WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MAY 2017

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  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,246 Member
    edited May 2017
    B) Yup- just call me the *kitten* kicker!
  • Peach1948
    Peach1948 Posts: 2,473 Member
    DJ ~ Prayers said for your daughter and the great dane.

    Toni ~ So sorry you are having troubles in your life. I sincerely hope you will make a decision that is right for you.

    Dolly ~ You are so cute!

    Carol in GA
  • SophieRosieMom
    SophieRosieMom Posts: 3,645 Member
    edited May 2017
    Becca, love that “May the 4th be with you!” Absolutely. I thought your DH looked dashing in that turban – hope he’s not in too much pain. And hope you are recovering OK from you blood donating and busy day yesterday.

    I am sad and PO’ed for those of you who are having problems with doctors and medical insurance.

    Toni, you have been on my mind! Glad the doc was able to get you 2 more weeks of your medicine. That is totally uncalled for…. Since when does some bureaucrat in an insurance office get to dictate how much of it you get? Also am glad your son is so supportive and understanding, what a wonderful stress-reliever to know that. ((hugs))).

    Lenora, sounds like you are having quite a time with “inept” medical stuff. I know there are many very good clinics with top-notch professional employees who do their jobs right w/o giving attitude. Wish they were all that way. Sounds like Louis is a good urologist now, and that’s great!

    Meg, ((((hugs))))) to you and the situation with DH. I am sorry about your medical worry – I had the bleeding and ultrasound about five years ago, ended up with a D&C and no more problems. Crossing fingers it’s nothing serious. The pre-op nurse told me that women have bleeding all the time and most often it's nothing to worry about. That being said, if I have bleeding when I’m in my 70’s and 80’s, it likely is something serious.

    Sharon - good gravy! What do they expect a person to do? So you don’t get any care while your own doc is gone? It seems there aren’t a lot of docs taking new patients in our county, and if they are they are put with physician assistants or nurse practitioners. And I found out that there are very few docs in our poor county who take Medicaid anymore (low-income patients) and the ones that do have a waiting list.

    Yvonne – Health issues compiled with money issues is the worst! Was the $5000 for the colonoscopy going to be all out of pocket for you? Were they going to do it for a reason or the “preventative” procedure? Next time mine is due I’m going to ask for the “poo” one which is non-invasive – they check for blood in the stool sample. Kind of squeamish taking the sample I guess but better than drinking liquid plumber. Found out too that not all insurances cover it and even that one is over $500…. My direct care doctor will do it for about $40. I keep hearing that more and more docs are leaving the insurance world and turning to direct care practices. I hope the politicians can agree on something that will help you.

    Katla – good luck with the HOA harpie and I think Karen is right on. We have covenants in our little subdivision where everyone is supposed to maintain certain house colors and styles within guidelines, keep the lawns mowed, no broken-down cars, clotheslines, chickens or pigs or loud dogs. All in our neighborhood agreed to relax that a little – keep up the places as best we can and otherwise, live and let live. Have a clothesline and keep a couple hens if you want tucked away behind the house. We only pay road maintenance dues so to enforce the covenants would be a civil or possibly criminal action – if someone was cooking meth or equivalent. Civil action would mean those of us who felt strongly enough about someone painting their house the wrong color would have to fork over the $$ out of our own pockets to hire an attorney. Those of you who pay HOA dues have that to pay for enforcement if I understand it correctly.

    Karen, glad you worked out a deal on the access path to everyone’s liking.

    Pip, hang out your *kitten* kicking shingle! You’ll have more business than you’ll know what to do with – and I know you’ll do a good job. Strong leg muscles from all that bicycling!!

    Dana, Dolly gets cuter every time I see her. Glad the floods aren't impacting your place but so heartbreaking, there's nothing a person can do except get out of the way. Hopefully once the rain stops the water will recede quickly.

    Tomatoes are out in the shade again for a while…. Weatherman talked about severe thunderstorms this afternoon at 1:30 pm, possibly 1” hail and much cooler tomorrow. I keep looking at the weather satellite image and don’t see anything except off the Oregon coast so perhaps the weatherman isn’t having an “AF” day today, lol.

    The house is staying cool enough – the HVAC guy will be out next Wednesday. We had one we fired a couple years ago as well. This new guy and company is very good so looking forward to him going over the system. It’s only 10 years old…if we had the $$ we’d get a ductless one put in and do away with the big noisy compressor. Something for the wish list.


    Lanette
    SW WA State where DH is finishing the mowing before the T-storms hit!



  • coastalgosgal
    coastalgosgal Posts: 2,900 Member
    edited May 2017
    Well bandages are off and its not bad at all! He has the case of "sticky head" though. Just dabbed it clean, and put petroleum jelly on it. He is a tough cookie.

    I have attacked my sons room, putting stuff in boxes to donate to a family up the street with 7 kids! Stuff like school supplies, crayons, kids scissors. Then I took everything he's tacked on the walls and put in a pile. The pile is presently in a bottom drawer of his desk. He can go thru that between now and end of July. I brought in the box we will be sending to him when he starts his schooling after bootcamp. So he has to decide what to entertain himself when he has time, and those items will go in that box. Then there are items to pack that, when he gets stationed somewhere, we will send to him. Childhood stuff is last, and I have no problems saving a box or two, but more than that, its a storage unit thing. We pay first month, then its on him. So he has a bare looking room, but I have done that for the other two, and they need to get used to the starkness of a room. Harsh but that's how I roll.

    Ohhh just heard thunder!
    Take care all!
    Becca
  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,246 Member
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  • coastalgosgal
    coastalgosgal Posts: 2,900 Member
    The stark room!
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    Becca

    Sad news for me. I was typing to a friend about the cat that lived at the nudist resort, and he stated that he had passed away. Such a character. Here are some of Charlie from the resorts Facebook page. He was part lion, very exotic, all male, but meowed to you a blue streak. He had his particulars. He loved the shower area, and would get on the counters to drink from a stream of water (that you had to turn on just right) at the sink. Rest in peace my nudiust cat!
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    Becca
    Oregon


  • klanders30
    klanders30 Posts: 2,569 Member
    Becca fierce looking kitty. When is your son graduating from H.S.?? NYKAREN
  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,692 Member
    edited May 2017
    Sarah - I will be thinking of you. What a stressful situation. <3

    Yvonne - We have a lot of problems with our NHS and funding, but at least all treatment is free. You never have to wonder if you can afford it before you go to the doctor. Awful that you can't afford investigation. What a dilemma!

    DJ - Pleased your cruise went well. We have paid for ours today and we are looking forward to it in August. Hope all goes well with your daughter. <3

    Off tomorrow for another posh meal. :o I've looked at the menu and think I've found some items that don't pile on the calories. Mainly fishy. :D I will have one small spritzer. :) Then DH wants to buy me something to wear on the cruise. How sweet is that! <3 Can't believe it's 14 years since we met on Saturday. It still feels like a new and fresh relationship.

    Love Heather UK xxxxxxx
  • SophieRosieMom
    SophieRosieMom Posts: 3,645 Member
    cityjaneLondon wrote: »
    Sarah - I will be thinking of you. What a stressful situation. <3

    Yvonne - We have a lot of problems with our NHS and funding, but at least all treatment is free. You never have to wonder if you can afford it before you go to the doctor. Awful that you can't afford investigation. What a dilemma!

    DJ - Pleased your cruise went well. We have paid for ours today and we are looking forward to it in August. Hope all goes well with your daughter. <3

    Off tomorrow for another posh meal. :o I've looked at the menu and think I've found some items that don't pile on the calories. Mainly fishy. :D I will have one small spritzer. :) Then DH wants to buy me something to wear on the cruise. How sweet is that! <3 Can't believe it's 14 years since we met on Saturday. It still feels like a new and fresh relationship.

    Love Heather UK xxxxxxx

    OK Heather, how did you meet your DH?

    Lanette
    SW WA State where we are having a little thunderstorm after all!
  • janetr7476
    janetr7476 Posts: 4,001 Member
    Katiebug that is a huge NSV and so thrilling I'm sure. Would love to lose an inch from my waist. Glad you are getting that lesion checked out.

    Janetr okc
  • skuehn48
    skuehn48 Posts: 3,040 Member
    :)
  • GRITSandSLUTSandWINOS
    GRITSandSLUTSandWINOS Posts: 2,573 Member
    Medical coding can certainly make a 'huge' difference in what the insurance companies will pay; getting them 'changed' is an Act of Congress. I have a strong family history of breast cancer; both sisters are survivors; with my oldest sister having it twice. First time at the age of 38 or 39; they ended up having to put an implant in the breast because when they attempted to close her up after a 'rotation flap' surgical procedure pulling muscles from her abdomen up and under the skin to make the breast, the skin was too tight. For a couple of years she had to use a prosthetic breast, which she said was 'hot and heavy and sticky feeling'. The implant started leaking, so they were going in to remove it and did a mammogram on the other breast, and had cancer in it, too. They did a bi-lateral mastectomy and immediately started with the skin stretchers for reconstruction. For some reason I think she had the 2nd reconstruction as a 'rotation flap' from the muscles in her back. She looks like a train rail yard with all the stitches. Middle sister had what looked like a 7-year-old had taken her breasts off; a big "X" mark on both breasts. Then when they put the stretchers in, she got an infection and ended up back in the hospital. Needless to say, she has not yet had reconstruction done. They both had the BRAC1 and BRAC2 testing (AFTER) they had cancer; oldest sister was advised to have the BART test; whatever that is. I'll never understand why insurance companies will NOT run these tests 'unless' you have cancer. Sort of seems like closing the barn door after the fire (and before the horses have escaped). But, since both of their tests turned out negative; I will take that mine would be, too. I do monthly exams and every 6 months have a sonogram on left breast that has a spot; but, hasn't changed in close to 2 years.

    I don't think about it, don't worry much about it ... I do what I can and that is all I can do.

    Lenora
  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,246 Member
    I couldn't stop from smiling on my. ride home, it was pouring rain and thunder, I was drenched, i looked like ai took a shower , fun fun! and when I was running from wk to the train station, I got drenched by a semi- truck, that was awesome!
  • csofled
    csofled Posts: 3,022 Member
    :)
  • barbiecat
    barbiecat Posts: 17,191 Member
    :) The rain, thunder, and lighting have reached the Olympic Peninsula. The rain started right after Jake said that the flowers needed water. It got warm enough today for the air conditioning to come on.

    <3 Barbie
  • jmkmomm
    jmkmomm Posts: 3,247 Member
    Very cool and windy here, has rained off and on and maybe some tomorrow. I will be glad to say goodby to it for awhile. We use Home Advisor.com to get our work done and we have an appointment with a landscaper tomorrow afternoon just to get an idea of what needs to be done. When setting up the appointment, I wrote that we won't have the money until fall to do this.

    I said to Charlie today 'may the 4th be with you' and he had no idea what I was talking about. So I told him it was Star Wars day. When I reminded him that it was May 4th, he finally got it.

    Yvonne, I am going to have a Colonoscopy in September. I am afraid that since it is not a screening colonoscopy but a diagnostic one, that I will have to pay a pretty penny for it also.

    Jagbug, welcome. Is the jag reference due to the TV show JAG? Loved that show.

    Dana, my niece has been posting pictures of the flooding. She went to college in Pocahontas at Williams baptist College. I here they are OK at the college. But the rest of the town looks terrible. She lives mid Arkansas now and is OK.

    Katla (?) I think it is you. Hope your daughter gets home OK going through all those storms.

    I am jsut glad we have our new gutters and gutter guard up and running.

    Thank you all so much for your thoughts on my Grandma's quilts and Mom being able to complete so many of them. My Grandma made sure she made a quilt for every grandchild. So Mom just continued that with her own grand children. I think eventually she gave away all the quilting blocks to a group that makes them and gave them to a good cause.

    We have been trying to get the blinds and drapes back up in the office. The blinds that were in there were tore up thanks to our wonderful cat. Really I think it is because of all the junk I let accumulate on the love seat and the cat just added to it. Anyway, the clamps to hold the blinds in place were pretty old and we needed to get new blinds because we couldn't use those to put a new set in. My window covering was just a valance. I wanted something different this time. I wanted the same valance because of how they matched the weird wall color and I used the same material to make a valance when I remade the closet into a small sewing room. I have a very small framing pice of white sheer on each side of the closet. My sister suggested I use a blue sheer and I liked the idea so we went looking at Walmart tonight. As you remember, my dear husbands heart rules his wallet. So the sheers we bought were cheap, and they are white. I went to Bed Bath and Beyond last night and they have a large selection and they have some blues. I may just take my sister there and pick something else out.

    Well Amazing Race came on 10 minutes ago and they are in Italy this week. So chao. Is that right?????? I am trying to say goodby in Italian.

    Joyce, Indiana
  • GloworminWA
    GloworminWA Posts: 704 Member
    Storm came through and looks like a tornado hit. No power, trees down, still thunder and lightening. Dogs are scared. Neighbor took kids to try to find someplace to eat. More later

    Gloria in WA where of course my phone was on 14% when this happened. Charged in car
  • AnnofB
    AnnofB Posts: 3,589 Member
    ArisingSol wrote: »
    Greetings all!

    So nice to see a group of 50 somethings here!! I became a member on April 15th and didn't have any goals other than to just get started. I've been logging my food entries pretty consistently and even though I had some things that aren't the healthiest, I have no regrets and can only keep pushing forward.

    I'm chained to a desk working 60 hours a week. I realized sitting so much, along with poor eating and sleeping habits, are primarily responsible for the current shape I'm in and made the choice to do something about it. I actually consider today to be the first in a 90-day transformation challenge I've set for myself.

    My goals for May:
    1. Move from sedentary to exercising 3-5x a week.
    2. Daily Meditation 20-30 minutes
    3. Do something every week to celebrate my femininity.
    4. Stay accountable

    Looking forward to learning more about myself and all of you. :smiley:

    Hope everyone has a super productive month!!

    Ciao for Now ~ Elisha

    Hello Elisha!

    I'm retired now but was in the same situation as you work wise. It's extremely hard to get in a workout when you work so much. It's also hard to make healthy food choices when you are tired. I think your goals are not out of reach and with a time line motivating you, you are going to succeed.

    Good luck in your quest,
    Ann

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