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649848 tn?1534633700

Sunday Weigh-In October 6, 2019

Good morning.  How are things going this morning?   It looks like it's going to be another hot day here and I'm SO ready for it start cooling off.  90+ degrees is simply too high for October when the leaves are falling off the trees.

Anyway, this has been a pretty quiet week but a nice one for a change.  I had the appointment with my new dermatologist on Monday.  I was somewhat disappointed that she didn't make a connection between my digestive and thyroid issues to my skin issues, but I guess I should have expected that.  She did check me all over for suspicious spots to make to see if there was anything that could possibly be cancer or pre-cancer.  I do have one place on my face, in the crease of my nose that she believes may be a squamous cell cancer.  I couldn't tell her exactly how long it's been there, but know there's been a red spot there for a while, but because I couldn't tell her exactly how long it's been there, she wanted to wait a few weeks to see if it goes away before she does a biopsy (aka makes a scar on my face).  

I've also had a lot of itching on my back and a spot on my side that's been itching... she said the itching on my back is caused by nerve endings deep under the skin and the only thing to do is try to control the itch.  For that she recommended capsaicin.  As you may know, that's what makes red peppers hot... try putting that on your back. Wow, it burns like fire, so of course, you forget all about the itch... lol   Actually, it does stop the itch, but yes, it also burns for a while.  And for several days if I shower in hot water or if the sun shines directly on my back.  I did use capsaicin for a while for my peripheral neuropathy but it stopped working for that.  It is working for the itch but I do have to be mindful of what I'll be doing after I put it on.  

She zapped off a small red spot that resembled a petachaie on my side that had turned to a purple color.  I'm not sure why it turned color... she said it was benign, but the itching has definitely stopped there.  I was glad she was willing to go ahead and remove it rather than making me schedule a separate appointment to do it.

I also have a large red rash on leg that's been there for a couple years or more.  It, too, itches quite badly, at times, and I'd begun to get a smaller one on my ankle.  My pcp had prescribed a steroid cream for the one on my leg and it went away until I stopped using the cream, then it came back right away.  The dermatologist said she's pretty sure this is a fungal infection. She said she could also take a sample of that to confirm, but decided to try a cream for that instead of making another scar on my leg.  I'm to use the cream for 2 weeks and so far (a week into it), it's not having much effect on it but maybe the second week will have more effect.

I'm to go back in mid November to let her check, both my lip and my leg and at that time, she'll take samples of each (if they aren't gone) to determine what each spot is, then we'll go from there.

I did have some fun this week... Our city has a Friday night Art Walk, in which artists and crafts people set up tables/booths on the downtown streets and display the things they've made that are for sale or to advertise different groups, etc.  I'm not sure if I've mentioned that I've joined a calligraphy guild which also has a booth at the Art Walk to advertise the guild to try to get the word out to people who might be interested in joining or taking classes.  Anyway, I volunteered to help man the booth on Friday night, which was a lot of fun.  

Calligraphy is something I've wanted to do for a long time and they started some beginner classes this fall so I joined the guild and signed up for a couple of classes.  Obviously, I'm not the world's best calligrapher, but I've spent quite a bit of time practicing and I do my best.  At the booth on Friday night, we made bookmarks with people's names on to give away.  It was really nice to see how appreciative they were, especially kids, when they got something with their name written in pretty letters.  

Yesterday, I attended another class to learn a different script.  It's mind boggling to spend all day in a class to learn a single script because there's so much to cram into one day.  Although I enjoyed it immensely, when I came home at the end of the day, both my mind and body were so tired.  I was disappointed that I didn't do as well as some of the other students in the class until they told me they'd taken the class 3 times and they practice at home... I didn't feel so bad, then considering that they had a considerable head start on me because they already knew the steps to making the letters, etc and were just perfecting their technique, whereas I was starting from scratch... Once I start practicing, I'll get much better, as well.  I know that because I've already practiced the script I learned in the class I took a couple of weeks ago so I'm getting better at that one... I'll continue to get better at both.   How's that for confidence?  lol

Weight-wise - I haven't weighed yet this morning, because I know I weigh more when I first get up than I do later on.  It didn't used to be that way... For a long time I had to weigh first thing after I used the bathroom and before I drank anything in order to get my lowest weight; now it's not working that way... I have a lot of pain when I first get up in the morning - my entire body hurts from being still over night.  I'm assuming, also, that there's a lot inflammation that causes the stiffness/pain and swelling, which is apparently adding a pound or so to my weight.  Once I've been up for a while and had a chance to move around, some of the stiffness/inflammation and fluid dissipates and my weight drops.  That's the only explanation I can come up with for that kind of a drop because it's not like I'm doing great exercise or anything during that time.  

Anyway, I'll go weigh in a few minutes and will post that later.  

That's my week; it was nice to have some things turn out right for a change - how about you?  I hope everything went the way you had it planned.

~~Wishing everyone a wonderful, successful week~~
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I did finally weigh in, and have perhaps five minutes before I need to be doing something else, so I thought I'd shoot off a quick note. Up a half pound, bleah. That would be same half pound I've been gaining and losing for at least six months, no doubt! And there was no prime-rib dinner last night to blame things on, either, just a quick Chinese meal with my husband and son at 9 pm in between running an errand and printing out a project for a teacher. It's probably time to focus with more intensity on diet and exercise. Even just a stable schedule would help -- we barely had enough fixings in the house to make my son's lunch today.

The curtains go in at the new house this Thursday, which is the last inside-the-house thing we have been waiting for. Outside, we still don't have a back-yard gate to keep our new pup out of the brand-new landscaping and in the dog side of the yard, so I'd guess my husband won't be keen on moving yet, but we *could* move once we have curtains. I'm going to aim for it. I've been putting dishes in cupboards, and we got a shower curtain for my son's bathroom, and I even did my project for the teacher there instead of at the farm (at the new house, I have a desk in a room where I can shut the door, instead of everything in the family room, so I was finally able to spread the project out). I also got a bunch of things sorted and sent to family members or to the Goodwill, including two area rugs, a side-server and many boxes of small things. It's a good feeling to be putting things neatly into a cupboard and to pick up something (mismatched and mysterious as to how we ever even got it) and just chuck it into the Goodwill box -- one more thing I don't have to find a place for! Yay! I probably wouldn't have gotten this far with unpacking in the face of the project for the teacher, though, if my husband hadn't threatened to do the unpacking. He looks uncomprehendingly at the most important but esoteric items, and throws them away. (He doesn't care if it is a part for the vacuum cleaner, it's trash to him.) So that has kept me busy.

Anyway, must run. The project for the teacher needs to be assembled in some kind of box so it doesn't fall all over, and I need to get it delivered. THAT will be a happy moment.

Have a great week! Hope it cools down in Florida!



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You're lucky; you're only exchanging 1/2 pound a week or however often you're exchanging it... I'm exchanging several of them, but they don't seem to be budging very well lately.  

I was down a pound this morning, but I expect it to be back on again by tomorrow, for some odd reason... I can't figure out what's going on and nothing I do  seems to make a difference in my weight unless I'm gaining.

I'm glad you're getting things unpacked in your new house.  It sounds like you might be able to move soon - provided someone comes to get that gate up for the puppy, that is... :-)

I know how you feel about the Goodwill box - I give all my stuff to the Hospice Thrift Stores so I keep a couple of boxes around too - one for clothes and one for other items - so I can drop things in that I know I'll never use and that I don't think I want to mess with on a yard sale (which I need to start planning soon)... when the boxes get full, I just drop them off when I go that direction.  

So it sounds as though you may move soon.  How's the son doing in school now?  I hope that's working out better.  

It did cool down today - we had quite a bit of rain so it was only in the 80's instead of the 90's...  :-)
Son is liking school more. Giving him the options of the web-based school run by his school district, the local parochial school, signing him up for a charter school with an impossible waiting list, and staying where he is, he decided staying where he is was the winner. He doesn't really like it, but thinks he would like changing less. And he has had a handful of days where he came out saying it was a good day, something we never thought we would hear. They have done some things (at the school) to make it less difficult, primary among them being a quiet room where kids can eat lunch instead of in the cafeteria with their 500-person lunch shift. He does his homework in the quiet room while eating, killing two birds with one stone. (Not liking the noise and chaos of the cafeteria, and not liking having so much homework in the evenings.) He got good test results today and was really upbeat about that. Thanks for asking!
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Sorry, was totally swamped from the moment we got up until now, midnight, and didn't have a chance to weigh in or to get on the computer either! Will post in the morning.

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Not to worry; some days are like that...  :-)
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Okay, I finally made it back here... I had to finish a wood burning project I'd started a few weeks ago and it took longer than I expected.  

Anyway, I did my trip to the scale and I'm sad to say that I'm up a pound from last week.  I'm not sure what's going on here but my weight is bouncing around like a rubber ball lately without much change in what I'm eating or the amount of exercise I'm getting.  

Wednesday is my trip to the gastroenterologist, so we'll have to see if anything comes from that...
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