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Some people have nothing to do and then there are other's who will never be thru~
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Great news CWillie. I just read about you getting news that no more treatment needed. I bet that's a good feeling.

Is it just me or has this been a real witch of a year? Some blessings, of course, but, lots of heartache too. My dad took a downward turn and just returned home from rehab, I lost one of my best friends in the spring at age 59 and today, I just got a call from another good friend who's in surgical ICU. He's spinal cord surgery bound in a couple of days. He's almost 81 years old and I'm feeling pretty nervous. It makes me wonder what is going on?
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I am no longer requesting anyone delete comments that are inappropriate for the AgingCare forum here.

I am just putting them in the TRASH where they belong!

LOL.
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CWillie, glad to hear that things are looking up! Congrats and hoping that you are feeling better every day!
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Send, You’re exactly right about that thread. I don’t want to see that level of profanity. Totally inappropriate.
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About 14" of snow three days ago, and still very cold. Winds are howling and quite blustery today. Roads all covered in snow again from ground blizzards. Very slick, almost worse now than earlier this week, because you don't know when you will hit a patch of ice, dependent on the wind speed and direction. Got out, had coffee and egg pie, then got shopping done, now I can just hunker down until Monday.

And blessed for a neighbor that cleared off my driveway, with his mini tractor, while I was away and upon return could get into the garage.
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cw - Such good news!!! Happy for you. It must be a huge relief.
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I got the official call yesterday - "no further treatment needed". It's not often you hear about someone celebrating a misdiagnosis (it was still cancer, just not the kind originally identified) and I can't help but wonder what life lessons I was meant to learn from all of that.
I am certainly overwhelmed by all the support and well wishes I've received both here and in real life.
I was forced to accept that I can't do it all alone and agree to allow people to help.
I for sure have a new empathy for people facing cancer and even surgery of any kind - it's not so routine as we pretend it is.
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Logging out until the thread "The USA holiday season, viewed from a distance seems horrible" is DELETED in it's entirety.
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Oh Send,

What a treat! Fun to at least see the snow nearby on the news.

I adore California. You truly live in one of the most beautiful states in our country. California is lovely. I always enjoyed visiting there.

One of my most precious memories with my dad was building a small snowman in our yard as a kid. We had so much fun!
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NHWM,
The snow is on the news.
Cannot take pictures because the snow is hours away, not here in my yard.
Cannot drive there because the roads are closed.

Many years ago, I did take a photo of a tiny snowman I built in my yard, and that was fun because it was so rare. But, like you, there was very little snow, lasting only an hour or two.

We always want or like what we do not have. However, I am still content to have the beaches nearby, within an hour's drive. A day trip can take us from Malibu to Huntington Beach and back, or even to Santa Barbara and back, just beautiful beaches, waves, skies, and a ferris wheel.
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Wow! Get some pictures, Sendhelp. Snow is so rare here that my daughter took video on our phones to keep. So pretty to see.

Hahaha. We can barely call it snow here. We get a few flurries. Everything closes down because people here don’t know how to drive in snow!
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There is SNOW in Southern California!
It's raining outside just now. The SNOW is over the I-5 grapevine pass @ over 4000 ft., said to be snowing down to 3000 ft.

Guessing it is winter now.
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I should not have looked online about RCT complications

I’ll be ruminating on it until I see the dentist on Monday
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Glad, I got some more info on the WVU Altzheimer’s studies. They have developed technique to get thru a blood barrier into the plaque that causes Altzheimer’s. They’re developing techniques to break up the plaque. It uses ultrasonic probes in a special helmet. So far they are working with patients with early onset
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worried, I know. We have tent communities here cause most of the homeless population can't fit into the limited shelter space and a lot of the homeless are drug addicted with mental problems. My own brother fits into this category. We have tried to get him help but he always ends up back on the street and that seems to be where he chooses to be. It's very sad.
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Gershun, I hope that man got help. I don’t know the situation in Vancouver but down here in California there’s not much the police can do. I knew something like this was going to happen too. It was only a matter of time. A lot of these poor people are so out of their mind that they don’t know what they are doing and they are volatile. If they commit a crime, the jail won’t take them anymore (not like jail is where they need to be anyway). The hospitals can’t keep them on a psych hold but for a few days so they always end up back on the street. The city gets all this money to help “the homeless” but they do nothing to address the mental health aspect of it! Or drug addiction which is another crisis amongst our homeless :(
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worried, we have the same problem here in Vancouver. In fact today I was waiting for the train to come home after doing errands and a man was screaming at the top of his lungs and running for the train, his pants falling down and just acting crazy. When I got to the train platform he was being escorted away by transit police but with someone like that you never know what he may have done if they didn't get to him first.

One of my elder brothers is schizophrenic so I know what it's like to be around a mental illness but it still never makes you feel safe when you are out in public. and see it.
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A sad, horrific violent crime happened in my city today and enough is enough! A mentally ill homeless man stabbed a young woman death near her own home, while she was on her way to work! She may have been pregnant too (neighbors are saying in the crime group that they heard she was, a witness said he thought she was too). We have a crisis in this city and enough is enough! Too many mentally ill people on the street and they need help that they aren’t getting! And now an innocent young woman is dead.
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Glad, So far they’ve treated one patient. I saw an interview and she says she noticed a slight change in memory retrieval and also in remembering a specific word. She’s a nurse with the University. They have more trials and tests planned. The neuroscience center is also experimenting with Parkinson’s essential tremors. The center was founded by the Rockefeller family. Sen Rockefeller’s mother Blanche died a few years ago from Alzheimer’s. University of Cincinnati Neuroscience Center is also doing a great deal of Alzheimer’s research.

My younger brother was was diagnosed with Parkinson’s several months ago. He has applied to the WVU program.
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Anyone heard of this? Hoping!
https://www.wvnews.com/news/wvnews/historic-breakthrough-wvu-rockefeller-neuroscience-team-first-to-use-ultrasound/article_cfe6fefc-eee9-5add-b853-23642a0a91a7.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=user-share&fbclid=IwAR2CyBve0YqMViuYDVzKoSxBQRMBVTq81d_MsjUI0WsDvl2E-y5ClYEkyLA
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The memorial service went well. About 30 people showed up. I cried a little but that was expected-We weren't there for a happy occasion.
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Today is my father's memorial service...This is going to be a tough one for me today. Me and mom are doing ok regarding Dad's passing-We still struggle from time to time but we are doing a little better than what we expected.
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" ... fresh woods and pastures new!" I'm delighted for you, GrannieAnnie, may you always travel hopefully :)
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Hugs Grannie. 💗
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Goodbye Grannie Annie, may God bless you.
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Good bye GrannieAnnie - Go and enjoy your life. You deserve it.
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I am getting out a lot since my aunt died and I've recovered my health.  I have decided to close my account here. Thank you everyone for help, your insight and compassion. Blessings.
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The lost of a young life is _always_ a tragedy, particularly to the family and immediate friends, regardless of the reason. I have never gotten the whole "more" tragic thinking; whether a drug overdose, car accident, alcohol poisoning, suicide, drowning, allergic reaction, sports injury, accidental electrocution or shooting, a young life has been lost. My mother's first cousin lost one granddaughter at 19 when she and her drug dealing boyfriend of 2 weeks were shot execution style by his "colleagues". Autopsy proved she didn't even use drugs, but she was in the wrong place at the wrong time. The cousin also lost a grandson at 18 in a car accident when he wasn't wearing a seat belt. How they died doesn't matter. They are both just as dead from "preventable" causes. The years of promise in an adult life are forever lost. Their parents and grandparents and siblings must live the remainder of their lives with a big missing hole where those young people should be.
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