THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

moneyistooshorttomention

I can relate to "grannyland" - as I've been "waiting and watching" since moving to current home for the average age nearby to come down. It's definitely too high an "average age" for my liking at present - but I've got my fingers crossed.

It's definitely "when" we get older - but I still hold to "if" we get more infirm (whether of body or mind). I like the idea of a "mix" of agegroups - it would be all too easy to look around at people in the same agegroup as myself and think "this is how to BE" if I just compared myself with them.

Better to look around at younger people as well and think "There is still "Life" to be had - and I'm now much freer to do so - without having to do a job any more for my income.". The way I look at it personally is = this is my last life on Earth - so what am I going to do to get as much as I can out of it and I shouldn't just "ride it out as comfortably/easily as I can" - since I'm not coming back here again".

Whether one looks at it that way because of a belief in reincarnation (and decision never to come back here again) or because one only believes in one life anyway is pretty irrelevant to that imo - and I think one can think "There might still be 'adventures' to have/Life to live" possibly" and I don't have to ever "get Old just because many other people living in this country do so - not everyone does....".

I shall carry on personally thinking "Good on 'em - you go gal/guy" about anyone in their 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's that decides to move Elsewhere/take up a new interest/go on a self-improvement programme/get married at that age/etc/etc". It's the "Life in the Old-er Dog yet" way of thinking imo...

moneyistooshorttomention

EDIT; on last post - LessonLearned - I hope you're reading here:). See - I have been listening to you and thinking about what you say....:)

jk0

Kittie, would that bungalow with the enormous garden have access to the back? I wonder if you could get planning consent then sell a chunk to a developer?

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Think I'll have a can of beer tonight.

I've had a 4 pack sitting around since Christmas.

With what I've been through, over the last couple of months, I think I deserve a beer.

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I've just set an all time record, for my Blood Pressure.

109/73. :j

GreyQueen

I have a resting heartbeat of < 50 bpm. Not sure if that means I am technically comatose most of the time, but it does seem to disconcert medical professionals.

One nurse pumped a BP cuff up on my arm four times in a row, frowning at the reading. I had to remind her that she was cutting off my circulation and my hand was going numb. Another yelled at me in terror after watching the BP fall like a stone after doing a lying down and then standing up reading. Once I'd parked my rear on the bed again, she explained that if I'd started to fall, she wasn't allowed to try to catch me.

Wouldn't have worked out anyway, I was considerably taller and heavier than her. But not the slightest bit spinny-headed, no matter what the old BP happened to be doing.

Can't claim super-athleticism as I am a stroller and a gentle-paced gardener rather than sporty. It seems to be genetic; Kid Bruv, our father and his father were/ are all the same with regard to low BP and slow heartbeats.

kittie, good choices about your potential future home. No point in making a rod for your own back. I've known folk buy, for no necessary reason, houses which have the living accomodation over three floors and the outside only accessible by steep stairs up from the road. This is ridiculous, imo, for people who are already in their seventies and eighties at point of purchase.

daz378

them philips solar pendants look a good idea hospital bag taken on board as im going in on monday . im a little apprehensive although been reasurred renal biopsies are straight forward . Apart from diabetes never really been ill till i hit my 50s and even lost 4 and half stone following SW....you all take care

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GreyQueen wrote: »

I have a resting heartbeat of < 50 bpm.

A heart rate of less than 60 beats per minute in adults is called bradycardia.

Athletes may have a resting rate of less than 60 beats per minute, which is quite normal for someone in superb physical condition, but 50 beats per minute is very low, even for them.

GreyQueen

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

A heart rate of less than 60 beats per minute in adults is called bradycardia.

Athletes may have a resting rate of less than 60 beats per minute, which is quite normal for someone in superb physical condition, but 50 beats per minute is very low, even for them.

Have I ever claimed to be normal?!

If my heartbeat goes up to 60 bpm, it feels like it's racing, 80 would be tachycardic for me, scary and uncomfortable.

No one could ever accuse me of presently being (or ever having been) in superb physical condition. Kid Bruv was asked once by the GP if he was an athlete, on account of his slow pulse. KB is a bookworm like me.

The only time I was about to go under a general anaesthetic (with no pre-med) the anaesthetist was a bit phased by putting that finger monitor on me and finding my heartbeat at 40. I just squinted at the monitor, remarked it was normally about 48-49 and she put me under with no problems.

As my dear ole dad is wont to remark; there's one in every litter.

ETA; 55bpm now, but I have just eaten a chunk of cheesecake and I think the sugar rush has sped my pulse up a bit, it usually does.

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This can of Stella is delicious. :cool: