WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JANUARY 2017

Carol, SueWA, and everyone else- thank you for the nice compliment about my daughter

NYKaren - yes, that is her wedding dress. She still has to pick out the veil.

Need to share this. As we were going to PA, Jess calls. See..,.a few years ago she was diagnosed with HPV. She routinely goes for pap smears. Well, it turns out that the last few that she had were abnormal. Evidently (she talked to Vince mostly) the cells are more abnormal than previously. Since they're slow growing cells, she's supposed to go back to her MD in November when they'll test again and see if she needs further testing. I really don't understand why they just don't zap those cells (radiation) to prevent them from growing. But then again, I'm not a MD

Alison - so glad you were there for that lady

Heather - Hope you feel better fast. It is so horrible to be sick on your vacation.

Molly - welcome!

Katie - you and your mom look fantastic! Don't you just hate it when you find that you could have bought something somewhere else for less? And not to be able to return it.....

Re - I do the same thing...make individual bags of things and just have that portion. You'll get to Onderland with your determination! I agree that fat does add flavor. Plus...it helps to keep you really full

Thank you everyone for the compliments on the dolphin. Now on to the bee!!!

Have the Newcomer board meeting tomorrow. Then want to buy gas for my car (it's pretty low) and Vince needs to check the Newcomer mailbox since the other person who has a key to it is away.

Michele in NC

50+ in age and over poundage!!
Joined on Sunday after 2 yr absence. Doing great! Feel determined after too many years of struggle. Please friend me for support. This is such a great app for support AND structure that always works for me. Let's do this for 2017!!

Great pics ladies..thanks for sharing
KJ: Cute Videos
Heather: Glad you're on the mend...what a way to spend a holiday
Re: Thinking of you and the ortho visit

Finally managed to get the ornaments of the tree and all of the other decorations put away tonight. Tomorrow I'll take the tree apart and get it in the box. I'm trying out my new humidifier to see if it will help..it's so dry here that the machine did the blinky thing for RH's under 31%. I take it that means it is DRY. Even after running all night it only got to 35% humidity. The recommended % is 40.

Managed to catch up on posts...have a good evening friends


Carey - Northern Alberta

Goals for Jan:
- Increase walking to 7500 per day by end of month
- Get to Tai Chi at least once a week
- Increase daily water intake

Glo – When I get my thyroid levels checked, they do a TSH, T3 and T4; usually the dosage is correct; but, with some of the medications I take for other reasons, it gets ‘whacked’ out. You’re right getting SSD is a ‘process’ [more like a B****] and ‘long and frustrating process’. Most people are basically ‘forced’ to hire a SS attorney in order to get it out of the hands of the SS Judge and into the hands of a Federal Magistrate who will make a ruling; and, I ‘guess’ depending on how the Federal Judge or Magistrate agree on how they will be handled … it either stays for the Magistrate to handle, or possibly go to the Federal Judge of the District. All have their ways of handling cases. Many, many places are back-logged terribly. When my boss was appointed the Federal Magistrate ... there was a 2 1/2 year backlog. That is bad! Between working on them and doing all the 'criminal' stuff the Federal Judge would also let him handle some of his cases. We worked our butts off. But, I loved my job and really hated to have to go out on a disability. Less than a year before he was to retire, they found that he had liver cancer. Because the could detect a heart murmur he was born with, he was not a candidate for a liver transplant. He had to go 'out on a medical disability'. The attorneys in town gave him a 'reception' and I almost burst into tears when he told everybody that 'not until he had to take a medical leave, did he understand what I had gone through' ... he loved his job, too.

pitegny – It is heartbreaking. Stories about the children are just heart-wrenching. This is right on the heels of a ‘straight-line wind’ storm that hit Albany on 1/2/17; people in the affected areas are still without power, because they are having to cut their way through the mess. This last one (huge, wedge tornado) stayed on the ground through several counties; and, if you were ‘in the way’ … you might as well bend over and kiss your @$$ goodbye. It took out a big mobile home park; where most of the people were Hispanic, retired military, etc., they probably either did not have anywhere to go that was safe; or maybe did not have a TV because they did not speak English. I come home tonight and Louis said they found 2 children dead today; which makes to toll (in Albany, GA) up to 6. They have not even gotten through the mobile park. Fire Chief said he has never seen anything like it and he had been in the Middle East wars. Said it was worse than a war zone he had been in. They have several emergency services from other parts of the State as the surrounding areas have their own issues to deal with. I don’t know where in SW GA this happened; but, 2 kids were missing. My BF told me at lunch today that they had been found. The 4-year-old had been put into an old walk-in refrigerator box (somewhere); the 2-month-old had been put in his infant carrier into a dryer with towels and pillows around him. Both ok. Of course, I personally have not seen or heard this on TV. She also said that her son said, ‘you always hear that it sounds like a freight train’ … that is ‘exactly’ what it sounds like; but, ‘if’ you hear it, it is ON you!

I think that we actually have only had 4 confirmed deaths in Dougherty County. But, this storm touched 6 counties in the southern part of the State of Georgia.

Storms that hit 6 southern counties in Georgia on Sunday were catorgorized as EF-3 meaning:

Wind Speed: 158 - 206 mph (254 - 332 kph)
Severe damage: Forests are destroyed as a majority of trees are ripped from the ground; entire trains are derailed and knocked over; walls and roofs are torn from houses

We were 'blessed' that we were not hit; we were right in the path of one of three cones where tornadoes had been confirmed as touching down.

Lisa – Hope the earnest money was sufficient enough that he won’t walk away from it.

Kate – Tornados are worse than hurricanes in a lot of places; because they are so ‘unpredictable’. And, they can occur anywhere the ‘conditions’ are ripe for them.

Nancy – Shrimp in FL are probably ‘more’ expensive than in Louisiana because most of FL is ‘touristy’ and they know it. We ate most of the last container of Will’s gumbo tonight. OMGoodness, it is sssoooo good! He’s coming Thursday to drop of the cap and rack of a buck he killed a few days ago. Tami isn’t able to come; but, it is a “Man’s Weekend” … he will be meeting a bunch of his HS and college buddies for a concert.

Charleen – I’ve had to have my days-in-a-streak reset a couple of times. Mainly because of being ‘out of town’ and not having Internet options.

KJ – My cat can’t say ‘anything’ … he has allergies, it will get so bad that one eye closes (usually his left); have to grab him to put something in his eye; then his nose will run and, then he loses his voice! Nothing is funnier than to see a cat open his mouth like he is meowing but can’t … we could put any voice to him.

Michele – Thanks. Such heartache dealing with the storms and aftermath. Rode by our old house; and the big tree in front of our MBR window was uprooted and fell away from the house into the street. So happy that the woman who bought the house wasn’t hurt.

Beautiful wedding dress; is this the one she picked?

Love the dolphin.

I think I tend to be on the ‘gotta do something NOW’ routine whenever I find a lump in one of my breast. Both older sisters are 'breast cancer survivors' Even though my middle sister has not hit that 5-year mark and been told that she is 'cancer-free'; but, she is 'still' a survivor. I don’t have any of the equipment needed, so I don’t have to worry about cervical cancer; but, I had received an email about a test – "C-125". It was about a woman who had had a total hysterectomy, yet still presented with ‘ovarian cancer’ … I took it with me to the GYN, he read it and they took me back to the lab to draw more blood. My Mother died from complications of ovarian cancer. The cancer was not what killed her – she had an enlarged heart. We were advised by her MD (a HS classmate of mine) that putting her through the treatment would more likely ‘kill her’ before the cancer. At her age, 86 – we chose not to put her through the treatment.

Becca – GREAT weight loss … I thought that ‘maybe’ today I would have ‘jumped off that plateau’ … WRONG! Been a solid month with no movement either way. GGRRrrrrr!!! But, the nurse said she was proud, so I will take that as a NSV. I told her that I had been being hungry between meals, so she said since I had ‘upped’ my exercise; I needed to up my protein; and my CI will be a little different now. Guess that means I can now ‘eat back my exercise calories’.

Meg – We have the same problem with a ‘close’ family member. Last time she came over (even though she had been told ‘not’ to by husband) … well, I let my DH do all the talking! She’s only been down once since and that was to bring me a watch she had found (has flamingos on the face of it) then said that ‘I had actually bought it for myself’, since she used the gift card balance she had left on the Christmas gift card. What do you say? “Thank you?” She stayed exactly 4 minutes.

Katla – I’m an ‘organ donor’, too! I figure if they can use anything that is still viable, go ahead and take it.

Heather – I’m so sorry that you’ve been ill most of the time while on vacation. After 4 days of not eating much but a banana and dry toast and you still are hanging out in restrooms, you really need to have someone ‘check on you’. If you can pinch your skin on the top of your hands and it slowly rolls back into place; you are dehydrated; the slower, the worse. You cannot lose 15% of your body weight and get well without help. It sounds like it could be salmonella. You need to seek medical attention if you remain ill after more than 7 days; you have severe or bloody diarrhea, or you have a fever of 101.5F or higher for more than a day. You should consult a doctor is you are 65 or older … or have a weakened immune system. You might need antibiotics or, possibly hospitalization. You need to do whatever it takes to get ‘well’ so you can get back to seeing those sweet grandchildren. Don’t just let it ‘run what you think is its normal course’ … go to the ER or have the place you are staying see about getting a MD to come there, if necessary. Sure hope you do not ‘look’ like “Delhi Belly” … that’d be ghastly!!!

Yeah, our body has more than ½ of it as water … so you do not need to be losing too much of it.

Re – We are on a ‘list’ with Sumter Electric of needing our power restored ASAP for ‘medical reasons’; but, I guess if someone is on ‘oxygen’ that would be considered a higher priority than a C-pap. I was told once when I called about it that I needed to have a 2nd-ary place to go if the power went out. Yeah! Right, Jack … I will remember that as I drive 30 miles into town hoping that there is ‘power’ there. It is certainly a ‘rude’ awakening, for sure … I usually bolt straight up in bed, scaring poor old Louis to death … the mask goes flying off and I am jumping up and then out of bed, sucking in as much air as possible! You would have thought someone screamed “SPIDER!”

I went for my every other week weigh-in and ‘absolutely nothing’ had changed. Told the nurse that I had bumped my walking on the treadmill to 30 minutes; was getting a little hungry during the day; so she told me again to ‘up my protein’ … this time she wrote out a ‘good menu’ to follow, that will make it easier to follow.

Lenora

40lbs loss by May 27th Challenge
Just checking to see how everyone is doing with your workouts and eating goals. Take your 4 week measurements at the end of this week. Don't forget to weigh yourself at least once a week. I weigh daily when I am in a challenge to help see how food choices affect me. It really helps me be more accountable and I tend to make better choices.

Grace- fantastic job on your step goal! Congratulations on your lentil soup recipe success. I love using that recipe creator.

Margaret - awesome job with your exercise! You seem to be doing well.



Mary from Minnesota

Kate UK

Morning ladies just caught up with posts. Been to gym this morning off for shopping trip to town ( we live in suburbs about half hour journey by bus (we have passes so public transport is free, parking in the city is horrendously expensive)
Main reason for going today is to see how much it will cost to have my lovely cashmere and wool winter coat altered as it's much too big NSV hooray

Kate UK

Morning Ladies~
Thanks for all the love.. but I think any normal human would have done the same thing...I didn't do anything except talk to her and let them use a blanket for her, which I will pick up at the police station when I get to it.. Once the police ,and fire dept got there I really was just in the way. I think the plan was they were going to take her to the hospital to get her checked out anyway,, and policeman asked if she had AAA and she said yes so I am guessing they did the towing.. will be interesting to see how they got it off the guardrails...
I told Tom when I got home, and this is what a putts he is.. he asked why I was on the street I was,because I have to go up a hill.. well I avoid about 6-7 traffic lights that way.. but he was worried about how much gas I was using to go up the hill rather than stop and help someone..