patcelaw

patcelaw: I saw the eye specialist today and I have the early signs of glaucoma. Hopefully we have caught it early and that there are some steps we can take to help my sight.

FanStory wrote to patcelaw: The Fox Outfoxed finished third in the contest "Write a Lipogram! "

patcelaw: I took a very hard fall today and spent several hours in the emergency room, after being transported by ambulance to the hospital. The x-rays and the CAT showed I did not have any broken bones, just quite a lot of bruises outward as well as internally. I am quite sore and will need to be needing to be treat my body gingerly.

patcelaw: I am so sorry to hear of the passing of Michael Cahill. He truly will be missed. His poetry was always so well written and presented beautifully.

patcelaw: My sister tells me that the cloudiness in my vision could be from scar tissue that has grown over my lenses that was put in when I had cataract surgery almost 4 years ago.

patcelaw: It is with regret that I have to say, I am almost to the point where is is becoming impossible for me to read and review works because of my worsening eyesight.

patcelaw: Mother's day was good until late in the afternoon and then I had an emotional meltdown. The last two weeks has bee quite emotional for me with the sale of my home and car and then making the move.

patcelaw: My move is finished, now just to do the unpacking and the final things to make it truly home. The home I am sharing with my daughter Penny and her husband Larry is beautiful. My two rooms being small have almost wall to wall furniture. It is nice to be here and it gives me a feeling of safety. I will get back to writing in the next few days.

patcelaw: Misty Dawn wrote: You haven't posted anything in two days I hope you're alright. Know my thoughts and prayers are with you, take care.

Thanks for your concern and prayers, I had upper chest, neck and jaw pain so had to be put in the hospital, The did and angiogram and found the stents in my hear working well and no more plaque build up in the arteries than was there two years ago. It was determined that the pain was heart related, but was found quickly enough that it did not cause heart damage. The pain could have been caused from stress related to the severe back pain I have endured for the past 2 1/2 years. I was given a light dose of morphine and it relieved the back pain enough that I can get some of my strength back.
After the eighteen days I may again have back pain, and not be able to get more morphine, until I have moved to Phoenix in May, then have to find a doctor there who will prescribe me morphine.

patcelaw:

This story will help all who read it not take for granted they will have another day in which to do something that has made a difference in the world for the years we have been given. Copy and paste into you URL and read the story, it will touch your heart.

http://www.samanthawillsfoundation.org/contributors/2018/1/6/holly-butcher-1990-2018

patcelaw: It is heartbreaking to me that we have become
a society where we have to be vulgar to make
a point. I say, if you must be vulgar to make
a point you are seriously lacking in
education. A lot of the words used today,
I would have gotten my mouth washed
out with soap, had I used them. Think smart, write smart and speak smart,
then you will be thought to be smart.

FanStory wrote to patcelaw: Happy New Year finished third in the contest "New Year, New Me"

patcelaw: Are there others having trouble with the site today?

patcelaw: I really don't want presents, I'd rather have your presence.

patcelaw: Heads up--- I am having trouble with my computer modem so if you don't see me on the site for a few days, it may well be because of computer problems.

patcelaw: If you are interested.
If you want to hear my voice you can go to the link and at the 11:22 point into the program you will hear me.

http://67.36.84.226/crosstalk2/ct171123.mp3

patcelaw: Please pray for me. I am in a meltdown thinking about having to move from the home I have lived in longer than in any place I have ever lived.

patcelaw: Do you have to be a Senior to understand the English language?


Last year I replaced all the windows in my house with those expensive, double-pane, energy-efficient kind.

Today, I got a call from Home Depot who installed them. The caller complained that the work had been completed a year ago and I still hadn't paid for them.

Helloooo!!!???.... Just because I'm a Senior Citizen doesn't mean that I am automatically mentally challenged.

So, I told him just what his fast-talking sales guy told me last year!
These windows would pay for themselves in a year.

Hellooooo!!!???... I told him that It's been a year, so now they are paid for.
There was only silence at the other end of the line, so I finally hung up.

He never called back?!. I bet he felt like an idiot.

patcelaw: Poets see the truths that lie unnoticed by many of us.

patcelaw: My newest great grandson has arrive and his pic will be on my profile soon.

patcelaw: This is a message from my dear friend about the poetry I write. Her words actually brought me to tears, just know how I have touched her life, when it was her touching my life in the way she has over the almost four years we have know each other that bring me to tears.
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Thank you, Patricia. Your poetry has been a balm to my soul this summer as I've gone through a period of self-examination and condemnation. This new Bible study I'm in is also helping.

patcelaw: Today, I had the opportunity to speak on a national program about abortion . This is the link if you would care to listen. I am Celeste and I am on at the 35 minute spot. http://67.36.84.226/crosstalk2/ct171002.mp3

patcelaw: I saw a neat headline:
Why is it that people who predict the end, not sell all their possessions?

patcelaw: Borrowed from a friend.

"The worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades"!

patcelaw: I got this from a friend and it is so funny I have to share.
8:00PM

OMG, THIS IS TO FUNNY!
This is lovely. This made me laugh because only women understand this ! 😊 If my body was a car, I would be trading it in for a newer model. I've got bumps, dents, scratches & my headlights are out of focus. My gearbox is seizing up & it takes me hours to reach maximum speed. I overheat for no reason and every time I sneeze, cough or laugh either my radiator leaks or my exhaust backfires!

patcelaw: A city slicker went to a cattle ranch and as he stepped out of his car, he sniffed the air and said to the rancher, "this smells awful!"
To which the rancher sniffed the air and said, "sure smells like money to me my city friend."

patcelaw: anecdoche, means a conversation when everyone is talking and no one is listening.
How many of us have been in this situation?

patcelaw: My vision is terrible right now. I do not know how to type so I use the hunt and peck method and on a black keyboard I can almost not see the keys.
This is why I am very slow in reviewing your posts. So forgive me if I do not get to your posts in a timely manner. I have an appointment tomorrow with the Commission for the Blind.
The vision problem creates a great deal of stress for me.

patcelaw: My internet was down for over 24 hours and boy have i gotten behind on my reviewinfg and responding. I am trying to catch up.

patcelaw: On this day in 1959 I was blessed to become the wife of a wonderful man. A man who loved me and his daughters unconditionally. He was a gentle, sweet and honorable man. In my wildest dreams, I had never thought I would meet, fall in love and marry such a wonderful man as Wayne E Lawrence. One day I will join him in Heaven and that day will be a joyful day. I still love him dearly.

patcelaw: I have freedom of speech yet.
I'll not use it to be critical of others

patcelaw: Often when we feel there is nothing more for us to write about we need to remember, life is full of subject matter for us to write about.

patcelaw: These are cute.

In honor of school starting back up, here are a few fun (math) facts that can hopefully help our student Facebookers:

1. Ratio of an igloo?s circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi
2. 2000 pounds of Chinese soup = Won ton
3. 1 millionth of a mouthwash = 1 microScope
4. Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = 1 bananosecond
5. Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram
6. Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = Knotfurlong
7. 365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer = 1 Lite year
8. 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling
9. Half a large intestine = 1 semicolon
10. 1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz
11. Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower
12. Shortest distance between two jokes = a straight line
13. 2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds
14. 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 Fig Newton
15. 1000 cc?s of wet socks = 1 literhosen
16. 8 nickels = 2 paradigms

patcelaw: If it weren't for trend setters we would all still be listening to 15th century music and reading poetry from the 18th century. Had I not had some creativity as a mother I could not have afforded to dress my girls as well as they were dressed. I made most of their clothes and loved the fact that they were always proud of their mama, and pleased to say, "Mama made this for me."
We do need to keep the classics, but we also need to encourage people to learn new skills.
All the time I have people say, "My, I wish I were as talented as you." I am not all that talented, but do love trying to do new and different things.
As the years have taken their toll on my body there are things I am finding I am not able to do comfortably anymore, but I just find something new to do that doesn't hurt my body or my eyes. I don't want to live to 100 and find I can do nothing but wet my pants and twiddle my thumbs. That would be boring.
Enough of my soapbox for now. :-)

patcelaw: Apple Dumplings

single batch

2 granny smith apples - peeled and quartered
I package Pillsbury crescent rolls-8 rolls
½ cup sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
½ stick melted butter
1 can of mountain dew soda

Instructions:
wrap apple quarters in crescent rolls
place in baking dish. Sprinkle with
sugar and cinnamon mixed. Pour melted
butter over the rolls. Then pour ½ can of
the mountain dew over all ingredients.
Bake at 350 degrees for
appox. 45 minutes or until golden brown.
Serve as is or if you wish with whipped cream
or ice cream.
Double recipe for larger group.
I am asked quite often to make these for church
fellowship meals.

patcelaw: Stressful day in the dental chair, but the doctor and his assistant were very kind. have a temporary bridge and will get the permanent one in 19 days.

patcelaw: Check out this post of mine.

I Will Not Fear Tomorrow

patcelaw: So a funny thing happened while I was at Wal-mart buying a bag of dog food for my dogs. While in the check-out line, a woman behind me asked if I had a dog. Why else would I be buying dog food, RIGHT??? So on impulse I told her that no, I didn't have a dog, I was starting the Dog food Diet again, and that I probably shouldn't because I ended up in the hospital last time, but that I'd lost 50 pounds before I awakened in intensive care with tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IVs in both arms. I told her that it was essentially a Perfect Diet and all you do is load your pockets with food Nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry. The food is nutritionally complete so it works well and I was going to try it again. (I have to mention here that practically everyone in line was now enthralled with my story.) Horrified, she asked if I ended up in intensive care because the dog food poisoned me. I told her no, I stepped off a curb to sniff a poodle's butt and a car hit me. I thought the guy behind her was going to have a heart attack he was laughing so hard. Now that you've read this I have to confess, I copied it. Now copy and share. Make someone else laugh lol grin emoticon

patcelaw:

God's plan for aging

Most seniors never get enough exercise. In His wisdom God decreed that seniors become forgetful so they would have to search for their glasses, keys and other things thus doing more walking. And God looked down and saw that it was good.

Then God saw there was another need. In His wisdom He made seniors lose coordination so they would drop things requiring them to bend, reach & stretch.

And God looked down and saw that it was good.

Then God considered the function of bladders and decided seniors would have additional calls of nature requiring more trips to the bathroom, thus providing more exercise. God looked down and saw that it was good.

So if you find as you age, you are getting up and down more, remember it is God's will. It is all in your best interest even though you mutter under your breath.

Nine Important Facts To Remember As We Grow Older

#9 Death is the number 1 killer in the world.
#8 Life is sexually transmitted.
#7 Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.

#6 Men have 2 motivations: hunger and hanky panky, and they can't tell them apart. If you see a gleam in his eyes, make him a sandwich.

#5 Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day. Teach a person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks, months, maybe years.

#4 Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in the hospital, dying of nothing.

#3 All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.

#2 In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, and people take Prozac to make it normal.

#1 Life is like a jar of jalapeno peppers. What you do today could burn your behind tomorrow.

patcelaw: I am taking a break for a few days as I am not feeling very well. So I will not be posting or reviewing for a while.
Though at times, I come across as one who never has a problem and can face the giants and never bat an eye. Well this is one of those days for me where I am finding the giants are whipping my back side and I need help and prayers.

patcelaw: As women age we get those dreaded growths on our faces. You know, what the world calls chin hairs, but I prefer to call them errant eyebrows. It is just not fair that we get these things when our eyesight is beginning to fail. I have to get the beauty shop to pluck them for me since I cannot see them. Now I want you to know I am in a very spiritual mood today as I am sure you can tell by this. LOL :-)

patcelaw: Many of you know me from my writing. What three personality traits do you see me as having?

patcelaw: It is not what happens to us, that reveals our true character, it is how we handle what happens to us that is revealing.

patcelaw: Okay poets here is a delightful rhyme.
Have you ever noticed that cupid rhymes with stupid?

patcelaw: Only look back to see how far you have come.

patcelaw: I was blessed this morning to have a surprise visitor arrive at my front door. My son whom I gave up for adoption when he was a baby and was able to meet when he was 35 arrived for a one day visit.

patcelaw: Got a good report on my left eye today. The vision has improved from 20/80 eight weeks ago to 20/50 today. I also don't have to go back for another 8 weeks.

patcelaw: It is snowing here in the high desert of Las Cruces, NM
3,900 foot elevation.

patcelaw: I am knitting an afghan as a Christmas gift. Today I knitted 20 rows. I need to knit 15 rows for the next 10 days and then take about 5 hours doing the finish work and should have it done to give on Christmas eve..

patcelaw: How much fun is it to have a spotless house, if you don't have time to write?

patcelaw: In this last week I have written about 15 poems and a story.

patcelaw: My sweet neighbors who invited me for dinner last night, but I was not feeling well, just brought me a dinner for this evening.

patcelaw: Rose was my poem.

Rose finished first in the member created contest "Start and Ends The Same"

patcelaw: My poem Flaw, oh me finished first in the member created contest "I Am Not Perfect"
November 24 at 2:10PM
Thanks to those who voted for mine. Patricia

patcelaw: My daughter who lives in Kansas says the have thundersnowquakes in Kansas.

patcelaw: Today has been a kick back day for me, still in my PJ's and it is 12:30 PM

patcelaw: Because of having to get a shot in my left eye today I have not been able to review.

patcelaw: To access my life story as a radio drama--
go to the following link
http://www.unshackled.org/listen_home.html
Archives for Oct 2014
Name Patricia Lawrence
My program #'s are 3325 and 3326

patcelaw: I just finished writing a free verse poem for the Christmas season.

patcelaw: One thing that is challenging about FanStory is trying out new poetry formats. I have tried a number of new ones an enjoy trying them.
Just did a diamante and will put it up in a couple of days.

patcelaw: As I think you are aware, I am bi-polar and had to have therapy several times when I need to be able to overcome breaks from reality. Two of those times, I lost some days the first time I lost 2 days and the second time I lost 4 days. I tell you this because I have sat in churches where pastors do not understand mental illness and think that a Christian should never have to avail themselves of mental health care and psychotherapist. I have had to fight the battle not only with pastors, but also with everyday people sitting in the congregation who would tell me if I was trusting God I would not have mental illness and could just move on without help. I usually say," Have you ever had a broken leg?" They might say, "yes." I then say, "did you had a cast put on it?" They say, "of course." I then say, "if you had been trusting God you could have walked on that leg without medical help." That pretty much ends the argument.
I had a wonderful pastor in CA who stood with me during my first 2 breaks.
That man and his wife were my constant friends through those difficult times.
Now I am probably more sane than half those in the congregations where I attend church.

patcelaw: The following was written by a friend who read my poem 'God Uses Old People'

You will be fruitful in your old age, God says. And it's true. I like
the pictures you add to your poetry.

patcelaw:
Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact - men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.

Billy Graham

patcelaw: I want to explain that if I call you by the wrong name, my eyesight at this point is only 20/200 in the left eye and 20/80 in the right eye. I have to get shots in the left eye every month to hopefully help restore my vision.

patcelaw: Even though I am writing again, it is still a struggle as my vision is off badly and I have to make my font very large to be able to write.

patcelaw: It totally amazes me when I post a poem or story and think it is not so very well done, I get some great comments.

patcelaw: Just hang with me friends as my eyesight and the pain is still limiting me somewhat.

patcelaw: On August 8th I had to go to the hospital because of severe back pain and can still be on the computer a few minutes each day. This is the 74th day I have had pain with only one day pain free. I have been in the hospital and rehab a total of 23 days since July 1. Please pray for me to get well.

patcelaw: I had computer problems for over a week. Computer now fixed and health is slowly getting better.

patcelaw: Due to the pain I continue to experience I must take a break to get the back well.There is a bit of confusion about my back problems two doctors say I don't have a fracture yet another two say there is a fracture.

patcelaw: Have been home just over a week from the hospital, on pain meds and walking with a walker/ I hurt awfully badly. Just want the pain to go away.

patcelaw: This is Patricia's daughter. She will not be posting on fanstory for a least three weeks due to a medical problem. Not life threatening, however, she could use your prayers. Thanks.

patcelaw: I created a contest called Flying Saucers check it out. It is a format I created and when properly done will create Flying Saucer shapes.

patcelaw: We had a wonderful heavy shower of rain. Yippie I don't have to pay water company for water my lawn, got the water for free.

patcelaw: Today 5-12-15 another of my poem was read on the international prayer program. The really neat part is God gets the praise, because my name is never mentioned. Each time one of the poems is read I am humbled beyond measure.

patcelaw: yesterday one of the many poems I have written was shared on an international radio prayer program.

The pastor that does the program calls me the poet laureate for the program.
I am very humbled by this term.