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My corner is sitting at 80F right now. Need to get my hair washed this heat is bringing out all the oil in it. Then clean and an email to send. Done with BC publishers and we are back to National.

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Email sent might possibly have a face to face meeting with the lady helping me. She's offered either Thursday or Saturday. She doesn't drive far anymore and so her husband will bring her out and go and see his mother. Then pick her back up again.

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Email sent might possibly have a face to face meeting with the lady helping me. She's offered either Thursday or Saturday. She doesn't drive far anymore and so her husband will bring her out and go and see his mother. Then pick her back up again.

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I hope her visit is productive. There's only so much anyone can do remotely. Best of luck.


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Horrible afternoon at mah jong. Couldn't go out for nothing. One decent hand with all 4 flowers and that was it.

Regular mah jong tomorrow.

Temp still sitting at around 80F and it is 8:30pm Pacific time.

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Horrible afternoon at mah jong. Couldn't go out for nothing. One decent hand with all 4 flowers and that was it.

Regular mah jong tomorrow.

Temp still sitting at around 80F and it is 8:30pm Pacific time.

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Too bad about the game.
I hope the tiles are with you tomorrow!

Wow, still 80 at 8:30?? At least around here it cools down in the evening! It's 70 (21C) right now (8:45).

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Also don't you hate it when the grocery store decides to move everything around. Twice in the last week I have had to ask where something is because the grocery store has decided to move everything around. Margarines been moved. Cereals have been moved. What was the candy aisle is now the soup aisle.

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Also don't you hate it when the grocery store decides to move everything around. Twice in the last week I have had to ask where something is because the grocery store has decided to move everything around. Margarines been moved. Cereals have been moved. What was the candy aisle is now the soup aisle.

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Absolutely! I hate it when they do that!

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More than once, when wearing Crocs (rubberized clogs) or soft-soled shoes, I'd feel something really poking into my foot, take off my shoe to shake out a stone and still have that painful spot. It wasn't until I figured out to look at the bottom and found a seed spike stuck thru the sole far enough to actually poke a small hole in my foot that I solved the problem.

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Also don't you hate it when the grocery store decides to move everything around. Twice in the last week I have had to ask where something is because the grocery store has decided to move everything around. Margarines been moved. Cereals have been moved. What was the candy aisle is now the soup aisle.

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Absolutely! I hate it when they do that!

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More than once, when wearing Crocs (rubberized clogs) or soft-soled shoes, I'd feel something really poking into my foot, take off my shoe to shake out a stone and still have that painful spot. It wasn't until I figured out to look at the bottom and found a seed spike stuck thru the sole far enough to actually poke a small hole in my foot that I solved the problem.

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"Constant monitoring of behavior, emotion, and identity breeds conformity, judgment, and fear."

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I know and it is starting to drive me buggy. I don't think the veggies will get away with out being moved either but not sure. I know the deli is safe. I walked into the cereal down around where the cheese is or was. That's been moved to where the margarine was. Ugh!

Ouch, that is really nasty. Maybe you have to wear something like a running shoe when you are out in your yard.

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Up and around to do things. Then an email to the Poet. Think I have found another publisher to send too.

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Also don't you hate it when the grocery store decides to move everything around. Twice in the last week I have had to ask where something is because the grocery store has decided to move everything around. Margarines been moved. Cereals have been moved. What was the candy aisle is now the soup aisle.

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More than once, when wearing Crocs (rubberized clogs) or soft-soled shoes, I'd feel something really poking into my foot, take off my shoe to shake out a stone and still have that painful spot. It wasn't until I figured out to look at the bottom and found a seed spike stuck thru the sole far enough to actually poke a small hole in my foot that I solved the problem.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

"Constant monitoring of behavior, emotion, and identity breeds conformity, judgment, and fear."

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I know and it is starting to drive me buggy. I don't think the veggies will get away with out being moved either but not sure. I know the deli is safe. I walked into the cereal down around where the cheese is or was. That's been moved to where the margarine was. Ugh!

Ouch, that is really nasty. Maybe you have to wear something like a running shoe when you are out in your yard.

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yeah, they rearranged to nearest grocery store ... again. The only positive thing about that was they had two weeks of "grand (re)opening" sales and I scored on ground organic beef and stocked my freezer.

Running shoes wont work. Need hard leather soles, but I'm going to have to really go shoe shopping bc between the chemo neuropathy, extra extra wide feet and bunion I'm going to need specialized footwear.

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Up and around to do things. Then an email to the Poet. Think I have found another publisher to send too.

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Sounds like you're still moving forward. Did you get to see her in person? I hope so! Emails are convenient but they're so tedious, if you type as badly as I do.

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Been pushing myself as hard as joint pain and energy allow. I noticed if I take an hour or two out of a day to do yardwork for a couple of days I really have to make up the housework the following days. Which I suppose works in a way, bc after just a few hours of yardwork I'm kind of crippled.

This pain syndrome all started with a 10-day course of Levaquin antibiotic for one of my many sinus infections, all the way back in 2019 IIRC, and the tendon pain flared so bad I stopped taking the antibiotic on day 8. It's an autoimmune problem, one of two.

I have to say, my immune system is fucked. It attacks things it shouldn't (allergens, me) but missed cancer cells.

Beyond my pay grade. Back to Dr Rheumatologist.

On the plus: today is "clean out the frig" day bc tomorrow is shopping day. I have some bitchin' leftover beef vegetable soup, and equally good oven "fried" chicken, kafta meatballs, the makings for quinoa "tabouleh", salad fixings, and avocados from the tree. I'm sure everyone can find something they like, and I don't have to cook. But I better pick more avocados.

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I didn't feel right last night. Low energy after getting a lot of sleep in the previous 24 hours. So I went to bed fairly early and was in and out of sleep most of the night. About an hour before I wanted to be up this morning, I woke up with my glasses still on my face and they were all fogged up. It's when I realized that I was in the middle of a cold sweat.

It was like that time I got real sick and had the cold sweats from the fever, and when I got out of bed the cold just ripped right through me. But I had a fever then. No fever right now. It's also pretty COLD in my house, with that little A/C really doing its job and the temps outside not being as brutal as they were. Even going upstairs to the bathroom was rough because I had to pass the A/C room to get into the bathroom to take a shower, and I had my blanket wrapped around me because my shirt and boxers were wet as if I jumped into a pool wearing them.

Real low energy right now. Hoping my coffee kick starts me. That was the longest shower I've taken in a while, and I didn't want to get out. The hot water felt nice. Getting my clothes out of my icebox bedroom where the A/C was after the shower was not fun.

It's weird. I feel as though I have a fever or maybe I did while I was sleeping for a few hours last night. But I don't feel sick. Just bleh.

At least the sweating is done and I'm not getting my dry clothes wet right now.

Got a few errands I want to run and that's it for the day, so that's good. I wanted to get up to the post office first thing, so that's the only reason there was a time issue.

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Continuous glucose monitoring for diabetes: potential pitfalls for the general physician
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Toxic-Shock Syndrome in a Patient Using a Continuous Subcutaneous Insulin Infusion Pump--Idaho
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My husband hates chicken. He refuses to eat dark meat bc it has a stronger taste. So I have to gussy it up somehow. The "oven fried" chicken is marinated in a milk, salt, sugar, vinegar and spice mixture, which flavors and tenderizes the chicken, and is coated with a mixture of panko, parmesan, and olive oil before baking. I also make persian chicken, chicken enchiladas, and chicken parmigiana.

He also hates anything but ground beef bc it sticks between his teeth. So I finally figured to cut beef chuck into SMALL bite sizes and simmer it for at least 2 1/2 hours before adding vegetables. I used Better than Bouillon and tomato sauce for flavor, plus celery, carrots, potatoes, and whatever other veggies I have on hand (in this case zucchini and green beans, but it could be corn or beet greens or anything). It turned out great! Family loved it!

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I don't currently have any problems at either of my insertion sites that I can tell. No redness or itching. I last changed my CGM maybe 4 days ago, and I just inserted a new 3-day insulin pod very late last night right before going to bed. As of now, at least, my appetite seems fine, and I don't feel any nausea.

I think I probably should pull out my test strips and see if we're matching up right though. Not a bad idea there.

When I woke up my sugar was over 100 and I wasn't in the middle of any low-sugar event. It's possible that somewhere earlier in the night I was, so I should go back and see if that happened, but I would think that unless I was really sweating buckets during it before it leveled out that I would have dried off a bit by the time I got up. It was a lot of sweat.



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So, how do you feel now? Still "meh"? Or have you fully recovered?

Not everyone gets all of the symptoms, but postural hypotension (symptomatically low blood pressure dips when going from lying down to standing or sitting to standing, makes you feel woozy or faint) is a subtle symptom but a red flag.

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So, how do you feel now? Still "meh"? Or have you fully recovered?

Not everyone gets all of the symptoms, but postural hypotension (symptomatically low blood pressure dips when going from lying down to standing or sitting to standing, makes you feel woozy or faint) is a subtle symptom but a red flag.

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I feel better. Slept most of the day though. Didn't really get much sleep from what I can tell last night anyhow, so I figured that would be the case. Felt a lot better when I woke up this time than I did this morning for sure.

It's been so long since I used the finger prick method that I blew through about 6 strips before I got a good reading. It was within 10 points of what my meter was telling me at the time, so I think that's functioning alright at least. No hidden Keto-Acidosis going on for me anyhow.

I'll keep tabs on it. Thanks for the concern.

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Out soon on a much, much cooler day. Need a jacket. There's a bit of wind too. Could hear the glass rattling in the balcony above me.

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Out soon on a much, much cooler day. Need a jacket. There's a bit of wind too. Could hear the glass rattling in the balcony above me.

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You're definitely on the other side of the jet stream!

But it's not too bad here, considering it's late July. My inlaws in Rochester NY are duffering thru a heat wave, as is most of the eastern USA. And when it gets hot there, it's humid! 90/90 weather: 90 deg and 90 percent humidity.

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