TIS FRIDAY AND THE WEEK IS A BLUR. Glad it's Friday. MOVIE NIGHT with popcorn tonight. We were on the road quite a bit this week. In and out of traffic...in and out of stores. Wore a mask while shopping and disinfected my hands with wipes once back in the car. Sometimes I swab my nostrils with disinfectant wipes after shopping even after wearing a mask. This may not sound pleasant, but neither is getting sick.
When my nose starts to get a tad bit stuffy, I drink an Emergen-C powder mix with spring water. I know the vitamin C combats colds and helps with immune health. I found a Emergen-C Elderberry. Actually taste good. Just drank some.
We couldn't get all our shopping done in one day so it spilled over into more than one. That's three active days of shopping within the week with some fun mixed in there for good measure. Blessed to have no car troubles while the weather is bitter cold. We managed to have a safe and successful week of shopping.
The older I get, the tireder I find myself when driving so much. We went to 5 different communities during the week to SHOP. Alma, Wamego, Manhattan, St. Marys and Topeka. I'm ready to stay HOME. Need to work on the Dining room. Oh please.
Today, I will putz about the house polishing a silver-plated Tea and Coffee set that's tarnished. I'd like to polish it then place it on display on a tea table. As I am morphing into a more simplistic way to decorate, I will hang onto some of the finer things around here.
We purchased an antennae for the COTTAGE television. Needed an extension cord and surge protector as well. This took us the week to gather up all that was needed to make this a success so we can watch tv while at the COTTAGE. My dear Husband got it together and we were able to watch a program while sitting in what will be our COTTAGE TV room.
We'd been to Manhattan as I had a mammogram. Aren't those delightful? ha. It took longer to drive across town than to actually have the mammogram done. I stood at the kiosk to check-out. That was a hoot as I touched the screen the entire table it was sitting on bounced with each touch. Kind of made me have motion sickness as I bobbed my head to read the next step in filling out the check-in. Finished not in record time.
My technician was very fast and friendly. She didn't even bother to take me out for dinner before I stripped down to my undies. Alright perhaps that's not funny to some, but if I don't exercise my sense of humor, I will cry. I don't particularly like getting mammograms and this time was no exception. My breast stuck to the tray you place your bosom on to have it filmed. I suppose some of that is because the breast is squished making it stick to the plate. I forgot to say cheese and smile while my body part was being x-rayed.
Mammograms are not a fun thing to do. I haven't had one in about 5 years. I debated getting a 3-D (breast tomosynthesis) one and probably should have, but went old school this time. I'm not sure if my insurance covers the expenses of a 3-D or not. Will have to check into this. Medicare should pay for this as it's only about $60 more than what I had.
Just read that you should avoid caffeine and salt one to two weeks before a mammogram. Not having caffeine in your system helps with the tenderness and avoiding salt helps with water detention. Don't schedule mammogram before or during a period. Nobody told me this one until I just read it.
https://www.healthimages.com/10-tips-to-minimize-pain-during-mammograms/
Anywho, I was asked by the technician if I had had a vaccine within the last month or so. Couldn't remember if she said if it were the last month or the last two months. Might have been 60 days. This took me by surprise. Like a deer in headlights. I hadn't. I thought about it and asked her why they needed to know that AND she said because the lymphs by the breast enlarge causing the doctor's confusion about the condition of the breast's health. huh? They what?
I thought about that for a second...ummm that means after a vaccine such as the Co v id vaccine and boooooster the lymphs enlarge. Last March and April after we got our co v id vacs, my Husband who was already having issues with enlarged lymph nodes in his neck and had been informed he has non-Hodgkins lymphoma began to experience additional pain in his neck.
With additional enlargement, he was in discomfort causing more concern about non-Hodgkins lymphoma. After several months of this additional pain he was ready to have the enlarged lymph removed. We went to a surgeon to chat about having it removed and the doctor said if it were him he wouldn't have this done. He said you already have non-Hodgkins lymphoma and having this lymph removed wasn't going to cure the NHL.
I researched about with the removal of lymph nodes, the body can swell. Edema. If in the lymph system it's lymphedema. Hubby changed his mind about the surgery. His lymph has gone back down and he is not in so much discomfort. Now I have put two and two together connecting the dots and believe the vac caused the additional enlargement of the nodes. I understand that after a vac, the immune system is taxed. The immune system is weakened.
LAST FEW DAYS IN A NUTSHELL:
*Purchased a new sweater on Monday and liked it so much went back and bought two more in different colors. Super price being on clearance for $10 a piece.
*Purchased a much needed new paper shredder which I put off for months after burning up the motor in the nice paper shredder I had. I can continue to thin out papers. MOVING FORWARD.
*Purchased a PHILLIPS television antennae so we can watch television at the COTTAGE without buying cable which would have been an additional expense that we don't need. Tis hooked up and ready to use.
*Organic veggies and fruits from two locations. Natural Grocers and Dillons.
*Finding soy-free eggs meant going to 4 different stores as Natural Grocers was fresh out. Driving the distance we had to on two different days was time consuming meaning we were out in traffic doing our thing. NOW I need to consider if the chickens that laid these eggs were fed corn as corn is a GMO product.
I am such a dumb blonde. Slow to be informed about eggs. My hubby pointed out to me some soy-free eggs awhile back and the light kind of went on.
Soy-free? If chickens that laid these eggs ate soy then the soy shows up in the eggs they lay. Same thing about corn fed chickens. Duh. With the knowledge that corn is generally GMO then the chicks that eat corn will lay eggs containing GMO corn.
So what have I gained if eating free range eggs laid by chickens that have been fed soy or corn? Not anything. PAID more for the eggs. Finding these soy-free and corn free eggs will be a HUGE challenge for me living in the FLINT HILLS buying store bought eggs. I'm not sure I can find someone that sells these kinds of eggs. MORE HOME WORK to do.
AT TIMES LIKE THIS, I ask should I be raising my own chickens? Finding someone who sells eggs that are corn-free and soy-free will be a doozy to find. My imagination begins to create vivid images of what could be.
I start having visions about being a woman walking amongst her chickens that are within a small fenced-in yard as she tosses chicken feed to her lil chicks pecking at her feet while she's wearing a long dress with an apron. What would I be feeding them in this small fenced in yard that the chicks are strutting about?
I suppose I ought to be careful where I step as chickens excrete waste in this small imaginary yard. Wearing a straw hat or bonnet isn't going to eliminate the waste issue. Eliminate...get it? That's cheesy humor.
*Cashed in some old car batteries and scrap metal. This meant going to the Industrial part of TOPEKA. It's been years since we've done this. Langleys has quite an operation going on there.
*Went to God's Storehouse and it wasn't on Tuesday for Senior Discount Day. We were over to TOPEKA and wanted to stop by as it is one of my favorite THRIFT STORES to look around and shop. Their prices have increased as some of their clothing was marked up to $7.50 for one article. I bought brand new sweaters for $10 at Florence Adams. Sometimes I would rather have NEW.
*Medical appointment.
*Multiple grocery store stops...Hy-Vee, Dillons, Sams, Hy-Vee, Hy-Vee, Hy-Vee, Natural Grocers, Walmart, Target, Menards, Dollar General, Heartland.
*Fueled the car also fueled the car.
*Ate out, ate out, and ate out.
Sugar Creek for a Rachel Salad made of turkey, lettuce, other veggies like red onion and red cabbage, cheese and Thousand Island Salad Dressing.
Froggy's for salad with chicken.
AppleBees for salmon meal with broccoli and garlic mashed potatoes.
Mexican Restaurant for spinach burrito.
Long Horns for yet another salad with chicken.
M.J.s for a steamer.
Starbucks in here a few times for Hubby's coffee.
I know that's a lot of eating out, but when we are away from our HOME for several days while out of town then we eat out. Partly because we are gone and partly because it's entertainment. I do my best to eat a great deal of salad and drink H2O. Brownie Points being made.
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