WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR DECEMBER 2015

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  • miriamwithcats
    miriamwithcats Posts: 1,120 Member
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    Doobie doo, my pysical therapist has me start out doing five minutes on a Unistep. It is like a reclining stairstepper. He sets it at an 8 out of 10 effort, and I only do 5 minutes. You want to strengthen your muscles without a lot of repititions, so short periods of HARD effort are what you are looking for. I sometimes go to my Y and do 10-15 minutes set at 8, now that my muscles are stronger. And I am having WAY less pain since working with him. My surgeon had said only swimming since I have bone on bone, but he was WRONG. I also work out in my hot tub, sitting in the footwell and doing arm movements. Then holding on to the edge and doing kicking movements (up and down AND side to side AND a modified bicycle motion). Strengthening the muscles support the joints. If you only have arthritis in your knees, you can get one of those arm bicycle things to work your shoulders and arms. He also suggested doing some with the weight machines at the Y, walked me through. Again, hard work but not lots of repititions.
  • miriamwithcats
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    Beth, I was just talking with someone who told me how NOTHING in Germany was accessible. I mentioned how ALL builders should be looking at universal design features on ALL buildings so those among us that are less physically able can easily get through the day, whether it is from a disability or old age or a broken leg! My house, the downstairs, is accessible but for a three inch step to get in. It doesn't look like much, and actually isn't for someone in a regular wheelchair but it is a hurdle for someone in a power chair (the weight of the chair) and was terrifying for a fellow I met and had over who had muscular dystrophy. He was able to get up it with some help, but the fear of falling when he landed after stepping down was overwhelming to him. I had to stand in front of him so he could hold my shoulders as he stepped down. Able bodied folks don't even think about these things. For those of you who are wondering what universal design, it is building in a way that is accessible, so no steps or thresholds, wide doorways, turning room in the bathroom (5 foot turning diameter), grab bars by the toilet and in the shower which is without a threshold as well. Handles are levers rather than knobs. Sinks with room underneath for a wheelchair (no console). It isn't more expensive to build houses this way, just takes a bit of effort in the design. And more architects are developing building plans incorporating these designs.
  • janetr7476
    janetr7476 Posts: 4,001 Member
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    Rosie "Slept for 9 hours last night and feel tired today, still recovering from my case of shingles I guess."

    What did your shingles look like and feel like when they first started? I kept telling DH last week that my skin hurt, felt like it was being stuck with lots of little needles. So then I started with some little red bumps that itched and hurt, now I have some of them going from the middle of my back (low below my waistline) around to the left side and down to my pantie line almost in the middle of my left leg. It is not a continuous line, just several clumps of hurting itching bumps. I called my doc but I can't get in until Friday morning. This is the last thing I need with a houseful of company coming for Christmas weekend. :(

    Janetr OKC
  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,383 Member
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    Katla - your coughing sounds like DH. We too are sleeping apart. :ohwell:

    Had an interesting evening. :noway: I went out to the same place as before as DH wasn't eating. They greeted me like a long lost friend. I started on the meal and then came over all faint and queasy. I could hardly eat a spoonful! Eventually I recovered enough to walk home, but as I neared the house I was in the process of "*?!#×+". Made it up the stairs and into the bathroom by the skin of my teeth! It must be the same bug that DH had a week ago. Hope I'm not too bad tomorrow for the journey home. :'( He took a few days to get over it.
    What a pair we are!

    Love to all, Heather
  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,383 Member
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    Janetr - ring him again and tell him you think it's shingles. You need anti virals asap. Insist. <3

    Heather
  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 16,753 Member
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  • terri_mom
    terri_mom Posts: 748 Member
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    Beth - I have my boot ready for kicking if you are ready to boot me. I haven't succumbed to the desire, but the carrot cake in the break room is calling me from the other side of the building. It must leave me alone !

    Doobiedoo - 14 ? ? ? I barely have time for 1, and I send him to school daily. Good for you being able to homeschool. Just do your best possible of taking care of you ! I am allowed to ride the bike, as long as the pain is not too severe. My Physical Therapist says to ride longer with no tension, as the OA and RA will be worse with more intensity. There are also plenty of upperbody exercises out there, including chair aerobics. I have increased my handbike time to12 minutes starting today. Again, no resistance, as we don't want to increase the damage to the joints. Try out a few, and hopefully you will soon find what you like.

    Grits - Congrats on the great loss ! ! !

    Gotta' run again, work is getting crazy and I'm seeing a movie tonight so I have to try to get out on time.

    Hugs for Everyone ! ! !
  • janetr7476
    janetr7476 Posts: 4,001 Member
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    Heather - I am so sorry you have taken I'll now too, ugh, no fun for a plane trip home.

    I did tell the receptionist this morning I thot it was shingles. I'll call back in the morning and ask for the nurse or doctor. It's so irritating that there is no such thing as good service any more.

    Janetr OKC
  • margaretturk
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    DH doctor visit went as well as could be expected. He will be going on an oral cancer medication that is targeted for his cancer. At least he does not have to come in to do Chemo. No surgery yet. Thanks again for all your support and prayers.
  • bwcetc
    bwcetc Posts: 2,783 Member
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    Thank you Karen, Pip and Terri! I managed to eat slightly better today! At least my stomach isn't hurting from overindulgence.

    Miriam ... Being glutened sounds awful. Hope the effects are minimal this go round. We should all consider universal design ... None of us is Peter Pan!

    Doobiedoo ... God bless you! 14 kids!

    Husband asked me to write a Christmas wish list ... He is a last minute shopper ... So I wrote diamonds and then polar fleece sleep pants and pot holders. Let's guess which gift I'll get?

    Have a good evening!
    Beth
  • Annr
    Annr Posts: 2,765 Member
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    MFP Advent Calendar
    Dec 15th~ The star came down at last to rest, above a stable door.
    The travelers saw many animals and straw upon the floor.

    Beth~ No stressing during the holidays! Eat to not being hungry, but not until you are full. Think of eating healthy is a gift you can give to yourself. Picture this (I Do)....a slimmer body with a bow on yer head! At every holiday event don't bring anything, just state in a loud confident voice.....
    MY PRESENCE IS YOUR PRESENT!!!

    Then family usually rolls their eyes at me and bows clumsily... hahaha.

    To me, holidays are NOT a time:
    -to bake items that will just land on my hips anyway.
    -to buy stuff for the sake of buying, because manners dictate me to do it.
    -to be extra friendly and come across as false.

    To me holidays ARE a time:
    -to appreciate my friends and family
    -to buy a couple of gifts for my immediate family but that is all we can afford. Not to buy beyond my means.
    -to let the holidays happen around me, but not get swept up in the commercialism of it all.
    -to reflect on all that I am thankful for.

    I say all that because of the lady that was in the news buying 88+ gifts for EACH of her 3 kids. Is she on crack? Granted she buys throughout the year, but why not give the child what you bought in March to the kid...in lets say MARCH!!! Why wait until Christmas? When my teenager wishes for a game or pizza outing, we plan for it. If we are at a book store and are able, we always buy him books. Of course, he thinks its awesome that he has actual cash to go to the diner across the street from the High School and buy himself a hot cocoa. Simple pleasures not OD'ing on gifts.

    http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/generous-mum-slammed-buying-300-6980582

    This is the time of year I wished I lived "off the grid" and simply like Laura Ingalls Widler on Little House on the Prairie....

    Becca
    Oregon




  • miriamwithcats
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    terri mom, How funny that your PT and mine are completely opposite in their approach. I wonder what the research shows. I do know that I am almost completely free of knee pain since starting with him, whereas before there were days that I could not walk a block. I wonder if the difference is that you also have RA where mine is simply OA from untreated celiac. I was tested for RA when at 50 I was bone on bone but do not have it.

    Becca, when we lived in Idaho, when my boys were little, we were more or less off the grid - outside a town of 200 people. I reject consumerism and tell my girls why. Point out to them how wasteful it is and how the waste and its disposal is ruining our planet. My girls are smart and completely understand what I am saying, so have no problem with it.
  • pipcd34
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  • Sunnygirl_2015
    Sunnygirl_2015 Posts: 184 Member
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    janetr7476 wrote: »
    Rosie "Slept for 9 hours last night and feel tired today, still recovering from my case of shingles I guess."

    What did your shingles look like and feel like when they first started? I kept telling DH last week that my skin hurt, felt like it was being stuck with lots of little needles. So then I started with some little red bumps that itched and hurt, now I have some of them going from the middle of my back (low below my waistline) around to the left side and down to my pantie line almost in the middle of my left leg. It is not a continuous line, just several clumps of hurting itching bumps. I called my doc but I can't get in until Friday morning. This is the last thing I need with a houseful of company coming for Christmas weekend. :(

    Janetr OKC

    Mine where painful along the nerve path from in the crease where my right boob lays to around to the middle of my back. I only got one small patch of the rash because I went to the Dr. for the pain very early and was kind of in shock when he said I had shingles. I thought it was gallbladder that's how bad the pain was. He prescribed Zovirax a antiviral pill- one pill three times a day for seven days. You take them with food.

    So here's my shingles story. I had lots of pain on my upper mid section and along my rib cage going front to back, but only on one side of my body. When it first started I felt ill and slept as much as I could for 2 days. Seemed to feel better then lots of pain in my midsection returned. Next came the tingling numbness feeling, that's when I called the Dr. on Friday after thanksgiving. The rash appeared on Saturday. Saw the Dr. That Monday. The rash is itchy but hurts at the same time, and it is raised and scaly or flakey like chicken pox. I'll try to post a picture.

    Before medicine

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    Today

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    Good luck. The antiviral helped the rash and the pain so much.

    <3 Rosie
  • janetr7476
    janetr7476 Posts: 4,001 Member
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    Rosie, thanks so much. Mine is just on the left side and does hurt but not as badly as you describe but enough I've been taking Advil. They do not look blistery at all just like a rash but in clumps like in your picture. The pain started Thursday, the rash mostly yesterday with more this morning. Have felt pretty nauseous all afternoon. There are about four or five clumps now. Put my robe on and laid on the coach all afternoon.

    Janetr OKC
  • Sunnygirl_2015
    Sunnygirl_2015 Posts: 184 Member
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    Janet is there some type of urgent care facility you can go to so you don't have to wait so long to see a Dr? In my area they stay open till 8pm. I think you have to catch the virus within a a few days of first seeing the rash for the antiviral meds to work.
  • mollywhippet
    mollywhippet Posts: 1,890 Member
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    Thank you all so much for all your support. It means so much to me!

    Today was a pretty good day. Hubby went Christmas shopping with me. There ARE Christmas miracles! I got several gifts but I'm not finished yet.

    Tomorrow I have to start a completely liquid diet in the morning, then after I take the dogs to the vet and all three kids to the eye doctor, we will drive to Kansas City where I will have to start my MoviPrep for the procedure on Thursday morning. I sure hate drinking that stuff, but it's got to be done. Hopefully they can fix the problem easily.

    Not much else going on here. I'm goofing off.

    Good night everyone.

    Sylvia
  • janetr7476
    janetr7476 Posts: 4,001 Member
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    Sylvia - Hope all goes well on Thursday. Will remember you in prayer. Sending good thots.

    Janetr OKC
  • exermom
    exermom Posts: 6,401 Member
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    Did 30 min HIIT on elliptical (30 sec sprint, 30 sec recovery) and then 15 min on the rowing machine. The plan for tomorrow is to do a Gilad Elite DVD. I thought I did this one before, but maybe not.

    Mary - someone in Newcomers was telling me about those things you put on the pan. I'd never heard of them, either. Guess I'll try making one cake and using aluminum foil (she also suggested this) around the edges, I don't know how that will help, but who knows?

    Sylvia - I firmly agree with Joyce, dogs have an intuition. I remember when I was pg with Jessica, before I got pg our old english sheepdog (all 120lbs of him) would pull me like crazy. I started to take him to obedience class and suddenly he stopped pulling me. I thought "fantastic, he's finally getting the idea". then I found out I was pg. Right after that he started the pulling when I'd take him for a walk. It was almost as if he "knew" he had to be protective of me, I didn't know that I should be careful. But as soon as I knew, he went back to his old ways.

    janetr - sending packages by printing out the mailing label at home (and it's cheaper), sending email -- and they wonder why the post office is losing business! Really, that retirement thing is what's doing them in

    Heather - hope you and hubby get better fast!

    Alison - I've been meaning to ask you, how did they determine that you had plantar faciatis? It's almost ALWAYS muggy in FL!!! The bad thing is that it can be warm out, but with it so muggy, it feels chilly. So it's a problem as to how to dress.

    kimses - I really haven't lost in a long time, either. And at this time of year, I'm just happy staying around the same and not gaining too much.

    Carol/Peach - yes, sometimes I do sit down. Only problem is, when I do, I usually fall asleep....lol

    Tomorrow we have a Board meeting for the Newcomers. I made some magic cookie bars for the gal who we reserve the conference room from, so I cut them up and put them on a plate to take to her tomorrow. After the board meeting, we will probably go get a gift certificate to O'Charlie's for Ken & Lynette (I know Ken likes his steaks) and then go to the MD to get our shingles shots. Should there be any reaction, it will probably be over by the time christmas comes around.

    Went to PetSmart today, then WalMart (yes, again), then Lowes Hardware. After exercising this a.m. went to WalMart, then bought gas, then stopped at the Y to fill out the chart (I'm sure I'm not going to win the FitBit but it should be interesting)

    pip - you and Kirby GO GO GO

    doobiedoo - I agree with Katla, swimming for those knees, no impact at all (or very low if you exercise in the shallow end)

    Miriam - It must be so hard to eat out. I know my daughter is severly allergic to coconut. If it's in the air, she has a reaction. At restaurants she's had to ask to sit at a different table if the person next to her has something with coconut in it. I can hardly imagaine what you have to go thru with flour -- it's in so many things.

    Heather - so sorry you're sick, but glad you made it to the bathroom in time

    Becca - I totally agree with you. Vince is much more commercial than I am. I would rather give just a few gifts that I may have made or that I know the person really wants rather than something "just to give them something".

    Michele in NC
  • mtowne002
    mtowne002 Posts: 152 Member
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    JanetR it is most DEFINITLEY shingles! Go to the ER if you can't see your primary tonight! I had one of the worst cases the drs had ever seen and I was only forty. They can be brought on by extreme stress. I was incapacitated for weeks. Oh please take care it sounds like your developing a more than mild case.

    Heather I LOVE all the pics! Now I want to go get my hair washed w a scalp massage! Margaret's advice is "spot on"?as you would say? My career was in periodontal research and bacterial adhesion at Harvard before kids. Big job. Managed the directors lab very posh lots of foreign research award winners, travels to conferences, lecture giving....had my name on a few papers too but CRS as my two year drinking binge started in my late twenties.

    Sylvia I am so sorry for the pain and challenges you are facing. I think both Mirriams and Mary's advice are honorable choices. We as a group will stand with you however you choose to act.

    Elaine I don't think I have officially welcomed you? WELCOME! I like reading your posts!

    Grits congrats on the loss!

    Thanks everybody for the kind words about my pics. Went for checkup yesterday..waiting for blood panel results to see if lowering statin meds could be done. Going to Dermatologist to have a tiny ugly spot on my nose checked out to be safe. Primary thinks it benign.

    Yikes. Came back to this partially written post I'm amazed it's still here! Plugged my iPad into my Mac Pro and it que d me to start an update so I did and it froze mid update...had to contact app,e support and have them fix it w me required a system reboot. Can't believe this post is still here..barely remember it and CRS about what else I was going to say . Ug. Sorry ladies. Hope your all having a healthy, heart warming night and for those who aren't know I am thinking of each and every one of you and hoping for all to be exceedingly well as Becca would say!

    PS ty for all the nice mentions of my pics

    Mindy in Boston

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