GREAT JOB JODI! Thanks for the photo essay! I took a good look at all of my bulbs that had refused to bloom or even put up good leaves this winter. Uprooted each to check on it, cleaned them up...threw away 6 that looked virused (They were probably bad to begin with)...some of the first years "Bargain bulbs". Others I peeled away the outer tissue and found areas of rot. IN every case, the bulbs that had not thrived and produced had some kind of rot situation going on so I Am glad I did it. A few had amazingly good roots but in some cases a previous stem had rotted off inside the bulb, or one had aborted and rotted. (Chaz, we need a maternity nurse here!)IN a few the base plate was so thick I Scraped it or cut it back. SOme base plates were covered with corky brown material and no roots. I have had lots of amazingly beautiful blooms this year, but the ones that did not were important parts of my learning experience and I Think will make me a better gardener. And sometimes tossing the bad bulbs is what you need to do! I saved one with some red on the leaves last year. THis year the leaves and Flower petals had ugly mottling of the colors. (I set it out overnight so it would freeze because I just could not toss a blooming plant with a good sized bulb!) I think in every case these were "bargain" end of the season bulbs or from one specific place in FLorida that did not beleive in protecting their bulbs when shipping them to me (And whom I will no longer buy from).

I hope that with the arrival of the new grandbaby, good things keep on coming your way from now on!! Congratulations to the granddaughter and have a wonderful time. It is so special the first time you hold that precious grandchild. I was fortunate and was there at the birth of my first grandson. The second one I almost had to deliver myself hahahaha But I did see the head come before the ambulance took off with them. Lucy

Still VERY happy. I can see better than I did with my glasses, but sometimes my vision isn't as good, although still great (especially if I'm due to put the eyedrops in). The doc said that was normal and it would take about 4 weeks to completely stablize. If I go out at night and look at a sign that's lit up, I have a hard time reading that, and that's also normal, along with halos around headlights which will last for a few weeks. Lars, I'm going to be 45 in March (I think your brother and I share the same bday ;). I am starting to see a difference in my nearsightedness, which started about six months ago. I haven't really had to use reading glasses in the past, but before the surgery, I would flip my regular glasses up to read something small. Now I just hold it out at about half an arm's length and I can see it clearly. I tried my dollar store reading glasses this morning and I could see well to read the back of a medicine container. I went into this knowing it wouldn't help me if I needed reading glasses. Yes, I really do feel like it's a miracle!

I totally agree with the previous posters. DO NOT let her get a Hysterectomy/Fallopian tube(s)Ovaries removed, she will go into full flegged Menopause. She will be worse off, because then, she'll have to take hormones and those in any amount is not a very good outcome. I, as well as countless other women, have had a procedure done, called "Edometrial Ablation". It was for me, the best thing I ever did. My heavy bleeding subsided and after that, I only had a few periods and then nothing, but I'm 55 years old, so I'm pretty much done with periods, Thank God!!! Please have her look into this procedure and if her Dr. won't consider it, then find one that will!!! Good luck to you and yours!!!