Spirited and Lively Older Women Thread

Mary - Uncle Bill's is a place that Marybe's Uncle Bill has in the Ozarks.  Some of us have been planning for almost a year to meet there in September.  Sorry, I though everyone knew about it by now.  Fingers crossed that your new round of tests come back with all good news.

The onco thinks I have a staff infection from digging in the yard with my bare hands, pulling weeds and planting flowers.  He told me to stay out of the yard with all the weeds and ants and other bugs and to keep taking the Rxs that he gave me on Friday. He will see me again on the 2nd and we will see where things are then.  That is when I was already scheduled to get my next Aredia IV and my next round of blood works.  The labs from 2 weeks ago did not show any signs of an infection so he will be sure to watch my white and red blood cell counts with the next round.

3jays - That sounds very promising. 

Oh Marybe ... grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

OK, I am staying out of the yard, at least for a while.  It is too hot to be out there anyway. I think I may put on rubber boots and gloves and go dig in the pond.  I have some aquatic plants that are too big for the little water garden I have on the back porch.  I can just throw them at the edge of the pond and they will plant themselves, but it is more fun to dig in the mud.

They have me on cephalexin, I am allergic to so many things and fortunately I respond well to small doses of the ones I can take. Last time they gave me 250 mg 2x a day and this round it is 300 mg 3x a day.  It is already a whole lot better, unless I get too hot or stay on my feet too long.  No more all day shopping trips.   I still have 7 more days to go then we will see if this has done the trick.  Promise no more digging or pulling weeds without gloves.  Still don't know how that caused my feet and ankles to swell so much and cause a rash.  So no more running through the grass barefoot.

Marybe - lots of prayers and hugs my dear friend.  

'Morning ladies;

best wishes to all for a good day, in some way.

BarbA, when you go to Uncle Bill's (or have an outdoor afternoon party) -- take balsa airplanes.  What a hoot they are! (I can't post this on the 'more sense' thread, they'd have to ban me....)

I took a flyer and ordered a case of 30 small balsa planes for my bday party for favors.  We have a relatively big yard - and it was such fun to see so many serious grownups just letting go and having a good time. Guests included doctors, nurses, lawyers, scientists, engineers, loggers, treetoppers, teachers, musicians; and ages ranged from 5 to 90.  Everyone got in on the air show.  I wore the tiara my SIL gave me last Christmas, all day.  So many musicians in the group that "happy birthday" sounded like the Tabernacle Choir - I think it's the first time I've ever heard it sung on-key!! It was a perfect day. 

I'm still catching up on laundry.  

Bubbles:  Walmart $1 toy aisle has bubbles in long colored/clear plastic tubes - about 12" long, with a long slender bubble wand inside.  These were voted best ever by several moms & grandmas at the party -- some iridescent factor in their recipe -- well worth $1.  Besides the planes, we had bubbles, noise sticks, and a putty called Flarp that looks like play-doh or silly putty but instead makes totally disgusting noises.  It also was a hit (not as much participation as the airplanes, but tears in eyes laughter by most all ) -- DH was totally surprised by that but I wasn't. 

All from the same $1 toy aisle. 

Edited to add, DH went out into the woods and picked me a huge bouquet of Tiger Lilies.

Romance + Ridiculous = Celebrate!

Walmart!!!  Good grief. they are everywhere!!  Bentonville,AK is the home of Sam Walton you know and Shell Knob is Southern MO.....very southern, almost AK. 

Marybe, Robin Williams ... Good Morning VietNammmmmm  

All tests done Wednesday were good   Thanks to all who offered up prayers for our silliness in worrying each and every year.  I'll take them every time.

Hugs

 Way to go Mary..

Barbara, yes, we're at the shore. Too hot to do much outside though ... this heat (over 100) wipes me out if I'm outside for more than 5 or 10 minutes so I spent most of the day indoors reading on the couch in the air conditioning. Not a bad way to spend a Saturday anyway you look at it   Hoping to go to the beach tomorrow morning before it gets too brutal.  Fingers crossed

Amy, I'm very lucky that it takes little to make me happy ... if I can't make the beach, another couch day works just fine. I work my butt off 5 days a week so I feel no guilt about lazy weekends. Of course, beach is always better   Not predicted to be much cooler so right now the plan is to get up early (meaning I should head to bed soon!!) and do the beach before the worst heat of the day.  I'll let you know how that plan works out.

The heat here is unbearble.  I go outside for 5 minutes, feel sick, come inside cool off a little then throw up then cool off and take a nap.  I don't know if the heat or the higher strength pain patch that is making me sick, or if it is a combination of the two. I really would like to be able to go outside to sit on the back porch for longer than 5 minutes.