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alpiner1 · August 12, 2021, 06:49:43 PM

I never had any vaccinations as a kid . I had the whooping cough & the measles at 6 months of age . I got my first shot when I was pregnant with our first child , it was a polio shot . Now the shots seem to be catching up with me in my old age !

jane · August 13, 2021, 10:55:13 AM

Mary...sorry to hear of your quarantine again.
Alpiner...I don't think there were vaccinations for some of those things when I was young...I had measles, chicken pox, etc. My Mom was a nurse and I vividly remember the scares of polio and had both the sugar cube and the shot. I also had a smallpox vaccination, of course.

Our local hospital is FULL....covid and children with that respiratory illness they get RSV.

It's a wonderful day here...much less humidity and heat, so far.

Stay safe and healthy,

jane

Cottoncandy · August 13, 2021, 11:22:54 AM

Good morning Buddies...I appreciate all of you...it's still hot here..but walked early..Mary I too am sorry y'all are quartine again...there's lots case in Texas..but then the illegals are bringing it in...Marlyin..hope you found the right Dr...I also had to get a new one...my Dr of 27 years is not seeing patients anymore [/Jane our local hospitals are full also..Hi Sharon..Alpiner and any else looking in...Have a great weekend color]

Marilyn · August 13, 2021, 01:41:25 PM

Jane I got my pedicure over a week ago At a different aplace, but I like the place and the atmosphere where I took Keith. It is a spa and they do the works there. Massage, hair, nails, pedicures, facils etc.

I am going out to lunch today with Sonja and her mother. A fanily thing we are starting to do once a week or twic a month.

Keith's appetite is waning lately. he has lost some weight and is down to 164. A few years ago before his surgery he was up to 197. I can't get him to even go outside to sit in the sun for a bit, all he wants to do is lay down.

The two dogs are doing well, Millie, the Chihuahua, is very demanding, when I am petting Freckles she barges right in there between us. also takes over Freckles bed so Freckles gets up an goes elsewhere.

The air quality here on the coast has been okkay but mostly overcast. It is supposed to get pretty bad later today and for the rest of the week as the wind shifts coming from the east and blowing the smoke this way. It looks like the dogs won't be getting their daily walks for a few days.

SharonE · August 13, 2021, 02:16:38 PM

Hi Girls. This heat is getting to us all I think. It's supposed to be 96 today. I took Bunny a little earlier than usual for her walk. I got in .6 of a mile. Tues I got a whole mile in for the day. I am also going over to the fitness center to ride the bike for 15 mins 3x a week. It's not much of a fitness center, mostly for PT, but they do have the bicycle with the arm bars that gives you some arm exercise too. That and bridge is all I've done this week.

Mary, sorry about your quarantine. No fun eating by yourself in your room.

I got every one of the childhood illness. I remember being quarantined with measles and being restricted to a dark room and not being allowed to read! That was the worst. I didn't get chicken pox till I was a senior in college! I visited one of John's hometown friends who had kids with it, and while I didn't see them, I still got it. I remember the polio sugar cube also, but not the certificate that came with it. How happy we all were to have that. Eventually, I had shots for everything and so did my kids. I wouldn't have thought of not having them. I can't believe the people who won't get the Covid shot, but as my son says, "You can't fix Stupid!"

Marilyn, good you've got a doctor for K and also were able to get him a pedicure. I hope the air quality doesn't get too bad or stay too bad for you.

Jane, what is it with these governors that won't allow masks in the school? I'm with you in being glad to be out of the system now, but I worry about the great grands.

Mary Page, baking soda and vinegar have been the housewife's go-to for years. You can't go wrong with that. Sometimes you need a nylon scrubby though if it is too burnt on. That happens to be if something boils over and I can't get it all wiped up while it is hot. I have nearly always used electric stoves and definitely chose to since retirement. With slipping memories or shaking hands it would be too easy to start a fire.

Darlene, It sounds like you had a wonderful visit with your children. Sometimes it is nice just to have adults.

Can't think of anything else to add. Stay in and stay cool. Sharon

MaryPage · August 13, 2021, 03:04:22 PM

Sharon, we have neighborhoods that are full of pipes bringing gas in for gas furnaces and stoves. The first house I owned had these, but I had the gas stove replaced with an electric one before moving in. Later in life, I learned to use a gas stove, and liked the facts that you could so quickly adjust the amount of heat each burner was giving out and when one was turned off, it was off. But our experts are telling us that a ghastly number of those neighborhoods are WAY overdue to have those terribly old pipes removed and new ones put in their place. That makes me most awfully relieved I live in a gas-free community now. Being a natural born worrier, I can at least cross THAT off my list! I think some, if not all, of these areas are slated for infrastructure money in the new bill.

I believe the smallpox vaccine was always required before you went to school. I could be wrong, but this is the way I remember it. Public Health wanted to eradicate Smallpox from the world, and they did a pretty good job of it.

I got Chicken Pox when I was five, and can still remember that they pinned, with huge safety pins, my father's socks to the little puffed sleeves of my dresses. The idea was if I could not scratch, I would not have marks. I wound up with only one mark, and that is on the inside side of one of my fingers! Go figure! I gave the pox to my Daddy, who had never had it. He wound up so sick, they finally had to take him to hospital. We were stationed at West Point at the time. And yes, I have had the shots for shingles.

C.C., how misery-making to have to replace the doctor you went to for 27 years!

maryz · August 13, 2021, 03:39:11 PM

I was told that I had had chicken pox as an infant, with one small scar on the back of a shoulder. I don't remember getting a smallpox vaccination - just that I have "always" had the mark on my upper arm. I got a couple of tetanus shots (not a vaccination) after injuries over my childhood years. After that nothing until I got the polio vaccine with our girls. The girls got all the vaccinations at their pediatrician recommended, but these didn't include chicken pox, rubella, measles - just the DPT, as I remember. The others weren't developed until they were past childhood. I agree, I don't sympathize with those who refuse the shots - to protect the rest of the community if not themselves. Sorry - off my soapbox now.

Marilyn, glad you're settling in and finding the services you need, and having time with your family for support. I know watching Keith go downhill is so hard.

We've certainly been having the heat that the rest of y'all have been having. There was a short, but heavy rain shower here a little while ago, which should be cooling things off, at least temporarily. We're supposed to be getting "cooler" temps and more rain next week from tropical storm Fred. I hope so, anyway.

They tested everybody in the building yesterday, and mine was negative. They've said they'll test again, maybe on Monday, and if everybody's negative, let up on the quarantine a little. We shall see. John's cousin's husband died from COVID this morning. They live in Baltimore, were vaccinated, and he'd only been in the hospital for a week. So sad.

Stay cool, Buddies!

MaryPage · August 13, 2021, 04:05:54 PM

My hairdresser's niece, age 27, was fully vaccinated and yet recently caught Covid. She has not been hospitalized, as her symptoms are like a bad cold, but she was tested to confirm.

There is just too much going on with this virus, and I get the drift that it is not done with us yet. So I am back in lockdown. Debi & Steve just picked up Ava from Camp (at her regular private school which is here at my end of town) and came by here with fresh mint and tomatoes and a book. I gave them some items of theirs. We put a chair outside the front door and put our items on and come back inside. They take those items and leave theirs. I go out on the kitchen balcony and we talk with them on the sidewalk. Now they have left for Rita's, a soft-serve ice cream place. Lucky them! Then they'll go back home, because it is a metal melting furnace out there!

jane · August 14, 2021, 11:48:17 AM

Morning, Buddies! It's such a treat to read what everyone is doing in the different parts of the country. It's a delightfully cool low 70s here today and it was low 60s when I walked this morning. What a difference a cool morning makes for me. I got my mile in.

I think the lower dosage of prednisone is what is making my body hurt again...back to reality, I guess. Last night 4 of us went out for supper...John, the 93 yr old in our group is in the nursing home, and I doubt he'll ever go home again. I was glad his wife went with us. She wanted to go home immediately after eating, in case the nursing home called.
Apparently she doesn't have a cell phone. I treated Gary and Kathy to Dairy Queen because I hadn't felt like getting anything together for "dessert" here. We came back here to eat.
DQ has to be closed today...they can't get enough help to keep it open all day.

Pre-season football is on....I can't imagine playing anything like that in the heat.

I don't know if any of you are baseball fans. The Yankees and Sox played at the "Field of Dreams" in Dyersville, Iowa, before 8,000 fans. It was a BIG deal here and lots on TV about it.

The virus numbers here from those locals who won't/didn't get the vaccine. As someone said, if they don't trust the "doctors and science," how do they trust the treatment they get in the hospitals?

Stay safe and healthy,

jane

maryz · August 14, 2021, 02:14:43 PM

After her husband died from COVID yesterday, John's cousin posted this on Facebook. I thought it was worth sharing...

Looking over how the virus caught us unawares, let me say what the warning signs were so it might benefit anyone.
First: Cough. Deep cough but no other symptoms at all so you think it is allergies.
A couple of days down the road, overwhelming fatigue with no explanation. No shortness of breath apparent. Normal temp, blood pressure and oxygen, but no appetite or thirst. Rapid heart rate.
At hospital then because if extreme fatigue and rapid heart rate, they hydrate him and he perks up and feels great, but that lasts only about 30 hrs.
Then all crashes. Short of breath and low on oxygen, the delirium kicks in at the same time.
The rest is a train that can't be stopped. 5 days to death, each more miserable than the last.
This is covid breakthrough and nothing particularly troublesome in his health. His heart was well mended.
So watch for these symptoms, my friends.

MaryPage · August 15, 2021, 09:13:05 AM

I am in Lockdown mode again. Sticking to home except for medical appointments, and it's masks and distance for all of those. This virus can wipe us off the face of the Earth, and yet not enough of the homo sapiens species will believe the Science as Public Health, which we ourselves set up just for our knowledge and needs, to achieve herd immunity. I find myself wondering where we went wrong, and Why. We wiped out Smallpox because we all accepted vaccinations. We finally conquered the dread Polio the same way. There was no "other side" to tell us these shots were really to allow the government to put micro-chips in us to follow where we are and what we are doing and saying.

Hey, think about this: It takes 3 government employees around the clock to listen in on and/or follow one person with their smart phone locator. We do not have, CANNOT acquire, enough government employees to follow every other human being. Follow the numbers. Figure out what the "other side" claims is being done and then figure out what it would take to do that, and you find yourself face to face with the Impossible Scenario!

And then realize what their scenario is really doing: it is our falling for the conspiracy theories that is killing us, not the research doctors in white coats working around the clock to save their parents, grandparents, siblings, spouses, and children from this dread virus.

jane · August 15, 2021, 09:34:24 AM

MaryPage...I know my anger and frustration with the absurd conspiracy theories and "anti-vaxxers" is high. I simply cannot fathom how people can fall for these lies.

It's wonderfully cool here this morning, so I got my lazy body out for a short walk. I think the lower prednisone is wearing off.

I did go down to the "cardboard boat" regatta at the white water park but only stayed to watch two boats. It was just too hot in the sun, and so I headed back to my AC.

Stay safe and healthy,

jane

SharonE · August 15, 2021, 04:56:26 PM

I haven't done anything exciting, just laundry, sort pills, watch my church service and walk the dog. It is a little cooler (84) after the storms we had yesterday afternoon, so the walk was a little more pleasant, but surely nothing like Jane's 70!

Mary, I'm sorry to hear of John's cousin's death. It's scary that he got it and died after being vaccinated. I just found out 2 of my grandsons aren't vaccinated and am livid, but can't do anything about it except pray they don't get it.

Hi to all. Don't blame those using extra caution. Sharon

MaryPage · August 16, 2021, 09:56:20 AM

Good morning, Buddies. No sunshine here today, at least not as yet. The waters are grey, the skies are clouded over with many shades of cloud, from white to dark grey. It is quite beautiful, as Nature always is, but rather on the dismal side.

As is the morning's news. I am about to settle into my easy chair with the TV firmly on OFF and read the newspapers with a good cup of coffee. One way or another, I am determined to squeeze every drop of Joy out of Life possible. Color me cowardly, my belief is that when you are in your nineties you have crossed the Finish Line and are entitled to resign from the duty to have a voice and make a difference. So I raise a regal hand and command all those in the younger ranges to take the burden off of MY shoulders. Over and Out!

jane · August 16, 2021, 04:05:43 PM

One thing I learned...again...today...is that I don't do well with what I think are wide temperature fluctuations. It was in low 50s this morning and I went off to Cedar Rapids to buy a new cell phone. It was 89 down there...and this body does NOT do 40 degree temperature changes in 6 hours well.

I also learned cell phones are amongst all the other "stuff" that needs computer chips that aren't available...like the cars, appliances, etc. So, no phones available except Apple ones, who can somehow get the chips, unless I wanted a $1200.00 phone. No, I do not. Verizon guy gave me two phone details on models he'd recommend...but doesn't have...and sent me to Best Buy to try. Nope, they haven't seen his preferred one in weeks, I was told.

So, I'll make do with the one I have.

People here are wearing masks in places.

Our numbers keep rising.

Take care and stay safe,

jane

jane · August 17, 2021, 09:25:15 AM

Wonderful mid 60s when I walked to town this morning...but to heat up and increase humidity...August in Iowa.

Nothing exciting here, except a trip to the bank later. Drive Thru only...still haven't opened their lobby.
The excuse is no help available. I'm hearing that everywhere...either no help or no chips for the product being sold...cars...refrigerators...computers...cell phones, etc.

Stay safe and healthy,

jane

alpiner1 · August 17, 2021, 12:01:58 PM

I was like wonder woman yesterday ! I mixed up chocolate chips cookies in the morning. Did a load of laundry , fried 3 lbs of bacon ( husband wants bacon every morning for breakfast ) . President Biden interrupted my soap so I used the time to bake the cookies . This morning I have a dermatologist appt. . Hubby usually goes with me but he wants to clean the windows for me , I don't like driving on the freeway but will need to be extra cautious , its in an area I'm not use to driving in . I plan to stop on the way home to try to find some matching yarn for an afghan that I started before the pandemic .

jane · August 17, 2021, 12:50:39 PM

Alpiner Wonder Woman!Wow...you really were yesterday. Good luck on the freeway driving.
I hope it went well.

maryz · August 17, 2021, 03:43:12 PM

We're mostly out of quarantine, as of this morning. Everybody's had 520 negative tests - one more to be done tomorrow. Still no visitors, though, and masks when outside our rooms. Baby steps....

This was not without drama, though. At 12:30 a.m. Sunday night/Monday morning, I was awakened out of a sound sleep by a down-the-hall resident talking to an RA in the hall - loudly. Not fighting, just carrying on a conversation of some sort. I rang for an RA to come; the other one did; and I told him. He got the conversation shut down, but of course, it was another couple of hours before I could get back to sleep. I was pissed - to say the least, and I got madder as the day went on. I complained to all the RAs on all shifts, and spoke to the Exec Director today. It doesn't sound like much today, but it really rankled at the time. I hope we can stay at our usual quiet times for a while.

We missed getting much of the rain from Storm Fred, but it looks like Sharon is right in the path of all the weather. It should cool here off for a while, though.

Sounds like you've really been busy, alpiner. Hope your drive went okay.

jane, the weather ups and downs in Iowa are crazy. Our heat and humidity can be miserable, but it's usually constant.

Hang in there, Buddies!

jane · August 17, 2021, 04:00:42 PM

Mary...That kind of noise at 12:30 would anger me, too.
There's no excuse for that. The RA should have known better.

jane

Marilyn · August 17, 2021, 05:36:56 PM

Hello Buddies. I made Choc chip cookies today. Hooray Keith took a shower this morning so I made the cookies. Bribery!!!!

I think I got all my "treasure" from the old china cabinet unpacked and put on shelves in three different pieces of furniture. Lots more things to get unpacked. I still haven't found my blender and little chopper, must still be in the shed.

I started out trying to thread a needle so I could sew a rip in Freckles bed, NOPE couldn't do it even with a needle threader. Someone gave me a fancy one but I couldn't even do that one. Can't see well enough, I guess I will have to put on the 10X power headset for jewelry making to see a big enough eye to put the thread in or use a yarn needle. LOL

alpiner1 · August 17, 2021, 10:34:27 PM

My driving was a bit off this afternoon . I missed the needed turn to get on the freeway coming home . I eventually found a familiar street & followed it until I recognized another street which would take me to where I planned to stop . In making a right turn came close to colliding with a pick up truck who was making a U-turn ! I was sure happy to get back home !

jane · August 18, 2021, 02:18:36 PM

Marilyn....I hate trying to thread a needle, too.
Those little wire threaders are my only hope. I hope you can find something that works for you.

Alpiner...your nerves must have been frazzled by the time you got home. I don't drive freeways like you have in CA here, so I'd be a nervous wreck.

I've gotten everything ready for my drive to WI tomorrow. I'll be back on Monday.

The weather was cool this morning, so I got my walk in.

It seems the Delta variant is flooding the country. The booster shot seems to be the newest thing...8 months after 2nd shot, I think.

Stay safe and healthy.
jane

MaryPage · August 19, 2021, 09:49:06 AM

The History books are going to remember this time of plague and record the numbers who die of it and the things we had to do to get through it. I would dearly love to be at the other end of things: i.e. reading those History books long after we have lived it, but I have not the necessary number of years allotted me.
Well, we stamped out Smallpox, and overcame many other viruses such as measles and mumps. We'll defeat this one, too!

jane · August 19, 2021, 06:44:18 PM

I made it to N. Wisconsin in spite of the road construction and roads closed ...so detours.

The most interesting was being told by my GPS that "You have reached your destination" and I'm in the middle of a road surrounded by cornfields. Not a house or town in sight. Bummer. My niece suggested putting in the name of a fast food place in the town and that got me 3.6 miles on a different road to the town. I'll have to remember that trick.

It was supposed to be cool...in the 70s...but again...wrong! 91 at said fast food place the GPS finally found.

Stay safe and healthy,

jane

SharonE · August 20, 2021, 02:46:30 PM

Pretty much same ole, same ole here. Walk the dog, do the bicycle, computer, read. I'm glad we finally got our library cards to the NC libraries. The one near us is very nice. We have about exhausted the main center library here. I did go and get my new hearing aid replacement Monday. Glad to have that, but hate the $2000 cost.

Friends from Sun city called and said that Brookdale had invited them for a free lunch yesterday and tour to see some apts. I don't think they will move, at least not for a while, but I was able to have lunch with them and catch up. John had had an eye appt that AM and they dilated his eyes so much, he was really worried driving home, and was very tired and out of it when he got home, so he didn't go to lunch. The good news was that his eyes are still stable. No change.

Alpiner, I don't like driving on the interstates either. I do if necessary but don't like it. You were super woman yesterday.!

Jane, GPS directions are sometimes really weird and take you weird ways. I'm glad you got safely to WI. Your cool temps in IA sounds great.

Mary, glad you are out of quarantine, sort of. We're back to wearing masks here at the center and in all inside places in our county. Will this ever end.

We have had lots of storms this week in the late afternoons or evenings. We didn't get as much rain as much of our county did, but we did get 2 or 3 inches. Poor Bunny hates the Thunder and Lightening. It started in after our bedtime one night and I got up to go to the bathroom about 2 hours later and found her curled up asleep under my walker which I keep next to my bed for night excursions. By that time the storm had passed, so she went back to the living room couch.

Marilyn, that's great that you got some of your treasures out. Those are the things that make things seem like home. Glad you could bribe K with cookies to take a shower.

Well, I need to go ride the bicycle now. Sharon

alpiner1 · August 20, 2021, 06:37:58 PM

Marilyn after reading your post I remembered my Mom's trouble threading a needle . She asked me to thread several needles onto a spool of thread so she would have a threaded needle when she needed them . Perhaps a friend could do this for you .
I had an appt. with my oncologist this morning , I thought she was leaving & this would be my last appt. with her . She decided to stay !! I'm happy she will be staying , my husband usually goes with me & he likes her too . He sat outside because he didn't think he would be allowed in because of the pandemic . She said one person is allowed to be with me .
As I was entering the waiting room at the oncologist office the door latch hit my right arm & tore about an inch of skin . I got a tissue from my purse to clean the blood off . After I was called to a room a young man who works there came in cleaned my arm & put on a band aid . Doors always seem to attack me ! LOL !

Vanilla-Jackie · August 21, 2021, 04:37:20 AM

Alpiner..as my late father would have said " a stupid place to put a door "

alpiner1 · August 21, 2021, 01:25:43 PM

This morning I found my arm had bled on the bottom bed sheet & was still bleeding this morning . I'm not taking a blood thinner .

maryz · August 21, 2021, 01:41:40 PM

alpiner - OUCH!!! Wounds do sometimes continue to ooze or bleed. In any case, keep an eye on it, and maybe go to an "urgent care" if it doesn't get better.

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