Conversation – 20

@oodiebom,

Good morning on the Gulf Coast of Florida. I see you had a good day yesterday. 🌹✨
I am so pleased that your husband is making such great progress.

Oodie I will be glad when he comes home and you get to have your normal back.
I think you have been a good wife always getting him what he needs or want.
Oodie you took good care of his roomate too. I miss you talking about him. I hope
he is doing well.

Oodie I am having a problem with the recapcha it comes and goes when it wants to.

I am start the thread out for today I will see you at the top I just wanted to respond to your
posts. 😎🌹Oz is alright we are around 68 for now. 💕✨

@sheba2011

I agree that Trivia was fun, especially when everyone could join with me in the enthusiasm I felt when hubby was able to sit up in bed and dangle his feet over the edge and dress himself for the first time in months. And Saturday he used the bathroom facilities and it wasn’t for washing his hands. Above all, his appetite is coming back. I made a stop at Culvers rather than Costco. I picked up a fish sandwich for myself and a Reuben for hubby. Added FF and coleslaw and two hot fudge frozen custards. I splurged. Diet gone amiss for one day of celebration. So much to celebrate and hubby remembered the day prior. Short term memory coming back???? I don’t know. I will take it and be happy for the one day of excitement and will remember that day when others don’t come together quite right.

I am also looking forward to the new Arcade. Along with others who have responded and those who haven’t, I would love to see Trivia continue on Friday nights. I also remember the years that I read the posts in Community but was too shy to respond. I also felt that it may have been something that could go as spam. I think what happened is that I and about 20+ had an opportunity to join HSN behind the scenes and at the end to post a Hi and who I am in a note to Community. Found it was a delight to see people respond and the rest is history. Though we are incognito we have formed friendships across the board. It was so touching to see that my experiences are helping others through traumatic days and times. Hubby is the one who described his dementia like a fog you see over water or when you awake in the morning and cannot see the house next door or across the street. This fog kept him from seeing the sun. It was like a dark cloud that hung over his eyes. Well, that cloud is starting to lift. Not sure if he will ever attain the normalcy he once had, but I will forever be thankful for the days that aren’t so good that he can move around and speak and maybe know who I am. Yes, there have been days when I am there that he is looking for his wife, his bf and I am there, but he sees someone else. I have shed many tears at home over this and then I realize it’s the fog he so described.

And TACI, I agree with you on Florida. Hubby and I got tired shoveling snow. We got tired that our steps to the house and the walk to our vehicles became an ice skating rink because our home faces North. Hubby did not like the cold temps that also went minus something during the winter. I, on the other hand, loved watching the snow fall from my den window. I could sit there for hours. It was so peaceful. Then one day hubby wanted to go South for a few weeks. Back then we used the I-95 corridor and being that we both had retired we could come and go as we pleased and stay as long as we wanted. Well, that first visit to Florida was not warm by any means. We froze. Temps were no warmer than back North and so we cut our visit short that year. Then we had friends that spent the winters in Fl., and so we returned. I loved it. We decided to look around and found something we could afford, thus we are here during the winter and return North in the spring. Well, at least that’s the way it was until the pandemic hit us in 2020 while on a cruise. The rest is history.

Sheba, The skirt-pant is an elegant piece. You are right, your height helps. I couldn’t wear it and that’s ok. I would look overwhelmed. When I worked and wore suits to clients, before everything went in-house and business casual, had to be careful about the fit. The skirts were slightly above the knee and more fitted. Remember the store Petite Sophisticate? I loved getting my suits there back in the day and of course Macy’s.
My son is feeling ok but not too talkative about it. He brings home Covid tests every day and checks just in case.
Hiked today (with hubs) late and it cooled off but was still humid. Our weather has been hot, and the air quality has been fair and poor. Hopefully Fall will change all that around.
Have a great weekend. Did you get the bike ride with hubs?

Oodie, hope things for hubby are on track and he can get home.
Glad your hand is doing better.

Xango, very interesting about Florida. It used to be known as a State to retire to since there is no State tax and had affordable housing. Didn’t a lot of New Yorkers move there during Covid and competed for housing, causing huge price increases? Have you heard of the villages? We have heard it is a huge place and costs are more affordable. However, I won’t be retiring to FL.
Have a great weekend!

@sheba2011

Last night was a miracle. When I first arrived at Rehab, hubby was in a wheelchair and said he had not eaten since the food was horrible. I was getting ready to go out to get him something to eat when dinner arrived. He had some kind of soup that was lukewarm, but he liked it (I surmise he was famished). He had what I called a tablespoon of chicken salad on a bun that had not been toasted or heated and a skinny piece of cantaloupe for dessert. He saw what I was eating which was a tuna salad on a croissant from the Farmer’s Market. He ate my other half and insisted I buy him one next time. The tuna was just like the one I make, but minus the relish I add. He then tried the salsa which was hot hot hot. I forewarned him, but he insisted. Later he complained that he was in tons of pain. Not liking what I was hearing I pressed the button for the nurses. No one answered t he call, so I went down the hallway looking for anyone. Finally saw the RN and explained the situation. She put me at ease when she saw t he problem and explained it to me. Said she would be back. Meanwhile Trivia had started and then I left for a few minutes. When I returned a miracle happened. And now you know everything. Hubby was able to get himself into a sitting position and dress himself. It has been months since he tried. I had only a painful use of my right hand and wonder if that had anything to do with that miracle. I surmise he wanted to take the wheel of the van and drive me home. All I can say at this point is that would have been nice. Driving home with one hand was not as easy as I thought it would be even with power steering. TACi, you were right. Aspirin took awhile, but it finally helped. Still a bit of a twinge as I use the keyboard, but nothing like last night.

Now for a shower and on to Costco for just a few items. Hubby wants a hotdog and I will get the chicken on romaine. I was on the phone over an hour with the next door neighbor. Really two hours behind by original schedule.

@Sheba 🌻🌻🌻🍂🍂🍂

Good Saturday to you and your husband Sheba.

It’s a very hot day although temperatures are at 86, humidity is close to 60 percent.
Last night I saw the baby Opossum, haven’t seen the adult lately.

A little over a year ago hubby had his triple bypass. While recovering at home he had an interview over the phone for a new position within the VA which he accepted. Eventually that position allowed him to work rotating a week at home and a week in his office and so on.
Not long ago he had another interview for another position within the VA and was offered that one. I believe this new position will allow him the work more days at home. Going to the office only one or two days a month, but I am not sure as of yet.

Our community Facebook has another house for sell here in the community. People move in and people move out. The homeowners association dues are extremely high. The water is very high also, for this part of Polk County.
Florida has become outrageously high, that goes for housing, food, and homeowners insurance is through the roof. In some areas people can’t find a company to cover their homes. Many are moving out of Florida, going North to the Carolinas and Tennessee.

Hubby and I don’t like snow and the cold anymore. So we will stay put in Florida, hopefully it will get better.

Here’s wishing you, your hubby and Poppy a wonderful weekend 🚴‍♀️🚴‍♂️ have a bike ride for me who don’t ride Sheba😀 .
Take Care 🌹