WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR APRIL 2019
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I worked this weekend, and as Heather would say, I'm knackered.
Tomorrow it's back to online school for my grandson, after a week off. I hope he is able to focus & able to get some work done. Transitions are difficult for him.
Lanette I was doing a required school rotation in the Virginia medical examiner's office in either 1986 or 1987. There was a woman there about my age (early 30s) who was a friend of the Chief Medical Examiner. She was doing some pro bono IT work for the office, & was also doing some research for a book she hoped to write. We ate lunch together a few times, and went to a couple of on-scene investigations with the medical examiner. It was an amazing 2 months. The woman was Patricia Cornwell, & the book she was researching was Postmortem, published in 1990. She wouldn't know me, I am certain, but I will never forget her. The paperback version of her biography of Ruth Bell Graham had just come out & she asked me if I had heard of it (I hadn't). It didn't bother her a bit. She was an intense listener. Piercing blue eyes. Vibrant presence.
Karen in Virginia
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Floyd thinking about life5 -
Sorry to hear your mom is having pain from hip @lacwest6605. How long ago was her replacement? I am still getting muscles stretched out right and felling fully healed in my first hip leg (August of 2016). Other hip was replaced in March 2018. It is a process and not unusual for tendons and muscles to take a bit of time. It sounds like she has been mobile (you have taken her shopping, right?). Try not to stress out too much until you meet with surgeon.2
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Ginnytez, Thanks for the kind and informative words. I really appreciate it! My mom, Sarah, had surgery mid December. She is 92 and was using a walker even before she broke her hip. A physical therapist comes twice a week. Just this week she asked me to take her out shopping.
Sometimes it gets a bit overwhelming. So many doctors and so many meds to keep track of. Pills, eye drops, inhalants, patches, creams and salves! Mom has COPD and uses oxygen, too.
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Laura, don't be so hard on yourself about not making your mom go to the doctor sooner. Based on my experience with my mom, it is fantasy to think one can make one's mother do anything she doesn't want to do. Just relax and wait to see what the doctor has to say. 6 -
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Autumn in the park ... this is a park I walk through when I'm walking between university and work.
M in Oz
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Re: Fitness throughout the day I try to find ways to work in some exercise time. I read once that you need to get your heart rate up for at least 10 minutes before the exercise burns calories. So I do a few 10-15 minute tasks to help me meet my goal.
• Sweeping the front porch is a good 10 minute workout.
• Laundry - I fold and put away 1 item from the dryer at a time - in constant motion the whole time.
• Empty waste baskets - retrieve one at a time. Carry to the bigger kitchen bag. Replace lining. Return waste basket. Carry big bag down to the garage. Pausing to do sidesteps between bins. 15 minutes.
• Washing walls or windows - this can really kick up the minutes.
Walking, side steps, kicks.
• Walking in front of the TV.
Sometimes I walk to Leslie Sansone videos. Sometimes I get out and walk the road in front of the house.
➡️ I'm working to build back my steps and time. It's going to take a while to get back to my 2014 daily 12,000 avg steps and 60 active Fitbit minutes. I've packed on the weight these past 5 years. So.., I'm working mostly on diet - but the walking adds to the whole healthier vibe and helps me stay on track. Act like I'm living healthier - and up the ante as I go.
--Ginger in Texas8 -
I am in shock. My dearest friend just called to tell me her husband died Friday. He was expected home at 6pm and when he hadn't arrived or responded to calls or texts she became quite concerned. Hospitals, police, highway patrol nothing. At 10 pm the county coroner arrived at her house with the sad news that he'd collapsed in a store, was rushed to local hospital but died of a heart attack. A friend stayed with her the first night and another friend has come to stay as long as needed. She is understandably devastated, doesn't know how she's going to manage without him. She's most concerned about their dogs, too big and energetic for her to walk and exercise as he did. Went on Rover.com to order a dog walk for her.
Time to make will, medical power of attorney and BBOD. Even if I can't get Joe on board, I can do them for me.
Feel that cry coming on...
Lighter, lovelies!
Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD
walk one more step 5/30, 60 g protein 7/30, rx/vits 6/30, meditate 2/30, knee exercises 2/30, SWSY 0/30, play with Tumble 5/30, hang up or purge art 0/4 AF 4/30.
Word for 2019: "GOOD" good attitude, good food, good times, good choices, good enough, feel good, GOOD!
04/07 LT: SWSY-N MT: make Joe peach cobbler-Y ST: listen to Pat-Y
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Barbara - I know you feel her pain.
Sudden death is such a devastating loss. Good call on the dog walking.
Sending love and hugs.
Love Heather UK XXXXXX4 -
Barbara Your poor friend! What a shock. (((Hug))).
Karen in Virginia3 -
📙Accountability post for
Sunday, April 7th
✔️1. Carbs 50g max with no more than 25g per meal. (52g)
✔️2. Fiber 25g. (26g)
✔️3. Track in MFP. Complete the entry daily.
✔4. Exercise - log 30 Fitbit minutes (29 Active minutes).
✖️5. No eating after 9pm. To prevent late night snacking & get a good 12 hour overnight fast.
✖️6. In bed by midnight.
• Overall Feeling: Feeling good. Really slow day for me today. I did my usual Morning Routine and my usual Sunday tasks: Change bed linens, CPAP maintenance, review of my progress toward the past week's plan and create my plan for this week.
• Exercise: Got 29 minutes. I'm giving myself a checkmark. I did a little more - but must have paused just long enough for Fitbit to not count it all.
• Eating curfew and bedtime. It's going to take some time. This week I'll work on getting to sleep earlier.
• Bright Spots today: Stayed within my macros for the day. Husband cooked a good meal and even though he made a big pot of pinto beans, side of white rice and a cast iron skillet of cornbread (a favorite meal for him and Mama) - he also grilled ribeye steak and steamed some green beans so i would have another low carb option. I had 1/2c pinto beans with steak and green beans. This meal didn’t put me too far above my carb count and it boosted my fiber count.
-- Ginger in Texas
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Barbara - So sorry for your friend. Such a devastating loss. I know she'll appreciate your help with the dogs. One less thing to worry about.
Yes - get your will, physicians directives and medical power of attorney in order. We did after my mother-in-law's sudden death in 2000. It gave us both such peace of mind to know it was done.
Sending hugs and love your way.
--Ginger-in-Texas3 -
Barbara: (((hugs))) and prayers for your friend and her family.
☘️ Terri2 -
I am in shock. My dearest friend just called to tell me her husband died Friday. He was expected home at 6pm and when he hadn't arrived or responded to calls or texts she became quite concerned. Hospitals, police, highway patrol nothing. At 10 pm the county coroner arrived at her house with the sad news that he'd collapsed in a store, was rushed to local hospital but died of a heart attack. A friend stayed with her the first night and another friend has come to stay as long as needed. She is understandably devastated, doesn't know how she's going to manage without him. She's most concerned about their dogs, too big and energetic for her to walk and exercise as he did. Went on Rover.com to order a dog walk for her.
Time to make will, medical power of attorney and BBOD. Even if I can't get Joe on board, I can do them for me.
Feel that cry coming on...
Lighter, lovelies!Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD
walk one more step 5/30, 60 g protein 7/30, rx/vits 6/30, meditate 2/30, knee exercises 2/30, SWSY 0/30, play with Tumble 5/30, hang up or purge art 0/4 AF 4/30.
Word for 2019: "GOOD" good attitude, good food, good times, good choices, good enough, feel good, GOOD!
04/07 LT: SWSY-N MT: make Joe peach cobbler-Y ST: listen to Pat-Y
I'm so sorry to hear that.
But I think you did good by ordering the dog walking service. Also yes, get things organised for you.
M in Oz3 -
Barbara - I'm so sorry about your friend's husband. You're a good friend to resolve what you can for her, with the dog walking service.
Lisa in AR3 -
barbara This is devastating news, the shock of it adds to the grief I think. So good you came up with the dog walking service, knowing you, you'll be there for plenty more. Does she lives close by? Strength and to all. And yes, get your will/POA done, sometimes that independent action will pull allow a reluctant partner.
Karen VA I loved the story about meeting the author Patricia Cornwell, very cool.
NYKAREN
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A few things to accomplish today before end of day, including packing an overnight bag. Long day of driving tomorrow, and the bag's a mere precaution. If I get too exhausted, I'll simply get a hotel somewhere. Driving once a week for the rest of the month to various sites in Arkansas, so the prepacked bag will be necessary all month long.
Still, it's better than flying, as last week I proved to myself what I already knew intellectually - went to the local courthouse to move my personal tax notifications to the new house, and had to go through a metal detector. The new knee is going to set off every detector I go through for the rest of my life, so flying will now have an added level of annoyance. Because I look SO much like a terrorist, you know. Ah well, no plans to fly anywhere any time soon.
Heather, you look lovely and happy.
Ginger, you're inspirational to me.
Barbara, you asked about the quilt: I'm making the quilt to auction off for the benefit of the council I work for--it's a lap quilt, nearly a twin size, but not quite. Found some material with vintage Girl Scout badges printed on it, and am making a strip quilt with all the Girl Scout colors, from Daisy all the way up to ambassador, in alternating diagonal strips of Daisy Blue, white, khaki and chocolate brown, with strips of the vintage print interspersed, to reflect the Girl Scout sashes at every stage. I'll free-motion quilt it with Girl Scout green thread, border it in navy blue for the staff colors, and back it with Girl Scout green. Hopefully it will turn out well. I'm about a third of the way through piecing it.
Love y'all,
Lisa in AR8 -
Barbara - I'm so sorry about your friends husband! Great job ordering a dog walker for her.
Hugs
Okie in the TX Hill Country3 -
So sorry for your loss Barbara, never easy and so shocking that it take some time to sink in...just be there for your friend as much as you can and good job on the dog walking call...
working 9-5 today and Friday .. so will get down to walk the dogs early and feed DFIL and then off to work..
dont know what I will bring to eat , getting a bit nervous with the colonoscopy coming up2 -
Good morning Ladies -
Hubs and I spent the weekend in KS for my Mom's 75th birthday party. We had a good time. We flew up Friday morning and it was quite uneventful. Spent the afternoon with Mom and her husband and then the evening with my Aunt, cousin and her family. It was a good day. Saturday we spent the morning getting ready for the party and then spent the day visiting with cousins and Mom's friends. The drive back to the hotel was fun in a thunderstorm. We got a great light show from all the lightning. Our flight was delayed for late crew arrival on Sunday morning.....finally made it out of Kansas City to be delayed in Houston for weather. We should have been home by 2, instead it was 8:30. I am so thankful hub was with me to keep me company and to watch the bags for potty stops. I really think dealing with the luggage when you have to pee is the worst part of traveling alone.
Have a great week ladies!
Okie in the TX Hill Country4 -
Good morning all! Happy Monday! I feel like a child that never learns from "painful" lessons. This weekend I ate some salt and vinegar kettle chips. More than I should have. And my mouth and body is paying for it. I have felt dehydrated all weekend! lol I knew better; and now, I know better again.
Barbara- So sorry about your friend's loss! Truly, a nightmare. Very happy that she has you. Good call on the dog walker. Sending love and hugs to the both of you!
Heather- What a wonderful pic of you and your friends! Can you identify them for me? Is the one in the front, with the lovely shorter gray hair the friend who visited you last week? Is the lady sitting alone your friend that sometimes gets under your skin? You look fantastic in this pic! Very happy!
Lisa- Your quilt sounds wonderful! Please post a pic of the finished product. Material with a badge print would go over well here with my kiddos. They love to look at my daughter's old sashes/vests with all of the badges/patches. They also like to browse my handbooks and look at all of the activites and badges in there.
Okie-Your trip to your mom's sounds like it went well. A little glitch on the way home, but am glad you had your DH there with you.
Allie- Don't stress about the colonoscopy! I am sure everyone reacts differently to it; for myself it was a breeze. I gave up meat a week prior, stopped eating veg/fruits/fiber three days before and did broths for two days prior to drinking the prep. This probably seems extreme, and I am not sure if it made it any easier for me, but I had no problems drinking the prep within the time limit, and I was only playing "bathroom tag" for about two hours. I WAS very tired immediately after the surgery though and slept the majority of the day.
Pip- The Helix! Cool machine! I can see immediately how that would be a great machine for the glutes, hip and thigh areas! It reminds me a bit of what your muscles do when you skate and cross country ski. I have also been told that riding a bike is one of the best exercises if you want a great butt. I'd say you probably have buns of steel.
The first two kids have arrived and are complaining about the "beany" smell in my house. lol I cooked up some black beans and lentils this morning (I forgot to cook them yesterday) so I can make some black bean burgers. At least the beany smell is covering up the smell of the flounder we had for dinner last night! lol Even though I grilled it outside, that smell permeates through the house. But it was sooooo good! Ah well, c'est la vie! Oh! My sauerkraut is on week two of fermentation and seems to be doing okay! The lid is secure, so you really can't smell that until I "burp" it.
Yep, I have the smelly house today! lol Hugs to the rest of you ladies! ttfn xoxoxo KJ (Kelly)8 -
Kelly,
Yes I made tuna salad,egg and olive salad and some dill pickle chips today and a couple cups of tea with Heavy cream.. remember doing Keto.. tomorrow I'm off so I will be doing basically a fast .. with warm lemon water ,broth and zero water.. weds I am working 8-4 usually I work to 6 but need to start the prep at 4 so will come home early for that.. waiting for a call hoping i dont need updates bloodwork, and have to find out from ins .since i am having it at hospital if i have to pay the 4500.00 copay🙄5 -
Barbara ... go ahead and have a cry ... tears speak when words cannot. Hugs.3
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Barbara prayers for your friend.2
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Barbara so sorry to hear about your friend's husband, she will feel lost so I'm sure you will be of great help to her. Sending hugs
Viv York UK2 -
KetoneKaren wrote: »I worked this weekend, and as Heather would say, I'm knackered.
Tomorrow it's back to online school for my grandson, after a week off. I hope he is able to focus & able to get some work done. Transitions are difficult for him.
Lanette I was doing a required school rotation in the Virginia medical examiner's office in either 1986 or 1987. There was a woman there about my age (early 30s) who was a friend of the Chief Medical Examiner. She was doing some pro bono IT work for the office, & was also doing some research for a book she hoped to write. We ate lunch together a few times, and went to a couple of on-scene investigations with the medical examiner. It was an amazing 2 months. The woman was Patricia Cornwell, & the book she was researching was Postmortem, published in 1990. She wouldn't know me, I am certain, but I will never forget her. The paperback version of her biography of Ruth Bell Graham had just come out & she asked me if I had heard of it (I hadn't). It didn't bother her a bit. She was an intense listener. Piercing blue eyes. Vibrant presence.
Karen in Virginia
Karen - neat story about Patricia Cornwell As you described her, that's how I envision Dr. Scarpetta, her main character in the book I just finished (Point of Origin) and now I'm on to Blow Fly, lol. Juicy stuff. Can't wait to hit the thrift stores today and load up on more - hope they have Postmortem and the Ruth Graham bio. Did you read any of her books?
Barbara AHMOD - How sad for your friend, and you. Great idea on the Rover and yes - does she live close by or is she in Idaho/elsewhere? This is another reminder to us here to make sure we or our spouses and/or trusted friends are aware of bank accounts, bills to pay, where stuff is (like wills). Whether the person who handles them passes away or is incapacitated for a while. Newbies - we have this discussion here every couple months it seems.
Heather - great photo of you and your girlfriends. Supermodels all, lol. Sounds like a good time but bet you and your DH will be glad you are back home.
Ginger - glad to see you back and sharing your day. Very inspirational! And you are doing very well!! Love the idea of your accountability post and Fitbit stats.
I think I mentioned our older dog had started licking, licking her lady parts. Gave her a bath and that seemed to help but I reckoned it was triggered by stress (loud thunder right over the house - she shook for hours.) I had purchased a bottle of "Comfort Calm" made by "Vets Best" - herbal calmative for dogs to give them on trips, July 4th, etc. So I gave Sophie half a tablet. The licking stopped within minutes. She started up again yesterday.... half a tablet, no licking. She goes to the groomer next week so will give her a tablet an hour before I load her in the car.
OK ladies, must get crackin here. Have a great Monday!
Lanette
Rainy SW WA State3 -
51 yo from Michigan. I'm excited about my age. I am overweight (again!) But recall how I felt when I was 49 turning 50 and started to get in shape and be healthier. I want that feeling to last. Plus, so far have been in good health with no diabetes, no HBP, or anything. So need that to last. Plus, I know when I do better my mom and hubby both do better. So!!
IF IT IS TO BE IT'S UP TO ME!! I look forward to chatting in this group.
@snowflake1968~ We're in two groups together!!
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