Lise - I hope your Doctor has good news for you. Take care and let us know how you get on.
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Lise - I hope your Doctor has good news for you. Take care and let us know how you get on.
HA! I wish! :p No such luck. And...I'm off! L.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trek420
Good luck at the doctor's office Lise!
Wow - does the no posts evening on TE correspond directly with no deliveries by Lise, I wonder?
What a wonderful story about the Sudanese family.
Lisa - please update us ASAP on what the doctor tells you!!!
I am at the office - a rarity. I will be gone ALL next week, in Yosemite. We spend 4 days or so cmaping at Tuolomne and then a few days at the Wawona. I am looking forward to it! No biking this year (we usually bring bikes and this year we were going to do Tioga Pass) - oh well. Plenty of hiking, though.
Did I mention I am doing a marathon in October? I figure since I can't ride my bike, I gotta do something..... http://www.nike.com/nikemarathon/
lise - good luck at the dr. hopefull your rebellious kid side is right in thinking nothing major is wrong.
kelownagirl - know how you brought up swimmer's tail yesterday. well my friend's black lab got it yesterday. poor thing. just saw her and she's so sad. :(
Lise, let us know as soon as you hear anything!!
I'm sort of interested in the circ discussion, too. One of the procedures done in my department requires catheterization. New residents are surprised when I tell them girls are easier than boys. Many boys (of all types) are not circumsized these days, and often the foreskin can't be peeled back far enough for the radiologist to see the hole, so it's a blind poking around till he gets lucky. (Then, once the tube is in, you're still not home free because upset little boys can clamp down and prevent the catheter from advancing into the bladder! Little girls can't do that.)
I didn't take Maizey in to be sexed, because she seemed upset when I put her in a pillowcase to take her in to work, where she would have had to wait all day. I'll just take her on a day off. I studied her tail/body junction last night, and I still think she's a she.
But- I have this friend who has a pair of pigeons. The female had always laid two eggs, (replaced with wooden eggs as population control) but this time around laid four. The friend was asking if she should replace all four, or only leave two wooden eggs. My other friend Julie pointed out that the pair was actually two females- who would have thought of that?? (What's that saying doctors have about looking for horses when they hear hoofbeats, not zebras??)
We ate the poleno or whatever it was last night. Ok, but either I won't make it again or will try with different chili powder.
Grilling pork loin tonight.
I tried taking pics of Maizey and a measuring tape last night so I could try out the snake measuring software. So I'm trying to get her to hold still, and not overlap herself, kind of herding her into position with my bare foot, and BF starts screaming at me to stop kicking the snake, (AS IF!!!) and when I finally was done, she rewarded me by taking a crap right in the middle of the living room carpet...And no, it doesn't pick up nicely with a spoon like bird poo...
I rode the motorcycle in a skirt last night- unplanned errand running after work. It stayed down.
gotta love snake poo. i hated cleaning that up. if it wasn't so runny, but i guess if you left it long enough it would harden.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nanci
glad the skirt stayed down for ya. i'm sure you got a lot of looks too, a few cat calls perhaps?
Lise, glad you are being a grown-up. I never manage to pull that off. Update as asap.
MP - you can't bike so you're gonna run a marathon. I can't say that is a direction my brain would ever go. Have a great trip.
OK: Here's what we know. The EKG showed that my heart is skipping beats. Doh! I knew that! :p It's premature ventricular contractions (PVCs), and most likely benign. She drew some blood (CBC for anemia, electrolytes, thyroid panel), and ordered an Echocardiogram. The soonest I can get that done is next Tuesday.
My doc speculates this is a peri-menopause thing, with hormonal shifts. It's funny; I feel considerably younger and stronger than I did at 40. I've suppressed my periods with the Nuva ring for 3 years, as treatment for the endometriosis. So I don't even think much about my hormones these days! I do get hot flashes sometimes--just annoying. So now PVCs? It's uncomfortable, but not dangerous. Unless the blood work and echo show otherwise.
Upshot: I can train and race. YEA! I should cut back on caffeine. OK, if I have to. :rolleyes: If it will ease this uncomfortable feeling when my heart skips beats, then OK. Less coffee and diet Coke it is.
To celebrate the fact that I will appearantly live to fight another day, I went to the LBS and bought the Celeste bottle cages, some new gloves, and ordered a Terry Zero X to try out. That should be in Thurs, so I'll get in some riding before the tri, and see if I like it.
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MP--why is it you can hike and run, but not bike? Is it the falling factor? I'm such a clutz on my own two feet that I fall more when running than biking (so far, knock wood). I guess a fall off the bike could be much more catastrophic in terms of bleeding. Your vacation sounds great.
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I'm thinking of going up to cheer for IM Wisconsin in Madison, 9/10. It's about a 3 hr drive. I was thinking of vounteering, but they want you there for orientation meetings the week before (of course), and I'm not going to make that trip twice in one week! I dated someone who lived up there for 18 months, years ago. What a pain in the butt that drive was. 'Specially cuz the relationship was largely a pain in the butt, too! :rolleyes: Interspersed, of course, with moments of joy...nothing like intermittant reinforcement, eh? :cool:
[QUOTE=maillotpois]Wow - does the no posts evening on TE correspond directly with no deliveries by Lise, I wonder? [QUOTE]
Perhaps... MWBR
You just can't sit still, can you ;)Quote:
Did I mention I am doing a marathon in October? I figure since I can't ride my bike, I gotta do something..... http://www.nike.com/nikemarathon/
Have fun on your camping trip! That sounds like fun!
You can blame some on the lull on me but I was handling some logistics for a trip, printing AV labels and shipping same off to yellow, and mapping out two longs routes on routeslip. I was a busy girl last night!!!
Somewhere in there, I talked with hubby for about 5 mins.
[QUOTE=fishdr][QUOTE=maillotpois]Wow - does the no posts evening on TE correspond directly with no deliveries by Lise, I wonder?Fish, you're the scientist! Maybe we should graph it and see if there's a correlation? ;)Quote:
Perhaps... MWBR
I'm also eating semi-sweet chocolate chips to celebrate my benign heart arrythmia. Hmmm...I could really get a lot of "celebrating" in, couldn't I?!? I decided ~for the moment~ against the bike stand. They're huge! I don't have that kind of room in the communal basement. For the time being, I'll turn the bike over on a tarp, to protect the seat and handle bars...oh, wait, I've got the aero bars, crud, that may not work. Hmmmm. Oh, and the bike stand is more expensive than I imagined. If I really like the Zero X, there's the outlay of money. If I don't, I'll stick with the Serfas saddle and rethink the bike stand. The gift certs covered the cages and gloves :D , and a little over half of the saddle. YAY!
Lise, glad it sounds fairly minor. I swear I was getting heart issues when I was on BC pills. Since I was constantly struggling to find one with the right balance of chemicals, I just decided to try it without. So much better! No more headaches pre-flow, no dizziness/nausea episodes, no weird heart beats, etc. I also think my nightsweats are better.
If peri-menopause is this much fun, I can't wait for the real thing.
Lise - glad to hear it wasn't anything worse and that you can still train and race! That must be a big relief.
Reducing caffeine intake is not a bad thing. Did you ever do the Daphnia experiment in biology class in college - you know - feed daphnia caffeine and watch the little things just about explode. Lovely image - sorry. That was enough to make me cut back, though. Then my peripheral vision got wiggly, then I started trying to have a baby and cut out the caffeine all together. Now if I drink a big cup of coffee (I can have small cups) - my heart feels like it's going about 100 mph. Not the best feeling.
Enjoy your new bottle holders. You must post a pic when you get them installed!
So - when do you get the other test results back? Perimenopause...that's lousy.
Wow, Lise, good news I guess on the PVC thing. I hope it is not something that will get worse. Having an echo is weird. Like an ultrasound for pregnancy - but there's no baby in there!!?? It hurt when the super stern woman was squishing my boob to get the angle right.
And you're right on doing the marathon versus cycling - it is the falling factor. A fall on the bike could be catastrophic, and I do fall on the bike. If I fall running, I will bleed more than other folks, but my chances of actually dying are not that much higher. Weighing risks. And I will mostly walk this marathon. I walked one of my three previous marathons. It's not so bad.
Brina - I just can't get over how cute your dog is. I love TE'ers with dog avatars. Your puppy looks like my Meg when she was little. Little teddy bears. I probably complimented you on it before, but it just keeps making me smile.