Spirited and Lively Older Women Thread

Isabella, you need someone to advocate for you...is there anyone that can do that??

Oh Isabella!!! I FEEL your pain and frustration!!! In the middle of all MY crap - yes, they did the pacemaker while I was awake!!! just frozen and YES you can see the outline on my boney chest - my insurance cut my payment in HALF!! I won't be able to cover my mortgage!!! I cried on the phone like a baby yesterday and spent the morning faxing things to another province. Hurt to bend down to hook-up the fax line and all and I was a basket case to say the least!! So, yes, I do know how you feel!! Why is EVERYTHING such a battle???? And when we're at our lowest? At it's not that we can't handle things BECAUSE we are low, these are EXTREME things....I mean, seriously? CANCEL a back surgery??????? Cut PAYMENTS in half??? Come on life!!! Cut us some slack!!

Marybe, I guess they lower your heart beat so your heart doesn't have to work so hard, but it must be EXHAUSTING for you!! I mean, seriously??? I got a pacemaker to RAISE my heart beat!! 

Remember how I was looking all over in FLorida for a snow cone.  Well, these things are not exactly the same, more like flavored shaved ice, but they have these portable stands set up in a lot of shopping malls here.   Great on a hot day.

Barbe I am sorry to hear you are having insurance trouble. I am puzzled though since you live in Canada. I thought your national health insurance covered your needs. A pace maker is only for serious problems and it seems like a real debacle for them to cut payments on life saving measures.   I sure hope you can get some relief, by half, that would be a huge difference wouldn't it? 

 Isabella, I am so sorry to hear about Kitty. I have dogs that will always have a piece of my heart too, especially my Scruffy and Ernie. 

The surgeons office cancelling you is freaking outrageous!!!!! Do you have a newspaper column that helps people who are being treated poorly? Perhaps something like that would help. Or maybe driving a tractor into the waiting room would get their attention.  You have too much to do and don't deserve to be living in the pain I know you must suffer.  

Prayers for all today.

Love Ginger 

Ginger that is great..love the tractor idea

Hey, I like the idea of driving a tractor up to the hospital !! But NOT the newspaper thing....I am a very private person, and wouldn't want the whole locality to know my business. I haven't even let it be known in my village that I have bc ! Managed to keep that to myself for 9 years now. Don't like to be the centre of attention.

Having a day out today...everything has come down on top of me...hospitals , doctors, sorting out painkillers, so am off to a big shopping centre ON MY OWN  to take my mind off everything.

 Was at hospital most of yesterday with DH, went as his driver, as I have a priority parking card, but went in with him as I didn't want to sit outside in the car for hours. He had a 5 hour appointment , pre-op thing, for an operation on his shoulder...was prancing about from department to department with him. I had to give in after an hour and go and plonk myself in the coffee shop 'til he was done. This is the best bit...HE suggested we go and get a meal when he had finished...and I PAID for it...typical !! That's all the thanks I got !! Was all in last night and had a real good nights sleep !

Isabella.

Isabella, I thought of you while watching a recap of the olympics opening ceremonies when the tribute to the British health care system came on and wondered if you'd seen it.  And yes, I know that you like to stay in the background and be unobtrusive, but now may be the time for you to make some waves!  Big, crashing ones!

Several hours last night were rather miserable ones for me--the power suddenly went off a little after midnight on a beautiful, cloudless, full moon night!  This ordinarily wouldn't be a problem but it's dreadful for people like me who use a c-pap machine for severe sleep apnea.   I was diagnosed about 8 years ago and haven't missed a night with the machine since, so now I literally cannot sleep without it.  So, I got up, felt my way into the living room, and sat in a chair, sleepless, until the power finally came back on 3 hours later!  This convinced me that I have to rig up a battery backup for my machine.  Today was our day to keep DGS and Me-Ma just wasn't up to par!

Love and hugs to all, Kathy

Kathy, Have you notified the power company that you have an electrical medical device? My niece does home dialysis on her husband and they get priority to have electricity fixed. She still wants to have generator backup, however.

i wat to jump in, and thank you all for your prayers, and good thoughts. things aren't clearing up here, at all, just get worse news everywhere i go.. so, im in hading for a bit...

  being still, and in the house for the most part, HAS allowed e to figure out the bsugar thing.. no one knows why, its 112 at 2hrs after dinner, shoots up to high 200's while fasting round 3 m!!

 im now taking it at 1100 and at 3 am.. weird..

  ive tried a couple of neurologists to help me figure out whats going on, but they all say "whaddya want.. its late stage ms.. your wlKING, AT LEAST.. GEE, THANKS...

  MARYBE'S RIGHT, I THINK THIS IS WHATS GONNA GET E IN THE END, BUT NOT TODAY...sorry my hands are shit, too, nthings working right..

  so, im just laying around, reading.. can't sit for long. my bottom is so sore. they did find two swollen ovaries with the us; but he doesn't want to attempt surgery till i get better.. that doesn't seem to be happenning, so maybe they're the problem..

  if im still in alot of pain, i'll call and see him next week, and 'discuss".. we're both scared i'll end up with mrsa again, if i do surgery.. but THAT they can still treat!!!

  im off for now, can't sit long.. wanted to just thank you all for your prayers, and good vibes.. i need each and everyone right now..

  miss you all, think of you ofen... 3jays

Love, (((HUGS))) and mst important, prayers 3jays.

So sorry things aren't better yet, 3jays, but it's still so good to hear from you.  Sending prayers and love!

Kathy

3Jays, 

I hope today finds you feeling better. I want to tell you about a problem my friend ran into just in case to could help you.   She was having a lot of trouble with her blood sugar being all over the place. It turned out her meter was malfunctioning, it caused her real serious problems until they figured it out.  

Hugs to you

Ginger 

Glad to hear thar Marybe.  My posting has been spotty the last few week but I still read My Favorites every day, especially Red Devil!

Hi over here!  Happy to see some posts here!

ginger 

Hey there Ginger and Alyson,  Glad to see some more friends popping in.  Hope everyone is having more good days than bad days.   Off to get rid of this endless headache and away from all these mosquitos!