WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR NOVEMBER 2016
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Good morning lovely women. I have a goal today and it is a simple one: Be kind, compassionate and thoughtful.
No self punishment with food or talking myself out of exercise. I will stick with my meal plan and my exercise goals today.
Love, strength and peace to all of you. I am so lucky to have this group to check in with for support, encouragement and to share the ups and downs of life! 
NYKAREN
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Hello, ladies. Am so sad this morning and just not sure I have the gumption to do this social media stuff anymore, but I am going to continue to log my food. I am really going to just try to hold on while in my bunker mental state. Will try to exercise and be kind to people. I would love for more people to friend me so we can support each other that way. Maybe I will get over this black mood but today is not that day. Said much the same to my FB people. Would love to somehow stay in touch with you lovely ladies! If you feel broken this morning you are not alone--hugs!
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Good morning all! Happy Wednesday? Thank you all for the words of support. I have been talking to DH about it; his initial reaction was not optimistic (as I had forseen), but as we kept talking and I told him that I was scared and why, he took the opening and said everything will be fine and said the nice things that we want people to say. ("you are the strongest person I know...you have conquered so many things...you will handle this the way you have handled every other obstacle") I am really, kind of proud of him for jumping into that support position. I have spent so many years being the "support person". DH hasn't had to be that in 24 years. He was that person when my parents passed in '93. Gives me warm fuzzy feelings!
Well, it is going to be an interesting four years. That's all I have on the topic of politics. Walking and running has always been my stress reliever, if anything, maybe I will have four years of excellent exercise habits due to the election results.
The kids made some really cute turkey sun-catchers yesterday. It is a new craft, as I haven't done this one in years past. I covered a four inch plate with plastic wrap then the kids glued little squares of colored tissue paper to it (yellow, orange, blue). We then glued a brown "turkey tail" outline out of construction paper over the tissue paper. Then glued a brown paper turkey head complete with eyes, beak, and wattle to the base of the turkey tail. AFter they dried I trimmed the excess plastic wrap off. They are very cute and the sun shines through them so nicely when hung in the window.
LOL! Took me a while to get that picture taken and uploaded to my computer. Kids arriving! Love and hugs to all who need them! P.S. to Lisa- Paper is out! perhaps a little down time?
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oceanmelody wrote: »Hello, ladies. Am so sad this morning and just not sure I have the gumption to do this social media stuff anymore, but I am going to continue to log my food. I am really going to just try to hold on while in my bunker mental state. Will try to exercise and be kind to people. I would love for more people to friend me so we can support each other that way. Maybe I will get over this black mood but today is not that day. Said much the same to my FB people. Would love to somehow stay in touch with you lovely ladies! If you feel broken this morning you are not alone--hugs!
Betty
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Good morning everyone
Another beautiful fall Day! So some more crushed rock will get moved.
Lillian in West Central Saskatchewan1 -
Walked over 13,000 steps yesterday so more than burned off my shrimp and grits. Here are a couple other things we saw. This morning headed north to Charleston. How far to Canada?
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Chiropractor really helped my back and sinuses. Mood better but still grumpy. Going with my DH for pneumonia shots today. Flu shot made me sick this year. Hope this won't be so bad. Selfie on walk. I think I have a fat face.
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Oceanmelody I am so disheartened that I'm sick to my stomach...trying to focus on my husband's PT app't today after back surgery & another followup with his medical oncologist to get his latest scan results. It's been 27 months since he finished treatment for epiglottis cancer & everything has been fine so far but today I'm feeling a good deal of trepidation...everything seems topsy turvy. One thing for sure no TV for me.
Deep breaths & focusing on kindness & caring of my fellow human beings
Lois in the North Shore of Ma
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Oceanmelody I am so disheartened that I'm sick to my stomach...trying to focus on my husband's PT app't today after back surgery & another followup with his medical oncologist to get his latest scan results. It's been 27 months since he finished treatment for epiglottis cancer & everything has been fine so far but today I'm feeling a good deal of trepidation...everything seems topsy turvy. One thing for sure no TV for me.
Deep breaths & focusing on kindness & caring of my fellow human beings
Lois in the North Shore of Ma
deep breaths & focusing on kindness & caring for my fellow human beings!!3 -
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My good wishes to everyone over the pond today.
DH has just gone out in a big huff "to have his hair cut" after we had a row. We were trying to sort out the loft, where we have stored lots of things that I find difficult to make decisions about. There are lots of archived papers and books that represent different stages in my life, manuscripts of old books I wrote etc. etc. I went up there with him and agreed to start with a few boxes. I asked for his help and understanding as I tackled a difficult task, but he let me know that he thought I was being unreasonable and difficult and there was no room in our new house. So then I escalated and said I had hoped he could support me through it at this difficult time and then he said I never supported him in his difficulties (!) , so I said I wasn't moving if he was going to be like that, so he's run out, as usual.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
I really do feel I don't want to move if it's going to be like this.
And what is it I don't support him with? ? ?
He usually takes quite a while to calm down so I'm expecting the rest of the day to be awkward.
Double grrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
As I've been writing this I've just remembered that November is always difficult for him as his previous partner died around now. He's always much more sensitive at this time of year. I always forget and he never says anything. I wish he would remind me.
But I need help too. My archive represents for me all my hopes and dreams that I could have been a famous writer and the kind of author that people wanted to preserve an archive for. I know that isn't going to happen, but there is that little tiny breath of life left in the idea that I can't quite let go of. Him rubbishing my stuff is a bit like him saying I am no good and not worth a bit of floor space. My life's work is there.
OK, finished with that rant. Hope he comes home soon.
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Heather I have reams of stuff my mom and my sister wrote. Someone suggested taking the time to scan it and then get rid of the paper...haven't done it, but find it a hopeful plan. I hate paper mites and mouldering old paper...however, I understand wanting to hold on to the original manuscripts. I have a friend with a wonderful way of whittling down. She spreads it out in piles around her and picks the 1 or 2 most precious items/stacks and lets the rest go. I so admire that.1
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(((Kelly)))
Rita love fall pictures. I worry how my face looks when I take a close up too!
Janetr thanks for sharing your trip with us beautiful weather, too! Margaret 1 -
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I am saddened and worried by the outcome of this election. Who will champion the interest of the 50+ population? Education? Children?
Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon
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oceanmelody wrote: »Hello, ladies. Am so sad this morning and just not sure I have the gumption to do this social media stuff anymore, but I am going to continue to log my food. I am really going to just try to hold on while in my bunker mental state. Will try to exercise and be kind to people. I would love for more people to friend me so we can support each other that way. Maybe I will get over this black mood but today is not that day. Said much the same to my FB people. Would love to somehow stay in touch with you lovely ladies! If you feel broken this morning you are not alone--hugs!
Betty
Huge hugs Betty hope you feel better soon
Kate UK
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Re – Thanks! We are all glad that he is still fighting. Now has had some small bites of food and drink. Everybody wonders when they are going to let him have his PB&J sandwich for breakfast; and when they are going to let him put ketchup on just about anything else. When that happens … we’ll know we have him ‘out of the woods’ for sure.
Patceoh – Actually, it teaches them ‘how to communicate’ better; rather than ‘spelling out every word’ as the alphabet; then ‘learn’ that certain multiple signs say a lot more, and, a lot easier. Grandmother would normally take 11 signs to say it; but, instead they make a motion to their forehead with their thumb – it is basically 4 more years of a learning lesson for them. She made her choice to go there after seeing the ‘sit-in’ the students had when the school wanted to hire a ‘hearing’ Dean. Students won out. She watched it on TV; turned to her parents and said, ‘I want to go there’! So they made the arrangements, she had to go up the summer before to learn ‘signing’ as her parents (mostly her Daddy) wanted her to ‘read lips’ and ‘talk’. If you did not know her, people generally thought she just had a speech impediment. I don’t think it is cruel, it is just a fact of her life.
She and husband sign; but, they also speak at the same time, especially when dealing with their ‘hearing’ children, who have learned signing. Her sister and her children have learned. My sister knows a little; but, BnL has never wanted to learn; but, he has never really wanted to admit that she is deaf. Of course, they could speak when they went home and sometimes 'if' they were talking to a ‘hearing’ person. They were not just standing around twiddling their thumbs. They went to the same ‘core classes’ that any college student takes. She is deaf because oldest sister contracted German measles in her 4th month. She has no physical defects; but, regardless … she still would have been born and loved and taken care of. One of her friends also got pregnant, but, was earlier in her pregnancy; her child is both deaf and blind and goes to school in St. Augustine (they moved down to be close to her). Since then, sister has found out that no matter how far along she might have been in her pregnancy, the chances of the baby being deaf or having a hearing loss was very high. Niece has always been very animated and ‘vocal’. Once when her Papa was dipping out creamed corn (which they both loved) she said, ‘that’s enough, Papa’. Cracked up the entire table. She wore her hearing aid when she was a child in a pouch in the front; with wires going to earpieces; if Mother or Daddy stopped while strolling her … she would just pull them out when she got tired of them talking to whoever stopped them. “Time to GO!” I’ve got several books on signing; would love to know how; but, unless you learn it as a young child or adult, I think it is hard to do. They have classes at one of the churches and I might see what is involved in taking the course. Our DMGD is learning it, on her own. Jeanne Robertson has a hilarious skit about her husband (“Left Brain”) deciding it would be good for her to learn it, so that she would not have to pause if there was a need for an interpreter for the death in her audience. I’m sure by now she has either put it on a DVD or on YouTube. We took sister and BnL to the show when they came down to spend the night before we left on a ‘sisters’ trip. I thought my sister was going to fall out of her chair, she laughed so hard she was crying. If you have the opportunity to try to see if it is on YouTube, you ought to watch it; also one she is famous for it ‘sending husband to grocery store to pick up items for pound cake’. She is a really good comedian … true life events and NO nasty words. Refreshing!
Janetr okc – PAULA DEEN!!! … she used to live in Albany before she moved to Savannah, GA. She also weighed a lot more until she found out she was diabetic. She has a cookbook for her recipes that she has had to make for herself and diabetic followers. You probably could not tell, if nobody told you.
Cheri – All 3 of my B9 lumps were milk ducts that were stopped up. I had milk in my breast for years after my last baby nursed.
Katla – I have a friend who lives in Florida (or did); just the same lives now in Alabama; but, they changed the time for the polling booths to close for Florida so that they did not ‘call the state’ before those in the Panhandle of Florida had gotten a chance to vote; so they close now at 8 o’clock EST.
Michele – Liked your friend’s post. True! Funny … someone had to really be on the ball to come up with that one.
I think this country (USA) will always have a 'few' hiccups at every election when the party changes. I think it will work itself out, like it has seemingly done over the past few decades. It was a pretty nasty campaign; and, I hope we can now 'move on' and work together and most of all, communicate. Some people will never like that a Republican won; others would not have liked it if the Democrat had won. But, as it was said today; we are ALL Americans first. We need to try to try to act like it. IMHO!
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DH came back, I gave him a big hug and said I was sorry I always forget it is November. He cried a bit and then we had a cup of tea. I think we are ok now. I said I wanted to do something nice for him, so I'm making him a six inch rich fruit cake with my left over ingredients. Now he won't have to wait until Christmas!
Maybe he's got the message about treading lightly on my old dreams.
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Hi!
So we had our annual physicals this morning. First time with this new physician. Suggested we get a home blood pressure machine. Mentioned Omron as a good brand. Any suggestions ladies? Was checking this one out on Amazon for $65-Omron 10 Series Wireless Upper Arm Blood Pressure Monitor with Cuff that fits Standard and Large Arms (BP786N) with Bluetooth Smart Connectivity by OMRON. I asked about my weight issues. He agreed my BMI was too high. Queried me on my eating/exercise habits. Suggested I stay the course with the understanding that the Celexa I take for depression may be a huge culprit in the lack of weight loss. Ugh. He put in scripts for my overdue colonoscopy and mammogram. Gave a recommendation for a local gynecologist. Had some bloodwork drawn. Really liked this doc. As well did the hubs which is critical as he hasn't been to a doc in over 5 years.
Other than that I have been keeping my social commitments. Feeling a bit down these days. Hubs thinks it's the change in seasons. Have been getting in my 15 min. of light therapy each morning. Will see if that helps. Don't want to increase the Celexa but will if it helps me get through this SAD seasonal stuff. Debating whether to drop membership at Planet Fitness and join the local Sr. Center which holds a Forevercise class M-W-F from 130 to 3pm. They do stretching, aerobics, strength training and yoga all geared towards the "older" body. I will take one of the classes first to see it it's a fit.
Our home up in Ohio has still not sold. Keeping hubs up at night. Thinking of lowering the price to a rock bottom level and letting it go! Hubs is walking around vowing we will never buy again. Renting life for us. While I agree on a certain level I just don't know...once the house sells and he calms down a bit we will discuss in seriousness what to do down here. We are renting this home through next August so have some time.
Thinking of all of my friends here as we continue together on this journey called life. Hugs, love and prayers to all!
Cheri
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I shall be your ray of sunshine!!!! Goes with the fact that I am the "sunshine gal" for our TOPS group, (sending cards to people). I think all we CAN do effectively is be nice to one another, be the person you wish to have listen to you, and heck smiling takes less muscles to make than frowning! I think of myself as a mirror for the world to be reflected back at me. If I smile, then I have smiling people looking at me! Makes the world so much better right? (((((((((((((((((group hugs the lot of you!!!!)))))))))))))
Love you all really!
Becca
Happy in her happy place on the corner of
Happy and Rain in
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we had our first estimate of this tiny bathroom fix. Back story. Our tiny master bathroom has had a leak around the o-ring and the commode is very unstable and has leaked on the floor. Charlie loves carpet and took a piece of carpet on the floor many years ago. So he doesn't use this commode. We have 3 bathrooms in this house and he will not trust the downstairs bathroom so it is storage room, his bathroom is inoperable due to the commode so we have a small hallway bath for anyone who comes into the house. He has an ileostomy and when he empties his bag it STINKS because the stool hasn't gone through the small intestine only and really stinks. So when we have company he is emptying it and the waft of odor is right next to the living room and kitchen plus right across from my bedroom. He has told me several times that I can buy a new commode and vanity, last night he was extremely adamet that he ever said that. So to compromise, I promised that I would ask the guy whether we could keep but fix the commode and vanity. And yes they can. The only thing that will be needed to the vanity is a new toe pick since the damage to the floor from the leaking commode only damaged the toe pick. Biggest expense will be removing the old floor and putting in a new one. So for about $500 we can get our bathroom back.
I have another guy coming out this afternoon to give another estimate.
Oh, and Charlie is getting ready to change his ileostomy bag again. Good day for me!
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Becca - I can never figure out why if it takes fewer muscles to smile then why do our mouths naturally frown? Do you think it's a gravitational pull? That said you're right if we smile others smile and sometimes that's all it takes to make someone's day! (especially today)
Gloria in WA practicing smiling because the alternative is depressing!3 -
Cheri my husband has the Omron upper arm cuff & has found it much more accurate than the wrist ones he's had previously. As a Type II diabetic he records his BP twice a day & also checks his meter with Joslin's when he's in for his twice yearly visit. Wish I had Forevercise here sounds like it might be a good program to add...hope it is!
Becca I for one accept your hugs, I surely need them right now, thank you, you too klanders I'm practicing my breathing...so are a lot of others that I talked to today.
According to physical therapist my husband needs to stop all PT for awhile, too much too fast, he's exacerbated his bruised nerve which is causing the increased pain he's experiencing. He's really bummed about it...his microdiscectomy surgery was a month ago but his injury was more than 2 months before & was severe so therapist says it's going to take months not weeks to get back to normal. He also has scoliosis & spinal stenosis so may be facing fusion down the line.
Barbie so glad you are experiencing a much quicker recovery! Your very physically active which should make it easier but so was he.
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Cheri I swear by my Omron Intelli-sense arm cuff model BP786. About $60 from amazon. It Stores data for 2 people, has a big display and I am proud to show you my bp right now!!
How bout that! I went and exercised, I was grateful and energized by every student today and I am not looking at social media or news outlets for the foreseeable future. I will heal. Great to check in with you all.
NYKAREN
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It is a pretty day here in paradise and I spent an hour or so shoving logs out of the marina. To do this, I use a long pole with a point on it and choose a chunk of debris that is shaped well to use as a pusher. Then I stab the chosen pusher with the pointed end of my pole, and slowly push the debris in front of the pusher down the finger of the dock and into the river channel. There is lots more to do but I'm winded and I need another person to help. This is actually heavy work. Right now I'm resting in the comfort of my own kitchen. 2
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Monday
Stronglifts Workout A
Squats- 5X5X 65
BP-5X5X 55
BR-5X5X 55
I did a serious deload because of my shoulder injury. I did not have any pain during the exercise. However, two hours later I experienced severe neck pain. I was able to relieve the pain by going to the hot tub and then icing. Because of this I took Tuesday off.
Wednesday
Kettlebell Swing
Goblet squat-3X5X 30
Russian kettle bell swing-10X7X30
So far no pain!
Mary from Minnesota3
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