WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JUNE 2020
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Lisa ~ Do the knee strengthening exercises. I did them for weeks before I had my knee replacement and I am sure that is why after surgery I did great! Was able to walk without the walker the next day.
Carol in GA4 -
Thanks, Carol - it does make sense, doesn't it, both for the eventual replacement and hopefully diminish some current pain.
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KetoneKaren wrote: »Tracey I missed something. Why has it been 5 years since you've seen your mom?
Karen, I live in Alberta and my Mom lives in New Brunswick, it is 2600 miles between us. Flights in Canada are ridiculously priced. It costs close to $1000 to fly home. In 2017 I lost my job, had a new job in 2018 but no vacation time or pay. Last year was our daughter's wedding and we couldn't afford it, plus I started a new job and had no vacation time. I was planning and saving for a trip home in September of this year, but with Covid I would have to self isolate for 14 days when I arrived in New Brunswick. It makes no sense to try to go when I couldn't see her or any family anyway. The NB government is not allowing any inter-provincial or international travellers to arrive without self isolating until there is herd immunity or a vaccine.
I just pray that next year is a better year and that Mom is still able to recognize me when I see her. I have hopes that she will. My Aunt that had Alzheimer's knew her own children up until the day of her death.
Tracey
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Snowflake1968 wrote: »KetoneKaren wrote: »Tracey I missed something. Why has it been 5 years since you've seen your mom?
Karen, I live in Alberta and my Mom lives in New Brunswick, it is 2600 miles between us. Flights in Canada are ridiculously priced. It costs close to $1000 to fly home. In 2017 I lost my job, had a new job in 2018 but no vacation time or pay. Last year was our daughter's wedding and we couldn't afford it, plus I started a new job and had no vacation time. I was planning and saving for a trip home in September of this year, but with Covid I would have to self isolate for 14 days when I arrived in New Brunswick. It makes no sense to try to go when I couldn't see her or any family anyway. The NB government is not allowing any inter-provincial or international travellers to arrive without self isolating until there is herd immunity or a vaccine.
I just pray that next year is a better year and that Mom is still able to recognize me when I see her. I have hopes that she will. My Aunt that had Alzheimer's knew her own children up until the day of her death.
Tracey
I'm sorry you haven't been able to see your mother and hope you'll be able to get there soon-ish.
The last time I saw my mother was in 2017 about this time of year. We were flying to Canada and seeing my family every 1-2 years but between my husband's accident and C19, who knows when we'll see them again. 😕3 -
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Tracey in Edmonton- what priceless pics of your grandparents. 💖
I loved the wallet story, just sweet.
My grandmother worked at the shipyard here in Portland, and was a Rosie the riveter! She always had a flowery hard candies tin in her purse filled with lemon drops. She would get it out when the sermon started at church. I loved the fact that we had to open it quietly, taking out one, trying not to make a noise! Then smiling at one another, like we had secrets💖.
With my grandfather he was a carpenter/builder and told the greatest stories! I was his radish girl out in his garden. Having dinner with them was giggly because we always marveled at my grandpa's plate, brimming with potatoes, cooked onions and gravy. He taught me how they used to have a great treat during the Depression. They'd take a slab of bread and drizzle fresh cream onto it, letting it soak up until can't soak up any more liquid. Then you sprinkle sugar on it, or drizzle on jam. Its like a cream cake! He used to tell me during his grade school days, they'd stop school.early and everyone knitted squares to make blankets for soldiers during WWI. He hated that part. He wanted to go plaay!! Plus he said he really wasn't a great knitter.
Grandpa at my wedding!
He had many leisure suits!
💖Rebecca
Whidbey
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Tracy and Rebecca ~ Wonderful Photos and Memories!
Carol in GA0 -
So these are my paternal grandparents. When my dad had come home from Navy leave and was told they were getting divorced, which as Catholics, quite a no no. So when I was a little girl, I had two sets of grandparents on my dad's side. My paternal grandmother married Chet but sadly I have no photos of him! I need to ask my sister if she does. He smoked a wonderful pipe, and I remember the scent of their home. Plus they had a great Lego set I played with. My paternal grandfather married Dove and their house was so dark and had stale candy. ( why is my memories all food related??). Lol! I do remember she had huge stuffed animals in the attic spare room, plus baby photos of her all in boys outfits. She was kind of loony. The amazing thing was that my paternal grandparents got back together! Well their spouses passed away, and they wanted to keep getting benefits, so they kind of just lived together! The pic is after they got back together. They traveled to Vegas saying they got remarried, but it was for us grandkids, so it would look all official. They were more room mates than spouses, but we had all the holiday celebrations at their house.
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My paternal grandmother singing.👍
💖Rebecca6 -
Janet, I am sorry for all that you are going through.
Tracey, it has to be hard living so far away from your mom. My sister lives 500 miles away. She usually tries to make the trip home two or three times a year. Nit being able to come during this pandemic is wearing on her.
I tried a new smoothie for lunch. It was ok, but I think would have been better if I had used the proportions in the recipe. It had cauliflower, chocolate protein powder, cacao nibs, maca powder, almond butter, almond milk, and a banana. I had extra cauliflower, which was not frozen but leftover cooked, only half of a banana because that’s all that was left in the freezer, a little extra milk because I just dumped the rest of the carton in, then since I was low on frozen stuff, i threw in some ice cubes. It was a little too heavy on cauliflower, not enough flavor from the chocolate and banana and the ice cubes. It nothing else it was very nutritionally dense! It was very, very smooth!
I am loving my new metabolic workouts. I can’t wait to see if they produce results.3 -
Dr Katie what is a metabolic workout?
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JanetR so sorry. lots on your emotional platter right now…I hope little Jaxx will be OK. (((Hugs)))
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Karen in Virginia
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Janet ~ I had to go back and find your post. I don't know how I miss some but just want to say how sorry for all you have had to deal with since Christmas. Praying for poor little Jaxx and for the loss of your bnl and sister.
Carol in GA1 -
Best news from my doctor today. I am off one of my blood pressure meds, talking about eliminating all meds in the next couple of months. Walking 30 to 60 minutes a day , most days. The 47 pound weight loss helped too.12
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(((((((Janet))))))💖1
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I had nightmares last night and woke up screaming. My DH touched my shoulder to reassure me. I turned over and went back to sleep and woke myself up singing out very loudly. I could hear DH sighing. I took myself upstairs so as not to disturb him, but the rest of the night was peaceful enough. I have a feeling that the dream was something to do with a protest march.
I hope tonight goes a bit better. I don't think I've ever shouted out twice before.
We still haven't had more than a few drops of rain. Hopefully tomorrow. The ground is parched. Sunniest, driest spring on record. It has turned chilly though.
I feel a bit guilty because I didn't write this morning. I needed a little moment to draw breath before the next episode. Maybe Sunday.
Much love to all and welcome to the new people.
Heather UK xxxxxxxx6 -
KetoneKaren wrote: »Dr Katie what is a metabolic workout?
Karen in Virginia
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It’s a workout designed to increase your metabolism, so it’s a mixture of strength training and cardio. They tell you to exercise until you can’t then rest until you can so that you don’t pace yourself at too low a place to increase the correct hormones. There’s a 2 1/2 minute warm up, then 45 minutes each of 5 exercise cycled through 4 times then a 2 1/2 minute cool down of stretches. The one I did today was push-ups, rows, jumping jacks, squats, plank. There are three screens, one for beginner, one for intermediate, and one for advanced. I choose according to my ability. I do the intermediate push-ups, the advanced rows, the beginner jumping jacks, the intermediate squats, and the advanced plank. It takes 15 minutes. If you want, you can do it again for a 30 minute workout, but I’m concentrating on doing the 15 minutes consistently for a month. We are encouraged to go for a walk afterwards to continue the fat burning so I do follow it with 30 to 60 minutes of walking.6 -
Janetr prayers!2
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(((JanetR))) Hoping things go well.❤️2
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Janet - hugs to you and keeping Jaxx in my prayers.
Rebecca - I love the stories of your grandparents.
Tracey in Edmonton1
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