How Do You Feel Today? v4

Skyweir · Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 9:21 am Post subject:

Glad to hear lol 😂
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deer of the dawn · Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 3:51 pm Post subject:

Whine alert.

My upcoming biopsy for which I am traveling to the States solo, plus a whole pile of other stuff I won't bore you with, have cranked my anxiety levels through the ceiling. I am actually on meds for it for the first time in my life. I only take them at night, so I can actually sleep for more than 3 hours. This has been for a couple weeks. Yesterday I actually felt GOOD for the first time in... I don't know. So I baked a pie, made a fish soup, Stag and I went out for lunch, went for a walk (it was Independence Day so there was no school) and just had a great day doing whatever the flip I felt like doing.

Then today, I start getting a cold. Can I catch a break, here? Waah, waah, waah.

You may now return to your usual upbeat chatter.
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Avatar · Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2019 5:45 am Post subject:

Haha, feel better soon Deer, and safe travels.

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Cagliostro · Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2019 7:38 pm Post subject:

So, I had to have a blood draw on Tuesday for an upcoming appointment to check my missing thyroid levels, and I went to the lady saying that I had a colonoscopy, a root canal, and hosted a slumber/birthday party for my daughter. I said I've been through hell this week, so do your worst.

She did. I have a huge bruise on my arm from the blood draw. Biggest I've ever had. Be careful what you ask for.
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Sorus · Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2019 10:29 pm Post subject:

Ouch. My favorite phlebotomy story involves an amateur tech who turned me into a pincushion trying to find a vein (my veins are smallish, but most can get one on the first try) - she ended up raising what looked like a small volcano on the back of my hand.

Hope you get the desired results back. And that goes for your test as well, Deer.
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Avatar · Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2019 6:21 am Post subject:

Haha, I've had one of those. And then when she found the vein, she ended up pushing right through both sides. (I had septicaemia when I was a kid, they took blood from me like 5 times a day for a week. )

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Avatar · Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2019 6:20 am Post subject:

Well, Monday again...It gets a bit tiresome sometimes, don't you think? Very Happy

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Cagliostro · Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2019 6:32 pm Post subject:

Definitely.
Went on a great hike over the weekend with the kids. It's one we've done before, but the weather was perfect and as the hike is very exposed, the heat normally wears us down quickly. It wasn't the case yesterday and we made it further than we ever have, and that includes before the kids were born and I was in shape (but smoking). We had a great time and there was none of the usual fighting and stupidity that often plagues our hikes once the kids get tired.
This is big for me as once I had my thyroid out, I didn't think I would be any good for hiking anymore. But now I'm feeling inspired to climb a fourteener with the kids, which is something I wanted to do right before having the thyroid out, but didn't find the time. So yay. I'll still have to work up to it a bit, as I'm sure the kids are pretty much ready to go now. I used to climb mountains as a kid when we'd come to Colorado from Kansas each year, and while it was exhausting, it usually was pretty fun. I expect I won't have many years left to do this, so I'd better get ready before next spring/summer.
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Avatar · Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2019 5:20 am Post subject:

Is "fourteener" like a grade?

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StevieG · Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2019 5:28 am Post subject:

Ha! I had to look up "fourteener" - a mountain at least 14,000 feet high, is that right? If so, that's impressive! Looks like you're well on the road to fitness Very Happy

I have a fourteen year-old and it seems to me a fourteen thousand foot mountain would be easier to manage than a 14 year-old, but perhaps that's just this last week...

Apart from that, I feel pretty unmotivated at the moment (hence why I'm here Laughing

) - I hope that changes as the week goes on.
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Avatar · Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2019 9:08 am Post subject:

Ok, that makes sense. Is that height above sea level though? Very Happy

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Avatar · Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2019 5:14 am Post subject:

Wednesday. Damn. I thought for a while it was Thursday. Very Happy

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Skyweir · Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2019 10:38 am Post subject:

All the best Deer ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
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Cagliostro · Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2019 2:49 pm Post subject:

I am far from fit, and I expect the first time we attempt a mountain, we'll be lucky to make it to the boulder field/treeline. But if we keep at it, it should be a ball. I just hope I don't find discouraging hikes the first few times. But I did find that the hike we usually take (called Dinosaur Ridge) is considered black diamond (most difficult) by the new sign they put up at the trailhead. We like it because most of the work is right at the beginning, when you still have your stamina, and then it levels off and is easy for a while before dipping into valleys now and again. So I guess we've been training on some nasty. The other hike we did was blue.....square is it?...kind of the medium difficulty. And we could definitely feel it. Only small patches of work, but usually at the wrong times that makes it feel more difficult than it actually is. They are not long hikes, and we can knock them off in a few hours because we are great procrastinators. Which is why I am looking forward to a long hike that has some challenge to, but more like the easier one. I wish I knew how to find hikes, other than randomly trusting someone on the internet that don't tend to describe things in ways that make sense to me. My criteria are amount of coverage for those hot days of summer when we tend to want to get out into nature, and what to expect difficulty. Straight up? Slight rock climbing bouldering skills? Scary places where you walking next to a precipice and you have to trust in a rope pitoned into the rock to get past? Also, I'd like to know if there are frequent streams that run along the course, because nothing pleases me more than a nice little mountain stream to briefly dip the feet into.
Maybe I should create that book. The Best Aesthetic Hikes of Colorado. Razz

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Sorus · Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2019 10:19 pm Post subject:

Avatar · Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2019 5:10 am Post subject:

I like scrambling on hikes, reminds me of proper climbing. Very Happy

Thing to do is look for a local group / forum / whatever for hikers.

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Cagliostro · Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2019 9:07 pm Post subject:

Avatar · Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2019 6:48 am Post subject:

Haha, you don't have to go with them, just use them to get info about local trails etc. Very Happy

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