Morning Happy Sunday. I woke up with really bad acid reflux at 3am, probably due to the prednisone I'm on, and sat on the couch trying to doze until 5am when I went back to bed and slept until almost 10am. Then one little twist and I pulled that darn muscle in my back again so I'm sitting with a heatpad again.

We have about 5-6 inches and it's still coming down but slowly so it appears to be tapering off. We will probably have a total of 7-8 inches. It's pretty but combined with the rain on Tuesday is going to make things very muddy.

We have about 3 inches so far and it's still coming down. We're right on the border between a 3-6" band and a 6-8" band so who knows what we'll actually get. We're on the side of a mountain on a river so we sometimes have a mini system of our own going. We are also supposed to get the rain Tuesday, which I'm sure will cause the river to flood again.

For right now she's okay with it, but said to watch carefully for any signs of things changing before my CT scan. Taking it once a day is enough for it to help all day so I'm taking fairly low doses (with food, lots of fluids, etc). Unfortunately Tylenol didn't even touch the pain and I can't take most other painkillers.

I know he didn't wind up in Tartarus with the other Titans, but yeah he seems to just fade away. He was hanging with the Gods on Olympus so maybe he still wherever they are. They didn't really go anywhere either.

Hercules/Heracles freed him from getting his liver eaten every day but I don't remember any myths going into what happened to him after that.

We use Earth Breeze ones. They seem to work well and get out smells and dirt. And we have teenage boy stink here, as well as towels from the science center that will have all kinds of weird crap on them. Although I do sometimes put a little bleach in with those loads. We always use at least a full sheet, I never cut them in half but we generally only do full loads in a large front loader. Their better environmentally, take up less space and are easy to use.

NP visit went okay. (side note an MD is called a Dr. is there a title for a NP?) Slight sinus arrhythmia on EKG so she wants me to see a cardiologist just to make sure its not something to be worried about. Going for a CT scan for stomach pain/cramping. Prednisone for a pain in leg that's likely inflamed/pinched nerve. Monday I'm going in for bloodwork because she noticed my thyroid levels have been increasing in the past few years. Plus the usual checks like cholesterol. Evidently my previous doctor wasn't following up on things that should have been followed up on, like the thyroid, cholesterol, glucose, etc. My previous doctor refused to check AIC and insisted insurance wouldn't cover it, which isn't true. We're getting a bunch of snow tomorrow. We're on the border between a 3-5 and a 6-8 inch band.

Thank you for asking. I went to the doctor today and I'm getting a CT scan next week. She feels it could be diverticulitis but wants to check for other possibilities as well due to the location. Achiness is about the same but helped by Advil and movement so still bearable. I am eating lighter/blander/softer in the meantime.

We're dealing with a similar dynamic here. Dh is also 67 but I'm 13 years younger. He's been amazingly healthy until the past year, when health issues started coming up. Now he feels like he's weaker, gets out of breath easy but doesn't realize he's way ahead of most people his age, including most of his friends. Luckily he is good about going to the doctor and keeping on top of things. You guys are way more on top of things then we are. I do know about all our finances, etc and could handle all of that, our house is very accessible and "age in place" appropriate. We do have life insurance and things set up just in case, but we also have kids still at home, although they are older teens. I'm struggling a little with how to help dh navigate his feelings. His parents both passed in the upper 80's so he doesn't have that pressure, but he's always been strong and energetic, and he's definitely feeling the change.

Good Morning, Happy Friday! I went for my massage yesterday. Dh had gotten me a gift card for a local spa for Christmas. It was amazing. So relaxing, and I'm someone introverted enough to hate the beauty parlor enough to cut my own hair. The masseuse was very sweet, the table was heated, hot moist towels on my back, it was just so wonderful. I need to do it more often but it was fairly $$$ so probably not. Today I go to my new NP for my first visit. I've been having a few issues lately that I'm hoping can be addressed. I'm getting a pain in the side of my leg, and cramping in my stomach and back fairly frequently in the past few months.

Thank you for replying. I'm going to try and do liquids and some soft foods considered good for diverticulitis for the rest of today and tomorrow and see if it helps. I will definitely mention it to my doctor Friday. I'm in a pretty big metro area so should be able to find a decent GI if needed. Scarlett - pain is fairly centered but somewhat to the left.

I'm going to apologize for hijacking Scarlett's thread, but I'm wondering if I may be dealing with diverticulitis myself. I've had lower abdominal cramping off and on since around Thanksgiving. I've basically put it down to eating somewhat unusual foods, more junk than usual, etc. I do have Benefiber in my tea each morning, plus have a fairly high fiber diet and generally things move along fairly well and regularly (sorry TMI). It's been more achy and uncomfortable than painful - enough to keep me from sleeping well but not enough to stop normal activities. Advil would get rid of the pain completely. Today is the worse day I've had, enough so I don't want to do anything, but still pain level is probably only a 5 or so (bearable), although Advil doesn't seem to be helping as much today. I had popcorn last night which I know is not good for diverticulitis, but I didn't really think about that until late last night. I had my first colonoscopy earlier this year and it did say there were some diverticula in the colon, although everything else was pretty much normal. I have a doctor's appointment on Friday afternoon so I guess I'm asking if this sounds like it could be diverticulitis and if I wait until Friday to see the doctor (it doesn't seem ER or urgent care level of pain), what is likely to help? Sounds like liquids? Clear only? Soft foods okay? Thank you

Morning, Happy Tuesday. I'm off all week but today is the last day my schedule is completely open until the weekend so the last day to finish up some stuff at work. Tomorrow I meet with my admin to go over the database she put together for me to track registrations better, and I told dd we could go to the mall in the afternoon. She has Christmas money to spend. Thursday I'm getting my massage, dh got me a gift card for Christmas. Friday I have an appointment with a new doctor, actually a NP, for a physical.

Happy New Year. I don't have laundry to fold but I have laundry to put away. Dh finished painting our kitchen this weekend and finally put up a bunch of decorations we have. It's very fishing themed, but the kitchen is definitely dh's territory. Plus I do like it. It looks nice. We're hoping to keep the breakfast bar in front of the windows cleaned off a little better so I can use part of it as a desk, plus have the under desk stepper underneath and get back to doing that in the morning while using my happy light. I accomplished a lot at work but still have more to do (as always).

We don't do anything except sit at home and do our normal stuff. We will call the kids out of their rooms and watch the ball drop at midnight.

Morning Happy Saturday. dh wants to finally finish painting the kitchen before he's back at work next week so today we're taking down the tree and decorations, and doing laundry (it kind of lives in part of the kitchen since the laundry nook is off the kitchen) so we can box up stuff in the kitchen to clear the space for him to paint the wall tomorrow. Bright side (other than the kitchen finally being done) is that the long counter that's getting cleared off, maybe we can put stuff back in a better manner and actually make that space more usable. One end of it is kind of my "office" space where I can set up my computer and get work done. It would be nice if that was set up better Other than that, it's the usual. Cleaning up at work, planning classes, etc. I set up a schedule for ads so I can spread them out to all the many many Facebook groups I'm on. Many people are on multiples so if I spread them out instead of sharing to all of them at once, people will be more likely to see them. Plus I have a lot of stuff coming up - next session registration, summer camp, an open house in January, then next years schedule, I ran a survey. So I want to make sure I'm not overwhelming any one place with a ton of ads. Plus I'm trying to do better with sharing fun (not ad) stuff to instagram. We shall see how that goes.

One of my mom's favorites was "keep crying and I'll give you something to cry about". What a surprise that even now I'm incapable of crying in front of other people, even dh. My mother usually went with wooden spoon or hangers. My brother more than me. Growing up it was known he had severe ADHD, but in hindsight he is also very definitely autistic. He's had a very rough life and I really believe part of his struggles is due to the way we grew up.

That sounds like the only resolution I'm likely to actually achieve.

Around here we have a lot of people doing private bus driving. Mostly to private schools, mostly driving just a normal size van or suv.

90 hours in NJ and you can often do the hours while working at a facility that offers the training.

It's chilly, gray and rainy here. The river is flooding again.

https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Visual-Exploration-Every-Universe/dp/1579128955/ref=sr_1_1?crid=23V8XKVX7CJLP&keywords=The+Elements&qid=1703790934&sprefix=the+elements%2Caps%2C98&sr=8-1 The Elements is a great book. There are also cards that go with it and a periodic table to hang.

This sounds like a scam. Are you sure it was the morgue that called? Were they trying to get you to give a credit card number over the phone? I agree that it's the estate that is responsible for paying. They certainly wouldn't be making threats about payment within days of death. No government bureaucracy works that fast, and they would send you a bill, probably registered mail definitely not a phone call, long before they would sue you.

I have an old wooden dollhouse that my grandfather made for me when I was a small kid. It's in dd's room mainly being used as shelves/to store stuff since she stopped playing with it a long time ago. My dream is to someday have space and time to fix it up as a display piece.