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Post by echo on Feb 28, 2021 10:46:20 GMT -8
Good morning,
My son, the one who lives with us and manages a home with 24 hour care clients, and my husband who teaches at Pelican Bay State Prison have both had their second Moderna shots now. Both only got a sore arm with the first shot but did get fever and aches and a pretty intense 24 hours after the second one. I have my name on a couple lists and hope to at least get my first shot before going up to get the nuclear medicine scan in Portland but no idea yet if I will, too young for one, only a sub for the teacher list. No actual diagnosis for the medical reasons other than high blood pressure and overweight
Anyway, physical therapy is a no brainer, telling me what I know but don’t usually do, so giving me a kick in the seat. It felt good to push beyond what I can do on my own because of the supports there that keep me from falling.
Daisy had great weather for her sleepover and so I took them both to the beach, it ended up being high tide, so we fed seagulls and watched waves and ate our lunch, then went to the city park
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Post by rebeccad on Feb 28, 2021 21:49:44 GMT -8
Good evening . Just in case anyone wonders, I did feel a little under the weather all the next day after the second Modarna shot. The aches might have been slightly more than expected after spading up the garden, and the fatigue was noticeable. By evening it was mostly gone.
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Mar 1, 2021 6:25:02 GMT -8
Yesterday I "retraced my steps" from last weekend's orienteering snowshoe, to see where we went wrong. As expected, a side gully was the culprit. On the topo map, it looked inconsequential. In reality, the side gully was the main gully. So this time, I took the other gully and popped out 100 yards from my target. I then explored the top of another gully to the summit, and bushwhacked down to my starting point. The bushwhack down couldn't have been any more direct, and I even found our errant snowshoe tracks from last weekend, confirming my suspicions. This time, it wasn't deep powder that made for slow going, but instead dense unconsolidated "mashed potato" snow. Every time I took a step, the toe of my snowshoe would catch, and I'd lift a 2-pound snowball. That gets exhausting after 4.5 miles, and my low back and hip flexors weren't happy with me.
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Post by jazzmom on Mar 1, 2021 6:40:00 GMT -8
I'm doing my "Ding, dong, February's dead" dance!! I suffer from the seasonal thing and I dread February, but here we are, a beautiful sunny March 1st. I did feel a little under the weather all the next day after the second Modarna shot. So many of my friends have been vaccinated now and that second shot seems to be really kicking them in the butt. Glad to hear your reaction was mild. I started back volunteering at the shelter in the beginning of February. Just once a week, cooking Sunday dinner. Fewer people in the kitchen because of COVID and less donations to work with, but it feels great to be contributing something.
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Post by rebeccad on Mar 1, 2021 7:39:07 GMT -8
jazzmom, working at the clinic definitely feels good. I think part of it is just being out and doing something that requires some real work from me. But it is also about contributing something. And about reducing the time available for brooding.
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Post by echo on Mar 5, 2021 7:42:32 GMT -8
Good morning.
Thought I’d share this
“What to Remember When Waking
In that first hardly noticed moment in which you wake, coming back to this life from the other more secret, moveable and frighteningly honest world where everything began, there is a small opening into the new day which closes the moment you begin your plans.
What you can plan is too small for you to live. What you can live wholeheartedly will make plans enough for the vitality hidden in your sleep.
To be human is to become visible while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others. To remember the other world in this world is to live in your true inheritance.
You are not a troubled guest on this earth, you are not an accident amidst other accidents you were invited from another and greater night than the one from which you have just emerged.
Now, looking through the slanting light of the morning window toward the mountain presence of everything that can be what urgency calls you to your one love? What shape waits in the seed of you to grow and spread its branches against a future sky?
Is it waiting in the fertile sea? In the trees beyond the house? In the life you can imagine for yourself? In the open and lovely white page on the waiting desk?”
-- David Whyte
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Mar 8, 2021 6:27:24 GMT -8
I got my first COVID shot on Friday, and a funny thing happened. Before I went, I joked with my wife that "I'm going to Syracuse and I'm gonna get shot". So I drive to the clinic, and it was well-run and very efficient. I got my seat (a folding metal chair) at one of the tables. As the nurse and I leaned forward so she could administer the shot... BANG!!! A gunshot! People around me ducked. The National Guardsman at my table jumped up, ready for action. Then, a second later, we all realized what happened. When I (or the nurse) sat down, the (sheet)metal seat depressed, and when we leaned forward, it explosively popped back into place with a loud bang. After waiting a minute for our adrenalin to subside, I got vaccinated without further incident.
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Post by rebeccad on Mar 8, 2021 8:39:40 GMT -8
walkswithblackflies, That could only happen to you! 🤣. Our clinic is using plastic chairs, which sag when even I sit on them. I’m kind of worried one is going to collapse under some hefty customer.
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Post by jazzmom on Mar 10, 2021 5:27:14 GMT -8
Good morning! March is really working hard to fool us into thinking spring is here. Monday was in the upper-60's; I met two previous work friends for a picnic lunch at a park. Daffodils are coming up and I'm starting to pull out gardening stuff. I think we've got one good cold and snow coming though... My dog got skunked last week. All the critters just seem to love my yard. It was his first time but I'm pretty used to the drill. I was able to register for the vaccine on Monday! It will probably be a while before I can actually make an appointment, but it still feels good.
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Post by echo on Mar 10, 2021 7:52:18 GMT -8
Good morning. I got my first moderna shot yesterday, then drove to Portland and in an hour and a half, I check in at the nuclear medicine place, in the center for health and healing, to get my brain radioactive so it can be scanned 4 hours later.
Wish me luck. Don’t know which answer is the best, yes it’s Parkinson’s or no, but there is still something wrong, keep looking.
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Mar 10, 2021 9:56:19 GMT -8
Good luck, echo!!! A beautiful sunny 60F day here. It's been awhile.
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Post by rebeccad on Mar 10, 2021 13:19:09 GMT -8
Good luck, Echo! Hope the scan goes well, and drive carefully.
It has felt like winter was over here, but yesterday’s storm was a winter storm, not spring. Cold rain in Chico, and this morning there were plows and vehicles coming down from Paradise with snow on them.
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Mar 11, 2021 6:48:16 GMT -8
I went for a trail run with the dog yesterday. Still lots of ice, the remainder mud. At the end, the dog jumped into my SUV, and decided to shake the mud off. I now have little brown polka-dots all over the interior.
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Post by rebeccad on Mar 11, 2021 8:46:43 GMT -8
I went for a trail run with the dog yesterday. Still lots of ice, the remainder mud. At the end, the dog jumped into my SUV, and decided to shake the mud off. I now have little brown polka-dots all over the interior. Dog as interior decorator.
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Post by hikerchick395 on Mar 11, 2021 10:19:44 GMT -8
It has felt like winter was over here, but yesterday’s storm was a winter storm, not spring. Cold rain in Chico, and this morning there were plows and vehicles coming down from Paradise with snow on them. I saw a photo from Concow and it looked like there was at least 6 inches of snow on the ground.
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