Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven

[2legsshrt]

Thx, Debadoo <3 ... Got the pooch on Prednisone (along with a bunch of other things). Sadly, he continues to lose weight, and, it's causing him to have accidents in the house. He continues to lose weight... To the point where it's freaking me out. ........ School? Went back to school to get into IT (after years of artsy and musical stuff). Network security. Just got a PT job at as a helpdesk technician (aka/apprentice) that I started this week. .... Believe me when I tell you, help desk technicians are highly underrated. The guy I work with does literally everything for about 200 people. Yeesh! I'm the only female in the entire group of 15 IT people. 20-something kid teaching a (ahem) older chick new tricks. It's fun.

Pooch will get better. That's the same as Victoria (Vic) is on. She had accidents at first but she has been much better. On her Prednisone days she is constantly hungry. If you have to leave him in the morning make sure he doesn't drink too much water, it also makes them really thirsty. She lost weight and Alyssa had put her on a senior dog food because she had been gaining weight but after a while on the meds started losing. She put her back on the better dog food, she uses the fancy dry from Costco and she has started gaining. She takes the Prednisone 1 day then the anti immune the next. They both work so Alyssa has to go home at lunch time and feed them, especially Vic. But it has sure worked. She is on 50mg every other day which I thought Wow Ginny my wife is only on 5. I hope he responds as well as Vic did. She was really getting bad which was over a year ago and now she is pretty much a normal geriatric doggie. She has to have blood tests every 3 months I think it is because it can affect the liver but she is 11 years old now and so far so good. By accidents I take it you are talking ....... Vic drinks a lot of water that day when she can (weekends) but she has gotten so she can hold it pretty good. She also has a problem if she gets hold of something she shouldn't eat, with her being constantly hungry sometimes not even something she isn't supposed to eat but she really can make a mess. That happens rarely tho. Other then that it has been a miracle cure for her.

 

[2legsshrt]

I usually wake up in pain after eight hours of sleep, and take a nap around noontime. This morning, I woke up in pain, took my meds, waited for them to kick in, and took a nap. I will be interested in the results.

That's what Ginny does but she wakes up at 4am in pain so I get up also and we come downstairs, I go back to sleep in my recliner. Her meds keep her awake for a while then I wake up and she goes to sleep.

 

[Flowersoul]

Good morning, BP!

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[DavidOck]

The hidden cost (or benefit?) of poor education.

 

[bigbells]

I amb delighted by that dum joke, @DavidOck.

 

[lulu836]

Believe me when I tell you, help desk technicians are highly underrated. The guy I work with does literally everything for about 200 people. Yeesh! I'm the only female in the entire group of 15 IT people. 20-something kid teaching a (ahem) older chick new tricks. It's fun.

I was chronologically senior in my IT group at a casino......what a trip.

 

[2legsshrt]

I was chronologically senior in my IT group at a casino......what a trip.

So you're and IT girl?

 

[bigbells]

Movie review. Sully, 2016, Tom Hanks.
Worst Tom Hanks movie I've ever seen. I can only give it 4.5 stars out of 5. Totally worth watching.

 

[Iffy]

Totally worth watching.

I especially enjoyed gettin' da rest of da story (post-landing investigation)!

 

[2legsshrt]

Yep I like the movie a lot but Ginny didn't think it was that great for Tom Hanks. It was interesting of how hard they tried to pin in on him. Typical, the guy lived and breathed aviation. They were lucky he was the Captain.

Reminded me of the railroad. If something went wrong it was automatically your fault till you could prove otherwise. I Still have 95% of my dreams about the railroad.

 

[Janet H]

Good morning everyone! Looks like a gorgeous day today, but still pretty cold and windy. 37 now and only going to 41 today. I'm off to find me a pair of new glasses for my new bionic eyeballs. Right now I'm wearing my glasses at the end of my nose and it's making me crazy.

We had rice left over from the chili so I decided to make rice pudding this morning. Don't know why I don't make it more often because it's so delicious and so easy to make.

 

[DavidOck]

Yep I like the movie a lot but Ginny didn't think it was that great for Tom Hanks. It was interesting of how hard they tried to pin in on him.

Yeah, flock of birds takes out both engines, MUST be the pilot's fault... He should have stopped the plane to let them go past...

 

[lulu836]

So you're and IT girl?

Yes! Absolutely. LOL

 

[pwmeek]

Re: Sully
I think he was before the board because he chose to land on the water rather than follow the advice of ground controllers. Of course the captain of an airliner has the final decision. (How can he not? The ground controllers can't fly the plane.) The hearing was to determine whether he was justified in making that decision.

That said - great movie, if slightly against type for Hanks. I frequently enjoy movies where an actor is cast against type, once I get over the shock. (Sometimes I have to watch such movies more than once to appreciate them.) Think of the nasty character played by Henry Fonda in Once Upon a Time in the West, or the cold, vengeful father played by Jackie Chan in The Foreigner.

 

[Flowersoul]

Good morning

 

[2legsshrt]

Re: Sully
I think he was before the board because he chose to land on the water rather than follow the advice of ground controllers. Of course the captain of an airliner has the final decision. (How can he not? The ground controllers can't fly the plane.) The hearing was to determine whether he was justified in making that decision.

That said - great movie, if slightly against type for Hanks. I frequently enjoy movies where an actor is cast against type, once I get over the shock. (Sometimes I have to watch such movies more than once to appreciate them.) Think of the nasty character played by Henry Fonda in Once Upon a Time in the West, or the cold, vengeful father played by Jackie Chan in The Foreigner.

I saw one not too long ago that was terrible I thought. It was Will Smith in Bright. For me Terrible movie and couldn't believe Will Smith would even be in it.

 

[bigbells]

That said - great movie, if slightly against type for Hanks.

Pete; what Hanks movie or movies match his type? To me, he pulls off roles all over the map, but that's just me.

 

[pwmeek]

Pete; what Hanks movie or movies match his type? To me, he pulls off roles all over the map, but that's just me.

In general, he seems to me to get cast as (and play) a kind of "soft" guy. Not too assertive, unlikely to raise his voice. I've recently watched The Terminal, Castaway, Sleepless in Seattle, The Man With One Red Shoe, Joe Versus the Volcano, and Forrest Gump. All pretty much "soft" guys. It may just be my recent selection of his movies, but these all seem similar to me. (I have several more of Tom Hanks in my 2200 DVD collection, but these are the ones I've watched in the past year or so.) I watch a movie almost every evening.

In Sully, he was a much tougher character. Still sensitive, but over all, IMHO, tougher.

 

[Bea-FL]

You may have read my post about DH's heart issue (left branch bundle block) and his cardiologist had said many people have those and no other heart issues. But he ordered a cardio-cath done to find out if there was a reason for it because these bundle blocks are the result of a problem not the cause.

Today we had DH's follow up about the cardio-cath with the cardiologist. The story has changed a lot. As he previously told DH after the procedure he has a 100% blocked artery but it apparently happened slowly and surrounding blood vessels have taken on its job so no surgery. But he also has some partial blockages in some other blood vessels. No symptoms at all though…a good thing…means his body is handling it ok for now but he will be on the maximum dose of Lipitor from now on.

The part that you all will find interesting is the comments about smokers. Doc asked DH if he was a smoker. DH said "no" and doc said he could tell because, besides the smell, smokers look a lot older than their age, their voices are harsher, and their coloration is off…greyish.

Doc also said that his coronary heart disease is a substantial threat to DH's life but what he has going for him is that his body has handled it well so far and hopefully will continue to do so for a long time…years.

And that's when it hit me…the fact that doc said my DH has heart disease…heart disease that can kill him! As you know we lost our son to another type of heart disease and now we're told that DH has a serious heart disease.

I'm so scared. He's my best friend, my rock. I'm posting this because I need to verbalize it and I can't tell him how scared I am.

 

[DavidOck]

Just keep reminding yourself that the doc himself is optimistic.