WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR FEBRUARY 2017
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Katla and Janetr - I had a Roomba and it worked great, only drawback was that it would not hold a charge for long. Did one bedroom, then would have to charge for a few hours.
Karen - Olivia is beautiful. She looks like a little fighter. Sending prayers and hugs your way.
Hugs to all.
Paula Y2 -
Karen: Beautiful picture of Olivia. Prayers for her continued healing.
Charleen : Love Lupines! Miss ours at our old house a lot. Beautiful and thanks for sharing!
Becca: Interested in hearing how your complexion likes the coconut oil soap. I love using soaps with natural ingredients like that. They wash off so cleanly and feel so fresh and clean.
Mary in MN How did you gt started on the keto diet? Is this something you just started recently? I'm very interested in learning more about it but I wouldn't even know where to start!
Lenora: Thanks for the jokes! Needed a chuckle.
Heather UK Thanks for the Bea fix. She is absolutely adorable!
Sarah Ontario: Cerner is a lot like Epic from what I hear. Yes, it is painful isn't it? If this were the only go-live for awhile, I would be okay but from what I'm hearing it's only just begun. Soon I will be sent out of state and further and further away to our sister hospitals (I work for a Catholic hospital system). I have some big decisions to make here soon... Congrats on making it through your go-live!
Carey Northern Alberta: I did get a thorough check up at the hospital when I went into the ER. They are satisfied it isn't cardiac in nature but I do have to follow up with a GI doctor to see if there is anything going on esophageal-wise because of the throat tightening I had with the chest pain. Thank you for the nudge to follow up and not ignore it. Something is definitely going on, and I do need to find out what.
Rita from CT: My name is Tracie. I remember McKesson! We used to have McKesson when I first started in IT at the hospital where I work. You left at a good time. Teaching the physicians to enter their own orders can be like pulling teeth! Telling them that they have to start doing it themselves does not make me a very popular person, trust me... I cannot tell you how much I wish i could retire. But financially it is not in the cards right now.
I am curious about you becoming a "gypsy". I will have to go back and read up to see what you are up to! It sounds really intriguing!
@pitegny: Good for you that you were able to give your notice and see a light at the end of the tunnel. I will be 57 in March, and I do not see retirement as an option until I'm 65 since I carry the insurances and the pay is needed in our household. I dream about giving my notice a lot, though, and if something doesn't give I will be making some very tough decisions soon. I will not give up my health for a job, but I cannot leave my job without something else lined up.
Joyce: You would not believe how many providers we had retire when we went on Epic! Is your husband a doctor? I think Epic truly is a fantastic EMR, but you are right about teaching doctors. They are not always very patient learners. I understand how they feel because patient care ALWAYS has to come first! But at the same time, I'm just doing my job...
I pray your sister continues to improve and I'm so sorry to hear of her struggles. It must be very difficult for you!
Ginger in Texas: I absolutely love your list to "smash procrastination". Thank you for sharing!
It was a beautiful day in Wisconsin today. 55 degrees is unheard of in February in Green Bay! We are to have five days of warm weather so I'm pretty happy about that. I plan to get outside and enjoy the day tomorrow. Today was spent doing the monthly bills and other stuff around here that gets neglected when I'm not around to do them. My husband is retired on disability so he takes care of keeping up the house, so I'm really lucky that way.
Tomorrow I hope to get outside and maybe go hiking or just walk in a park. I am craving some "me" time to try to put things back into perspective. I've been working very hard on trying to stay positive and grateful for everyday things I take for granted, but stress really has made my whole team on edge at work and I feel like all that negativity is sucking the soul out of me. I'm just not normally a negative person.
I hope you are all enjoying your weekend! Love to all.
Tracie in WI
Word for 2017: Serenity (I am on a quest this year to find a place of peace and serenity in this crazy busy stressful world...)
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Karen, I just love that picture of Daddy's huge hand on her chest, protecting and loving his precious little one. And such a handsome man!
Pip, your animals are always so content.
Joyce, cool, rainy Indiana2 -
We had a super long day starting with getting up at 3:30 so there would be enough time to walk the dogs and great ready for a drive to Seattle for a meeting. I got to do some walking while we rode the ferry going in both directions so even with so much sitting, I ended the day with 16,000 steps but no other exercise. Didn't log my food but didn't go too far off the path. Now it's time for some much needed sleep.
Barbie from drizzly NW Washington 3 -
Tracie- I started a three-week keto challenge February 5. It goes through February 25. You can hop in and look at the thread that I started. It has information on food to eat and not to eat. As well as helpful hints and information from people that have been on Keto for a while. We prepped ourselves for two weeks prior and all of that information is on there as well. It's a short read but there is valuable advice and recipes as well. Bookmark it and sign in. And ask questions that you need answered. There are plenty of people on there to help you. As well as me.
Mary from Minnesota1 -
Made it through the grocery store and past all the Easter goodies that are out!! Not gonna lie, it was tough. Now to get everything into the house with no helpers.
Having dinner for 20 family members tomorrow so I will be cleaning some more tomorrow.
My crocuses are peaking out of the leaves!! Gonna have to clean up the garden if it ever stops raining!
Karen in BC4 -
Heather thanks for the Bea fix.
Still keeping away from the ice cream. Margaret 3 -
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Have a "great big" gratitude to add to my list today, my grandson called my daughter this afternoon and told her he was back at the rehab center in San Antonio. At least the "homeless" stints are getting of much shorter duration before he decides that living on the streets is not the answer. It's been a little over three weeks this time. Praying he can overcome this with the help provided him at the rehab center.
Thank you all so much for your prayers and positive thoughts.
Janetr OKC9 -
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Becca – Sweetie, sounds like you have experienced your first ‘migraine’ headache. Sure hope this is not going to be a pattern for you. I have them and I feel like my head is going to explode; or that ‘if’ it did … I’d have to feel better.
I’ll have to look for that soap. Sounds like a charm. I like coconut oil; but, then I almost want to take a shower to get it off me before getting on my chair or in the bed.
I’ve had a bad headache most all evening. Want to go to bed, and, hopefully fall asleep quickly.
Kate – California has been ‘slammed’ with bad weather. Seems like part of it is going to just slide into the Pacific Ocean. The Oroville, CA damn looks like if they get any more rain, it will surely break; and, 8 towns downstream will be wiped out. They’ve been having mandatory evacuations, then called if off, then put it back on. I don’t think if I had left the first time that I would have gone back.
I can remember years ago, an earthen damn that blocked up the Flint River (in GA) broke after a stalled hurricane in the area. The Lake Blackshear … a huge lake formed by this damn, was emptied as it flooded areas south of town. It was considered to be a 500-year flood as there had not been a flood as bad in the 100+ years since they had been keeping records. We ended up staying with my sister in Miami for an extra week because there was no way to get across the Flint River as all road had been closed, except for local traffic. When he called and said they had opened the bridge over Lake Blackshear, we came home. The water under the bridge came right up to the bottom of the roadway. One week, to the day, we had to go to Macon and rode over the same bridge and the lake was totally empty. That was a shock. Louis told the boys that it would be a ‘good time’ to go mark all the places with markers for good fishing holes. I don’t know how long it took them to fix the dam; but, they did it with concrete this time.
They were showing roads with water running over them, that no car or truck could have made it across without being swept downstream.
DJ - The owner of the salon I have been going to, died a few weeks back. In fact, the very day I had been there getting my hair cut by one of the other cosmetologists. He had been in an Atlanta area hospital waiting for a ‘lung transplant’. His wife has been in a nursing home for the past 2 years after ‘swerving to try to miss a deer’. That is one thing that Louis and the boys had drilled into my head, ‘don’t swear to try to miss a deer’.
We had Spicy Bean Soup that I had put up in the freezer; it was definitely better the 2nd time around.
Joyce – I hope you sister will improve soon.
Karen – She looks so small being held. Looked a lot bigger in the incubator picture. Looks like a ‘proud, but stunned daddy’.
Tracie – I can remember reading MD’s records when they did them by hand. Believe me, that was not always easy when you are looking for any kind of error. I can remember checking the ‘tiny’ boxes for where they wrote in dosages of medication; and, saw something that just did not ‘look’ right; so I copied it, enlarged it, did it again, … about 10x times; and then we could see that he had put a decimal point in the wrong place. Instead of putting down .25mg of a medication; he had put down 2.5mg … and it 'killed the man just as surely as if he had put a shotgun to his head'. That’s scary. I know they are human; but, I was surprised that the nurse did not ‘ask’ him about it, since he had been on the medication for over a week. But, that is like one transferring me to another facility and putting down in the records that I was on ‘insulin’ … when I am not 'diabetic'. The only time they gave me insulin is right after they had flushed my kidneys to get the ‘extra’ Lithium that had built up in my body, out of it. She had not given me any 'insulin' herself; so I will never understand why she put that in the discharge summary (which she had dictated and had had transcribed 2 full days before transferring me). I now ‘question’ my MDs a lot more than I used to, like “what are you Rx’ing for me; and ‘why’ …?”
Pip – If Cracker gets anything with ‘stuffing’ she is gonna ‘kill’ it and take the stuffing out; so now all the gets are canvas toys; if they have streamers, she is gonna chew them off. Right now I have a flattened squirrel and she had chewed the squeaker out of one end of it. I think I am going to do what my DOGD does, give her a plastic bottle and see how long that lasts. Not keep the top on it either. Watching her closely to make sure she doesn’t choke on it.
Lenora4 -
Made it to the end of page 51, that's what happens when you are gone for a few days.
Beth - Have they found your DH's problem yet. Praying that his suffering ends soon.
Lisa - Sending prayers for Corey's recovery.
Karen - It must have been so special to hold little Olivia. Praying for her continued improvement.
Rita - I'm sorry your family isn't more positive or supportive of your decision.
It sounds as if your plans are coming together very well though.
-Sharon in Lethbridge2 -
Hey now....
I have no energy to post this but in light of my health problems I feel I must....
I watched a movie tonight that brought tears to my eyes, and I'm going to ask each and every one of you to seek it out and watch it....it is called "An Inconvenient Truth".....once you have watched it please go to this website....www.climate crisis.net.....this movie is very important to all of us as humans and to this planet and I'm begging each and every one of you to take this seriously....if not for yourselves then for your grandchildren who are inherenting the consequences of our mistakes....this is not a post that is meant to be political in any way....this is a post to encourage everyone I can to take action in any way that you can.....please, I know it may be difficult to do but please put aside our own personal problems and look at what has happened and is still happening globally.... you will see things in this movie that will shock you and amaze you....you may think that you are just one person and what you do won't make that much of a difference, but it does make a difference.....we all see the differences in our regional climates, you can't say you don't because I have personally seen posts from each and every one of you remarking about this year's weather....we all are seeing the changes now.....it's not too late.....this problem makes my problems and health issues seem so very small and insignificant.....each and every one of us can take actions, no matter how small we think they are, and do our part to make a difference.....please, I'm begging you, watch the movie, go to the website, and do everything you can to affect change.....you can make a difference.....make your voice heard, encourage others to watch the movie and do whatever they can.....our earth is a living entity and it needs our help, she has done so much for us as a species.......I didn't know how bad this problem had become until tonight when I saw this movie.....this movie, actually a documentary, has now changed my whole outlook.....I am begging you all to watch it, individually we are each just one person but each of us can do a lot and if each one of us as a species does everything we can we can all create change.....and yes, I am being preachy for a very good reason, we can no longer ignore this and it is so very much bigger than any of us.....
That's all I have. Good night.
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Kate UK 0
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Good morning all. I treated myself today. For as long as I can remember my husband has made a special Sunday breakfast, usually pancakes, but occasionally an omelet. For the last month, I gave that up. Today, I managed to work in two of his pancakes with a little butter and a little syrup. (I used to slather them in both). He teased me when I got out a measuring spoon for the syrup! I can't do this too often because I had to give up other more nutritious food, but it sure was good for the soul.
Janetr: I am very happy for you that your grandson has returned to rehab. I hope it sticks this time.
Becca: So sorry about your migraine headache. Do you ever try lying in the dark and listening to soothing music; I was having headaches for a while and listened to Deuter's Reiki Healing. It helped a lot.
Lenora: loved the jokes.
Charleen: You definitely have a green thumb.
- Leigh in France3 -
Update...
The website I gave doesn't apparently exist anymore, the movie is 10 years old, but there are other websites dedicated to this and I encourage you to seek them out for ideas on what you can do to affect change.
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SHERRY - glad you're back
No gym today but done 50 squats, 2 min plank and 30 min Leslie Sansone vid with handweights
Kate UK1 -
Good morning everyone,
Janet great news about your grandson
Sherry, thanks for the info, I will have a look at the video. Have you seen Food Inc? It is on Netflix, you might enjoy this. Hope you feel better.
Wishing everyone a great day!
Sarah, Ontario 4 -
Good morning. Had a long lunch with a friend yesterday, so I'm still feeling the glow. We used to work in the same building and became friends when we started to walk together for morning break. 15 min walk, 3 to 5 days a week, for about 3 years. Now that we each have different jobs in different parts of the city, we schedule a lunch each calendar month and have 3 to 4 hours of catching up.
Yesterday DH and I made a list of homeowner tasks to accomplish each month. We will check on our progress every 2 months. I'm hoping this will get us out of our rut (from my previous post) of just sitting reading or watching TV after work every day
Bought an adjustable sleep number bed for DH's bad back. Have had it for a week. LOVE it. Does anyone else have one? It has sensors that report to phone app - average heart rate, breathing rate, how I slept on scale 1 to 100, and the exact times I was restless, out of bed etc. Even tells me if I was too warm (told me not to exercise before bed to stay cooler, but hah, it was a hot flash, so the bed is smart, but NOT a genius
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Lenore, love the jokes
janetr, glad to hear abt grandson and hope this time it sticks
I love seeing all your strong friendships
I dont know the etiquette - is it OK to save some of the quotes, gifs, cartoons, jokes to share on facebook or emails? I would never share personal pictures, though oF course...
Take care and have a great Sunday! I'm very thankful that I have a 3 day weekend with tomorrow off work!
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Sherry hope you continue to feel better. A book that speaks the same message in a more spiritual way is Mutant Message from Down Under by Marlo Morgan. It is fiction but the message what it means to be steward of the earth is strong and to respect the earth. Unfortunately for human kind we tend to rush into new technologies without fully understanding the consequences for the changes they create.
Silent Spring is another story that calls to attention the effect of modern living on the environment. DDT was curtailed partly because of her book. Rachel Carson who wrote the book died of cancer. The use of DDT did much to eradicate disease like yellow fever and malaria but the cost to the environment was too high. Margaret 2 -
Morning Ladies~
Sherry~ glad to see you back...
Hidee Ho to everyone else just checking in...2 -
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Sherry, glad to hear from you again.janetr, glad to hear that your grandson has decided to seek a solution again. Does his rehab suggest a 12 Step program after release? Time now to go walking with the sweet doggies. Barbie 2
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Sherry, Welcome back – we missed you! Hope things are going well for you in the Gorge!
Pip, I am curious - have you always been this active and fit or did you decide at some point to make some changes? Either way, you go girl! Admire your ability to stick to it and make it a priority!
Rita, glad things are moving along for you and your brother will help monitor the mail. One less thing to be concerned about. Sounds like you'll have a lot of fun stops once you get on the road!
I haven’t seen “An Inconvenient Truth” but I bet it’s on Netflix. I did start to watch “Food, Inc” but I had to turn it off. Being raised a farm girl where we literally did raise all of our own meat in very humane ways and a huge organic garden…. Maybe that’s why it’s getting harder for me to eat meat. Plus I am very concerned about the use of glysophates (round-up) in the food supply and we do what we can to avoid it.
The Master Gardener group I belong to has a fund-raiser selling thousands of tomatoes each year. Several years ago, the organization bought a big truck load of nice compost for the members to use to pot up their tomatoes. We growers found many of the tomatoes failed to thrive or grew very twisted and stunted, on the verge of dying. The coordinator sent in a soil sample to be tested, turns out it had teensy traces of glysophates and 2,4D. How does this happen? Cattle eat hay and feed which were sprayed with these weed killers and it goes through their systems. Their manure is added to compost. These chemicals are supposed to “break down”. Evidently, they don’t completely or quickly. And there was enough in that soil to cause problems. We MG’s learned first- hand about “Killer Compost” that year.
On another note, it’s amazing so many of you working in IT and/or in hospitals/medical field. Just think, when we were growing up – this field of employment didn’t exist. These are good skills to have – but I can just imagine the stress and pressure of implementing new software.
The clinic where we often go – Providence – has it set up with a “patient portal” which is very slick. The only problem is human error – I took a look at my records – it showed I was on meds that I’d never taken and took several requests to have them removed, and it did not update the state immunization database. Geeze, even Safeway did that when we got our pneumonia shots! Not so Providence. Maybe they do now but the DPT's we had several years ago aren't showing up.
It’s nice the docs can see our weight and BP throughout the years but their staff needs to make an effort to ensure the meds and immunization info is accurate.
I now keep a huge three ring binder for us with copies of all our information including immunizations, blood test results, surgeries, etc. that I take along. It's probably a good idea for all patients to go into their "portal" and double check the information is accurate. Just because you tell the medical assistant of changes or corrections that need to be made doesn't guarantee it will be done in my experience.
Last, this "low sugar" eating seems to be working well. I'm still getting a fair amount of carbs but 95% of them are from natural sources - still no candy, cookies, cakes, chips, beer, etc. And I'm not craving them at all. I love not feeling bloated.
Will close for now. Those of you with DH's and other family members recovering from surgeries and other illnesses, best wishes for speedy and complete recoveries. Love the animal photos, little people, funny stuff - please keep sharing.
Lanette
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Sorry, I keep forgetting to sign off with my name. I'll work on this
queene in PA2 -
Good morning Ladies!
Been mia for a bit, just really busy. Went to NJ to see my mother in the nursing home this past weekend. She is 90, has dementia and the last time I saw her in October she was totally non responsive. We found out later it was because she was suffering from c-dif, and infection rampant in nursing homes. She was much better this time, able to walk and talk. Unfortunately the dementia leaves her confused and upset because she doesn't know where she is and is so afraid her family is abandoning her. She doesn't remember any visits or phone calls from myself of my sister. When I show her pictures of her and I on a prior visit she accuses me of lying to her. So difficult. We never had a stellar relationship, she was never easy to deal with.
I am happy to report that I made it there and back with no car issues! Some of you may remember that the last 2 visits did not go well. The last visit resulted in me getting caught in a flash flood in a rental car, the car was totaled, and the prior visit I had to be towed from NJ to MA (hence the rental for the last visit). I have a newer car now and it performed with no issues. I was able to successfully dodge the 2 snowstorms and make it there and back safely. Whew! When I make this trip I spend a couple of hours with my mother then drive 120 miles south to spend the rest of the weekend with my BFF. We have been friends since we were 10 and it gives me a chance to decompress. Although we ate very sensiblely and went to the gym on Sunday morning, a lot of wine was consumed. I am fortunate that she is on the same eating and exercise program that I am. She doesn't need to lose weight, just maintain and I didn't realize how tough that is for a woman who is 4'11" and size 2. She is my Fitbit friend and we do challenges every day. I would not have been this successful without her constant love and support. One of the best NSV was when I was able to fit (comfortably) into her Yoga pants after I was caught in the flood with no dry clothes!
I had lost 5.5 lbs so far this year as of just before the Super Bowl. It was easy because I had no social events (my downfall). Then came the Super Bowl and a few more social events, like this past weekend, and I knew I had gained some back, although I didn't step on the scale because I didn't want to see the actual number.I went right back on my program this past Tuesday after I got home and am thrilled to report that as of this morning I am at my pre Super Bowl weight. I am going to prep food today for the week because I know work will be very challenging this week and I won't have time to cook, or even think about what to eat when I get home from work. I am 8 lbs. away from my next goal and those size 4 pants are hanging outside me closet door to remind me.
I have come to realize that I must remain on this program for the rest of my life. I so easily gain weight when I indulge and if I don't make a conscious effort of get it off right away it will just pile back on. But I have fortunately come up with meals that I thoroughly enjoy and don't see it as a restriction or diet, just a more mindful way of eating that works for me. I try to get exercise every day, but unfortunately my lower back and hips are so painful in the morning that some mornings I cannot roll over to get out of bed. The pain does ease up after awhile which is good.i have tried taking Aleve if I wake up earlier than I need to but this doesn't seem to help much, but I soldier on. I have lost 40 lbs. (a 5 gallon jug of water or the average human leg). My goal right now is 2 lbs. less than a bale of hay.
My muddled mind cannot remember to respond to you individually but you are all in my thoughts.
My prayers go out to all those facing health issues, I can't remember all, except for precious Olivia.
Hugs to those facing family issues.
Thanks for sharing the pictures of your lives, I enjoy them so much.
Love the jokes, a laugh always makes the day better.
I'm cheering all of those who have victories, scale and NSV.
Kudos to all who have found peace and balance in their lives. I think that is what we are all striving for, I know I am.
Last, but certainly not least, accept my deepest gratitude for being there for me. I could never have done it without you.
Have a wonderful day everyone!
Chris in MA where the 2 feet of snow is melting4 -
Good morning lovely ladies!
Just checking in and marking my spot. I'm hoping to get outside and enjoy this beautiful day. My plan is to do one thing that makes me happy, even if that just means stopping for a cup of coffee at a cafe and reading a newspaper. I won't bore you all with the details but I have some soul searching to do. I need to rid negativity from my life, but I don't know where to begin.
Mary, I will look for your thread. Thank you!
I hope you all have a beautiful Sunday!
Tracie in sunny blue-skied Wisconsin
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