Pentagenarians & Beyond: September 21, 2025

Today I did P30 30/30 Low Impact Hiit, and LIS Barre. That barre is honestly brutal. LOL

Valerie my Mom has had an extreme phobia of any type of doctor since she was pre school age. She'd escape exam rooms. My Grandma once told Grandpa that he could take her to the dentist because she was tired of dealing with it. He of course is all no problem, till he had to snag her as she came flying out of the exam room, and heading for the exit door. Then last summer when the ER had her 2 days in a bed at completely the wrong angle and messed up her back, made it worse, and add in the Alzheimers and she's a wreck for things. At least they didn't kick her out. She has been kicked out of practices, one of which was Dad's doctor and not hers. She's a real trip.

All the practices I deal with now are really good about their scheduling and I rarely weight more than 10 minutes over and often on time or early. Years ago when I was pregnant with Nick, DH was at an appointment with me and the doctors were loved by their patients and constantly had new people wanting into the practice so they took on too many. Back then MD's were still doing births. We had waited at least an hour and a half and DH was having chest pains. When we finally saw the doctor I said forget about me I'm doing fine, but check him out (also a patient). Turned out to be an esophagus problem, but the wait times there were insane.
 
Wow Cathy that is a difficult situation. "you can lead a horse to water" and all that. it would be hard to get through to someone in any stage of dementia that better vision was a great benefit. her dementia is a likely factor in whether its ok to pre medicate her. you did what you can do and probably need to let it go. must be really hard to feel like you are parenting your own parent.
 
Today is my rest day. I went to the Farmer’s Markets this morning.

Cathy, great job with P 30 30/30 Low Impact HiiT and LIS Barre.

Hello to Valerie, Judy, and Diane Sue.
 
Yesterday I did a 60-minute Peloton ride, 15 minutes of shoulder pt and a 45 min Peloton Yin Yoga class.
Today I did a 45 minute Peloton walk on the walking pad. I did a little faster walking pace and got 3.13 miles in.

Cathy-Great job with Live Kick, Box and Sweat this morning and Stretch and Flow, P30 30/30 Low Impact Hiit, and LIS Barre. I am sorry about everything going on with your Mom. I know how hard it is to go through these kinds of things.

Valerie-Great job with your trail ride.

Carolyn-Great job with ICE Low Impact Sweat, workout one. I hope you are having a nice rest day.

Hi to Diane Sue
 

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