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Thanks ladies. I'll be back later - maybe in a couple of days. Just wanted to let you all know, if you didn't already, that my dad passed away yesterday afternoon. I am devastated and so heartbroken. I feel so badly for my mom. They were married for 63 years and together for 66, since she was 18. It's going to be so hard for her. I know that there is never a good time for a loss, but in the history of sucky timing, this has to be the suckiest.4
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@quilteryoyo many virtual hugs to you and your mom.
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Docs office replied and will send an order for an MRI of my low back. If I can get that before the end of the year, great. If not I'll wait until after the neuro just in case other tests are ordered and I will save a trip/expense. Least this way if my hip is partly the culprit I'll know. Today the back is better, just a mild burn and a hip ache. I took benadryl last night which seems to quell the pain.
Food
My pea potato pastry idea didn't work. It was a lovely soup that I pureed and served over white basmati rice. Dh thought it was bland. It was not. I had garam masala, loads of fresh garlic, and a veggie bullion paste in it. I could cook some taters and peas and add the soup as a sauce.
PT at 1 today. I am fearing the violin now, with my fire back. PCP in 5 days, finally.
Bob
poor guy was peed on yesterday. Old cat thought he would get the best of it I guess. I was so mad. The cat is so scrawny and I can't even give him a tolerable smack on the butt. I just chased him around yelling "NO PISS, NO PISS!" and occasionally nudging him. pee pee is acceptable behaviour outside the house or in a box, he knows that. Jerk. Beary told on him and got snuggles for it.
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@quilteryoyo - I saw your caringbridge post last night and then had dreams about you. So so sad for all of this and it makes me angry because it was unnecessary. What was that doctor even thinking??? Sending you and your mom love and comforting hugs! Wish we all could be there for you but you know you are surrounded by our thoughts, prayers and hugs!3
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@swenson19d - I am glad the back pain is better. I wonder if the Benadryl works because it is reducing the inflammation? I know we give it to dogs for that reason.
Maybe old cat wanted to mark Bob as his very own 😂 you know, keep all the others away!
I ran yesterday and my hamstring felt pretty darn good. Just a little complaining. But afterwards and later in the evening it was clearly not happy and very angry. I was able to adjust the bed a bit and didn't end up taking anything and slept fine.
I have not called my pcp yet about it. Even though her visit could be virtual I don't want to go see any specialist right now with cases exploding in CA. I honestly don't even know what kind of specialist I would see. I don't think ortho, maybe a sports doc or a physical therapist? I also need a referral for my toe to get the ingrown toenail dealt with that I keep avoiding. It hurts and then feels better so I think, hhmmm maybe I don't need to do anything about it. Maybe I can delay it until March or so...
@Avidkeo - I think I saw that you weren't feeling well in the Challenge thread. I hope you are doing better now!2 -
@quilteryoyo - so sorry. Hugs for all of you. It’s just terrible. Know we are here to listen though I’m not so good lately checking in.
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@shanaber I assume that is how the benadryl works, reducing inflammation.
My PCP's office phoned and wanted to cancel my appointment to cut back the number of visits. I could do telemed to reschedule for February. I just rescheduled for feb. I am assuming my situation does not warrant a visit... sure I have the depression under control. sure I'm fine. DD was in her room screaming, laughing and for about 5 seconds all I heard was the night the woke me to tell me about Alex. I'll prob just cancel the pcp, give up on all my appointments and accept the days as they come. It all made me depressed and I ate everything. Maybe tomorrow I'll shake it and get back on track.
I braved the scale and am 3.5 away from the oh no weight.
@Avidkeo I hope you are better soon. Is there a traditional food that helps with colds/flu? Here it is chicken noodle soup, I sort of assume that is a worldwide thing but that may be a culturally insensitive assumption.1 -
Hi all....TGIF.
Thinking about you @quilteryoyo
@swenson19d Keep your appt....you can change it later. One day at a time. Poor Bob!
@Avidkeo It's going to be so weird to get the common cold or even flu in the time of covid. Hope you shake it fast!
@shanaber I agree...they are prolly going to give you exercises and stretches anyway. I would see a sports med doc at some point, who may refer you to PT. The toe nail prolly needs to get done.
I have a really busy few days coming up....trying to get year end stuff done so I don't have to go in next week. Boss is going to a wedding in Atlanta. I will not be working in his home office again until after the holidays and I know he is Covid free.
Food - eating all the things...January and payback is coming
Exercise - a lot of riding. I tried Pilates yesterday....a new Peloton offering. Did an intro class and a 20 min beginning. It was good....very core centric. But felt my lower back twinge when I went to stretch....stopped and rolled my glutes etc to try to stave off a back issue. Still a little twingy today even after my chiro appt. Hmmm.....1 -
I canceled the appointment. I think I'll give myself to monday to cancel the other appointments. I canceled violin today. All I have to do is pick up the walmart order at 2. I took a low dose antidepressant and asked for refills. I have some, but if they aren't going to see me they can at least okay and replenish my script.
bob
is a jerk. I think he sought revenge for being peed on. He cleaned the breakfast nook went on to dh's office and I figured it was safe to feed bear in the nook. but no. bob went straight for his food and sucked it up, wet food. poor bear was just hungry and wasn't the pee-er. I sent bob to his corner ans will submit an "other" review on his performance.1 -
@bearly63 - Hope your back is better. Right now I can't imagine going anywhere, especially to another state for a wedding!
@Elise4270 - Oh poor Bob! I'm sorry but I laughed at his antics but I am sure cleaning him out will not be pleasant! at least he didn't smear to food everywhere! I think you may need to keep a journal of his antics and then write a book/story/blog something about it. So funny!
@katharmonic posted this for @quilteryoyo on the running page. It was in an article about a response on reddit to someone grieving. I think it is a really good description of how grief hits. I am putting it under the spoiler incase you don't feel up to reading it right now but I think it is worth sharing and might help.
The holidays are going to be rough. Please don't give up on everything. Keep your other appointments at least until after you get through these next few weeks.“Alright, here goes. I'm old. What that means is that I've survived (so far) and a lot of people I've known and loved did not. I've lost friends, best friends, acquaintances, co-workers, grandparents, mom, relatives, teachers, mentors, students, neighbors, and a host of other folks. I have no children, and I can't imagine the pain it must be to lose a child. But here's my two cents.
I wish I could say you get used to people dying. I never did. I don't want to. It tears a hole through me whenever somebody I love dies, no matter the circumstances. But I don't want it to "not matter". I don't want it to be something that just passes. My scars are a testament to the love and the relationship that I had for and with that person. And if the scar is deep, so was the love. So be it. Scars are a testament to life. Scars are a testament that I can love deeply and live deeply and be cut, or even gouged, and that I can heal and continue to live and continue to love. And the scar tissue is stronger than the original flesh ever was. Scars are a testament to life. Scars are only ugly to people who can't see.
As for grief, you'll find it comes in waves. When the ship is first wrecked, you're drowning, with wreckage all around you. Everything floating around you reminds you of the beauty and the magnificence of the ship that was, and is no more. And all you can do is float. You find some piece of the wreckage and you hang on for a while. Maybe it's some physical thing. Maybe it's a happy memory or a photograph. Maybe it's a person who is also floating. For a while, all you can do is float. Stay alive.
In the beginning, the waves are 100 feet tall and crash over you without mercy. They come 10 seconds apart and don't even give you time to catch your breath. All you can do is hang on and float. After a while, maybe weeks, maybe months, you'll find the waves are still 100 feet tall, but they come further apart. When they come, they still crash all over you and wipe you out. But in between, you can breathe, you can function. You never know what's going to trigger the grief. It might be a song, a picture, a street intersection, the smell of a cup of coffee. It can be just about anything...and the wave comes crashing. But in between waves, there is life.
Somewhere down the line, and it's different for everybody, you find that the waves are only 80 feet tall. Or 50 feet tall. And while they still come, they come further apart. You can see them coming. An anniversary, a birthday, or Christmas, or landing at O'Hare. You can see it coming, for the most part, and prepare yourself. And when it washes over you, you know that somehow you will, again, come out the other side. Soaking wet, sputtering, still hanging on to some tiny piece of the wreckage, but you'll come out.
Take it from an old guy. The waves never stop coming, and somehow you don't really want them to. But you learn that you'll survive them. And other waves will come. And you'll survive them too. If you're lucky, you'll have lots of scars from lots of loves. And lots of shipwrecks.”
I did a strength workout yesterday and went up in weight. I am already getting sore so hoping I can still move my arms later today! I am going out for a run in a bit but it honestly will likely be a walk. Since I don't want to go to any doctor offices in the near future, I don't want to make my hamstring any worse than it already is.
Note the ICU availability is now 0(!) in all of SoCA. They are turning people away. Hilde got upset with me the other day when I questioned why she needed to go see her eye doctor again right now (she saw him in mid-October). Then yesterday (I am guessing after seeing the news or talking to her friends) notified me that she had cancelled the appointment and will wait until her regular appointment in March.
Food - I didn't eat enough again yesterday and then was hungry all night. I must do better with this and get back to at east having yogurt for breakfast or oatmeal.
Dd wants Dh to start an IF program to help his diabetes. He wanted to jump right in and do a 7-8 hour window, starting at 7am so dinner at 3pm! I told him no... or he can fix his own dinner to have at 3pm. She actually recommended he start with a 10 hour window and ease into shortening it which makes more sense to me and he would be more likely to stick with it!3 -
@bearly63 - Hope your back is better. Right now I can't imagine going anywhere, especially to another state for a wedding!
@Elise4270 - Oh poor Bob! I'm sorry but I laughed at his antics but I am sure cleaning him out will not be pleasant! at least he didn't smear to food everywhere! I think you may need to keep a journal of his antics and then write a book/story/blog something about it. So funny!
@katharmonic posted this for @quilteryoyo on the running page. It was in an article about a response on reddit to someone grieving. I think it is a really good description of how grief hits. I am putting it under the spoiler incase you don't feel up to reading it right now but I think it is worth sharing and might help.
The holidays are going to be rough. Please don't give up on everything. Keep your other appointments at least until after you get through these next few weeks.“Alright, here goes. I'm old. What that means is that I've survived (so far) and a lot of people I've known and loved did not. I've lost friends, best friends, acquaintances, co-workers, grandparents, mom, relatives, teachers, mentors, students, neighbors, and a host of other folks. I have no children, and I can't imagine the pain it must be to lose a child. But here's my two cents.
I wish I could say you get used to people dying. I never did. I don't want to. It tears a hole through me whenever somebody I love dies, no matter the circumstances. But I don't want it to "not matter". I don't want it to be something that just passes. My scars are a testament to the love and the relationship that I had for and with that person. And if the scar is deep, so was the love. So be it. Scars are a testament to life. Scars are a testament that I can love deeply and live deeply and be cut, or even gouged, and that I can heal and continue to live and continue to love. And the scar tissue is stronger than the original flesh ever was. Scars are a testament to life. Scars are only ugly to people who can't see.
As for grief, you'll find it comes in waves. When the ship is first wrecked, you're drowning, with wreckage all around you. Everything floating around you reminds you of the beauty and the magnificence of the ship that was, and is no more. And all you can do is float. You find some piece of the wreckage and you hang on for a while. Maybe it's some physical thing. Maybe it's a happy memory or a photograph. Maybe it's a person who is also floating. For a while, all you can do is float. Stay alive.
In the beginning, the waves are 100 feet tall and crash over you without mercy. They come 10 seconds apart and don't even give you time to catch your breath. All you can do is hang on and float. After a while, maybe weeks, maybe months, you'll find the waves are still 100 feet tall, but they come further apart. When they come, they still crash all over you and wipe you out. But in between, you can breathe, you can function. You never know what's going to trigger the grief. It might be a song, a picture, a street intersection, the smell of a cup of coffee. It can be just about anything...and the wave comes crashing. But in between waves, there is life.
Somewhere down the line, and it's different for everybody, you find that the waves are only 80 feet tall. Or 50 feet tall. And while they still come, they come further apart. You can see them coming. An anniversary, a birthday, or Christmas, or landing at O'Hare. You can see it coming, for the most part, and prepare yourself. And when it washes over you, you know that somehow you will, again, come out the other side. Soaking wet, sputtering, still hanging on to some tiny piece of the wreckage, but you'll come out.
Take it from an old guy. The waves never stop coming, and somehow you don't really want them to. But you learn that you'll survive them. And other waves will come. And you'll survive them too. If you're lucky, you'll have lots of scars from lots of loves. And lots of shipwrecks.”
I did a strength workout yesterday and went up in weight. I am already getting sore so hoping I can still move my arms later today! I am going out for a run in a bit but it honestly will likely be a walk. Since I don't want to go to any doctor offices in the near future, I don't want to make my hamstring any worse than it already is.
Note the ICU availability is now 0(!) in all of SoCA. They are turning people away. Hilde got upset with me the other day when I questioned why she needed to go see her eye doctor again right now (she saw him in mid-October). Then yesterday (I am guessing after seeing the news or talking to her friends) notified me that she had cancelled the appointment and will wait until her regular appointment in March.
Food - I didn't eat enough again yesterday and then was hungry all night. I must do better with this and get back to at east having yogurt for breakfast or oatmeal.
Dd wants Dh to start an IF program to help his diabetes. He wanted to jump right in and do a 7-8 hour window, starting at 7am so dinner at 3pm! I told him no... or he can fix his own dinner to have at 3pm. She actually recommended he start with a 10 hour window and ease into shortening it which makes more sense to me and he would be more likely to stick with it!
Re: icu availability. Shelby county is supposedly discussing going back to hard lockdown - we have exceeded the “tripwire” statistics which should automatically put us back in lockdown but no one wants to do it because of the economy the week before Christmas. And there was an article this morning saying TN is now the most contagious place in the world. The whole world. We are so borked.3 -
I imagine we all will be going to another lockdown. I just got a text that my pt has tested positive. I saw her Tues and Thursday. Yay. My stomach is upset, poos and nausea. So, I think I have a good chance of having it. Morning temp was 96.7 so I'll just watch it. Dh got his first of the two vaccines today, but I think I heard him retching this am. Not uncommon if he has an asthma attack and I dismissed it. So seems the vaccine may be too late for him.
Guess I can forgive my PCP for nixing my appointment.3 -
@swenson19d - will you all be going and getting tested? Might be a good idea just so you don't have that to worry about too. I hope you feel better!
We have a general non-essential stay at home order that it seems like most people here are just ignoring. Even many of the restaurants that are supposed to close all dining except takeout are defying the orders, some even continuing to have indoor dining! I get it, I know they are so challenged to just stay in business, I get it. But we know that indoor dining is the worst thing you can do and how badly the virus spreads in those situations. It is just not worth the risk!
Now with the hospitals so completely overwhelmed I told my dh that we aren't going anywhere, period. No sense in putting him at risk.2 -
@shanaber I think I'll go Monday for a test. We have a drive thru thing here and its no cost, M-F. I hadn't thought about going until I told dd and she suggested it. My tummy upset could be due to taking an antidepressant, but I think it may have started before that. Temp is 97.0. I told dh, he's now mad at me. oh well. He could just as well have given it to me when he went and did his old man thing with the masons. I just went to PT. But I don't have it until proven otherwise.
I'll just stay hydrated and eat good and watch for symptoms.1 -
@swenson19d - what your PT has covid now too?! As if you need another thing to worry about! OMG the story of Bob has had me laughing. What a love/hate relationship! Cat must have been jealous.
@quilteryoyo - thinking of you and your family every day.
@shanaber - yes, I have no interest in eating out! In Volusia county where the condo is, no one seems to care! Wow, that was a great post about grief/waves. I need to keep that.
@rheddmobile - wow, I hadn't kept up with stats and didn't know TN was so high with cases.
@bearly63 - I saw the new pilates classes. I should try.
I've been doing the run streak, but not many miles because I am combining with Peloton. We are at condo this weekend, then go home for 3 days because I work Mon-Wed, and then back at condo until Jan 4th. So no Pellie for all that time! But I can run and the weather will be nice I think. Dh bought a beach bike for him (two came with condo that are too small for him) so maybe we will start riding on the beach.
The new teacher who replaced my old position (comp sci teacher) fell yesterday in class and they had to call an ambulance. I felt so bad for her. She tripped over a backpack (I bet the # of falls and breaks is so much higher during this masking time). We had a teacher fall the first day of school walking and break her arm. I texted with her a little and she is still in hospital! Her arm was completely smashed up.
In food/weight news, my weight is up about a 7 pounds since my happy weight that I was successfully maintaining earlier this year. This is over about 4 weeks of when I wasn't checking here much. So here I am! There are many reasons, #1 too many sweets after dinner!
#2 wine at night and #3 not logging. Everything is fitting but I'm not happy about it. So... here I am!
Doing a 45 minute holiday run with Peloton app in a little bit!
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I feel back to normal-ish today after the antidepressant. Bear is even back to being my buddy after a stint of being too big to be a snuggle baby. Although, to be fair the heat is turned down to 62 and he just might be a bit cool haha! I think I need to pursue the antidepressant. If it causes the jerks again, which haven't completely gone, I guess I can contact the pcp for a telemed and see if there is another option.
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@swenson19d , glad you are feeling someone normal today.
I had a nice 45 min run, so about 4.25 miles. I've only been doing slow and steady running. No sprints at all because I'm doing them on the Peloton anyway.
Down 1 lb this morning. I attribute it to just a weird fluctuation because I didn't do too much different.
Last Tuesday my dentist/ortho said my teeth are done! So he took of the Invisalign prongs (little things that were used to help hold aligners in place)! So now I whiten for a couple weeks, wear aligner at night, let the whitening settle for a week or so and then get fitted the things to cover the two tiny teeth I never liked. I hope they don't look fake. But really, it's all good, whatever happens. Who cares.
So crazy I started this March 13th - the last day of normalcy in 2020 at least in my area of Florida. Maybe the end of my Invisalign will be the end of weirdness.Wow I look awful in this picture! All 59 years of wrinkles showing, oh well! This was pre-run yesterday. But you can see my bottom teeth are straight and the top is good and will be better with the two veneers or whatever they are called I'm getting.
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@ddmom0811 The teeth look marvelous!! Great smile!! You don't look 59....10 years younger ....and those wrinkles are just memory lines.....
@swenson19d Glad you are feeling yourself again.....hope the test is negative.
@shanaber We don't have a stay at home order and people are just going about their merry business....shopping etc. We did have friends over last night who were moving their daughter into her apt in Austin. They have been careful but it was probably not a good idea. My son gets home Wednesday for a week....another risk. Can't get that vaccine fast enough.
@quilteryoyo you and your mom are in my thoughts today for your dad's service. I enjoyed reading the obituary - he was a good person and will be missed!1 -
They are allowing us to have a "normal" funeral and visitation. The funeral is at 3pm today. We are going to try to keep social distancing and don't really expect a lot of people to show up. And, that's okay. I think mom just needed something that is as close to normal as possible to help her get through this time. We emphasized in the obituary that we understand if people don't come and that we don't want anyone to get sick from being there. They are going to live stream the funeral on FB so those who don't come can see it anyway. It's hard to try to walk that fine line that seems to be getting thinner with every step.4
