Subj : Grocery Getters
To : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Fri Jan 17 2025 14:35:12
Hi Dave,
DD> occsaion to use it a couple times. Aftyer the second I went to my boss
DD> and told him "If I have to use a gun to live here I'm going back to
DD> Illinois". Never regretted that move.
RH> I understand, I never had that feeling in Germany but would not want to
RH> roam the streets of most of the cities in the USA without having
RH> "protection". I don't have a concealed carry permit--yet.
DD> And it's getting worse. Both from the street gangs and the rednecks.
DD> We had a "road rage" incident here last week that turned deadly. My
DD> city is generally pretty calm. But there are some areas I avoid. Even
DD> in daylight.
I don't know the setils but there was a shooting down in Raleigh this
morning. Most often they're at night, and very often in the lower income
sections of Durham.
DD> 8<----- EDIT ----->8
RH> I used the ride'em carts when I had foot/knee problems but gave it up
RH> when they healed. For a while my mom used a regular cart for a walker;
RH> dad didn't trust her "driving" the other. When she couldn't walk much
RH> any more, he'd find a seat in the front of the store and park her there
RH> while he did the shopping. Not the best solution but it worked for them
RH> until mom reached the point where she went into the memory care unit of
RH> the local nursing home.
DD> I saw, at Meijer, yesterday a lady in the battery cart who must have
DD> weighed over 500 pounds. She had to suck in her stomach to be able to
DD> turn or maneuver. Sheesh. I 3as that big once until I wound up in the
DD> hospital and they drained over 300# of water weight out of me. I'm on
DD> diuretics to this day.
WHEW! That's A LOT! more than I've ever weighed.
DD> I dread the day when I'll have to go to "assisted living". Stil,
it's DD> better (I thinmk) than the alternative.
RH> Having seen different places, I just hope that whoever makes the
RH> decision for me picks a place like where my MIL currently lives. It's
RH> nice and well lit with a lot of natural lighting; the place where she
RH> and Dad were in Florida was always dark. I don't think they have
RH> progressive care units there; my FIL was in several hospital and
RH> nursing home situations over his last year.
DD> As I told the pulmonoligist when declining to use a BI-PAP machine and
DD> him telling me "You have sleep apnea. You could die in your sleep." I
DD> replied "Pal, I'm 82 years old. It's my preferred way to go." End of
DD> discussion.
I tried a Bi-Pap some yeas ago, couldn't take it so gave up on it.
Pulmonologist wasn't the greatest doc, got a much better one in HI who
squared away the asthma without a machine. Tried a CPAP a couple of
years ago--got bronchitis every time I tried it. Went off, it would
clear up so would try the machine again, with the same result. Gave up,
told my current pumonolgy doctor, he said I didn't really need it but
could I use O2 at night? That has worked without the problems of the
CPAP.
DD> 8<----- EDIT ----->8
DD> America has always been a "meltiing pot" contrary to when the small-
DD> minded politicians and their sychophants would have us believe. Heck,
DD> at the root of it we're all descended from immigrasnts. Bv)=
RH> And that's what makes our nation so culinary-ily diverse. BTW, Natalie
RH> Dupree passed away Monday in Raleigh; she was considered the "Queen of
RH> Southern Cuisine" according to some food critics.
RH> I know my mom's dad's side came over in 1848; my great grandfather was
RH> born in 1849. They settled in Illinios and ggf pastored a German
RH> speaking Lutheran church in Chicago for 50 years. My ggf on my dad's
RH> side came over in the late 1890s/early 1900s, not quite sure when but
RH> he was the youngest of 10 sons. Older brothers pooled their money to
RH> send him over. AFAIK, my heritage is 100% German.
DD> I'm mastly a mongrel mix of English, Scots, and German. But
DD> All-American.
And that's what makes cooking/eating so much fun across the country. The
diversity of ethnic populations has made us much more culinarily richer
than if we'd all had to keep to our own ethnic heritage's
cooking/eating.
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Catch you later,
Ruth
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