Ldychef2k: Notes from a Wannabe - Ldychef2k fesses up.

[Ldychef2k]

Independent confirmation would be great but first off she lives in another town, and I don't know her doctor, and HIPPA regulations would stand in the way of getting any information.

I can't stand thinking that she could be lying about such a serious thing, but it is just like her to do exactly that when she doesn't get what she wants. I am just going to keep my suspicions to myself and pray she doesn't have cancer.

 

[TanksHill]

I think that would be best for now. It is an unfortunate situation. I totally understand your hesitations with your sisters history. I think you should pray for her. Not only for the chance of cancer but for help with her mental issues as well.

How is your Mom doing? I know when my mother is stuck in between two of my siblings it is very hard on her. She is usually torn between believing and defending. It's so stressful.

Hugs to you for being so strong. Feel free to unload on us anytime.

gina

 

[DrakeMaiden]

Understood about patient/doctor confidentiality, but I was wondering if her daughter might know which hospital she is going to or some sort of clue to help you figure out if it is real (like if it was serious, wouldn't she be going to a specialist?).

I think it is reasonable, given her history, to assume she is making this up, unless you hear details that seem very concrete and to the contrary. JMO and how I would personally deal with it.

 

[Wifezilla]

Even if she does have cancer, she is a jerk. Treat her accordingly.

 

[TTs Chicks]

I hope she truly does not have anything serious going on. I can relate to relatives with fake illnesses. I was never real close with mine - she is a step sister and was a teenager when I was born - She always seemed to come up with a new illness when someone else (usually Daddy) actually had something going on. She never got over Dad leaving her mother and thought (even though Mom and Dad had been married 36 years when Dad died) that she could get them back together. I just finally got fed up and I don't have anything to do with her.

I'm sorry you have to deal with this. Feel free to vent away.

edited because I had posted from my cell and wanted to add to it

 

[Ldychef2k]

Well, I think physical exercise trumps emotional drama any day of the week.

I have been trying to take out that ridicuous lemon tree on the side of my house since last year. As I have whined in the past, it was a frozen tree that I took out, it came back with multiple trunks which were about 3' high, and more than 30 branches coming out of those trunks, which were about six inches across. I am making progress, but I am sick of thinking about it, working on it, looking at it, and getting impaled on its spikes. I. WANT. IT. GONE.

Here's where it started. There were five bug infested dying and crappy boxwoods along that fence. Three were gone at this point, now they are all gone.

So much for using the image size reduction tools on PhotoBucket. Sorry!

And here it is today.

Yes, good progress for an old lady. But did I mention I WANT IT GONE. NOW.

You see, I have this little tiny agricultural trash can that holds just over a teacup's worth of branches. So, since November I have been cutting awful lemons and spike covered branches into 6 to 12 inch lengths and packing them into the can and it is picked up once a week. Seven months. Every. Single. Week. And I am just about half done. Yes, I have a nice lot of lemon wood for the fireplace and the cob oven, once I get it done this summer. each piece covered in spikes, some closing in on three inches in length.

ARGH !!! I need chocolate.

 

[Farmfresh]

I think you mentioned this before, but this was a tree that died back to the root stock and now has nasty lemons correct?

Just remember you CAN eat an elephant ... one bite at a time! We had a HUGE hackaberry tree (well over 50 feet tall) in our backyard removed. We burned that darned tree in our fireplace ... one branch at a time. It took three years but we finally got it all split and burnt up. Think of all of the heat we got in the process.

 

[Ldychef2k]

Yes, you have a good memory for insignificant information. I am really just about at the end of my rope with it.

We are only allowed to use our fireplaces if it is the only source of heat in the house. I would have to remote my heater. Ah, California.

I took a two hour nap. You would think my mood would be better. I really wanted to drive somewhere this weekend. Like a day trip to the beach...yeah, that's the ticket !

 

[Farmfresh]

Have you tried using those lemons for cleaning etc instead of eating?

Another idea is to advertise them on Freecycle or Craigslist. Who knows there may be someone out there who would cut it down and remove it for the wood? Weirder things have happened.

 

[Ldychef2k]

I have lived with that tree for 23 years, 15 of those years it has been in the state it is now, after the freeze. I have been advertising on craigs list and three local freecycles for someone to get free firewood since November. I have had four responses and once they saw the tree they said no thank you. The lemons are useless because there is no acid in them, and thus they cannot be eaten as lemons, made into anything resembling lemonade, nor can they clean. They don't even have a lemon smell. They turn orange in the winter, grow to the size of a cantaloupe, with a finger width gap between the flesh, which is hard and without juice, and the skin, which has thousands of bumps on each fruit, which collect dirt and mud and cannot be cleaned well enough to zest, even if there WERE any flavor! The branches of the trees grew over the house and the patio cover and were responsible for severe rot of both.

This tree is a "bad seed". It must die. It falls to me to wield the chainsaw.