Asking for prayers or positive vibes today for my friend, Tom.

@Gibbon Thank you for your prayers! I am very sorry about Vickie.

@Gibbon I have never even heard of Goody's powder before...but how awful! I gave myself ulcers when I had a broken tooth and could not get into see a dentist for over a month. One of my friends told me that ibuprofen was my friend, and I took so much of it I ended up with THREE ulcers! Thankfully, they have mostly healed on their own. I have to be very careful though, and I can't take NSAIDs.

I am happy that the last part of Vickie's life was happy, with you.

@4meAndyou I feel lucky. I had a bad case of costochondritis with a lot of chest pain and was taking 800mgs of ibuprofen 3 times a day. How i didn't get an ulcer I don't know. But that inflammation is caused by stress as far as I know and when I got divorced it all went away. And this was my first wife and and a stress free divorce. I can't explain it but obviously something about was subconsciously eating at me. I never held any I'll toward her but done was done. I learned that she passed away in November 2020. We were the same age so she was 66. I'm guessing it was covid from what her brother in her eulogy. He said after a sudden short illness shortly after moving to North Carolina. The timing for covid would have been right

@Gibbon I had costochondritis once. It's an inflammation of the lining between your lungs and your rib cage. It's sometimes caused by coughing. I was still smoking cigarettes when I got it.

@4meAndyou mine was between the ribs and sternum. I was smoking then but had no cough. There are many possible causes but in my case I'm convinced it was stress and anxiety. While it subsided after divorce work was related also. But I was feeling stressed in the last years of the 14 yr marriage but I can't say why.