Hey folks, welcome to the new whine/general topic thread. Feel free to use this thread to discuss anything that is on your mind. Caregiving- related stuff, life after a loved one's death, your own emotional wellbeing. Whatever..........anything on your mind.
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.
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. 😊
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!
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!!
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
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.
Have you seen your doctor? Hope you feel better soon.
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?
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.
The lady that insist she got Lyme from a black fly, lives up in Thousand Island.
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. 🤷
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 .
Your area sounds beautiful, humidity has been brutal here, and the smoke picked up.
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.
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.
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.
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 :-)