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.
Are you using different soap than usual when you travel ? There is also ph balanced liquid soap just for the private areas you could try . There are also women’s wipes for private areas .
Maybe after the long airplane trip change underwear asap? And like already said change undies twice a day ?
I’m not quite sure what travel has to do with it except maybe the sitting a long time ( sweating 🤷♀️) .
Can’t really avoid strange bathrooms during travel .
I drink a lot the last few days before day of a long airplane trip . Then after landing stay hydrated during trip .
Apologies to the modest women who find this is a sensitive topic. I know I do, but it is necessary to speak up. Those not having many Uti's may not understand the vigilant care necessary for prevention once UTI's become a problem and more frequent.
Even at home, one could over-clean, over-use toilet paper, and ruin the normal pH.
I read we should be using toilet paper wiping only twice. Front to back.
You can use a sitz bath (portable sits on toilet/Amazon) to clean in between showers.
It is partially a hygiene issue, not showering enough, but it could be caused by over-cleansing. Not thoroughly drying when you are in a hurry. (when traveling, you are in a hurry.) After showering, you can use a hair dryer to gently dry in all the folds.
Wearing cotton underwear is recommended, or at least a cotton crotch.
Do not wear undies too tight. It is recommended that sometimes sleeping without underwear allows the air to circulate.
Maybe take your own toilet paper for use in public restrooms. Who knows what is in that toilet paper, and where it has rolled? On the floor? And, sometimes, there is no toilet paper.
And, never be the woman who says I am not drinking anything because I will need to pee. Drink, add electrolytes to prevent dehydration.
Driving Daisy is right about sugary drinks not being beneficial. Always finish the entire course of antibiotic. Be prepared to get diagnosed with a yeast infection after the antibiotic and treat it.
Hope this was helpful. Everyone's comments have also helped me.
It's only 12 degrees here right now. Rainy and thunder and
lightning. Happy May long weekend!
I heard my Vermont neighbors have had some bad flooding in places
Temps are very moderate and cool at night. We had a few warm days last week. Summer is coming! Here we can have the odd snowstorm in May.
Anyway............does anyone have any recommendations for another brand. This one worked good when it worked but had constant charging cord issues. I'm looking for one mostly for my couches etc. and prefer one that has a brush roller.
Anyone have any suggestions?
Hope you get some rain!! So no fires start near you, that's gotta be so scary.
Speaking of fires, there was an abandoned mill fire near moms, this weekend. When my oldest was 15 one summer day him and his friend decided to build a small fire and skateboard over it. The biggest issue with that was, they built it in an old abandoned rather large TP factory, I'm sure you can imagine what happened next. So this brought back some memories..... 🤪
Gershun, my mom's got one she loves, I was actually planning on buying one myself, I'll let you know later the brand.
Daisy -about 50F here now and I love it. Prob going up to 65 and very windy this afternoon which I don't love. The field outside is getting greener.
Red Devil for too too many years.
An upright vacuum is hard to use on your couches.
My favorite vacuum was a Kenmore Cannister vacuum with a beater bar brush
back in the day. Saved the carpets like new for many years. So many that when you want to change out the carpets, they are still like new and it cannot be financially justified.
However, I think you are looking for a cordless vacuum for your couches.
I like the Brand name Miele. Never owned one.
Yes! Mine is called a "Dirt Devil". Not a Red Devil.
Yes! They still make the small handheld vacuum under the name of "Dirt Devil"
in the U.S.
Searching on Amazon or Walmart might yield a decent vacuum Gershun.
I used to have a Dirt Devil. I think my DH has already ordered something. As soon as I mentioned it to him he didn't waste any time. Hope he ordered the right one.
One neighbor in his later 70’s not walking as well as he used to, not picking up his feet, and is stooped over went out on his motorcycle this morning .
YIKES.
I also saw an elderly man precariously on a ladder in his driveway about 10-12 feet high trying to hose off the top of his very large camper.
Coincidently there is a rehab facility a half mile away , as well as two AL’s and an SNF.
I had a girlfriend who needed a walker to get around, but once she was in her car you could see she felt free. One cold December day when the road conditions were poor. she was driving north to her younger daughter's for Christmas, accompanied by one of her granddaughters who was on a break from university. In a split second she made a bad decision in bad road conditions and lost her life. Her granddaughter, fortunately, survived with only a mild concussion and has no memory of the accident which killed her grandmother instantly.
When I heard the details I didn't think it was the road conditions as much as a bad decision to overtake. I had suspected for a while that she was developing dementia as she had mentioned not always knowing her way in the city she had lived for 40 years, She picked me up once from her son's house and got lost on the way back to her house. Fortunately I figured it out.
M was a very bright and social lady and one of my best friends, but I wasn't comfortable with her driving, not that there was anything I could have done about it. She was 75 and lived in assisted living. I am so thankful that her granddaughter survived basically unharmed.
My hubbys father in his middle 80s went around a corner to fast, rolled his SUV, his mom was upside down too long and her heart failed, his father never got over it, started drinking, fell and never recovered from a broken hip, that was before me.
Just feels so wrong , people dieing in there later years of car accidents.
The place I see many is moms foot doctor, man 90 percent of them shouldnt be driving, I spend the whole time in the weighting room helping people in with their walkers.
Driving is a problem . Some don’t have other ways to get around I suppose , or don’t want to inconvenience anyone , or don’t recognize they are having problems , or do and they are stubborn .
I guess there isn’t a podiatrist who makes house calls by you Daisy . We do have them by me .
It's amazing that the Granddaughter survived alright.
My niece was 14 and shouldn't have been driving,and she hit a tree and she and the other 14 year old that was with her ,both died.
and
I probably shouldn't be driving any more,myself because I don't feel my foot on the gas and Iv'e come so close to hitting the car in front of me and a few other things I do wrong with my driving but
If my dh or a friend will drive ,I feel safer and I know that the people around me are safer.
I was thinking the other day that you can tell you're in the country when there's a whiff of manure in the air, and you know you're still a county woman at heart when you can tell what animal it's from 🤣
That happened to a 16 yr old in my family. Two girls, one car accident, coming home from a school event. Both died. Heartbreaking.
I wonder how difficult it would be for you to convert your car to hand controls? Might give you a few more years to drive.
Could you feel the pedal if you were barefoot? That’s one of the problems with the thick soles that are popular now. We need to do foot exercises, go barefoot, etc to retain the feeling in our feet which is vital for stability of the body.
Watch this on YouTube. Might give you some ideas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMzEnLkS2rQ
Dr Courtney Conley is the person being interviewed if the link doesn’t work.
It’s on The Diary of a CEO podcast titled
The Foot Specialist: Your Toes Can Predict If You’ll Die Early! This Will Fix Plantar Fasciitis!
I appreciate your suggestions~
Where I grew up, on an island, the farmers used fish for fertilizer .