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Yahoo! Today is exactly 4 months until my ROR wedding! I am so excited at how quickly it is coming and I am in full wedding planning mode! I can't wait!!

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Lisa, I'm sorry to hear you are going thru tough times but you should be SO proud of yourself for making the decision to leave your FI. You are so strong and courageous. I agree you SHOULD go to mexico! You deserve it! Good luck selling your OOT stuff. In fact, when you decide to post your items PM me and I will take some stuff off your hands for you. take care and chin up! We are all here for you and supporting you 100%.

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There is a Facebook group started in support of Tim Mclean(the victim) and his family. Its called, R.I.P Tim Mclean. As far as I can see it was started this am after his name was released to the media. Last I saw around 8'oclock pm CST there were already over 17,000 members!! It gave me goose bumps. I just thought I would mention this in case anyone was interested.

I agree! It is too bad something like this has to happen before security policies are implemented!

The thing that confuses me is...What is Greyhound's security policy? Do they have one? I mean, if you even look crooked or heaven forbid you have an extra tube of lipgloss in your carry-on, you cant get on a plane(ok I'm exaggerating a bit for effect!). But you can board a Greyhound bus with a hunting knife in your jacket? I'm so confused! What is their policy for passenger safety. It could have been a lot worse. He could have killed the whole bus full. Im just sick about it. Imagine that poor boys parents,getting the news of their sons brutal murder.

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Finally, Thank you, someone else who gets night sweats before their period. I was starting to worry I was alone. Ya, Im gonna have my Dr. look into it .

Quote: Originally Posted by kevsgirl I hadn't and that was just sick. It's totally like a movie. I can't believe it. I wonder if they knew eachother at all or if it was totally random. It is so surprising up in Canada too First the bird in the mailbox (in my city) and now the beheading. What happened with the bird in the mailbox?

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I watching the news and this was the top story. Really scary and so sad! I cant believe it happened. Its like something from a movie.... Thursday, July 31, 2008 BRANDON, Man. - Screaming passengers fled in terror from a Greyhound bus as an unidentified fellow passenger suddenly stabbed a man sleeping next to him, decapitated him and waved the severed head at horrified witnesses standing outside. The apparently unprovoked assault left 36 men, women and children stranded Wednesday night on the shoulder of the darkening Trans-Canada Highway near Portage la Prairie, Man., about 85 kilometres west of Winnipeg, watching while the bus driver and a driver of a nearby truck shut the crazed attacker inside the bus with the mangled victim. At a media conference Thursday afternoon, RCMP confirmed they have the suspect in custody, but offered few new details on this baffling homicide. "By the time the police arrived, the driver and the remaining passengers had all safely exited the bus," said Sgt. Steve Colwell. He said officers could see the suspect walking around inside the bus, but said he refused to exit. The standoff lasted for hours. "At 1:28 a.m., the suspect . . . attempted to jump out of the bus after breaking a window. He was immediately subdued and arrested without incident and is currently in RCMP custody." The names of the victim and the suspect have not been released. "He didn't do anything to provoke the guy. The guy just took a knife out and stabbed him, started stabbing him like crazy and cut his head off," said Garnet Caton, 26, a passenger on the Edmonton-to-Winnipeg bus. "Some people were puking, some people were crying, other people were in shock . . . everybody was running, screaming off the bus." Caton said the attacker was only on the bus for a brief period of time, after boarding in western Manitoba. Witnesses described a nightmarish scene inside the bus. "Everybody got off the bus. Me and a trucker that stopped and the Greyhound driver ran up to the door to maybe see if the guy was still alive or we could help or something like that," Caton told CNN. "And when we all got up, we saw that the guy was cutting off the guy's head. . . . When he saw us, he came back to the front of the bus, told the driver to shut the door. He pressed the button and the door shut, but it didn't shut in time, and the guy was able to get his knife out and take a swipe at us. "He hadn't got off the bus, and the door was still open . . . he started walking to the front of the bus with the head in his hand and he just looked at us like this - and dropped it on the ground, totally calm . . . "I got sick after I saw the head thing." Caton said he and other passengers prevented the attacker from getting off by threatening him with makeshift weapons - a hammer and a crowbar. "We were telling him, 'Stay put, stay put, stay there, don't try to come out.' He tried to get the bus working and the bus driver disabled the bus somehow in the back, I'm not sure how he did it, and at that point, I think the police showed up," he said, adding officers rushed them away. Caton and other passengers said the attacker and his victim, who was listening to music on headphones, were sitting together at the rear of the bus, and the attack appeared to be unprovoked - no words were exchanged. Caton described the man who attacked the passenger as about six feet tall, 200 pounds, possibly Asian or aboriginal, bald and wearing sunglasses. He seemed oblivious to others when the stabbing occurred, said Caton, adding he was struck by how calm the man was. Caton said the victim boarded in Edmonton, was aboriginal in appearance, was wearing hip-hop clothing and appeared to be around 20 years of age. "When we saw the head, we knew he was dead," he said. "I don't think the guy knew him at all. I think he was really crazy . . . the poor guy, he didn't see it coming." The passengers were later taken to Brandon, Man., to be interviewed by police and to stay overnight at a hotel there. Crisis counsellors were also at the hotel to provide support to the passengers, and counsellors could be seen chatting with them outside the hotel as groups went out to local stores for snacks or to smoke cigarettes. One small boy, who was with an adult man and woman, was given a plush teddy bear by a crisis health worker. Another young man from Nova Scotia sat outside the Brandon hotel smoking around 3 a.m. Visibly shaken, he said RCMP had taken 36 witnesses in for questioning into a detachment approximately 100 kilometres east. "I felt bad that all the young people and old people had to see that," he said. "The first thing I heard was something like a terrible type (of) yowl and that was from the guy who got stabbed," said an elderly woman on the bus, from Winnipeg. The woman and her adult daughter said they were three or four rows in front of the suspect when the attack began. "(My daughter said) 'Oh my God,' and everybody else started screaming," she said. "They had terror in their eyes." Speaking in Quebec City, Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day said the issue of safety on buses may need to be examined more closely once the legal process of this case is over. "We're never closed to looking at how Canadians can be more safe and more secure," Day told reporters in Quebec on Thursday. "This particular incident, as horrific as it is, is obviously extremely rare." Greyhound spokesman Eric Wesley, speaking from Texas, said drivers are trained to get help as soon as they can when incidents occur. "This is very rare, unique occurrence. Bus transportation is one of the safest modes of transportation. This is highly unique that something like this happened," he said. "Our drivers are trained to provide the safest travel for all our passengers, and every time an incident occurs they know to pull the bus over and call 911." Two other passengers on the bus, a 22-year-old man and 21-year-old woman from France, said they were heading to Winnipeg after visiting the woman's father in Whitehorse. The 22-year-old man said in French that he saw a man holding a long knife repeatedly stab another passenger. He and his girlfriend said they were shocked by the attack, and the isolation in the middle of the prairie when it occurred. "There was nowhere to go," she said. The Greyhound bus spokesman said counselling will be provided and monetary compensation will be determined on an individual basis. "We are going to do whatever we need to provide the passengers with counselling or any other measures to make sure they're taken care of," he said Thursday My heart goes out to all of the passengers on the bus, to the innocent victim and of course his family! What a terrible random act of violence.

I forgot to mention, I had my thyroid levels checked too and they were also normal and they did a HGBa1c and that was normal too. so as you can see, Im baffled by these "once-a-month-night sweats! its crazy. you would think my IUD should prevent my hormone levels from dropping off before my period? I dont know....I'm stumped...maybe its just a less common symptom of PMS.

Thanks for all of your advice. I know its not TB because as a Health Care Provider we get tested every year for TB and I am always negative. Of course premenopause crossed my mind but the fact that it is so patterened with my period and not at all random through out the month convinced me that is probably isnt menopause. When it first started happening I was on Birth Control Pill, so I went off and had a IUD inserted hoping it was the pill scewing with my hormones. But it continues to happen with the IUD. Im pretty sure I had my Dr. do hormone levels on me and when no one contacted me saying the results were "out of wack" I guess I assumed everything was fine. I know everyone experiences PMS differently I am just hoping that someone else out there is also experiencing these"night sweats" before their period. I think maybe I will go get my hormone levels checked again, just to be sure. I dont know what else to do.

This is sorta a personal issue but I thought I would ask, cause maybe I'm not alone in this... Like clock work about 1-3 days before I start my period I wake up at night with horrible night sweats. Like I'm saying completely soaked! PJ's and sheets! I usually wake up shivering because of it. I have to get up and change into dry pajamas. I'm usually too tired to change the sheets in the middle of the night so I just wrap myself in a dry blanket and settle back to sleep then wake up in the morning and wash the bedding. Then as soon as I start my period....the night sweats are gone....until next month! It started happening about 2 years ago...it just took me a while to realize the pattern and connect it to the few days before I start my period. Could it just be hormones? Does anyone else experience this?

I have waited my WHOLE life to make that entrance! I don't want to be seen by FI on my wedding day until I'm making my walk down the aisle to become his wife

I worry about the humidity too! My hair isnt curly but its does have random wave and what FI& I affectionately call "Mad Cow-licks Disease"! I use a flat iron everyday to smooth it out. If its humid, my hair will frizz up like a Q-tip! I'm hoping to be able to wear it down for the ceremony... guess I'll have to buy the Drug store out of "Frizz-ease before I go! HA!

Great question! I was wondering this too.

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I saw it and it made me giggle. The guests were so shocked. Its awesome

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I love it!!!! You did an awesome job. really super great idea!