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Monday grats? nt Posted by Paula on 8/4/2025, 3:12 pm #

Mine Posted by Cindyh on 8/5/2025, 12:04 am, in reply to "Monday grats? nt" Getting things done before the girls come to stay tomorrow for a few days while Olivia has surgery. Just have to go to the grocery store tomorrow. Had an appointment w shoulder doc because it’s been hurting. They are going to do an injection next Tuesday 11th. That’s about all they can do except he keeps offering a replacement but they told me at University of Missouri I definitely don’t need one !! It’s a tendon. I do have arthritis in the joint but not that bad. Cleaning out drawers. Changing bedroom sets. Been going through pretty much everything slowly. Getting work done though Since July 4th at the car show when i walked so much I’ve worn my Apple Watch every day! AND closed my activity and move rings every day. And some days all 3!!! Now my steps are set at 3500 BUT I have been between 4-5000 most days which girls has been unheard of for me. I hate to admit this BUT MOST days I was lucky to get 1500 before. I feel so good about that

That's wonderful!!!! Posted by Paula on 8/6/2025, 9:57 am, in reply to "Mine" I know how hard won each of those steps can be!

Great job on the walking Posted by Delta on 8/5/2025, 3:49 pm, in reply to "Mine" Is it hurting you still or has it become easier to get up to at least 3500? It is not as satisfying as getting a whole room cleared and cleaned at once, but getting things done slowly gets the job done just the same, I am finding. Tendonitis definitely hurts as bad as arthritis. Have they put you in a brace so that you don't use your arm so much or are they afraid that your shoulder will freeze up? I had tendonitis in my wrist, and it bothered me for almost a year, even wearing a drugstore brace. When I went to ortho, he put me on steroids while putting me in a brace that didn't let me flex the wrist at all. The combo of steroids and complete rest for it did the trick. In two weeks, it was feeling a lot better. After a month or so I wasn't even noticing it anymore. Haven't noticed it in almost a year.

It’s not hurting as much most days Posted by Cindyh on 8/5/2025, 11:13 pm, in reply to "Great job on the walking" But the crazy thing is my big toes are bruised!! Still from July 4. They were sliding into the end of my shoes. I was googling can your feet grow as you age and all kinds of stuff. Called my podiatrist and after a good laugh he asked me if I’d ever been this active since he’d known me and fused my ankle. I said no. He said if you are more active especially walking or running you have to move up at least 1/2 size in shoes. I never knew this. I hate it because I have a brand new pair of Brooks glycerin!! The cleaning is satisfying no matter how BUT I have so much to get rid of it just feels like I might never get there lol. A lot from the cabin too now. I’m going to donate a lot to the church. They don’t want to sling it. At least not yet.

I had no idea Posted by Delta on 8/6/2025, 12:33 am, in reply to "It’s not hurting as much most days " about moving up half a size in shoes. I have gotten to the point where my feet sweel so that I usually try to by shoes that really feel good in two sizes; one for when my feet are normal and one for when they swell. They swelled a lot of days around the fourth of July when I was out in the heat walking. They haven't bothered me until yesterday; they swelled horribly. I put the bigger shoes on in the afternoon to run an errand and they were too tight before I got home. I hear you on things from the cabin. My husband has been mentioning selling the lake house and all I can think about is how to get rid of all the stuff we got for there.

Cindyh Posted by Beverly on 8/5/2025, 12:59 am, in reply to "Mine" SO GLAD Olivia will come home soon. It's a good sign. It's fun to get things changed up!! It's good the pain is 'only" one tendon. Keep it PAIN FREE!!

Beverly Posted by Cindyh on 8/5/2025, 9:17 am, in reply to "Cindyh" Thank you sweet friend.

Monday Grats Posted by Delta on 8/4/2025, 4:03 pm, in reply to "Monday grats? nt" Mammogram scheduled for Thursday afternoon. Thank you again, Joan. Like I said, I had seen the card so long that I had gone blind to it. When you mentioned yours, I glanced up only to realize that it was for this month. Doctors who call a few days before scheduled appointments. My husband got a call from his cardiologist this morning, reminding him of an appointment later in the week that he knew nothing about and had not given to me to put on the calendar. Our trash men. The truck that picks up the cans and dumps them is not functioning today and they are walking behind the truck and doing the job. It has to be an awful job, and for the most part, thankless. Reading glasses are cheap. I keep a pair in every room of the house, my purse, the car, and even in the medicine cabinet now that I need them to read. Lately, I often have a pair on the top of my head.

How in the world Posted by Delta. on 8/5/2025, 9:20 am, in reply to "Monday Grats" Do you just now need glasses to read?? Lucky. I had 20/20 vision until about the age of 43 and I couldn’t read anymore. I was holding my arm way into read everything. Finally got progressives because it was easier for me than reading glasses. Now my perfect distant vision is as bad as my close up. Horrible

Now I am talking to myself LOL Posted by Delta on 8/5/2025, 2:31 pm, in reply to "How in the world" I became near-sighted in my thirties after getting a computer in the office and at home about the same time. They each had a different system so I had to spend a lot of time learning each of them. After months of using it I suddenly had trouble reading regular print that wasn't backlit. After several surgeries and being on antibiotics almost constantly for over 18 months in the 2000 teens. My vision changed, literally overnight. I was reading before bed one night, and the next day, when I picked up the book, it was hard to read. I started to drive somewhere and put my glasses on when I got in the car, as usual. Everything was so blurry backing out of the garage that I took my glasses off to clean them, thinking they were just dirty. I was shocked to realize that everything out there was perfectly clear, and I could read the street sign a block away. Went to the eye doctor, and he told me that the meds had changed the pressure in my eyes and caused the shape to change enough to change my vision from near-sighted to farsighted. I started needing glasses to read some things, but could at least read the computer without them. My husband was going into Walmart or Kroger or somewhere and I asked him to get me some reading glasses as Doc suggested. All he could find was a three-pack in the strength that I needed. I put a pair in the kitchen to read the back of boxes, one by my chair and one in my purse. Over the years they have grown as I guess my eyes have become worse but strangely my prescription hasn't changed since I got my first 3 pairs of readers.

Re: Monday Grats Posted by Beverly on 8/5/2025, 12:49 am, in reply to "Monday Grats" So happy doctor's offices now call!! My Triplet nieces and nephew LOVED the garbage men.!!!! They watched for them. Gave them gifts at holidays. It was fun for them.

Mine Posted by Paula on 8/4/2025, 3:20 pm, in reply to "Monday grats? nt" Nurse just left. I asked her if she could make the wound cover smaller because all of that tape was starting to make my back itch. I had dressing covering most of my lower back. She made it much smaller and I can actually feel some skin back there. Walked the driveway a couple times yesterday and am going to as soon as I write this. Straightened out a lot of business things that I let lapse....real estate taxes not paid by the mortgage company so I was penalized $200-some dollars. Got on that. Paid a couple early medical bills...ambo and wound supplies. About $500. So far, I've gotten EOBs that say I owe about $3000. All the bills haven't been processed yet. None of.the homecare stuff. Deborah coming tomorrow. I thought it was Thursday. Being able to wash my hair in the kitchen sink. Going to do that after I walk the driveway.

If you are dealing with Posted by Delta on 8/4/2025, 11:12 pm, in reply to "Mine" business and bills it sounds like you are feeling better which makes me happy. I am glad that you can wash your hair now because I know it makes you feel better. Are you close to your insurance cap now so that the bleeding will stop soon?

You really Posted by Cindyh on 8/4/2025, 9:08 pm, in reply to "Mine" Must be feeling better Paula. I’m happy for that!! Glad your bandage is so much smaller. What a mess w all the bills. I’m sorry.

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