Gettin' Old Ain't for Sissies

Mamanyt1953 said:

 
 I can eat a good, vine-ripened tomato like an apple.  

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As a kid growing up I remember my dad doing that - he loved a freshly picked tomato with a little salt on top and would eat it like an apple too.  But their acidity bothers me so I can only have a slice or two in a sandwich.

It seems to me that they have bred the acidity out of tomatoes, which I don't like. I much prefer a nice, tangy tomato.

I still love to go out in the garden with a salt shaker. Sit my butt down among the tomato plants and start picking tomatoes. I'll shake a wee bit of salt on them and enjoy. My dad and I used to do that when I was a kid. For me, it's one of the best things about having a garden. Those tomatoes are wonderful things. 

And my aunt always said that when she couldn't find me, all she had to do was go down into her rhubarb patch. I'd be sitting right smack in the middle of her rhubarb patch, pulling up rhubarb stalks and eating them. Evidently, I loved raw rhubarb.

I hate not having a garden, although I'm notorious for killing stuff.  I can grow a few herbs effectively, and that would be nice.

The gout is better today.  I am on a maintenance dose of Meloxicam and that keeps both the gout, the TMJ (and isn't THAT just a barrel of laughs?), and the arthritis down to a very low roar.  I occasionally have to get prednisone for a severe arthritis flare-up, but it's (so far) a very low dosage, so no problem there.

Mamanyt1953 said:

 
The gout is better today.  

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    Yay! 

Well.  I just found the coffee pot in the freezer.  I wonder when I did that?

That's not good. Could be a sign of worse to come.

Mamanyt1953 said:

 
Well.  I just found the coffee pot in the freezer.  I wonder when I did that?

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it wasn't you... it was Hekitty!!!

@DreamerRose  oh,I've done worse.  Far worse.

@Artiemom   Yeah, I'm going with that.  It was Hekitty!  I was joking with Suzanne just yesterday that the ONLY thing I really miss about being married is that now I don't have anyone to throw to the wolves when I do something stupid!

Glad you found it. I've "mislaid" a few things myself. [emoji]128515[/emoji]

Mamanyt1953 said:

 
Well.  I just found the coffee pot in the freezer.  I wonder when I did that?

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You didn't happen to see a pair of Vise Grip pliers in there, did you?

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1CatOverTheLine said:

 
You didn't happen to see a pair of Vise Grip pliers in there, did you?

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  No, those are actually in the crock pot.  Really.  The knob broke, and I'm too thrifty to throw it out and get another, so I keep the small grips there to turn it on and adjust the heat!

You two are too much!   

DreamerRose said:

 

You two are too much! 

 

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Hey, ya hafta laugh!  Crying fogs up the bifocals!

Mamanyt1953 said:

 

  No, those are actually in the crock pot.  Really.  The knob broke, and I'm too thrifty to throw it out and get another, so I keep the small grips there to turn it on and adjust the heat!

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Do you still have the knob?  The knob on my toaster oven broke and super-gluing it on worked beautifully.

In late September/early October I fell down the stairs.  My foot slipped on the second or third stair down, I landed on my back and I slid straight down.  I instinctively kept my head tucked so no damage there, but my tailbone and both elbows hit every step hard.

My butt and my right elbow and every muscle attached were pretty sore for the next few days.  My left elbow was in agony.  No bruising, no swelling, no limitation on movement.  But it hurt to the touch so bad that I couldn't even wear long-sleeved shirts or a jacket, the light layer of fabric caused crazy amounts of pain.

The elbow doesn't hurt as bad, but god forbid I forget and rest my elbows on the table, that sets off a ton of pain.  And over the last month my right elbow started hurting, especially when I raise my arms to hang clothing high at work.  So I gave in and actually saw the doctor.

The left elbow, the one hurting since September, probably has bursitis.

The right elbow has tennis elbow, golfer's elbow and osteo-arthritis.

Arthritis?????  I'm only 43!!!

I'm suddenly feeling old.

@arouetta   If you are having regular pain, ask your doctor about meloxicam.  It has done wonders for me.  But you can't take Aleve with it.  

And I haven't a clue what happened to the know.  I kept it for the longest, planning to glue it, but when I finally remembered to get the glue, I had lost the knob!

Mamanyt1953 said:

 
@arouetta   If you are having regular pain, ask your doctor about meloxicam.  It has done wonders for me.  But you can't take Aleve with it.  

And I haven't a clue what happened to the know.  I kept it for the longest, planning to glue it, but when I finally remembered to get the glue, I had lost the knob!

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Oof.  That's actually what we're trying, is one Aleve twice a day.  I'm not writhing in agony (unlike last year at this time) so very conservative treatment is fine.  I'm going to do do-it-yourself PT (home exercises) instead of jumping into actual PT.

It's all different pains right now.

The pain of the neuritis was cured in late May though I didn't get full strength back in that arm until August or September.

Falling down the stairs is probably what triggered the bursitis.

I've got an achy back, though crazy enough that's improving.  Last year this time I would wake up stiff as all get out and hurting some in my lower back, the bad days I'd be repeatedly touching my toes in a hot morning shower as movement stopped the pain and got rid of the stiffness.  Now I don't have that problem, though the past few days getting up from a full squat or off the floor has my back popping in a way that makes me say "ow" before I realize that I'm not actually hurting, I just feel like I should be hurting with all those pops.

The knees started hurting when I first got a somewhat physical job, I couldn't squat for long but now I have no problem.  But again, the past few days they've been popping getting up in a way that makes my brain think I'm hurting before I realize I don't hurt, the popping just sounds painful.

I've got a sore spot near my collarbone that hurts when I cause the elbow to hurt, I forgot to tell the doctor, but it's in the muscle and hurts only when pushed on or when raising my arms.  Maybe more tendonitis, maybe related to the sore shoulder I had after rolling over in bed and hearing a loud pop right before the pain hit.  (Btw, I have a mild phobia now triggered by waking up after sleeping wrong or turning wrong in bed.)

My feet hurt a fair amount sometimes, but that's also because I'm putting over 200 lbs of weight on them for hours at a time on work days.  I often don't feel the pain though until I've gotten off of them for a bit, so mostly the first hour of the morning or after sitting and chilling a bit when I've gotten home from work or on my longer breaks.  And they don't hurt at all if the previous workday was a 5 hour or less duration.

I never would have known that I have arthritis if it hadn't shown up on the precautionary x-ray the doctor did today as my elbow has never given me problems.

On the plus side, I've lost 4 pounds in a week according to the nurse.  Half of that is probably water weight, but that still leaves some actual real weight loss.

Wow, I just looked up bursitis on WebMD.  The particular kind I have is called "Popeye's elbow", after the cartoon character.

Water weight counts.  Especially as far as your feet are concerned!  I've managed to drop 40 pounds over the last couple of years (and without any major changes other than switching from sweetened tea to just tea with lemon, WHO KNEW?)  Celebrate EVERY OUNCE!  I get a little tickled when I hear "just water weight."  We've been led to think that, somehow, water weight isn't a real thing, as if there were some secret water resevoir separate from our bladders, where water weight is stored and that it isn't part of our body mass.  Nope.  It is stored in our cells, including fat cells, and bulks us out as much as the fat cells do.  It is, to be sure, the easiest to get rid of, but it is every bit as "real" as weight from stored fat cells.  YOU GO GIRL!


I am SO in touch today!