WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR AUGUST 2016

Good Morning Gals,

Rough start at work today started me off frustrated and depressed. But a quick break to check in on you all was a great mood shifter. Thanks to all for the pick me up!

Heather- Adorable DGC! Tigers are very big in my family.

Katiebug- Totally Rockin the leggings! That top is perfect! You are an inspiration to reach outside the comfort zone and try new things. I will remember you next time I am shopping.

Katla-(I think it was) Thanks for the suggestion for the Apple store. I will have to see if there is one any where near us. For being a state capitol, we aren't very cosmopolitan in these parts.

"NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE- THE WORD ITSELF SAYS 'I'M POSSIBLE'" - Audrey Hepburn

Check in Later!

Tracey

My goals for August are developing, shall I say. I have been able to walk a bit more during my beach vacation. But, the rain in SW Florida has dampened my desire

morning peeps - I Gotta nuther donation! don't know who it is again... it's signed iREne Smith.. is it you IremiaRe?? was the "Re" the hint??? if so, thanks so much!!!, if not, oopsieeeee

DrKatieBug - Those are adorable leggings.

Miriam - I am so glad your daughter is OK.

NY Karen - "....don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good". Thanks so much for the reminder. I know Barbie and Heather say this often and I "forget" it often . I ate pretty well while on our Colorado trip, but got in very little exercise. I had intended to but just didn't do it. I'm back into my exercise routine at home, I find I have a hard time keeping focused when my routine is interrupted. I think old age is settling in

Janetr OKC

GA Carol how are you doing? Hope all is going well for you. Its been very hot here and the humidity unbearable. I'm like Marcelyn in Houston, staying in the cool indoors.

Janetr OKC

Leonore: I've been having trouble with my left shoulder since before I fell and broke my wrist last winter. I've been putting up with it until recently by avoiding doing things that hurt. I haven't gone to a doctor about it. I had a massage before we left to visit DS & DDIL. The masseuse told me I have a frozen shoulder and her massage was very helpful. DDIL is a licensed Theraputic Pilates Instructor and she agreed that my shoulder is frozen. (I can move it in a full range of motion but it hurts like the dickens to do so.) It all started with me trying to saddle the horse I ride. I hurt my shoulder while trying to lift the saddle onto his back last December. I no longer saddle the horse myself and it makes me feel like a wimp. The saddle is bulky, awkwardly shaped, and weighs about 50 pounds. The horse's back is higher than my shoulders. DH offered to buy me a lightweight saddle but my teacher said no, so she saddles the horse. :flowerforyou:

Lillian: (((HUGS)))

Tracey: I love this quotation, "NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE- THE WORD ITSELF SAYS 'I'M POSSIBLE'" - Audrey Hepburn. Thanks for sharing! :bigsmile:



Today I plan to continue cleaning house. The dog is shedding like mad & the floors I vacuumed yesterday have clumps of dog hair on them this morning. :grumble: I hope to watch Olympic Show Jumping today on the internet. It doesn't get televised in general, but the cameras are there and the commentators are there. I watched the cross-country race yesterday on my computer. :bigsmile:

Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon

Tibetan proverb: "The secret to living well and long is: Eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure..."

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” Thomas A. Edison

KATLA-

pipcd34 wrote: »

morning peeps - I Gotta nuther donation! don't know who it is again... it's signed iREne Smith.. is it you IremiaRe?? was the "Re" the hint??? if so, thanks so much!!!, if not, oopsieeeee

Yes, Pip

the RE was the hint.

Ride, Pip, Ride!!

:]

Hi-
I am new to this forum. Chris from North Central Idaho. I am not new to MFPal and achieved great success in the past using this daily support. And I am definitely not new to dieting. I will be 65 in November and for the life of me don't understand why I can't overcome lifelong bad habits. I am newly committed. Maybe I just never heard about the nutrition/exercise diet before (haha).

Resolutions: weigh, measure and log every bite, every day
Not to quit, relapse, or make excuses
Pray more, a lot more
Keep moving, a little more each day
Stop being obsessive about the political issues we are all facing
Limit myself to 45 minutes of combined current news (radio, tv, print)
Love hearing from people.
Chris

Hi all! On my phone so rather short. All went brilliantly. Animal hunt was a huge success. Ate all meals outside and it all went down well. I managed to get out to the dentist appointment and the moon ball I bought was a hit. Amazingly they went to bed with no problems, considering that they are sharing a room, which they don't do at home. Early night for us as they wake up early.
Will post pics tomorrow.
Love you ladies.
Heather UK

Barbie - If someone was going to needle aspiration of cysts on my thyroid; they’d HAVE to give me something to put me out enough (twilight sleep) so I would not flinch. I even hate going to the eye doctor because of them putting that blue circle on my eyeball. I don’t think I would ever be able to wear contacts. I remember trying on one, when in HS; at that time, they were ‘hard’ and not the filmy looking ones of today. Felt like an eyelash was in my eye.


Kylia – Nice to be able to adopt that many dogs and have them running around. DH really did not want to get another dog after Shorty died; but, then we waited until after we had gone through the summer and vacation times. Then, I went to the Lee County Animal Shelter and found “Cracker” … she was approximately 4 months old and was a ‘stray’ that someone had either let out, or she had gotten out, turned up at a BBQ and they brought her to the shelter. She is one smart cookie! I think that someone had spent a lot of time with her because it was so easy to ‘crate’ train her, when she walked with you she stayed right at your heel, and going outside to potty. She is a ‘love’. They were going to have an ‘adoption day’ that next Saturday and she would not have lasted long, for sure. We keep her ‘broken coat’ clipped back to her undercoat. This last time they clipped her they really did not clip her as much as they had the first time. Before we go to DYS and DDnL#2’s house we will have her washed and clipped. I won’t let them clip her face; because she has the JRT face. She must be a mix with a Rat Terrier because she has the long legs of one. I’m not sure who or what she got her curled to the left tail from. If she could talk, she’d do it and never stop! She doesn’t bark much, which is nice; but, when DOS’s lab comes over she always dumps Tux’s dish over to eat the cat food. I don’t know what it is about ‘cat food’; but, every dog we’ve had has loved it. We’ll give them a little treat.


Ilikegardens – We love living out on a dirt road; has the ambiance of ‘living out in the country’; although we are only 6 miles to the nearest town. But, don’t go in even ‘if’ we have forgotten something. We’re about 20 miles to one city; and 25 to another; so we don’t have to go too far to do any major shopping.


Katla – The first OrthoMD I went to (a customer of my husband, who ‘worked me in’ wanted to take me to surgery the next day. When I ‘balked’ at that because I wasn’t sure I wanted to have surgery. 50% said ‘yes, best thing ever done’; 50% said, ‘no, only made it worse’. I went through painful PT and nothing helped; then when I wanted to ‘schedule’ surgery, he said I only had ‘bursitis and I’d have to just ‘live with it’. I was upset, because I could not paint or draw; could not lift my arm more than about 45° in any direction without it just ‘killing me to the point of tears’. I went to my GP; and sure enough it was frozen, so he made an appointment for the next day with a different OrthoMD. He took additional x-rays (I had gotten all my records from the first one) and it showed that I had torn my rotator cuff pretty badly. Did this by making a ladder that consisted of a step-stool, counter stool, and rolling desk chair to clean off the top of the freezer; when I went to back down, I totally missed the step stool. The guy working on my studio had just left to go into town. I was like the lady, calling out … “Help, I’ve fallen and can’t get up!” I could not put any weight on my shoulder at all. So I called my BF and told her I needed help. She could not get me up, so she called the EMT’s. They lifted me on a sheet that they had gotten under me … screaming the entire time.

Second OrthoMD said that my shoulder was ‘definitely’ frozen and if I put it off any longer, even surgery might not help; so I made the appointment and they operated on me in the hospital (because my BP had been ‘spiking up and down’) and he wanted me to be in the hospital if it bottomed out or went sky-high. The next morning he came in and I told him that my shoulder did not hurt at all; and, I have full motion (without pain). While doing the surgery they took pictures as it went and he found a chip that had fallen off and was wedged between the ball socket and the edge of the shoulder socket. It was about 1/4th inch in diameter.

The 2nd time … I had a seizure and hit my head on the rails and stiles of my deck with my head and shoulder. Knocked myself out completely and after waiting for an ambulance for 20 minutes, DH and DOS loaded me into the car and took me themselves. I got taken into the ER after the triage nurse saw that I was semi-conscious. He came to see me again, and we scheduled the 2nd repair surgery for the following Monday. That time I did it ‘in his office’s convenient care’. Both times, after surgery, I went through PT. The 2nd time I had to have the PT come to my house … I will NEVER do that again. Never knew what time they’d arrive and woman finally would call me and tell me she was ‘on her way’; but, she failed to tell me that she was just leaving Moultrie … easily 60 miles from where I lived. It was after 5:00pm and I would not let her come in; husband was home and we usually spend time together watching “The Five". They changed PTs; but, because she was heading the PT place up; she made the determination to cut me loose; before I had really finished. Thankfully, a 'nurse' came a couple of times and she gave me a lot of things to do and work with. Pulley and something much like silly putty to strengthen the muscles from my shoulder all the way down to my hand, also a ball I could roll my hand over ... out as far as I could reach.

Lenora - Doesn't have the 'extra' "O" in it ... not Leonora

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