60+ year old thread.

Hopefully, it's Wednesday!

Life with Parkinson's means about 30 pills a day. Too many pill containers; I'm grateful for Deep Brain Stimulation as I dropped my 16 Parkinson's pills down to just six. Parkinson's pills have to be on an empty stomach, a full glass of water, and wait at least 30 minutes before eating. Pain in the butt, but I need to make those meds effective.

I keep a journal of when I got up, when I took my meds, what I had for breakfast, when I took the next dose, lunch... how much exercise (number of steps; minutes of power walking, biking, etc).

End of the day, I mark "X" in the right-hand column. towards the top means a great day; towards the bottom, a not-so-good day.

I write one page per day in a 60-page notebook, so I have a pretty good summary of my progress.

After two months, I have a good snapshot of how I am doing and what foods affect me (sigh, I love pizza, but pasta and cheese aren't good for me).

We are having fun with our new boxing coach. Kick butt, take no prisoners, and if you are not dripping sweat after 60 minutes, you aren't trying hard enough! I do those four times a week: yoga, power walking, and cycling. A good week is when I can put in at least 450 active minutes.

Exercise is good!

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41531-024-00641-1

 

Good on you. Sounds like you are doing everything a person can do to fight that damn disease. Kick Parkinson’s ass!

 

That is a lot of snow to have a meter of that size.

A snowcat would be useful too.

 

Copper Harbor, Michigan. They usually get a lot of snow.

 

Lucky!!!!

details please... would love to know how you control your AFIB

Keep up the fight!!!

evening gang

 

I can't take all the credit. After the second ablation the episodes were far fewer. But when I get one there are several strategies to control the heart rhythm. One is to put your legs straight up against a wall as you lay on the floor. That helped but it took a while. Too long to be comfortable. The one that worked best for me was to hold the nose and close the mouth... and blow out HARD so the head is pressurized... holding the pressure for as long as you can. That worked quickly, but sometimes had to be done two or three times. I think I remember reading about some other things you could do on the Wiki page about AFIB (maybe Tachycardia?).

 

I'd heard about those "exercises" to control AFIB except about the putting legs against a wall. I had tried the hold the nose one, but maybe I didn't do it enough. Doc also told me to dunk my head in COLD water - to shock the system. I guess I didn't do them enough or long enough - don't think I had ever heard of anyone doing them and it actually working.... I guess I will try them next time (which hopefully will be several months away )

 

Lake effect snow is a thing!

I used to live in Chicago, so I know how it is, plus I was born in Indiana so I’m familiar with the neighborhood.

 

Good morning folks

 

Good Morning everyone

 

Good morning. Restful day yesterday. I expect more of the same today. I have a few additional items to gather up for an electric circuit install at my cousins on Saturday. Rained all day yesterday and it is still wet outside this morning. Harris teeter has baby back ribs on BOGO this week and today is seniors' day at HT. Off to the gym them on to the grocery store, back home for a quick guitar practices session then a chair yoga class. Full morning them a restful afternoon with just a second guitar practice session.

 

Good morning all.

 

A high school bud just got diagnosed with Parkinson’s. You seem to be handling it well. Great job!
To date I have been very fortunate health wise. I only break bones and sever tendons. Usually my fault from doing stupid things.
My heart goes out to everyone in hopes you all can control your health!

Quiet day here. Starting plans to camp out for 10 days in the Wind River Range in August. Grandson and his hiking bud want me to shuttle supplies for their CDT backpack trip. I did it for him last summer while he hiked 104 miles of the CDT. I had a great time even though I was by myself just hiking, fishing, and in general enjoying the outdoors.

Everyone have a great day and make it count!

 

Morning all...I have a question.
Is there anyone here that is familiar with the Chestnut Hill area of Philly?
My nephew and his family just moved there and they're renting now but are going to be looking to buy a home.
I'm wondering if anyone has a recommendation for a general contractor in the area.
Thanks

 

I have a friend who's lived in that vicinity for most of his adult life. We're overdue for a chat. I'll see if he has any ideas.

 

sixtys/wannabes/pill poppers. We've been extremely fortunate in that particular regard, only one pill per day per person in this household. But I know how quickly that can change! Those AFIB remedies sound very clever but I can see how they might take some practice to get to a point of being effective. I'm going to tell my sister about them.

On to more mundane matters. Ever since I got the Caterham I've had a bit of a dilemma, namely that my tool storage is not sufficient for keeping both metric and English size wrenches/sockets handy. My method up until now has been to keep the English stuff in storage and roll them out when needed, but that just takes up a bunch of space on flat surfaces. It's a hassle. And I have some major work coming up on the Caterham. So yesterday I bit the bullet and ordered a larger top tool chest. It will roughly double the square inches I have to put stuff, and that should hopefully do the trick. Only one problem: the new box is one inch deeper than the current bottom toolbox. Doh! But it's the best one for the space I have, in terms of usefulness and capacity. So today's project will be to attach a strip of wood to the back edge of the bottom box so I can move it out from the wall without leaving a gap. Knowing me I'd be constantly dropping stuff behind it. 10mm sockets would be primary victims!

 

Dave,

Handy items for the toolbox

Wrench Organizer Tray

$10 ERNST - 16 Tool Wrench Organizer Tray - Hi-Viz (5062HV)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B078BH9F2P/

plier organizer

$17 Ernst Manufacturing Plier Pro Premium No-Slip Plier Organizer: Toolbox Organization Solution for Pliers, Cutters, Slip Joint Pliers (Hi-Viz) - Made in USA

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B078FV3PNF

I put my bicycle tools into a storage tote next to the bike bench.

Plumbing tools go into a dedicated luggable toolbox.

 

Good Morning Everyone Have a Great Day

 

Good Morning Porch Pals & Sue! No hangar time again, but I thought I would attach the back yard grass, and make me feel better about looking at it. Cleaning the garden beds is at a point where it's a real pain, because there are bulbs coming up, so it's hard to just use the trimmer to clean it. Didn't feel too bad doing the work, but I feel it today. I know the two things I work on at the hangar would just kill me; but maybe next week, because the wife goes back to remove the wrap on Tuesday. We'll see.
Off for a hair cut and some quick erranding today.

I was just wondering about the Cat @wdb!
I have a wire version of the plier holder that Tom mentioned. I like it.

$18 CASOMAN Plier Organizer Rack, 2 Pack, Stores Spring Loaded, Black, 15-Slot Plier Rack, Keep Pliers Organized in Tool Drawer

Amazon.com: CASOMAN Plier Organizer Rack, 2 Pack, Pliers Cutters Organizer, Stores Spring Loaded, Black, 15-Slot Plier Rack, Keep Pliers Organized in Tool Drawer : Automotive

I'm just about in the middle of all those pills! Happy to get rid of one any time I can. You go @roundrocktom !

 

found this for ya

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