WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR APRIL 2020

AMBER Did something similar a couple of years ago think it was Walking to Gondor (Lords of the Rings)

Did roast chicken today with roast Mediterranean veg lots of olive oil and sesame seeds and roast potatoes Greek style (Olive oil water and oregano. )
DH loves this. You all know I don’t like cooking, think it’s more that I don’t like standing over stuff. Going with the Greek theme (I love Greek food) we’ve got a half leg of lamb in the freezer. Next week I will do lamb kleftiko in the slow cooker.

For newcomers I am 75 in a couple of weeks married for 55 years in June. I am retired now was a college librarian before I retired. I had my 2 children at a young age, went to work part time while they were growing up. Went back to education in my 40sand graduated university.
I read, knit, sew, do crosswords, exercise and doing a huge jigsaw during our lockdown
Although I don’t like cooking I love eating I’ll try most things but DH is very conservative
I live in NW England in big city which I love

Kate xxx

cityjaneLondon wrote: »

As of yesterday our government is sticking to the advice that masks are not advised unless you yourself have a cough or sneeze. I am not wearing one, but I do wear gloves to remind me not to touch my face. Unless you wear them properly and change them after each wearing a mask can do more harm than good. You must not touch your mask if you have touched anything else. I see people touching them, pulling them down etc.

I also would go to hospital if I needed any breathing aid. I would not home medicate. Home treatment can be seriously damaging to health and many people are dying because they are waiting too long to go into hospital. They have already crashed. Our hospitals currently have enough capacity and treatment is excellent.

Lanette - why do you think you have an 80% chance of dying? I give myself 95% chance of surviving, despite my age. I give my DH 80% because he is a man and 4 years older than me. Do you have an underlying health issue?

Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx

Heather - Katla

Sorry I was unclear. The 80% chance of dying vs. 10% chance of getting heart problems was just an example. I pulled those numbers out of thin air, no facts. Just trying to show that if the odds are good a drug would work for me, if needed and available, even with a small chance it wouldn't work or do me harm, then I'd be willing to try it.

Reading the inserts listing possible side effects of drugs DH takes for his RA is scary. The fact that they can have interactions that are detrimental but his rheumatologist figures the good outweighs the bad, well, we just have to go with it and pray that his Dr. is right.

Lanette
Hoping for a bit of sunshine so I can shovel dirt and plant potatoes.

Hi all. It's a cool and misty day here and I have spent most of it catnapping with the cats. Nothing productive at all, but I feel well, so I guess it was meant to be. Still trying to work all the angles to get hubby out; he has made his application to the warden and we have a court petition ready to go If (when, really), they deny him.

I recently found out that a coworker had been to China for her mother's funeral and got out right before the big panic started there; I had very close contact to her right before I got sick. Don't remember if I told you, but I had the "flu" and missed almost 5 weeks of work. Totally unheard of for me. They weren't even thinking Corona virus back then, but now the CDC has identified deaths in California as early as Feb 6 from it. So I believe that's what I had and plan to get antibody testing when it's available.

Barbie: your tulips are beautiful! And that dog picture OMG. I swear I have seen more dogs here in the last month than Ive seen in 14 years of living here!

Quarantine coffee: I need more limes

Karen: bulbs can be perinneal in places that stay warm, but you have to dig them out each year and freeze them. I had an aunt in Houston who did that every year.

Katla: nice to see you too!

Tere: I'm so sorry for all your losses!

Amber: hooray for the ring fitting!

I too struggle with being productive while stuck at home all day.

Oh, in other news, I had some skin cancer removed off the lower side of my nose about 3 weeks ago now. It's healing nicely; the dermatologist did a skin graft with skin from behind my ear. That was a creepy sound...scraping skin away from on top of the bone behind my ear. Bleh!

I joined a kickboxing club (Yes, me with my bone-on-bone knees) and love it. They have been posting daily workouts. Yesterday I worked out for an hour. My knees actually feel better than before!

OK that's all the news that is news. Take care, Meg from Omaha.