Reflections of My Life

Sliverfox said:
Thank you.


I always thought hubby father had Alzheimer,, but am now being told it was Parkinson.
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I saw this on the website and see there may be a connection with the pesticides.

"Genetics, environment and aging interact to cause disease. Not everyone with a genetic mutation linked to Parkinson's will develop the disease. Similarly, not everyone exposed to a pesticide will be diagnosed. Research into these different triggers continues aggressively every day. The Michael J. Fox Foundation is funding programs to investigate the role of these three factors in the development of Parkinson's. Scientists are also looking at the biological changes (inflammation and cellular stress, for example) associated with these causes and their connections. Greater understanding of the causes of this disease can lead to treatments that would slow, stop or even prevent it." Michael J. Fox Foundation website
 

When I was young, I never thought about being 60 or 70. It seemed too faraway to think about. There are so many things about reaching those ages that I didn't see or understand. I exercised my whole life. Race walked at least three times a week. Sometimes more. I worked out with free weights and a few machines. Had a room in my house converted to an exercise room with mirrors on the wall. Plus belonged to a large racquetball club which had every kind of exercise you could think of there. I would spend hours there.

Now when I think of that time in my life I wonder what was I doing wrong? Why didn't it prevent the problem with my knees? Or is that what made them so bad as I got older? Even after my first divorce when I had to live with less money, I still did a lot of exercise. Still race walked. Ran up and down the bleachers at the local football field.

Now at age 70, is it possible to recover my body? Am I going to throw in the towel and just give up? Never! Nothing could make me do that. I have had quite a bit of stress recently and that is not good for your body either. So putting my worries aside, putting them in God's hands is what I have done. Now to get on with my life and improve. No matter how bad I might feel I will be walking daily and happily living the "keto lifestyle". Today I am going to add my dumbbell arm work-out to my day (Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday).
 
I understand your frustrations..

I ask myself the same questions Kat ( altho' fortunately not disabled with mine)... about my knees etc.. I sometimes think I must have caused the wear and tear( OA) through too much exercise...walking, and especially swimming which is supposed to be great for your body.

however I don't understand why I've got the OA in my hands. My mother never lived past her 30's so I have no way knowing if she would have got this in her older years.. but certainly not another person in my family had it.. not my grandparents either... so when this first started I was blindsided .. I kept thinking it couldn't get worse.. why would it, I was a fit person no-one else had it ..in my family... so I wasn't even remotely prepared for it... and here now at 68 I am in a lot of pain with it some days nd nights, not to mention the horrible look in my hands.., I'm really concerned what I may be like at 78
 
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Played Bingo yesterday and I won the first game and three more. They had lots of snacks and I just sipped my water. Do not feel tempted anymore and I am proud and happy to be past craving for sweets when they are put in front of me. I keep reminding myself how far I have come.

The lady who usually hosts the games is my friend who has PD (Parkinson's Disease). She had gone to the doctor and could not be there. But in the middle of the game, she came in. Said she has to see a surgeon (because she had fallen recently). After Bingo, later when I was watching television I saw the emergency squad come and take her out on the stretcher! I saw her look up at my window and I waved to her so she knew I saw her.

My aide, "Jaz" (that's her nickname) will be here today. I am making a list of things for her to do. Plus I have stuff in my storage locker that I took down there before the spraying of my apartment. So eager to get some of that back up here and put away.
 
katlupe said:
Played Bingo yesterday and I won the first game and three more. They had lots of snacks and I just sipped my water. Do not feel tempted anymore and I am proud and happy to be past craving for sweets when they are put in front of me. I keep reminding myself how far I have come.

The lady who usually hosts the games is my friend who has PD (Parkinson's Disease). She had gone to the doctor and could not be there. But in the middle of the game, she came in. Said she has to see a surgeon (because she had fallen recently). After Bingo, later when I was watching television I saw the emergency squad come and take her out on the stretcher! I saw her look up at my window and I waved to her so she knew I saw her.

My aide, "Jaz" (that's her nickname) will be here today. I am making a list of things for her to do. Plus I have stuff in my storage locker that I took down there before the spraying of my apartment. So eager to get some of that back up here and put away.
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Kat...your poor friend.. sadly this is unlikely given what I know about PD... ( my father had it ).. that she will fall and have to be taken to hospital. Michael Fox said just last week in an interview that he's broken just about every bone in his boy including his face by falling... . it would have been a comfort for her to know you saw that she'd been taken to hospital. Does she have family who will be able to contact the hospital to see how she's doing ?
 
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hollydolly said:
Kat...your poor friend.. sadly this is unlikely given what I know about PD... ( my father had it ).. that she will fall and have to be taken to hospital. Michael Fox said just last week in an interview that he's broken just about every bone in his boy including his face by falling... . it would have been a comfort for her to know you saw that she'd been taken to hospital. Does she have family who will be able t contact the hospital to see how she'd doing ?
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I saw that interview with Michael J. Fox too. I have been watching the videos put out by his foundation and am learning a lot. She has family, though her son lives in Oklahoma. Also lives with her boyfriend so he will be going to the hospital probably every day she is in.
 
Good news about my friend in the above posts. She went to the emergency room for an overdose of her meds. She accidentally took 3 doses of her meds. She has not been herself and lost track. They are in one of those pill things but it is for a week and she got mixed up. She was awake and fine but her boyfriend called the emergency squad. He was scared it would affect her if she went to sleep. They kept her at the hospital in the ER for 6 hours. Just watched her. Then let her go home. She came down to see me today to tell me about it. She was mad at her boyfriend but I told her he loves her and was just scared of what could happen. Thank God, she is okay.
 
Today, I FINALLY have a dental appointment to go to. It has been taking me a long time, especially since covid hit to get back there. Then I would have an appointment and Sonny was sick, his car was broke down or our elevator was not working and I would have to cancel it. Today, they are starting over on me. I don't know if it means more x-rays but it could. A cleaning, yet they are supposed to take out most of my teeth that are left. So my question is why do they have to clean them? Just yank those out!

Fire inspection today while I am gone. It would be okay except for Rabbit. They said to put your pets in a cage if you are not going to be here (so they don't attack the inspector or run out of your apartment). Not doing that. I told my maintenance man and he said not to worry about it. Rabbit will most likely hide. Especially if he hears the alarms going off. Luckily they aren't loud inside the apartment.
 
I got lucky yesterday........the fire inspection was cancelled and I didn't find out till I was leaving the building. So my bunny boy was safe and on his own all afternoon! One less thing for me to worry about.

I waited at the dental office until 4:41 for them to do my x-rays. I was there at 2:45 for my 3:00 appointment! After they did the x-rays I waited another 45 minutes for the dentist to talk to me about the x-rays and treatment I will be having. She gave me two appointments, one is July for a cleaning and one is Aug for extractions. This is the kind of thing that you want to do and look forward to but dread it too. There is nothing I hate more than dentists unless it is doctors but this has to be done. I am saying to myself this will be all done by Sept. Then to get decent dentures. If the insurance won't pay for decent ones, I will pay myself. I will know more about that later.

There was an incident in the dental office. Now this office is in the ghetto basically, or what I call the ghetto. The waiting room is full of people all on their phones (probably on fakebook). This guy is called back to the area where the dental work takes place (this place is full of cubicles of dentists and techs working on people.......looks like a factory of people). In about two minutes we hear his yelling and swearing.......he comes out screaming swear words! Then he goes outside and is out there yelling, the receptionist goes out and comes in and locks the door. She calls the police. Sonny was out there in the truck and he saw the police come but the guy had left. They stayed out there a long time in case he came back. I am saying to myself, "Yeah, I definitely did not move to Binghamton so I wouldn't have to deal with this kind of thing and here I am at an appointment and might get shot because a guy had a sore tooth." Well he never came back, thank God!
 
Well, I met my new neighbor. He lives across the hall from me. Is nice but seems really confused. He was knocking on my door yesterday wanting to know how to go outside using the ramp. He couldn't remember how to get to it and he had his bicycle with him. I told him to to take the elevator and he said he can't find it. It is right next to his apartment. I pointed to it and said that is the elevator. He looked doubtful. I told him to take it to LL and at the end of that hall there is a door and that is the ramp. After he left, I realized there is a door at the end of all the halls. I hope he found it.

Yesterday my bf, Sonny, had an MRI at the hospital (not here in Norwich). While he was having that done, someone stole his phone and $220. out of his clothing where he had to leave it. Didn't take his keys thankfully. He had his wallet with him. The police are working on it and Spectrum closed his contacts list down and set his phone so it goes automatically to his voice messages but you can't leave a message. I don't know how the police do it but they have it narrowed down to a particular area of the city where it was stolen.

One good thing about using a walker is that I have to use it to get wherever they take me. I always keep my purse inside the bag under the seat. They would have to steal my walker to get my stuff. And it is usually with me even if I was having an x-ray or whatever. In the dental office it was right next to the chair.
 
Kat, that's despicable about the theft of Sonny's money and phone... here at our hospitals we're given a locker to put our things into.. and a key to take with us into the MRI room or wherever we're being examined..

Thank god they didn't get his keys... The police can narrow it down as to where the phone is at any one time..because the signal pings off hundreds of different cellphone towers, and wherever the strongest signal is coming from, that's where the phone is...

I don't know if this works.. but you can try it..look here to try and track the phone..

https://www.celltrack.co.uk/?gad=1
 
hollydolly said:
Kat, that's despicable about the theft of Sonny's money and phone... here at our hospitals we're given a locker to put our things into.. and a key to take with us into the MRI room or wherever we're being examined..

Thank god they didn't get his keys... The police can narrow it down as to where the phone is at any one time..because the signal pings off hundreds of different cellphone towers, and wherever the strongest signal is coming from, that's where the phone is...

I don't know if this works.. but you can try it..look here to try and track the phone..

https://www.celltrack.co.uk/?gad=1
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I think a locked locker would be a good idea. Seems like they should have already had that in place. I can't believe he would be the first one this happened to. Makes me so mad.
 
katlupe said:
I think a locked locker would be a good idea. Seems like they should have already had that in place. I can't believe he would be the first one this happened to. Makes me so mad.
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You're right , he can't be the first one it's happened to, and it's not always a visitor to the hospital, its been found that often it's porters, nurses.. anyone who works in the hospital as well who are guilty of this, so the hopsitals brought this in to protect patients items... .

All our hospitals have lockers to put your stuff into.. on the Appointment letter it will state not to bring any valuables to the hospital... but of course watches, money, keys and phones are something we all mostly carry with us at all times. In the locker they go, along with clothing and shoes..
 
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You're right , he can't be the first one it's happened to, and it's not always a visitor to the hospital, its been found that often it's porters, nurses.. anyone who works in the hospital as well who are guilty of this, so the hopsitals brought this in to protect patients items... .

All our hospitals have lockers to put your stuff into.. on the Appointment letter it will state not to bring any valuables to the hospital... but of course watches, money, keys and phones are something we all mostly carry with us at all times. In the locker they go, along with clothing and shoes..
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I don't think it is a visitor. It is probably an employee who has access to that area.
 
katlupe said:
I don't think it is a visitor. It is probably an employee who has access to that area.
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I agree...but when I said visitor. I meant patients visiting the hospital who either was a chancer of was in that same changing area... but as you say it's more likely to have been an employee.. sickening as it is.

People tend the hospital because they're unwell and already stressed.. to steal from them is just the lowest of the low..
 
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I was sitting in a lab waiting room one time, and going into
my wallet to find insurance card, there was several $$$ bills in
the wallet, I noticed a man who was about to leave, stop, look
down at my wallet, then looked around the room, decided to
leave without stealing my money/wallet....i could tell just from
his eyes that he would have done it......:mad:
 
The police found the thief who stole Sonny's phone and money. He had $250 in cash in his pocket but she denies taking that. She was an employee, a custodian. The police got the phone back but the glass is cracked on it and the police are holding it as evidence. I wonder if she had done that before? He won't have a new phone till Tuesday because Spectrum would not sell him one until they can charge a credit card and he had cancelled them all when this happened. So waiting to get his new numbers and activated. So I won't hear from him till then. I emailed him and he answered back but he has trouble seeing to write on the computer or phone. So I will wait.
 
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The police found the thief who stole Sonny's phone and money. He had $250 in cash in his pocket but she denies taking that. She was an employee, a custodian. The police got the phone back but the glass is cracked on it and the police are holding it as evidence. I wonder if she had done that before? He won't have a new phone till Tuesday because Spectrum would not sell him one until they can charge a credit card and he had cancelled them all when this happened. So waiting to get his new numbers and activated. So I won't hear from him till then. I emailed him and he answered back but he has trouble seeing to write on the computer or phone. So I will wait.
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she was a what, Kat ?... custodian of what ?.... OMG.kudos to your police, ours wouldn't get out of bed for a theft like that !

I hope this means she will lose her job...
 

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