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I made it thru my husband's Christmas dinner and dance in Kansas City. The hotel was very nice and all of the meals were good. PJ enjoyed seeing old friends. Everyone told about their most recent orthopedic surgeries. PJ hasn't had anything new so he didn't have much to say. But it was a nice weekend.

Back to cleaning up at the caregivers center in the morning. I've got painters coming and I'm going to work on cleaning up bathrooms and kitchens. A couple of ladies are coming from church to help. Hopefully we'll get most everything cleaned up by the end of the week. I have to have the second round of Eylea shots on Tuesday.

Hope everyone has had a good weekend.
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I wish I felt like behaving badly today,but I stayed pretty quiet and worked on my Christmas cards,so I guess I just behaved.
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Goodnight Luckylu!
Healing fast.......
Resting more...
Are you behaving, or behaving badly?
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Bookluvr, Thanks so much for all you've said.I really appreciate it!
I will google ways to heal it faster and what to do and what not to do,etc.That's a great idea.You have helped me.Thank you for caring.
You really do "get" it since you had stomach surgery.That must've been awful and I'm sorry you had to go through that.
I hope you and all the other wonderful caregiver's out there have a good Sunday~Take care!..............And No Falls!!!
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Luckylu, I hope you heal fast. I'd strongly recommend avoiding anything that will make you cough or sneeze. After weeks of pain from a pulled upper chest muscle, I finally was able to sneeze wimpily and not with gusto. Laughing is also a no-no, unless you can't help it. One more advice, which I regretted not doing right away until a month later dealing with the pain, Google about cracked ribs, how to help heal it faster (protein? Omega3?), what to do and not to do, etc....

FYI, when I had my stomach surgery about 10 years ago, I learned real quick how to get off the bed and how to lie down. Seems doing this for a stomach surgery also helped a lot for upper chest muscle pain. But, I don't know if it would apply for cracked ribs. Best to google...

I hope you heal Fast!
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Rockin around the christmas tree....

Saw some lights in the area tonight. From the casino lighted yard, to the holy manger in lights, to the lights covering the grass.....all amazing.

Aren't you supposed to . . . . . . what....stay up late Lu, and Santa is gonna know.
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I'd like for everyone to come! Everyone could meet my animals...and dH if you care to and we could eat a bunch of chocolate and dance around the Christmas tree.
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Yeah, but,
You could at least stay out of the attic!
Your friends will have to come by on a sleigh to help you decorate!
We might be there by next year, maybe?
Can we make it?
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Lu, how awful for you. Hubs better take good care of you. If he says don't hold your breath, tell him you can't cause of your ribs.

I canceled Christmas and I don't even have an excuse. I do have a tree up though and the kitties like to sit under it. :)
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No Send...Christmas must go on!
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No apologies necessary Gershun! You have helped me so much with loosing my Mother.I could never thank you enough.Youv'e always been there for me~
And SharynMarie, I loved your idea about how I should let the cat's decorate the tree.I wish they could do some of this Christmas stuff even if they'd just sing Christmas Carols~
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Will you have to cancel Chrustmas?
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Thank you all so much for your kindness and prayers.It means so much to me.
Like Ali said the other day,"No good deed goes unpunished" and this is one time,I wish I hadn't gone over to help my neighbor.
I was outside,feeding my birds and I saw the elder neighbor lady carrying logs,firewood, into her house,so I went over to help her because I know she has bad knees and I picked up a couple of logs and was walking toward her house when I fell on her driveway edge.
I hit my chin and stomach and my right arm and leg.This morning ,after an Awful,awful night,I had to go get help at the E. R .
The chest xray they took showed 2 cracked ribs and the doctor said I most likely have inflamed chest cartilage,and some strained muscles and ligaments and to use ice and heat and a pillow under my arm because there's really nothing you can do for a broken rib,it's just going to take some time to heal. Falls truly are the worst.
Again,Thank you all so much for your kind support.
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Lu, you fell? I just heard this............so sorry, if I'd known I would have been hounding you with get well messages. How did you fall? What happened? Are you okay? Send is right. Falls after fifty are not good. Please accept my apologies for not checking in sooner.

Soon, Hubs will be going away to work for the winter and I will be able to keep up with the AG news. I've been so busy lately.

Love ya Lu!
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Lu, Hope you recuperate quickly from your fall. Falls are the worst.
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Healing prayers for Luckylu. Let the kitties climb the tree with garland. They will decorate the tree some strategically placed catnip and the job is done.
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Feel better, Lu
Hope hubs doesn't expect you to decorate it though 🎄
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Luckylu,
Hoping that the doctor has helped you. Falls after 50 can still be devastating, and often happen when we are in a hurry, distracted, too tired, too hungry, too sick, and all sorts of things!
Of course, you already had your fall this year, so this is to help others, ya know?

I know you don't ask, but instead are always giving to others, at your own expense!
So I am going to ask the community here to pray for your health to get a whole lot better very soon. In Jesus name, I pray.

What would our friend, Gershun say?
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My dH told me we weren't getting a Christmas tree this year,being mean one day,but today,when I came home from the doctor's office after trying to get help for a bad fall I had,There was a Christmas tree in the den.Maybe he felt a twinge of guilt........I hope so.
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Did you know that smell is not the girl cows fault?
That is why they call it "Steer Manure".
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I thought it was chick-fil-a
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You get a cock-a-doodle-doo and a moo. That's all you will ever get.
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What do you get when you mate a rooster with a cow?

Eggnog 😜
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Origins of ice milk.
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Lowing cows with frozen udders!
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Hug #3. Woodstock

Thanks Gershun!

"Lowing" Sharyn, "Lowing"........the cattle are "lowing". Ha ha ha ha.
Poor cows, yes.  But what about the others without udders?
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I hears cows at night mooing in the distance. I wonder if they are cold, lol! Freezing fog, I wonder if their utters drip milk, does it freeze? Poor cows, lol!
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We could name the babyface hug " I think I sh*t my pants Mom" The big sunflower one "do you remember Woodstock?" Yes, these aren't one word names.........ah well.

What would Gershun do? Well, ya know, when I was growing up I shared a bedroom with two sisters. My one sister slept in the middle bed. She used to like to bring her radio to bed with her and have it on all night. Drove me up the wall. So one day I took the back off of it and snipped the wires. I think I finally admitted it to her one day a few years ago. LOL

As far as Christmas lights go.........one of my old neighbors used to try to compete with the display across the street. Then we had a really bad wind storm one year and he lost most of his display. So he put up all these signs all over his yard saying things like "Don't worry, I'll be back next year, bigger and better" I wish this story had a happy ending but we came back from our vacation that year and this guy's house had burnt to the ground. Apparently, he was off his rocker and............well, you can figure out the rest.

There..............a cheerful Christmas story for you all! Ho, ho, ho!
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This weekend I'm going to the strangest social event. PJ is retired from the NFL. This weekend is the Midwest Regional Retired Players Assoc. Christmas dinner dance in Kansas City. It's the strangest assortment of old guys. Crutches, wheelchairs, trophy wives, never ending discussions of orthopedic surgery and discussions about CT scans looking for traumatic brain injuries (some guys bring their CT films). It kind of looks like the dining room/activity room at a nursing home, only with a band playing in the background, instead of a TV blaring. However, the dinner is always good and they have great gift bags. 
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Ha ha ha! Manure, really?
I love the idea of it, carrying on the theme of cattle.

However, kinda like cutting your nose off to spite your face?
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