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I spent the entire day running errands on this gloomy, chilly, and windy day. First I went to the egg farm, and afterward I drove to the turkey farm, where I got turkey, beef, chicken, and a few other items. Then to the butcher for pork. Next, I went to the grocery store and the hardware store and stopped at the pharmacy. I came home, unpacked everything, and took out the trash.

I made a couple of phone calls. One was to a very old friend I haven't spoken to in a while. I called to wish him a happy birthday. His girlfriend answered, which is unusual. I thought something must be up, and sadly, I was right. The news was grim. She informed me that my friend had spent some time in the hospital due to a serious infection. She didn't go into detail except to say that it affected his intellect and that he was now suffering from dementia. They'd been told that when the infection cleared up, he'd be more like himself again, but that didn't happen, and now he's only growing worse. She said, “He might remember you.”

We've had a long history of great moments together, vacations, and a really close friendship. He wasn't there when I spoke to him. He had forgotten about my husband and me, his job, and the fact that it was his birthday. His children and girlfriend are both doing everything they can to support him, and I'm glad he has them to rely on. I'm incredibly sad and utterly heartbroken. I love that man.
 

Today I made 96 Rudolf the RedNosed Reindeer thingies out of candy canes for my greatgranddaughter's Christmas event.

After hot-gluing the googly eyes, red pom-pom noses, jingle bells, and pipe-cleaner antlers onto the 96 candy canes, I'm ready for the Witness Protection Program. I've just about burned off my fingerprints with the hot glue and the hot glue gun.

Ah, Christmas.......
 
David777 said:
In the future @NorthernLight, a key to not coming down with head colds is keeping one's head and neck warm at night by wearing something in close contact warm on one's head like a balaclava or a nightcap plus neck wrap. That is because head cold viruses replicate at highest rates at those lower temperatures. A key fact not well known the pharmaceutical industry would prefer to remain so. From an old medical link:

The optimal temperature for RV (rhinovirus) replication is 33-35C. ( 91F > 95F degrees peaking at 92F) RV does not efficiently replicate at body temperature. This may explain why RV replicates well in the nasal passages and upper tracheobronchial tree but less well in the lower respiratory tract. The incubation period is approximately 2-3 days..."
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"I in my kerchief and ma in her cap
had just settled down for a long winters nap."

They were smarter back then!
 

Thank you everyone for your replies. I woke up this morning (let me rephrase that, my tabby woke me at 5am waning food. she didn't get fed until 630. I'm not playing that) feeling significantly better. Went to work (stayed in the parking lot of coarse with a mask on) to do another covid rapid and found out the lab test was positive. So it is covid. With all my exposures at work, I finally got it. Makes me mad. That job is trying to kill me in more ways than one.

@Blessed Thank you! Good advice and I am alone. I don't know if it's unusual but when I'm sick I'm OK with being left alone. I do worry about the big picture though. Luckily I have food in the house and have been taking mucinex and tylenol. Probably always a good idea to have medications in the house. I'll go back to retest on Monday.
 
Remy said:
Thank you everyone for your replies. I woke up this morning (let me rephrase that, my tabby woke me at 5am waning food. she didn't get fed until 630. I'm not playing that) feeling significantly better. Went to work (stayed in the parking lot of coarse with a mask on) to do another covid rapid and found out the lab test was positive. So it is covid. With all my exposures at work, I finally got it. Makes me mad. That job is trying to kill me in more ways than one.

@Blessed Thank you! Good advice and I am alone. I don't know if it's unusual but when I'm sick I'm OK with being left alone. I do worry about the big picture though. Luckily I have food in the house and have been taking mucinex and tylenol. Probably always a good idea to have medications in the house. I'll go back to retest on Monday.
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Sorry you have Covid….TAKE CARE.
Get better soon.💐💐💐💐💐💐💐
 
Holy Toledo! Just got off the phone with my niece. She's recovering from brain surgery🙀Her first clue was that one eye was drooping and she would intermittently lose sight in it. When they did an MRI, discovered that there's more that was missed and affecting the other eye! Next surgery probably after Christmas. Fortunately, there's no cancer involved. During the summer, she got Covid along with everybody else in the household.

Niece can't drive until recovered from the next surgery so she had to let her DD get her driver's license...she's had a learner's permit for two years. Tonight she insisted on visiting a cousin in another town four miles away. Niece didn't want her driving, but the blizzard* is only going to dump 14" of sNOw instead of the 18" predicted so her DD said "It's not gonna be as bad as predicted" in her argument to be allowed to drive there. Niece relented because "I'm too tired to argue."

Through some screw-up, discovered that she doesn't have long-term disability through the job she's had for the past 10 years. Somebody dropped the ball. Niece has all the paperwork, company says nope! She belongs to the union, so they have stepped in and are working on it.

She had to go to the University of Minnesota for surgery...250 miles away. While the rest of the family was there, my brother was home dog-sitting. Dog had a routine. Routine disrupted. Brother went grocery shopping and was gone for two hours. Dog ate the sofa while bro was out:rolleyes::rolleyes:

Then the landlord decided to sell the house they'd been living in for at least 20 years and gave them 30 days' notice. I guess everybody wanted to get in on the real estate big bucks while they could...sorry Mr. Landlord! House is still unsold, and now interest rates are high and prices falling. He missed the money train.

While niece was desperately looking for a place to live, discovered that the admin asst in the public housing department in their town was somebody she'd gone to school with...et voilà!...a 3-bed/2-bath house with attached garage appeared. It helps to know people and have friends:)

Niece's DD can't get seasonal flu shot because it was discovered when she was just three that she's allergic to something in it. That time she was hospitalized and on steroids. She had seasonal flu already this year, just like she gets every year.

Lemmesee...other niece had a kidney removed recently because she had kidney cancer. One of those things that came with no warning and was discovered when she saw a doctor for something else. Eeeeek!

That niece's son was in an awful car wreck, and it was touch and go for weeks. When he finally came out of a coma, he was up and at 'em and out of the hospital in two weeks and is already back at work.

Another niece's husband was in a bad car wreck a few weeks ago. Fortunately not badly injured but car totaled.

The list goes on and on and on. I need to keep in better touch with my family!

The dog ate the sofa?

Niece still has her sense of humor. She said the sofa was a hand-me-down that she never liked, but it was free. Now she has a new sofa that she picked out herself and hopes the dog doesn't eat it.

Other than that, Mr. Lincoln, did you enjoy the play?

*blizzard...roaring wind, drifting and blowing heavy sNOw, as opposed to just a heavy sNOwfall
 
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I forgot to mention that the kidney cancer niece's DD, at the ripe old age of 19, had to have her gall bladder removed just a couple of weeks ago.

Maybe the whole family should be part of a case study of sudden disastrous family illnesses? Maybe include the sofa-eating dog?
 
Bella said:
I spent the entire day running errands on this gloomy, chilly, and windy day. First I went to the egg farm, and afterward I drove to the turkey farm, where I got turkey, beef, chicken, and a few other items. Then to the butcher for pork. Next, I went to the grocery store and the hardware store and stopped at the pharmacy. I came home, unpacked everything, and took out the trash.

I made a couple of phone calls. One was to a very old friend I haven't spoken to in a while. I called to wish him a happy birthday. His girlfriend answered, which is unusual. I thought something must be up, and sadly, I was right. The news was grim. She informed me that my friend had spent some time in the hospital due to a serious infection. She didn't go into detail except to say that it affected his intellect and that he was now suffering from dementia. They'd been told that when the infection cleared up, he'd be more like himself again, but that didn't happen, and now he's only growing worse. She said, “He might remember you.”

We've had a long history of great moments together, vacations, and a really close friendship. He wasn't there when I spoke to him. He had forgotten about my husband and me, his job, and the fact that it was his birthday. His children and girlfriend are both doing everything they can to support him, and I'm glad he has them to rely on. I'm incredibly sad and utterly heartbroken. I love that man.
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I'm so sorry for you @Bella. 🌹
 
Disgustingly awful wet and windy weather. Looks like a day indoors.

Went to the theatre yesterday and came away disappointed for once. The play was about a man who believed that he could see the future, including having foreseen the Covid pandemic. He was now convinced that he had foreseen catastrophe in the UK and tried to convince his girlfriend to contact a politician she had known at school, to help avoid the disaster.

Although a well acted play, with plenty of humour, it was (in our opinion) spoiled by a closing monologue about the dire situation the country is in.
Yes, we all know how bad things are, we get it rammed down our throats every day on the TV, in the press etc.. We went to the theatre to enjoy some entertainment and escape from reality for a while, NOT to be reminded of it.

Anyway, that's theatre visits over for this year, but I've already got 3 plays lined up for the new year.
 
It is darned cold here this morning! 25F in mid-November. OMG...that's a January morning, not November.

Another thing about phone conversation with niece yesterday. She kept saying, "but wait, it gets worse." One of the things she "just happened" to mention was that my brother had yet another stroke. What? It's turned into a kind of ho-hum thing up there! "But wait, it gets worse" is what she kept saying.

What was worse? She saved that part for very last...it was that the dog ate her sofa. Yup. She was laughing when she said it. According to her, she uttered the words "there's nothing else that can go wrong" and that's when she found out that the dog ate her sofa. See what I meant about still having a sense of humor?

I guess the moral of the story is not to say the magic words "there's nothing else that can go wrong"!

And my right hand hurts so much that I'm probably going to take some Tylenol. Don't much like taking pills except for script for HBP and cholesterol. It's my right hand; I'm left-handed. But it hurts. Can't grasp anything. If it doesn't stop, I'll probably go to urgent care at Kaiser after work. Don't do "doctoring" unless it's a UTI or my annual wellness check. Wellness check isn't until December 2, and the pain is bad enough that it won't wait that long.

Maybe Newbie is better and back at work. That would be a bonus.

I hope Maggiecat doesn't eat the sofa while I'm gone.
 
Going to the glass house this morning. Love to browse that shop but seldom buy as they are expensive. But worth the trip just to see their Christmas displays, get some ideas and hope that if I see something I like that it will still be there for their after the holiday sale.

This is what I got last year, marked down from $65 each to $40 each
 

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-Oy- said:
Another grey day forecast here.
Tai-chi class this morning - lunch out on the sea front I think - then we'll wing it :)
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Well - i’ve just come out of my Tai-chi class feeling chilled and uplifted, and the grey has gone and it’s quite a nice day! Sat in a cafe waiting for my smoked salmon and scrambled egg on toast then it’s a stroll down the jetty with my camera :)
 
Not going to take a rocket scientist to figure out what I’m doing every day, since our first dump of sNOw…..shovelling…..everyday 😕😒😟🌨🌨🌨🌨🌨🌨🌨🌨🌨🌨.
I was thinking it’s too early in the season to hire clearing my driveway…..$30 every time…..might change my mind.
I started the driveway this morning……will have to finish it…..not paying for half a driveway…..still would be $30.

This is why I wanted to downsize and sell as much as I could before winter……sNOw shovelling takes up far too much of my time.
And…….that’s my story.
 
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