I'm tired of cooking/preparing 3 meals a day. It's just the two of us but boy oh boy can that woman eat!! She stays slimish, I get fattish. It's bad enough I do everything here much less start making her one thing and me the other. At times I feel guilty when I buy her fast food cuz of the nutritional value....not to mention I eat it too.
Staying home, I was hard-pressed to order online, and it just would not take my order for several hours.
Received some White Chocolate Macadamia Nut fresh baked cookies just in time.
In time to eat them!
My primary doctor recommended eating the main meal for lunch, and a lighter meal [with no bread, potatoes, pasta nor rice] for supper. Supper being before 7pm. And no munching after supper. It's better for one to have the body "fast" while sleeping.
And yes, doc suggested exercising, but that went in one ear out the other. Wait until my doc gets to my age, he will find it is not all that easy :) So what I do now, every time a commercial comes on TV, I get up and walk around the inside of the house. Boy, there is a lot of commercials !!
Glad to read that your hubby is on the mend. One time I was too thin, so what I did was drink Carnation Instant Breakfast along with my regular breakfast, and that helped.
Let’s face it, if our feet hurt, it seems like everything hurts!
I am at the age where I only wear sensible shoes 👟. I don’t know how my daughters wear heels 👠! Yes, I do. They are young! We aren’t young anymore.
I remember when I was in PT after my accident, they had a young woman there who had bunion issues. She said that she would never give up dancing in her high heels! LOL 😆 YOUTH!
natasana - I hear you. Your quality of life will go up. Hope the quality of your relationship with your mum does too.
I think it may actually be starting to get better! I don't want to jinx myself though cause I've had good days and get optimistic and then WHAM! the next day not so good.
But my ankle and calve muscles and tendons are starting to loosen a bit I hope. They have been the problem even more than the metatarsal breaks. I still haven't gotten my MRI appt. though. Can you believe that! Three whole mths. and still no appt. The medical system in Canada used to be good. What happened?!
Still can't see very many veins on my injured foot. I've got all these thick, ropy looking ones on my good foot. That's how I know it doesn't look normal on my bad foot. I still feel there may be some nerve damage there and on my last orthopedic appt. she said that she thinks my ankle is unstable and there may be ligament damage. But I need to confirm these things with an MRI which I've been waiting (not so patiently) for. I see the ortho doc again next Tuesday. Hopefully I get a good update on that.
Anyway, there's a big vomit of info. for you all. LOL
Barb - Yes sometimes they just are. Learn something new every day! I am so sold on finding solutions outside of the drs office.
It's not the sort of ingrown thing that happens at the tip; this is an "ingrow" that occurs all along the side of the nail, despite how it it is trimmed. Appears to be hereditary, according to both of my docs.
Sometimes these things just "are".
Hopefully that makes some sense.
Mom: Who said so?
Me: Your nurse. He said the walker will help you steady yourself.
Mom: Whose is it? Do YOU want it? Let's keep it in the kitchen so anyone can use it.
Me: it's yours mom. Keep it with you.
Mom: that's not mine. I never ordered that. If I'm going to use that thing then you can just roll it for me down the hall to the living room. Just roll it ahead of me and I'll catch up to it later.
Me: 🙄
However, one thing I learned was that for love to be love there had to be both justice and mercy. The expectation she would raise her own kid and the reporting of anything illegal was justice, the mercy part is that I would have supported her to support herself and her child, had there been one, and I would have visited any kid of mine that landed in jail.
Re ingrown toenails - my middle son had that surgery years ago and as far as I know he has been fine since.
I find if I keep my big toenails cut straight across and just longer than the place where they "ingrow" I don't have any troubles. I have been surprised during pedicures to see the tech cutting them really short and rounded and in some cases "digging" in the corners. I instruct them to leave them longer and cut them straight across and leave the corners alone!!! Alva, I think you can fix this yourself.
Shoes that fit well - i.e. don't put any pressure on the big toe are important too.
Goodness, how did I survive some of the shoes I wore and walked miles in. I remember one pair of red Italian pumps - at least a 3 1/2" heel. I loved them and they were so comfortable!!! I walked and walked the streets of Montreal in them.
Hope your surgery fixes the problem, Barb,
My whine today - a bit of FM pain and sore throat. I have been doing much better with the CFS and FM but I feel like I am fighting a bug and don't think it is wise to get my covid booster till I feel better. Something always seems to get in the way.
Another whine - there is now only one lab in town for blood tests etc. so you can't get an appointment for over a week. It used to be a couple of days or walk in the same day. I think you can go on a waitlist for the next day afternoon (after 3) and take your chances. I don't like hanging around a lab waiting room with sick people. 🤧🤧🤧
i feel like whining about something, but i don't know what. whine, whine, whine. so you know what?? i'll use this as an opportunity to make a pre-emptive whine.
in case there are very valid future whine-situations, i'm getting it out of my system already now. how organized of me, yeah?
whiiiiiiiiine. ❤️🙂
Not how I want to spend my travel time.
In truth, this is nothing to whine about.
You were right telling your kids that you'll be the first one to report them if they're doing something illegal.
The most sound wisdom my ears have ever hear is:
Don't call me if you're pregnant or in jail.
I have avoided both.
You are so right to be backing away a bit. It is very dangerous to be taking sides.
If and when there is a reconciliation, either one could say:
"My Mom said this"
"Your Mom said this"
and it would cause more division, with you on the outside, prevented from seeing your grandchild.
Of course, if your grandchild is being neglected, all bets are off and you, yourself could end up with temporary custody.
You will do the right thing, and a grandparent's prayers make a difference!
Loosing custody of a child can happen. A woman that I worked with lost custody. She wasn’t involved with another guy. Her husband was involved with another woman.
She had three sons. She was so hurt by the affair that she told him that she was going away for the weekend to be alone. Her children were young, 6 and under.
They divorced, he got full custody of their children and raised them with the other woman. He got her on abandonment. It was a nightmare court case. He had an incredible attorney. She didn’t. He destroyed her in court. She got supervised visitation!