The Hobbit Hole III - Journey to the Cross-roads!

[HairOfTheDog]

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

Journey to the Cross-roads
The Two Towers Edition

Come on! Come in! -if you would like to have some seedcakes and a pint and relax a while. (If it is a special occasion, we still have a few bottles of the old wineyards left!)

Our first thread ( New Zealander builds Hobbit hole ) reached 4,100 posts, and we thought that was big. Our second thread (The New Hobbit Hole ) held us for over 48,000 posts, and we loved it dearly. We talked about moving to a new thread for the last 38,000 posts, but we are really slow to muster! Finally, the time has come. Tomorrow (at 12:01 am, to be precise!) The Two Towers comes out, and we start a new chapter.

[2Jedismom]

LOL!!

I'm having to share the computer with Joshua who is playing his Jumpstart Preschool...

[RMDupree]

I broke my leg when I was in college. I was during basketball playoffs. I had to wait until half-time of the UK game for the doctor to come and put my leg in a cast.

Geesh!

[RMDupree]

Hugs, Ruthy. I suspect stress and anxiety, myself. I'm an expert in that area, having given myself an ulcer twice.

I'm suspecting it's that as well. This year has been simply awful and having to put Dino down on Monday may have been the icing on the cake.

[RMDupree]

Here's praying that you feel better soon and the doctors are able to prescribe the correct treatment for whatever ails you.

Thanks ksen. I feel like the Hobbit Hole's top whiner sometimes, but I always feel better after sharing my problems with you guys.

[Wneighbor]

You know you missed out on ribeyes last night. I had 6 of 'em. We had 2 leftover.... but they're in lunch boxes now. Snooze you loose. of course there's those 2 that OT and SamCree enjoyed that are technically still in my refrigerator.

[RMDupree]

Lots o' prayers, Ruthy! Hope they figure this out soon!

Thanks Rosie!

Hey, do you think maybe you can have your Sam come over and give me a get well smooch? :)

[HairOfTheDog]

[hides face in hands]

[Scott from the Left Coast]

RMD -- I have had an anxiety attack once in my life (and I'm grateful it was only once!) and it was somewhat similar to what you describe. I don't smoke and am rather athletic, so the idea of heart attack never really crossed my mind in my circumstance, but now that you mention that -- yeah, it was a pretty good "mimic" of the sensations you'd expect in a heart attack.

Believe me, I'm no doctor and I don't play one on TV, but when I experienced my stress-related "event" shortness of breath (a weird sense of hyperventilating is what I went through) was the first thing I experienced. The doctor told me that in "acute stress events" (whatever that term means exactly) the very first response is something similar to what asthma patients experience -- a restricting of the air passages.

The other thing you mention, the sharp pain when you take a breath, I had also and it is related to the "shortness of breath" sensation -- it's called pleurisy -- and it's where the lining of the lungs gets "stuck" (I don't have a better word for it) to your rib cage, and hypeventilating or that short breath sensation can cause you to breathe unnaturally and the lining of the lungs touches the ribs as you breathe in. And you get an excruciating sharp pain (on inhale only).

Hang in there. Stress attacks are nothing to downplay, I've never had a heart attack but I can't imagine them being any worse on you psychologically than the stress attack I had. They are bad, bad business.

[Corin Stormhands]

I feel like the Hobbit Hole's top whiner sometimes...

What? I came in second again!?!?!

Note to self: Must try harder, must try harder.

[Wneighbor]

Well, I sent enough that you can pot some and experiment with a patch in the yard also. If the one in the yard didn't make it you'd still have the pot.

[RMDupree]

I do understand...

Thanks Smeags. I forgot about your Ring addiction for a second there. It's undoubtedly far worse than any nicotine withdrawal.

All kidding aside, smoking is just about the toughest thing in the world to quit doing. Especially when, like me, you just enjoy it so durned much!

[Corin Stormhands]

[hides face in hands]

Those are sneak-stained hands. We all saw it...

[RMDupree]

Them elves are gonna want lembas...that fru fru food can't be cheap...

Vanilla wafers are around a buck a box round these parts!

[Wneighbor]

Them elves are gonna want lembas...that fru fru food can't be cheap...

You're from the south and you think thin cornbread is expensive fru fru food? watch it I'll report you on the Lincoln wars as being a traitor to the south.

[HairOfTheDog]

But mine was subtle. there was no spam. One little post - I might have just said something about the weather!

[RMDupree]

I will be praying. I guess that's about all we can do being so far apart.... but, after all, it is the most useful thing.

Thanks WN. Especially for taking care of the Hole dwellers tummies!

I've been calling cardiologist after cardiologist and they are all booked until MAY!!! Ummmm....what's wrong with that picture?

[Corin Stormhands]

Well, I sent enough that you can pot some...

First time through I read that as "I sent you some pot..."

At least call it Old Toby...

[Corin Stormhands]

I've never agreed that it was cornbread...but now that you mention it, cornbread is a delicacy...

I'm a Marxist over there now...

[Corin Stormhands]

I might have just said something about the weather!

You could get banned for that in certain forums...

[HairOfTheDog]

Police raided the Hobbit Hole on monday, when it was discovered that they were using codewords to mask a sopisticated contraband smuggling operation. "Mint" plants indeed.... Now where's the STUFF?"