What are you doing today?

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Georgiagranny said:
Morning hasn't even broken, yet here I am all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. Sort of.

It's blasted cold this morning. 45F is C O L D!

@hollydolly Is your back better today so that you can go out and play?
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NO unfortunately not... still really painful. having to use a cane to keep me upright.. :(..I'm really irritated, because today is yet another gloriously sunny day
 

Sorry to read that you're still having problems. Hope you get sorted out and can take advantage of the good weather while it lasts.
The weather has changed here and today it's cold and very windy. At least it's still dry. Not sure what to do today, although there's plenty to be done.
I'm cooking a slow roast stuffed breast of mutton for dinner. Possibly spiced chard and potatoes to accompany it.
 
It's been cool here for a while already, so motorcycling season is all but over. I'll probably take the ORV out into the surrounding hills where the maples are doing their color thing. They're always a few weeks ahead of the oaks on my property. Between the two species, along with sassafras and sumac along the roadsides, color season lasts a month here.

Always on the agenda is a few mile hike with my pooch. Living in the woods suits me well, a two legged partner would add to the picture.
 
Made it home yesterday, that felt good. Wish I could say I was feeling a lot better, I'm not, but no worse. I know it will be a while. I can hobble about some with a walker or cane. Actually can walk without, but it does not feel safe. Slow walk, small steps. Evidence I got home, looking a bit shaggy I think, but home.
 

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Alligatorob said:
Made it home yesterday, that felt good. Wish I could say I was feeling a lot better, I'm not, but no worse. I know it will be a while. I can hobble about some with a walker or cane. Actually can walk without, but it does feel safe. Slow walk, small steps. Evidence I got home, looking a bit shaggy I think, but home.
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well done alli.....if you lived closer you could of had hubbys zimmer frame
get well soon .....and take it easy....
 
hollydolly said:
Well I'm joining @-Oy- today... I;ve woken up and hardly able to move because of the dreaded lower back pain. It's quite a time since it was as bad as this.. I could barely get out of bed and it took me about 15 minutes to get dressed, yelping all the time with the agony of it.

I managed to get downstairs, and get a heat pad.. and take some meds.. but I have no idea what's caused this, it's super painful. I felt it coming on yesterday, but I didn't expect it to turn into a full blown crawl on your knees because the back won't support me ..type of agonising show.. so all I can do is allow the heat and Painkillers to do their work..😣
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are you taking codeine holly ?
 
hollydolly said:
I'm so disappointed. It's a beautiful crisp sunny morning.. and I was going out to the shooting range today, but my back went into spam this morning, and I could barely stand up, much less walk, excruciating pain...... so I've had to cancel .

Instead I had to take painkillers and heat treatment for my back, and just sit here and let it take it's course.. how annoying.. :(
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do you own guns holly ?
 
Today, I'm resting up. Yesterday was a trip to Legoland with the two demons and I did what I've been saying I'd never do again: ride a Rollercoaster. In fact, I rode the old wooden one three times in a row without getting off. Then I rode a steel coaster with the 6-year-old.

What a thrill! I can't do the big thrillers anymore because of the loop-de-loops putting too many G's on the retinas, but I had forgotten the fun of the old wooden ones and the less "thrilling" steel coasters.

Today, I'm riding out the aftermath with my feet up in the lounge chair. Next week, we're doing it again as our year passes are about to run out.
 
Alligatorob said:
Made it home yesterday, that felt good. Wish I could say I was feeling a lot better, I'm not, but no worse. I know it will be a while. I can hobble about some with a walker or cane. Actually can walk without, but it does feel safe. Slow walk, small steps. Evidence I got home, looking a bit shaggy I think, but home.
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You are doing amazing, considering you had both knees done at the same time.
Are you using a cold therapy machine.
Keep up the fantastic work !!!!!!!
 
Hollydolly, I have stage 3 CKD and I have had the occasional bout of gout. My GP said that even with CKD it was OK to take ibuprofin on a one-off or short term basis. If I needed longer term medication, then they would prescribe an alternative. However, I only take ibuprofin, or any other drug if really necessary.
 
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Hollydolly, I have stage 3 CKD and I have had the occasional bout of gout. My GP said that even with CKD it was OK to take ibuprofin on a one-off or short term basis. If I needed longer term medication, then they would prescribe an alternative. However, I only take ibuprofin, or any other drug if really necessary.
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precisely Captain... I take Ibuprofen once in a blue moon if I have something that's inflamed and will quickly react to the Ibuprofen.. say.. toothache for example.. but I cannot take it if it means taking more than a days' worth like this lower lumbar muscular pain.... .. sorry to hear you have stage 3 CKD as well.. how are they dealing with yours ?
 
charry said:
if you lived closer you could of had hubbys zimmer frame
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Thanks, but by the time I could get there I probably won't need it!

@charry asked: do you own guns holly ?
hollydolly said:
yes.. (y)
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Just like this I imagine, but with blond hair:
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She hangs on the wall of my mancave/office, about my only "girly picture".
 
I'm home. It was an easy day. Yes. That's what I said, and it bears repeating! It was an easy day:) Our Flower Girl was there from 9-1 and a big help to me. Yay. We got everything done that needed to be done. Heaven knows how rare that is! Gotta mark the calendar.

Supervisor's day off. His mother's problem was her gall bladder. It's been removed. I don't know if she's already home, but today's his Sunday off so if she is, he's there, too. Dunno if he's coming in tomorrow or not. Depends on how she feels, I guess.

Wow. It's still cold here. At 1:30 only 63F! The sun is shining, and there's no wind, so a nice day in spite of the cold. There are flowers in the garden wanting attention. Maybe later.

I got inspired. I'd seen a recipe using pierogies and another one for a meatball casserole. Since there was a lot of meat sauce leftover from pizza biscuits last Sunday, it's morphed into a meatball and pierogi casserole (how international!) and is in the oven as we speak. Smells like comfort food to me:)

The vacuuming didn't get done the other day. Should I do it today or just take it under advisement? LOL

@hollydolly Does the back pain have any connection to the CKD?
 
Pierogies + meatballs, marinara, mozzarella = yum😋 I was right. Comfort food. Nothing particularly special about it except that it was filling and tasty. I bet even little kids would chow down on it.

ETA: Ha! DD and DGD didn't want any "right now", but I went over to DD's kitchen to put the rest of the mozzarella back in her fridge and they were filling their plates. Right now was about 10 minutes ago. The aroma must have changed their minds.
 
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After a long boring couple weeks resting my bad foot, I tried it out yesterday by going to a protest march in downtown Washington DC. I had a lot of fun and although the foot wasn't exactly happy, it is no worse, so that by itself is very encouraging (especially since just a few days ago I was despairing and thinking I might have to do the shockwave therapy even though it isn't covered by Medicare).

Today I need to wash the dishes. I don't have very many since I am traveling full time, but I was too tired after the march so this morning I had to drink my coffee from a small bowl. :oops:
 

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