December has come in cold but not as cold as a few days ago. Have air stagnation and clouds but no sun - depressing!
It has been interesting with this cold. We have lots of geese and ducks that live in the numerous reserves around the area. It is fascinating to watch flocks of geese heading NW in the morning then before sunset they are heading NE back towards the various reserves and rivers. One day when we were out walking we counted 13 different flocks in the sky going over us. Some were large, some small with 10 or so.
The natural world is often starkly beautiful in ways that are untouched by the concerns of people. Whatever happens with climate change now, it has always changed and will change again and again because that is the natural way in which the world works. In all this it's clear the universe was made on an immense scale spanning time unfathomable to us. We can't even see across the universe because it's been moving outwards in all directions since we can measure and the light of an unknown amount of the universe hasn't had time to reach us.
The sublime and the ridiculous extremes of the universe are easy to see when we realize our own existence and it's concerns are equally valid to the movements of the galaxies God made so far away the distances are mind boggling. All of us in our tiny little places whether looking up at the geese flocking or looking down at the tops of the trees and the tiny faces looking up as we glide by in formation - we are all together because we all share the same thing. We all exist in the same moment. And equally all our burdens are momentary and will be lifted - right after life here is over.
What has happened in our terribly short and seemingly endless lifespan can be contemplated by the bored over the centuries. It won't change. What happens next does not exist yet. We must all wait for the moment to come so that we can share putting it into the past just like the bricklayer at the walls of Jericho, the bricklayer helping build the sphinx, the stone lugger helping drag the stones to the henge, and the steelworker catching hot rivets in his hard hat 54 floors up walking on open steel beams building the empire state building.
There are so many stories swept into the dusts of time each as intense as ours in the moments. And those stories range all across the map. Some are quite good. Like here for example. Among the luckiest groups of people in history. Our spouses. They have someone who stands by them at whatever cost to themselves to watch over them.
That's what this board is. The transcript of that.
I agree with March and Ky Wolf. I also wrote this in my journal, "Among the luckiest groups of people in history. Our spouses. They have someone who stands by them at whatever cost to themselves to watch over them." Indeed!
Yeah, Wolf's post just blew me away this time. That is definitely one for the archives--especially the sentences that Katherine copied into her journal. I have them jotted down, too, so I can look at them and think about it.
I meant to mention that I started watching the Florida eagle cam again. I stopped last spring after E6 fledged...kept up with Ozzie on google, but didn't realize he had died. He sure fought the good fight--what a bird. Anyway, enjoyed reading about Charlotte's geese.
Look at the power we have to conceive reality demonstrated in anyone who saw in a different way for a moment just there. They really are lucky. And then forget about it for now because the job is to see this through and that is almost certainly already taxing your cycles.
As for me, I've yapped on about hunting Al Zheimer and so I've taken my own advice and have traded in the breadknife I was using for this plasma rifle with nightvision lazer scope. It works quite well but loses it's edge after the first few hundred times.
I'm a twelve year old in a body that doesn't seem to be lasting very long. Am I supposed to have this much skin? Anyway. I went to a seance thing a little while ago where the medium said she was channeling Dianne on the ouija board. FOAD it spelled out. She didn't know what foad meant but I do. She just grouped it wrong. F O AD was the message. I might have made that up just now; but, that's ok because it's my movie. Thank you guys.
Great post Wolf! I had a bit of a transcendental experience over the TG Holiday.
Judaism tradition on the anniversary of a loved ones passing is honored by lighting a 24hr candle, repeating a prayer known as the Mourner's Kadesh. My new partners 15 yr old twin grandchildren were visiting for the TG holiday and insisted that they join in the saying of the prayer. (the anniversary date determined by the Jewish Lunar calendar)
To my surprise they asked if we could look through the bookcase filled with photo albums. I wasn't sure if I really could handle going on a virtual tour from birth of my children, their childhood, teens, marriages and the birth of my gran children... that proved to be not too difficult.
Then the vacation pics... We lived a charmed life. My DW worked for a start up in a different universe and time zone. This company invested a great deal in training their employees and never wanted to lose one. Can you picture a company doing this today: every 5th anniversary she was given a 3 month sabbatical at double pay. I was always self employed, all I required was a cell and a lap top to manage my business.
3 mos. off at double pay!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We're out of here!!
The first trip we left the kids with our parents and a nanny and a round the world ticket in hand off we went to....Hawaii, Tahiti, Fiji, Bali, New Zealand, Australia, Thailand, Singapore finally running out of time and $$$'s ending in Hong Kong. They couldn't believe when the saw the ticket around the world $2200.-00 as many stops as you wanted just keep going in the same direction. ( Five years later the kids were in college and we ski bummed thru every resort in Colorado, Utah, Switzerland and Austria and France.
The third trip was the Orient for two months Japan, Korea, China, Viet Nam , Cambodia then Malaysia and Seychelles...
AND THEN IBM swallowed up the company. And swapped all the ESOP and incentive awards with IBM Stock :)
My new mate and her grandchildren were enthralled just listening to all the memories.
I was transcended to a totally different place and in a other worldly time zone, one not to be found on any world clock. Memories wow they were all good ones, l no not good, they were fantastic I had been transported to a great place, a place were thoughts of or words like Early Onset, Neuros AD, all the horrors were gone... it was as if all the unhappy time neurons wiped/deleted from my memory.
I realized then how tightly my hand was being held by the truly unique lady and her family who have joined me in my new life. She had both a big smile and tears running down her cheeks.
I am so happy for you Marty. To have family like that around who want to embrace your memories and honor the traditions must feel deeply inclusive. That's quite a list and I especially liked the IBM part. That was truly an amazing day that day you had that date and the restaurant even became part of that night as I remember.
I didn't nail him Marty. Instead I'm still shrinking him is the truth - but that works.
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Elizabeth, I could try to get away with flock off but that's right. Dianne, in the first ten years or so kept a poster taped to the fridge. It had a woman with a broken broom on it looking right at you like an Uncle Sam wants you poster and it said in bold, big letters - flock housework (roughly). She wouldn't take it down even though her mother asked her to. It expressed her feelings. That's why I wove that in.
Hey Wolf........I meant that little remark as a compliment.
I remembered once reading what someone said about ex-president Grover Cleveland ....... "As we sat by the fireside listening to Grover as he rambled on and on into the night, We all wished he would never quit"
Thank you George. I'm just having fun. More fully I mean not to shy away anymore when I get wonderful comments like those above or when I'm told I'm unintelligible which happens just as often. I was trying to stimulate Charlotte. The ways of the natural world are as open to learn and rewarding as they are free of personalities.
Yesterday made it to 50 with sun shining so the snow is all gone. The new snow is beautiful - it gives a peace in the early morning hours when you are out there waiting for Jasmine to do her duties! Then that night when I took her out at midnight there is a different quiet and "atmosphere" out, even without the moon. Can't think of a good word to describe it, but I am sure I am not the only one to feel/sensr it. Now I am waiting for the sun to 'break' through the clouds.
Hb is bored. Forecast has temps in the upper 40s the next few days, nice enough for walking. Yesterday he was bored, so I told him if he was bored to go for a walk. He did once around the park but no one is out so he doesn't enjoy it. When I first got Jas I tried to get him to take her for walks but wouldn't, not when he wants to take her she won't go unless I go. I have to laugh because our first 3 dogs definitely favored him - Jas is the opposite.
Oh, for the first time in years I actually bought presents for the two grandkids we see vs just giving them $20. Got 'M' the Kindle Amazon had on sale -she wants it to read books and draw on. "N' got him the children's Bible in cartoon form that his dad loved so much and another mystery book he wanted. (he is 7)
Well sleep soundly. If you're worried about your coming election and what your country is becoming then watch this. It's not political and it shows what men you're producing now in that thing you call the USA.
So far our November & December weather has been very mild - 60 something today, but so gray & dreary.
Dan seems to be declining a little more - really sleeps a lot, has a hard time moving (getting in & out of the car, getting out of a chair, walking more bent & shuffling, but I will say that's exactly like his father walked). He's had a couple of urinary accidents, didn't even know he had wet himself! Lost him in the grocery store yesterday, the store was ready for a lockdown until we found him - there he was, outside the entrance, have a jolly good time with the Salvation Army bell ringer!!! I was ready to ring his bells!! I was panicked, in tears & he was just so happy & laughing, not realizing anything was wrong....lesson learned. Never turn your back to an Alzheimer's patient while you are busy with something else! I'm going to tie us together.
Tonight he asked me if his brothers had stopped by today...I told him no & he said he hadn't heard from them for a while. This is a first. His brothers have long since passed. One sister also, he only has one sister left & she's not a whole lot better than him anymore. There seems to be several "firsts" happening lately. I'm taking him for a checkup on Thursday just to make sure the fatigue is due to the disease & not something that can be taken care of. It's been five & a half years since diagnosis, so I need to expect things to start changing more. It seems that it has taken so long to reach this point, with such a slow progression, that it comes as a surprise when something new happens.
The sun finally came out today. We have been getting rain and have flooding along the rivers, but not like on the west side of the Cascades. Our saving is due to it now being snow in the mountains vs rain, so the rivers are not getting all that rain water anymore. Also means our 60 degree days are going and the colder weather is coming back. :-(
I have so much wanted to buy a bigger TV - 32 inch is about the biggest that would work in here, but have decided to give it up for now. I need 2 new tires on the car - 2 have been ruined by towing. Evidently every time we towed it, those two were always on the back. Usually after towing we would rotate them. I can tell it is from towing, even though the dealer said front end alignment, because they are worn just like the car dolly tires are. So, Tuesday I will put two news ones on the front, have an alignment (can't find it ever being done in the 13 years we have owned the car although I would swear I did it once!) and once they are paid then by next fall put two more news on. Also, neither of us has really been to the dentist since 2009 I think. I need to quit procrastinating - get in and spend the money.
Sea Hawks won, now watching the New England Patriots - our other team.
I was just reading Fortune's predictions for 2016 and one of them was, "A New Drug Will Show Promise in the Alzheimer’s Fight." This is what is said:
"Few diseases have been as difficult for drug companies to conquer as Alzheimer’s. The five existing therapies treat symptoms of the memory-robbing condition, not the disease itself. And between 2002 and 2012, a staggering 99.6% of drugs in development failed. We’re betting that 2016 will deliver the long overdue breakthrough that changes that: A medicine that actually slows the progression of Alzheimer’s. Though it’s not a perfect treatment, Eli Lilly’s solanezumab—a drug 15 years in the making—will pass muster in clinical tests and be well on its way to FDA approval, as a therapy for mild Alzheimer’s, by year’s end." —Erica Fry
I just looked it up on Wikipedia, which basically says it's a dud. There was a study reported in the January 23, 2014, NE Journal of Medicine about Phase 3 trials that does not look great either. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1312889. I can't really understand this stuff but Charlotte usually can explain it.
Keep in mind that Fortune is a business and investment magazine so it's interest may be more on the investment opportunities of this drug than on its true effectiveness. Just imagine how many people made money on Aricept and Namenda, as opposed to how many people were actually helped by them.
myrtle - I followed the link but there were no articles there. I would have to know the date or name of it.
There are constantly articles posted on FB from groups I belong too. I rarely read any of them - too depressing. Many are about if you do this or that, it will reduce your risk or prevent AD. Problem is: the AD facility my FIL was and from here shows me there is little hope in those changes. People that are health nuts in their diet and/or exercise have it, those who have poor diets/exercise have it, and all in between. I have yet to see enough proof or encouragement to make any big changes.
I did fill out an application for a Gene Match program. https://www.endalznow.org/home
They send you out a kit for genetic testing for the ApoE genes. They say if you have 2 ApoE4 genes you are at a higher risk. They won't tell you the results unless you are accepted in a study that requires it. Why did I do it? As I think about my family where my grandmother, aunts and mom had dementia, my older sister has VaD, my older brother supposedly has early signs, then maybe I should offer to be a guinea pig. My grandmother and aunts were in their mid 80s, my mom due to poor nutrition and depression developed early 70s, my sister had her stroke at 72, my brother is 75 - was a couple years ago - that doesn't leave me many years of maybe a sound mind especially if hb goes on for many years.
On a lighter note, we were at Walmart to pick up my Rx when this guy was buzzing aroud on one of the motorized carts. We got to joking with them, hb was talking with them but couldn't remember where we lived only that it was in a MH then told them why cause he had dementia. Turns out the guys wife has dementia too. I am not sure if he was being so crazy to entertain his wife (I thought he would be the one cause he was acting so crazy). Anyway, he said hb was really fun and would love to get together. I handed him a piece of paper and pen and he wrote down his name, phone number and address. They live in a small town about 10 miles from us. I will call to set up a time to go visit. Won't hurt anything and might turn out to be a blessing.
What a nice encounter, Charlotte. I hope it lead to a pleasant relationship.
There is a large, perfect crescent moon in the southwest sky tonight. It is so bright and well-defined that it looks like the moon that the cow jumped over. Hey diddle diddle, . . .
We had some snow blowing around yesterday and today, but nothing to stick. I finally saw the moon tonight--a pretty, bright half moon in a mostly clear sky. We've had so much cloud cover that I couldn't see the Geminid's meteor shower on the 13th and 14th, nor the moon as it's grown bigger the last few days. I just went to the Eagle website, and there was Harriet sitting on her nest and her egg like a big chicken!
Yes Mary, it was an exciting day for Harriet and Mr M. The big question was if Mr M was ready for mating- Harriet sure got him to mate often enough! Just peeked in and Harriet sitting there proud as can be. Now to see if there will be more eggs to come. I hope so. Last year I think Harriet and Ozzie had three but only one made it to fly away. In fact, because Ozzie was injured, Mr M showed up and took over helping Harriet to raise him until he was ready to leave.
Went walking this morning. The sidewalk at the end of the park (belongs to the city) still had some ice on it. Thought I was being careful missing the ice but not - slipped and fell. Dumb me did not make sure I was off the ice so fell again when I went to stand up. Thankfully no one saw me (that I know of). So far haven't felt any effects of it but morning will tell. Thankfully even though I let go of the leash when I fell, Jas did not take off running. I was able to calm her down and come to me. When I first got her I dropped the leash when I went to pick up poop, it retracted, scared her and it 'chased' her as she ran home. Just as she was getting not as frightened of it, I was talking to someone and dropped it. It chased her all the way home which thankfully was just across the road. Since then she is terrified of it.
Since we won't be going to the grandkids for Christmas, which I was looking forward to, I will package up the presents and send them off Monday. They are getting snow up there every day and I don't want to risk wrecking. I find as I get older I am much more cautious, plus we have had the car for 13 years and can't afford another one. She told me last night on Christmas they were invited over to their pastor's for dinner. I pretended it was alright. They have their life to live and if we went, really would not be that great cause hb does not interact with the kids. If she moves to Florida at the end of the school year, this would be the last Christmas to see them. Oh well, such is life!
It's hard, Charlotte, that people don't realize when we're cooped up with a demented spouse, how much we would like some visiting back and forth. If we can't get out, it would be nice if people came to see us...one way or the other, that doesn't happen much. As we've said a million times on this forum, people just don't "get it." Holy Isolation, Batman.
How are you feeling today after your falls? Any bruises or stiffness? Sometimes it takes a while to kick in. That black ice will get you every time. When I used to walk in our neighborhood in NY, I took a couple big sprawling falls on invisible ice. Hate that stuff. (The worst part, assuming you're OK and didn't smash yourself to smithereens, is looking around hoping nobody saw you!)
I am fine. I can feel things are out so will try to get into the chiropractor tomorrow for a good adjustment. Today started with ice then snow then rain. We have winter while east of the Rockies is still waiting. Saw the temps forecasted for the east coast on Christmas Eve - more like summer weather.
My body just doesn't feel right. Fine meaning nothing is broken, no bruises, but because I have been getting adjusted since the 90s, I can tell. He starts with my neck, upper, middle, lower back, hips, knees, feet and sometimes my shoulders. I am a side sleeper and my shoulders will sometimes go out - I can tell when I lay in bed and my shoulder pops when I rotate it some. I have a connected body. When my hip goes out my knee goes out which causes my foot to go out. (remember the song 'Dem Bones' - a lot of truth to it). It is usually the right side although last month it was my left side too. My feet hurt more than normal to walk much due to the bones out of alignment. Last month I finally figured out why I hurt so much in my private area after walking. I blamed it for months on side effects of the surgery but figured out whenever I stepped on my heel pain shot through the pelvic area. I researched reflexology and found in the heel are nerves that go right to the pelvic area. It was awkward explaining this to my chiropractor, but once he adjusted my right foot, which was so bad I could barely rotate it around, I was fine. I wish I could go more often, but I can't afford more than once a month.
Hi,again, Tonight too much wine ... life is hard, and feeling low... but ... and not connected with my problems, have any of you watched "Making a Murderer" (I'm not anywhere near that, lol,), but it is quite interesting. Charlotte, do you have Netflix in your motorhome? ... I love the way you look at things, and I so respect your spirit and your loyalty.
We took my Rene to massage therapy (thankfully it was covered by insurance), and it seemed to help a bit. Whatever works for you! God bless
I forgot to include I do a lot of self adjusting. I mainly go when I can't get things adjusted. My chiropractor likes to joke that I only come see him when can't do it myself vs those who come for every little thing. If I could afford it, I would go to an acupuncturist. I went to one back in the early 90s for back pain and it helped. I hear they are good for menopause symptoms too.
I can get netflex via the internet. I did the free month to watch all the new episodes of Longmire, but I can't afford it every month.
I got mail! I got a christmas card. It's from my local government representative. Good looking blond, fiftyish, with the whole family around her waving at me. They're my new friends. I also got one from Dianne's sister with the usual christmas letter of all the things she did. I threw that out because I'm not interested in reading about her pain from 3000 miles away that her sister died or where she's travelled this year. I also got a card from the only couple left of the three lifelong couples where two of the women died within a year. "Thinking of you often" she writes except a year and a half ago when we made up they said they were going to have me up in the fall. Not last fall, the one before. It's good to be close.
My living room looks like a christmas toy store. She bought masses of nice decorations. It took her days to unpack everything and put it out and then do it again after christmas. I did the tree. Now I have a teddy bear with his legs hanging over the top of the china cabinet with his arm around one of the santa's and some sleeping ceramic mice on his lap and so on all the way around the room. The piano is stuffed, the coffee table and every piece of furniture. I rediscovered our liquor cabinet while I was decorating. There are at least a couple of bottles from the 1970's and 1980's. A bailey's cream that could be 20 years old. A partial bottle of alchohol from when we made purple jesus' and horrible things like that.
Four years ago I wrote about my poor vacumn cleaner. It's missing a leg, the hose is held together by tape, the cord is frayed and won't retract, I've reused the same bag by pulling all the dirt out by hand and still do that. That bag is more faith than bag it's so worn. I have an old BBQ behind the house. It's broke over five years ago. All I have to do is wheel it to the curb tonight and it will be gone tomorrow. I couldn't even imagine facing that a few years ago and instead I forgot I had a back yard nevermind a BBQ in it. Both are finally on my mind.
It made me fllash on the ice storm a couple of years ago. The ice just kept piling on and I could hear my tree cracking. Then I heard a huge loud noise and opened my upstairs window with a flashlight and there was a huge limb in the backyard. And as I watched another came down and with a smash obliterated what used the be the patio table Dianne bought. The iron legs crumpled. I turned off the flashlight, shut the window, and cried my eyes out as more and more limbs fell. We made it though and this year my Honey Locust is sending out runners all aimed at the available sunlight to be gathered. It's healthy was the diagnosis after being trimmed off. Well, that's one of us.
I have Moonstruck playing on the computer. It came up a few times so I'm absorbing it. Right now Cher is in the bakery basement meeting Ronny and he's saying how he's given up his one dream of happiness. He has tears in his eyes. Nicolas Cage actually acted in this movie. Anyway, he has tears in his eyes saying this...looking right at the fiance of his brother whom he is about to have carnival knowledge of in, oh, say about 45 minutes. We think we know but that's just our worries and fears and concerns and hopes - we don't know. If we knew we'd be re-reading a book; but, we're writing one.
I earned this. I didn't have to pretend I was a victim of life because my prize bullshit didn't win in the state fair. I was a grade A, first class victim. I earned the garbage that goes with it - the depressions, the anxieties, the victimhood, the prisoner syndrome, the destruction of the self. They were real and I know how real because I will never forget those times when I was clinging by a thread. I earned this.
Long ago I described myself as half Bambi and half Conan. The weak and the strong parts within. Bambi has been through a rough ride. My emotions and feelings have been through the wringer in ways I never imagined. I'm so glad it's over and I'm tremendously thankful that as I keep moving further away, I have no regrets except the death of her and us. I have yet to plumb the depths of how sorry I am about it, but I won't turn back to do it.
Grief: "I'm not going to enjoy this" Wolf: "Nobody's asking you to enjoy it" Grief: "Well why are we doing it then?" Wolf: "We have to learn how to enjoy anything again" Grief: "That sounds stupid" Wolf: "If it were you wouldn't be here"
Wolf, go over to the Lodge and have some cookies. I'm going to stop in with another container of my candy cane cookies...you can just sit and relax...maybe someone will bring some eggnog.
Winter solstice. We had 9 hours and 5 minutes of daylight here. These are dark days but from here on, there will be more light every day. My 2016 UMass Extension Service Garden Calendar arrived today in the mail. I think I'll take it over to the Lodge and peruse it while I sip a hot chocolate. It has all kinds of horticultural information and reminders. . . . Dreaming of summer . . .
I keep thinking about going to the Lodge, but it is so downright balmy here in the Midwest that I think I will never live through a December like this again.
A cheer here for the winter solstice and days now becoming longer. I have to walk my dogs on leashes in the dark mornings and evenings because of resident coyotes who thoughtfully leave their calling cards on the driveway every few months - least I forget that they are out there. I look forward to walking the dogs off leash in the early morning so they can gambol through the high grass and discover all of the new odors that arose over night; dogs freely following their noses is the epitome of bliss.
These next few days the International Space Station crosses the sky for a long time (6 minutes) where I live. Go to spotthestation.nasa.gov (or Google spotthestation) and type in your location. The website will tell you when and where to look in the sky as the Station crosses. It is an amazing thing to see. It reminds me that of all of the truly stupid and senseless things that human beings can and do do, there are others who are inventing things like the Space Station. I think of it as a little beacon of hope for mankind whizzing across the sky in a breathtaking way. If you live in an area where the sky isn't lit up by artificial light, do have a look at the Station. You will be glad you did.
My nephews wife posted the following for my brother who lives with our sister. She has VaD. She posted it on Facebook to him to read. I also added to her this: It is a good start in a perfect situation. Routine is the most important. Also, it fails to mention that fearing water aka showers is common with dementia.
this is the Nephew and wife whom my sister added an apartment minus kitchen on to her house. He promised to live there and pay the loan payments. His wife made it clear to me before the building ever started that she would not live there. They lived there about 6 months then left. At most, in a good month, he will visit his mom once. She is the one that told me they know all there is to know about dementia especially her husband cause he is a nurse.
My niece and nephew think my brother has it easy living there. Between ride and work he is gone 14 hours, then comes home to deal with her. Thankfully she is not as angry as she use to be (which chased me away), but she still gets confused, is rebellious when it comes to doing things and getting to where she is going to need help with bathing especially getting her to do it. My sister has always had odor problems, so it doesn't take long to get 'ripe'.
Hb has an appointment today with his PA at the VA. He has been complaining about pain just below the ribcage in the center where you would have pain for a hiatal hernia or gall bladder for about a week now. So will go see what the PA has to say. Problem I see if any test are needed, I will have to go to Walla Walla 1+ hours away or Spokane 3.5 hours away - both areas that are having snow right now. We finally have beautiful sunshine (43 degrees) after two days of clouds and rain!
I had a nice surprise today ... someone Rene was associated with sent me an assortment of Rheo Thompson chocolates from Stratford - they're wonderful - the card read ... " I know Rene will be looking down and thinking , "it's good chocolate but it's not as good as SWISS chocolate" ... a little joke between them each year, and I can envision Rene's grin. Made me happy.
Myrtle, it is SO nice that someone remembers how he was - his quiet and quirky sense of humor. Those who really knew him appreciated him ... as I am sure yours did.
Charlotte, I also hope your husband's appointment went well. I wish you were my neighbor - I have so many tools (including drills, etc.) that I wish I knew how to use - but you would know - lol)
Myrtle, it is SO nice that someone remembers how he was - his quiet and quirky sense of humor. Those who really knew him appreciated him ... as I am sure yours did.
Charlotte, I also hope your husband's appointment went well. I wish you were my neighbor - I have so many tools (including drills, etc.) that I wish I knew how to use - but you would know - lol)
PA agrees it is his reflex. Prescribe prilosec (omeprazole) - bought some at Walmart and he ordered a Rx to be sent. It will be cheaper through the VA. Evidently when it got so bad it really irritated his stomach and/or esophagus. Back in the 90s he had 6 ulcers on his esophagus before he had the surgery for GERDS. I doubled the randitine two weeks ago that stopped his coughing. He kept telling me he didn't have reflex but the cough was that reflex cough he had before.
For our eagle watchers: Harriet laid egg #2 today. Yahoo!!!! I missed the blessed moment but a few minutes ago she was up so we could see both eggs. Harriet they think is around 20-30 years old, M15 is about 5 years. He is doing himself proud. Now hoping they are fertile.
My wife had very good luck with Prilosec I n the past. She has a hiatal hernia. Once she started taking probiotics she hasn't needed the Prilosec. I hope it does the trick for your husband.
At 11:00 a.m. on December 24th the temp is already at 55 ̊ F and is predicted to rise to almost 70 ̊. (Average high is 37 ̊.) Moderate fog here but they say it's heavy near the river. Weeks of warm weather and three days of steady rain have fooled plants into thinking it's Spring. The butterfly bush I planted this year went dormant more than a month ago but this week it started to leaf out. I doubt it will survive the winter. Even an old rose that ought to know better has sprouted green leaves on one cane. It's been in the ground for years, though, so it should be OK.