WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JANUARY 2017

oceanmelody

Allie, WE know you did a great thing. Sorry you are getting flak about gas of all things.

Michele, I will say a prayer for Jess--we could both write books on the things kids say and the things they don't say!

Heather, glad you are on the mend!

Joyce, I think everyone gets denied 2 or 3 times for SSD from what I hear--sounds like a policy they have. It is a mystery to me.

Lenora, so sad to hear about the storm damage. Glad you are okay!

Bad sleep night, feeling draggy, hard to focus, oh well...

Betty

tryingtolive1

Karen thank you for the recipe for the cauliflower pizza crust going to try it this weekend. Sound like it will be tasty.

Anne from Wisconsin

kevrit

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spikeyhair

Kate UK

cityjaneLondon

Hi all!
I slept some of the night, but kept getting woken up by griping/stabbing pains in my lower abdomen, around the bladder area. It was painful. The worst thing was the dizziness that barely enabled me to get to the loo. Then the toilet nearly blocked up!
In the morning I gave in and had a good cry. Of course, DH was very upset by that. I gave DH the insurance company details and he rang them. They said to just call a doctor and keep the receipts.
The doctor was out of central casting, but very pleasant. He spoke no English! !!!!!! Boy was I grateful for my Spanish! He said I was full of gas and he could give me something to cure the dizziness.
I have four prescriptions, two which he said were for the symptoms and two for the actual problem.
I'm going to look them up, but after DH got back from the pharmacy I took them and went into a deep sleep. One is a pain killer, one an anti gas, one a thing to cleanse and restore and the other is for the dizziness. I've had to make a timetable for taking them.
I felt a lot better when I woke up.
DH went out on the city tour and came back enthusing about the Mayan civilization. He went to the museum and saw wondrous things, including jade heads. Now he's having lunch. The nice ladies in their embroidered dresses are cleaning the room around me. I feel almost human.
The doctor said I could eat anything I like, so I had a few chips. DH is bringing me boiled rice. I've eaten a banana. One of those tablets lines your gut with a yellow waxy substance, a bit like after my gallbladder op.
If I can get in the shower I might take a few steps outside later today when the heat has died down. I am still in my old clothes and my hair is a freak show. :noway: I haven't been able to stand up long enough to shower.

Love to all of you and thank you for caring.
Heather in beautiful Campeche.

pipcd34

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Peach1948

HEATHER ~ Sending you good wishes for a quick healing. So glad you went to see the doctor.

We spent over an hour trying to figure out my earnings for selling vintage jewelry. I made less than $200 for the year and am ready to give up. Evidently, there is a glut of vintage jewelry on the market and even the coveted designers are not going for great prices. Will just pack it all up and wait until the market gets better.

Carol in GA

kevrit

gotu52

Hello everyone
Kevrit Congrats on the loss
Deb in PEI "last 10 lbs" - wow, way to go although I have heard that is very hard, never been that close yet
Margaret Bless your heart, teaching is hard and even harder when you are in pain
Tracie hope yr app't went well
Jolene glad you are back and don't be so hard on yourself
Mary your keto challenge sounds very challenging lol!
Wally love your resolutions especially the last one
Yvonne I hear you, that was me this week, it is very disappointing
Betty hope you sleep well tonight
Heather oh my what you are going through I hope you are on the mend

Improvement on the treadmill this morning but can't seem to shake off the weight even though I am staying on target. I don't know if it is hormones, stress but it is hard when I don't see some weight loss results. And I believe that it is not all about the number but some of it is I think my new focus is getting unstuck!

Have a great evening everyone.
Sarah, Ontario, Canada

Nothing worth having comes easily

klanders30

nothing worth having comes easily or within a week

Happy Wednesday everyone, the sun starting shining today thank goodness!
NYKAREN

jmkmomm

Oh Peach, sorry you didn't make anymore money on what you love to do. My parents loved refurbishing antiques but just couldn't sell what they did. They couldn't make any money on that either. Their dream was to have an actual antique store instead of having a booth at local craft fairs. A booth for antiques was usually several table space worth and each table cost whether they had an actual table or just the space to have a table. So all of us kids got what they worked on which was wonderful.

Where my physical therapy is is at a corner that at the time school is let out is a bear to get out into the traffic. So today I parked at McDonalds and walked 1/2 block. It got me walking plus I resisted buying anything when I got back to the car.

Heather, glad you are a titch better today. Maybe tomorrow you can get out and there will be sunshine. How much longer do you have there???

Joyce, Indiana

PackerFanInGB

Just returned from my 5-year follow-up with the oncologist and got an all clear! What a wonderful feeling that is. I don't have to go back now for a whole year! So exciting.

xoxox

Tracie in Wisconsin

GRITSandSLUTSandWINOS

Leigh in France – I’ll have to find the picture of his great-grandfather; as I remember it has his name and place (of what, I’m not sure). His Granddaddy was only 6, I think, when they moved to Americus. I will do some checking.

NYKAREN – Happy birthday and bit early; same to your DH; and Happy Anniversary, too!

Allie – With a crane, probably. Tell him you were just ‘checking on him’. LOL! No ? No caring about someone you 'helped'?

Katie – GREAT! Isn’t it a ‘great’ feeling?

Margaret – My 3rd grade teacher was seriously schizophrenic. I don’t remember much about her class; because I spend most of the time standing outside the door in the hall; there were other 3rd graders, from other classes, who were out as well. One reason I have a serious case of Arachnophobia is because of her. We were NOT allowed to get out of our desks, for any reason. So the spider dropped down from the ceiling and crawled up on my arm and bit me. I did not get ‘out of the desk’ (my feet never touched the floor). I crawled up in my seat and screamed ‘bloody murder’. She came over and I showed her the bite; but, did she care? NO, she ‘literally’ slapped me ‘out of the desk’. That is my only memory of 3rd grade.

Tracie – You’d be better off to come to the 3rd or 4th page before it ends; and, read the others 2 or 3 extra at the time. It’s hard to do; but, I had 4 days to read through my Daily Bible to catch up; but, the story lines sort of prevents me from ‘skipping over’ pages.

Betty – We’re very thankful to be ‘ok’, too; we were right in the thick of things; but, I think the bigger one either sucked into it … lifted it, or sent it north of us.

Heather – You think it might be your appendix (if you have it still)? Don’t take your shower unless DH is home with you. Even though we have a seat in our shower; most of it holds shampoo, razors, shaving cream and such. I can bounce up against the wall of it and Louis will come in and ask me ‘if’ I am ok.
Once, I had a seizure in the process of trying to step out of my son’s bathtub. It was further down to the ground like a lot of trailers; and, I misjudged the distance and tumbled down, shower curtain and rod and all; but, I did not hit my head on the toilet. They had just come in from hunting. Louis asked me WTH happened?

Carol – I have a Christmas tree that Mother made about 55 years ago. She got a big cone of Styroform and covered it with some green (sort of looked like suede); glued it; then glued jewels from old jewelry and glued them on; she took short pins and stuck little beads on it between the jewels. The gold rickrack around the bottom; and, gold cord was wrapped around the tree and pinned in various spots. Then she stuck an ornament shaped like a multi-point star into the top of it. It’s a bit faded; but, I still put it out at Christmas.

Tracie – That is a good feeling, I’m sure!

Lenora

fanncy0626

Tracie- awesome news!

grandmallie

Heather~ so glad you are among the living again.... hope the scripts help heal you fast..
Tracie~ what a wonderful feeling to be in the clear!! congrats..
I am just home from work, our full time Dr has been out with the flu, let me tell you we are wiping things down with disinfectant wipes to beat the band...
Tomorrow is my eye exam- but can't afford the glasses for a few more weeks, so will see if 1- I need a new script which I think I must because I am getting a headache from doing alot of computer work.. will see what I will be able to get..
also going to a dear friends house for tea tomorrow after the eye exam...
also will have to look for suction cups for windows.. the window feeder I have finally gave up the ghost and I love watching the birds... can't afford a new feeder

Katla49

Heather: It sounds like the doctor gave you reasons to hope & medicine so that you'll be feeling better.

Tracie: Congrats on the all clear from your oncologist. YAY!!! :bigsmile:

I showed up for yoga today along with many other students but no teacher came. We did a bit of yoga on our own and went home. This has only happened one other time that I recall. We've gotten some things done at home that are satisfying. After a call to the VW dealer we got step-by-step guidance to install the new rear window wiper on my car. We also got a tax questionnaire turned into our accountant, and have rescheduled the second eye surgery. Yay!

Katla in beautiful NW Oregon

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!" -Audrey Hepburn

spikeyhair

Kate UK

mikesmom1983

Good evening Ladies!

A feel a more positive vibe coming from most of you. Heather is on the mend and Tracie got the best news! I think good health is our ultimate goal for being here.

I was very proud of myself yesterday evening and the scale rewarded me this morning. I got together with some good friends last evening to catch up. I turned down the cake, cheese and crackers, chocolate and wine in favor of strawberries, blueberries and herbal tea. This morning the scale reported that I had lost .6 lbs. That gives me a 4 lbs. loss in 3 weeks, but more importantly it gave me the incentive to keep on the program. I stopped by the mall before I came home from work and logged in 2 miles of walking. Dinner was a marinated chicken breast and cauliflower rice (Trader Joes sells if already riced in the frozen food section) which I fried up in a little garlic butter and Italian seasoning. Quite good. I think I will try the cauliflower pizza crust next. My friend gave me a recipe that she loves. That will be this weekend's culinary experiment.

I have a little over 250 calories left to eat today before I hit 1200 and I'm not eating any of my exercise calories back. I'll probably have plain Greek yogurt with blueberries a little later.

Sending love and encouragement to all.

Chris in MA

I think that on a future mall walk I'll just pop into one of the stores and try on a pair of size 4 jeans just to see if I'll ever be able to fit into them. I used to wear size 16, the pair I bought the other day are 6.

margaretturk

Lenora sorry about your experience in third grade. She was an example of misuse of power I mentioned in another post.

Tracie great news.

DH will be going in for major surgery in two to four weeks. They will remove his cancerous kidney. The surgery is complicated by lymph nodes so he cannot have the less invasive surgery. He is just glad he can finally get it removed. I will not take any new jobs until I know more about the timing. He may be in the hospital for as long as a week and I know it is important to have a family member to help.

I did volunteer at the Nature Center today and the topic was the voyagers that did fur trading in Northern Minnesota. They did a fantastic job. The students get many hands on opportunities. I mostly watched and then did help them make pouches they got to take home. One of the other volunteer adult knew a tremendous amount about Ojibwa history. One fact she taught me was the Ojibwa loved the color red, and they could not make a good red from natural materials. They traded for mercuric oxide which they used as a dye and as face paint. The problem is at that time they did not know how toxic mercury was and neither did the traders. That compound along with alcohol impacted their health. I could have listened to her all day.

Margaret

drkatiebug

Tracie, that is fantastic!

Chris, I don't think I've ever worn a 6. Congrats on getting back on track.

Margaret, best of luck with your DH's upcoming surgery.