You are all so wonderful, thank you for all your support, caring, and prayers. It truly does mean allot to us. I'll make sure to remember about "crying in the shower" and I'm taking Jeanne's little message to heart for sure. I didn't learn much new yesterday--but was very upset by the way the doctor presented information to me. I'm not ignorant and I've done some research--what I wanted was ways to cope with where we are now and suggestions on preparing for future changes and how best to help DH. What I got was a whispered "doom and gloom" dialoge which excluded my DH almost completely. Looking back, I should have stopped her asked for our copies of the papers and gone home and waited to discuss them with his regular doctor. On top of that, the paperwork was obviously a form already on her computer and used for other patients because one section says "her" repeatedly because she obviously forgot to change that part to "him". I guess I am naive to expect paperwork specifically prepared for DH. I hope the test results will be helpful to our doctor in some way, but right now I feel like they were a waste of our time! Oops! Sorry--guess I just needed to vent. I am learning as I go, but I now realize that my job is to care for and protect my DH in every way I can----even if it is from rude, inconsiderate specialists! Enough said--on with the fun decorating that I love. We'd better hurry, Valentine's will soon be here! Thanks for your caring and comforting words everyone, thanks for being there during my "meltdown". Today is a new day and "what doesn't kill us just makes us stronger", right? Luvs

Hi Melle - The member names that end with _gw are because the GW member name was already in use on Houzz. It could be the same member who might have an account already on Houzz or the name was already taken. The good news is that even if you can't claim your original name, you can still have it display on your posts by going into your profile settings (top right corner of the page - click on 'Your Houzz') and scroll down to 'Display Information'. Search can be found at the top of the page. Hi Maddie -- If you look towards the top of the page, just above the title of the post, you'll see a breadcrumb trail in green. If you click 'Home Decorating' it will bring up the list of posts in the forum.

There IS still a way to search just your individual forum! Somebody figured it out several days ago on RMG! Go to the search box on top and type in what you want to search for--a drop down menu will show up with several options for what you want to search. I'm not sure if it's always the first option (for me it has been), but look for the option that has your search words and (in this case) "vegetable gardening" after them, then click on that option and it will search only this forum. I just tried it with "carrots," and it worked! The drop down menu works on Firefox and on Safari IF you have Java enabled. Not sure about other browsers, but I assume it works in any of them as long as Java is enabled. Happy searching, Skybird - from Rocky Mountain Gardening!

I was very well aware of how to do it and have been doing it since forever, but today it did not work for me. It always worked for me on GW, but since I can no longer access GW and am forced to use Houzz, it does not work for me. I'm using Firefox and Windows 10 on a desktop computer. Thanks, Carol, for suggesting Chrome. It does work for me on Chrome, and so I guess I'll have to start using that browser for GW, since I cannot access it on Firefox.