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  1. @hellen Can you specify how long it takes most of your patients that age to start cardiac rehab? My dh was extremely fit and much younger, and I don't think he started cardiac rehab for a month. He/we had some extreme complications with calves healing and other gruesome adventures, but even without those I doubt he'd have started earlier. I think the OP's loved one may need both outpatient PT for a time, and then cardiac rehab, unless the health care providers can do both at home. The 12 week program dh was in would definitely take into account an individual's fitness level, but maybe an 80 year old would not be signed up for 12 weeks? (Dh wanted to push the envelope while supervised; if there was to be a catastrophic failure, he wanted it to happen where he could get care.)
  2. Sending a gentle hug, Saraha. What a cra*p day. I'm so sorry, and I hope tomorrow is much better.
  3. Wait. Whut? I thought Calvin and Hobbes were both boys. ?? Oh, my goodness. I am so lame. I've always thought of you as a mom of boys. Does anyone else remember cheering when SWB had her little girlie? And laughing and crying, simultaneously, over fortification-by-chocolate-chip, straight from the bag? Some days when I'm deep in dueling spreadsheets, I long for a bag of choc chips. @Hannah, I'm glad you started this thread. Congrats on 20 years!
  4. So without getting into too many details, dh worked in aerospace for a manufacturer. One of the serious concerns that motivated dh in his role as a problem-solver (yes, he had a problem-solving certification, but it wasn't under that name) was that he would be able to sleep at night knowing that his work made sure lives were not lost due to equipment failure. Dh worked on several projects that tie to concerns mentioned above in this thread. At the beginning of his time with this manufacturer, they were upgrading from paper to digital work instructions. Each component, no matter how small, had a written step regarding the specifics of correct installation. This included everything from "tighten it this much" to "use the jig for hole placement" to "this composite has to be cured for this long at that humidity, and if you drop a tool on it, it will no longer be impervious to radar." Every part had to be precisely interchangeable with another same part, so that in theatre, if mechanics were replacing something, it would always fit correctly and not be jury-rigged; jury-rigging something could cost a life. Two issues he worked on in response to corrective action reports were very serious, and one was mentioned above: tooling has to be correct. You can't have guys on the manufacturing line looking for a tool, any old tool will do, and the next thing you know, they've screwed something up. Every tool was marked and had its own marked, precisely carved out "nest", and guys watching the line were to report if someone used an unauthorized tool. There were also very specific instructions/rules on taking care of tools. At the beginning of the shift and at the end of the shift, all hands did a "FOD walk", looking for foreign object debris in the workspace, on the floor, etc. That last paragraph leads to another thing not mentioned as a defect in the Boeing debacle, but very important. When people had extra tools, there were locked bins that the tools went in, and a specific authorized process to put the tools in the proper place on the line. Similarly, any cutoffs, extra materials, extra parts, any items left over went into locked bins. This was to prevent someone from fishing out an extra bit of this or that and making do. Every item on a ship had to be the correct part made to the right specs and tolerances, so people didn't get hurt due to shoddy, piecemeal manufacturing. Anyway, I thought it might be fun to share a bit of what should be going on. The hotel key card or Dawn dishwashing soap to ease in a door gasket? Heck no; I'm absolutely certain that is not part of anyone's work instructions.
  5. I can absolutely relate to this. Similar challenges in my workplace.
  6. Hard to tell: food poisoning or contagious illness. I think if you got it from takeout, it's more likely that it's food poisoning.
  7. I would be really interested to find out how much of this is traditionally southern thing. I don't have much experience in the deep south, but I do in cultures that you would think of as fundie. However, I'm used to strong women within those cultures, not to Duggar-type women. I can think only of one fundie baby voice person, and she is a recent acquaintance.
  8. I went to a school where everyone had to attend the "formal", date or not. The girls and guys who didn't want to date hung out in buddy groups, and generally did their best to get away with the least amount of dressing up they thought they could get away with. I wanted a pretty dress, so I bought a Vera Wang pattern and sewed a cream colored satin sheath with a bias-cut overskirt and matching shawl that one could add or take off at will. (The word shawl sounds terrible, but the whole ensemble was pretty.) I had just gotten back from Spring break and worked hard on a tan, so it didn't look terrible, but, in hindsight, I don't know why I thought cream was a good color. At the time, I was tall, thin, and had long brunette hair, so it wasn't bad compared to what was in style. But it certainly wasn't what everyone else was wearing!
  9. Me making stupid inquisitive faces trying to figure out the domain name... I'd rather beach ef? (What's ef mean?!?) 🤭
  10. Huw Richards talks about stapling down black row-cover to warm the ground a few (2-3) degrees, then plant right before you leave? Best wishes!
  11. Amazon has all kind of really adorable tiny soy sauce or sushi dipping bowls some in pretty hammered glass floral shapes, some gorgeous cherry blossom ones in pale pink ceramic, others made from adorable melamine or wheatstraw ones in pink, red, multicolor hearts, and so on. I'd adore having a tiny bowl or tiny heart-shaped container to take home. Dd's husband's MN family always ate lemon drops at grandma's when they were kids. Lemon drops were a feature in the extended family, too, so they did tiny wood-grain-printed paper cubes with a clear window, filled with lemon drops. (The wedding was at a lovely, very rustic campground, so the decor worked.) It really tickled his grandma that "her" lemon drops were a feature at the wedding, and I think someone in the wedding party explained the significance and honored her for the memories she created for all her grandkids.
  12. It's always an adventure in my area! I was planning to plant out the 5 week old tomato seedlings in 8A/B, but we've had a threat of hail for 2 consecutive nights. A forecast of 1 inch of rain and stormy weather with a chance of hail turned into 4 inches of rain, stormy weather, and several episodes of small hail, pretty light, but enough to damage seedlings. Then we had a night of mid-40s low, but with damaging winds (desiccating winds) and danger of frost. One of my little citrus trees -- oddly enough the one rated for coolest temps -- is really looking sad on the most tender, new growth. All those small leaves are shriveled and the twigs holding them are droopy. The rest of the citrus did fine, as I had them all under the cover of the porch. But even that mid-40s with stiff wind caused damage. Sigh. My poor seedlings are all tall and at the limit of their 4inch pots = roots look fine, but they're trying to blossom. They're only 5 weeks old. I don't know how in the world they are supposed to make it to 8 weeks in 4inch pots, the way they've grown! I'm going to have to plant out and use frost cloth. I'd just plant later, but it's a race to get fruit set before the weather gets too hot for the plants to set fruit. This is a challenging area to grow in.
  13. I edited my post. (I'm sorry; dh interrupted me earlier so I didn't have a chance to compose well.) I think it will be more clear now. If you both feel "less than", maybe the solution is to bathing your mind in all the truths of Scripture. And talk to each other. And -- this is counterintuitive -- don't always assume someone will do X because they are good at it. (That gets old, too.) Talk/ask/agree to it. All this in my post...it comes from 38.5 years of working it out, too. The interruption I mentioned above...dh solving a problem that is mine to solve. 😄
  14. The answer is 1) to not do the things in which you know the other person will have to have their way, 2) to be grateful when they use their gifts well, and 3) to clearly stake out which "things and/or places" the controlling person/perfectionist will just have to ignore or walk away from. Edited for clarity.
  15. I can guess which company your husband works for, as the profile fits. BTDT; same rule. It's a totally crap rule, and all an employee can do is to keep good records of their achievements, and then take it higher and to HR. The worst part is that in the company we were involved with, the performance rating was also included in the calculating the percentage raise for the year. It's trash.
  16. Yeah, well. I've forgotten a lot, but not how -- ahem -- to capitalize when it's for meaning. 😄 (Boy, any newbies here will think we're daffy.)
  17. Tea. I spend about $1.25 daily on relatively inexpensive teas. I drink warm tea most of the morning as my office is quite chilly. This year I'm trying to grow more plants that are steep-able for tea.
  18. Faith, I'm seed-starting cukes and squash here this weekend. The tomatoes and peppers are 5 weeks old. I expect to transplant the cukes and squash much sooner, 2-3 weeks from now. I could wait til then to start from seed outdoors, but the roly-polys eat young sprouts. Last year I had a hard time getting beans up, because the stoopid roly-polys kept nibbling them off....for goodness sake! The onions are going great guns--my first time planting onion sets -- and I should have planted potatoes several weeks ago, but we had dig out and replace the bedding soil...did I mention how fun it is, how impossible it is, to grow in black clay? The only thing that happily grows in that area is okra. I have high hopes for it now that we refilled the bed. It should improve over time, but potatoes have a reputation of improving the soil where they grow, so I thought I'd give that a try. And they don't mind onions grown in with them... The new adventure is citrus trees. They will stay potted, and we'll over-winter them indoors. We're in the process of cutting the tops off of 15 gallon barrels with handles on them, and I will up-pot into those barrels as soon as I get Dr. Mani's Super Soil (for citrus) brought up from South Texas by a friend who is making a trip anyway. (Thank you, friend!!) With the handles left on the barrels, it should be a breeze moving them in and out, so they will live the life of Riley indoors and outdoors, according to our weather. Thanks for starting these threads...it's fun hearing what everyone is doing!
  19. I have a tiny crystal bowl that would be perfect for rings. I don't think a post is necessary, although I certainly can see why someone invented such an item. Just sayin'...I don't think having the exact item made for this purpose is necessary.
  20. Agreed about prongs wearing. I had one prong completely wear off, and when I noticed it, the next one over was very, very thin. 2 out of 6, next to each other would have allowed for a stone lost. 😞
  21. {{{{Faith and Mark}}} Oh, gosh! I'm so glad you're both alright! My word, what a scare.
  22. Now the happy owner of 7 additional baby citrus trees. They are putting on an amazing display of new growth. I need to repot them all, and to that end we acquired a bunch of 15 gallon (~60 liter) drums that we'll cut in half-ish and re-purpose. Amazing, there are all kinds of these small plastic barrels available on FB marketplace, and they come filled with either bulk pharmaceuticals or granulated turmeric in them. (Turmeric is terrible stuff; hard to get out of clothing!) I'm off to find out about Dr. Mani's (?) Super Soil -- something like that -- supposedly an amazing medium for potted citrus. (Temps swing too low in my area for planting most citrus, so they have to be kept pruned to smaller, pot-sized trees and overwintered indoors or in a greenhouse.) I'm in love with these little septuplets who are welcomed by an older sister, a very prolific little lime tree.
  23. I'm sorry, KH! Which dd is this? Same one as the son-in-law who was so ill? (An update on him would be wonderful.) I wanted to say that a dalmatian in an apartment is a disaster in the making, unless your daughter is a runner and could wear the little fella or gal out. Dalmatians are born to run and ours was happiest when a neighbor and I would take both our dogs (theirs was a greyhound rescue) and they would romp on the county fairgrounds fields with nothing to stop them. We had a substantial fenced back yard and a lakefront with a beach for her to dig her way to China, but the open fields where she could lope were her best life. She liked walks, too, but being on leash wasn't her favorite thing. Maybe a dal will work out fine for your dd, but we've known several families with dalmatians who turned out to be escape artists, like our dal was. That said, although they're not the smartest tool in the shed, they are truly loving, loyal, and great with kids. It took me awhile to get used to the independence of terriers after having a dal who lived to please her peeps, aside from the running.
  24. I don't know where you are referring to @heartlikealion (you don't need to specify) but I was used to living in Miami, on a beautiful little lake, on the lee side with lovely afternoon breezes, but --oy!-- if there was no breeze, you were sweating due to the humidity, in spite of temps rarely above 93. I now live where the Cowboys are awful 😉 and it's blast furnace hot for weeks at a time. But the humidity is never high, just moderate. That makes it so much more comfortable! I don't think I could live in any of the Deep South states, due to the humidity. Even East Texas could be pushing it.
  25. Define better. I'll take blast furnace with moderate humidity vs. frozen/chapped/six months of winter. And that's why I prefer the south/southwest.
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