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fatalbeauty, you got it. That is the trick, stay positive. I think they way you heal depends on how your outlook is. I am wishing/praying for a speedy recovery for us both. So to us, may the healing gods look kindly upon us along with our determination to heal quickly. An do be careful with your balance. Get up but do it with caution. Heck use those crutches. Soon you will be whizzing around the house like a pro. Good luck to you.
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Awe thanks Natasha, its been over 5 years for that ankle now and like 10 for the foot. Hum the back been 25 years since I blew out the number 5 disk at work and they never found that out for 18 years. I was in terrible pain off an on. It got so bad my leg would just stop working out of the blue while I was pulling a heavy load out to the floor to stock. I would just be on the floor out of no where. Land on my right hip because that was the leg that stopped working. It was the nerve pressing down from the weight I was pulling. All the tests I had over the years never –no one ever bothered counting the disks. Because I found a great doctor who knew how to count. All could say was unbelievable–how they missed it every time. I was walking with a cane at the time. One doctor said herniated disk one said ruptured disk. Hum wanted to operate on me 2 times but could not promise I would ever walk again. I turned him down 2 times. I walked in there yes with a cane but I walked. Each time I fought to get better and did. I went back to work stocking. I wasn’t making it when I saw this last doctor because I was fighting a illness that took me down to 90 pounds(micro colitis) Still determined to get better. I looked at this doctors and he had me do a few simple things that yes I could do still. Touch my toes, stand on 1 leg then the other, my reflexes were all there. He said you can do everything you should not be able to do and I cannot figure out why. Can I look at your back? Sure your the doctor. He said oh my what do you do for a living? Grocery stock-er I said. He said and that is the very reason you can still walk without that disk its floating around in your body somewhere you know. If you did not have all those muscles in your back your spine would have slid from the left to the right or the right to the left but because you built up so much muscle your muscles kept your spine in place. I was not a candidate for surgery because I adapted to the missing disk but my nerves on the right side of my spine knew the disk was missing. So he said we are going to fool them into thinking they are wrong. It was so simple he went in with a probe and did something to that nerve to stop all the pain and make the leg work without me falling down again. I think that if I had ever known the disk was gone and there was no hope I would be in a wheel chair maybe possibly. But I am a very stubborn lady. I never believed the first doctor or the second one. Good thing to because there were both wrong. So when I fell again I most likely damaged my back again. The pain goes from side to side and leg to leg. Its the nerve again and at 67 almost 68 (1/13/51 I just got to hope this old gal has another stubborn streak left in her. Well see. I am trying to find the doctor that did the last nerve block on my back with the probe. I see my regular doctor tomorrow. Wish me luck you all. An no windstones were damaged in my fall. Its sometimes awful the way I hate dust! But my beloved Windstones stay pretty. HA.
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Okay everyone I went in and tried –actually ordered this at Amazon but not paid for it. This is coming directly out of China.I saw this because of the delivery dates. It is not coming out of Amazon’s warehouse. China as most know steals all the artists work from everywhere in the world. I highly doubt that anything can be done about it because its China where anything goes so it would seem. They steal Nene Thomas,Josephine Wall and a few other Artist prints all the time–check ebay prints they are right there for anyone to buy. It is up to us to decide as collectors not to buy them because they are cheap knock-offs. But still some will buy them. I will not just for the fact that to me its like buying goods after someone stole them from someones home. To me its a artist personal creation and theirs and theirs alone to sell. Please I really hope no none calls the grammar police on me. I suck at explaining things. I own that. HA.
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fatalbeauty I real do wish you a speedy recovery maybe one like I used to have. I call it mental healing because I think positive. Never say to me you are not going to heal without a operation. That is what the specialist I saw said to me when I splintered that bone in my foot. I started to cry really I did. I actually had the gall to tell him not to tell me that– because your telling me to give up and I never give up. He said sorry but only 1 in a million people heal from a split on the bone like you have. I said they are not me. I am different I don’t know why but I am a fast healer. He gave me 2 weeks to heal –said I already had 2 weeks. So with my half cast –off I went. 2 weeks later he ex-rayed my foot again. He came in and looked at me he said –I was wrong I am not wrong very often but you showed me something today. I don’t know how you did it but you healed good enough to get that cast off. How do you think you did it? Determination I said, never say never it makes people give up. An he said he was going to take more of a lets see what happens approach. So to you sweetie I say never say never sped that recovery up! Amen. Best wishes in the New Year for us both. We are off to a heck of a start. I look at it like this instead of ending a year bad we got the bad out of the way first and now we came only get better! Yes.
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I broke my ankle a couple of years ago. They looked at me limping on it and not seeming like I was in allot of pain coming into the ER the nurse was grinning at me like I was a silly ole idiot and told me since I was limping that it probably just sprained. Okay I said, but since you don’t really know me you are going to do the ex-rays anyway right? I mean its a Sunday and I did not come in here frivolously just to get your attention. Else I would be at my doctors office who knows me very well. Ex rays done as she had to walk over and tell me that my ankle was indeed broken. Hum, you don’t say I said funny how that is huh. Well sorry she said its you just well I mean you were walking limping on it and did not seem to be in allot of pain. I looked at her and said I worked on a broken foot for 2 weeks because my boss told me it wasn’t broke because I could walk on it. After it wasn’t getting better I had a ex ray, the bone was splintered like a chicken bone. This stuff does happen and its seems to happen easier as you age and loose your bone density. I was to see a specialist because of the way the tendons ripped away from the bone with that ankle. 3 weeks later I canceled the appointment. It healed itself while I waited that 3 weeks it took to get into his office. I am a fast healer and kept it wrapped with ace bandages. That was the third time I’d broke a bone. Now I fell 3 days before Christmas. I took a header off the arm of the couch while dusting the top of a cabinet with my beloved Windstones in it. I have been fighting the pain in my hip and back for 2 weeks now. Time for those ex-rays at the doctors on Saturday. Wish me luck. This old bird never gives up. You will get better soon I hope– fatalbeauty. Wishing you a very speedy recovery.
windstonefan
Well I think if Pay Pal gets onto them they have no choice. I actually think that once you use the money on a gift card it can’t be refunded back to the card but only to the cardholder in cash or trade. Since they did not honor the item you bought already I suspect Pay Pal will simply grab the money from there account or bank unless they close it. In any case I hope for your sake that is what happens. I hate to see anyone get their hard earn money taken from them. Good luck.
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Wow that is just awful. I can’t believe ebay only backs up to 30 days now. It used to be 6 months. I know because I had a buyer to waited 6 months to make a claim of non receipt. Really who waits that long? She made up all kinds of excuses saying someone else must have signed for it. But that she never got it. I called ebay and they said she was 2 days late on making a claim. Else who knows what would have happened. Wow just wow. But I see what another member said and Pay Pal is the way to go. I just got refunded there for 2 months of charges to a company that was supposed to install drivers on my computer but never actually did a thing just claimed they did. I know because I had Norton go in and fix everything that also included those missing drivers the other company was supposed to have put back in. A total scam. They just look like they are running something but do nothing at all except take your money. They refunded in just a day when told they were going to go up against Norton.
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Hi pipsxich, I know that any time you ship a box over 12″ the price almost doubles up at USPS. Unless it is one of their own boxes. I try and ship the larger boxes Fed Ex or UPS their rates are cheaper for the large boxes like that. When ever I sell on ebay most buyers assume that the rates for USPS are cheaper if when you purchase 4 things they are ship together but that is untrue. If you are going over that size 12″ its a no. I will use 2 different boxes and come out paying just about half the amount I would have paid to ship all in a huge box. Same as sellers that ship parcel post are they saving a dollar shipping that way? No after they pay for tracking and insurance on a 50.00 item they just went over what the priority would have cost them. Such silly-ness. Priority insures free up to 50.00 and tracking is free to. Aw the strange ways of USPS. There little quirks do add up and cost us dollars.
windstonefan
So sorry pipsxlch loosing a favorite fur baby never truly leaves us. I look down to the ground where my Timmi Jr. who died at just 6 years old is buried and think how he got robbed of the life he deserved when someone poisoned him. Just a 3 lbs of a white ball of fur and ask why? He was a teacup Poodle 3rd of his line. Karma will take care of it all. In the meantime I wait to see him dance for me again one day. I miss you so Timmi boy. Wipe away the tears that come. I totally get it.
windstonefan
Not again. This times its a large Wizard the bottom says made in Taiwan. What the? Here check it out ebay again 264007783267.
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This is may be better to leave it for now just in case they need to trace the destination. They can go in a use mine.
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