Couch 250: An August Couch

stopdog · Oct 04, 2024 at 10:11 PM

We had an exciting evening with a bat in the house. The dogs and cat were bonking around and the bat was flying around - super fun. The bat finally landed on a dog bed and I picked the bed up and sort of defenestrated him out and up of a window (the out and up was how the bat web site said to do it)

unaluna · Oct 04, 2024 at 11:11 PM

Having phones is like being super smart and knowing how to do everything. Its like we are ALL James Bond now.

stopdog · Oct 05, 2024 at 12:45 AM

I didn't want to hurt the little guy - just wanted to get him safely outside.

LostOnTheTrail · Oct 05, 2024 at 03:37 AM

Haha....good done, Una!

I'd be a pretty inept Bond.
More like Rowan Atkinson's Johnny English.

LostOnTheTrail · Oct 05, 2024 at 07:40 AM

Good done?

Apparently I'm not much of a typist either.

Couch Workout Club day 65

Walked around town for an hour this morning and got my steps in.

ScarletPimpernel · Oct 05, 2024 at 09:06 AM

So impressed by you, Lost. And really proud. I need to get off my butt and start moving. My mom invited H and I to Universal Studios and we had to decline because we didn't feel we could do the walk

Really sad.

ScarletPimpernel · Oct 05, 2024 at 04:33 PM

My MIL broke her hip today. Doctors said she probably won't walk again. She has to give up her dogs.

Possible trigger:

They'll be put down because they're too aggressive

I'm so devastated for her. Only 68 and mentally still fully there. So sad.

stopdog · Oct 05, 2024 at 04:42 PM

Hire a trainer

LostOnTheTrail · Oct 05, 2024 at 04:59 PM

I'm so sorry, Scarlet.

That sounds like a hell of a leap for the doctor to make, though.

Has she declined or been refused for physiotherapy?

Terribly sad about the dogs.

Jersey 4 · Oct 05, 2024 at 05:10 PM

SD..I think I read something where you can put gloves on and actually pick the bat up to put them back outside. I don’t know how true or safe it is though.

unaluna · Oct 05, 2024 at 05:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Jersey 4

SD..I think I read something where you can put gloves on and actually pick the bat up to put them back outside. I don’t know how true or safe it is though.

We know SD got some big ants leather smokin gloves!

LonesomeTonight · Oct 05, 2024 at 05:32 PM

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Originally Posted by ScarletPimpernel

My MIL broke her hip today. Doctors said she probably won't walk again. She has to give up her dogs.

Possible trigger:

They'll be put down because they're too aggressive

I'm so devastated for her. Only 68 and mentally still fully there. So sad.

Ugh, I'm so sorry. I'd see if she could get a second opinion on the walking. And see if there's something else that can be done with the dogs (if she can't keep them)-could a rescue get involved maybe?

ScarletPimpernel · Oct 05, 2024 at 05:51 PM

She wants us to call the humane society. That's where she got the most aggressive one from. The other one, her friend went to jail and abandoned him with my MIL.

I could look into like a chihuahua rescue? They'd probably be better with aggressive ones than the humane society.

I'll tell her about a second opinion. We don't know anything about physiotherapy yet. I'm sure they'd have her do it even to gain back a little mobility, right? You have to let a person try.

stopdog · Oct 05, 2024 at 06:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Jersey 4

SD..I think I read something where you can put gloves on and actually pick the bat up to put them back outside. I don’t know how true or safe it is though.

I know that you can and we do have leather gloves -but bats are quite fragile it seems and you kind of have to know how to pick them up so you don't hurt their wings or feet. I would have resorted to that if I had to -but glad I didn't.I like bats -but they are oddly fragile and not great flyers

Jersey 4 · Oct 05, 2024 at 06:23 PM

I’ve been having bad period like cramps off and on for 2 weeks. I really hope this is just a product of getting older and nothing too serious. I figure I’d give it another week to see if it continues before making an appointment.

unaluna · Oct 05, 2024 at 06:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Jersey 4

I’ve been having bad period like cramps off and on for 2 weeks. I really hope this is just a product of getting older and nothing too serious. I figure I’d give it another week to see if it continues before making an appointment.

I had a couple of bad attacks of endometriosis in my forties, where i felt like i was impaled thru just my left ovary on a 2x2x8. Make way! I gently massaged the heck out of that sucker, and ten years later i saw an article on the webs that said massage is a good solution.

Good luck. They were the worst cramps i ever had. Like ibuprophen barely touched them. It was a walk-in gyn who dxed it and took a wait and see approach.

LonesomeTonight · Oct 05, 2024 at 07:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jersey 4

I’ve been having bad period like cramps off and on for 2 weeks. I really hope this is just a product of getting older and nothing too serious. I figure I’d give it another week to see if it continues before making an appointment.

if it continues, I'd get it checked out. Are you in perimenopause? Because there's apparently a thing called something like "phantom periods," where you get all the symptoms of having a period, like cramps, mood swings, etc., but don't actually have the period. I'm in perimenopause and have had this before, so I googled it. But the cramps part only lasted maybe a week. Hope it's just that and nothing more.

Jersey 4 · Oct 05, 2024 at 07:17 PM

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Originally Posted by unaluna

I had a couple of bad attacks of endometriosis in my forties, where i felt like i was impaled thru just my left ovary on a 2x2x8. Make way! I gently massaged the heck out of that sucker, and ten years later i saw an article on the webs that said massage is a good solution.

Good luck. They were the worst cramps i ever had. Like ibuprophen barely touched them. It was a walk-in gyn who dxed it and took a wait and see approach.

Thanks Una. I’ll try the massage and see if that helps. They were hurting bad the other day and 800mgs of Motrin didn’t touch them.

Jersey 4 · Oct 05, 2024 at 07:21 PM

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Originally Posted by LonesomeTonight

if it continues, I'd get it checked out. Are you in perimenopause? Because there's apparently a thing called something like "phantom periods," where you get all the symptoms of having a period, like cramps, mood swings, etc., but don't actually have the period. I'm in perimenopause and have had this before, so I googled it. But the cramps part only lasted maybe a week. Hope it's just that and nothing more.

Thanks LT. I haven’t had a period since I was 35. I’m 44 but only because I’m on BC continuously so I’m in a “fake” menopause of sorts. It definitely feels like a phantom period. All the symptoms are there. I’m moody, tired, crampy. I’ll definitely go get checked if it goes past another week. I did just have my annual a month ago and everything checked out okay.

stopdog · Oct 05, 2024 at 08:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Jersey 4

I’ve been having bad period like cramps off and on for 2 weeks. I really hope this is just a product of getting older and nothing too serious. I figure I’d give it another week to see if it continues before making an appointment.

I had something like this post menopause - mine was pancreatitis

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unaluna Elder Harridan x-hankster Member Since Jun 2011 Location: Milan/Michigan Posts: 40,890 (SuperPoster!) 13 68.7k hugs given	Oct 04, 2024 at 11:11 PM #622 Having phones is like being super smart and knowing how to do everything. Its like we are ALL James Bond now.
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stopdog underdog is here Member Since Sep 2011 Location: blank Posts: 35,044 (SuperPoster!) 13 1 hugs given	Oct 05, 2024 at 12:45 AM #623 I didn't want to hurt the little guy - just wanted to get him safely outside. __________________ Please NO @ Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. Oscar Wilde Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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ScarletPimpernel Wise Elder Member Since Nov 2013 Location: US Posts: 8,716 (SuperPoster!) 10 7,186 hugs given	Oct 05, 2024 at 09:06 AM #626 So impressed by you, Lost. And really proud. I need to get off my butt and start moving. My mom invited H and I to Universal Studios and we had to decline because we didn't feel we could do the walk Really sad. __________________ "Odium became your opium..." ~Epica
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ScarletPimpernel Wise Elder Member Since Nov 2013 Location: US Posts: 8,716 (SuperPoster!) 10 7,186 hugs given	Oct 05, 2024 at 04:33 PM #627 My MIL broke her hip today. Doctors said she probably won't walk again. She has to give up her dogs. Possible trigger: They'll be put down because they're too aggressive I'm so devastated for her. Only 68 and mentally still fully there. So sad. __________________ "Odium became your opium..." ~Epica
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stopdog underdog is here Member Since Sep 2011 Location: blank Posts: 35,044 (SuperPoster!) 13 1 hugs given	Oct 05, 2024 at 04:42 PM #628 Hire a trainer __________________ Please NO @ Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. Oscar Wilde Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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Jersey 4 Poohbah Member Since Feb 2019 Location: NJ Posts: 1,346 5 1,288 hugs given	Oct 05, 2024 at 05:10 PM #630 SD..I think I read something where you can put gloves on and actually pick the bat up to put them back outside. I don’t know how true or safe it is though.
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Jersey 4 Poohbah Member Since Feb 2019 Location: NJ Posts: 1,346 5 1,288 hugs given	Oct 05, 2024 at 06:23 PM #635 I’ve been having bad period like cramps off and on for 2 weeks. I really hope this is just a product of getting older and nothing too serious. I figure I’d give it another week to see if it continues before making an appointment.
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