Can we have a forum for "older" people with bc?
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Good Morning everyone'
Rita I'm glad u'r doing a it better, but that just scared the livin' daylites out of me for u. It didn't make sense, now it does to me.--it takes a while. I hope the ride home won't be too hard on u. Don't rush we're getting more snow today.
Jackie where do u live??????????/ I live in IL and today starting this morning calling for 4-8 inches, less snow further down but still bad driving. Oh Jackie u always see sunshine.
I was calling the hospital last nite I didn't thing our Chevy would be home so soon--I slept most of the day and nite, so I'll call her at home today. Geeze she's hard to catch for a woman with a broken hip/
Mimi u sound like u'r doing good---Tell us how u'r clown day goes.
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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of
hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of
character but strengthen it. Every conquering of temptation represents
a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the
right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
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I'll just blurt it out right now....Sandra, I'm downright jealous. What a gorgeous picture and Pam thinks the world of you. I have a friend who paints and she gave me two of her paintings for my kitchen so I do know how special it can be to receive something so beautiful that is seen through the eyes of a friend --- and they have someone they want to share it with -- so color me green with envy today.
Velvet -- what great suggestions for Rita. I hope she can maybe do some of those things ( like the pain patch thingys ) on her way home.
Oh Cammi.....sitting here this morning with a layer of ice everywhere. We did not get anymore snow, but rain was predicted and of course, the night time temps. made it an absolute that it would create ICE. Well, might I just go ahead and use the word YUK again. We are house-bound for a few hours but hopefully by noon the temps will have climbed to well above freezing and the thin ice sheet will melt ( I hope ) and then I can get out and feed the cats and run some errands.
Dh's boss called a.m. fairly early and told Dh to just stay home. It is very dangerous out and she know Dh has such bravado that he will attempt things he should not. We both have to remember that we are older now, reflexes probably not quite as good and that when we hear warnings.....we are the very people who should be heeding them for sure. I think one could get around, but it would be such a slow, slow crawl.....and out here where we live, there are just little inclines here and there going into town.....so a good time to just stay home.
Hoping with all my heart and soul that we start a warm-up that holds this time....for us and everyone that gets winter weather.
Blessings
Jackie
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Welcome Mimi
Where do you live in Iowa? I grew up on a farm in Lorimor, Iowa 50 miles southwest of Des Moines.
I am procrastinating again today, had to take DH to the broom shop and then run to Alpine for errands,
He is teaching a gentlemen from Mississippi how to make brooms this week, I will have to drive the 20 miles back to town later this afternoon. My goal today is to vacuum out the car and dust the inside and then wash it when I go back to town. You see what I am doing instead.
Have a good day
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Sandra, I love the photo. It's really nice. My dentist is a talented amateur photographer and I always choose to have his slideshow of nature photos playing on the tv screen when I'm lying in the dentist chair.
Our weather forecast for the week looks good. Highs of about 70 and only a slight chance of showers. I'm hoping to get in two days of golf, Wed. and Fri.
This morning I went to the gym and got in my Tues. morning workout a day early because tomorrow my mother has an apptment at the pain clinic. She has been suffering with arthritis pain and will get some injections in the body places that hurt the most. She hasn't been to the clinic since June.
Thinking about Chevy and Rita and hoping both of you are recovering without pain.
Hugs to all.
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Oh Cammi, you little CHIT! That was so funny! BRAT! No kidding, they put an arm thing on that said "Fall Risk! ARE THEY KIDDING? I already DID that one! My Brother said..... "Femur".... "I thought that was a small furry animal!" And I could have slapped him!
But I feel sooooooooo much better.... Glad to be home....
Waiting for the pain meds.... I take Tylenol, but I think I want more! I am maybe getting irritable! I need to go lay back down.
Just glad I am home.... I COULD have broken my arm, and not been able to fix a chocolate coke! So all is good....Ha!
Love you guys! xoxoxoox
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Chevy OMG I can't believe u'r home u little chit ===u have no idea how many times I've call the hospital and u'r home I must have the wrong number cuz I got an automatic voice mail- So I left messages but did say if I had the wrong number I was sorry. I called the hospital it was busy, then later no answer, I bet u went home and I didn't know and now I'm leaving strange messages for ?Chevy on someone's phone---OMG my numer is on the other end and they'll think I'm harassing thm, oh well the Government is not my friend.
Anyway u must be in loads of pain, otherwise u wouldn't want anything stronger--Chevy get every or anything u can to help, I hate that the pain is so rough on you. Just take it easy, as easy as u can--I know u'r supposed to walk some, but please don't overdue and walk after u take some pain meds maybe. xxxoooxxx
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Chevy - welcome home. We've all been missing you & cheering for you. Hope the pain meds get to you soon. So glad you've started down the mending path.
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Welcome home, Chevy! Hope you have gotten your pain med by now and are feeling relaxed and pain free.
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Chevy, glad you are home. Now please rest!
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Hello to all from the frozen tundra! Hasn't been below zero for 15 minutes now! Wonders never cease.
Jackie thanks for your kind words and thoughts.
Chevy welcome home.
I had posted on January 10th about my brother moving from Tn. to the Twin Cities into a 62+ subsidized apartment building. He has been basically homeless for a year now, hospitalized 3 of those months. He was eventually accepted and moved up here February 3rd. I furnished his whole apartment with the help & donations from many friends & strangers. Even 2 trucks and the men to move the big stuff! It brought me to tears. I hadn't seen him for 20 some years.
But it wasn't a very happy reunion as I think the apprehension of the move got to both of us. He also was and isn't able to handle the cold Minnesota winters, especially this year.
But there is good news. My girlfriend gave me the advice to stay away from him and let him find his own way and friends at the apt building. It is a senior apt building with a community. A maintenance man and social coordinator live on site and have been helping him with bills, health insurance, transportation and just getting settled in. The town of Hudson, Wi. has a lot of programs which he is becoming aware of. I cannot believe I found this place with no waiting list, which is exactly what he needs, a little help but not "assisted".
Hopefully we can just be brother & sister going out to eat or going antiquing, fun excursions without the care taking, as I myself am 60 and have trouble some days taking care of myself. I think he's even appreciating being up here, in spite of the cold.
Thanks for letting me share with you my good news. Have a good day to all.
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Bar this sounds like such a positive step for u'r brother and u did s much to help him u are a kind soul and u'r friend makes a lot of sense. And if there is so much to do the weather might not be so horrible for him after all everyone is stuck in. And in time it will be nice to just be brother and sister again.
I know Chevy got her oxycodone (sp) last nite so we'll see how it goes today- and we have to find out if she is going to go to PT for this, u usually do. so that a hurdle she'll have to do.
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No miss Cammi, I am not going to physical therapy! Ha! They didn't think it would help, because of how well I was doing, like walking, and being stubborn, and whining at the THOUGHT of not being home...! Yes, the Oxycodone helps, like the Tylenol, but it does make you a little tired, so I'll take it when I want to lay down...
Barbarella.... Glad your Brother is getting settled... That would be tough... not being close to him, but reaching out to do whatever you can! So sweet of you! Yes, good advice, about letting him work his own way into his new life... My Brother and his oldest Daughter tried helping "Buddy" like that one time.... It worked for awhile, but he was so used to living out on the streets, doing what he wanted to, and not having any restrictions...I hope he can "fit in" and be happy with what he has now!
You furnished his apartment? You are amazing, and so caring! That was very sweet of you.... Yeah, just give him time, call him, let him know you are always around, and see how it goes....
If he doesn't behave, tell him WE will come out there, and smack him in the head, and straighten him out! These "kids" drive us nuts sometimes!
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Boy Chevy u'r pretty tough with that walker, I could see it now--we'll put him in his place u and the walker and me with a cane---we're so tough. LOL
Oh I'm so glad u don't have PT wow Chevy u are tough I worried so much that first nite, I should have known better. I know u'r in pain but uknow everyday it will get better--does anyone come out and help u or u go to any therapy at all.I mean to get all cleaned up and u'r hair washed and stuff. U must need help for that. But take it easy please
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Compassion is like sunlight, awakening and
bringing joy to beings. Its beauty is like
a rainbow, lifting the hearts of all who see it. Tarthang Tulku0 -
Chevy, Does oxycodone have tylenol in it? If so, beware of overdose.
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Illinoislady you sure have a great memory and make special comments to each of us. I'll need to be more general, but enjoy the company of ladies my age. The clown gig went nicely. If I can figure out how to post a picture I will. The birthday boy turned 60 but had to work because he owns the local bowling center and there was a state tournament going on. His daughter, from Chicago, hired me to go surprise him and goof around with anybody there. I ended up twisting balloons stuff for about 6 kids for the 45 minutes after I presented him with a giant birthday balloon cake. Later Sunday night I went at midnight to stay with a friend who lives near the treatment center because of the ice headed our way. I stayed a second night to be sure I could get to treatment both days. A water main caused us to have a boil order so we used only bottled water for everything. She was deathly afraid I would get an infection on my itchy spots. So she and I slept on sofas in her family room with two golden retrievers on the floor in the middle. Sort of like girl scout camp years ago. A remodeling project upstairs prevented us from using the actual bedrooms. Sleep, eat, sleep, eat, …for two days. Lovely. I'm home now and tomorrow is my LAST treatment. I'll keep reading and reporting here since the group is just right for me. However, next week I am headed to Arizona to visit a different friend who in a survivor of all this, just like the rest of us. She suggested I come to the warmer weather and put this all behind me. What a great plan and invitation.
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Trying to attach the picture. I think I got it!
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Mini -- omg your short. Of course that man you're with is 7 ft. tall. Just kidding. I really do wish I could remember more things but I've crammed my head so full for years and have to keep looking back often to "get the drift" again.
You know, you will learn who we all are, and jump in here all the time. I'm so glad you want to stay. We are an ok bunch here that have learn to care about one another and I think like many people who get this disease.....want to continue helping whomever might turn up.......because we were helped so much, by so many wonderful ladies on this and other threads at B C . Org. Not sure what I would have done had I not found B C . Org. I think I would have been very scared and very lonesome and possibly quite depressed.
Bar -- what a perfect solution. Wonder why some of the simple answers can be so hard to see. I think females get foisted into the role of "fixing" everything....making everything run smoothly for everyone in the family and around us. But.....there are times when standing back and giving a person space allows realizations in time. I hope your brother will see that he does not HAVE to be or feel he must be dependent on you and that it is not your intention either to have that happen.
Went to work today -- nothing new there but often I can't post till I get home. Had errands on the way home....so I'm more than late now. Hope you all had a wonderful, wonderful day.
I'll likely be back a little later.
Blessings,
Jackie
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Mimi, your whole outfit is terrific! Have a wonderful trip to Arizona.
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Mimi, you are such a tiny clown and so cute! You're blessed to have such good friends to help out. The trip to AZ sounds like a great idea.
Mardi Gras is very much in the news, since our local news stations are in New Orleans. Last year we were invited to a party on the route of the Endymion parade, which rolls on the Sat. night before Mardi Gras. It was fun and we collected a huge bag of beads.
My day was pretty ho hum. I took my mother to an apptment at a pain clinic and came home and folded clothes. Dinner will be a tossed salad and warmed up white bean and ham soup.
Hope everyone, especially Chevy, had a good day.
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Yes, Oxycodone is Percocet with Tylenol..... I just wrote Sass, I am taking 1 Oxycodone, plus 1 Tylenol, and the pain is just fine! When they gave me 2 Oxycodone in the Hospital, they also gave me 1 Tylenol....
But I told them the Tylenol is working just as good, and doesn't make me sleepy.... They gave me Tylenol every 4 hours, and the Oxycodone about every 6.... But man, that stuff plugs you UP! And you will never go to the bathroom again, for the rest of your natural life! Ha!
I just took MO awhile ago, and now that took care of everything!
I'm having Lobster tonight! I'm just happy everything is going good.... I know it could have been worse.... And Cammi, I am walking all over the place....! I have been staying out of the alley's late at night with my stilletto heels on, however..... So now when I walk, I will carry a broom to sweep a clean path!
Mimi! Great picture little funny one! You are a little tid-bit! I am just 5'1".... My littlest Daughter is 4'11"..... It's so fun that I can talk to her, and look in her eyes!
She has been such a help! Her Birthday is the 25th, so I will have her and Rosie over for a B'day lunch! Okay..... love you guys! xoxooxxo0 -
Carole, hope your mother got help at the pain center. The soup and salad sound delish. We haven't been hearing about Mardi Gras here, but we usually do. The weather is taking center stage.
Speaking of weather, I hope you snow/ice victims will get a break very soon!
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Chevy, you sound good ... it's great to have your wit back here shining through ... at least I hope the stiletto mention is a witty comment ... please be careful.
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Carole the soup sounds wonderful to me and I do hope u'r mom gets help.
I talked to Chevy today she sounds great--an amazing woman--beep beep--ending my niceness now.
Mimi u look adorable and don't scare me at all, finally a clown I won't have nitemares about. And it's wonderful to have the friends u have what a help for u to be with them.
BTW Chevy does wear stilettos her days aren't ho hum more like just ho. So Chevy it's back to being 5'1"for u.
Jackie better weather today, finally. Now we'll see what's next.
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You are all so funny. Lobster sounds delicious Chevyboy. I'm 5'1" as well, that guy really is pretty tall. I've enjoyed this thread and a couple others as well. The first few times I looked at a few I was very discouraged. I had just been diagnosed and the posts I found were discouraging. So searching around for a different thread has been great. I do not mean to criticize those women, it's just that they needed a different kind of support at that time. Makes me glad this website has something for all of us.
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These shoes have to go Chevy.
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My version of what I think Chevy would love to wear.
Jackie
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I've had fun looking for appropriate shoes for Chevy.
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Maybe a little something more colorful.
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These shoes have to go Chevy.