WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR AUGUST 2025

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  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 26,518 Member

    I haven't trusted emails since the "I Love You" virus in 2000. Remember that one?

  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 18,352 Member

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  • margaretturk
    margaretturk Posts: 5,607 Member

    Heather here is the US the only way you can be sure you will not be given life saving treatments is to either stay out of hospitals and or away from EMT. Unless you have pinned to a directive from your doctor they are by law required to give life saving measures. The plan we had with when we set up our trust was not enough. I learned this when went through hospice with DH. We were in the process of getting that directive when he died at home. If I had let the EMT take him to the hospital with his falls he had his last week they would have taken extra measures and prolonged his pain. I would have also been charged for his transport. Insurance would have covered some of it.

    I know when my friends husband died in Germany they tried to revive him when he had a massive heart attack. Many ribs were more than likely broken.

    We try to have control over what happens at time of death, but I know it will depend on the circumstances and who is around me. I also know if I die alone with no one present they do an autopsy. I too have made my wishes known but also made peace that there may be factors I have no control over.

    I prefer to concentrate on making the best of each day I am blessed.

  • kevrit
    kevrit Posts: 4,735 Member
    edited August 22

    Last day to feed my calf. I'm gonna miss doing that! I could never raise animals for food. I get too attached to them! We used to raise rabbits for food and I simply couldn't watch when they were processed by my DH! Never did get a taste for rabbit either. I can very easily become a vegetarian. What do they call it when you are a vegetarian but eat dairy? Therapist yesterday went well. She wants me to make a list of things I do for myself and add to it. Stop doing for everybody else and do some thing for me.

    Thought for today:

    A policeman pulls over an old man driving a pickup truck with the bed overflowing with ducks. The officer says sternly, “Sir, you can’t have a flock of ducks wandering around downtown. Take them to the zoo immediately!” The old man nods, agrees, and drives off. The next day, the officer spots the same pickup truck, still full of ducks—but this time, all the ducks are wearing sunglasses. Frustrated, the officer pulls the man over again and exclaims, “I thought I told you to take these ducks to the zoo!”

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    RVRita in Roswell

  • LisaInArkansas
    LisaInArkansas Posts: 3,691 Member

    Tracey - I just went to get started on painting bits of the back bedroom and I, too, couldn't get the cap off. Annoying... And if you're from Texas, the universe would say, "Here, hold my beer." Same thought, though.

  • grandmallie
    grandmallie Posts: 10,642 Member

    Hidee ho

  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 18,352 Member

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  • Poerava14
    Poerava14 Posts: 1,146 Member

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  • dlfk202000
    dlfk202000 Posts: 3,704 Member

    Like the morning glory- I have deep purple and deep pink ones here- made the mistake of planting them in one pot in the back garden about 15 yrs ago- now they are every where, taking over, front and back yard. I pull thousands of them every year but they still keep coming back, strangling my other plants.

  • LisaInArkansas
    LisaInArkansas Posts: 3,691 Member

    I've taken my mine back down to the ground every year, and it keeps them well controlled.

  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 26,518 Member

    I've been on a journey, which I'm not sure I've shared here. A year or more ago, I stopped eating chicken and beef. Just fish, eggs, and dairy. In that time, I had some chicken once and a couple bites of beef and realized I don't really like it.

    Then a couple months ago, I realized that I really wasn't enjoying fish either. I was probably only eating it two or three times a week anyway, so it was easy to cut out.

    Most recently, I just decided to go all in. I wouldn't describe myself as vegan, because that has political connotations, but "whole foods, plant based." Think "Forks over Knives" and "What the Health" and "How not to Die."

    I'm no longer eating dairy or eggs. Protein comes from beans, nuts, and legumes. I'm feeling much better and my BP is low, low! I'm hoping my kidney function will improve. It did slightly two weeks ago, but I'd like to be in the normal creatinine range, and an eGFR in the 40s.

    Flea

     … I don't think I really like chicken or beef much either. I don't eat pork products if I can help it. There are shellfish allergies in the family so we stay away from those. Fish has to be fresh and relatively unprocessed for me to eat it and I won't eat bottom feeder type fish. I love cheese/dairy … but it doesn't love me. Nuts are also not my friends. Fruits and vegetables sit pretty well, but I have to be careful with beans. That leaves bread and crackers. What a PITA my digestive system has become!😂 You would think I would be thinner by now, but wouldn't you know it … chocolate also goes right on down …

    Beth — Over the years, my body has decided it doesn't like protein and wants to get rid of it as quickly as possible. I have negative reactions to several kinds of meat, dairy, nuts, seeds and beans.

    Also, I don't really like meat (animals including seafood). If I were on my own, I would drop it entirely, but we don't eat much and what little we eat is usually chicken. As it happens chicken is the one protein my body doesn't reject entirely.

    I'm not sure what's in protein that my body doesn't like.

    So I guess I'm Flexaratian or Semi-Vegetarian.

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