WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR OCTOBER 2018

Lisa: Thanks for the link to Dr. Jessame’s Snail article.

Barbie: Great news for Jake’s health!!!!! Improvement and hope are wonderful things. Good news for you, too.

Snowflake: Smaller clothes are absolute proof of success. Congratulations! :flowerforyou:

(((Lenora))) I hope you get reconnected to your Psychiatrist ASAP. :flowerforyou:

Sue in WA: Your cramps sound painful and unpleasant. I hope you find a solution that gets rid of them.

Kim: “i wrote a huge response and then instead of cutting and pasting, I deleted it. grrr” Been there, done that. It is really irritating. :flowerforyou:

Allie: I’ve had GERD since early college years and have it under good control now through a combination of food choices and medicine. I hope you’re able to deal with yours. When I’m having reflux problems I take ranitidine. It is an over the counter medicine and seems to work very well for me.


Today DH is getting a new leg brace to help him walk. This is necessary because of the effects of MS. He is looking forward to the new brace—the old one is worn out. I'm going along because he wants me there, but it means I have to skip Yoga. :ohwell:

Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon

Kaytone Karen: So sorry to hear about the latest battle between parents and child.

Vickie WOW! I thought Idaho's 40 degrees in 24 hours temperature change was wild, but your NE has that beat by a mile.
Allie hope your time insumptuous surroundings strenghthened you for today. Did I misunderstand? Sounded like your brother was texting women other than his wife?
Lenora could your Psyche Dr's old office be trying to hold onto your business for after when your Dr. leaves them? Can you call him directly (at new place?) and schedule?
Karen in VA What are SOLs? Anger journal sounds just the ticket, as well as keeping the HW notebook at yours.

Ack running late time to T'ai Chi, but here's the home made alternative to the spendy "Balanced Breaks" I made this am for my breakfast in the car. Same calories, same protein, way less $$


Lighter, lovelies!
Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD.
60 g protein 4/4, rx/vits 4/4, meditate 4/4, walk one more step 4/4, knee exercises 4/4, core 2/4, walk Tumble 1/4 times, SWSY 0/2, hang up or purge art 0/0, AF 4/4.

Lenora - I am very much like you I don't have patience to wait for projects. I come up with an idea and I want to move mountains to get it done right now! My insistent one right now is getting the barn style door on our bathroom. I have the track, just need to buy the door and get it installed. I had to laugh out loud at your "have my papers" it's great that you have a sense of humour, it sure helps I believe. What is the Old Wives Tale book called that you have? My Mother in Law is forever telling me the old wives tales so many of them actually work! That book might be a good gift for my daughter's bridal shower.

Barbie - I bet it felt so nice to dance again for 45 minutes! You have handled the confinement very well.

Machka - Red Deer to Edmonton, did you have to do that daily? I live in Leduc and work in Capilano area of Edmonton. I find that commute quite long enough!

NYKaren - I have to say I am just envious of your road trip! The leaves will be out in full colour and just a weekend away from home is a celebration in my book. Have a wonderful trip! I bet you'll have a Thanksgiving dinner in there somewhere!

Karen in VA- Your Grandson is so blessed to have you in his life fighting for him and teaching him. I think the anger book is a great idea!

Heather - They can't seem to stick to their own deadlines at all. Didn't they tell you you would have an answer Friday earlier this week? So frustrating for you and your DH.

Allie - Your brother was texting other women? If that's the case maybe the SIL knows something is up and that's why she is being controlling. I would be. Thoughts are with you at the burial today.

Terry - I understand how you feel, when I gained 20 pounds last winter I was devastated and so disappointed in myself. This group and starting to track again has helped me so much.

I met my daughter's mother in law last night with a personal trainer friend of hers to do a workout at the Rec Centre. It was a lot of fun and a workout like I have never had!

The trainer had two decks of playing cards including the Jokers. She mixed them up in a pile on the floor, then there was a list of what each suit was telling us to do.
Aces and Jokers - 1 lap around the 200m track at a sprint or jog. (Since we were just starting we were able to walk if we felt more comfortable doing that)

Hearts - 1 set of stairs - 6 flights of stairs, each flight had 14 steps - All steps down and up counted as 4 sets. (I still am not sure how she figured the math on that)

Clubs - Bicep Curls
Tricep Curls
Medicine Ball against Wall

Diamonds - Plank
Flip Plank
Push Ups

Spades - Walking Lunge
Curtsy Lunge
Backwards Lunge

For Clubs, Diamonds and Spades the face value of the card was double. So if you got the 10 of Spades you had to do 20 Walking lunges. The first time you drew the suit you did the first item for that suit, second did the second, etc. We used 5 pound weights when we did any of the clubs or spades.

I drew Aces, Jokers and Hearts pretty much all night. I think I drew Spades 3 times, Clubs only twice, Diamonds only once. The goal is to get through all cards. We had about 6 cards left when we stopped because the gym was overcrowded with a hockey team that came in.

It was a lot of fun and I told her I would totally be up for doing it again.

I was thinking about it and it's something I could do at home as well. I don't have stairs or a track, but I could put something else in it's place. I have a space to do everything else and I would only use 1 deck of cards.

We just received some wonderful news! Today was supposed to be my husband's last day and would be starting winter lay-off. He just got told he has 2 weeks more for sure and possibly 3!

It is Friday and I have a very busy weekend ahead of me so not sure how much I'll get on here. Hope you all have a great weekend.

It is a long weekend for me, Thanksgiving here in Canada. I am doing the turkey dinner Sunday evening. With all of the schedules I have to work around it will be a late dinner, 7pm but it will be fun and I'll have Monday to recuperate.

Tracey, sore and tired, but feeling accomplished in Edmonton

Barb in sunny NW Washington - Not so sunny today! Sounds like you’re handling your recovery beautifully. Isn’t it wonderful when you get to visit with friends again?

Machka - My heart goes out to you and your husband! Loss of driving for him is a bit of an upheaval for both of you. I lived carefree for about five years also, but I had a lovely BMW motorcycle that I did all my errands with, with the aid of a small trailer for dump runs and laundry.

NYKaren - Aren’t those childhood pictures precious? My children were for the most part young in the 70s and 80s and early 90s, but one of them has digitized a lot of the early photos. Like you, my childhood is in a box. Very few pictures left, I’m afraid.

Katla - I’m glad your husband is getting the new leg brace, but sorry you’re missing yoga!

Terry in VT - kudos for jumping back on the track! I thought I'd gained 20 last year over holidays and through early spring. It was horrifying to find I'd gained 40! I'm now on track for Bariatric surgery, but have lost 20 so for with a dieticians help. I'm 75, so no time to waste!

Tracey in Edmonton - sounds like a fun way to work out! Great nrws about your husband's work prospects, too.

Barb in VA] - I'm so very glad your grandson has someone to run interference for him and find such lovely solutions as the anger journal! I only wish his dad were more capable of empathy. Sounds like he has real control issues.

I'm listening to the lovely rain today on the acrylic roof of my sleeping porch Sound nearly as romantic advance tin roof, but is enough less insistent to be very soothing, so I'm lazing with my cats, catching up on all your news. For some reason it won't let me post a picture, so I'll let you all imagine.

Sharon in beautiful Niorthwet WA

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Hi all: Gloomy day today. Dog is bored staying indoors and horses are bored too. They are playing with the water tank and have dumped it. Got groceries this morning and am waiting for the service guy from Frontier to come. They gave us two different times and days so don't really know which one they will be here but someone over 18 has to be at home. Our internet has been off and on for about a month now. This is the second time we have contacted them. They did not show up the last time and unfortunately we are in a place where they are the only available service. Yuck! DH got a call from the gastroenterologist and is being referred to an oncologist for tumors on his liver that showed up on MRI Wednesday. I suspected this might happen after they had him do a series of scans after a high alk-phos level on a blood test. Doesn't make it any less disturbing.

Allie - Glad your stressful day is over, enjoy the fair.

Tracey - Interesting workout.

Katla - Glad DH is getting the new brace. Sorry about the yoga.

Everyone take care, Sue in WA

suebdew wrote: »

Can’t figure out what is wrong with DH and me. We are both so tired and have no energy. Everyday we say we are going to the Y but decide we are too tired. He has a cold and that is part of his problem but I have no excuse. His brother was diagnosed with cancer in June and was given expermental drugs to shrink the tumors as they were too large to do surgery. He had to have his colon removed due to perforations from the chemo or radiation. It was just a bad deal all around. We are so glad we got to spend some time with him before his death.
I am trying to keep up with the thread.
SueBDew in TX

Sue ... this sounds a lot like depression ... hugs

Almost 16,000 steps and my feet feel like lead...I'm doing some walking and some sitting..

Blessings and Good Wishes to All of You! Thanks for being on this wonderful discussion board!

Carol in GA

Snowflake1968 wrote: »

Machka - Red Deer to Edmonton, did you have to do that daily? I live in Leduc and work in Capilano area of Edmonton. I find that commute quite long enough!

I did it 3 times a week to attend U of A, and then drove out to where I worked two days a week. That was my biggest driving semester.

I attended U of A for my last four semesters of my B-Ed.
My first semester, I drove up on Monday, stayed in a hostel on Monday night for the first few weeks but that was awful, so a friend said I could stay with them out in Leduc, then I drove home on Tuesday ... and then up and back on Thursday.
The next semester, I found a room in Edmonton so I drove up on Monday morning and back on Friday afternoon.
The next semester I drove in 3 days a week as mentioned above.
And my last semester was fortunately only 5 weeks and then I had a practicum in Red Deer for the rest of the semester. For those 5 weeks, I rented a room again, only this time, I made a mistake and got a room in the house of a smoker. Blech!!!! I spent a lot of my evenings sitting in the nearby shopping centre's food court doing my homework till the place closed. And she must have wondered about her water bill ... she said I could use her washer and dryer, so I washed my sheets about every other night!

Snowflake1968 wrote: »

It is a long weekend for me, Thanksgiving here in Canada. I am doing the turkey dinner Sunday evening. With all of the schedules I have to work around it will be a late dinner, 7pm but it will be fun and I'll have Monday to recuperate.

Tracey, sore and tired, but feeling accomplished in Edmonton

Well done on the workout.


Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!

I do miss Thanksgiving a bit ... we never did anything big, but it was nice. There is no Thanksgiving here in Australia. Maybe one year I should put on a Thanksgiving dinner ... and especially make pumpkin pie. Most people in Australia have not had pumpkin pie as a sweet thing!





Machka in Oz