Lets Post our Daily Exercise

Karen, you will be celebrating Valentines Day in the very best way.....by being with the people you love! Safe travels!

I took a walk with DH & Bruno this morning & went to Dance2fit tonight; where we had a post-Valentines Day dance party.

TT: I saw the Hallmark movie based on the book but I don't think the movie setting was in Asheville. Cute movie and I expect to book is just as good.

Karen: Hope you're having a fabulous time!

Ruth: Love the WWW Valentine picture.

Ruth, did you finish your photo book? I started my journey of making my books. Remember that I sent over 900 photos that covered almost 30 years to be digitized. I decided to spread the pictures over 3 photo books. Yesterday I started the process with a little over 300 pictures for the first book. Completed it this morning and submitted my project. Hope to get it back in a week or to. I definitely have been reliving my past!

Met a friend for a short walk yesterday. Walked this afternoon.

I walked & went to Yoga yesterday. Today I plan on more Yoga & Pound today.

Tomorrow, two friends & I fly down to Florida to spend the week with another friend who has a condo there. We have been friends for 49 years & this is our annual reunion. So my exercise will be walking on the beach every morning & swimming in a pool in the afternoon!!

Ruth: Have a fun safe trip!

This is my week to go to the dentist. Today I had a consult with a periodontist to see if I was a good candidate for an implant to replace the tooth I had extracted in November. He said I was in good shape to have one. Tomorrow I go to my regular dentist to have a filling to replace an old filling that fell out. I was lucky that the periodontist had a cancellation this Thursday so back I go to start the implant process.

My ds is still visiting so he came with me on my walk.

Glad you had fun with your granddaughter, Karen. So many milestones that come so quickly at that age. Hope your doctor appointment was helpful. It's hard to start at a new school when you don't feel 100%.

We had a long, but very smooth travel day. Lots of walking around airports. We got to our friend's condo about 5:00 & spent the evening eating appetizers and catching up. Since we travelers were up at 2:30 am, we are calling it a night fairly early. I will send a 'walk on the beach' picture tomorrow!

Karen: Oh no! I am so sorry you have the flu. Hope the tamiflu is making a huge difference for you. Thankful you got to visit with your precious granddaughter. Take care and gets lots of rest. (((Hugs)))

Ruth: Looking forward to pictures. Have a great time!

coffeelatte: That is amazing about your friend and her implants. She must feel like a different person. Yikes on your swollen ankle. Hope it's improving. WTG in your strength building!

Stayed up late last night working on another photo album. Now I only have one more to make. I'll wait until there is another code for 50% off and hopefully free shipping. Each album has a little over 300 pictures but I stay very focused until it's finished.

Went on a shorter walk than usual today bc I finished the photo album this morning and I was still wired from staying up late last night. This evening dh and went to dinner with friends we haven't seen in 9 years. It was so nice to catch up with them.

Hope you are feeling better, Karen.

Good job on the weights, coffeelatte, and on the photo album, Wonderland.

I got 12,000 steps with the beach walk, and another walk around the beautiful development where my friend lives. It is good I got all that walking done during the day because tonight we started watching a series called 'Hijacked', which was so suspenseful that we spent the whole evening binge watching the first four (of 7) episodes!

This Flu is kicking my you know what! No energy, coughing that has bruised my ribs and now is going through to my back. Lethargic and no motivation to do anything. Yesterday, DH and I managed two walks around the block, 10 minutes each which took everything out of us. I cooked dinner and that was the extent of my being productive. I'm tired of being sick - it's been a long 5+ weeks since the parathyroidectomy. When I go back to work next Wednesday I'll been off work 6 works. I didn't even take this much time off for my mastectomy or chemo. That last time (and only time) I took this much time off work was when I had my youngest daughter and I took the last 3 months of the school year off. She is turning 26 next month!!! Where has the time gone. Don't get me wrong, I don't feel the least bit guilty for taking the time.

I'm covering a school starting the beginning of March till spring break and then after spring break a different school till the end of the school year. I did email both schools to set up meetings for next W and Th to meet and greet and learn about the schools and the providers roles. I didn't want to wait to last minute, like the day I return. No more emails. At both schools I know one or two staff. The elementary school, I know the music teacher and one of the team lead - I worked with the team lead many years ago when she was my AP. At the other school, I know the principal. I covered at another school where he was principal - great guy.

Was marking my fridge calendar with appointments and notice my last team meeting, end of the year celebration is my granddaughter's first birthday - I guess I'll be missing it as I plan on calling in sick the day before and day of my granddaughter's first birthday to be with the kids and her to celebrate turning one. Do I feel guilty - NOPE, but I do feel a little bad. But family comes first. Of course, I'm not telling anyone I'm going to call in sick.

Weather is a lot cooler today, gray, cloudy and maybe rain

I looked at the EOB for my hospital stay, surgery, surgeon and anesthesiologist. My cost was a big fat ZERO! The total cost was close to $140K. I'm so lucky my Advantage plan is so good. I'm waiting for them to approve my sleep study. Since I've had the plan I've only paid for Rx.

Have a great Thursday.

It's Friday and another week is done. Hard to believe that next Friday is March 1st! Next week is back to work for me and that will be good. It will be a hard week as that is when the MM nightmare began. Formal Dx day is 03/01 as that is when I had the BMB. I need my PCP to complete the return to work form and turn it in to HR by Tuesday.

I hope I'm feeling good on Wednesday. I've taken 6 weeks FMLA, but it will almost be 7 weeks since my last work day when I go back next Wednesday. My last work day was Thursday 01/11, before MLK week-end.

This morning I was feeling fairly decent, as I told my girls I was feeling half human. After the grocery store and an appointment I was wiped out, ready to fall asleep. Went for a short walk with DH and that helped. Just don't have the stamina. Even though my labs are decent, my DH keeps reminding me that it now takes me longer to rebound from being sick or anything to heal.

Sometimes I wonder if it's smart to tidy things up and put them away. I have several adult coloring books, colored pencils and markers. I put them away. When we were traveling in December, I couldn't find them anywhere, so I had to buy a new coloring book and pkg of pencils. There weren't anywhere I looked. Yesterday afternoon, I looked in a Rubbermaid container that is under my late mother's tea cart that is in my office/spare bedroom. The container wasn't hidden, but in plain view. I take it out and low and behold what do I find!!! Not sure why I overlooked that container, but I was pleased to find it. My husband said that's why many people keep an organized mess as they know where eveything is. I guess I need to write down where I put stuff - but best not on paper but in the "note" app on my phone so I can find it. Paper, I'm sure I wouldn't remember where I put it.

Ruth - hope you are having good weather in FL and having a wonderful girls getaway.

Here's my view every morning when I walk down the path for my beach walk.

Ruth: Fabulous pictures! I know you are enjoying every minute of it. I had to laugh when you described your back seat experience in the car and the gate experience! I can almost hear those conversations now.

Karen: Sounds like your energy is slowly coming back. I know it will be a hard week for you, especially March 1. I will tear my house apart looking for something I misplaced. I've even gotten trash back out of the trash can to go through it just in case whatever I'm looking for fell in a trash can and I didn't know it.

Yesterday I got my tooth implant. All went well. Just a little blood and soreness last night. Now I wait a few months until I get a crown. Today I visited a friend who lives 2 hours away. Her husband is bedridden from a muscular disease and luckily my friend has the means to have a home health agency help her for several hours every day. There's no way she can do what is needed by herself.

I did another beach walk this morning & just now got done with an afternoon walk around the gated community. Tomorrow I'll be walking around the Kennedy Space Center, which should be very interesting!

Ruth: I saw the Tut Exhibit in San Francisco in the late 1970s. It was breathtaking. Your pictures bring it all back to me. Looking forward to your Kennedy Space Center pictures.

Karen: You have a busy week coming up, especially with going back to work. Happy that you are starting to feel a bit better just in time for it.

Finished my 3rd and last photo book with the 944 pictures I had digitized. Each book had a little over 300 pictures in it. I still have 2 more albums that I need to have the photos digitized before I can create a book. The pictures weren't the correct size for the bulk digitizing I had done. But that's for another day!

Walked in the house today.