FR Search function

OK, JimRob and JohnRob, I know it is not a huge issue, but is there any chance we might find a way to possibly upgrade the "Search" function on FR?

I just tried a search on "integrated", "Integrated", " 'integrated", " 'Integrated", and " 'integrated' " --and I could not find My own post! Re:

It's been years now. Since about 1998. I realize that JohnRob is concerned about the oddlooking character-fonts appearing on FR recently, but the FR search engine... could it possibly be upgraded just a bit? A teensy bit?

It might help with all the duplicate posts we seem to be experiencing in these last several years...

I am on a lot of forums also and FR is BY FAR THE BEST.

I HATE all those tree-views on the other forums, they are MONUMENTALLY STUPID.

Please don’t change anything in FR.

I even accept the font/punctuation problem AS IS, as long as we can keep the WONDERFUL posting software, with its multiple abilities to post a very clear REPLY TO and to see in each post what it is a reply to and to see each user IN FORUM, and to not be able to go back and back-edit your posts (which invalidates the responses that others have typed... how can you not see that, brilliant English major that you are).

There are so many features that are SO FAR SUPERIOR to any other forum out there that I BEG the powers that be here in FR:

PLEASE DONT GO CHANGING ON US! (If you want to fix the font/punctuation problem, I guess thats ok.)

I LOVE the posting software in FR. LOVE IT!

To the whiners I say: don’t let the door hit you in the arse.

I don’t disagree with you, but it’s a economic issue. FR needs bigger servers and that costs a lot of money, and that is a real pain to transfer all that stuff over smoothly, I remember when we went through the last server change it took days to get it up and running right. Since FR is privately owned and totally supported by donations ads are not needed nor would we want them.

Especially when only 2 men do all the work. On days when big news stories break it’s hard to access FR to get the real news as it is. Means up grading Windows too I suspect.

Many of us still are using Win 7. This laptop is Win 7 Professional and I’ve still not learned all it can do. And has a split for XP to run and old CAD program.

I can operate simple programs, but trouble shooting is beyond me. My husband taught it for 20 yrs as a JR College Prof. And basically did the same for 20 yrs in the Navy. But he’s not kept up with the software end since retiring. His daughter owns her own IT business and if he can’t fix something she has us press a button and she takes over the computer and fixes it.

Lucky you! You have your own in-house tech support.

I’d be a raving maniac (worse than I am) if I had to deal with Windows. I have a Mac & it’s so simple, even I can usually work it. My first 2 laptops were Compaqs & I threatened to frisbee them constantly.

I am in awe of anyone who knows how these things work. I cannot imagine running a forum or trying to moderate all these different personalities. It would probably drive me to drink.

(knock on wood) FR has gone a long time (for me, at least) without any problems. Except for those character things (which I’ve mostly learned to get around), I’d say things are going pretty good. I’m not that easy to please, so that’s saying something. I have no complaints.

I started out on a Commodore 64 and dial up. Love the Zip line.

Yes, have learned to get around the weird charters myself, and I am probably as fussy as you are. I have little patients for things that don’t work right. Hubby still hasn’t gotten around to moving all my stuff off the main computer to the laptop. For the sake of my back had to move to the couch and a heating pad if I’m going to sit long.

Takes me awhile to learn new programs, mostly trial and error as those manuals don’t make a lick of sense to me. And I’ve read college level since leaving HS.

I’ve yet to figure out the TV remote the way he has it configured. I’m not the TV watcher, book worm. His daughter got me one of those 1 remote does all for Christmas, I am learning the basics on it. If not for RFDTV and a few other channels I could get by with just local TV. Hubby is the sports and car nut.

Whoa, that is WAY back, isn’t it? I remember the first Mac I ever saw (1986) was this tiny little box & the screen had a black background, IIRC- I was thinking Well, that would put my eyes out.

My first computer experience was inputting insurance estimates in 1986. I got my first computer in Dec 2000 (Compaq laptop). I have loads of patience. It’s just that Windows is so passive-aggressive & I have zero tolerance for that.

I hear you about the heating pad! Some women can’t live without their moisturizer- I can’t live without my heating pad.

LOL No joke. God Bless Canon. (Apple is pretty good, too)
They have the best tech support in the world. I love to read & will read almost anything if I get desperate enough. But not that. I go wall-eyed & my ears start to smoke. I’m kinda up a creek because I always expect DH to know the answers to these things & he’s about as bad as I am.

I can’t watch tv unless I’m doing something- sewing or macrame or ceramics or whatever. I guess that’s listening, not watching. I mean to watch some of the old shows, but I always forget/ get busy doing something else.

Aarrgghh, Yeah. I dunno why remotes are so tarted up. On/ off, pause/ play, backward/ forward, volume/ channel- but no. They have to put all this other fruit salad on there so you can hit the buttons by mistake & then all hell breaks loose (or at least it does for me).
LOL I hate my Kindle. It does this too.
:-/ I guess I’m a luddite. Oh well.

I don’t control the remote, to complicated for me as it is set up to run more than one apparatus. And I’m not much of a TV watcher a couple of hrs in the evening is my limit unless it’s a movie. I lost the TV habit back in the 70’s and don’t have a phone habit, was never allowed to develop it as a teen.

My hands used to by busy with quilting, crocheting, knitting as well as being a book worm like historical romance novels, time travel and books on treating homeopathic healing. But Arthritis and a torn rotator cuff put a stop to the busy hands. 1 doesn’t go away, the other to small to repair, after watching my husband go through a shoulder ball replacement where they went through the muscles of the rotator doing his rehab now at 7 months and still in pain, glad it was to small. I have to read at computer distance with a pillow to prop up a book.

Lord, I don’t even remember when the Commodore 64 came out, just that my husband could write code for the stupid thing. I wrote letters on it.

This is my first laptop. I’ve yet to figure out all the features of my Samsung Note 3 phone. LOL

I can’t live with out my 2 heating pads. I found a good one on Amazon, plush covered, with the option of 2 hrs or on all the time and 6 temp settings $35 well spent dollars. In fact I’ve bought 5 of them. Hubby uses one on his shoulders, I use mine on the Lumbar, gave my boys each one for Christmas, 1 has a bad back, the other a bad knee.

I use coconut oil for moisturizer. Cheaper than all those high $$ creams that don’t work. 2 of my daily meds do a number on my skin.

I all but hate the phone. Long winded people are the one thing that will make me lie. Phones are good for 3 things- vet/ hair appointments, ordering dinner, & I’m runnin late. LOL Oh & getting DH to pick stuff up on his way home.

Getting older is murder. I’m not in pain, but my fingers don’t work the way they used to, though. And do our fingerprints just get smooth or what? I can’t turn a page without monumental effort. It’s very annoying.

Kindles are much easier to read, physically, than books. But the ‘’convenience’’ features are really more of a nuisance than a help. I’m constantly losing my place & unable to get back to where I was or enlarging the type by accident or causing one of those ‘helpful little features’ to appear unbidden.
I probably need to read the instructions again (which didn’t work the first time, but whatever)

This is myyyy. . . fifth laptop- 2 Compaqs & 3 Macs. This one is my least favorite. It’s the stupid ‘’gestures’’.
I recently had my MacBook repaired & as soon as I get my pictures & recipes off of it, I’m going to switch back. This poor thing has been drowned twice, so I have to use an external keyboard, which is really a pain.
When both computers give out, that will be the end for me & the internet, probably. Unless something changes for the better with the new ones, I won’t be getting one. That ‘’one more stroke spoils the painting’’ has happened.

LOL My ‘’smart phone’’ is in the nightstand drawer. I went back to a flip phone. I still haven’t figured out the punctuation to text, but I CAN see the numbers on the buttons.

LOL What did we do before Amazon?
It’s incredible to me that people take all kinds of pills & put up with all kinds of side effects when a heating pad works so well. And my back sent me to the ER, close to tears, several times before I figured that out. The last 3 or 4 bottles of Tylenol we’ve had got thrown out when they were still nearly full.
They’re certainly excellent when it’s cold.

I keep developing all these Can’t be fixed health issues. Just got told Monday I have severe Dry Eyes, strange didn’t have it before cataract surgery. Even if I spent the day reading. Seeing the Kindle screen is a big issue for me, I can by large print books. My fingers don’t work well due to the arthritis, had to give up my contacts because I could no longer remove them. Now I’m in a no line trifocals, with much of the reader the 12 inches away eliminated. I buy the best Ziess lenses as they have the widest middle distance of any of the brands. Plus they make the lens for the Hubble Telescope.

I moved to the Samsung Note 3 because I could blow up the fonts. The last flip phone took a dunk in the toilet after falling out of the to shallow jeans pockets they put in women’s jeans. I now buy mostly men’s for the deeper pockets. Plus better waist and length fit.

I’m the side effect queen, most pills go in the trash after just a few. It is pure bologna that the side effects will go away in a couple of months. I’m living proof they don’t, they just get worse.

2 highly recommended books. The first is the best Amazon will have them at a reasonable cost.
Your Bones: How You Can Prevent Osteoporosis and Have Strong Bones for Life - Naturally Lara Pizzorno 2013

The Whole Body Approach to OP
R. Keith McCormick

ALL OP drugs are FDA FLAGGED, with Foreto being double FLAGGED as it is also Black Boxed for Bone Cancer. Reclast is the worst as it never leaves your body and is NOT to be given to Asthma patients. Doctors are supposed to warn patients, but they don’t.

Safety update for osteoporosis drugs, bisphosphonates, and atypical femur fractures, A FIB, Jaw Degeneration, Kidney failure deaths.
http://www.fda.gov/drugs/drugsafety/drugsafetypodcasts/ucm229800.htm

Black box warning Foreto
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=21853

http://www.betterbones.com/osteoporosis/forteo-bonedrug.aspx

It’s just murder getting older. Things just stop working- really important things like your eyes & ears. My eyes periodically give me fits. I don’t know how people who have ‘always worn glasses’ have survived without major frustration issues.
I think I must have relied on my peripheral vision a lot because I am just not impressed. Shopping is practically impossible.

The hearing thing is getting funny, though, when it’s not maddening. ‘What?/ Pardon?’ goes after every spoken line at my house. Sometimes, it turns out we DID hear what was said, so now it’s maybe 30/ 70 habit. You have to laugh or else.

With me, it’s lighters. I’ve always liked men’s jeans better (lol All mouth & no rear), but that little bit of stretch is sometimes a nice thing to have. I never thought about the pockets, but that’s true!

The only drugs I’ve ever been able to take without regret are antibiotics (knocking on wood here). I *used to* have severe panic attacks & have had them them since I was 16 yrs old. I took Xanax (very low dose) for almost 2 yrs. Boy, that was a nightmare! I’d had a myocardial infarction before that started (which felt just like a PA except I really *did* throw up & lose consciousness)
It made the panic attacks almost constant & consequently, I was in the ER constantly. After nearly 2 yrs, I decided ‘if I die, I die’ & demanded the doctor get me off of it.
I didn’t expect it, but the attacks Just. Stopped. That was 1996. I haven’t had a dozen attacks since then.
I can’t take anything that makes me feel ‘off’ or flakey. And I can’t take painkillers because they make me hurl.

I’m not at all surprised about osteo drugs. ‘Hormone replacement’, too. Medicine has become a racket. I don’t really even trust my vets anymore. BTDT with the bad side effects for the dogs. I google before I give it. And if it’s elective, I hold off until I can.

Don’t get me started about the FDA taking Primatene off the market. The pharmaceutical companies pulled the same thing with the safer heartworm preventative, Interceptor (for dogs & I guess, cats too), but people balked, now at least, they brought it back. Too bad. We’ve gone back to the old daily.
Osteoporosis may be part of what’s wrong with my back. My paternal grandmother had it. But the women in my family are tough old gals & I’ll keep going until I can’t (God Forbid it!).

I reacted to every HRT they’ve had, shut the bowel down with big gas bubbles threw the colon hurt like heck.

Promethazine or phanagan for puking. Try Ginger Root Capsules for mild nausea. Might want to look into St. John’s Wort. But not if you have a thyroid condition.

I have Meniere’s which is unbalanced pressures in the ear, and it causes vertigo and all it’s issues.

Low frequency hearing is gone, so I wear twin hearing aids but I still have to look at people when they talk to ‘hear’ them, run water no hearing, over loud noise same thing, church is a pain with all that noise.

As well as glasses for astigmatism. Once you have cataracts out you have NO peripheral vision, you get only MONO lenses out of Medicare/Tricare Life (Ret. Military over 65) where I need Toric lenses and they won’t let you pay the difference. They just told me I’ve got the worst case of dry eye they have ever seen. I see the Wet treatment center Monday...they best not be prescribing Restasis as I will refuse it. I have 2 auto immunes and that rules those drops out. Lots of complaints on that drug.

Sounds like you may be developing either dry eye or cataracts, night blindness goes with that.

And the only antibiotics I can take are Amoxicillin or any of the Penicillin group. Or Predisone for a dose pack. Rest are horrid.

lol I just avoid painkillers. I really never even take Tylenol.

ugh. I know what Meniere’s is. A friend has it- speaking of getting pukey.

I think I might have nerve deafness. The deal where if there’s background noise, it’s hard to hear. lol Yeah, don’t talk to me when I’m doing dishes.

I am developing cataracts. Our house is all windows & patio doors but it is DARK. Drives me nuts. I do like LEDs for reading & sewing.

I took antibiotics constantly, growing up, because I had bad tonsils.

lol This conversation has jinxed me. I’ve just come from the vet with pills. (Reglan) Our youngest Eskie apparently got stung by a bee or something on her snoot & has been throwing up last night & today. I’m ready for some peace & quiet. After I spot the carpets.

I learned to get children’s Claritin for my Libby, it taste like candy so she will eat it. She is a Morkie all 10 lbs of her. Benydrl for anything else. I’ve got 2, Stan is my Senior and a Peekapoo. Poor fellow is hard of hearing and blind from cataracts which is a poodle trait.

Are you sure it’s Reglan, that is used in human Gastroparesis..Slow Motility and is black boxed for 12 days due to neurological side effects? It is for puking. Not an antihistamine which would be given for a bug sting or Predisone.

Strange other than the usual childhood crap of Chickenpox, measles both kinds, and mumps I was a healthy child. Now I’m paying for it in what is supposed to be my ‘golden’ years, 67 is not old for the females in my family, most lived well into their 80’s and late 90’s.

Don’t talk to me if I’m in another room either. We are going round and round with the eye issue, they want to blame it all on dry eye, when I’ve never seen well out of the left eye following Cataract surgery and it’s had a cold burn for 15 years, it sat in the center of my field of vision. Second Cataract didn’t come out until 5 years ago, no issues with that eye. Only had 3 eye lid infections in 15 yrs. Eye drops makes the dryness worse and Restasis is a NO drug as I’ve auto immunes. Vision fluctuates by the day. Fibromyalgia and Hypothyroid are both considered auto immunes. FMS (shorthand) effects both nerves and the 6 muscles in the eyes as well as all muscles. And the wacky white/red blood cells in the bone marrow has the Hematologist puzzled as all his test are not answering the reason why...jut that it is not Leukemia. Something to do with inflammation, which 2 forms of arthritis produce is the most logical explanation.

:-D Awww DH usually gives the meds now (Tramadol for one, Phenobarbital for another- 2 boys, & Dimmitrol for our girl & 2 of our 3 boys) because we’ve settled on Braunschweiger as the pill pocket & I hate it.

I’m pretty sure. It is Metaclopramide (I *think*- the bottle isn’t in front of me) I always get it confused with Metronidazole, so I opted for Reglan (Is that wrong? The vet didn’t correct me) so I could keep them apart. Yes. By 4 yesterday, her muzzle was back to normal, so it was the nausea that had me concerned. She’s much better so far.

No one can say neurological to me anymore without my stomach knotting up. We almost lost this little girl (Lina) in 2010 due to Ivermectin toxicity. Happily, the Reglan will be brief. Anyway, she was this >< close to the seizure/ coma stage.
$4000 & 5 vets later, one of them finally acknowledged it. 54 days after her last dose, she turned around & has been great since.
She is not MDR1, allegedly (tested by UWashington), but she can’t be sedated with traditional anesthesia, either- neither Torbuterol/ Acepromazine nor Ketamine. And she had bad side effects from Deramaxx. So I’m careful.

I lost my 2 dearest girls- one that we’d had from 6 weeks & my little right hand Reskie girl to an unspecified degenerative neurological disease/ disorder 2.5 years apart. Our older one, Gypsy, started 3-7 months after major surgery for a tumor. Our acupuncture vet thought it was her arthritis getting worse & then, possibly a cord tumor. She was 12 by the time we realized it was something bad & I’d promised her she’d never have to go through any major vet stuff again. So we just kept her comfortable & took care of her.

My Reskie, Mia, started developing a stagger 4 months after we lost Gypsy. Initially, the vet thought it might be a brain tumor, but a local MRI ruled that out & we took her to (Texas) A&M a few months later because their MRI machine is one of- or the, most sophisticated ones in the country. And their neurologist, Jacob Levine, is top notch. Mia was having tiny brain bleeds. We tested her for all kinds of stuff, but couldn’t find out why. Her illness progressed identically to Gypsy’s, but Mia also lost the use of her front legs, at the end. Gypsy didn’t.

These two had nothing in common but 2006, the food they ate (which all 8 of my dogs ate), their vacs & Heartgard.
There’s a link to their picture on my page. (I’m trying to get them all posted, but so far- not so good)

I’ve always been really healthy, too. I still am, for the most part- just getting older & lol my misspent youth (WHO grew up?) has caught up with me. LOL It’s murder when I do get sick because I never get sick. I don’t go to the doctor anymore. It’s just never been a good thing. I have a DNR card & DH has orders to let me go. (Thankfully, we’re on the same page.) Life is just too short to waste it going through hell. I’d rather cut to the chase & get Home.

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