WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR FEBRUARY 2017

stats for the day:
bike ride hm 2 gym- 13.29min, 13.2amph, 148mhr, 2.9mi = 134c
apple watch- 114c
SPIN CLASS- 20MIN, 88ar, 91aw, 127mhr, 10g, 8.6mi = 152c
apple watch- 145c
bike ride gym 2 dome train station- 6.51min, 143mhr, 13.3amph, 1.5mi = 82c
apple watch- 62c
bike ride puyallup train station to sumner train station- 16.18min, 11.4amph, 135ahr, 146mhr, 3mi = 164c
apple watch- 117c
jog station 2 wk- 5.21min, 10.27min mi, 143ahr, 155mhr, .5mi = 78c
apple watch- 53c
jog wk 2 sta- 4.40min, 9.52min mi, 146mhr, .4mi = 58c
apple watch- 53c
bike ride dome 2 hm up Mst- 19.26min, 7.7amph, 151mhr, 2.4mi = 198c
apple watch- 159c

total cal 866

Becca – Beautiful violet. I once had very good luck with them; but, for the past couple of years, they just ‘up and die on me’. I only water them once a week because I had been told they don’t like their ‘feet’ wet; but, then they dry out way too much. Until I get my porch ready to use, still have not gotten that door (that might change this weekend); I’ll probably have a space I can put them out, in there. Filtered light.

Sarah (and others) – Our 10-year-old DYGD told her parents that she ‘did NOT want to be home schooled’. Yeah, Emilee!

Karen – I guess that I will always talk to both my parents just before going to sleep. I think it is funny that your parrot pick up her laugh when she visited. Thanks, I am so pumped that I will do everything I have been doing these last 2 weeks. Just have to check my printouts.

I know y’all are enjoying your time with your family and Olivia.

God has a purpose for that little girl and her family.

Re – Sorry for the workload, we’ll miss you; but come as often as you can.

Sarah – I think Michele in NC (now in FL) and someone else here have talked about ‘trigger finger’. I am not sure what it means but, I do sort of remember them saying their thumb was numb. Maybe one of them can answer your question.

DJ – When you use the Neti Pot … don’t be tempted to ‘suck in’ … it will not be pleasant. Just tilt you head over the sink (I used my tub) and let it ‘run’ in one side and out the other. It might take a couple of times to do it; but, it does work. Speaking from experience about ‘not sucking up’.

Lanette – I had some Voltaren 1% but I am not so sure it worked; but, at least it did not ‘smell to high Heaven and back’.

Margaret – “Sully” is a movie I want to watch; like I said earlier; I like movies that are made based on a ‘true story’.

My boss was a pilot and when he landed he always set it down as soon as he could on the landing strip. One Christmas he took his partner and wife; and, my boss, his wife and son and flew them into one of the island in the Bahamas where he had a home. At the end of the landing strip was a stand of trees; and, when he did not set it down, his partner looked over and said something to him. He had lost control of one of the engines and was trying to stay up and fly around. The person in the tower kept telling him, ‘put it in the sea, mon, put it in the sea’. It pissed him off and he said, ‘let me try to “fly” the damn thing first. My boss had handed out life jackets and his son was listening to his Walkman and didn’t know what was going on when he handed it to him. They got up and made a round and then landed safely. When his partner’s wife got ‘out of it’ she knelt down and ‘kissed the grown’ and said she wasn’t going anywhere in the ‘damn thing’ again. They had to fly a mechanic to come fix it from the States. I could remember flying into Bimini in what had to be a ‘reject from the graveyard of old prop engine planes used for spraying fields’. The pilot would put his arm out the window and bump the top of the wing. When we were landing you could see a lot of planes that had ‘been put in the sea, mon’. We flew back on a sea plane with ‘real’ pilots and they said, ‘well one thing you won’t have to worry about, too much, is finding a landing strip … got one all the way back to Miami. Next time we flew over in a sea plane and back.

Pip – Your knees look like they have been drilled like when they have to be in a ‘halo’ so the leg can be set during a really bad accident.

Sometimes when I am not able to go to sleep it is because my brain is on ‘overdrive’. I can lay down and close my eyes and see my hands typing out my ‘thoughts’. That is getting seriously freaky.

Just watched “Hacksaw Ridge” … really good if you don’t mind all the guts and gore. I like movies that are based on true events. I would have been digging a hole and staying in it until all the Japanese soldiers (maybe more like warriors) got killed or left. That was one brave soul!

Welcome to all the “Newbies” … come often, tell us about yourselves.

Lenora

Re: Sorry to hear about the layoffs and workload we'll be here when you have an opportunity. Congrats on the 208!!!!

DJ: Maybe the itchy eyes are related to dry eye - it is one of the symptoms... have you tried moisturizing eye drops/artificial tears?

Lanette: The least expensive place to buy topical Voltaren in Canada is Costco...maybe the US has good prices on it too? I've also gotten a prescription for diclofenac cream from my doc which is a slightly stronger version of voltaren - that might work if you have prescription coverage.


Carey - Northern Alberta
"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another." - William James

Pip! - Thank goodness those knees are healing up. I hope they feel as much better as they look!

*Waves at everybody*

Night, Lovely Ladies!!

Hugs for Everybody!!

Re in TX

Pip - I am so proud of how you turned your life around and humbled that you felt safe enough to share your story with us. You are truly an inspiration as to what a person can do with their life no matter where they start!

Hugs to all
Paula Y

Yvonne, my sister developed MRSA when she had her mastectomies with her breast cancer. At the time of surgery, she had her implant spacers placed. She developed MRSA in one of the implants and had to have the spacer removed. But they still had to slowly inflate the one implant spacer. So over time she gradually had one boob get bigger and the other boob was gone. She had a fat enough belly that it didn't look to bad.

Norma was discharged yesterday. Her diagnosis were double pneumonia, sepsis and acute renal failure! After thinking about it all day, I decided that the confusion she had last Thursday was what saved her life. A cough and fever can be treated with a phone call and doctor calling in a prescription. But the confusion was why her husband took her to the ER. She is still running a low grade fever but is feeling much better.

Sue, your horse is a hoot!!!!! Personality plus.

Margaret, I would love to see Sully. I love those biographical movies especially about such a neat guy as he is. My husband does not share my feelings though. That kind of movie is boring, not enough action. I don't know how you can get any more action than landing a plane in the Hudson and not going IN the ocean and everyone walking off the place alive.

Becca, I love the violet. It reminded me of Mom. She loved them and could grow pretty much any flower. But when she had their last house several were sitting in her kitchen window.

Went for my follow up visit with my family doc today. My blood count has gone from 8.7 to 10.8!!!!!! My back feels good, well it was tired tonight after choir practice. My thyroid is low. I am on a thyroid replacement but it isn't low enough to go from 50mcg to 100 mcg so he said for me to take 8 pills a week. So on one day a week I will take 2 pills. Also my B/P is back up. It had been completely normal for the first time in I don't know how long. Hydralizine is the last B/P he put me on to get it down to normal. So I was really bummed out that it was back up. So I now will take it 4 times a day instead of 3. Also have a bladder infection. In order for me to be in the choir and practice with the choir on Sunday mornings, they practice in the basement and walk up 2 flights of stairs. There are 2 ladies who can't do that and just join the choir when they get into the sanctuary. I will do that for now. We live in a bi-level and the rise of our stairs and the amount of stairs is about the same as at church so I need to practice going up and down our stairs as often as I can. I will also let my physical therapist know. They have stairs in the PT room but there are only 3 steps.

Did I mention how much I love the Cadbury mini eggs and it's Easter candy season right now. Lord give me strength.

Joyce, sunny Indiana where it was 75 degrees today and daffodils and tulips are blooming.

Becca Violet I think when repotting African Violets, choosing a pot that is just slightly larger than the last one ensures continued success. Also, I seem to recall that a short squatty pot is best because of the shallow root system. My mom had phenomenal success with African Violets, and I remember most of her pots were 4 or 5 inches diameter and short/squatty varieties. She was careful about watering them sparingly, and so that the leaves and surface soil stayed dry. I really love African Violets. You obviously have the touch!

Karen in Virginia

Kate UK