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patricia19 · January 31, 2022, 10:20:16 PM

I'm told to be more active and build up some core strength to migrate any real damage from my falls. I've started to be a bit shaky when I move and quickly tired. However, I tend to ignore those most days and need to do more.

I used to knit, and crochet but along came those darned computers.

alpiner1 · February 01, 2022, 12:23:54 PM

I'm finally going to have my hearing tested this morning . I have been putting it off but I grew tired of missing so much that is being said at church . I can't hear the lower tones & have fallen asleep in church ! I'm hoping to get small hearing aids if any are prescribed my the dr.

Marilyn · February 01, 2022, 01:36:18 PM

just checking in to let all y'all know I am still alive. Nothing much new here at my end. I;ve been going to the ?Chiro It seems that the pain I/ve had for more than a year has nothing to do with me falling, the sciatic nerve is bing pinched from what ever position I am sleepin, the reason it only is very painful at night.

jane · February 01, 2022, 02:23:00 PM

Always good to see Mary, Patricia, Alpiner, Marilyn here as February arrives.

My phone was acting goofy this morning. It's only a coupld months told, but it wouldn't go to the home screen...only the Motorola M one. I had a call from my sister and was able to answer it but noway I could call out, if needed. I was afraid I'd have to drive to CR...70 miles round trip and dreaded that, but I held down the start button and it seemed to "wake up."

My hair cut is completed and I stopped for lunch at grill across the street and brought home enough for supper.

The robo calls this morning are endless. Must be new quotas on the first of the month. ACK!!!

Temps already dropping ahead of the arctic cold front coming in. Like many of you, body is aching, so I'm in for the next couple of days.

Stay safe, warm and healthy,

jane

Cottoncandy · February 01, 2022, 02:34:24 PM

Hi Buddies..spring like weather here..but fixing to change...I will be like Jane...staying in where it's warm...thank you Sharon..I will try those eye drops..Hi to everyone looking in...fixing to mop my kitchen floor...no fun...stay safe and warm

MaryPage · February 01, 2022, 04:50:17 PM

Marilyn, I had Sciatica some years ago, and finally had to have the surgery after 3 trips to one of those in and out surgical units to have the "needles" treatment did not work. Becky came (from Missouri) and took care of me for 3 weeks and a day after the (hospital) surgery. I have been good since, though every now and then I experience a bit of sciatic pain.

Our share of the snowstorm was on the small side, but we have endured extreme cold. Now we are expecting sixty degrees before the end of the week, and then back to frigid cold again. My poor old hands hurt like all get out when the weather is changing. I just have osteo, for which I have the good sense to be grateful; but the pain can be intense, so I know where y'all are coming from.

patricia19 · February 01, 2022, 05:31:14 PM

MaryPage I have osteo, and I hate it when the weather changes because the aches are rarely in the same place as before!

MaryPage · February 01, 2022, 06:38:41 PM

All ten of my digits suffer, but for the last couple of years my drumsticks, as I think of them, have hurt the worst. Sometimes those two full-0f-meat places down where the wrist begins hurt so bad I yell out, all by myself alone. These places, where we get most of our protein from chickens, have knobbed up now, and the knob on the right hand is much larger than the one on the left. I have no idea why this is so. I am just reminded we are animals, and, even if we are dedicated almost to a religious regime to visiting a large army of medical "experts," as am I, the road to oblivion takes its inevitable direction with all manner of extra little flourishes over which we actually have no control whatsoever. I am filled with dismay today because, in a morning appointment with my pulmonologist, I agreed to go on oxygen: something I have deeply desired Never to do. Well, here I am now, inwardly cursing like a sailor; but unable to change the space on the board the dice have led me to.

patricia19 · February 01, 2022, 07:07:07 PM

My newest place is the long bone in my lower left leg. Before that, it was the small connecting bones between my toes and my foot. I agree the wrist is bad. But the hardest part is explaining to a new doctor that it comes and goes with the barometric pressure and not always in the same spot.

I've had "walking pneumonia" several times in my thirties and bronchitis and actual pneumonia twice. The last time, I was thirty-nine, and they briefly put me on oxygen. For some reason, I felt suffocated and would fight those clips. The doctor wasn't sympathetic and said I needed to leave it alone to get better.

I'm not a fan of the medical profession anyway, as they need to be spoken to in their direct terms only, and I'm an explainer. When I had laryngitis at 62, I gave the new doctor a note saying I couldn't talk. What did he do? He started gesturing at me and talking loudly...I quickly wrote a note saying I couldn't talk, but I wasn't deaf!

patricia19 · February 01, 2022, 07:19:23 PM

This song always moves me to tears and Austin Brown does it so well.

Austin Brown sings "Bring him home," from Les Mis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGP1nEG-OTQ

jane · February 02, 2022, 03:02:01 PM

Good Afternoon, Buddies...Darlene, MaryPage, and Patricia

The big storm on the news today is going south of me, so we don't have that rain/sleet/snow to contend with...just bitterly cold temps and wind. So...yep...I'm inside. I have laundry about to finish drying and I finished a huge project I've been avoiding. Over the years, I'd write out or cut out recipes and stuff them into the old, old Betty Crocker cookbook I got when I went out on my first job and lived away from home. So...some months ago, I ordered a recipe binder and plastic sheets and today I got those miscellaneous papers, notecards, etc. into plastic sleeves and alphabetized. WHEW!

Nothing else new or exciting here...
Stay warm and safe,

jane

MaryPage · February 02, 2022, 03:14:39 PM

Good on you, Jane! Good on you!

I have a number of projects like that I have been procrastinating getting started with, let alone finished. A few of these actually sit in discreet little piles around my empty-of-visitors because of Covid living & dining rooms. I have actually completed a couple of these lately. So Good on Me, too! But no hip, hip hooray! I have not earned that as yet.

patricia19 · February 02, 2022, 03:55:22 PM

Jane, if I did that with my three recipe card containers and all the ones stuffed in my books, I'd be so excited, I'd be over the moon!

MaryPage · February 02, 2022, 11:31:50 PM

I saw a shocking hour on NOVA on PBS tonight about the humongous amount of methane being released into our atmosphere by permafrost thawing out in Alaska and Siberia. Scary stuff. There is much too much of it yet to come for us humans to safely inhale. They discovered it because of the most amazing holes being blasted into being by the underground methane exploding up through the tundra.

jane · February 03, 2022, 10:55:59 AM

MaryPage...and yet, no people who are in political positions to do something seem to care. They're all too worried about getting reelected and doing what their huge donors want.

Patricia...I'm not much of a cook...so I don't have a gazillion recipes. Yet, I was overwhelmed by my stuffed Betty Crocker...and finally got it unloaded...and lots tossed that I'd never make.

I just got my garbage bin to the end of the driveway...no way I can get it up and situated on the snow on the "lawnstrip/parkway/whatever you call that space" so I put it on the driveway and stay home.

I think I'll go back to Netflix today and watch Sweet Magnolias first season episodes again. The second season drops tomorrow, I think.

I saw an interesting thing on YouTube about folding the blue masks to make them more safe if you don't have N95s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzTAZDsNBe0

Stay safe and healthy,

jane

patricia19 · February 03, 2022, 12:23:37 PM

Good morning, Jane. I used to cook when I had a family, and my meal prep carried over into the single life. Then I started an entirely new life or went back to my childhood, escaping all those convenient chemicals in place of actual food.

I don't particularly appreciate losing many exemptions, but I'm finding that it's not the food itself but what it represents. My hair, skin, and nails benefit, pocketbook benefits, and without trying, I've lost nine pounds since New Year, adding to the 31 lost from my 2021 February injury. For the first time since 2012, I'm no longer overweight. `

So, my shelf of cookbooks and those three wood or plastic boxes are getting dusty.

maryz · February 03, 2022, 02:33:31 PM

Thanks for the youtube thing on mask folding, jane. I'll do that with mine.

Congrats on doing the recipe organizing. I was a good cook when I needed to do it, but cooking certainly wasn't something I loved to do. And I was glad to stop doing it. Sometimes I miss thing fixed "my" way, though.

Sorry you've been put on oxygen, MaryPage. But isn't it wonderful that it's something we can do when needed. Are you getting one of those O2 creators, or just one of the tanks. I decided that if I ever needed to do that, I'd get the gizmo that can be worn on a sling, rather than the tank.

We're waiting for the heavy rain that's supposed to be coming our way from this storm. It's supposed to be starting in another hour or so. I don't think we're supposed to get bad ice and snow, but it is just to the west of us.

Good luck with hearing testing, alpiner.

Marilyn, I hope the treatment for sciatica helps. Back pain is certainly no fun.

Darlene, I hope you don't get too much from the storm, and get back to your spring weather soon.

Sharon, I guess you're supposed to just get rain from this, too. Good luck with it.

Margaret had a second positive test, and is still feeling yucky. And she is really feeling housebound. She says she's done almost all the projects she's had lying around for ages.

Stay warm and well, Buddies!

jane · February 03, 2022, 07:28:00 PM

Mary...sorry about Margaret feeling bad.

I've got this sinus thing again...like a head cold.

Winding down and finally getting to Netflix. I baked some choc chip cookies with walnuts this afternoon. I love one with my hot chai on these cold days.

Jane

MaryPage · February 03, 2022, 11:55:30 PM

Mary, I don't know what I am getting, and was not given a choice. It never occurred to me to raise the matter. I was just stunned at the suggestion that it might be time to go on oxygen. Chip goes into the examination room with me, because my hearing is so bad. Anyway, he joined in urging me to take the doctor's advice.

Bottom line, I am told I will have a phone call as to when it will be delivered. Then I'll know.

I am sorry Margaret is ailing, as well and all. Please give her my wishes that this passes quickly and she will feel fit as a fiddle. I still wonder precisely what fit fiddles are, but I still wish Margaret well. I am always in hopes you two will come back to Annapolis one fine day.

maryz · February 04, 2022, 08:47:20 AM

Thanks for the good wishes for Margaret. Did I not say that she had tested positive for Covid? This was about 10 days ago, and she has had another positive test since then. She's going to take another tomorrow, I think. Hope this one will be negative. We shall see.

patricia19 · February 04, 2022, 09:15:29 AM

I certainly hope Margaret soon has a negative test, and begins to feel better!

Marilyn · February 04, 2022, 01:51:15 PM

My friend Jeannie is 'taking me out for a Birthday lunch this afternoon to Applebee's then we will go grocery shopping and to AAA to get my car registered in California.

jane · February 04, 2022, 02:05:33 PM

Happy Birthday, Marilyn, whenever your day is! Enjoy Applebees!

patricia19 · February 05, 2022, 01:48:05 AM

so_P_bubble · February 05, 2022, 08:30:13 AM

Marilyn

https://www.seniorsandfriends.org/index.php?topic=80.msg212500#msg212500

MaryPage · February 05, 2022, 09:18:54 AM

WOO HOO!
Happy Birthday to YOU, Marilyn!

Cottoncandy · February 05, 2022, 09:57:19 AM

Happy Birthday Marylin

Marilyn · February 05, 2022, 12:01:52 PM

Thank you all, My birthday is tomorrow. Hallelujah I made it to 82.Applebee's was wonderful we even got a senior discount.

Had quite a scare yesterday morning. One burner on my stove would not go off and had been on since Thursday I assumed. Maybe the cleaning girl bumped it when cleaning the stove. The knob just kept spinning. So I used pliers to try to turn it off. However, it wouldn't go all the way off. I blew out the flame and could smell a faint gas odor so I lit it again. I called the office for help and the maintenance man came to shut off the gas to the stove. Now I have to get someone to come out to fix it, good thing I have household insurance that covers all the appliances. I stopped into a place yesterday to see what the charges would be, would you believe $99.99 to come out then $45. every 15 minutes. Needless to say I have just signed up for the insurance , so I will wait a week or so and call to get it fixed for $100. deductible. It'sa good thing I have so many electric appliances that I don't need to use the stove. LOL

SharonE · February 06, 2022, 06:53:35 PM

Hi Gals, Happy Birthday again, Marilyn. I wished it on FB. Your stove breaking wasn't much of a BD gift. I'm glad you had insurance and electric appliances. Nice that you had a good lunch with friends.

Alpiner, you will be so glad you got your hearing aids. They are expensive, but worth it to me. Just be careful not to get your mask hooked on it and lose one the way I did and John almost did.

Jane, Mary, Mary Page, Darlene,Patricia, I think we all are suffering from the antics of this winter weather. My shoulder is giving me fits now in addition to my back and legs and hand and toes. I think my nose is the only thing that doesn't hurt! But they aren't extreme pains for the most part, so I can bear them.

I've had a busy week this week with shopping, newsletter, dentist, jeweler, manicure, etc. I finally took my beautiful ring that John gave me for our 50th in to be resized as I just haven't been able to wear it for a year or so. It will be so nice to have it back.

The newsletter may end up driving me nuts. My neighbor is supposed to be the photographer and a columnist, and we can't figure out how to email her photos and captions to me. I know how to email attachments and have tried that on her computer, but I don't get any of them. Aaargh!

Melanie and Sangmin are driving up from FL 2/20 for a visit. Can't wait.

The Dr is coming to give us each a check up Tues AM. I have a whole list of things to go over with her. It is so nice to have a Dr who makes house calls.

We only got rain and then not a lot. Very cold yesterday and today, at least for us--mid 30's to low 40's.

Mary, I'm glad you're out of quarantine and I hope Margaret gets a negative test tomorrow.

Stay warm and safe everyone. Sharon

alpiner1 · February 07, 2022, 09:56:31 AM

I had the hearing test then were told the office were were sent to wasn't covered by our health insurance . The referral came from our dr. We were referred to another office & the test results will be sent to them . Still waiting for an appt.

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