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StarSong said:
DH & I watched "This is Us" at the urging of friends. By that time it had already been on six years and was in the middle of its final season. We binged it on Netflix or wherever it was showing.

While I kind of liked it, by the end of the second season I was eager to be done with it already. For DH & me it was like an overlong book. 800 pages that would have been better at 350. Not as bad as "Lost" but...

To be fair, a lot of people loved every minute of "This is Us" so YMMV.
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Too much of a good thing, I guess.
 

Wet but at least warmer here. Expect DIL and grandson for a bit, dropping off some of his "gear." Long weekend, she and my son are going down to visit her parents and help deal with an outbuilding problem from the ice storm. I'll have the critter here for almost 3 days so I've already locked low cabinets and moved some breakables.
 
Happy to report that early yesterday morning the radiology report came through that my ribs are not fractured, just bruised. Not that it matters from a treatment perspective but it's sure good to know. Healing is apt to take several more weeks so I'll need to be patient.

Took toddler GS to Costco yesterday so he could get his bye-bye-in-the-car event. We have him most Mondays & Tuesdays, so today will be a child-free day. Hoping to knock a few things off my to-do list.
 

StarSong said:
Happy to report that early yesterday morning the radiology report came through that my ribs are not fractured, just bruised. Not that it matters from a treatment perspective but it's sure good to know. Healing is apt to take several more weeks so I'll need to be patient.

Took toddler GS to Costco yesterday so he could get his bye-bye-in-the-car event. We have him most Mondays & Tuesdays, so today will be a child-free day. Hoping to knock a few things off my to-do list.
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that must be some beauty of a bruise for it to be still painful for so long Star... I suspect you were surprised that it didn't show at least a fracture..but thank goodness it didn't..(y)
 
I know how it feels...I damaged my ribs and shoulder 3 years ago when I fell... It was horrendously painful for several months... could barely brush my hair , painful to breathe more than shallow breaths... disturbed sleep due to the pain and being able to sleep only on one side..etc.. so I feel for you Star... no fun especially as you have a very busy life to conduct as well
 
Paco Dennis said:
I need to decide if I am going to call the Dentist. One of my bottom front teeth might be infected and need to be pulled. It has been hurting for a few days. It has done this before, and fixed itself. This time it seems like there might be an infection. I do not like taking antibiotics being already prone to constipation. I put it off yesterday, but it is hurting some this morning. I don't know...maybe flip a coin? :)
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GET TO THE DENTIST! Yes, I'm shouting it. Infected gums can actually be detrimental to your heart. Not to mention, why continue to put up with pain!
 
OneEyedDiva said:
GET TO THE DENTIST! Yes, I'm shouting it. Infected gums can actually be detrimental to your heart. Not to mention, why continue to put up with pain!
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The pain was barely noticeable today. If I have this tooth pulled, the two others, right next to it, will go with it. I will have no front bottom teeth any more. I know I should just get it done. I probably will need some kind of "denture", which I can't afford...but maybe they have financing/no interest? I will check that. Tomorrow for sure if I wake up and it is hurting at all. This is a sooner or later thing. They are going to go if I don't first. :) Thanks for the shout out! :)
 
Paco Dennis said:
The pain was barely noticeable today. If I have this tooth pulled, the two others, right next to it, will go with it. I will have no front bottom teeth any more. I know I should just get it done. I probably will need some kind of "denture", which I can't afford...but maybe they have financing/no interest? I will check that. Tomorrow for sure if I wake up and it is hurting at all. This is a sooner or later thing. They are going to go if I don't first. :) Thanks for the shout out! :)
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you need to go..I read that too about infected teeth being bad for your heart...check it out, it's true. If you can't afford the dentures then go without for a while until you can..your health is far more important for now..
 
Paco Dennis said:
The pain was barely noticeable today. If I have this tooth pulled, the two others, right next to it, will go with it. I will have no front bottom teeth any more. I know I should just get it done. I probably will need some kind of "denture", which I can't afford...but maybe they have financing/no interest? I will check that. Tomorrow for sure if I wake up and it is hurting at all. This is a sooner or later thing. They are going to go if I don't first. :) Thanks for the shout out! :)
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Is there a dental school/college near you? When I was a kid my Mom to took us to dental school for our teeth. I don't know if it was free but if not, it must have been a nominal charge. There were four kids so that was a lot of teeth to take care off LOL!!
 
StarSong said:
Happy to report that early yesterday morning the radiology report came through that my ribs are not fractured, just bruised. Not that it matters from a treatment perspective but it's sure good to know. Healing is apt to take several more weeks so I'll need to be patient.

Took toddler GS to Costco yesterday so he could get his bye-bye-in-the-car event. We have him most Mondays & Tuesdays, so today will be a child-free day. Hoping to knock a few things off my to-do list.
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Sorry StarSong! I somehow bruised my ribs one time leaning over cleaning the bathtub. It was VERY painful!
It was so painful I went to the Dr. Nothing they could do. They checked for pleurisy just in case.
I'll never forget that so I feel for you.
 
StarSong said:
Happy to report that early yesterday morning the radiology report came through that my ribs are not fractured, just bruised. Not that it matters from a treatment perspective but it's sure good to know. Healing is apt to take several more weeks so I'll need to be patient.

Took toddler GS to Costco yesterday so he could get his bye-bye-in-the-car event. We have him most Mondays & Tuesdays, so today will be a child-free day. Hoping to knock a few things off my to-do list.
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Wait...what did I miss?! Ribs? I'm glad they are not fractured but what happened?

I hadn't finished my reply to Star, left the computer to do something. Didn't get back on because my cat messes with me if she's not contained. I wound up falling asleep before I got to post what I did yesterday! It's 4:40 a.m. so I'm not sure yet what the day holds for me except everyday stuff. But yesterday was productive. Here's what I did:

~Early in the morning, I got to do part of my exercising with my BFF while we were on the phone. I walked to a Leslie Sansone video.
~I danced a little in the kitchen while loading the dishwasher and later did 20 minutes
of the EZ Krunch for my abs.

~Sorted laundry.

~I went for my bone density scan today. I’m so glad my son was home in time to take me.
It was a rainy day but I would have taken an Uber anyway. Since the facility is in the same building as my PCP, I stopped in there to request a RX renewal for one of my meds and to schedule my next appointment.

~I made dinner (well sort of). For the first time in a long time, I actually used both NuWave cooktops at the same time as well as the microwave. I cooked green beans, Knorrs chicken-broccoli flavored rice and microwaved the Sukhi’s curry (comes frozen). I'll have enough to freeze a meal.

~After dinner, I gave Deja what my son calls a Pet-icure, with his help and a treat to bribe her. This time, she was incredibly still while my son held her. And for the first time I was able to do the claws on her hind legs.

~I continued my “mini binge” of Abbott Elementary. I’m so glad I decided to check out that show.
 
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I can't do it
Travelling with AccessARide is killing me. It's too much for me to leave my apartment anymore even if it means I can't see my grandson. The "ride" home a nightmare. I WAS SCREAMING, SCREAMING ON THE STREETS OF MANHATTAN. Screaming "no, you're not going to do this to me NO." And I "won". At what cost, at what cost to ME???????

What they put me through, in order to get home. I wish everyone involved with this mess would Drop Dead, but my wishes never come true. I'm having incredible chest pains and couldn't sleep all night. I don't care if I ever leave my home, the only place I'm safe.

But am I? Downstairs neighbor starting up again. She works from home now and thinks that means I shouldn't exist in the morning when she has her Zoom meetings. Leaving me notes, begging me to be "kind" to her as she works at home and can't be interrupted. Imagine that, she thinks the world must stop for her and what she wants, and she is involving me, a very combustible person

I'm feeling dangerous. A Xmas gift of a coffee mug with grandson's picture on it chipped yesterday morning as my hands shaking so bad I smacked it against sink and it chipped and though it is still usable, I don't want to even see it broken, it hurts to use.

I'm falling apart. Chanted a bit "om shanti om" and it helped a little.

Tired of being old, useless, dependent. I'm sick of existing this way, no pleasure allowed.

I'm having a nervous breakdown. I'm too angry to live. I can't take it and I can't stand these feelings of unsafety, of dependency. It's only going to get worse as time goes on. What next, cancer, dementia, being hit by a car like my mother?

How does it end? How do I not die screaming and cursing?
 
@Pepper I understand about the dependency stuff. I hate it, but what's the problem with the neighbor? Geez. Be kind to her? WTH is that supposed to mean? Did she mention specifics? How much noise can one little old lady make? It is okay to speak up in no uncertain terms when somebody else tries to make their problem yours.

Ugh. A day off means I get to sleep later, right? Not today. I love Maggiecat, but when I have a day off, why doesn't she a day off, too?

It's pouring rain and has been since about 8 last night. Warm, though, at 63, and I even turned the heat off before going to bed last night.

I'm gonna do some laundry and vacuum this morning, along with the usual tidying up.
 
You are allowed, if the ride is 30 minutes late, to get a number, call a private cab, get reimbursed. But with their new app, they keep lying and changing the time one is waiting, and waiting and waiting by saying it's a minute away, or around the corner. They sent this old tub of a short bus, with no shocks, when I always get a car. Then, after arriving, I demanded to know if someone else was being picked up and where they are going. Well! After waiting well past the time alloted to them, they wanted to take me all around the mulberry bush.

I wouldn't allow bus to leave without knowing exactly what kind of trip were they taking me on in the middle of the night-for me. I demanded a cab which I would pay for and they, by law reimburse. Driver extremely upset as he would be reported for me taking cab. Agreed, by calling his supervisor, to take me, only me, home immediately, which took 2 hours as this short bus not allowed on parkways or other roads. I WAS SCREAMING, I WAS WILLING TO DIE RATHER THAN THIS. THEY RUINED MY WHOLE DAY WITH MY GRANDSON, ENDING IT THIS WAY WITH ME DEMANDING MY RIGHTS. So, not only very late to arrive, but because of the vehicle, took over double the time.

Plus I had to fight for it, fight fight fight. God only knows when I would've gotten home if I didn't. It comes at a great cost to me, my "well being"

A month or so ago, I was assaulted by another passenger. Nothing is being done, Nothing.
 
Pepper said:
You are allowed, if the ride is 30 minutes late, to get a number, call a private cab, get reimbursed. But with their new app, they keep lying and changing the time one is waiting, and waiting and waiting by saying it's a minute away, or around the corner. They sent this old tub of a short bus, with no shocks, when I always get a car. Then, after arriving, I demanded to know if someone else was being picked up and where they are going. Well! After waiting well past the time alloted to them, they wanted to take me all around the mulberry bush.

I wouldn't allow bus to leave without knowing exactly what kind of trip were they taking me on in the middle of the night-for me. I demanded a cab which I would pay for and they, by law reimburse. Driver extremely upset as he would be reported for me taking cab. Agreed, by calling his supervisor, to take me, only me, home immediately, which took 2 hours as this short bus not allowed on parkways or other roads. I WAS SCREAMING, I WAS WILLING TO DIE RATHER THAN THIS. THEY RUINED MY WHOLE DAY WITH MY GRANDSON, ENDING IT THIS WAY WITH ME DEMANDING MY RIGHTS. So, not only very late to arrive, but because of the vehicle, took over double the time. Plus I had to fight for it, fight fight fight.

A month or so ago, I was assaulted by another passenger. Nothing is being done, Nothing.
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That is horrible that you have to go through so much stress. I would not want to get in their vehicle either. Or ride with strangers unless I chose to do so.
 
Pepper said:
I can't do it
Travelling with AccessARide is killing me. It's too much for me to leave my apartment anymore even if it means I can't see my grandson. The "ride" home a nightmare. I WAS SCREAMING, SCREAMING ON THE STREETS OF MANHATTAN. Screaming "no, you're not going to do this to me NO." And I "won". At what cost, at what cost to ME???????

What they put me through, in order to get home. I wish everyone involved with this mess would Drop Dead, but my wishes never come true. I'm having incredible chest pains and couldn't sleep all night. I don't care if I ever leave my home, the only place I'm safe.

But am I? Downstairs neighbor starting up again. She works from home now and thinks that means I shouldn't exist in the morning when she has her Zoom meetings. Leaving me notes, begging me to be "kind" to her as she works at home and can't be interrupted. Imagine that, she thinks the world must stop for her and what she wants, and she is involving me, a very combustible person

I'm feeling dangerous. A Xmas gift of a coffee mug with grandson's picture on it chipped yesterday morning as my hands shaking so bad I smacked it against sink and it chipped and though it is still usable, I don't want to even see it broken, it hurts to use.

I'm falling apart. Chanted a bit "om shanti om" and it helped a little.

Tired of being old, useless, dependent. I'm sick of existing this way, no pleasure allowed.

I'm having a nervous breakdown. I'm too angry to live. I can't take it and I can't stand these feelings of unsafety, of dependency. It's only going to get worse as time goes on. What next, cancer, dementia, being hit by a car like my mother?

How does it end? How do I not die screaming and cursing?
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I'm sorry you chipped your mug. 😔 I feel that was the last straw as much as the any of the other madness.
 
Pepper said:
You are allowed, if the ride is 30 minutes late, to get a number, call a private cab, get reimbursed. But with their new app, they keep lying and changing the time one is waiting, and waiting and waiting by saying it's a minute away, or around the corner. They sent this old tub of a short bus, with no shocks, when I always get a car. Then, after arriving, I demanded to know if someone else was being picked up and where they are going. Well! After waiting well past the time alloted to them, they wanted to take me all around the mulberry bush.

I wouldn't allow bus to leave without knowing exactly what kind of trip were they taking me on in the middle of the night-for me. I demanded a cab which I would pay for and they, by law reimburse. Driver extremely upset as he would be reported for me taking cab. Agreed, by calling his supervisor, to take me, only me, home immediately, which took 2 hours as this short bus not allowed on parkways or other roads. I WAS SCREAMING, I WAS WILLING TO DIE RATHER THAN THIS. THEY RUINED MY WHOLE DAY WITH MY GRANDSON, ENDING IT THIS WAY WITH ME DEMANDING MY RIGHTS. So, not only very late to arrive, but because of the vehicle, took over double the time.

Plus I had to fight for it, fight fight fight. God only knows when I would've gotten home if I didn't. It comes at a great cost to me, my "well being"

A month or so ago, I was assaulted by another passenger. Nothing is being done, Nothing.
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@Pepper maybe this is a dumb question but is Uber an option?
 
Lots going on yesterday and today:

Got my car scheduled to have the torque converter on my transmission replaced

Trips to Walmart and two grocery stores. In the market for a smaller rug cleaner to do heavy traffic areas between professional cleanings

Today— cooking and storing up a storm: cornmeal/blueberry pancakes cooked and frozen. Two kinds of soup divided into containers and in the freezer. Chicken stock and salsa I had frozen in silicone freezer trays put up in ziplocks. Etc etc etc

Have a book club meeting today at 4pm. I didn’t read the book (kind of a suspense genre, which I’m not big on) but I will go and listen to others thoughts.

And I will visit Ed, as we continue reading good books. We’re currently on “Hatchet” by Gary Paulsen
 

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