Hi Ellen, I love your show, and everything you stand for. I love that you like animals, they are my favorite thing in this world.

I was wondering if you knew of a good place to move where people are kind to people and animals. I am living right now in Sebring, Florida. I have Obsesive Compulsive Dissorder, my mother is pretty old, and I am taking care of her as well.

I have live in Florida for so long, and I can not take it anymore. I would love to move to California.

If you could email me some good ideas on how to make my move I would love to hear it. I am really bad at moving.

If you do not answer me, that is quite fine too. I know you do not have much time to handle every email.

I love you Ellen.

Love California too.

Ellen,

This is too weird. A few of us just launched a business start up to market a product called NoBruise! I came to your web site to find a way to contact you because of your bruising incident with Chris Matthews.

I know it was all in chest, I mean jest, but it did look like it hurt. I was going to write a post on our blog, Bruise-Control.com, but thought I'd write to you instead.

I don't know if you read all your blog posts, but if you do, we'd love to send you a sample or 200 of the NoBruise towelettes. It really works.

Since everyone tells you what a fan they are of yours, I'm not going to be a copy cat. I just want you to know that I sat at the front table when you played Mark Ridley's Comedy Castle in Royal Oak, MI. I think it was in 1990. Do your remember me? I remember you. In fact, that tripping routine where you're trying to be casual had me on the floor. Then you pretended you were flicking away a bee and you started dancing all a-kimbo.

Hey. speaking of bees, I bet people get bruises and swelling from bee stings. NoBruise works on swelling too.

Anyway, I'm getting a swelled head just talking to you like I know you.

Best of luck in discovering the truth about unexplained bruises.

Sincerely,

Nicolette Beard
Houston, TX

Sorry about the bruise but I'm still laughing at "Anonymous". You know he's right. Girrrrl you had better get rid of that wheel barrow before somebody (YOU) really gets hurt. Feel better and don't pick at it. Love You, Pat in Charlotte

Hey, Ellen,

I'm always bruising myself one way or another. Several years ago I came up with two acronyms for my bruises, and I thought you might enjoy them. A "BOMO" is a "bruise of mysterious origin" - what you have now with your wheelbarrow-shaped bruise. A "BONO" is a "bruise of known origin" - where you obviously remember striking something hard enough to leave a bruise. (And, yes, I realize that "known" starts with a "K," not an "N," but I went with the phonetic for ease of pronunciation.)

So if you wake up one morning with a bruise and have no recall of what you did to hurt yourself, you would say, "Wow, I wonder how I got that BOMO." Conversely, if you wake up with a bruise and specifically remember the series of events that led to your slamming into the corner of a table, say, you would reflect, "Wow, I knew slamming into that table would give me a BONO."

So there you are.

Also, Arnica (an herb) will help your bruise resolve faster. You buy it in a liquid form and put it on the bruise.

Cheers!

Hey Ellen,

When I was in college we used to call bruises that just appeared on day UDI'S (Unidentified Drinking Injury). Get up in the morning call your girls up and ask how did I get the UDI on my but last night?

Love the show.

-New Hampshire fan.

This is a postscript to an earlier comment I just sent.

The dances you view on YouTube are classic dances from the 60's: They are 1). the 4 Corners, 2). the Camel Walk, 3). the James Brown Skate mixed in with the Scotch, and 4). the Funky Walk...and are self-taught.

But, I was raised in the same neighborhood as Jimi Hendrix (all his friends are mine.. even though they are about five years older). I was also a close friend and student of Bruce Lee of which I have pictures of he and I..when I was eleven years old.

Again, please view my video on YouTube.

Sincerely, Roger Kay

Please see dance video of Roger Kay in Hilo, Hawaii on YouTube.

Hi Ellen,
KNowing what a loving animal person you are, I'm sure your bruises are playful bruises of love caused by your animals. They love you so much they jump on you and cause the bruises. Of course
they are just showing affection and what a better way to bruise.

Hi Ellen!

Sorry to hear 'bout your bruise...maybe you can take a 'pic' of it & put it on ebay! Then, take the $$ & donate it to Brad's charity. Sound good?

Take care--Love you & your show--Lori.

DON'T REALLY KNOW WHAT YOUR ON ABOUT WITH THE BRUISE THING, MAYBE CUZ I'M ONLY 15.

WHAT I REALLY WANTED TO SAY WAS THAT, ELLEN I THINK YOUR REALLY GREAT AT WHAT YOU DO AND I WISH I COULD BE PART OF THE AUDIENCE BUT I LIVE IN THE UK AND I GET SCARED IF I GET LOST UP MY TOWN(MALL) SO VISITING AMERICA WOULD BE SCARY.

YOU PROBALY NOT READING THIS, BUT SOME OTHER ELLEN FAN OH WELL

LOVE LIFE PEOPLE!!! ZARA XXXX

I can really relate to the whole "mystery bruse" thing ... i'm trying real hard to be a tom boy but not goin that good but some times i get in the shower and i see i have a cupple of big cuts and what not so i'm all like ohh yah im cool

A wheelbarrow could bruise anyone, but a ride on one which a person can't specifically recall later could kill someone over 50! Better ship that thing to New Orleans where people need it for the purpose for which it was intended and are unlikely to keep it in a bedroom!

Oh, you Hollywood types!

I love your show and I am 11. I Tivo it everyday! (It's on at 10 A.M. here) My gymnastics coach said you can get it a long time ago, the harder the hit, the longer it takes to surface. Just a thought. Love your show!

Bruises are also like banana's too. How do you bruise a banana? Do you drop it? Do you hit it?
On the outside it looks ok, it is yellow. Or you can buy them green then they tun yellow. On the inside it has a brown SPOT. Then it turns brown. Then it turns mushy.
Whats up with that?
Why is there a song using banana's
Fanna, Fanna, bo banana, fe fi fonana
banana. Why?

Ok Ellen, Can't help ya w/ the wheelbarrow (I dont' think I even own a wheelbarrow), but if you really have mystery bruises, you need to ask your doctor about them.

Take care of yourself.
When you hit the middle aged days(I'm there too) there are mystery aches and pains and ailments youth don't have.

However, the nurse in me who read your posting wants you to get checked out by a doctor if you are having new bruises. It's probably nothing, but ya never know, and we need you 50 more years dancing and smiling at us in tv land.
Take care.

Hi Ellen! I get "mystery" bruises and even cuts usually. Yay we have something in common. Lol just kidding. It's really funny coz when I get mystery bruises/cuts and I don't see them, I'm fine. Then, once I see I'm bleeding, lol I just feel the pain. Ouch! Lol... Anyhow, I've joined O's class, and I am becoming aware (I'm in the process). Thus, bruises & cuts are no longer a mystery to me now. :P Lol. Take care. Enjoy Florida. :)

Ellen, I don't get the bruises as much as I get mystery aches and pains. I go to do something or move a certain way and "ouch". I can never figure out why I am hurting, then days later I will remember-----"oh yeah, I hit my elbow on the doorway" -- or something like that. So, I guess my real problem is forgetfullness. It gets worse and worse all the time. I am 48 now (49 on 4/21). I hate to think what it will be like when I am 60. - Tim Dye

ELLEN! i was sitting in my chair at work today and i put my arms on my head leaning back on my chain (yes i'm very busy at work) and then i looked at my art and i have a bruise in the inside of my left arm and I HAVE NO IDEA WHERE IT CAME FROM. I wish i could post a picture.. mine looks like a lady bug. (i dont recall running into one 10 times its size) it looks kind of cool though! hhmm.. i cant even retrace my steps on this one... NEways.. good luck with yours!!!

Hi Ellen,we love your show.We would love to come to one but like many people, we don't have enough money.But,we still watch you.We also have something in common,we both love animals.I say that because 1 morning my mom went to take our very strong dog out to go pee. My mom didn't realize there were joggers outside,and our dog is very protective and so, he tried to protect her from joggers and pulled her into the street and broke her wrist in 3 places and crushed one bone.Westill have the dog (Bowzer) after about 3 weeks.So, as you can see,We REALLY love animals.Bye!

maybe it was the Hawaii chair!!!