WOMEN AGES 50 + FOR DECEMBER 2019
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Barbara - Hmmmm! DH is balking, but I know he can do it if in the right mood. I will have to catch him at the right moment!
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx2 -
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On sale $16.99 hoping it comes soon. Has a lot in a kit but starts withv2lb resistance can work up to way more as I go until I get to a spot I feel is far enough
Barbara- sent the link for cooling bands to Dad he’s at Gibson’s so he grabbing me one! Hubby uses something similar at work told him when he buys more grab me some!
Carol- Yeah struggling to keep on KETO 100% trying tho. Eating more meat than I was tho🌮 even if I still grab carbs lol. If I do Keto 100% I get a headache. So a few carbs mixed in seems to off set that. Also ate cheese pizza yesterday that wasn’t on the menu for Keto. Some times success other times fall off into carbo wagon hard.
Rori- Thankyou added it’s to my watch list for the YouTube.
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Allie - best thoughts for your brother's surgery, and for your wait.
You are on my mind for your brother, and Rori, you are on my mind for yours. Heard yesterday my oldest remaining brother (68) is not doing well--he is an alcoholic and a smoker, with heart issues and COPD. Supposedly they told him, if he goes home and drinks (which he will), he has a week to live. I heard this third-hand, as my family's communication dysfunction is pretty much legendary. He told another brother, who told my sister, who told me. I find it extremely possible that the communication is basically a bid for sympathy, and may or may not be truthful, but that may just mean I'm a horribly suspicious person.
I don't want to seem cold, but I'm not going to go see him, at least not on my own. Corey's never even met him - and it feels almost vulture-like to go now. I keep thinking, "Would he come to see me in the same circumstance?" And the answer remains "No."
He's not a bad man, he's not a good man, he's just a man. We shared a parent (different fathers, both awful), and very little else. I have zero memories of him from my childhood--my father beat him near to death and threw him out of the house at 16, according to family lore. If I saw any of it, I blocked the memories completely in subsequent years. In retrospect there are a lot of things I don't remember--the ones I can remember are bad enough, thank-you-very-much.
I did ask my sister to tell her daughters, if they want to go see him I'll go with them, but only if their need for family closure outweighs my own. My sister won't go nor urge her daughters to go, as she has old grudges from adult interactions. I have... nothing. No grief, no tears, no nothing. Which is a sadness in and of itself.
Pensive in Arkansas on a lovely, sunny day,
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Lisa - many, many (((HUGS)) My DSIL took away my memoir and is reading it, but my brother won't read it, nor any of that huge family. My father was a well beloved man. He truly was A Very Nice Man. And a devil. And a damaged person. And an abuser.
Family dynamics are soooooo convoluted! You owe him nothing. Nothing. Love to you.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx5 -
I managed to take my usual walk today. The air temp is 2 degrees with a wind chill of -7. Am I crazy? Maybe. I did my gift wrapping this morning. I have one more thing yet to arrive.
Shirley from Northern NY4 -
Good morning, afternoon, evening to you all.
I’m in a bit of a stressed state this week. We are preparing to travel for several days and I have to get everything ready….cook, deal with all the food that may go bad, charge all surveillance camera batteries, feed the hummingbirds, pack a lot of gear taking care not to forget the Imodium .
KJ-I had a similar shock to ACA. The premiums for even a basic level of care are insane. Right now, I have group coverage, but I suspect that won’t be for much longer and I’ll be back on the ACA. It was actually the same to pay the COBRA amount and it was better coverage. The good thing is that ACA does allow some to have coverage that otherwise wouldn’t, but really they need to get those premiums down and coverage up.
Gifting - For a few years I bought intangible gifts. For example, I adopted a star for a sister. For another, I adopted a whale. For a friend who was somewhat food insecure, I bought a gift card to a grocery store. I used to buy gift certificates for experiences for the mister, but he forgets to use them. Now he gets nothing, and he’s fine with it.3 -
Heather - congrats on being chosen
Michele in NC2 -
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Thank you, Heather - and congrats on the show, sounds like fun to me.
As for my own decisions, as I was pretty sure they would, my sister's kids guilted her into going. My kids have never met him (which tells you something), so I don't have that pressure. Since she's going with my nieces after all, I just called and bowed out of the whole process. I won't put my husband or me through the nine-hour drive. I may regret it, but it's not an emotion I indulge in much.
On a cheerier note, I have a five-hour day ahead of me tomorrow, and I am off for sixteen days that I plan to thoroughly enjoy.
Later, y'all,
Lisa in AR7 -
Barbara Josephine the Ballerina is going through cycles of chemo. She goes home for a few weeks & then in the hospital for about a week. I'm not sure how many rounds she has to go through. She can move & feel her affected leg/foot better than before but is still not walking without crutches or other assistance. She is such a doll.
Lisa Ugh…family dynamics can be soul-draining. (((Hugs)))
Karen in Virginia
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JRsLateInLifeMom wrote: »Machka y Michele- I better not stop exercising then if these could worsen from not exercising I don’t want to find out! My 1st peri I had terrible hot flashes my hair y eye brows fell out y when a boss stuck a thermometer 🌡 in my mouth it showed I was running a high fever...few seconds later hot flashes passed retook my temp I was normal again (Did make my male boss realize it’s not in his wife,my,or other female workers heads tho!). I’m going to bring 2 chilled maybe 4 waters for when we go shopping to haircut for Daughter so when shopping triggers them I can whoooo take a sip.
Amber Tx
I don't get a fever with mine. I can feel like I'm walking through fire and I'm pouring sweat, but it's all surface and there is no fever.
The worst part of mine is all the preliminary stuff ... the feeling sick, painfully prickly skin, dizziness, nausea almost to the point of throwing up, etc. ... like morning sickness. That stuff goes on for probably 5-15 minutes before each hot flash.
Then I go into the heat and sweat business for about 1-10 minutes, and it's over. The heat and sweat part is a relief because all the other nonsense stops and I know it's going to be over soon.
So fairly strenuous exercise seems to reduce or eliminate the preliminary stuff, and since I'm sweating anyway because of the fairly strenuous exercise, I don't really notice the hot flash part much.
M in Oz2 -
Went to water exercise this morning and then into town to pick up a few stocking stuffers. Have finished Christmas letter and will print and send out this weekend. It was hard to write. DH usually wrote it and I really had no idea what to say about his death. Oh well, it is done. Went to choir party last night. Theme was "Sound of Music" since 2019 is the 60th anniversary of the movie. We did some trivia and ate some Austrian food. My Austrian chocolate balls went over well. DD tried them out and pronounced them good. We had a surprise rehearsal at the end. Director brought music unbeknownst to us, so we practiced for Sunday and Christmas Eve. A fun evening.
Everyone take care, Sue in very rainy WA whose temporarily repaired roof is currently not leaking3 -
Went out with Trudy and Susan and hit a couple of happy hours. I just had one wine spritzer and water as I have to drop stuff off at other offices tomorrow. We had a great time..
Stopped at vet and brought Chester back home...miss him dearly.. but will keep him here until Tom and Elena get home..
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Well, the mister has been having unexplainable and uncontrollable high blood pressure and pulse the last few days. Took his BP and it was dangerously high. He’s currently at Urgent Care. We may not be going on a trip. Fingers crossed. We have no idea what it could be. I’m just sitting home waiting. It’s making me nuts.
Tina in CA7 -
Tina, hugs to you and the mister. Hope they have good news for you.0
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I feel God could have skipped making hot flashes! The end he knows where I stand in that.
Amber Tx2 -
Wrapped the presents. We only have 2 more trees to decorate. Vince said that next year he wants to start in Sept. So do I. At least if we get the inside things done, break to decorate for Halloween, then do the outside, I'll feel more like I can enjoy the holidays
Tina - prayers and hugs
Had Newcomer bowling tonight. Soup kitchen tomorrow. Then I'll go to the post office to mail the package for Denise.
Michele in NC1
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