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patricia19 · June 25, 2022, 02:34:49 PM

Yes, we have.

MaryPage · June 25, 2022, 02:46:28 PM

Sharon, I'm sending you a BIG hug full of hope. Life disburses so much hurt along with the beautiful things. I'm wishing your hurt will go away and stop torturing you.

I have a smallish shredder also. It was cheap as can be, and amounts to a waste basket with a removable shredder top. I keep it in the kitchen next to my most current two-drawer filing cabinet and use it for all manner of things. When not in actual use, I keep it unplugged.

Hi & hello to all. Patricia, the thought of all that tundra smoldering away and ready to burst into serious flames at any given moment just flat out gives me the creepies. What a dangerous and unpredictable world we inhabit these days.

patricia19 · June 25, 2022, 09:43:00 PM

https://www.seniorsandfriends.org/index.php?msg=219925

This is for Shirley, Gloria, and anyone else who dislikes summer and favors winter.

Marilyn · June 27, 2022, 11:38:34 AM

Sherry I am praying fot Melanie, I know God hears our prayers.

All is well here Gilbert was her yeterday for awhile. He see, to be so worried about me. I had another incidint with my heart on Saturday then yesterday it was a low rate. Geeez it goes way up then down. Wednesday I tlk to the Cardio that does the pacemaker/defirilators surgery. I sure nned that. and do not want an ablation since I would have to travel over 200 miles to another cardio who does thosde.

maryz · June 27, 2022, 02:28:27 PM

Sorry for the heart irregularities, Marilyn. Are you a candidate for a regular pacemaker? I would think that would keep your heart rate stable. For me, that was a fairly simple procedure. I know we're all different, though. Keep us posted.

patricia19 · June 27, 2022, 03:20:13 PM

I agree, keep us posted please.

Marilyn · June 29, 2022, 01:46:37 PM

Mary I am not a candidate for just a pacemaker., they tell me not with A=fib. My eart goes crazy rapid with only the top tw chambers beating. It has to be shocked back into the correct rhythm.I dn't know if I am even a candidate for the defib/pacemaker. I go to the doctor late this afternoon and I will then find out what I can get. If not that I have t have the Ablation, here they go in an scar the heart to hopefully kee it from going into a=fib.

maryz · June 29, 2022, 02:12:24 PM

I hope all goes well, Marilyn. I seem to be in a-fib all the time, but it doesn't seem to bother anybody. Anyhow - good thoughts your way!

jane · June 29, 2022, 04:56:33 PM

Afternoon, Buddies! I hope all your hearts get to beating like they're supposed to! You sure don't want to mess around with that organ.

I'm home from rheumatology...increased my prednisone to try and get the inflammation down. He said new drug is doing ok to my liver. See the NP in 3 months and back to him in 3 months after that.

In the high 90s today, so I was glad to get home and into the ac.

Stay cool and safe!

jane

MaryPage · June 29, 2022, 11:17:39 PM

Like Mary, I am told by my cardiologist that I am now in A Fib all the time. Nothing much else said about it so far, and I am perfectly willing to leave it that way.

I am just back home this evening from a 2-day hospital visit due to my C.O.P.D. acting up. Glad to be back home. I really think that hospital wants to do me in! Some surly nurses; but some great ones, too. Horrible bed and too few pillows, meals too close together and food beyond ghastly. But I fooled 'em, and got out of there ALIVE! Celebration time!

I was never afraid, really: just annoyed and uncomfortable. Scared the kids 'bout to death, though! Well, I am lucky to have a caring bunch there! Tomorrow I'll gripe about osteoporosis shots and our new plan for THAT nasty little problem. I just decided to take the brand name out of that sentence and replace it with the disease. It is so easy to get sued these days.

Hugs to all.

jane · June 30, 2022, 10:52:48 AM

Good Morning, my Lovelies!

MaryPage...glad you survived the hospital stay and are safely home.

Another hot one on tap here I'm told, so I'm not venturing out. I do need to pick up some more 'scripts from the drug store, but they have to wait to get one in from my rheumatologist, so I'll wait and get them tomorrow.

I need to do some sheets in the laundry as this is the day my cleaning gal comes and she'll put the clean sheets on the bed for me. The king size is hard for me to do alone.

End of the month bookkeeping to do so I'm all ready to dive into July. Nothing planned for the holiday weekend. No fireworks here as they do those next week when the County Fair opens.

Stay cool and safe,

jane

Cottoncandy · June 30, 2022, 11:38:39 AM

Good morning.....hope our Mary's are doing better with their heart problem and Marlyin as well...I have heart palpations...but after many test and wearing heart monitor..no cause was found..so they tell me it's just anxiety...Jane our Tex weather is in high ninths now..but will hit 100 again soon.I'm goin to my daughters for a few days...but fireworks are not allowed this year due to the drought...have a great weekend and stay healthy

alpiner1 · June 30, 2022, 12:26:33 PM

Its 86F here at 8:15 a.m. , windows are closed , fans on . Will turn the a/c a bit later , Our home is 2 story so the bottom floor stays a bit cooler .
We are going to take part in a parade on the 4th on Coronado Island . Hubby is getting the car trailer & truck hitched up to transport the car we will be using in the parade . Usually we use our 1926 Model T Ford but it has a blown head gasket , so we will be using our 1922 Model T Ford roadster . Here is a video of the parade last year . Our car club is at the 26 marker . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx-CG0XNQUU . Our car is the tan with black fenders .

Marilyn · June 30, 2022, 01:40:32 PM

The Zio monitor showed that myI heart has long pauses between beats therefore I will be getting a pacemaker, The A-fib he will try to control with an increase in my Metoprolol to possible 50 mgs BID. or some other medication,

maryz · June 30, 2022, 02:18:08 PM

MaryPage, glad you're out of the hospital with, hopefully, no sequellae. I know your problems all too well.

Marilyn, hope the pacemaker works well for you. I was on Metropolol for a while, but the cardiologist has changed that to Atenolol. I guess that's working okay.

alpiner, your parade sounds like fun. I hope your weather is good for the event.

Darlene, have a good time with your daughter.

jane, it's great to have somebody to help with the household chores that we have trouble with.

Sharon, you're probably getting the same weather we are - typical summer stuff - highs in the low 90s, humid, chance of afternoon thundershowers.

I went to the dentist yesterday afternoon - first time I'd had any work done in years. Just a small bit of decay beneath an existing filling. I was in the office less than an hour, and no real pain. I did arrange to have some soup in my room for supper - didn't want to be drooling (from the numbing) in the dining room. That worked well - I had boullion with a straw. Guess I'm good now for another 6 months.

Happy July, Buddies!

jane · July 01, 2022, 12:48:31 PM

Joining our Southern Belles with the temps high and the humidity higher. UGH. Glad I'm inside with the AC going.

I got out and ran a few errands this morning before things close up for the long weekend.

Alpiner...have fun on your car parade.

Marilyn...sounds like the pacemaker should help a lot.

Mary and Sharon ... stay safe in those temps and humidity.

MaryPage..hope all is going well over on the Bay.

Darlene...enjoy the time at your daughter's.

Stay safe and cool,

jane

patricia19 · July 01, 2022, 11:11:32 PM

We've been in the low nineties all week, and there is an absolute ban on anything flammable for the holidays. The smoke is pervasive, and they've opened rooms around town for people with breathing difficulties. We're expecting thundershowers not this weekend but the next, so that should cool things down a bit.

I feel for everyone with heart difficulties. One of my best friends is having issues and is trying to find out why.

MaryPage · July 02, 2022, 09:30:28 AM

Good Saturday morning!

I am sleeping with oxygen all night long now, and it helps a lot. They have ordered a walking-around pack for me, but have none on hand just now. The oxygen-making box and the long tubing serve me well in my bed and in my easy chair. The dang C.O.P.D. has to run & hide from me. I can walk around and do my light chores without the oxygen for periods of time. Have to do my walking or going somewhere without, as well and all. Tiresome, this ancienthood!

Between the heart & the lungs, all the other bazillions of portions of me that are falling apart have to just be nuisances for the time being. I have little time for them!

Now for the don't use brand names feature of my health complaint. I am to be switched from two shots per year for my Osteoporosis to one infusion per year. The shots started, oh, ten or fifteen years ago, at about $700 each. Mind, I did not have to pay a penny. I have the same wonderful insurance the Senators & Congressmen have voted in for themselves. In taking care of their own Number Ones, they take great care of me.

But as the years have gone by, the shots have increased to a point of insanity. Over $2,500 each now! And they want a copay of $185 from me! Well, what with Everything going up, I barely make it from one month to the next now! So I had a kitten fit and my doctors, my Personal Physician and my Rheumatologist, both women, got together and decided on the infusion instead. Bless their boots. My daughter Anne, just retired as a nurse, headed up an infusion ward. She gave chemotherapy and transfusions and anything having to do with needles and such for years and years. She gave many, many of these infusions and is all for me having them. They have to watch the kidneys like mad, but that is a given with me for other reasons, too. So that is my story. If you take those shots, and if they are pricing you out of having room to breathe, ask about the infusions. I am not attempting to give ANYone medical advice. I have NO qualifications for that. But it cannot hurt you to know there is an alternative to inquire about.

Take care, and have a Wonderful Fourth! Whoopee Do!

MaryPage · July 02, 2022, 02:05:08 PM

My daughter Elizabeth is being featured by her gallery this 4th of July weekend. What fun for her! What Joy for the whole family.

And my 28th grandbaby is being christened this weekend. I am unable to attend, but yearn to be there with them all.

https://seasideart.com/collections/elizabeth-elgin

patricia19 · July 02, 2022, 02:26:04 PM

MaryPage, what wonderful news for you re: your 28th ggrandaughter's christening and Elizabeth's gallery featuring. I enjoyed looking at her link and paintings. She sounds remarkable, doing such detailed work.

We're still at our low of 65 and having a welcomed steady rain which should help with those 399 fires the state has presently. Last week, the highs were all in the nineties so today's high of 82 will be welcome.

MaryPage · July 02, 2022, 02:58:59 PM

Thank you, Patricia.

Cleo is my 28th great grandchild, but only my 14th great granddaughter. Such a good baby.

I have not so much as a tiny dab of artistic talent. Nor musical. Three of the eight children have some talent. Elizabeth, Becky, and Debi. Elizabeth is the only one who has gone commercial with it. Becky is the most talented, and she is astounding. She does not sell, but makes gifts for the family. Her artistic creative talent covers every type of creativity you can imagine. I swear, there is NOTHING she won't take on and excel with. She not only paints all the inside walls of her homes, but painted one on the outside TWICE all by herself. I swear! I have rooms full of her: draperies, paintings, door wreaths, silk flowers, paper flowers, oh gosh; she is all left brained all the time. It blows me away. Elizabeth painted eight Bridge tallys for me once, and my then Bridge Club went ape over them. I suspect they may well be the best thing she's ever done. Elizabeth has a granddaughter, my great granddaughter Brooke, who is over the moon talented in painting. She entered a sidewalk painting contest here in Annapolis one weekend a couple of years ago at the very last minute, and came in third. She was 19 at the time, and yes, this was a very serious competition that comes every year in the Spring. Brooke is also musical. And shy. I doubt she will ever conquer her shyness to set the world on fire, but that one whim she had sure paid off for her. Me, I don't own a crumb of artistic gifts, and am in total awe of those who do.

We have all known about Becky forever. The still life oil over my fireplace, she did when she was 14. Elizabeth is a late bloomer: she will be 74 in September. Debi does next to nothing at all with her gift, except decorate her home beautifully for each holiday. I have a few, a very few, little greeting cards and suchlike she has gifted me. She really is good. Becky helped put herself through college working in a florist shop. They were crazy about her. Her arrangements were actually asked for, they never had to train her, and they wanted to keep her forever. She just retired as an Elementary School teacher a few years ago. She and that florist, now retired also, are still great good friends.

patricia19 · July 02, 2022, 03:43:40 PM

How lucky you are, MaryPage, to have such a close, loving, and talented family! My sister Becky has a sewing and needlepoint gift from my mom, who painted and dabbled in small metal sculptures. Mom also sewed everything, as did her mother and sister. My only talent seems to be my vocabulary and a knack for appreciating and admiring those who can while I can not. My dad built boats and taught others, and welded items for friends.

SharonE · July 03, 2022, 02:52:00 PM

Hi Gals, Finally getting back in here. Thank you all for your prayers and good thoughts for my Melanie. Her PET scan only showed the one mass. No metastasis, so that is good news. She goes in Wed to meet with the Drs to see exactly what treatment they have come up with for her. She also sent all her info & test results to a hospital in Boston that specializes in leiomyosarcoma for a 2nd opinion.

It is so sad that so many of us have had the sadness of cancer in our families or ourselves. Jane, I remember well when you Melanie was battling her cancer and lost. I forgot how young she was.

I'm so sorry to hear about everyone's heart problems. Scary. Marilyn, so glad you are getting a pacemaker and hope it is the answer to your problems. The new heart med I am on is helping somewhat with my tremor and seems to be doing ok for my heart.

Yes, Mary, we are having the same weather patterns you are.

I had a sudden attack of vertigo on Monday with severe accompanying nausea. My BP spiked to 168 over76 which is really high for me. (usually 120/65) I called my primary Dr and she said to take 2 Benedryl tablets and Maalox. I did and went to bed at 8:30 and slept till 8:00. I felt immensely better then, altho still a little woozy. Took Benedryl again and by Wed was normal. She said it was labryritinitis, an inflamation of the inner ear canals. I had trouble navigating even with my walker, it was so bad. But at least I know what to take if I get it again.

Friday, the center had a 4th of July parade and my neighbor across the street invited all the villa residents to come sit in her front yard to watch it and have refreshments. The parade wasn't much, just decorated golf carts with staff members on board led by our neighbor in his 66 Mustang. While we were visiting, the head of housekeeping came by and joined us and I asked him if he could move us up on the carpet cleaning list because the workman had left big stains on it. About an hour after I got home, the carpet cleaner arrived and now it looks wonderful!

Alpiner, have fun at your parade.

Well, I need to head to the clubhouse to work on the newsletter.

Happy Fourth. Sherry

SharonE · July 03, 2022, 03:10:30 PM

I just went back to see Elizabeth's paintings and Alpiner's parade.

Mary Page, your daughter is really talented. I, like you, am not talented, but I really appreciate art. I'm so glad you are better and home from the hospital. COPD must be very difficult to live with

Alpiner your parade and car looked like a lot of fun. Don't get too hot!
Sharon

patricia19 · July 03, 2022, 03:32:04 PM

Good morning; still smoky here but otherwise, nothing new. Alpiner, I too enjoyed your video and remember some time ago when you sent photos of another parade, or was it a car show?

Sharon, I'm glad you're feeling better. I have periods of being woozy but that's because of my 90/60 blood pressure and balance issues or perhaps their one and the same? In any case, I'm glad you're feeling better.

I certainly wish I had a talent but perhaps that means I can appreciate more those who do.

jane · July 03, 2022, 04:21:44 PM

Sharon...thanks for sharing about "labryritinitis" I think that's what I've had for a couple weeks when I had to go off my allergy meds. I had such vertigo when I lowered my head, but since I'm back on allegra, and the nasal sprays, it's gone. I suppose my high inflammation rate also is a cause.

MaryPage...Elizabeth's works are beautiful! Wow...to have such talent.

Patricia...hope your weather improves so people can breathe again.

Hope all the Southern Gals avoid the storms they say are coming. We're to get ours tomorrow through Wed. or Thursday and high heat and heat index.

I'm concerned about seeing the Proud Boys in their masked faces walking through Boston and then Philly. I'm so glad I'm not in a large city. I fear it's going to be a long hot violent summer in many places. I hope I'm wrong.

Stay cool and safe,

jane

maryz · July 03, 2022, 07:06:31 PM

Sharon, glad there's no metastasis - it'll be interesting to see what her treatment is.

MaryPage, your daughter's got some great paintings. It's good to see her so prolific. How is it going with the O2 machine? A gal here lugs around one of those tanks on her walker. But, if necessary, I'd certainly prefer to have one of those small boxes on a shoulder strap. My COPD isn't that severe at this point.

alpiner, the old cars are SO great! Glad they give you and your husband (and others) such pleasure.

Darlene, hope you've having a good weekend.

Marilyn, have they gotten you scheduled for your pacemaker placement yet? Keep us posted.

jane, no storms or even rain at my specific location. But Margaret says she has gotten a couple of good showers - needed for her because of her garden. She has brought me a couple of tomatoes - which have been beyond delicious!

I got a call from John's sister last night. Her 94-year-old husband of about 70 years died the night before. It was not unexpected and he was ready, but he will be missed. We took so many good trips with them over the years. We were on a trip with them in Canada when John died. They're in California, so I won't be planning to attend any services, but my heart's out there.

Happy Independence Day!

MaryPage · July 03, 2022, 10:51:53 PM

My sympathies, Mary. It is always hard, is it not? No matter how prepared we are. May your heart be comforted and consoled.

best love,

MP

patricia19 · July 04, 2022, 01:59:52 PM

Mary, I was sorry to hear of your sister-in-law's loss. I think MaryPage said it best, and I know you and John's sister will be a comfort to each other.

Good morning, everyone, nothing is new here other than my internet slows down and is intermittent, but all you hear is, "They're aware of the issue, and they're working on it." Everyone seems to be having issues as I was on hold for one hour and forty-six minutes. I almost missed their answering as I had the phone set on speaker and was playing Mahjong on my Kindle.

I hope everyone has a lovely holiday and a safe one!

alpiner1 · July 04, 2022, 10:58:00 PM

The weather at the parade started cool but got warmer later . I brought a wind breaker jacket but didn't use it . The small black car is our 1922 Model T Ford .

In the parade .

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