Miracle in Joplin, Mo

Ashley Stephens hold a ferret she rescued from the home of a missing woman in Joplin, MO.

10 Things to Say and 10 Not to Say to Someone With Depression - depression - Health.com

10 Things to Say and 10 Not to Say to Someone With Depression - depression - Health.com

We just COULDN'T HELP OURSELVES! You have GOT to read the things NOT TO SAY

to people with depression because:

1. We have heard them all!

2. Chances are, you have, too!

3. They are tragically hilarious!

4. Goes to prove some our closest

friends really DON'T HAVE A CLUE!

5. It's just too STUPIS not to share because

we have so many loved ones suffering with

depression who continue to be shocked upon

hearing their OWN DOCTORS 

actually saying these things the most!

6. You are not alone....(see #7)

7. Unless: those people saying this are your family,

friends, doctors, health care professionals,

or companion animals. If so, you are alone.

8. So get a guinea pig, all they say is: WHEEK!

SO YOU'RE DEPRESSED? THEY THROW

US IN FRYING PANS IN THE ANDES AND

EAT US FOR DINNER, TRY BEING A CAVY!

9. Guinea pigs are very understanding.

GAG.

10. GAG.

MOM ACTUALLY WON THIS! SHE WAS AWESOME!

YouTube - The North Face Endurance Challenge - Bellingham, WA

not really. but those muddy, muddy woods is where we lived for ten
years before moving into town and MollyWood! We remember
everybody asking mom after a mountain bike-ride through there
why she got mud splattered all over her back and she'd go: "Huh?
Can't see my back. Really?" then she'd go to town covered in mud.
Mud she could not see. Everyone else could. That's the beauty of
Bellingham: mud, sea, snow: if it's "on you" you is a LOCAL!

YouTube - Bellingham Snowstorm

YouTube - Bellingham Snowstorm

O.K. NOT THAT BAD IN MAY,

but the music from one of our favorite

artists in the whole world, George Winston,

so we including it in our Homage to Home...in May.

Mt. Baker, our resident Volcano just 55 miles East o'here
does hold the record for "Most Snowfall in the World."
That true. Don't seem like they gonna be plowing THAT
road to "Artist Point" anytime soon this year, either.

We loves it here. We just don't always remember WHY!

YouTube - Bellingham By The Bay

YouTube - Bellingham By The Bay

THIS NICE as long as you can watch it imagining

that the sun...WHAT SUN?!

AIN'T NO SUN!

BUT THE REST IS PRETTY. AND TRUE.

('CEPT FOR THE SUN PART? WHAT HE

TALKING ABOUT?)

DON'T THINK HE LIVE HERE NO MORE,

HE JUST PUT THE SUN IN CUZ HE

SOMEWHERE FAR, FAR AWAY...

YouTube - Bellingham State of Mind

YouTube - Bellingham State of Mind

We know you've seen it. We just don't care

Cuz we is needin' this to remind us why we

live where the sun don't shine! LOL!

We live on Railroad Street and ran into

Ryan Stiles (of Drew Carey Show fame)

at the Post Office and even HE WAS

BUMMED OUT that it is STILL WINTER!

why?

why?

summer, why have you abandoned us?

Who cares? This reminds us why we love it here!

Yeah, yeah, YE-AH!

Calvin LURVES COFFEE! But he don't Need None, not REALLY!

THANK YOU, LASHES!
Betta not be decaf, tho!
hee-hee, it's not! WHEEEEEEEEK-A-SQUEEE!

Who is Rescuing Whom?

 The Rescued appears to have become the Rescuer.

SICK DAY, NOT SO BAD AFTER ALL...

The Comfort of Coconut

Nothing feels better than a Coconut right in the palm...of your open hand, waiting for her tentative footsteps; then to feel the lovely weight of her gingerly settling in a sunbeam, warming herself like a ripe Heart.

Why I Can't Type or Blog or Email and It Doesn't Go Away #1

Amazon.com: Migraine Auras: When the Visual World Fails (9781556436192): Richard Grossinger: Books

Dear Friends and Loved Ones Near and Dear to Us,

You are all so wonderful, kind, and concerned about the effect chronic daily migraines

have on our life here. They are debilitating, pure and simple.

But, we have never been able to answer the perennial question:

"WHY DON'T THEY GO AWAY? ISN'T THERE ANYTHING ELSE THAT CAN BE DONE?'

As astonishing as it may seem, so far, the answer remains: We really don't know. We have not

found a way yet. And, combined with two severe concussions and traumatic brain injury, it has apparently

become too complex for any neurologists we have consulted to answer, either.

We know you love us and we struggle with frustration and grief as we slowly slip out of  Cyberspace

because the cost we pay in pain for using the computer grows costlier over time. We don't know why.
The moving UMakeMeScream, blinking things, inability to co-ordinate finger movements with keyboard, screen, and a brain orbiting Jupiter, oblivious to the necessity for it to return Home so we can function...?

We do not know. We have not given up & nevah will! Black Sheeps ain't quitters, we tell ya!
We still research the subject and avoid known triggers as much as possible (sometimes it is not possible)
take our medication as prescribed once the aura warns us or - if it doesn't, we head straight into the dark, quiet VOID BENEATH ICE PACKS with earplugs when suddenly Blindsided with SHOCK AND AWE: the treatment is somewhat more difficult at times and they are unpredictable.

Today's posts are a meager, pathetic attempt to share with you our increasingly frequent, longer

absences...these headaches & accompanying array of other Disney Rides through the Little Shop of
Horrors are not occasional: They are chronic, nearly daily.

We are not disappearing but we are less frequent and more unpredictable. This does NOT mean we
don't want to hear from you or receive photographs for the MOD Blog: we simply ask for your patience
and understanding because there will be times when we can respond enthusiastically and there will be times
we will be Horking and trying to figure out how to eat and hydrate ourselves, overcome by nausea, dizziness,
and vertigo. We DO SO MUCH want to continue receiving your emails, as long as you understand we cannot necessarily return them in a timely way...and it is not personal, it it CUZ WE BE HORKIN' AND
PULLING OUR HAIR OUT IN PAIN AND FRUSTRATION! (just that widdle thing, is all.)

We will Blog, email, and ScreamWithU as much as possible! Just "revamped."

Our goal is to continue short fly-by's on UScream, pop in sometime during Molly Movie Night, and do what we can, as much as we can, as often as we can. But we are sick. And outting ourselves even though you already know what we have been reluctant to accept: that this is interfering with our Fundamental MODhood!

HISS! STOMP! FLAP! HOP! WING-WHACK! HORK! STOMP-FLAP-HOP-HORK!

We dearly love, miss, and cherish each and every one of You: please know that we are more frustrated than you could possibly be, yet have no answers, for ourselves or for you. We just take life one day, one hour, one minute, one nano-second at a time...until it all dissolves into the only thing that really DOES matter: love.

Perhaps the books posted here (once we order and read them) will provide some clues we have missed.
Or at least validate the difference between chronic daily migraines, auras & visual disturbances, cognitive dysfunction, and other pleasantries which we occasionally mistake for...oh, we dunno, insanity?! (Which is
not to suggest they can't co-exist! LOL!)

Love you: we'll see you when we see you, we'll Blog when we can or simply MUST because we can't hold it in anymore, and we'll jump onto UMakeMeScream every chance we get to vex, annoy, tease, perplex, and confoozle you! Please don't let us stop hearing FROM you!

(((Horks & Hisses & GuineaPigKisses)))

DON'T GIVE UP ON US,
KEEP WRITING & SENDING YOUR PICS, WHETHER OR NOT WE CAN WRITE BACK, WE WILL FIND A WAY!

love,

Chana and Guinea Pig Team Six, MOD Division of the Black Sheep Nation

Why They Don't Go Away #2

Amazon.com: Migraine (9780375704062): Oliver Sacks: Books