So glad you two were able to help your neighbor,
Kathryn & Ken!
And a HUGE ditto to
LadyM's words to
Cathy:
(((CathyS)))) I want to be your friend through good times and also the struggles. Please don't shy away if you are going through a difficult time. Someone said that no one lives on the mountain tops in the path of life. We have to walk through the deep valleys too. I encourage you to keep posting and let us walk beside you during the hard times. I don't know what I would have done if ya'll hadn't helped me get through some really rough times I've experienced. I am thankful for this group.
I can't second that enough... what on earth would I do without you ladies to keep me from letting my own mind make me crazy from time to time? Sometimes I feel like all I do is bring the group down with my little crises, but oh my goodness... what would I do if y'all weren't here to take my hand or sometimes give me a stern push? ((((BIG GROUP HUGS))))
I'm so sorry ds has such problems with his anxiety on stormy nights,
LadyM... as y'all might imagine, I was an anxious child before I became an anxious adult. I've been using the Hyland's Restful Legs PM formula lately. I think it may have melatonin in it. I still have some nights that FitBit doesn't think I sleep well, and sometimes that's simply because I don't sleep enough. But I think it does help.
I've never been diagnosed with Restless Leg Syndrome, but I believe I do have it. Sometimes my legs just feel sooo "twitchy" at night, and it almost never happens EXCEPT at night or when I've been sitting for a long while (long car trips, etc.) It scares me, because of my dgf's experience with Parkinson's, but I have no other symptoms at all, and I hate to start taking meds for it (fearful of side effects.)
Do I take to much meds already -- in your opinions?
I take -- the following OTC meds/supplements:
Antihistamine (Zyxal, Claritin, whatever)
One a Day Multivitamin (usually women's metabolism or energy variety)
Pro-bio Slim (which is supposed to help with weight loss, along with the Probiotic value) (2 daily at the moment, b/c 1 wasn't doing the trick!)
B-12
Calcium
Magnesium
Fiber pills (2 daily) (recommended by Gastroenterologist, and it does seem to help)
-- plus these prescriptions --
Estrogen & Progesterone (rx by ob-gyn)
Paxil (rx by ob-gyn)
Does that sound like a lot? It looks like a lot, but I spread it out into three sets during the day. DH can swallow the most awful handful of pills all at once, but I cannot do that. One. At. A. Time. for me. And dh takes waaaaay more than I do, with all the rx's he has, plus all his supplements for arthritis and I don't know what all.
When will the wariness and consideration of the risk factor way of doing things end?
Ditto that, too,
LadyM. Even though we have not been as "careful" as some, I imagine, still... we have not been in any
close crowds and haven't really spent any
time with anyone except ds/family & my dmom. We have hair cut appts next Tuesday, and are instructed to wear masks... and I made a dermatologist appt for June 4. (I have a worrisome spot on my collarbone.) But to think about getting into big crowds like for ballgames or concerts... hmmm... and to think about school starting back... more hmmm...
LOL at your dsil,
Dee... I think that is how ds/ddil would be -- just push the stuff to the side and carry on.
Aside from making the dermatologist appt, I have
had lunch with dh/ds/family -- local "greasy spoon" hamburgers for them, pizza for me --
started the laundry
talked to dmom
... I guess that's about it. Need to go take flip the laundry now.
Waving to
all!