Can we have a forum for "older" people with bc?
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Celia - prayers to your SIL and your brother as caretaker.
Handyman was great, so many odd jobs completed. And he discovered a hole in the rubber boot at the stack vent pipe. My cousin fixed that tonight, tore out rotted part, sealed a new rubber gasket over it. I want to scream ENOUGH with house repairs, but I'm just glad they're fixable and I have the money to get it done.
Tomorrow is a full body check at my dermatologist. I'm hoping he'll freeze off a skin tag under my arm, but nothing else expected. Rain starting tonight but thankfully no great storms on the horizon.
Have a good night and a great day tomorrow!
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Celia - prayers to your SIL and your brother as caretaker.
Handyman was great, so many odd jobs completed. And he discovered a hole in the rubber boot at the stack vent pipe. My cousin fixed that tonight, tore out rotted part, sealed a new rubber gasket over it. I want to scream ENOUGH with house repairs, but I'm just glad they're fixable and I have the money to get it done.
Tomorrow is a full body check at my dermatologist. I'm hoping he'll freeze off a skin tag under my arm, but nothing else expected. Rain starting tonight but thankfully no great storms on the horizon.
Have a good night and a great day tomorrow!
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Prayers sent, Celia.
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Celia, prayers now and for many days to come.🙏🙏🙏
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Beavertx "decorative" pumpkin was a miniature guord-like thing, green and pumpkin shaped. Natural but usually not appealing to wildlife. Would have to be a pretty hangry critter to go for plastic! 😜
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A few seconds ago IllinoisLady wrote:
Over the years I have come to believe that life
is full of unchosen circumstances, that being
human has to do with the evolution of our
individual consciousness and with it,
responsibilities for choice. Pain and joy
both come with life. I believe that how we
respond to what happens to us and around us
shapes who we become and has to do with
the psyche or the soul's growth.
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Should be a nice day here. We had a whole lot of wind yesterday and so many leaves came out of the trees. It's really time to do some serious mulching. Dh is trying to get the deck painted too as well. All those Fall things. It is going to be a really busy two weeks coming up. Not sure how I'll fit everything in.
Well, it all comes out in the wash some where.
Hope you all have a good day.
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Celia, prayers for your family during this time of need.
edited for poor typing again!
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Tippy was barking all morning despite his bark-collar. Windy. The tarp covering my gardening equipment was blowing around. I have a nasturtium under there, was planning on keeping it going for as long as it could, but peace with Tippy is higher priority. Bottom edges of the tarp are now secured to the porch floor with bricks.
I have a large squat Mexican pumpkin, surrounded with some Canadian colored corn and more squash on top of a straw bale in front of the porch. Any wind that would blow that arrangement someplace else would be a major gale. Hopefully I can keep them out there and still edible until Thanksgiving.
Have an appointment for a temporary relining of my denture, will be going to OT to get grips on my hiking poles remade to something more ergonomically sound. Then going to PCP to find out how much the arthritis in my right hip has progressed since the last x-ray.
Both washing machines are out of commission. Apparently someone jammed them up with slugs.
Cutting out another cotton button-down shirt. Fifth time I have used the same pattern. LOL
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MC, good for you, you've found a pattern that works!
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So my remade glasses arrived from Warby Parker this morning. The sunglasses are a bit better (they have larger & more forgiving lenses). The regular progressives are a lot better, but because the lenses are smaller there's still a little peripheral distortion--which comes with the territory. My old frames with the new Rx have slightly larger lenses and thus a wider field of vision, but because they're clear they don't really hide my undereye bags and aren't as flattering. Not just that, they're slightly crooked. Unfortunately, I can't go in to get them adjusted till I'm released from quarantine, and am not about to futz with these relatively pricier Italian-made frames myself. So when I'm indoors and alone, I'll probably switch to the old frames. This is what they look like:
Here are the new frames with remade lenses:
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Really attractive. You look great in them Sanddy.
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Sandy, your new glasses look great. I can't believe you do this all by mail. You do give Warby Parker great publicity as both a model and user.
Finally got MRI done for left knee after hoping knee pain would resolve on its own. It didn't and injury from August exacerbated arthritis in knee by compounding it with menisceal tear. There is a fluid collection that needs to be drained and then choosing conservative route, I will try artificial joint fluid injection to see if this brings relief. I do not sleep well and walking is still a challenge if it involves distance or inclines. Stairs are fun, too. So addressed plan with Ortho PA today and had all my questions answered. Knee brace is not working because it is too large (I was not measured for it), I spend entire day readjusting it as it slides down my leg. So not really effective. Doesn't fit under slacks either due to bulk and wearing over clothes didn't stop slide either. So a new brace is in the plan. Passed on plan for OP PT because I am not comfortable being in a room with other patients and most PT departments are open air large rooms (worse idea ever). Plus I need to be here when contractors are here. So will try home exercises and see how that goes.
Wish my social life was more than MD appointments and grocery shopping. DD and DSIL do visit weekly.
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Sandy - the darker frames flatter your eyes. Warby Parker could hire you!
MC - you're always busy making something! It's good you found a pattern you like.
Betrayal - it might not be you miskeying. I use my phone for this site and every now and then it will double up some letters, key what it feels like. I have to go back and delete what I see, and sometimes edit too.
I had my full body check at dermatologist and now I have an appointment to get my radiation markers off. Put on in 2017, they didn't phase me. But as we wintered in FL, wearing summer clothes nearly all year round, the marker on my breast bone reminded me of a black head. The derms office offers it for free. I didn't realize how happy it would make me to know they're coming off. Little things mean a lot!
Tomorrow morning 7:30 AM the plumber will be here to snake the stack vent pipe. After the last repair, removing the last of the cast iron, when we flush we hear gurgling. I'm hoping this procedure is uneventful but knowing how its been going, nothing will surprise me. House is nearing 100.
Supposed to hit 65 with sun tomorrow, and I look forward to it. Enjoy your day too.
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Cindy: Today must have been skin cancer check day. My PCP recommended I schedule an appointment since alst one was about 10 years ago. PCP told me it would most likely take months to get an appointment so I called Monday expecting to be lucky if it was still in 2020. Seems I lucked out being a new patient because they had a cancellation for today so I was able to go today rather than the end of November. Derm was able to spray new growth on my nose with liquid nitro (lesion will fall off later) as a bonus for visit. Will see her later for skin tag removal since insurance will no longer pay for their removal. So good to go for a year skinwise while everything else goes to pot.
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Betrayal, hyaluronic acid shots have come a long way since I had mine 20+ years ago. Mine were "Suppartz:" not covered by insurance, hurt, and didn't help. The latest iteration of Synvisc is very effective and the injections don't hurt as much or for as long as they used to. My housekeeper gets hers every 8 months and swears by them.
Do get fitted for an "unloader" brace. (Yes, it's done in person, but if both you & the fitter are masked and s/he is gloved, you should be fine). What it does is shift the bulk of the weight off the more worn "condyle" (half of the knee) to the part with more cartilage remaining. A year after a meniscectomy, it bought me another year before needing my first knee replacement. Fitted properly, it should stay up even over jeans.
As for PT, can you get a video visit? The therapist can watch your range of motion, demonstrate the exercises, watch you do them, and send you printouts. I'm thinking of doing that for my back, as the spurs sometimes irritate the muscles going to my sciatic nerve.
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Dermatologist week continued...I see my derm tomorrow morning to have the pre-cancerous 'thing" under my eye frozen. If it were on some other part of my face I wouldn't think anything about it but it seems likely that the under eye area could be more sensitive. I'll check in tomorrow afterwards.
Sandy, beautiful new glasses. They are so flattering.
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And I am currently going to PT to work on getting full range of motion back in my arm. Masks on everybody, use hand sanitizer as you enter, only person who has been closer than six feet to me is the therapist. Don't feel threatened and getting rid of the pain and movement limitation are worth the risk to me right now.
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Sandy, I must make an appointment with the opthamologist. I have looked, looked and peered. I do not see any bags. I only wear Peepers 2.50 Readers and am in love with the colors. At the Key West Literary Seminar last year, a very elegant woman( usually we all look grungy and poetic) put on a pair of glasses with royal blue frames and black and white zigzag handles or arms or whatever they are. I felt lust for them. Later, to my surprise, found them on the Peepers website for $33 . Love your big round frames. Going to look at Warby Parker, but do not know if they have readers. Today off to plastic surgeon for followup who put me together after Mohs on opposite sides of my forehead . She did a marvellous job. Can barely, after less than a month, see any scars.
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Life is simple.
Everything happens for you, not to you.
Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late.
You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do.
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Wishing you well Keywest and anyone else with procedures coming up. I think I may be in need of getting eyes tested soon. Trying to put it off until I get my credit card paid -- so as to afford new frames. I can get the eye test for free -- but the VA doesn't really have much fashion when it comes to their frames. A really small selection. I generally go to Walmart now for that.
Should be nice today. Low 80's and hopefully no humidity or rain. Hoping Dh can get the rest of the deck stained.
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Sandy: Thanks for the advice about the "unloader" knee brace. I spoke to the PA about my difficulties with the one I have so I will be refitted when I visit on 10/26. I don't know if it will be an unloader brace but I will be able to ask her about this possibility. Seems the brace will most likely be long-term so I need it to stay in place and not soend the better part of the day readjusting it.
You said your first knee replacement. Have you had both knees replaced? If so, how far apart?
Orthovisc is what they are now using for joint injections and it is 3 doses each one week apart. So I have the appointments for them. First they have to drain the fluid collection that is in there and it is a large collection as stated on the MRI report. I've had the knee drained once before about 15 years ago by my then rheumatologist who thought there was "nothing to be removed". I had a lot of pressure in the knee after a trauma and felt there was fluid in there since I was unable to bend the knee. She ended up removing over an ounce of fluid and then apologized for being a doubter. No longer see her after she told me I was lucky because "I had the good type of BC" and after I was able to find my voice, I told her there is no such thing as "a good type of BC". Of course, she followed her pronouncement with a story about someone she knew dying from BC and all the things this poor person endured. I left shaking from anger and her failure to see how this was affecting me. I never saw her again and had been seeing her for about 10 years.
I may see what the OP PT offers for at least 1 visit. It is in the same building, one level down from the office so I can stop by. I just do not want to be in a crowded room, masks or not.
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Hi, ladies. The cleaning st the dentist went well, no problems. My phone dies and I replaced it with a new Samsung. I have made one call and a few text messages. So far, so good. Verizon is next to Great Clips and I got my haircut. I was not pleased. There were 2 other little older ladies in there and we all got the same haircut. I had good luck there with the exception of 1 other time, but I don't care to go back. My hair is thin and the way they cut it, I can see my scalp. I guess I will wear a hat for 2 weeks. LOL On the serious side - Prayers are with you and your loved ones, Celia
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Betrayal, I had my knees replaced a year apart--the R in 2012, the L in 2013. My surgeon preferred not to do simultaneous bilateral TKRs on anyone obese or over 60--and I was both.
No haircut for me until I'm cleared to leave the house and be in the company (albeit distanced) of others.
Judy, Warby sells non-prescription readers as well as prescription if you need astigmatism correction. You choose the frame and the diopter--those lens-blanks are ready-made so the glasses arrive more quickly than if more than just the shape needs grinding. Not sure how much the non-prescription ones are, but I'm certain they charge a helluva lot more than Peepers. Their single-vision glasses (prescription readers or distance) run $95 for acetate (plastic) frames (made in China) and $145 for their Italian plastic frames with silver accents, as well as those metal ones in titanium, gold plate or concentric designs. (There's also a $195 collection that includes some Italian-made mixed-material frames).
Tonight's gonna be stressful--have to shoot the video for a scene in which I have a solo (but because the key was all wrong, I sounded weak in either octave--physical acting will have to carry the day). It needs to be submitted by tomorrow night, but I want to make sure I still feel up to the task. Tomorrow afternoon is my COVID test--in blustery, miserable weather, to boot. I've never done this before--and Bob is no help whatsoever because of he's less tech-literate than I. And I hope that I can get it properly submitted in the correct format.
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I was up with the chickens and fully dressed, hair & makeup by 7. At 7:03 my phone rang, plumbing co saying the tech is out sick, we need to reschedule. Pushed out to Monday same time. This night owl needed a nap.
Beautiful day here, so after school and grand niece left, I went up to our bedroom to open the window. Bed called my name so I spread out on top of the covers w sun streaming in. Within minutes I heard my cell phone ringing downstairs. My mom would have said - no rest for the wicked.
It was endocrinologist office. I've been taking the Fosamax generic, 70 mg, 1x a week and I want to switch to either Reclast or Prolia. They were calling me back to set up appointment. Add that to my list of Dr appointments next week.
The bad wind storm of last week blew our chain link gate open and it must have smacked something, the bottom corner cracked open. When my cousin fixed the vent on the roof he told me Home Depot sells the corners. I grabbed one to do it myself, $6. Well my 34 year old Montgomery Wards gate corner was welded shut! I got the bolts off but couldn't budge it. Same cousin stopped over 8 o'clock tonight, and used his grinder to cut it open. He had the flash light on his phone going, I had my head lamp on, and all our outdoor flood lights on. We were a sight!
I'm showering and going up to bed. Tomorrow we're supposed to hit the mid 70's, before more rain and back to normal temps w highs of 57.
Enjoy the rest of the night & I hope you all have a good day tomorrow.
PS - I'm getting double submissions and then I need to delete the 2nd one. What next?
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I was up with the chickens and fully dressed, hair & makeup by 7. At 7:03 my phone rang, plumbing co saying the tech is out sick, we need to reschedule. Pushed out to Monday same time. This night owl needed a nap.
Beautiful day here, so after school and grand niece left, I went up to our bedroom to open the window. Bed called my name so I spread out on top of the covers w sun streaming in. Within minutes I heard my cell phone ringing downstairs. My mom would have said - no rest for the wicked.
It was endocrinologist office. I've been taking the Fosamax generic, 70 mg, 1x a week and I want to switch to either Reclast or Prolia. They were calling me back to set up appointment. Add that to my list of Dr appointments next week.
The bad wind storm of last week blew our chain link gate open and it must have smacked something, the bottom corner cracked open. When my cousin fixed the vent on the roof he told me Home Depot sells the corners. I grabbed one to do it myself, $6. Well my 34 year old Montgomery Wards gate corner was welded shut! I got the bolts off but couldn't budge it. Same cousin stopped over 8 o'clock tonight, and used his grinder to cut it open. He had the flash light on his phone going, I had my head lamp on, and all our outdoor flood lights on. We were a sight!
I'm showering and going up to bed. Tomorrow we're supposed to hit the mid 70's, before more rain and back to normal temps w highs of 57.
Enjoy the rest of the night & I hope you all have a good day tomorrow.
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The dermatologist visit was easy peasy. He didn't even have to freeze it off as the biopsy took care of everything. Relieved I didn't have to have anything done.
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Good morning, ladies. Cowgirl that is good news. Cindy, wow
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Happy Thursday to everyone.
Chair Yoga today at 1 pm at the YMCA gym. Class held in the gymnasium so lots of space. I feel some uneasiness attending classes again but I need them and benefit so much. I wear a mask until exercise begins and put it back on as soon as exercise ends. My weight has even dropped a couple of lbs. Fingers crossed.
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Time is . . . Too slow for those who wait,
Too swift for those who fear,
Too long for those who grieve,
Too short for those who rejoice;
But for those who love. . . Time is Eternity!
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