Lets Post our Daily Exercise

Ruth: I can't believe how cold your weather is. I'm not prepared for that.

I've been getting my photos ready to send off to a company that will digitize them. Then I will be able to make my own photo books. It's a process but I've enjoyed looking at all the pictures.

Walked today. Not rubbing it in, but it was sunny and 55 degrees. Felt great. Tomorrow, the weekend, and next week will be a much different story weather wise with rain, wind and then cold temperatures (but nothing like some of you have!)

Hi Everyone

Welcome Pink - I started and stopped Arimedex by taking half pills and building up to full pills…and weening myself off on the other side. That really helped with immediate SEs, but I did stop Arimedex after 3 years due to bone loss.

Wow, the cold out your way Karen and Ruth is amazing. Driving around today NPR was talking about the storm with examples for ND of -30! Yikes…it is high 40's/low 50's in Virginia with a strong wind and I am wearing a (light weight but still) down puffer coat.

The mid-week storm left a lot of debris, trees down, etc in SE Virginia. My little college town is usually so "perfect" but it looks like someone picked up our trash containers of leaves and sticks and tossed them all around…always so sad to see the really big trees (3+ feet across at the cut) felled

This is my first week back to 5 days a week at the gym/yoga studio after two weeks of only 1-2 classes given Christmas and New Years…as the one who hosts everything, I needed my gym time to keep me balanced, glad it is back.

"Enjoy" the cold hikes Karen…and know we will all be thinking of you next week with the surgery.

I've lost 2 lbs since the first of the year…would like to lose 20 total…5 from the holidays, 15 from lingering COVID bad behavior…good luck to me!

Happy long weekend everyone, be safe, TT

Ruth - our weather is brutal! Stay safe and stay warm,

We are up in the mountains and it is 25 degrees warmer her than in Denver. We are at 20F and Denver is -5F. Not counting windchill. It was quite windy here today. DH and I went out later this morning for 1/5 hour and we were bundled up so warm enough but hiking was hard - even on the bike bath. We stayed of most of the trails and there were no tracks and we were sinking at least 6-8". We did do one bath. It just started snowing at 10pm so we'll see how much so there is when we wake up. If we can't do the trails, there are lots of places to walk in town. We will head back to Denver early Monday morning ( by 9 at the latest but probaby by 8) to miss the holiday traffic. Also it will give me time to do some errands and make noodle kugel and cranberry muffins - I just made blueberry but I like the tart of the cranberry.

Starting to worry about the surgery or more so after all the things I won't be able to do for 4 weeks. My cold seems to be getting better so that is good.

We are going to see our kids and granddaughter Toronto next month over the long week-end. It will be just after the restrictions are lifted and the day after my 3 month visit with my Hematologist. Our grandaughter will be turning 9 moths when we are there, two months since we last saw her. This coming week she will be 8 months. She has so much personality.

Stay warm.

It snowed all night - at least 8 - 10". We didn't even try the wooded trails or the bike bath as they were too hard yesterday. So this morning explored the town - sidewalks were hard as they hadn't been plowed for a few hours, so we decided to walk the streets. We did the same this afternoon. We've been coming up for 22-23 year and we alway hike the same places. Hope to get another walk after dinner.

It looked like a winterland today. I'll try to post pictures from my phone as it never works from my computer.

We lhave ots of warm clothes - we both have snow pants, Craig has farmer johns, and both heavy, heavy down coats. I layer under my coat with a think vest and coat plus a warm beanie had warm mittens. We both have a couple pairs of snow boots. I prefer my hiking style snow boots. Yes, were are a little crazy.

It's supposed to snow all night starting around dinner time. I'm sure it will be slow drive back down to Denver. Yes, they plow the highways but it still slow driving. We will probably be out by 8:00 - 8:30. We will clean the condo tonight and just have a few things in the kitchen to finish.

We are warmer by about 25 F degrees than Denver, but much more snow.

Tomorrow when we get home, I want to run a couple errands and cook a couple things. I have soup in the freezer which may be what I want along with scrambled eggs and smoothies with protein powder.

Craig will take food to eat at the hospital as he will stay will I'm in a room. Surgery is at 12:30 and will be 2 hours (or maybe longer). I don't know how long they keep people in the recovery room. To be honest, I'd rather not be in the hospital over night but that's protocol

That is a great picture of you and DH!!

Gorgeous photos @karen1956 !

Karen: Gorgeous pictures! Thank-you so much for posting them. Glad you had a beautiful weekend right before your surgery. Thinking of you tomorrow and wish you a speedy recovery.

I haven't walked much although I did walk on Friday. Saturday morning was Girl Scout Cookie Delivery Day for our Council (which is almost half of the state). The location is outside at a Farmers Market starting at 7:30am. It's always cold and this year was no exception. Luckily our Service Unit distribution bay was on the sunny side as opposed to the shady side. I wore several layers and did fine. Our Service Unit had 16 troops picking up cookies - 1800 cases (12 boxes in a case). Lots of bending and loading into cars, trucks, etc. Troops pick up more cases throughout the sale as needed but the Delivery Day is the busiest.

I finished going through my pictures and have sent them to be scanned. A big job but very satisfying.

Karen: I bet you were a bundle of nerves during your drive down the mountain. Thinking of you today and hope surgery went well!

Walked today.

Have been holding you close Karen, wanted to add to the good wishes you would find upon your return.

The cold has come to SE Virginia…17 overnight, yikes! I believe Claire used to say…there is no bad weather just poor clothing choices (an old saying from northern Europe somewhere.

Off to Tai Chi at lunchtime. TT

Hi all. I hope everybody is staying warm and safe in this very cold stretch of weather. I finally got out of the house today after not being out since last Friday. It’s just been too bitter cold. So I’ve stayed home and have been doing a lot of cooking. I also was able to find some nice exercises videos to follow on YouTube so that’s really filled my time and help me get my exercise in for the week.

I too want to wish Karen a very speedy recovery. I hope she’s home now and comfortable and being well cared for by her husband. The pictures Karen posted were absolutely beautiful. Up in the mountains in Colorado with that snowfall. It was just breathtaking. And as always, I love the Wednesday walking women picture their photos are fantastic. So I’m going to turn on the TV now and do another video. It fills the day and keeps me from being so achy. Keep moving ladies

Hi all,

My surgery was successful. I was at the hospital for just over 24 hours from admission to discharge. I felt pretty lousy after surgery - mostly nauseated. Didn't eat anything till after 9pm and then it was just ice cream - those single serving cups - they brought me chocolate and vanilla - not the best ice cream, I mixed together as the chocolate as too chocolaty - I ate about 1/2 of what they brought. i haven't had too much pain, more discomfort. I limited pain meds to ibuprofen as narcotics make me sick. At home, I'm taking acetaminophen as I'm not supposed to take an NASIDS to due stage 3 CKD. I had a large bandage with the huge piece on "plastic" tape over it - it was pulling at my neck - thought that was what was uncomfortable. I was allowed to take the bandage off this morning - 'm still uncomfortable and not feeling great. I didn't think I would need the Zofran, but I'm taking it at home - I didn't think I would need it as I didn't have any yesterday morning. There are steri strips on the incision. Thankfully, I'm allowed to shower.

So, going into surgery we knew there was an adenoma on one of the right side parathroid glands as it showed up on the scans. Well, surprise, surprise. When the surgeon took the first one out, the one behind it was 4 times as large to both right parathyroid glands were removed. The two left one look healthy. I was in the OR about 2 hours as they have to send labs to determine what the Calcium an PTH level were. After the second gland was removed, all labs were good - calcium and PTH. Surgeon has me on calcium so it doesn't drop to low - just tums - 100mg 3 times a day. Post op is in 2 weeks. My husband kept the kids updated on the surgery, but my youngest it the one who expresses her worry the most. She wouldn't go to sleep till she talked to me - which was close to 2:00am her time. I brought to the hospital the little beanie at with a t-shirt that says #1 Mom. I sent her a picture of the cat and she was happy.

Now I got to be a good patient and let my DH take care of me. We are going for walks as I need to get out of the house. He'll do the cooking, cleaning and grocery shopping for the next couple weeks. I'm sure as I feel better I'm going to go stir crazy. I have books to read and an adult coloring book.

Weather has warmed up to the 30s and low 40s - snow in the mountains but not Denver. I think I mentioned on Monday that it took us 4+ hours to get home. People who left later in the it was up to 8 hours!

Well, I think I'm rambling. This has taken me a long time to write.

Have a great Thursday. Thanks again to everyone for your well wishes. It means a lot to me.

Karen

Thank you so much for updating us, we all know the effort and strength draining involved with EVERYTHING following surgery…be well, know we continue to send our best wishes our way, TT

Karen: I was relieved to read that the surgery was successful and is behind you now. Hope you see improvement every day and your discomfort level improves. Enjoy being taken care of.

Walked this afternoon.

Karen: hope you continue to rest and improve daily.

Ruth: Have a fantastic trip.

Haven't walked outside bc it's been too cold. I think it's been too cold everywhere! Our mountains got 15 inches of snow and we got none. Maybe next time.

Made it to Arizona where it is cloudy but 65 degrees!