SIDEBAR #56 - Travis Alexander forum

[YESorNO]

Spellbound- how is your lip- still not swollen, I hope?

 

[Hatfield]

I see the pics.

Do they fly?

(does he have a beard?:facepalm

I was hoping the bird pictures would come out larger like the other ones. I think only one at a time works for me. So let me at least show the one of the bird closeup that came out good. They dont have beard like turkey but do have hairs on top of his head. LOL

The part under his chin is skin they grow. LOL

 

[GigiG]

Good Afternoon my SB family!

Pneumonia Update: Thank you again for all your Jingles!
Went to the doctor today and had a chest X-ray and it is clear! I can now go to PT to get stronger, starting off in the pool. I am still oxygen dependent as I get short of breath on exertion, but I only need 2L which is awesome. Hopefully I will deflate as my Prednisone doses are tapered. Nothing fits and I am so afraid my leggings, which are stretched to the hilt, are going to roll all the way down. Now that might cause others PTSD...

Wow! What great news! Now we can ALL breathe a sigh of relief. Hoping you can get off those awful (tho helpful) steroids asap!

ETA: I have an awkward question; hope you don't mind... Is the puffiness from steroids actual weight gain? Or is it water retention? What's up with that side-effect? Why does it happen?

 

[YESorNO]

Do you remember this commercial :floorlaugh:

[video=youtube;GbXM9ATC5_4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbXM9ATC5_4[/video]

 

[ILikeToBendPages]

What is Spanx- is that a girdle -with a new name :facepalm:

I remember my mother wearing a girdle and she was small. And it had the hose holders thingies. I was so glad for the sixties and only put on a bra when I absolutely had to, and when I turned eighteen I took it off. I felt like I'm being strangled.


[video=youtu;9dDZePEFC24]http://youtu.be/9dDZePEFC24[/video]

 

[YESorNO]

[video=youtube;Qf0k8sACrTU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf0k8sACrTU[/video]

:takeabow:


Time for fftobed: (I'm still not use to the time change and my body says it's 10:30 here).

Good night.

:seeya:

 

[neesaki]

I didn't watch them- because of my BW and because I was so burned-out with the trials. Frankly- I had enough- I cried "Uncle".

I'm the same way with trials now. Who knows though, if something as horrific as this last one came up, I might succumb. :sheesh:

 

[neesaki]

Have any of you seen the new Lincoln MKZ commercial with Matthew McConaughy getting dressed in black tie? You see him put his contacts in, see shots of his shoes and watch, closet, etc. OMG, this has to be the sexiest commercial I have ever seen and there is nothing evocative about it. It is in black and white and IMO pure genius from an advertising perspective.

If you have seen it, did you pay attention to it or am I on too much medication and not enough oxygen. Or maybe all that boy toy talk....

I haven't seen it. All I can say is that the last few times I've seen M. McConaughy he's looked undernourished and very, very thin. Is he ill?

 

[neesaki]

I wanted to try to share some pictures of my Guinea Bird who likes to look in our living room window. LOL I don't know if I can be successful but will give it a try.

Hatfield, that is so sweet ! :happydance: Cute little Guinea! :skip:

 

[Hatfield]

Hatfield, that is so sweet ! :happydance: Cute little Guinea! :skip:

Thanks . Ive been meaning to share those with the group.

 

[GigiG]

Any mention of dementia is scary---I fear that disease so dang much!

Lewy body dementia is truly scary, but at least we're becoming educated about it.

In the late '80s, my stepfather, having just turned 50, developed symptoms of both Parkinson's and Alzheimer's and the progression was frighteningly rapid.

My mother cared for him at home as long as she could, but soon had to find an institution that would provide care for someone with his unique set of symptoms. Believe it or not, back then there were no facilities with programs specific to even just Alzheimer's. They were mostly generic nursing homes for people who could no longer take care of themselves.

The one place she found was in Baltimore, so she would drive from her home in Virginia to visit him and do his laundry at least three times a week. (As with all long-term facilities, regular visits keeps the staff on their toes, but also let's them know that the patient isn't a "nobody.")

He deteriorated very quickly, and died within a few years. Due to my mother's vigilance, and in conjunction with Johns Hopkins Medical Center, arrangements were made in advance to have his brain examined post-mortem to help doctors learn and better understand the pathology.

While we were never privy to the results, I now feel pretty certain that he had Lewy body dementia. I hope and pray that the doctors and researchers were able to learn something from their examination of his brain. Due to the timing, it would seem that his death was synchronistic with the identification of Lewy body dementia as a bona fide disease.

From Wikipedia:

Dementia with Lewy bodies was first described by Japanese psychiatrist and neuropathologist Kenji Kosaka in 1976.[28] LBD only started to be diagnosed in the mid-1990s after the discovery of alpha-synuclein staining first highlighted Lewy bodies in the cortex of post mortem brains of a subset of dementia patients.

Unfortunately, as was the case with Robin Williams, it seems it is still a disease that can only be confirmed after a brain biopsy has been performed.

 

[neesaki]

Here you go Zuri :facepalm:

Now kiss him goodnight :winkkiss: and you will see him in your dreams:

Link: http://i11.servimg.com/u/f11/12/50/72/97/matthe10.jpg

1 hour of Matthew McConaughey watching rain and drinking coffee

[video=youtube;uqdvYJ-7IrM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqdvYJ-7IrM[/video]

:floorlaugh::floorlaugh::floorlaugh:

:tomato:

There ya go, see that first pic? That's when he was a hunk. Then look at the ones later, he looks drawn and way too thin. What's wrong?

 

[Hatfield]

Lewy body dementia is truly scary, but at least we're becoming educated about it.

In the late '80s, my stepfather, having just turned 50, developed symptoms of both Parkinson's and Alzheimer's and the progression was frighteningly rapid.

My mother cared for him at home as long as she could, but soon had to find an institution that would provide care for someone with his unique set of symptoms. Believe it or not, back then there were no facilities with programs specific to even just Alzheimer's. They were mostly generic nursing homes for people who could no longer take care of themselves.

The one place she found was in Baltimore, so she would drive from her home in Virginia to visit him and do his laundry at least three times a week. (As with all long-term facilities, regular visits keeps the staff on their toes, but also let's them know that the patient isn't a "nobody.")

He deteriorated very quickly, and died within a few years. Due to my mother's vigilance, and in conjunction with Johns Hopkins Medical Center, arrangements were made in advance to have his brain examined post-mortem to help doctors learn and better understand the pathology.

While we were never privy to the results, I now feel pretty certain that he had Lewy body dementia. I hope and pray that the doctors and researchers were able to learn something from their examination of his brain. Due to the timing, it would seem that his death was synchronistic with the identification of Lewy body dementia as a bona fide disease.

From Wikipedia:

Dementia with Lewy bodies was first described by Japanese psychiatrist and neuropathologist Kenji Kosaka in 1976.[28] LBD only started to be diagnosed in the mid-1990s after the discovery of alpha-synuclein staining first highlighted Lewy bodies in the cortex of post mortem brains of a subset of dementia patients.

Unfortunately, as was the case with Robin Williams, it seems it is still a disease that can only be confirmed after a brain biopsy has been performed.

I know what you mean. I think it runs in my family and I expect to get some form of senility or dementia at some point. I think my mind is already not working as well as it once did. Uggggg.

 

[franquerolane]

My husband has pizzed me off today. We were at the bank and he had a warm greeting to an attractive customer in line with him. I asked who it was and he said it was a waitress he knew next door to his business, who had been arrested for stealing thousands of dollars from her
her employer. I said, "How can you still like her?" He said, "She has always been nice to me." I flashed back to JA and reamed him a new one. Does not being a thieftake away your respect for someone?

 

[Hatfield]

Ive been thinking about trying some of the supplements that are supposed to help the brain out. They sound interesting and a little scary. Not sure I want to fool with those though.

 

[ILikeToBendPages]

1980 - Republican Ronald Reagan won the White House defeating President Jimmy Carter. Reagan was the 40th President of the U.S., winning by a landslide (525 electoral votes to Carter’s 40). I will always believe that God had his hand on him. He was what America needed at that time, just like Washington and Lincoln. It was their time for America.


[video=youtu;HA7sP47e8tA]http://youtu.be/HA7sP47e8tA[/video]

 

[ILikeToBendPages]

Do you remember this song Zuri? It's about 1971 or so.

[video=youtu;tf41aEFLCJQ]http://youtu.be/tf41aEFLCJQ[/video]

 

[neesaki]

Do you remember this song Zuri? It's about 1971 or so.

[video=youtu;tf41aEFLCJQ]http://youtu.be/tf41aEFLCJQ[/video]

I'm not Zuri, but that's a favorite song of ours.

 

[neesaki]

Ive been thinking about trying some of the supplements that are supposed to help the brain out. They sound interesting and a little scary. Not sure I want to fool with those though.

Do you mind sharing the name of some of the supplements you're thinking about , Hatfield? TIA

 

[neesaki]

My husband has pizzed me off today. We were at the bank and he had a warm greeting to an attractive customer in line with him. I asked who it was and he said it was a waitress he knew next door to his business, who had been arrested for stealing thousands of dollars from her
her employer. I said, "How can you still like her?" He said, "She has always been nice to me." I flashed back to JA and reamed him a new one. Does not being a thieftake away your respect for someone?

It always makes me feel better when I hear that I'm not the only one whose husband pizzes them off. :giggle: But I agree, I'm beginning to think that men are in general very naive when it comes to people, especially when it comes to the opposite sex. I think it's an ego thing, don't you? They're always on-the-ready for anything to keep that fragile male ego of theirs pumped up, LOL.