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  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Member Posts: 10,786
    edited February 2016

    Do you have railings on the stairs? Sometimes carpeting helps, or even like Spookie says, non-skid rubber step covers or a runner... I lean against one wall, and go down side-ways on our narrow steps... If my hands and arms aren't carrying stuff down, I hold onto the other side. Our stairway is very narrow... same with the steps...

    I don't just run down them anymore... And when we had Lacee, she could get UP there easy, but was afraid to come down, and would stand up there and bark at us, telling us "No way...come get me!" And sometimes I would go carry her down...if we couldn't coax her down...

    Someone said "You need to call a Priest to go down those steps!"

    That's just awful about your Aunt Ginger! Sorry........xoxoxoxo

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  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Member Posts: 10,786
    edited February 2016

    Okay, here we go.... Can you just imagine?

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  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Member Posts: 10,786
    edited February 2016

    I'd move!


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  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Member Posts: 10,786
    edited February 2016

    I guess we are all panty-waists...

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  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Member Posts: 10,786
    edited February 2016

    Okay.... one more.... I just don't know when to quit....

    Found Spookie going "somewhere"...

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  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited March 2016

    Sassy, right back at you............Hi!

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  • PattyPeppermint
    PattyPeppermint Member Posts: 11,162
    edited February 2016

    imagecan anyone guess what is wrong with this pic ? Good luck.

    Ô


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  • Spookiesmom
    Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
    edited February 2016

    no coffee? And why oranges? Too much acid for you.

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  • Spookiesmom
    Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
    edited February 2016

    When we lived up north, our house had very narrow step risers. They had carpet. I walked off the landing and slid most of the way down on my back. Got a shoulder sprain and whip lash. Still bothers me, 40+ years later.

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  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 19,603
    edited February 2016

    Ginger, it's a new house for you(I think that's what I read). Any chance of converting a room down stairs?

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  • Holeinone
    Holeinone Member Posts: 2,478
    edited February 2016

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    My guess ? you are still in the hospital.

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  • Loveroflife
    Loveroflife Member Posts: 5,563
    edited February 2016

    Sorry Patty. It should be home meal? Did you eat the toast? The breakfast looks rich.

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  • Loveroflife
    Loveroflife Member Posts: 5,563
    edited February 2016

    Ms. Chevy said I should post this pic here. I guess it goes with the theme above.

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    Depending on the carpet placed on the stairs, you can still slip. I fell on my butt twice with our current one. Will try and take picture of the stairs.

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  • Loveroflife
    Loveroflife Member Posts: 5,563
    edited February 2016

    The only carpeted area in our house.

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    The bullnose of the steps is where it is slippery.

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  • Loveroflife
    Loveroflife Member Posts: 5,563
    edited February 2016

    JunieB, the pictures you were referring to is of Italty. Beautiful country. I didn't take those though.

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  • kathindc
    kathindc Member Posts: 2,042
    edited February 2016

    Wow Patty, you need to get home. Looks like the hospital is working against you with that breakfast. What happened to bland diet after having the vomiting. Always have used the BRAT diet on my family after bouts with vomiting and diarrhea. Hope today is the magical day.

    Second house DS lived in in Japan had steps so narrow that I had to turn almost sideways for my foot to fit and particularly so because the indoor slippers you wore for the wood flooring have slick bottoms. I was an accident waiting to happen. Oh Chevy your first picture, I could never do those steps, up or down. I have difficulty going up open staircases. Neat concept though.

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  • Gingerbrew
    Gingerbrew Member Posts: 2,859
    edited February 2016

    Thanks so much everyone for responding. Seriously, thank you. Made me teary in fact.

    I love the dog on the railings! The folks with the hundreds of stairs must have great butts. (My DD rowed on crew in college and they ran the stadium stairs for training and her butt simply levitated.) I like the runner with the hardware on the steps. It looks pretty.

    I looked on Home Depot last night and saw various 3M solutions that I will use on the deck stairs for sure and on the 4 concrete steps up to the front door.

    The house is new to us, a flipper redone. Built in 1972. It is a raised ranch where you go up seven stairs to main living and bedrooms or down five stairs to laundry, guest bedroom, storage room (no garage) and family room. I have officially taken over the family room for my sewing room, whatever else room crafty, painting, doll play with DGD and little theatre for her. DGD is 5 and will now live only 2 blocks away!!!!! Yeehaw over that! I have not had my sewing room set up properly in 8 years and I miss it. My husband has pledged not to put anything in my area other than what goes there. I turned my eyes away from the growing boxes and other items that were piled into my special room in the last two houses. A huge mistake on my part. I found the strength to insist this never happen again. A big deal. I used to know where everything was in my sewing room and I want that back again. We raised four kids, three boys and a girl so having space for my stuff means something special to me.

    My husband does have his office, he is a nice guy. He does so much for me more than I could ever expect.

    The stairs are this darkish Brazillian Cherry, that will show a ton of dust. I have been warned off of carpeting, they say it is slippery. The 3M non slip strips would probably ruin the finish on the stairs but I am not sure I care if it saves my life.

    There is a hand rail on one side I think I will add one on the other side. The house we currently rent is a two story and I fell up the stairs quite hard trying to carry things. Now I have a fabric shopping bag I put on my shoulder to do that. It works well and I recommend it to everyone.

    Any additional ideas are most welcome. I like the idea of carpet because it would cushion a fall. Obviously not if it would also cause a fall. Also I am in Kirkland WA and it rains alot!

    We do our final walk through today, closing is the 10th.

    Hugs

    Ginger


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  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 19,603
    edited February 2016

    Loverly, I adore those pics of Italy. That dining area is so elegant. So would love to live that way.

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  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Member Posts: 10,786
    edited February 2016

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  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 19,603
    edited February 2016

    A stellar day in nursing was 1. you got a break, 2. you got to go pee, 3. you got lunch, 4. you got out on time. Happened a couple times a year.

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  • PattyPeppermint
    PattyPeppermint Member Posts: 11,162
    edited February 2016

    holeinone. U r right still St the hospital. I didn't touch that food one night try had fried catfish. nd ,1 night BBQ porkchop. Wth ???

    I keep trying to text but I keep falling asleep. Can't remember what I said or really what anyone said to be honest. Newest guess of the doctor is my heart rate is too high and my blood pressure is too low. They started me on a blood pressure medicine. My blood pressure has always bottomed out. it at the most of that is true. My heart rate was 137-142 and 119th really too high. The doctor would like for me to be 80 or less but he will send me home anything under a hundred.so hoping for yet another possible cure. Been let down too many times from this worrying to stay neutral

    OK ndding off

    Sas. Sending you a pm later or tomorrow to pick your brain

    Hootie hoo

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  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Member Posts: 10,786
    edited February 2016

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gghfoRKVPCo

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  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Member Posts: 10,786
    edited February 2016

    Peppermint honey! DANG! I give you one more day, then me and Phylliwhoknowshowtodoit will come spring you outa there! xoxo

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  • PattyPeppermint
    PattyPeppermint Member Posts: 11,162
    edited February 2016

    chrvyy

    please please do. I'll pay you guys in greenbacks. Oh wait. Your state already has that priveledge

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  • Jazzygirl
    Jazzygirl Member Posts: 12,533
    edited February 2016

    Patty- hope you will be going home soon.

    Hi everyone else. Very busy with work and got lots of things to do at home and with biz taxes right now. Hope everyone is ready to spring in to March!

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  • queenmomcat
    queenmomcat Member Posts: 3,039
    edited February 2016

    Patty: warming up the getaway car. SRZLY. We R springing you. We R bringing decent fudz.

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  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 19,603
    edited February 2016

    patty, I'll be looking for it :) need to know. Ask your nurses if you bloodwork says you are dehydrated. What drug and dose did they start you on. Oh hugs honey.

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  • yoga_girl
    yoga_girl Member Posts: 234
    edited February 2016

    Loveroflife

    depression - options post

    full articles have been added to the post; additional options to reach the link pages have been added

    thanks for letting me know about the hyperlinks not working

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  • yoga_girl
    yoga_girl Member Posts: 234
    edited February 2016

    depression and cancer

    Primal Scream Therapy Session

    sharing a blog posted in 2014, a discussion about experiences of a cancer patient who writes often about their challenge to find care options. . .

    I can't remember having a conversation about depression with my original oncologist. But I was referred to counseling which was a great help. And latter attended a Hope group. I've not actually had any chemical treatment for depression, but it's been with me ever since the diagnosis.

    The problem is not just treating those with poor outcome (ie low survival rate) cancers. The emphasis on survival actually ignores the consequences of surgery (which can be life changing). Chronic illnesses that arise from the cancer, and continue to affect the 'cured' patient, such as Lymphedema following breast cancer or in my case a whole series of side effects from the cancer spread and chemotherapy.

    Basically these 'new' conditions are considered as something outside the cancer, so you have to spend a lot of time explaining to GPs, nurses, consultants from other disciplines, your cancer experience. It's a sort of Primal Scream Therapy Session every time you engage with a new clinician.

    I've had to reconnect with options again, as a side effect of chemo left me totally immobile for months on end. Forcing me back into a morphine haze , which in turn reminded me of the chemotherapy experience (which in my case had me close to death a couple of times) also referred to as the 'dark days' by cancer patients.

    The problem is not just treating the depression along with the cancer. Its actually designing a holistic approach to the whole treatment process. Because the experience does not actually fit into a single disease model . Diagnosis, treatment and cure ; sounds lovely. But for many, it doesn't happen that way. I applaud attempts to understand the person who is undergoing treatment; but we have a long way to go, before the whole person is considered.


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  • feelingfeline
    feelingfeline Member Posts: 5,664
    edited February 2016

    Posted this on warm fuzzies but it is just so utterly joyous you would have to be scrooge not to like it - have to post twice

    Video made by a retirement community in Michigan

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ7-n930zJo

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