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[chickisoup]

Well,,,,,, it's off to the clinic, whoopee. Seems the stress of the surgery has caused a shingles outbreak, again, sigh
Yep, had the shingles vaccine after the first outbreak and again after the second. Vaccine doesn't work for me. For those unaware, the shingles vaccine does not always prevent an outbreak but it will help to make any subsequent outbreaks milder. Oh, and yes, some can, and will, get shingles more than once. uncommon, but it happens. See? Always knew I was "special". Just not the definition I was hoping for Since this will be my 4th round, I'm fairly comfortable that is at least one of my problems. (The physical stress from the surgery most likely triggered it this time) I'm not sure the bumpy itchy happening around my pokey holes on my stomach may or may not be the same. I really don't care as long as they can give me something that will control the itching!! Later fellow croakers

 

[perchie.girl]

Thank God For the Pond and threads like this....

This morning with grandma....
Grandma Hollering down the hall
"ARE YOU UP?"
Me in Bed with my Cpap mask
"Mfthey... NO"
"AAre you up"
Ripping the mask off
"NO"
"Are you UP" shes walking into the other room
I scream .... "I AM NOW."
We meet in the hall and she asks
"Should I get dressed"
I say "YES"
She looked at me and ....
"Your wearing .... um"
"PJs Grandma"
"Yes..."
She goes back in her room and I have the next ten minutes to myself....
Bathroom.
Change clothes
Dole out pills
set out breakfast tray
Make Corn flakes
Take MY pills
Test my Blood Glucose and write it in the log
Answer a few emails
And then...

Grandma
"I SEE Breakfast"
Light goes on in the living room
TV comes on.

Whew I didnt have to Tell her how to turn the TV on today ....

Now I can go GEt COFFEE and power down a Breakfast bowl... I can only leave her now for about half hour... Shes Going to be 103 in July.



deb

 

[bobbi-j]

Thank God For the Pond and threads like this....

This morning with grandma....
Grandma Hollering down the hall
"ARE YOU UP?"
Me in Bed with my Cpap mask
"Mfthey... NO"
"AAre you up"
Ripping the mask off
"NO"
"Are you UP" shes walking into the other room
I scream .... "I AM NOW."
We meet in the hall and she asks
"Should I get dressed"
I say "YES"
She looked at me and ....
"Your wearing .... um"
"PJs Grandma"
"Yes..."
She goes back in her room and I have the next ten minutes to myself....
Bathroom.
Change clothes
Dole out pills
set out breakfast tray
Make Corn flakes
Take MY pills
Test my Blood Glucose and write it in the log
Answer a few emails
And then...

Grandma
"I SEE Breakfast"
Light goes on in the living room
TV comes on.

Whew I didnt have to Tell her how to turn the TV on today ....

Now I can go GEt COFFEE and power down a Breakfast bowl... I can only leave her now for about half hour... Shes Going to be 103 in July.



deb

What day do in July?

 

[sourland]

@chickisoup, Hope by the time you read this that you are no longer itching.

 

[room onthebroom]

Chicki ….

Perchie…. You are a good woman! Tired & sleep deprived probably, but one of the good ones.

 

[Alaskan]

A rude awakening here this morning. .
I have a puncture wound right under my eyebrow from a big fat cat bouncing off of my face.

ARG!!!! Glad it didn't get your eye. Do be VERY careful to watch for infection. Puncture wounds like getting nasty infections.

Morning Ponders

So true! My clothes still fit... BUT DANG ALL I keep inching up on my weight.

 

[Alaskan]

Well,,,,,, it's off to the clinic, whoopee. Seems the stress of the surgery has caused a shingles outbreak, again, sigh
Yep, had the shingles vaccine after the first outbreak and again after the second. Vaccine doesn't work for me. For those unaware, the shingles vaccine does not always prevent an outbreak but it will help to make any subsequent outbreaks milder. Oh, and yes, some can, and will, get shingles more than once. uncommon, but it happens. See? Always knew I was "special". Just not the definition I was hoping for Since this will be my 4th round, I'm fairly comfortable that is at least one of my problems. (The physical stress from the surgery most likely triggered it this time) I'm not sure the bumpy itchy happening around my pokey holes on my stomach may or may not be the same. I really don't care as long as they can give me something that will control the itching!! Later fellow croakers

That is terrible!!!

 

[drumstick diva]

chicki did you have the new, improved shingrix(shingles) shot) supposed to be 89% effective. Have to have two shots within a certain period.

My brother had shingles twice but, he is diabetic and other established health problems so who knows. He has since had both shingrix as have I.

 

[room onthebroom]

My mother has permanent nerve damage from her shingles. I hear the key is to get the antibiotics IMMEDIATELY & take them religiously (neither of which my mother did.)

I cant believe how squeezed into my normal clothes I am. I'm trying to behave, but today I had two pita breads with avocado & I'm pretty sure I exceed my caloric intake for the day.

 

[Pyxis]

On the topic of global warming, does anyone here know about scale trees? Here is a very good article about them, but I will also do a shorter explanation here. Scale trees arose during the Carboniferous period, so named because of all the carbon in the atmosphere. This carbon made the planet hot, and the planet was dominated by huge swamps. It was in this place that the scale trees grew.

They weren't really trees, since actual trees hadn't evolved yet. They were lycopsids, and today their closest relatives would be quillworts.

These plants were big, and could reach 100 feet tall. They were very common, and weren't bothered by overcrowding, and grew nestled right into each other.

These giant plants were tying up a ton of carbon in their tissues. And fungus of the time had not yet evolved to be able to digest these plants when they eventually died. So the trees pulled massive amounts of CO2 out of the atmosphere and contained it within themselves, and since no fungus had evolved to break them back down, the fallen trees weren't decomposing, and were keeping the carbon tied up.

The scale trees pulled so much carbon out of the atmosphere, they started to change the climate and make it more and more seasonal - and this actually very potentially brought about their own demise. By the end of the Carboniferous, the Earth plummeted into an ice age, and the scale trees went extinct.

And all the dead trees that couldn't be broken down turned into coal and other fossil fuels over the millennia. And now we are burning it, and releasing all that carbon back into the atmosphere - and we are changing the climate in the exact opposite way that the scale trees did, by now releasing all the carbon that they tied up. So in a way, with our help, the scale trees are changing the climate once again.