I HATE THE EASTER BUNNY!!

For many years, as far back as I can remember people took their small children to see the Easter Bunny. What a horrible thing to do to your children! I have NEVER taken my children to see him! I AM AFRAID OF THE BUNNY MAN!!! Just look above, does this not creep you out? Just the fact that some fool (whoever it is) would dress in all that white fur is beyond me! He looks like he could be a serial killer. In fact, there was one in the 70's where I lived. When I was a teenager there was a man dressed in a bunny suit killing young girls by cutting their heads off with an axe! He only killed girls with names like Denise, Diane, Debbie. They all had to start with the letter 'D'. I thank my parents so much for naming me Carol, but I just slipped under the door with my escape from certain doom at the hands of THE BUNNY MAN KILLER! I get chills to this day thinking about it. It is a real fear for me. Just look at those eyes, they are huge and scary!

About 10 years ago a neighbor must have dressed up like a Bunny Man for an Easter Egg Hunt and he came skipping down my street. I freaked! I was sure he finally found me! I won't even go to an egg hunt for fear I will run into one. Besides, when did Bunnies start laying frigging eggs anyway? Whoever thought of this connection was a sick puppy I'm sure of!

Bunny Hater

Good Friday

Good Friday is a somber, thoughtful day for me. I think often during this day what Jesus endured. It makes my heart ache for him. I live in constant pain, but the pain he must have felt carrying the cross on his back, on stone and gravel. up mountainsides on bleeding feet and his back bled from constant lashings. Begging for just water and receiving very little from women who were beaten for giving him anything. Begging for his Holy Father to save him. The tears and blood he shed that day. The awful pain he must have felt when his body was affixed to the cross and then raised up for him to suffer until he died His final breath had to have been a gift for once he drew it and exhaled, the pain was over. All of what he endured is something I will never compare my daily aches and pain to. I feel we are so very blessed.

Thank you Jesus, my Lord and Savior.

Luke 23:46: "Jesus called out with a loud voice, 'Father into Your hands I commit My spirit,' Having said this, He breathed His last."

7 Boring Things About Me.

1. I'm a complete creature of habit.
2. My husband is my love of my life and I couldn't have picked a better man!
3. My youngest makes everyday fun no matter how bad I feel.
4. My friendships are important to me and I will go great lengths to let them know it.
5. I never and refuse to 'look sick' when I see my Dr.
6. I hate it when a person just 'drops by' and doesn't call first.
7. I believe God will take care of me no matter what the situation.

What are 7 things about you?

Feel free to email your answers to me or leave them in your comment.

Social Security Entitlement, Am I?????

Somebody wrote into my Diabetic group on Yahoo about people getting Social Security when they really are not entitled to it, this just frustrates me to no end! I know of many such cases. Someone else was saying Diabetes is not a disability, but it is on the S.S. list due to the complications that arise and rob you of you!
Personally, I am angered by this as well as very frustrated. NOT EVERY DIABETIC IS THE SAME! I am mulling over in my mind how to respond to this. Here is one answer I have written but not posted to the group yet. If you should happen to read this, please feel free to comment good or bad, I can take it. I trust and appreciate any and all feedback from Cafemom members. Here it is:

I have over the years ran into a lot of people doing this and it makes me crazy. I've tried getting Social Security because I am disabled due to Cervical Spondylosis, Diabetes, Tethered Spinal Cord Syndrome, Third Stage Kidney disease and all the other issues I have medically. They refuse me because I haven't worked for over 10 years at any job for any great length of time. I am unable to work due to the neuropathy that I am inflicted with from Cervical Spondylosis & Diabetes combined. My Central Nervous System is robbing me more and more everyday of doing simple things. It has become a struggle to open a bottle of water, get the cap open on dish liquid and peel back tops off sugar free pudding.
I've tried many jobs over the last 10 years (all in the medical field) and they are too taxing on me. I couldn't even get hired here last year for a receptionist position in a nursing home part-time due to my nerve damaged bladder and that I self-cath and you can't be in the bathroom too long anywhere you work when you have to answer phones. The woman told me that was why I wasn't hired when I inquired about the position after being interviewed. I guess being honest doesn't pay off. I know that's job discrimination, but the nursing home is the worst one down here. Anyway, she did me a favor
I am now losing feeling in my fingers and arms. I live in constant pain. I can't walk for longer than 5 minutes outside of my house. Inside I can walk around at best 10 - 15 mins., but then have to sit down. I cannot do housework, cook, do laundry other than fold clothes sitting down. Also, can't run, ride a bike, or even swim. I am in the house 24/7 unless I have to go to see one of my Dr.'s. or get a haircut both of which my husband has to take off work in order for me to go. I can't even drive the distance if something happens to my 12 y/o at school, hubby has to go get him. I don't shop unless it's online and I go out socially once or twice a year for a special dinner or maybe a Christmas party.
I do not travel, can't sit in a car for longer than two hours due to an unhealed broken tail bone that has been broken 4-5 times since last year from falling. I spend every day alone for 6-8 hours and I try doing what I can to help out if I am able to. My middle son will sometimes come over and help me if I find I need him for something. I am now reduced to taking a shower using a shower chair, my back can't take the length of time it takes to wash properly and the pain is so excruciating, I nearly fall or pass out!
For the last 6 weeks I have nearly LIVED in my recliner thanks to a foot ulcer from nicking a callous on the bottom of my foot using a Pedegg very lightly on the side of my foot I couldn't see. It became very infected, very fast. I should not have been using it, but you can if you are very careful, so I feel this episode in Carol's life is my own fault. In defense though, very dry or cracked feet in a Diabetic can split and ulcerate on their own if you do not take care of them nightly. I have to sit here anyway to keep fluid from building in my legs and feet due to third stage kidney disease. They have to be elevated all the time if I am sitting down.
But...according to our government, I am not entitled because I haven't earned enough credits in the last ten years. I haven't been well enough to work steady for the last ten years! I lost the ability to run in "1991"! I am still appealing their denial of benefits that I worked 25 years paying into. This issue really kicks me to my core. Especially when I know people who claim to be depressed and get it right off on the first try! I have applied twice and turned down both times. It's not even a large monthly amount! I have been told by friends that I should use Depression too as a reason. Maybe I should add Depression to my list of ailments. Please know that I am very aware of how bad Depression is and can be. I have had periodic episodes myself and medically treated for it but it is manageable in most cases. And... I do know some can be very severe and require way more than a pill and a counselor.
Just so you know, this is written out of anger not self-pity. I accept what God has given me to endure and handle it the best way I can. I guess I can thank God for giving Mankind the brains to invent the Internet, music, writers that write books, TV, and most of all the the telephone! LOL! I just have to wonder where the brains are in the Social Security Administration!