hollymichal

Please don’t read if you are just going to make derogatory remarks. I am giving an overview so you can help me word a succinct reply.

I have had ill health for years and over-time I have become worse with MCS making living most miserable. I cannot go to the Kingdom Hall, for the Brothers and Sisters are understandably keen to use personal care products most of which cause me great distress. I have done my best to continue to serve Jehovah and keep up with the schedule for the school and service meeting, the Watchtower study and I report ministry every month even if it is only 15minutes.

My problem is that despite repeated efforts to explain to the Brothers my illness and difficulties I am met with a wall of incomprehension from them. I have a struggle to get literature from them, particularly the K/M and although I now do seem to have found a kind Sister to collect the Magazines for me it can still be most difficult to get all the current releases.

This weekend is the Convention and I used to be blessed by a receiving a recording of it, but the Sister who used to be in touch with those who organise that arrangement died 2 years ago, and although I made attempts to find out how to get that for myself, no-one has got back to me for last years, let alone this.

The thing is, when the Elders do come to see me, it is only in passing as they are working my street. They arrive with their after-shave and with no proper understanding. Repeated attempts to explain have fallen on deaf ears and one Elder and his Wife even declared that I hadn't mentioned my MCS at all, yet I know I did as I let them in and embarrassingly I had to put the fan directly on to my face as the Sisters Perfume was too much for me. Actually there was an article in the Awake 8/8/00 ~ Helping Those With MCS, so there is no legitimate cause for doubting my condition.

I did hope one time to have my condition explained during “Local Needs”, in the hope that the Brothers would all understand better, but I was told by at least 3 different Elders that announcing it to the whole Congregation was completely out of the question and a totally improper thing to do. Unfortunately, those who aren’t dismissive of my condition take it too personally and imagine that I am insulting them, hence I have found myself friendless with-in the Congregation, for my closest friends have moved to serve where the need was great, while another was disfellowshipped, another was very unkind, and has since vanished, and two have died.

I began to listen in on the Phone-link, once I could no longer tolerate attending the Kingdom Hall where I used to keep asking for a window to be open, but others complained of the draught. So I would stay in the Library, but other would come there with their babies or fractious children. So then I would come late and stay by the door and listen from virtually outside, but others too would arrive late and waft by with their hairspray etc. Then the Hall had a new carpet which almost killed me off and I just had to stop attending.

Working my street 3days ago, two Elders stopped by to give me an invitation to the Convention! I am hurt that they think I am just weak or have fallen away. If I cannot cope with the Kingdom Hall, I certainly cannot cope with a Convention. And if there were invitations to give out, how come I wasn't given a supply to hand out myself? I do have a Ministry, I do have people I could have given an invitation to. Incidentally, the Elders have never showed any interest or concern about how I do any witnessing.

If it isn't enough that my heath is deteriorating so much, my Brothers have never understood Chronic Illness. They are fine when you first get ill, with cards and well wishes, but when you don't recover, you are made to feel as if you are faking it. I have had this debilitating malady for over 15 years, at first it was tolerable, but for the last 8 years it has been unbearable, I am a virtual hermit and cannot go anywhere much.

All this has been repeated prayed about and I am at peace with it, knowing Jehovah understands, but please, this is my request:

I need a simple phrase that in a nutshell can just put them right next time they call. Please help me use a simple illustration or analogy that lets them know, I am in the Truth still, even though I don't attend the meetings. I cannot try to explain the whole extent of my illness again to them, for they interrupt, saying that they "know" or that they "came to build me up, not to hear any negatives"

PLEASE HELP ME SAY SOMETHING PROFOUND NEXT TIME? Help me combat this mis-understanding and restore good feelings and establish a better rapport with the Congregation.

I really dislike going to the dentist as my teeth are sensitive and even with an injection I always feel the drilling for a filling etc. I always brush really well and take care of my teeth but I still manage to get a build-up of Tartar that has to be scraped off by the Hygenist and although I can cope with the powered tools she uses on most of my teeth she has to do some of them by hand because of my sensitivity. Why does the Tartar happen? What can I do to avoid it? And why are my teeth so sensitive?

COUPLA THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW

WHEN I BORN, I BLACK - WHEN I GROW UP, I BLACK

WHEN I GO IN SUN, I BLACK - WHEN I COLD, I BLACK

WHEN I SCARED, I BLACK - WHEN I SICK, I BLACK

AND WHEN I DIE, I STILL BLACK

AND YOU WHITE FELLA,

WHEN YOU BORN, YOU PINK - WHEN YOU GROW UP, YOU WHITE

WHEN YOU GO IN SUN, YOU RED - WHEN YOU COLD, YOU BLUE

WHEN YOU SCARED, YOU YELLOW -WHEN YOU SICK, YOU GREEN

WHEN YOU DIE, YOU GRAY.

AND YOU CALLING ME COLORED???

I need a perfectly good working older style fitting with wiring on top of alternator. (Not plug-in at the back)

To fit a 1994 L reg

I can't afford a new one and I've looked in the scrap yards. Can anyone help me please?

If you have a bird that you can't look after anymore I will re-home it with my other birds, where it will be taken care of and loved, in a safe environment, with all its needs catered for. I can travel to collect in and around Exeter UK, or just outside, but you will need to bring the bird to me if you are further away. I will not charge you anything and you can visit your pet whenever you like to check up on his/her progress. I run an Aviary with Cockatiels, Kakarikis, Lovebirds, Quails and Budgies and have room for more. I am also able to take Canaries as I am currently preparing a sanctury for these.

I'm sure it's spelt wrong-I have written it as it sounds. Was it part of a song or chant, a game? It sounds french. I don't recall a melody with it, but I know I learned it in the primary school in the late1960's. What is it? Does somebody know? My daughter is facinated by the sound of it when I repeat the words and we'd love to know if there was more to it and what it means. Can you help?

(Am I in the right category with this question? If not, apologies!)

window with a particular jacket on.

His mother didn't have a husband and so he went it to buy the dummy thinking it would be a real person, he gave money to the assistant and she was dismissive of him because the shop was full of people as there was a sale on. Then amidst all the bustle the boy sees a man with that jacket on and grabs his hand.....

I HATE artificial sweeteners and have not had a decent coke or lemonade for years because no-one seems to make a fizzy drink that hasn't got this yuk taste!

It's not that I want the drink to be made with sugar, it's just that they all make big claims that their's is "sugar free", yet it's sweet and sickly.

Where can I get a sugar free fizzy drink that hasn't got saccharine?

I'd even settle for one thats made with real sugar so long as it had no artificial sweetener in it?

I had this paperback book in the 70's . It was a daft book that told you how to make sandwiches LOL, I guess that's why I never kept it, but i wish I could remember how the recipe went for the Mincemeat Slices.

lovin you need" or somthing very similar. It's an old song at least 20, maybe 30 years, probably a 70's hit. I would say a black guy or group, but I'm not certian, though I know It isn't a female.

These are the only words I remember. It was definately a bloke singing and it is not a recent song. I think it might be a decade or more old, though someone may have sang it on one of those X Factor type shows a couple of years back. It's not a rude song, just a love song about a guy missing the funloving woman he used to know. He may have sang about their walks by the lake and how she was never serious about things...

I guess it was a sci fi film