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tod
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Sep 23 15:45 UTC 2003 |
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keesan
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response 247 of 257:
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Sep 23 19:21 UTC 2003 |
Thanks for posting the photo. I don't know how you can tell how I was doing
in the first photo (of the back of my head in the hospital) but yes I am
feeling much better. The flowers are also still doing well other than the
roses being past their prime. Jim's two rosebushes each have a few 'last
roses of summer'. Did fall start today?
We went on our big adventure to the bank and library, where I walked
tremendous distances alone through two parking lots and then around the
bookshelves and sat in a somewhat padded chair for two long. I had the list
of book recommendations ready to go but ended up choosing paperbacks by people
whose names I recommended that were shelved above waist height to avoid having
to stoop (hard to get back up) or bend (made me dizzy):
The African Queen (the book)
Forsyte Saga
Barchester Towers
Wives and Daughters
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Buddenbrooks
One hundred years of solitude
Restoration of the Great Lakes: promise
Why a painting is like a pizza.
Does anyone want to try identifying the authors of all but the last two?
The painting book is about how to understand modern art.
I also got some videos: The lathe of heaven, A life less ordinary, Hester
Street, The Lady Eve, It Happened One night, Harvey (I have seen the last
three - may as well get something known good).
Jim went off to Kroger's and I amused myself watching people walk in and out
of the library. In the morning it seems to be primarly retired men and young
women with small children. Busy library.
For an added treat we stopped at the Dollar Store on Liberty and discovered
their stereo cables were only $1. Kiwanis was charging $2 for used ones.
They have a small hardware section, vitamins, toothbrushes, and two aisles
of food. We got dried apricots and a jar of red peppers and hominy grits.
It was all 1 or 2 or 3 for $1 including things marked 99 cents on the bag.
Off-brand pop-tarts, jam from the Czech republic. Plus the usual candles and
halloween decorations. I am sure to have sore muscles tomorrow having hiked
for over half an hour.
My cold is much better.
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keesan
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response 248 of 257:
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Sep 24 12:29 UTC 2003 |
Despite sore legs and tremor in my hands I was able to peel peppers standing
up last night for a little while. I run out of breath fairly quickly and my
pulse rate goes up to 100 (from its resting low of about 90). In the hospital
it was 120. If you don't exercise, your resting pulse gets higher, I think.
Jim's is 160.
We have Macedonian, Serbian, and Bosnian recipes for ajvar, which is made of
red peppers etc. The Serbian recipe only added garlic, the others also
eggplant and onion and lemon juice. The Macedonians bake their vegetables
and then add olive oil (lots of it). The others fry the baked vegetables in
olive oil until the mass gets thicker. We will experiment. Ajvar is only
$2.50 for a large jar but all the commercial ones are made with hot peppers.
You can get it from Macedonia or Bulgaria or Hungary.
The skins peel well if you have an oven you can set to preheat (both top and
bottom elements on) at 475 and then cook the peppers at the preheat setting,
but the peppers also cook more than they did on just broiling in the broiler
oven and wont' freeze as well as plain peppers.
We will probably freeze some ajvar. Jim is worried about a texture change.
The Maceodonians heat up the jars of it in an oven with oil on top as the only
preserving method but sometimes they spoil.
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rcurl
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response 249 of 257:
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Sep 24 16:23 UTC 2003 |
Those numbers can't be pulse rates. Are they blood pressures? 160 is
dangerously high.
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keesan
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response 250 of 257:
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Sep 24 18:44 UTC 2003 |
I meant Jim's resting pulse is 60, not 160.
Today my pulse after walking was 120, which is what my resting pulse was when
I entered the hospital. My resting pulse is down around 85 (lying down?).
What keeps me from exercising longer is my pulse going up, I think. Amazing
how it only takes a few months of inactivity to lose your ability to move.
We set off for the near corner admiring how on Jim's block there are a lot
of small (900 sq. ft). Cape Cod houses built out of mostly the same materials
(the same two front doors, three models of window - 6 over 6, 6 over 1, 2 over
2 panes) but with minor variations in window size and placement and whether
there was a front porch and of what type or a decorative gable over the front
door. Jim is lucky his was the first or second, before they felt obliged to
paste on unnecessary features, and he got the largest living room window
(double size) before they ran out of building materials during WWII.
These houses continued around the corner to the left (without a hill) so we
did too. We passed what is left of a small wooded area (things turning red),
looked at some larger and less interesting houses from the 50s and 60s, turned
left, and made it all the way around the block past the local park by
distracting my attention from my wobbly legs to more of these similar houses.
I should be able to make it to the pear tree soon.
Saw a catalpa tree and two climbing hydrangeas on a fence. Jim has one and
they must be the slowest growing vine ever planted. His grew two feet in ten
years and had its first flower this year.
Fava beans (in the pod) and finger potatoes (from a friend's farm) for lunch.
Delivered to the computer.
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mary
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response 251 of 257:
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Sep 24 22:48 UTC 2003 |
It's the anemia that's pushing our heart rate up. If your
blood volume or components aren't allowing for adequate
oxygenation then the heart happily pumps faster, to compensate.
I'm glad to hear you are feeling better, Sindi.
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mary
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response 252 of 257:
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Sep 24 22:49 UTC 2003 |
Er, *your*.
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krj
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response 253 of 257:
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Sep 26 00:57 UTC 2003 |
With Sindi's approval, I've started a new item in the fall Agora.
Conference agora47, item 28. ( item:agora47,28 )
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davel
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response 254 of 257:
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Sep 26 13:38 UTC 2003 |
Could it maybe be linked to Health, please?
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gelinas
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response 255 of 257:
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Sep 27 16:04 UTC 2003 |
("Things turning red" are likely to be poison ivy, especially if it is on the
tree but not part of it.)
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denise
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response 256 of 257:
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Sep 7 01:57 UTC 2006 |
Sindi, I just read through this item and had no idea you had to go through
such an ordeal!! I know its been about 3 years since the last posting [at
least in this item; I haven't skimmed through the other one yet]; how are
things going for you now?? I do know that you and Jim do a lot of biking!
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keesan
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response 257 of 257:
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Sep 26 13:24 UTC 2006 |
I passed my April tests and am fine. No long bike trips yet, just a few to
the lake 12 miles away to swim a mile. Three more years of CT scans then at
least 5 of just blood tests annually. We just met someone else who had
lymphoma 10 years ago and says it tickles when they check his lymph nodes.
This was at a party given by someone in his 80s who just got diagnosed with
a less curable cancer, and he is probably too old for surgery. I was lucky
I did not need surgery or radiation. Someone else whose melanoma came back
is supposedly trying to treat it with wheat grass. (Her odds are not a whole
lot worse, I guess).
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