Getting old means meeting lots of new people
I’ve been getting to know a bunch of new people this year – lab technicians, x-ray technicians, nurses, doctors, receptionists… It has definitely been my year to be poked and prodded. It all started with my 65th birthday. As soon as I was eligible for Medicare, I think my warranty ran out. Little things started popping up. For about a year, I was slowly losing weight, a pound here, a pound there, and, prodded not too gently by the family, I went in for a check- up. A tendency to get bronchitis a couple times every year didn’t help the [...]
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I’m not absent-minded – it’s gremlins
It has been that kind of week. You know what I mean. The kind where you lose something and then find it right in front of you… I just spent about a half-hour looking for my memory sticks – thumb drives I keep all my news on by week. It wasn’t in my purse, on the desk, on the floor or in the wastebasket. I even called the office to see if I had left it there. No luck. Just when I had decided I would have to start over again and had lost all of my stuff (about [...]
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Tongue-tied
I’m living every reporter’s nightmare. Can’t talk – at least until this paper is published. No answering the phone, or chatting on the phone, no interviews. I can’t even call the dogs when they go outside. Doctor’s orders. It all started with a little sore spot on the side of my tongue that showed up before Christmas and didn’t seem to want to go away. During my regular cleaning a couple of weeks ago, Dr. Fred spotted it and said, “You really need to have that looked at.” Fine. Good idea, so he referred me and Tuesday I went to [...]
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Resolution kept
Well January is drawing to a close already and I have to tell you, Jack is keeping one of his New Year’s resolutions! Over the holidays he announced his intention to lose some weight. That’s a tough one for him, the guy who never seemed to gain an ounce no matter how much he ate… Unfortunately, that overactive metabolism of his started changing a few years ago when the pounds started sneaking up on him – and me too of course. A doctor’s visit with a “you need to lose weight!” and a few problems with his back, hips and [...]
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It’s all my fault
Years ago every time I wrote a column about the weather, my staff at the newspaper would insist that I caused it to change – radically, and they would always yell at me to “Stop doing that!” Nobody has complained lately, so I guess I forgot. Looks like I did it again though, because last week’s column, written on Wednesday afternoon, was all about our still green grass and beautiful October-like weather in January… Thursday the thermometer started dropping and by Friday afternoon we had about seven inches of new snow on the ground. And it’s still there this week [...]
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