Hey Holly
thank you for starting the July thread. You are awesome!

If anyone else else wants to jump in and post, please do. "The more the merrier"

Holly, sounds like you did get a diagnosis. So glad everything resolved. You went through so much with your lungs! Glad the doc got you on the fight medications. I've had chronic bronchitis and sinusitis before. It was awful. And you worked while you were sick for so long.

Re not working, that can be a difficult thing to adjust to. Many people don't know what to do if they aren't workimg. But first you were physically recuperating. And now you are busy in your garden. I have to dig more milkweed out of my garden. Checking the leaves first to make sure there are no chrysalis on them. Cattapillars like to make them on milkweed plants. I would leave them there if baby butterflies are growing <3

Re the hiatal hernia. Now that Gov. Scott allowed chiropractic offices to open again I am back once a week going to her. But I guess those 3 months of not bring able to get chiropractic care made the hernia bigger. It causes a lot of acid and yes, pain. Idk what kind of free home care would be available if I had the surgery. But that surgery doesn't have a high success rate. Oh, I got my first meat tenderizer mallet today. I think I bought one that isn't good. It's oddly light weight. Might be hollow inside. Made by cuisinart. Anyway, I'm not sending it back to Amazon. I'll use it on some very tough chicken breast I bought at Trader Joe's that I froze until the mallet arrived, lol.

Re the weather, get ready got higher humidity and temperature. But still I prefer it to winter.
Hoping you have a good weekend. And hoping anyone who reads this has a great weekend.

Hi jolly and all
Sorry it took do long for me to reply. Depression has been building since covid quaranteen isolation while still dealing with mother's death. Just not who I used to be. But I keep going.

yellow swallowtail? I had no clue they were around this area. I've never seen one.

Im glad your garden us enjoying this weather. Hoping the rain on .Saturday helps a lot. I'm looking forward to it.
Awesome that you went riding. I know it's important for you. Hope you had a nice time doing the cookout with your son. Glad you had that time with him. I didn't know you have a son in my area of VT.

Food is worse than ever. They are repaving my condo complex. That throws off my flow. Finding a safe parking space because cars cannot be in the driveways or even garage. Drievays were done first. Then Monday the oadway gets paved. But I can keep my car in the garage until Tuesday night. Service vehicles will not be able to enter. No mail delivery today. Complex entrance will be closed off on Monday. My refrigerator is broken. No cold air in the ref. part. Called a service person. Left message. He doesn't work weekends. Monday no vehicles are allowed in yo the complex. So I have no way to get it fixed before Tuesday. And I'm not sure it even can be fixed. Worst timing. It's wreaking havoc on the anxiety. Tough to be alone, agoraphobic and have no one to help. So I'm eating lol. Not going to spell check. So if you see a swear word, it wasn't my intention, lol

hope you and all have a great weekend. And happy rain!

Sorry Holly
i just saw the messages. What exciting news about the job!!! Congratulations. BUT I'm so sorry you have been dealing with a doenward spiral. I understand how difficult tgat can be. Has news of the impending job turned that around? I hope so. Has it? it sounds like fun work.

I think the thing around living in a neat enviornment is more important to your well being than he can figure out.. Typically when people need that it's because it's their very important and necessary way of controlling their life. So when people are feeling like things in the inside are out of control, it's vitally important for things in their enviornment to be neat. It's actually very important. All those multiple bottles of things. If it were me I would pour them into one bottle.
If they don't fit, I would throw out the others. You need a manageable enviornment where things are in their place. And not messy!!! Very important. So I get that. I give you permission to do that, lol.

re the a/a Unit congrats!! I would not live without one. Although I did until I was around 50 years old. That was fine when my bedroom was on the first floor. But when I was 39 years old I moved to a place with an upstair bedroom. Being a bit clostrophobic and having to keep the door closed must be tough. Sounds very challenging. Hoping maybe you can somehow get used to it.

, so your youngest son lives near me. I'm around 5 minutes away from the intersection of Swift and Dorset streets. Someone from Hardwick just dropped off zucchini to me today. A surprise gift. He works in Williston. So I have lovely fresh zucchini.

My refrigerator is workimg again. The guy showed up on Tuesday, told me it needed a new defrost switch. Told me it had to be unplugged and completely defrost for 24 hours. The ice buildup was not visible. But somehow he saw it. Then on Wednesday he came back and replaced the faulty part. Sadly, he was an anti mask person. I asked him to wear a mask the first day. He did but he turned mean. The second day I felt he would be even worse if I asked. I felt in my gut he might be vengeful. So I didn't ask. I am VERY immune compromised. So I hope he was not carrying covid. He was breathing in my refrigerator for a long time. So time will tell if he was carrying covid. What a HORRIBLE man! Now I have to get chicken and turkey to replace the spoiled stuff. I don't eat beef or pork.

A friend who moved to Washington state has started to do zoom with me once a week. She didn't know what a toll being completely alone for months had taken in me. But she now knows. So we have a lot of fun talking and laughing once a week on Zoom.

How are you feeling now Holly? Has the downward spiral turned around with news of the impending new job? I really hope so. But understand if it's still going on. If there are typos, please excuse them. Too tired to proof read, lol

Hi to anyone one who is reading this. As always, please feel free to join in. <3

Lisa, great go see you. No worries about being away from this board. But it's GREAT to see you back.

Holly. Sorry I have not posted in a while. Been in a funk. Have not had energy to do most things. How is your job going? Hoping it's great.

I just dared to try to try on my summer pants. One pair that fit loose no longer really fits. But it's not as bad as I thought. Stomach distended due to bigger hiatal hernia. So that too is a factor. So I'm guessing my covid months of isolation yielded around 7 lbs gain. Honestly it's an extreme loss that the woman who channeled the healing guide retired. The guide and she kept me figuratively above water for 27 years. The loss is significant.
Sorry I cannot be more positive.

Sending very best to you both, and all who read this.