WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR AUGUST 2024
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Afternoon ladies
Busy day..took Doris to eye dr,she will have her retina replaced..
And her hearing aid was having issues, so we were near the hearing aid place across the river so we stopped over and one of the tubes was broken,so they fixed both of them and we were off.and stopped to feed her daughters cat and mini horse chip..
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Tracey: Beautiful! You have a great eye for home decorating. So sweet that Michaela had a hand in the project.
Debbie: I hope your mom's roommate makes a swift and quiet exit. Best of luck with the trial run to San Francisco, and even more so when you take MIL.
Carol and Heather: Keep thinking positively. May everyday get better, better and better. What music do you want to dance to?
Machka: Yes, you have definitely earned a nice weekend off.
I got stung on the arm by a wasp at work two days ago and it still hurts. Fortunately I'm not allergic, but I am now just a bit more aware of them buzzing by me at the pool, on my deck or just about anywhere I go outside.
I'm am getting closer to choosing a package to Phuket. And, have started the process to renew my passport. Lanette: No, N will not be going to Thailand with me. He spends Thanksgiving with family, and that is when I'll be leaving. He is busy planning our 6th Playdate, which currently looks like camping and then attending the concert known as FarmAid. This takes place next month. Can't wait. Although we text daily, I do miss his company.
Stay well, friends. We can do this.
Rori
Colorado Foothills
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Rori - Good to see you. I was never good at long-distance relationships... you deal with it much better than I ever did.
Rebecca - So hard when they're far away and you can't reach out and hug them at times like this.
Heather - He looks very serene, not resigned, just at peace. Thinking you of you both, as well as his loving wife.
Waiting on Corey's coming home call - meatballs are out thawing for the evening meal (two for me, six for him). They will be great with his home-grown, home-canned marinara, a little pasta, half a piece of my homemade focaccia bread (also thawing from frozen) and a little parmesan.
With that, I'm going to land in the same calorie space as yesterday, but one thing I learned a long while back was skipping dinner (for me) isn't worth it, as I just wake up and eat everything in sight tomorrow, and then spiral out for the rest of the day.
So I'll eat dinner, and tomorrow I'll finish out my week of honest tracking of every calorie going in and out and adding a little movement into each day. Next week, I'll look at each day as a single frame, track everything, eat a few less calories here and there, start getting this weight trend going the other direction.
Did get ten minutes of yoga done, but even doing the Epley maneuver on the right side this morning didn't stop all the vertigo. I'll keep working on it. Might not be positional this time, but sometimes it does take more than one attempt.
Hope it is/was a good evening for everyone.
Later, my lovelies,
Lisa in AR
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I’ve had a good day. Mostly an active rest day.
Rebecca: Hope youngest son gets proper tests and answers soon.
Debbie: Good news on the roommate. I hope she goes quietly.
Virtual (((hugs))) and 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 for those who need them.
🙋♀️ Miele failte to the newbies.
☘️ Terri
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Rebecca Question...has your sin seen a dentist lately? I have had two friends with wounds that wouldn't heal. Turns out they had infection in their gums. Worth asking about. My son in law developed psoriasis in the Navy. Under stress it would get awful. Just a couple suggestions.
Tracey Love the table and chairs!
Enjoying the kittens playing in the man cave with DH. SHOULD be working, but.....
Countdown to vacation!
Lots of love and gratitude,
Kylia in Ohio3 -
Rori how nice to see you! A few years ago I got stung by a wasp and to this day the minute I see a wasp, out comes the wasp and hornet spray. Hope it heals fast for you. By the pool I have the WHY trap (wasp, hornet, yellow jacket). I use apple juice as the attractant and let me tell you, it attracts EVERYTHING that flys
Walked down to the dollar store because I wanted some freeze dried fruit. It’s so sad that on my way home it started getting dark
Lisa – I hope that vertigo goes away soon, very soon
Michele NC5 -
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Well, in the end, I did bring it in a couple hundred calories lower than yesterday at 1690, and a bit more calories burned at 1533, so reasonably pleased on that note. The idea is just to get better than yesterday, not to get obsessed.
The diuretics are peeling off the water, though, at a couple pounds a day. I was at 166 on Tuesday and 159 today. I knew I was swelly, but didn't know how much was legit weight gain and how much water. Three more days on the booster diuretic, and we'll see where I land on Monday, my official weigh-in. And then see what happens once I've finished it.
Michele - Thank you, I hope the vertigo goes soon, too. It doesn't affect every waking minute, but shows up when I look up, when I spin around and walk a different direction, when I quickly glance left or right and nearly got to the point of nausea when I was trying to do my yoga. Frustrating. Oh - and it shows up every time I lie down in bed. Or turn over. And it showed up two days BEFORE I started the booster diuretic, so I don't think it's the cause. No apparent reason at all. Grf.
Off to bed, my chickens...
Love,
Lisa in AR6 -
I’m wondering if I might have EIA. Yesterday, after mowing the weeds, I came inside to take a shower and I think I could hear myself wheezing. I do remember taking things downstairs like the Halloween decorations and Christmas decorations, and after coming up the stairs, I was out of breath. Gotta see if this continues.
Michele NC
Sounds more like allergies than EIA (Exercise Induced Asthma) ... pollen, dust.
I've had to take my allergy pills every day during this whole move thing because of all the dust, and I have to take them when the Christmas decorations start appearing in the stores and everywhere for the same reason.
Machka in Oz
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LisaInArkansas wrote: »Michele - Thank you, I hope the vertigo goes soon, too. It doesn't affect every waking minute, but shows up when I look up, when I spin around and walk a different direction, when I quickly glance left or right and nearly got to the point of nausea when I was trying to do my yoga. Frustrating. Oh - and it shows up every time I lie down in bed. Or turn over. And it showed up two days BEFORE I started the booster diuretic, so I don't think it's the cause. No apparent reason at all. Grf.
Off to bed, my chickens...
Love,
Lisa in AR
Some of our physiotherapists here are trained to deal with various vestibular issues ... might that be an option for you?
I was feeling really dizzy yesterday, and it wasn't till I had to lie down in the evening because I was feeling so bad that I realised I had forgotten to take my one and only medication the night before!!
Took that, and about an hour later, the world because to steady itself. This morning the screaming in my ears has died off to the usually high-pitched ring.
Machka in Oz
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Snowflake1968 wrote: »My table and chairs. Michaela and I set the table with my great grandmother’s dishes for a photo shoot.
I am incredibly proud of this job and so thankful it is done!
Beautiful job!!
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Whidislander wrote: »Last night was able to text with youngest sailor. Dermatologist did blood work and found some abnormalities, but with rash, and his wound on leg that isn't healing, the doctor referred him to internal medicine saying it might be Crohn's. I wish I could be there to just wring the docs neck. His symptoms though he has some skin issues isn't the major symptoms of Crohn's which is an inflammatory disease of the digestive tract mostly. The derm doc didn't even call him back up with his diagnosis, another sailor did, and called my son while he was in berthing, so son said it was heard to understand. I did tell son that more tests should be done, and he has to really be firm with medical so he can be proactive with his health. He's just a 25 yr old kid, not knowing what questions to ask, while still trying his best to be a sailor. Calming thoughts to him is appreciated. I cried and was so confused by this whole situation. Finally medical might actually take his grievances seriously and not just throw topical creams his way.
Rebecca
Whidbey
WA
Wounds that don't heal suggest diabetes to me. I hope he does get a full work-up.
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Rebecca Question...has your sin seen a dentist lately? I have had two friends with wounds that wouldn't heal. Turns out they had infection in their gums. Worth asking about. My son in law developed psoriasis in the Navy. Under stress it would get awful. Just a couple suggestions.
Tracey Love the table and chairs!
Enjoying the kittens playing in the man cave with DH. SHOULD be working, but.....
Countdown to vacation!
Lots of love and gratitude,
Kylia in Ohio
I think his only thing has been getting his wisdom teeth pulled at boot camp, but that has been years ago.
Rebecca
Whidbey
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I think Rita is doing something like this already ...
Half Your Plate
https://www.halfyourplate.ca/
Half Your Plate is an educational program founded in 2015 by the Canadian Produce Marketing Association (CPMA) an organization that represents the fresh produce industry and facilitates the trade of fresh fruits and vegetables in Canada.
Through Half Your Plate, CPMA educates Canadians of all ages about the importance of fresh produce consumption and encourages them to fill half their plates with fruits and vegetables to improve their health.
The program provides consumers with simple and practical resources to help them add a variety of produce to every meal and snack.
...
The Canadian Produce Marketing Association, the Heart and Stroke Foundation, the Canadian Public Health Association and the Canadian Cancer Society are proud to continue a long-standing partnership to improve fruit and veggie consumption in Canada. These organizations, widely respected for their role in health promotion and disease prevention through healthy eating education, proudly support the Half Your Plate campaign.
There are all kinds of recipes, articles, fact sheets and resources on the Half Your Plate site. https://www.halfyourplate.ca/fruits-and-veggies/resources/
Machka in Oz
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Virtual (((hugs))) and 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 for those who need them.
🙋♀️ Miele failte to the newbies.
☘️ Terr2 -
Supposed to rain for five more hours - thunder boomers woke me up at midnight, then again at two a.m., and I finally gave up and got up at three. Just heard the fire truck sirens go by and there are flash flood warnings out for the whole county. The thunder was loud enough that it just woke Corey, who sleeps hard. He went back to bed, but I'm already on my second cup of tea.
Love the rain, but I could have skipped the accompanying fanfare! 🤣🤷🏼♀️😁
Later, my dearlings,
Lisa in the very wet ⛈️ Arkansas River Valley6 -
Debbie - sure hope the roommate leaves your mom's place without a hassle. Almost seems like having someone move in anymore means getting an attorney to draw up a legal document stipulating everything. I'm crossing fingers your DH is able to get someone to look in on his mom that won't get scared off. Hope there's a caregiver available who understands dementia and the moodiness/anger your MIL exhibits and can deal with it. Sorry about your bad weekend.
Tracey - add me to the list of admiring that great job you did with the furniture. Nice touch with the place settings! Michaela was a great helper, she'll have a special memory of this.
Rebecca - yes, diagnosis of Crohn's seems strange for your son. Hopefully it's some communication breakdown along the line, and it's just something easy to treat. It has to be hard with him so far away. Sending hugs to everyone.
Pip - looks like a nice time with your sis and Danny.
Bet Kirby will be glad to be back home again.
Carol & Heather - wonderful news that you are both healing - every day able to do more.
Heather - sending good thoughts your brother's way. He sems at peace with the whole situation, hope the treatments are successful.
Rita - sorry your doctor was so spacey. Hope the antibiotics do the trick. Very wierd about them charging you a co-pay and not your DH. I don't know how the folks in coding and billing keep it all straight - maybe they don't!
Flea - Willamette looks like a great place for your son. Nice to spend time with him like that!
Michele - Hope the recovery from the eye procedure is going well.
Rori - Thailand even without N will be fun. You get to tell him all about it.. I haven't heard about Farm Aid concerts in a long time. Willie Nelson was featured in some of the first ones. Small farms are having a hard time in some areas with weather and prices of everything so high.
Lisa - that is just awesome that you are able to get good sleep. Sorry about the vertigo. Glad you have rain.
I discovered it's a lot easier for me to postpone breakfast than it is to stop eating 3 hours before bed. I guess I eat enough protein that I'm just not very hungry in the morning. This postponing breakfast, ends up with me having 2 meals and an after supper snack. Not sure eating closer to bed is good for my blood sugar, but hoping that getting in a sunrise short walk is helping that. Seems like the diet doctors and diabetes experts are all over the place on what's best, so I'm doing what works for me and is sustainable. It ends up I'm keeping the calories down but have to make extra effort to keep the protein up. Will see what my A1C looks like in a few months.
The heat pump guy, Luke, came yesterday morning and did the yearly service. What a nice guy - everything in good shape and he changed the paper filter for me. It had been in there a year and wasn't that bad, even considering I used the wood stove a bit and it sometimes belched a little smoke. He said no need to change it every 6 months, yearly is fine. He said dogs that shed an undercoat like German Shepherds really can clog filters, but Rosie doesn't shed and the cat is out in the shop 99% of the time.
Freaky tornado?? -I was getting ready to post this yesterday afternoon when I received a call from my friend T - a freaky little tornado or wind gust of some type tipped over her chicken house and picked up the run and dumped it about 100 feet away. No other property damage! The chickens were out, hawks were flying overhead.
Talk about weird, it was a normal afternoon weatherwise - some clouds and blue sky, temps around 80, a little breezy. Nothing stormy at all. She didn't lose any hens but her DH and dad were scrambling to get a safe enclosure erected for the girls as evening approached. They put together a large dog kennel as a temporary run.
Hope the photos come through OK.
Better get this posted. Make it a fabulous weekend!
Lanette
SW WA State
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Good morning beautiful ladies!
Tracey yes I grew up with women's limited roles. I got away from it when I left home, but now my dad is very sexist, a product of his times.
Your table is absolutely beautiful! And kudos for getting it done on schedule!
My local cousin is going to stay with my dad. She will have to take vacation Friday and Monday, or else I can get my sitter to fill in.
Rebecca hope your son gets help. Trying to work with the military medical system is like pushing on an elephant. I'm sure your son will get frustrated. It will be tricky to support him without him perceiving pressure.
Kylia sorry to hear about your mechanic.
Michele I had EIA as a child. Mine was from aerobic type exercise, like running in soccer.
Heather hope your brother's treatment goes well.
Lisa thanks for the encouragement. Yesterday I ate well. But I haven't weighed myself yet. That diuretic would drive me crazy! Weighing gets inaccurate for so many reasons.
Machka sorry about your hearing. That sounds truly annoying.
Lanette that flying chicken coop, wow! Is yours attached to the ground somehow?
My Saturday forest walk got cancelled. I might take my dad to Starbucks anyway. And I need to consider how to get ten minutes of biking into my day. Hmm.
And set up the trickle charger!
Have a great day! May you be happy, healthy, safe and free!
Annie in Delaware6 -
Happy Saturday!
Carol in GA3 -
Rori - What music do I like for dancing?
Well, that depends on the dance.
I have done all kinds of dancing pretty consistently throughout my life.
Tap and ballet as a child, from the age of three.
Ballroom and Old Time around 9 years old.
A bit of ballet and disco dancing for teenage years.
Modern dance/Jazz dance in my 20s and 30s.
New Age dance (5 Rythms) in my 40s.
Late 40s Modern dance/ballet.
60s Swing dancing classes and line dancing. Plus more ballroom classes on cruises.
I love all the music, especially Swing. Tango, Salsa etc. If I hear music I have to move.
Unfortunately, John dances under duress, and only really enjoys a freestyle bop. He does come with me for my sake, but I prefer to dance with a professional.
Much love, Heather UK xxxxxx5 -
Kirby is home and they picked up Dannie. All is well with the world. Now next month I go to Washington
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We safely navigated the week of endless appointments with two different friends driving Jake to his appointments far away and me driving to lab 3 times, pharmacy twice, primary care doctor, chiropractor, and grocery pickup, The medical appointments resulted in more medical appointments far away. One is for a procedure he's had before that takes all day. His daughter agreed to time her planned visit so she can take him and stay with him. The other is for consultation about a new and not yet approved heart procedure being tested by the University of Washington in Seattle (a much longer drive than the other hospital) and a friend of Jake's who is a retired nurse and interested in all things medical agreed to drive him and go with him to the consultation. Today we have nowhere to go and tomorrow only grocery pickup. Yippee.Heather, my mother loved to dance and my father did not, but he was a kind and gracious man like your husband, and he would tell people "I hold my wife while she dances".Carol, glad to hear about the progress of your recovery. Barbie in NW WA 8 -
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Snowflake1968 wrote: »My table and chairs. Michaela and I set the table with my great grandmother’s dishes for a photo shoot.
I am incredibly proud of this job and so thankful it is done!
Beautiful dining set! You did an awesome job! I just don’t have the patience to do something like that, but my DH would. I showed it to him and told him when we move to an apartment in a couple years, we will need to buy old furniture and refinish it like this. Bed will be first I think! 🧐
RVRita in Roswell3 -
drkatiebug wrote: »Tracey. Your table, chairs, and bench are so beautiful. I love your dishes, too. The whole area is just perfect.
I’m still waiting on my car to be finished. According to my insurance app, it should be finished today.
My brother is doing much better with his recovery.
I’m with those who will take every “I Love you” I can get, although it does annoy me when it seems automatic from someone who doesn’t show it by their actions.
I’ve been struggling lately to get my steps. It is just too hot. I need to switch up my morning routine, I think. Do my long walk, then have my tea and devotion time. I have been doing a decent job of staying in my calorie deficit, but not so good with logging. I diligently planned out today’s meals, only to log them on Wednesday! I don’t even know how that happens. At least it made it easy to click the little circles again, since they were at the top of my frequently eaten foods.
I’ve been the same way with walking. It simply has been too hot! 108 every day this past week and now into the weekend. Hurry up September!!
Retaining water, probably from antibiotics and not getting enough walking. Need to work on that as soon as the weather allows. Not enough room in the RV to even do walk in place without a dog or DH getting in the way! I’ll get there, just slowing down cause of the weather and 11 weeks of it. Getting bored with all the work and blaming it on the heat. I could walk in early morning and sunset, but laziness sets in. I need to change up my routing somehow. Thinking about it.
Need to work the pay booth from 10am to 5pm both Saturday (today) and Sunday. I can walk in place there and get some yoga in between cars! Must get ready to get going!!
RVRita in Roswell6 -
I think Rita is doing something like this already ...
Half Your Plate
https://www.halfyourplate.ca/
Half Your Plate is an educational program founded in 2015 by the Canadian Produce Marketing Association (CPMA) an organization that represents the fresh produce industry and facilitates the trade of fresh fruits and vegetables in Canada.
Through Half Your Plate, CPMA educates Canadians of all ages about the importance of fresh produce consumption and encourages them to fill half their plates with fruits and vegetables to improve their health.
The program provides consumers with simple and practical resources to help them add a variety of produce to every meal and snack.
...
The Canadian Produce Marketing Association, the Heart and Stroke Foundation, the Canadian Public Health Association and the Canadian Cancer Society are proud to continue a long-standing partnership to improve fruit and veggie consumption in Canada. These organizations, widely respected for their role in health promotion and disease prevention through healthy eating education, proudly support the Half Your Plate campaign.
There are all kinds of recipes, articles, fact sheets and resources on the Half Your Plate site. https://www.halfyourplate.ca/fruits-and-veggies/resources/
Machka in Oz
Yes @Machka, I am doing something like this. The American CDC has the same information but call it “My Plate” program.
https://myplate.gov/myplate-plan Lots of good info on here.
RVRita in Roswell3 -
Dinner yesterday came from my grocery store, Albertson’s: Humus and pretzel kit, cup of sliced cucumbers with some kind of Mexican seasoning, wasn’t spicy hot and was good, and a plum. Supper was a warmed up biscuit with an apple, a small cup of ice cream and yogurt on top. Sort-of healthy! 🤪
RVRita in Roswell4 -
Today is honey bees, black cats, and homeless animals to think about. Have some vanilla custard while you’re at it!
RVRita in Roswell
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