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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited August 2011

    AmyJo, still praying for Micah!! He had a good birth weight like my new grands, they lost while in the hospital which is normal, but soon turned that around once home. I thought it was normal to lose weight when first born....?

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  • Elisimo
    Elisimo Member Posts: 1,601
    edited August 2011

    Good news - just heard from DD and Micah is gaining weight he gained 6 ozs. in 2 days!  Drs do not have an explination, but everything seems to be fine now.  I know it has to be all the prayers him. He is on a regular schedule and that has helped DD get some rest so she is doing better now too.  Barbe, it is normal for them to lose a little weight as in a few ozs., but Micah had lost over 1 lb.  He went from 8 lbs 11 ozs. to 7 lbs 9 ozs.  He is back up to 8 lbs. 3 oz. so everything is working well now.

    I have been painting the gnomes that DH has around the yard and there are a couple that are heavy and I think I have hurt my back trying to hold them in postions where I can paint them.  My back is killing me and my knees, hands and feet are hurting too.  It takes me forever to get up and get to where I can move.  I am off to bed and hopefully tomorrow will be a better day. 

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  • Alyson
    Alyson Member Posts: 4,308
    edited August 2011

    So pleased Micah is fine Amyjo. GD also lost over 1 lb after she was born and now is a beautiful almost 3 year old. Think some babies are just like that.

    Problem DD is having with GS is getting him to sleep at night, he doesn't want to be in his own bed at all so DD is very tired and it didn't help when she got bronchitis last week.

    I do wish tradesmen would turn up on time, have been waiting over an hour!!!

    At least it has been fine here today but very cold and we have managed to achieve 50 degrees.

    Oh for some warmth.

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  • Valjean
    Valjean Member Posts: 1,898
    edited August 2011

    Amyjo, wonderful news about Micah. Prayers were heard......

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  • 3jaysmom
    3jaysmom Member Posts: 4,266
    edited August 2011

    AJ same as my GD...glad he's back to a "good weight" and your DD got some sleep.. now, put the gnomes down!!the neighbors here think im a crazy lady. i cannot bens, even sit on a seat, so i plunk my fat arse down on a foam pad amde for kneeling.. the funny part is watching me try to get up, after.. i have to roll to one side, and then to knees quickly, and grab something to drag myself up.. its quite a performance, but one i must do. just can't bend anymore, without tumbling over face first...ahh, to getting old(er) .......3jays

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  • mostlymom
    mostlymom Member Posts: 466
    edited August 2011

    weebles wobble but they don't fall down....  bet me!  i turned around in the kitchen, took 1 step & fell over my dog - it was a slow motion slightly controlled fall - trying not to hurt myself & not fall on the dog....  turned out ok but didn't need to do it in front of DD & DH.  they're alive only because they didn't laugh & didn't take a pic.  had a few sore muscles the next day but no bruises & dog is ok too.

    martha

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  • BarbaraA
    BarbaraA Member Posts: 7,378
    edited August 2011

    Oh AmyJo! I am so happy Micah is doing well now!

    3jays, what a mental picture! Hope you are feeling better.

    Martha, it would have been hard not to laugh but you raised your DD right and DH obviously knows better.

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  • Eph3_12
    Eph3_12 Member Posts: 4,781
    edited August 2011

    Good story Martha! My fall last fall resulted in broken shoulder, so you were very blessed to not get hurt!

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  • Isabella4
    Isabella4 Member Posts: 2,166
    edited August 2011

    What is it about getting older and falling ??? I noticed the other week at my hospital, there is a department for elderly people who fall....can't remember the exact title....didn't know it existed, but surely won't be long before I get to visit !! Have had 3 falls this year so far.

    Isabella.

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  • chabba
    chabba Member Posts: 5,065
    edited August 2011

    Last week I was walking past my recliner when I started to fall towards it.  Somehow I managed to twist so that I landed on my butt.  Lucky I didn't fall sideways as I thought I was going to, as I would probably have wound up on the floor.  I usually need help getting up when that happens.

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  • susgul
    susgul Member Posts: 152
    edited August 2011

    I know every time I go to the doctor, I'm asked if I've fallen in the last 30 days.  I don't feel geriatric, but I guess I must be!

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited August 2011

      Wow, sound like the name of this thread needs to be changed to Falling Frenzy or something.  Do you think it's neuropathy involved.  That one time I fell in the grocery store was because I could not really feel my feet. 

     AmyJo....so glad baby Micah is gaining.  

     Snow, Alyson!!  It's hard to imagine it is your winter time now.  

     Barb,  I didn't realize you were going to Niagra on the lake....that looked like a very nice get together and such a big group.   I saw that one pic, but you were the only one I knew and Barb58 from her avitar, although hair is lighter now.  Who was everyone?  

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  • 3jaysmom
    3jaysmom Member Posts: 4,266
    edited August 2011

    good to see you all.. you know my history of recent falls, so don't need to repeat myself, and yes, marybe.. the dr. said i was weak from the hypo; but when he tested my feet, i csn't feel up to my ankles!!! i din;t know it was THAT bad!!!we discovered i have a "drop foot" on the left, and he has me in birkenstocks  now. the trick is to plant your foot on your heel, not further in front. i have improved in the birks....

       feeling a little better these days. it'll take a bit more time with these meds, but i'm claiming mecca for me in sept!!!...good speaking to you last night, marybe.......3jays

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  • chabba
    chabba Member Posts: 5,065
    edited August 2011

    Marybe - I've been having some balance problems lately.  Since I take tamoxifen I just tonight checked out the side effects and loss of balance is one of them.  I will be calling my Onc tomorrow afternoon.  (I cook cook at our Senior Center Thursday Mornings.

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  • BarbaraA
    BarbaraA Member Posts: 7,378
    edited August 2011

    The last time I fell, I was very lucky not to have broken my teeth. I was running for the tram at the airport and (with leather soled shoes on) tripped face first to the marble floor. I saw stars and the next day I had a shiner. Nice.

    Marybe, I PM'd you.

    3jays, mecca awaits!!

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited August 2011

    Falls....oh my!!!! I have had glorious falls!!! Down subway stairs!!! Once even, between the subway and the platform; I was VERY pregnant, one minute I was at head level, the next second I was looking at everyone's knees!!! I had stepped into that space between the train and the platform!!! Everyone was horrified as they pulled me up.

    I have fallen down the stairs of huge buildings in downtown and limped to the subway with bloody knees. I have fallen in car dealerships and grocery stores. I fell once leaving a baseball game. I was holding my DH's hand and we were going down a huge spiral ramp. I fell and he just kept on pulling me!!!! I was dragged for about 20 feet before he finally looked back!

    I have fallen into people's laps and off chairs. I have fallen in deparment stores and going into work. I have fallen in offices and on showroom floors. I have BEEN 'Bambi on Ice'!!!! I have fallen down icy front steps and landed on my back still on the stairs.

    I have fallen so many times I don't know if I have a bad back because of the falls, or fall because of the bad back!!!!

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  • Dilly
    Dilly Member Posts: 655
    edited August 2011

    This might be the spirited and lively Fallen Women thread...

     I've broken toes and wrenched knees & banged myself up pretty hard, but Barbe takes the prize. 

    My mother's group of "girls" traded how-to-fall-without-breaking tips.  

    AJ, good news about Micah.

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited August 2011
    I fell in a Jaguar dealership once. Flat out on my back looking at the ceiling. They came over to tell me to watch the floor, it was being treated with an 'anti-slip' solution. I told them it didn't work! We bought the Jag anyway and they told my DH that we were the most unlikely people they thought to buy a Jag!!! Why?? Because I spread myself out like Jesus on the cross in their showroom??? NOT my fault! Yell
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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited August 2011

    53 and YEARS of falls!

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  • Dilly
    Dilly Member Posts: 655
    edited August 2011

    Joyce - I've been pretty physical & "athletic" in the past - the chopping wood and hauling hay kind of physical.  A natural clumsiness resulting from thinking faster than I move, or not thinking at all.... And from trying to run or haul heavy stuff in high heels during my work-in-an-office-in-disguise era...

    Actually, I'm still pretty strong, and have taken to amusing myself by doing morning ablutions while standing on one foot (alternating).  It's hard to take yourself too seriously when you start your day off with a good laugh at yourself. I often do.

    65 but I had so much fun at my birthday party that I've decided to begin having two birthdays a year.  In just a few years, folks will be saying "but you look so young!"...Laughing

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited August 2011

    Don't get me wrong....I am very physically strong! I have legs like steel. In fact, I have so much muscle my weight is SO off by body shape and size. Everyone is off by at least 50 pounds on my weight.

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  • susgul
    susgul Member Posts: 152
    edited August 2011

    64 and holding!

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited August 2011

    I know I posted this, but it disappeared or I didn't hit submit.   I am not currently falling and have not since Abraxane when I had neuropathy big time.  All my other falls were before I had my knee replacement which I think has been at least 8 years....in two of my falls then I broke my 5th metatarsal which tool forever to heal and finally they did surgery and put in a pin which is still there and then a bone in my hand.  I am 61 .    I do like the fallen women idea....makes us sound dangerous. 

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited August 2011

    Joyce....only because I had a crummy oncologist....also they did not feel I needed to be on tamoxifen or do chemo since the tumor was teeny tiny, but obviously I did need to do something. I don't think what happened to me, happens to everyone,but you never know....that is why everyone should be aware of every tiny little ache pain or change.  61 isn't so bad, is it? 

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited August 2011

    I am the same way, healthy except for the fact I have cancer.  I rarely even get a cold when the rest of the office has one.  I did the hormonal therapy as treatment since I did not have it as preventative...did tamox with good results, shrunk the tumors 50%, aromisin with even better, not only shrunk my tumors but kept me in remission for years, and then I did faslodex....but alas the hormonal treatments stopped working for me and that was when I moved on to chemo.   I had cataract surgery on both eyes this past Spring and I will say it was the easiest surgery I have had so far and I now only need reading glasses. I was all set to get my new Rx filled with clear on the top because I am one of these people who want to wear my glasses all the time or I lose them, but just this week my perfect distance vision is not so perfect.  I asked and they told me any chemo can mess with your vision so I am not holding off on getting new glasses and just wear the ones I have down on my nose or on top of my head. 

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited August 2011

    Yes, but you have to say if you FALL!!!

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  • chabba
    chabba Member Posts: 5,065
    edited August 2011

    I've always been clumsy and prone to tripping.  My college drama prof joked that I could trip on my imagination!  My falls now are not due to tripping but loss of balance.  Oh, I still trip but now there are balance problems TOO!  I'll be 69 a week from Monday.

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  • lassie11
    lassie11 Member Posts: 1,500
    edited August 2011

    63 and I recall falling once on some ice hidden by snow. My 96 year old father is in the hospital right now as a result of a fall at home.

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited August 2011

    Hi all, just returned from LA area, saw my son and his new office and stayed overnight with him.

    I went up to have lunch with a gal I met thru BCO and who lives in Ohio..we stopped and saw her and her husband two years ago in Ohio so they were in Cal. for vacation and we met them up in LA...nice luncheon for all...

    Last time I fell, I fell off a treadmill at the Y and got my leg caught in the belt..not a pretty picture..anyhow I know my balance is way off so I am super careful all the time...even at

    tennis where I also have fallen lately...not a good thing...I had some balance training in

    PT after chemo, it helped a little..

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited August 2011

    Lisa, I find the fact that you are even playing tennis amazing......but then again, I am one who failed phys ed one quarter in college.   Where in OH is she from?

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