Thursday January 28, 2021

Weight up 0.8. 194. Weird. I walked 3 miles last night at a speedy rate. My left hip is ouching this morning.

My dad and I spent over an hour on the phone filling out disclosure forms for the house. I HATE that kind of stuff. What a pain! 17 sections of legalese asking you what's wrong with the house you're selling. Even wanting details about what and when and by whom things were repaired in the last 27 years. Not fun and really impossible to recall. And one day I'll have to do it again with this house! With my next house I vow to be meticulous about recordkeeping...

Today I go back to the eye doctor for my contact follow up. They aren't working. I don't know if my brain still needs to adapt or if it never will? The reading glasses feature is worse than if I wasn't wearing them, which is really what I want them for. Hope they have another solution!

My dad's surgery is today and then he's flying back. I'll pick them up tonight at the airport. His oncologist said they hand out Keytruda like candy and for some it works really well, but he's not had a lot of experience with using it on my dad's type of cancer (the FDA approval is newer and his type is less common). But they will try it if the results of his surgery today show it still hasn't penetrated the walls of the bladder.

Lots of rain from a slow moving storm that hit Peps earlier starting tonight. Normally storms swing quickly from northern to southern California (a day or so's difference). This one has been stuck for two days about 3.5 hours north of us. So we have crystal clear blue skies and 3.5 hours away has severe flooding. Weather is fascinating to me.

I think that's all! Take care everybody...

Ive had progressive lenses for quite some time now. I still take my glasses off when I do close work- seeing better without - go figure.

Well I guess today finds some of us struggling. And this pandemic just exacerbates everything. Bonnie you continue to rise up. I wish you continued strength to keep pursuing treatment, and I pray you will find the answers you need.

I just got off the phone with the Mayo Clinic. Sadly, you cannot just schedule a consult. They review your records and then let you know if they'll be taking you on as a patient. But I did get that process going and I'll find out next week. Provided my current clinic actually faxes the records over.

Oh, I do hope they will see you! You are so close to such great care, it would be nice to be able to take advantage of it!

Fingers crossed for you! A competent and coordinated team that you can trust is so important in aftercare services.

Liz, marriage! OMG! I'm all about the cautious route! LOL! My dad and his girlfriend have had an arrangement very similar to yours and Mike's for almost 15years. No marriage, finances separate, but they spent time at each other's homes and also spend time apart. For all essential purposes they are a "married" couple with a lot of freedom. It works really well for them.

I'm still feeling pleased with how food/eating is going. I am seeing just how much my emotions can play a role in my appetites and compulsive eating. This is awareness is proving to be incredibly helpful to me. It is so much easier to be relaxed about food and compulsive eating understanding what is driving the desires. While I have said it for a long, long time, I'm finally beginning to believe there really are no "bad" foods. My use of food for coping reasons, on the other hand is where the problems lay and still do lie.

I do believe that I can keep up this way of eating indefinitely. I still would like to see my fruit, vegetable and water intake increase, but I'm averaging 4 servings of fruit and veggies per day. My lowes****er intake in months has been 24 oz. Some days I manage 48 oz and that is my daily goal. Still working on that one for sure!

My heart goes out to all who are currently struggling. I am suffering from Covid burnout myself, but have settled into my routine and am comfortable with it. I think it is easier for me than some. I worry most about my friends and family who live by themselves. The isolation is real. I am grateful that Ceci and my BFF have their dogs. I couldn't imagine being completely alone through all of this.

I am NOT contemplating marriage, maybe not ever due to financial complications with adult children, etc. But I am thinking that if we are still together after a year that it might be time to really live together (vs. "staying" with one another). Who knows? But that would still be 6 months from now.

He's a reason to get up every day!

I also found that working on my weight/eating/exercise has made life more bearable in Covid times. Letting those areas of my life get out of control contributed to making life depressing and overwhelming. And it all was labeled internally as "Covid" when really only a small part for me was Covid and its restrictions, and the rest was just the feelings created by the results of unhealthy coping mechanisms. Something about taking the reins on things within your control makes the things that are out of your control more bearable.

This one needs a love button, not just a like!!!!!

Preach!