WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR AUGUST 2021

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  • Katla49
    Katla49 Posts: 10,385 Member
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    Machka — I get a calendar annually from our power company. It is on the wall near my desk. The photos are of local sights, and are submitted to the calendar by local photographers
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 24,865 Member
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    Katla49 wrote: »
    Machka — I get a calendar annually from our power company. It is on the wall near my desk. The photos are of local sights, and are submitted to the calendar by local photographers

    If one contains photos you really like, what do you do with it when the year ends?


    M in Oz
  • Katla49
    Katla49 Posts: 10,385 Member
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    I have been knitting a baby blanket for our new grandson. He will be born sometime in November. We will be there to take care of our grandson while our son & daughter in law go to the hospital for the birth of the new baby. DH & I are happy to go there to help. ❤️⭐️❤️⭐️❤️⭐️❤️
  • bananasandoranges
    bananasandoranges Posts: 2,410 Member
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    Katlya congratulations on your raise. it's nice that your heart still flutters for your DH.

    Machka I keep a few old special post cards, wish cards, notes (no calendars), photos. They are flat and they are not multiplying now as we rarely print photos now, and even postcards are much more rare. So they take a tiny space, but I have not accumulated over the years. Seasons's Greetings cards and thank you cards are not a thing here.
    I have a box of old photos, 1 photo album of old pictures (I had 2 but one disappeared somehow about 15 years ago.) :'(:'( and a narrow file box with personal letters, cards. not big. It is sometimes nice to go back and look at some of them.

  • spikeyhair
    spikeyhair Posts: 2,078 Member
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    Kate UK ❤️
  • bananasandoranges
    bananasandoranges Posts: 2,410 Member
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    BARBARA, so did you do the clean-a-thon? That's the thing at home: cleaning is always an option, to avoid other stuff. :D

    Health stuff, Long response.
    My experience is that if I bring it up they are all going to defend one another to avoid possible law suit (which I wouldn't bother with- I don't think, one can't go to court for everything, it takes too long!)

    And they will treat me like I am suspicious for questioning the situation.

    I did make an appointment with hospital 2 (also very well rated). I was thinking I could cancel the appointment if all was previously resolved. I guess I really didn't expect that they would miss the part to be biopsied. I thought they might linger in giving results. But I guess I will keep the appointment. Unlike hospital 1 they give an appointment with a Dr first and don't just send you into surgery and home with zero consultation other than questions you might ask while lying on the surgery table!

    He also didn't do the laterality recommended. It was to be 1.8 or 1.2 cm (depending on how it's calculated) in all directions laterally, and he removed 0,7 x 2! Clearly the youngish surgeon was more focused on gossiping and flirting with his very young fellow doctor there, than following the plan. So basically I have a big (an inch and half?), not very carefully sewn scar for nothing I think. (and had to stay in Paris for the 1st have of august when everyone is away for biopsy on 5th and stitch removal on 15th!) No cancer was removed, as was the only goal, and apparently there under the part taken, and they only note scarring from the previous removal in this biopsy. We all know that medical personnel can make mistakes!
    In the USA: "They estimate that at least 39 times a week a surgeon leaves foreign objects inside their patients, which includes stuff like towels or sponges. In addition surgeons performing the wrong surgery or operating on the wrong body part occurs around 20 times a week."

    And that is just for those which are reported or included in statistics. I would imagine my 75 year old mom in nursing home's major mistake was unreported and if mine is a mistake- which I think it is- it will not be reported. I think she had health care people vollowing up in her nursing home and had she survived they would have had her do 2nd operation on the correct artery after some months of recuperating and time for waiting for operation.

    I think, it may be, Barbara, you are right, that health care for all contributes to the waits. Also COVID apparently. Also being in August. Plus there were major protests about conditions in hospitals in France pre-COVID: pay and also materials. In France people who have average salary have to pay an optional monthly compliment for health care: like 30-40 per month for young person, 60 or so for me I think, (depending on coverage chosen). People with very low income/welfare, get full coverage without paying extra. In the UK I think there is no complement to pay and I definitely heard from some past British neighbours that they had a very long wait for sometimes serious thing (like maybe putting in a stent?) so they were happy to be in France where the wait was reasonable. I had a USA friend who had a serious case of breast cancer at around 40ish in the Boston area where there are many excellent hospitals, and I think there was a non-negligeable wait for removal. I don't remember the details now. Unfortunately my mom was operated in the USA and they operated on the wrong side.


    For the SMD stuff last November-Feburary, the haematologist seemed quite good, but part of the bone marrow sample had to be sent to another hospital and we waited months (til after xmas) to get the results. The sample was lots, never got from lab in hospital A to lab in hospital B. So I did another sample. (yuck! but relatively speaking I prefer that to skin biopsy- due to the lifetime aesthetics!) After 3 weeks I contacted the haematologist and he said he was unhappy but they had no results. They finally gave the results 4 or 5 weeks after the aspiration. It said: date of received sample: "unknown"; date of exam: date AFTER I had checked for news. Quality of sample: "poor". (and number of something was half what the minimum needed to be for a good sample). I looked up info on this particular exam, and it said it had to be done within a few days and not refrigerated and that if that was not the case it was not considered viable. When I raised these questions, they answered. "We don't have confirmation that the sample was not viable." (which means nothing!) They did say that they were looking for more rare anomalies in that "lost sample" and that the most common anomalies were ruled out. So I'll just leave it at that. Surprisingly my WBC count has gone up to close to normal levels in last 2 tests for the 1st time in 13 years (whereas it had been on a slow steady descent for 13 years). If it stays close to normal levels, we can put that aside. I'm getting blood count every 3 months so that is good enough watching for this. In any case, for THAT, it is clearly slow-moving, and also not highly, easily treatable, so there is less urgency.
  • bananasandoranges
    bananasandoranges Posts: 2,410 Member
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    Machka9 wrote: »
    Katla49 wrote: »
    Machka — I get a calendar annually from our power company. It is on the wall near my desk. The photos are of local sights, and are submitted to the calendar by local photographers

    If one contains photos you really like, what do you do with it when the year ends?


    M in Oz

    I would cut the photos I like and toss the rest to save space. If you like them all keep the whole thing?
  • KetoneKaren
    KetoneKaren Posts: 6,411 Member
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    Machka9 wrote: »
    Busy sorting and shredding notes, but now ...

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    Machka in Oz



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNu5zdEIhr0

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  • KetoneKaren
    KetoneKaren Posts: 6,411 Member
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    Barbara,

    We have Algin B. Garrett, MD here in Richmond, VA who has the hands and eye of a sculptor. Your Dr. Cottingham is a sculptor, too.

    Karen in Virginia
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  • KetoneKaren
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    Rebecca,

    Beautiful photo of a beautiful woman.

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  • bananasandoranges
    bananasandoranges Posts: 2,410 Member
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    BARBARA I don't think reviews about drs are very advanced here. Just mostly googlemaps, but not all doctors appear and it seems very varied. It looks like people put either 1 or 5 stars most of the time, often for the same person. and rarely many reviews. Not for drs in hospitals, only for private practice and only sometimes.

    KAREN I once saw one of those mandalas in the making. they spend 2 weeks at least 2 at a time!
  • bananasandoranges
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    Quote from the movie boyhood, that really stuck with me.

    "I've spent the first half of my life acquiring all this c*** and now I'm gonna spend the second half of my life getting rid of all this stuff."
  • bananasandoranges
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    KetoneKaren wrote: »
    Barbara,

    We have Algin B. Garrett, MD here in Richmond, VA who has the hands and eye of a sculptor. Your Dr. Cottingham is a sculptor, too.

    Karen in Virginia
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    I have a dentist like that. I think she said they did sculpture classes or she did sculpture classes when a student. She is very interested in getting the right shape and has become a big specialist/reference in correcting occlusions.

    I have no idea about surgeons. In view of the urgency of it (op planned 8 days later) I didn't think there was time to shop for options in early August here. The dermatologist didn't present it as a choice, she just contacted the hospital directly and they contacted me for the op the day we got the 1st biopsy results.
  • bananasandoranges
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    BARBARA in dermatologic surgery I only see reviews for elective surgery surgeons which is completely separate from Onco-dermatology surgeons as far as I can tell.
  • bananasandoranges
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    Oh yeah,
    The night before last when I stopped to get a few things at the grocery store on the way home the young (girl) cashier said, "Are you OK? Usually you look so radiant- "lumineuse" in French -and now you look tired."
    I said yes I'm tired, but something like "I'll take home that you thought I usually look so radiant". (just to be looking on the positive side, in a neighbourly exchange!) I was surprised and that was very nice feedback to get, even if it was about other days and not that day. Hopefully I'll get back to that radiant look (to at least ONE neutral observer)! :D<3
  • bananasandoranges
    bananasandoranges Posts: 2,410 Member
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    I do have bags under my eyes and no particular reason for that. (I often get bags if I drank wine the night before!)
  • bananasandoranges
    bananasandoranges Posts: 2,410 Member
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    even half a glass!
  • grandmallie
    grandmallie Posts: 9,700 Member
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    Morning ladies
    Well not a great amount of sleep those darn alerts have woken me up quite a bit but i finally woke up at 5:30 am and said hmmm the inner girl scout/ girl guide in me is be prepared so i have a couple of pull lamps if the power goes out,but i hopped out of bed got dressed and drove to Home Depot and bought a couple of flashlights and a bungie cord for my hanging chair cover outside...
    Came home and took care of that and got the flashlights together. Also have what is called a Halo. Which is an auxiliary power source so i will be able to plug in at least my Cpap to that.. doesnt have enough juice to do the fridge..
  • Peach1948
    Peach1948 Posts: 2,473 Member
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    <3

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