Couch 250: An August Couch

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.

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

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

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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.

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!

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?

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

I had something like this post menopause - mine was pancreatitis

The gyn (and the article) explained, its microscopic pieces of endometrium tissue touching teeny tiny nerves. The point is to put some distance between them. I was like, teeny tiny shyte causing feelings this big? She was like, yeah, specks.

Oh, wow. I didn’t know specks had this much power.

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The weather put paid to my Sunday walk, so I did some yoga instead.

Seriously! She was like, they are not supposed to be there (the pieces of endometrium). And they are in there touching nerves. Think of a tooth nerve (thats my idea, just now). Honestly, i was in a cold sweat all the time from it. I dont usually do pain, ya know? I almost couldnt eat, it was that bad

Your funny!

Dude thats from booze. Pretty bottles of poison. I only harass my pancreas with bread and chocolate.

Can be from other things, too--my sister-in-law got it, but she doesn't drink (like at all). She has various other health issues though. Not sure they ever figured out what caused it? She had to be on a liquid diet for a while.

Dude - in my case it wasn't. I don't drink much at all - long before the pancreatitis I had given up much alcohol because it wrecks my sleep and makes my hands and feet itch (for that matter I don't eat much bread or chocolate either - they make me feel bad). I probably don't drink more than 6-7 times a year and then I only have 1 drink - it is like I am allergic to alcohol if I try to have even 2 beers let alone 2 scotches- I can't drink wine at all any more.

I have only had it once and it was terrible. I wouldn't want to get it chronically.

Oh, my bad! I thought that was why you were always sneaking off to the library instead of cuddling up on the Couch.

That was pretty much my tolerance also, until it became completely intolerable.

If that’s the choice—solitude or cuddling—I’ll be in the library too.

Yes. I don't believe a diminished desire to cuddle acquaintances equates to alcoholism.