WOMEN AGES 50 + FOR DECEMBER 2019

I am up and having my tea.. I have to slow down on all the festivities ,I am gaining not losing,and I will get back on the straight and narrow .to many carbs and junk..ive been doing well, but have to get back on track.. which I will do..
Sean on the mend , they told him a liquid diet for a bit and instead he had a 1/2 of a roast beef grinder lol, thats my boy.. as a kid we used to get him one and put it in his stocking and he would have that for breakfast on Christmas day while opening his presents ..

LuciBThinner wrote: »

Thank you, thank you!! Close to tears (and I don't cry) with a very warm and happy heart from all of the dear birthday wishes from you wonderful ladies!! I had a nice day (although DH is not feeling too well and I was concerned because he never gets sick with more than a cold. He has been feeling weak and "not right" for the past week. I'm hoping he will listen to me and let the doctor check his heart and lungs along with blood work.)

Hugs and prayers for all of those going through difficult situations during this holiday! Karen - so glad your partner did well in her surgery!! Frustrated at the pharmacy for messing up on the much needed pain medicine. Tina - praying for your husband in hopes they can help his BP and pulse issues quickly and successfully!

I have a lot of catching up to do on reading these posts! In the meantime, I am hoping Everyone has blessed holidays, families get or stay healthy, and all things improve for each of you during 2020!!

With sincere love and appreciation for Everyone's support and friendship! Luci

oopsieee.. happyyyyyy bdayyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NYKAREN LOL!!! Yes! get my daughter the shot!!!

Happy Friday ladies!

The pineapple express or whatever they are calling it dumped 2 1/2" of rain here in the past 12 hours. No power outage but a few outlying towns having problems where the wind picked up. I'm following the rain gauge logs at local rivers, looks like some roads will be under water by the end of the day. Best part about it - we don't have to drive to town. Project another inch or two of rain today.

Kim - are you still getting rain? Barbara AHMOD - how are you faring? Rebecca - thinking back to when you lived on the OR coast and would get the brunt of it. Katla - looks like your area is getting a good soak as well!

Machka - love the photos of your container garden. That little area does look like a peaceful spot. Amazing how much produce we can get from a few containers. I've never had luck with growing basil and am anxious to try it again. Also - hope that biopsy spot isn't painful. Good luck with the nasal/sinus stuff.

Michele - I am a big fan of Vicks - and when my throat tickles I also put a dab of Vicks under each nostril, and keep a jar of it on my bedside table.

Karen in VA - hope everything has settled down with your partner and she's getting along well. And that she'll be a cheerful patient!! The opioid guidelines are interesting. I had a co-worker who had major knee surgery and his surgeon only prescribed 4 narcotic pain killing pills, no more. When I had my surgery this summer, I got the standard 40 pills over ten days if necessary, which surprised me. I took a few pills the first couple days then switched to tylenol.

Tina - any updates on your DH? Crossing fingers they were able to get his BP under control quickly and you are able to take your trip!

Heather - I get a nervous stomach just reading about being on television. Good for you having the knack and talent for being willing to tackle it. I know we've watched the show before and it was always interesting!

Lisa - I'm not so sure blood is thicker than water, understand your feelings about your brother. So much of being a family is shared stories and memories. When you haven't met other family members or spent much time around them, seems that gets lost and they become strangers.

Picked up Valter Longo's Intermittent Fasting book from the library and started to thumb through. Ran across his advice to "eat like your grandparents did". In other words, the diet best for us is what our ancestors ate and did well on. With my German background, I think of my grandmother's and mother's garden and livestock on the farm. Chicken, eggs, beef, pork, plenty of dairy, apples, peaches, potatoes and root veggies. Very few tropical fruits or seafood. Both of my grandmothers lived well into their 90's eating like that, my grandfathers sputtered out in their 80's.

There's another doc I've run across, Dr. Cate Shanahan, who is also a proponent of eating what our ancestors ate. She was a presenter on "The Real Skinny on Fat" docuseries.

Think there's some merit to that, but am glad to be able to add olive oil and avocado to my diet. Who knows, my grandmothers might have lived to be 105 had they added these foods. I still miss my mom's Sunday pot roast with potatoes and carrots, and something I still make.

OK ladies, need to check the rain gauge.

Stay dry, stay safe, stay healthy wherever you are!

Lanette
SW WA State

Barbie - I know blue tooth earbuds were discussed on here several months ago. At the the time, I didn't pay much attention but now am thinking of getting some. I think you posted a photo or link of the ones you like? Looking for recommendations. Thanks!

Tina - good news about your DH. Enjoy your trip.

Lanette
SW WA State

Heather - Neither my sister nor I would play with dolls growing up, which disappointed the parents enormously. We played with stuffed toys, animals and such. Dolls are hideous even when they don't talk (IMHO).

Rant - Read at your own risk:
Anyway - I've got like three hours left of my workday until I'm done for 16 days, and we are now officially in "time is dragging" mode. Gonna go get stuck into a grant and forget about the clock for awhile.

Love y'all,
Lisa in AR

Heather: Your DDIL does quite a bit of public speaking. Perhaps she can offer useful advice and coach your DH so that he is able to be comfortable in the situation. :flowerforyou: I didn’t know that Britain was having flooding problems. Sending good wishes for safety for all.

Machka: Love your container garden!!! I have herbs in containers. There are three blueberry bushes in the ground, dormant in winter, and I plant purplepod beans in summer. They turn green during cooking. I love them because their color makes it easy to see and pick them. :devil:

Karen in VA: Your rant is well warranted. When I was being treated for the sinus infection that plagued me most of the fall, the doctor was absolutely supportive but her assistant was not. I requested a medication refill and the assistant told me to use over the counter medicine instead. I immediately requested to speak to the doctor who promptly ordered a prescription refill. Being your own advocate is often vital. :flowerforyou:

Lanette: We are having a wet day so far. The river is within its banks and we are not worried about flooding at this point. The dam keepers on the Columbia River do a good job managing stream flow. Our home was flooded once before we bought it due to a goof-up at Bonneville, but they’ve been very meticulous ever since. That was the winter of 1995/96. We moved here in 1997 after our youngest graduated from high school.

(((RV Rita))): I hope you feel better soon. I’ve had colitis in the distant past. NO FUN at all. Mine was caused by lactose intolerance. A dollop of butter would likely do me in & so would real cream. Thankfully, lactose free milk is readily available, and I actually like margarine. :bigsmile:

(((Tina in CA))): Stress eating is something many of us battle. I hope your stress eases ASAP. :flowerforyou:

Lisa: I am sorry that the VA isn’t doing a better job filling your prescription. :grumble:


Yesterday I bought a new living Christmas Tree, planted in a red plastic bucket. I thought it was smaller than our than our previous tree that also came in a red plastic bucket several years ago. The original kept blowing over in the wind, and we put in in a heavy ceramic pot. Unfortunately, the ceramic pot makes the tree too heavy for me to safely lift on my own these days and I can’t bring it into the house. DH is not able to help. The new one I bought is about the same height as the old one. I thought it was smaller when I saw it at the garden center. I can easily lift in on my own. Now I’m wondering what to do with the extra tree after Christmas. I may donate the original to a park or see whether it can be planted somewhere here in the townhouse community. I donated a too big tree to a park in our old home town. It was a win, win situation back then.


Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon

cityjaneLondon wrote: »

The county of Sussex has got flooding problems. The motorway to Gatwick Airport is flooded and closed. The train line from Brighton to Gatwick is closed with flooding and landslips.
So many people trying to get away on their holidays. We have have over 20" of rain this month, a lot of it in the last few days.
The flooding may mean that DH 's daughter can't get down to us on Sunday evening if they can't sort it out. More rain is expected. Just in case, I have put her dinner in the freezer. Easy enough to retrieve it if it's ok by then.

I've bought ingredients for the stuffing, which I will assemble tomorrow and freeze. I have parboiled the potatoes and parsnips and they will be frozen when they have cooled.
My son, who has just brought the last if the kid's presents round to be wrapped, says his MIL is fed up with cooking Christmas dinner for 50 years. This year she has bought frozen roast potatoes and parsnips! Heresy! :laugh:

For tonight I have cooked one of our favourites - goat curry with sweetcorn. In the IP. It is smelling heavenly. With broccoli.

Now I've wrapped the presents, including the hideous talking doll, which has been banned to the garage as she won't stop talking, I can RELAX.

Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx

Reminds me when we bought a nephew a helmet that had a siren. SIL still reminds us WHAT WERE WE THINKING!!!!!

Add my son to the list of medical protocol that made him miss out on his meds and caused him serious problems.

I have been working with many systems the past 6 months. My observation is there is so much red tape involved in so many aspects of getting care and or service for something that I when I go to the phone now I bring a book. As part of my Christmas letter I shared a cartoon that says.

2 Left Lanes
Closed for
No Reason
Whatsoever

Next 21 Miles

It was accompanied with BUMP BUMP and NOOOOOOO!

Seems to sum it up!

KetoneKaren wrote: »

Lisa & Katla I realize everyone make mistakes. The reluctance to fix the mistake is puzzling. I experienced it & so did Lisa.

Exactly! Although for "puzzling," I would substitute "hair-tearing." There's not even acknowledgment that there WAS a mistake! There is no understanding on their part in any way that their treatment is inhumane and unsympathetic--and AT NO TIME during all that did I get an "I'm sorry you drove an hour and I didn't actually do my job, so it was all for nothing." Or "I'm sorry I misread your labs and said you hadn't been tested for more than a year when you were obviously tested in May." No apologies, no acknowledgment of error. I understand incompetence, I've trained people how not to be incompetent (and incidentally, how to apologize when they are wrong) for a very large part of my working life. What I don't understand is being treated like I'm an inconvenience because I'm asking them to do it right, when my health and well-being depends on their doing it right.

Gah.

Karen in VA: I agree with your comment. Some people will never admit to a mistake. It is a pride issue for them, and saving face is their primary goal. When I make a mistake, I try to fix it myself. When I can’t fix my mistake, I ask for help and/or apologize. Pride keeps some people from either asking for help or apologizing. :ohwell:

Lisa: I hear your frustration. No acknowledgement of making a mistake helps the guilty party pretend that nothing was wrong, and any inconvenience was certainly NOT their fault… There are people like that in every organization. We had the most frustrating experience with a long-ago church member. We left that church as did some others. There are also blamers who habitually blame someone else for their own errors. :grumble:


I’m still decorating for Christmas. Same story, part 2: Our new primary tree is in the garage waiting to be brought in. It is a living Dwarf Alberta Spruce tree like the one in the yard that is now too heavy for me to lift. DH could help lift the original tree in the past but not this year. The heavy pot we put the old tree in a few years ago worked very well to protect that tree from tipping over in the wind. It hasn’t blown over in the past year. The new tree is in a lightweight pot that I can manage and lift by myself. We can only keep it inside for 10 days or so at the most. Today or tomorrow it will come in the house. When it is time to take the new tree back outside, I’ll try to find a spot for it that is more protected from the wind so it can stay in its light weight pot and not blow over.

Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon

PRT- a physical readiness test must be passed by all personnel every so many months to stay in the Navy. If you don’t pass well a week of hell so many tries only to pass. Makes them all nervous! Good news is it goes by Male/Female y age so an older Woman isn’t expected to do as many as a young male who just left high school!

https://www.public.navy.mil/bupers-npc/support/21st_Century_Sailor/physical/Documents/Guide 5-Physical Readiness Test (May 2019).pdf

Here’s all about it Daughter falls into the female then by her age. She’s short so they keep yelling doesn’t count...we’ll she can’t grow longer arms lol so the push-up she’s more likely to have chest (breasts) touch the floor y not go as high up as they think. So she hates that one. She’s excellent at curl ups tho - faster cause not far to go up y Down lol

Amber Tx