Lemmon, South Dakota (oil, farm, electric)

[I Remember]

vkhmini, I feel your campassion from your well written and expressful post.

[vkhmini]

I Remember, thank you for your kind comments. I have loved reading your posts as well. You are a bit younger than my mother would be (she passed on nearly 22 years ago) and I can almost hear her voice when I read your posts. She was born in Flandreau and would be expressing similar thoughts if she were posting here. Although she loved living in Seattle, and then the last two years of her life in a tiny resort town on the Washington Coast, she still had the prairie in her blood and enjoyed reminding us of how beautiful it was to stop way out on the country roads and listen to the wind, and not see another soul for miles and miles. It truly is God's Country!

Jammie, this is a bit off topic, but we have been discussing it here. I should probably post this in the health forum too. I'm trying to get into clinical trials for a brand new treatment for both depression and fibromyalgia, at the University of Washington. It's called magnet therapy, and they use a big magnet probably similar to the magnets used in MRI's. They use the magnet to stimulate the prefrontal cortex of the brain. I've read a little about it, mostly news released from the local network affiliates, and it sounds really positive from both perspectives, of the health care community and of the patients who have been treated so far. Wish me luck for getting into the trials!

[Jammie]

I do wish you luck. Please let me know how it turns out.

The old prefrontal cortex must be an interesting part of the brain. It's also the part that's associated with ASPD~Anti-social personality disorders.

[MJ1986]

I wish you luck too! I've familiar with the depression disorders... It runs in my family. I also have a brother who has autism.

I really hope you get into the trials... Let us know what happens.

[vkhmini]

Thanks!

[I Remember]

God must love all of you very much for your suffering. His love is what has pulled me through.
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[I Remember]

The icy cold weather has hit Lemmon again. I still think of how good it felt to get inside where it was warm after nearly freezing to death. One time, our car's radiator froze up so my Dad just left it in the garage until spring came by to thaw it out. Apparently, he forgot to put Freezone in it.

[sd2ca]

Anyone remember holding their pillow close to the old pot belly to warm it up before jumping in bed?

[Jammie]

Originally Posted by sd2ca

Anyone remember holding their pillow close to the old pot belly to warm it up before jumping in bed?

Not the pot-bellied stove, but the cookstove. I struggled when I was young cause I'm sort of allergic to feather pillows and that's all we had then. Now they'd cost a fortune.

Remember the old feather beds? EWWWW, they made me itch, but they were sure nice and warm.

[I Remember]

Originally Posted by Jammie

Not the pot-bellied stove, but the cookstove. I struggled when I was young cause I'm sort of allergic to feather pillows and that's all we had then. Now they'd cost a fortune.

Remember the old feather beds? EWWWW, they made me itch, but they were sure nice and warm.

We would have so many blankets on the bed it looked like a storage area. We would stoke the furnace but upstairs, there was no heat. The first thing in the morning, my job was to shovel coal in the furnace and open the ventilators to warm things up for the rest of the family.
Then out the door to the barn to get the chores done in time so I could catch the bus, a pickup truck with a camper and seats operated by the neighbors, to school.