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The Lipo Flavanoid that I use for my tinnitus has several of the B vitamins, including B6, so that is what made me think of it. I don't have the tingling in my fingers or toes though. I'm so happy that your doctor was able to find a solution. I had to give myself B12 shots for awhile for fatigue, but it didn't work.
I don't see the results of my tests at Lab Corp, which is where I thought the blood tests went to! I guess I will just have to wait until I see the doctor!
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I was going to ask about your results. We are still keeping you in our prayers!
All is going well, here. Tomorrow morning the girls are coming over to set with their Dad so that I can go to church for the whole service. Angela travels a lot, and they are heading out toward the end of the week for a while, so wanted to come and see her dad before leaving. I gave her the times that would work around all of the medical visits, then just mentioned sitting with him while I go to church. She jumped on that, and Terry decided to come as well. I am thankful to be able to get away for a whole church service.
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Praying for you ladies.
My hands and sometimes my toes are still bothering me, BUT I've read a couple of good medical articles online and it sounds like it could take 1 - 3 months of being on B12 for me to notice any improvement. I'm praying this is the problem and that I'm on the right course to correct it.
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Praying that this works for you, Cindy.
So glad you could make it for a full service, Connie, what a blessing.
We had some heavy rain during morning worship - it's quite loud in our metal building! We did on-line for the evening service since rain was expected throughout the day and evening. We have standing water in our yard this morning and in the yard across the street, but not as bad as his usually gets, he often has a lake over there; so it must have rained quite a bit through the night!
I have my doctor's appt tomorrow morning to talk about the results of my blood work. Lord willing we will have some answers. I'm hoping it's simply lots of arthritis and there is a brand new drug out that won't bother my stomach but will take away the pain! Then I can wash more than just four or five dishes before my lower back hurts! I hate Wade having to do pretty much everything around here! Thank you so much for your prayers. Y'all are in mine.
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All is pretty calm in the Randel household. Hospice seems to be working out well, and we are getting used to people here all the time.
One thing that is a blessing is that they have taken over his OTC meds and his underwear. That comes to about $110-$115 a month. I decided to have a cleaning company come once a month to do the high and low work in the house. Several people in the complex use them and they are in the complex every 4th Thursday. That will be a really blessing to me.
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What a blessing in both cases! Praise the Lord.
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Kim, the birthday we share is almost here! I always pray for you and hope you will have a blessed weekend. Do you ever feel that birthdays come too quickly?
The youngest of Dwight's sisters passed away last week and I've been involved with some legal paperwork that the family should have taken care of after Dwight passed, but failed to do so. This sister, Marcia, was so very sweet, but couldn't handle money very well. Also, her children were always trying to get whatever money she had. So… when Dwight's mother passed away about 20 years ago, she set Marcia's portion of any land sales to be handled through a trust. Dwight was the trustee, and this is what no one changed after his death. Beth and I have been going through any records that we still had, as none of Marcia's accounts can be accessed. It's so important for us all to have things in order!
Our weather is so very nice and I hope all of you are comfortable also. Ever since our hot spell earlier in August, it's been in the upper 70s during the day and 50s at night. Humidity is still high, but it won't be long before I can start walking in the neighborhood again.
Have a blessed weekend, everyone. Much love to all.
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It is so good to see you Carole!
Tomorrow is the shared birthday. Since I am on today, and who knows what tomorrow may bring….Have and amazing birthday!!
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I love the card! Thank you so much, Connie. The unexpected has been happening a lot lately, so there's no idea what tomorrow holds. But God has it in His hands.
Tomorrow is an off Sunday for me, so I can just sit and enjoy early worship service and Sunday School fellowship. Good night, all.
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Happy Birthday Kim and Carole!
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What a lovely birthday treat! Thank you, Cindy.
I enjoyed church this morning, with nothing to do but enjoy worshipping as a family. I got lots of birthday wishes and hugs. Don't know how people found out… maybe Beth had something to do with that? Later this evening, two dear friends from back in Georgia called, and that was a delight. So a sweet, quiet day overall - with a little reading on the porch with the sounds of a gentle rain in my ear. This early fall weather is great!
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CAROLE! I thought about our shared birthday quite a bit this weekend! It sounds like you had a very good one! Wade and I used to not worry about gifts for birthdays because we always got whatever we needed or wanted throughout the year, but now that he is retired we are more careful with money. I ordered a desk pad/mousepad and thought that that would be my present, but Wade had other things in mind. We went out to dinner with our pastor and his wife (great friends), most of which was paid for by gift cards we'd received at least three years ago! Then he got me a cheesecake for my birthday cake! Love me some cheesecake. Half of it is in the freezer. The next day he brought out some more gifts - a box of those soft pretzel bites, and the newest version of HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON which we watched right then and there. It was very good. Those two animated versions are a couple of my favorite movies. I enjoyed my pretzel bits while watching. After Church in the evening he brought out a container of French Onion Soup Dip for my stick pretzel snack! Yesterday was not a healthy eating day! I'm so sorry you have to go through this legal stuff, and they never make it cut and dried or easy! I agree totally, birthdays are coming faster and faster! I was okay with 65 years old, but somehow 66 makes me feel old(er)! LOL! A friend I've had for about 50 years remembered my birthday, but then she remembers everyone's birthday! She is very organized. I too received many hugs from my Church family! My SIL even sent me a birthday text. We don't communicate often but make sure that we wish each other Happy Birthday's.
Thank y'all so much for your birthday wishes, they are cherished!
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I'm so glad you had a great weekend celebration, Kim. Sounds like exactly what you needed. The passing of years has never bothered me, although turning 80 in two more years might be a different story. I'm just thankful for each day and the good health that I've been blessed with.
With our weather cooling down the past couple of weeks, I already felt fall in the air. Today I turned my cat calendar in the kitchen to September, laid out a plaid fall table runner, and hung a fall craft wreath on the front door. I don't know if it's birthdays or the dawn of another fall - maybe a combination of both? - but I'm feeling a little melancholy today. Fall is my favorite season, and while I hope to enjoy several more, none of us know. So I'm trying to make each day count - not by filling them with activities, but just engaging my senses more. As I type this, I'm looking at my neighbor's dogwoods, so beautiful in the spring, now slowly turn red. It's been dry for several days, so when it started raining last evening, I sat on the porch. The feel of a gentle wind and the sound of rain and windchimes felt so comforting. May you all enjoy this beautiful season!
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I really like how you are reaching out with your senses more to enjoy this world. Each year I add I think that I am that much closer to being home with the Lord. I will enjoy the life He's given while He has me here, but I know that because of His unimaginable sacrifice I get to go to heaven when my time comes - beyond me! I was reading in Ephesians this afternoon and just stopping at all of the adjectives and adverbs about God's character and nature and actions towards us! Amazing!
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This has been a weird week. How often do you get recall notices from Amazon? This week I have gotten 2! I almost didn't open the second one thinking it was just a second notice on the first one. The first was a wound cleaner that I had purchased and not yet used. I was almost out of a bottle (not recalled) and purchased the replacement. It wasn't that much and they didn't offer a return, so I just pitched it. Said it could cause deep infections and sepsis. Sure don't want that!
Then I got one this morning saying that my kitchen faucet had lead in it and was being recalled. WOW, they are offering a refund when proof of disposal is shown, but now I have to replace my faucet and have to pay a plumber to install the new one, as well as pay more for the faucet. AARG!!! I checked reviews on similar faucets on Amazon and the reviews had too many 1# reviews, even if the overall looked good. They were almost all for leakage and I sure don't want that. I checked Menards and thought about going up there to look, but they don't have reviews attached and I am a huge review watcher, especially when I have been finding bad reviews on Amazon. I finally decided to check WalMart and they had a name brand one on clearance that didn't have a single 1* review, and offered installation much more reasonably than our plumber….so we will see.
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Oh wow, that is strange. I haven't had a recall yet from Amazon - phew. As much as we buy from them it's surprising. I'm a review watcher as well, that's why I like to give reviews.
Went to the doctor this morning, yearly visit. Took blood and then my NP and I chatted. She is going to wean me off of one of my meds since it basically does what the new med will do - which I hope will take care of my headaches as well as the one I'm weaning off of. She is putting me on a stronger reflux med and I'll stop the ones I'm on right now, since my lung issues are probably from the reflux. I am doing what the doctor recommended to keep from aspirating the stomach acid. She'd asked if I had seen the Rheumatologist yet and I assured her I had and then told her how that came about. Praise the Lord, just good old arthritis, pretty much everywhere, but nothing that can cause other issues. Will have a CT scan and MRI in December for my lungs and the other for my pancreas. I'll see her in three months to see how switching the meds is working. Now for the labs to come back good!
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Praying that the labs come back good, and that the new meds work.
We have been in the changing meds, new meds, confusion for a couple of weeks. They were wanting to stop all food supplements and vitamins to decrease the number of pills that Bill has been taking. Now he is on more than he was taking with the supplements. One is definitely temporary, but the others seem here to stay. She decreased the doseage of Tylenol tablets he was taking for pain, but increased the frequency…so all in all, more Tylenol and more pills. She also added in 2 pain pills and is adding a NSAID. Now, he is on another diuretic (but still taking a lower dose of the old one). Seems never ending. I don't know if the diuretic will be permanent, or just until we can get the swelling in his feet down. When I was cooking without salt, we had that under control, but now I am at the point of cooking what Bill will eat. Sometimes he eats well, sometimes he hardly eats at all, but what he eats usually has quite a bit of sodium. The hospice staff said to feed him what he will eat and we will deal with the edema. It is a lot easier on me to be able to not watch labels as closely, and not have to make everything from scratch and it still be rather bland.
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It's rough. There came a time when mom would only eat fruit - fine, let her eat whatever she wants, otherwise she won't eat at all. We didn't have things like edema to worry about though. It's awesome that he is willing to take all those pills. Amazing that they have him on so many pain meds!
Four of the meds I take at night are pain meds. If I take the one by itself I have too vivid dreams; if I take it and just the tramadol I don't sleep deeply, but if I don't take it I get those twitches and lower back pain. I take all four, two of them two hours before the other two. Last night I had an aura in my left eye (a flashing snaky thing that grows bigger until it disappears); so, to keep a migraine from hitting I took three extra-strength Tylenol and 200 mg of caffeine (like two cups of strong coffee). Yep, I was awake until 3 AM. I did sleep soundly until 7 AM! LOL! I'm weaning off of one of the meds though and hope that the other med picks up the job of fending off headaches as well as the one I'm weaning off of does. It's amazing that I'm taking so many pain pills and I still have pain! LOL! Not as bad as it used to be but I guess they just don't take it all away.
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Bill is not in constant pain, but it hurts him to get up and down. And he hurts when I try to get him to sleep in bed. They are trying layering pain meds to try to get him to sleep in bed. If we can get him in bed, it is getting him off the behind that we are fighting pressure injuries. He is sleeping well in his chair, so we are going to try starting a couple hours in the morning and maybe then a couple hours in the evening. She is also having a more comfortable mattress (and better for pressure injuries) delivered.
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Oh, that sounds great, having that new mattress. How wonderful that they are providing these things for him. It's so hard as we get older that our skin gets so papery and easily damaged. Mom had bruises everywhere once she was in the nursing center and then the hospital. I felt so badly for her! I'm glad that hasn't started happening with me yet!
We went to a nearby Church's Revival Meeting last night. What a blessing. The preacher preached on the Good Samaritan and our being the ones to help people who are in ditches to get out - if they don't get out they will die, and die without Jesus. It was so nice to hear again, it is something our pastor brings to us frequently, our need to reach the lost - we may be their last hope. I believe that there's a passage in Ezekiel when the Lord is calling him. He tells him to go and speak what God has given him to speak. They will be stubborn and will not listen, but go!
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Bill was a handful today. I am hoping these behaviors are medication induced and it's the med that he took the last one this morning. Whew! But, this afternoon he kept creeping down his recliner and I thought it looked like he would be better in bed, so I asked him. He said he thought he would, so I laid him on the bed (easily because it was his idea) and he took a 3 hour nap…IN BED!!!!! That's the longest he has been in bed in over a year! Hoping that is a precursor of what is to come!!
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Praise the Lord! That's good, Connie. Praying that he continues to be willing.
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Wow - it's been very quiet in here for a couple of days…
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I know! My life is pretty much quiet as well, so I haven't had anything to share - I know, hard to believe!
I do hope y'all are doing well as we head into Fall. I can't wait for those consistent cooler temps! Sometimes we don't get chilly until November! I hope it will be earlier though this year. I can remember going Trick or Treating and having to wear our snow clothes (upper Ohio) and you couldn't see our costumes! Hey, that wasn't as important as filling up the bags! Don't agree with the "holiday" like I did as a kid, not understanding all that it means, but once I did I didn't want anything to do with it other than handing out candy to kids who were as ignorant as I was. In all our years of marriage I think we had two years where kids came to our door. Wade didn't mind, he/we got to eat all of that candy! LOL! Most of our neighbors are old people like us and living on a Hwy makes it not conducive for Trick or Treating. I think that the move MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS portrays Halloween pretty well! Sometimes Wade thinks I am like the youngest girl in the movie - I can't remember her name! I get macabre at times! Waahaahaahaa!
Love y'all.
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I have had my hands full for a couple days! Today is a bit better, but Bill is very weak, and yesterday he had hallucinations all day long. Keep us in your prayers. We both finally slept last night, but the two nights prior we got very little sleep, and Bill wound up falling because he refused to follow directions to get in his wheelchair. The firefighters were very helpful, though.
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Well, when I was trying to get Bill up for bed, he fell again. He seems to forget how to move his feet and can't pivot. He said his back was hurting really badly, but I think that was from the man-handling from the WONDERFUL firefighters that have helped out. I am hoping that this is a phase, not the norm, but I am trying to prepare. Yesterday I redid some of the stuff on his hospital bed that he has always said was very uncomfortable (he was right - way too firm for comfort and I like a firm bed). I got rid of the really firm gel overlay and put an alternating air overlay on it. He has those on both of his recliners, so they are what he is used to and not nearly as hard. But, I had the firefighters put him in his recliner because I don't think I could get him out of bed if he started hollering that he needs to get up. This morning, I didn't move him, just stood him up half way to get his bottom off the chair so I could pull down his pants, then stand up again a bit to pull up his pants and put medicine on his bottom. That way there were no transfers, and if he would fall, it would be back into the chair and not the floor.
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I gave Bill yesterday to recuperate and by last night he was so much better. Today he is basically back to himself. God has met us in our needs one more time!
And Psalm 23:4 was today's scripture on Lisa Prysock's Facebook page.
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Connie, you are in my heart and in my prayers - both you and Bill. So glad that he is doing better, praise the Lord!
Well, I did something rather stupid yesterday, I opened the bedroom door onto my pinky toe! Not sure if it's broken or badly sprained, but it's black and blue all around and very painful! Wade wrapped it to the next toe over to give it support and that has helped. It's amazing how much we use that pinky for walking! We were planning to go out to lunch today, with our Pastor and his wife, for our 41st anniversary, but the rain is too bad to risk it (parts of our road flood when the rain is heavy and especially when the tide is in). We'll find another day to go - Mexican, chimichanga - woohoo! I don't get those very often at all, so when Wade mentioned it, that was it, that's where I wanted to go! Can't wait.
I hope that y'all are doing well. You are always in my thoughts and prayers. Love you.
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The toe is doing much better and it looks like the black and blue is receding already. The only place that still hurts the worst is at the tip of my toe where I rammed it into the door. Praise the Lord.
Cindy, any more news on your glucose numbers?
Going out to get Mexican today for our Anniversary yesterday. A bad headache and bad weather hindered our try for yesterday, but we are planning to go today. Can't wait to get a Chimichanga! Oh yum!
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