thread for middle age to older Christian women.
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Nancy, resting in the recliner?
In my thoughts. ^..^
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Nancy, I'm hoping your procedure went well today and you are resting at home. Praying for a speedy recovery.
Wheatfields, once my mother moved to assisted living, we chose not to drive her past the family home. She had adjusted to the assisted living arrangements, but there were a few times when she became quite emotional about the house. We felt it was in her best interests to not revisit the old neighborhood.
Chris, the shopping trip with your daughter sounds like a lot of fun. I am glad you enjoyed the day and hope your dental appointment was uneventful.
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Nancy, praying there were no complications for you today and that you can rest comfortably.
Wheatfields, once we placed my mother-in-law in her assisted living place we rarely took her out. She was fine as long as we just went to visit her there. When we took her out she got agitated. They took the ladies out as a group for organ recitals, etc., but as long as she was with the same group she was fine. It was a very small, unique home.
I actually made it fine all day out with my DD. We were gone almost eight hours! I also did well at the dental office today but now I am totally exhausted and can barely function. Hopefully tomorrow night I can go with the family to take my DGD to see Santa, but if not, that's okay. We are going early as my DD and DGD are going on a cruise in a couple of weeks and it leaves them little time for extra festivities this year.
Have a warm and safe weekend. Chris
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Hi everyone,
Thank you all for your prayers. I was quite nervous and I got to my apt a half hour early only because this place has been difficult for me to get there even with written directions and my GPS. Today I decided at the last minute to go a different way and that worked out very well.
As a little backstory when I had my breast ultrasound ten yrs ago the position they had me in injured my shoulder and I had to have shoulder PT along with radiation. So this very young and sweet tech asked me about the positioning of my shoulder and I told him my history. The surgeon who is fantastic was so great in letting me take very short breaks to reposition my shoulder and that helped a great deal. I had to laugh because they brought a big garbage can in next to me if I needed it since my history of getting sick during local procedures was not a good track record. I had no problem and things went as well as they possibly could. They will send the sample off to the lab but I am fully expecting it to be benign.
I do have some pain tonight and Tylenol is not completly doing the job. I know I can ice but I am going to ride it out and hopefully tomorrow will be better. I have been resting in my recliner with Cammie on my lap most of the day.
I did hear from Carol and was so tickled to get her email. I hadn't checked my email until tonight and I was getting on here to write to you all and Carol had written. Her sister is staying with them to help out Marty and they have increased her pain meds. She sends her love and I told her we would all continue to pray for her and send her love.
Chris I am glad your dental apt went well and you didn't suffer from your big day yesterday.
Thanks again for your prayers.
Have a good weekend end dear sisters.
Love,
Nancy
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Teka, thanks for the pretty and cute banners.
Everyone have a wonderful Thanksgiving day.
Love,
Nancy
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Happy Thanksgiving! I am grateful for each and every one of YOU, and I hope your day is full of love, laughter, and joy!
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Thinking of you all this thankful day as I am thankful for you all. Nancy hoping you are well and having dinner with family. I am a little teary sitting while the ladies are in the kitchen. This is hard for me. I brought my side dishes and now I'm done. Not my best day but I'm hanging in here. God is good.
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Hershey, I hope you are enjoying this Thanksgiving Day.
Chris, I know this is hard for you letting others do work in the kitchen but I am sure you have spent many hours in the past waiting on everyone else so now it is your turn to sit and rest. I am alone today. Because of Cammie's issues I only ask my neighbor to come over while I am gone a couple of days at Christmas. I had planned on cooking yesterday and having leftovers today but I didn't feel like it. I am not sure I feel like it today either but I have to eat something. I am a bit panicked because my underarm bandage is coming off earlier than I thought is was supposed to. Nothing is open now for me to buy some surgical tape. When this cyst got infected a couple months ago I couldn't get a bandage to stick. This young medical tech that put on this bandage did a great job and he used liquid adhesive and not using too much because my skin gets very irrated with adhesives. That may have been a mistake. So I have rumaged through my medical stuff and I have a lot of gauze and bandaides but no adhesives that will help. Trying to get a bandaide to stick in your armpit is a challenge.
I was going to reach out to my nurse neighbor that lives across the street but I didn't know if she was home and I didn't want to bother her on a holiday. I will ask her tomorrow if I haven't figured out anything by then. I have stitches so I am concerned about getting an infection.
I am thankful for every one of you too.
Love,
Nancy
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Nancy, how are you doing? Is your incision healing better? I have been praying for you.
Teka, Wheatfields, and Hersheykiss, I hope you are all feeling well enough as you prepare for Christmas.
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Chris,
I just finished my zoom Bible study. We had a guest speaker. I didn't sleep all last night so I know I was almost dozing off and I imagine everyone could see that. I have been sick and it has been strange. One day I had a bad sore throat and the next day I was fine. On Sunday I woke up with an even worse sore throat and I figured I would be down and out for days. Yesterday I was fine. It has been strange. The last I wrote I had no surgery tape and I ordered some from Amazon and it came the next day. That was a blessing for sure. I just got to see my incision for the first time yesterday. My steri strips came off. The incision is looking good. Today it was a little swollen. It is the area where all the tape has been that is now the issue. I have very sensitive skin and it rebels against any type of bandage so that has been the challenge now. I have a wound check tomorrow and will only see a tech or a nurse unless there is something that looks concerning and then they will have my surgeon come in but I don't expect to see her. So I am doing fine with it. I will be glad when the bandage can come off completely. Thank you for asking.
How are you feeling? How was your Thanksgiving? Is your DD and DGD back home from their cruise. I bet they had a good time.
I can't believe we are in December already. It is very cold here. Our temps at night have been very cold for it not officially being winter yet.
I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving.
Have a good night.
Love,
Nancy
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Nancy,
Good luck with wound check.
Intolight,
Surprisingly, after deep cleaning the bathroom, I now feel motivated to deep clean the kitchen then on to the living room.
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We had an enjoyable Thanksgiving dinner with family at home.
My only outdoor decorating was putting a green bulb in each of the 3 porch lights. ;o))
I'm doing indoor decorating at a snail pace.
Mailed out my few cards
Finished on-line X-mas shopping.
I'll continue to look for stocking stuffers in the local stores. Of course, plenty of eating lunch at our favorite eateries!
In my prayers one and all.
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Teka, you reminded me I still have stocking stuffers to buy! Thanks!
Nancy, hope the wound check goes well. I had the same strange one-day sore throats too a couple of times last week. Maybe it is a different virus this year. Now I have developed a minor cough. It is not constant but is definitely there. My DH and I don't kiss when we think either of us is ill…it has been a while! (tmi I know) My DD and DGD don't go on the cruise until the 13th. I'll let you know how it goes for them. That is why we have been doing Christmas so early. They don't return until the 21st which leaves us little time to prep. I am almost done (except for the stocking stuffers thanks Teka.) I haven't decided whether I can host Christmas dinner this year. I have the larger house with two ovens so it is easier but I only can exert myself for about 15 minutes at a time. I was hoping my PT would help, but it is slow. I start with a new tech today and will begin going twice a week until January so maybe it will help. Still, I can try or my SIL can come here and help. Or maybe I can just beg my DD to dig in this year and help. She hates to cook…
We are having nice weather all this week…yay…but it will snow again on Monday. Such is our life!
Take care. I know we have a couple of newer ladies who don't post often. My prayers cover you too.
Love, Chris
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Teka, I am so behind on everything. I admire your motivation. Filing is at the top of my list for the next couple of days. I never got my windows cleaned. Oh well. Maybe a day in the 60's will miraculously happen in January. You never know. We have been in the deep freeze here for a while.
Chris, my surgeon's tech that bandaged me up initially told me that I would only be seeing him or a nurse on my wound check unless there was an issue and then they would call in the surgeon. I saw a young nurse and she took my bandage off and was shocked at the fact she saw a blister pop. I was having an awful time with my skin rebelling against the adhesives. When she said I am going to get the doctor I was a little concerned.
So when the surgeon came in she said your incision looks great but all the area around it is not good. She said you have some contact dermatitis going on and gave me some steroid ointment to use for a couple of weeks. I was so tickled when she said you don't have to have the bandage on anymore. So hopefully everything will be fine and I will stay well to get to my sisters over Christmas. I only get to see my family once a year now and this is that time.
It is interesting that you had this sore throat thing too. My throat was so bad last Sunday I was sure I would be sick for days and then it disappeared. That is so unusual especially for me. I hope we both stay healthy. I hope your new PT therapist will be good for you. If you do have Christmas at your house hopefully your SIL will be able to be a big help for you. My sister always hosts the holidays because their house was always bigger than my parent's house and I lived too far away so I was always the person who traveled. I know my sister is getting weary of it all now. She is older than I am. I do know they went out to eat for Thanksgiving which helped her.
Take care everyone. Stay safe.
Love,
Nancy
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This photo made me laugh out loud. I thought I would share it with you.
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Cute! ^..^
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Teka, I bought this same manger scene for my parents many years ago. It had this wooden manger that did not last at all. I have a feeling the owner of this one used a basket replacement. I ended up buying another manger scene for my Mom and it looked the very same except for a plastic manger. Some things are timeless.
Love,
Nancy
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Teka, that sounds really ambitious and I hope you were able to get a lot of things done that you have wanted too!
Nancy, praying that the skin around the incision is healing and that you are feeling better and continue to feel good through Christmas season. Also, that you have a blessed time with your sister and family. So glad that you heard from Carol and shared that. We are continuing in prayer for her and her family.
Chris, praying that you are feeling good and enjoying this time of year.
Hershey, praying that all is going well and you had a good Thanksgiving.
After I got over my cold, I got an infection in my eye and have the steriod drops now for that for a few more days yet. I'm coming to the end of PT and think it has helped. My nurse friend has the shingles, and also last Friday she had an accident, not her fault but another lady ran into her car as she was coming around a corner so she's had a lot of stress. My sister most every night brings up the fact that she doesn't see why she can't go back to the apartment for a little while and scrounge around for anything she might need there. The ironic thing is my BIL is moving from the two bedroom apartment in independent to a one bedroom in Independent next week. So it is going to be a completely different apartment. That was an interesting thought Nancy, that you shared about not driving your mom past her house. My BIL a few months back drove my sister past the house they lived in a few years (maybe 4 years) ago and she recognized neither the house or the neighbor hood. I can tell her memory is slipping more because she can usually tell me what they did in the afternoons but rarely what they did that morning.
Lots of love and prayers for all of you!
Wheatfields
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Nancy, continued prayers for a complete wound recovery. I have to constantly remind the nurses not to use adhesives on me, and I remove bandages from shots within a few minutes! I am happy to hear you will be visiting your family for Christmas again this year. I know how important that is for you.
Teka, good job getting all the chores done.
It is snowing right now and only 22° and I will soon be heading out for my Faslodex shots. Any other appointment, other than scans, and I would probably cancel, but I know these shots are time-sensitive. They do a pretty good job keeping the main roads safe as possible so we will go slow and keep to the main roads. Usually we love to meander the few miles through the forest here as it makes a lovely drive and is really a shortcut for us, but not this time. The older we get the more hesitant we are to drive through this. We do have a good vehicle. When we lived in San Diego we bought a used fully loaded SUV capable of handling all weather just because we wanted to be able to put the scooter in the back. We didn't know we would be moving back to Colorado then, but now we are thankful for this vehicle. Only God knew what we would need!
Take care. Chris
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Nancy, what a sweet story about buying your parents the same Nativity scene (and not once, but twice!). That's a lovely memory to cherish.
Wheatfields, I'm so sorry to read about your eye infection and your nurse friend's bout with shingles. I hope you two are not in any pain or discomfort. My mother experienced shingles on her head and was under the care of an ophthalmologist for several months. He prescribed Acyclovir tablets to treat the infection and prevent the spread to her eye. Thankfully the tablets did their intended job and she suffered no pain, itching, or complications.
Chris, your SUV truly is a blessing in Colorado. God does miraculous things!
Our Thanksgiving was quiet and spent at home. Our weather was not pleasant: cool, windy, and wet. We watched some of the football games and put up Christmas lights in the house. The days of decorating our outdoor trees are behind us (too dangerous for these old bodies!).
Have a wonderful and blessed day and week, everyone.
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Hi ladies,
My last few days have been pretty crazy from fun things like a Holiday open house to a visitation for one of my favorite co worker's husband. I finally made it back to church on Sunday. My incision and the unhappy skin around it are all healing nicely. However I am dealing with horrible diarrhea. I won't go into details but this has been going on for several days and I am drastically changing things up today in hopes of making a difference. I think it is just a really bad IBS flare and not a virus but I don't usually have IBS like this so???? I would appreciate your prayers. I am in need of an emergency plumber as well.
Teka, I hope you are getting a lot done on your cleaning spree. Congratulations. You just might win the housekeeper of the year award!!!!! 😀
Wheatfields, I sure hope your eye infection is responding to the drops. Eye infections are no fun and I hope you are not in a lot of discomfort. I am glad to hear your PT is working. I wish I had some words of wisdom regarding your sister. Perhaps as politely as you can just quickly change the subject when she brings up going back home. This is such a difficult disease and I pray God will give you the strength, peace and wisdom as you walk through this time with your sister.
Chris, I hope you are doing okay after your shot. If I am remembering that packs a hard punch after receiving it. Praise God for your all weather SUV which He knew you would need. On the Nextdoor App that I am on many pictures are posted from Colorado. It is really a beautiful state. I hope the cold weather is getting more tolerable for you.
Hershey, good to hear from you. I bet your house looks beautiful with all of your indoor decorations. For so many, many years I went downstate to spend 2 weeks when working and 3 weeks when retired at Christmas time so I never decorated. Now so many of my neighbors have outdoor decorations that I hope I am not perceived as the Scrooge on the block! I don't have room for a tree now that Cammie and her cat condo has taken over my only avaliable space. I used to have a tree in my teaching studio and I had so many ornaments which were all from my students. Those days are over now.
I hope of you have a wonderful time as we approach Christmas day.
Love,
Nancy
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Nancy,
D and a sore bottom are no fun! Hope you're feeling better.
In my prayers one and all and a pleasant weekend.
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Thanks Teka. I have been on the BRAT diet for a couple of days. That definitely works. You have a great weekend. We are in a warm up to 21 degrees and the sun is out so I am thankful for those things.
Love,
Nancy
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Nancy, praying for relief soon. I am all too familiar with IBS and flare-ups. Hope things settle down so you can enjoy Christmas with family.
Hersheykiss, I am sure your home looks beautiful. We scaled down our outside decorations this year too. I even decided we wouldn't hang the wreaths up in our high windows as our age is slowing us down too. Our neighborhood has an outside decorating contest so everything looks lovely. We still did something small to blend in, but not to the scale of some of the others. Still, we enjoy it.
Well, I am off to take a shower and then to my PT appointment. (At least it isn't snowing this time!) I think it is helping but might be a bit tougher today as I woke with another UTI yesterday. I am a huge fan of virtual Urgent Care and quickly got an antibiotic. Now hoping it helps!
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Chris, my BRAT diet is working and I am a bit afraid to go back to my spinach and berry detox protein powder smoothie and my daily salad. Probably will wait a bit longer.
My sister texted me today and asked if it would be okay to have our Christmas on the 24th because my niece from Iowa has to work on the 26th. So I will be coming back home on Christmas day and not sure how that will be. Probably nothing open to eat and not sure of traffic. It might be very light which would be nice.
I am so sorry to hear of another UTI. I am so glad that you got antibiotics quickly. I was researching one night recently about my fibromyalgia and how that affects the immune system which I just know for me is compromised. I ran into this very interesting article on biofilm. I had never even heard of that word but apparently there is a lot of research happening regarding that. It might explain your UTI's so frequently. You might do a search on biofilm when you have a chance. Your neighborhood sounds lovely with the decorating contest. I am glad that your PT is helping. That is a big plus.
Take care.
Love,
Nancy
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Nancy, I'm glad that the BRAT diet is helping to relieve your symptoms. It's probably wise to slowly reintroduce more fibrous foods.
We traveled to my Mom's on Christmas Day for many, many years. Traffic was always very light with few cars and trucks on the roads. We found many Chinese restaurants to be open for business that day as well as Denny's and Waffle House (they are open year round). Some IHOPs and McDonald's have Christmas hours, too. If you happen to take the Interstates home, truck stops are usually open for gas, snacks, and your bathroom breaks.
Chris, I'm sorry that you're dealing with another UTI but very glad that an Urgent Care medic prescribed an antibiotic. I hope that the medication quickly stops the infection in its tracks.
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Hershey, thanks for the tips on Christmas Day driving. My BRAT diet is questionable at this point. I did reintroduce some unseasoned chicken last night and I am not sure I can tell if it was successful because it wasn't great. One of my email friends who tends to always see the glass half empty told me she didn't ever know of anyone who had been successful with the BRAT diet. So I will take that with a grain of salt.
It is a dreary day of predicted rain all day but we do need rain.
I guess the predicted tariffs from the new administration has already had a negative affect. I order most of my things now on Amazon and it occurred to me that maybe I should stock up on some things so I ordered some toilet paper. Wow has that price gone up. I was relieved to find some because I didn't know if we were going to have a repeat of the pandemic nightmare of not being able to find toilet paper anywhere.
On a good note I was thrilled that my Medicare Advantage plan added dental to our benefits starting in the New Year. I have been paying for my own dental insurance through this same company so I was thrilled to be able to discontinue that. I will save quite a bit of money from that benefit.
Have a great weekend.
Love,
Nancy
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As we approach Christmas Day and I pray eveyone has a chance to reflect on the impact of that Christmas Day in each of our lives. Jesus not only gives us salvation but he brings peace and joy with it. This Christmas scene is so peaceful. I pray each of you have many peaceful days ahead.
Love,
Nancy
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Nancy, looks like a Kincaid painting. Lovely!
I decided to go ahead and host Christmas dinner…who knows how many more of these I can do (I say that every year!) We will split the menu between my SIL and I, and it will be all hands on deck to get this house cleaned.
It is so quiet with the DD and DGD gone. They dog is going crazy. Every noise that starts to sound like the garage door makes her jump up and run to check. I have had to relearn how to sleep with a dog on the bed!
PT wiped me out today. I am hoping it is helping. So far I can't tell but I can go longer on the recumbant bike so maybe… I always do more than I think I can and push through my initial fatigue. My DH calls my recliner my docking station. I get up and do something and then return to rest and recharge. lol But now I am totally done for the night, so goodnight!
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