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For the birds

This is so relatable. Anyone else in this “era” of your life? This menopause crap is for the birds. Even though I started the hormone replacement ( the pellets ) I haven’t really felt the affects of it yet. Hopefully I will start to feel some improvement. I still have to pick up my medicine at the pharmacy that I take along with the pellets. Who else knows about the pellets?

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Head Space

Hey y’all…Hope everyone had a deserving Christmas. The past 6 months have been kicking my ass.I’m in a different head space and trying to find my way back. Ever since Chewy passed, then my ankle replacement, I have just been trying to glide. I have been seeing more wrinkles and more gray hair all the while I don’t feel the wrinkles and gray on the inside.I started using more face products to hopefully counter the…

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Why the Home May Be the Assisted-Living Facility of the Future

Originally posted 2018-11-28 08:00:46. Most older Americans want to stay in their homes for as long as they possibly can. Put in negative terms, almost all of us want to avoid moving into senior housing, at least until we have no other choice. But most also agree that assistance may become necessary as our capacities decline and our needs multiply. It seems we have to choose: Either hold onto the comfort and independence of living…

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Aging With Grace Is A Blessing Not Always A Requirement

Originally posted 2015-03-15 15:31:49. Another year older and some would say another year wiser but hey we can’t all be perfect. 😉 I have been MIA the past 4 weeks. It has been a very trying time considering my 21-year-old son has decided to take on actions of younger children to teens. Since my daughter has been away in college he hasn’t seen much of her. He was so used to having her by his…

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