WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR SEPTEMBER 2016

We call that "Face Plant" oneself. Nothing to really break the fall and face hits the gravel. Ooooo, I don't think that was a small accident. Hope you did not black out afterwards. That can also cause delayed problems. Take it really easy for a few.

Janetr Charming photos!

Karen in Virginia

I am new to the internet, new to this site, and wanting to give up the 'making health goals and never carrying them through' pattern that I have held to faithfully all of my life. I would very much like to join this 50+ goals thing. I don't have any goals yet and we are half way through Sept so I will work on setting goals for October.

I put this In the reply section, should I have created a new 'post'? (Is that the word I use for my entry here?) Or should I have 'created' a new discussion? I would appreciate some help in how to use this site. Thank you, and God Bless. (and what is a BBCode? that is written under this reply box)

Hey all. The scan shows a small tumor, probably a granuloma, a result of an old infection. They feel it is benign and either slow growing or "dead." We will watch it over the next few months. The rotator cuff surgery will be done on the 26th. I'm really really tired as the pain has been pretty constant now and I basically can't use my left arm at all. I can't lift my arm to look at my watch (it's that bad). The Dr. feels I have finished off the tear and my 85% torn has become a 100% tear. Fun. I'm taking pain pills at night so I can sleep but I'm kind of anti-medication and so I avoid it except at night.

Headed back to Colorado for a funeral on Saturday. The daughter of a friend we have known for years died. She was 29. She had been up late watching TV and the next morning her dad found her dead in the recliner. Absolutely no idea what happened. She was her mom's caretaker as her mom has MS. Not into drugs or anything, didn't even drink so it was a real shock. It is really hard on her folks, her mom especially.

Marcelyn
chugging along in Houston

Good late evening women. I feel I have been absent the last couple of days but I am here now. Well, a little here. I know the little things I do pales in comparison to what many of you do all day but it is almost for me. I wish I was in cardiac rehab for many reasons. I think if I were, there would be a cardiac nurse who would nurse that would have been observing me and be a advocate through to the doctors office. Plus I really feel the cardiac rehab would help. Ironically we got our 'annual change of benefits' booklet from our insurance yesterday and the co-pay has gone down from $45 to $20/month! I would have jumped at the chance at that price. But I do not, repeat do not want to have another stent next month just to take advantage of a decent price. Yesterday was my first day that I went to the grocery store and walked in the store. And I did OK. Went to choir practice and survived it but that is about all I did. I don't know how many times I had to stop. But that was when we got to the Christmas Cantata and we just went from song to song without stopping. We were up to 4 songs tonight. For those of you that read music, I am a true alto and where C was my top note I could sing comfortably and A is now. With cantatas, many of the songs have sustained notes, especially at the end and I can't hold a sustained A now. And I feel the arthritis in my jaws is coming back. It was treated before with high dose Aleve. Sadly can't do that until next August 22nd because of this stupid stent. I am sitting here looking at my recumbent bike and know it needs to be a constant companion. It will have to be my own personal cardiac rehab.

When I got home, I normally would have put on the finale results for America's got talent but Charlie is enjoying watching it and he is still out. So it will have to wait for tomorrow.

I think it was Lori who is new and mentioned something about she is on a limited budget and can't afford the premium. Lori, I doubt many of us here have the premium

Love you all and know that some day I will feel like being back here at the degree I was before.

Re in TX - I think I am ‘out of the dog house’ so to speak; but, I might be wrong, I’ve been so before, no wait, I forgot I wasn’t wrong. No, seriously, I got pictures of our ‘grand puppy’ who had gone to a ‘new’ groomer. DDnL#2 said it was BAD; and, more expensive. She sent me pictures. One he looked like he was trying to run away and jump off the bed so she would not take his picture. Second picture, he was laying down on the bed with the look of ‘ok, you caught me’, last one was a shot of him with a ‘red’ halo drawn over his head and he was cutting his eyes over at someone out of the picture. She said he had a bad comb-over and about ½ inch of bangs. I wrote back and asked if she thought his last name was now “T****”. Pure baby, he did look bad. Yeah, I think I have (again) learned my lesson, it will be one that sticks with me awhile, until I open my mouth again and it fall back in so easily. My ‘foot’ stays in my mouth as it concerns my DDnL#1; so I am pretty used to it. I just did not want to get on the wrong side of my ‘newest’ DDnL#2. Both have little, to no, filters on their brains and will ‘say it as they see it’. I’m pretty good about saying what is on my mind, too. It is a juggling act. Dropping balls all over the place.

Have any of you seen the commercial about MasterPass? [Some way to pay for services with an app on their cellphones]. “I’ve masterpassed that.” Seems like they are just trying their best to sort of trying to 'say’ things that sound like they are saying something else … a little less acceptable for prime time TV. Like they are pushing the limits on what can and cannot be 'censored'. I can’t recall who the commercial is for of by whom. Maybe my mind is just in the gutter this week. LOL! I know that TV changed their commercial about ‘where your Silver Card is,' because of suggestive language’.

I’ve tried several times to PM you, without success … to get a copy of your crockpot recipes. The error message I am getting says that there is a problem with the server and they are aware of it. I’m still getting that message. I’d still like to get them; but, at this point not sure how to get my ‘mailing information’ to you. Can you try it from your end to see if you also get that message? Maybe MFP doesn’t know about it (yet) if it is a problem from your end. I’ve not had any issues sending PMs to others.

Marcelyn – I got about a 50/50 opinion about whether or not to have rotator cuff surgery; but, when I could no longer lift my right arm to paint, I decided that was something that I ‘had’ to do. I had changed OrthoMDs; and when I went to the new one, he did a lot more x-rays, with and without contrast. I definitely had torn it. When they did the surgery; they took pictures during the surgery. It also clearly showed that I had chipped my shoulder in the surgery. It was a piece about 1/4th of an inch in diameter; and, he told me that was probably the reason for the 'frozen shoulder'. Doing shoulder surgery was his forte. He was surprised when he came in for rounds that it no longer hurt and that I could raise my arm over my head; but, I still had to go through PT. Believe me it was worth everything in the world to get a great result. The 2nd time I tore it, I knew I had done so, so I made an appointment to go in; and, they did that one on an ‘out-patient’ basis. First time, I had to stay overnight because my BP kept spiking up and down.

Sorry about the death of the daughter of your friend. I know that would be difficult for her parents. Maybe she had a massive heart attack. I know that one of our friends and neighbor rode to Lowe’s with his wife (they were practically inseparable); he told her that he would just sit in the truck while she ran in to pick up the item she needed. When she got back to the car, he was dead. Autopsy showed that he had had a heart attack, and probably did not suffer. A "widow maker." One of DH’s aunt’s thought she had indigestion and asked uncle to get her a glass of water; when he came back in the den, she was dead … also of a massive heart attack. One never knows when they time is going to be up. I know you don't always get what you want; but, when I go I hope it is swift, and quick. Although that might be harder on my family. I just don't care to suffer with a long, drawn out death process.

Lenora

Marcelyn--glad the news was semi-good from the CT scan, and hope you'll get a great result from the surgery. Sorry, too, about your friend's daughter.

Purl--hope there's no nerve damage.

Nearly 4 a.m. here in the wilds of West Texas. Another paper's out, another week's gone, and we're nearly at October now. My relationship with time revolves around press day now, and what it takes to get there. Still adjusting, nearly five months later, but beginning to get there. Hope to get it to the point where I can work out Mon/Tue/Thu/Fri, and am almost to that point. This week, Mon/Thu/Fri will have to do.

Heading for my sister's next week, hotel reservations are made. I love her, but she doesn't have enough room in her house to swing a cat, so I'll stay in town. I'll be there Thurs/Friday night, head back here on Saturday.

Love y'all,
Lisa in West Texas