Mentor Teleconference - October 30, 2018 | 5pm CT

As always, very informative, Colleen. Thank you for all the information tonight.

It was great to hear everyone's voices and thoughts tonight. Thank you mentors for your time, dedication and leading by example. You all do a really fine job! The people on Connect are so very lucky to have your support. Bravo!

I'm glad you were there, Jamie. I saw you sneak in but didn't circle around to get you to say hi. I didn't let the moderators talk much did I? Oops.

Everyone should have permission to edit your own posts. If you cannot edit your posts, let me know and I will grant you access to editing. Just call me the Fairy Godmother.

Is there a way the delete a post? Sometimes, I don't like something I've read, and I want to delete it. I don't see a way to do that.
Carol
@retiredteacher
Volunteer Mentor

@retiredteacher Carol, it was a nice conference, a very nice and giving group of people. As I have said a number of times, I wish I had known about it when I was waiting for my liver transplant. I managed surprisingly well, most days being able to live my normal life but it did get me down at times when I faced the reality of it, particularly when things got worse.
I do love New England. Rhode Island is known for its coastline, plus the "cottages" of the very wealthy in Newport. NH is a beautiful state but very little coastline, and Maine has a gorgeous coast.
That's a shame that you feel trapped in an area that you do not enjoy. I hope at some point you can meet some like-minded people and enjoy it more. I have only been in Georgia one time, I was driving to Florida with a friend, when I was in my 20s. I just remember the red soil and the extremely strong drawls. I could understand you perfectly but the drawls I heard back then were not understandable for me at all.
If you need help in changing your profile picture, I would be glad to help you with that.
Jane

@colleenyoung Love this. As a person who has done proof-reading and was a "ghost writer" for many managers, I hate it when I look back at something and see a glaring error that I can't fix.
Also, I apologize for having to "step out" from the beginning of the teleconference. It was actually my transplant surgeon on the phone! I had asked a question of one of the nurses about a month ago and she told me she would tell him to call me. Wouldn't you know he would call right then? He said all of my lab work is great though, so that's what's important, and also I asked him if there is a benefit to my taking fewer immunosuppressants now that I am taking them without food. He said there is a long-term benefit to being able to take a smaller dose. That was something I had mentioned when I made that change so I wanted to mention it.
Jane

@retiredteacher I think I caught one of those boys you had to reprimand and tell him to behave...oh wait, that's me ☺

Hi to @retiredteacher, @rosemarya @mamacita and all other Southern bells in our Mentor community. It was so good to hear so many southern drawls last night on our phone call! I was born in Louisville KY but raised in Michigan, so I don't have any drawl at all (rhyming was not intended).

Also, for those of us who don't believe in sweating, remember this: Southern bells don't sweat, we GLOW!

@johnbishop

I see that you are using a lighthouse these days. It is somewhere you have visited?

@hopeful33250 -- it was my 2nd oil painting from a photo of a lighthouse in a magazine. I keep it to remind me why art is not my forte and to keep my day job. The first one was so bad I painted over it...yup, it's the same canvas. The first one was an old wooden sailing ship first pass. Then after seeing how bad it was I added a fog cover so you could barely make out that it was a ship in the fog. It definitely turned me into an art appreciator for those that really have the talent.