WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR AUGUST 2021

auntiebk wrote: »

"Get to do"s and "chose well"s

Chose well: take BP, dogs to powerline, 4 loads laundry.
Bonus: changed linens, 40 mins vacuuming 110 mins cleaning, YouTube highest point in KS :laugh: and part of Mossy Forest hike.
Get to do: take BP, dogs to powerline, finish minutes, dog group, veg prep, do something with goat’s milk, cheese or yoghurt?, flagger course progress, figure out how to see what’s using all our mobile data, USE those torture bands/do that BB&B video, call S, fire district: research NFPA, grant NIMS requirements, ongoing: input 2019 call sheets into NFIRS, work with chief on equipment letter, substance abuse policy, NFIRS mutual aid and other missing details, likewise Lee skills/tasks, ask for boots donator contact info, appreciation letter or certificate to boots donator, index mutual aid files; watch STAS Day 20, declutter sideboard, learn new dances (Tequila Little Time, Homesick, Nothing but You, A Little Less Broken, Blame it on my beating heart,; Do Your Thing, practice dances: One Margarita, I’m so used to being broke, All Night, Pure Movies to Wine, Beer, Whiskey, I ain’t never gonna love nobody but Cornell Crawford (Alley cat),); finish mulching flowerbed, invest another 10 minutes in prepping living trust, Freddie’s for complete series TDAP <$48, get Shingrix vaccine, find and configure a screen time popup, figure out where to plant the last of the naked lady bulbs, and soon as it warms up above 50 and dries out below 60% humidity I’ll tape and spray paint those rusted areas of Aunt Elsie’s stove, ask Te about GB’s FD firetruck tax levy – contacts, media, advocate???, Reward: inventory seeds, plan this fall’s garden, wishlist replenishments (Milena F1 orange peppers and beit alpha cukes next year).
August
20: Look for the good in everyone you meet today: Home all day so only Joe. Lots of good there, see critter stories.
21: Donate unused items, clothes or food to help a local charity: maybe Sunday

Had house to myself today so did I finish the minutes? Nope! But cleanathon needed doing too…

Pressure was 20 in Joe’s stubborn eye, so Dr. injected a tiny something that releases medicine over time. Might work for a few months, or up to two years, will recheck in six weeks. It hurt the poor guy all the way home and I think it still hurts but perhaps a bit less.

Julie so sorry to hear about the distracted and unresponsive surgeon. The downside I see to healthcare for all is possible lack of accountability in professionals. Are there websites with reviews of health care professionals? There are astounding delays here too. We must keep advocating for ourselves, follow up, demand results and push for sooner appointments wherever needed/possible. If the results show they didn’t get it all, can you demand a better surgeon and dermatologist team? ((hugs)) and healing thoughts.
Machka and those are just the visible scars.. I am so happy to hear “sleep” in your plans. Long postponed and overdue. your story, the wedding photos, and the persistence of your love.
Allie “badge of courage” indeed!
Karen The artist is Dr. Teri Cottingham of Idaho Dermatologic and Laser Associates.
KJ you make me laugh. You have no idea how hard it was for me to do a selfie. Not my gift!
Heather snow globes and mess and touching family history and wine. What a rich day! Cheers!
Pip what are the plans for your patio?
Kylia a raise AND two interviews? Wow things are looking up!!!

Time to snoozzzzzzz
Lighter, lovelies!
Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD

August: leaner/stronger/kinder than July.
daily: sit with Joe: 18, weigh/wii: 20/0/0; steps>6704=7332 vits=19, log=20, CI<CO=19, CI<250<CO=15, Tumble=11, Shadow=19, mfp=21, outside=23, up hill=22, clean 10=21.
wkly: Sun: Mon: Tue:LD YH=1, Wed:TC=2, PW=2. Thurs: Fri:TC=2. Sat:PW=2. rX x4=2.
wt=1/31:141.3 2/28:142.4 3/31:145.3 4/30:141.5 5/31:142.4 6/30:141.5 7/31:140.2!!! 8/1:141.3 8/8:140.4 8/15:141.5
mnthly: board mtg=1, grant=, plan=, waist=42.0
bonus: AF:12 play= sew=

2021: choose to be leaner/stronger/kinder NOW

rjv230 wrote: »

I’m 70, a widow after 50 years together, and only 4’9”. My nutritionist says pretty Impossible for me to lose the weight I gained in last 3 years. I want to lose at least 10 lbs. my size and age, she says, means I can only eat 1000 calories a day! And that is with exercise and possibly ONLY losing 1/2 lb a week! I am trying to keep the calorie count. Don’t think this is the way. Any stories, suggestions, success will help. I feel defeated. Can I lose and still eat and have energy?

Snowflake1968 wrote: »

Evelyn - I was a secretary for the condo board for one year. I hated it. My closest neighbour and I joined at the same time in hopes of trying to make some changes, the older people never let us have a say and outvoted us on everything so we quit. Thankfully, I don’t deal with that now.
We are forecasted for rain all next week, I hope you get some too.

Heather - I couldn’t work for my husband either. We have worked together a few times at the same companies but I was “over” him. We had a rule that work talk was off limits at home. Thankfully those were short lived times.
Thank you, I think my Grands are pretty awesome. So are yours!

Margaret - I used to be very “old fashioned” in that it was my job to cater to my husband. My daughters would both say I still do it. My husband says I never did. Like you, I like this younger generation does better than we did at being equals. I hope he sees the light and starts treating you better soon. Hugs.

Allie - how exciting! A boy will be wonderful.

Pip - do you find that much cycling boring? Great job!

Machka- I have a few calendar pictures that I have framed. I have them hanging in my office at work right now, but have used them around the house too. It is cheap “artwork”. I stack them in the frame so I can change them out from time to time but don’t need to find storage space for them.

I also have a bin of cards from people that mean a lot to me. I only keep the cards that have thought put into them though, not the type you buy by the box.

Pip - have you seen how some people are painting “rugs” on floors to give a different look? I bet you could do that on your cement slab to give it a different look, you’re very talented.

I had a relaxing evening last night. Today I am doing some tidying and then I am going to pick Michaela up for a visit with our youngest daughter and her MIL who is visiting. It will be a good day.

Tracey in Edmonton

grandmallie wrote: »

Me and the boy are settled in and will pray for the best...
Im watching a Love Boat marathon and enjoying so much..
Made ice ,have a bucket of water ready etc...
Our Electric company here is outrageous the delivery charge is twice what the Electric bill is.. and what the kicker is they say it could be 10-20 days without power now they have back up coming in but there track record isnt good. And I sure hope we dont lose power...

kizanne2 wrote: »

Ok Been so busy at work. Reading mostly but wanted to add the information a few have asked about.

Gallbladder cleanse and more

So I'm going to break this into 3 sections probably. The cleanse itself. Other related medical information. My personal experience.

The gallbladder cleanse. There is a great book called The amazing liver and gallbladder cleanse it's available via kindle and I think cost about $20. It's an interesting read. Well worth $20.

I have read about lots of different version of this and I adapted my own. I'll list opt. optional or required rq. parts to the cleanse and what they do.

The night before your cleanse clean out your bowels. I do 2 12 oz bottles of magnesium sulfate same as you would before a colonoscopy. RQ. the alternative is a colonic.

2 days of apple juice. 2 cups every 2 hours for a total of 14 cups. No food *see below for opt. into*
This gives you a bunch of natural malic acid and doesn't trigger your gallbladder because it has no fat. The malic acid helps soften gallstones. believe or not you won't be hungry.

at 6 pm the of the second night I dissolve 4 tablespoons of epsom salts into 24 oz. of warm water. Then drink 6 oz. of this reserving the rest for later. RQ. Epsom salts are known to dilate your bile ducts so this is very important. I drink a little apple juice after this as it is very bitter. OPT.

8pm drink 6 oz. of the epsom salt water. RQ. Rinse with apple juice. OPT.

10 pm I take 4 oz of olive oil and mix it with some fresh squeezed citrus juice either lemon or grapefruit depending on what I have on hand. RQ. This causes strong contractions in your gallbladder.

I lay down very still with my head higher than my stomach. Then try to sleep.

6 am 6 oz epsom salt. RQ
8 am 6 oz epsom salt. RQ this is generally when I start seeing stones.

My last cleanse I didn't want all the apple juice so I did a fast and changed out the apple juice is malic acid. I'm not sure it worked as well and I was hungry.

I also have started taking Ox bile tablets, Gold coin grass, and apple cider vinger.


That's it that's the cleanse. I always feel better after but sometimes not for long periods. The general consensus from forums I've read is it works but you have to keep at it 10 - 12 times. SPaced at least 3 weeks apart.

My personal experience. There is lots of information on the net about every kind of item. I was having mostly left side pain, naseau, heavy fatigue. They sent me for an ultrasound and found stones but did not say how big, how many or anything like that. They sent me to a surgeon. I didn't like reading that 30% of people who have the surgery still have problems that their issue isn't necessarily resolved. I asked to go to a gastroentenologiest who told me 40% of people have gallstones and never it know it because they don't always cause problems. I also have fatty liver.

Since my pain was left side and I wasn't in right side pain. I decided to wait and research more. I did a cleanse. I felt better. I waited 2 months started to feel some pain or so and did another one. this goes on for a while and then my GP wants to run a hidascan since I didn't have the surgery. They say my gallbladder functions at 11%.

I was first diagnosed April of 2020. I still occasionally get pain but the majority of my pain is gone. I am feeling better and I think my root problem is insulin resistance. This creates high cholesterol which in turn plays a role into forming gallstones.

When reading and listening to doctors videos about insulin resistance it make so much sense why despite medical advances we are still a sick people. You can track the uptick in lots of diseases with the food that became popular partly due to industrialization and partly due to the USDA recommendations.

Further insulin resistance is best measured by HOMA-IR but most general practitioning doctors only look at fasting blood sugar. By the time your fasting blood sugar is high enough to trigger their next step you most likely have type 2 diabetes. People really should keep track before that.

Lastly if you have never had weight problems you maybe able to eat whatever USDA recommends and be healthy but those of us who have become overweight and then tried dieting to fix it often times this makes you insulin resistant so USDA can certainly work for people whose body hasn't been damaged. But a look at the data shows that the more people by survey (over time) who says they follow the USDA recommendations which are carb heavy the more incidence of diabetes, heart disease and such we have.

Medical disscussion
Most doctors won't recommend a clease because you may get a gallstone stuck in your duct.
1. The epsom salt dialates your ducts helping to prevent this.
2. The same doctors say they don't work but if they don't work, I mean if gallstones don't come out then how would you get a stone stuck?
3. some people say well you can't get stuff to go up into your gallbladder so the apple juice and stuff isn't going there. Your body recycles 90% of your bile which goes back into your gallbladder and the medicine which does exist (prescription ursodiol which dissolve them slowly over time) So if you can't get stuff in there to help then why is there a prescription medicine that does just that?
4. many say oh you aren't seeing stones. You are just seeing a soap like mixture make by the olive oil and citrus. Ok sound actually plausible. But I've done 6 of these and my husband being a good trooper has done them with me as support and a why not. For the first 5 I spit out lots of stones and he didn't spit out any. So the one who has stones on her ultrasound spits out soap but not the other guy who is eating/drinking the same exact thing.
BTW on the 6th cleanse he got a few stones out.

Could I end up at the hospital in pain and needing my gallbladder out due to the cleanse. yes but they already wanted to yank it out.

I really feel they are helping and there are lots of other people who swear they have helped them as well. It isn't a quick fix like surgery.

Surgery makes some people better and great and wonderful. For too large a portion for my liking. It makes it hard to eat protein and fat. It give them diarrhea because the bile now just seeps out constantly into the intestines. For others the pain doesn't go away because it wasn't cause by the gallbladder. Even with your gallbladder out you can still get stones forming in your liver. Look up biliary stones.

I'm not a medical doctor and I don't know where my journey will end but the chinese have been doing some similar things like ox bile, gold coin grass and cleanses for thousands of years as a gallbladder management system. I love modern medicine but I don't know that gallbladder removal is a great idea.

On the other side by not removing it I do increase the odds of getting pancreatitis.

Insulin Resistance
If you are still reading and interested watch this https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=dr+ekberg+insulin+resistance&view=detail&mid=06F2C51425564208D09D06F2C51425564208D09D&FORM=VIRE

there is so much more but it's a start.

4. many say oh you aren't seeing stones. You are just seeing a soap like mixture make by the olive oil and citrus. Ok sound actually plausible. But I've done 6 of these and my husband being a good trooper has done them with me as support and a why not. For the first 5 I spit out lots of stones and he didn't spit out any. So the one who has stones on her ultrasound spits out soap but not the other guy who is eating/drinking the same exact thing.