SciFiFisher wrote:All good news. <high five!>
Nice to know your neighbors care enough to send the Sheriff to check on you. I am a lousy neighbor. by the time I get home from work I barely notice what my neighbors are doing unless their house guests are parking on my side of the street. And then I usually suspect them of running a drug house.
code monkey wrote: i’d recently come to the realization that the person I considered my closest friend, the woman who told me, with tears in her eyes, that she’d promised michael that she and her husband would take care of me was simply not to be trusted. believe me, I’ve been very careful to ask for something only when it was essential – a ride to&from the hospital for surgery, for example. she has on many occasions made spontaneous offers of help and then later , just as spontaneously, announced that she wouldn’t as it would be ‘just too upsetting’. ...
geonuc wrote:code monkey wrote: i’d recently come to the realization that the person I considered my closest friend, the woman who told me, with tears in her eyes, that she’d promised michael that she and her husband would take care of me was simply not to be trusted. believe me, I’ve been very careful to ask for something only when it was essential – a ride to&from the hospital for surgery, for example. she has on many occasions made spontaneous offers of help and then later , just as spontaneously, announced that she wouldn’t as it would be ‘just too upsetting’. ...
This is seriously upsetting. I know life goes on, people change and promises fade, but how long has it been, really?
pumpkinpi wrote:Wonderful news, except for the untrustworthy friend.
And thanks for the reminder to get things checked. I was a Sun worshiper in my youth, spending my summers tanning, or "laying out" as we called it, on any sunny day I could. Sunburns were only occasional, but now I realize that even the tan is a sign of Sun damage, and that damage occurs even without a change in skin color.
I now shun the Sun. For a while I was on a medication that gave me an AWFUL itch the first time I was exposed to the Sun each season. No rash--nothing visible--but agonizing enough that I had to take a sick day from work. (swift, you may recognize the medicine--6mp or mecaptopurine.) I am no longer on the medication, but I still do all I can to avoid prolonged exposure for me and my kids--slathering with sunscreen, wearing protective clothing, and avoiding the Sun during peak hours. Everyone remarks that "it's a gorgeous day" when there is a clear blue sky, but I prefer thick clouds any day.
However, I fear that my past will haunt me. I am covered in moles--most are normal looking but I keen an eye out for changes. My sister was/is even more of a tanner than me (she would actually go to tanning beds, and still gets out a lot in the summer) and she's already had one suspicious mole removed. So I know I need to go to a dermatologist to get my full-body check, and follow up regularly.
pumpkinpi wrote: (swift, you may recognize the medicine--6mp or mecaptopurine.)
code monkey wrote:a public service announcement
all of you who’ve been putting off your checkups – and you know who you are - get yourselves to the telephone and make the appointments. and then keep them.
Hap wrote:One (dubious) upside to being a diabetic: semi-annual check-ups with the internist, with alternate semi-annual check-ups with the endocrinologist, resulting in quarterly checkups with some kind of doctor. Kinda hard to miss the required age and/or condition related recommended tests/examinations, e.g. my upcoming colonoscopy next week (yay).
brite wrote:Release the flying monkeys... They need the exercise.....
code monkey wrote:brite wrote:Release the flying monkeys... They need the exercise.....
i've got a trip a month for the next several. does that count?
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