WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR SEPTEMBER 2019
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(((Josephine and Family)))
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KetoneKaren wrote: »Josephine the Ballerina got her diagnosis - neuroblastoma of the spine (malignant). Her prognosis will depend on the grade of the tumor, which they don't know yet. As of now, they are planning to stay here for treatment rather than go someplace like St Jude, Hopkins, or Boston.
Heartbreaking. I hope she gets quality care.
Felicia
Willamette Valley, Oregon2 -
Felicia: Last year was amazingly dry here. I can’t say I’m loving the rain, but the land can surely use it. :flowerforyou:
Karen in VA: Sending love and good wishes to Josephine the Ballerina, and your whole family. I wonder what medical support is available nearby your niece’s home. St. Jude’s is wonderful, but there may be brilliant hospitals closer by. There are several children’s hospitals in the Portland, OR, area. Maybe there are also excellent children’s hospitals and treatment centers nearby your niece’s family. I hope they find the help they need. Keep us in the loop. I’ll be keeping Josephine and the family in my prayers.
Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon
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Prayers for Josephine and her family, medical team and supporters!
Okie in the TX Hill Country3 -
I just found this group and am so liking the support and camaraderie.
My name is Lyttlefish, I am over 70 years old, and I live on the prairies in Alberta, Canada
My ongoing resolutions for each day:
Meditate before breakfast 15 minutes
Log in to MFP and keep logging all food and exercise
Brisk Walking at least 30 minutes somewhere in the day
Walk at least 9,000 steps
Get up from sedentary positions every hour and walk at least 250 steps
If shopping walk all the aisles in the store none stop.
If parking in a parking lot, park at the furthest spot from the place I need to go.
Read this thread
Glad to meet you all
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Beth That's a nice windfall. I wouldn't mind having that egg on my face!3
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Felicia: Last year was amazingly dry here. I can’t say I’m loving the rain, but the land can surely use it. :flowerforyou:
Karen in VA: Sending love and good wishes to Josephine the Ballerina, and your whole family. I wonder what medical support is available nearby your niece’s home. St. Jude’s is wonderful, but there may be brilliant hospitals closer by. There are several children’s hospitals in the Portland, OR, area. Maybe there are also excellent children’s hospitals and treatment centers nearby your niece’s family. I hope they find the help they need. Keep us in the loop. I’ll be keeping Josephine and the family in my prayers.
Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon
Katla Josephine the Ballerina is not a relative, but the daughter of my partner's colleague. There are 3 really good East coast options for this rare diagnosis...St Jude, Johns Hopkins, and Boston Children's. Johns Hopkins in Baltimore is the closest. I don't know why they are choosing to stay here in RIchmond for treatment. MCV/VCU/Massey Cancer Center is great but is not where I would want my child or grandchild treated for pediatric neuroblastoma. The family must have reasons for choosing to stay here that I am not privy too.5 -
Colored my roots last night. Went to the vet this am to pick up a prescription for Loki, then to Food Lion because they had chicken thighs on sale. There was no mention at all of the fact that it had to be the ones with the skin. The skinless were almost $2 a pound. These were 99 cents. For that difference, I’ll take the skin off myself. Then to the green room then to WalMart who didn’t have Loki’s med but it’ll be there tomorrow.
What are your low cal snacks that DON’T contain any artificial sugars? Most of them are bad for you
Karen – so sorry for Josephine and her entire family. What horrible news to receive! Here’s praying that things go better for her
Lyttle fish – welcome! There is lots of support here of every kind – support for weight ups/down, support for personal problems, everything.
LOL – I park far away from the store not so much so that I can get extra steps in but because I don’t want someone to hit my car with a shopping cart!!!!
Michele in NC
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Yarr, me hearties, it's Talk Like A Pirate Day!
Vicki - Hurray for getting your motorcycle endorsement straightened out!
Barbie - I always have a stack of books on my nightstand, with my e-reader perched on top, and will usually be in the middle of several books at a time.
Heather - Same here, I'm a fast and voracious reader. In the old days before the e-reader I'd be trudging through the airport lugging a backback with a minimum of five or six books in it. My back is grateful for the Nook!
Lisa - What a great run at the gym! That's a testament to your dedication.
Margaret - The museum trip sounds fascinating. I love museums... doesn't really seem to matter much what they are commemorating. There always seems to be something interesting to learn.
Workoutahloic50 - Sorry to hear you are sad. It's never any fun to sit with those feelings but it's part of being human. Hope you find some light soon.
Karen - I'm so sorry to hear Josephine's diagnosis. Wishing her the very best care possible and a good outcome.
Welcome to all the new arrivals!
My friend Pat was instrumental in bringing about Talk Like A Pirate Day, and I think she was surprised as anyone at how far it spread. So today I'm honoring Pat as well as everyone else who has an idea and puts it out there for the world to run with.
We're getting ready for a trip to the river house this weekend. If things go well, this will be the weekend I finally finish the custom Roman shades I've been working on! We've got three shades installed, so all I have to do is sew the rings onto the final shade, string it, and then get Philip to help me hang it. Whew, that project has dragged on forever, and it's going to feel SO GOOD to finally cross it off my list.
-Yvonne in TX6 -
Shiver me timbers! Arrggh, Yvonne, me heartie! Carn’t believe oi arlmost missed it! Yo! Ho! Ho! And a bottle of rum if ye don’t make me walk the plank! Arrgghh!
I used to get a reminder about this on Facebook! 😂 haven’t seen one for years.
This morning we received our appointment from the doctor for the flu vaccine. Gotta love the British NHS. We can also opt for Shingles and pneumonia injections.
Got lots done in the garden after lunch. Off out first thing in the morning to Latin Study. September is racing by at a rate of knots.
☘️ Terri3 -
Karen: Sad new about Josephine the ballerina. I hope she gets the best care possible. 💕💖💕3
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Lisa In AR, Egg is a precious little grey girl whom I suspect could wriggle and wallow her way into my heart in a heartbeat! Love the photo. Hope your weather mellows out.
Oaxaca’s weather was almost perfect, with highs at 75°f and lows around 65°f. It’s a high plateau area - about 3500’ - and pretty much stays the same year around. One good rain for an hour in ten days. I loved it there.
Sharon In Seattle7 -
🙏 Prayers for Josephine 🙏2
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Got to get to bed early tonight, so we can get up early to do our exercises before Bea arrives.
Hope I sleep through. I've been waking up in the night and doing a lot of reading, which is one of the reasons I get through so many books. It's better than tossing and turning.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx
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Karen in VA - sorry to hear about our little Ballerina prognosis. Prayers for her and her family. Does she have any siblings? Hoping cancer treatment has made leaps and bounds into treatment for this and the local hospital can do the trick.
Beth - hooray for the windfall refund and no nasty business coming up.
Terri - Latin study? I took 2 years in high school, and glad I did. I think I'm a better speller for it. Vini, Vidi, Vici is all I remember. I hope it's not swearing, lol.
Felicia - thank you for sharing. Trying to coordinate activities like the gym with spouses is hard work and maddening! Glad your son is willing to go and recovering from the surgery. The couple times my DH and I went together, he was ready to scoot in about half an hour. I hate to be rushed so now I work it into my morning schedule when I'm in town. He knows better than to nag me about things like that, tho he tried for the better part of our marriage. Cast. Iron. Skillet.
Katla - sorry to hear about that I-5 traffic. You just never know. Sometimes I leave an hour early for an appointment 20 miles away just for that reason, if I can. Then, of course, I get to the appointment an hour early and get to read all the magazines in the lobby or make chit-chat. Glad your DH is making some headway with his PT and exercising.
Great lunch and excited to work on the new little demo garden. Really like the gal I'm working with, she's one of the remaining "old-timers" so knows a lot of history and is a wealth of knowledge about plants. I always need a mentor and she's a good one. Very thankful to have hooked up with her.
Tomorrow is Friday, ladies. Hang in there!!
Lanette
SW WA State3 -
Lanette: Cast iron skillets are wonderful cooking devices and also good weapons for self-defense.
I just got back from getting medicine for our dog at the vets clinic. Our real doctor is back at last!!! This is great news for me. It means I won't have to hunt for a new vet for my dog.
Katla4 -
Karen VA- my heart goes out to Josephine and her family. I cannot imagine that diagnosis for one of my kids/grandkids, and how devastating that would be... or perhaps I just don't want to imagine it.
Long story, and it's in a double spoiler... 'cause I'm that kinda girl
So...you may remember I was a bit upset when them upstairs (OK, over there - HQ is in Little Rock, 153 miles east of me) decided to simply change out my supervisor without warning or even talking to me about it (not exactly a "family" or "team" thing to do, now is it.) Heard it first from my current supervisor, who I adore, and then from my supervisor-to-be, whom I have reservations about, and THEN from my chief strategy officer, who's over my department.
While I was still bent out of shape, it just so happened that the local university and the local museum put job notices out for assistant development director and development director, respectively. I applied for both. I hasten to add, for Rori's sake, that I was NOT upset with Girl Scouts as an organization, but was just bent about how the whole situation was handled by the specific people involved, and in all honesty, that it was being done at all.
Never heard a word from the university. Did, however, hear from the museum. Was brought in for an interview (50 applied, six interviewed), and then for a second interview with their board vice president (one of only two second interviews done). That was yesterday.
Today... wait for it...Probably not the ending you think it's going to be.OK, I'll quit embedding spoilers. Today, I sent an email to the executive director withdrawing my application for personal reasons. After discussing with everyone I love, it only made sense to stay doing what I'm doing. Lots and lots of different reasons, but the main reason is the job suits me, and no matter who my supervisor is, there are always ways and ways of getting things done. My job is satisfying--while it does not pay well, it pays as much as the museum job would have. And I get to work (mostly) at home. Which I also love. And not actually have to talk to most people, which I also happen to love.
Ta-da! Happy ending. But part of the reason I've been all swivetty and short lately. Too much going on. Now to resume my regular programming...
Later, y'all,
Lisa in AR
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Lanette I have done only a bit of strength training since my compression fracture last summer. It has been not quite a year since I was cleared to end the long hours in bed protocol and I am still a bit nervous. What little I have been doing has been with much lighter weights. It helps to have weights in sight in the room where I watch TV so I notice them. Part of the problem is that I like walking, dancing, and riding my exercise bike a whole lot more than I like strength training. My husband would like me home in the same room with him all the time. I have to be focused, firm, and pleasant to assure that I walk the dogs for two hours in the morning and again for shorter times later in the day as well as leave home for two dance classes each week. We do most of our shopping together and when we are home he sits on his couch or recliner and I ride the exercise bike. Barbie in NW WA. 😸🐩🐕👣🐾 4
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New to My Fitness Pal - and am happy that I found a group of ladies who support each other on their journey.
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