All Topics → Forum: Growing our Friendships After Treatment → Topic: I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange
Posted on: Jan 4, 2011 10:23 AM, edited Jul 29, 2011 02:03 AM by bluedahlia
bluedahlia wrote:
Thought I'd add mrmojorisin in there somewhere.
Let's try this again.
Life is made up of differences. Let's explore these differences, learn from them and accept them.
Now "Don't stop till you get enough"! I love Michael Jackson too!
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May 2, 2012 03:19 AM 3monstmama wrote:
Now Mary, thats what you get for going to Bellingham!
If you had been down at Seatac, why it was all rainbows and sunshine and flowers!
Glad you had a good trip......sorry about the rain. . ..
May 2, 2012 07:02 AM rosemary-b wrote:
Everyone else's plumbing problems make ke feel better about ours. It was just a small drain problem.
Now about my friend. She has Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. It is very seriuos. She is still in critical care. 30% of people who get this die of it. I am just so sad.
May 2, 2012 07:15 AM BarbaraA wrote:
Rosemary, I am praying for your friend. I have been away for two weeks. Jeez and 10 pages so I skipped to the end. Mary glad you had a great vaca in Hawaii. I need to get there one day. 3Monst, your DH is a nut! Bren, have fun at the beach! HL Thinking of you. Momine, Scoot and Athena I too, do #HeadBang regularly.
Job is less taxing since I had a come to Jesus (thank you Lord) with my boss. Hoping to get back to working from home most of the time rather than 2 days a week.
Hoping Blue is doing fine. Waving to Sunflowers, Kira, and everyone else whom I have missed. I promise to be more regular. Wow, that sounds like a commercial for a laxative.
May 2, 2012 08:54 AM PsychoLibby wrote:
Thanks, Barbara and welcome back to us. Glad you came to a spiritual (HAH!) understanding with your boss! Welcome home Mary, and sorry for your crappy weather. We got hot and humid all of a sudden ... It is 79 on my deck in Arlington VA among the trees.
I had a D&C & hysterscopy today in preparation for my BSO. Surgeon was satisfied with what she found so I don't think there will be any problems with BSO and uterus can probably stay. I was thrilled to pieces to have the same anesthesiologist who I had with my DIEP... He TOTALLY gets my exceptionally cheap date metabolism. DH loves him too ... We never have to worry about him killing me accidentally. He is funny and smart and nice, too. He said I can ask for him for my BSO, so that just improves my QOL dramatically. After we left the hospital we went to Outback where I consumed a small sirloin, cheese fries (half a small order) a salad, a baked potato, apple fritters, two cokes and a small loaf of brown bread. I hadn't eaten for 22 hours... I was starving. I feel fine now, not even any cramps, but I am probably still slightly stoned. Feeling pretty cheerful, actually, now that I have been fed!
Hugs to all!
Happy no-longer-hungry Libby
May 2, 2012 08:55 AM rosemary-b wrote:
Welcome back Barbara. Thanks for the prayers.
May 2, 2012 09:01 AM PsychoLibby wrote:
Oh, and Rosemary, I am so sorry about your friend. My doctor warns me about ARDS every time I get a respiratory virus and I understand how terribly serious and scary it is. Hugs to you and your friend -- sending healing thoughts her way as hard as I can.
L
May 2, 2012 09:20 AM, edited May 2, 2012 11:50 AM by 1Athena1
HL - GREAT to see how well you did!!
BarbarA so nice to hear from you Great to hear about near-Nirvana with your boss! In the ten pages you missed I resigned and will leave my job on June 1. My boss is irredeemable under any belief system or hallucinogen, for that matter.
Go back two or three pages and check Bren's picture of her gazebo - have a feeling you'd love it.
Edited cell phone gobbledigook on 'puter. :-)
May 2, 2012 01:09 PM YramAL wrote:
I hope this works....this is a picture of a Hybiscus Lemon Drop cocktail that I enjoyed in a sushi resturant on Waikiki last week. Sorry it's so big!
Mary
May 2, 2012 02:11 PM Ang7 wrote:
Mary~
I think it looks tastier in the large format...
Cheers!
May 2, 2012 03:02 PM CherrylH wrote:
The chief Bartender/Chaplain needs the recipe.
May 2, 2012 03:25 PM YramAL wrote:
I don't have the recipe. It was good, though.
Mary
May 2, 2012 03:26 PM jancie wrote:
Mary - what is that critter that is in the drink?
May 2, 2012 03:29 PM jancie wrote:
Libby - nothing is better than a good steak and potatoe dinner! I also love Outback Steakhouse - just wish my dh would like it as much as I do.
Today started out with me oversleeping and waking up to my cell phone ringing - I was LATE!
Then out to the barn to see Jazzy and I asked my trainer to ride her as we are working on trot to canter transitions and I want them smoother before I try them. My trainer wants to show her in Training Level 1 in Dressage and I want to stick to Intro (lowest class there is) so we need to have more discussions regarding that topic.
DH is stuck out of town at least until tomorrow if not the next day. He was supposed to come back today. The problem is once he does get home he will stick around the house for a couple of days and that will drive me nuts.
May 3, 2012 12:09 AM SunflowersMA wrote:
HL
What hospital do you go to? I went to Sibley, and they were SO wonderful. Expect your BSO, is not what folks in this area would know as "Boston Symphony Orchestra" - unless they're gonna show your op at Tanglewood? Dinner sounds wonderful..
Barbara - happy to hear you knocked some sense into the boss - hope it helps.
May 3, 2012 02:39 AM rosemary-b wrote:
I just got a call wanting to know if my friend had ever told me if she wanted to be kept on life support if there was no hope of recovery. She had not said anything to me. I think she would want to be let go but I would not want to have to make that decision. I guess it is just a matter of time now. I am just praying for peace for her now.
May 3, 2012 02:56 AM jancie wrote:
((((((Rosemary)))))) Hugs coming your way.
May 3, 2012 03:43 AM PsychoLibby wrote:
Oh Rosemary, I am so very sorry about your friend! Hugs and love to you, and peace to your friend. No pain, no fear, no suffering ... Only peace now for her.
L
May 3, 2012 03:46 AM, edited May 3, 2012 06:33 AM by PsychoLibby
Sunflowers,
I go to Arlington Hospital, now known as Virginia Hospital Center. They are very good, and very good to me. BSO = bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy, or removal of both ovaries and tubes. Just an easier shorthand. Those puppies are coming OUT, and now that I know I can request my favorite anesthesiologist, I am quite cheerful about it.
Thanks for the support, ladies! And yes, I am STILL hungry! :-)
L
May 3, 2012 03:52 AM SunflowersMA wrote:
(((Rosemary)))) how sad, and what an upsetting call for you to get.
HL - I sent those "parts" to heaven about 24 years ago, lots of bits of stuff gone now. You'd think I'd be "lighter" - naw, ROUND - I'm blaming the Arimidex, oh, well, age, but I remember when I had a wasitline and only 1 chin...seem to remember eyebrows too, but not sure. Still really like being here in my garden...
hope everyone is having a good day-
May 3, 2012 04:34 AM, edited May 3, 2012 04:35 AM by 3monstmama
oh Rosemary, I'm so sorry.
How sad that no one knows what your friend would want or that she didn't leave clear instructions.
many hugs.
May 3, 2012 05:33 AM Wabbit wrote:
I'm so sorry things have gone so bad for your friend Rosemary ... sending a big (((hug))) your way.
May 3, 2012 08:24 AM rosemary-b wrote:
Red wine and spagheti. Comfort food. Mmmm...
I have barely controllable asthma but my friend with no lung issues is dying Life is unfair . Fate is capricious. We need to be reminded every once in a while we are not in control but this time it is a hard hard lesson.
Enjoy life ladies. It is precious.
May 3, 2012 09:27 AM kira1234 wrote:
rosemary-b yes life is unfair! Your friends situation should bring home to all of us how precious life is.
I had a student in my class with brittle bone disease, it made me so aware of how we need to live life daily. She has moved to another school, but my heart is with her daily. All the other children in my class will never be the same spending this past year with her.
May 3, 2012 09:51 PM suzieq60 wrote:
Roseamry - so sorry about your friend (((((((((HUGS)))))))))
Quick post - been absoluetly flat out at work - all supposed to be finished tomorrow and I'm hoping I can get it done before lunch - not too confident - eeek. Have had to resort to doing a bit at home at night.
Really missing Blue!!!! hope you're OK.
May 4, 2012 06:39 AM, edited May 4, 2012 06:41 AM by BinVA
Hi Everybody,
Hope everyone is having a good day. I've been very busy with my mom visiting. We took a drive up to the mountains yesterday.
This pic was taken at Mabry Mill. Sorry it's so tiny, but I had to copy from Facebook. Couldn't get my photobucket to work.
hugs,
Bren
May 4, 2012 09:10 AM Ang7 wrote:
Hey Bren~
Where you and your mom are looks very peaceful. We just hosted a party for my 7 year old and she invited the whole class (me thinking that many of them would not be able to make it). Well, we had 26 kids on a moonbounce slide in the front yard! I think a trip to Mabry Mill right now would be good...
May 4, 2012 09:37 AM lassie11 wrote:
Great photo Bren! and a wonderful location too.
May 4, 2012 11:15 AM 1Athena1 wrote:
People who call themselves members of the helping profession are some of the most lacking in empathy. (Rant of the day).
Bren, nice to see you look so happy.
May 4, 2012 12:31 PM, edited May 4, 2012 12:38 PM by riley702
Sorry. As for the rest, never mind. I think I found the convo that upset you.
May 4, 2012 01:43 PM Ang7 wrote:
Now folks are being accused of "pushing their soy eating habits on people." What's next?