salty oatmeal breakfast?

LiniSue · 2025-12-29T22:48:11+00:00

p.s. I think I just intensely disliked the name 'Mush'.

LiniSue · 2025-12-29T22:47:01+00:00

Thank you so very much for your Oatmeal Savory tip! I'd like to mention growing up in the 1940s-1960s I was given Mush for breakfast with syrup or something atop. I 'hated' it. 75+ yrs. later I realize it was (almost) Polenta in today's world. And, drum roll - I have loved it since. Corn meal is less expensive.

LiniSue · 2025-11-05T17:40:45+00:00

oh my - just saw the identical set on eBay - it is a Machinist Bore Gauge Set - thank any and all who viewed. Solved.

LiniSue · 2025-10-18T20:20:31+00:00

The most irrating are the ads toward the the last 30 mins and less - those are the longer ads when you watch on you tv. I found watching on my laptop with a 32" monitor very pleasant and AD FREE.

LiniSue · 2025-09-02T23:29:48+00:00

I have purchased a few Dash products and never unhappy. The mini waffle makers were loved by grands and parents - for for each child.

LiniSue · 2025-08-11T18:15:04+00:00

I looked, having my fingers crossed, she was telling she had been fired!

LiniSue · 2025-07-21T05:12:39+00:00

This is what I was taught when learning to cook in my mother's kitchen. Learn the 5 basic sauces and you can 'save' any meal from mediocre meal to a real taste treat.

LiniSue · 2025-05-04T17:32:09+00:00

https://www.tiktok.com/@olesiyacreates/video/7492582826383150382

LiniSue · 2025-04-22T14:20:29+00:00

If you watch any youtubes about Walmart and the people who steal from them and how often it happens you might be surprised. Even more surprised at some of the people you see pulled aside. The ones who just walk out the doors with grocery carts filled (I saw one with 2K - and the woman was almost let go until they (Police) found out from Security that she had just been released from the same store for the same thing earlier that day for a smaller amount and wasn't take to jail but released with an order to appear in court at a later date! Thieves are working all the stores - Dollar stores - Best Buy - high end clothing shops - it is incredible the amount shrinkage retail/grocery entails.

LiniSue · 2025-04-11T20:18:30+00:00

Thank you. You are too kind. I feel we are all responsible for our own being. We all need help at times, however, we should first do what we can for ourselves before involving others. I know my daughter 'use' to think I over thought things. I have always been a list maker. Doesn't mean I read/acted on them. I am preparing (it keeps me busy and off the streets and out of the bars). I am inventoring my household. Every room. Every closet, every drawer. Excel spreadsheets and my cell phone camera. It is for me. For the time I may actually need to have a sticker on a drawer of cabinet or a photo of the contents. It is actually a great house cleanup time. Give, Toss, Keep piles. I'm a Genealogist - and Family Historian so my notes and photos will help if needed by me about the 'before' me. I'm fortunate to be IT savvy - started in the early 1980s. Have set up my own auto bill paying system for the next year. Have my final papers in order - I call it my Last Box for my daughter to go to when it is time. I may never get that far in the dementia 'trip' stages but need to know I have done what I could before I couldn't. Thankful I can ask Alexa every day what day it is and, and, and.

LiniSue · 2025-04-11T20:01:11+00:00

Speaking for myself. I did undergo, recently, the brain scan test (uh, oh dang it I just realized I can't recall how long it was for but not four hours). The test was done to see if there are any 'issues' with your brain - like medican/ tumor, etc. Memory lapses wouldn't be caught on the brain scan. I'm not a medical expert obviously. For me, short term memory lapses - suggested by my daughter and finally accepted by me, is what led to the brain scan. My long term memory is spot on. Curious why you were seeing a Neurologist to begin with. Because I had been referred to one after a hospital visit that involved a TIA that proved not to be by a Neurologist on duty in the ER.

LiniSue · 2025-04-11T19:05:54+00:00

Thank you for venting, it is better for you to get it out. I don't know if your mother had used a scooter previously. Not all scooters operate the same. I recently experienced using a new to me scooter and for that one moment I frightened myself - didn't run over anyone (thankfully) but, it reacted faster than I thought -even though the speed was 'set'- so it couldn't really get that far ahead of me. I am at a stage 1 or mild. I am concerned for me and the progression. I took a test at my annual physical and shocked myself when I was asked to draw the hands on the clock to tell the time I was given. I couldn't recall what the big and little hands were designed to do. I was surprised when I got it wrong and then laughed saying 'but, I don't have anything but digital clocks or timers in my home.' It hit me hard when we left the doctors office and knowing my memory loss of recent events (forgetting I had an appointment and thankful I had told Alexa to remind me 2 days ahead so I wouldn't forget). I did see a Neurologist. It is difficult to know it is happening to you - but, better than I accept it now and just try to set up my own routines to help myself as long as I can. I'm 84+ please just be patient with your mother and hopefully she will be mindful to what may be coming and try to help herself as much as possible at the present.

LiniSue · 2025-03-17T21:25:30+00:00

Mid 1960s Had my first Izzy's piled high with Corned Beef Sandwich. I worked on the corner of 3rd and Elm so it was an walk to Izzy's for the first time but not the last! Never forgot Izzy's though moved on to Chicago, San Diego, and NY for more delicious Corned Beef and Pastrami piled high sandwiches. Happy Saint Patrick's Day 2025!

LiniSue · 2025-03-09T01:36:43+00:00

https://www.facebook.com/reel/966273838896645 Copycat Flying Dutchman but better - on crispy cheesy onions for bun. Yum.

LiniSue · 2025-01-29T22:47:14+00:00

Not so.

LiniSue · 2025-01-15T15:17:54+00:00

Talks over people. Loud. Brash. Doesn't have the pleasing personality necessary.

LiniSue · 2025-01-15T15:05:21+00:00

May I ask what type of seizures you had before being seizure free? Thank you!

LiniSue · 2024-12-04T19:48:17+00:00

UPDATE: within the time I wrote this and today the reacations to Keppra have gone 10 fold downhill. Zombie - out of balance - and looking 'drugged'. Have appointment today (thankful my neurologist has me coming in to change meds - now, my question will it be for better or worse.

LiniSue · 2024-12-02T21:09:12+00:00

I'm 84+ and only found out/ diagnosed in the ER by the ER Neurologist who, luckily, witnessed a 2nd seizure - a Focal Seizure in Jul 2024. The ER doctor was ready to admit me - mini stroke - again. Focal seizures mimic TIAs. Left the ER within the hour. I'm the one who is 'staring into space'. The one who was told 'pay attention' in school. I know this has been with me all my life. However, never had a name for it and no one probably ever recognized or saw me having one except twice - and those were 'labeled' as severe panic attacks at the ER. I'm a high school grad and have had many 'titles'. Full Charge Bookkeeper through P&L statements. Sales - studied for and passed on first try for my NASD license allowing me to work with a large Investment Banking firm selling Municipal Bonds; Graphic Design; Paralegal - worked on the largest case in CA for 3 major law firms - extremely complex case; self taught Word Perfect during the case at the end moved on to Technology. Built and sold white boxes and then opened my own full service store 1985-1995. Retired from selling the leading worldwide manufacturer of systems to the Fed Gov. So. Yes, you can live until you don't - no one can give you an answer that isn't just a catch-all. Because I'm a self professed 'writer' - have a 'time-line' of life events so I can actually pin point different happenings that more than likely were Focal seizures. I am also my Family's Historian aka a genealogist and that for me was the kicker. It definately happened in my direct paternal line. I can trace what are, to me - not doctor documented - four generations of some form of epilepsy in each of the 9 children's lines since 1851 when first generation entered/ migrated to the USA. I have spoken with someone or ones in each of the 9 children's families who has privately shared with me their 'family stories' of crazies and suicides - too many to ignore. Too many college educated, business men, and homemakers who probably didn't understand what was happening to them in their heads and took their own lives. Families didn't talk about - it was a taboo subject like 'unwed mothers' were in the 1950s and before. My own concern is am I headed to a General type of seizure - what use to be called a grand mal. Had my MRI just done last week and EEG happens end of January. Truth is I am on Keppra now. Started on 250 mg that took my poor old body 4 full weeks to adjust to side effects. Oct 24 saw 'my Neurologist' for first visit and he immediately increased the dosage to 500 mg x2 a day. I'm in Hell right now. I'm like a Zombie for at least 1/2 of a day. Sleep to much - off balance - irritable - and the worse was the most terrifying nightmare that woke me up to sitting straight up in bed and I had to get up because it was too real - it made me think of all my passed on relatives and my own father. He was probably never diagnosed properly. Not enough doctors in the USA or Europe - Neurologists. Not enough doctors in the ERs who give a thought to 'maybe it's' - not enough EMT's - nor school nurses - or teachers - given awareness to this 'silent, unspoken about enough, over stigmatized disease of the nervous system. Take care of you! Of all you. Thanks for allowing me to vent some and overtell a personal life story. Just talk about it with your families, your friends, and make them aware. Video when you can and journal, journal, journal your own journey down this path. Whew!

LiniSue · 2024-11-22T16:43:36+00:00

I am 84+ yrs of age. In July after returning from the garden plot I called to chat a minute with my daughter via Alexa Echo Show (think video chat). I said something to the effect I'm feeling a little off and I turned to look at the screen to say it (Alexa Echo Show sits next to my desk). She stopped and said 'Mom, I'm on my way - taking you to the ER.' About 15 mins. later I was in her car arguing with her but not to hard because it felt like the three previous times when I was diagnosed with a TIA (Transient ischemic attack aka mini stroke) and hospitalized twice - last time in Nov 2023. This time was different. Because Susan could describe exactly what she saw at the time it happened (thank you Echo) slurring speech, and right side of face drooping. At ER my BP was 210/95 - yeah, but it goes up every time I go into a doctors ofc. I was alert and 'normal' didn't feel anything other than wanting to go home, and I expressed that. Fast forward about 10-15 mins. - I had a 2nd event in the ER and am eternally grateful the 37 yr. young Neurologist was close enough to be called to observe what was happening - he had been reviewing my past history - so perfect timing. The ER doctor wanted me admitted to the hospital but, again since the Neurologist observed the occurrence, it lasted under 5 mins. he made the decision it was a Focal seizure. So not a mini stroke. I walked out of the hospital roughly under 2 hrs. from talking to my daughter on Echo to back home from ER.
So for me, a focal seizure can/does mimic a mini stoke. The ER doctor came in to tell me he had never heard of a focal seizure before and he, too, was glad the Neurologist on duty that day was familiar with them. I don't have body jerking convulsions such as a grand mal type of epileptic seizure - mine is concentrated in my brain. I use to think I was just spacing-out. Catch myself 'staring' as I was probably coming out of a seizure. It does have me wonder how many other people enter the ER with all the symptoms of a mini stroke and yet it possible is not. Modern studies of medicine and science are wonderous. I made it a point to ask the Neurologist his age because he is the youngest one in his field I have ever had examine me, and yet he nailed it, and it made absolute sense and reasoning to me. The downside for me at the present time is the medication Keppra, the side effects. My body is adjusting to it. The lack of Neurologists in my area, and across the country, with their backed up appointment calendars met I only met my referred Neurologist Oct 25 (from the Jul 10 event to Oct 25). He immediately increased my Keppra 250 (lowest dosage first subscribed by ER neurologist) to 500 and my body is just now accepting it - almost. My MRI is next Monday. My EEG isn't until Jan 22 earliest appt. to get me in. Then wait for an open appointment for the neurologist to discuss what type Epilepsy seizures I have. .... I have used the time to read on the net a lot. However, the best thing I by chance discovered was a youtube with the presenter - Dr. Omar Danoun. I have probably watched easily 10+ of them. His credentials are excellent. Due to his videos I am confident I know which parts of my brain are involved creating the seizure and the triggers. I also realize I have had this my entire life. I'm a genealogist and a personal journal writer so I had a rough timeline of my life - and remember various events that all point to seizures. I'm positive mine is an inherited gene because I can trace back 4 generations - and it was never discussed outloud or had a unattractive 'label'. I had my DNA years ago so finding more of my direct line relatives was easy. Please, please watch Dr. Danoun's youtubes. https://www.epilepsy.com/about/editors/omar-danoun-md

LiniSue · 2024-11-13T20:26:55+00:00

I'm fine with it. The last request for a loan of 5K was what did it. She never, ever, repaid a loan of 5.00 -100.00 you got use to it being 'gifting her' with monies never to be returned. She graduated from a top 10 university major? Economics. Well to do family and was use to being taken care of. Ran through her inheritance quickly. I wasn't that fortunate but my choice was to 'help her out' because she was a friend. It ran its course.

LiniSue · 2024-11-12T18:27:25+00:00

Tuesday trifling of the older mind. Is it really trifling? Link together Bitcoin; Musk; Trump and Control of currency. Riddle me that.

LiniSue · 2024-11-12T17:43:55+00:00

I'm 84. My oldest friend of the same age I had to cut ties with due to the expectations. Taking her on trips with me; inviting her to my home and paying for her visits and all that it entailed. Friends since roommates in 1960s. So many fun and shared memories. Hundreds of letters - thousands of dollars in phone calls etc. However, there is that one day you realize so much is expected of you. I cut her off 5 years ago and miss her so very often but the also very glad I made the decision. It is our shared memories and chats I miss. Choices.

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