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Holly, hope you don't have to wait too long for your surgery!

Nona, sorry about your arm. Hope it heals quickly.

Kath, it's not really the cold here that I'm not happy about, it's the drizzle or showers or the grey clouds. 60 and sunny is fine. 60 and drizzle is not. We did have some really nice days for long bike rides, but not enough of them. We've had the wettest July on record. :(
 

Went to the gym again this morning. Very intense workout! We are probably going to friends' house for dinner tonight as they have lots of family visiting.
 
Enjoyed dinner at friends' house last night and seeing lots of their family who were visiting from England.

Was going to go the gym again but have too much to do. Housework, pick up flowers for the church tomorrow. Food shopping for stepdaughter and her son who will stay with us tonight and go home Sunday. We'll all go to funeral tomorrow.
 

Bad stuff going on here right now. My husband's older brother passed away three days ago and then his wife passed 2 days later. Giant shock although they were living in a retirement community since about last Christmas. I never knew of a couple passing away so close together! As far as we know, hubby's brother had tested positive for Alzheimer's but not that long ago - we had not even known that his wife was sick in any way! They were not a very communicative couple so if they ever had news, we often had to learn it from another family member. So my spouse is more upset and depressed than he usually is which is most of the time. It's hard to talk to him when he is so depressed. Also, I'm having a negative reaction to the med Pravachol - reaction consists of muscle spasms in both legs and back plus my head feels like it's filled with cement. Maybe I'm not supposed to pour my problems all over everybody but it just happens. A friend of mine says "Kath, you're as open as a fridge without a door." Thanks so much for reading this.
 
How sad, Kath. Sorry you feel so badly. Med reactions can really be terrible. Have you asked your MD if you can stop the Pravachol. May you start feeling be very soon.
 
Kath, so sorry about your problems with meds, your husband's depression, and the sad deaths of his older brother and brother's wife. What a huge load for you to carry! Of course you should talk about it, being open is emotionally healthy. If everyone was able to vent as you do, I would have far fewer clients.
 
Oh (((kath)))..my goodness my friend you are going through a horrible time at the moment. I'm so sorry the loss of your family members have worsened your husbands' depression and not surprisingly either, but I can feel your pain having to suffer watching your husband going through this emotional trauma with your own physical pain added to it...you're so brave. Please go back to your doctor and explain that the meds are causing such painful muscle spasms and see if there something else you can take instead, you shouldn't have to have such painful reactions to meds.

Please do always feel that you can discuss anything here with us, we're here to support our friends regardless of the distance between us...and if there's anything you feel we can do to help in any way please just ask..
 
hollydolly said:
Oh (((kath)))..my goodness my friend you are going through a horrible time at the moment. I'm so sorry the loss of your family members have worsened your husbands' depression and not surprisingly either, but I can feel your pain having to suffer watching your husband going through this emotional trauma with your own physical pain added to it...you're so brave. Please go back to your doctor and explain that the meds are causing such painful muscle spasms and see if there something else you can take instead, you shouldn't have to have such painful reactions to meds.

Please do always feel that you can discuss anything here with us, we're here to support our friends regardless of the distance between us...and if there's anything you feel we can do to help in any way please just ask..
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Thanks Holly and Nona and Shalimar for your supportiveness. :love_heart::love_heart::love_heart: I spoke to the doctor yesterday p.m. and he immediately took me off Pravachol. Now have to see cardiologist to see what other options can be used. He has put me on 3 statin meds thus far and I got same reaction to all (pain, headache.etc. - sort of like bubonic plague). Definition of insanity - keep trying same solution over and over until something different occurs. Thanks for what you said about being very open because that seems to be something that has stuck to my emotional self for some reason. Could be having had ample therapy!! Next thing is to speak to hubby's doctors at the medical center because need some guidance on what words to say when hubby feels it's me that makes awful stuff happen to him. I hope everyone has good weather and a healthy day.
 
We had a brilliantly warm sunny day for brother in laws funeral. Nice service and nice to see dh's relatives. Sad but nice to catch up on our lives, although most of us are FB friends and we know the main events in each other's lives.
 
Kath thank goodness your GP has taken you off those meds, here's hoping you find something which will really help you, and of course that you find a solution to the problems with your husband..it's such a lot for you to deal with when you're so poorly.. :(

Annie Funerals are horrid, especially when death has occurred so suddenly but I'm pleased for you all that it went as well as it could. Nice to have a sunny day for it..it somehow lifts a little bit of the gloom doesn't it?


It's been very warm here today ..up in the high 70's.:cool:.but I didn't go anywhere other than the garden. Tomorrow I'm hoping to go and watch White water rafting in the nature park. I can't take part unfortunately, due to my back problems but I will hopefully get a lot of walking in, which will ease things a bit.. ..
 
Holly, the feeling of the day would have been so much different if it had been drizzly or cloudy. There were tears but plenty of smiles.
 
We are up early this morning despite not getting back from a dance untill after midnight ..We were picked up by a couple we made friends with about 5 years ago and taken to the dance up near Brisbane ( about 60 km away) which is the capital of Qld.

We are shifting into a larger unit today,( it's only 6 doors away from here) When we booked this holiday we could not get the larger unit so settled on this smaller one for the first week..The system here is regarding renting,is you need to book the unit for the following year as soon as you book out, (this year) the area is very popular in the winter. Months for the southerners such as us to have a break and to thaw out
Oh and thank goodness no more earthquakes ,and the sun is shinning
 
Kadee, I live in earthquake country, so I get it. Hope you enjoy your holiday. Annie, I am glad your BIL funeral went as well as could be expected. Such a difficult adjustment, losing family. Kath, and Holly, I wish you both better health, and a respite from pain.
 
Thanks Shali. Holiday in two weeks.

Kadee, our Thailand house needs to be booked well ahead and we booked for next winter when we were leaving last winter. Enjoy your stay!
 
Well it's nudging 80 degrees here this morning...and we were supposed to be going to the nature park to watch the White water rafting....but o/h didn't get home from work until 11pm last night and announced he had to go to work today to prep some stuff for another work day.. ..he promised he'll be quick, but quick with my o/h will probably mean not back until it's too late to go...

I'd go myself but it's a half hour drive and I'm not able to drive both ways yet..

Thanks for your best wishes Shali...I'm hoping to go back to the workhouse mid-week next week...so fingers crossed..
 
hollydolly said:
Well it's nudging 80 degrees here this morning...and we were supposed to be going to the nature park to watch the White water rafting....but o/h didn't get home from work until 11pm last night and announced he had to go to work today to prep some stuff for another work day.. ..he promised he'll be quick, but quick with my o/h will probably mean not back until it's too late to go...

I'd go myself but it's a half hour drive and I'm not able to drive both ways yet..

Thanks for your best wishes Shali...I'm hoping to go back to the workhouse mid-week next week...so fingers crossed..
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Holly you need to take better care of your health..and be careful not to have any further falls ..Nag Nag :) we don't bounce like we used to when younger ...I had a fall onto concrete a couple of years ago ..broke my arm..dont think my back has been the same since.it really took me quite a while to recover ...I'm useally very steady on my feet , however I fell because I was tripped ..
 
Me too Kadee usually very steady on my feet...but I tripped on the edge of the ladders..and fell really hard onto a metal cross-rail....I tell you what I've really never given much thought to being scared to walk but honestly since having this really painful fall, I'm looking at the ground all the time I'm walking in case I trip over again!!
 
Went into town with dh, stepdaughter, and grandson to buy a new electric kettle as ours bit the dust. Also watched the paddlesteamer Waverley dock and pick up more passengers. Walked to the top of a hill near the 'castle' where dh and I were married and where I had my citizenship ceremony.

Had a gorgeous sunny day until just before we went to town:

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Very nice, Annie, you live in a lovely town.

Most of my mornings recently involve watering the yard, this is August in Texas, the afternoons, I'm inside for the rest of the day......today it is supposed to be 104, I have movies to watch.
 
Jackie22 said:
Very nice, Annie, you live in a lovely town.

Most of my mornings recently involve watering the yard, this is August in Texas, the afternoons, I'm inside for the rest of the day......today it is supposed to be 104, I have movies to watch.
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Thanks, Jackie. We don't live in the town but are 10 miles away. But it's where I shop. Or catch the ferry.

The temp is warm here and was lovely when the sun was out earlier, but it got windy and cloudy so I was quite cold in town.

Our friends who live a few miles away just got back from staying in Houston for a month. They were relieved to be back where it's cool.
 
Nice to see the Waverely again in all her splendour, I have very fond memories of her.:D We had 80 degrees today a mixture of Sun and cloud.. and late afternoon we went over to the Leisure park to watch the white water rafting, and had a drink at the bar which overlooks the lake ...then walked along the nature park and around the lake.. until sunset....

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The Bar...

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The lake..

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Then as the sun started to disappear behind the clouds around 6pm ...


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Then this beautiful sunset just before we left....


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