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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Hello ladies,
New to My Fitness Pal - and am happy that I found a group of ladies who support each other on their journey.
Looking forward to getting to know this group of inspiring people.
Thanks.
Sarah5 -
So Lisa you got the job at the museum?
Awwww wonderful so happy for you..if anyone deserves good things its you.xoxi
So I gave Tom the frame with Chester's picture.. he was very touched as I knew he would be.Chester will be going for a 3rd day of
IV fluids..Tom called and said he is running around and happy right now as he does much better in the afternoon and evening.. so I will drop him off again tomorrow5 -
G' day, lovelies
It's a cool day in the Pacific NW. Perfect for catching up on a lot of stuff including the last ten/twelve pages of posts :-)
First off, thank you to those that held my hand some over the last couple of days. There were several moments where I just felt "this is too much" - there was one moment when I imagined going to town on the dang car while holding a hammer in one hand and a can of paint spray in the other. It is good to read empathetic words when things are tough and be acknowledged for even tiny steps, so thank you.
Michele in NC - Good timing on the reminder about ginger for tummy troubles. When my life gets cra-cra, I tend to forget to take care of myself and do what helps me. So thank you! And thank you also for the tip on eating an apple in the evening. My go to evening snack is cereal but I love apples and they're a much healthier choice! P.S. Your dwarfs are adorable!
Welcome newbies! I'm a newbie, too, as of the beginning of September. My goal is to lose 50 lbs.
Tracy Happy belated birthday! What a wonderful gift from your fam those photos are precious!
Pip Oh, how I love the adorable photos of your dogs! Liked the photo of your yard, also. Very chill
Machka in Oz - Extended cold/sinus issues? Boo
But your stats are, hmm, how do I say this? Um, you are a bosomed beast! That pic of you looking blissful and happy on the mountain top was breathtaking. Where was that?
Viv in UK - Kudos to you for participating in the Couch to 5K. I hope to get on board next spring
bananasandoranges I sent you a private message
Terri & Luci in WNC- Big congrats on your accomplishments. Reading about your successes is inspiring!
Luci What are your "go to" super low cal snacks??
Barbi and Ginny Thanks for the wireless earphone suggestions. I picked up a cheap pair yesterday at Target. If they don't work out, I'll pick up a pair of Sony's
Barbara SOC - Hope you like the tank tops - let me know . . . I received mine today.
Enzo That cool cat is ready for Halloween! Mawahahaha!!!
Lisa in AR (((pats on the back))) Awesome progress! You go, girl!
Allie - Ah, Chester, is he a lhasa apso? What a sweetie. So, so sorry he's having troubles
Taliah among the rocky shore looks to be an adventurist. How old is she?
Rebecca - I've been working on the minimalist approach to living for the last fifteen years. I went from a 3,680 sq ft home to a 790 sq ft apt in increments. Haven't decided the next step: either get an RV and travel around or settle in a Latin country. BF isn't quite on-board and he's been doing so well with "domestic training" and getting his health in order over this last year that I don't want to push it. Yet
Heather in UK - Thank you for offering a bit of background info on your journey and congrats on staying healthy! The book on genetics and heritability sounds like something I'd be interested in reading . . . What's its title?
dandi1968 Although you received positive info at your doctor's appointment, I'm sorry you were saddened about the not so great news about your kidneys. You deserve a big applause for what you've accomplished thus far! Don't let those depressive thoughts sway you away from the positive trajectory you're on!!!
Beth in Buffalo - I can’t imagine how folks with migraines manage. I had a friend who had horrible migraines who would call just needing to vent how frustrating it was for her to get through her life. Though they were no fault of her own doing, they made her feel bad about herself. I’m sure your younger son really appreciated the time you spent on the phone with him. And it's really cool that your older son can now look at you eye-to-eye! As for "bat wings" - if we could figure out how to use them to slap sense into silly stubborn husbands and partners to take care of their health, well, I'd settle for that!
Lanette Reading the post of what's been going on with your DH was heart-wrenching and heartwarming. Your DH's challenges have been your challenges, and many women lose themselves (and their own health) in caring for loved ones. I applaud your sense of self-respect and self-protection while remaining compassionate about your DH's conditions and the choices he makes for his life. As you say, "Flipping it from trying to fix him/his health . . . to kindly helping him deal with (his) issues with dignity takes work, but is freeing." This is THE most courageous and the most healthful thing you can do for both of you!
P.S. I signed up for https://scienceofprevention.com also
(((Hugs))) to all.
Rho7 -
Lanette Yes, Josie has a brother Max. Both kids are just great.0
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Allie, no, I withdrew my application. Made my decision to stay and succeed where I am, rather than jump ship, and glad of it.
Rho, thank you.
Re: the husbands... Just an idle social observation, worth what what you paid for it... I think most of our husbands develop their social networks largely through us, or not at all. We are their social network, often enough, particularly in our age groups. I truly admire Heather's husband with his cricket pals. My husband simply is not interested in doing more than working, coming home, and then working on our home during the weekends. Once he is retired, then what? I have a feeling I'll be dealing with similar issues...
Later, y'all,
Lisa in AR4 -
My prayers are with Josephine the Ballerina and family. . What devastating news, hope you have great care and support. Blessings <:)))><3
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stats for the day:
bike ride hm 2 gym- 6.59min, 13.4amph, 131mhr, 1.55mi= 70c
apple watch- 61c
treadmill jog- 18.50min, 9.25min mi, 137ahr, 153mhr, 6.4-7.5sp, 2mi= 227c
apple watch- 223c
bike ride gym 2 dome- 4.53min, 17.6amph, 132mhr, 1.43mi= 55c
apple watch- 46c
bike ride puy 2 sumn station- 14.14min, 140mhr, 12.8amph, 3.03mi= 145c
apple watch- 117c
jog sta 2 wrk- 4.53min, 9.40min mi, 145mhr, .50mi= 62c
apple watch- 53c
jog wrk 2 sta-4.10min, 9.23min mi, 151mhr, .44mi= 63c
Apple watch-55c
bike ride dome 2 hm- 19.08min 8.1amph 142mhr, 2.58mi= 202c
apple watch- 143c
total 824 cal5 -
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Hi Gals,
Yvonne – Thank you for understanding… I have pm’d you.
SuziQ – Great job on hitting your goals ! Sorry to hear of the passing of DH
Welcome newbies!
BOOKS – I love to read, I am in a book club and I read one a month for the book club – which may be one I like or one that is out of my normal choices – then I read 2-4 other books a month. Usually fiction, but not 100% - I have a kindle, but have not really embraced it - I mostly read paper books (paper back or hard back) And they are all either shared in my friend groups or from the library.
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.
Thinking of her, her family, and the doctors…
Pip – I want that drink…NOW!
Kim from N. California
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Hello....I am new here and to MFP, and I am coming over from WW after stalling out after 6 months. I am hoping to lose my final 20lbs to reach my goal of 150. Glad to be here 🦚8
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Reinventing Rhonda - Day 19
Very busy day. Didn't count distance, but got in a lot of physical activity and walking. I'm not too concerned at this point with exercise. Although I'm trying to get some in each day, my primary focus now is to adjusting my eating habits. The total calories and amount of protein I've been consuming have typically been lower than optimal. Today was the first day that I came near the the optimum total calories, yet I was still low in protein.
I'm also typically under on fiber yet having higher carbs, sugars and fats than I need. I know that today's cause was due in part to eating two homemade oatmeal-raisin cookies after dinner. I'll be better disciplined, tomorrow. And the next day. And the next day. And the next day. And the . . . . .
Rho (south of PDX)
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