Can we have a forum for "older" people with bc?
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We've got a 4th hornets nest starting under the edge of the roof on the garage, it's out by the pool so I can't ignore it. I've sprayed it, no bees came out, but I wasn't brave enough to knock it down. I bought 2 more cans of spray. The spray shoots 20 feet or more, hence it empties really fast.
I had my check up w BS yesterday. I can now see her in a year, vs 6 months. That made me smile, under my mask.
Speaking if masks: I saw my OB/GYN Wednesday, and you have to giggle, the "take everything off" and leave your mask on. Like the move from way back when, "you can leave your hat on."
I've been up since about 5:15. Sleeping with the windows open, we get a great cross breeze w a fan in guest bedroom window. A firetruck flew past us and I shot out of bed. Get back in bed and I soon hear 3 beeps & repeat, and again. It's the smoke detector in the guest bedroom. I fly out of bed again, grab it, press the button to stop it and it won't stop. Downstairs I go, it stops, and I put it on the back porch. Back to bed, no fire here, no smell of smoke. With the windows open I swear I hear the 3 beep repeat! Back downstairs, I listen, nothing. I use the bathroom, hey I'm up so why not. It starts going off again. It's the "newer" contained ones so I can't take the battery out. I took it, all the while holding the shut off button, walked out in my nightie, and threw it in the detached garage!
After all that, I'm awake. Partner - he slept through it ALL and is still sleeping soundly. How do they do that?!?
I hope your day starts better than mine.
PS- IllinoisLady I'm glad your days are seeming brighter.
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Good morning, Ladies. The South Florida bear was caught using dough-nuts as bait. He has been returned to the wild. All is well.
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I believe one of our souls' major purposes is to know, love, and express our authentic selves. To live the life and be the person we were created to be. However, our true selves only emerge when it's safe to do so. Self-condemnation, shame, and guilt send your true nature into hiding. It's only in the safety of gentle curiosity, encouragement, and self-love that your soul can bloom as it was created to do. -Sue Patton Thoele
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Glad the bear was caught. Hmmmm, donuts. At least he didn't need a Starbucks with that.
We are supposed to have sun today but right now it is cloudy. Lots of rain overnight, but I think the next few days will be dry and won't warm too extreme. Sounds good for me. I am still doing my little chores in Sandoval. I think the daughter will be coming back soon from Colorado. We will see how things go then. No one is sure this lady ( the Mother of the gal from Colorado ) will be able to return home. My thought is she will, because she has a really strong will. I do think though --- no more smoking. Hard to give up when you are over 80 I know, but I think it is just too dangerous now.
I'll be waiting for that sun till it gets here. Dh will stay home and work around here while I'm gone. He can never get ready on time.
Hope you all have a marvelous day.
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My hair dresser, Danny for 50 years, called and said the shop in Glencoe is opening but to wait a while because they don't have it safe yet. They've filled all the haircutters’ schedules and there won't be time to clean between customers, nor space to distance. Everyone will have to wear masks and have their temperature taken, but the act isn't together yet. My hair is so long I can have a ponytail, but I don't see anyone and I like this old lady natural look and think I won't get a manicure again for aeons. But Danny said he could come over, wear a mask, as I will,and cut my hair, in the back yard. And I will do that. Gil looks exactly like Monty Wooley,one has to be in their eighties to remember him, and he'll fix his beard, etc.
I had an appointment with BS’s NP, the gorgeous Jada, next Tuesday, the one in April had been canceled and this one too. They don't think it's wise to come into the hospital yet and I have an appointment with the MO on July 27 so we'll wait til then. Mammogram not til September, when I see the BS again, actually on Yom Kippur. I don't know if that's good or bad or any kind of an omen. Gil thinks its nuts to be superstitious, but I am a bit. And relieved that I don’t have to get anxious yet about upcoming exams
Outdoor restaurants are opening up here in suburban Illinois, with masks and distancing and the weather is gorgeous. I so much want to go to our favorite Greek restaurant, Avli, in Winnetka and sit on their patio.But we’ll wait for awhile-like a few weeks-and then, maybe meet Mather Congregate Living friends who today get a little out of prison and can now get their cars out for a joy ride, though they're not supposed to stop anywhere.They can also walk on the streets. If there's one case in Independent Living, it'll all go to lockup again.
Listening to "Rodham" by Curtis Sittenfeld on audio as I walk the beautiful streets. Love it.
judy
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DH and I are a scheduled for our Medicare Wellness visit next week. The office called today and requested we do a telemedicine visit as the regulations do not allow anyone over 70 to come to the office for the visit. Fine with us, we were thinking about calling and ask to do it by telemedicine. Finally, an advantage for growing old!
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I was supposed to have my mammogram on Ms Leftover in Feb. They didn't notify me and in March the pandemic started here. I don't know when I'll have it. The tech is awfully close positioning you. I think I'll wait.
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Judy, I'm not yet in my 70s but I've definitely heard of Monty Wooley and may even have seen him in an old movie or two. When I was a kid in NY, WCBS-TV would run old movies as the original "The Late Show" (Leroy Anderson's "The Syncopated Clock" was the theme song) after the 11pm (ET) news, the "Late Late Show" after that, and then a prayer (usually Bishop Fulton J. Sheen) and test pattern. Eventually, they ditched the clergyman & test pattern and ran the "Late Late Late Show" until the crack-of-dawn news came on at 0-dark-30. And WOR-TV would run old movies all day long on weekends. I even saw all the "Bowery Boys" flicks!
I need to ask the owner of Alchemia in Uptown how he's accomplishing the new state guidelines. If I'm not satisfied, I'll cancel. Long ago, I had a favorite stylist at Via Venato (yup, misspelled) in the Crossroads strip mall in Northbrook--my favorite colorist jumped ship from Teddie Kossof to there, but colorists did color and stylists did cuts and never the twain did meet. The stylist moved to a salon in a strip mall on Green Bay Rd. in Glencoe--wish I could remember the name--but then she moved back to Via Venato. When they both left, I decided to start getting my hair done closer to home.
My ingrown big toenails (especially the L one) are really beginning to "reawaken," now that I'm going outdoors in gym shoes instead of puttering around the house in scuffs. Will contact the podiatrist to see if he can fit me in and will ask about recovery time after ingrown-toenail-prevention surgery. Just trimming away the "horn" (whether he or my nail tech does it) is a temporary fix (but his topical anesthetic is stronger than the can of lidocaine spray I bring to the nail salon on pedi day. My nails are getting longer & stronger now that I've gone gel-free for the past couple of months; will have to break it to the tech that I'm ready to just do Nailtiques and standard polish, with home touchups. I'd hate to start weakening my nails again.
Bob has decided that if there is a second wave of the pandemic this fall, he will close his practice and just go to Union Health (closer to home, and he loves it). He does want to take a driving vacation before that--thinking of the Upper Peninsula. (Used to play there--Escanaba, Munising, Marquette--once a month back in the day. My ex-singing partner & her DH live up there now, substitute-teaching on the reservation near Sault Ste. Marie--will ask them how safe it is up there). Bob would like to revisit the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, but you have to park on the ferry dock at either end of the Mackinac Bridge and take a ferry--and even that makes me nervous now. There is no way I am getting on an airplane ever again (at least not for a vacation) till there's a vaccine or herd immunity. Not even sure about the safety of First Class on Amtrak. I'm not sure I'd want to travel if it's no longer safe to eat in restaurants.
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Walking on the street instead of using the treadmill and elliptical machines in the gym is taking its toll. I'm experiencing an achy knee and hip joint on the right side. And I wear good shoes recommended by the podiatrist. Trying to decide whether to walk this morning.
I skipped yesterday and had my hair cut and colored. I look like a different person. I had requested to be the only customer and my stylist accommodated me. She is such a nice person. She has a shop in her house in a room that is not large. She was diagnosed with lymphoma last year and had chemo and radiation. Yet she doesn't seem worried about the coronavirus. Her doctors told her to keep working.
We have now been promised that the tree removal company will come on Monday to take down the oak tree. So our departure is now set for Tuesday. I hope Mother Nature won't interfere again.
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Good morning, ladies. It is hot and muggy. The heat is making my walk next to impossible. The gym has reopened and I probably go back once my trip to Virginia is over. We chose the last roofing company to do the roof. When I get back from Mom's service in Virginia, I will have a new roof.
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Good afternoon ladies! Cooled off here and humidity has lowered. But not before turning my old toilet into a sweating mess. Before bed last night I had to dry it and the tiled floor. Everything was wet.
Yesterday I called my orthopaedic surgeon, hand guy, to get an appointment. To my surprise I can get in on Monday. I've had cortisine shots before for tendonitis but I expect him to offer surgery, to cut the sheath allowing free movement of the tendions. Hurt it over a year ago lifting weights; flared up again in March doing weighted bicep curls. Wakes me at night if I move it wrong. They have a surgical suite, I would live w the pain if I had to go into a hospital.
Carolehalston, is there a school nearby with a track? Pavement is very hard on your knees and back, but those tracks sometimes have a very good cushion to them. It's hard too keep up the exercise w/o a gym to go to.
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Blissful temperatures here today (72 the high) in the greater Cincinnati area. AC off, windows open and a nice breeze.
Sandy - Echoing your sentiments about travel. Missing our beach vacay. Leery of road trips as using rest stop/service station bathrooms could be dicey, not to mention stopping for food/lodging enroute. We have never been to Mackinac, and were going to try for a road trip there this year. Were also thinking of visiting Door County, WI. Oh well, hopefully in 2021.
Wishing everyone an enjoyable Saturday.
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I can certainly see why people want campers this year. You can keep your own bubble clean and not worry if someone else is doing their job. We had a trip to Hawaii planned for March. We decided to hold off because of the first reports of the virus. I'd still like to be there, but want it to be safe. I'm hoping we can go eventually. DH is having memory problems which are getting much worse. If we don't go soon, I'm afraid he won't remember it.
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It is better to conquer yourself
than to win a thousand battles.
Then the victory is yours.
It cannot be taken from you,
not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
- The Buddha
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear,
but the triumph over it.
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid,
but he who conquers that fear.
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What a mess. Covid-19 and now riots and destruction of those same businesses that had to close. My oldest brother called yesterday and asked if we couldn't take another route in MN besides driving through Minneapolis.
When we get to northern MN, I plan to check with the small Anytime Fitness gym that we usually join for the summer and check on the situation. This gym is always immaculately clean. You have to change into exercise shoes when you enter and everyone cleans the machines after each use. There are dispensers for wet cloths. It has occurred to me that the owners may not welcome outsiders this summer for the protection of their regulars. I wouldn't blame them for such a policy.
Meanwhile I will walk in the neighborhood this morning.
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Good afternoon, Ladies. It is hot and muggy. I went out in the heat and walked. My AL SE's are acting up and the walk is the only thing that works for me. Not feeling too well.
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My greatest accomplishments shall never be known, perhaps even to me. Having made someone smile and see the world a bit brighter, having given someone hope for the future, having helped someone see potential inside him or her self that he or she never might have seen otherwise, having helped someone to see just how beautiful he or she really is--these to me are the achievements that most can help this world to be a brighter, more loving place.
tom walsh
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Beauty of a day here. Warm outside, but @ 77 and no humidity it feels perfect. Lots to stay busy with but that is okay. Tomorrow is bath day. So, that will make tomorrow busy too. Tues. I have to go in the clinic and the corvid test done. Have stopped my Aggrenox ( heavy-duty twice a day aspirin ) in order to be able to be put under on Thursday. Whew, I'll be glad to get that one over with. I'm nervous, but I have kept track of the corvid issues and I couldn't find any at our hospital. Since I think we are going to have corvid issues for quite a while I've chosen to move ahead with this issue. If there isn't anything fantastic, but should there be something needing fixing the sooner that begins the better.
We will get into some real heat and some mugginess the next few days. Hope it is not a long interlude. I'm really not ready for muggy yet. Never too ready for that. I'm loving the windows open these days. Today it is cool enough ( under our canopy of trees ) that we only have windows part way open. Otherwise it is chilly inside.
Hope you all have a good day.
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It's 60 here! Although it feels cool, it's perfect for me to clean out and dust the enclosed front porch. 6 months empty and I've got cobwebs, dust, you name it.
We had a peaceful protest yesterday afternoon in response to George Floyds death. But later last night we had a riot. Broken windows, looting, setting cars on fire, shots fired. It was pretty frightening listening to a police scanner thru facebook; I was awake until after 4 AM. Our city, Albany, is on curfew tonight, 7 PM to 7 AM. I'm hoping tonight is quiet but I'm not real confident it will be.
I'm hoping you & your city's stay safe tonight.
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Same here, Cindy. It was quiet in the neighborhoods last night--the rioting & looting was downtown where the major luxury chains and banks were--but today--in broad daylight--it spread to first the minority areas and then to neighboring suburbs and upscale neighborhoods where there was more stuff to be had. I fear my neighborhood will be next. My housekeeper says the main arterial a block south of her has been looted all day.
Where are people going to be able to buy food, and work at their essential jobs if their stores--many family-and-black-owned--have been destroyed? Looted food will not keep forever.
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Sandy, needless to say, they don't think of the long-term consequences. Among them, renewed excuses for racism. I had no problems od'ing on news up to now. No humans to blame.
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Good morning, Ladies. Another hot moggy day. I am feeling better. The joints are not stiff and aching. I am glad those who have posted are safe. My grand nephew is a city cop in St. Petersburg and I worry about him. I feel so bad for the small business owners who are just going back to work after the shut down, only to have their business destroyed. It is so sad.
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Hi ladies. It's Elizabeth here. I always lurk here and thought I would post today. Weather-wise it's a really nice day here in San Francisco. I have lived here for over 50 years and have sure seen things change. Our mayor has called for an indefinite length of overnight curfew (8pm-5am) and I am really relieved and she has also put the national guard on standby. But getting to something positive, since the SIP began the traffic has decreased dramatically to about 70% less. It has been lovely to walk all over my neighborhood and see all the families out at our neighborhood park. Oh, and young children are riding their bikes (with their parents help) on the sidewalk. It is so nice to see. So today I have to remember what I am grateful for...I have a roof over my head, I can pay the rent, I have food in the fridge, I've been NED for 11 years and I get to look forward to spending time with a horse on Friday. And I'm 35 years sober. I am a lucky girl.
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Congratulations on NED and sobriety, Cowgirl!
My housekeeper reports things quieted down in her neighborhood, but was glad to be here in Edgewater today. She is angrier at those trashing her and their own neighborhoods than about the incidents that sparked the looting & rioting. Our Mayor warned that there may be "soft spots" in neighborhoods that have been spared thus far, and ours might be a target of those resenting gentrification. Our Whole Foods boarded up its windows overnight as a precaution and closed at 3pm today. Public transit shuts down again at 6:30, curfew again at 9pm. No end in sight.
Uneasiness will be the new normal for an indefinite time. I don't know what will finally cause it to die down. Police will have to change from the ground up, and the inside out, to end the "occupy & rule" mentality and finally start to truly "serve & protect."
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Spirituality is a flower with a thousand petals: every act, every thought, every talk, every movement of our heart is a part of it. -Robert Muller
The essence of who I am--my spiritual identity--never changes. I am wise, healthy, flexible, and free through the spirit of God within me. I do not have to conform to trends and fads--not the real person who I am. And the real me never shrinks from learning new things. An awareness of my spirituality is such a confidence booster that I live and learn while remaining ever true to my spiritual identity. The real me is a free, spiritual being! -unattributed
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Cowgirl - congrats on both NED & sobriety!
We've had some businesses board up as preventative measures too. My BFF & her family own a glass company, they are so busy they couldn't get to all the calls today.
I met with my orthopaedic surgeon today. Set the date for surgery on 6/10, and prior to it they'll give me a COVID test. The surgery has a name I can't remember, De Quervain's maybe. Procedure cuts the sheath around my tendons, free them. This is my right hand, my left hand hurts too but not as bad.
I'd say it's cool here today but right now I feel cold, 59. LOL Too early for a hot shower and jammies, but I'm ready!
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Congrats definitely for you Cowgirl. In the midst of some ragged edged turmoil it is a wonderful thing to be able to acknowledge gratefulness. I wish all could feel it, but there are problems in this world never resolved and it is worse right now when we have no real leadership with corvid and economy. Still I would like to celebrate a little with you. There is reality to deal with and we will but we can be grateful at all times for what is going right in life.
This has been one of my long days so I've not kept up with the news or much else. Things will settle down soon. Feels strange to be setting down at 7p.m. to put in a quote but better late than never, huh !!!
It has been a pretty day here. Almost cool enough to need a little covering for the arms. I didn't expect that. I hope you all had a wonderful day and Sandy and others. I hope your nights go okay. I'm thinking about you all.
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Cowgirl - Congrats on the NED and your sobriety. Must be lovely there in SF. Oh, and you also will get to spend time "horsing around", yippee!
Went on a grocery run this am during special senior/those at risk hours. Quite a few people not honoring this and maskless as well. Between COVID effects and all the other horridness going on, am having a hard time emotionally today.
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CeliaC, I am with you on that. Watching the news brings me to tears, so I didn't look at it today. I have to stop by the Vet's to pick up Miss Felix some diabetic cat food, pick up my eye medicine from CVS and a few other odds and ends. Another named storm brewing in the Gulf. Just what we don't need. Well, it is warm and sunny today. I will enjoy it while it lasts.
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Going out to CVS today to pick up some scripts--hope it wasn't one of those looted. Otherwise, quiet in my neighborhood--except for some stupids setting off fireworks--overnight.
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