***The Senior WW Challenge*** - FRIDAY 4/19

My eye injection went great. The doctor said my macular degeneration has actually improved so did not need to go up another level in the medication. I talked to him about how difficult it was to get the four week appointment and that I had actually been coming every five weeks. He said that definitely makes a difference and wrote on my chart that he was very firm on it being every four weeks. Now I knew the next four weeks is May 16th but I guess in his mind four weeks is exactly one month so put a date of the 18th down which is wrong as that’s a Saturday. The scheduler gave me a hard time as since he had written down the 18th she would not even try for the 16th. I told Fred it is so annoying that someone can’t look at the calendar and realize the error and now I have to wait for a call back to see if they can squeeze me in. Knowing the time frame means the difference in how it affects the macular degeneration I’ll be pretty insistent on the 16th as Fred even asked the doctor and again the technician is there any leeway in the time and they both said no not even a day. Just so frustrating as by my insisting on yesterday’s appt (which was a four week appt) my eye had improvement. But we were there almost two hours because of how busy they are. The good thing is this tech was so good in the rinsing out of my eye that this time I had no pain or the feeling of a thousand eyelashes in my eye as the numbness wore off.

Then when we took Rosie for her final flu shot I asked about getting her nails clipped as her grooming isn’t until next week and I thought they needed to be trimmed before that and they agreed they did need clipping. I also asked if they could check her anal glands as she had started butt scooting so they said they’d check that as well. Since they had all this work to do they took her to the back where they had more room. They were gone a long time and I heard some crying and thought it was Rosie. The vet came in to say hi as the things that needed to be done could be done by a technician but said he would go see about the glands. A while later here came the tech with Rosie. My first question was did she cry and she said no she was perfect! They did trim her nails and then she said I’m so glad you mentioned checking her glands as they were impacted so it took a while to get them expressed and then we gave her a butt bath to get rid of the smell that occurred from everything that came out. When we got home she was acting so happy and being really goofy so I guess she felt a ton better. They said those glands were so swollen it would interfere with her bowel movements and I told Fred that had happened yesterday morning so if I hadn’t had them checked we could have had major problems. But they also said it looked like either they hadn’t been expressed in a very long time or maybe never. It just broke my heart hearing that but I said well that won’t happen again as with a female dog I get them checked regularly.

Rained most of the day yesterday but this morning it’s clear but very chilly. Fred said he might golf as the tee time is 10:30 and if the sun comes out it will be perfect.

Good morning 🌞.

Another great day 🎈.

We are apparently going up above 90° today! Another day for shorts I guess!

Every year I have my dryer vent cleaned out. My dryer vents to the roof of the first floor extension. That means I certainly can't clean it out myself! It's a fire hazard to not clean your dryer vent and since I live in a townhouse I'm very cognizant of that fact.

So that makes me feel a lot better to have that chore done.

I'm watching the news about Israel. Oy vey. In case you didn't know in the early 1920s Britain was in charge of a good part of Middle East and France was in charge of a good part the rest of it. This was as a result of World War 1 when they conquered the territory from the Turkish Empire.

Many new Arab countries were created. In 1922 Britain took out nearly 80% of the Palestinian mandate as they called it and gave it to the Arabs. Today this is called Jordan and the majority of people living there are still Palestinian.

In 1948 the United Nations created two countries out of the remaining 20 or so percent. the majority of the land was actually given to the Arabs again but a very small percentage was given to the Jews to create a Jewish country.

Jews have always lived in the land of Israel although we have been exiled many times. There has never been a time in over 3,000 years that there haven't been Jews living in the land of Israel.

At any rate the Jews accepted the 1948 decision by the United Nations and the Arabs rejected.

They wanted nothing to do with any Jewish State no matter how small. That hasn't changed. Have you heard the mantra from The River to The Sea Palestine will be free? That means no Israel.

A good number of Arab countries went to war against the new Jewish country and the Jews won.

Many many times since the Jews have offered land for peace. They won the Sinai peninsula in the 1967 war and they returned all of it to Egypt for peace...

Every single time that they have offered peace it has resulted in the Arabs rejecting it. President Carter tried. President Clinton tried. A lot of presidents have tried including Trump.

I love those who keep saying "why doesn't Israel give a ceasefire?" Again they have offered that many times and it has been rejected every single time by the Palestinian terrorists.

During every time that they have agreed to receive fire by the way the terrorists continue to rain rockets on them and attack them. Make no mistake their goal is to kill Jews and to destroy the state of Israel completely.

Those terrorists raped and murdered over 1200 people including babies one of whom they put alive into an oven. They kidnapped over 130 people a few of whom were American by the way... The only time they've returned any hostages has been in exchange for about a hundred terrorists for one hostage.... those freed by Israel were in prison having been found guilty in courts of law... literally guilty of killing innocent people...

The terrorists are still holding a baby and a toddler if they're alive, which I doubt...

Sorry I didn't mean to turn this into a speech but I think just too many people don't realize what's really going on. They somehow think that the Palestinians and Israel are similar and then it's just a question of picking sides.

The simply isn't true and sadly a good number of Arabs and this includes Palestinians have been fed hatred and lies for generations. Golden Meir once said that we will have peace when the Arabs love their children as much as they hate the Jews.

Sadly we have not yet reached that point.

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Sandy I’m glad your shot and Rosie’s went as planned.

Shagrae I totally agree that we do not know everything happening. And most are uninformed about history.

Don said we got 1/2” of rain which is wonderful.

Today I will bake an apple pie, wish me luck. Later I will prepare a roast beef, carrots, mashed potatoes, roasted asparagus and a nice salad. It will be nice to enjoy DD Laura and Scott tonight.

Enjoy your day friends.

Good morning
I played trivia at the clubhouse last night. I knew a few answers but I couldn’t understand a lot of the questions because the sound was bad for me. It was ok so I think I will try again next month.

I took a gift card to my next door neighbor because they go back to Germany soon. Then when I was leaving for trivia they were cleaning my gutters and my sprayer for weeds growing in my pavers was frozen so I couldn’t finish the job and I see this morning they did! How blessed to have these wonderful people here. They are so kind to me.

I go for my MRI tomorrow. Since I won’t drive on the freeway I take an hour to get to the south part of Naples. I live in the northern part of Estero so it adds to the time . May be a little less traffic this time.

I am glad the Billy Joel concert is on again since I missed it before. I will record it this time.

Miss Cora

I hate when someone recommends something and then I do it and don’t care for it and don’t want to tell them. Nancy loved a book so I am trying to read it and the first 20 pages were terrible so I picked it up today and it is a bit better but stopped at page 35 . So definitely not something I really care to read. This is an old book and I looked up the reviews . They aren’t good but a movie was made from it. The deep end of the ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard. It is a 1996 publish. I will read more later