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Spent an hour and a half in the garage digging through junk (even by my standards). I may have to have a cleanout service for the attic and garage. Just pulled out some rusty garden tools and some galvanized pails.

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Wish i was close to you......would love to get the 2 pails and wash tub.......can you ship to me. ;):D:D:D:D:D:D
 

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Had a very strange doctor's visit yesterday. Since my last visit I'd lost 7 pounds, putting my current BMI at 21.8. After greeting me, my somewhat chubby doctor looked at my chart and said, "Wow. Your weight is amazing. How do you do that?" So I'm thinking this visit is off to a pretty start. Not so.

When I get home, I read that part of the after visit summary where the computer automatically comments on vital statistics - this genius computer says my ideal body weight is a BMI of 20.0, seven pound lower still. 20.0??? Where do they get these numbers? I'd look like a skinny, wrinkled old apple.

OK, not a big deal, just weird. Here's the weirder, much bigger deal.

Over the holidays I caught Covid and had a persistent deep cough and some shortness of breath for a few months (resolved now). Mid February I had a chest X-ray to rule out any permanent damage, specifically "Covid lung." The email results he sent me a couple of days later was as follows:
"I am pleased to inform you that your recent chest x-ray showed no significant findings in the lungs that would cause your cough. The only finding was some degenerative disk disease in your spine."
Good news, right?

Yesterday this same doctor says that the X-ray picked up atherosclerosis of the aorta with calcifications present. (WHAT?) He tells me that little can be done, just watch my cholesterol intake (umm... I'm already a vegan, as we discussed five minutes ago when you complimented my weight.) and take my meds (which I do, religiously).

As you can imagine, this was very distressing news. However, I remained calm and figured I'd pick the brain of my younger sister and her cardiology buddies (she works at a cardiac hospital).

When I got home I went through my medical records, including the radiologist report from that X-ray, and am beating myself up for not noticing this diagnosis back in Feb. Thank heavens I'd requested a copy of the report.

I recheck the radiology report, which says nothing about my heart or aorta. The findings state:

PA and lateral views of the chest were obtained. The soft tissues, diaphragm and cardiomediastinal silhouette are normal. The lungs and
pleural spaces are clear. There is mild disk space narrowing with small osteophytes in the lower thoracic spine.

Nothing about my heart other than that its silhouette is normal.

My guess is that the doctor misread this report yesterday, seeing "aortic" instead of "thoracic" and interpreting "osteophytes" as calcification. I sent him an email gently asking, WHAT THE HELL? Am waiting for a reply. While I'm not 100% sure that he misinterpreted the findings yesterday, I can find no smoking gun that would lead to a diagnosis of aortic atherosclerosis.

Sheesh! We all have to be our own doctors, don't we?
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That is totally unthinkable. What a scare that must have been and is.
 
an update on my morning post,when I got to Canopy of Neighbors,called 3 times trying to get in,no luck. When I got home,Wendy called me on her cell saying the office had no phone/internet service.I called CON members from home
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Wrote my grandson an Email. Then wrote to his mom and two other friends. Wrote a paragraph or two on my book.Then hung out on a writers' forum page before hanging out here. So now I'm going to see what's going on with the games and get off 'cause my eyes, hands and backside ache. ( Not necessarily in that order):sneaky::giggle:
 
I've just cleared the caches from Firefox and Chrome...

Got all the usual chores done this morning, but it's rained off and on all day so far... 10 minutes heavy rain, 1/2 hour sun... on repeat.. typical British weather, it just means you have to take your chances when you go out and always take a brolly with you..

I'm not going out today however, as I have to be at the hospital tomorrow for some bloods.., I'll be meeting up with my friend Jen , and we're going down to my boat to just tidy it up again of blown leaves etc, where it's been moored now for almost 2 years because of the pandemic.. , and we'll be arranging to have it craned out of the mooring to have the Hull Blacked, in prep for it sitting all winter again...
 
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Hubby and I will take a swim after he gets up, then I'll pick some tomatoes before it gets too hot, then putter around and do some housework.

We've got a long stretch of warm weather in front of us - the next two weeks are forecast to remain in the mid-high 90s with low humidity, slight breeze and virtually zero chance of rain. Typical August weather. Right now I've got fans bringing in cool air. Will shut them down and close up the house when outdoor temps reach the high 70s.

Had the dryer fixed two days ago and a new fridge delivered yesterday. I seem to be in an appliance rut.
 
Waiting for my wife in the hospital parking lot, and everything was just fine until a truck with a loud muffler pulled in beside my car and now he's just sitting there with his engine running, stinking up the parking lot. It's a good thing I don't have my gun.
 
I greased all the fittings on my pickup truck today. Then, I pulled the rear tires and brake drums, and cleaned the built up dust out of them...I have been getting some brake noise lately. There seems to be plenty of brake lining left, so hopefully just cleaning them good will get rid of the occasional squeaks. Now, it dawns on me that I'm getting too old for this kind of work...will probably have to take an Aleve pill after supper.
 
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My day didn't go as planned at all. I was going to sit out on my newly cleaned patio after I made my prayer (which was late...after sunrise), It was nice and cool and quiet. I also planned to clean my floors and attack my dresser (yes I said attack!) I decided to check the weather report. Lo and behold, it's supposed to storm tomorrow and that's the day I was intending to go food shopping. So I walked over today instead...about 8:15 a.m. There were only two other customers there. I love it when it's empty like that and try to plan going at times it will be. By the time I got home, rearranged the freezer so I could fit everything and disinfected the items to be refrigerated it had gotten too warm to sit out. I put more items in the dishwasher and ran that.

Then I made the mistake of getting online. I read and sent some emails and came to Senior Forum. I get trapped when I go to my social networking sites! I got a call from my son in the midst of my entrapment telling me he wanted to come over and transfer that bass track I re-recorded. Well I had practiced it, but had not recorded it yet, so I had to get that done, which involves taking several listens, more practices and trying my best to get it perfect. When he got here we spent some time listening to and adjusting volume levels of my new bass for the bridge part so it coincides with the original bass line. Thank goodness we are both pleased with how it came out. I managed to watch a little T.V. today as well and when I get off this computer, I'm going to finish watching the latest episode of Evil.
 
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Looking after my 10 year old granddaughter today while her mother goes to work, which was cut from 5 to 2 days per week. Luckily, the federal government has provided $650 a week for anyone who has dropped hours to keep people going. Another 4 week lockdown announced yesterday and home schooling continues for kids. Will go for a bush walk after lunch, luckily we are still allowed to exercise but otherwise locked up at home and only allowed out for food or chemist needs. People (including relatives) are not allowed to visit each others households, so we are technically breaking the rules, but I don't care. Everyone I know has had a test but I don't feel sick so haven't bothered.
 
I helped my husband replace a ceiling fan in our bedroom. Since it was over our king sized bed, it was tricky, he had to stand on the bed to do it. It took a few hours, but it's done now and behind us. No electrical shocks or broken bones. ;)
 

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