Moving: Pros & Cons of My Dream Place

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The discussion centers around a person facing the difficult decision to move from a beloved one-bedroom apartment to accommodate their daughter, who wants to move in to save on commuting costs. The current living situation is cherished for its natural surroundings, including a ravine and wildlife, which will be lost in the move. Two potential two-bedroom apartments are being considered, each with distinct pros and cons, including concerns about safety and parking. The financial implications of the move are significant, as the new rent will increase expenses, despite the daughter’s intention to help with costs and household chores. There is skepticism about the daughter's commitment to contributing and the long-term viability of the living arrangement, especially with her boyfriend involved. The conversation also touches on broader themes of financial responsibility and the impact of the current economic climate on family dynamics. Ultimately, the need for a larger space is pressing, but the emotional attachment to the current home complicates the decision.
  • #181


Moonbear said:
Evo, you've had such a plethora of health concerns that I really do think you need to find a new primary care physician who pays attention to all of them. I'm concerned there is something underlying all of them that is being missed.
That's what I'm thinking, each time they find something, they go "that's it!" and they stop looking. After the treatment fails I have to push very hard for them to start over.
 
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  • #182


The move is unending, I just had to pay for another week of rent on the old place because we still haven't moved all of my stuff out.

This is the new place, what a mess! The kitchen counter is covered with stuff as boxes are emptied and can't figure out where to put any of it.

I seriously don't know where we're going to put any of this, we've run out of room. We're going to have to sift through and decide what we can't live without and put the rest into the garage, which I am using as a storage space.

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  • #183


Of course the cows have to stay...that's a given.
 
  • #184


rolerbe said:
Of course the cows have to stay...that's a given.
NO ONE touches my cows! And I have several more boxes of cows and hippos (cows are kitchen, hippos are bedroom).

Lacy asked for a picture from the new place. You can see the creek below and this is my flat squirrel. He had me worried because he drags himself around like this, but I saw him stand up the other day, so he's ok, just weird.

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  • #185


Evo said:
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We have the same wooden chairs. :biggrin:
 
  • #186


Evo said:
... and this is my flat squirrel. He had me worried because he drags himself around like this, but I saw him stand up the other day, so he's ok, just weird.

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Dang. I don't know what the deal is but I had to reload this page four time go get the full view of the squirrel.

Okay. I think I understand why his behavior. Either he's trying to sun himself or he actually has some reptile in him.
 
  • #187


dlgoff said:
Dang. I don't know what the deal is but I had to reload this page four time go get the full view of the squirrel.

Okay. I think I understand why his behavior. Either he's trying to sun himself or he actually has some reptile in him.

Maybe his belly is itchy.
 
  • #188


Astronuc said:
We have the same wooden chairs. :biggrin:

Guess, what: I have those chairs as well :smile:
 
  • #189


Evo said:
NO ONE touches my cows! And I have several more boxes of cows and hippos (cows are kitchen, hippos are bedroom).

Lacy asked for a picture from the new place. You can see the creek below and this is my flat squirrel. He had me worried because he drags himself around like this, but I saw him stand up the other day, so he's ok, just weird.

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he's a male squirrel---males like to lay like that...
 
  • #190


Astronuc said:
We have the same wooden chairs. :biggrin:
Monique said:
Guess, what: I have those chairs as well :smile:
Add me to the list also. :-p
 
  • #191


Borg said:
Add me to the list also. :-p
That's a very popular and practical style of chair.

It took three of us, but the shelves are up. I'll post a picture later.
 
  • #192


My blood pressure is down today, 159/117. I did buy a BP home monitor.
 
  • #193


Ai, that is still way too high. It would be good to make a chart of how your bp varies during the day, now that you have a home meter. Please follow Moonbear her advice and find a good doc, we care about you!
 
  • #194


Evo said:
My blood pressure is down today, 159/117. I did buy a BP home monitor.
That's down?!? :bugeye: :frown:
 
  • #195


Astronuc said:
That's down?!? :bugeye: :frown:
It was 215/135. I'm supposed to be in the hospital right now. I had quite a fight today with my doctor's nurses. He want's me admitted for a week. I can't do it.

Ack, now it's 179/109.
 
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  • #196


Evo said:
It was 215/135. I'm supposed to be in the hospital right now. I had quite a fight today with my doctor's nurses. He want's me admitted for a week. I can't do it.

Ack, now it's 179/109.
You should place nothing above your health, you have your daughters who can take care of things while you are at the hospital. Seriously, consider it. Bring wireless internet with you so that you can surf the net while you're there.

How is it that we have people dropping these messages that their health is in danger, but they don't want to visit a doctor/ the hospital?
 
  • #197


Evo said:
It was 215/135. I'm supposed to be in the hospital right now. I had quite a fight today with my doctor's nurses. He want's me admitted for a week. I can't do it.

Ack, now it's 179/109.

... Get into a freaking hospital NOW.
 
  • #198


Evo said:
It was 215/135. I'm supposed to be in the hospital right now. I had quite a fight today with my doctor's nurses. He want's me admitted for a week. I can't do it.

Ack, now it's 179/109.

I'm sorry to say that if you keep on as you are, you may not have to go into the hospital, or finish the move, or anything else.

You are seriously freaking us out here. Please, please (please) get the medical attention you need.
 
  • #199


I have a dr's appointment this afternoon. The last time I was in the hospital (last summer) my doctor agreed to discharge me 2 days early due to the incompetant nursing staff. I was better off at home, so I have no desire to go to the hospital. I definitely will never return to that hospital.
 
  • #200


Walking around with a blood pressure like that WILL beyond a shadow of a doubt cause heart failure in the long-term (not to mention the risk of internal bleeding), so I sure hope you get to deal with it. Please, please take care of yourself.
 
  • #201


Evo said:
I have a dr's appointment this afternoon. The last time I was in the hospital (last summer) my doctor agreed to discharge me 2 days early due to the incompetant nursing staff. I was better off at home, so I have no desire to go to the hospital. I definitely will never return to that hospital.
Um - find a different hospital. Is that possible out there? How about across the river?

With something like 179/109, my sister went to the ER.

With 215/135 - one could end up in the morgue. :frown:
 
  • #202


Astronuc said:
Um - find a different hospital. Is that possible out there? How about across the river?

With something like 179/109, my sister went to the ER.

With 215/135 - one could end up in the morgue. :frown:
It was 205/109last night. 199/117 after waking up from a nap. I'm hoping it's down when I go to the doctor, last time it was much lower and they didn't want to let me leave the office. Which is the wrong thing to do. It just stressed me out more.
 
  • #203


Evo said:
It was 205/109last night. 199/117 after waking up from a nap. I'm hoping it's down when I go to the doctor, last time it was much lower and they didn't want to let me leave the office. Which is the wrong thing to do. It just stressed me out more.
Have EC or someone drive you to the docs. 199/117 is still too high. One should not be driving with such high bp.

At most it should be 120/80 and ideally 110/70 or thereabouts.
 
  • #204


Astronuc said:
Have EC or someone drive you to the docs. 199/117 is still too high. One should not be driving with such high bp.

At most it should be 120/80 and ideally 110/70 or thereabouts.

It's hard to say how much is "too much", I've got 145/75 (on rather high medication), for instance. While the diastolic pressure is high, it's not really dangerous since the systolic is still low, which means it doesn't really wear too much on the heart (and it's expected to go down once I get off venlafaxine anyway). The mechanics are quite complicated.
 
  • #205


TubbaBlubba said:
It's hard to say how much is "too much", I've got 145/75 (on rather high medication), for instance. While the diastolic pressure is high, it's not really dangerous since the systolic is still low, which means it doesn't really wear too much on the heart (and it's expected to go down once I get off venlafaxine anyway). The mechanics are quite complicated.
That's high for your age.
 
  • #206


Evo said:
It was 205/109last night. 199/117 after waking up from a nap. I'm hoping it's down when I go to the doctor, last time it was much lower and they didn't want to let me leave the office. Which is the wrong thing to do. It just stressed me out more.

Evo, I do understand your feelings re the medical establishment and hospital stays, etc. I really do (trust me).

I hope you have a good visit with the MD today, but if they tell you to go to the Hx, do not pass go, do not collect $200, (and I can't really see them NOT saying that...) please take them up on it. The risk of stroke or organ failure in the near term, and heart disease in the long(er) term is just way too high for you at these levels.
 
  • #207


rolerbe said:
Evo, I do understand your feelings re the medical establishment and hospital stays, etc. I really do (trust me).

I hope you have a good visit with the MD today, but if they tell you to go to the Hx, do not pass go, do not collect $200, (and I can't really see them NOT saying that...) please take them up on it. The risk of stroke or organ failure in the near term, and heart disease in the long(er) term is just way too high for you at these levels.
My last stay at the hospital (and I paid extra to have a private room) was so bad, it made my BP skyrocket, too much noise and constant interruptions, so I couldn't sleep, an insane nurses aid, I reported her to the head nurse and as it turned out, that was her (the head nurse) last day there because she had tried to bring up this insane woman and the practices there to no avail. She gave me complaint forms and said she was only sharing what she knew because she already had another position elsewhere. I agreed not to name her specifically in my complaint. The nurses would hide out in my room in order to catch up on their record keeping (there were computer stations in every room). It was unbelievable.
 
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  • #208


Evo's report was one of the positive ones.
 
  • #209


Evo said:
That's high for your age.

Perhaps I should clarify; I eat 10mgs of enalapril (ACE inhibitor) and felodipin (calcium channel blocker) daily for my blood pressure; it's up in the 180ies without them. Medicated it used to be around 130/70 but has gone up, probably due to my usage of Venlafaxine (SNRI and SSRI), which I plan to replace (for blood pressure reasons) once I've adjusted my lithium dosage.

It's pretty absurd to have a blood pressure that high at the age of 18 - well, I was 16 when I started medicating it, - but my heart and kidneys are fine, so it's just some stupid genetic mix that can be medically treated, my father has high blood pressure as well but he didn't get it until his fourties.
 
  • #210


I just had a c___scopy. You know, where they take a camera (presumably with a flash) and stick it where the sun don't shine. A few quick snaps and they're done. They found a polyp, removed it, and sent it off to the FBI for investigation. I hope they waterboard the sucker. The doctor says that these are usually benign, but if it turns out otherwise then he just cured me of cancer. Apparently removing it solves the problem. I'll find out soon which it was. Anyway the clinic was a model of efficiency. They put something in my IV that made my eyelids very heavy. Just as I made my mind up to fight it, I was waking up. From the time I entered the door to when I exited was no more than two hours. Not enough time for that crazy nurse to cause any trouble.
 

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