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Those "Things" werent bought for her... Her next door neighbor shares
the ebay account with her, the lady doesnt have a computer... I KNOW what some people are going to say, why doesnt your mother sell the computer?? Because she needs it to run the business my father and her are in.. After 9/11 they were left with almost no money... they have almost no posessions.. They live in a log cabin they built themself... Anyone want to personally call me to question me on this?? You want to hear the desperation in my voice before you believe me??.. My moms auctions have been the ones where she has sold blocks and trying to sell her quilt.. CNYstitcher wrote in message ... I just checked as well, but I looked at all the feedback. This member bought more often than sold....my question is, if there are money troubles, why is this person BUYING things from ebay???? Larisa, more of a skeptic tha usual, I suppose Kathy in CA wrote: Just for the record there is NO quilt listed for sale with seller "Starranch1" 'cause I just looked it up. There is a seller named "Starranch1" but no quilt. -- Kathy in CA Quilting Stuff: http://photos.yahoo.com/bc/kathys1068 "Cheyne" wrote in message om... Please read this fully...... Thank you for your time! My name is Cheyne, the eldest daughter of my mom. Growing up my mom has always had problems with her weight but the past few years, things have gotten bad for her. After having an emergency hysterectomy and nearly dying from blood loss, she came home determined to make herself better. Doctors have told her that the reason she has problems with her thyroids, very high blood pressure and the slowing in her pace come from the fact that she is overweight. She has seriously high blood pressure that is difficult to control, even with medications and the arthritis in her knees has become crippling. She has tried countless diets, pills, supervised diets, classes everything to help her become a healthier person, but nothing has seemed to work for her. I know that if she was to have the gastric bypass surgery that she so longs for, her life would brighten up finally and she wouldnt have all these medical problems that continously plague her. Rather than asking for donations, I asked my mom to start making me some quilt blocks so I could sell them online to make some money for college bills. She is a very honest, loving person and would never ask anyone for anything; in fact she would probably be embarassed if she knew that I had done this for just because she would feel that people would think she was begging which she is not. She is an absolutely WONDERFUL quilter. She thinks the only chance she might have funding her surgery would be to sell her award winning quilt which is listed on ebay right now *You can see it if you look up "Starranch1" on ebay members*. I really dont want her to do that since it is her prized posession, so I am going to try my luck and see how I do at helping my mom. Heres what I ask from my moms fellow quilters in the world, Send a donation of one dollar, or whatever you wish, and I will send you a heart quilt block for each dollar recieved. Either to use them in a quilt or a picture frame, they are beautiful. The dimensions are 3 1/4" inches square and when sewn into a quilt 2 3/4" square. Need certain colors? Just ask! Please send all donations with a self address stamped envelope so i can send the blocks back to you. If you have any questions please feel free to contact me! Donations can be sent to: Cheyne Maclaskey P.O. Box 1645 Conroe, Texas 77305 Thank you so much and GOD BLESS YOU! If you have any questions, please email me at |
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Thanks for your negative comments... Please go read my other post
where I answered your question... I have given up almost everything..And as far as diets... she has tryed them all... Its kind of hard to exercise when you can barely walk.. right? My mom has tried the six small meals a day... my mom has lifted cans of green beans... My mom has walked... she has biked when she could.. My mom has walked the treadmill... done sit and be fit... changed her diet over and over again... no protein... then no carbs... then the all carbs... the all protein... the shakes.. only green foods.. Everything.. I dont know what to tell you... You got lucky you lost the weight... sometimes its harder than that for others..With this surgery.. My mom would be physically changed in diet.. she COULDnt HOLD more food in her stomach.. she would be forced to lose the weight... And here In Houston... The Galveston Burn recovery center... will offer to take off any extra skin... from her body after the surgery for free to give it to burn patients... we have researched it all... Now its a matter of just trying to get her the treatment.. CNYstitcher wrote in message ... OKay now.....you have an apartment of your own and are attending culinary classes.neither of which is cheap........sacrifice them both for a while and use the money to help your mom! I know I said this in a past post, but you said you are doing everything you can think of to help.....if you still have the apartment and haven't taken a break from college to help her, you haven't done everything. Also, there is another diet/fitness program I would like to suggest, and it can be done by people with health issues - it's called Body For Life. It involves changing your diet, weight training, and aerobic activity. Now, I used it to lose weight after my first child and for aerobic activity, I walked for 15 minutes to start with. For weights, I used anything that I could find that was equal weight for each hand. The food is healthy, but you don't eat 3 meals a day, you eat 6 small meals....it works, it really works...something that you might want ot think of. L Cheyne wrote: Thanks for the comments... My mom has done some research and looked into her insuarnce... they specifically DONT cover anything related with Weight problems... regardless if she is deathly sick or not. She hardly eats sometimes, I think she is to the point she will starve herself because she is just desperate. She doesnt over eat or under eat. I am a culinary student in college right now, and I have studied nutrition and just cant help her, from metabolife, to fen phen, to aiken's, gym classes, dance classes everything. My mom is superwomen and never sits for more than two minutes, she exausts her whole body just to keep her mind off her weight and she cant help herself. Watching her go up and down stairs horrifies me... She cant even come up to see my apartment on the second floor because she cant get up the flight of stairs... Nothing has made me sadder knowing my mom cant come see me. I worry about her, I worry about being away from her and I just want to help. |
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Thank you Kate. PAT
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Cheyne,
Prayers and good thoughts are always given. That we have no trouble with. We also *do* trade blocks, but not for money. The times that money comes into play are when we do something like a HUG for soemone and people help out with the cost of the needed backing and batting and postage. I will gladly offer prayers for your mom's improved health, as I do with everyone who asks for them from the group. I may not post that I am praying for all who ask, but I do say a little prayer everytime I her of a specific need, and I also pray for the group as a whole. Larisa Cheyne wrote: I'm sorry larisa, but someone gave me this link... and they have an account running through Livejournal.com if that helps. I didnt mean to COME here and BEG for money..... I wasnt asking for you to open your pocket books and write me huge checks... I just wrote my story.. and offered something in trade... Maybe you guys need to realize before you attack someone... the bad guys are the ones who ask you for money for nothing in return... I didnt know that this was group who strictly traded. I just was told maybe i could get some help or suggestions or SOMETHING to help me prayers ANYTHING.... :***( |
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I wasn't slamming, I was offereing other suggestions. If my mother were
in this situation, I would do all I could to help her, except post to this group asking for monetary help. If that meant leaving the home that i have worked hard to have, I would. If that meant going into debt, I would. I would go through local avenues of selling my belongings rather than post on the internet - ebay charges a fee regardless of if your items sell, the local paper only charges a fee for listing items. Despite the fact that my mother and I do not get along as well as you and your mother seem to, I would do anything short of taking my own life to help her. That is not a selfish statement, that is fact - I have a small child and another on the way. For them to not have a mother would be cruel to them. My mother wouldn't want my life anyway because she would want me to be with my children. She wouldn't want me to put myself through any hardship, but I would because she is my mom. I am glad that you have a full-time job, you could still move back home, however and save even more money. As I said, these are not slams, just suggestions that came to mind while reading your posts. I am still a child... what can you say you knew at 22?? The same as you know now???? If thats the case then I should be a genius?? I have a whole life to learn, and being 5 feet tall doesnt help any. If you still consider yourself to be a child after making a decision to enroll in a school that costs 40K, then we have extremely different views of what a child is. YOu made this decision, now you have another one that you need to make. I knew a lot at 22, not everything that I know now, but enough to know that I wasn't in a position to attend a 40K school. I was actually accepted into a rather prestigious college - Johns Hopkins - and declined going (even though I *really* wanted to) because of the financial burden it would have put on myself and my family. Instead, I went to a local college and earned my degree. A more responsible choice, and one that I have never regretted. What the hell does your height have to do with anything?? I'm 5'7" whoopie, who cares? Want me to tell you how tall the rest of my family is? It has no bearing on anything but may be yet another way you want us to feel sorry for you, I don't know. I can't see into your mind as to why you think this is important for us to know. I had a cancer scare and would have done anything that would have helped me, with one condition, that it not be detrimental to my family in any way. I had suggested another option that has helped thousands of people and personally, helped me lose 60 pounds. If you didn't want my advice, don't read my posts. If you don't want the advice of others, don't post any more to the group. I said , and will continue to say that I was offering other options. I didnt ask to be hurt... and if anything... my feelings have just been crushed... I didnt ask for you to give me money... I just asked to trade... :*( You didn't ask to trade, you offered things for sale, there is a difference. Any sympathy I felt for you adn your mother (and other siblings) has been decreased by you obviously being so self-focused that you are taking everything thing I said as an attack...the perils of being young....it was offered as optiong, and some were actually questions. If you were hurt, you would want your daughter to do the same... or would you be honored your daughter did this?? MY mom doesnt know I am doing this for her... I just want to repay her for the love and support she has given me... I wouldn't want my daughter to ask total strangers to contribute to my helath care or her college. The way my husband and I are raising our son (and will be raising our daughter) is to be self-sufficient, and to show respect to us. You are doing that in that you are trying to help your mother. How we choose to raise our children is our decision, and there are many other facets that you need not know as our life is just that - ours. YOu chose to share your life with people who don't know you and have never "met" you before. You can't blame any of us for being skeptical. If a member had posted for you, a member that the majority of the group knew, there might have been a little less doubt. HOwever, that didn't happen. I and many others have tried to offer advice in whatever way we could, you have chosen to get snippy with me over my post. I posted without knowing what the entire situation was, so my responses were based only on what you originally shared. Keep that in mind next time you choose to repond. Larisa |
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Hear Hear...nex time, I will just let Kate answer for me...and if nobody
objects, for the rest of the group.....must be the teacher in her that makes things so eloquent, yet clear and concise. Larisa Pat in Virginia wrote: Thank you Kate. PAT |
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i started a reply the other day to her original post, as i often do to spam
here. i got lost in the mix of 'sales and donations'. i'm glad you've explained the general position of rctq so eloquently for me/us, Kate. can we add this to our 'files' for future reference/use if its ever required again. hugz, Kate. jeanne nzl* currently showing as #13 on the list of frequent posters but i'm sure thats incorrect as i'm so quiet and reserved most of the time, just sitting off in the corner twinkling, munchin' on cyber chocolate and fondling fabric with glee -- RCTQ Houston 2004 Party Animals A good friend will come and bail you out of jail.... but, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn...that was fun!" i'll be there!!! will you??? "Kate Dicey" wrote... | Having read this thread through careful before commenting, I would just | say: | | You caused severe offence by trying to sell ANYTHING he this is a | NEWS group, not a marketplace group, and selling anything is very | severely frowned upon. You would have done better to read the rules for | news groups in general, where this is clearly set set out, and for this | group in particular, which has fought a long hard battle against | spammers. You would also have done much better to lurk for a day or two | and READ all the posts, to see what sort of a group this is, or to ASK | if posting ads was acceptable and to be shown the charter for this | group. Instead you jumped in with both feet and landed on a lot of | sensibilities, bruising them. You ignored the social mores of the | group, and you wonder why you got a poor reception? Your personal | circumstances, severe though they may be, are irrelevant to this issue. | | You will have to understand that we will also remain sceptical about the | person you say sent you here. Were they a regular poster and taking a | full part in what goes on here, all this would be well known to them and | one thing they | | There are several of us here who's circumstances are at least as dire as | those you describe. When their troubles hit them, we as a group do our | best to support them in whatever way we can. We have supported our | friends through divorce, marriage, death of loved ones, cancer (there | are a number of these ongoing at present), loss of jobs and loss of | mobility. They may also ask us to help with ideas for raising money, | but none of them try to sell us things in an inappropriate place and | manner. | | There are also those of us here who are professional quilters of various | sorts as well as amateurs and new quilters. Most if us are here to | exchange ideas and skills, information, and even fabric Sometimes we | exchange whole blocks. This is the thing about this group: we exchange | like for like. We don't BUY quilts - we MAKE them. This group is for | people to exchange things to do with making quilts for ourselves. | Occasionally we get together and make a quilt for a member of the group, | for a particular reason. If something terrible happens, we make a hug | quilt for that person. That person does NOT try to blackmail his or her | friends on the news group into buying their quilts with harrowing | tales. They may well ask for (and get in abundance - and I speak from | experience here) prayers for themselves and their loved ones, but no-one | has yet asked for money. | | Sometimes we find a quilty project cannot be completed without a bit of | begging: there are times when we run out of a particular fabric and | cannot get it anywhere. We ask here, and sometimes the fabric is freely | given, out of love, and sometimes a swap is arranged. There is always a | barter or exchange happening here, but not of money - not a sale. | | Your story is neither unusual nor different from many others that do the | rounds as begging spams daily. We have no way of checking its veracity, | and with so many being stung like this before, we will remain sceptical | and leery of such attempts at gaining sympathy. It reads like so many | of the 'charity' begging letters that amount to nothing more than | emotional blackmail. Some of these come from very respectable and well | known organizations, like Oxfam and Amnesty International, as well as | from individuals, and they may come via the mail or via the internet, | but they amount to the same thing: unsolicited begging. This may not | have been your intention, but this is how it came across. Now, WE did | not write the tale: that is wholly your responsibility, and if it did | not do as you hoped it would, you have to ask yourself why not. | | Your posting was spam: an unsolicited advertisement to a news only | group. | | It's a begging letter: you ask for 'donations'. | | This may sound a little hard, but you also need to ask yourself, who | caused the offence? And having answered this honestly, you then need to | say, What can I do to put this right? Then you need to do it. | | P.S. There is a very supportive Weight Watchers news group, and also | various other diet support groups on the net that will help your mother | in every way they can. | -- | Kate XXXXXX | Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons | http://www.diceyhome.free-online.co.uk | Click on Kate's Pages and explore! | | --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free by AVG. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.507 / Virus Database: 304 - Release Date: 4/08/03 |
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Cindy,
When I first started painting and entered culinary school, it was a way to try and release myself... I got to many paintings sitting around so I was selling them online to pay off loans.. At this time.. my mom had been told she was approved for the loan to get her surgery.. then they called and told her it was off and they couldnt approve her and I decided any money I could spare would go to her.. "teleflora" wrote in message t... So, I'm a little confused. Are you raising money to go to college or to buy your mom a gastric by-pass surgery. VERY risky, by the way. Lots safer ways of losing weight. Cindy |
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nzl* wrote:
i started a reply the other day to her original post, as i often do to spam here. i got lost in the mix of 'sales and donations'. i'm glad you've explained the general position of rctq so eloquently for me/us, Kate. can we add this to our 'files' for future reference/use if its ever required again. hugz, Kate. jeanne nzl* currently showing as #13 on the list of frequent posters but i'm sure thats incorrect as i'm so quiet and reserved most of the time, just sitting off in the corner twinkling, munchin' on cyber chocolate and fondling fabric with glee -- RCTQ Houston 2004 Party Animals A good friend will come and bail you out of jail.... but, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn...that was fun!" i'll be there!!! will you??? 'Course you can - only I need to edit it a bit: there's half a sentence that got chopped off somehow, and a few punctuation issues I need to take up with myself! -- Kate XXXXXX (also VEEERRRYYY quiet these days... ;P ) Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons http://www.diceyhome.free-online.co.uk Click on Kate's Pages and explore! |
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Geez.... I was 100+ lbs. overweight for over 12 years. IT'S NOT *THAT*
MUCH! You *can* lead a normal life at 100 lbs. over-weight. You DO NOT need to beg on news groups at 100 lbs. over weight. BUT..... you can go thru hell in your personal life and suddenly find that eating constantly just doesn't cut it any more and then start doing some exercise- just a little at first, I'm 100% disabled- and you will start feeling better. Then you find that eating less and exercising a bit more and looking nicer feels *really* good.... and then suddenly---- I am ***66 POUNDS LIGHTER AND LOVING IT!!!!!** And I'm still going lower! Tell your mom to get busy and do it the old fashioned way- eat less and exercise. It still works.... I can prove it. So can a few others on this group! Ladies? Please speak up..... Leslie (size women's 20 to a misses 14) The HairyFacedOnes 'N Me RCTQ- Houston 2004..... A good friend will come and bail you out of jail.... but, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn... that was fun!" |
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