WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR APRIL 2020

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  • Katla49
    Katla49 Posts: 10,385 Member
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    SuziQ: I’m betting the pumpkin muffins were delicious. :star:

    Allie: I’m sorry that you were hurt and hope you’re feeling better ASAP. :flowerforyou:

    Alabastermama: That stream flow looks like it could be a very damaging situation. I hope it does not cause your home damage. :star:

    Karen: 50WPM is much faster typing than I’ve ever achieved. WTG!!!

    Beth: I’ve never been able to type as fast as you without extensive mistakes that have to be corrected. You are SKILLED! :flowerforyou:

    Cathy in Arlington TX: I have been able to visit with my grandchildren, too. I used a Google app to get through to them yesterday and had a lovely visit with my oldest, a granddaughter, and youngest, her littlest brother. It was a great way to “see” one another. The middle boy was doing something else, I guess, but I didn’t find out what he was doing. :smile:

    Sue: The photo of the deer is lovely. I wonder if it is mom and last year’s baby. We had a glimpse of mom and last year’s twin babies the other day. The deer in our area moved into town several years ago. They’re safe from cougars in town. Out in the countryside, they’re prey for the big cats and coyotes. :star:

    Tina in CA: I am so sorry for your DH’s pain! We have the opportunity to send messages to our primary care doctor’s email and she responds quite promptly and prescribes pain meds as needed. We can pick them up at the pharmacy in our grocery store. I’m pain free and DH has the meds he needs to stay comfortable. DH’s MS doctor initiated a telephone conference call with him in place of his annual office visit. I was impressed with Dr. S’s care for his patients. :heart:

    Kim: You’re a wise shopper. Your mom is lucky you’re able to help with her shopping. How far away is she from your home? :star:

    Heather: Congrats on grocery delivery time slots! YAY! :flowerforyou:



    I’m nowhere near the end of posts but I’m out of time. I’ll check in again later after I’ve taken my dog to the vet for a toe injury.

    Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon
  • JRsLateInLifeMom
    JRsLateInLifeMom Posts: 2,275 Member
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    Pam - Welcome Got a few Navy moms like me here so welcome. Daughter 20yrs old in the Navy in California area.

    Opened windows to air it out get sunshine in,new shoes on JR but they may be too small soon too. No wonder his toe rubbed raw. He grows so fast. Sz 7 shirts 👕 sz 6 shorts 🩳 on him now too. He a big boy noticed he grew height wise. Everything fit last week! 3yr old boys are rough in clothes so for the best newer clothes less stains from the Cheetos . Washing bedding

    Amber Tx
  • sh0tzz99
    sh0tzz99 Posts: 948 Member
    edited April 2020
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    Machka9 wrote: »
    sh0tzz99 wrote: »
    Just wondering. What if someone were to walk into Urgent Care with this? Would they turn him away or just prescribe more useless meds and then send him away?

    Tina in CA

    Give it a try!

    Has he been diagnosed with something?



    He can't get into the doctor to get a diagnosis. That's the problem. If we knew the source of the issue, we could try to figure out proper therapies. Right now, we're guessing and likely doing more damage.
  • sh0tzz99
    sh0tzz99 Posts: 948 Member
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    KetoneKaren wrote: »
    Tina I wonder if your mister has had a sed rate to rule out Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR). I know he has a baseline pain syndrome, but his dramatic escalation of symptoms seems as if it might be something acute superimposed on top of his chronic pain condition. The sed rate is a simple blood test that takes an hour to run. Not sure about other facilities, but our urgent care can do it on site. PMR is treatable.

    Thank you! It's something else to try. I'm encouraging him to go to Urgent Care.
  • sh0tzz99
    sh0tzz99 Posts: 948 Member
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    auntiebk wrote: »
    Tina Mister must wait til June to see a specialist? Surely such a specialist is essential and not locked down? Horrified to hear all that doesn’t work for his pain. Praying he gets some relief soon. At this point, I would skip urgent care and go straight to the ER, preferably one associated with a teaching hospital.

    I agree that specialists are essential. I think they are just taking advantage of the situation. When even opioids don't work, it needs immediate attention. I don't know why they aren't seeing patients. We have different healthcare groups and my doctor is working regular hours and the outpatient area where I get imaging and other tests done is continuing to send me reminders to get my breast imaging exam. So, why his medical group is choosing not to work is beyond me.
  • sh0tzz99
    sh0tzz99 Posts: 948 Member
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    cityjaneLondon wrote: »
    Barbie - What is grind it yourself peanut butter? PB was unobtainable once this crisis started. It was on the same level as TP. Normally I will only eat Whole Earth Crunchy, but I went on Amazon and found two jars of something similar. I'm enjoying it right now. :D

    Still can't buy flour, but I've got enough to make DDIL'S brownies. Will do those tomorrow.

    Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx

    I make my own nut butter. Just roast some nuts (peanut or otherwise), put them in a food processor and turn it on until it gets to your preferred smoothness. Add salt to taste. It's so much better than buying it. I did this after buying a tiny jar for $14. I have been doing it since.

    Tina in CA
  • trucker743
    trucker743 Posts: 393 Member
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    Barbara AHMOD, I was on Alameda in late ‘67, then Berkeley in ‘68, El Cerrito in early ‘69 and Richmond in late ‘69-‘70. I worked in Emeryville. Talk about a place changing! But it was such an exciting place to be then. I moved to Salinas in early ‘71, we had my first daughter, then moved to Junction City OR in mid-‘72. Had my second daughter in Eugene in 1964, then moved to Key Center WA with 2 girls, 19 goats, a pig, and a pony. And a rather useless husband. I moved to Tacoma 6 months later with just the two girls. Had my 3rd girl in Tacoma and the family joke ever since has been that it was a good thing I’d waited to see Alaska until I was in my mid-40s or I’d have had 4. Of course when I found my #1 son from Ohio it was not long ago. He was born in ‘63.

    Allie, being able to keep on keeping on is such a valuable thing right now. We can’t always prance or skip. Some days we just need to be able to plod. And the day-week-month will pass and there’ll be time to dance again in our hearts if not, our bodies.

    Pam in Louisianne! This bunch contains on of the friendliest, chattier bunchbof biddies you’ll ever find. Welcome! Pull up a chair and hang out.

    Barbie in NW WA, have you a good blender? Mine makes perfectly good peanut butter. I suppose a food processor would be faster/better, but I don’t have one of those either.

    Machka, right now greater solitude sounds lovely. I sometimes want more than anything else to be alone in a different place. Day car trips don’t make it for me. A 3-day is about perfect. Go somewhere else, set up camp. Enjoy camp fire if allowed, listen to sounds, smell smells, watch the light change to dark. Sleep. More of the same next day, explore nearby places on foot, eat unusual things for me, or don’t eat at all. Look for cats if I haven’t brought mine. Be lazy. Do something. Or not. Sleep again. Wake up, pack up all but a chair. Sit in it until time to go and think of nothing. Drive home doing as little thinking as is safe. Enjoy the difference.

    Sharon, sometimes too Nera Seattle
  • sh0tzz99
    sh0tzz99 Posts: 948 Member
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    Katla49 wrote: »


    Tina in CA: I am so sorry for your DH’s pain! We have the opportunity to send messages to our primary care doctor’s email and she responds quite promptly and prescribes pain meds as needed. We can pick them up at the pharmacy in our grocery store. I’m pain free and DH has the meds he needs to stay comfortable. DH’s MS doctor initiated a telephone conference call with him in place of his annual office visit. I was impressed with Dr. S’s care for his patients. :heart:

    Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon

    He can talk to his primary care on the phone all day long and he will prescribe meds. Unfortunately, none have worked and he doesn't have a diagnosis. It's good that you are getting good care. I am envious.
  • nannersp61
    nannersp61 Posts: 2,315 Member
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    Machka9 wrote: »
    We have a huge pile of these flowers along the fence. My husband's sister gave us a packet of seeds and I had no idea how big they would grow!! Or how long they would keep blooming. :)

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    Rhody's opinion of water ...

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    M in Oz

    Cosmos! Very pretty!
    Cats are very picky about where they drink their water. It can't be near their food or their litter box. In the wild cats are careful to drink upstream, because drinking downstream means they can get sick from impurities in the water.
  • sh0tzz99
    sh0tzz99 Posts: 948 Member
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    barbiecat wrote: »
    :)Heather, There is a machine in the grocery store that has a bin of whole nuts above it and when you press the button it grinds the nuts into nut butter that you capture in a plastic container. My store has grinders for peanuts and for almonds. Some stores have other nuts as well. The peanut butter you get is all peanuts with nothing else added. When I couldn't get the fresh ground stuff I bought a brand called Adams that is peanuts with nothing added. I don't have a food processor and I'm not sure of a good source of peanuts since the bulk bins are closed in my store.

    :) Otherwise, I am perfectly content and have everything I need.

    <3 Barbie in NW WA

    I love my food processor. It makes such quick work of things like nut butter and slicing cucumbers for dill and cucumber salad. It does those things others may use a mandolin for, but I know I'll slice off a digit with one of those. Just this week, I cut 3 different fingers on one hand with my chef's knife. They weren't deep, but they hurt and bled.

    Tina in CA
  • KetoneKaren
    KetoneKaren Posts: 6,411 Member
    edited April 2020
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    barbiecat wrote: »
    :)Heather, There is a machine in the grocery store that has a bin of whole nuts above it and when you press the button it grinds the nuts into nut butter that you capture in a plastic container. My store has grinders for peanuts and for almonds. Some stores have other nuts as well. The peanut butter you get is all peanuts with nothing else added. When I couldn't get the fresh ground stuff I bought a brand called Adams that is peanuts with nothing added. I don't have a food processor and I'm not sure of a good source of peanuts since the bulk bins are closed in my store.

    :) Otherwise, I am perfectly content and have everything I need.

    <3 Barbie in NW WA

    Barbie, I have never used my food processor to make nut butter. I make it in my blender. But lots of people don't have blenders, or simply don't want to make their own nut butter. I can get excellent whole nuts through Amazon or Nuts.com.


    Karen in Virginia

  • kevrit
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