Recent content by harllee

I have some foot arthritis and do a lot of jogging, walking and fitness classes. At the advice of my podiatrist I wear Hoka Bondi shoes--they have a lot of cushioning and are the only shoes that stop my foot pain. I have found that I need to buy a new pair every 6 months (and the relegate the...

DH and I retired late 40s (we are age 73 now). We had a motorhome and roamed the country for a few years. I always thought we would have to get another job but other than some part time gig work we never did. I had no idea about this Forum then (was it even around 25 years ago)? There was...

I found the ACA insurance to be superior to what was offered where I worked, you just need to check out the ACA plans for your area.

DH and I dance all the time. DH had his right knee replaced 2 months ago (had the left knee done 3 years ago) and his doc just released him to do some slow dancing--we danced this past week a couple of times. DH is so happy to be able to dance without pain!

Success story--Here to report that DH who had TKR March 5 on his right knee (he had his left knee replaced 3 years ago) graduated from PT today (they gave him a few things to work on at home, they said he did not need to come back unless he had problems). And he danced the Salsa with me at a...

DH had his second full knee replacement 2 months ago, has done great, even better than his first knee. Very little pain or swelling. He is back walking 3 miles at a time, can (slow) dance already and should be able to play golf this summer.

We avoid taxes on our RMDs by making distributions to charities using from our IRAs

I am one of those rare people who can do monovision--I use one eye for reading and one for distance. Back in the day when I wore contacts that is what I did and when I had Lasik I only did one eye-- just for distance and read out of my other eye. No problems. I now need cataract surgery and...

A few years ago I started breaking out in hives and had mouth swelling for no apparent reason. Doctor tested me for many things including Alpha Gal. Fortunately I was negative for Alpha Gal but the tests show I had developed an allergy to diary (allergic to a protein in dairy). So no milk...

Thanks for this, great news. The question will be who gets screened? Probably would not have helped my friend because she did not have any risk factors but this will be of help to her daughter and grandchildren since there is a genetic factor for pancreatic cancer.

In my opinion the good, highly desirable CCRCs, especially the Type A kind, will always have long waiting lists. At my CCRC the residents live much longer than the average life expectancy, probably because they had to be healthy to get in and also because we have good medical care, fitness...

Here in North Carolina you can go to the NC Department of Insurance website and find Disclosure Statements for all the CCRCs in North Carolina. The Disclosure Statement includes all the fees for the CCRC, occupancy rates and the CCRC's financial statements.

The guy who is still alive--they must have found it very early to enable them to do surgery. That would be my hope--some blood test or something to detect it early so that surgery could be done. For my friend who died last night--when she was diagnosed a month ago it was at stage 4, already...

My friend who just died from Pancreatic cancer was very active in her Church and had the whole Church was praying for her. I go to another Church and we all prayed for her too. In fact the whole community where we lived prayed. Now I pray that some early detection and treatment will be found...

Thanks for this. I read that pancreatic cancer is fairly rare but I hope that there could be some early detection method developed like a blood test.