Royal Caribbean Cruisers -- How Are Things Where You Are? (was "Routine" ​ 😁 ​day in lockdown... how was yours?)

[A&L_Ont]

23 hours ago, DaniDanielle said:

Mimi, prayers for our recovery 🙏

From our home as well. 

Edited September 2 by A&L_Ont

[helen haywood]

Well, let’s keep in mind that @Sea Dog is soon to be a movie star!!

[ValerieJo]

@dani negreanu  So sad to hear about the latest round of violence.  I pray every day for peace and for everyone’s safety.

[taznremmy]

Yesterday in Halifax:

 

On our way to NYC, arriving tomorrow for an overnight.  It is so foggy today, can’t see a thing 🙀.  

[lenquixote66]

On 8/31/2024 at 3:18 PM, Luckynana said:

 

I watched a good movie on Netflix last night called "Megan Leavy", a true story about a young Marine and her Combat dog.❤️

I had never heard about her.After watching the movie I googled her name and read that Randy Levine,President of the Yankees arranged for Megan to be honored at Yankee Stadium in 2012.I “worked “ with Randy for several years.Prior to him working for the Yankees he was a member of a law firm that represented the company that I worked for from 1972 to 1997.That was something that I could see Randy doing.

[bobmacliberty]

Happy Labor Day to my fellow Americans!  Although Labor Day for many means the end of the summer, it kicks off my favorite time of the year...football season. 😁  It's also the start of a great few months here.  The summer crowds die down, and the weather stays really nice for a few more months.  Golf is so much more fun with slightly lower temps and greatly lower humidity levels.  Great beach day today, although still a little warm at 88F.  Live beach cam view:

Live Beach Cam - The Amelia Island Club

 

 

[ValerieJo]

50 minutes ago, bobmacliberty said:

Happy Labor Day to my fellow Americans!  Although Labor Day for many means the end of the summer, it kicks off my favorite time of the year...football season. 😁  It's also the start of a great few months here.  The summer crowds die down, and the weather stays really nice for a few more months.  Golf is so much more fun with slightly lower temps and greatly lower humidity levels.  Great beach day today, although still a little warm at 88F.  Live beach cam view:

Live Beach Cam - The Amelia Island Club

 

 

Thank you.  Kind of the last hurrah up here at the lake.  Some of the people are beginning to take their boats out for the season.   We’ll keep ours in for a couple more weeks.  We’re already seeing the beginnings of the leaves changing.  Sad to see summer coming to an end.  Go Lions! 🦁 

[ValerieJo]

Dinner last night was fresh Walleye about 18” straight out of the lake.  Delicious! 

[h20skibum]

14 minutes ago, ValerieJo said:

Thank you.  Kind of the last hurrah up here at the lake.  Some of the people are beginning to take their boats out for the season.   We’ll keep ours in for a couple more weeks.  We’re already seeing the beginnings of the leaves changing.  Sad to see summer coming to an end.  Go Lions! 🦁 

We always say that we will take our boat out after Labor Day, but it never seems to happen anymore.  I may put it in the water one last time this week before I winterize it and put it away for the winter.  

[grapau27]

On 9/1/2024 at 5:43 PM, jagsfan said:

@dani negreanu

it’s Mimi. I had to come and give my deepest sympathy for the loss of the 6 Israeli hostages. It was such an inhumane thing to do, and words can’t describe the horror. 
I’m still praying for peace and the end of the suffering on both sides. 
I am so sad for the families of the hostages. Maybe this tragedy will somehow bring an end to this war. 
Stay safe, Dani. 
on a personal note, I am still confined to bed and wheelchair. I’m having therapy twice a week, and am learning to stand up at the walker from my wheelchair. 
seems so easy, but I’m only allowed to put 30% of my weight on my still healing leg, and my other leg won’t hold me up, so it’s a little depressing. 
The 13th I go for X-rays again to see how much my femur has healed. It will be the four month anniversary of my fall. 
I’m hoping that my orthopedist will say I can move to 60%. 
It’s hard not to step down on my leg, which has always been my stronger leg, so I’m concentrating on that, on using my knees to stand up, and to get my hands on the walker without pulling it over…I’m a mess! 
I’m aiming for at least being on the walker by my granddaughter’s wedding Dec 14. That would be 7 months after I fell. 
Tge good thing is that I was healthy for another granddaughter’s wedding May 4. 
it was 9 days later that I took a step that wasn’t there!

Here’s Dick and me after the wedding. I’m so grateful it happened 9 days after instead of 9 days before!

I miss you all and will be back when I have my life back!

 

Lovely photo Mimi.

Sending healing prayers 🙏 your way.

Best wishes.

Graham.

[George C]

Some family photos here is me and brother and sister with spouses 

 

[Luckynana]

9 hours ago, Tree_skier said:

So it looks like I have decided to join a cult! 🙂 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I pick it up on Wednesday.

Congratulations, Dave!  She's a beauty!

[helen haywood]

Saturday I had to go to the Walk-In Clinic for a GI issue.  Sigh.  Had it for the first time back in April.  Now that I’ve had it again I’ll need a specialist consult.  Also last week had what I thought was a simple but pesky mole on my back not frozen as I anticipated, but removed for a biopsy.  It’s been a week but every time I take a shower it feels like pouring alcohol on an open wound.  Guess I have sensitive skin.  Both of these on top of my walking being slow…I pointed out to DH that I have problems with my bones, my internal organs and my skin.  Luckily my brain seems to be working normally…

[Luckynana]

 

@helen haywood

 

Sometimes it feels like it's always something!  Feel better, Marian!  

[Sea Dog]

5 minutes ago, helen haywood said:

Saturday I had to go to the Walk-In Clinic for a GI issue.  Sigh.  Had it for the first time back in April.  Now that I’ve had it again I’ll need a specialist consult.  Also last week had what I thought was a simple but pesky mole on my back not frozen as I anticipated, but removed for a biopsy.  It’s been a week but every time I take a shower it feels like pouring alcohol on an open wound.  Guess I have sensitive skin.  Both of these on top of my walking being slow…I pointed out to DH that I have problems with my bones, my internal organs and my skin.  Luckily my brain seems to be working normally…

Hang in there. I am sure that must be frustrating.

[akcruz]

5 minutes ago, helen haywood said:

Saturday I had to go to the Walk-In Clinic for a GI issue.  Sigh.  Had it for the first time back in April.  Now that I’ve had it again I’ll need a specialist consult.  Also last week had what I thought was a simple but pesky mole on my back not frozen as I anticipated, but removed for a biopsy.  It’s been a week but every time I take a shower it feels like pouring alcohol on an open wound.  Guess I have sensitive skin.  Both of these on top of my walking being slow…I pointed out to DH that I have problems with my bones, my internal organs and my skin.  Luckily my brain seems to be working normally…

 

It really does suck getting older but what are we going do, sorry it's all hitting at once, hoping things calm down soon.

[reallyitsmema]

9 minutes ago, helen haywood said:

Saturday I had to go to the Walk-In Clinic for a GI issue.  Sigh.  Had it for the first time back in April.  Now that I’ve had it again I’ll need a specialist consult.  Also last week had what I thought was a simple but pesky mole on my back not frozen as I anticipated, but removed for a biopsy.  It’s been a week but every time I take a shower it feels like pouring alcohol on an open wound.  Guess I have sensitive skin.  Both of these on top of my walking being slow…I pointed out to DH that I have problems with my bones, my internal organs and my skin.  Luckily my brain seems to be working normally…

 

I am sorry you have so much going on all at once.  Have you tried leaving the biopsy site covered while you shower and also not let the shower water hit it directly?  That helped me a lot as it is can be really sensitive.  I was told water to run over it but don't have a stream hit it directly.  After the shower you just change the bandaid after cleaning the area.

[DaniDanielle]

Life is so much fun!

[helen haywood]

9 minutes ago, reallyitsmema said:

 

I am sorry you have so much going on all at once.  Have you tried leaving the biopsy site covered while you shower and also not let the shower water hit it directly?  That helped me a lot as it is can be really sensitive.  I was told water to run over it but don't have a stream hit it directly.  After the shower you just change the bandaid after cleaning the area.

I have a bandage over it…so water isn’t hitting it directly.  Just flowing down my back.  Luckily I have DH to tend it for me because it’s absolutely in the middle of my back…impossible to try to do it yourself backwards in a mirror…. Ever since the biopsy I followed the instructions (I’m such a rule follower…)  I didn’t shower for 24 hours.  After shower we take the bandage off, gently wipe the area with an antibacterial soap, wipe that off, dry the spot, apply Polysporin and rebandage with a bandage for sensitive skin.

 

Thanks for all the well wishes.  I’d just like to have one malfunctioning body part at a time!!!  “Good” news is my ankle surgery totally took care of all my insurance out of pocket expenses and co-pays.  So at least it’s a cheap time to be sick…

[Ocean Boy]

30 minutes ago, helen haywood said:

 

Thanks for all the well wishes.  I’d just like to have one malfunctioning body part at a time!!!  “Good” news is my ankle surgery totally took care of all my insurance out of pocket expenses and co-pays.  So at least it’s a cheap time to be sick…

Get everything fixed before the beginning of next year when deductibles kick back in.😉😊

[helen haywood]

Next year I’ll be eligible for Medicare!!  So I just have to stay reasonably healthy until May.  😜

[Ocean Boy]

3 minutes ago, helen haywood said:

Next year I’ll be eligible for Medicare!!  So I just have to stay reasonably healthy until May.  😜

Medicare has deductibles too.

[helen haywood]

Gotta be cheaper out of pocket than my self insurance has been.  At least I hope so.

[Sea Dog]

Now I know why I like to cruise out of the east coast. Just got up from my alarm set at 1:45am and getting ready to hopefully check in at midnight pacific coast time. It's a lot easier when I cruise from the east coast where I can check in at 11pm.

[Sea Dog]

16 hours ago, Arzeena said:

THIS is one of the reasons I do not touch face book.
Too many weirdos there than nice people.

Greg, be careful. I hope you did not share too many details.

Yes I agree. I don’t think I shared too much info. She did ask me if I liked taking a bath? I told her I was a shower guy. Should have never said that! 😁