Can we have a forum for "older" people with bc?
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Welcome to the new baby. Sounds pinkly adorable. Hope Mom is happy now that you have done some house keeping and she can get back to her 'knitting'. I hope Mom and Dad Keet see you as nice help for them.
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To receive more, we must give out what we receive. . . . For it is by giving that we set in operation the unfailing law of measure for measure. With no thought of receiving, it is impossible to avoid receiving, for the abundance you have given is returned to you in fulfillment of the law.
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Okay, so as of this morning, egg two has hatched and there are now 2 very pink, naked babies under mom. She is still sitting on egg 3 so perhaps there will be another? I have never seen a parakeet sleep as she does; usually they sleep on a perch and tuck their heads. She is flat in the dish with her head almost tucked under her and sleeping. The other two parakeets are making those small soothing noises they make throughout the day. Oops, just spied a naked baby that she quickly covered with her feathers and heard two independent sets of chirps.
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Tuning into the 'keet saga. Welcome to new members.
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Mary: How goes the new sewing machine? What project are you working on now? Another quilt? How did the wooden chest turn out?
Yup, I seem to have turned into an unpaid restoration supervisor (house damaged in Nov. 2019 and still not done) and a parakeet breeder much to my chagrin. Prefer the parakeets!
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Hello, all. Have not popped in for awhile. Hope everyone is beginning to emerge a little from the pandemic lockdowns. We are still being cautionary and wearing masks into stores, etc. Not sure that everyone who says they have been fully vaccinated really has. The only time I remove a mask is outdoors and distanced & in the company of others fully vaccinated.
Betrayal - Congrats on your new babies! Must be fun to observe.
Welcome, IJWMBC. Guess I am a youngster here, will be 67 in early September.
Puffin - How wonderful to have your Dad nearby!
Keywestfan - Hard to believe you are 87! Glad to hear you made it to Key West. Wishing you well as you start in on those Dr and dental related visits.
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Betrayal--how exciting to have new arrivals! I hope you can share some pictures.
Hope everyone is doing well; I'm having difficulty focusing my eyes after chemo this week so I haven't read much of the thread. I feel like I'm just returning to life today after the AC infusion last Tuesday; this is kicking my butt, folks.
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I don't know how true this is, but if chemo is kicking your butt, it is kicking the butt of the cancer twice as bad.
The new sewing machine is sewing fine. However, the bobbin winder broke almost immediately. I got an independent bobbin winder for $25, cheaper than taking it back to the shop. I got a serger for $10 at a benefit rummage. The knives were chewing the fabric, I got a new set from China, and we are in business. The sari skirt folks want alterations done, and are willing to pay postage here and back. Who am I to complain? Only problem is things like-- one customer sent me a whole sari in partial payment of her bill. I want time to do my stuff, too. Quilting is on the back burner at this point.
The trunk is also on the back burner. I will be having to pay a steep bill for my lower denture, and holding it all in reserve until I know how much it will be. Similarly, after going through cancer and a fatigue syndrome here in Wisconsin with only long distance support from family, I think it is time to move. I just completed the application for an apartment *back home* and put it in the mail.
The carpenter friend and I have discussed what we can do about the trunk. I still want it done.
Tippy is doing fine. Just had a Dr appointment, got his yearly shots. When I got him, he was having luxating patella symptoms. I read that going up and down hills is PT for that. We are averaging three miles a day now, and i have not seen the little skip with his hind legs for months. They actually admired his muscle development.
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Puffin - so glad the move was successful. I've noticed that many of the assisted living communities have organized "men's groups" for their residents. How good your Dad met someone the first night to share a meal.
Ken came home after a 13 day hospital stay. Thursday was nightmare but each day has gotten a little easier. He's still very weak and it's clear that his heart will only get worse, rather than better, but we are managing. Lots of follow-up doctor appointments next week and then I hope he will feel strong enough to start some PT. He has been our cook for years so trying to grocery shop and prepare meals is my greatest challenge right now. Our daughter works in a grocery store and has had lots of good suggestions of little or no prep meals. The dog and I have worked out a routine that works for us even though it is different than Ken's.
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Good morning, ladies. It has been hot and dry. We need rain, but no hurricanes. DH has the MRI today. Last time, in 2018, he had a "spell" during the MRI. I am hoping all goes well.
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Wren44 and others: I just popped in and went back a fair bit and read posts. I am turning 71 in August. My DH and I having our 48th wedding anniversary this Wed. November we will have lived together 50 years. How did that happen? Maybe not having children blinded me to the passage of time. I spent my childhood in places like Edmonton, Winnipeg and 150 miles north of Ottawa. Winter started just after Hallowe'en and then there was "spring thaw" of mud sometime around Easter followed by stinking hot and muggy buggy summers. Vancouver beckoned to me in 1969 -- it was Canada's Haight-Ashbury. I couldn't believe folks didn't need screens on their windows to keep out bugs. Sometimes virtually no snow all winter, the occasional years of a major dump that lasts only a few weeks. I don't mind rain which is a good thing. I cannot stand humidity and being out in the sun too long makes me feel physically ill. Tropical holiday spots for me would be Hell.
I love the parakeet story - pink, bald babies!!!
Taco1946: I wish for continual improvements for your DH
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To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never; in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common--this is to be my symphony.
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Taco, You have my sympathy. DH is having memory problems and he's always been our cook. I'm going to have to take over soon and I dread it. Right now I'm just eating whatever he fixes (usually a frozen meal) and not commenting when lunch and dinner are basically the same food. He's always done the taxes and I'm still working on those. We'll just have to pay the penalty for being late.
I hope your DH keeps improving and is able to benefit from some PT. Being in bed really makes your muscles weaker.
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Wren44 - my daughter, who works in a grocery store, has been very good at sending me to the deli and the meat department for prepared or almost prepared meals. We get several meals out of a rotisserie chicken for instance. I need to be more patient about wandering the grocery store aisles for ideas I think.
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DH had his MRI and it went much better than last time, when he had one of the headaches during the MRI, so he was very worried about it happening again. He ended up having a very good day without any signs of a headache. He even wanted to go out for a later lunch or early supper. It was such a good day.
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If religion commands universal charity, to love our neighbors as ourselves, to forgive and pray for all our enemies without any reserve; it is because all degrees of love are degrees of happiness, that strengthen and support the Divine life of the soul, and are as necessary to its health and happiness, as proper food is necessary to the health and happiness of the body. -William Law
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In case I forget Elderberry for tomorrow, I am wishing you a very happy anniversary. 48 yrs. Sounds like it is going to last. Just kidding!!!
petite, that is really good news that your Di got through the MRI just fine ( no headache ) and was so happy it acted as inspiration to celebrate. That is truly great. Hoping as always that the why is discovered and that appropriate steps can then help relieve him of having to have them or minimizing them very greatly if one must come at all.
I had forgotten that most supermarkets ( slightly larger ones ) generally have deli counters. Ours here had items specifically for hot lunches ( could be used for a dinner meal re-heated later ) and most of the time a variance of salads like cold spaghetti or carrot salad . Many are for sandwiches -- ham, egg, or chicken salad, along with a variety of potato salads and baked beans. Finally, there are made up dessert items like Grape, Ambrosia or Pistachio Salad desserts. I do make a lot of those things myself but when I'm going to be super busy I generally hit the deli to supplement so I don't spend all my free time having to cook things for us to eat.
Nothing special planned today. We are having a few hot days in the upper 80's so not too much outside. We have our a/c on for now. I hate having to have it on before June, but it is the first summer for my daughter to be home again and she is extremely un-used to humidity. We have been home for so long we don't notice it much. Hard to believe we have been here now for 24 yrs. 18 yrs. in the house where we are now.
Hope you all have a really good day.
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Taco: I make Chicken Ala King using a rotisserie chicken, frozen peas and either raw or frozen carrots, which I cook and use the water from these to thin a can of Campbell's Cream of Mushroom soup (usually a half can of water to 1 can of soup). We eat it over toast or mashed potatoes. It freezes well, too.
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Thanks for the suggestion, Betrayal. Ken used canned white sauce but I like the mushroom soup idea. I can do this! Just takes some time wandering grocery store aisles (which I have never had to do before).
Cardiologist visit was discouraging. He's taking more nitro in a day than one usually takes in a week. Thursday we see the internist. Tomorrow I have to brave the DMV to get a handicapped plate for his car (although I'm not certain he will ever drive again) and a placard for mine.
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Welcome, Elderberry, IJWMBC, and anyone else new here. I've been remiss--on so many other sites & doing so many other (mostly trivial but time-consuming) things that I never seem to get past the Drinking and Dinner threads on BCO.
Judy, glad you had a great time in Key West. And hope your dental restorations go smoothly and swiftly.
Happy Anniversary, Elderberry! We're celebrating our 50th next month. Bob Googled it and found that only 5% of couples make it that far. Only 15% of marriages last till the silver (25th) anniversary. My folks only got 44 years before my dad passed. Bob's parents were married 58 years, but didn't want even a dinner out for their 50th. (They always used to say "we're not social people," and their only friends were their next-door-neighbor couple, not very close ones at that). OTOH, we're definitely having a party at Cellars--20 RSVPs thus far, waiting to hear from another 10 (mostly out-of-towners whom we don't expect to travel, though my sister & niece are flying in overnight from DC).
Gordy & Leslie have set their wedding date for next April...in New Orleans, which they adore. They opted to wait till 2022 so as not to steal anyone else's thunder: her sis is getting married in Jackson Hole, WY next weekend (big church wedding), their BFFs (my godson & his wife) are expecting their first son in early July, and there's our 50th.
Somewhat disappointing news at my 3-mo. ocular onc. appt. this a.m. The melanoma seems to have grown by two tenths of a millimeter, though it is still classified as "very small." My onc is not at all worried--he considers it "stable" and says that during the first year after brachytherapy, these tumors wax & wane slightly. (At 3 mos. it shrank by the same amount). He also said that while my chart says "ciliary body" (highly vascular) melanoma, it's more of an "iris" melanoma, which carries the best prognosis of the three types (the third type is choroidal--toward the retina, and usually not diagnosed till it is large enough to cause symptoms). I asked if I'll be able to walk Gordy down the aisle next April, and he replied that if I can't by then, I won't be able to blame cancer. He said that for my peace of mind, we'll follow up next in July (a year after it was diagnosed) rather than August. Another factor is that their fancy new ultrasound scanner is "in the shop" again, so that could cause slight discrepancies in assessing size. (The tumor's location just behind the iris makes it difficult to visualize). Had I not discovered that pesky floater in my other eye, he says the tumor would have grown undetected till it'd be too large to treat without damage to my vision. My retinas are fine, as is my vision.
I've been on Letrozole for almost 5-1/2 yrs. now and am considering stopping it. The effects are beginning to accumulate, especially the night sweats, slow metabolism, elevated glucose and now "teenage" skin: oily T-zone and even zits. (At 70, I'm still using Clinique #3 toner/astringent--which my mom used until she was 82).
I did have something of a scare Sat. morning. I had just finished breakfast & flossed. I rinsed and then my tongue touched what felt angular, like a bit of bacon between two molars...which then moved. I then felt a pinprick on my tongue and spat the thing out: it was a black carpenter ant, which flew away. No idea how it got in there--maybe climbed into the straw of my water bottle. I rinsed and spat and rinsed and spat again--and to my great relief it didn't sting--what I'd felt was its leg. I'm fine, but was kinda shaken for an hour or so.
(Warning: the following will be irrelevant to my BCO sisters who had or are undergoing chemo--if so, I apologize for my insensitivity; feel free to stop reading at this point).
Headed to Ulta last week to buy that new Dyson Corrale flatiron to tame my frizzies, which my Airwrap (2019's anniv. present) couldn't seem to be able to despite its price tag and plethora of attachments; but the salesman/stylist there told me to save my money--I didn't need new hair tools, just learn to properly uee the ones I already have (with the right leave-in conditioner--he recommended "Liquid Glass"). He demoed it on the front of my hair and it looked amazing. Went home, washed my hair and tried to replicate it...nope. Could not smooth out the misplaced wavy "crease" behind my head (due to putting my hair up for sleep to keep it from frizzing overnight). I decided to splurge and get a blowout & styling at Drybar--but really, to observe the stylist to learn how to use my dryer & flatiron properly. The results were great--just as nice as when I used to spend an arm & a leg on those Brazilian Blowout keratin treatments.
I also learned two things: if I can't see the back of my head I will never be able to get my hair straight; for straight styles. blowdryers need a concentrator attachment (mine fell off my dryer and then I lost it); and you're supposed to section your hair for both blowdrying and flatiron/curling iron styling. And I was using the wrong kind of clips, which "dent" the hair. So I went on Amazon (Ulta didn't carry them) and got some long "alligator" clips and a concentrator nozzle--and a set of nine non-glass mirror tiles I stuck on my bathrooom wall opposite my medicine-cabinet mirror. Voilà: I can now see the back of my head and style it without having to hold a hand mirror (which really requires at least three hands).
That also explains why, when those impossibly cute Dorothy Hamill "wedge" haircuts (remember those Clairol "Short & Sassy" commercials?) were all the rage back in the late '70s, mine always seemed to wave & flip in the wrong direction when I'd try to DIY. And salon visits--even monthly--were way too expensive for me back then.
Yeah, I know that most women my age who have hair wear it short and have let it go gray. But vanity, while trivial, helps me feel alive if not exactly youthful.
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One of the worst features about worrying is that it destroys our ability to concentrate. When we worry, our minds jump here and there and everywhere, and we lose all power of decision. However, when we force ourselves to face the worst and accept it mentally, we then eliminate all these vague imaginings and put ourselves in a position in which we are able to concentrate on our problem. -Willis H. Carrier
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I am giggling Sandy -- but hey, not at you. I have let my hair grow long ( I'd so much rather have short hair and am considering it ) because of the loose neck skin under my chin. Came from a huge goiter I had ( how the heck could that happen ) from un-diagnosed thyroid disease. Never really sure how it was missed for so long ( 7 yrs. ) and only diagnosed when it decided someone needs to find out now because you are very EXPENDABLE right this minute. Dx. Dr. said he thought I had maybe a day left before coma and possible death -- whew.
Anyway, long story and why I'm not really laughing at you Sandy. I decided to try the long hair and while I don't mind it ( for the value of allowing my neck to be a bit less exposed ) I find it really cumbersome at times. I may try a less long, less curly version if my hairdresser thinks it okay. I often find my hair in my mouth while trying to eat, and the ( thank goodness not too often ) wind can be bothersome. I'll likely look at styles again soon and see if there is something that takes my fancy.
Otherwise, we are looking at cloudy today and maybe rain with possible big storm coming in tomorrow. After that it gets somewhat nice on the week-end. Way lower temps and I may be able to clean my car a good bit. Needs vac'ced badly as well as some strong detailing. I have a 'new' coating for the outside which my cousin recommends. It does about the same as washing with Murphy's Wood Soap, but is/looks way easier to apply to your clean car. You rub on gently with one cloth and then use a second to polish. His white car gleamed -- so I will try it on mine. Carole will definitely SEE this for me.
Onward for the day. Making the big break today. Spectrum who gave us a magnificent deal ( maybe their salespeople are too anxious ) messed it up and I now have a bill I didn't expect. So, we will shut the whole tv service part down. May require the purchase of another Smart tv, but preferable in my view to the repeated mistakes we have endured the last few months with Spectrum. We do have an extra Amazon Fire Stick which we will see if we can set up on the 'last' tv in the house -- if that works good, but if not then we go look for a new tv for that room. Likely will donate the other. No one buys used tvs much -- especially if they are dumb and not smart.
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I was able to see the two parakeet babies today and one is appreciably larger than the other but both appear to be faring well. They chirp like crazy when they want to be fed and keep their parents busy. I managed to get mom off them long enough to gently remove them to clean the cat food bowl nest. I am reluctant to handle them since they look so fragile but that bowl gets cruddy. So clean bowl and cage today which is a feat. Can't get her off the nest long enough to grab a photo but they do have minor pin feather beginnings: very fine looking hairlike projections. If I can get a photo I will post it. The 3rd egg has not hatched but she has not discarded it and continues to sit on it, so I will leave it alone.
Spent yesterday afternoon putting flowers in the 3 window boxes I have and will work on filling planters on patio today. My DD and DSIL went to Lowes and bought a boatload of plants for me to allow me to be creative. Only problem is the deer who like to graze on these and who have already started on my hostas. It ahs been too warm tto soon since several of the hostas are already starting to flower and my bleeding hearts are already producing seed pods. This is normally a late summer occurrence.
My hair has not been this long since 1976 and I am so glad to be able to get it off the back of my neck in a pony tail. Between Exemestane and Methotrexate, it has thinned significantly so I do envy Sandy's thick hair. I let it go gray (still have brown mixed in) and I am not following in the footsteps of my mother or grandmother. Neither dyed their hair and my grandmother had pitch black curly hair with silver streaks at the temples into her 80's (she died at 86 with still black hair). She never went full gray. My mother died at 96, had some silver threads in her mouse brown hair and again never dyed her hair because to quote her "she couldn't be bothered". I would like to go for a trim to remove the raggedy edges but need to find a time when they are slow since I still am not comfortable in crowds even being fully vaccinated.
I canidentify with the TV issues. We had 2 older TV's that my husband purchased while I was out of town. I was annoyed because they were behemoths and even though he had purchased VCR's of the same brand, they each had a remote and trying to watch a DVD was such a hassle. The VCR remote was supposed to be able to control both the TV and VCR for DVD watching but that was not true. I never did manage to use them. One has been decommissioned and replaced with a smart TV and the second TV will be replaced when we finally get our basement restored. Yes, we are still in the restoration process but have not seen hide nor hair of them since March. They have not responded to a pointed email so I will call next week. I am thinking they are in breach of their contract but know that getting a contractor is nigh impossible. I want my house done and them gone.
Have a good day. It is supposed to get hot and humid today with thunderstorms and high winds later. Oh, boy not something I relish.
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Actually, while long my hair is far from "thick:" it's baby-fine (always has been), albeit frizz-prone due to having been double-processed for so many years. It started out dirty-blonde (like my dad's was all his life) till I was about 8, then gradually darkened till by puberty I was definitely brunette. Some of my earliest childhood memories were of having to nap in metal curlers the afternoon before weddings & bar mitzvahs--my hair was so fine & straight that attempts at perms didn't "take." By my late teens it did start to frizz in high humidity, Remember that back in the 1960s & early '70s nobody had handheld blow-dryers--only either salon-style "hard-helmet" or hands-free tabletop blower-motors with a hose and a shower-cap-like bonnet. Back then, we did silly things like use actual irons to straighten our hair--putting it between towels on an ironing board and using a steam iron to flatten it. (We Brooklynites--Jewish, Italian, Latina, etc.--all tried to tame our ethnic tresses to emulate those iconic California surfer girls, "Sun-In" lightening spray & all). Also, instead of jumbo rollers we used orange-juice cans--or if our hair was really long, coffee-cans--as our hair air-dried. Anything to avoid going to the salon like our moms did weekly (sitting under hairdryers, then teasing & spraying).
When I was 16, I decided that my brunette hair didn't flatter my pale skin tone, and my mom agreed--so we chose a rich, natural-looking auburn/chestnut like hers, going to the corner salon every 6 weeks with all the middle-aged moms (mine included); the stylist-owner, the dad of one of my classmates who always (duh) had "perfect" hair, would wrap my wet hair around my head & secure it with clips under the dryer till it was dry and somewhat straight. Bob had no idea I wasn't a redhead until he noticed my roots growing out about a month into our marriage. I stopped dyeing it once I realized I could no longer afford the time & money for salon visits to maintain it (and the Seattle salons I could afford catered to middle-aged WASP ladies going for the "Steel Magnolias" look). Once I began earning a little money as a fledgling lawyer, I'd treat myself to a henna-or-"cellophane" treatment (and the aforementioned "wedge" cut) every couple of months till I moved to Chicago and gave long hair another chance. Didn't resume coloring until in 1983 I did a horribly-botched patchy job with "Sun-In" and lemon juice--and Bob said "pick one color, any color, and give me time to get used to it." At first, that was strawberry-apricot red-blonde (in fact, I had my hair touched up & trimmed a few hours before my water broke), but I decided to go truly blonde when Gordy was a year old--and that's been my color ever since. Shoulder-length or longer, too. (He hates change).
Mom's natural color was actually dark brown and its texture coarse and perfectly wavy. The only reason she went to the salon every week into her 80s was to cover the gray--till she decided she liked the gray hair and the way it flattered those short waves; after going gray, her weekly salon visits were more social than anything else. My sister inherited my mom's coarse perfectly-wavy brunette hair (albeit frizzy when she let it get past mid-neck) and though she covers her grays, all she has to do is let it air-dry after shampooing and it falls into perfect curls. She has Mom's coal-black eyes & light-olive skin that tans easily; I inherited my dad's pale sunburn-prone skin, and genetics split the difference between Dad's light blue and Mom's dark eyes to give me dark-honey hazel that have lightened to amber/green with age--Gordy's are the dark-hazel-brown eyes I had most of my life. (Bob's are a light blue-gray-gold hazel). He does have deep-brown hair and my very fair skin, but he tends to freckle if he remembers to use sunscreen to avoid burning. (When he was 10 and we visited China, all the little girls at the performing arts schools we toured were fascinated by his freckles--they'd never seen them before).
Jackie, I always keep a pretty barette clipped to my purse strap to keep my hair out of my mouth when patio-dining on windy days. Also helps when riding with someone who refuses to roll up the car windows and put on the AC. (The most recalcitrant of cabbies would relent when I explained how much it cost to get my hair repaired). I learned my lesson back in Phoenix in 1998--on an open-air Jeep tour of the Sonoran desert, we sped down the freeway and my hair got so tangled that it snagged & broke when I tried combing it out afterward. Hadn't thought to put it up or wear a ball cap.
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As to indoor masking, that decision has pretty much been made for us by the city & state: it's up to the individual stores & venues. Almost all of them still require masks, even if their corporate "parents" have made it optional. I don't mind donning mine to go inside, since I've been wearing them for 15 months now. They are still absolutely mandatory on public transit, in gov't bldgs., and healthcare facilities. Until it's possible to truly verify who has & hasn't been vaccinated--and until 70% have been (IL is now up over 50% fully, and 70% having had at least one shot), it makes sense to err on the side of caution.
I wear mine outdoors on allergy-alert days, of which we're having quite a few. That--and topical eye (antihistamine) drops & steroid nose sprays--make being outside more tolerable. And I can definitely get used to not catching colds. Even in shops where it's presumably now optional (e.g., Costco or S'bux), I don't want to be "that person" insisting "the CDC says I don't have to" if anyone challenges me. Far cry from last year, when--masked--I had to keep darting into gangways or even roadways when encountering an unmasked person who refused to social-distance.
Minus, unless you're immunocompromised and don't wear a mask when interacting with waitstaff and not actively eating & drinking, there is no longer a logical reason to avoid indoor restaurant dining (except personal tastes & perhaps the expense). Your wearing a mask plus being fully-vaccinated makes you perfectly safe from the unmasked & unvaxed, except from accidental choking or food poisoning. Even in otherwise "Covidiot-governed" FL & TX.
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My hair is so fine that it looks thin even when it's thick. Now I'm losing hair and it's really thin. My mother was opposed to bangs and spent a fortune keeping the front out of my face. Being fine, the barrettes would just fall out. As soon as I left home, I cut bangs and have had some version of them ever since. The rest never wanted to be long and several years ago I cut it off. Now I just wash my hair and puff up the top and let it dry. I don't have the patience to color it and it's now just slightly more pepper than salt.
I know what you mean about wind whipping hair into your face. We were backpacking and I finally turned my back to the wind and cut everything in front that was in my eyes. It didn't look too bad (was already fairly short).
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Thanks Sandy for your opinion, but I prefer to be "doubly safe". I am not comfortable eating indoors yet with the 'unvaxed' everywhere & flaunting it. I'll save my bravery for a possible airplane trip in the fall to see my son after two full years in different states with a country between us.
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Minus Two, If Houston is what it was like when I lived there, I think erring on the side of caution is a good idea. If people want to cut their own nose off to spite their face, they can do that. I don't want them anywhere around me, however. I hope you'll get to see your son soon.
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Hello all. Reports of my demise were greatly exaggerated.... though many times in the past week I have felt "warmed over." This chemo stuff really sucks.
I'm enjoying reading everyone's posts. I don't have any hair to talk about right now. I bought a gray wig and then thought about it and ordered a light brown one. I can have any hair I want!
I'm dying to see those tiny 'keets!! I'd be staring at them all day; they must be tiny little fellows.
Petite and Taco--so glad to hear the hubbys are doing OK.
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Back from Key West with a bang- trying to undo the fall bang which dislodged the four front teeth from their roots. So, have been going to periodontist, dentist, endodontist- they fused and bonded the teeth in the very slim chance that the roots may reattach. Giving it another month to see if that happens, before coming up with a final treatment plan when it doesn’t of either implants, crowns or a bridge. In the meantime I have bonded teeth and can smile. Was upset that the periodontist would not accept the 3 CT scans that the endodontist had taken 2.5 weeks before and refused to see me unless I had repeat scans. This was all conveyed through his dental assistant. I explained I had 2 brain CT scans after my fall, had had radiation and that the purpose of my visit referred by the dentist was just to give his evaluation using the prior CT scans, but he refused to meet me. So I walked out of the office and will be referred to another periodontist. Left a bad taste.
Went to first indoor restaurant- the Afghan,Kabul House- last week with DS, Tony. We were distanced, though surprising to me, the restaurant was very crowded, as if everyone had been waiting to eat inside. It felt safe, except that we ordered so much that the food kept coming and I could often not mask in time. And many different waiters were bringing food. They were young, masked,and, I suspect, unvaccinated. Glancing around, I noticed that almost no one masked when the servers brought the dishes. So it feels sort of iffy, making this transition to indoor dining
As to hair, mine turned white at 35. I did not want to dye it, basically laziness and not wanting to be tied to the beauty shop.I had high coloring and, when I look back, I think it was daring in those days to leave it as it was and certainly different.Now, the whiteness just looks like everyone else. This picture is from a new short haircut, but actually my hair is usually almost shoulder length. I’ve never wanted to fuss, but I do remember pin curls in high school.
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