WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JANUARY 2024

Thank you Ladies...I am trying to take deep breaths. I guess my biggest concern is that the ALT number is double what it was this time last year. We have watched his A1C slowly raise over the course of the past 4 years. Diabetes does run in his family. IMHO why wait to male changes until you have to be on meds. His sister has been on meds for 4 years and is now on 2 different ones. She just doesn't get that eating and exercise make a difference. I will say though that for the past two weeks, she has brought in plain yogurt with honey granola for mid morning snack. She also has diverticulitis. Since I mentioned that raisens have small seeds and she quit eating them, she hasn't had any attacks. Anyways, DH's father died at 53 , diabetic, blood clot to the heart. So I am concerned. I will keep breathing and see what happens. I will say that we have been home for 3 hours and DH hasn't opened a beer! Maybe he actually picked up on my worry.

Work was productive. We all worked to get product put away.

Need to move.

Pip Sorry, I read wrong , I thought you had already done it. I just saw that you have started now. Ouch on the fingers.

I did tell DH I felt really off this morning....checking my heart rate on fitbit it did go up over 160 (maxed at 178) for about 10 minutes. I was sitting in a chair! Still feeling off but no migraine and HR okay. Getting steps in with 20 min intervals. Simple dinner. Then will work in cross stitch after steps in .

Gotta get dinner going.
I appreciate all of you!


Kylia

PS. I know I can only change me and my habits and pray that DH follows example. He didctry a bite of yogurt today

Saturday (yesterday) ...

We organised and ran another long distance (Audax) cycling event. This one was 300 km to be completed in 20 hours or less including all breaks.

We had 4 riders for this event (numbers for these things are almost always small here) and saw them off at 6 am. It was a very windy day so they had to battle headwinds on the way out, but they had some fun on the way back. These 4 riders were remarkably strong. 3 of them finished the event in about 13 hours and one finished in 14 hours.

After we waved good-bye to them at 6 am, we returned to our cabin, and had a cup of coffee.

At 7:10 am, I had a live interview on the radio regarding the event!! I had been contacted about it during the week and it was all arranged. That's the first time I've been live on radio!!

Then we took a nap. When we've organised this particular event before, we've often gone out for a 50 km ride ourselves, but this COVID thing has knocked us about and we haven't been on bicycles in about 6 weeks. Plus we knew it was going to be a long day.

A bit later, we drove out to a town where we set up and met the riders with food and water. They were at the 200 km point of the ride and looking very fresh given that they'd had so much headwind! But the tailwind portion had begun and they were enjoying that part.

When all 4 had come through, we came back to await their arrival.

All good!

And even I was in bed a bit early ... to lie down and read.

I'm reading a Mary Higgins Clark book just now.


Machka in Oz

Lisa - I hope you and Corey get to enjoy the sunroom lots this weekend. It’s good Home Depot stepped up.
I have several ideas running through my head currently about getting my house the way it would work better for me.

Heather - Congratulations on getting the book published.

Ginny - I find things usually do work as they are meant to.

Annie - can you put a gps tracker in his coat? My friend has some that she used for her tortoise, it’s about the size of a quarter and she tracks it from her phone. At least you would know where he is. You could stitch it in a collar or hem and he wouldn’t even know it was there. Maybe even put it in his shoes. I think they are supposed to be used for luggage, but if it works.
The grief and stress of your Mother’s passing has probably accelerated your Dad’s decline.

Kylia - I used to stress so much about my DH’s health. My friend whose DH was having some very serious issues told me that I was not his Mother and he had to be responsible for his own health.
It took me a long time to settle my brain into that thinking, but I have and it’s helped my health doing so.
I don’t know why, some men are so hard to get to take care of themselves.
I let his doctor nag him now and he has really made some good changes.

Rosemarie - I can understand both sides of that with your grandfather. We had a couple of residents try to leave the home I worked at. One left in the middle of winter and was found down the street. We had a system called wanderguard where the doors locked if any resident wearing the ankle bracelet went near it, this particular resident had never tried to leave before. I can understand why they want to go home.

Lanette - is nurse Kelly’s dad a handsome widower? 😉

Rita - I hope you find a place you and DH would enjoy.

Betsy - I hope to see Alaska someday.

Rebecca - outings with friends are the best.

Pip - did you just pull the mirror off or did you try to heat it or anything? We want to do the same in our bathroom.

Machka - I stole that meme for my FB. I have friends that will enjoy it.

The first coat of mud is on the wall and the ceiling repair that’s been needed since Oct 2022 has been repaired. He will come back tomorrow for the 2nd coat.

Rodger had a longer day than expected bringing my friends camper home for her. When they arrived back I went with her to get some things out of the trailer and also into the trailer. She didn’t have room in her truck for her sweet dog so he is here pouting and sad tonight. He is such a sweetheart, I’m going to miss having him around for his personality but not for his fur!

I organized some photos today for Kaitlyn’s scrapbook. I need to really put some more thought into it yet, but if I can figure out the pictures I want I’ll have an easier time doing the album.

I thought I may clean out my hope chest and organize it today, but that’s where all of the family history stuff including my grandmother’s and mom’s diaries. I opened one of Grammie’s randomly and found where she bought her wedding dress she called it a “green velvet seethrough, it was almost a wrap style dress but sewn instead of a tie for the waist. I wonder if that’s what she was describing. I forget the date exactly but it was January 1941. She also bought her hat and coat that she was wearing in the picture I shared at the same time. She mentioned another notebook that had the prices of her purchases. I decided I wasn’t in the mood to sort that today because it’s always a bit emotional for me so I left it as is.
I did clean the coat closet out and organized it a bit today. The biggest area now is the bedroom.

I’m currently sitting here thinking o could probably go to bed. I am tired for some reason this evening.

Tracey in Edmonton