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Yeah smoke is getting to me, head pressure, feeling spacey , and I taste it.
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Nice to be back! 😀

Golden, the air quality has not been great, but nothing like you have, of that must be horrible. We can see it hanging in all the trees mostly, kind of like looking through a diffuser. I don't know the actual numbers, no reason to look, my eyes tell me, 😆 today it has been worse but not great.

Sends , don't forget to check for possible tick born illnesses. That's kinda what my husband described, gout that travels, to every joint you over work.

Alva, nice to be back, and see your name here. 🙂

Hubs is recovering from his teeth pullings. I know he wasn't expecting it to be a picnic, but I don't think he expected it to be this hard, but doing great.
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geaton - great that you are back finally

Beatty - hello -good to see you back

Daisy - good to see you back too. You had a lot going on with your LOs. That anxiety is the pits.

Alva - I did get a response this time from my email via the "about
us" form. Years previously I always got a response. In the last couple of years, not so except this last time. Hopefully it will work better soon.

We are having a little sunshine today and a little more rain. Nothing remarkable about temps. The field of buckwheat outside is looking good!

I downloaded an app called Visible for CFS/FM alerts/pacing. It measures heart rate and Heart Rate Variability (HRV) which gives an indication of how active your sympathetic (fight/flight) system is. Mine was more active than usual this morning so the app suggests I take it easy, so I am and am doing more breathing exercises. It might be helpful for others dealing with anxiety. It's free. 😊
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Daisy, good. Many are still having site problems for sure. You are lucky your email got through as admins notified us yesterday that all the emails we were sending via the bottom of the page "About Us" email form didn't get through. Not mine, nor JoAnns nor Geatons.
Today someone (Rosered ) comments that she cannot post comments, but can post questions. The site is still certainly a work in progress.
Sorry for all that's going on and glad you're able to post!
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Hi guys, so sorry!!!! I couldn't get on then I figured I'd give it a few days, then I kept trying and well, I my email was wrong I switched the numbers backwards. Then I figured I'd wait until I had less going on to try again, hubs got his teeth pulled, then mom got a hand operation, then x was in hospital for food poisoning. Finally got things better and my anxiety back normal, and still couldn't get on. Finally I emailed administration and they fixed it all for me.

Anyways I'm back, I'm good, sorry if I worried any of ya all. Hope things are going well. I got some catching up to do!!
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We see you Beatty ! Yay !!!
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Hello. Testing if I can post 💌
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FYI I sent a PM to the AC account when I was having problems and got no response.
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Hi all,

Posting this update here, too, just so everyone's aware. As AlvaDeer mentioned, we're investigating issues with the Contact Us form on the site.

If you need support in the meantime, the other two contact options are:
1. Send a private message to this account (AgingCareCM) if you're able to log in
2. Email Moderator@aplaceformom.com
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Interesting Alva, and good to know. I guess from now on I'll contact them through the moderators profile page. Of course that doesn't help those who can't log in at all.
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OK, AgingCare during this entire last BOT crisis (or whatever it was) had asked that we "communicate problems to them" via the email form.
Well today, due to my posts read by them yesterday, they reached out to ME by email telling me they never got any communications from me via their forms.
SO AM I USING THE WRONG FORM?
What form are y'all using???
When Geaton couldn't get back on and I tried to inform them of that, and once when JoAnn couldn't get on, I did it in this manner: I went to the bottom of the page, scrolled all the way down to the area where you could contact them for help. Over on the far far right side was a place that you could click on that said "About Us". I clicked on that and up popped an email form where you enter your email and then you write them. I have done that in the past probably total dozen times and NEVER GOT AN ANSWER by email. Now they tell me they have no emails from me. So clearly the CONTACT US form isn't working. Or isn't working for some of us?

So my question now is the? How do you communicate with AgingCare when you need to. Exactly WHAT EMAIL are we to use? How do we access it. The message I got was from Moderator@aplaceformom.com. I suspect part of the communication problem is basis; we aren't getting through when there is a problem.
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That sucks Send, it doubly sucks that you can't figure out what is causing it ☹️
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Different scale, send The top number on our AQHI is 11 - meaning very high risk. The scale stops there. It's the kind of dense smoke where you can't see across the street,

Have you seen your doctor? Hope you feel better soon.
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Our air quality is moderate today in So Cal.
PM2.5 AQI: 52 (Moderate, with a range of 35 to 65)
O3 AQI: 10 (Good, with a range of 10 to 93)
NO2 AQI: 14 (Good, with a range of 4 to 14)
CO AQI: 3 (Good, with a range of 1 to 3) 
It's important to note that the AQMD defines a poor air quality day as any day with an AQI over 100. 

However, something is going on with me: extreme weakness, feet and legs are very painful, possible gout flare-up but if it's gout, it will be the worst yet.
Looking up mushrooms to blame. I felt like I was dying, not much better now in bed. The heat was not bad when I was outside at 9:00 a.m. But maybe I just cannot sit outside at all anymore. I would be able to endure it better if there was something to blame.

I wonder if this is the same scale as Golden's AQHI?
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We are at 7 today (155 on the American scale), which is kind of weird since it doesn't look nearly as smoggy to me as it did yesterday. I've never been bothered before but something's making me feel off so that's what I'm blaming.
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send - Daisy seems to be taking a break -or something. I'm just operating slowly these days. Some may have ulled back due to the posting issues.

Where are you on the AQHI scale, cw?

When it gets to 4, I close all windows. It hasn't been bad here this summer. Up north we got to 10 or 11 more than once in past years. I stayed in. Terrible for people with related health issues.

That smoke is nasty stuff. Take care.
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Air quality is poor today and I think I'm showing symptoms of that; I feel wiped out, my fitbit says O2 is at 94 and my heart rate is elevated. And I I don't have even any heart or lung problems (AFAIK), imagine the people who do 😟. If the air doesn't improve I guess I'd better keep the windows closed tonight.
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Where is everybody?
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Way, I've never used bugs spray before until this year!! Now it's my best friend. It's almost like how we all started to use hand sanitizer. Not as bad but I do have bug spray in each car, my pocket book, next to the outside door. It stinks!! And, lots of showers.

The lady that insist she got Lyme from a black fly, lives up in Thousand Island.
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I guess I’ll wear pants and bring a long sleeve shirt with me to go out by the swings.
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Yeah, her daughter has a camp on a lake, she probably got it there.

I agree, we have to keep our lawn, trimmed and weeded. But there is a house . We have a house for sale in back, and they are doing a horrible job keeping the lawn mowed. Im not happy about it!!

I've heard rumors, that Lyme is graduating to black flies and mosquitoes also. Someone we were talking to insist, she say the fly bit her, then the next day the Lyme rash showed up! I looked it up, they said that, they can carry Lyme, but there is no known human transmission. 🤷
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I have some bug bites on my legs and one on my arm , that I think are from flies . Was pushing the kids ( that I babysit ) on the swings . The homeowner throws grass clippings behind the shed that is next to the swing set . He’s also got a wood pile behind it . It stinks too . And it’s damp back there as a tree provides shade . Just beyond the swings and shed At the very end of the yard is a fence and a tree line in a ravine with a lot of underbrush and a large drainage pipe dumps rain water into the ravine . The rain water collects in a drain from the elevated driveway , house is on a hill .

I personally would not have put the new swing set where he put it . There is another flat area in the yard not near the damp ravine .
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My neighbor, has Lyme and anaplasmosis, at the same time. She got the bullseye rash luckily, and caught them both pretty early on.
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Isthisrealllyreal, that's what I've been doing, the walls, pictures, under things , the living room blinds are next. They are older, but really nice wood blinds, I normally wipe down every 2 times a year.

Your area sounds beautiful, humidity has been brutal here, and the smoke picked up.
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Alva, yep, my neck of the woods is Tucson. We do have beautiful lightning storms during monsoon and we have had thunder all night, just awesome! I love the rain!!!

Tell your daughter and SIL thank you for bringing some of their wet weather with them, we so needed it.

I am just relaxing with a cuppa, listening to the rain fall, enjoying the 69° weather that this awesome weather is bringing.

Daisy, good luck to your hubby Monday. I pray it is no big deal.
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RealyReal, Daughter and SIL now have a condo in your neck of the woods. Was telling me about the beautiful lightening storm! They are now part time in Tucson.
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Dust! I feel ya Daisy, I remember all your posts about the noise, dust, traffic and over all fun that was. It's good to get it dealt with, don't forget your walls and ceiling :-/

Where I live, it is always dusty, then add a drought and you can see the air 100% of the time. I can dust in the morning and write my name in it that evening. Learning to not go crazy from it has been work :-)

However, we are getting monsoon rain, over 2 inches since 6pm last night, 1 inch that we got the 1st 45 minutes of the storm the next over 12 hours and it's still raining. Yahoo!!!! I will dust today and probably get a whole week of minimal dust. Rain is such a blessing in so many ways. Except I had to drain water out of the pool to avoid an overflow.

My heart still breaks for all those in Texas.
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So last spring they started replacing are village water lines, I live in a corner where all the lines meet up, so the dirt and dust was much worse on my corner. They finally finished it this spring, and I'm finally tackling the DUST . I mean, I kept are main rooms clean , I didn't become a complete slob, but I just couldn't keep up with it all. So some rooms I just gave up on. So anyways, this has been fun. 🫠and I'm getting some exercise in, and very happy to have one more room mostly dust free.
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Thanks Alva and isthisrealllyreal, will do!!

Monday is teeth pulling day, only 8 teeth left, so shouldnt be to awful. so that's going to be interesting. He has a regular physical the end the month.
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Daisy, good news!

I recommend witch hazel for prickly heat, that's what we call a humid, rubbed, heat rash. Spritz it on or use a cotton ball on clean skin and it is usually better in the morning.

I still recommend colloidal silver for any wounds, it is a great antibacterial and does so much to aid healing and keep any creepy bug from causing infection.

You are a good wife. Keep on taking care of that man of yours :-)
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