WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JUNE 2020

Good morning, afternoon and evening, all,

Heather - WOW, I had not realized your son had improved his health so much or so obviously. He also looks so much happier!

CJ - Welcome back!

trucker743 wrote: »

Lisa in AR, what a dear picture! Was it made in celebration of some event? Looks so festive! | Glad to hear you are tracking again, BTW. I was given some fudge and I can’t not eat it. Fortunately my posts of shame should end tomorrow. I faithfully record every item that goes in my mouth and every weigh in, which is almost every day. | The candy hasn’t even helped me gain from the surgery weight loss, darn it.
Sharon Near Seattle

Sharon - my niece is a professional and does a series of Princess photography sessions every year for little girls (and big ones, I assume , and sells out every session, so I'm sure it was basically advertising for her. Her son is all boy, snips, snails, puppy dog tails, mud, frogs and deliberate spit bubbles, so I'm a little surprised she was able to keep him clean long enough to get the picture! I am faithfully recording my food, yes, because when I think "oh to heck with this, I'm not going to write down that I've eaten that!" is when I start truly sliding back into the pit and give up entirely. As long as I'm owning it, I can lose slowly but surely by goosing my mind back into the right groove. It worries me a bit that you've gone that low, it sounds like excessive malabsorption - what is your doc saying about it?

Heather - my state's COVID cases continue to rise slowly as well, but the two counties where we spend all our time have had only a few cases and no deaths. I fully expect to see the rise continue, as Monday will be two weeks since Memorial Day, which saw a lot of people who were violating the social distancing requests, and then more rises in cases to come after that due to all the protests. People aren't wearing masks, they're yelling, they're not staying six feet apart, and it's just a recipe for the spread of infection.

I think I'll just stay home a while longer.

Later,
Love y'all,
Lisa in AR

Good morning everyone. Welcome to the newbies. Exercising(walking) has come to a halt for 2 wks. now. I have pain in lower back and just under butt that goes down to knee and I almost fall. This stinks. Had xrays of right hip and knees, now waiting for dr. I'm calling again today. Weather has been great. Went to local health center just after it reopened to get weighed. I lost another 3 lbs. I'm now UNDER 170!!!!! Have not watched my girls in 3 weeks and it has been heavenly. I stay away completely when I can. Did go yesterday to plant pepper plants and then home in rainstorm. Today my oldest son & DIL are coming for the weekend. WE love to cook when together.
Hope everyone has a great weekend. Take care.
Maarianne-WV

auntiebk he says it's called soft wash. I will get his name and number. I don't know where you live and how far he travels

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Morning, afternoon and evening (again), to all,

Wading through the transition week after leaving my job, I've veered wildly from being incredibly grateful that I could quit to being incredibly apprehensive that I did. These will both pass. I'm simply trying not to do what I've always done in my reasonably rare periods of unemployment and pile stress on myself.

Struggling to sleep the last couple of nights as the left knee begins throbbing the moment I lie down, and finding a position where it will stop has become almost impossible. When I finally do doze off, the moment I move, the pain wakes me. Last night, I finally got up about 11 and got in the recliner and was able to find that comfortable position. Did some checking, and yes, it's probably from overuse, and yes, it's probably the fact that it's already bone on bone. However, I'm already taking massive doses of anti-inflammatories for arthritis in all my joints, and can't really increase those. Won't take opiates, so that's out. Already using kinetic tape on both knees to provide stability and balance on both sides, and ice packs did zero good the first night.

There is some thought that a knee pillow will be of help, and that's the next thing I'll try tonight. And, if worst comes to worst, get up and sleep in the recliner. Oddly enough, there is little to no pain during the day, unless I just sit still too long and the knee stiffens up. When I'm up and moving around on it, there's no pain at all. There was no pain working for 30 minutes straight on the elliptical, either, this morning or any morning.

But, I'm going to go dig up the physical therapy exercises they gave me for my right knee replacement a little over a year ago and start strengthening my quads, etc., for both knees. The writing is on the wall for getting the left one replaced, but as I'm with the VA, they will insist on me being 25 pounds lighter than I am right now. Might as well get that done first.

Shower time, then the day rolls out in front of me with only me to decide what I will and won't do. Weird. I'll get used to it.

Hugs to those who need them, welcome to the ones who are new,
Love y'all,
Lisa in AR

Janet7476 I am saying a pray for you and your family.