WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR OCTOBER 2018

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  • grandmallie
    grandmallie Posts: 10,086 Member
    Karen - Hep C checked negative,thank goodness..will take it a day at a time...
  • skuehn48
    skuehn48 Posts: 3,040 Member
    :)
  • klanders30
    klanders30 Posts: 2,569 Member
    Lanette good for you on tossing the salty, sugary junk food out—- hope the shoulder heals quickly.

    DH and I had a fun time at the gym after work this evening. Together we average 3-4 “gym dates” per week.

    NYKAREN
  • SophieRosieMom
    SophieRosieMom Posts: 3,646 Member
    edited October 2018
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    Vitamin D is no longer covered under Alberta Health Care to be tested for as of last year according to my doctor. The province ran tests as a routine check for 10 years and found that everyone needed to have around 3000 units per day to get the proper level in their blood due to the Northern climate we live in. She said that even if we were outside everyday every sunny day in the year there would not be enough sunlight to get our Vitamin D naturally. My doctor told me to just take that daily. I admit though that I haven't bought any yet. I didn't realize it affected memory though, so I will get on that!

    Tracey
    [/quote]

    Tracey - not only has it been found to help guard against dementia/Alzheimers, it's a potent cancer fighter. I take a total of around 50,000 IU of D3 per week and was able to get my levels up to 70 ng - up from 40 a couple years ago. And my doc is just fine with those taking that dose. Some studies say if you are below 50 ng, you're at risk, between 60 and 80 is optimal especially for cancer per Dr. Mercola.

    What a shame Alberta Health Care no longer tests for it - because they know there's a deficiency. Wow. Maybe they hope folks will take a lot of cod liver oil? EEuuww, lol. I would if I had to tho. Luckily it's still a fairly inexpensive supplement.

    Good luck! I've also read to make sure you get the D3, not the D2.

    Lanette
    Sunny SW WA State
  • Snowflake1968
    Snowflake1968 Posts: 6,945 Member
    lhscapil wrote: »

    Vitamin D is no longer covered under Alberta Health Care to be tested for as of last year according to my doctor. The province ran tests as a routine check for 10 years and found that everyone needed to have around 3000 units per day to get the proper level in their blood due to the Northern climate we live in. She said that even if we were outside everyday every sunny day in the year there would not be enough sunlight to get our Vitamin D naturally. My doctor told me to just take that daily. I admit though that I haven't bought any yet. I didn't realize it affected memory though, so I will get on that!

    Tracey
    [/quote]

    Tracey - not only has it been found to help guard against dementia/Alzheimers, it's a potent cancer fighter. I take a total of around 50,000 IU of D3 per week and was able to get my levels up to 70 ng - up from 40 a couple years ago. And my doc is just fine with those taking that dose. Some studies say if you are below 50 ng, you're at risk, between 60 and 80 is optimal especially for cancer per Dr. Mercola.

    What a shame Alberta Health Care no longer tests for it - because they know there's a deficiency. Wow. Maybe they hope folks will take a lot of cod liver oil? EEuuww, lol. I would if I had to tho. Luckily it's still a fairly inexpensive supplement.

    Good luck! I've also read to make sure you get the D3, not the D2.

    Lanette
    Sunny SW WA State[/quote]

    Thanks for that information! I will definitely get some.
  • barbiecat
    barbiecat Posts: 17,193 Member
    :) My father grew up in West Texas but left when he was 19 years old. I remember my mother saying that when she went to Texas to visit his family, she could barely understand a word they were saying. It was English that sounded so different from how she talked in the Northeast.
  • fanncy0626
    fanncy0626 Posts: 7,152 Member
    We are settling in at the resort in Arizona! Lots to do.

    <3

    Mary from Arizona
  • exermom
    exermom Posts: 6,517 Member
    Did Jari Love’s Extremely Ripped 1000 DVD. The plan for tomorrow is to do the Rebounder with David DVD

    Volunteered at the Green Room then went to Food Lion. I needed chicken thighs and I don’t like the ones at WalMart. Home and piddling around. Newcomer bowling tonight

    Allie – hoping they can meet everything you require and so you get the job

    Heather – Woo Hoo!!!! Doing a happy dance for you. All good things are worth waiting for, and you sure did your share of waiting. Happy Birthday to John, too.

    Maggie – welcome. As you can see from some of the past posts, we are a very supportive group and we talk about just about anything that affects us because that also affects how we eat

    Rye – I can’t get enough of ML

    Remembering names: Usually I can see the person’s face but can’t put a name to it…..that is, until later! Frustrating.

    Lynette – They won’t be at my house, Denise wants me to stay up there. By then they should have one of the townhouses they were looking at so there’ll be room for me.

    Went to Newcomer bowling and at the bowling alley there was this one guy there. Honestly, his stomach was hanging out of his pants and his shirt didn’t cover it. The thing was that it wasn’t like he was sitting there stuffing his face. I can only think that he has some medical condition. I felt sorry for him. But then again, I guess him getting out and bowling is better than sitting at home feeling sorry for yourself.

    Michele in NC
  • lilnoramitchellandre
    lilnoramitchellandre Posts: 144 Member
    edited October 2018
    Surgeon wants me to be tested for Vitamin D and B12. Told him I had been a little constipated; and that the Miralax wasn't working so great; told me that my taking the Magnesium Citrate helped somewhat (a couple of gulps of it). He said that I was probably magnesium deficient. I really do NOT want to take more pills of any kind. Just taking me off the OTC, Vitamins, and Supplements has decrease the total number of pills I was swallowing a day. I hate pill taking and having my son come over and tell me, "Mom, this is the way you do it, take one pill, take one swallow of water; take a 2nd pill, and another swallow of water." GEE, Thanks, for making me feel like a total idiot! With the LINX procedure I cannot eat more than a 'dime-sized' piece of food, and put my fork down and swallow something lukewarm to hot; and, begin again. Getting out of the habit of 'inhaling' my food as if someone was going to grab it from me days'. Enjoying it more by chewing it more and letting it slide down and not having acid reflux is worth every single moment of savoring my food and being the last to get up from the table. OH $#*T - I'm glad I am NOT a Vulture! Said on Nat-Geo that they have 10x more 'acid in their stomachs than humans do'.

    No Nexium or Pepcid either and I feel a lot better. But, just as my 'driving restriction' because of seizures got lifted at 6-months; 2 days later my 'sleep apnea' MD said 'no more driving until AFTER you see Neurologist and we get to talk to one another. Finally, he has worked things out and now has his own practice; but, I have not had much reason to call - other than to ask him 'if' he has gotten in touch with Dr. Garrett. I'm pretty sure they can get into one another's records since they are both "Phoebe-contract MDs" Got enough of all my medications in the way of refills, so I am not stressing about it. Still waiting for PsycheMD to get his practice and so happy that I won't have to worry anymore about being treated by the 'female' MD from crazy-land'.

    I've been dizzy and hoping that my vertigo hasn't decide to rear its ugly head. I've been told by 3 of my MDs they want me back in PT - I have not been able to go because I don't have any way home if I make an early morning session - and one is a 'stand alone' PT with just a few machines, the other has a lot of machines and is associated with their practice. I'll do whatever they tell me to do. Got to have a MRI of my spine now.

    We've been without electricity or water for 5 nights and 6 days. We are so blessed; so many others don't even have water to drink. I called the woman and she was 'so sweet' that I did not 'jump up and scream' but I did ask when she thought we'd get service; because she had given the 'pat answer' of a week to 10 days. I told her that I had 'sleep apnea' and sleep with a C-pap and have filed the necessary paperwork to get them to 'try' to get to our power on. Night before last went to my BF's condo and had a nice 'hot' shower and stood in it for a long, long time. Unlike the one I took at DDnL#1's 1/2 sister's place. OMG, if I had known what we were walking into, I think I might have said, ''no thanks'; but, we didn't. BF said her house was cluttered to make room for GS getting out of rehab and having GD visiting over the summer. They were giving stuff away at the parking lot of Fred's and I told Louis and Trey, with a line that long, they needed to drop us off and go back and see what they had. They came home with a case of 'military rations' ... really were not that bad; but, you would have needed a good pair of scissors or a sharp knife and/or some sort of pan to heat them over a burner. It was amazing what those little packs. They had one today and brought back the left-overs. I had already one out for lunch. Everything you would need for a meal and then some. Got a bag of ice and a tarp (for each of them). Apparently, she has decided she would have a 'much better life' living with Grandma than living with 3 men in her life and being the maid. She's 18, so she can live where she wants. But, I knew that 'if' TJ said her condo was 'cluttered' … it would be 'controlled clutter' (and it was). Loved the colors she is redoing her house in. Nice dark grayish-blue. I'd love for my bottom cabinets be a dark grayish green - I know I will know it when I see it. Just need to get Louis' paint chart out of the truck this weekend. Still have not bought any appliances that really need to be replaced. Tomorrow, I will take my clothes next door at Trey's and wash them. The kids are back in school after the storm. We sat out on the covered deck and listened to the wind howl and the trees breaking. Nothing around the house other than one large pine - we would have been well out of the way. Trees in the back 2/4rd of our property had a lot of large oak trees down. Would have loved to have built back there; but, probably better that we didn't after seeing it through Louis and Trey's eyes. Louis said he would take me back there; but, we'd have to try to go during the middle of the day when we would not run up on hunters that shoot at anything that moves. Not supposed to do that. Day-glow Orange Jacket will help.

    Trey got most of his meat out of his freezer and into our next door neighbors who had a generator - he called and offered. Tree down across road. Glad I did not know that at the time. We lost everything; but, most of it went with Trey since he had more meat than room. He had gotten it; but, I did not know it. Went to his neighbor's the other day and asked if he had any candles and he opened the door just wide enough to see his face. He is getting worse and worse (think that he has Alzheimer's) and then he said, 'y'all don't have a generator'? DUH! This is the first time in close to 20 years that we could have used one; and, it might be another 20 before we need it, too. We'll wait for the price comes down on them … maybe find one on sale. First night the kids brought over supper; the next night Trey grilled a variety of what he had not put in Jason's freezer. He said, 'next grill I get, I am going to have a 'hot plate' … and, that's when the fight started. Because it had been a 'birthday gift' from Jenn. He quickly back-tracked and said, 'I mean when this one is no longer useable'. Hells-Bells - I'll take his. It'd work great for the 2 of us. But, right now we have 2 of them as it is - I want them 'gone'.

    I've been staying away from social networking sites because I feel better when I am not going through a lot of 'drama' at this point in my life.

    Love to all!

    Lenora
  • evie1958
    evie1958 Posts: 863 Member
    Heather!! Doing the happy dance for you!
  • LisaInAR
    LisaInAR Posts: 2,020 Member
    Heather, woot! SO pleased for you and with you...

    Rebecca, so pleased for your early Christmas!

    Lenora, very good to see you posting.

    More tomorrow.

    Love y'all.
    Lisa in Arkansas
  • lilnoramitchellandre
    lilnoramitchellandre Posts: 144 Member
    Barbie - When I went out to Oklahoma to visit a friend I had not seen since we first met (in elementary school), they'd say, "Say something, we love your drawl!" One thing I have found is that we are all learning different ways to live life.
  • evie1958
    evie1958 Posts: 863 Member
    Rebecca, so happy that you will see your baby boy before he heads off to Japan! What a lovely early Christmas present!
    Michele, congrats on your upcoming grandmother status! I must echo other ladies, go spend thanksgiving with Denise and her in laws, it could be a good opportunity to get to know them better.
    Lisa, reading your blog just makes me smile so much! Happy for you that the moving process is happening!
    Felicia, I hope I've got the right person and that it is you who lost her sister last year. Don't be so hard on yourself, losing a close family member isn't something you get over. It's been almost 8 years since I lost my mom and I still get quite teary sometimes. There doesn't seem to be a trigger, I just get blindsided by it. I j7st accept it and try to come up with a happy memory, fortunately there are lots of those.

    So much wisdom on this thread lately, can't remember everything that I wanted to comment on so just going to say a general "thank you" to all of you. Every one of you adds a little bit of good to my day! Thanks also for all the great pics of pets and people, love them!
    Hugs for those needing them, congrats to those celebrating and welcome to the newbies!
    Evelyn, Vancouver Island
  • Katla49
    Katla49 Posts: 10,385 Member
    cityjaneLondon wrote: »
    Hugs Allie! <3

    WE HAVE EXCHANGED! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :drinker: :D:p

    Phew! Now we can get going on organising our move. The final legal stuff isn't completed until moving day, but there is a big penalty for dropping out beforje then, so it rarely happens.
    I tried to redirect mail online this morning, but it wasn't having it. Will have to go in to the Post Office.

    DH has to organise house insurance and telephone/wifi.

    We are MEGA relieved.

    Love Heather UK xxxxxxx
    cityjaneLondon wrote: »
    Hugs Allie! <3

    WE HAVE EXCHANGED! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :drinker: :D:p

    Phew! Now we can get going on organising our move. The final legal stuff isn't completed until moving day, but there is a big penalty for dropping out before then, so it rarely happens.
    I tried to redirect mail online this morning, but it wasn't having it. Will have to go in to the Post Office.

    DH has to organise house insurance and telephone/wifi.

    We are MEGA relieved.

    Love Heather UK xxxxxxx
    cityjaneLondon wrote: »
    Hugs Allie! <3

    WE HAVE EXCHANGED! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :drinker: :D:p

    Phew! Now we can get going on organising our move. The final legal stuff isn't completed until moving day, but there is a big penalty for dropping out before then, so it rarely happens.
    I tried to redirect mail online this morning, but it wasn't having it. Will have to go in to the Post Office.

    DH has to organise house insurance and telephone/wifi.

    We are MEGA relieved.

    Love Heather UK xxxxxxx
    cityjaneLondon wrote: »
    Hugs Allie! <3

    WE HAVE EXCHANGED! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :drinker: :D:p

    Phew! Now we can get going on organising our move. The final legal stuff isn't completed until moving day, but there is a big penalty for dropping out before then, so it rarely happens.
    I tried to redirect mail online this morning, but it wasn't having it. Will have to go in to the Post Office.

    DH has to organise house insurance and telephone/wifi.

    We are MEGA relieved.

    Love Heather UK xxxxxxx
    cityjaneLondon wrote: »
    Hugs Allie! <3

    WE HAVE EXCHANGED! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :drinker: :D:p

    Phew! Now we can get going on organising our move. The final legal stuff isn't completed until moving day, but there is a big penalty for dropping out before then, so it rarely happens.
    I tried to redirect mail online this morning, but it wasn't having it. Will have to go in to the Post Office.

    DH has to organise house insurance and telephone/wifi.

    We are MEGA relieved.

    Love Heather UK xxxxxxx
    cityjaneLondon wrote: »
    Hugs Allie! <3

    WE HAVE EXCHANGED! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :drinker: :D:p

    Phew! Now we can get going on organising our move. The final legal stuff isn't completed until moving day, but there is a big penalty for dropping out before then, so it rarely happens.
    I tried to redirect mail online this morning, but it wasn't having it. Will have to go in to the Post Office.

    DH has to organise house insurance and telephone/wifi.

    We are MEGA relieved.

    Love Heather UK xxxxxxx
    cityjaneLondon wrote: »
    Hugs Allie! <3

    WE HAVE EXCHANGED! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :drinker: :D:p

    Phew! Now we can get going on organising our move. The final legal stuff isn't completed until moving day, but there is a big penalty for dropping out before then, so it rarely happens.
    I tried to redirect mail online this morning, but it wasn't having it. Will have to go in to the Post Office.

    DH has to organise house insurance and telephone/wifi.

    We are MEGA relieved.

    Love Heather UK xxxxxxx
    cityjaneLondon wrote: »
    Hugs Allie! <3

    WE HAVE EXCHANGED! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :drinker: :D:p

    Phew! Now we can get going on organising our move. The final legal stuff isn't completed until moving day, but there is a big penalty for dropping out before then, so it rarely happens.
    I tried to redirect mail online this morning, but it wasn't having it. Will have to go in to the Post Office.

    DH has to organise house insurance and telephone/wifi.

    We are MEGA relieved.

    Love Heather UK xxxxxxx

  • Katla49
    Katla49 Posts: 10,385 Member
    CONGRATULATIONS!🎈🎉🍾🎊 I am happy for you. 😘😘😘😘
  • GodMomKim
    GodMomKim Posts: 3,703 Member
    Hi Gals,

    Heather – So delighted for you!!!!

    Maggie – welcome

    Karen in Vir- please a definition – fascinator vs hat

    Rebecca - How exciting! There is a store here that sells overripe bananas for 50% off, but you have to buy a whole “bag” last time I was looking at them the smallest bag was 4lbs…

    Well, one of the many things I have been doing in the last 10 years since losing my corporate job and opening my own business has been driving friends to things they needed a ride to (airport, doctors appt…) I do far less of it now then I did back when I was first laid off. But tonight (3:45am on Friday morning) I am picking up a friend and taking her to San Francisco – so headed to bed soon, as I’ll be up at 3:15am to get to her house – then 2 hours of driving and back home about 5:45 to get Levi and take him for a walk, and then a full day, and off to a high school football game in the evening… I’ll sleep well tomorrow night!


    Smiles

    Kim from N. California
  • OregonMother
    OregonMother Posts: 1,664 Member
    barbiecat wrote: »
    :) My father grew up in West Texas but left when he was 19 years old. I remember my mother saying that when she went to Texas to visit his family, she could barely understand a word they were saying. It was English that sounded so different from how she talked in the Northeast.

    I was talking to one of my students about it today. She learned Spanish as her first language in her home in the US, and she said when she goes to Mexico to visit her grandparents, she can barely understand anyone. Language is so interesting.

    Felicia
    Willamette Valley, Oregon
  • auntiebk
    auntiebk Posts: 2,610 Member
    Lanette Thanks for the https://brokenbrain.com/trailer/?id=1002 link. Signed up and will make time to watch when first episode available Oct 24.
    Rebecca Christmas in October, great idea, enjoy!
    Lenora, thanks for the update. Trusting the power and water will be back on SOON!

    Lighter, lovelies!
    f8qt1s098sxm.gifBarbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD.
    60 g protein 14/18, rx/vits 12/18, meditate 10/18, walk one more step 17/18, knee exercises 10/18, core 3/8, walk Tumble 1/8 times, SWSY 0/4, hang up or purge art 0/0, AF 13/18.
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,593 Member
    @coastalgosgal & @cityjaneLondon ... very pleased for you. :)


    Machka in Oz
  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,693 Member
    edited October 2018
    Machka - So happy for you, and him, that he has made such great progress. It is a tribute to his strength and fitness, and your devoted care, that he has done so well. I'm sure the cycling is contributing greatly to his recovery. I know there are still challenges, and probably always will be, but I can remember that terrible blackness and despair you were in earlier in the year. It looked so very bad. The brain is so very much more flexible than we once thought, thank goodness, and you have been a great team. Well done! <3

    Only had one awake hour in the night! I re-read, MEDITATION FOR FIDGETY SCEPTICS, by Dan Harris, which has really helped me get through this moving business. :D I'm doing mini meditations when I'm feeling stressed, or before sleep. I like the style of his two books. No woo woo nonsense. Very human.

    Today is mail redirection, scheduling a hair trim and sending off removal forms. Oh, and another kitchen drawer to declutter. I looked inside it a few days ago and managed to discard 5 wooden spoons, but there is more to do. I'm trying to keep my writing going most days and have succeeded. I was in the middle of my morning session yesterday when the phone rang to tell us we'd exchanged! That put an end to that! :laugh: DH will think about utilities. We've done tv and wifi etc.

    I've organised my cleaner to come on the packing day, the day before completion and actual moving, so she can clean behind the guys as they clear rooms. Clean cupboards etc. I will also clean, but I remember last time I nearly killed myself hoovering etc and I am 9 years older now! I may borrow an extra hoover as one of ours is a Dyson and runs out of puff in twenty minutes. The other is held together with gaffer tape! Lots of kitchen/utility cupboards to clean as well. It doesn't have to be perfect, but I don't want to leave it a mess. Too much pride! She is happy to earn the money and is really sad we are going. :'(<3
    We are paying for a full packing service - v expensive, but worth it at our age, but we are unpacking boxes at the other end. Want to take my time and maybe discard more stuff!

    Love Heather UK xxxxxxx
  • grandmallie
    grandmallie Posts: 10,086 Member
    Morning ladies and here are the crack of dawn...been awake since probably 1:30 am ..thinking of everything I have to do today....move a bunch of stuff and go grocery shopping...
    Still have a pit in my stomach that Tom is off to Florida with Elena..I remember those rides and it was fun,and how I loved our place down there..oh well get my butt off the pity pot.and put my big girl pants on and deal with it...
    Just looked at the portal for my Drs office,and when it's staring you in the face morbidly obese is not something you want to see..today is grocery shopping day and I pray I make good choices..
  • spikeyhair
    spikeyhair Posts: 2,078 Member
    LANETTE is the Broken Brain docu series the same one we saw earlier this year

    HEATHER forgot to say I read the decluttering book you recommended and I have done a lot of clearing out cupboards and drawers. It really was a lightbulb moment for me

    Kate UK <3
  • KJLaMore
    KJLaMore Posts: 2,847 Member
    Karen VA- Very festive fascinator/hatinator! :D

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