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I have several autoimmunes and young onset Parkinson’s. I am monitored/tested for Sjogren’s and lupus due to symptoms. (I assumed I would be dx with MS when I was dx with Parkinson’s, but they do have many similar symptoms.) I have constant pain. (And your post is a good reminder that I need to call my rheumatologist on Monday!)
I am mostly Whole Foods/plant based., which has helped considerably. I also try to get as much raw fruits and veggies in as possible.I need to get more on track, as my stress eating has been out of control this past year. I really like Dr Goldner’s book Goodbye Lupus. Another book that I have found helpful is The Green Smoothie Revolution. The recipes are easy, basic ingredients, all I have tried have been very tasty.
For myself, keeping a food log and tracking pain and digestion has been helpful. Dairy and processed foods with sugar spike my pain. I try to watch the Omega 3 vs Omega 6 ratio. Hot yoga in an infrared heated studio has been a lifesaver for me.-
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15 minutes ago, QueenCat said:
If you're looking for a hotel, we love the Hotel Vin in Grapevine. https://www.hotelvin.com/ It's part of the Marriott system.
The whole area around has a fun vibe. When you check into the hotel, they give you a glass of wine to enjoy while you head to your room.
There is a food hall attached to the hotel.
That is so good to hear. We have not stayed there but it is a fun area. I have been to the food court and - while it was loud when we were there with a group and not good for socializing - the food was really good.
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3 hours ago, gardenmom5 said:
So tell me what is so great about the flagship half-price books?
I looked up the address - it's a US "route" highway. just wanted to clarify that confusion. (not an interstate).2 hours ago, Bambam said:It is the biggest used book store I've ever seen. So many books. And it has a decent sized and well organized clearance section. You could easily spend an entire day there. IMHO, each Half-Price bookstore has a different flavor based on its location (some were better for finding used homeschool books, some were better for finding good quality children's literature, etc - totally random but seemed consistently that way). You can find current releases as well as OOP favorites. We try to stop by this one whenever we are in DFW! I think there is a cafe/coffee shop in the corner too.
Yes! This. I said an hr min to shop. But I could spend a day. It is huge. The selection is amazing. It can be overwhelming, so I generally pick one or two areas to focus on browsing. (But I am semi local, so have luxury of going several times a year.)If you go, be sure to check out the separate little room at the front with additional vintage books. I had gone to this store for years before I ventured in there.
i don’t think the little cafe reopened after Covid lockdown. There is an REI (outdoor outfitter) and a Starbucks nearby.1 hour ago, Scarlett said:Ha if only. That is my Hallmark movie inspired dream
I want to buy it to operate as an organic farm, with farm to table meals, daily farmer’s market, you pick fruits.
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I have no idea how I forgot the Dallas arboretum. It is incredible!
The flagship Half Price Books is at I-75 and Northwest Highway. It is huge and needs an hour at a minimum.
McKinney is a lovely town, great downtown square. I enjoy driving around to look at all the old homes. The steakhouse on the square is nice, with vegetarian, vegan and gluten free options. (The cauliflower steak is fab.)
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Grapevine has a nice downtown area. Their botanical garden is small, but free and always lovely. They have several wine related businesses on Main. The local vineyard is currently for sale, if you want to inspect and go halfsies with me.
Coppell has a fabulous farmer’s market - one of the few in this area that requires all items to be grown locally. (That said, if one is familiar with the Des Moines farmer’s market, this one is much smaller and not as extensive.)I would also chose FW over Dallas, mainly because many of its offerings are clustered together along university drive.
Fw: The Amon Carter museum focuses on American artists and has some of the best signage. It used to be free, not sure if it still is. They also have the Kimbell art museum and a modern art museum. The botanical garden is great, as is the zoo. (The botanical garden has a sculpture exhibit right now that sounds nice.) Botanical research institute of Texas is fantastic. Montgomery street antique market is fun.
Dallas: Their art museum is lovely.
if you want a smaller town, Muenster is nice. Not much to do in that area, but they do have a small Main Street. The grocery store is worth a visit, as it is filled with German foods. Once upon a time, I loved their cheese selections. Gainesville might also be worth looking up. They have a lavender farm. The growing field may not be spectacular, depending on weather and time of year, but their cafe is really nice and I love their gift shop.
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I am a long time gardener but not an onion growing expert by any means.
From my understanding, once the tops flop over, they will no longer be growing. I was talking to several local growers at the farmer’s market over the weekend and they were all saying that our weather has been too harsh this spring for growing onions. I am also in zone 8a. I realize it is a large swath of the nation, but in my area, we have had record rainfall and swings in temperatures, neither of which are good for in ground, bulb forming crops.
I am harvesting the onions that have flopped over or are trying to flower. The onions are still small, but I am also using the tops.
No tips for curing or storing, as I use them quickly or freeze for later use. -
I am so sorry for your loss.
It is such an odd feeling, knowing we are becoming the older generation. My slightly older sister became the oldest female alive on my dad’s side of the family when she was ~50. That hit so hard. Our grandma and her sister lived in to their 80’s but the next generation died very young of cancers.-
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That sounds like so much fun.
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I think the first one is perfect.
We just attended a wedding and so many people work black, none look like funeral attire.
I think some of the rules about what to wear are going away, just show up looking decent and you are good. (Ie: No cropped tank tops showing your stomach at a funeral and no ball cap during a wedding, both of which I have seen recently.)-
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I have young onset Parkinson’s and acting out dreams / sleep disturbances can be a symptom. I have had some weird experiences, including once trying to use my husband’s head as a basketball.
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I love my Chevy Tahoe. It is a 2015, if I recall. We bought it new and I still love it as much today as I did when I purchased it. At the time, I was haunting two teenage boys and their golf clubs.
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I have been told that I should take twice the recommended daily amount on a regular basis, due to poor gut health and poor absorption, and 3-4 times that amount if on antibiotics. That has come from two of my doctors, my dietician and my pharmacist. The first time I was told that, I thought there was no way that was correct. Last year, I had a terrible infection and my pharmacist told me to take twice the recommended amount with each dose of antibiotic. I didn’t have any stomach issues while on the antibiotic.
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I feel your pain. My DH bought me a statue for my beloved garden many years ago. It is concrete. And built to last. It is so not my style. At all. And no amount of wind could ever blow it away.
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I have an assortment of autoimmune issues and Parkinson’s.
I went whole food, plant based three years ago and it has helped me so much. Dairy, in particular, is awful on my body. My labs (inflammation markers, liver enzymes, etc) have all improved considerably since changing my diet.
I do infrared heated yoga several times a week. Prior to starting, I could have checked every box on the list of “people who should not do hot yoga.” Turns out, my body loves it. I can really tell a difference when I miss more than a few days in a row.
Massage is also essential.
I have to keep moving to keep my body from freezing up.
I am glad hot tub was mentioned, as I keep thinking I need to use the one at the gym.
I have to keep my vitamin D levels up, as I can really feel a difference when it starts to dip down. My absorption is awful, so I have to consistently work on keeping it up.
Probiotics. I think most people with health issues have poor gut health? Not sure on research, but the people I know with chronic health issues also have gut issues.-
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Got to second the smoked Gouda. In fact, because of this thread I had to go out for smoked Gouda grits this morning. So yummy.
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We weren’t home to see our pets. However, we went to a little park on a large lake by us and witnessed - I am not sure what type of large birds they were, as I was too far away from them to even attempt an id - but they were dive bombing the water and feeding like mad. It was so wild to watch, as there were close to a dozen birds swooping down hard, splashing down hard in the water. It started about 10 minutes after totality and lasted several minutes. I go to this park quite often and have never witnessed anything like it. Birds reminded me of cormorants, but looked closer to all white/light gray, not black.
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We were in area of totality. Millions were expected to come in to this region to view it.
We went out to a park at the lake by our house. There were maybe 100 people in the area. Some cars had out of state plates.
It was amazing.
I don’t know that I would drive hours or fly to see it, but it was simply amazing.
Trust me, I have been sick and tired of hearing about it the past few days and just looking forward to it being over with. But I loved it so much. I told my husband after that I really need to up my astronomy self learning. I don’t recall anything from my school days, studied geology in college and my only child has always been obsessed with science and way ahead of whatever I tried to teach him. He took an astronomy class at community college during high school. Maybe that is what I need to do.-
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I have volunteered a lot at a local food pantry and in their Christmas program and all I got to say is - Some People. (Eye roll…)
People get that feel good feeling for donating and think they are helping. But for whatever reason (age, clueless), just don’t comprehend *useable* items. Age - maybe they grew up in the depression or their cognitive abilities are slipping. Clueless - they don’t realize that putting a dozen eggs in a giant donation box at the church simply won’t make it to the pantry in useable condition. (Often crushed, damaging other items.) I have seen it all over the years. (The worse: Home canned items dated decades earlier. We don’t even accept home canned items, let alone from the 1970’s!) And some people just hate the thought of anything going to a landfill and would rather off load trash to someone else than think about throwing out a seemingly useable item. (We got that a lot at Christmas with things like used makeup kits, well worn clothes, etc.)
OP: It sounds like your wording is good. It is just that some people are weird.
re: People not reading thoroughly online. I am on the board of a local organization. We have had several issues lately with board members not reading emails well. One was a huge donation of approx 100 pallets of items from a local warehouse. Per the original email, we would have to accept all of the pallets and need a way to move them out in a short time frame, plus a place to store them while we processed and sold the items. I was on vacation at the time and didn’t read the emails until the following day. I read the original email first and immediately thought, “Oh, we can’t do that. No way. We don’t have the ability to move and store that many.” I was shocked when I realized there were dozens of emails, fellow board members were so excited about the prospect of such a windfall. Finally one person - out of the dozen people on the board - caught that we had to accept all of the pallets and chimed in that it was way out of our ability.-
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35 minutes ago, Heartstrings said:
I was just telling my husband that someone needs to check on things at the palace. Maybe some of the 500 year old bric a brac has specks of uranium, or mercury or something. Is there still asbestos in an attic somewhere? Is the maid using cleaners that don’t mix well with the old stuff? They get the best possible medical care and nutrition, so it has to be environmental.
One of the articles I read said that 1 in 2 UK citizens get cancer in their lifetime. Unfortunately we live in a world where everything is toxic, no matter where or how you live.
We didn’t tell our young adult child about my spouse’s cancer right away, as our child was starting their first professional job the same day as my spouse’s oncology appointment. Our child (new college grad) had enough anxiety about their new job and we didn’t want to add to their plate. It was hard enough telling them, I cannot imagine navigating and processing a cancer diagnosis with young children, amid all the conspiracies and speculations.
Many years ago, one of our neighbors passed away from brain cancer. He and his wife didn’t tell their teenagers the magnitude of his cancer and they didn’t know it was terminal until days before he died.
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I have been a reseller for six years. I almost never go during the opening hours because of the aggressive behavior of some. It is awful. I have seen people get knocked down and shoved aside. I tend to take the opposite approach, looking for things that pop to the surface after the first wave of items have been picked over.
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20 minutes ago, Ottakee said:
If this is an ongoing need they do make male bladder pads that absorb better and have odor control.
I finally did find some for men, though they are for urinary issues and not heavy bleeding.
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Maxi pads. For my DH. (…one of the lesser known facts of bladder cancer treatments…)
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I am in zone 8a/b. (Just changed to 8b with new hardiness maps.) Here, we can plant year round, though late winter and early spring is an ideal time to plant.
Blueberries like more acidic soil, so your local soil may need amendments added to acidify the planting area.
It is generally recommended not to plant blackberries and raspberries very close together, if possible. If not, I wouldn’t worry about it too much. But if you have the space (and irrigation set up), I would put them on opposite sides of the property. I think that is for disease control issue. (Memory issues…)-
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On 2/11/2024 at 2:37 PM, MercyA said:
People can be so weird. When I got married, DH and I decided not to have any small children in the wedding party (no flower girl or ring bearer). One of his siblings brought their little girl, our niece, to our wedding dressed in a formal flower girl dress in the same color I chose for my attendants. You just have to laugh.
My stepmother showed up at my wedding wearing her wedding dress. Yes, the very one - white - that she wore to marry my dad the previous year. I can look back on it and laugh now and - honestly - that wasn’t the weirdest thing to happen at my wedding. My mother had disowned me several years prior, when I was 15, because I refused to take sides in my parents’ divorce. (Judge granted my permission to live with extended family because my parents were so embattled in their divorce.) Anyhow. My mother showed up at the wedding. And acted all mother of the bride. Fast forward a few decades. She disowned my sibling on their wedding day. She loves to make a grand spectacle of herself.
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Meet Fanny Fufu my new bunny friend.
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She is super adorable! I would love to have a pet bunny again.