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MarciKS said:
Hi Lara! Thankyou. I'm ok. My rib is almost completely healed. Been having trouble with the nerves in one of my thighs. Might be a pinched nerve in my hip. Not sure. Getting acupuncture on Tuesday. A little nervous about the needles but I need to do something cuz the pain is too much. I'm tired and hurting this evening.

Been trying to work on getting a resume made and getting a LinkedIn acct so I can look for something part time to do at home on the computer. Eventually the plan is to go full time and leave this crummy job. I don't think I'm gonna make it health wise till 69 in that joint. Almost 40 yrs in food service has slowly been tearing my body apart.

*Sips coffee & takes a bite of glazed cinnamon raisin bread & grins*

How are you?
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This is great news about your rib being healed! As far as the pinched nerve feeling in your thigh...I wonder if it's a varicose vein starting. If so it's possibly from all the standing you did at work. I'm no doctor but just my thoughts. If it's true then here is good information from a trusted source...the Mayo Clinic https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/varicose-veins/symptoms-causes/syc-20350643

I'm doing well...thank you for asking. I didn't have any symptoms from my covid shot except fatigue (slept 9 hours straight just after I got it).
I don't know if I did the right thing. There are so many conflicting reports. Oh well.
 
Lara said:
This is great news about your rib being healed! As far as the pinched nerve feeling in your thigh...I wonder if it's a varicose vein starting. If so it's possibly from all the standing you did at work. I'm no doctor but just my thoughts. If it's true then here is good information from a trusted source...the Mayo Clinic https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/varicose-veins/symptoms-causes/syc-20350643

I'm doing well...thank you for asking. I didn't have any symptoms from my covid shot except fatigue (slept 9 hours straight just after I got it).
I don't know if I did the right thing. There are so many conflicting reports. Oh well.
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Resting is exactly what you should've done.

There's nothing about numbness and nerve pain so I doubt it.
 

You know I spent probably around 2 months sleeping on one side only because of my rib. So I wonder if I haven't irritated the sciatic nerve from all that pressure and maybe that's why. I don't know. I'm sure the acupuncturist will be able to figure it out. I also think nearly 40 years on cement floors has been aggravating it all along and this was the last straw so to speak.
 
MarciKS said:
Later this evening I plan to give myself a haircut finally. I can't take it anymore. LOL!
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Are your hair salons still closed? They really put tight rules on them here and I go for the first appointment of the day. I’ve had a third to quarter of what I’d normally had. Poor gal had to deal with my pathetic hacking. I always feel human after leaving there.
 
I went by two different hair salons yesterday and they have both shut down completely. I was very close to cutting my hair... last night. lol
 
Jules said:
Are your hair salons still closed? They really put tight rules on them here and I go for the first appointment of the day. I’ve had a third to quarter of what I’d normally had. Poor gal had to deal with my pathetic hacking. I always feel human after leaving there.
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i don't know. i haven't gone to look. i just prefer to cut my own. i was doing it a little off and on pre-pandemic and then once we went into lockdown i bought the clippers. i watched a couple videos of dudes cutting their hair and some hairdressers cutting women's hair and some women doing their own pixie cuts and went to town. it looks much better than what some of the hairdressers do and i don't have to worry if they're gonna screw it up or not. they're afraid to cut it the length i want so might as well do my own. i get lots of compliments on it and people ask who does my hair. they're surprised when i say me.
 
PamfromTx said:
I went by two different hair salons yesterday and they have both shut down completely. I was very close to cutting my hair... last night. lol
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i like the clippers because even with long hair i can get a straighter cut. might be something to look into.
 
Also found this. I don't know as I agree with the entire article but this 5th point was good.

5. A change in our culture’s approach to illness.​

As the pandemic moves into its next phase, public health guidelines about when and where Americans have to mask up, how they can socialize and what they should know about travel are all changing.
The goal with all of these recommendations is to build more nuance back into our preventive strategies, so Americans continue to be vigilant in certain high-risk situations but ease up in others.

“One of the key strategies to controlling this pandemic is maintaining those infection prevention measures, particularly in high-risk settings,” Grein said. That means masking up, maintaining social distance and improving ventilation to the extent it’s possible in crowded indoor settings. But in outdoor — and now, most indoor — settings, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it’s OK for fully vaccinated Americans to pretty much drop the masks altogether.

Broader societal shifts will be equally important in bringing the pandemic to an end, though harder to track and measure.
“Thinking about infection control — hand-washing, not sharing drinks, etc. — will be important forever,” Bennett said.

“We will also need to change our behaviors and our employment-related expectations and regulations to support everyone to stay home when they are sick,” she added. “Currently many Americans have no sick time coverage ― if they stay home, they do not get paid. We push kids and college students to attend class when they are sick. This is untenable when we are trying to prevent transmission of an infectious disease.”
These measures and changes may not be able to stop the coronavirus altogether, but they should help Americans get back to a pretty normal life when layered on top of widespread vaccination.

“I think it is likely that this virus will be with us forever, or certainly the foreseeable future,” Bennett said, adding that it’ll probably become endemic and be similar to the flu. “However at this time, COVID-19 is considerably more severe than influenza — and we must get the transmission down to very low levels to return to our lives.”

Experts are still learning about COVID-19. The information in this story is what was known or available as of publication, but guidance can change as scientists discover more about the virus. Please check the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the most updated recommendations.

It's Not Just Vaccines. We Need These 5 Other Things To End The Pandemic. | HuffPost Life
 
MarciKS said:
“We will also need to change our behaviors and our employment-related expectations and regulations to support everyone to stay home when they are sick,” she added. “Currently many Americans have no sick time coverage ― if they stay home, they do not get paid. We push kids and college students to attend class when they are sick. This is untenable when we are trying to prevent transmission of an infectious disease.”
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I agree with this!
 
I think people just need to continue to be smart and be cautious because I personally believe that this virus is far from over. I don't actually see "post pandemic" anything in our future. JMO.

So I've been watching more YouTube videos on cutting my own hair. I've been having a little difficulty with the stuff around the ears and the back. But I found some videos to help with that. I think a pixie would be too short for me but I'd like to clean up some of what I got going on. It grows back so no biggie. LOL!
 

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