Aging

  • Aging,  Financial,  Health

    September Coming, Test Results, and Retirement Finances

    September is almost here. There is a little bit of excitement in the air, but there is also hesitation. My sister is having a rough time with her cancer treatments. She is near the end of the treatments. Almost through with chemo and almost through with radiation. She has reached the point though where she has some very painful radiation burns that has peeled the skin back to raw flesh in numerous spots and in very tender parts of her body. We are very upset but there is nothing we can do to make that better except let her know we are thinking of her. She is hoping not to…

  • Aging,  Dogs,  Health

    Maddie is Recovering But What is Wrong With Me?

    Maddie says “good morning” in her very dazed-but-coming-around-state. She is now “fixed” and “chipped”. She was really out of it yesterday when we picked her up. We had a little scare early in the day when I found blood in the bed where she lays. I thought she was in heat. But they said she was not swollen or anything and so they did the surgery. I had a huge workload/backload of work to do. I had been gone on Wednesday for part of the day to take Mom to get her glasses. When we go over there to Hermitage from Lebanon, and I have to come from Antioch to…

  • Aging,  Dogs,  Shopping,  Vlogging

    Mechanical Dog after Losing a Pet and My YouTube Journey and Goals

    Several have shown interest in Mom’s “new dog”. I did take a video to share on my vlog but I will go ahead and put a clip here. We are all just loving the dog. I had ordered Mom the dog to help her cope with the loss of Fancy, but Mom decided that she wanted to cat too, so she is ordering that. That will give her two pets in her house to sit about in the room with her. These have easy turn on and turn off buttons as it has a velcro spot on the fabric (on the bottom) that you pull back and click the on…