Part of the reason we carry is it's our constitutional right. The more people who exercise the right to own and carry guns, the harder lawmakers will think about taking those rights away. I live in the country in Oklahoma which is just a stones throw from Texas. It'd be a rare person here who didn't own at least one gun. :D

A good read.

Thanks for the link!

Where do you carry and what kind of holster do you have? I'm a smallish woman and am trying to figure out where the best place to carry would be besides my purse.

I didn't have horrible pain, but just an ache under my right shoulder blade. I couldn't keep hardly anything down. Eating would make me vomit and have loose stools (at the same time :glare:) I was 12 wks pg when it was diagnosed so nobody believed me that something was wrong. They thought it was morning sickness. The worst symptom for me was continuous kinda painful burping. I finally had it out at 19wks pg. I'd lost so much weight that I didn't really have to lose, that we thought it would be better to have it out than wait til the pg was over.

This was the way parvo started with our puppies. A few days of just not feeling well. Is he vomiting? How are his stools?

We've babysat on and off for my brother's kids. They usually come to our house and if it's going to be a late night, they just stay overnight. I'm always happy to babysit them anytime it fits in. Since we've got older and younger kids, they love coming over here! Now that I've got a teen dd, she will go watch them at their house if it's an afternoon thing. I've never considered it a burden and am glad to help them out financially when they can't afford to pay a sitter. They rarely watch ours because of our teens now, but they did periodically when our dc were smaller.

I. do. not. know. There's never been any trust issues in the past. There's never been any unfaithfulness on either of our parts. He's had several friends and acquaintances that have gotten divorced lately due to finding old flames on facebook, etc. I think that's just fueled his worry. We went to a party tonight and he was fairly UNgrumpy. I could tell he was making an effort.

He probably would be happy to stay home and keep the little people, but then he'd sit here feeling sorry for himself.

Part of the difficulty of it is he is so hard on himself. He gets in this pity party and then starts apologizing for being such a jerk, why did I marry such a loser, etc. That just makes me more upset because he's just plain too hard on himself. I wouldn't have married him if he were a loser obviously! I just hate it when he starts beating himself up. I told him last night, that while it hurts that he would worry about this kind of thing, in the end he's hurting himself more.

Your guess is as good as mine. The way it started is he was gone on a business trip. I've been taking hormone supplements and they really started kicking in the week he was gone. He came home to a completely different wife than the one he left, IYKWIM. He googled something to the effect of what could cause the changes in personality like that. One of the answers was a cheating spouse. Thanks Dr. Google. :glare:

Thank you for the laugh!! I'll let you know how that works out. lol!!

lol!! I make sure he's not thirsty before we go anywhere. ;)

I don't *think* so. This change really all came about from his googling stupid stuff, giving him something to worry about that he didn't need to worry about. Now he can't seem to get it out of his head. We see the same thyroid dr regularly and I have an appt soon. Maybe I'll mention it to her and see what she thinks.

We've kind of started a new hobby together - shooting (we're working on our concealed carry permit) but there's a lot of men at the range. lol! Now he's not even wanting to go there. sigh...... We did some marriage counseling early this year but the counselor wasn't a good fit for us. (He was telling us we needed to move from our new home in the country.) I don't know if he'd want to see anyone else or not. That experience put a bad taste in his mouth. It is very exasperating. Just when I'm thinking life is fun again, he's become a party pooper. lol!!

He's definitely more of a loaner, but he's always happily gone to the few outings we go to. The older he gets, he just wants to stay home more. I guess I've always been ok with that, not feeling well myself. But now I'm looking forward to these outings and he's just complaining about them more.

That's pretty much what I've told him - he should look at it as he's the one that takes me home. :D He waffles with thinking that and then wondering why I ever married him. He's also had a bit of a complex growing up. He was the red headed freckled kid that got picked on. We've had lots of talks about our insecurities stemming from childhood. I've shared my insecurities, which he thinks are ridiculous, but that's what they are!

That could be part of it, feeling more confident. But I'm not asking him to change, just be what he's always been but he's withdrawing more. He's become sullen and grumpy.

How do you deal with this? Some of you may remember this post. I really thought things were going well with dh and he was doing great. Now all of a sudden he seems to be having a lot of insecurity. I just don't know what to do about this. I don't want to change things on my end. I'm feeling really good and friends have all commented on how I look like I'm feeling so much better. It's SO. NICE. to be feeling good after so long!! Dh has become somewhat withdrawn. He never was much of a joiner but now he's not wanting to do the few things we actually go to. What do I do??

That's the way mine is too. My regular dr would freak if he knew what my TSH levels are while supplementing. Luckily I found another who would work with me. To the OP, your T3 levels are definitely low. Since you're pg, it would probably be a good idea to supplement some. I've always had to increase my armour amt during pg.

I can't take it at night. I never know if it's going to make me groggy or wire me. It's just my luck that I take it for the sleep effect and get wired instead.

Have you tried digestive enzymes? I've taken them since I had my gallbladder out. As long as I take them faithfully, I don't have any problems. If I slack off, I start having issues.

Have you had your blood sugar checked? A friend of mine knew something was wrong because she was losing so much weight and that wasn't common for her family. She ended up having Type 1 diabetes.

If your nursling is over 2, I'd try the melatonin. The benadryl can dry everything up so badly!