Hell is breakin' loose next week.

Enjoy and say hi to everyone for me (just to confuse them a bit)

Have a great one, Sal! My mother hit the big 90 this year and of course she is a polka fan.

Cheers

-don

Enjoy your vacation. Especially make sure you make plenty of time for your parents....you won't have them for much longer you know.

Didn't you just take a week off a month or two ago? The life of Riley!

Have a great time, you and Terra.

Sweet!

I can't wait.

I took Monday through Sunday off next week. I busted my butt this week finishing up recording an eBook for a client so I could have free time! You know what's cool? My brother, locpic63 is coming home from Missouri and is staying at my house next week too. He'll be here Sunday night, about 10:30ish. I already told him I had plans with you too. He's cool with it.

Call me as soon as you can girl! I can't wait to go to the beach and spend the day with you and your family.

Oh, what on earth should I get your Dad for a birthday gift? lol!

Talk soon!

Terra

Hi Terra -

Please tell Locpic63 I said hi. He might remember me from his short stint @ PIPS

Sheesh, what were your parents thinking when they named your brother dat (just joking).

Have fun - tell Sal to leave some Asti for the other citizens @ 'all hell is breakin' loose'...

Have fun Sal and Terra!

We want to hear all about it when you get back.

Terra it up and paint it red.

Enjoy your break, Sal. You deserve it! Just bring a shovel and some rubber gloves when you return, to help bury the bodies.

I'm baaaaaaaaaack.

Was a great time. Forgot my phone book so Missed Terra. Called you at work, Terra, and they told me you were off for the week so had Thom post a message to ya. I couldn't get into this forum to save my life from there and my dad has a laptop that is anything but userfriendly - so I just hung it up for the week.

Dennis - I was only gone 5 days last time. Hardly a "vacation", although we did get some incredible rock. That was my website meetup - we did the ID/OR border area. The story and pics are in my blog on my main website (rockhoundstation1 - which is so familiarly known as RHS1 that I should buy the domain. Anyhow - we had a riot on that one, too.

I drove down to CA after work on Friday, stopped for a few zzzs for a few hours then got there on Saturday and hung out at the niece's. Then was on the plane at 5:30 Sunday morning in Sacramento with my sister for MI.

My dad had a party at the local golf club and I was one of the youngest there. LOL. One of the old timers with a bit of dementia fell in the bathroom and they couldn't get in the stall, no room at the bottom and she was blocking the door so I went over the doors and was the party hero for being able to swing over the door. Of course, I gave dad the credit that I can do that kind of thing at 60 (or almost). We danced and I was the one messing us up because of the adreline of having to go make a rescue a few minutes before. The next day we had another party with my dad's organ lessons group. That was like listening to a bunch of kids beginning to play but the people were fun and nice so it was all good after we had to listen to everyone play. yikes.

Had my step brother and his wife (from Germany) there so really had a good party time with them over the week. There's a very impressive botanical garden right down the road that we took a walk through. This is my dad's third wife. At the wedding I told her "he's buried 2 now, are you sure you want to do this", LMAO. Okay here's some fun............my dad's wife was my mom's best friend. I used to play with my step brother a lot when we were kids (don't make anything evil of that one, please, Claude). Her husband died the year after my mom and around 97 she came back after having moved away for a class reunion and my dad went to see her to make sure she was doing okay (this is several years after burying #2 - who was a catlady from hell). So - my dad is married to my mom's best friend now. She was nervous we kids would be upset but I think it's great to have that history at that age.

Anyway - went rockhunting for a couple of days with my niece on the return trip. We got hundreds of pounds of soapstone, which carvers use - and smoky quartz crystals and a few amethyst. Then I came home.

The end. Back to the damned grind now.

It's okay, Terra. When your employer told me you were gone I figured if you were in the area you'd get back to me, if not, then you probably had family to attend to. Sorry we didn't meet, but it wasn't a big deal. My time was pretty much planned for me there.

I sure hope your brother is okay.

Sal and Terra meeting up in the same place???
Oh man I've been gone way to long!

God, I know it's been a while since I've talked with you but I need a favor...lol

Hope you both have a great time and what ever you do don't let them know you may know Thom personally...

Have a Great Time!
Michael

Omigod Terra -

Now I am concerned about your brother for real - please be sure to let us know what is going on with him. I will pray for him. Poor baby.

Terra,

Sorry to hear about your brother. I had a similar
reaction to prescribed meds - not as extreme.
And just a one time event. I hope it's just something
along those lines.

Dan

Have a great vacation.

Terra - sounds like a mineral deficiency. Tell him to try eating a quarter cup of raw pumpkin seeds or nuts (can't eat em so can't remember off the top of my head which kind are best) every day and switch to sea salt...preferably Himalayan sea salt - it has the most trace minerals (around 80) that the worthless sodium chloride alone (regular table salt) has.

Mineral deficiencies do all sorts of crazy stuff like that to you.

I also agree that if he's on pharms, he needs to consider those real hard.

If he's already eating sea salt he's getting the trace minerals. Mg is a common deficiency though and he needs to make sure he's getting enough.

If these episodes accompany a fever they are called "rigor" and indicate bacterial infection. It didn't sound like he's getting a fever with these things though. Could be partial seizures, could be a lot of things. I'd try to balance out the minerals before doing anything else. This is the type of thing doctors have a real problem diagnosing - and they just turn to prescribing multiple meds because they don't know.

I still trying to figure out Himalayan sea salt. I wasn't aware there was even a sea in the Himalayas?

Isn't it being hyped by the world famous gambler The Bettin' Tibetan? I know he's from those parts.

I'm guessing you'll find the Himalayan sea salt right next to the dehydrated water...

I don't know why it's called that - probably from the Dead sea or something - but it has more minerals than any of the sea salts.

I kind of echo Patricia and Sal. I'd encourage him to go two tracks.
Rule out major med stuff as Patricia is suggesting AND get him with
a naturopathic doc.

Sal could be right on track on the mineral deficiencies.
I've heard that restless leg syndrome (which seems to
occur at night) is related to mineral deficiencies.
Magnesium (and there are three crucial types of magnesium),
potassium, and calcium seem to work together.

If there is a severe deficiency, I'd think he'd want to take
supplements to get back up to balance. Under the guidance of
a naturopath.

So many variables.

A friend of mine was diagnosed with lyme disease.
It may have been a decade after his likely tick exposure. It is very hard
and tricky to diagnose. His symptoms were not the same as your
brothers. He had severe cramping and pain and his hands would crimp
up like those with severe arthritis...I don't think he had any twitching or seizure
like episodes.

Anyway, I do hope it is something simple and he gets well soon and does not
get messed by MD's who blindly prescribe junk.

But, it does sound like time for the right professionals to be involved.
More and more MDs do seem to be open to "Complimentary and Alternative"
practitioners.

Dan

I agree that getting checked out isn't a bad idea - what many people with these types of condition are finding, though, is that testing turns up nothing and many doctors call the person delusional and give them anti-depressants which help..........nothing. If heat is helping, he might be feverish when he has these and that would more than likely mean an infection - that would be easy to diagnose at least.

Not saying he shouldn't try - just to be prepared for a lot of nothing.