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Good luck Falconer! Thinking of you...
My shoulder is feeling better, and heading to the mountains for the weekend, so lots of hiking in my near future!
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Falconer, moving forward - wahoo!! PatsyKB, for me, one Solgar Vitimin D3 2200 IU tablet every day. The nearly all of the UK population is deficient in D, due to cloud cover 9 months of the year. Ouch Patoo! Nonomimi5, wow, Canterbury Uni is excellent and grown quite a bit over the past 30 years. DancingEliz - you have been moving! Good rebound Octo. Enjoyed the workshop, got quite a bit out of it. Cheryl, Macmillan are amazing, no doubt about it. Have a good start to the weekend everyone!
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Thank you friends for all your prayers and well wishes.
surgery went well
I'm still in the hospital feeling woozy from anesthesia but I just ate toastand potato leek soup so hoping that gets these meds absorbed.
Glad to hear of everyone's successes in all ways- Karen get those ten year old bins cleared away and make space! Octo glad your shoulder is better. Lilac, enjoy the DS home from uni. How was his semester? 2Fun, how was the wisdom teeth extraction?Xoxo all
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Glad the surgery went well, Falconer! Let the healing begin...
Walked some today and ran errands, and then cleaned my house in preparation for DS's arrival from the east coast for a visit later tonight...he is spending the night here and then tomorrow he and I and hubby head up to Yosemite NP (a fairly short drive for us) and will meet up there with my daughter, SIL, and grandkids. We've rented a house for R&R and a base for hiking and seeing the sights...It will be SIL's and grandkids first visits to Yosemite ever, and daughter hasn't been since she was in junior high! (Hubby and I and son have been many times...). Can't wait. Mid-June can be crowded but we will just hit the trails early (and late...nothing like a dinner picnic by the Merced river). Will be off the grid for a few days but will post a pic or two when I return.
Have a great weekend all!
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Patoo: Could it be gout? It tends to settle in the big left toe and is very painful.
Falconer: Glad your surgery went well!
Octo: What a fun trip you have planned! Have a fabulous time.
Hi Everyone! Push mowed for only 45 minutes bc dh had started earlier than I did. The yard looks so pretty after a fresh mow. Afterwards I went to the park and walked/ran. Then came home and carried bricks from one part of the yard to another bc we are finally bricking around our garden boxes.
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Hi, we are half way home. We got out of there just before a heat wave. Whew!
Glad your surgery is over, Falconer, and Runnermum, hope you are doing okay as well. Here's a couple pictures from New Salem, the recreated town where Lincoln lived as a young adult.
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Lincoln's home in Springfield. It's the only house he ever owned. They rented it out furnished when the family went to Washington. If Lincoln walked in the door today, he would be right at home....
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Lincoln's desk in the corner of his bedroom, and the family room.
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With our friends in front of the Old State Capitol, and sitting at Abraham Lincoln's desk listening to a talk by Ulysses S. Grant.
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Just caught up with everyone's activities. Let's see what I did this week. Wednesday mowed the front lawn 40 minutes. After work on Thursday I walked around the lake 47 minutes and yesterday I rode my bike to another lake south of me and rode around and back - 45 minutes. Riding my bike makes my back hurt, but I just love it so I couldn't resist. I'm paying for it this morning. We are supposed to see 93 today and 97 tomorrow, so we'll see how outdoor exercise plays out today.
Falconer, glad your surgery went well. Heal up!
Cheryl, fashion is funny. I refuse to spend money on pre-ripped jeans - for sure not a pre-ripped sweatshirt!
Ruth, I remember going to Lincoln's home as a teenager. I was amazed how small the rooms are. I guess I thought a president would have a bigger house.
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Every Tuesday night in the summer, there is a flag lowering ceremony at the Lincoln Tomb.
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"Now He Belongs to the Ages" is enscribed on the wall behind his coffin.
And now I am back on the road!
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Oh Ruth, thanks for sharing those photos. Last year, while recovering from DIEP I read Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders, which I thought was an amazing novel. My DD gave me the audiobook for Xmas, and it was a great pleasure. So if you're so inclined, I recommend it after your trip! The book won the Mann Booker Prize. And the audiobook somehing for audiobooks.
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ruthbru - what a fun trip! Thanks for sharing the photos. Enjoy!
Just came back from a quick 15 min jog with the dog while the neighborhood sleeps. I figured out I can hold my right breast that is still tender from the surgery while I jog if I go out early enough since no one is watching. Looks awkward but who cares, right?! We gotta do what we gotta do.
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Falconer- so happy to see you posting!! Hope you are feeling well and mending!
Ruth! I have just had a mini road trip! Thanks for sharing!!
Wonderland- you are so right about gout! I had forgotten that! Patoo- dark cherries will help! Grab a bag and enjoy! The help with the inflammation and ot makes a huge difference.
I have been up to my usual nonsense except this time I have taken it outside. I am averaging 24,000+ steps a day. I crank up my Sirius XM radio and work like mad outside. The pool is beautiful. Just have to get the railing on the deck. The week and half of rain put that to a halt. DH will not let me move the river rock and it' making me crazy!! He's so protective of me now. (Damn LE! ) we are putting river rock along the back of the deck between the house. It' piled up at the corner of the deck and he has done so much and I could me the stinking rock! He's concerned that there might me ants, misquotes or even a snake in the pile and we know what that would do to me if I go bit on tbe LE side. I'l post a few pictures later if I remember and the grandkids don' come over. I have not seen them on a week. They have had a stomach bug and I have never been this long without holding them! This Awhh ( the 2 littles call me Awhh) missing the stinky little hands, fingerprints all over my door and laughter.
Have a beautiful day ladies!
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I will continue the picture tour when I get home.
Falconer, now I KNOW we are kindred spirits. I LOVED Lincoln in the Bardo! In fact, I was so excited about it that I picked it for my Book Club selection. They either hated the book or didn't get it. All the members are teachers (several of high school English), so I was pretty shocked!
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Ruth, ❤️❤️❤️❤️
I should've known we were on the same page! I'm so "out there" to my coworkers that I hardly ever tell them what I'm reading. Well the audiobook is pretty special- 166 narrators- with Nick Offerman, David Sedaris, and George Saunders taking the leads. Next road trip, if your driving partner is on board, give a listen.
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Thank you for all the well wishes everyone. You'll be my virtual exercise inspiration as I'm rocking chair bound, outside, enjoying the lovely day.
So the surgery went fine as I said, but while in recovery my GP doctors office called with the results of my transvaginal us. They're recommending biopsy as the endometrium has thickened. I know many of you are experiencing/ have experienced similar SE. What can I expect from this fun procedure?
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Going to get some exercise doing maintenance on my fish tank in a bit
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falconer, when I had my biopsy they said there would be pain/cramping. If you have positive results like I did the hysterectomy was easy, th e limitations not so easy.
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Tank is cleaned and back up and running
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I added some steps to my daily count by taking my younger dog to a group training class.The class is held on the grounds of an old psychiatric hospital, the abandoned buildings of which are often used for filming Supernatural & many other tv shows. The grounds are beautiful, huge rolling lawns and many unique trees. My mom was a psychiatric nurse & used to work there.
It's hundreds of acres of beautiful land, used to be a working farm (patients were encouraged to work on the farm), plus it's an arboretum with amazing specimen trees ... & it's all abandoned right now (though developers keep sniffing around... sigh) . Some of the old buildings are beautiful, but others are kind of bleak and scary. I like this one.
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Falconer, glad the surgery went well and still praying for good results from the biopsy. ruthbru, great pictures.
I guess it could be gout as had a run in with it many years ago, same foot, but the pain is (was as alleviated very much now) not in the big toe but just below it. I've just been flexing the toe and that seems to have helped but love dark cherries so may get some anyway!
No real exercise today though may pop a dvd in just to get some movement because my fitbit is ready to complain (as is my waistline!)
Later my sculpted friends.
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Falconer - I'm having my biopsy on Tuesday. I had one in 2013. Mine went relatively quick I felt the pressure trying to get through the cervix that was the hard part. I was sore after and there was a little bleeding but it's all doable. Isn't that our philosophy on most parts of this journey? My NP told me to take 800 mg's of Tylenol before I came in on Tuesday. I still have leftover pain meds from surgery in 2017 I'm taking one and DH is driving me. Enjoy your rocking chair get plenty of rest.
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Aren't bodies fun? NOT!
We made it home in one piece. I've unpacked, watered the flowers, am washing clothes and will now send out some more pictures (my painting of the house needs to resume tomorrow...boo hoo).
The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum in Springfield is wonderful. It opened in 2005, had input from Disney (their manikins have hair on their arms, they plant real people dressed in period costumes amongst the displays, the shows in their two theaters are amazing. You are greeted in the foyer by the Lincoln family. Then you can walk through the front door of his log cabin and journey with him from his youth to the presidency.
Courting Mary Todd
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Then you walk through the front doors of the White House and follow him through his presidency. Behind Mary are the dresses worn by some of her Washington contemporaries.
Contemplating the Emancipation Proclamation with his cabinet.
The enormous pressure of the presidency.
Standing on the stage of Ford's Theater looking up into the Presidential box.
In the last exhibit of the presidency, you walk through a replica of the Illinois State Capitol where Lincoln last lay in state before his burial. Very emotional!
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I could post tons of more pictures from the museum, which also had a special exhibit featuring the four presidents with an Illinois connection (Lincoln, Grant, Reagan, Obama), and another exhibit on the making of the Steven Spielberg movie Lincoln, which was very authentic.
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ruth, I am convinced you are dojng so well after yourBC dx, b/c u have so many activities in your life. Now if I could only retire! I only have 5 years in at my school (did other kinds of PT) before going to school based PT ), so no early retirement for me! I'm noticing the depression creeping in now that I am on arimidex. Gotta get that daily exercise in now, more than ever before.
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We also took a Ghost Walk of the Lincoln neighborhood, toured the railroad depot where he said his last goodbye to the people of Springfield, toured the oldest house in Springfield (where Lincoln, Mary Todd, Stephen Douglas went to parties), toured a Frank Lloyd Wright house (The Dana-Wright House), the First Presbyterian Church, which not only exhibits the Lincoln Family Pew, but also a magnificent pipe organ and 7 Tiffany stain glass windows donated by various (rich) parishioners. Our guide at the church was a very knowledgeable and passionate-about-his-subject parishioner, so that was cool. We ate lots of good food, listened to 'Abraham Lincoln' talk about his life in Springfield and ran into some interesting characters.
The Dana-Wright House (they didn't let us take pictures inside).
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