What Did You Do Today? What are you doing today?

Grocery shopping. Booooooo!!

Did some Christmas shopping. Will do some more tomorrow.

Will have to clean up from the snow as well. UGH!!

swiftdog2.0 said:

Grocery shopping. Booooooo!!

Did some Christmas shopping. Will do some more tomorrow.

Will have to clean up from the snow as well. UGH!!

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Does Brody like the snow?

Spideyman said:

Does Brody like the snow?

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Yes, he does.

Today he was pushing it into piles on the porch. Then he was spinning in circles in the yard trying to catch snow flakes.

swiftdog2.0 said:

Yes, he does.

Today he was pushing it into piles on the porch. Then he was spinning in circles in the yard trying to catch snow flakes.

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That is awesome. Had a blk lab in NJ, first snow he'd seen he jumped off the back porch and sunk into the soft snow. Loved it. Happy snowflake catching, Brody!!

My husband and I went to our local hospital's Celebration of Life for transplants--(he had a kidney transplant) with his son and his exwife (aka kidney donor). It was awesome to see so many recipients 25 years after receiving a new liver, heart, lung or kidney/pancreas. Just made us all humbled and terribly grateful to God and medicine. After that the four of us went to local restaurant right on the lake--ate too much.

I was amazed how with four tiny incisions his ex wife donated her kidney, was sent home two days later and it was about three weeks down time. She's 60 and fit as a fiddle now. I wanted to donate but because I have a rare blood type but my valve replacement made me ineligible.

I will make the pitch now because what the hell--becoming a live kidney donor can impact so many people waiting--all testing and medical costs are paid by the kidney recipients health insurance. Please consider a month out of your life to give someone an extra 20 or 30 years.

https://www.kidney.org/transplantation/livingdonors

Christine62 said:

My husband and I went to our local hospital's Celebration of Life for transplants--(he had a kidney transplant) with his son and his exwife (aka kidney donor). It was awesome to see so many recipients 25 years after receiving a new liver, heart, lung or kidney/pancreas. Just made us all humbled and terribly grateful to God and medicine. After that the four of us went to local restaurant right on the lake--ate too much.

I was amazed how with four tiny incisions his ex wife donated her kidney, was sent home two days later and it was about three weeks down time. She's 60 and fit as a fiddle now. I wanted to donate but because I have a rare blood type but my valve replacement made me ineligible.

I will make the pitch now because what the hell--becoming a live kidney donor can impact so many people waiting--all testing and medical costs are paid by the kidney recipients health insurance. Please consider a month out of your life to give someone an extra 20 or 30 years.

https://www.kidney.org/transplantation/livingdonors

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I’m type O positive - what difference does your blood type make when considering transplants and being a donor? To be honest it never occurred to me to become a living donor.

Thanks for the link!

Neesy said:

I’m type O positive - what difference does your blood type make when considering transplants and being a donor? To be honest it never occurred to me to become a living donor.

Thanks for the link!

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What's your SS number? Asking for a friend.

not_nadine said:

What's your SS number? Asking for a friend.

Spoiler

Please don't post it. kiddin

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We have social insurance numbers up here in the wilds of Canada

I do feel bad when I have to go pick up lab samples in the Dialysis ward here at HSC

Neesy said:

I’m type O positive - what difference does your blood type make when considering transplants and being a donor? To be honest it never occurred to me to become a living donor.

Thanks for the link!

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My husband has b pos blood type. His donor is o pos--o is a universal blood type they can donate to anyone!

Christine62 said:

My husband has b pos blood type. His donor is o pos--o is a universal blood type they can donate to anyone!

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I have donated over 57 times to the Canadian Blood Services (formerly called Canadian Red Cross).

Had to cut back as my blood iron wasn't high enough for awhile. I may look into becoming a living donor - thanks for the information!

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Thanks danie. That was pretty good!

That whole "first class entitlement" thing ... yup, I've now got the status for a free upgrade to that section, space available, and you can bet I'll snag it if I can. Given the choice between comfort or cramped for a 12-hour flight, I just might select comfort. But yeah, when I'm going past people who are already seated, and the flight attendant draws the curtain shut to keep us proles out, it feels.... I dunno. Exclusionary. Oh, I guess that's 'cause it is.

Did you know in business/first on an international flight they give you real napkins and metal silverware and pretty much push a funnel in your mouth and pour alcohol down? I didn't know that till last year. I also got to watch high-def movies in my own little cubicle and lie down flat to sleep.

Back to the reality of Economy. I'm one of those who is early to the head of the line. But it's not because I'm afraid I won't get on, which would be just silly. It's because I'm usually carrying a raft of computer and electrical equipment in my carry-on, and I really really really really really really don't want to not have room in the overhead and have to gate-check that stuff. So I zip into the plane early to claim my spot upstairs.

People with no elbow room in the middle seat. Airline passenger etiquette demands that aisle and window seat occupants surrender their middle-seat elbow room to give the poor schmoe a break. No, they don't always do it. And leave your seatbacks up, please, unless the person ahead of you puts theirs in your lap. Then, sure, we understand.

Spot-on with the lack of good food choices in the back. Well... it's airline food. It's not like you're missing out on all that much anyway.

And possibly the biggest annoyance of frequent travel is, yeah, people in airports who cannot use the moving walkways, and sure enough, they'll take up the whole width and then come to a dead stop, terror-stricken at the thought of stepping off, while the other passengers, anxious to get to their own gates, pile up behind them like the marching band in Animal House.

Whether it's an airport or a mall or a sidewalk, the singular human constant is the inability to walk purposefully in a straight line. Really aggravating.

Let me preface this by saying I am doubtless some kind of hopeless screwup who was never able to catch up and is now losing all hope of maintaining any kind of meaningful or even sustainable existence. I don't know how hardly anyone else does most of what they do--just that I started off wrong and any attempts to catch up or justify my existence generally result in some kind of horrible setback calling more negative attention to myself. I have a few things on the bucket list I want to do before checking out and we'll see how that works.

So I did some Googling and am now 100% convinced I have a sinus condition severe enough to affect the inner ear. When I woke up, every time I moved my head, the room spun violently for some moments until what must be the inner ear fluid settled.

I have had such conditions before and usually maybe take some remedy for it and take it fairly easy while waiting for it to go away. I will be able to do a few basic things today but no major exertions. Monday morning I have a vet appointment to take Skipper in and see how his kidney condition is responding on the new food. If I don't feel 100% better by then, I am going to just have to ask to be seen at the clinic and get a doctor's note, since these tiresome people at the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy place require one. My word that I feel like crud isn't good enough there and I'm not sure it is at the clinic either, as the nurse gave me a big lecture about doing things anyway no matter how you feel (and things don't work right for me even when I am well, and never have, so why should they when I am sick?) and the doctor said the tests show I am all right which I suppose means I have no right to be feeling this bad!

The CBT place said three of my five absences were medically excused. I don't know what horrible penalty is imposed if a certain number of absences are reached nor do I want to know! I also have absolutely no idea what happens should road conditions become dangerous, nor do I want to know that, either.

If it's not better by itself on Monday I will ask at the clinic for some kind of medication. A few over-the-counter products sort of helped but didn't clear it up.

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Let me preface this by saying I am doubtless some kind of hopeless screwup who was never able to catch up and is now losing all hope of maintaining any kind of meaningful or even sustainable existence. I don't know how hardly anyone else does most of what they do--just that I started off wrong and any attempts to catch up or justify my existence generally result in some kind of horrible setback calling more negative attention to myself. I have a few things on the bucket list I want to do before checking out and we'll see how that works.

So I did some Googling and am now 100% convinced I have a sinus condition severe enough to affect the inner ear. When I woke up, every time I moved my head, the room spun violently for some moments until what must be the inner ear fluid settled.

I have had such conditions before and usually maybe take some remedy for it and take it fairly easy while waiting for it to go away. I will be able to do a few basic things today but no major exertions. Monday morning I have a vet appointment to take Skipper in and see how his kidney condition is responding on the new food. If I don't feel 100% better by then, I am going to just have to ask to be seen at the clinic and get a doctor's note, since these tiresome people at the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy place require one. My word that I feel like crud isn't good enough there and I'm not sure it is at the clinic either, as the nurse gave me a big lecture about doing things anyway no matter how you feel (and things don't work right for me even when I am well, and never have, so why should they when I am sick?) and the doctor said the tests show I am all right which I suppose means I have no right to be feeling this bad!

The CBT place said three of my five absences were medically excused. I don't know what horrible penalty is imposed if a certain number of absences are reached nor do I want to know! I also have absolutely no idea what happens should road conditions become dangerous, nor do I want to know that, either.

If it's not better by itself on Monday I will ask at the clinic for some kind of medication. A few over-the-counter products sort of helped but didn't clear it up.

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Holding to positive vibes, CoriSCapnSkip . Guidance to medical professionals to find cause and give treatment.

Neesy said:

We have social insurance numbers up here in the wilds of Canada

I do feel bad when I have to go pick up lab samples in the Dialysis ward here at HSC

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Everyone should visit a dialysis center--its a stop gap from death but it certainly isn't life. It's a slow slog through hell. Four hours three days a week sometimes four--and you don't feel any better than when you get up. You muscles bunch up like sacks of little pebbles from dehydration, muscle cramps, anemia from hell. Many patients die in the chair from a heart attack from too much fluid, sodium, potassium or phospherous (in dark soda). I got the message early when a nurse put ten pounds of fluid on my chest and said, "This is what happens when you give him too much to drink--it has no where to go." It made me more conscious of keeping my kidneys healthy.

A kidney transplant has not been all fruit loops and rainbows --as there is always the risk of infection from every virus and bacteria under the sun. It made me learn how very hard our immune systems fights off a myriad of viruses, mold spores and bacteria that would kill us in an instant. And we are oblivious.

This fall my husband had a virus and pneumonia that killed AIDS patients in the 80's while battling sepsis at the same time. I bow down to the human immune system and the little white haired infectious disease Dr. Goddess who saved my husband's life by using the big scary drugs.

I wake up every day and I am grateful.

CoriSCapnSkip said:

Let me preface this by saying I am doubtless some kind of hopeless screwup who was never able to catch up and is now losing all hope of maintaining any kind of meaningful or even sustainable existence. I don't know how hardly anyone else does most of what they do--just that I started off wrong and any attempts to catch up or justify my existence generally result in some kind of horrible setback calling more negative attention to myself. I have a few things on the bucket list I want to do before checking out and we'll see how that works.

So I did some Googling and am now 100% convinced I have a sinus condition severe enough to affect the inner ear. When I woke up, every time I moved my head, the room spun violently for some moments until what must be the inner ear fluid settled.

I have had such conditions before and usually maybe take some remedy for it and take it fairly easy while waiting for it to go away. I will be able to do a few basic things today but no major exertions. Monday morning I have a vet appointment to take Skipper in and see how his kidney condition is responding on the new food. If I don't feel 100% better by then, I am going to just have to ask to be seen at the clinic and get a doctor's note, since these tiresome people at the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy place require one. My word that I feel like crud isn't good enough there and I'm not sure it is at the clinic either, as the nurse gave me a big lecture about doing things anyway no matter how you feel (and things don't work right for me even when I am well, and never have, so why should they when I am sick?) and the doctor said the tests show I am all right which I suppose means I have no right to be feeling this bad!

The CBT place said three of my five absences were medically excused. I don't know what horrible penalty is imposed if a certain number of absences are reached nor do I want to know! I also have absolutely no idea what happens should road conditions become dangerous, nor do I want to know that, either.

If it's not better by itself on Monday I will ask at the clinic for some kind of medication. A few over-the-counter products sort of helped but didn't clear it up.

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I'm sorry about the vertigo. It is horrible. My stepmother had it as the result of an ear infection and the gave her meclizine which is Dramamine II available at Walmart off brand for $1.47. I use it for my once in a blue moon Virtigo of unknown origin. Will make you sleepy though.

We got our tree today, so decorating. I've purchased exactly 1 present, so I guess that's my next step.

Found the cutest artsy hanging lamp for my daughter's room. It's black and white with musical notes on it.

Christine62 said:

Everyone should visit a dialysis center--its a stop gap from death but it certainly isn't life. It's a slow slog through hell. Four hours three days a week sometimes four--and you don't feel any better than when you get up. You muscles bunch up like sacks of little pebbles from dehydration, muscle cramps, anemia from hell. Many patients die in the chair from a heart attack from too much fluid, sodium, potassium or phospherous (in dark soda). I got the message early when a nurse put ten pounds of fluid on my chest and said, "This is what happens when you give him too much to drink--it has no where to go." It made me more conscious of keeping my kidneys healthy.

A kidney transplant has not been all fruit loops and rainbows --as there is always the risk of infection from every virus and bacteria under the sun. It made me learn how very hard our immune systems fights off a myriad of viruses, mold spores and bacteria that would kill us in an instant. And we are oblivious.

This fall my husband had a virus and pneumonia that killed AIDS patients in the 80's while battling sepsis at the same time. I bow down to the human immune system and the little white haired infectious disease Dr. Goddess who saved my husband's life by using the big scary drugs.

I wake up every day and I am grateful.

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I bought a case of generic cola because it was 12 for 1.99;

then I saw a segment of a show called Hack My Life where they recommended pouring it into your toilet, giving it a good brushing, then rinsing the brush by flushing a couple of times.

Worked like a charm!

After reading what you said about the ‘dark soda’ I don’t think I’ll bother drinking the stuff. On the rare occasion I drink soda (we call it “pop”) I’ll have a small glass of ginger ale.

I’m of the opinion that food is like medicine. Eat healthy and feel healthy. Don’t want to sound like a fanatic (I was worse when I was younger) but it does help to eat well and take care of your body.

Hope your hubby is doing much better now!

skimom2 said:

We got our tree today, so decorating. I've purchased exactly 1 present, so I guess that's my next step.

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Did you buy a live tree? I’m thinking of getting a real one this year, for a change