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Re: My Husband, My Life, My Love, My Family, My Cancer
Well good news, brain MRI was negative today and opthamologist didn't see much . He wasn't able to dilate my eyes today so I will go back the end of August. Happy to have gotten mental relief now that MR was good!
@mara51506 Same hot and humid weather here too seems to be on a repeat cycle. Hope you find the missing pants, that stuff drives me nuts lol. I finally found my exercise bands this morning for some reason I hung them in my coat closet. Now they're back in a drawer I usually put them in.
@intolight Enjoy your bbq tomorrow, no worries about the dust just enjoy your company!
@threetree @chicagoan Just keep swimming….. nothing wrong with setting you own pace.
HI to all in the room hope the day is treating you well.
cookie54
Re: I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!
I looked around a bit after the meme about former Pres. Obama suing Trump and it seems some think the Loon is only worth about 2 billion right now. It sounded like a best guess sort of thing at that. I think there are a number of pending lawsuits that would come before any 'new' ones. This is one of the reasons I think a lawsuit would produce more attention (and some likely new information) than anything else.
Just as much has to be guessed at — some of what is owed would be perhaps guessed at as well. Some monetary judgements are lowered before payment, and other things might occur to cancel all or part of a debt. Even those factors though might not help the Loon from being all but penniless. I frankly don't know how anyone can completely keep up (not even factoring in a huge ability to learn to hide info/tax returns, etc.) when you get into the numbers of income and outgo that a person like the Loon has. He also is not paying ( as far as I know ) some of the judgements against him and so they are accruing a great deal of interest to be added on the end of the judgement.
Re: My Husband, My Life, My Love, My Family, My Cancer
@threetree @intolight I have the same issues. I just do a little bit, rest and do a little bit more, repeat. Eventually things get done. When I was healthy, I could clean the whole house in a couple of hours. Now I find that I am tired after doing something for 10 minutes- but so what? Threetree-the BBQ sounds good-what time should we be over?😁
Re: Can we have a forum for "older" people with bc?
cindyny, enjoy your trip to the Cape. Take photos and it will be nice to have family visit.
Sandy, as Gilda Radner would say, "It's always something" and that seems to be your fate right now. Hope you can get a dental appointment quickly.
Illinoislady, I would expect that with all the regulatory agencies being disbanded that utility costs will continue to rise. This may just be a harbinger of what is to come for all of us. That definitely is a significant increase though. Raising your indoor temperature to 80 degrees may place you at risk for heat-related health issues such as dehydration, and elevated BP. I would discuss this with your doctor especially if you are still on fluid restrictions.
It is supposed to be a scorcher of a day with feels like temperatures of 105 degrees. I am not working outdoors at all and PT was at 10:30 today so I was home by noon. PT was taking a half day and is headed to the beach for the weekend. We are supposed to get severe thunderstorms this evening around dinner time so we'll make plans to go out to dinner tomorrow night. We need the rain. I am hoping it cools down but forecasts say no for the weekend.
Receptionist booked me through August so I will discuss this with her next week. I thought she was discharging me in a week, but I know she is not pleased with full extension of my left knee. Ortho had ordered additional PT as needed. Did my routine and will be sore tonight.
My one orchid is in bloom again and I have another that is forming buds so I expect it will flower soon. They seem to like light from the south which is what we get in the back of the house.
I am hoping I can finish the flower bed that DGS and I worked on. I just need to finish weeding one section of about 10-15 feet and then want to mulch the entire lower area that I didn't get to yet. DH went to Home Depot and got 10 more bags of mulch so I have 13 which should be enough for this bed; total of 22 for this bed.
I want to work on installing poles for chicken wire fencing on the azalea bed. I can then mulch it, we can enclose it and call that a day. I will need about 15-18 bags of mulch for it. I don't use as much mulch as I used to because I naturalized some beds with ferns. I used to buy 265 bags, with home delivery, and used every one of them but those days are over.
I hope everyone stays safe during this heat wave and am waving hello to everyone that normally posts here.
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Re: Can we have a forum for "older" people with bc?
I got the CMC joint in both wrists injected today. He said my left one is ready to be popped out, if I am willing. I made a new appointment with the plastic and hand surgeon who I already know.
Tippy now has 28 buttons. There are still words that he would like to have. I didn't order for several months.
The activity band for older and slower folks will arrive today. I have a friend in her 80's who is participating in RAGBRAI this week. A yearly thing for her.
The college student who drowned in the river is said to have mistaken the Mississippi for a sidewalk. The perils of collegiate drinking, especially in Wisconsin.
I was lucky with curbside finds this morning. A set of three nested wooden crates (the fourth and smallest had been crushed by traffic) and a plastic pet staircase.
A bit of this and a bit of that.
mcbaker
Re: My Husband, My Life, My Love, My Family, My Cancer
@goldensrbest and @cookie54, the burgers were very good and not overly filling. The happy meal came with apple juice which was nice too.
I did sleep pretty well, scaling back bedtime since I will need to be up earlier on Wed for my Herceptin next week. Today is mostly the usual, except getting ready for garbage and recycle. Decided to use the container at the back door because I can store garbage bags there and just pick up and go when needed.
Need to go through the packaging box too because I am missing a pair of pants I bought recently. I am also wanting to go through the storage under my bed and in dresser drawers to start getting rid of stuff and saving money to get rid of extra electronics to get taken away. I still have the old microwave I destroyed putting tape in there in my front closet.
Not too much on the agenda, super humid and warm here, I do not find it oppressive though, don't especially like windows having to be closed, will be nice when weather is cooler and can run the window fan to bring in some fresh air. Right now that would only heat up my apt. When heat turned back on to the building, leave AC and window fan in living room in the windows. It is nice and cool.
Laundry, sweeping and other chores on the agenda, some budget boosting as well, couple of easy mobile games on the go that pay a little bit. One is a solitaire type game but with words and another is word tangle, another word type game. I find those easy enough.
EDIT I need to make meals at home today. I used the whole box of KD, made usual way. I do not have milk so added the cheese powder and used some of the smokey bacon mayo, not too much and a squirt of the sour cream and lime. I did eat the whole box and it was delicious and creamy. The other ways were just to complicated for me being so hungry.
Will shop the pantry in my home and perhaps set aside ingredients and put in a bag so it is easier to meal prep in advance. Like I have a beef gravy sort of soup but not fond of soup so strain the liquid, cook up the ingredients in a frypan and the liquid. Also need to look into canned pizza sauce or anything with a lot of seasonings in it.
I hope all have a nice day, in pockets for a.ll who may need me and in own pocket to post actual meals I come up with.
Re: I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!
One of my all time favorites:
You are goodness and mercy and compassion and understanding. You are
peace and joy and light. You are forgiveness and patience, strength and
courage, a helper in time of need, a comforter in time of sorrow, a healer
in time of injury, a teacher in times of confusion. You are the deepest
wisdom and the highest truth; the greatest peace and the grandest love.
You are these things. And in moments of your life you have
known yourself as these things.
Choose now to know yourself as these things always.
Neale Donald Walsch
Re: Can we have a forum for "older" people with bc?
Good morning. Still under our heat advisory today. Sandy, just wow. I know you do what you have to because you really have no other choice, but I still keep hoping and praying for a silver lining to show up and stay a good while for you. If you were writing a book about your "experiences" people would look on it I bet as loosely based fiction. It is really incredible.
Nothing special here today. No where to go although often we noticed what we forgot at the store by what we are doing or cooking etc. I'll catch up with my straggler bills and work on my list of projects.
Hope you all have a good day and everyone gets a break from tedious issues if they are going on.
Re: Can we have a forum for "older" people with bc?
Our new opener also has the app, and it's much quieter. Still waiting to hear back from the gas grill service company with a quote and a date. Astound came over today to set up the cable and wi-fi mesh network. We won't have cable boxes, as the TVs are all "smart" and our service is streaming DirecTV (we canceled the physical satellite). We decided not to reinstate the landline, as we've gotten used to using our cells for everything. After a year, I'm finally used to having mine with me 24/7. Meanwhile, the fridge is still not making ice or dispensing water because the guy who's coordinating that crew (who'll also be removing the footboard from the twin XL bed) is out sick and the part in question still hasn't been delivered. The construction crew is still making tweaks, and the contractor coordinator hasn't gotten us the blinds he promised—so there's no privacy yet. Also have to have a couple of outlets rewired before the TVs are delivered.
Meanwhile, I fractured out an ancient amalgam in one molar (speaking of old stuff, it was the first filling I ever got, when I was 15) and have to figure out how to shoehorn a dental appointment in. And ithe most aggravating development was having the cats' visiting vet appointment for 8/7 canceled because the vet company (TheVets.com) suddenly ceased operations. Was up for hours last night trolling for visiting vets in Chicago—and there are few and far between (the ones in operation are either not taking new patients, don't serve either this or Edgewater's ZIP code, or both). We had a great vet for Heidi, but her clinic in Edgewater closed and she moved halfway across the city. And getting BangBang into her carrier for the move will be hard enough; if she senses she's going to the vet it'll be next to impossible. Soliciting advice from every cat whisperer I can find, bought some calming chews & drops, and have transdermal gabapentin on hand should it come to that.
chisandy