🕯 A Place To Be With OTHERS Who Are Grieving! WE support each other.

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September 5, 2024
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THIS GROUP IS OPEN TO ALL GRIEVERS NO MATTER HOW LONG IT HAS BEEN [years,days].

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Luv,

Nicole 💛

online "grief & loss" support group!!!

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SummerOnTheWay1Author

📎 [2/9/25] Senior Moment - forgot to share. Guess what. Per this year's Medicare Bloodwork, I am NO longer pre-diabetic!!!

My walking EVERY DAY inside my Studio Apt & low carb mediterrean diet (followed my Medicare doctor's suggestion) paid off. 🙃

Anyone have any UPDATES to share? 🤔

M

MarcyW882921

Community Champion ⭐⭐

Nicole,

This is great news! Congratulations on your diligence in taking care of yourself. It has paid off for you!

Marcy

SummerOnTheWay1Author

📎 Good Morning All!!!

How are you doing?

WE MADE IT THROUGH ANOTHER NIGHT. 👍

Lol, some of us are feeling like a truck "ran" over us. Yes, another "rough" night. I actually slept last night for the 1st time in days. GRATEFUL.

Well, 2025 has certainly made up for all those WINTERS we didnot get any MAJOR snow here in Cave Spring, Virginia.

And yours truly learn't her LESSON about my HILL last month. Have NEVER not been able to get up my hill. Still LEARNING about Winter after MOVING from Florida. Come on SPRING!!! We had some days in the 60's last week. Even CLEANED and waxed my car (handwash and waxed,my therapy).

Anyway TODAY I am getting ALL errands done and STAYING inside my Studio Apt tomorrow (Tuesday) and Wednesday.

On the OTHER hand 2025 brought some GOOD NEWS. 👍

So RELIEVED and I know she is too = daughter will NOT lose her Townhouse in Florida. Teased her about having 3 jobs instead of the 1 engineering job she use to have at L3Harris. Ironic I was pregnant with jer 38 years ago working for them in Florida. Back then they had NOT merged, was just Harris. Lived in Palm Bay, Florida and worked at Cape Canaveral. Yes, like my daughter - they lost a Government contract = major layoff. She was age 10 at the time. Melbourne where she was born and living has been hit really bad with these layoffs. Anyway, between her NEW jobs as an Al Tutor (working from home), part-time at Michaels (was seasonal last year,now regular part-timer) and maintaining a website for a non-profit (work from home) she is back on track.

Question for you guys. I have an OLD Samsumg Galaxy J3 my daughter had bought for me in 2018 (when she was finally able to pry my much loved Flip Phone out of my fingers). And YES, should have UPDATED like yesterday. But I have agreed that THIS DECEMBER I will. Guys, I hate phones, NEVER one to be on it. Anyway, any RECOMMENDATIONS on a replacement? Lol, getting OLDER we NEED to SEE stuff. I LUV my Galaxy J3 and had bought a battery last year when the ORIGINAL one had died. So here I am all "stressed" out TRYING to find my local T-Mobile location so they can REPLACE the battery. Lol, I am sure my already HIGH blood pressure was higher by the time I found it. GRATEFUL the two "youngsters" were NICE after I explained I had searched the internet,YouTube and still could NOT get the phone BACK off. 😭

In ending, growing OLD I guess. Had a VERY PAINFUL ultrasound done on my LEFT leg which has decided to cramp all the way up to my thigh. Test said my "circulation" was OKAY. 👍 But I still worry that it will happen while DRIVING. 😱 No need to run over someone. So far it happens "randomly" at night. Hell to get out of bed to WALK it off and tears are in my eyes..Yes, the s.it HURTS and lasts about 15 minites. Lol, feels like FOREVER!!!

Everyone, remember - OUR LUV ONES ARE ALWAYS WITH US.

*** Usually I proofread before posting, but it is nearly 8am ET for me. Need to shower, wash hair and head out BEFORE snow storm arrives. ***

Luv,

Nicole 🤗🤗🤗 (Grief Forum)

jonibee

Community Champion ⭐⭐

Does the town sand the road so going up won't be such a challenge?..Here in MA we have lots of hills hete and there some negotiable others no and people who live there park at the bottom where ever they can it can be bad if one car doesn't make it and starts to slide backwards. Hopefully Spring if almost ready to make an appearance in March...Ha

SummerOnTheWay1Author

📎 I AM THINKING OF YOU!!! 🤗🤗🤗

Julie @JulieT507376 and Sadie 🐕, Lisa @LisaJP6763, MC @mc6844, Susan @SusanR479241.

mc6844

Community Champion ⭐⭐

Thank you Nicole for your kind thoughts. I hope you are well. And also everyone on the forum. May everyone find their peace for the day.

SummerOnTheWay1Author

📎 GROUP DISCUSSION!!!

Any goals for 2025? 🤔

Me, continue to walk inside my Studio Apt EVERY DAY for an hour. Impressed my Medicare doctor was correct = pre-diabetes went bye bye. 👍 Of course the Low Carb Mediterrean diet she also suggested helped. 👍

Continue to LEAVE my apt Mondays thru Thursdays EVERY WEEK. My mechanic said "retiring" my 2006 Hyundai Elantra when I did was killing the battery. 🙄 I would ONLY drive it for weekly Walmart grocery trip, medical and gas. NOW it is a "challenge" to find somewhere "interesting" to go. But all this has really FILLED me up. Lol, cannot wait to checkout NEW places locally. 🙃

mc6844

Community Champion ⭐⭐

Having goals is a good reminder of self-care. When we find activities that refresh our minds it helps us to move forward. Walking in place is great and beneficial. Those of us who are older may become more introspective. During loss we look to the physical world of people and places for direction and hope. Each life, however, has its own timetable. Doing just what we can for the day is helpful.

SummerOnTheWay1Author

📎 I MISS you and Sadie 🐕 Julie @JulieT507376 🤗🤗🤗

J

JulieT507376

Contributor ⭐⭐

Hello Friends!

Sadie and I are staying busy with travels and friends visiting from Arizona and Canada! This week more company from Minnesota. I’m blessed my life is so busy. I continue to fiercely miss Mark. He is present in my every day. I tried to post a photo of Sadie for everyone but for some reason the attachment button wasn’t there! Maybe next time! For now we are in two feet of snow and freezing -10 degrees F weather!