Thinking of you too PHOEBE. All the very best.
Anne.

Will ready later, going to the boat today and I still have to prepare salmon for the BBQ to take with us.

I will be starting Level 2 Yoga starting second week in June. I asked my instructor and she said I could so i feel good
about this.

Phoebe - Good luck with the surgery and follow up with us later.


Shirley

Oh LIN, it's one thing after another isn't it! Your telling us of your poor tenants loss caused me to wonder although there's probably no connection between his wife's antibiotic and a drug I was prescribed but one day I might fully tell you friends what happened to me 4 years ago, it's enough to say for now that I had rarely taken any form of drug up to that point, even an aspirin, and I NEVER will again, barring any more bone breakages. I have very little faith in these drugs and even less in the medical profession (a very young replacement doctor) who simply seem to want to take the easy way and foist medication on some of us who don't really need it with sometimes disastrous results. Suffice to say my experience involved broken veins in my nose with an awful nose bleed, a broken vein behind my left eye flooding the eye with blood, and which is still slowly clearing up and all the small veins in my legs. I hope the antibiotic your poor tenant took didn't have that effect on her! I think the med. I took was too much for a fair and thin skinned person with maybe small veins. I don't know, but I do know I had to immediately discontinue the pills. (10 days use) Believe me, I didn't need telling twice in Emergency! Now friends, I'm not saying this to scare any of you off NEEDED medication, but PLEASE research it before you take anything!
By the way LIN always remember a problem shared is a problem halved. Life hasn't been easy for you just lately, but everyone on this forum is more than willing to "listen" when it helps you to share with us.
Final word, I cleared my initial problem myself by simply walking daily, losing a little weight and joining MFP.

Anne.

I remember as a kid just dreading a Sunday afternoon with older relatives. To my young ears it was a never ending litany of complaints about the weather (too wet, too dry, too hot, too cold), aches, pains, doctor's visits, operations and a recounting of who died and how they looked in the casket. Now that I am one of those older folks, there doesn't seem to be much else to talk about.

I'm gonna switch that up for a minute and give you a totally unsolicited endorsement of my latest purchase. First, some background. We have a sheared-shag type carpet in all of the rooms on the main floor of our home except the front entry, the two bathrooms, my laundry room and the kitchen. We also have two, large, long-haired dogs. You can see that keeping all of the carpet clean might be troublesome.

I purchased a very expensive, German-made vacuum cleaner just a few months before moving into this house. For many years, I thought it was doing a good job. During those same years, our dogs were being groomed regularly and often as they were competing in the show ring. The past few years, the dogs are retired, and I grew tired of the chore of bathing and grooming them (the "for-hire" groomers would not take them because they were show dogs), so I clipped them fairly short. I also retired my aging Hoover carpet cleaner and bought a higher rated Bissell. Every time I shampooed our carpets (vacuum thoroughly first, of course), the Bissell would pick up and leave behind large clumps of dog hair. It didn't seem to matter if I spent ten minutes or an hour with the vacuum beforehand.

I contacted the vacuum manufacturer and told them what was happening, and they sent me new filters, new brush roller, gave me instructions on how to vacuum (imagine after 55 years), etc. Nothing seemed to help.

This week, fed up with it all, I went out and bought a Shark Navigator. I have vacuumed twice a day for four straight days and am still filling the dirt/dust bin with dog hair, dander, silt and dust that's been living in my carpet all this time. I was gob-smacked. I could not believe I'd been living with all that dirt (do I sound like the woman in the Swiffer commercials?). You can actually see the difference in the carpet. Areas that were matted from traffic are starting to lift; the color seems more vibrant, and it feels nicer under my bare feet.

So the point of this very long message is - if you need a new vacuum, consider a Shark Navigator. I found mine reconditioned, like-new at a local shop for $75.

Connie, in dusty Pomona, MO

PHYLLIS, as always BUZZ says it best!

Welcome home PHOEBE.

For you Phoebe - may you continue to feel okay and not need the painkiller.

Hugs.

Linda

Phyllis - God bless you and all your family. May we all sincerely seek and find a closer relationship with God. That is the important thing. And travel safely as you go to visit with your mother. And I am sure you'll make the best decision on what to tell or not tell your mom. The nurses taking care of my dad urged me to say nothing upsetting that would make him more anxious as he had such a problem with an incredibly high anxiety level. I did what they recommended but it wasn't easy. All situations and people are different so I am not advising just sharing my experience.

Hugs...

Lin

Hello sneakers. Just popped in as usual for a quick catch up but then also as usual, find quick is never easy when I read so many fascinating posts and opinions.

Anne ~ A busy week ahead for you but for all the right reasons.... a birthday and a graduation. Can I ask what degree your grandson in Toronto has worked hard for? Something he can make good use of in life whether by way of a career or hobby I expect. Enjoy your travels!

Phyllis ~ Buzz as ever is so perfectly in sync with life and it's occasional wobbles and I think we're all in agreement that a burkah is really nothing more than a piece of material that doesn't change the person just because it hides their face. A niece of mine was in a relationship with a Moslim for several years and decided to wear one and she hadn't actually converted so it was hard to understand at the time but looking back I think it was a way of showing her man she loved him although I always understood it to be a tribal thing rather than religious. I'm sure it won't change your daughter in any way. Have a wonderful visit with your mother, something I know you've been so looking forward to and perhaps just wait and see what you feel is comfortable for you both to discuss or not.

Phoebe ~ If your cats are anything like my Hebe who has a foot fettish they will be disgusted by that yellow disinfectant cover on your foot but determined to clean you anyway!! Hopefully the removal of those spurs will make that knee far more comfortable for you and whatever arthritis you might have going on will be kept under control otherwise perhaps a knee replacement some time in the future.... look how well Sandy has done with her new bionic knees!!

Lin ~ How tragic for your tenant and his wife and at such a relatively young time of life. Doesn't life sometimes just keep throwing one piece of doo-doo after another at us but as Phoebe says, do your best not to get too emotionally involved, as caring a person as you are.

Patsy ~ From the extracts of MrTurner I've seen I can imagine you might have preferred subtitles rather than translate the cockney accent that had me straining an ear to understand and I'm from a part of London it's spoken in, in fact sometimes hear myself slipping into "apples and pears" lingo even today!!

Connie ~ Having once been in ecstasy over a new Dyson vacuum cleaner all I can say is be careful to keep an eye on the dust and fur filling your cleaning bag because one day you might find it's now taking up the carpet pile!! I was horrified at the amount of cat hairs sucked up that were invisible to the naked eye but am convinced the carpet became thinner over time!! Meanwhile enjoy the thrill of seeing all that dirt coming up, although twice a day seems excessive to me but then twice a week is probably once too often when other activities call me!!

Sandy ~ It's good that Babe is managing to get himself to the hospital for his foot procedure without your help so perhaps let him be as independent as you've become rather than insisting. It's not so long ago he was being somewhat needy which most of us found unfair on you and hooray if he's finally thinking about what he was expecting from you considering the position you found yourself in through no fault of your own. I'm jealous of that pool of yours although I'd probably freeze in one on my property at the moment. In fact the only outside job I'm going to attempt this afternoon is cleaning the inside of my greenhouse which will keep me out of the northerly wind, something we never suffer from this time of year usually but then the world's weather is bizarre these days.

I'm having to use Explorer to get on line because after a security alert that I didn't understand I seem to have lost Google chrome but when I tried to uninstall to then download afresh I can't even do that. If I disappear for a time you'll know there's a security issue on my laptop.... Ahhh!!

Have a great weekend everyone.

Jackie