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Do people dance any more? I was thinking about all the dances I went to in my salad days, how there was always an open wedding reception or a service group having a fundraiser or even the dance floor at the local bar and what fun it all was to get tipsy (all right, pissed to the gills) and dance all night. Back in mom's day there were the big dance halls with big band music that people travelled for miles to attend. What happened, where did it all go?
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Becky,

thinking of you

MsM
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madge - sorry to hear about the Viking's troubles. I think it is a good idea to try her without the aspirin. It can be very hard on the stomach. Life for the aged is often tough.
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So sorry, Tacy. He is a mental case! You don’t need him torturing you.

Has your mom handled the package? Is it safe?
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Tacy, what DIL said. Don't waste time. Call the cops, suspicious package. I am surprised you haven't already.
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Call the cops and tell them you fear your stalker sent you a package containing drugs or explosives.
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"Return to sender...address unknown"
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Hugs Becky
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I have way too much on my mind and none of it is pleasant. I had to start hemodialysis last Tuesday. I went thru all the classes and orientation. Even though they tell you that you will be tired that doesn’t begin to describe.
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Thinking of discontinuing the daily baby aspirin that the Viking has been taking for over 2 years now

she keeps saying she's vomiting which she's not and doesn't want to eat
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I pay $524.00 per month for my health insurance. High quality, pays everything, but still expensive.
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Oh, and I've had my mammogram this year already too! All good!
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Send, my blood pressure is the other end of the spectrum. Too low. I checked it two days ago and it was 97 over 76. Maybe that's not too low but lower. Could explain why I feel faint and dizzy quite often.
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October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
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Rant over.
There is currently no affordable healthcare insurance for me personally, imo.
Not HMO, Not PPO.
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MsMadge,
If someone wants the basics and doesn't mind trusting kp to even take your B/P correctly, in other words a patient will be put through the plan standard protocols, standard tests, standard of care for the majority of the population, then it might be an ok plan. But a hospital visit would bankrupt me @ $300/day copayment. However, it is not just kp, but any major HMO, imo.

The PRESSURE from staff protocols to actually have the patient to have high blood pressure is tremendous after nurse takes your b/p, it is high, so she will take it again, she says. (153/73). She does not. How many reading this are on b/p meds?

When it is decided that I will be required to report to their specialty blood pressure nurse in a week (who was so very busy) an appointment was made for weeks away....) I then ask the nurse to retake my b/p, she argues that she already did......
But agrees to retake it (143/73). Wow, that is HIGH??? Not. Not high.

I cancelled the b/p appt. I understand that I can fight this (which makes me so angry, my b/p rises!) and have inaccurate information deleted from my record.
Pain and rushing to appt. can also raise one's s b/p. White coat syndrome can raise one's b/p.
Facts are that a consistently high b/p that is documented over 3 visits may be an accurate diagnosis of hypertension. I deny having hypertension. I have proved it over time by monitoring it.

Often, the B/P device is not calibrated accurately. The cuff is not placed on the upper arm firmly, and is too loose. The device pumps up and "holds" tight for too long, causing pain, and the doctors, do they even know HOW TO TAKE your B/P anymore, at all? Because.....they don't. They don't take a reading, and I doubt they know how. Thus the need/requirement for a specialty bp nurse?

Oops, power is out, due to Santa Ana wind conditions. Temps can get high today. Tweety and I will need cooling. See? Why would I even have to address kp' s errors? At all.......

For those w o n d e r I n g why it is so very important to have accuracy in b/p readings, accuracy in diagnosing hypertension, there is no help for you except
e d u c a t I o n. Imo.
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Send

some folks like KP

I'm not one of them

my health insurance premiums are going up 96% if I want to keep my PPO with Blue - 😠
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Extremely disappointed after seeing new PCP doctor at Kaiser, through a new Medicare Advantage plan.
Why would any patient be forced to prove the truth about the misinformation they are peddling?
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I was still awake when the quake hit - one sharp jolt

as long as it’s not a precursor to the big one
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Always post a kind comment to others.
A positive outlook will have you being kind to yourself too!
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Did not feel it, Compton CA, must have been down graded to a 3.5, with about two very small Compton events after that.
Woke you up Ms. Madge?
Why didn't Tweety bird tell me, I wonder?

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Yes, know what you mean about siblings, Gershun.

Unfortunately, my mom pitted us against each other.

Glad you had a good relationship with your mom. I did too, off and on.

My grandparents though, they were my constant source of love.
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I didn't see the interview but I loved my mom deeply, almost too much if there can be such a thing. I knew I'd take her passing hard and it's been a long journey to get past the grief. I'm still working on it.

As for my relationship with my siblings. There isn't much of one. I discovered a strength I never knew was there being caregiver for my mom and it became even more apparent to me how little my sibs respected me. How little they respected my mom. Their lack of kindness and empathy is astounding to me. They are truly mean, selfish, self-centered idiots. I have very little to do with any of them anymore. They can come to me now. I'm done groveling for any kind of affection from them.
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Did anyone see the interview with Elton John on CBS Sunday Morning News show? It was interesting. He was asked about his troubled relationship with his mom. He said she worked very hard to support them.

Apparently they had been estranged. She never wanted to meet his children. She didn’t like his partner in life and so forth.

Anyway, Elton reached out to her before she died and he told her that he loved her. She said she loved him too but did not like him. He told her that was okay and he accepted how she felt.

He wrote his autobiography. He wants his children to be able to read his story when they get older. His kids are young so he knows that he won’t live long enough to see them in when they are older adults and this way they will know what their dad was like when they are ready to read his words.

It makes me wonder, how many mothers truly don’t like their children? Or how many children despise their parents? It’s certainly not a given that there will automatically be love because of being family, right?

I can attest to the same thing as far as siblings go. I can’t say that I like my brothers.

Does anyone envy people who do have a warm loving relationship with their family?
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Did somebody say earthquake ?

I hate them during the middle of the night even if it was only tiny - 3.7

made a late night run to hoca to check on the Viking - she's on antibiotics again - she told me she didn't feel well - I asked her what was bothering her the most - she replied, too many things
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"When  I die
Give what’s left of me away
To children
And old men that wait to die.

And if you need to cry,
Cry for your brother
Walking the street beside you
And when you need me,
Put your arms
Around anyone
And give to them
What you need to give to me.

I want to leave you something,
Something better
Than words
Or sounds.

Look for me
In the people I’ve known
Or loved,
And if you cannot give me away,
At least let me live in your eyes
And not on your mind.

You can love me most
By letting
Hands touch hands
By letting
Bodies touch bodies
And by letting go
Of children
That need to be free.

Love doesn’t die,
People do.
So, when all that’s left of me
Is love,
Give me away"
Merrit Malloy
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This time of year you can't really 3itch about cold, wet, dark and dreary weather because somebody is bound to say "at least it isn't snow!". They're right of course, but still...
(and to all of those who already have had so much snow I'm sorry, but I can't help but feel better you than me)
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Will be thinking of you as you do the right things for yourself, CWillie.
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Finally got a call this morning and will meet my doctor next Tuesday to make a plan.
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