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649848 tn?1534633700

Sunday Weigh-In August 4, 2019

When it was time to post this morning, I was getting ready to board the plane for my trip home from South Dakota, so was unable to sit down and get it done.

I hope everyone has had a good week.  My week has been in  quite a turmoil , with all the illness going on my family.  We did find out on Friday that my sister with the newly diagnosed breast cancer is getting off easy.  Her tumor is very small and her cancer is slow growing.  Because she's elderly and due to the type/size of cancer, the doctor said that neither chemo nor radiation would be of benefit at this time.  She also said that although surgery may  be in helpful down the road, it's not the first choice right now.  They're going to start my sister out on a pill that is supposed to shrink the tumor.  This is the same medication that my Auntie had to take for her breast cancer.  My Auntie had a lot of horrible side effects so I'm hoping my sister doesn't have those.  They doctor said if she does and simply can't tolerate the med, there are other meds to try or a lumpectomy may be an option down the road.  I'm hoping she will tolerate the medication so she won't have to have any surgery.  

My brother who was newly diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer is not faring so well.  He's not feeling well and they aren't deciding so quickly what treatment choices he might have.  Of course, the longer they wait to treat, the harder it will be to stop his cancer.  I do have a sister with Stage IV lung cancer and when she was diagnosed, she was only given 6-9 months to live... that was nearly 4 yrs ago, but they began chemo almost immediately.  My brother's doctors are dragging their feet with testing to determine the type fo cancer he has, whether it's fast/slow growing, etc... They need to stop dragging their feet and get moving before it's too late.  The possibility of losing him is becoming all too real and the thought is unbearable...

Of course, we have the sisters-in-law who have had their problems as well - the one who had the mastectomy and the one with pancreas issues.  They are both holding their own right now.

As for me, I haven't had a chance to weigh again, but I think I might have done "okay" this week.  I tried really hard to keep my food intake  to reasonable level, although exercise has been sparse.  I've eaten a lot of fruit, which isn't necessarily the best because of the sugar content but its better than  a lot of things  I could have been eating.  

Now that I'm back home, I plan to start my evening walking regimen again. I'm hoping this will, not only help  use up calories, but get muscles built back up again. I know they're getting weaker from disuse and I find myself so tired most of the time.

So - that's me... how has your week been?  I hope you've been successful with whatever goal(s) you might have set for yourself.  

~~Wishing you a wonderful, successful week~~
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I appreciate the comment about tiredness. I've been so busy shepherding the process (and the many jobbers) of getting our house ready to sell that I've gotten sick (coughing all the time, mostly) and feel so tired I can barely walk up and down stairs.

My husband was cleaning the drain in the shower, reasoning that the house would look better without body hairs in the drain cover. In pulling off the cover, he cracked the underlying pipe, adding a thousand dollars of two plumbers' time to the cost of selling the house. They called to say they would be here all day Wednesday. Unfortunately, the home stagers come that day. The stagers' contract (that they only sent last night!) said nobody else could be working in the house when they are bringing furniture in, for liability reasons. Who knows, they might all crash into each other on the front steps. So I've got to call the plumber first thing in the morning to reschedule.

And our painter, who said he would be with us July 15 and never sent his crew, now is promising to paint our bathroom himself by August 10 if his crews are still tied up. Alas, in the stagers' contract it is also verboten to paint in the house once it's staged. I don't know if they dislike their things coming back with chemical smells or are just afraid some bozo will spill a gallon of paint on their upholstered furniture, but it doesn't matter. We have to have the bathroom be the right color in the photos, and they are scheduled to be taken two days after the stagers come. My little house is worth less than half of the price of houses they often stage (good thing I didn't know this when I looked up "home stagers near me" on the Internet and called them, or I never would have). But I'm as serious about it looking good as they are, so don't really mind the rules. It's just that our last-minute issues have all bumped into one or another of their rules, and I've about used up my allotment of questions that they find amateurish and irritating. (Asking if we could paint the bathroom after they have staged it, when their contract specifies that all painting must be done before they come, would be too much.)

So I spent all day today painting. The bathroom has many patches that can only be reached in odd ways, which is one reason I didn't want to do it. I've been painting behind the toilet with a flat painting pad on a long stick, painting over the bathtub/shower when standing on a ladder that is sliding around in the tub because its feet are slightly wider than the bottom of the tub so they are an inch in midair, and more. And that was just the primer coat. I get to do it all again tomorrow, twice, with the top coat. (The original color is so dark it shows through the primer.) And I keep finding new things that are wrong -- tonight I noticed that the sweep on the bottom of my son's glass shower door is cracking.  I have to call the builder who did our remodel five years ago, just to source a new one.  :P  :P  :P

We also painted our entry door today, in ninety-degree heat, a supposedly sophisticated dark blue. It came out looking like a royal blue plastic recycling bin. We hastily repainted it in a color that was the only likely one we had on hand, a raisin brown, and it looks bad. This means that tomorrow along with the two coats for the bathroom, I must paint it yet again. The door should really be taken off its hinges, sanded, and sprayed, but not in the probably one hour I will have to devote to the project. So I have to buy some paint that's barely glossy, to hide what is certain to be a pretty amateurish job. I'm beginning to hate our lying painter.

Anyway, I think I sweated off four pounds between the stress and the painting in the heat today. Will weigh in a couple of days.

Have a great week!
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Wow, it sounds like you've had your hands full getting your house ready to sell.  I've always had  an aversion to doing a lot of work before a sale in case the new owners don't like the colors chosen, etc.  

You definitely need to find a new painter, since the one you have doesn't seem to be dependable.  One thing I can't tolerate is people who don't show up when they say they will, especially, when I'm operating under strict deadlines.

At any rate, I hope you get it all finished before the stagers get there with their furniture.  

I have a doctor's appointment this morning and another this afternoon so there will be no resting up from my trip or trying to get anything caught up here at home.  Oh well, there's always tomorrow.

I'll be weighed at the doctor's office so that will be "official"... I have a feeling I'm not going to like it.  :-)
I mostly got the painting done in the bathroom before the stagers arrived (leaving just enough time for the paint to be dry). If you look closely in some places, you will see I didn't go the full two coats, but it would be more scrutiny than the average home buyer gives a bathroom to spot it. When the stagers get their precious towels out, I can fix the spots where the darker original color shows slightly through the new paint. It's not bad, though, and the stagers complimented the paint job, probably just to be nice. lol
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