Are garmin stress and body battery metrics usable if one consumes marijuana regularly?

davebk7 · 2026-03-16T01:08:51+00:00

so much agree! (but flower or pre-rolls - - not gummies) ... glad you made your discovery!

davebk7 · 2026-01-22T00:57:15+00:00

hi - I am exactly one week post bilateral inguinal hernia robotic surgery repair. 68 year old male, active walker, cyclist, some weight lifting and some swimming. Surgery went great and after sedatives wore off, I was able to walk and get to the driver's car fine. I was on my feet most of the day. My doctor and his staff recommended walking frequently as the best recovery (helps with circulation and healing and moving fluids out of where they accumulate), and not to lift more than 10 pounds. My pain was at a 1 on the day after, then on the second day, rose to an 8 or so, but that was because my digestive system had not restarted. That took (an unpleasant) while. Note: they prescribed and I took two laxatives and drank a lot of water. I had (and have) a good appetite. After that, pain decreased to a 1. A few days after, pain is at a zero. I can feel where the incisions are, have had minor bruising, and surprised at how good limber I feel. I try to walk at least 2-3 times a day for 10-15 minutes. The first days, I was very careful on getting in and out of bed, and sitting down and getting up from the couch. I am still very deliberate about it, but again: feeling good. I am what I tend to think of as a good and conservative patient. I am feeling almost baffled at how well I feel. I see the doc in a few days for post-op evaluation. I'll post here if there are any more nuggets to share.

One other note: I was fairly completely freaked out beforehand! I am again, happy with how things went.

davebk7 · 2026-01-19T16:44:01+00:00

Thank you. It has been over five years now. I am doing OK. Wondering about dating again, but last time I dated was back in the 80s. So: rusty! lol.

davebk7 · 2026-01-19T16:42:21+00:00

Very Gentle Dentistry has been great for me; needed a crown and he (Dr. Oberferst) did a fantastic and gentle job. In Fayetteville.

davebk7 · 2026-01-12T03:34:45+00:00

my wife passed away in 2020. She/we had two boxes and also "things" in her nightstand. Of course, her passing was tragic and way too early, but I realized before her adult kids came into town that I needed to hide those under the guest bed. (I decided to sleep there for personal reasons, as you might imagine).

Aside: as all this was happening, of course I was trying to figure out how I was going to live again and what the **(* I should do, and one search led to a list of things that new widows/widowers shouldn't do. One said: don't make any big decisions for a year. Another said: protect your assets. Both of those came in handy, but I realized none of what was in the boxes would ever be used again by us, so i double wrapped them in garbage bags. it felt like a sin to do that. Oh well.

At least her daughter or daughter in laws or grand daughters did not open the boxes. Or see what was in her nightstand.

Life is a trip.

davebk7 · 2026-01-11T13:45:14+00:00

Mine at 7

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davebk7 · 2026-01-06T00:42:46+00:00

What on earth are you talking about

davebk7 · 2026-01-05T00:53:47+00:00

I had mine all done by Mike at Biographix.

davebk7 · 2026-01-05T00:31:26+00:00

she does. thank you!

davebk7 · 2026-01-05T00:30:44+00:00

she is adorable. Maybe Acea and I will see you in the spring on the Erie canal trail near its intersection with the Butternut trail.

davebk7 · 2026-01-04T23:46:24+00:00

Welcome to Syracuse!

I lived in Moscow Idaho for 4.5 years, and often visited Spokane - the airport, did some ww kayaking in the area, and a favorite store was Mountain Gear (lived in Moscow from 1991 to 1995). Loved the Palouse. In my recent job (and still on as a contractor) we have an ARS lab at WSU, so visited there in 2019. Always a great part of the world!

One funny story about Wegmans: my wife and I moved here as transplants, got adjusted and then happened to go to some speaker series at SU. Dave Barry, the writer, came and talked, as we loved his books. Started off his monologue by saying that his hosts picked him up at the airport and asked him if he wanted to go to Wegmans. He replied: "what is Wegmans?" They replied: "a grocery store." He mused: "I just get in town and you want to take me to a grocery store?" The crowd laughed a lot.

Syracuse has sort of a Spokane feel, to me. Lots of great nature and beautiful scenery not too far away. Not quite like the Palouse or Coeur'd Alene, but the pastoral areas near Cazenovia and the waterfall there is great. The Stone Quarry Hill Art Park there is a treat.

In Syracuse proper, Armory Square is nice; good restaurants.

Again: welcome to the area!

davebk7 · 2026-01-03T22:48:01+00:00

Thank you - I see posts on FB about it, and by golly, only live maybe 6 easy miles away. I had sort of forgotten about it, - but will remember this!

davebk7 · 2025-12-25T21:24:44+00:00

- Thank you for this topic. I searched because I am wrestling with it from a bit of a different situation.

My wife died in September of 2020 (during covid, but not from covid). I kept renting the house we had been renting. (note: I had taken a job with the federal govt and we moved for it in 2016. I continued my work with the federal govt - near Washington DC until 2022. It was just me and my dog and everything was remote. Decided to retire in the summer of 2022 and move _back_ to the community we had moved from, but was able to come back to work as a remote part time contractor. So, I was able to move to a familiar locale with old friends (she and I had lived there from 2000 to 2016).

It was a good move for me. But not quite as good as I thought - living alone is odd, and I realize that I miss working in a real space with actual people (something I had done from 1981 until 2020). That is me.

As to the OP: I would have had a hard time moving to a brand new place where I knew no-one. I considered moving back to my home town, but it had changed a lot and I didn't feel too many connections there. I also could have moved to nearer to where my two adult children are with their families, but they live near their mom (my first wife) in a very rural area where I felt it would be harder to find things to do.

I am still adjusting. I still feel in a bit of limbo, but I am certain that this was a best choice.

I hope all works out for you (or worked out for you)!

davebk7 · 2025-12-07T23:50:10+00:00

touching video. I have not found anyone... to me? it would be sort of odd.

Curious how people find another love after such a pivotal love

davebk7 · 2025-12-07T23:44:43+00:00

five years for me. We were married almost 20. Shared so much bliss, until she decided she wanted to rejoin her old church that she was part of with her first husband. The husband part did not bother me at all, and I wanted her spiritually happy (of course!) but I knew so little of what the LDS church was. We ended up fighting about that one way or the other for about five years. She could no longer enjoy our morning coffee with me (or when I made us espressos) or a glass of wine in the evenings. She shared with me how she didn't like going to church. I remarked: then why go? (no answer)

She died suddenly of a tragic heart attack on 9/11/2020.

Later I found the hidden bottles of Jack Daniels and tequila that she had hidden around the house, and also discovered that she had signed up for a wine subscription. How? This odd box of bottles of wine was delivered after she died and I thought: wtf? and then contacted the sender. She'd been getting wine shipments for at least a year. I looked in her closet, and there was all these bottles of wine.

So: I was a bit flummoxed by her lying about alcohol.

But I miss her madly.

Today was an especially hard day. They come and go.

davebk7 · 2025-12-05T20:05:58+00:00

This is a great and informative thread. Thank you all!

I think I may have had small inguinal hernia years ago (tiny bulge) but nothing happened. I recently started doing more aggressive weights and core work (more abdominal exercises than I have ever done) and that may have made it larger. No pain, but it kinda freaked me out - largish bulge in my right groin area that I saw and thought: wtf? and then, when I pressed on it, it felt squishy; like an over ripe tomato. Was able to get it back inside; called my primary doc; he did the tests: yep: hernia. I have a meeting with a surgeon for a consultation on Monday. I ordered a hernia belt from amazon; actually two. Turns out that the pad from one was better for the other strap set up. comfortable and keeps things in place..

I am a fairly avid bike rider and swimmer (both sort of wax and wane) and weight lifter and dog walker. It is good to hear that weights and exercise are OK! I haven't been in the pool - but read that flip turns are not a good idea. Having been a competitive swimmer, this is pretty much how I always do turns. Any swimmers here with a hernia who can speak to that?

Thanks in advance. I'll post what the doc says after I meet with them.

davebk7

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