Jean, thank you for setting up the new thread. I’m wishing you good luck with your office visit today and praying a bed is available for your procedure tomorrow. I’m sure you’ll be happy to get that done and behind you. Congrats on the 21 pound loss! That’s quite an achievement given the conditions we all faced last year.

Due to the broken arm diet I’ve been on, I have lost about 5 pounds since November 30th, lol. I’m not sure if I’m eating better food, or if it’s because I drop several bites because my right hand is weak and shaky now, and my left hand wasn’t much better when I was using it. I do know while I was in the hospital they didn’t feed me for 2 days, so that gave me a big jumpstart! Of course, it also made me so weak and shaky that I had a hard time walking the hallways with the PT person and they didn’t want to sign off on releasing me. DH finally said to them “What do you expect? She hasn’t eaten for 2 days. Of course she’s weak and shaky!” It seems no one had even thought about ordering any meal trays for me until then. I was pretty heavily medicated so I wasn’t keeping track. As long as they gave me the pain meds I was happy, more or less. Since I’ve been home we’ve had several kind friends and neighbors who have brought us food or sent us Door Dash gift cards, so we have had some very nice meals. Those are tapering off now, so it’s back to our regular meals now. I think I may have regained a pound or two of that 5 pound loss.

I also discovered this morning that it is not only my pinky that is numb. One side of my ring finger (the one facing the pinky) is also numb and it extends into my hand, all the way down the side to just below my wrist. The accident has been the gift that keeps on giving!

Weight-wise I had a bad year. I know that's related to everything horrible that happened this year. Once upon a time I thought I wasn't a stress eater but that's obviously not true. I weighed myself this morning and have myself set up to get back on track!

Helene, considering the stress and sadness you were and are dealing with, a 1 pound weight gain is nothing. You are taking control and will soon be back on a better, healthier path.

Jean, I hope you got the call about your procedure schedule. It makes me sad to see people on the news who chose not to get vaccinated and then they or family get seriously ill with Covid. In some cases, family died. They have regrets that they didn’t get the vaccine but it’s too late. I saw a story this morning about an 8 month old who was hospitalized with Covid. She was born prematurely and had a non-Covid virus a couple months ago. You have to wonder how careful her parents were about exposing her to viruses. I don’t know if her family were vaccinated or not but you have to wonder if they masked up and socially distanced. I hope she recovers.

KonaKat wrote: »

I accidentally deleted the message so here goes an abbreviated version.

I didn't make it to the hospital. The cardiologist's nurse called me and said the emergency room had too many non-Covid patients waiting for a room. My heart rate this morning was 124.

Well, drat and double drat!!!!!

Andy does seem to be happy being inside. Jean, the only bright side is you got the call about the cancellation before you trekked over to the hospital. I ordered a new Fitbit and some N95 masks from Amazon. My old Fitbit was about 18 months old. The band broke and it took me a few months to get around to replacing the band. Once I got it, I tried to charge it. Nothing happened. I had purchased the protection plan so I filed a claim. I mailed it back and the company emailed me a $99 Amazon gift card which I pin towards the new Fitbit. I was a lot more responsive about walking when I used the Fitbit.

It's a cold but beautiful sunny day here today. We're to get a little more snow tonight. Just in case I left a ton of food at the colonies.

Tuffy is sitting here next to me. I'll have to move him soon so I can work. He's easy to move. Just rattle a treat jar. He'll do anything for treats.

So far this week I'm doing pretty good on the diet. Packets every day this week. Tomorrow will be grocery store frozen food.

We're apparently going to have a big package delivery day today. All the packages that were to come the last several days along with the ones that were to come today and even one that was to come tomorrow. At least they're all coming before dark and on a day with sunny skies.

It’s cold here, but dry. I’m with you Maryanne on being ready for spring! I really hate cold weather.

My OT appointment for today was cancelled because the therapist is sick. I’m assuming it isn’t Covid since I wasn’t advised to take precautions. Our numbers for Covid are skyrocketing again. I am staying home as much as possible and wearing a mask when I do have to go anywhere.

Three of my friends’ mothers are having a lot of falls lately. All should be using a cane but out of vanity refuse to do so. It’s hard to be sympathetic when they are willfully putting themselves at risk. I suggested that they discuss the falls with their mom’s doctors to see if they would perhaps prescribe some fall prevention classes as well as prescribing a cane. Hopefully they will follow through.

KonaKat wrote: »

I am home with an appointment with the cardiologist later this month. The problem still exists but it is non-emergency. I just spend a lot of time resting. The hospital is one of those overcrowded with Covid patients, so a pecking order is established for those wanting/needing a room. It just means that the cardiologist couldn't start me on the new med as it requires hospitalization. I could say something about those Covid patients who did not have one vaccine shot, but a severely ill person needs help regardless of bad decision making.

It is a "wonderful" 5 degrees. We had six inches of snow but an hour away, they had 13 inches. Love the way storms track. The news said some who only had a 30 minute drive never packed emergency provisions not thinking they would ever be trappe

In the meantime, I am existing with a heart rate in the 120s non-stop. I send a copy of my ECG I do at home to my carddiologist. I know what to do if I should have to go to the ER. I also just rest a lot.

Good thoughts for your heart to hang in there continue!

I've read a lot of articles and done a lot of thinking/soul searching about hospital triage decisions and vaccine status. Hospitals have done even more thinking/soul searching. They constantly have to make life and death decisions and having to decide who to save when they can't save everyone, while not everyday decisions, do arise. One minute I'm going down the path of "of course vaccination status should factor in" and then I remember "oh, they also need to decide whether to factor in obesity, drug use, alcohol use, and other bad decisions". Luckily no one cares about my opinion because I flip flop.

We're supposed to get freezing rain today and the farther north you go the more ice is predicted. Could be power outages in PA. I'm hoping not here.

Just finishing up week one of 2022 diet and so far I've been pretty good at sticking at it in spite of all the challenges (food ordering, boredom, etc.)

I've got my food picked out and spreadsheets filled out for the coming week.

Now I need to dig into CROM paperwork.

I HATE when things I've relied on for years disappear. Latest? McCormick pork tenderloin seasoning with cooking bag. Such an easy but good dinner. I pretty much wiped out ebay yesterday.

What I really hate is when I find out about something disappearing so late not even sellers on ebay have it - case in point - Wonderslim Marinara Ziti.