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| SUN LAKES LIFESTYLES | DECEMBER 2023 | | SUN LAKES LIFESTYLES | DECEMBER 2023 | 71 71 My head is spinning from the thought of this 'game'. Who I ask is the designated driver Victor G. Oh sweet college days. Now seven minutes in the green room just won't do it! William R. What an interesting bunch of people would join the "Spin the Bottle (Formerly Strip Poker)" Group. Bus Room would be way to small. Wonder which would be a larger group, the participants or the onlookers. ink I would skip this one. Ruth R. We could also play "Pony Express" - it's a little like "Post Office" but there's more horsing around. George P. With all the alcohol, gargling may not be necessary and the Bus Room may turn into its own green room with a "no time limit of minutes in heaven." Better get some refs lined up or turn it back into playing strip poker at half time to eliminate some participants. Margaret W. Hmmmm…Spin the Bottle or Monday Night Football…tough choice! Sharon R. Can't do the 'sit on the floor' part, but can spin mean nachos to share! Signed "e Nacho Master," Jeanne V. I thought I was going back to junior high! Sharon K. Love looking for the joke. ank you… Lifestyles is great. Mike S. Next summer let's get back to strip poker. Tom K. Secret contest question for November: What is your Superpower? My "Superpower" (I'm told by others) is my ability to organize things. It can be a space, an event or a system of some kind. e planning, organizing and execution of it all brings me joy and something that seems to come easy for me. ~ Sharon Robinson Mine is writing poetry and making greeting cards. Jim has drawers and assorted shoe boxes full of them. Jeanne V. your comments: GET THE JOKE! I found the joke! Resident name (first & last): ______________________________________ This was the joke: _____________________________________________ Comments (we LOVE your notes - about anything!): ____________________ __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ Send your entry to sunlakesnews@yahoo.com or drop it at the Main Clubhouse Last month's joke: Spin the Bottle (Formerly Strip Poker) Now back to the Get the Joke stuff: To win a free dinner, find the ad, article or just weird, out-of- place, completely made-up (and hopefully funny) item in this month's Lifestyles. When you find it, fill out the box and email it to sunlakesnews@ yahoo.com before noon on the sixth of the month (or drop it off in the Main Clubhouse). If you are the first correct guess chosen at random, you will win a free dinner. Congratulations to this month's Dinner Winner: NORA BURKEL Please call Kelly in the Admin. Office for your Sun Lakes Restaurant dinner. From Courtney, the publisher: Whenever you have a symptom and wonder what could be going on with your aging body, don't google it. It's never good news. Years ago I was having "lady issues" and googled my symptoms and became convinced I had cancer and would be dead within the week. I cried because Ben, my son, was young and would have to tell everyone his mom died. That's never a good thing for a kid to go through. Would my husband remarry? I needed to have that conversation with him. I hoped he would wait until Ben graduated high school but thought that was a lot to ask. I had heard once that the more in love a man had been with his wife, the sooner he replaced her. So with that in mind, him moving on quickly would mean he was truly in love with me and couldn't be alone. It was a quandary. I wept for my mother and sister who would probably never stop missing me and my hilarious but naive outlook on life. Finally I made an appointment with a human being doctor and had a procedure that solved the "issues." That was 15 years ago. Recently I had another "issue" on my toe. It started hurting and a "boil-like" spot appeared. I thought "should I google this?" but resisted. It became painful and throbbing, growing in size. Within 24 hours I was at the urgent care. I told the human doctor it looked like a spider bite. He agreed, drained it (sorry if you're eating), and put me on antibiotics. Two days later it had grown in size and horrificness. I broke down and googled it. Did you know that MRSA - the flesh eating disease - is often thought to be a spider bite at first?!? I had put the suggestion in the doctor's head when I should have let him diagnose me! I was going to lose my foot, maybe my leg. Should I get a prosthetic? Maybe one of those blade runner ones in case I took up running. MRSA is very contagious and I thought maybe I should warn people as I shed pathogens walking by in flip flops. I took pictures to document the steady decline for medical journals. Finally, I sent them to my human doctor. She said, "Looks like it's healing." I canceled my blade foot order. Who am I kidding? I'm never going to take up running.

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