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Been a long day today... 3 meetings in total today. I seem to be in my car driving to somewhere else all day today , and paying parking charges all day as well..

It was really very cold as well.. I wore my coat .. and I was warm enough.. but when I was sitting at some traffic lights in the car, I watched this 40 something tattooed guy and his lady dressed in gym gear, (leggings, short, sweatshirt) come out ,and the look of shock on his face when he hit the cold, he exclaimed so loudly , that I could read his lips that he was saying how freezing he was to his lady.. who had the sense to have a coat on..🥶...

Tonight there's fireworks going off early as usual for fireworks night ( 5th November)... It's racing towards 10pm and people just start randomly letting these off in suburban streets.. and it frightens the animals....It's bad enough on Guy Fawkes night.. but some people will use any excuse to set these super loud fireworks off for days before and after the 5th ...
 

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I'll spread my sunshine with what i did today. 😒😒😒😒😒.
Turned the living room tv on at 6:30 this morning as usual.......apparently it DIED sometime through the nite....the nerve.
So....
Played musical chairs with tv's.
I moved the one in my bedroom to the living room.......the one from downstairs to my bedroom.....the one that died, out the door.....neighbour will take it to the tv cemetary......was too much heavy moving and lifting for me, but, gotta do what you have to do......tired and sore.
The one from the bedroom is 4" smaller than the other one which was 42".......can't get over how much smaller it looks.
Might invest in a larger one.
 
Alligatorob said:
Headed to the gym this morning, one last workout before hand surgery tomorrow. It may be a while before I can go again.

The rest of the day will be mostly getting ready for the surgery. Just an elective surgery, nothing life threatening. Hopefully I'll get relatively pain free use of my hand back.

LRTI (Ligament Reconstruction and Tendon Interposition) https://www.schimizzimd.com/lrti-li...and-wrist-elbow-surgeon-frisco-dallas-tx.html
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GOOD LUCK with surgery.
 
PamfromTx said:
I'm not in the mood to cook! I am so anxious about tomorrow's 6 month visit with the Oncologist.

That's just how I get when I go see this particular doctor. All the cancer patients make me terribly sad.

So, I'm hiding in the walk-in closet; hubby will think I'm out but I'm actually at home. 😚
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I sure hope you get only good news at the oncologist tomorrow. Are you going by yourself?
 
Today, I was really worried about my dog, Aidan. He was sharply and loudly yelping from time to time, and his front legs were a bit stiff when he walked. Oddly, the yelping didn't occur when he was running to look out the window to see if barking was warranted, or leaping onto furniture, etc. I thought maybe he had Lyme disease. He's vaccinated, but the vaccine is only effective 60% of the time.

So my daughter had to take him to the emergency vet again (I think this is time #5 since July). He has injured his back, and was in a lot of pain. The vet sent him home with muscle relaxers and pain pills. They are effective, as he is lying down and is very, very calm. For once, my daughter saw one of the two vets I trust in the practice.

The last 3 visits, one vet checked his teeth and marveled over what good shape they were in for his age, and said they did not need to be cleaned. The second vet said he had sheared off his molars and they would have to be removed. The third time Aidan was at the vet, I told my daughter to ask him to look at the molars. #3 said they were fine, just worn down a bit because of his age (nearly 11). This is why I only trust 2 of the vets. In 12 years, neither of them has done anything but be the poster women for great veterinary care.

There must be shortage of vets here because another one I know is opening a second practice and hiring a vet to run it. She is overloaded with patients, and can't take any more. At our vet, no can get an appointment very speedily. They have the only emergency vet clinic in town and must be making a lot of money doing that. It costs $130 just to walk in the door. And if your pet is sick, you need him/her to be seen faster than 5 days or more, so you have to go to the emergency clinic.

I cleaned the kitchen today while I had chicken baking in the oven for dinner. It took 45 minutes, but the great news is that I had the stamina to stand up for that long. Usually it's been 15 minutes max, a break, and then back at whatever I'm doing. All of my muscles felt very weak just as the 45 minutes were up. When that happens, I always wonder if I'm going to make it back to my bedroom, but so far I have. It's the strangest feeling and it comes on suddenly. Sort of like my muscles are dizzy, instead of me being dizzy.
 
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Today, I was really worried about my dog, Aidan. He was sharply and loudly yelping from time to time, and his front legs were a bit stiff when he walked. Oddly, the yelping didn't occur when he was running to look out the window to see if barking was warranted, or leaping onto furniture, etc. I thought maybe he had Lyme disease. He's vaccinated, but the vaccine is only effective 60% of the time.

So my daughter had to take him to the emergency vet again (I think this is time #5 since July). He has injured his back, and was in a lot of pain. The vet sent him home with muscle relaxers and pain pills. They are effective, as he is lying down and is very, very calm. For once, my daughter saw one of the two vets I trust in the practice.



I cleaned the kitchen today while I had chicken baking in the oven for dinner. It took 45 minutes, but the great news is that I had the stamina to stand up for that long. Usually it's been 15 minutes max, a break, and then back at whatever I'm doing. All of my muscles felt very weak just as the 45 minutes were up. When that happens, I always wonder if I'm going to make it back to my bedroom, but so far I have. It's the strangest feeling and it comes on suddenly. Sort of like my muscles are dizzy, instead of me being dizzy.
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Hopefully the ever gorgeous Aidan will be better soon bless him . I understand your concern totally. My DD's dogs are like here children to her, and she takes care of them like a Vet would, and if there's something she can't fix immediately , she gets them at the Vet quick-smart...

As for your muscle weakness... the fact you could stand up for 45 minutes is great news... *yeah*. 🙏 .. but perhaps it was just too much pressure on the muscles.. what does your Oncologist say ?...
 
Today is a glorious sunny day, 5 deg c... blue skies and despite the low tems it's really warm in my rear garden which gets all the morning and afternoon sun...🌞

This morning has been a day of Royal Mail , and Amazon deliveries ... still a few more to come..

Put the world to right about cars with my Postman (mailman) whose cars are his passion... and we were discussing the key cutter whose coming today to cut me a new car key.. they just do it in the back of a van apparently..

So.. despite the sun, sadly I can't go out and make photo memories today... too much to have to wait in for..
 
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My plan for today is to do a small load of laundry, work on my blog and then at two it is our coffee hour downstairs. Sun is shining but it is cold and the cars are all frosted over. The plants I see outside my windows have not been hit by the frost yet, but they are protected by the courtyard they are in.
 
Still waiting for the key cutter guy... in the meantime, I've got all the packages delivered, and the contents all put away in their rightful places...and of course got all the cardboard boxes flattened and in the recycle bin

Vac'd right throughout the house, upstairs and down... and washed the 2 bathroom floors & kitchen floor.. .... then transferred some clothing from my dressing room.. ( walk in closet/office)... to another bedroom triple wardrobe ..

Several other bits and bobs got done, and now the sun is going in and it's becoming overcast I'll close all the windows, and go and close up the Barn and garden sheds, while I'm still waiting for this guy to arrive...

Gonna make a hot cup of tea and have a Sultana scone and cream and jam with it..
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I'm headed to my P.C. Dr. Him & I are going to have a good sit down chat. Going to ask WHY I had to go through all these knee injections & therapy for 8 months. All because the X-rays he took were on me laying on an X-ray table for my knee shots.

When if he would have had me STANDING & putting pressure on that knee as this new reconstruction surgeon had done I could have had my total knee replaced by now & NO pain.

Everyone I went to looked at the x-rays on me laying on the table. So everything looked good in those X-rays. But when I stood on it under pressure it showed the whole right side of the knee was bone on bone. No amount of shots or therapy would cure that this new surgeon said.
 
It's such a beautiful day here, I wanna go out even though I went out yesterday for groceries.

I'm thinking to go to Walmart just to see if there's any shortages/empty shelves. I haven't been there in many months.

The Walmarts in my immediate area are not Super Walmarts in that they're not a full service grocery store, just the basics and the junk as far as food goes.

We had our first frost last night.
 
You did a great job with that, @debodun
It is such a huge and daunting undertaking, to deal with each and every one of all of the steps entailed,
with vacating such a large house and home, that was in your family for so long. It's surely a very different and much longer, more difficult process, than selling and moving from some other type of place would be.
 
Deb, on the Hoarder shows they often get things down from the attic or upstairs, by making a slide out of a ladder and propping it against the window, then sliding things down. I've also seen them load up garbage bags and lower them out the window with a rope. Anything but having you strain your back carrying big boxes of books down flights of stairs.
 
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