Earlier this summer I posted a question (and received) some great advice regarding Parkinson's. My mother-in-law was just diagnosed with it, a few days before she left for 3 months overseas. She returns in a couple of weeks and will have an appt. with her neurologist. Her tremors have become more noticeable in the 3 months she has been gone, according to my brother-in-law. She no longer wants to "eat out" in public due to the shaking, difficulty cutting food, holding a coffee cup, etc. While we don't yet know what kind of medicine she will be placed on to help control tremors, I was wondering -- how long will it take after she starts medication, before her tremors improve? A week? A month? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you,

The women at our church mainly wear skirts. I usually do, UNLESS I'm working in the baby nursery once a month. Then I wear nice dress pants. It's hard to crawl around on the floor and do steep bending and lifting in a skirt! I think it's more modest to be wearing pants in situations like that. Noone bats an eye.

Yep. Glue dots. They come in various sizes. Hobby Lobby, AC Moore, Michael's, etc. sell them.

My laundry area is in a closed in closet in the kitchen. I love it!

When my husband had unexpected heart surgery in March (without health insurance coverage), I re-applied to the SNAP office for help with our family. We are both self-employed, with lots of business deductions every month. Thankfully, we qualified. That extra $275 a month for a family of 4 freed up $275 that I could put toward medical bills. It was humbling for me to recognize we needed help financially, but grateful it is there. Our current financial situation is a temporary situation, not a choice. On the flip side, my mother-in-law, recently diagnosed with Parkinson's, who is also legally blind in one eye, refuses SNAP benefits, even though she would easily qualify for it the rest of her life.

My avatar is safe -- I personally took the picture of Irish Cream cupcakes from my fledgling cupcake business. It better be the only one out there! LOL :lol:

I had a complete hysterectomy at age 38, when my kids were 4 and 6, due to severe endometriosis. Best surgery I ever had. While we would have loved to have more children, the endometriosis was so bad that my GYN said I had less than 10% chance of having another child. I felt so.much.better after the surgery.

The office of disability services gave the names and numbers of two local audiologists to test her for hearing loss as well as auditory processing disorders.

My college age dd takes short-acting Ritalin once or twice a day. It has vastly improved her focus. She is a more careful driver, a better student, and not as "scatterbrained" when it comes to remembering things she's supposed to be doing. It's not a perfect situation, but she is a better person for using this medication. When she is not working or studying, she doesn't use the medication. i.e. when she's home for vacation and just "chilling" at the house or with friends.

My dd is in her second year of college. She has the diagnosis of ADHD and depression, and is treating with Ritalin and Prozac. During her first semester of Spanish in the spring, she started having trouble with the "hearing" portions of class. She is having the same trouble with her second semester of Spanish. Her teacher offered to read to my dd the hearing portions of the tests, but for regular homework purposes, my dd doesn't know what to do. The office of disability services for the school didn't have anything they could offer her without a diagnosis of auditory processing trouble. My dd sits in the front row of the class to block out distractions and pay better attention to the teacher. I don't think she is having trouble with "sounds" I think she is having trouble processing what she hears. Since she was little she often did "xyz" when we instructed her to do "abc." She loves keeping lists, because it reminds her what she needs to do next. I emailed the school and asked if there was a local office my daughter could have testing done. Is there anything else I can do to help her "hear" /understand better?

May I ask, what is the actual cost of having a child in K12? In South Carolina it's advertised on TV as being "tuition-free" with a 94% parent satisfaction rate. I've been curious as to what the true costs are.

It's very sad. I had just seen a snippet of her the night before on E! News. I'm guessing she was unable to be weaned off the ventilator. She was the most "full of life" 81 year old I've ever seen. :crying:

I'm voting for the "unfriending" category. As a previous poster wrote.... "You can't fix crazy." :huh: Don't add unnecessary, unwelcome, unneeded drama to your already full plate of life.

My dd has expressed an interest for over a year in getting a tattoo. The hubster and I had several LONG talks with her about the pros and cons, other people's perceptions of tattoos, etc. She is now 18 1/2. We recently allowed her to get a small one on her wrist that says "you are more". It's from the song by Tenth Avenue North, "You Are More". She used to cut herself, and having a tattoo on her wrist that reminds her that she is worthy and loved, makes her smile now. :laugh: I went with her, took pictures, and was happy she asked me to go along. Not exactly the normal mother-daughter date, but it was awesome that she asked!! I recently mentioned this on another tattoo thread, and received quite a few "likes." The author of that article is just crazy. :huh:

Half of what I buy on Etsy is custom ordering..that's why it's so much fun to shop there! I've ordered a custom food-safe acrylic stamp for cupcakes, a piece of jewelry for my dd with "I love you to the moon and back" with her name on it, pillow covers for my daughter-in-love's bridal shower, etc.