In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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Quote:I read my test results too. Not that I understand what they mean (except a few common things) so I show them to my sister who used to work in the medical field and so medically knowledgeable she should be a doctor, and she explains it all to me.
I do take Vitamin D3 and not that I know of. I just went to the lab and I always read the lab paper. She checks a lot of things. Potassium, calcium, my thyroid of course because of meds. Heart, liver because of my seizure meds. Iron levels on levels.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
As long as you insist that everything is the Republicans'/ Democrats' fault, then you fail to grasp the REAL problem with American politics.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:I read my test results too. Not that I understand what they mean (except a few common things) so I show them to my sister who used to work in the medical field and so medically knowledgeable she should be a doctor, and she explains it all to me.
I do take Vitamin D3 and not that I know of. I just went to the lab and I always read the lab paper. She checks a lot of things. Potassium, calcium, my thyroid of course because of meds. Heart, liver because of my seizure meds. Iron levels on levels.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
As long as you insist that everything is the Republicans'/ Democrats' fault, then you fail to grasp the REAL problem with American politics.
America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876
My doctor explains the test results too me and she usually has them where I can see them.
I meant I read the paper you take to the lab. That was my fault for not explaining what I was saying better.
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3 nights in and except for having to wake up to an alarm clock this doesn't even feel like work anymore. I'm virtually pain free... at least compared to what I used to be going through. Because the dipshit night manager got fired and prep for the remodel coming up, I'm getting a ton of exposure to day shift management that I wouldn't have otherwise had. The second night I've worked with one of the guys on days that I'd only met and said hi to before, and he was asking me about my schedule again. I know he wants me to work more. :) It's really being noticed how much more gets done on nights I'm there. I'm not sure if that will equate to any more money down the road, but I really don't think calling my schedule from now on is going to be any problems, even when the new manager is hired in.
Another great workout. I forgot how good it feels to come home and feel the burn of an actual workout as opposed to all the aching joints and other "Old Man" pains.
I almost feel like I'm in my 20's again......
Almost. 
It's too bad my job doesn't pay what would equate to a livable wage for most people. I can't recommend this type of work enough for the physical benefits.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Interesting night last night.
I had to keep myself from doing my standard "dramatic eye roll" when the interim manager told me that I'd be training a new girl that was starting tonight. (No sexism implied here, I would have eye-rolled just as hard if I were training a new guy). I'm not sure if he was aware what a hot-button issue training people was with me, but he did say to take it easy on her for her first night. Our relationship is going really well right now, so I didn't want to be the first person to put something between us by saying I didn't want to train somebody, so I bit the bullet.
She impressed me right off the bat. Not only did she know what a palette jack was and how to use it, but she pulled those 2,000 lbs palettes of water with me without bitching about it once. When we had to lift a fairly heavy chair over our heads to get on a shelf, I asked her twice if she was sure she could do it before we tried. We didn't manage to get it up there, but damned if she didn't give it her all. I could tell that was really bothering her, and I told her so and told her to cut that shit right out. I said that technically we probably should have had somebody with a forklift put it up, but I usually just grab somebody else and do it quickly if there isn't a forklift around. Eventually my manager drove by and I asked him to give me a hand and once he felt the box he said "this is a forklift job" and put it up so we could just push it in.
I laughed and told her, see... even he didn't want to try putting it over his head.
Then he said "work smart, not hard", and it was her turn to laugh since I had just said that to her about an hour before.
She's a college grad and seems to have a lot of ambition. She wants to be a manager, like tomorrow (millennials, huh?) I think she can do it if she manages to maintain her enthusiasm and this is her normal work ethic and not just the "first day boom syndrome".
As if I didn't like her enough already, after she told me her age (23), she asked "how old are you if you don't mind me asking". When I told her 38 she said "no way. I would have thought you were in your mid 20's".
All this work and the new diet seems to be paying off. I was just saying how I practically feel like I'm in my 20's again. I'd be lying if I said that it didn't feel good hearing a young woman tell me that I look like it too.
At the end of the night the manager told me that she said she really liked working with me. I guess he told her that I took it easy on her and that I wasn't in "beast mode" tonight. He thanked me for that and for not scaring away the new hire. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Suppose to hit 30C either today or tomorrow. Which is around 90F or higher to you all.
Yay! to heat.
On the flip side every where I go will have A/C cranked up. So booo! to cold.
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Wow. It'll be hotter by you than by me for a while. Finally cooled off here. :)
Glad we could make that trade Brenda.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Wow. It'll be hotter by you than by me for a while. Finally cooled off here. :)
Glad we could make that trade Brenda.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
It'll be real nice for the rest of this week and maybe next Jack.
On the flip bloodwork results back and all is good. Blood sugar stable, thyroid stable, calcium good, iron and all like that good. Potassium and B vitamins good too. Heart, liver, lungs and kidneys all functioning as they should be.
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Forgot to mention that my blood pressure was also nice and normal.
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Good to hear Brenda!
I still haven't seen a doctor. I'm a little scared to get all the tests done, tbh.
Just tested last night and had 137/74 with 81BPM, the lowest all week. Regularly much lower than it used to be. Hopefully I can keep improving it. At least even when the numbers were higher this week, the BPM was constantly in the low to mid 80s, which is probably the biggest change overall. I was constantly testing between 105-115 BPM a few months ago.
I don't know how true it is, but I've heard that we generally only have a certain number of heartbeats in us. I might be adding about 20% to my lifespan or more with the changes I've made.
It's a nice thought, anyway.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Good to hear Brenda!
I still haven't seen a doctor. I'm a little scared to get all the tests done, tbh.
Just tested last night and had 137/74 with 81BPM, the lowest all week. Regularly much lower than it used to be. Hopefully I can keep improving it. At least even when the numbers were higher this week, the BPM was constantly in the low to mid 80s, which is probably the biggest change overall. I was constantly testing between 105-115 BPM a few months ago.
I don't know how true it is, but I've heard that we generally only have a certain number of heartbeats in us. I might be adding about 20% to my lifespan or more with the changes I've made.
It's a nice thought, anyway.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Thanks Jack.
My doc sends me once a year to check all of this because my seizure medication is hard on my liver and my kidneys. And my thyroid levels have to be checked to make sure I am getting the right dose of meds for that.
My BP today was 130/80 which is perfectly normal but I am usually low at around 90/50. Mine only goes normal if I am really sick or nervous. Docs even my GP makes me twitchy when I go in for test results. But she was happy and so was I.
105 or 115 is good for BP on the higher number Jack. Keep it up.
I'm not sure I believe that either. We never truly know how many years the universe has granted us. That's just part of being human beings.
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