Sunday August 28

[Shirlv]

Morning All, weather is the same. Traffic is a little less congested but enough that I don’t want to sit engulfed in gas fumes. #2 granddaughter was married in her moms back yard yesterday. It was a small private ceremony that was beautifully planned and very sentimental. I watched it on FaceTime and it was wonderful. I enjoyed the experience so much I contacted friend Edith and we did FaceTime for the first time. We spent a 1/2 hour laughing and talking. Then we emailed patting ourselves on the back for being able to FaceTime. Doesn’t take much to amuse us. We have come a long way, baby. Lol Nothing special planned for today. I think healthcare is a very personal choice. I research and have a health care provider that I trust. I make decisions based on my beliefs and not what someone says on the internet. I would hope everyone does the same. Be safe

[OregonLuvr]

Good morning Shirl. Sounds like your Face Time was a huge success. Not much going on here this morning. Still working on my first cup of coffee. I have my Pulmonary function test this afternoon at 5pm. They said it takes about 2 hours.....good grief. You are right Healthcare is a very personal decision for all of us. I do research things but you also have to be VERY careful about studies etc. There is way more to look at than just the study. Credibility of investigator, number of participants, the outcomes, etc. Nothing should substitute for your healthcare professional that you trust. Everyone has a theory nowadays regarding the vaccines, supplements, diet changes, exercise, etc.

Going to be 86 today but it is cloudy right now so all in all a pleasant day,

Edited to add forgot it was Sunday,m my test is not until Monday....geez

[SoCalGalcas]

Hi, I don’t know how he did it, butI can now post. My grandson and his family came over today. They brought me a veggie sandwich. Then he fixed the iPad so I can again post, and he went to the store for me. Bought me a salmon filet which I will bake tomorrow. Using a receipt from
“The Mediterranean Dish”. My now favorite site.
This iPad is a big help figuring out what I can eat on a low sodium diet. 2,000 mg per day.
I may go back into the pool when ever I feel like it. I am still a little light headed so not going to rush it.
A being in the hospital was quite an ordeal. They fastin a tube somehow to your bottom and one is supposed to urinate while lying in bed. Which is almost impossible. My ladder was so full when they finally let me up, I immediately began peeing and peed on the floor all the way to the bathroom!
They had a blood pressure cuff on my arm all night. It went automatically on and off all night. My arm is bruised horribly. I had an heparin lock in an had an IV dose of Digoxin about every four hours. That is how they got my pulse of 140 down.
Kaiser has a packet of several pages for Advanced Health Care Directories. I gave mine to my primary care physician. No one in the ER knew anything about it! I am a DNR. I was miffed and will ask my primary as soon as I see her.
I watched a very good soccer game last night. The San Diego Wave won, 2 to 0.
It is good to be back here!
Lyn

[Shirlv]

Lynn, glad to see you are back. Thank goodness for grandchildren. Lol I guess if doctors keep patching us up, we just keep going. Low sodium diet is not fun but doable. Take it easy.

[cnq50b]

So good to see you back online, Lyn.

I knew your grandson would be able to help! - Always better in person than trying to walk thru it over the phone.

Sounds like your hospital stay wasn't much fun.
Glad you're back home & have found a website to help stick with the low-sodium diet.

I hope you feel better soon.
Love,
Catherine

[BarbaraRose]

Good evening!
Just got home from work and am relaxing and sharing some shredded chicken with Romeow.

Lyn, glad you are feeling better. Don't go to the pool until the dizziness goes away.

Sue, it is amazing how a tornado can do all that damage in a matter of just minutes but it can take months and sometimes years to get it all back to some type of "normal".

Yesterday I went for my mammogram. I got there 15 minutes early and they took me right away. I was in and out in about 10 minutes! Stopped at the storage place and finally had someone show me how to put on their crazy lock! Just need to start bringing stuff over there now.

Then I stopped at Hobby Lobby to look for some small containers which I found but also ended up buying some accessories for future gourds. I am thinking of making a Native American doll for the lady I gave a haircut to the other day. She likes southwest and Indian decor, so I have some ideas (and the perfect gourd) for it, along with one of the accessories I picked up.

Didn't get much else done around here. I work all day tomorrow but have Tuesday off, so will do laundry, etc then.

I did something to my wrist a couple days ago so I have some pain with that when I move it certain ways. I have had that problem before (another bad joint ) and it will go away after wearing a wrist brace for a day or two. Just need to find the brace now.

Have a good night!

[Acadianmom]

Lyn, glad you are back. After years of taking my mother, mother-in-law and Harold to the hospital it was a new circus every trip. I told someone that I thought you would have to have your DNR directions tattooed on your chest for them to keep up with it. That was something I carried in my purse for them. I probably should now put mine in my purse. I think a low sodium diet would be hard because a lot of food wouldn't have any taste if it didn't taste like salt.

I learned how to Face Time or what ever they called it about 20 years ago when my grandson was born in Italy. I was more motivated then. lol Now I don't care to do it. My ex- daughter-in-law kept after me to do it but she finally gave up. I don't want to have to care what I look like on the computer.

I went to the widow's lunch today. There were about 25 attending and I only knew 2. It was nice, something to do.

I got two and a fourth inches of rain last week. It looked like rain everywhere I went in Lafayette but I didn't run into any. When I got home I was going to try to mow the hill. I made about 4 rounds and the bottom fell out. It rained 1/4 inch and we start again. It's a good thing I don't have heart problems. When I went to open the storm door to let Sugar out this morning a snake fell off the top of the door, bounced off my shoulder and hit the floor. Thank goodness it went out the door instead of in the house. It happened so fast that I don't know what kind of snake it was. Sugar was smelling around the door yesterday so she could smell it. I looked for it under the porch but didn't see it.

It would be nice if the plumbers decide to come fix my problems this week.

Martha

[JudyJB]

Yikes, Martha! And I thought my mice and the tree frog that got in my motorhome last winter in Florida were startling enough! Surprised you did not have a heart attack!

Also, Lyn, you and I are both short and have short arms. I have the same problems with bruising with blood pressure cuffs. Ask them to use a child's cuff on you. Those are shorter and don't bruise me so often.

I made it to Las Vegas this afternoon, and it was 105 degrees. RV was filthy, so I went to Blue Beacon for a truck wash, so now it is shiny and clean. The sun just set, so temps have dropped to 99--whoopee. I have to drive to San Clemente Beach SP tomorrow, so i think I am going to get up very, very early and get most of the hot driving done by 2 pm. It will be cool there because it is on the ocean. Have to go there for a couple of nights to catch up with my fellow POA and to drop off some stuff that needs to go in the safety deposit box and in storage. I picked them up in Florida last winter and don't want to keep carrying them around.

Then i head to Napa and somehow manage to drive through the hot Central Valley. I just do not do well in the heat. It has been cool mostly on this trip because I was at high elevations, and there was rain. I just don't do well in the heat--had a big headache and was shaky when I was setting up and putting things away, so I stopped and drank a glass of ice water, plus ate some dinner. I also am drinking some grape juice, a bit watered down with ice.

[Bethers]

Yay for grandsons, Lyn. We miss you when you aren't here. And then to hear you were in the hospital. Scary. I'm glad you're on the mend. Martha, that's worse than the snake that slithered across my foot one day when I stepped outside. Mine was a rattlesnake. He continued slithering and I took a broom and helped him slither off our property and back down to the Mississippi river.

It was a weird night at work but is over and tomorrow's a day off. Judy has left the area and I'm taking Ginger to see Kodachrome SP where Judy spent the last few days tomorrow. I'm planning to stop for ice cream at the shop by Bryce with good, cheap cones on our way back.

[snowball]

Lyn I think they used that on mom while she was in the hospital but she was so drugged at the time that she was able to use it....some sort of a wick if I remember the name correctly
pretty much what I did yesterday I did today fixed a couple of meals read scriptures and slept..I am surprised that I'm still awake probably] if it hadn't been for chat I would have gone to bed not that I would have slept maybe tonight I would...
down to my last color on my afghan did do that both days has a dead line should be able to met it... I hope
trying to decide it I ought to go and have a COVID test done or actually go and see if this is bronchitis which wouldn't surprise me... deep cough and when I can cough up somethings it's thick and yellowish greenish sure do want to be sick for the cruise
you all have a great day
sheila

[MandysMom]

Judy, you are not going to like the valley this week! It's predicted to be at or above 100, starting Tuesday for nextb9-10'days with next Monday 109.
Quiet day here.
Lyn, I'm glad you are back.
Velda

[Redetotry]

Reading Martha's snake experience made me remember a couple of years ago I opened the back door and a snake somehow dropped off the outside handle into the house and quickly disappeared . I ran to the door that went into the kitchen and closed it in hopes it was still in the family room. I finally found it and by that time DH had come to see what was going on. He found something to pin it down right behind the head and I grabbed a hammer, gave it a whack on the head and threw it back outside. I'm not afraid of snakes but I did not want it to get lost inside the house! My older brother would have passed out when it dropped inside:)

Lyn I'm glad you are feeling better and safely out of that hospital! Also that your grandson fixed your computer issues, welcome back! Judy I hope you get through the Central Valley and to cooler weather soon. Sheila I hope you get better soon. Shirl I haven't used Face TIme much but do use WhatsApp to talk to my doctor in Brazil and it is free. I was pretty worried about getting it set up but not too difficult. I've also used Skype, who would have believed this technology would happen! I remember party lines on our first phone. Karen I hope your test this afternoon goes well.

[Pooker]

Wow! A lot to respond to today. Sorry I don't post as often - boring life.

Shirl - Congrats on watching your grand's wedding on Face Time! I'm too chicken and don't want the real me on screen! I agree with you and Karen about people using the Internet all the time for health info. I want to know who funds the study, how many participants were in it, etc. It's very easy to make numbers say what you want them to say.

Lyn - So good to see you back! Sorry you were in the hospital! I must have missed something. That can be such a stressful trip. I think the pee catcher you had is the same thing they used for me when I had my pacemaker put in a few months back. I have a bad incontinent problem all the time and they had me wait for hours in the pre-op area. I peed all over everything before someone could get me to a bathroom. After the third time leaving a trail all the way to the bathroom, they used that "thingy" you see on tv ads. It senses moisture and pumps the urine before there's an accident. Guess it worked because I didn't have any accidents after that even during the procedure. Ain't old age fun? I, too, have noticed that medical personnel rarely have info on the patient especially in an emergency. They depend on the patient or someone with the patient. They don't look in purses, etc.

Martha - A snake falling down on me would be enough for a for sale sign to go up after I recovered from the heart attack! Senior housing here I come - preferably on the 3rd or 4th floor! I told a friend in Texas that if I visited her she would find me on the 14th floor of the nearest Hilton after hearing about the tarantulas and snakes in her area.

Barbie - Glad you finally got your storage unit locked. Looking forward to seeing your Native American doll gourd. Hope your wrist gets better soon.

Judy - Another heat wave heading our way just in time for your arrival! At least it will be cool in San Clemente!

Sorry for such a long post, gals. Lots more to remark on, but this old lady has to start her day. Stuffed animal group this morning. We make little stuffed animals - horses, dogs, cats, fish, etc. from donated fabric - and just before Christmas we donate bags of them to local children's charities. Thursday is our Knit/Crochet group where we make laphgans (small 36" aphgans) for local Assisted Living places with mostly donated yarn - again just before Christmas. They are this small size so they won't get caught in a wheelchair wheel, but still able to cuddle or wrap. Our HOA also gives us some money to buy yarn when we don't receive the donations we need. Keeps me busy and out of trouble. Don't want to need that bail fund we have!

Evie

[Cudedog]

It's a good thing I don't have heart problems. When I went to open the storm door to let Sugar out this morning a snake fell off the top of the door, bounced off my shoulder and hit the floor. Thank goodness it went out the door instead of in the house. It happened so fast that I don't know what kind of snake it was. Sugar was smelling around the door yesterday so she could smell it. I looked for it under the porch but didn't see it.

It would be nice if the plumbers decide to come fix my problems this week.

Martha

OMG, Martha. I can take the fires, the earthquakes, the drought, the intense heat we have here. But snakes falling on me out of the trees (or when I opened a door) would make me put my local realtor on speed-dial so I could get the h_ _ _ outa Dodge.

And I actually don't even really mind snakes. . . I mostly find them to be quite interesting creatures (although I know you have some nasty poisonous ones there where you are).

Anne

[Cudedog]

Judy, you are not going to like the valley this week! It's predicted to be at or above 100, starting Tuesday for nextb9-10'days with next Monday 109.
Quiet day here.
Lyn, I'm glad you are back.
Velda

Urg. . . thanks for the news, Velda. I have been avoiding looking at the weather forecast, hoping for better (cooler) days.

Well, more high heat next week.

Next up: annual autumnal (September/October) Diablo/Santa Ana winds. Probably followed by. . . annual autumnal. . . wildfires.

Please pray for rain, everyone.

Anne