WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR FEBRUARY 2022
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Ginny thank you!
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Thank you all for your words. Good news/bad news on today's tests. Good news is my blood counts have improved somewhat. Bad news is that six out of ten counts were either too high or too low. Only two on the metabolic panel were off. According to my research, both of those as well as all the CBC counts may well be part of the anemia that plagues me still. I'll know more when I talk to the gastroenterologist. I don't know when that will be.
Allie - I'm so sorry about your uncle, and am so glad you've found peace with that loss.
Evie - Hummingbirds always remind me of my mother, and I guess they always will. She's been gone 23 years now, and hummingbirds still make me smile. Thank you for the picture.
Heather - Hope you feel better.
Michele - Thank you so much for the compliment.
Beth - I struggle with guilt regarding my siblings, but it helps when I remember that I resolved long ago to stop expecting anything from most people. When I stopped expecting birthday cards or even a phone call on my birthday or a holiday, it bothered me less and less as the years rolled by. Unsatisfied expectations will rot any relationship. When you no longer expect anything from them, anything they actually do is a pleasant surprise.
Sorry, I have been reading all the posts, but not enough presence of mind to reply to all the ones I wanted to. Headed for bed.
Love y'all,
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Anne DE – I, too, am impressed how far you have come with your exercise.
Rebecca - watching Family Feud and the question is "where does a nudist carry their car keys". Can you answer this?????
Michele
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Thinking of you and the the challenges you face. Be safe. I hope for good health for sll of us. ❤️1
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Love the freedom of working from home!
Couldn't resist getting in the water. 🙂
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After exercise stopped at the dollar store to get mats for the cats and a sympathy cared. Went to a store today and sold some crystal we had from MIL. Got $8. Not bad,I wasn’t even expecting that much. So I promised to give the guy this piece of Lenox that I have. First went to the church’s thrift store, then out in the sun by the pool. Stopped at Ace Hardware to get a few screws that Vince needed for the fix for the threshold.
Michele
who is going to go
You do like your shopping!
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Accountability:Chose well: Joe, readings, BP, dogs to powerline, steps >7400, CI<CO, CI<250<CO, active 5:32
Bonus: 43 mins grooming Tumble, 70 minutes filing and decluttering
Workin’ on it: 143.1, H20x6,
Friendly February 2022
22: Give sincere compliments to people you talk to today. Happy birthday, Papa.
23: Be gentle with someone you are inclined to criticize.
Blustery, cold but beautiful blue sky and sunshine. Grateful for the wood burning stove, the heat really sinks into my bones.
Lisa “. . .tremendously closer to this group. . .” likewise. Barely know my half sisters, didn’t meet til I was in my 40s. Only other family left are cousins in the Midwest. Feel closer to these gals than my new friends here in Oregon. Grateful to you all. ((hugs))
Allie ((hugs))
Vicki what Carol said. Brr!
Beth ((hugs))
Machka I cannot imagine tolerating appendix pain for a year. You are made of stern stuff!
Michele, I’m just glad Vince didn’t try with a “bigger hammer” :laugh:
Pooped out again on taxes and minutes. Did invest over an hour filing/decluttering. Probably another hour’s worth still to do. [‘sigh]
Lighter, lovelies!
Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD
2022: Be still and listen.
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Machka I cannot imagine tolerating appendix pain for a year. You are made of stern stuff!
Lighter, lovelies!
Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD
2022: Be still and listen.
It wasn't severe pain. But they didn't know what it was. They sent me for heaps of tests and couldn't figure it out. One doctor was convinced I was making it up for attention.
Finally a surgeon decided to take me seriously and did a general surgery ... he cut me open from my belly button down to have a look around.
Turns out it was retrocecal chronic appendicitis - the appendix was elongated and twisted back on itself. When they did the tests and caught sight of it, they only saw a tiny bit of it and it looked normal.
Unfortunately it left me with quite a scar. I will never have a flat stomach and I wear garments to kind of smooth things out.
Machka in Oz
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Pooped out again on taxes and minutes. Did invest over an hour filing/decluttering. Probably another hour’s worth still to do. [‘sigh]
Lighter, lovelies!
Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD
2022: Be still and listen.
I'm trying to take care of some paperwork. I've got a list of things and thought I'd start working on them one by one.
First one: paying a bill. You wouldn't think that would be difficult or time consuming. Took me 3 days to get it done!! Paying the bill was relatively quick, but once I got partway through I realised that things needed to be updated in the account and I needed to involve my husband who couldn't remember ... etc. etc. etc.
Second one involves a bank account. Eventually I might like to close it. But meanwhile, I'm on Day 4 of trying to get something sorted with it.
It's no wonder my Things To Do list never reduces!
In my head, I just need to pay a bill or send an email or log into a site and do one thing ... but as soon as I get started I discover a whole bunch of other things that I need to consider or do.
Machka in Oz
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Michele thank you! I'm getting stronger!
Annie in Delaware2 -
Morning ladies
Not much to report, Tracys dad my ex is in a depression funk,remember i told you he has mental health issues anyway it is supposed to get up to 65 today so Tracy is going to take a walk with him and Miles and spend some time with him which is good3 -
If books and bicycles were in the mix here, I could stay there for at least a month ... maybe longer!
Machka in Oz3 -
I slept!!!!
Feeling a lot better. Still the occasional chesty cough, but I'm much livelier in myself. A weight has lifted.
I did a good writing session and then washed my hair and flushed out my deaf right ear. I can hear again! I've been dosing it with olive oil for ages, but this is the first time the wax was soft enough to flush. My head feels all echoey! I've been under water for weeks.
Weather good. I'm going to take my first steps outside for a week and walk down to town. My watch battery is still working, but it's now 17 months old and I will see if they will change it under the lifetime deal. I don't want it to conk out during the cruise. Also will ask the phone shop to change my cracked cover screen on my phone. I have a spare one, but the guy did it for me last time. No harm in asking. Then will pick up some artisan bread.
If I'm tired I can catch the bus home, so I am taking my FFP2 mask with me. If my ankle is OK, I will walk back.
The doctor is letting me have my early prescription before the cruise, but wants me to make an appointment for BP and Medication review. I will schedule it for when we get back.
Some of the clothing presents for family arrived today. Expecting an Amazon delivery, but they often leave it by the bins if we are not in.
Feeling relieved and much lighter. (Not literally) :-(
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx5 -
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Morning all! Happy Wednesday! I am pressed for time every morning to reply to posts; but I do read them all and mentally comment. Does that count? lol
Beth- Sorry to hear of your basement issues. Spring/snow melt seems to be the litmus test for our basements. If you can get your hands on a dehumidifier those help immensely! This spring, I will be building a couple of arbors at the corners of my house (where the downspouts are). My plan is to shorten the drain pipe to the height of the arbor (that will span the walkway around my house). Then I will run a length of pipe over the top of the arbor and attach ceramic gargoyle water "dispensers" to the ends, sending the water onto the hillside that slopes away from my house. Eventually, I will probably put some sort of container or container garden there to use the run off water. The foundation of my house is surrounded by sand (we are in a dune) so drainage isn't a real problem, but the ice build up on the walkways and driveway is an issue in the winter. Hoping this will alleviate that.
Lisa- Sorry to hear of your brother; hugs on the family stuff. Family is HARD. I am glad you are getting some answers on your health issues. Although you don't seem to have the answer to your big health question; little answers are good, because that means they are still looking. Sometimes I feel like our health, as we age, is like that home repair job that appears to be an easy one, but as we start tearing things apart, we find more and more wrong. Ugh. Hugs to you, friend!
Annie- Sending you hugs to let you know you are not alone on the struggle bus with food choices. February and March are hard months for me. I feel very tired of the cold winter and at times feel the need to make like a bear and eat and sleep until spring.
Heather- First your ankle and now a cold! Hope you are feeling better soon! I am sure Johnny misses you on his walks and during his time with the kids.
Tina-Your trip sounds wonderful! Glad you were able to get away. I recall when your DH got sick, you were worried about possibly having to cancel; glad that didn't happen. Post pics please; so I can live vicariously through you!
Machka- Your bill paying conundrum sounds like the black hole/abyss that my DH speaks of. lol Every once in a while he will get online to pay a bill, and end up spending hours "sorting things out". Soon that job will be mine. I will probably track everything on my agenda (paper and pen) and make payments from there. At least until I become more tech savvy.
Well, more of you I wanted to reply to; but the kids are swarming. They have had breakfast and are ready for activities to begin. ttfn xoxoxo KJ (Kelly)
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