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  • MaggieGirl135
    MaggieGirl135 Posts: 1,033 Member
    @AnnPT77 Buying Gouda today in support of your healing! They say that bacon makes everything better, but I have always thought that was true of cheese. Please continue getting better and do it soon.
  • mtaratoot
    mtaratoot Posts: 14,386 Member
    Thanks for the update @AnnPT77! Good on you for making sure you get fully recovered before getting back after it. Friends are great. When I had an issue a few years ago, it was friends who helped me get through - no family anywhere nearby.

    I still don't have any cheese in the house, but I'll eat some chanterelles while hoping for your speedy recovery!
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,679 Member
    What kind of weirdos are we? Toasting your speedy recovery with cheese and mushrooms instead of champagne?

    MFP Weirdos!!!!! Huzzah!
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,679 Member
    I am back home, back to routine already,and feeling 1,000% happier in my own bubble.

    Rode my bike to my volunteer desk gig, as soon as my relief comes, I’m riding it to the gym to swim a mile, riding home, walking the High Anxiety Dog, and going to a hot yoga class.

    It just occurred to me, this will be the first time I’ve ridden my bike since I had a bad wreck on it in March. I should have done this ages ago, but my husband asked me to stay off it til all our traveling was done, and I respected that, since he never asks anything.
  • mtaratoot
    mtaratoot Posts: 14,386 Member
    springlering62 wrote: »
    What kind of weirdos are we? Toasting your speedy recovery with cheese and mushrooms instead of champagne?

    MFP Weirdos!!!!! Huzzah!

    A good champagne would be an appropriate accompaniment to a plate of sauteed chanterelles, creamed chanterelles, or a chanterelle omelet. Oh. It would also go good with some brie. Have you had the brie with wild mushrooms? Yeah... nothing wrong with being a weirdo. I mean who in their right mind would bother using a food scale?
  • SbetaK
    SbetaK Posts: 400 Member
    @AnnPT77 Thank you for updating us, we all are concerned and care! I hope you don't try to do too much after you are discharged, nothing is as important as just taking it slow and letting your body heal. Staying at the cat's home is a good idea, and I'd have your friends currently feeding the cat come over every day for a few days to check on you. And perhaps do a grocery run for you to keep up your healthy eating. Hugs from me and everyone else here!
  • BCLadybug888
    BCLadybug888 Posts: 1,767 Member
    I ordered some champagne vinegar, does that make me an MFP weirdo too?

    I found a great really smooth and creamy cream cheese type product, and have been adding it into omelettes and egg scramble thingies lately 😋
  • SummerSkier
    SummerSkier Posts: 5,191 Member
    I did not have cheese but added a nice Dunkin Donut in your honor of being released! Hope the headaches are gone soon and you feel stronger again. Also glad you did not break anything else in the fall.
  • BCLadybug888
    BCLadybug888 Posts: 1,767 Member
    Hi all - been a bit gloomy this weekend, weather-wise, in my neck of the woods - but that is how I think of November...it actually has had more sun than usual I would say, in between cloud bursts! 🍂 A lot of trees are bare now, but not all as we have not had a frost yet.

    I am keeping up my 1 hour a day walking, but had to use the treadmill yesterday and will use walking videos today. So glad to have these options but much prefer a brisk walk outdoors.

    I have now lost 20 lbs on the BodySlims program in 8 weeks. 2 weeks to go, and almost to the 10% goal, feeling great!

    @AnnPT77- how are you? Are you home yet or still rooming with the 😺?
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,679 Member
    edited November 18
    Happy birthday!!!

    Deke looks exactly like my Molly, right down to the white nose and round cautious eyes.

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    She’s been terrorized by the High Anxiety Dog after he caught her licking the gravy out of his bowl and flipped out on her She’s just now getting to where she can roam the house again, but only when she’s certain he’s in bed with us or out for a walk. It’s nice to see her snoozing in the sunbeams again.

    I’m so sorry your bang has messed with your head so badly, but on the plus side, I always picture how much worse bike wrecks/flying trapeze accidents/travel viruses would have been had I still been obese. So at least there’s that for you. 🤷🏻‍♀️

    It just takes so freakin’ long to get back to normal the older we get. And so darn much easier to mess something up. 😭


  • BCLadybug888
    BCLadybug888 Posts: 1,767 Member
    Happy belated birthday Ann! Glad you felt up to going out and celebrating. 🥳

    As for the nap, Deke maybe having a positive influence in that regard? After all, cats have a great capacity for napping 😼

    Perhaps you would like to adopt your own little kitty when you're back home and off duty? Young to old adult cats are plentiful in shelters and do make great companions, and are pretty low maintenance generally.

    Take it easy and I feel positive you will make progress you can notice on your recovery soon, as Springlering mentioned thankfully you were pretty healthy and strong before taking a tumble. Such a good point, we all must do what we can now, while we can, because you never know what tomorrow may bring.
  • SbetaK
    SbetaK Posts: 400 Member
    Happy late Birthday, @AnnPT77. Take your time on the road to recovery, look at the positive things such as that you have lots of time to get ready for rowing next summer. Glad you had friends take you out for your birthday, they can be a wonderful distraction at times. Take care, and let that kitty enjoy your lap, great way to keep warm!
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,679 Member
    edited November 19
    Welcome @welshflier4323

    Dream on. I lost a lot and, when I was looking up things to do in London, I saw a flying trapeze class in Hyde Park. I decided to fulfill a life long dream and “fly” on the trapeze. This was at 61. No regrets.

    So, *kitten* happens. Sometimes for bad, but often for good, too. We make a lot of our own *kitten*.

    If you’ve got a dream of flying, what a helluva goal to work towards.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,617 Member
    Welcome, @welshflier4323! As you might guess, I'm an "Ann" too, just without the "E".

    I was overweight/obese for most of my life, until losing to a healthy weight at 59-60, about the same age you are now. I'm now 69 (as of last Sunday), and still at a healthy weight.

    If a hedonistic aging-hippie flake like me can do this, I'll betcha you can, too.

    Wishing you success - it's worth the effort!
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,679 Member
    Waiting at lab for a blood draw, and the continuous cycle “health” program on the tv suggested a “healthy low cal” vegan pumpkin pie, which included:

    Ingredients
    Crust:
    1 1/4 cups raw pecans
    1 cup pitted dates
    3/4 cup raw pumpkin seeds
    1 1/2 teaspoons grated fresh ginger
    1/4 teaspoon salt
    Filling:
    2 1/4 cups pumpkin puree
    1 cup coconut oil, melted
    3/4 cup pitted dates
    1/4 cup almond milk
    2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
    1/4 teaspoon salt

    And, when they showed it being served, the serving was a quarter of a pie.

    I nearly fell out of my chair.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,617 Member
    springlering62 wrote: »
    Waiting at lab for a blood draw, and the continuous cycle “health” program on the tv suggested a “healthy low cal” vegan pumpkin pie, which included:

    Ingredients
    Crust:
    1 1/4 cups raw pecans
    1 cup pitted dates
    3/4 cup raw pumpkin seeds
    1 1/2 teaspoons grated fresh ginger
    1/4 teaspoon salt
    Filling:
    2 1/4 cups pumpkin puree
    1 cup coconut oil, melted
    3/4 cup pitted dates
    1/4 cup almond milk
    2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
    1/4 teaspoon salt

    And, when they showed it being served, the serving was a quarter of a pie.

    I nearly fell out of my chair.

    OMGosh! There are some nutrient dense ingredients in there . . . but nearly all of them very calorie dense, too.

    1.75 cups of dates, around 715 calories.
    1.25 cups pecans, around 941 calories
    0.75 cups pumpkin seeds, around 419 calories
    1 cup coconut oil, around 1940 calories

    Just those ingredients, a quarter of the calories would be over 1000 calories. It darned well better be nutrient dense, and extremely tasty . . . or else it needs to be marathon run week, or something similar.

    Yikes!
  • BCLadybug888
    BCLadybug888 Posts: 1,767 Member
    @springlering62 - healthy perhaps...but low cal?? No way. Hilarious, thanks for sharing!
    However, I do now have a hankering for dates and pecans...
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,679 Member
    edited November 22
    Doc prescribed arthritis drug earlier this week to help with inflammation which should have helped with swelling and fatigue

    Feeling about 900% better, and no longer feel like a stack of heated marshmallows. Flexibility is returning. Woo hoo!

    Ironically, this is the same drug prescribed twenty years ago, which was effective, but I was afraid that by the time I really needed it twenty years later, I’d be too accustomed to it so I stopped using it.

    And here it is twenty years later lol, although much lighter weight bit has helped a lot
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,679 Member
    Nooooooooo!!!!!!!!

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    Whaaaaaaat?

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  • mtaratoot
    mtaratoot Posts: 14,386 Member
    @springlering62

    I'm not sure that Belgium is famous for their fajita sauce.... I have some olives (fermented and in salt brine) that say to consume the whole jar within two weeks of opening. I don't always do that. They should be OK. Perhaps same with this sauce, and you could always freeze the leftovers. Old ice cube trays are a great way to do that. Then you can shove the cubes in a zip seal bag and have pre-portioned frozen chunks of flavor. But yeah.

    And you're right - who in their right mind eats a half of one cookie? Maybe they meant to write half a box. Nope. Those must be very large cookies. I found a similar glazed, chocolate coated gingerbread cookie that is 120 calories for 29 grams, which is a whole cookie.

    Worry not though! Soon shrinkflation will come along, and that package of cookies will still cost the same, but the cookies will be half size. That's when they'll fix the serving size. Oreos aren't that different - 160 calories for 34 grams. That's three "cookies" (cookie sandwiches).
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,617 Member
    Thank you, everyone, for the birthday and get-well wishes - so kind!

    I'm still staying at kitty Deke's house, but planning to move my things out this weekend through Monday. Deke's regular human housemate returns Monday night. She invited me to stay on . . . I think partly because she's a dear friend but maybe also partly because she feels badly that my fall happened at her house (even though clearly not her fault in any way!). I feel like it's time I launch back into (nearly) regular life.

    I had the 2 staples in my scalp removed yesterday, and the doctor said it was healing well. The scull fracture will be a slower process, I'm sure.

    I'm extremely frustrated about the neurosurgeon. My discharge instructions (on Tu 11/12) were to call ASAP and see him in a month, and that his office would schedule another CT scan beforehand. I called W 11/13, left a message as instructed. Recording said to call only once, and that they'd usually return a call within 48 hours. Nope.

    So I called again on M 11/18, left another message. It's now 11/23, still no callback. They've wasted nearly a third of that month, and I'm pretty sure the CT will involve another delay. Ugh.

    A friend - one of the 3 who are my main current support group - had borrowed my car while hers was in the shop for rather lengthy repairs, which worked great for both of us. (I'm cleared to drive, and did on the day of hospital discharge, but wasn't planning any major marauding around in the short run anyway! 😆)

    Hers got done today, and she dropped mine off, which will let me be a little more independent about moving back home. (It's only 2.4 miles from here, easy and familiar secondary roads.)

    I may have to drive to that neurosurgeon's office next week, too, and talk to them in person. (That's 7.4 miles, should be OK on a good day. Still hope it'll be unnecessary. 🤷‍♀️)

    I still don't feel like myself, still have a low- grade headache most of the time, feel like I'm living on acetaminophen (every 6 hours 🙄) and tire easily. However, I think there's slow overall improvement, and 2 friends who visited today said I look more like usual, and my voice is stronger. I guess that's good!

    Onward from here!

    (Thanks for putting up with me venting. ;) )
    BCLadybug888 wrote: »
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    Perhaps you would like to adopt your own little kitty when you're back home and off duty? Young to old adult cats are plentiful in shelters and do make great companions, and are pretty low maintenance generally.
    (snip)

    @BCLadybug888, I've had cats nearly my whole life, usually 2 at a time, except for a few years when I lived in a dorm at college. I've also had multiple dogs, just quite so continuously. The last cat of my last pair died in 2014, at nearly 19 years old. (Photo of Fflur below.) I love cats and dogs!

    I added my age (59) at the time Fflur died to hers, got 77+, and decided that I shouldn't get another cat. Part of the reason is that I'm a widowed, orphaned, childless only child; most of my close friends are my age or older. Things that are high odds for me in the next decade or so would result in terrible dislocation for a cat, since there's no one obvious who'd step in to nurture it. I think this is the right decision for me and that potential cat(s). I do donate some to local animal organizations, cat sit for Deke, and things like that. That'll have to do, I think.

    On top of that - though I don't think of myself as a remotely nurturing person - somehow I've acquired so many houseplants over the past decade that my house would be unsafe for pets. (Last count, 87, but that was a few plant acquisitions and a couple of tragic plant deaths ago!) There are other unsafe elements, too, but that's the single worst.

    Currently, I swear my recently-neglected plants were singing "what doesn't kill me makes me stronger" when I stopped in at my house to pick up something the other day. 😬

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    Happy weekend, everyone!
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,617 Member
    mtaratoot wrote: »
    @springlering62

    I'm not sure that Belgium is famous for their fajita sauce....
    (snip)

    LOL! If it's good fajita sauce, who cares where it's made, anyway?

    Seems like there are people of nearly every food tradition in every country these days, maybe especially in the more-developed countries. Bet they don't forget how to cook when they move. ;)

    I admit, some of those ingredients look pretty USA-ian, though, maybe not Belgian.
    (snip)

    And you're right - who in their right mind eats a half of one cookie? Maybe they meant to write half a box. Nope. Those must be very large cookies. I found a similar glazed, chocolate coated gingerbread cookie that is 120 calories for 29 grams, which is a whole cookie.
    (snip)
    One of my special-good support friends brought me some homemade pumpkin cookies with homemade cream cheese frosting, very yummy and mouth-melting, as a get-well treat. (An extra good thing, since - without meaning to be triggering when I say this - I've been struggling to eat all my maintenance calories sometimes, let alone the extra calories I think it's smart to add when healing. I usually have more trouble not over-eating, can't remember ever struggling to counter under-eating, except maybe briefly during the deepest parts of chemotherapy.)

    While recovering, I've been queasy some days (even took prescription anti-nausea meds a few times), plus sometimes eating feels like a lot of work because of fatigue. 😐

    Anyway, those cookies have been averaging around 27-30 grams, and seem rationally-sized to me (but maybe my brain's perception of "rationally-sized" has been warped by calorie counting?) It's a wild estimate since I don't have the recipe, but I'm figuring around 115-125 calories

    They're really good, though. 😋
  • BCLadybug888
    BCLadybug888 Posts: 1,767 Member
    edited November 24
    @AnnPT77, hear what you're saying about aging and pets - I often think about parrots and tortoise in that regard, they are so long lived!

    How very annoying about the neurosurgeon, hope you do hear from them.

    And not in anyway trying to persuade you (this is more of a PSA), but thought I would mention that middle-aged to senior cats are harder to place and can still make great companions in a new home. I adopted a 13 year old cat from someone who felt his multi-day cross-country move would be too much for her to take and she proved to be surprisingly playful and adaptable. I only had her for 3 years but enjoyed her immensely. My latest adoptee is only 4 years old, but old enough to be languishing in a shelter. She is now so attached to me it's flattering lol.
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,679 Member
    Agree with @BCLadybug888 but with caveats. “Vet” your rescue service carefully, especially No Kill shelters. I think some are so invested in the concept of “no kill” they lose sight of actually helping the animals.

    We adopted a senior dog from a rescue, only to find out they’d errored (I hesitate to say “lied” but…) considerably about his age, and amongst other serious issues, failed to mention the load of buckshot inside his back hip, which no vet could have possibly missed. This dog had been badly badly abused and yet was one of the gentlest souls I’ve ever encountered. He was so grateful for any kindness.

    We gave him the best four months of his life, carried him outside several times a day and helped him stand to potty, and gave him sirloin his last day. It killed us to have to make the decision to put him down, but he was in so much pain, couldn’t walk at all, couldn’t stand without assistance…it was a kindness. He was loved and he knew it.

    Our current dog came from a different rescue. We got him because he was the spitting image of a much loved dog we had taken in after he was thrown from a moving car.

    This rescue provided us every vet record back to birth (!!!), and his adoption history (turned in by two other families for biting small children, flunked out of sniffer school because he was uncontrollable). They were very clear with us about his full medical and mental history, regularly offer all adoptive families free training and refresher courses, and also said they’d give us our adoption fee back if we couldn’t handle him. They even had his foster parents drive him to our house because he tried to bite us when we tried to clip the leash to take him to the car.

    We got this fool home and in the house and then sat on the sofa and stared at each other. What did we just do? We were so scared of him we ignored him.

    After a couple of hours of this, he climbed in the sofa, laid his head in my lap, and it was all over.

    Older rescues come with issues. We can’t have friends over unless we know in advance so we can lock him up. He freaks out if anyone but us looks at him directly. We had a biting incident, thankfully it was our neighbor-in-law, who is a good sport. I talk to him constantly to sooth him. Our front door is sans paint, because the pocket (aka dog pissing) park is right in front of the house and he has to let everyone know to “GET OFF MY LAWN!!!”

    But otoh, he loves us fiercely and loyally, he’s great company, and seeing his eyes go from wary to shiny and relaxed, that alone is worth the trouble.

    I’m so grateful the second rescue was up front with us about his problems. No wonder he’d had no takers.

    One thing the director did say was, “if I ever catch you walking this dog on the Square, I’ll take him away myself. He has no business there around people .” Well, we live on the Square. Not much choice.

    So…. I’m off to take the High Anxiety Dog on his twice or thrice daily walk to the Square. See ya!

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  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,679 Member
    edited November 26
    Well, after singing the praises of the HAD, the little fekker has started trying to bite random strangers again- twice in a week.

    One reached down unexpectedly - in a crosswalk in the middle of traffic- to pet him, the other guy was walking and talking on his phone and waggled his fingers to say hi.

    I don’t know what’s into him.

    I’d like to dropkick his little butt. I feel like my head is full Exorcist trying to look for potential bitees every time we go out.

    We’ve gone 50 weeks with no incidents. I guess I got too comfortable.

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