2020: One Day At A Time, We Will Achieve!!
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Firework sales are legal in Maryland (I was surprised to discover when we moved here). We have this weird thing. "Someone" moves these self-contained yellow metal boxes into parking lots which will open up as we go toward July 4th and voila - fireworks sales. Then after the 4th they are hauled off again. To somewhere. Today I saw one so apparently the pandemic is not going to stop this quaint "custom".0
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Jean - nothing but black cats:
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Cuddling up in the cone of shame is so sweet. I watched Ann Curry’s show, Chasing the Cure last summer. She and a panel of doctors worked on getting diagnosed for extremely rare diseases. Many patients had been to so many doctors and couldn’t even find a name for what they had. It was so touching to see them get answers and plot out a course of treatment. The doctors donated their services as well. I don’t think it got renewed for a second season though. It was on TNT. If you run out of things to watch, see if you can find it online.0
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Helene - I'll look for that. I need to move aside a few boxes and dig through my library of DVDs to see what I may not have watched or what might be worth a second (or third) look.
One thing I hate about this new cable remote is you can't separately search free tv listings and the "on demand" library section.0 -
There are a couple of free streaming services I’ve been watching. They are Tubi and ImbdTV. They have a mix of movies and older TV shows. I’ve been watching Drop Dead Diva and I see Lost is on there. You can use the voice remote to pull them up. Or if your remote has a setting for apps, they’d be in there.0
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Cuddling up in the cone of shame is so sweet. I watched Ann Curry’s show, Chasing the Cure last summer. She and a panel of doctors worked on getting diagnosed for extremely rare diseases. Many patients had been to so many doctors and couldn’t even find a name for what they had. It was so touching to see them get answers and plot out a course of treatment. The doctors donated their services as well. I don’t think it got renewed for a second season though. It was on TNT. If you run out of things to watch, see if you can find it online.
I started watching the first episode of that last night. Do you happen to remember if they go back later and do updates on the people? During the first show it seems to be a quick 15 minute checking with internet suggestions (weird) and getting an update from their panel of doctors. Then they try to get permission from the patient for some of the tests suggested if they haven't already been performed. But at that point there's only the experts best guess that they've correctly identified the problem and no clue whether their suggested treatments will help. It would be nice to know if they did.0 -
Yes, in subsequent episodes, they go back to some of the patients and update any new diagnosis and treatments. Some patients had been suffering for years and finally found a team of doctors that listened to their symptoms and were working to help them.0
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As far as the internet suggestion, there were people who had similar symptoms and they were able to offer advice and even suggestions to the doctors of avenues the doctors might look at. So what sounds weird was actually helpful.0
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As far as the internet suggestion, there were people who had similar symptoms and they were able to offer advice and even suggestions to the doctors of avenues the doctors might look at. So what sounds weird was actually helpful.
I've only watched the first two patients so far and since the doctors had already done their thing what came in "live" was just sort of for entertainment it seemed to me!0 -
Yes, in subsequent episodes, they go back to some of the patients and update any new diagnosis and treatments. Some patients had been suffering for years and finally found a team of doctors that listened to their symptoms and were working to help them.
Coo!1 I wasn't going to buy the whole season unless we got at least some updates. LOL!0 -
Here's how much more a chocolate bar would have to cost to stop using child labor (hint, not much):
https://www.popsci.com/child-labor-chocolate-cocoa/?utm_source=internal&utm_medium=email
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The cheeto is an idiot but apparently he's by far not the only one:
Going back to his pep rallies but having people sign a waiver (who would be idiot enough to attend?)
Having a convention - again, who are these idiots who would attend? (have you heard how they're considering making up for the fact that Jacksonville doesn't have enough hotel rooms? CRUISE SHIPS!) Apparently convention delegates skew older.
I'd ask whether they think our hospital capabilities are unlimited but heck we all KNOW that's not true even if we didn't before.
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I certainly wouldn’t sign a waiver to attend one of his rallies, but then again, the only way I’d attend one of his rallies is with a gun at my back. His MAGA crowd is stupid enough to sign on the dotted line though. Maybe that will thin the herd and they won’t be able to turn out in force to vote for him again.
We are seeing a big uptick in COVID cases here. I think a lot of the people who disregarded all of the recommendations and went out and partied over the Memorial Day weekend as well as the people who have been protesting every day are responsible for this. Texas is in Phase 3 of reopening and I think it’s been much too fast. We have a republican governor who is determined to get the economy moving again, so he is proceeding even with the numbers rising sharply. No surprise, he is a big fan of tRump.
I went yesterday to my hair stylist for a do over. When she did my hair 2 weeks ago I was very pleased with the cut, but not the color. I’ve always worn it with highlights and lowlights but I felt that all I got the first time was a head full of lowlights. I even showed her pictures of what I wanted. Yesterday she took responsibility for a “miscommunication” and added in the highlights so that it looks more like what I wanted in the first place. She didn’t charge me anything this time which was very nice I thought. I didn’t really feel that she should charge me, but I was prepared to pay something for her time. Her saying it was a miscommunication puzzled me a bit though, since I showed her 2 pictures of the color I wanted and they were clearly much lighter than the color I walked out with the first time.0 -
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Been there, done that, and yet there's always a cat or two willing to "help".
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I got a manicure, a facial and a haircut yesterday. I don’t usually do facials but my skin was dry and itchy which meant I was touching my face to scratch it. Now I’m feeling human again. It was 12 weeks between haircuts. With short hair, that’s a long time. I had trimmed the bangs 3 times but resisted cutting any where else.
We had our first dine in meal last night. A friend wanted to take us out for dinner to thank us for helping him with a couple of projects. We went early to a local seafood restaurant. We all had salmon with a brown sugar pecan sauce. Yum. There were only a few tables in use and we were widely spaced apart. Business was picking up as we were leaving. Up til then, we’d stuck with takeout.0 -
It is lazy Sunday here. I slept a little better last night but still feel tired. Right now, I'm watching some Amazon Prime which is better than buying. I'm just waiting for the magic words to entice me into buying something not a need. I just have so much stuff here that I don't need to add to it other than the bras I bought on sale yesterday with free shipping.
I'm increasing the time I go without the sling while sitting as it does help with the weight and pull on the neck. I am allowed to do that now while sitting. I accidentally reached for something behind me with my left arm and didn't feel the pain I did before the surgery but there are other movements when I do my home PT exercises that are a little uncomfortable.
Hunger or bored? I've been eating almost non-stop. It doesn't seem as if what one filled me up no longer does. Too many calories in a Lean Cuisine spaghetti? Less than 300 so I eat the whole thing.0 -
I'm increasing the time I go without the sling while sitting as it does help with the weight and pull on the neck. I am allowed to do that now while sitting. I accidentally reached for something behind me with my left arm and didn't feel the pain I did before the surgery but there are other movements when I do my home PT exercises that are a little uncomfortable.
Hunger or bored? I've been eating almost non-stop. It doesn't seem as if what one filled me up no longer does. Too many calories in a Lean Cuisine spaghetti? Less than 300 so I eat the whole thing.
That sounds like progress with the arm!
The lean cuisine spaghetti I had was over 300 calories. It just so happened that day was already a little heavy on calories so I tweaked!!
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Jean, sounds like your recovery is right on track. How many days since you had surgery. That’s a really good sign that you could reach back with your arm and not be in pain.0
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Someone asked Lin-Manuel Miranda how he felt about John Bolton using a line from Hamilton as the title of his book. His response was a video of clip of someone saying "not great Bob".0
