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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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