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  • harley07
    harley07 Posts: 574

    Sandy - 😭😭😭😭. I hope you get a break soon. I’d be so tempted to hop in my car, drive off and never come back.

    Reader - so sorry to hear about your sweet kitty. I hope the transition is peaceful.

    Cindy - best of luck with the tooth. I feel like I’ve hit the age where I’m playing whack-a- mole with my health. Much to my pleasant surprise my cholesterol bloodwork yesterday came back within normal limits so apparently the ezetimibe is doing its job. I’ve also been more careful with my diet.

    I met with a GI doc today and the pancreatic cyst needs an MRI. The radiologist had initially indicated every two years so I was not due until next spring but today the GI doc said GI standards call for a MRI annually. If he gets 2 years in a row with no change he will consider lengthening the interval to an MRI every two years. I told him I would do this MRI and would see from that point if I’m willing to do another one. Of course, I got the lecture about a colonoscopy which I politely declined. I think it’s CYA on his part.

    Have a wonderful Friday!

  • mcbaker
    mcbaker Posts: 2,096

    Surgery is scheduled for the 17th. He will use a different tourniquet method, then note any residual swelling after two weeks, and maybe put a compression sleeve under the cast.

    I am using some potent pain cream with cannabis oil, arnica, spirit of turpentine, menthol, camphor, and eucalyptus oils. Will add frankincense to combination when it arrives. Using elastic glove with brace over all that. Right index for space bar. Comfortable for now. Recovery from surgery can't be much worse than what I am experiencing now.

  • chisandy
    chisandy Posts: 11,645
    edited September 7

    Betrayal, have a fabulous cruise! Since you will be doing the Inside Passage, at times you may be close enough to the coast to get cell signal. Check your provider for cell roaming plans domestically (most of the cruise will be in AK, not BC waters)—might be cheaper than you think!

    I hear you about the stick vac, but for a different reason. I have no problem pushing it, but it's pretty anemic at picking up cat litter tracked on the bare basement floor around the boxes; and it's next to useless on carpet because it just sucks (literally). It's a Dirt Devil I bought last year because it was the cheapest at Target, and CR agrees with me that you get what you pay for. Back at the house, we have a couple of Fullers (off CR's radar) we bought back in 2020—an excellent upright and a very good stick (which I've only used on bare floors to pick up spilled crumbs, kibble and even broken glass). I may haul it back here to Lincolnwood. In the meantime, I know I'd made a vow not to buy anything non-perishable/non-consumable till we move, but I just made an exception. Our cleaning lady does a fabulous job on the black carpet each week—but the cats undo it within a day or two. The Shark that came with this rental is great but too heavy for me to push around. So I checked out CR's ratings and just ordered a Dyson robot vac from Abt ($100 cheaper than the Roomba brand, and on sale for half-price at Abt), which should arrive tomorrow. My back will thank me (although it's heavy and I'd have to pick it up from the closest outlet up two steps from the living room), and the black rug will stay presentable till the next cleaning visit.

    My new crown is fabulous—unlike porcelain-over-gold (or even the acrylic temp), zirconium doesn't react to temperature so I have no cold sensitivity on that molar.

    Speaking of power-washing, we're considering it for the side of our garage that is covered with what appears to be either lichen or mold.

    Our landscaper is under the weather today (having a "brain fog spell" from the head injury he suffered last winter when a suddenly-opened car doorknocked him off his bike), so if I go over to the house it'll be to clear some counter space in the kitchen for the Breville oven (in case we find it) as well as put various miscellany in cabinets & drawers. We made great progress yesterday—no more boxes remain in the kitchen! Was going to go through the clothing in the bedroom to set aside stuff for donation (in my case, most items!) but landscaper suggests we tackle the first floor instead. So tomorrow afternoon (after we meet a visiting friend from SC for breakfast) we will do the dining room boxes first and then living room. The system we've been using is that the guys do the lifting, bending and emptying while I unwrap and either discard or. put stuff where I think it belongs (or direct them to do it if I can't reach). Saves my back. Bob is surprised that his knees don't hurt as much as they did—de facto range-of-motion exercises. We will also work this Sunday; Monday I have to be at the house for the gas grill service visit, so I can get stuff done then too.

    My friend who's visiting from SC is here for a wedding in Aurora tomorrow. He has Parkinson's, which has been advancing more rapidly than when I last saw him 3 years ago, and he says this might be the last time he's well enough to fly up and meet with us all (he's from here, but he & his wife moved to Charleston for the weather and to be near her family). She's got some mobility issues from an injury last year, but has lost as much weight as I have—same method as I did before the GLP-1. It's unclear whether she'd be able to meet us that early in the morning, as he hinted that it takes her quite a while to get ready. Bob is off tomorrow, so will join us; but Gordy can't because his wife can't drive up that early from down in the city (she's the only driver, and an Uber would be insanely expensive). Gordy lives just north of. Wrigley Field, we're in Lincolnwood, and we're meeting at a hotel up in Northbrook. This is one of the rare occasions I won't be sleeping in on a weekend.

  • cindyny
    cindyny Posts: 1,572

    The power washing was great. He said the house wasn’t that dirty, I knew we had road grime at the peaks but otherwise it looked ok. The fence looks new again! And the retaining wall is clean. It has some effervescence, calcium leaching from the concrete I believe. I’m getting a bottle of CLR today to see if it removes it. Here’s the before, and after.

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    PS - it’s not my wall. Nor do the owners care about it - same people that burnt my fence. And as you can see in the “before” photo, I ignored it. As I see the photos, the driveway needs to be sealed again too. And maybe I should pull the crap growing there or spray something to kill it all. I’m betting they’ll never touch it this fall.

    I did get to the town landfill, and got rid of all the wood & propane tank too. Felt good not to see it in my yard.

    We met a couple for lunch yesterday at a bbq place about 25 mins from home. It was delicious. They have brisket, pulled pork, roast beef, chicken, burgers & dogs too. I had enough to enjoy it again at dinner.

    Today I was meeting a gf at a local farmers market. The plan was to mosey around, then grab a bite to eat for lunch. She canceled due to upset stomach, and bathroom runs. Which, I’m glad she’s not sharing with me. So I’ll be able to get out soon to buy the CLR and a pool closing kit before rains kick in today.

    Originally rain was called for about 11 AM, but now it looks like it should start around 1 PM. It’s gloomy looking.

    Tomorrow we’re going to get the Natuzzi sofa off the front porch, and out into the front yard. There is no interest in it on FB, and my family doesn’t need my old sofa - some have old ones of their own. I made a call to my waste service to see how much $ for them to take it; $153+. Then I called the furniture store asking if the delivery guys take the old one; no. I have to hope someone driving by takes it. Or on Tuesday I’ll be setting up the pick up service with my trash carrier and paying to get rid of it.

    During the rain today I can start clearing space on the porch to move that sofa. I truly don’t know if just the two of us can get it out. The reclining backs are not removable, if they came off it would be so much easier.

    I’m out of here, off to shop. We need the rain, but I don’t want to be in it. Enjoy your day!

  • intolight
    intolight Posts: 2,832

    Betrayal, enjoy your cruise. One of my favorite cruises was the Alaskan inland cruise.

  • mcbaker
    mcbaker Posts: 2,096

    Tippy has decided that "medicine" is another word for "treat". I suppose that if the wanting something so bad that without it one feels sick… 😆

  • harley07
    harley07 Posts: 574

    Chris - good luck with the surgery. I hope it brings much needed relief.

    Betrayal - sorry to your back is bothering you. Perhaps the long plane ride aggravated it? Hope you enjoy Alaska.

    Cindy - be careful taking the Natuzzi sofa to the curb so you and SO do t get hurt. The power washed wall looks great.

    Sandy - an alternative to power washing the garage is to use Wet & Forget. You spray it on and it will wash off with the next rain. I know Ace Hardware carries it and probably Home Depot, Lowe’s and Menard’s as well. The north side of our home and our lawn furniture tends to get the green mold or whatever it is due to lack of sunshine and we’ve been successful using it.

  • mcbaker
    mcbaker Posts: 2,096

    Betrayal—

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  • cindyny
    cindyny Posts: 1,572

    I picked up all items on my shopping list. Came home and started moving things on the front porch, to make room to move that sofa out.

    One thing lead to another and we just put the sofa out to the curb. It barely fit out the door, but it was a push, lift, push some more and it’s on the curb.

    It might rain overnight, but if it’s not gone by then I will call my waste company and pay the $ to get rid of it.

    Whats left is more cleaning and putting the porch back together. We’ll put our current sofa out there on Monday evening.

    Betrayal, enjoy the cruise! Take pictures to share. I’d like to try a cruise to Alaska.

  • chisandy
    chisandy Posts: 11,645
    edited September 15

    Harley, thanks for the heads-up. Anything we can do home-improvement-wise without hiring yet another pro is a definite plus.

    Chris, may your surgery go well and give you the relief you seek.

    Cindy, second the advice to be good to your & your partner's backs getting that sofa out to the curb. Any strong young people in your 'hood looking to earn a little extra $?

    Betrayal, enjoy the cruise of your dreams. Your visit to Pike Place Mkt. brought back so many memories—especially the salmon-tossing guy (in return for a credit card stuck in a slit in a tennis ball); Emmett Watson's Oyster Bar; Market Coffee, Tea, & Spice (which sells the O.G. orange-spice tea); the Dilettante and the original Sur La Table across the street & up the block. The last couple of times I went back for my law school alumni board meeting, I was under orders from my office to come back with a salmon (on dry ice) or don't come back. (Flight attendants were more accommodating then—they always found room in the galley freezer). As for your backache, two little words: "shipboard spa." We always wanted to take that cruise when we lived in Seattle, but could never afford either the cost or the time off from study and then my early legal practice.

    Spent a wonderful morning with my friends who are visiting from Charleston for a wedding (the brides are his former girlfriend and her current girlfriend—the wedding is Taylor Swift-themed; wondering whether the officiant was dressed in Kelce's jersey). The visit is bittersweet: ten years ago he was diagnosed with Parkinson's, and the Shirley Ryan Ability Lab up here did a marvelous job giving him the PT necessary to keep active (even senior Zumba classes) and on the radio (news reporter for WBBM-AM) till they sold their Wilmette house (where he grew up) and moved down south. I hadn't seen him since Gordy's wedding down in NOLA in 2022; he was moving slowly but without tremors and still walking half a mile to dinner (even doing the second-line parade that was the recessional). I don't know if it's the passage of time, the nature of the disease, or a combination thereof; he now has tremors that flare up dramatically and he has to use a walker. When he first called to say he & his wife were coming up for a visit, he let it slip that this might be the last time he'd be able to travel. (Bob & I are thinking that later this fall we might drive south to see him again, my cousin in Coral Springs who just turned 96, and then swing up to Birmingham to visit Carrie on our way back home),

    The home saga continues. Had a long talk with our State Farm adjuster yesterday and my worst fears were confirmed: our "public adjuster" and contractor are either one & the same or in cahoots (both unethical and perhaps even illegal in IL); so when I released the progress payment & demo lien refund to him (thinking that as the public adjuster he'd be our intermediary and not disburse till the work was completed satisfactorily), they no longer had any incentive to address my concerns and correct their screwups. It's worse than that: they charged SF for materials & labor to bring our deck up to city code (per the specs) but all they did was re-paint it: when I pointed that out, he retorted that since they gave me a renovated bathroom with shower down in the basement it should be a wash. (I checked the specs…they charged SF for that bathroom…unventilated, of course). I pointed out to the SF adjuster that had we moved in by 6/30 as both SF and the public adjuster insisted we do (all the certificate of occupancy states is that utilities are up & running per safety code—w/o regard to amenities such as furniture or possessions), once the 1100 boxes, furniture and fridges began being delivered in early August we'd have had to turn around and move back to a hotel—as there's no room to even put sleeping bags on the floor, much less cook and provide a safe environment for the kitties—at vastly more cost than our rent here. (20 days in the two hotels we occupied until we could move up here ran >$20K). So our SF adjuster is contacting his supervisor to see if we can get at least partial reimbursement for the rent we had to pay out of pocket (at a rack rate $2K/mo more than SF was charged under its "insurance discount"), or at least refund of the $250/mo. "admin fee" that Homelink took as its profit. I'm not gonna quibble over the deck (as well as the repaint of part of the rear exterior for which we were charged but I now learned SF paid them too). If I can get SF (or Homelink or FHS, the landlord's temp rental agency) to cough up something, and hold the public adjuster/contractor's feet to the fire (pun intended) about cleaning up all the paint & drywall splatter, repainting the kitchen & baths with the right kind of paint and bringing the ventilation in the two main baths up to code, I'll back off. Eventually we'll have the deck rebuilt properly at our own expense, and convert the 1st fl. tub to a walk-in shower (since we'd have to replace the supply stack anyway, best to do it as part of a renovation rather than just bust through the tile or the dining room wall but leave the old grungy tub in place).

  • chisandy
    chisandy Posts: 11,645
    edited September 9

    Yesterday Bob, our landscaper, his helper & I tackled most of the kitchen and about half the clothes. I've been ruthless, donating stuff only a size too large (so that I won't be tempted to slack off on my eating habits with the knowledge there would be size 12/L waiting in the wings to handle the extra weight). I haven't worn any of it for 15 months now, so it no longer "sparks joy" and I don't need it around. True to form, the clothes were over-protected (who dry cleans a freebie Zenni eyeglass-cloth anyway, much less safety-pins it to its own hanger and puts a bag over it)? And just like the boxes, stuff is packed together willy-nilly: my stuff mixed in with Bob's (my blouses & his pants together, his ties & my scarves, etc.), sometimes a single tie or scarf per hanger, etc. Bob was surprisingly ruthless about his own ties—he used to have a dresser drawer crammed full of them, collected over the 47 years we've been in Chicago, but since hospitals have discouraged (some, like in the UK, outright banning) neckties on doctors he is sentimental about very few. Also, due to his increased girth, most of them are likely too short anyway—we were plowing through everything and he didn't want to delay our progress by stopping to try on each one. He was a little miffed that I wanted to try on shoes before deciding, but I only did the left foot to make sure it fit over my bunion, didn't squeeze my painful third-toe bone-spur callus, and wasn't too loose in the heel after my weight loss. Broke my heart to have to give away my Stuart Weitzmans; but unlike Louboutin-addicted celebs I'm not willing to endure pain for fashion. The Brown Elephant is getting at least 6 bags of freshly-dry-cleaned donations of clothes in like-new condition…and this week there'll likely be more on the way.

    But we've made barely a dent in the mountains of boxes, and have yet to find the most important stuff: shelves for our bedroom TV console cabinet, most of the components & remotes for 3 rooms' systems, the Breville oven, most of our dinner plates (everyday Corelle and the special occasion Royal Worcester & Villeroy & Boch) and good silverplate (Kirk Steiff); and Happy's, Tabigail's & Pickles' ashes—and the ginger jars containing the latter two. Without the piano (which we let go because its pin block is shot and half the keys are missing their ivories), we will no longer have the surface on which to keep them. We might, once we've cleared out all the boxes from the living room, buy a used but still playable & presentable upright. Our old piano cost me only a cheap electric bass (and the fees for two movers), so a new one will likely pose a four-figure sticker shock; but the inexpensive portable keyboard I've been using on a folding stand in the office is obviously not furniture.

    This week will consist mostly of finishing up the clothing, sequestering donatables, and finding miscellany (especially figuring out where in the kitchen to put stuff—as though we have more & nicer counter space the cabinets (despite appearing larger) are lacking in storage capability compared to the old ones. We may have to fork over $$$ to put drawers in two of the base cabinets, as well as raise a few of the lowest shelves to accommodate stacking mugs. Speaking of which, just like souvenir T-shirts I will have to exercise the discipline to part with at least half my souvenir mugs, both ceramic & thermal. There's a refugee-donation pantry in a local church (serving immigrants who found apartments but lack basic equipment); if they can pick the stuff up they're welcome to it. (Also tons of mismatched everyday stainless & "bistro" flatware). Our landscaper/handyman is enjoying a well-earned weeklong vacation in London & Ibiza; his helper has today & tomorrow off, and my BFF will come over tomorrow (while I wait for the grill repair guy to install the new grates & miscellaneous parts) to help me go through the lightweight stuff that won't challenge either of our hair-trigger lower backs, such as continuing to winnow out clothing and dispose of the extra drycleaning bags & hangers. The helper will be able to come over daily starting Tuesday.

    Tonight Gordy & I will go see The Who while Bob immerses himself in football. Hope the heating pad, Aleve & half a muscle-relaxer tab will do the trick to loosen my back enough to get through the trek from parking through the stadium.

  • cindyny
    cindyny Posts: 1,572

    I ran to CVS this morning, then straight up Kohl’s. When I took my grandniece shopping, I earned Kohl’s cash. I tried to entice her to go with me - more to spend, but she wasn’t interested. I grabbed some towels as Christmas gifts. I got home and had to eat lunch, I was starving after shopping.

    Then I headed out to cut up one of the burnt up fancy pointed fence posts. It cut like butter and was immediately put in the garbage bin. I pulled 2 burnt up/melted planters out from alongside the garage, they too went to the garbage bin - now they’re on top of the bin, too big to fit. Tomorrow night is garbage night, so after our bag goes in I’ll wedge the planters in and leave the lid semi open

    I went out with the new weed killer and sprayed the crack near the end of our driveway. It’s big enough that I could probably use some tool to get everything out. Twenty years ago they widened the road and cut way too far back, hence the crack is now filled with weeds.

    I then tackled the calcium effervescence on the cement retaining wall. CLR had the spots foaming, I scrubbed the spots I poured it on, and almost scrubbed my fingers on the concrete in the process. Ugh! Scrub, rinse, scrub & rinse again. I’ll have to check tomorrow but I think it may need many applications. The deposits may have been on there too long to really make a difference.

    I’m not sure what time it was but my Amazon order of “bird deterrents” (spikes) showed up. I set up 3 long ones with double sided tape - this is to prevent birds from nesting above my back awning and the gutter. I got the ladder out and the spikes fit in perfectly, I did break one into thirds to use smaller pieces on the ends, but all looks good.

    Only incident to report is I stuffed my forearm into the side edge of the metal awning. I had to come in and wash it with soap & water, swipe some triple antibiotic ointment on it, and apply a bandaid. I had a tetanus shot in 2022, when I cut my arm on the metal hurricane shutters in FL while washing windows. I think I’m safe until 2032.

    Tomorrow morning I have an appointment with my foot guy for new orthotics. Not sure if I should get them or not. I’m basing that on the surgical toe still being swollen, but he’ll know.

    In the afternoon I have a dental cleaning scheduled. Should be uneventful. Famous last words! 🦷

    The couch is at the curb. To get rid of it my waste company wants $153+. Used an online access to Got Junk, $213+. Then I went on NextDoor and sent a local guy a picture; their price was $75. We can rent a pickup truck from Home Depot for $19, and pay $6 to our landfill to take it. We’ll see how the week turns out.

    It was a beautiful sunny day, with tonights low going down to 44. I’m hoping your weather is as nice as mine.

  • chisandy
    chisandy Posts: 11,645
    edited September 9

    Tap, tap…is this thing on? Where is everybody? I usually check in every couple of days and find at least 6-8 posts. I know Betrayal is on her dream cruise, but where is everyone else?

    Gordy's FIL is dying, end stage pancreatic & biliary cancer. Dxed a year ago after nonspecific ab pain & GERD, believing it may have been liver disease from drinking. Dx blindsided him. Even palliative chemo failed and was stopped 3 weeks ago and he is on home hospice. He is in tremendous pain; can't eat, dress, or toilet and says he wants to end his life, My DDIL flew down to Houston to help her mom get him ready to fly up to VT today, where MAD (Medical Assistance in Dying) is legal (the other places in N. America are OR, which is too far, and Canada—Toronto is closest but the immigration aspects are problematic). He has to go through an interview and 2-week waiting period to make sure he is psychologically truly ready. Rather than make him fly down to Houston & back, they found a super-hospice facility in VT with superior pain control and death doulas to make his last days less of a torture.

    I hadn't planned on attending temple this Friday night, but I need to go and put him on the Mi Sheberach list (as well as my ex-singing partner, whose botched cataract surgery up in the U.P. has led to a cascade of more negligence events that is making her nearly blind in one eye and severely affecting her balance—at a month older than me—-and still working part-time as a substitute teacher on a native reservation and sometimes singing with her husband and her seasonal Christmas vocal quartet). I told Bob that if on my Nov. annual MRI my common-duct nodules have grown I want to make a detailed and staged plan to manage my last years, months or weeks to prepare myself—with what events should trigger the next step.

    But enough morbidity. Still plowing through the 1100 boxes (the last 150 of which are coming Friday) and three racks full of clothes, ties, and scarves to be triaged. I'm being ruthless about donating anything size L or larger—unless I recall from just before the fire that they were sized much smaller than their labels. I don't want the temptation of having a clothing "cushion" to accommodate regaining weight. And even some smaller stuff that fit but neither really flatter nor I miss after 15 months without. (My BFF is about my size—though she's downsizing in anticipation of a move back to her native NS, she's expressed interest in some of my pieces, including jeans of which I have duplicates). Bob is absolutely ruthless about his beloved necktie collection—his hospitals and clinic have banned ties on doctors (as has the UK) because they are microbial vectors; and he has gained enough central weight that most are now too short for him (or too wide or narrow to be fashionable). He estimates that he now has maybe 4 or 5 times a year where ties are necessary (including a black one for the inevitable funerals, increasingly common as we lose older &/or sicker friends or relatives…we expect to have one down in Houston next month). He is keeping the silk pocket squares for the new "cocktail casual" dress code of jacket and dress shirt appropriate for his hospital dinners and upscale restaurants. Marie Kondo would approve…though she would likely insist we konmari a lot harder. As for me, "sparking joy" won't be my immediate criterion for what to keep for now. It will be, once we're settled in…which we guesstimate will take about a year. (That will include finding a real contractor to repaint and fix the other mistakes the "Three Stooges" in cahoots with our so-called "public adjuster" won't). I have a number of reputable licensed and bonded (and personally-vetted by rehab-experienced friends & colleagues) painters & contractors at the ready…at our expense, but I guess we all need to occasionally take our turn at a bite of the "s#*+ sandwich" of life.

    My BFF came over yesterday and Bob had no afternoon office hours, so we plowed through a lot. Today my landscaper's helper is coming over to pick up the Brown Elephant donations, take out the trash we generate as I plow through boxes, and locate the most important pieces we need right now. My HK is coming back mid-October to help us at least consolidate remaining boxes to allow our cats safe passage around the house to access their food/water and litterboxes. Come hell or high water, we must move out by November unless SF can authorize reimbursement or the landlord's agency can give us a discount. Tomorrow we have a new loveseat for the den being delivered (important to have the den set up with our DTV streaming as a retreat from all the stressful unpacking & winnowing).

    Still fuming about da Bears blowing last night's game (especially the idiotic 1st quarter decision to try to pass—which nobody was available to catch—on 4th down instead of going for a sure field goal—which may have made the difference between loss and at least going into OT if not victory). As we say at the Passover Seder, "ma nishtana halayla hazeh" ("why is this night different from all other nights?"). To be a Chicago sports fan is (with some rare highlights), as Daniel Patrick Moynihan said about being Irish, "to know that in the end the world will break your heart."

  • mcbaker
    mcbaker Posts: 2,096

    Cute starfish. Looks almost human.

  • wren44
    wren44 Posts: 8,070

    The Oregon coast is beautiful. We have stayed in Cannon Beach and Manzanita.

  • cindyny
    cindyny Posts: 1,572

    I wrote a big post yesterday and never hit send. I saw it as I logged on today before it disappeared.

    I don’t remember all of the post. As my mom used to say, it must not have been important. 🤷‍♀️ It wasn’t.

    No one took the sofa on my front lawn. I paid $75 to have it taken away this morning. My waste company wanted $153+. Got Junk wanted $213+.

    Last night we took apart the LazyBoy sofa, cleaned it, and the area it was in, then vacuumed. Then put it out in the front porch. UGH how much crap I have on the front porch. I’ve got to let things go - my mother’s coffee table, my aunts end table who was like my second mom. Plus more.

    Today the new sofa was delivered about 1:30. They got it in the house and were done in minutes.

    New sofa - ignore the junk on my end table.

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    Sofa now on the front porch. Ignore the way TOO much stuff out there.

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    Sofa that was taken way today. I had a navy blue thin quilt covering the seating area.

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    The tale of which sofa is where….concludes.

    I’m so done.
    Sandy, I don’t know how you keep on keeping on.

    I think I remember part of the post from yesterday.
    Foot guy made a new mould of my foot; he’s making new orthotics.
    Dentist - cleaning was fine. Discussed with him the possibility of a bridge vs an implant. He suggested I get the extraction & bone graft and then after healing I can decide. Most likely I’d be in FL by then.

    Tomorrow at 11:45 is the oral surgeon consult. I’ll know more after that.

    Weather has been beautiful in the 70’s and sunny. But mornings are cold. I was frozen this morning inside my house. Warmer out than in.

  • chisandy
    chisandy Posts: 11,645

    One foot in front of the other, one step at a time, one bundle of clothes or box of stuff. Nibbling away at it. Taking the macro view is just too discouraging.

    Amazing photos, harley. Our first road trip after I got my driver's license and bought our first car was down the coast from the Olympic Peninsula to Newport, OR. Cannon Beach always takes my breath away.

    New couch is beautiful, cindy!

  • wren44
    wren44 Posts: 8,070

    I’m going to Laos in November and decided to do chemo rather than Truqap because the side effect of Truqap is diarrhea. Not good for traveling to Asia. So I’m getting my port on the 24th and then off to the races. I got a nice long run on Ibrance so I can’t complain. Not looking forward to Faslodex shots. Wisdom says they are painful.

  • harley07
    harley07 Posts: 574

    Cindy - the new couch is beautiful.

    Wren - enjoy your trip to Laos. We plan to cisit Vietnam in March. Can I ask - did you get a typhoid vaccine? We are too old for the yellow fever vax.

    Sandy - keep plugging away. Just reading about it is overwhelming. I can’t imagine living through it.

  • harley07
    harley07 Posts: 574

    Chris - my DH named the orange starfish “Patrick” after the character in SpongeBob Square Pants. I didn’t ask how he knew the character from a children’s show.

  • cindyny
    cindyny Posts: 1,572
    edited September 10

    Patrick starfish! They were beautiful pictures.

    Oral surgeon visit went ok. Set up the appointment for extraction and bone graft on 9/25. Today’s visit (unsure of cost) and the extraction ($375) are covered by my dental insurance. But leukocytes platelet rich fibrin (from a blood draw on me), bone graft and membrane with extraction will run me $1,571. He sent in 3 scripts - peridex rinse (gf said it’s disgusting), an antibiotic, and I requested a Xanax.

    Tonight we’re seeing The American Revolution with Ken Burns speaking. I bought the tickets so long ago I had almost forgotten about it. It should be interesting, I enjoy everything he’s done.

    That’s it. Another cool morning but beautiful sunny day, 76 now.

    Tomorrow I’m meeting a gf to walk and that’s it. I might be able to wash my car and vacuum out remains of burnt wood from my trunk. Tomorrow should be 77 with full sun, and may be our last day in the pool. We hope to close it on Saturday.

    Enjoy the day!

  • wren44
    wren44 Posts: 8,070

    Harley, we didn’t get a typhoid shot. We only drank bottled water.

  • harley07
    harley07 Posts: 574

    Thanks Wren

    The local elk herd enjoyed a stroll along the beach tonight.

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  • wren44
    wren44 Posts: 8,070

    Chris, In your pocket for the surgery. May it solve the problem.

    I discovered my phone recents had every call since 2022 when I bought it. Also hundreds of emails since I usually get them on my tablet. Hopefully it will clear up a little space.

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