Roll Call - Friday, October 21, 2022
shenry111
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Good morning!
I'm not sure why I didn't post yesterday.
Dave, what a beautiful hike that you had! Wow!
Bill, praying in earnest for your health.
I went to the doctor yesterday. BP was great. It was overall a good visit. He cut off a growth on my left temple. He said the likelihood that it was cancerous was very low, but he had it sent off for testing anyway. He said that I could still try to fight my cholesterol by diet rather than pills.
I have not been making much progress at work, but I keep hoping. I was able to gain just a bit of ground yesterday. I still have not really started closing August. I am very frustrated with that.
I still don't know if Tisha is going to make it. I give her a 50/50 shot now. I will monitor her closely until next Friday, and then make a final decision. She shows some promising signs, but she also shows that if we keep her, she could be a real frustration. I don't really need many more frustrations. My patience with her is thinning.
I have a three day weekend coming up. Monday would have been Jacob's 34th birthday. I am taking the day off to honor Jacob and help support Connie. I'm doing pretty well this year. I think that I have been too busy to be depressed, and my current meds are really doing their job.
Have a great day!
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Good Morning!
Regrettably I am up early. The Tramadol has worn off. I am hoping to transition back to just Tylenol ER today. The ortho did new X-rays on my knee and showed me where I am bone on bone and the additional arthritis development. But he thinks we can give the Synvisc another go. That will happen next week. The heart ultrasound was interesting. I was able to see the screen and see the chambers of my heart and hear the heart beating, a unique experience. There was nothing earth shattering in her preliminary report as much as I could understand it. I hopefully will finally start with a new ESL student today. She has cancelled the last two weeks. I look forward to this. It will also help distract from the noise coming from my back and knee. Temps dropping back down again as fall returns and hopefully stays this time. Bad food day yesterday. I need to watch myself when I get mentally worn down from all this health stuff.0 -
Mornin' gents.
Got my hairs (whats left of them) cut yesterday. Good day dog training. Repotted hibiscus and brought inside with lemon tree. Roasted a chukar partridge with brussell sprouts and shitake mushrooms. Got the recipe from Hunter/Angler/Cook.
Young people definitely have a way of distracting you from your aches and pains. Funny that you mentioned stress/pain eating. I was joking with a training partner yesterday about when feeling worn down whether I have a drink or eat. I tend to eat, but maybe I should drink because I am a famous lightweight and would fall asleep after just one scotch and thus not consume too many calories.
Love hearing that you are feeling better, Steve. And glad you got that thing cut off your temple. So many of us ignore seeing the doc for stuff like that. Prayers for you and Connie this weekend. Prayers for Tisha as well.
Well, noticed all the parents in the neighborhood were waiting for their kids at the bus stops yesterday instead of letting them hop off the bus and walk to the house alone. I can just imagine how we would have dealt with a bear when I was a 10 yr old kid. Me and my neighborhood buddies, including a couple of girls, would have gone bear hunting with our sling shots. I would imagine all the bears in the area would be so annoyed that they would leave. We were so annoying that the non parent neighbors probably would have loved it if we were eaten by bears. Imagine a pack of kids on their bikes with sling shots in their back pockets.
Boy, did we get into trouble. I even witnessed one of our gang's abused mother murder his dad with a .22 pistol in the front yard when riding over to his house (that is obviously not a fond memory that I tend to suppress). Now that I have brought up that memory, I feel the need for a stack of pancakes slathered with butter and maple syrup with a fried egg on top and bacon/sausage on the side.
Maybe I'll just go play with the dogs instead.
You all didn't really know how messed up I am, did you?
Be OP ;-)
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Good morning gentlemen.
Hang in there, Steve.
Hope the Synvisc gives your knee some relief, Bill. I went through that 15 years ago and it helped some - losing 60 lbs. helped a lot more. Surprisingly my knees haven't given me much grief the last few years. Back pain is another thing entirely. Is there anything that really helps?
Our long, late summer is over. I can see the rain approaching on the radar. We have 100 percent chance of rain, with a high of 57, today. That is pretty much normal for the date - but a far cry from the near-80 sunshine we have had lately.
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