Spirited and Lively Older Women Thread

Alyson, it is so odd hearing you contemplate what to wear on MONDAY morning....it's STILL Sunday evening here.....just after 10pm. Also you're just going into autumn, and we're still in the throes of winter. It has been a miserable 2-3 days here again, sideways rain, and sooo cold. Tonight there is a frost warning out....only just below freezing..but it'll be cold. It just looks, for all the world, as if it's still December.

I have been holed up all w/end, just pleasing myself. I had DD, 3 GD's and 2 GS's Saturday morning. Complete pandemonium. I was hoping no-one would turn up, so I could get on with my sewing , but they did, and quite a noisy brunch was had by us all. The house then just goes silent, it is odd. I always have to make myself a coffee, and get on the computer for an hour to get myself back down to earth. We had a bit of hairdressing going on in the kitchen. A clothes trying on session in my bedroom, and 1 GS washing my car, the other fiddling with broken electrical things ( that can stay broken for me, but GS's DO like to fiddle !!) Then...just utter silence, when they all go, leaving me and the dogs to suit ourselves .

DD was getting herself all ready for TWO nights dancing (and drinking , tho' she DOESN'T drink, she assures me !) She was already looking a bit green, having been out Friday night, so what on earth she will look like on Monday morning  I dread to think. She was wanting me to set too and alter her a skirt, and a corset top, but no way would I have time to do it as quick as she wanted it. She will have to wait 'til next weekend. One GD was prancing around in black and white hooped tights, with a long ladder down them. 'How do I mend them, Gran?' she was asking. I showed her, but, myself, I would have thrown them in the bin !  

I'm having a bit of a throwing out session at the moment...anything that catches my eye, that I am sick of looking at, is in the bin. I discovered 3 boxes of books upstairs, that have sat in the spare room over 30 years, just unopened, and I am never going to read them again....so they went out this last week. I haven't the energy to take them anywhere, and no-one nowadays wants to come and collect them. I just kept out of the way on Friday, rubbish collection day, in case the bin men started to moan, but , no they took them all away, and I gained a great big lump of space in the bottom of a built in cupboard. Years ago it would have been sacrilege to me to throw books away. But, I am never going to want them again, non of the children are the least bit interested in them, so off they went. This week I start and empty a bookcase (floor to ceiling ) also in my spare room, and also ram jam full of books from over 30 years ago. Then I shall put the bookcase on eBay !

Just on my way to bed now, via the 'nursery'...I have a dog due to have puppies shortly.  I forgot to make a note of the day she was mated, so have no idea of the exact due date, so it's my own fault I am hopping around. Don't want to miss things, as it's her first litter, so have to stick pretty close to her this next few days. Nine weeks ago was Christmas week, so that will be how I have forgotten to write it down...so...my own fault !!

Isabella.

Barbe - We know where your mind wanders hehehehehhe

Wow Lisa-  that one looks like a Georgia O'Keeffe painting!

Am a bit cheesed off tonight....I have a house guest...DH !!

He was off to the hospital today to have a pre op exam for some more shoulder surgery. I didn't go with him, infact I had forgotten his appointment was today.

He had an ECG....the nurse told him the read out showed he'd recently had a heart attack. He had last had an ECG about six weeks ago, so it's happened within the last six weeks. Of course, being a man, he didn't ask one single question, nor ask to see a doctor, so no-one has the foggiest idea of the extent of this. I don't expect for one minute they'd have let him walk out if it had been remotely serious...at least I hope not....but not to ask just ONE question about it all is beyond me.

I tried to get on to the hospital, but 'no doctor available' , and if there had been I don't suppose they would have told me much. I then got on to DHs GP, he wasn't available, had no appointments until March 19th...but I managed to get a telephone consultation for DH, with his own GP, next Tuesday....and that was the best I could do. That's another six days to wait.

DH is as white as a sheet, very shaken, very quiet and scared....but WHY on earth he didn't turn round on the nurse and demand someone come and talk to him I don't know. He keeps asking me questions, as if I am a walking encyclopedia...I can't answer anything at all, I am as much in the dark as he is...the subject is vast on the internet, so no good even trying to look for answers when I don't know the correct questions to ask !  I really didn't have much option but to tell him to settle down here for a few days, so he's not alone. ( nothing was too much trouble for him when I was having my BMX and in treatment, so it's payback time I suppose ) Just hope we can get along in a reasonable way !!! 

Isabella. 

Isabella, your health system sounds worse than Canada!! Here, they take heart issues as priority #1. It couldn't have been a bad current ECG or they never would have let him go. I was held in the ER in January overnight due to my long QT syndrome and the ER doc pounded the fear of God into me to get to a cardiologist ASAP!!! So, maybe your DH now has good sinus rhythm and no skips or anything, but at least it was noted. I've heard that at an autopsy, the average person at 70 has had a variety of heart attacks, mostly in their sleep while they're lying flat and their heart is working too hard. That's why I have to take some of my heart meds at night. The ones that open up the arteries. Been on them for years!!!

I wonder what the docs will say when they see the report of his ECG. Didn't he have an anaesthetist consult too? 

I cannot believe that bloody nurse would even tell him and then let him walk out!!! What a dimwit!! That is such mental cruelty. Give your DH a hug from me. You are BOTH in my prayers now!!!

Wow!

At the zoo

You too?

its good to see you all.. and no, i've not been feeling well, so didn't tell anyone about my eye.. when i feel better, i'll fill ya all in.. had yet another mohs surgery today.. unexpected. went to have stitches removed, and had another one done.. they're getting red, and sore. so, she wants to get rid of them asap. this was just a biospy.. but she's so good with margins. 2 out of 3 she gets the margins right when she cuts for biopsy.. i have a "few" more, they're progressing to swuemous, from basal,, so she's doing more , and less "freezing" im more comfortablre knowing they're gone, too..

  I knew you were a SAINT isabella!!! it is sweet of you to take him in,, if he was good to you for the bmx, i understand why you're doing it.. ive had reports like that, also. have regular tias.. small strokes, they don't do anything for them, but watch you... same, with "little" heart attacks..

  one time, i was having a Tia, and knew it, my gp insisted i go to the stroke unit at the main hospital.. the cardio was peeved, asked me "why are you here" if you can speak, and stand up, there's nothing we can do for you.. our unit gives you drugs that make your brain bleed.. if you can talk, we would never use it on you... he insisted we drive to a smaller hospital, they kept me on a monitor, and let me out in 3 days... didn't even need pt that time!!!

   i know with my friend John, he does the same thing.. has had a bypass.. they don't do anything, if its a "small" one, but give aspirin, and "watch" him.. he's progressed to congestive now, but he really doesn't take care of himself.. i hope you get hold of a fdr. soon, but just keep him resting.. but DON'T wait on him!!!he was too nasty, beefore!!!  i think the world of you for taking him in, just like you do with the dogs, and it is the same thing, just don't let him get too comfortable.. i believe thats' what he wants.. "in" again for the long term!!!

 thinking of you all.. Barbara: i hope someone you meet at those presentations has the great idea of what you couuld do for THEM!!!...........3jays night.

Barbara, with a company of your size, do they have early retirement options? Someone may be anxious to fill your shoes...??

(((Barbara))))) I just don't understand the US health system. If you really need treatment it is free here. Doctor's visit cost varying amounts depending where you live and there is a small charge on prescriptions but if you are seriously ill the hospitals treat you no matter who you are. Yes it's difficult to get some electic surgery ( knees, hips etc) in the public system but it can be done.

Have DGD and DGS here today, this is the longest DD will have left the little one!!! All is quite at present DGD is watching her programmes and DGS is having his nap.  He was not happy when I put him down but it was only 5 minutes of screaming today. We will take them home and put them to bed there so they aren't disturbed when their parents get back.

DS and DGF arrive back from Guernsey this afternoon,they are home for a couple of weddings then head back to hand in their notice and come home permanently.

Big hugs

Barb, you might want to get an eval from a psychiatrist. They know how to prescibe the drugs you may need and to bring you to the level you may need. I take effexor and (according to my shrink when I was moving out here and looking for referrals) most pcp's will only porescribe up to 150 mg per day. That is actually only the entry threshold for efficacy. I was on 225 during depression. 

I hope you find help really soon and feel better soon too. I send you hugs and love sister. 

Love GInger

Marybe, what little machine is that for coumadin?, my friend needs something like that