Hey folks, welcome to the new whine/general topic thread. Feel free to use this thread to discuss anything that is on your mind. Caregiving- related stuff, life after a loved one's death, your own emotional wellbeing. Whatever..........anything on your mind.
Many decades ago I had a ginger cat who had a large thyroid growth. The surgeon assured me even with "Alex" being 16 years old, he will do fine. And he did, he bounced back pretty quickly for an old guy.
Here's hoping for a quick recovery for Daniel.
Meowww kitty kitty kitty.....everything's going to be okay.
Please say prayers that they get it all and it hasn't spread.
I could not have been making that error so many times, trying so hard to keep my privacy.
Maybe there are times when it pays to be old :)
I am sure that I did not log out, but when I came right back, I had to log in again.
Typing, I just had whole sentence automatically erased, letter by letter as I watched it. Another time, I was backspacing to delete, and several words just left on their own. (Beyond what I intended).
I just concluded that the website, or my kindle had been hacked.
Something has changed either with AgingCare or my Firefox browser because I'm running into a lot of glitches here (and only here) - pages are taking forever to load and are loading improperly. I get that I have my security settings very high but that never caused trouble before, and add blocking should speed up page loading not slow it down. grrrr
It has co-payments:
I can see my chiropractor for $15.
A therapist is $15.
A regular doctor is $10.
Thinking this will work for me.
One year an acquaintance in my spiritual group became ill with cancer and its treatments. Her husband worked nights. All she needed was someone sleeping on couch to hear her ring a bell and help her to the bathroom. Well, he may have needed more, but we all took turns sleeping there. One lady set up the schedule.
We cannot believe that we will never endure hard times if we love God and God loves us. As a matter of fact it is so clearly stated in the scripture that we will SUFFER, as Jesus SUFFERED for us. If this life were meant to be perfect then that would mean we were in Heaven and there would be no Heaven. But if this life were perfect, what then would we have to look forward to? Nothing.
We go through the utmost of difficult things at times, to be tried, to be polished, to be grown. It is not a personal attack, even though at times it feels like it.
Sometimes maybe we are trying to make a withdraw on the love and mercies of God, and yet we have made absolutely no deposits.
Life is rough, Life is tough, Life is full of struggles and strife. But we have a chance and we can have the hope of perfection one day. And that way is through Jesus.
Praying for you.
Seriously though, there have always been some pretty contentious people on the forum, as well as people who post questions and never return. And I can't remember when we've had to deal with a really, really nasty troll or a flood of spam.
As for doctors - I think one of the reasons that so many people are flocking to alternative medicine is that at least you find someone to spend time treating you and can see something is being done (even if sometimes it is just snake oil).
I recall a time when the answer was addressed to the OP, and people tried to be helpful. A serious poster would return to add information.
There was respect and people stayed on topic.
There was hardly any criticism directed towards the OP, or to anyone offering an answer.
In todays world, there seems to be a competition, to prove someone's answer as wrong. Answers are addressed in critisism of the various answers given. Then others join in, giving opinions on the answers. The op and their question gets ignored, while caregivers dispute amongst themselves.
The value of the forum has declined, as I observe posters h*ll bent on destroying the forum.
Even going so far as to say: "Your answer is better than all the rest!".
Thus, a put-down of all the posters who bothered to respond.
They may order a test, an expensive test. That's not what I expect. They can no longer interpret the tests accurately.
I am just not up to this, a search for a diagnosis.
But there is a lot to be said for face-to-face contact if you're going to bother at all. Some things would be picked up almost subconsciously from the way you walk into the room and sit down, what you look like, whether you're a funny colour, how you sound; plus of course if you'd felt odd palpitations or were troubled by a cough you'd say so. But your GP isn't going to hear more through a stethoscope than a blood panel will pick up more accurately unless it's something terribly wrong, which you'd probably suspect anyway.
When they start out they're all excited and enthusiastic and go through the history-taking and the standard physical from A to Z. Then they learn that it's 99.9% pointless and takes too long, and they skip to what's likely to be useful.
All the chat on the forum about self care made me stop dragging my feet and I booked a physical. Well, other than peeing in a bottle, chatting casually with my new doc (doogie howser) about any concerns and a pap there was nothing but a requisition for blood work and an ultrasound to check up on an old issue. Seriously, he didn't even listen to my heart or lungs, nothing. Through the years I've seen a lot of different doctors and the majority have been almost as superficial. Really, other than getting the requisition for labs what's the point in going at all?
Thanks for the prayers. We need lots more rain.