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speeddiva

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Speaking of Florida/fun in the sun, can anyone recommend a good sunscreen? Is the highest SPF the best? I’m having a hard time choosing something with so many options out there. I also have rosacea, so I could use ideas on what might be a good face sunscreen to use that won’t further irritate my skin. I generally avoid outside during the summer, but will need something for sure for a few days down south. If I need to get two different kinds for face and body, that’s ok too. Thanks in advance for any recommendations! :)

I like Blue Lizard. I’m very fair, easily burn and I can be in the sun for hours with this brand as long as I reapply every 20-30 minutes.

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rlbarajas

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Wow June is here and almost over! Where has the time gone. Next month will be a fun filled busy month. Long weekend Vacation at the beginning of the month with on side of the family and a first time week long vacation at the end July with another side of the family. So ready for this!
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Gator Pam

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Had my biannual thyroid cancer screening/follow up this afternoon. The endocrinologist reminded me that November will be a decade since my thyroidectomy, followed by radioactive iodine treatment the following January. From my blood work screenings the past several years, she is of the opinion that the chance of reoccurrence is basically nil, and says I can go down to annual visits instead of bi-annual.

 

Huzzah!

 

One down, two (chronic leukemia and breast cancer) to deal with, with hopefully no new cancer variations raising their spectre to haunt me.

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packratfamily

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Hi Folks

June is finally here and I do not usually like to have time rush past but will be getting some long overdue medical help (thank you covid NOT)

But summer is fun and we plan to enjoy our staycation with mowing and swimming

 

PS  Walmart Zinc sunscreen works well, mechanical blocker.

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Gator Pam

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In case anyone is interested, Stonehenge Summer Solstice: Sunrise is going virtual again this year. This link is via Facebook Live, but there may also be a website streaming it. They're also streaming the Stonehenge Summer Solstice: Sunset the night before, although for me here in the Pacific Northwet, the times are more noon and after dinner on the same day.

 

Last year, both events were anticlimactic, as it was misty and overcast. Here's hoping the weather will be clearer this year.

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Reinholt1

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Thank you for the advice. I didn't know there could be major problems like that with taking too much. I'm glad you told me so I don't just start taking supplements on my own and get too much. I do have a call in to my doctor, just waiting to hear back.

 

Sooooo, what's the good word from the doc?

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Sooooo, what's the good word from the doc?

Thanks for your concern! I have a prescription for a high dose of vitamin D that I take once a week for several weeks, then back down to 2000 units daily. I can't wait to start feeling better! The doctor was surprised that my level was so low.

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magickallight

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Strawberry moon tonight: Final supermoon of 2021 to appear in the sky
 

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A supermoon will rise over the Earth tonight – for the last time this year.

The Moon will appear bigger and brighter than normal because it is unusually close. At just 228,000 miles away, it is making the last of a series of relatively close passes.

It will be the last time for anyone on Earth to see such an event for almost exactly a year. The next will appear on 14 June, 2022.

As with every such event, actually seeing tonight’s strawberry moon is fairly straightforward: head outside and look up. It might look particularly good through a telescope or binoculars

The strawberry does not refer to the colour – though the Moon sometimes does appear red during eclipses, it will not tonight – but is instead the name given to June’s full Moon. It is named because it comes around the time the strawberry is harvested in north America.

There is some debate about whether tonight’s Moon is truly a supermoon, partly because the term has a loose definition. It was first coined by an astrologer, Richard Nolle, in 1979 and is used when the Moon is within 90 per cent of its closest approaches to Earth.

But there are a range of different thresholds. Nasa noted in April that those different definitions mean that there are different lists of supermoons: some consider all of the Moons between March and June to be supermoons, while others say that only the two full Moons of April and May count.

As well as changing how the Moon looks in the night sky – though sometimes by such small differences that it is not possible to distinguish with the naked eye – supermoons also have other effects, such as making high and low tide more extreme.

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Happy June!

I can’t believe June  is almost over. I feel like the school year just ended, and my summer is flying by way to fast. I have been able to enjoy over a week in Hawaii, day trips and some fun, but my son is having knee reconstruction surgery next week. So that will delay some more summer travel.  I just have a list of things I WANT to do!! ☺️

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Welp, annual blood work just came back. Thyroid level is still a little high so my hypothyroid med is going up a tad (screw you thyroid), and A1C test and other levels says pre-diabetes (I can't stop saying "dee-uh-bee-tuhs" like Wilford Brimley) so I gotta eat right (just change my diet to a somewhat diabetic one), exercise more (which I can't do much more of due to my injuries) and lose a little weight (which is also difficult due to my many conditions and reasons above which all caused me to gain weight in the first place). I'm telling you if all this doesn't work I'm just gonna ask for another pill or something.

 

Then came the call from my dermatologist who took a biopsy from a nasty spot on the left side of my scalp about a week ago. Basal cell carcinoma is back and I have Moh's microsurgery scheduled for morning of July 1st. Guess that'll be my first post for July. Wish me luck! :)

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Welp, annual blood work just came back. Thyroid level is still a little high so my hypothyroid med is going up a tad (screw you thyroid), and A1C test and other levels says pre-diabetes (I can't stop saying "dee-uh-bee-tuhs" like Wilford Brimley) so I gotta eat right (just change my diet to a somewhat diabetic one), exercise more (which I can't do much more of due to my injuries) and lose a little weight (which is also difficult due to my many conditions and reasons above which all caused me to gain weight in the first place). I'm telling you if all this doesn't work I'm just gonna ask for another pill or something.

 

Then came the call from my dermatologist who took a biopsy from a nasty spot on the left side of my scalp about a week ago. Basal cell carcinoma is back and I have Moh's microsurgery scheduled for morning of July 1st. Guess that'll be my first post for July. Wish me luck! :)

Good luck with everything. :gdhug5:

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Gator Pam

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@stationchief...

 

We're here to support you as you go through all of this. And if you want, I'm more than happy to introduce you to low carb/high fat ways of eating. I lost 60 lbs between doing keto and just walking. My A1C is at 5.4 without medication, after being as high as 6.7 with medication, and I'm a thriving survivor of three separate cancers: thyroid, chronic leukemia (in other words ongoing for life), and breast. A low carb lifestyle (not diet, as I have chosen to eat only this way, with the occasional break) has truly worked wonders for me.

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