skin care recommendations

I do a lot of cooking. Each of my 2 Shun knives cost about the same as 2 meals out for the 2 of us at a nice restaurant. They make food prep faster and more fun. I love them every time I use them.

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Looked it up…

https://shun.kaiusa.com/damascus-tsuchime-san-mai-edge

So it is a solid core wrapped by a “softer” outside. Not actual folded steel (which is top of the line, like Kramer Knives, plus some artisans in Japan). But the wrapped core method seems to be favored by a lot of higher-end makers.

Nice to have a recommendation. Good knives are treasure for a cook. I’m always sharpening ours because they don’t hold an edge for very long. I want to replace them, but 1poorlady say they are “good enough” (i.e. she is frugal, and these knives do work if you keep them sharpened).

"How are you & DW doing? "


today DW was sent to the Rehab Hospital I was released from last week. She is awfully weak and
unsteady - but her sodium levels are nearing normal again.

I fell today but I think it was because of my stupidity rather than anything else. I started down
the stairs and thought about hanging a picture/print and maybe changing how the current crop of
pictures and needle-point thingies are located - and fell backwards onto the landing.
Scared the devil out of our son - and brought a whole new set of worries and doubts about my
abilities.

I tried to arrange a new family doctor/internal medicine doctor for me today but only succeeded
in getting my name on a call-back list - in a few days - maybe. I have a visiting nurse, a
P-therapist and an “exit- appointment” from the prior family doctor’s office with a nurses
assistant tomorrow - plus a trip into see DW and bring a few things for her. I have had about
three “review your time with us” phone-calls

  • each supposed to take about 2 or 3 minutes but each actually taking more like 10 to 15 minutes -
    even when I can guess the answer codes needed ahead of the questions. I really had great experiences
    with the people - just the software and phone systems are a problem.

Howie52
I am very very very tired and falling has not helped the pain. I am back to regular pain schedule

  • knowing when the darted things are due about 30 minutes before I can take one.
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Except that neem is bright yellow and a bit drippy (and looks like it will stain), it works great.

Sometimes I find that a new tube is a little drippy when I first open it, but the oil seems to have accumulated at that end, and it’s there only briefly. And it doesn’t always happenl.

Right up until I had neem ointment. Just one application once around a month ago and no reappearance of the itchy/weird crack since.

How nice to hear. I had an experience like that years ago with cold sores, pretty early in my experience with neem. I used to get a large, nasty coldl once every winter, always at the same spot on my bottom lip. At that point I used to keep a small bottle of neem seed oil, which is highly antimicrobial (and it’s one of the ingredients in the Theraneem salve), on hand. So as my annual cold sore emerged, I began applying a few drops of the neem oil to it. It was almost gone in 24 hours, completely healed in 48—and that was the last cold sore I ever had.

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“Anyhow, my dishwasher leaked the last 2 times I used it–worse the second time–so I’m handwashing everything now while I try to decide whether to go for repair or just skip to replacing my dishwasher, which is 11 years old (lifespan averages 10 years, which has been true for me). [I’d love comments on that subject, btw-]”


Every 3 to 6 months, a dishwasher seal strip should be wiped clean and checked for damage. The
seals can leak if they are impacted or cut or coated - or if they shrink and fail to cover the lower
portion of the dishwasher. If a gap is low - water will leak out - if the dishwasher drain is also
partially or fully plugged - say with label residue from glass jars or from small items knocked off
the shelves.

Howie52
Calling a repairman is not a bad thing every so often - just be sure to have the person tell you
how to avoid the problem in the future.

Also, read the manual for the device - there is typically a troubleshooting section that might help.

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Sometimes life just seems to pile on :frowning: Hang in there!

Did the docs ever determine what caused DW’s low sodium?

PS–Old folks and stairs are not a good combo (sez the ol’ lady who broke her leg on a set of 5 steps). I know you were thinking about remodeling for DW’s convenience, but I recommend moving to a one-story house with accessibility features or a senior facility (apartment with accessibility features). Meanwhile, can you avoid the stairs or is your bedroom upstairs? If so, I;d consider moving the bedroom necessities (bed, dresser, night tables) to a downstairs room, at least till you & DW are in better health.

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(((Howie &DW)))

Agreed. One-story house with NO basement (i.e. that’s just a two-story house that is partially underground).

I know the Count had a stair lift for either his, or the Countess’s, parents. It worked, but was very slow if you would have to go up and down the stairs frequently during the day.

1poorguy

Howie — hoping for rapid improvement for both of you! And for getting connected with a helpful doc! What an anxious and difficult time this is. So sorry to hear.

=sheila

“Did the docs ever determine what caused DW’s low sodium?”


Not really - but they have restricted the amount of water she is allowed and that appears to have brought the sodium levels near normal. She has been avoiding salt for years - since her BP has
been running high - alarmingly high. But with her recent weight loss, the BPs are reduced a bit
and so perhaps she can be taken off the meds - one of which caused the hospital folks some possible
worries - but they returned her to some of her pain medications. Unfortunate in a way since she
is out of refills and that doctor does not want to refill the prescription until she goes into
see the doc.

Visiting nurse was here and re-did my bandaging.
Visiting P-therapist was here and gave me some exercises to practice.
I now get to go to visit the old doctor’s practice - and arrange to have records transferred -
to wherever. Also, maybe talk to whoever about the continuing swelling in my extremities.
Really bothersome if I have to get out.

Our house allows for DW and I to be on a single floor. But the laundry room is on the lower level
and I am there now. We will likely move sometime fairly soon - but - but - but.
I don’t know where or the specifics of how quite yet. We really have yet to talk through the
“senior issues” questions - and certainly have not talked over what might be needed with the
family. I can’t see us actually moving in under a year or two.

Howie52
first and foremost, I still have to convince myself that we really need to do this. Then convince
myself that I want to do this. Then the how, and the where.
I suspect that the procrastination quotient in the discussions alone will kick things out for
months.

I remember when we bought this house, the idea was that there would be space for DW’s parents
to live downstairs. Then we had my mother live with us for a year or so when my father passed away
unexpectedly as my mother was released from a rehabilitation hospital in another state.
I don’t ever think we expected that we were the ones that we would eventually need the care.

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Could you have somebody else run the laundry? (Or move the W/D upstairs?)
I don’t like to think about you breaking your arm or leg–or neck.

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