Quarantine and chill and kindness chatty clubhouse: Jump in and join the conversation! All is welcome!

[flyingdumbo127]

Extra prayer for Tom and always for you dear Bobbi.

Snowysmom, I will gladly wait with dear you. Slippery and steep does not sound at all fun to me. Cheers for your grandkids last ball game.

 

[lynxstch]

What kind of carpet cleaner do you have? My 2 bedrooms have wall to wall carpet and a cleaner would be nice.

I used to have a Bissell, but it was getting old and not working well anymore. I just bought Hoover Smartwash Essential. I love it. You can get little 'packs' of cleaner you just drop in the tank and add water (like laundry pods sort of). No trigger to use. Turn it on, when you push forwards the cleaner dispenses, when you pull back, it sucks up the water. There's a dry only button you can use and it dries the carpets even faster.

 

[lynxstch]

Good sunny morning. Our weather is going to be gorgeous from today until next Friday. Temps only 77 today, and in mid 70's until Friday when it goes back to the 90's. No rain in sight for quite awhile either, which is more like our normal June weather.

@Judique I hope you didn't get any of those tornado warnings or that heavy rain yesterday that I've been hearing about.

I just cleaned out the bird feeders and washed out the birdbaths and refilled them, and those are the only things I have to do outside today. Going to get the furniture moved so I can vacuum and clean the carpets

Have a great Friday!

 

[Judique]

Good sunny morning. Our weather is going to be gorgeous from today until next Friday. Temps only 77 today, and in mid 70's until Friday when it goes back to the 90's. No rain in sight for quite awhile either, which is more like our normal June weather.

@Judique I hope you didn't get any of those tornado warnings or that heavy rain yesterday that I've been hearing about.

I just cleaned out the bird feeders and washed out the birdbaths and refilled them, and those are the only things I have to do outside today. Going to get the furniture moved so I can vacuum and clean the carpets

Have a great Friday!

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No, I had a quiet night. Not so for the people up in Abingdon. My neighbor is from that area. It's just south of Aberdeen. Cars were floating from the flooding and people had to be rescued.

I went to the recycle place, gas station and Safeway this morning. Brought home some tillamook ice cream and ingredients for lasagna.

That's my day so far.

 

[flyingdumbo127]

Abington community prayers indeed, Judique. Grateful you had a quiet night.

 

[Judique]

Just fixed a pan of lasagna and had to use the oven ready noodles. Hopefully I didn't ruin our dinner as I followed a combo of both my old recipe and the recipe on the oven ready box.

I 'think' I added enough water. I was trying to go smaller on the recipe so we wouldn't be eating lasagna for a week!

 

[PollyannaMom]

For the sports fan Quackers -

The "Make Way for Ducklings" statues in the Boston Public Garden are are all decked out in their Celtics gear:

 

[flyingdumbo127]

at the picture dear Pollyanna Mom, thanks, my friend.

I deleted the rest of the post because it is NEVER my intention to come across as judgy. It also occured to me this is a public thread and despite my best effort some of what I had shared was more specific. I am much quieter in person than at times I come across on here. I thank all of you forever for being my Quacker family. Dad and I are doing our very best. God willing we both continue to move forward as guided by the Lord. Love to all.

 

[Judique]

For the sports fan Quackers -

The "Make Way for Ducklings" statues in the Boston Public Garden are are all decked out in their Celtics gear:
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So cute! I haven't seen them in quite some time. Would love to get up there and do some touristy things this summer but not sure anyone has time in their schedules to humor me this summer.

Lasagna turned out 'okay' but not great. It needed more liquid but DD said it was fine to eat. I'll find the product you have to cook prior to assembly next time.

 

[flyingdumbo127]

I hope you are able to make the trip and have a wonderful time, Judique

Sweet Dreams to all.

 

[PollyannaMom]

@flyingdumbo127, medical care should be so much easier to navigate. I'm sorry you're getting such a run-around.

@Judique, Boston is definitely worth the trip if you can. Let me know if you make it up here!

 

[Snowysmom]

Flyingdumbo127 This should be so much easier that it is turning out to be. But that seems to be the norm these days with everything. Maybe Richard can come once and give you exercises to do to at least take care of things until you find a PT who can come regularly.

Good morning. I love the Ducklings, so cute. They are one of my favorites. I am heading out to Ethan's and Owen's baseball game soon. It is their last of the season. Tomorrow I am going to Luke's last game of the season too. I love watching kids playing baseball. So cute. Poor Jeff did not get in from NYC until Midnight on Thursday. Storms were in the area. He said they got on the plane and sat for 2 hours. The plane kept moving to different parts of the airport waiting to get the OK to takeoff. Flight delays seem to be getting worse again. Not what I am looking forward to when I have my solo WDW trip in Dec.

Have a good Saturday.

 

[flyingdumbo127]

Good Morning to all and thank you both so much PollyannaMom and SnowysmomI pray to only be grateful in all. Not complaining. May indeed God use me in some extra way to make navigating health care easier for all. Getting care should indeed be a ton easier and quicker. I know and give extra praise to God that in and because of Him all is and will be just fine. I am so blessed indeed. I am also so thankful to God for all of you!

 

[lynxstch]

Good sunny Saturday morning. We finally made it through a day yesterday without any rain showers. No rain in sight for the week.
It's so quiet outside this morning. All I hear are birds. No mowers, no roosters, no kids running around screaming. The 2 boys next door were outside last night until after 10 and their dog was barking like crazy. The older one left for NYC to visit his bio dad this morning and the younger one is going to summer camp starting Monday, so it will be very quiet for a week. They are the only kids anywhere around me.

I already stripped the bed, put the sheets in the washer. Fed the cats and birds and made sure everyone has fresh water. Deadheaded all of my wave petunias. My new rose bushes are growing like crazy and have tons of blossoms on them. The gardenia is growing, but haven't seen any new flowers yet.

2 more rooms to do with the carpet cleaner, so I'm going to get myself moving

Have a lovely day

 

[Pea-n-Me]

Only have a minute but @flyingdumbo127 I’m sorry to read your update.

I agree that healthcare can be difficult to navigate. But I think you would’ve had better results had you seen a primary care doctor instead of a podiatrist, who is not an MD, and cannot look at the whole body the way a PCP can, which could be contributing to the feet issue. No one really knows, as far as I can tell, what is fully going on with this problem you have.

Physical therapists are part of the allied health team, but they aren’t doctors. They can’t diagnose the problem. So in order to work on something, they need to know what the problem is, and how to approach it. Asking them do work with feet they don’t have a diagnosis for and recommendations for treatment, it just puts them between a rock and a hard place. I suppose if they get that from the podiatrist, they can proceed, but recommendations would have to be very specific.

I hope this helps explain why there are stumbling blocks here. I wouldn’t equate a podiatrist and a PT to an entire health system. Primary care offices are much better at dealing with all of this. And honestly, I think a PCP would be able to look better at the bigger picture here. Something seems to be going on that’s not right, and should be evaluated from a complete medical standpoint.

I wish I could help you out more Mona, I have ideas but it’s hard not being there and only reading about the goings on. Something that is clear, though, is that it shouldn’t take this long and be this frustrating to get help. As you know, I’m glad to help you any way I can, if I can. I wish I was closer.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

Oh, and just want to say, I take care of people all the time who sometimes spend years trying to get a diagnosis for something, but got the wrong diagnosis, or weren’t quite at the right place to help them, etc. They always shake their heads in disbelief of how they were telling people things and trying to get answers but it felt like no one was listening. That’s why it’s always good to go to the absolute best place you can, and to have continuity of care - seeing people who get to know you and who can put the big picture together, etc.

 

[lynxstch]

@Pea-n-Me What you said to Mona makes perfect sense, and was so well said!

 

[flyingdumbo127]

Thanks as always Pea and everyone for all your extra prayer and care. I updated my post from yesterday.

Lynn, God Bless your young neighbors. Let me know if you think they would enjoy stickers or word searches.

To everyone, how blessed I am that God has kept this special thread our Quacker family meeting place. I thank Him always for all of you. We are so blessed to have each other. Love to all always. Sweet dreams, friends.

 

[SpaceMan5]

at the picture dear Pollyanna Mom, thanks, my friend.

I deleted the rest of the post because it is NEVER my intention to come across as judgy. It also occured to me this is a public thread and despite my best effort some of what I had shared was more specific. I am much quieter in person than at times I come across on here. I thank all of you forever for being my Quacker family. Dad and I are doing our very best. God willing we both continue to move forward as guided by the Lord. Love to all.

I have only seen caring, supportive and compassionate posts from you. Don't change a thing and no one else is this group should either. This is a really good group of people that I happy to be associated with. Cheers!

 

[Snowysmom]

@SpaceMan5 So true. This is a great group of kind, supportive people. Glad you are part of it too.

Good morning. It is a dreary morning with rain this morning. It is 60 with temps only heading towards 70. I hope I can see Luke play baseball but it will depend on the weather. It is funny how one hour away can make the difference in weather. Yesterday I drove just to the next town and they had rain but my town was clear. Crazy! Ethan and Owen's baseball game was nice. Since Kenny does not have the kids this weekend the soon to be ex brought the kids and she stays for the game. Halfway through the game I hear a voice, say Hi how are you, and it is Kenny's GF and the dog. So she sat down next to me and we chatted. The soon to be ex is sitting nearby with her friend and here is Kenny's GF with the dog. I thought that this may add to the ex's vindictiveness at the next hearing. Of course the kids are saying, Mommy this is Clifford our dog and the ex was tactful enough to say that he's cute. Maybe she is over everything too, who knows. I just felt really awkward but not my issue to be honest. Kenny is an adult and needs to make his own decisions even if they are not the ones I would make.

Have a good Sunday.