Good morning all.

I hope you are all having a nice weekend.

Candice - you MUST be back by now.

Meme - I hope things have calmed down for you.

Ally - When it is too hot, I really hurt. All my joints ache. I like warm weather, but not that hot stuff.

Mima - getting stuff done. Good for you.

Serenity - Glad you enjoyed your visit with your daughter. Now back to your yard.

Joanne - Hi. Hope that you are not in too much pain.

I went to the Dr. on Thursday. I have developed Tendonitis in my heel (achilles tendon) and also in my elbow from the accident. It is on the inside instead of the outside and it causes pain right into the bicep and shoulder. Also, I am having a terrible time with fatigue, since Wednesday. Just like someone pulled the plug and drained all my energy. Hopefully, I will wake up tomorrow and feel better.

I have been sticking to this ww diet and have lost nothing. Any suggestions? I write down everything and I am within my points. I am so frustrated with this diet.

I am now going outside to sit on the deck for awhile, and soak in some sunshine.

I finally read your posts from last week... Meme, I hope your mother recovers and is capable of caring for herself. My thoughts are with you. And take it easy....let the hospital staff take over.
I saw a special on CNN last nite while I was surfing the channels. It was 7 habits of skinny people ......
5 small meals a day, ;at least an hour of exercise a day, plus add little bits of other activities in (stairs, park in the last row in the parking lot), high carb low fat, weigh yourself often.....there were more but of course I have forgotten them already. This was in the middle of a show about two very very obese people who had taken off the weight and kept it off although the odds were against them. They came from obese families..so genetically they were predisposed and also environmentally based on the bad food choices they made. The man and woman both became obsessed with exercise. The woman eventually taught aerobics. They forced themselves to choose different eating habits and to stick to it. But the diet guy say they are the exception....for most, dieting alone does not work. Have to have a complete lifestyle change.
So I am back to obsessive walking....til the weather gets hot again!!!

No...things haven't calmed down...far from it! I know exactly what you mean about someone pulling the plug on your energy! I'm sooooo tired. I don't know if I can face another week. I hired a sitter to sit with Mom again tonight through Wed. night...can't think any further ahead than Wed. She is still in the hospital. She goes through "spells" of lucidity, deep sleep and agitation. She talked to me several times today and knew what she was saying. I told my daughter tonight it would be a blessing if she didn't know what was going on. I have had a little more help over the long weekend but tomorrow I'm more or less on my own again...the Dr. isn't giving us much hope. If she pulls though, she will bel paralyzed and may even be unable to eat any solid food. She wouldn't want to live like that...in a nursing home and unable to care for herself! But...it's out of my hands. I called her sisters and brother and talked with hubby and the kids and they ALL agreed that I'm doing the right thing by not having a feeding tube, etc. That's not what she wanted! It's in God's hands now...I'm just praying for His mercy!

Here goes another week!

Hi to Meme-one day at a time-our prayers are with you.
Hey Serenity and Anne-what's with this smog from Canada we are getting. Are you near the fires?
Ally-That's right on about weight maintenance , you have to change everything!Bad food weekend for me-wedding on sat and cookout on sun. But I do have a lot of running around to do.
Hi Joanne-Candice-Hope things are good.

We have been busy relaxing. I saw Alison on Friday, we went to a wedding Sat. night-it was wonderful. And then a cookout after church on Sunday at my daughter-in-law's father's house. Played croquet and jarts.Nice time. Now we are getting ready for our big cookout Sat. Could be 100 people. But I have this great husband who is right there helping out. Tenant moved out.It's nice to talk and not think someone is listening to what you are saying. Getting smog from the Canadian forest fires so it was cloudy yesterday. Bye for now. Mima

Hi everyone

Happy - You should have been at my WW meeting on Weds. They said if you are within your points and not loosing it is all
"ATTITIDE"
lol. That as soon as you develop a positive attitude again, you will begin loosing again.

Well that may be so, I am not sure about that, but several people agreed with it.

Ally - would you really want to teach 10 aerobic classes a week plus other excercise?? I was not impressed with her obsessive exercise, but I thought the guy was really doing good. CNN got me walking again, I walked 40 mins this morning at the mall.

Meme - You will feel good just knowing you have followed her wishes. God Bless You.

Mima - The smoke you are getting is SMOKE not smog, from the fires in northern Quebec. I am in the center of Canada and Happy is on the west coast so we dont get the smoke from that fire.
I think smoke is more damaging to the lungs than smog.

Candice - I have an old bike with a basket of flowers against a tree in my yard. It looks really pretty, nostalgic.

Joan - How's the PT going ?

Happy- Not too much pain...only when the knee shifts and slips out of place. I found a knee support,not the most attractive thing.It helps though. Mentally ,I just could not get used to the idea of using a cane. I try to follow the WW diet pretty close too and have not been able to get below 152-154 for the past 3 yrs, I sometimes think that our bodies have a setpoint that has more control than we do. Ofcourse I do eat snacks once in a while but not that much.
Meme ,It is a good thing that you didn't OK a feeding tube. Putting it in might void her living will in the eyes of the hospital. Our prayers are with you.
Mima..I could never tolerate another person living in the house other than family. Sounds like you are having a grand time...My eating has been on the edge of getting out of control too this weekend. Nerves.
Hello Candice. Ally
Bye..Joanne

Hi Everyone. Hope your day is going well. We are FINALLY get a raindrop - so far that is it. It is supposed to rain today, and it sure is trying. Tomorrow back up to the high 80's and Wednesday into the 90's.

Serenity - Had the same thing at ww on Wednesday. I don't believe it is attitude, as I have been following this diet, writing down everything, and living within my points! I guess I will have to talk to her about it. I think there are too many carbs on this diet, and I will have to cut back on them and add a bit more protein. I will give that a try in the next week and see what happens.

Joanne - Glad you got the brace. I read an article in Woman's World the other day, about getting walking sticks. Not only do they take the load off your body, but you get a much better workout. Worth looking into - and not only that, you will be right in style I remember Tootie telling us (she might have been before your time, and I still miss her) that she used a walking stick, because she refused to be seen with a cane.

Meme - It is good that you are following her living will. That is the reason a person makes it. It may be hard, but know you are doing what is right for your Mother. We really have NO control over what will be. My prayers are with you, dear lady.

Ally - Even at my heathiest, I would never have devoted hours to exercise. I was very athletic and used to move a lot more, but naturally. I never had a weight problem then. I do know that movement is important for loss and maintenance. Fanatics just don't cut it for me I am afraid. You too can lose weight if you exercise 5-7 hours a day - but what about a life????

Mima - Well, that is nice that she moved so fast. I know what it is like to have another body, who doesn't belong to you, in the house, and it is sometimes not pleasant. Have a good time getting ready for that cookout . Sounds like a lot of fun coming your way this weekend. Just don't OVERDO it.

Now CANDICE - Come out, come out, wherever you are I hope you are out having fun and not at home in pain. Drop a note and let us know.

Happy- If you are talking about Tootie Fields..I remember her well. I don't usually like comedy(silly) but she was good. You flatter me,before my time. My dear girl, I am sure that I am older than you. I am 69 years young. A walking stick huh. I am sure it would be better than a shiney metal cane that says "look at me"!!
Bye for now...Joanne

I'm back and totally worn out but got a lot done for my mom I feel (even though some family members think I am too bossy since I am not around all the time!) I think I finaly got through to some of them that mom needs some grooming help on a daily basis. This is the first time she did not know us or remember we had been there. I knew she was slipping form my phone conversations but she has gone down hill alot since Christmas.

Well...my pelvic pain was better for a while but it is back and the drs. office will not give me more antibiotics untill I see a urologist! Why should I pay to see another doc when I know the antibiotics will help..I guess I have no choice.. I really hurt. (they said the urine culture came back negative but it always does)!!!!!!!!! Argggh! This is not new to me and antibiotics always work! Hummmmm..Why don't the doctors listen to me!!!!!!!

Thinkin' of ya Meme!

Gonna be a hot one today. I was 2 lbs away from my goal in WW and it stayed that way for 6 weeks-But I did make it and now I'm a lifetime member who had to go back a second time and lose 12-not the 20 from before. But that's 2-3 sizes on me becvause I'm short with small bones. I had to go get a tetanus shot yesterday because I scraped my leg on some rusty barbed wire. Now I'm good for 5-7 years. But the yard is really coming along and the junk man is coming back today. bye for now. Mima

I am up early as usual and I am going to try and stay within my points today. My knee feels some better with the support. I'll live!
Candice nice you are back. I just read a piece in the paper this morning where it stated that Doctors do not pay as much attention to female pain as they do to male. It stated that women feel more pain than men. I know of women that refuse to go to male Doctors because of that reason. I just think men do not understand women as well as they should.
Mima.. Stay away from rusty wire. Good for you ,for your lifetime membership. I have found that keeping on or below goal harder than losing it in the first place. Lately everyday is startover day.
Hello Meme, Stay strong..
Hello Ally Serenity, Happy , Bye, Joanne

Hi Gals

Hope everyone's doing well. Tomorrow is WW again. I have my fingers crossed, but have been doing quite well this week.

Candice: be sure to check this out. The pelvic pain - could be fibro. I suffered for years and went from specialist to specialist etc. Then one day I read women having this severe fibro pain - until then I had never made such a connection.

Now I realize that is what my pain is. It makes it easier, as I
no longer worry about it. It comes and goes just as the other fibro pains to.

Getting ready for more rain here. It seems neverending, Gods way of bringing us a new crop of mosquitoes lol.

Serenity

Mom is so weak today I could barely make out what she was saying. She didn't make any sense at all today whereas yesterday she seemed to know everything that was going on and everyone who came in the room. The Dr. came in yesterday morning and told her she had two choices...a feeding tube and the nursing home or let nature take it's course. She said, "NO FEEDING TUBE AND NO NURSING HOME...WE'LL LET GOD TAKE CARE OF IT!"

Today she has been talking about things that happened years ago...it is almost like she is "back there" in the past somewhere...it's hard to explain. Once she said to me, "I worry so much about Mama and Papa." I said, "Why are you worried about them, Mama?" She said, "They're up there all alone with no body to take care of them." Then another time she told me she had cooked breakfast for her Mama this morning. She also said she had to get flowers for the cemetery and asked if I thought "Lee" would go get them for her (Uncle Lee has been dead for years). I have to bend right down over her mouth to understand what she is saying and sometimes I still can't make it out. I don't think it will be long...

I hope if your parents are still alive that you don't ever have to watch one of them starve to death. This is the hardest thing I've ever had to do in my life. I thought watching my brother slowly die over a period of 7 years was hard but this is harder!

Meme - I know how you feel. Watching anyone starve is such a hard thing to do. The body shuts down in strange ways. I hope for your Mom's sake and for you and your family, that it won't last too much longer. We just have no control over these things. My Mom had Alzheimers, and in the end, she forgot how to eat. Being a diabetic, she did go into a coma that she never came out of. We did not want to prolong her life. Had she lived she would have had no quality of life. As hard as it was to let her go, it was the right thing to do. Just talk to her and tell her you love her and anything else you have to say.

Serenity - Good luck tomorrow. We are starting on another heatwave - starting tomorrow through Saturday. Geez, by the end of the week it is going to be 35 and that is in the shade. That is pushing the very high 90's and I don't know if I will survive. Funny I don't melt. When I cook bacon, the fat just runs off

It is late and I am off to bed. Everyone have a good day.

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Age 5

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my broccoli either.
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