me from this group.  I am not a
member, and want to ask\suggest to one of this group.  Please email me
at Rainbow422@aol.com regarding this issue.
Thanks a bunch!

The nurse just called me, my surgery will be June 6th, pre-op May 29th, I have a question again, she told me I need to give two units of blood prior the surgery, I was told a week ago that I was anemic, so her response was that I also had the option to use the blood bank, I told ...

hi gang, i've only been able to quickly scan messages since I'm at my
sister's in NJ with limited internet access. I'm here for a week
helping my sister, whose husband, you may recall, died a couple of
weeks ago and who also has MS. staying with her has made me realize

I turned on the radio last night just in time to hear some guy on Coast to  
Coast say that there was really good solid research out of Germany, if I  
recall correctly, in which people were shown sad pictures which caused  
them to cry, thus curing rheumatoid arthritis.  He went on ...