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Wednesday grats? Posted by Paula on 8/20/2025, 9:07 am Z

My gratefuls for today Posted by Beverly on 8/20/2025, 11:09 am, in reply to "Wednesday grats?" I took a few photos of some plants. I am going to post them today on facebook. Murray is mostly some better. He can get crabby. I think he is realizing how his life might change. He is in pain- seeing the doctor tomorrow. (PA, actually) I'll let you know. I am thrilled that the Cindy's will meet. It's so exciting. I remember when Murray and I got to spend time with Paula and Bill years ago. I think about it... saw her home and flowers, her fur-kids and much more, YAY... to Cindy and Cindyh Alex got into his dorm yesterday. He is excited. He met his roommate It's a fairly big room. Nice. He met his roomate. Mike and Meg, the 2 boys and the new roomnates's parents went out to lunch. Mike said they seem like nice a family. His roomate comes from Chicago... can't imagine paying out of state tuition these days. Michigan State has a good engineering school, it seems! Mike and family... Meg's family too have been so helpful. You wonderful ladies. Love you so much.

How exciting and Posted by Delta on 8/21/2025, 7:53 pm, in reply to "My gratefuls for today" Also a bit sad, maybe that should be melancholy, for the rest of the family that Alex is in his dorm. I know what you mean about thinking Murray is crabby because of thinking about how his life might be different. My husband did that after open-heart surgery. He also got wildly defensive at the most innocent thing. A simple question like what he wanted for dinner could set off an explosion of, "What, you don't think I can make up my mind or something?" It was crazy, but we came out the other side, and ya'll will too.

He's launched! Posted by Paula on 8/20/2025, 10:38 pm, in reply to "My gratefuls for today" Michigan State, right? The college with the little green guy like S&H greenstamps! Lol Love messing with you about this. There a new Project Runway on. So far, I've watched 3 episodes and I don't like anyone. They're mean!

My five… Posted by Cindy on 8/20/2025, 9:18 am, in reply to "Wednesday grats?" 1. Dogs woke me up early so I have time to get on here with you before work! 2. My sister Peggy found a big lump on one of her breasts and went to the dr to get it checked out. Turns out it was only a cyst and whatever test they did showed she also had a deep bruise-so she must have injured herself at some point although she is not sure when. Grateful it wasn’t more serious. They left the cyst alone and said it should absorb on its own. 3. My brother Dick fell getting out of his car after running some errands and is ok. He’s a big guy and couldn’t get up on his own so he had to push his medical alert button he wears and the fire department came out to help him. He did skin up his elbow and of course was embarrassed but he is ok! Grateful he wasn’t hurt worse and had that medic alert button. It was pouring down rain at the time so he got drenched waiting the 10 minutes until help arrived-but he is okay! 4. I did the video interview yesterday talking about our Disability Mentoring Day. It was fun and stressful all at once but I’m hoping it will turn out ok! 5. The ability to keep trying to lose weight and get healthier. I fear falling like my brother did and not be able to get up. I have to stay the course and get this weight off.

That is so Posted by Delta on 8/21/2025, 8:01 pm, in reply to "My five…" scary about both Peggy and Dick. You must have been on stress overload this week. Can't wait to see the interview! Posting a video on getting up and getting down that helped me. Maybe it will help you. I was afraid to do it at home alone when I found it because I was afraid it wouldn't work, but it did. I can't use my knees because they are wrecked. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Bi6EOnDsbKU

That's a lot! Posted by Paula on 8/20/2025, 9:34 am, in reply to "My five…" Glad your siblings are both ok. When I was in PT last Fall, the therapist stressed how important it is for me to.be able to get myself off the ground if I fall. I was able to do it but it was tricky and not 100% of the time. Because of my back, I haven't tried to do it with the weight loss. Maybe I'll give it a go sometime soon. I need to be able to do this, especially because I hope to travel again. Will you be able to post your presentation???

I have heard that too… Posted by Cindy on 8/21/2025, 1:07 am, in reply to "That's a lot!" That we should be able to get ourselves up off the floor! I need to work on that too. I would think the presentation will be on line-I will share it when it goes up!

Mine Posted by Paula on 8/20/2025, 9:15 am, in reply to "Wednesday grats?" Stamina for doing therapy returning. Saw 5 yesterday and was fine. I think the smart thing to ultimately do is to schedule just 5/day M,T,W. Losing weight Nurse coming around 10. The other Nurse came Monday and, I don't know what she did differently, but it didn't itch quite as badly. But, the dressing kept rolling up from the bottom, soiling my waist band and tops. Besides being gross, if there is opening for drainage to come out, there's room for infection to go in. She said she has some other options. Back has been good yesterday and today. Thinking the extra pain on Monday was a fluke. There was one treat I REALLY wanted and, now that I've had it, the junk noise has settled down. A personal size white chocolate, raspberry bundt cake with amazing frosting dripping down.

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