WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR DECEMBER 2013

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Good evening beautiful ladies:flowerforyou:

Brooke So nice to see your post:bigsmile: ! I`ve missed your quotes!!!

Katla So glad you got to talk to your son !!!

Gail What a fantastic way to announce the happy news …I love it!!!

Rori So sorry to hear about your DBIL:brokenheart: , will keep your family in my thoughts and prayers!

Grandmallie Have a safe trip home!!!

Barbie I love your graphics!

Deb in CNY I so enjoy reading your posts!!!

Margaret You are a fabulous person !

Sylvia You are a beautiful person !!! I can`t believe a grandma not hugging her grandkids:noway: …that is so very sad ! I would gladly help you strangle her ! Glad to hear your procedure is over, oh my, what a time you`ve had! I`m hoping you have a speedy recovery:flowerforyou: !

Katiebug I love your favorite Christmas moment, how absolutely wonderful !

Jane Martin Hope you feel better soon:flowerforyou: ! What a lovely pic of your family!

Meg Woo hoo…what a wonderful chocolate gift you got !!!

Amanda So very sorry to hear about the miscarriage:brokenheart: , prayers to you and your daughter! The grandtwins are 3 already , they grow so very fast!

Yanniejannie A milk frother….how do you like it? I have one on my coffee machine, it`s glorious !

Michele I`m sure the weight will come back off, you are usually a light eater!

Viv Hope you feel better soon:flowerforyou: ! Sometimes those colds hang on for awhile:grumble: !

Heather Sounds like you had a wonderful holiday, crying sweet baby and all!

Riblondie Welcome to the group, come in often and chat!

I know I missed a lot of people:embarassed: , it`s hard to catch up after a couple of day!

I have had 2 busy days, catching up with friends; yesterday was 3 different friends at 3 different times….whew…. Today I had to take my car to be serviced and inspected, they have had it all day, in fact they called me late this afternoon and told me I could pick it up in the morning, at least I do have a loaner car! Geez, I guess this is my Christmas present to myself:noway: :frown: ….I can`t believe how expensive it is:sad: !
My dinner is almost done, salmon, baked potato, and a salad....yum

Have a wonderful evening ladies!

Hugs,
DeeDee in NC

Greetings from Omaha where, inexplicably, it was 61 degrees today! I took advantage and got a nice walk in. Pretty routine day; went to the dentist, did the grocery shopping, went walking when DD#2 went to the nursing home to see dad. She reports that when she got home, the beagle met her at the door with a donut from last weekend in his mouth and tail just a-waggin’!

Apparently my dog buries donuts, not bones. Just great! He gets his cholesterol checked tomorrow after a couple of dietary indiscretions, I can’t wait to hear how high it is! I finished the next-to-last chapter on the pediatric test bank. One left before new years and then it’s done!

Now DH just rescued the dumb beagle from the backyard where he was in a standoff with a possum. Good thing it didn’t attack, or even worse….good thing it wasn’t a racoon! Now he’s all proud of himself! Maybe he’ll reward himself with yet another hidden donut!

Grandmallie: have a very safe trip home!

Amanda: I’m so sorry for your loss and for your DD’s loss. It would be hard not to be emotional after all this.

Barbie: thanks for posting the values of Kwanzaa. I think lots of people could follow them!

Jane: fun pic! Thanks for sharing!

Sylvia: at least your dear hubby has a funny sense of humor! Best wishes for tomorrow and good outcomes! ….Later….omg what a mess you had to endure! I’m glad you are resting in the hospital instead of trying to go on home. Please take care! Is your new med isordil or renazolin? …Later later…vasovagal response. Holy cow you poor thing. I didn’t want to tell you that I am with Joyce in missing all that excitement because you were hurting and so scared! It is a good lesson for me to hear all this from the patient’s point of view. It makes me understand that not everyone appreciates the drama! Take care now….that’s an order.

Yanniejannie: I sure hope you get to feeling better soon!

Katla: yay for no obligations! I just figured out that the entire time I am on leave from work I have something every day! UGH!
So to get even (LOL) I am taking the first Friday back off and planning a three day weekend of scrapbooking!

Michele: I wanted to tell you I got a couple more Rodney Yee yoga tapes for Christmas!

Anamika: you have such a great attitude being grateful for the right things

Viv: I love my fitbit sleep tracker!

Heather: rest and enjoy the quiet!

Margaret; I would love to hear more about the conservatory? What do you do and see there? Beautiful picture!

Katla: what a beautiful thing to hear that clock chiming once again! I wish I could hear it

Edie: welcome to our group and congratulations on your loss. Come back often!

Juanita: wow that much snow there?

DeeDee: wow you have been one busy lady!

Well I have to say now that I am grateful to hear the patient’s story so I can be more empathetic in my work and hopefully teach the students to remember how the patient must be feeling. I am also grateful for my crazy Benny Beagle and the wonderful weather we had today. NOT grateful to have to go pay bills now! Take care all, Meg from Omaha

Meg, I forgot to mention that after my little melt down, my main daytime nurse got a royal reaming out - right in the hallway outside my open door - for having disconnected the iv bag very soon after I got back to my room from the procedure, which was about 10:00. My melt down happened about 5:00. I heard the doctor ask her whose idea it was to discontinue the iv, and she said she didn't think I needed it any more. I saw the doc throw up his hands and walk away. Now she had been grumpy with me all day, and I didn't know why - was I bothering her too much? Did my little monitor going off every 15 minutes deep her from doing other things? So after this happened she REALLY didn't like me. I was glad to see her leave at 6:00. She left me lying in a pile of partially removed clothing with a blanket spread over me. The night nurse helped me get the clothes from underneath me, and the bra strap that was wrapped around my oxygen probe, and the sweat pants that dangled off one ankle, and helped me put on a new gown and a new sheet and blanket. That might be something else nurses in training might need to hear. By the way, there were only 8 patients on the floor all day, and 10 nurses.

I'm not sure the doctor should have done that right out in the hall where anybody could hear, but he was pretty steamed. He was like my personal guardian angel, appearing out of nowhere when I needed him. He was johnnyonthespot after the hematoma, and after the fainting, and he stuck around each time to explain it to me and hubby. He is tops in my book.

Sylvia

katla - I always go to collagevideo.com and view their clips of their DVD's. I also read the recommendations. I've found that the DVD's that are given "staff favorite" seem to be better. Then, I go to Amazon and see if they carry that DVD. Their prices are usually lower. they also have reviews from people who have done the DVD. At Collagevideo you can search the topic of "tai chi" and it'll give you the titles they carry. So sorry about your car disaster, but glad it was repaired. A car is only a piece of metal.

janemartin - sending virtual chicken soup to you.

Edie - welcome! Good for you doing what you can but doing it just the same. Kudos to you!

Did an hour of a downloadable spinning workout today. Tomorrow I'm planning to do yoga and then stop at the Salvation Army. Last time I was there I saw this really nice blouse, only I didn't think I could use it. Seems that I can so I hope it's still there.

Made pizza logs (from Emily Bites) for tomorrow. I'll have to have Jessica do most of the cooking (well, it's really mostly heating things up) since I'm supposed to serve at the mass. Guess a lot of people go away for the holiday so there aren't a whole lot of us right now. Supposedly the silicon mats that I use for baking cookies are dishwasher safe, so I'm trying that for the first time. Really, those cookies I made yesterday had a lot of butter in them which I need to really wash off. I don't want to make lobster for Kris because there is no way I can get anything near to what he's used to getting. We're just too far inland.

Sylvia - I'm so sorry that happened to you. glad it's over for you, tho. Good news on the sonogram front! Can't get over your ordeal right before you left. I guess it was lucky that it happened at the hospital and not in the car while you were going home. While we were loading a truck to bring to storage here in NC, Vince got dehydrated. He was drinking water, but he was also sweating. He got lightheaded, too. I remember the EMS coming and giving him an IV, he felt much better after getting some fluids in him. Now whenever it's hot outside, he won't drink water but insists on having Gatorade.

As I was laying down, I missed all the exitement here. The police were here! Seems that the alarm went off in the detached garage. It's also supposed to go off here in the house, but what we believe happened is that it did, in fact, go off but it was very very low. Vince at first thought that an USP was going bad. He disonnected one of them and the faint bussing stopped. Well, it seems that if we don't call CPI telling them of an error, they call the police. So that's what they did. They are supposed to be here Tuesday to check this out. I'm thinking that there's probably some sort of volume control, but we have no idea where that would be. the bad thing is that I saw how dusty the speaker was! I've never cleaned that.

All day today one of Jess's cats, Shadow, hasn't been seen. Usually, she's on the bed. I even opened a can of the moist cat food thinking that she'd hear the sound and come running. No go. I searched high and low, just couldn't believe she wasn't in the house. Vince said that he'd checked under the barstools in the storage room. Well, I went and checked too. Sometimes even tho one person checks, it's good to have another person check. I saw her under the barstools. When I told Vince that I'd found her, he was surprised since he'd just looked there. Well, with her being all black, it's easy to miss. At least I know that she's safe.

DeeDee - I have to get my car inspected in Dec., too. What a pain. To have to do it right around the holidays, just one more thing that I need to think about.

Joyce - have you ever used old comics as wrapping paper?

Juanita - I'm so amazed at how I am craving fruits for desserts and those cookies just aren't appealing to me at all. That's something. Last year there was no way I could walk past them without taking a bite, this year I have no desire. Now if there was a plate of pear and apples and oranges -- watch out!!!! You know, in a way I'm dreading Jess coming this weekend. Not that I don't love seeing her because I do. What I'm dreading is having another Christmas dinner. Well, after this that's THE END (thank goodness)

barbie - glad to hear your mammo was fine.

Meg - that's some dog you have there! Does he prefer Krispy Kreme or Dunkin Donuts, or will either do? Yea, you got more Rodney Yee tapes! Which ones did you get?

Michele from NC

Sylvia, I am so sorry all that happened. I guess I wasn't thinking about what all you had gone through when I said I missed all that. I do remember though how worried I was when my husband was in the ER and they were all around him like that. Yes, vasovegal response. Don't ask me to explain it. My MS has taken it away from me. I do know that it has happened to me but to a much smaller degree. I'm glad that you had quick response. Sorry the doctor didn't have any tact, he should have taken it to a supervisors office. And she shouldn't have left you in a mess. I can understand her being upset and not being able to cheerfully go in and take care of you but she should have sent some one else in. Well, hopefully she learned something today.

Barbie, very nice of you saying I was creative. I'm not sure if creative is a good thing sometimes!!!! I'm still not sure if I will give it to him. I know both my brothers have a big sense of humor and they both need a good laugh. We will get a good game of skettles going when they are here. That gets everyone laughing.

Joyce, Indiana

Sylvia your doctor has earned the right to be called (((( ANGEL))) and thats supposed to be a Halo :bigsmile:
Am so glad you are recovering and in hospital where u will get all the care u need. Sorry about your Nurse, hope she learns from this incident. Keeping you in my prayers.:flowerforyou:
I agree about opting for a good laugh with a person with a loving heart.:drinker: :bigsmile:
Barbie yoga actually means Union between the soul and the Almighty. For that, thousands of years ago the Yogis or hermits would sit in meditation for days. So that their body could physically go through that without disturbing their minds yoga was practised for a fit and healthy body. Today most people only follow the first step, that is physical fitness which is obtained by practice of Yoga poses which also heals and strengthens our mind. Nevertheless I feel all the stretches and asanas give us a positive attitude and if we meditate then we are in a very good place.
Michelle has mentioned quite a few tapes/ CDs... I am doing twice a week with a professional teacher at the moment and rest of the time on my own, Its imp to have a good teacher because she needs to observe you are doing things correctly, else it will be difficult or you may pull a muscle :grumble: etc Or may not get the right benefits :laugh:
Dee Dee loved your Friendly celebration
Katla I am learning so much about volunteering from all of you
Hugs and prayers for all
Anamika

Hi everybody, trying to catch up with all the news.
It's pretty quiet here, luckily. We went out for dinner yesterday evening, just the two of us, and had delicious food and a wonderful time just chatting. Kind of an oasis in all the holiday busy-ness.

Cynthia

Barbie: I’m happy that your dance teacher has stopped talking about retirement. It seems to have brought so much pleasure to your life, and I’m guessing people would look at you as a replacement. I’m sure you would do a fabulous job, but it might not be recreation for you anymore.:flowerforyou:

DeeDee: Good wishes for Benny’s test results. I won’t take the Christmas decorations down until New Years. :noway: I want the lights on until the days are noticeably longer.:flowerforyou:

Cyntthia: I’m glad you had a wonderful dinner out together. :flowerforyou:

Renny: Congratulations on your upcoming 43rd anniversary. We were married in 1970. Our 44th anniversary is coming up in March. I’m sorry you’ve got a bug. Rest and water sounds like the perfect treatment.:flowerforyou:

Sylvia: I hope things are going better for you today.:flowerforyou:



I received notice from the Teaching Standards and Practices Commission that my teaching license will be up for renewal in July. I’m trying to decide what to do about it. I would need to take classes to renew it but could get a substitute license without classes. I don’t want to teach or substitute, so I could just let it go BUT… It is a difficult decision. I’d love to hear from other retired teachers on the subject.

Happy Holidays!
Katla in beautiful NW Oregon

December goals:

1. Log every bite and swallow
2. Focus on fitness: daily cardio until my wrist heals, then add back strength training.
3. Drink at least 3 glasses of water every day

:flowerforyou: Best wishes Silvya hope your feeling better today

:drinker: Happy Anniversary to you and DH Renny

Katla we also got married in 1970 march 7 and 44 years has gone by in a flash

Have a great day everyone

Juanita in sudbury

Joyce, I understand completely about missing the excitement. I was a cop for six years, way back when. Long Periods of aching monotony punctuated by short bursts of absolute adrenaline.

I got out of the hospital about an hour ago. I feel good except the injury to my leg/groin is getting pretty sore. Rigormortis setting in. Luckily all I have to do is sit and let hubby do the driving.

Take care everybody.

Sylvia

Katla, our nursing license had to be renewed every two years. Price kept going up. The year I had my big relapse of MS, which took me off work, was the year to renew. I knew my working years were over and I did not question at all not sending in those papers. I didn't know enough at that time about how well the body reacts to the huge dose of IV cortisone and that 'retirement' would help my body recover. But it was to late by the time I felt like I could do some kind of nursing, whether being a phone nurse in a doctors office or something. I did try volunteering at a hospice but I think that was to early. I'm not sure if it was the MS or procrastination that made me not be able to do that. Plus I was never assigned any cases that gave me that warm fuzzy feeling I wanted. I have a neighbor who is on the state board of nursing and she said I could have gotten a license that was, oh my MS won't let me think of the word. It puts it on hold until you want it again. I just can't think of the word. Put it was to late. I had already lost it. I would have had to take all those exams again.

Well, my 'creative' creation I was going to give my brother for Christmas is dead. I forgot my cats love of chewing on rubber. She ate one of its front legs during the night. A new C-Pap mask comes with 4 nose pieces, one of each size, so I have 2 more pieces to fix it. Now to decide whether to do it or not.

Sylvia, hoping for a quick recovery, although with that size of hematoma it will be challenging. Expect a low grade fever as your body absorbs all that old blood. And the colors will change quite a bit also! Hope your new medicine works.

Joyce, Indiana

Good evening ladies!:flowerforyou:

Katla - I was so happy to give up teaching and just adore retirement. We don't have to renew a licence over here though.

Renny - Happy Anniversary.!:flowerforyou: I was married to my ex in 1970.

Today a couple of great things happened!:drinker:
#1 I got the cheque with the first instalment from my exDMIL 's will. Yeah! She's only been dead over 8 years! This means I can do all the lovely treat things we have planned for next year, including my New York trip. Sooooooo happy! Thank you Isobel!:drinker:
#2 I sent a card to my cousin whom I haven't seen for many years and put my email address in it. Today I got an ecard from him with his email address.:happy: We used to be close as children. So good to hear from him. He is a couple of years older than me and a bit eccentric, but family is family.

I am currently reading THE HAPPINESS PROJECT on my Kindle. I pronounce it very good.:laugh: Unputdownable!

We had turkey curry last night.:laugh: That is a bit of a British tradition after Christmas. It was DELICIOUS ! :bigsmile: The last bit of turkey is in the freezer for another curry and I have frozen the carcase to make stock later. Tonight we are using up DGS' s meatballs. I have made a mega pot of passata so will freeze lots. That always makes me happy.:laugh:

Sylvia - rest, rest and more rest. My DH has had those vagal response episodes when he is dehydrated. The first time it happened we were really worried. Now he is a bit more careful. I still sometimes have to remind him to drink water.

Hugs to all those with nasty bugs. I had a long sleep this pm on the sofa. Lovely!

We are now organised to go up to DSIL next weekend. What a saga it was organising it! Phew! I am also in the process of getting my new yoga friend to come over next week to do a yoga session together. I love having a new friend. She is soooooo great!

We hoovered up all the tinsel today that DGS fed to the bouncy horsey. I have a great video of him bouncing and saying he fed tinsel to the horse. Sliwly getting the presents put away and deciding if there are one or two to give away.

Love to all. Good tv tonight and catch up on recordings once I have got dinner served,

Heather in calm Hampshire UK

Ahoy all, just popping in to say I finally made it home we got home around 4:15 pm and have been running around mad since.
I didnt log at all yesterday and I ate really bad yesterday, the last 2 days I havent gotten to much exercise either, so needless to say, not looking forward to getting on the scale:grumble:
Here I am Kevetching and poor Sylvia my friend you have been through the ringer. sending you a speedy recovery and lots of
will check in tomorrow
ta ta for now
Alison

Happy sat.
Getting mixed up with the days,which day it is.
Ran some errands today,temps in the 50`s.
Hope all is ok with you all.
HUGS
jane