WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR NOVEMBER 2020

Debbie
That is quite a lot of sweets! Looking at them makes me feel the weight coming on...LOL

Mrsbfe
What a beautiful cat! Do you have a name we can call you?

Son has decided it is probably a good thing we will not be sharing TG with them as one of their children's play mates in the neighborhood is being quarantined.

Chilly day in Georgia
Carol

Anniesquats100 wrote: »

She is getting so she asks the same question three times in five minutes. This doesn't bode well. She is 88.

My mother-in-law, 92, has dementia. She insists on living on her own at home, so we have a couple caregivers spend some time with her, and we have cameras all over her house as well as an emergency call button that she wears. Phone calls are always a bit frustrating because it takes just seconds for her to forget something you just said. She also has Alexa to give her reminders. I check the activity, and it's all usually "Alexa, what day is it?" at least four times an hour. We tried assisted living, but she got so depressed, missed her cats. My husband and his sister decided that her quality of life is more important than the length, at this point. It's such a difficult thing to deal with, because we feel bad when we get frustrated with her, but then it's difficult not to sometimes. I'm sorry you have to deal with this.

No formal exercise today but I will get my steps in. The plan for tomorrow is to do a body pump DVD.

Gina CA – when I got my car, Carmax was pretty good. They actually gave me more for my old vehicle than I expected. The other thing was that there wasn’t a salesman ready to pounce on you, you looked at the cars on their lot by yourself. Of course, to take a car for a test drive you needed to have one of their salesmen with you. But they didn’t pressure you to buy a car. But they also didn’t haggle over the price.

Katla – I do hope your healthclub opens again real soon. Great that you can visit with Arrow. That’s something else that’s on top of your list. Can you bring him a carrot?’’

Does anyone know if there is a small device (like a pedometer) that you can put in your pocket that displays the time of day? I think my watch is going slow again and that usually indicates that you need a new battery. But it seems like I’m going thru a lot of batteries for this watch. I can get the time on my phone. But the only problem is that some of my pants don’t have deep pockets. I do have a pedometer on my Christmas list. In the meantime, I’ll just use my phone to get my steps. But now I’m wondering about the time. It would be nice if there was a pedometer that would display not only steps, but calories and the time also. I don’t know if there’s any that’ll do that. Gotta check but thought someone on here might know off the top of their head. Today is work, then bowling (where I’ll s*** as usual), mahjongg tonight. I want something I can put in my pocket, not wear on my wrist. Update: the pedometer that I have on my list at Amazon does keep the time of day

Mrsbfe – is the breed of kitten “the kind you get at the Humane Society” or is it “the kind that is feral”. We have “the kind you get at the Humane Society”


Debbie CA – you sure do know how to wear down a gal’s resistance….lol

Michele NC

Michele: You can probably get a basic Fitbit style pedometer which tells the time, but make sure that it has clear instructions for use.

Michele:: This one definitely has a watch feature

Katla - being able to ride Arrow will be a nice reprieve for you.

Heather - what a beautiful picture of Edie.

Annie - I’m sorry you’re mom is starting to suffer from what sounds like a form of dementia. It’s a difficult road to navigate.
My Mom had been struggling for 7 years now, she is only 74. At one point before we could get her approved for the home, my Brother had to take all food out of her house she was eating continuously and making herself sick.
He started taking all of her meals and snacks to her each day.

Michele - my first thought was a pocket watch, but reading further I think you want a pedometer with the time. What about a Fitbit or something, I think a lot of them have time now.

I don’t have anything of great importance to share, just wanted to catch up.

Tracey in Edmonton

Debbie-those may be more deserts than I have made in my life!

Physically feel a bit better today. Seems like things are settling down a bit (less of an inflamed feeling). Stopped in at gym-just did some bike and treadmill, passed on lifting until I see doctor next week and see what he says. Was a bit uncomfortable but it didn't seem to make things worse. Felt good to move and get out of house. I was only persons there except for trainer. Trainer had been out sick, she was back today. She had Covid. Luckily a mild case. I had not been in there when she would have been contagious. She has no idea where she picked it up.

Some more restrictions started today-mainly size of groups at things like wedding receptions and restaurants and mandatory mask order for businesses getting reinforced. Will see what Governor has to say tomorrow.

Yesterday we had high winds and rain-lost power briefly but evidently others had it out for longer. Today much better.

Other that that, nothing new in my corner of the world. I am content with that!

Take care all,

Ginny in Ohio

Terri and Tracey – but aren’t all Fitbits things you wear on your wrist? I want something that goes in my pocket. I just don’t like the looks of one of them on my wrist

Terri – I tried searching for Nakosite, and I didn’t get any hits. Maybe that’s only something that can be purchased in Ireland. I’m looking at the Realalt right now. This one seems to count steps, calories and has the time of day. Actually, I’ve put it on my list for Christmas. I can live with my phone counting steps, calories and time of day until Christmas. This way it gives the kids something to get me. And if they don't get it, I will.

Go for my annual physical tomorrow. There are two things that I need to talk to him about. First I have this “thing” that hurts when I walk. I’m no doc and I’m not diagnosing, but it feels like when I had a plantar wart years ago. The other thing is that I sometimes get a pain in my lower back on my left side. At first I thought it was because my hamstrings are so tight. But now I’m wondering if it might not be arthritis. Or could it be that when my osteoporosis was so bad the vertebrae compressed? I wonder if he can see on the BDT? Other than that, everything's fine here. I went for my blood work on Fri. because I like for him to have the results at my physical. We shall see what tomorrow brings.

Michele NC