Replacing the much lamented 'On My Mind' profile option, this thread is for musings, jottings, whimsies, preoccupations and the rest of the thesaurus for anyone to jot down anything they please.
I can't remember what the maximum character count was before, can anyone else? But anyway it wasn't very many so let's keep to that.
Looked at my phone afterwards at my friend’s house. Geeeeeeez, we walked over 12,000 steps!
Trying to be consistent with using sunscreen since my dermatologist has removed a precancerous spot recently. Wore a hat as well.
When I mentioned how foolish we used to be not wearing sunscreen, my dermatologist said that she wasn’t much smarter when she was younger because she tanning beds.
I was never interested in doing a tanning bed.
My daughters will get a spray tan occasionally. I have never done that either.
I remember putting lemon in our hair as teenagers before going into the sun. Or using sun in spray and it turned our hair orange! Hahaha…
When we were kids we had a swing set and would swing up high on the swings and try to touch the corner of the frame with our foot . My older siblings could do it . I never got to touch it with my foot while swinging , we got a clothes dryer and my Mom had Dad take down the apparatus , before I got tall enough to reach .
On my mind today is the egg lady from my childhood. She had such a kind face and way about her. Which was in great contrast to my mother. Amazing how that little bit of contact made a difference to me.
She delivered eggs and sometimes brought us a loaf of homemade bread. Oh, it was good!!! The milkman, who drove a horse and cart, delivered bottles of milk with cream on top. In the winter the horse "droppings" froze and we used them for pucks playing street hockey in the back lane.
And the smell of the laundry in the winter...
"There was a time when laundry would go out on the clothes-line in the middle of winter even during snow. It would later come into the house "stiff as a board". The clothes were laid over chairs, drying racks and railings and the most refreshing clean air scent would fill the house as the pieces dried. 🧺"
From Tignish Talk
Happy to hear everything went well.
Yay! Finally got around to looking at the music schedule for Jazz Fest and bought tickets online just now. Ahead of the game this year!
He is exhausting me today! I think we all are in need or some better weather here, we will get it but it's taking to long!
His gift of gab comes in handy right now. He comes with me to the NH everyday when I visit my parents. After my cursory hellos and listening abiut their latest issues I turn him loose to talk to them and he talks and doesn’t stop, just keeps going, it’s just a steady stream of small things. . He can make small talk so incredibly small. He keeps the conversation going with them. It’s truly a talent. 😂
My parents seem to enjoy his visits, probably more than mine.
I'm not a big small talker, I get it older people that's what they do. I will have coffee with my husband 72 somedays it goes into rambling about nothing, he could do that for hours, in the winter, who is related to who? ECT ........
Then I go to moms, and I let her ramble for ever
Then I come home and my autistic like step son is leaving for work and he will stop and start his small talk.
Then he goes to work and I'm back to my husbands small talk.
I've learned how to walk away. Today my husband was rambling and I was putting my shoes on. I told him I'm taking a walk but if he wants to keep chatting up a storm you can come with me. Lol
But it's really exhausting somedays
We need reassurance that all went well "in the end".
What’s going on?
I have dr who is also my husband’s dr and it takes two weeks to make appointment.
Very good doctor, his partner or cousin working with him is nurse practitioner, actually he is a doctor from Israel. And excellent one, compassionate, understanding, knowledgeable.
Why is he waiting years for his medical license is beyond my understanding, there is evident shortage of doctors.
All I hear is how they should speed things up.
I'm on the waiting list for a new doc. Family doctors are difficult to come by here in Vancouver where I live. A lot of people rely on the hospital emergency or walk-in clinics. So while I don't care for my doc I figure at least I have one. I used to have a great doctor but she retired early.
That’s odd that your doctor wouldn’t send you to a gastroenterologist. My doctor is very thorough but if she questions anything she doesn’t hesitate to send me to see a specialist.
Also, once a person hits a certain age they don’t recommend doing a colonoscopy on them, so one should be done sooner. My younger brother had colon cancer. He kept pushing me to get a colonoscopy.
The procedure itself is nothing. The prep is the most uncomfortable part.
The easiest surgery that I have ever had was my cataract surgery. It was virtually painless and over in 15 minutes!
You are correct. My husband had three polyps removed and none of his were bleeding.
I've never had one. I do that poo sample thing and so far it's been clear. I've always wondered how that replaces a colonoscopy though cause even if your fecal sample shows no blood that doesn't necessarily mean you have no polyps right?