lil_britches2003

My doctor started me on celexa. I took it before and was on a high dosage. I stopped taking it, not smart. So I decided I felt better while taking it and giving it another shot. I'm having problems sleeping. I contacted my doctor and he cut me back. Had started out at 40mg at bedtime, and he said take 20mg for a week, then increase 20mg each week until I'm back at 80mg a day. If I take it when I go to bed, I sleep for about 1 1/2-2 hours, then I wake up for a couple of hours. I toss and turn. If I take it when I get up, I still have problems sleeping, but I do sleep for about 4 hours before waking up. I still toss and turn a lot. Has anyone else had this side effect? If so, does it go away? How soon? I don't remember it doing this to me the last time I took it. Help, I want sleep!

This year is my first year at attempting strawberries. I wasn't sure how easy or hard it would be. Not knowing, I only planted three plants and I put them in a planter. In three short weeks, my plants have tripled in size and I've gotten strawberries. However, before they have a chance to completely ripen, the birds are eating them before I get to even sample them. How do I keep the birds away?

My tulips have lost their blooms. I know you are not suppose to cut the green leaves away, it has something to do with blooming the following season. But whoever planted these tulips, planted them in a very odd place. They did not look right. I want to redo the flower bed and I want to move them. Is it safe to do so now? Or do I wait until the green is dead? Also, there are daffodils everyplace! But they are in odd places as well. In middle of the yard here and there. Can you move daffodils? If so, how and when?

In November I moved. Now that spring is here, in Ohio, I'm ready to start doing landscaping and making the yard look nice. I have a lot to work with here. I have a rhododendron that is at least 10 foot tall. One side of it is green and it has buds galore! The other side of it howeveris very pitiful and looks very poor. It's half brown and very few buds. There are a lot of weeds and saplings throughout it. There are even vine like weeds covering the top of it. I'm afraid these vines are "choking" the rhododendron. One of my questions is, will it hurt the tree if I spray a weed killer underneath it to get rid of some of these weeds? My second question is, what do I need to do as far as pruning, fertilizing and caring for this tree that could be very beautiful had someone taken good care of it? Also, since my husband and I both love rhododendron's, him more so than me I think, how do I start a new rhododendron (clone) from what I already have? He bought a new one two weeks ago and planted it in a large pot. Is it ok to leave it in this pot or do I need to put it in the ground? The reason I wonder is, we are only renting this place and we hope to buy a place of our own within the next 1 1/2 - 2 years and we would like to be able to take it with us. If it's not possible, then are they easy to dig up and take with us? If not, that's fine. I don't mind if I have to leave it and start with a new one. Thanks in advance for all helpful info.

A year and a half ago my husband disappeared. Said he had to go out to the garage one night around 9 p.m. and he didn't come back for 2 months. I searched every place I could think of. Of course the wife is always the last to know everything. We had only been married a year and a half. To shorten this somewhat, my husband had a cocaine addiction that I wasn't aware of. I worried about him. Not knowing if he was dead or alive. I found out he was staying with another woman. One of his "connections". Life was hell for me. When I realized exactly how bad he was, I had many people telling me do this or that. Forget about him. Move on. Divorce him. I had been married before for 20 years. When I met my husband I truly felt I had found heaven. He was perfect. Or at least perfect for me! He was the kindest, most loving man I had ever met in my life. He was good to anyone and everyone. Always helping someone. Great with my two daughters. Each day and night I would search for him. I would get text messages from time to time saying things like, "Help me, I'm lost." Or "Thank you for being the person you are." I realized something. Addictions are an illness. For whatever reason people decide to turn to drugs, once they become addicted, they cannot help it. In my vows I said, "In sickness and in health". This was a sickness. I wouldn't have divorced him if he had cancer. So I couldn't give up. Finally I turned to his family, parents and brother. I told them what was going on. I begged them to help. I even told them that if he didn't want me, that was fine, but I didn't want to see him dead! I loved him and wanted him to get better. His family told me they wouldn't get involved. They never attempted to help in any way. Each day I would go to the bank to close our checking account because he was dipping into the overdraft and leaving me negative $300 every day. I couldn't close the account until it was positive. The stress was so much for me, I went on stress leave at work in order to not lose my job. My parents ended up giving me $2000 to get the account straight. I had no food, nothing. No way to buy food for my 15 year old daughter. My ex mother in law stepped in and sent more food than 5 families could have ate. My in laws didn't care because she wasn't their grandaughter. On a Sunday night my husband had used so much drugs that he started seizing. This "woman" and all the friends there, stuck him in a room and left him! He finally came out of it and woke up on Tuesday. On Tuesday night, he came home. He begged me for help. He said he realized then who truly loved him and that he wanted to live. It was a rough road. I sat with him, tied him to the bed, and didn't leave his side while he was going through detox. It wasn't long, weeks, he started getting back into it. This time it wasn't as bad. He would only stay gone for a day or so. Finally this past July, he begged me to put him in rehab. He has now been clean for 7 months and 9 days. I still love my husband with all of my heart. But there are so many problems and I'm not sure we will ever get through them. I feel that my insecurities and my constant worrying is going to push him away or back to the life he was living. I forgave him. I realized it wasn't his fault. Yes, he did chose to use the drugs, however, this was the life his parents had lived. I wasn't aware of that. He ended up telling me things that still makes me cry when I think about them. How his only memories as a child was his parents always strung out. People at there house laying around on the floors doing coke and having sex. And he remembers being taken away from his parents. Now, here is a major problem. His parents told him so many lies. Told him I was calling them with all kinds of lies. I only told them the truth. They claim I never asked them for help. And that all I did was call to tell them how much trouble he was in with the FBI. He never got caught. I never told them such things. They were horrible to me. After he came back, I was so far in debt, I was evicted from my home. His parents didn't care. My parents took us in. They gave us a home. My mother and I had argued when he was gone and she told me she never wanted him around her again. I told her that I would respect that, however, he was my husband and I would not turn my back on him. I told her that I had never loved someone so much in my life and I would be there when he finally wanted help. She accepted that. He didn't talk to his family for a year. Now that he is talking to them again, and going to visit them, it's like nothing ever happened. His mother still makes the comments to him that she doesn't believe him when he tells her what he was doing. She says he is lying to cover my lies. They also expect me to call and apologize to them. I did nothing to them. I told him the only apology they would get from me is, "I'm sorry I loved your s

Can anyone tell me exactly how to use the tool to remove my ear staples?

I've been married for 2 years. I have 2 children of my own who are 16 and 21. He has 2 children ages 6 and 5. I feel like I've started over raising children. I love my step daughters. But the problem is, the 6 year old is such a baby! And he allows it. Everytime we have the girls, I absolutely hate meal time. All she will eat is junk or macaroni and cheese. She eats so much cheese, she has major problems with her bowels. I refuse to let her eat like that at my house. I cook good healthy meals and she screams for hours. He does try to help in the beginning of the meal, but eventually he gives in to her and lets her up from the dinner table without eating. If we have no cheese or junk, she will go the entire weekend without eating. I just realized this past month that when her mother picks her up, she has pizza in the car for her. She eats pizza every day at school for lunch. Meal time is far from enjoyable. Holidays with my family is so embarrassing because of these

My daughter keeps having recurring dreams of my death. The dreams she said are very real. She can even tell me what I was wearing in these dreams. She has had 3 in the past 2 weeks. Does anyone know what these dreams mean? Our relationship is good. The only thing bothersome to her lately is her relationship with her father and her father is remarrying soon. She does not like his fiance. And my daughter is 16 years old. Any suggestions?

My anniversary is next month. Last year on our anniversary, my husband danced and stripped for me to "Let's Get It On" by Marvin Gaye. I loved it! This year, I thought I would return this gesture. I will admit, I have absolutely no rhythm at all and I am going to be very uncomfortable doing this. I will be more comfortable holding something, like a scarf or something I can perhaps blindfold him with late. Any suggestions on a song that would be very easy for me to work with?