WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR SEPTEMBER 2016
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JanetR: Glad you're going to the doctor...that looks nasty!
Kelly: Love the pic!
Penny: Great news on the employment front. It's good to hear from you!
Meg: Glad you're still lurking..I know all about those struggles to get on track.
Lillian: Paperwork..ugg..at least you have a wonderful celebration planned for when it's complete. Might make it worth it
Heather: It amazing how different individuals perceive an event,perhaps DS and DDIL really enjoy the challenge of renovations.
I've been considering buying a spirializer does anyone use one or have a recommendation?
Have a good day ladies,
Carey-Northern Alberta1 -
Karen back in Virginia and sleepy1 -
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Doctor took a look at my left leg and said I've never seen this before, I'll have to go research it. Then she lookef at my right leg and said oh, it's a fungus, you don't normally see it this widely spread. (Of coourse I don't do anything normally!!) She gave me an Rx for an oitment and put me on steriods. Said to use the ointment for at least a week after I can no longer see them. We have no idea how or where I might have gotten it.1
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JanetR, WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU?! That looks extremely serious. Something like that would take me to the ER. Let us know as soon as you know.
Carey, I bought my daughter a spiralizer and they love it.It was easy for the kids to learn it and it was cool for them to make things out of vegetables that look cool to eat.
I got up at 7 AM to call the doctor's office and it is 3:30 and have not heard back from them. But I am beginning to know that's what you get out of this office, well a lot of offices. Even my PCP. You call and leave a message in the morning and they call back after the office closes at 4:30. I would hope that if I were still having the problems I was having over the weekend and felt so crappy that they would have answered a little more quickly. I don't understand that I have taken my normal AM 2B/P medicine and my reading is basically the same now as it was when I took it. I feel I am taking all these medicines and they are polluting my liver and kidneys but not doing any good. My sister went through a similar problem several years only hers was much higher than mine. They put her in the hospital with a heart monitor, took her off all of ehr B/P medicine and let her system cleanse for 3 days and gradualy started new ones.
JanetR, i see you were writing the same time I was. To me that looks like something more systemic than localized and you need a steroid you take orally so it would get on your system.
Joyce, waiting in Indiana0 -
Janetr - i'm glad that they found out what the rash is. Now you know you can get rid of it.
Mary from Minnesota1 -
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happy mon,hugs jane0
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Hello. My name is Connie and I have been backslidden from MyFitnessPal & Healthy Eating for quite some time. I am "once again" starting anew. I have got to lose weight for my health. I have so far to go that it is discouraging. Why is it that when you try to eat healthy that FOOD is all you think about?! I am disgusted with myself. I have a super pcp who is very supportive. I know that negative self talk isn't going to help me so I will try to get encouragement here. I also have my son and future daughter in law who will help support and encourage me. I will just TRY not to get to overwhelmed and take just one day at a time.. continue to tell myself that I didn't get this way over night.. My uphill climb starts... I am in Eastern WA State.
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Joyce, the doctor did give me an oral steroid too. Hopefully it clears up quickly.
Thanks
Janetr OKC (heading to Missouri in the morning)
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Janet, glad you went to see a doctor and they have prescribed ointment for you! My mom used to get a rash every time she trimmed the bushes in the front yard. Were you pruning something recently?
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Janet, I was going to say what Becca has just said - my mum used to get that sort of rash near lillies! She loved flower arranging and had loved working with lillies - in the end she had to make do with growing pots of lillies in the garden and not touch them. She moved on to poppies and I remember the amazing poppy displays she used to do for the church. As she died on a Remembrance Sunday (poppy day in UK) I wear poppy jewellery in tribute now as her memory is synonymous with poppies.
Maryann in UK2 -
Hello ladies..I'm Becky...I am 52...wow..52...fighting menapause and that wonderful weight gain. Does anyone else battle this?0
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Hello all: DH and I went to a patriotic concert last night. It was quite good, an Everett group called Summer Aire. They describe themselves as music junkies who can't stand that choirs, etc. quit for the summer. so they get together to sing through the summer and do a concert in the fall. Our choir at church has not started yet because our choir director is the announcer for the local minor league baseball team and they are in the playoffs.
I also am an avid reader. I like book clubs because they stretch my horizons. I nearly always have a book in progress.
Pip - Sounds like you and Kirby had a marvelous ride and the weather could not have been better.
Charleen - The Christmas tree skirt is gorgeous.
Marcelyn - Thinking good thoughts for you. Waiting is so hard.
Janetr - Glad you found out what that rash is. Hope it heals quickly.
KJ - Wow, That picture of the pier looks very professional. I love the composition.
Becky - We are all battling this. Welcome to the group.
Meg - Glad you dropped in even if only briefly.
Everyone take care, Sue in WA2 -
Janetr I do hope that treatment does the trick. There is a rash that looks a lot like yours called erythema multiforme that is sometimes caused by an infection or a drug. (((Hugs))) Keep us posted!
Karen in Virginia0 -
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Carey - If you have a KitchenAid mixer, the spiralizer attachment is the best! I love mine, use it quite a bit, and got it on sale on Amazon.
Janetr - I hope you feel relief very soon.
Marcelyn - sending prayers your way, hope you hear something very soon.
Loved all the pictures from all your trips, family, and projects. This is a very active group that motivate me every day to get up off the couch and get something done!! So glad I found this board.
Melissa in South FL
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JanetR, so glad you are also on an oral steroid.
Sue, my Dad who was very patriotic loved the patriotic concerts and I seemed to be the only one who wanted to go with him. So I very proudly went with him. I loved and respected him so much, if he was patriotic then I was to. Although it shouldn't take much for a person to be patriotic. But when the concert played the songs of the different branches of the military is my favorite part of the concert. I can very proudly stand up for the first branch and stay standing through each one. That's how many branches we heave represented with our family. Now my nephew who has ADHD joined the coast guard and wasn't in it long before his commander called my sister and said we are sending home. He is just not wired for the military. Bless his heart he tried to stay off his Ritalin, he didn't even let anyone know he had been on it. But i also just love the songs and the emotion it gives you. My husband loves to sing God Bless the USA and puts so much emotion in it.
Well, the doctor's nurse finally called back, 2 minutes after we left the house. The message? The doctor will discuss my medicine with me during my appointment on Friday. GRRRRRR Compassion.
Joyce, Indiana0 -
Heather: Congrats on doing your writing today & getting your exercise done! I'm sorry to hear that your DS and DDIL are under pressure from their busy lives. I remember those days, too. I didn't have the nasty commute until after the kids were grown and & we moved here. We've owned 3 homes in our years of marriage, and remodeled two of them while living inside "the project." It was definitely stressful but I look back on those days fondly. I hope your DS and DDIL are eventually able to feel the same way. :flowerforyou:
JanetR: I hope the medicines work right away to make you more comfortable and they get rid of the fungus asap. (((HUGS)))
Connie from E WA: You are in the right place for support. This process does require a certain level of determination and quite a bit of patience. In my case, that has translated into stubbornness and meticulous calorie counting, both calories in and calories out, (CICO). Right this minute I've come to a spot where I'm up a little bit and have to get my discipline working again.
Sue in WA: The concert last night sounds like a good time. We've had concerts every Thursday this summer, but none have been patriotic music. I'd like to hear that. The last concert is done and there won't be more until June. It is something to look forward to next year. :flowerforyou:
We had an early dinner tonight. DH made an old favorite that is very high calorie. They were burritos that used Mission Wraps. The wraps are high calorie all by themselves. I had one wrap, and for seconds I made myself a salad that included all of the ingredients except the wrap. I loved it. Next time I think I'll skip the wrap in the first place and go with the salad idea. I might add a few crushed corn chips for crunch.
Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” Thomas A. Edison
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Hi Gals,
So many of us are readers… I think I am going to add a sept. goal to read a book and do a VERY short review of it and post it for us… maybe it will help us decide what to get at the library next… It would be really fun if I was not the only one…
Tracey – Coyote and other wild animals, they have learned to live with us with many of us not knowing they are there. Levi (my dog) and I walk early leaving 5-5:30 for an hour or so, on the edge of an open space, and we have seen racoons, deer, skunk, quail, coyote, fox, turkey.. and for the most part if they are not cornered they want away from you even before you can get your camera out… Coyote do look a bit like a dog, the ones here are tan – pointed ears – lean, (not thin – strong and lean) and one hand clap and they are gone.
Heather - communication with them might be the key.. just asking of all the things you can think of we could do to help you out (babysitting, limiting our visiting to certain days, moving closer, doing some freezer meals…. ) what would help you out the most? As they have kinda sent mixed messages, asking if you are moving closer, and asking that you cut short a visit….
Becky – we all are/have/or will fight that… but we will win.
Joyce – I feel your frustration… hugs.
September Goals:
2 fun things a week, Lizard saving, gardening in my own yard, Lunch with Kyle
Read and report on a book
Log everyday to the best I can, over if need be.
11,000 + steps everyday
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Smiles.
Kim from N. California
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Wow did I fall off the wagon this weekend. No regulR meals and late dinners. Ugh. Ok time to put on my big girl panties (literally) and just do it.
MEG - so good to know you are still a MFP lurker. Take care of you.
Janet - I get rashes like that when I get poison ivy. I can just touch DH's clothes that he wore in the yard and get it. Take care of yourself.
I haven't read everything about the book conversation but I highly recommend, The Light Between Oceans. The movie just came out this week.
SueBDew in TX
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stats for the day:
ride hm 2 gym- 11.18min, 15.6amph, 146mhr, 2.9mi = 121c
SPIN- 42.54min, 86r, 88w, 9-16g, 134ahr, 148mhr, 18.1mi = 359c
ride gym 2 dome- 6.34min, 12.9amph, 132mhr, 1.4mi = 69c
ride dome 2 hm- 16.21min, 9.4amph, 155mhr, 2.5mi = 176c
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well peeps, it's all done! the MS ride is done! someone mentioned that they couldn't imagine sitting on a bike for 4 hrs, lololol... the calorie burn that i did was not as much as i was hoping for. but as you may know, the more you are fit, the less you will burn because you burn more efficiently. that was only the 60mi route, we normally do the 80mi one so i would have been sitting on the bike longer and burned more!
AND NOOWWWWWW gotta start up with the running again for the marathon in november! at least no fundraising on that one. once a year fundraising is enough for me. we do other fun runs but we only pay our registration fees and don't fundraise for them.. my legs feel fine after that ride..
this is what i wrote to the MS society today...
He felt very positive and not nervous at all, (I on the other hand….)
He started out behind me, but I kept looking back to make sure he was still there. I asked him to ride beside or ahead of me. I figured as long as he is ahead of me I will see if anything happens or comes up. That’s all I needed to say… before you know it, he was riding further and further up until I lost him. Usually, we never stop at the rest stops (except for deception pass, for the quick lunch) but he stopped at the first one for a bathroom break. Then he was gone from then on, I was so happy knowing he was out there doing his thing. We usually did the 80mi route on day one but he opted for the 59mi route, unsure of how his body would take it. I ended up w/13.2amph and he did 14.4amph! I was so happy for him!
At the speakeasy get together, we were sitting down and he was going to get something to eat, later he told me that his right leg wouldn’t lift up to walk (got hit on the right side), after a bit, then he was able to walk, his brain got the connection to walk I guess.
Day 2 we usually did the 54mi route but he wanted to do the 26mi route. He wore a shoulder compression sleeve that he decided to wear because he wasn’t sure if he would be sore because of being in the same position from the day one ride. There’s this big drop that we would have missed. I asked him if we could just go down that drop then make a u-turn to go up the hill and continue to the 26mi route. Well, once we got down, there was this kid around 12-13years old that had the same idea. He said his dad was waiting at the top of the hill. So we started up the hill. I wasn’t racing so the kid passed me and was going for Kirby. I saw that they were neck in neck and I smiled and said to myself, he IS NOT going to let a kid beat him up the hill and sure enough, he beat him LOLOLOLOL…. On day 2 I ended w/13.9mph, and he got 14.3mph…
We are so happy when we come here, the support and positive support is always so great. I have posted the utube video of the ride and it gets me choked up every time. I am so glad that he has this ride to look forward to, this organization is an inspiration and a great example to other rides and fund raising events5 -
Hello Rapturous Readers!
I, too, read a lot - but, I only read trash... lol. I run thru phases of trashy romance, murder mystery, sci-fi and fantasy. I almost never read anything enlightening... But, I couldn't manage my current exercise regime without my trusty tablet... If I can't take my mind off to somewhere else, it focuses on the fact that I am SWEATING (ick) and warmer than I like to be... and breathing hard....and I have a really, really hard time getting any reasonable amount of movement in. WITH my book - 45 minutes on the elliptical is a breeze... so, yeah. Gotta have my book.
I am still getting caught up after the joys of last week - but, I wanted to check in and say "Hi."
Had a good weekend, food and exercise-wise. In my normal life, I am naturally and Intermittent Faster. I have never been a fan of breakfast, in fact food repulses me for the first couple of hours after I get up - but the window for eating (because of having to go home and feed DH) is longer than I would like - about ten hours. On the weekend, I can do a couple of days at 20/4 - which seems to help keep my body from getting too "settled" into any particular rhythm... and so far, the scale is liking it - and I am liking it - because on the weekends I can eat a truly glorious meal (nachos, pasta, whatever) and not be over calories - cause I just eat the one meal. I might eat a small snack later in the evening - but it doesn't bother me one little bit to fast all day at home and then eat one meal.
It does bother me at work - don't ask me why - but, when I go into the office - I start eating around noon - and finish up when I get home - so I am done with food by about ten.
Still haven't given the belly dancing vids a proper run - but, I will. I really got those more for fun than for exercise - and this weekend I just wasn't feeling the whole "get up off the couch" thing.
Taking Baby steps with the kettle bell. I find it easy to get up and go to the gym - but, doing things at home is a little sporadic. Home is the place where I RELAX... So, I will just keep chipping away. I figure every set I do is one more tiny bit of strength for me. Hopefully, if nothing else, I will get into the KB habit when I visit my folks in the first week of October. I won't have a whole lot else to do, there... except swim, if it isn't already too cold, so, I will probably try to impress my Mom with my fantastic kettle bell prowess... lol. I figure a few more sets a day can't hurt me... at least not using the ten pound weight.
And that is all I know. Still busy this week - so I may not get to make full replies to everyone - but, I will do what I can. Even if I am not speaking directly to you.. please know that I am thinking of all my friends with health issues and sending healing thoughts and love. I am enjoying all the wonderful pictures and suitably impressed by all your achievements.
Hugs for everybody!
Re in TX
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Thank you everyone for the encouraging words.
I'm not quite making the goals that I set for myself but I am trying and I am increasing some. So hopefully by the end of the month I will be at my goals.
I enjoyed everyone's remarks and I love the pictures I think they're great.0 -
Thank you everyone for the encouraging words.
I'm not quite making the goals that I set for myself but I am trying and I am increasing some. So hopefully by the end of the month I will be at my goals.
I enjoyed everyone's remarks and I love the pictures I think they're great.
Barb Bee. Indiana
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Frankiesgirl21 – One thing that probably keeps me from jumping on a large trampoline like my granddaughters used to have was that my MS broke 2 bones in her back; cracked them. Was out of commission for about a month.
Linda/IA – One of my former HS classmates and her husband celebrated her birthday 2 days earlier by going to the Towers. Sorry for the loss of your friend.
Janetr okc – I’m glad you are going to the MD in the morning, too. That looks painful!
Penny - My oldest sister used to make homemade bread; lots of work, very good, but I would not do it no matter what. Just give me those good old yeast rolls like we had when we were ‘in school’. Sometimes we can find them at the local Piggly Wiggly … usually in a bin or one of the endcaps.
MA_B – Glad that your friend’s son made such a great recovery. I had a bad wreck and had pins and plates in my ankle as well as my left arm. It is badly scared because it almost got taken off. It bothered me enough that for a while I wore long sleeves or 3/4th sleeves to hide it. Now, I don’t worry about it. It’s there as a reminder of how ‘blessed’ I am that I was not killed in it.
Tracey in PA – We have coyotes are here (out in the country in SW GA). Coyotes run in packs (usually) and follow the Alpha dog. When you ever hear them bay; they will scare you to death - they make awful sounds. I’m sure that like a lot of ‘stray’ wild animals, they go to where they find food. Being in town might be a little strange; but, my DDnL#2 took a picture of deer outside the salon she works in, and it was right in the middle of downtown, in the old part of Natchez, MS. Any place they have a section of woods, means that you can have ‘wild animals’. When we lived in town, we had a family of raccoons living in a dying live oak tree at the back of our property. Woods all behind our house due to a ‘green space’ where nothing would ever be built because it was a ‘wetland’. The husband of the lady who cleaned our house, would come over and trap them and then take them out into the woods where they used to run their ‘coon dogs’.
Lillian – If I could find another one of the mini-trampolines, I would be quite tempted to buy it. Great exercise and not bad on your knees … I have an ankle that was broken and crushed; not sure if I really need to actually get on one, because of pins and plates.
Becca – I watch the movie about the plane that went down in PA to avoid being flown into the White House or Capitol. It was really moving how the passengers called their family members knowing they’d never see them again.
Heather – I have 2 sons; one lives next door, not right up our fannies, but, close enough. He is the one with 3 children; one by a previous marriage; that DDnL#1 makes it difficult for us. DYS and his new wife and her daughter live in LA. DDnL#1 is very jealous of DDnL#2 … and she is always posting things on FB that my DYS gets really angry about. Usually some smart@$$ remark about me. At this point, ‘quite frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn’ as in Rhett Butler in “Gone With the Wind” would say; … but, knowing she does this just makes it harder for me to do anything other than ‘just enough to be polite’. DYS and DDnL#2 and DGD#4 are still in that “getting to know all your quirks” out of the way. They’ve only been married a year and a few months. We spent 10 days with them at the end of the month and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. She is trying to get pregnant; but, it looks like they will have to go through IVF to succeed. Right now, they are looking at several thousands of $$$ to do tha; and $3-400 a visit - with having to drive to Jackson, MS every few days the first 3 weeks (or so). They’ve also thought about looking for land to build a house on. She’s finding it hard to deal with not being able to get pregnant. Her co-workers tell her that she needs to NOT try so hard or to think about it so much; but, that isn’t something easy for anyone to do when they really want to have someone’s baby. The problem is that her ‘tubes’ are almost totally blocked. She told me that they were going back to the specialist in Jackson … and then they will decide if they are ‘good candidates’ for the procedure. I guess they also consider the age of the people who are trying to conceive. She feels like she has failed DYS; but, he tells her ‘no, I have a daughter in this marriage’. I know he’d like to have a baby; but, it isn’t the end of the world if they can’t. He will not consider adoption, at all, unless the opportunity was to arise to adopt his step-daughter. DDnL#1 isn’t making the situation very easy; she usually has some smart@$$ remark to make or questions to ask (on FB - directed at DDnL#2).
Janetr7476 – I had a place inside my ear that I would pick at; MD cleaned it off with Betadine and then gave me a small jar of it and then gave me an Rx for a Betadine ointment. What a mess! He froze off a place on my left breast that he has been watching; and a couple of spots off my back. The breast did not hurt; but the place on my back about killed me for the rest of the day. Felt like I had had a needle jabbed in my back.
Joyce – I don’t know about where you live; but, after Noon on Fridays, you cannot ‘buy’ a MD or dentist … you have to go to the ER if you have any problems. This past week, because of some ‘tests’ that my GYN performed on me … balance and shaky hands … he called the Neurologist for an appointment and was told that since I was already an established patient; I needed to call and make the appointment. December 15th is when I already had my yearly appointment then. I’m glad that it isn’t being deemed ‘important’ enough to get a sooner one. They’ve put me on the ‘call list’ in the event they have a cancellation. I told her that since I am on a driving restriction from my last seizure; I’d need a day ahead notification. She said that would be how it would be done. They’d call me the day before.
Have you ever said or done something you wish you could swallow back those words? I asked my DDnL#2 something about I.V.F., saying that one of my friends son and DnL had gone through it, got pregnant; but, they did not have to pay what she told me it would cost where the live. I think it is awful that MDs charge what they do, simply because there aren't that many of them. I know 'Life's NOT fair'; but, I know I probably only hurt her feelings by asking questions. Her Granny is dying and she had to go start making the funeral arrangements. We did that before my Mother died ... so much better than trying to do it right after someone passes away, when you know ahead of time.
Hocky-snocky ... my touchpad just started working again, even though my mouse is plugged in; my cursor is all over the place and I am deleting things left and right ... damn this pisses me off! I have Windows 10; surely there is a way to disable the damn thing (again). But, at the moment not finding it very quickly. It just started doing it, too.
Lenora - "Open Mouth; Insert Foot"0 -
Janet, glad you went to see a doctor and they have prescribed ointment for you! My mom used to get a rash every time she trimmed the bushes in the front yard. Were you pruning something recently?
Becca
No, the only time I'd even been out of the house much inthe last week or so was loading up the motor home. Which is just across grass in the back yard.
Janetr okc0 -
Janet, I was going to say what Becca has just said - my mum used to get that sort of rash near lillies! She loved flower arranging and had loved working with lillies - in the end she had to make do with growing pots of lillies in the garden and not touch them. She moved on to poppies and I remember the amazing poppy displays she used to do for the church. As she died on a Remembrance Sunday (poppy day in UK) I wear poppy jewellery in tribute now as her memory is synonymous with poppies.
Maryann in UK
Thanks for sharing that storie. What a beautiful tribute to your Mom.
Janetr okc0
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