WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR SEPTEMBER 2016

Karen back in Virginia and sleepy

Doctor took a look at my left leg and said I've never seen this before, I'll have to go research it. Then she lookef at my right leg and said oh, it's a fungus, you don't normally see it this widely spread. (Of coourse I don't do anything normally!!) She gave me an Rx for an oitment and put me on steriods. Said to use the ointment for at least a week after I can no longer see them. We have no idea how or where I might have gotten it.

Janetr - i'm glad that they found out what the rash is. Now you know you can get rid of it.



Mary from Minnesota

happy mon,hugs jane

Joyce, the doctor did give me an oral steroid too. Hopefully it clears up quickly.

Thanks

Janetr OKC (heading to Missouri in the morning)

Janet, I was going to say what Becca has just said - my mum used to get that sort of rash near lillies! She loved flower arranging and had loved working with lillies - in the end she had to make do with growing pots of lillies in the garden and not touch them. She moved on to poppies and I remember the amazing poppy displays she used to do for the church. As she died on a Remembrance Sunday (poppy day in UK) I wear poppy jewellery in tribute now as her memory is synonymous with poppies.

Maryann in UK

Hello all: DH and I went to a patriotic concert last night. It was quite good, an Everett group called Summer Aire. They describe themselves as music junkies who can't stand that choirs, etc. quit for the summer. so they get together to sing through the summer and do a concert in the fall. Our choir at church has not started yet because our choir director is the announcer for the local minor league baseball team and they are in the playoffs.

I also am an avid reader. I like book clubs because they stretch my horizons. I nearly always have a book in progress.

Pip - Sounds like you and Kirby had a marvelous ride and the weather could not have been better.

Charleen - The Christmas tree skirt is gorgeous.

Marcelyn - Thinking good thoughts for you. Waiting is so hard.

Janetr - Glad you found out what that rash is. Hope it heals quickly.

KJ - Wow, That picture of the pier looks very professional. I love the composition.

Becky - We are all battling this. Welcome to the group.

Meg - Glad you dropped in even if only briefly.

Everyone take care, Sue in WA

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JanetR, so glad you are also on an oral steroid.

Sue, my Dad who was very patriotic loved the patriotic concerts and I seemed to be the only one who wanted to go with him. So I very proudly went with him. I loved and respected him so much, if he was patriotic then I was to. Although it shouldn't take much for a person to be patriotic. But when the concert played the songs of the different branches of the military is my favorite part of the concert. I can very proudly stand up for the first branch and stay standing through each one. That's how many branches we heave represented with our family. Now my nephew who has ADHD joined the coast guard and wasn't in it long before his commander called my sister and said we are sending home. He is just not wired for the military. Bless his heart he tried to stay off his Ritalin, he didn't even let anyone know he had been on it. But i also just love the songs and the emotion it gives you. My husband loves to sing God Bless the USA and puts so much emotion in it.

Well, the doctor's nurse finally called back, 2 minutes after we left the house. The message? The doctor will discuss my medicine with me during my appointment on Friday. GRRRRRR Compassion.

Joyce, Indiana

Hi Gals,

So many of us are readers… I think I am going to add a sept. goal to read a book and do a VERY short review of it and post it for us… maybe it will help us decide what to get at the library next… It would be really fun if I was not the only one…

Tracey – Coyote and other wild animals, they have learned to live with us with many of us not knowing they are there. Levi (my dog) and I walk early leaving 5-5:30 for an hour or so, on the edge of an open space, and we have seen racoons, deer, skunk, quail, coyote, fox, turkey.. and for the most part if they are not cornered they want away from you even before you can get your camera out… Coyote do look a bit like a dog, the ones here are tan – pointed ears – lean, (not thin – strong and lean) and one hand clap and they are gone.

Heather - communication with them might be the key.. just asking of all the things you can think of we could do to help you out (babysitting, limiting our visiting to certain days, moving closer, doing some freezer meals…. ) what would help you out the most? As they have kinda sent mixed messages, asking if you are moving closer, and asking that you cut short a visit….

Becky – we all are/have/or will fight that… but we will win.

Joyce – I feel your frustration… hugs.


September Goals:
2 fun things a week, Lizard saving, gardening in my own yard, Lunch with Kyle
Read and report on a book
Log everyday to the best I can, over if need be.
11,000 + steps everyday
Work on water consumption -


Smiles.

Kim from N. California

stats for the day:
ride hm 2 gym- 11.18min, 15.6amph, 146mhr, 2.9mi = 121c
SPIN- 42.54min, 86r, 88w, 9-16g, 134ahr, 148mhr, 18.1mi = 359c
ride gym 2 dome- 6.34min, 12.9amph, 132mhr, 1.4mi = 69c
ride dome 2 hm- 16.21min, 9.4amph, 155mhr, 2.5mi = 176c
total cal 725

Thank you everyone for the encouraging words.

I'm not quite making the goals that I set for myself but I am trying and I am increasing some. So hopefully by the end of the month I will be at my goals.

I enjoyed everyone's remarks and I love the pictures I think they're great.

Frankiesgirl21 – One thing that probably keeps me from jumping on a large trampoline like my granddaughters used to have was that my MS broke 2 bones in her back; cracked them. Was out of commission for about a month.

Linda/IA – One of my former HS classmates and her husband celebrated her birthday 2 days earlier by going to the Towers. Sorry for the loss of your friend.

Janetr okc – I’m glad you are going to the MD in the morning, too. That looks painful!

Penny - My oldest sister used to make homemade bread; lots of work, very good, but I would not do it no matter what. Just give me those good old yeast rolls like we had when we were ‘in school’. Sometimes we can find them at the local Piggly Wiggly … usually in a bin or one of the endcaps.

MA_B – Glad that your friend’s son made such a great recovery. I had a bad wreck and had pins and plates in my ankle as well as my left arm. It is badly scared because it almost got taken off. It bothered me enough that for a while I wore long sleeves or 3/4th sleeves to hide it. Now, I don’t worry about it. It’s there as a reminder of how ‘blessed’ I am that I was not killed in it.

Tracey in PA – We have coyotes are here (out in the country in SW GA). Coyotes run in packs (usually) and follow the Alpha dog. When you ever hear them bay; they will scare you to death - they make awful sounds. I’m sure that like a lot of ‘stray’ wild animals, they go to where they find food. Being in town might be a little strange; but, my DDnL#2 took a picture of deer outside the salon she works in, and it was right in the middle of downtown, in the old part of Natchez, MS. Any place they have a section of woods, means that you can have ‘wild animals’. When we lived in town, we had a family of raccoons living in a dying live oak tree at the back of our property. Woods all behind our house due to a ‘green space’ where nothing would ever be built because it was a ‘wetland’. The husband of the lady who cleaned our house, would come over and trap them and then take them out into the woods where they used to run their ‘coon dogs’.

Lillian – If I could find another one of the mini-trampolines, I would be quite tempted to buy it. Great exercise and not bad on your knees … I have an ankle that was broken and crushed; not sure if I really need to actually get on one, because of pins and plates.

Becca – I watch the movie about the plane that went down in PA to avoid being flown into the White House or Capitol. It was really moving how the passengers called their family members knowing they’d never see them again.

Heather – I have 2 sons; one lives next door, not right up our fannies, but, close enough. He is the one with 3 children; one by a previous marriage; that DDnL#1 makes it difficult for us. DYS and his new wife and her daughter live in LA. DDnL#1 is very jealous of DDnL#2 … and she is always posting things on FB that my DYS gets really angry about. Usually some smart@$$ remark about me. At this point, ‘quite frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn’ as in Rhett Butler in “Gone With the Wind” would say; … but, knowing she does this just makes it harder for me to do anything other than ‘just enough to be polite’. DYS and DDnL#2 and DGD#4 are still in that “getting to know all your quirks” out of the way. They’ve only been married a year and a few months. We spent 10 days with them at the end of the month and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. She is trying to get pregnant; but, it looks like they will have to go through IVF to succeed. Right now, they are looking at several thousands of $$$ to do tha; and $3-400 a visit - with having to drive to Jackson, MS every few days the first 3 weeks (or so). They’ve also thought about looking for land to build a house on. She’s finding it hard to deal with not being able to get pregnant. Her co-workers tell her that she needs to NOT try so hard or to think about it so much; but, that isn’t something easy for anyone to do when they really want to have someone’s baby. The problem is that her ‘tubes’ are almost totally blocked. She told me that they were going back to the specialist in Jackson … and then they will decide if they are ‘good candidates’ for the procedure. I guess they also consider the age of the people who are trying to conceive. She feels like she has failed DYS; but, he tells her ‘no, I have a daughter in this marriage’. I know he’d like to have a baby; but, it isn’t the end of the world if they can’t. He will not consider adoption, at all, unless the opportunity was to arise to adopt his step-daughter. DDnL#1 isn’t making the situation very easy; she usually has some smart@$$ remark to make or questions to ask (on FB - directed at DDnL#2).

Janetr7476 – I had a place inside my ear that I would pick at; MD cleaned it off with Betadine and then gave me a small jar of it and then gave me an Rx for a Betadine ointment. What a mess! He froze off a place on my left breast that he has been watching; and a couple of spots off my back. The breast did not hurt; but the place on my back about killed me for the rest of the day. Felt like I had had a needle jabbed in my back.

Joyce – I don’t know about where you live; but, after Noon on Fridays, you cannot ‘buy’ a MD or dentist … you have to go to the ER if you have any problems. This past week, because of some ‘tests’ that my GYN performed on me … balance and shaky hands … he called the Neurologist for an appointment and was told that since I was already an established patient; I needed to call and make the appointment. December 15th is when I already had my yearly appointment then. I’m glad that it isn’t being deemed ‘important’ enough to get a sooner one. They’ve put me on the ‘call list’ in the event they have a cancellation. I told her that since I am on a driving restriction from my last seizure; I’d need a day ahead notification. She said that would be how it would be done. They’d call me the day before.

Have you ever said or done something you wish you could swallow back those words? I asked my DDnL#2 something about I.V.F., saying that one of my friends son and DnL had gone through it, got pregnant; but, they did not have to pay what she told me it would cost where the live. I think it is awful that MDs charge what they do, simply because there aren't that many of them. I know 'Life's NOT fair'; but, I know I probably only hurt her feelings by asking questions. Her Granny is dying and she had to go start making the funeral arrangements. We did that before my Mother died ... so much better than trying to do it right after someone passes away, when you know ahead of time.

Hocky-snocky ... my touchpad just started working again, even though my mouse is plugged in; my cursor is all over the place and I am deleting things left and right ... damn this pisses me off! I have Windows 10; surely there is a way to disable the damn thing (again). But, at the moment not finding it very quickly. It just started doing it, too.

Lenora - "Open Mouth; Insert Foot"

MA_B wrote: »

Janet, I was going to say what Becca has just said - my mum used to get that sort of rash near lillies! She loved flower arranging and had loved working with lillies - in the end she had to make do with growing pots of lillies in the garden and not touch them. She moved on to poppies and I remember the amazing poppy displays she used to do for the church. As she died on a Remembrance Sunday (poppy day in UK) I wear poppy jewellery in tribute now as her memory is synonymous with poppies.

Maryann in UK

Thanks for sharing that storie. What a beautiful tribute to your Mom.

Janetr okc