WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JULY 2020

MicheleNC

This is what I did with all the other leftover yarn scraps!



The hubs liked it so much he refused to let me donate it. He loves the burst of color on our couch!

Cheri
nighty night from Texas

"Get to do"s and "chose well"s Jumpback July
8: get the basics right: oops, not today, too much wine, too many sweet and salty snacks, not enough activity.

Machka sending waves of comfort, healing and love to your mother, your dh and to you. Take your heavy dressing gown, I’m always cold in hospital, the heated blankets never seem to last.
Karen in VA, Heather, Debbie in Napa, Vicki in NE, Amber, Tracey and Lisa((hugs))
Lisa and Katla never thought of the danger of chest freezers. Next time Joe suggests one, I’ll counter with an upright and now I know why!
the Levi and Evelyn's grands pics.
Welcome @Sara628588 and @Marie_Renick

Anyone have any experience with surgery (not laser treatment) for glaucoma? Joe meets surgeon in Medford in 2 weeks.

Lighter, lovelies!
Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD

KetoneKaren wrote: »

Tracey Lorna is a very beautiful name. Another exquisite story of love and loss.

Pip Does it look like the house sale will go through without a hitch?

Karen in Virginia

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yesterday was the inspection, Kirby said we should find out today how that's gonna go and what kind of $$$ we are going to have to dish out to fix whatever is wrong.

we got approved to rent the apartment, I had no doubt. they are going to send us a welcome packet. we are renting from the 13th on cuz that was when it's available but they are only going to charge us rent from the 24th onward so that is nice. saving us a couple of bucks

Heather - yes, there was one 'sliding door' (sliding window, anyway) moment for me. I was sitting in a McDonalds drive-thru, hoping the girl behind the window thought I was taking home one of those two breakfast sandwiches for someone else, when in reality, I meant to eat them both (combined, nearly 900 calories).

One of them I planned to eat before I got home, which was only ten blocks away, so I could walk in with just the one sandwich I had ostensibly gone for... In that short drive home, as I bolted the one sandwich, I reassured myself that you never see really fat old people, so it must get easier to lose weight as you get older--telling myself once more that I'd lose the weight "someday." I'd been to the doctor the day before, and was at my highest weight - 303 pounds.

And then a single, subversive little thought crossed my mind:

You don't see very fat old people because very fat people don't get old. They die.

That began every change that brought me here. Six months later I had a gastric bypass, lost 166 pounds, moved from Texas to Illinois for my husband's job, watched my 28-year marriage explode in slow motion after I became a flight attendant. Headed for Texas, met Corey, fell in love and married him a year later, became a mom to a 15 and 17-year-old son and daughter... and became the person I was meant to be all along.

One thought. One teeny-tiny moment that I've never forgotten.

Just before my surgery, at 300+ pounds, and not quite two years later. I was still unhappy, and you can see that in my eyes, but I had lost an entire person that I was carrying around (both psychologically and physically):



This was taken in December, the day after Corey asked me to marry him--and used as our engagement photo for the newspaper. He taught me how to be happy again.