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Youngatheart (Nancy) just called. (With Updates)

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎01-02-2015 05:14 PM

She is locked inside her house on the third floor. She fell and can't get up and believes she broke her hip.

Please keep her in your thoughts and prayers.

I will update you when I know more.

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Friday 3pm PST

She called back. A friend had climbed through a window and gotten to her and an ambulance was there to take her to the hospital for xrays or a scan. More news when I hear again.

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Friday 10pm PST

Nancy just called.it's 10am Pacific time. Her hip is broken and its not a simpl break. They are transferring her to University Hospital. Pray that this doesn't send her over the edge. She's pretty dam sick of all the time it takes to heal and the fact that it's been one thing after the other for  almost 3 years.

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Saturday 4am PST

She just called. She has been moved to the University Hospital and is waiting to see the orthopedist. She's asked a few questions about recovery and they said they will have her on her feet the next day. We all know they do that so you don't get a clot. I asked her to get as much info about the reality of living alone during recovery. More when I hear more.

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Hello, My name is Dale. I was quit 18 months before joining this site and had participated on another site during that time. I learned a lot there and brought it with me. I joined this site the first week of August 2008. I didn't pressure myself to quit. HOW I QUIT I didn't count, I didn't deny myself to get started. When I considered quitting (at a friends request to influence his brother to quit), I simply told myself to wait a little longer. No denial, nothing painful. After 4 weeks I was down to 5 cigarettes from a pack a day. The strength came from proving to myself, I didn't need to smoke because I normally would have smoked. Simple yes? I bought the patch. I forgot to put one on on the 4th day. I needed it the next day but the following week I forgot two days in a row I put one in my wallet with a promise to myself that I would slap it on and wait an hour rather than smoke. It rode in my wallet my first year.There's nothing keeping any of you from doing this. It doesn't cost a dime. This is about unlearning something you've done for a long time. The nicotine isn't the hard part. Disconnecting from the psychological pull, the memories and connected emotions is. :-) Time is the healer.