WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR APRIL 2020

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  • nannersp61
    nannersp61 Posts: 2,315 Member
    So after researching this, I found it's an Android issue. Uploading photos is not supported in this App for Android. If I want to post a picture I have to do it on my computer.
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,611 Member
    nannersp61 wrote: »
    So after researching this, I found it's an Android issue. Uploading photos is not supported in this App for Android. If I want to post a picture I have to do it on my computer.

    I've only ever typed short messages with my phone here ... never tried to load a photo or type anything long.

    While we're on the topic, if you're typing a long message with your phone, don't move your phone! If you shift your phone at all ... like if the bus hits a bump or you try to get more comfy on the sofa ... you'll lose the message.

    It's a weird little glitch.


    Also, you've 1 hour to edit a post. After that you can't edit it. But at least you do have an hour if you ever want to fix something up.

    So sometimes I will post something half written if I think I might be in danger of losing it (bump on bus for example) and then edit it and finish the post.


    M in Oz
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,611 Member
    Back to work today! At home but at work. Started to wade through about 100 emails.

    And then went out this afternoon for our flu shot. 'Tis the season! For me, this is my third vaccine in 4 months ... measles, shingles, and now flu.

    But when I hopped in the van and started it up, I knew something was terribly wrong. It idled very roughly in park and neutral ... and when I shifted into drive or reverse, it died. Fantastic.

    The van story so far ...


    About a month ago, I pulled up to the fuel tank at a local service station behind a vehicle. He had driven there just fine but was having an awful time getting into gear to drive away. It would die on him when shifted into drive or reverse.
    Then I pulled up and we topped up with about a quarter of a tank of fuel.
    About 20 km later, the van started idling really roughly at intersections, like it was about to stall, and dropping power when I accelerated.
    We took it to the shop where they confirmed that cylinders were miss firing. They replaced the spark plugs and checked some coils etc. and it seemed to run some better although the last couple times we were out, it was just a bit rough again.
    Our last drive was last week ... maybe Thursday or Friday.
    Now we're down to a quarter of a tank and I thought I might fill up on the trip back from getting our flu shots ... but I couldn't get the van out of the driveway!


    So we caught a bus ... first bus I've been on since March 27.

    And we stopped in at the shop on the way home for some suggestions.


    Meanwhile, my two instructors had sent out emails that we now had until Saturday to finish the two papers ... 5 extra days! That's great ... but when I was going through my massive pile of emails, I discovered three emails from uni officials that each say all students can have 5 extra working days! Saturday isn't a working day.

    So I emailed my instructors and asked them about it, and now we've got till next Monday to finish the papers.

    WooHoo! That takes a bit of pressure off ... it also means I might be able to go to bed before 1 am tonight which would be lovely especially given that I've had this flu shot and flu shots tend to knock me around a bit.

    I would like to get them done before next Monday, but it's nice to have the extra time. :)


    Classes resume tomorrow ... online, like in something similar to a Zoom ... and apparently I have to prepare something to discuss with my group. I'll have to look it up.

    And then work, work, work.

    Not much time to rest down here!


    Machka in Oz
  • auntiebk
    auntiebk Posts: 2,614 Member
    edited April 2020
    "Get to do"s and "chose well"s
    Chose well: invested 5 mins cleaning Master Bth, 5 mins carry over cleaning Dining Rm, Guest Bth.
    Bonus: 15 additional minutes vacuuming, 20 mins combing Tumble, packed up the wine corks for sending to Tammy.
    Get to do: BB&B, mtg minutes, invest 10 mins cleaning Living Rm, carry over cleaning 5 mins Master Brth, Office, finish weeding drive, continue weeding flower bed, mulch flowerbed, prep potato bed for snow peas, dig up snow pea bed for potatoes and greens, prep raised bed for carrots, parsley root, parsnips, radishes, transplant herbs, call Lee, bake cookies for Joe, call Carolyn, finish cleaning and start de-rusting Aunt Elsie’s stove, Freddie’s for complete series TDAP <$48, get Shingrix vaccine.
    Reward: inventory seeds, plan garden, order replenishments.
    Coping Calendar Day 24: perspective on worries and let ‘em go
    nothing I can do about Joe’s eyes or his relationship with his father, but I can do something about my knees and wrists, get down on that mat! So grateful our worries are few.

    Would whoever saw their grandmother use a knife sharpener like Michele’s pic, let us know how it works?

    Machka :love: those Cosmos. The “Alone time” meme made me spill my ice water down my chest. Brr!
    Barbie Respectfully disagree with your “shallow” designation. Instead I’d substitute “content.” Me, I’m looking forward to BB&B and dance classes, the library and in person church. We’ve saved so much gas $$, I intend to be more stringent with my “no more than one trip into town per day” rule once the stay home order is modified.
    Welcome @NavyWife55 Pam in Louisiana, lots of encouragement here.
    Sharon oh the memories you trigger with your changing places. Yes is was surely an exciting place and time, one for which I’m nostalgic.
    Pip What Karen and Okie said about Kirby’s conversation starter. And what Allie said about lots of living to do, so you can’t kill him for scaring you half to death.
    Michele I think you do run the knife longways between the two disks but am not sure.
    Katla thankful the dog’s toe injury is not going to be a big problem. Deer may be safe from the cougars and coyotes in town for awhile, but back in Boise, the cougars and coyotes followed them. One cougar had to be shot, he was in the hospital’s parking lot.
    Debby glad to see you posting, you’ve been in my thoughts lately.
    Lanette, Rebecca yes, NYKaren has also been in my thoughts, and like Carol and Michele have been thinking of Lenora.

    Lighter, lovelies!
    f8qt1s098sxm.gifBarbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD
    April: better than March.
    daily: steps=2592 vits=19.5 log=20 CI<CO=15 CI<250<CO=9 Tumble & Shadow 5=12 mfp=20 clean 10 mins=21 outside=15 up hill=19
    wkly: BB&B x3=0 rx=2 dance=4 
    mnthly: board mtg=1 grant=0 review 20for20=0
    bonus: AF=13 play=0 sew=0
  • Lagopus
    Lagopus Posts: 1,016 Member
    exermom wrote: »
    I just found out that a friend of mine has IPF. He’s in stage 2. The doc gives him 3 more years in this stage. He said that he couldn’t do ceramics. I wonder why? It’s not like doing ceramics is very strenuous. And I would think that the comradeship would be good for him mentally. Plus…we could keep an “eye” on him.
    Michele NC
    Michele - My guess is the doctor doesn't want your friend's lungs exposed to dust. Particles hasten the progression of the disease, and ceramic dust is especially nasty.

    /Penny
  • KetoneKaren
    KetoneKaren Posts: 6,412 Member
    Hi Penny! It looks as if you are having a cold, sunny, 24-hour day! :D:D:D
  • KetoneKaren
    KetoneKaren Posts: 6,412 Member
    nannersp61 wrote: »
    Saw a scissortail flycatcher and a cottontail on my walk tonight. I still am not able to upload pics on here, not sure why. I tapped on the camera and chose the pic, but there is no upload or check mark to complete the process

    >>>

    Just to be sure, the process on this end is to click on this icon above the dialogue box i9s31huqxwu6.png, then either "choose files", drag-and-drop, or enter the URL for the image in the URL box.
  • KetoneKaren
    KetoneKaren Posts: 6,412 Member
    LuciBThinner wrote: »
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    Tina Thanks to the people who have become addicts, chronic pain patients have a tough time these days. I went to the ER with pain that kept me awake 3 days straight…they gave me Tylenol. I told them I needed to get rest. They wouldn’t admit me or give me anything to help. I left crying (I never cry) and felt they had broken their oath by not helping me. I hadn’t taken anything strong for pain in a few years when that happened. It was the weekend, so I couldn’t call my regular doctor. After another 24 hours, I finally fell asleep and got 9 hours of sleep! I woke up a new person!! Ice is normally best friend – I also use Lidocaine patches and biofreeze…if I lived in a state where marijuana was legal, I would have a card. My doctor is very much in favor of it.

    Love, health, and safety to All!! Luci in WNC

    >>>

    Luci,
    As a health care professional, my take on this is as follows: while health care professionals are ethically bound to relieve pain and suffering, people who suffer from exacerbations of chronic pain should not expect ER physicians and urgent care physicians to prescribe strong pain medicines for them. Appropriate and ethical management of chronic pain must be done by a pain management specialist or other community-based doctor who has an ongoing relationship with the patient. Treatment of chronic pain with strong pain medicines is rarely warranted, but when it is, a thorough, longitudinal knowledge of the patients history, imaging studies, physical findings, etc., are essential in managing that patient's pain; in other words, a community-based primary care physician, spine specialist, rheumatologist, neurologist, oncologist, or pain management specialist. Emergency rooms and urgent care centers do have a role in treating acute pain - pain from a broken bone or a gallbladder attack, for example, - but not chronic pain exacerbations. In your case, you did get relief 24 hours later by simply sleeping, without narcotics, which could have caused harm to you or set you up for rebound pain. I empathize with chronic pain sufferers, but after 30 years of treating patients in an urgent care facility, my obligation to "do no harm" outweighs my obligation to "relieve pain and suffering" in a chronic pain patient who should have contacted their own physician. It's a tough choice; none of us wants to see patients suffering. However, it is the patient's duty to establish and maintain a relationship with an appropriate pain-management provider, and to contact them for exacerbation of chronic pain, rather than go to the ED or urgent care facility.
  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,267 Member
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  • KJLaMore
    KJLaMore Posts: 2,847 Member
    Heather- I also have an Android phone and, like Nanner, have never been able to figure out how to post pics and videos on this site from my phone. Thank you for telling us how you do it. I have been hopping on my computer to get photos to you! I will have to try it by going through the website, rather than the app. xoxoxo KJ
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,611 Member
    Tasmanian Government Information ...

    https://coronavirus.tas.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0035/87947/SHSC_When-Can-I-Leave-My-Home.pdf

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  • SuziQ113
    SuziQ113 Posts: 1,520 Member
    nannersp61 wrote: »
    So after researching this, I found it's an Android issue. Uploading photos is not supported in this App for Android. If I want to post a picture I have to do it on my computer.

    I have no problem uploading from an Android.

    I click on the picture icon with the dropdown, click choose file, select image or picture, select it and hit enter. Actually easier to upload from phone than laptop. :smile:

    Good luck. It took me a few times to get the hang of it.
  • KetoneKaren
    KetoneKaren Posts: 6,412 Member
    edited April 2020
    Addendum to previous post Physicians have partners who take call over the weekends. These on-call physicians usually have access to the patients' records. It is best to call the physician on call rather than go to the ER for exacerbation of a chronic condition.
  • margaretturk
    margaretturk Posts: 5,258 Member
    Viv I typically leave the sound off on my computer if I attend a Zoom meeting I have to remember to turn it back on. ON my computer there are sound icons on the upper right by the on/off button.
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,611 Member
    cityjaneLondon wrote: »
    Our Zoom went splendidly. :D<3 They had both completed DH's tests and gave us their answers. Greatly enjoyed on all sides.
    They still hadn't got my puzzle, even though I explained it. ;)

    Saga says they refunded my money on the 16th, but it hasn't appeared in either account yet. I will check again tomorrow. Grrrrrr!

    Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx

    Younger people might not get it because they use smartphones and computers for the time. Clock radios and such with the digital characters you've used in your puzzle aren't so common anymore.

    I remember lying in bed as I was falling asleep when I was young waiting to see 10:08 because it was the time with the most lines (21 of them). And I still have a clock radio but only use it for reference. Finally, just a couple years ago, I moved to a smartphone. I feel like I was the last person on earth to do so.


    M in Oz
  • SuziQ113
    SuziQ113 Posts: 1,520 Member
    Hello one and all.
    Our slight cold front has come through and instead of yesterday's high of 97 degrees we should hit a reasonable 90 degrees. Oh, how 7 degrees can make such a difference!

    I am grateful for so many things this morning and all days.
    • Awakening to another healthy day.
    • Being gainfully employed and in a position which allows me to stretch my brain.
    • The rainfall today. We are in need of a decent soaking.
    • The peace of the early mornings in my neighborhood.
    • Living in a country/place where trash is picked up twice a week without fail.

    I know some of these things seem a little out there. But can you imagine living in a time and/or place where basic sanitation is not available?

    Hugs and prayers to all.
    SuziQ - SFL
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,611 Member
    SophieRosieMom wrote: »
    A comment on my posting onto this thread. I have gotten into the habit of typing my comments and posting immediately so I don't lose them (which has happened too many times) then going back under "edit" mode and fixing my mistakes. Yesterday MFP gave me some kind of a "vanilla" error and told me I couldn't do that. ACK!!!

    OK ladies, better close. Make it a good day!!

    Lanette
    SW WA State

    Close MFP and open it again ... should be OK then and your changes will have been made. :)

    That happens to me about 50% of the time when I edit.


    M in Oz

  • 1948Peachy
    1948Peachy Posts: 1,511 Member
    :) The governor of Georgia is starting to open up the state starting Friday.

    Carol
  • SophieRosieMom
    SophieRosieMom Posts: 3,658 Member
    Machka9 wrote: »
    SophieRosieMom wrote: »
    A comment on my posting onto this thread. I have gotten into the habit of typing my comments and posting immediately so I don't lose them (which has happened too many times) then going back under "edit" mode and fixing my mistakes. Yesterday MFP gave me some kind of a "vanilla" error and told me I couldn't do that. ACK!!!

    OK ladies, better close. Make it a good day!!

    Lanette
    SW WA State

    Close MFP and open it again ... should be OK then and your changes will have been made. :)

    That happens to me about 50% of the time when I edit.


    M in Oz

    Yes, that has happened to me to where I close and reopen and edits are saved.

    Yesterday it wouldn't even let me edit, just the "vanilla you don't have permission to do that" error. Tried it on both the tablet and laptop. And the laptop said I had 34 minutes left to edit when the tablet said I had 4. B) MFP must have burped or been going thru an upgrade. Whatever, it was cranky. No biggie.
  • barbiecat
    barbiecat Posts: 17,202 Member
    nannersp61 wrote: »
    So after researching this, I found it's an Android issue. Uploading photos is not supported in this App for Android. If I want to post a picture I have to do it on my computer.

    :) I solved this problem on my Android phone by getting rid of the app and adding a shortcut to the actual MFP website. Now I can add pictures from my gallery any time I want.

    <3 Barbie

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