WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MARCH 2020

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  • Whidislander
    Whidislander Posts: 3,963 Member
    This pic makes Athenas feet look humongous💖😁!
  • JRsLateInLifeMom
    JRsLateInLifeMom Posts: 2,275 Member
    Beth I was told to take him to an allergy specialist at a older age (elementary age). He too young still for it. The Doctor doesn’t think this is allergies tho.It runs in my family y hubby too he just got a double dose cause he has the gigantism (hormones are pumping at a higher rate than kids his age). We got to be careful then I want him allergy tested whether or not Doctor says it’s necessary just to be sure. His meat issues Daughter has also she has no allergies or stomach she just not made to handle cooked meats only raw fish. This pandemic isn’t helping anything everything on standstill since he at a high risk with skin breaks y me immune system wise so waiting for this to end y his age to pass diaper stages. I have him in a diet I feel helps him to even my cleaning schedule is to protect him (bleach the floors certain days of the month y simple green or fabuloso the rest.

    1 month 3days into isolation for myself y JR.
    Tired of it but wouldn’t want my nails done anyways lol 😂. Never have done it. Hubby backs hurt but afraid to see the doctor to get chiropractic or muscle relaxer cause well he afraid of putting us at risk. So got heat pad on it y rest until it feels better. Watching Ozark on Netflix JR fell asleep so no nap for me tonight he’ll be wired .

    Amber Tx
  • exermom
    exermom Posts: 6,570 Member
    Did Gift of Yoga DVD. The plan for tomorrow is to do a Cathe Friedrich Power Hr. DVD

    Amber – I’m the same way, I’ve lost contact with which stores are open when. I know their regular hours, but not now. And which stores are opening for seniors and what time they are (not that that’s anything but a joke anyway). I agree with Okie – if you’re not going out you really don’t need hand sanitizer. You may need some when you go food shopping (if you go out), but otherwise, soap and water should do it

    Starting Monday at 5 we’re in a stay-at-home order. I’ll probably still go to the food kitchen since those people need to be fed. That’s considered an essential business.

    To me, craft stores are essential. Gonna get really bored. But then again, you can always have your crafting things delivered.

    Just heard from my neighbor whose hubby has been deployed to Afghanistan for the past 6 months. His tour has been extended 60 to 90 days. He can’t come home until all this “c” stuff is cleared up. She said that Kuwait was really bad. Going to try to find M’s link to see just how bad. I’m thinking that it was about page 99

    Kylia – what a resourceful wedding!!! Made me smile that there are people who are making lemonade out of lemons

    If anyone is interested, I still have those exercise DVD’s

    Barbara – I miss going to the Salvation Army and other stores, too. Now I try to go only when I need things and try to consolidate trips as much as possible. What a difference for me! I used to stop at stores on my way to/from places that had things on sale. No more

    Barbie – have you ever thought of making a uTube video of one of your line dancing classes? Then we can all partake

    M – congrats on your new “baby”. Sure is one lucky kitty. I know that he’ll help, especially, your hubby.

    Heather – what time should I be over for scones?????

    The PetSmart by me has closed its grooming salon. We just cut our cat’s nails the other day and gave them Revolution. I hold the cat while Vince clips the nail. Jess can do it with one person, but we just can’t

    Got all but one of the umbrellas out. Finished putting out the ceramics, worked on cleaning the pool some. I’d really like Vince to make the hanger for the other wasp trap. I honestly don’t like when things are put off to the last minute. He has so many things that should be done and I can’t do. Like put up the picture of Jess, make the cover for the outlet, put nails into the boards (you have to put them in a certain way which is why I can’t do it. Plus, you need certain nails.) If he would just do it, on a day when it’s not windy I can paint them. Put baking soda into the pool. There seems to be a problem with the pump, it seems to be getting air in it and so it keeps shutting off. Hope it’s not a crack in a pipe. Update: tomorrow he's going to try to see if maybe there's a clog.

    Suebdew – (((HUG)))

    I heard a theory about why there was a rush to buy toilet paper. Don’t know how true or not this is. I suspect it isn’t. Anyway, supposedly the inner tubes from the toilet paper come from China and people were afraid they wouldn’t be able to get tp. I’m thinking that’s not true because what about the inner tubes in paper towels???

    Amber – I was raised by my grandparents so I spent a lot of time at their house (part of a 2-family home). How I remember my grandmother’s stove/oven heating the whole house. The house was left to my uncle and I bet my cousin sold it and made a pretty penny since it’s in a great location. Now, remember, they purchased the house WAAAAYYYY back when. It’s on top of a hill overlooking the skyline of NY. I remember sleeping out on their porch because the house was too hot and the Meadowlands were nothing but pig farms. A few years ago I read a book called “101 ways to save the earth” and I couldn’t get over how many of those things my grandmother did and now I do. Great progress you’re making.

    KJ – you never cease to amaze me. The wonderful things you do with the children and now helping out that family.

    Carol GA – do you have Amazon Prime? A lot of things ship for free with them

    SuziQ – your dinner look scrumptious. Wish Vince would eat something like that. I almost doubled over in laughter at your meme

    Katla – “As mothers we worry and pray. ” I have the sorest knees in NC

    Vince put up the other wasp trap. I’m going to use the attractant that comes with it, but after this I understand that the attractant is expensive. Using apple juice worked quite well for me last year, so I’ll probably use it this year

    Got a call from a lady I met at the Y in FL. It was very good to hear from her

    Later gals

    Michele NC
  • margaretturk
    margaretturk Posts: 5,306 Member
    Rebecca good to see you. Love the Athena update.
  • bwcetc
    bwcetc Posts: 2,844 Member
    Rebecca ... so glad OMAD is working for you! So good to see Athena’s smiling face!
  • JRsLateInLifeMom
    JRsLateInLifeMom Posts: 2,275 Member
    Michele NC- I never used hand sanitizer at home until JR doctor recommended it because just washing didn’t stop his rash spreads. When we added a dab of hand sanitizer or a tub with witch hazel after a wash it stopped. I only use it during rashes y his poops 💩. Of course now going to get lower y lower just be out of it.So added last of antibacterial soaps just that tad in the jug now to the empty one shook it so any on the sides is in it using it first. That way saving th e full straight sanitizer. / My family was pig farmers until my birth.Pig sensed my stomach condition started getting aggressive towards my direction the minute my Grandma brought me inside . They kill their piglets for having my health issues. So Grandpa decided it was safer to sell them off to pig farmers needing new blood in their stock y to the meat market for the rest. The goats 🐐 loves me. Lol the cows he bought too cause I fed Grandma garden tulips to them lol she still mad I was 4yrs old when I did that lol 😂 to my defense grandpa said I could feed them grass y tulip bulbs that haven’t flowered look like tall grass to a kid living in the desert 🌵 (only had some but the bull especially loved me was protective of me scared them to death they would search for me find me under a blind bull yup I was a handful lol 😆 ).I was off the hook for my mischief the minute the boys drove the tractor through the fancy new barn shed with the fancy remote controlled doors lol across 2 fields of barb wire before they managed to catch up get the thing turned off. Lol I was an angel in their minds after that lol 😝. I told the boys where the tractor keys 🔑 were hidden for 2 cookies 🍪. 4 yr olds dream 3 cookies in 1 day lol just for pointing ☝️. Then my cousin was mad acted out well that sealed it lol 😂 I could never top the junk they did next..I learned from their screams what taking him out to the wood shed meant. Boy was I on my best behavior from then on scared the wood shed took girls too lol 😆.

    Amber Tx
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,745 Member
    edited March 2020
    exermom wrote: »
    Just heard from my neighbor whose hubby has been deployed to Afghanistan for the past 6 months. His tour has been extended 60 to 90 days. He can’t come home until all this “c” stuff is cleared up. She said that Kuwait was really bad. Going to try to find M’s link to see just how bad. I’m thinking that it was about page 99

    WHO: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019

    Check the daily situation reports.

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    Worldometer: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

    They've got all kinds of stats and graphs ... for those of us who like looking at stats and graphs. :)

    This is just a snip of a long chart.

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  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,745 Member
    One positive side effect of the stressful week I had last week is ... I lost weight!

    When I'm stressed I lose interest in eating and when I'm really stressed, I can't eat.

    When my husband had his accident 2 years ago, I dropped about 5 kg in a couple weeks.

    This time, I've dropped just over 1 kg in the past week without "trying" ... just not feeling hungry.

    It's 1 pm now and I'm thinking I should probably eat something ... but I'm not overly enthusiastic.


    Machka in Oz
  • csofled
    csofled Posts: 3,022 Member
    😀
  • GodMomKim
    GodMomKim Posts: 3,712 Member
    B)
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,745 Member
    Positive Changes:
    • Online! Work, Uni and Businesses ... it's a world I've dreamed of for years. :)

    • At Home! Another dream of mine! Being able to stay home and not have to go out to work and uni.

    • Random people don't touch me anymore! This is really weird, but for some reason I am apparently "touchable". People like to pat my hair, touch my arm, and on buses, they press against me much more than I consider necessary.

    Another positive change:
    Places are finally being cleaned! People had forgotten how to clean public places ... I've sent out numerous emails, feedback things, and survey responses begging places to clean. Finally they're actually cleaning!

    I don't know if I'm a bit of a germophobe or what but I get the shivers at the idea of having to touch things like the handles on shopping carts, the handles on my own rubbish wheelie bins, door handles, knobs, etc. out and about, stair railings, and even the first box or bag of something on a shelf because it might have been picked up by someone and put back. I've also been horrified by the idea of touching the pump of hand sanitiser bottles that places make available now.

    I've been reluctant to touch all these things long before COVID-19 and it has been my opinion that the reason why flus and colds, and possibly variations of food poisoning, spread is because of people touching all these things.

    I am thrilled that people are being encouraged to wash their hands with soap ... and to clean stuff.

    Some of this may have started because my mother was a nurse and a bit of a perfectionist so she did her best to teach cleanliness to me.

    But some of it came from a traumatic event that happened in about Grade 8 or 9. As I walked down a flight of stairs at school, there was a group of "troublemaker" boys at the top of the stairs watching over the railing whoever would walk down. I ignored them, but soon discovered what the prank was. One (or more) of them had spit all over the railing, top and underneath. So as I walked down with my hand on the railing, it was covered in their spit. <<big head to toe shudder>> I think I washed my hands all the way up to the elbows about 100 times that day and many times in days to follow ... and just about each time I remembered the occurrence. And I've seen that done a few times since ... but fortunately I've rarely touched railings since that day.

    Now that would probably be a chargeable offence! :grin:


    Stay clean!

    Machka in Oz


  • bananasandoranges
    bananasandoranges Posts: 2,410 Member
    edited March 2020
    476 new posts in a few days! phew! i'm going to go back and skim. i listened to this video online and found it top notch: From March 22, from Dr working on front lines: The "vast, vast, vast" majority of cases come from being 15-30 minutes very close to someone or touching one another or touching things (very little airborne). 4 suggestions, at about 14 minutes in video: 1. Always know where your hands are and have hand sanitizer. When you touch things outside home wash hands with sanitizer. 2.Learn to avoid touching face. Mask helps keep from touching face. Homemade masks and bandanas can help that. 3. N95 or medical mask not necessary for non-medical people, any mask will do. 4. Keep distance from people. Limit social circle to about 4 people or so. OTHER INFO: Tips on how to care for family member if one is infected and other(s) not. 10% of those who get COVID19 are short of breath, and should go to hospital. If you have a fever stay home, if short of breath with little movement go to hospital. Of that 10%, only 1-3% of those in hospital will need ventilator for several days, and most do well and go home. If you are in a city yes! go for a walk, but use sanitiser after touching buttons and doors just keep distance. Not necessary to wash clothes after shopping. Not generally necessary to disinfect all shopping. Anyone over 14 can get sick and end up on ventilator. Some young people with no illness get really sick and some old people do fine. 90% of people who are sick have fever. Almost all very sick people have cough and fever, then get shorter and shorter of breath. Need ventilator for 7-10 days and then get better and can go home. Pregnant women in no more danger than other women the same age. Social distancing will need to last between 3-9 months. We develop immunity. In 5 years it will be milder and it will be like a catching cold.In 18 months the disease will get more mild through herd immunity but not a strategy now. https://player.vimeo.com/video/399733860
  • bananasandoranges
    bananasandoranges Posts: 2,410 Member
    Weight is creeping up. Lack of simple movement, going to classes, walking around in day. I live in 2 room apartment w balcony: 500sq feet. actually quite good size for 1 person by big city standards. i have friends who live in family of 3 in spaces the same size. it's not rare. but it's not as easy to get exercise pottering as when i lived in a 1100 sq feet 2 story with big yard in the midst of nature. i scrubbed much of kitchen (and cabinets and shelves) yesterday as i found 2 food moths. Double service: gets rid of moths and also any virus lurking, hopefully. i used soap and vinegar and cinnamon: the latter two good against food moths. Spices and herbs are often excellant against insects. Tried and true. I am at 24.9 of my BMI. I used to hover close to 18.5.

    I would like to use this confinement time to develop at least some good habits: meditation, compartmentalizing work better, filing, writing (yes).

    I'm not great at limiting food greatly and tracking all.

    Here we are limited to 1h outside exercise per day. (outside of home or yard if you have one)
  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,826 Member
    edited March 2020
    Kim - glad things are easing up for you. <3 Great to speak up! :flowerforyou:

    Rebecca - V happy to see you and Athena and her huge feet! :p

    Breakfast calls!

    Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx
  • bananasandoranges
    bananasandoranges Posts: 2,410 Member
    @Anniesquats100 i've been meditating more too.

    @exermom ha ha about cvs receipts!

    @trucker743 that seems really odd to wait 9 days for results. can you do tax work online? is there some work you daughter can do online?
  • bananasandoranges
    bananasandoranges Posts: 2,410 Member
    I hope i answered all who wrote me or shouted out. thank you for that! <3<3 missing a few days and the 500 messages are more than daunting!
    a close friend was feeling out of breath yesterday. i hope she's ok.

    i'm a renter and have 2 rental studios. I dragged on renting one out (first time ever), bad luck for me. impossible to go out to show it for past 2 weeks and for next 4 weeks. very easy to rent here. i'll see if i can get financial aid for that loss but not sure. there are 1500 max financial aid for small businesses and independant workers. renting a furnished apartment is considered non-commercial profit, so probably not, but i'll check and see.
    i thought my loan had a provision to stop payment for up to 12 months in case of whatever but it seems that was a previous loan and i have no provision for that; i have enough to get by no problem; i'll take a loss and it may impact overall financial situation but i'm not in dire straights nor living hand to mouth nor month to month, thank goodness.

    i would like to make some good use of this weird time and at the same time i don't want to cause stress on myself by asking for more than i can manage.
    distance teaching and weird shopping (long line for supermarket to keep it very empty and big social distance)and hygiene are time consuming.

    i hope you are all as well as can be. <3<3<3
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