WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR APRIL 2019

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Margaret. I think your letter is excellent. Good luck!🌸
Beach ladies. Your pics look so lovely, keep posting they make me smile.😀
Carol Everyone I’ve met with knee replacements (I’ve met a lot of them have been avoiding surgery for years) tell me the stretches and exercises are the key to recovery. Hard, but think of long term goal. 🏆
Grandmaille. Sorry, misunderstood. Got it now. My heart goes out to you.💓

Busy beaver with paperwork. Then I start the big declutter; I noticed several of you have done or are doing. I’ve got to deal with 60 yrs of parents stuff. Then my own stuff. Your posts are motivating because I do not relish this task. I get distracted: tv, computer, mailman, visiting & chatting with friends, running errands, anything but reorganizing and decluttering.🤪

My weight loss strategy: avoid the numbers. I will obsess over - up a couple of pounds today, down a couple tomorrow. Only weigh in at my fam dr, once every 3 months. Scales have gone to Goodwill. Preserves my sanity.🦉

Yvonne--Happy to see you post. Sorry about your fall and I understand how you feel. Lately I really feel old and tired.
Carol--Hugs and prayers for you and DH and DBIL.
Beautiful day again and I am planning a walk with the two fur puppies when I get off work. I do hope this means Spring is here to stay.
Blessings, Vicki GI NE

Today is International Guide Dog Day!

For all the good doggies out there: "Today is International Guide Dog Day! This day celebrates the importance of guide dogs and how they help the blind and visually impaired live their daily lives. Guide dogs are carefully trained to avoid obstacles, access public transportation, cross roads safely, and other daily tasks to help their handlers’ specific needs. Did you know that Guide Dogs of America trains 70% Labrador retrievers, 15% Golden Retrievers, and 15% German Shepherds for their guide dogs? Once the dogs complete their formal 2-year training, they are matched with a blind or visually impaired student based on size, lifestyle, energy level, and personalities of both the student and dog to form a happy relationship."

Terri - Thank you for the motivational couplets!

Rori - By helicopter sounds like a marvelous way to see Hoover Dam. Be sure to get pictures of yourselves standing in four states at the same time!

Karen - I make pupsicles for our kids in the summer and they love them! I usually mix peanut butter and/banana with plain yogurt.

Allie - I agree with you... hospice was a time of peace to say goodbye. Hard as that was, I think it was good for all of us, including Mom and Dad.

Margaret - What a mess with your son... I'm so sorry it went like that. I understand that officers need to be ready for situations that place them in danger, but all too often it seems like the procedures meant to protect them just exacerbate the problem and make it more likely that someone will get hurt.


Yikes, we have a big thunderstorm moving in fast so I'd better shut down the computer now. Hope it doesn't hail.

Boop your dogs!

-Yvonne in TX

Allie, I signed a DNR order when my dad was in the hospital. Yes, it was hard, but he just had nothing left, so it really was the kinder thing to do. He had already buried so much family, and he lost his last sibling, his baby sister, just seven weeks prior to his passing. I was actually kind of surprised that he lasted that long. Losing his sister was the final straw for him. You are doing the best you can for him. I'm surprised Tom left town, he must have known or at least suspected, that his dad was on the decline. But, we can't put off our own lives either, so he made his choice. He's so lucky to have you still involved in his dad's life, lucky that his dad is a great guy too, if he was a miserable cuss all the time, chances are you would have washed your hands of him long ago!
Terri, that poem was brilliant!
Tracy (snowflake), I love the jackets! especially the one you made for your grandson! Need that in bigger sizes for hubby and adult boys....
Machka and Heather and others recovering from ailments and falls, hope you are turning the corner and feeling better soon!
Once again, many things that I wanted to comment on, but at work so can't really have MFP open in two screens...
The scale has not been kind, I know why, way too much chocolate over Easter, but it's all gone now, and the sugar high is also gone. The cravings on the other hand.... I also got lazy about the gym, but have started back, today is day 4 in a row, so feeling better about that.
Went out last weekend and bought a couple of whole beef tenderloins as they were on sale. Also bought a "club" size pack of boneless, skinless chicken thighs and one of ground beef. Cut the tenderloins into roasts, stewing beef and stir fry beef, the chickens into stir fry sized pieces and made chili with the ground beef. Had to get as much of the fat off the beef and the chicken thighs too. Kind of messy, but kind of cathartic in some ways, don't know how to explain it, just felt good. Binge watched Perry Mason episodes while doing it all! Also made stew and borscht. Did most of the cooking on Monday and was just knackered (love that word!!) at the end of the day. But, now there is a good assortment of food in the freezer that I know is friendlier for me and is just heat and eat, or easily turned into something. I also have done up a bunch of containers for our son, daughter in law and grandson. She is quite pregnant and on next to bed rest, so I thought if I could do up some meals for them it would take some pressure off my son. And I enjoy doing it, so it's all good. Borscht for dinner tonight, working til 6, so usually it would be at least 7 before we would be eating, might make it by 6:30 or so tonight! lol
Hope everyone has a great day!
Hugs to those who need them, congrats to those celebrating and welcome to the newbies!
Evelyn, Vancouver Island

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stats for the day:

bike ride hm 2 gym- 7.13min, 13.2amph, 136mhr, 1.58mi= 74c
TREADMILL jog- 11.36min, 9.16min mi, 6.4-6.8sp, 136ahr, 175mhr, 1.25mi= 130c
ARM DIP/CHIN UP ASSIST MACHINE- 18.55,1st of 10ea w/55# assist, thenr 1st 10ea of 2 diff standing floor exercises, then 1st of 10ea, 2 diff floor exercises, on ground. repeat 4 times, 145mhr= 143c
bike ride gym 2 dome- 4.27min, 148mhr, PERSONAL RECORD-19.7amph, 1.46mi= 72c
bike ride puy 2 sumn station- 14.33min, 12.5amph, 146mhr,3.03mi= 146c
jog sta 2 wrk- 4.54min, 9.30min mi, 153mhr, .51mi= 61c
jog wrk 2 sta- 4.18min, 9.29min mi, 151mhr, .51mi= 51c
bike ride dome 2 hm- 17.39min, 8.9amph, 149mhr, 2.61mi= 184c

total cal 861

Home from Vegas. Exhausted.
More walking than I am used to. Back to work tomorrow. Ugh.

Karen in BC

Michele - I am always sitting with my mouth gaping open when I read the coats that American’s have to pay for medical procedures. What happens if you don’t have the money? Do you just get left behind?

Janet - that was a very insightful speech from your soap box. Thanks for sharing.

Lisa - I’m glad you enjoyed the concert. Amazing Grace on the bagpipes gets me every time.

Rori - what a great memory you will have.

Heather - I think you deserved to treat yourself. What are your books called? Can I find them anywhere in Canada?

Evelyn - I have done a couple of adult shirts. I don’t know if I want to get into selling items or not. So far my family is enjoying my treasures.

Allie - you’re strength amazes and loyalty amaze me.

I had a fairly relaxed day today, I talked to my BF, her BIL passed away at noon. 56 years old from alcoholism such a terrible shame.
I talked to my brother tonight, our Mom’s birthday is next week and I saw a connect the dot book for adults I was thinking of getting her. She used to do all of them in my activity books. I am not sure if she still knows her letters and numbers to do it so I didn’t want to send it and frustrate her. My brother said he didn’t really know either so I will call the nurses and ask tomorrow. I did get her card made today.

The Grands came for supper and always expect dessert. I bought ice cream that I don’t like so it’s easy for me to avoid.

Tracey In Edmonton

exermom wrote: »

I just learned, tho, that my MRI next Tuesday is going to cost $645.73 and it needs to be paid before I have the MRI

Michele in NC

Snowflake1968 wrote: »

Michele - I am always sitting with my mouth gaping open when I read the coats that American’s have to pay for medical procedures. What happens if you don’t have the money? Do you just get left behind?

Tracey In Edmonton

I've had several MRIs recently (two head ones and a hip/back), and the people who refer me for them always apologise about the cost. Here in Australia, they run about $200, but sometimes I've gotten about 1/3 back. We pay it immediately after the MRI, just before we leave the building.

I do miss Canada's system at times!


Meanwhile, down here in Australia, it's ANZAC Day.

"Anzac Day is the solemn day of remembrance of those Australian and New Zealand Army Corps soldiers who have fought and died for their country, and is marked annually on the anniversary of the Gallipoli campaign of the First World War."

There's more about it here:
https://publicholidays.com.au/anzac-day/


Because Easter is so late and so close to ANZAC Day, I've been able to take my Easter holiday time (Fri 19 - Tues 23) + ANZAC Day (Thurs 25) + this coming weekend (Sat 27 & Sun 28) ...... and add 3 days of my annual leave .... to create an 11-day holiday.

It has been great to have the time off!!! Just wish I weren't sick. However, maybe I needed rest more than anything.



Machka in Oz

I've slept 12 hours (or very close to it) since April 16th!
I had no idea I was that exhausted. It ahsl is due, I think, to working on my physical therapy like mad. I hit over 2500 steps for the first time in almost a year the other day.

Machka and Heather, please take care of yourselves. Nausea can come from mucus that wasn't expelled going to our stomach and irritating it. Anything that brings you so far down for so long deserves some professional attention.

To the two (or maybe it was more?) women who fell recently. It's one of my major fears, even though the surgeon who has done both knee replacements and my 1 hip says he's not looking forward to the other hip. He says they have to get out their heaviest equipment to deal with my bones.

I hope your bruises heal swiftly and that you regain your confidence quickly as well. One of the major predictors of falling is the fear of same. I try to be proactive and keep my eyes open for slick or uneven spits, and to give myself small challenges at home, like walking carefully over a damp floor.

Allie, your extended family and co-workers have a true treasure in you. You understand the concept of duty perfectly, and never seem to shirk yours, even when it isn't in your best interest. Such honesty is refreshing in these haded times.

Lisa in Arkanses, I spent a week staying around Leslie and was amazed that I never got too hot, even though it was around the 4th of July. What kind of phenomenal luck did I have? Or is that normal in that area? I'd almost like to go back.

Barbara AHMOD, how is your road repair going? I may want to take a road trip a little later this spring, and I'm wondering how far that detour might take me.

I have slept, worked out, and have stored up plenty of healthful food in my pantry. Now I'm getting ready for summer. I'm becoming so energetic that I may open the Instant Pit box I bought just before Chriatmas and also unpack the Shark broomstick-style back I bought and put it together.

Someone mentioned Borscht, and now I'm craving it madly. Does anyone know a recipe that doesn't require hours of prep time? It's a great springtime soup/meal!

I caught up all the pages, but too many comments. I'll do them as I'm reminded. I've missed you all so very much!

Sharon Near Seattle[\b]