Can we have a forum for "older" people with bc?
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Long-range studies imply that doing something with other people,
especially something for them, is the most powerful
of all stimuli to longevity and health.Jon Poppy
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Morning everyone,
Judy,
Isn't that discouraging to lose your post. I've done it a couple of times lately and did not realize exactly what I did to have it occur. It is frustrating no matter what the reason. When I was new to BC. Org I used to think I needed to hit 'preview' to check for mistakes etc. Then realized that often seemed to "assist" me greatly in losing my posts so I stopped. Later I realized it was not what the preview was for at all.
Blondie,
Sure glad to see you. Hope things are working good for you now that you are home. You are so right -- it would be wonderful if we all lived in Texas and could just all show up at Sandra's house and get things taken care of for her.
Sandra,
Hope you are listening to Blondie about that walk. It really can be a restorative for you. Walking gets us our of ourselves and broadens our horizons once again when they have gotten way too close to us. You can only do what you can, but I do hope you might find a little time for a walk.
Wren,
That was a great story. When the world is a wonderful place I really feel it is so because there are others who will help you shoulder the burdens you are given. That is only love freely given and everything blooms where love is and keeps the world going.
It is foggy here this morning but is likely in part the result of all the melting snow and the warmth that hung in through the night-time hours. Hopefully some good sun this afternoon after the fog is completely burned out. At least that is what I'm hoping for. There is still some snow here and there ( anywhere there was a drift or lots of ice underneath ) but it will rain I think tomorrow and that will just wash more out of here if it remains at all today. There is mud -- plenty, outside which I'm not liking but very expected as the snow melts. Rain will make it a bit worse and we will have sun for a couple of days and maybe another rain day -- but it will all dry up in time.
See you all later on.
Blessings,
Jackie
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Sandra-so glad that so many are reaching out to help you and Mike. From being on both sides of the situation (both giving and receiving help), I have learned that whenever there is a "work party" there is lots of fun along with the work. Hope the help continues and the room will be done and ready soon. It must be hard for Mike to watch everyone and not be able to help. But it is definitely a testimony to both of you that you have so many friends willing to help.
I picked GC up at school Fri and for some reason, the 6 yr old decided it would be fun to block the main bathroom sink drain and leave the water running. By the time I realized, the whole bathroom was flooded, including the drawers in the vanity. I got it dried as well as I could, losing everything in the drawers that wasn't in a sealed plastic bag ( which was, of course, almost everything), but then found I couldn't get any of the drawers to close. It took two days, but DD finally got them closed for the most part. Problem is, now they won't open. Hoping we can leave it as is until DS gets here in May and maybe can fix them. If not, I'll have to buy a whole new vanity. I already looked at HomeDepot on line - they have one really cheap one for $250, everything else is $500 or more. Don't really want to spend that.
My puppy chewed thru her second retractable leash yesterday, so I am going today to get a metal one. Not a choke collar,just a chain leash. Need to start seriously working on training them.
Well, another busy day ahead so I better get moving
Anne
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Anne, Check around for stores that recycle for construction companies. They often have such items that were ordered and the home owner rejected due to style, etc. Habitat for Humanity stores sometimes have bargains as well.
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Happy birthday Carole - wishing you a great year ahead!!Sandra, What wonderful, loving friends you have. I'm sure it gives them a great deal of joy to help out with the remodeling. I cannot believe all the work you and your daughter have done. You are amazing! Prayers always for you & Mike.
Mommarch - You are so right - there are lots of good people in this world - your story is heart warming.
Termite - Sorry about your eyes. If really bothering you with no relief in sight, please PM me & I'll share my saga finally getting some relief.
Good thoughts & prayers to you too Blondie and others needing a hug right now.
Paula
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Carole, Happy Birthday!! Wishing you a great year full of good health and happiness.
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Blondie, glad you are home
Anne, wow that must have been a mess in your bathroom.
Sandra, it sounds like you got a lot done so far. All those people helping just shows how loved you and Mike are.
In 1996 DH and I and 2 of our 4 sons were in Florida. We got a call from our oldest son asking what he does to get the water out of the basement. We had never really had water before except when the sump pump stopped working. It had been raining for a couple of days. He said there was a big boom and when they checked the basement the walls at both ends had blown out. One end you could see outside the other end you could see under the garage floor. Two of our neighbors had similiar results. We drove home in a flash. Our neighbors around our neighborhood opened their homes to us for bathing and bathrooms whenever we needed it. The house was not to be lived in since there was no electricity in the old part of the house and no running water (so no flushing toilet). We did not cook a meal for over two weeks. They brought meals to anyone that had problems. Men from DH work, our sons and neighbor men dug out the basement from all the dirt and depree that washed in and built our walls back up. We now have a four foot fully cemented crawl space. Insurance would not cover any of it. We had added on a few years earlier and had a slab on that part of the house. That slab held the back wall up and the sons and my mother were ok we were very blessed.
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We had our first visit with great grandson this weekend, he's 3 months old.
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Beautiful
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How adorable and looks so happy.
Jackie
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Adorable baby and happy-looking great grandma.
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Puffin,
What a darling baby! Three and four months is the cutest stage I think.
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He is absolutely adorable. I agree that it's a wonderful age.
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We all want recognition for our “specialness.” But we should never take our self-worth from our society, feedback from others, or our own comparisons to others. Our self-esteem should be based in the fact that God created us with the utmost care and has called his creation good. In his foresight we are all made of “the right stuff.” Our self-worth then comes from how we use it, in service to our families and communities, exercising our creative gifts, and becoming one with God. -unattributed0 -
Getting ready to sip my last sip of coffee before I leave for work today --- but I took a sneak-peek at your link Chevy and my -- how tantalizing. Already sure I'm going to love seeing them all. The first one of the bears in the water with all those bright orange colored fish and the feast they were about to have was awesome. I'm sure I'll be just as thrilled about the rest.
Until I'm able to get back -- thinking of you all on this foggy, rainy morning here. Little of our snow remains -- just enough in sheltered spots to realize we have undergone quite a melt-run-off of it. Be back later.
Blessings
Jackie
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OOPS! Lost ,my post cuz I went to see the photos Chevy posted. Amazing what they can do using drones! Beautiful.
Carol, hope you had a great birthday.
DH and son -in-law spent quite q while yesterday chopping ice on the roof.Front porch roof was leaking, hope nothing else is. Dangerous work, thankful for SIL to volunteer so DH doesnt have to climb on the roof. A lot of melting , but the ice under the snow is the problem. Supposed to get rain tonight, don't need it!
Love your post on self worth Jackie!
Been off caffeine for over a week, no tachy. Hate to have to give up all good tea and CHOCOLATE! But if that's the problem may have to. Also want my cardio to check potassium and magnesium levels when I see him on the 20th.
Have a good day, Jean
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Bonnets, great news that you're having no attacks since staying off caffeine. Hope you have no other leaks. I guess this winter will end up being a gift for roof contractors.
The forecast for today was rain off and on all day. Fortunately, it was "off" long enough at noon for me to pick up my mother and take her to the outpatient center to have blood drawn. After we were back at her house for a little while, it started thundering. My sister dropped by on her way to her house (which is just down the road from my mother's) so we had a nice visit with the three of us.
Now I'm back home resting my "bum" foot after rubbing the toes with an anti-inflammatory. I'll get up in a few minutes and do some dinner prep. I'm cooking chicken and making a Moroccan style dish with preserved lemon and olives. I make the preserved lemon which is basically fresh lemons with lots of kosher salt stuffed into a glass jar and left to marinate in the refrigerator for 30 days.
I worked out this morning and had a healthy shake for breakfast. But then I blew my eating plan by indulging in a large piece of chocolate cake at my mother's house. No regret, though, because it was SO "chocolatey" and delicious. It was the last of my birthday cake which was actually my mother's birthday cake, too. I had stored it in my freezer in Dec.
My last hair cut removed all the colored hair and I've had a chance to live a few weeks with the "natural" gray, nicely streaked with some silver. Now I'm deciding whether I want to go back to color. I'm a Pisces and a waffler. One minute I'm sure I'll make an appointment for color and the next minutes I'm inclined to stay gray. Decisions. Decisions. I would love to hear your feelings on whether you color or don't color.
Greeting to everyone. Hope you've had/are having a good Tues.
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My hair still 'reads' as brown although it's approaching half gray. DH has been gray since 50 and both DD and DS are mostly gray. I've watched SIL color her hair and it seems like an awful lot of trouble. There's a point in the growth where the colored part seems to float above her head. Very odd until I figured out what had happened. I don't plan to color mine, but who knows what I'll think once it's gray. I will probably decide it's too much trouble. I tried on wigs once and none looked good until I tried on gray, so I'm hoping it will look good gray. My therapist had her hair streaked in multiple shades of blond and white. Didn't look gray and was very attractive.
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Wren.... In case you decide to, I've been coloring my own hair since about 1965.... My Mom started turning gray at 21.... I did too! But I use a semi-pemanent hair color, mixed with 20 volume cream peroxide, and I do it abut every 7-8 weeks.... I mix the color..(similar to my "own" color) and mix the color with the cream developer.... Then I "paint" it on.... parting as I go.... Let it sit for about 1/2 hour, with a "bonnet" on my head...then rinse it out.
Gives my hair a lot of body, and I just feel like I look better when I do it.
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Me too , been coloring mine for years, use a dark blonde , which was my natural color. Told my Dh , if I ever get to where I can't \do it myself, he better take me to have it done. I think I look better with it colored too Chevy! It's really not difficult to do , and a lot less expensive than a salon. Only thing about being grey is it shows less to the blonde when it grows out. Makes me feel younger too!
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Well, I know I have some gray, but on my fraternal side at least, people were slow to gray and I seem to be getting the result of some of those genes. So, I really haven't even much considered doing any "color". Still, my hair ( wonder if that was fraternal too as maternal side didn't ever seem thinnish ) is really thin and fine and stayed just that way after chemo took all my hair and then let me have it back. I was hoping for thick and curly and even a 'better' color maybe because that was not only what I read, but also heard from many, many others.
I had such HUGE anticipation going when I saw the 'first' new re-growth coming. It actually seemed to come in gray/white -- or dull/white at first, but before it had started growing out much it started to 'color' up. Well, I ended up with mousier brown than it had been and just as fine, thin, and straight as ever. For that reason the minute I needed a good hair-cut ( I did get a couple of meager trims ) I had a perm put in which is what I always did. It provides curl of course, and lots of body -- both of which tend to hide my bad hair days which with my hair is every day.
I've also been told that coloring adds lots and lots of body -- so if I suddenly get a lot of gray coming on, I would likely give color a try. As in my early yrs. I was very close to dishwater blonde ( had to drink radiated iodine three different times ) I would likely go for a lighter color. With each succeeding time of drinking the loaded iodine ( bad thyroid ) my hair darkened -- at the end it was a lt. brown with some reddish highlights so I never minded it. But -- now just quite mousy brown. Doing perms helps when the weather is bad ( like the rain today ) because my hair never goes limp or straight -- although I can't say it would win prizes --- I can just keep the illusion of more hair.
So my very long answer is -- I'm not real interested right now -- but would not have any trouble taking it on should my hair gray up a whole lot more than it is right now.
Jackie
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I have that same thin straight hair, but when I get a permanent, it just looks silly on me. I guess I was meant to have straight hair. Would be ok with me if it was thicker tho. DD has very curly hair and I don't envy her at all. She has so few options for it. It's so thick, they want to charge double for a cut.
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Wren,
How funny ??? My daughter has naturally curly hair. She has for yrs. used straighteners on it. She too says you ( meaning me for sure ) have no idea how hard to handle her hair truly is and how much time it takes with results that never make her happy. Still, I always liked how she looked when she didn't try as hard as she could to make it straight. Always sort of wished it was my hair, but likely she is right. Despite getting so many perms through the years -- somehow the straightening products always seem harsher to me. I doubt that is really true. Chemicals are chemical and all that.
Jackie
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Carole: my hair is coming in grey after chemo and I've decided to leave it as is and not bother with coloring. I'm 63, so the grey looks OK on me.
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Hah! I thought I would be the only one coloring my hair on here! But it also blends in my eye-brows and eye-lashes, because they are really dark. I have to "add" to my eyebrows, because I sort of lost a lot over the years... but I do it with an eye-brow pencil, and a THIN brown eye-liner brush.
My hair was a light mousy brown when I was younger, so I just go a little darker.... I hope I never get too old that I can't color my hair anymore, or break my arm... etc. Ha! People wouldn't KNOW me.... especially ME!
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Chevy, post a picture. I've decided to do the color again. I've never had dark hair and the gray on the back is much darker than my hair ever was. I like the silvery streaks. I think if the overall color were more silvery, I'd like it better. I'm fortunate to have thick hair with a lot of body. I can always go natural again.
I need to get moving. The time change has me sleeping an hour later because it's dark in the morning. With all the rainy weather, there's no golf today so I'm going to the gym for a Pilates class. I probably won't be able to walk out to my car afterwards! I'm not even sure what Pilates is. Afterwards there's a Gentle Yoga class. I may stay for it if I feel up to the challenge. I could really benefit from some stretching exercise.
Teka, I love your posts. You're a real "techie."
Happy Wed. to all.
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Hi Carole... It's about the same color as when I first started doing it... I STARTED using Loving Care hair color lotion, but then changed to Wella "color charm".... and then mix it with 20% cream peroxide... It lasts pretty long..... about 6=7 weeks..... and fades out, along with growing out.... then it isn't such a stark change. I would start out a LITTLE darker than your hair now, and then when everyone is used to it, you can decide if you want to go darker....
My hair is not too long, so I use 1/2 a tube of the color, and 1/4 cup of the developer....mix it all up and paint it on.
My hair has always been "fine" but not as fine as my oldest Daughter's.... Our youngest Daughter...54.... has a very full head of hair. Mine looks thicker, because it is dark, and I use a hot hair-setter every morning, and tease it.
I get mine at Sally's a beauty supply store, and you don't need a license to shop there... DH is with me there.... married 57 1/2 years! We were up at Echo Lake, near Mt. Evans last year.
I still have to "set-up" my exercise bicycle I ordered on-line.... Doc said it would help my hip better than just walking.
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Enjoy the little things in life,
for one day you may look
back and realize they were
the big things.
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"Demi-permanent" hair color..... also, if you have a lot of gray in your hair, the color will look a LOT darker, so I would start out with a color close to your natual color...... then you can go darker if you like.......
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