VSG Maintenance Group
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
on 4/18/17 6:43 am
Good morning all and welcome to our newcomers. Please chime in. We neeeed your stories.
Ann, welcome back.
and oh those Lilacs are so lovely, can smell them from here. Congratulations to the clever dogs and owners!!!
food was excellent and walking totalled 4 hours.
as mentioned volunteer at a thrift store. It is moving and we are packing. It is the size of a small dept store and the moving boxes are stacked everywhere. We found customers rooting through the boxes that were clearly in the " please do not shop past this cordon " Lots of fun.
Happy Tuesday all.
137.6. No exercise. Busy work day yesterday and then scout meeting last night. Today I am busy with appointments, making more appointments, picking up dog poop in the yard (oh joy!) and doing laundry! Steps will have to be from those activities today I am afraid instead of the cardio variety!
DH is really feeling the effects of his chemo and radiation. Super fatigued and it hurts to eat. We are going to get a second surgical opinion at Mayo Clinic.
Hoping my scrapbook weekend is fun!
Paula
Glad you are looking at second opinion and Mayo is always a fine choice for care, right? Paula-fun will feel esp good this weekend!
HW:361 SW:304 (VSG 12/04/2014)Mo 1:-32 Mo 2:-13.5 Mo 3: -13.5 Mo 4 -9.5 Mo 5: -15 Mo 6: -15 Mo 7: -13.5 Mo 8: -17 Mo 9: -13 Mo 10: -12.5 11/3/2015 Healthy BMI Reached! Mo 11: -9 Mo 12: -8 12/27/2015 Goal Weight Reached!
Good luck on the second opinion. Sounds like a good plan.
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
Greetings Spring Fever Sufferers
Boy I have it too. Really craving spring and its not coming on fast enough. 135.5 today which is ok. Lots of steps (for me) despite gallery duty. There are flowering trees out everywhere now and around our shop lots of flowering cherries. Yesterday was windy and the blossoms were blowing around and it was like pink snow! We had a little lilac forest when I was a kid and it was fun - like a maze. I had forgotten that until mentioned here. Looks like it will be sunny and calm today.
Glad you had a great time Ann. One of my anti-anxiety books says to imagine the most peaceful wonderful place you have been and then take yourself there during times of stress. A good technique - vacation in your mind.
Paula, Mayo Clinic sounds like a good plan. My brother had a major and rather revolutionary thoracic surgery at Mayo in Arizona. It was highly successful. In fact he sort of has an "in" there and he is on their web site.
As to picking up dog poop, well keeps us humble. We do that too. Years ago in the midwest I had a service come do that. It was great.
Well studio day today. Working on sea life creatures. A woman came in the gallery yesterday crying because her dad had died and he had a figure of mine he loved which was a brown bear drinking a glass of red wine. It had gotten lost and she wanted another one. So bears it will be. Next months show is Beatles themed in honor of 50th anniversary of Sargent Pepper lp. So I am gonna try to make a yellow submarine. Sketched it out yesterday.
Good on you BB for getting into the gym. Its empowering. Devon hope you have dog show recovery. Shel, good luck with the mega work week. Get coffee when you can and imagine you are in Guatemala where they grow it. Or Hawaii. We have friends who have some property on the big island and they actually grow and pick their own coffee beans!!
Congrats Sadie and Diane O on passing the big test *** Laude Therapy Dog. A great thing to do.
All the best. Think I will go smell the lilacs at our studio. Diane S
Students are diligently glued to computers working on the state testing. Oh, how I hate this week! The wonderful thing is that not a single kid has cried so far this morning. I have decided that whoever creates these tests is a refugee from Dante's Inferno and wants nothing more than to torture children. The test is developmentally inappropriate on so, so many levels. I can only imagine what that cretan DeVos is going to try to implement next year. Talk about someone so far removed from the reality of education (both personally and theoretically - LOL!)... (sorry, if I offend...)
Weight same as yesterday. Today is the day I'm supposed to get in the game. I don't want to. I am happily entrenched in easy, thoughtless, and carb heavy eating. My addict is enjoying his time out of the box and does not wish to be put away. Talked with the therapist a bit about that yesterday. Have my psychiatric appointment tomorrow. I hope that tomorrow's appointment turns out to be time well spent.
What I do understand about myself is that I am stuck in a thought cycle of not wanting to be "deprived" of yet another thing in my life. It is not a logical thought cycle, but it is nonetheless real. Today I dislike having an addictive nature.
Somehow my bone disease became the topic of conversation in therapy yesterday. Shrinky Dink thinks that also plays a huge part in all of this. Because of the early diagnosis (at 4 years old) I was being told what I could and could not do on a physical level during my entire school career. My elementary school principal used to pull me out of class and reprimand me if he ever saw me doing medically unapproved activities on the playground. Needless to say physical activity was not a priority in my life. Just another layer of the onion, I suppose. Sigh...
The puppy of unknown paternity turned 8 weeks old yesterday. I'm taking her in for her first set of vaccinations and worming today. She remains a handful, but is basically already housebroken. That still amazes me to no end. Simply unheard of...
Sounds like she is a very smart puppy???
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
on 4/18/17 11:26 am - NJ
207. I had just gotten to work yesterday morning and my son-in-law called saying my daughter wanted me to take her to the hospital. I have been in ho****er at work, so I tried to get one of my brothers to take her, neither was available, so I told him to call 911, which was the best thing since her blood sugar was wicked low (40s). She is currently in ICU. The problem with calling 911 is that they take her to the closest hospital, which is not the best. Her doctor is not there and the absurdities would astound you. They do not have a dialysis machine. I clarified, asking one not available at the moment? no - they do not have one! So they still do dialysis manually which is much more painful for my daughter. (cannot type well with fists clenching)
I was driving the boys to my house last night after stopping to get them dinner and my daughter called asking me to bring some of her dialysis bags because the hospital does not have compatible bags that fit her port. Her port was put in this past January so it must be far too new. Before I started back down to the hospital, my daughter called telling me that one of the nurses found an adapter that worked. I do not have a whole lot of confidence in this hospital. I am seriously considering having her sign out and taking her to the hospital near my house. It's difficult though because she's in the ICU.
Good news is that I have not turned to food. I stopped at Wawa to pick up a quick hot dinner for the kids and got myself a diet iced tea and skipped the treats. I really wanted treats. This morning, I stopped at Wawa because the boys wanted Oreo Quest bars and I was out. I was still eyeing the treats, it must be a convenience store thing, because it is so much stronger than at a grocery store. I got myself a 24 oz. coffee and ran.
Instead of having a pepper with a tuna packet for lunch M-F, I got a bunch of asparagus and roast turkey lunchmeat and made rollups yesterday and today. They are so delicious and probably healthier than the tuna packet which I noticed has MSG. Read your labels, kids.