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I didn't cause it.
I don't need to fix it.

I am not responsible for your actions. Or to make the consequences for your decisions work out for you.

Anyone know how that phrase goes again? (I may need it.. 🙃)
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Poodle: You okay? Nothing on that last post, but a period.
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Thanks Llama. I deleted my comment. Llama, I’m extremely worried. If I’m lucky, everything will just work out. Needs some weeks. Bad, allergic reaction to medicine. If I’m offline now, it’s just because I’m dealing with this. I’ll be back.
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Poodle: Prayers coming.
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Thanks so much Llama. Very worried.
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Poodle (((hugs)))
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Thanks Beatty!
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Poodle: You're welcome.
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Please send a prayer for me.
🥺
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Poodle,

Sending prayers and hugs your way today!
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Poodle: Prayers continue.
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Thank you!!!
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Poodle: You are welcome.
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Poodle, wishing you the best! Prayers!
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Poodle, wishing you a speedy and full recovery, and peace in your heart in the interim!
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Thank you!!!
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Poodle, how are you doing? ((((Hugs))).
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Barb, I’m so very worried. When I see everyone’s kind messages, it really warms me - and at the same time I get tears, because I’m worried. It’s not over.
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Poodle, I have a good friend who got sent for a scan recently which came back with very ambiguous results. He sweated it out for a week before it was confirmed that the scary dx was NOT accurate.

My MIL once told me that worrying when waiting for a diagnosis is a waste of time and energy (I was waiting for a possibly dire test result for my very young daughter).

She said that they way you react to and plan when you ACTUALLY get a poor dx is very different from what you plan during the "what if" stage. She advised me to take a deep breath and try to get on with things and to make plans only when we KNEW what was happening.

It's advice I've tried to follow ever since.

(((Hugs))))
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Thank you Barb!!
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Crappy weather today. Flash flood warnings are still in effect. Rain all over the city and metro areas. The rain has slacked up some now. As usual though, we have flooding in the streets in certain neighborhoods.
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Today is my teen daughter’s moving day. This morning I tested positive for COVID. Factoring in the humidity, it’s 102F or 39c and I am filling my N95 mask with sweat.
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Ana,

So sorry that you tested positive. Hope you feel better soon.
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My whine has nothing to do with caregiving, but is about thoughtlessness. My lovely step-daughter is visiting from out of town and we had a planned get-together at our summer home this past weekend. This was over several days, with various sets of people coming and going, including one of her kids and their baby and another step-daughter. Step-daughter #2 arrives and says she has a small cold or allergies so she's trying to not get too close to anybody. We spent most of the time outdoors except for dinner. Two days later, #2 lets everyone know she's tested positive for covid! If I have any symptoms and am going to be in a social gathering or other situation where I'm apt to be in close contact with others, I test beforehand to be on the safe side. She didn't, and has exposed 5 adults (including one senior, me), a 6 year old and an infant. We're now 5 days out from the exposure and so far we're all OK, thank goodness.
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Thank god there are no tests for the flu or any of the other thousands of viruses a human body can hold. All this testing has become a friggin nightmare of epic proportions.
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Daughter and son in law got covid right before the summer trip to Michigan for a week with his family. They didn't go. What's kind of funny is that EVERYONE who DID go, got covid without coming into contact with THEM at all. Even the 92 year old Mom, and the infant grandchild. All did very well after the initial week's misery. Virus is quite weakened now due to herd immunity.

Funnier still is that their second summer vacation, to New Orleans, they flew with a friend and husband. Son in law came back with SECOND case of covid, and the couple with them both got it. Again, all did relatively well.

Interesting article out of some recent tests reported in This Week magazine current issue is that studies are showing even those with no long covid symptoms are seeming with recent testing to be more prone to strokes, clotting disorders, et al. I am sure the deniers are going crazy behind THAT one; I can hear them now, hee hee.

I had my 6th shot before my last trip to my daughter for a month and will say I was less careful in general than in past. More contact with family coming and going and friends. So far still escaping it, but think that can't last forever. Just glad it is so weakened, and wondering when the next one will be coming. So thankful we have never faced down ebola, which is so much more easily spread. Hope we never do. Much uglier way to go for certain.
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This is an anti-whine. This is a whooopeeee!

We had a follow-up with DH's neurologist today. In July, DH had neuropsych testing--18 months after having the first neuropsych eval which resulted in a Dx of MCI.

When DH came home from the psych testing 6 weeks ago, he told me "I did better this time." I asked why and he said part of it was familiarity the tasks (not the actual questions, just the general outline of what they were going to do--he has bad anxiety) and better rapport with this psychologist (the old one retired).

The neurologist looked at the report and and said "you did better this time.". DH whoopped and I asked, does he still qualify for a Dx of Mild Cognitive Impairment?

"Nope".

Wow. Is that amazing or what?!?!?!

Everyone celebrate!
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sp196902 - how about you do you and allow other people to do likewise.
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Barb - I've often thought I would not do very well on some of those cognitive tests
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