Hey folks, welcome to the new whine/general topic thread. Feel free to use this thread to discuss anything that is on your mind. Caregiving- related stuff, life after a loved one's death, your own emotional wellbeing. Whatever..........anything on your mind.
Stay strong!
If I take my eyes off my dH, he closes the blinds over the parakeet sitting in the window, now trapped with no food or water. Discovery is 2 hours later when I cannot find the bird at bedtime. This has happened twice in one month.
The stress from the requirement of constant supervision has affected me, and the threat of fires has me stressed out. We are both sleeping too much, but he just does not get up anymore at 9:00 a.m. and it takes until 4 p.m. to leave the house-both of us have anxiety.
I bank by telephone (computer challenged), and forgot the phone number.
I called later and was successful. So, it is intermittent.
Health insurance has me baffled and I could hardly navigate the system to receive the required pre-authorization before, but now, I just will not be able to do it at all.
That gall bladder surgery will need to wait until it is an emergency. Today, I have nausea and scratchy, dry eyes.
Paying bills will be enough to do for the first two weeks in August.
My sweet potato plants died yesterday when changing the water, left out in the sun without water. My fault when dH said he filled them with water and I did not double check if it was true.
It is just too hot outside.
Rant over.
I haven't heard from Needs, and I don't think Waytomisery has either. She had the health issues, then a young good friend of her daughters and family died, suddenly. a
I haven't seen anything sence from her. 😞
That was just around the time of your vacation.
I am, however, concerned about NeedHelpWithMom who has been gone a while I hear? When I left she had a syncopal episode and some low heart rate concerns and was wearing a heart monitor which was troublesome only in some itchy leads. I head she hasn't been posting for a while? Has anyone heard from her?
I know intellectually that I need to exercise to get my stamina up but my get up and go has gotten up and left lately.
As for my foot. It stills hurts occasionally if I wear the wrong shoes. But otherwise it's doing good.
(and it's FUN)
I'm trying not to say that anymore, people give me a look, and roll there eyes.
I've never had an issue with weight, or I have but the opposite issue. I realized I shouldn't be giving dieting advice.
It's like someone giving child raising advice that never had kids. Lol
So I'm 🤐
I don't remember who said that.
and could be dangerous in the older population.
[This is just a joke, imo].
Every now and then I stop for a bit for what ever reason, and my anxiety comes back. Then I'm like dummy start moving.
I use to get my summer exercise in the pool, but since we don't have one this year I gotta change it up
You mentioned skipping your walks Gershun - does that mean you are finally over your broken foot?
Exercise is my natural anxiety pill. Which I've been really slacking a little because of the humidity, and mentally I'm starting to feel it. hubby has a back issue, lately so when he sits around he likes me to sit with him.
Boccie tonight, that will get me outta this funk.
I hope it ends soon. For both of us.🤞
I went out twice in the last little while and forgot to lock the door behind me. I've been forgetting to put my seat belt on too. Little things. I attribute it to the covid cause it started right after that.
It is a good thing!
Puts me to shame as I am hiding out in the bedroom to give him the tiny space we have.
Not a complaint.
Call it
"CWillies Exercise Buddies"
"Exercise Buddies share their stories"
OR
"How to Exercise to keep enjoying life"
"Don't Call It Exercise, keep moving to save your own life"
"Exercising While Aging"
The reason I don't want to start a discussion thread is that posters direct their questions to the original poster for years, and I just don't have time to do that.
I’d like to brag about exercise. Not only am I playing hockey again but I’m back on the points sheet. But to paraphrase Matthew McConaughey’s character David Wooderson: That’s what I hate about these new players. I get older, they stay the same age.
I finally pulled my bike out of the shed but while riding noticed the tire was almost flat so on a whim I biked over to a friend's bike shop to see if he'd fill my tire. He not only did that he gave the bike a tune up complete with a new seat, reflectors and raised handlebars, all for the cost of the parts... I have no more excuses to not ride!
Getting away from it all and clearing your head is so good.
It's a road but as they say you are getting out of the FOG. 🙂
I realize that I stayed far too long in a marriage that was full of emotional and verbal abuse. Mark is I the ICU getting dialysis daily and his memory is getting worse. He was offered hospice and he again refused. I realize I let myself go in far too many ways and am healing and my mental health is much better.
I guess the best thing is that I did leave and realize that I am a worthy person. I sympathize with Mark and told him the other day I care about him, but the divorce is final. I told him I do not love him, and that made him very angry. He said I quit loving him because he got sick. The truth is, I realized that his being ill highlighted my unhappiness.
I plan on leaving New Mexico for Ohio within a couple years.