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Popping in to wish Heather the very happiest of birthdays! Later, lighter, lovelies! Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD October focus tidier: Dailyish: listen to part of a Clutterbug podcast while looking around for one tiny thing that can be done in 5 mins or less. 2025: Chose NOW: to move more than yesterday (see…
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Barbie thank you for getting us started again and for you insights! I envy your walk-to-able Fit and Fall Proof class. I can feel my balance deteriorating rapidly as my cranky knee and piriformis pain/inactivity take their tolls. Melanie that is a good lookin’ crew. Love the smiles. Rebecca atta gal for getting back to the…
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Woke to glorious sound of downpour yesterday morning. Now we can do more than one load of laundry a week, shower whenever we want and flush more frequently. Happy rain dance! Tumble's recheck went ok. Less inflamed, healing a bit better but skin sides still not knit back together so another bandage. More antibiotics and…
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pip “hand warmer. Eeeuuuwww LOL. I just wear leather gloves. Michele could you tie a plastic shopping bag to the top of his leash, then drop the poop bags in it till you get to a trashcan? Barbara the AHMOD
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When the local vet checked Tumble’s incision, it was inflamed, swollen, possibly infected. Surprised the OSU vet hadn’t sent antibiotics. Turns out giving her the minimum of the sedatives/meds was a mistake. It left her too lively. Bad Mama! New compression bandage, antibiotics and stern lecture about keeping her quiet,…
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Tumble's surgery at OSU Corvallis to remove STS mass from chest went well. Chest Xray shows no evidence of metastasis. Biopsy results in 7-10 days. She made me stop at every US 5 rest stop to sniff and pee. Loong drive. Happy to be home and settling back into routine. Praying for Grade 1, least aggressive and most common…
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Dear all. Tumble's Chest xray shows no evidence of metastasis, thank God and thanks for the prayers. She’ll be first surgery tomorrow morning. 💕 Barbara the AHMOD
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Flea thought of you today as I traipsed through part of the Willamette valley. Thinking of you all you dear friends but too tired and clumsy to respond from my phone. Please hold good thoughts for Tumble’s consultation tomorrow. She’s a brave little terrier, wish I was. Barbara the AHMOD, far from home, from Joe, Shadow…
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sorry to confuse dear Mo. Not physically going with Rosemarie just virtually when she shares here. Wish it were otherwise ;{
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Kay I shared this with my sister in law an and we’re both still laughing. 🤪
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How one thing leads to another. (Spoiler) Getting ready for Corvallis trip, ordered a foam driver’s seat cushion, and a foldable stair. Tumble weighs 32 pounds and while I can lift her, her lower half dangles. That would not be good post-surgery. Set up the stairs to the new grooming table, Tumble went up easily but down…
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Tuesday’s therapeutic massage was brutal. Got more mobility but knee swelled up and hurt. Chiropractor the next day assured me that was the price to be paid for therapy, that 3 days of rest, ice, ibuprofen and elevation would ease the pain. Good thing. Couldn’t even do potty sit to stands ‘til today. Belateld welcome…
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Good news, the Teaching Vet Hospital called and have an opening Sept 18 with possible surgery the next day. Much better than Oct 2/3. Bad news is that US 101 will be closed entirely from 7pm Sept 19 through late night Sept 21. So unless they release her before 3pm Friday, we’ll be taking the looong way ‘round through…
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Whee we got a few spatters of rain! Stream is still trickling, cistern, though low, is holding steady, we just might make it ‘til the rainy season starts in earnest. Permanent crown went well, no pain. Blood draw this morning was a bit of a surprise, usually take two tubes, took SIX! Think Dr. P is getting greedy… ;{…
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Barbie, thanks as always for the fresh start, and thanks again for recommending Burkeman’s Meditations for Mortals. Changed my "to do" list to a "done" list, made me think about daily ish, and put the energy into doing rather than tallying… ;) Your “Thanks… we should do it again.” Made me laugh out loud! Carol love the “I…
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Sciatica a little better, managed a short, slow stroll with D today before her birthday brunch. Tumble has a consultation appointment at the Vet teaching hospital in Corvallis on Oct 2, likely surgery the next day, with more detailed results soon after. Oct 3 will be our 28th anniversary, but we won’t be celebrating…
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Been reading right along from phone in bed. Can’t sit up too long at laptop, sciatica. Thank goodness it wasn’t the DVTs I feared. V. worried about Tumble. The lump on her chest came back as soft tissue sarcoma, with surgery scheduled for March 2025! Will try to get into the veterinary teaching hospital (5 hrs away) for…
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caught up reading but too tired to comment. RIP Bob Schupp of Bob and Brad Internet PTs. You helped millions. Barbara the Southern Oregon Coast AHMOD
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Well THAT was a mistake. Took Mooch with me to pick up D and go to the Pirates of the Pacific Festival. Too many people. TOO HOT. Quick scan of the booths, found a seat in the shade on the concrete (cooler for Mooch than the asphalt), sat, drank an iced mocha and chatted with D ‘til her DH arrived, then home fast as I…
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Rebecca, so very sorry to hear about the painful cramping. I had awful cramping and diarrhea Wednesday night, the only relief came from sipping tiny sips of ginger ale from a glass full of ice. Glad the IBGard worked for you. Fage: the 32 container of 0% plain is more economical, 0.22/oz vs 0.24 sale/0.32 regular at…
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Was pretty blue after yesterday’s DDS appointment. The good news is that bone under implants is fine. The bad news is that the cracked tooth may require a crown ($1900 total), there is another tooth with a suspected abscess under an old root canal, and he still wants to fill/crown another one we’ve been “watching” for more…
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Belated welcome @pc7wolff Pat in St . Louis. Welcome @neacie88 Neacie and @hera1064 ! Do either of you have PT exercises to ease your hip pain? Ginny ((hugs held extra extra long)). Leaving your job, moving, losing Zombu, three BIG stressors. Hope you’ve scheduled some self care. ((hugs)) Annie sorry to hear your foot…
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Belated thanks dear Barbie. Your consistency is inspiring! Belated welcome @VelvetHeart67 Sandy in TX and @Kellhark72 Kelli in Mo ! Debbie thankful your sis is in the hospital, that care home’s neglect is shameful. Ginny tripping and falling can be such a shock. ((hugs)) Heather I don’t think there’s anything wrong with…
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July 31! How the heck did that happen?!? Annie I would freeze at least half that birthday cake… “…if there's no police and no hospitals, then it's all okay in the end.” Truth this! Debbie the mapo tofu sounds way betther than the Maypo tofu image I had in my head. :sick: Lanette we had the warning, then downgraded to…
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Joe’s en route to court in Crescent City. He got a speeding ticket last week but the CHP was kind, wrote him up for 60mph (instead of the higher actual) and “overlooked” the unfastened seat belt. It will cost him $$$ and online traffic school, but Joe is relieved it wasn’t worse. His strong efforts to cultivate a calm…
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This morning Joe said he’d thought of something we could do together. We could get matching recliners and turn the man cave into a home theater, watch movies together. “Maybe then you’ll stay home more” ;} Yes his recliner badly needs replacing. Yes I need to devote more time to hanging out with him. Just need to figure…
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Was so tired yesterday from stroll with D that I forgot to go to Freddie’s. Knee really throbbed, blamed it on the incoming cold front, took an ibuprofen. Woke up early this morning to no knee pain! Got up and out to both Grocery Outlet and F’s. Thankful for GO. Bought cold cuts, cheese and Hawaiian rolls for half what…
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Has anyone read or recommended “The Champagne Letters”? It popped out at me at the library today and I’m really enjoying it. Oh Ginny, so thankful you weren’t hurt! Annie ((hugs)) That must be some of the hardest things about dementia caregiving, the hurtful things they say and do that they wouldn’t if they were in their…
