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Re: Can we have a forum for "older" people with bc?
Happy Day After Christmas to everyone. I have company arriving tonight, my younger brother and his wife. They will be traveling from Georgia, where they spent Christmas with their daughter, son-in-law and little grandson. I will do dinner prep today, which involves peeling and deveining 3 lbs of very large shrimp for a shrimp and pasta dish.
I'll also do some light housework like dusting and vacuuming.
Our small Christmas gathering was not merry because Life was also in attendance. My brother-in-law's grown son was on the sofa, asleep, when we arrived. My sister told us he was back on drugs, and his father would be driving him to a rehab facility later in the afternoon. Her son, father of two autistic children whose mother has serious health problems, arrived by himself, looking distraught. He shared that opening presents had been too much stimulation for his little girl. His wife is taking a new medication with SEs. We had dinner and didn't stay long. The food was very good and we have leftovers.
Christmas, and other holidays as well, are difficult for a lot of people, adding stress to their lives. I think advertising and society raises expectations to levels that can be unreasonable.
It's in the 60's this morning and foggy outside. DH is having breakfast and will be headed to the golf course.
I'm drinking coffee and am about to solve Wordle. I solved it on the 2nd word yesterday. It was my 66th time to do that. The NYT word games are my brain exercise. LOL.
Happy Friday to all.
Re: So...whats for dinner?
Carole, It’s the season to enjoy special treats. In the new year you can return to watching what you eat.
Rhonda, What a wonderful city holiday outing. One December when I was a preteen my father took my sister and me to NYC when he attended a conference. The store windows were amazing. We also skated at Rockefeller Center. My dad taught us to skate as soon as we learned to walk since he competed in speed skating so we were up for it. Your apartment must smell delicious with all the baking.
Wally, See if you can get a MRI more quickly if you travel. The larger hospitals run double and weekend shifts to accommodate more patients. It’s a bit weird going to a 10 PM or Sunday 8 AM appointment but it’s worth it to get it done in two weeks rather than waiting several months.
Dinner tonight was shrimp fried rice with more veggies than called for added.
maggie15
Re: how about drinking?
Good Morning, Loungettes! Happy Twofer Tuesday! Now it's looking like we may have a white Christmas after all. A winter storm warning is place for this evening into tomorrow with 3 to 6 inches predicted. That should make things very pretty.
Jazzy--I'm glad to hear you are able to enjoy the season more than usual this year. Also glad to hear that you have positive choices for the future. Mom does have progressing cognitive issues, that has become clearer to me since the move to Assisted Living. As hard as that is to deal with she is in a much safer place and is overall happier now. The hearing aids are taking some getting used to, but I think we've finally found a place to keep them where everyone knows where they are. Hope you have a good time at the hot springs!
Minus--I got some eggnog the other day too. I am working on the guilt feelings, and some days are better than others. I just never expected I would have to do so much adjusting around all this!
Re: So...whats for dinner?
Wally, They are not from cancer but from nerve destruction in the brain as a result of chronic migraines which didn’t occur often enough later in life to take the newer preventative meds available. Otherwise he is amazingly healthy for his age (81) with excellent blood pressure, blood sugar, cholesterol and other blood work. He is one of those ration babies from WW2 whose mothers ate almost no sugar when pregnant and ate almost none themselves for the first years of their lives whose longevity is now being noted by scientists. He takes no prescription meds. There is no treatment other than vestibular PT which he did for 9 months. It helped but he never got to the low end of normal and the damage is progressive. I’m nearly eight years younger and figured he’d outlast me, but who knows now.
There are treatments for brain mets but their effectiveness and feasibility are variable. Your DH’s onc will probably have some answers, hopefully helpful.
maggie15
Re: I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!
Women, the way I see it, are very evolved people. They're more mature, they're more aware of their feelings, in touch with their feelings. They're connected to things that matter more in life. They know what's important. Men basically run around like idiots until we meet somebody who can show us that those things are important.
betrayal
Re: Can we have a forum for "older" people with bc?
Women, the way I see it, are very evolved people. They're more mature, they're more aware of their feelings, in touch with their feelings. They're connected to things that matter more in life. They know what's important. Men basically run around like idiots until we meet somebody who can show us that those things are important.
betrayal
Re: Bone Mets Thread
Hi all, I don't know what's bone pain or what's overuse or what's just post-exercise (bad form) pain. I'd say it all mostly comes and goes, so it's probably not cancer pain. There's a point where you get old and you have all kinds of aches and pains anyway, so I'm waiting to see if something is persistent over time. My heart goes out to all of you suffering any debilitating or lingering pain and to all of you in the early days of this wretched disease.
Re: Stage IV MBC Fitness
Livinginglifenow. Went to accupuncture today. Started as a skeptic and became a believer. I alway love how relaxed I feel afterwards. I alway go right before my fulvestrant shot. Thinking on the way home today maybe I should go more often. I even feel more energized tonight.
