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Re: My Husband, My Life, My Love, My Family, My Cancer
My posts keep disappearing so just want to say, Candy, happy your are stable. You are dancing with ABEL, stable needs its' own dancing partner.
Irish, hope DH recovers soon and goes for xray, hoping you and can get some meds and advice on your spine, mobility etc. In you pocket. Though I may wish to see DB, I generally don't feel lonely, never been a real social butterfly. Most friends are either virtual like here or on my Facebook groups or people I have worked with at Home Depot or the call centre downtown. I do not mind. I am unworried about DB and SIL, I know they will call.
Cookie, I do feel better, adding more lentils and beans, just keep forgetting to use them. A lot of food choices here.
Goldens in your pocket for the trip home to be shorter. Enjoy the visit.
Hope everyone has a good weekend and in pockets for all.
Re: My Husband, My Life, My Love, My Family, My Cancer
Candy You have some good suggestions here to keep social interactions .Here is a good site I suggested to my son. I have seen several online groups on here. Agree with getting the medical history corrected. Yep everything is a template now and they add a little here and there.
Irish Hope you are spared the wrath of Debby. I sure hope DH gets himself a Chest xray to be safe. These men can be so stubborn…annoying! Your just trying to avoid him landing in the hospital. Sya safe.
Sorry for all the ladies suffering with mouth sores. Fingers crossed that improvement is on the way. Hugs
Stormy day here but we sure can use the rain. I'm faking Fall here lol. Making chicken pot pie with a side of stuffing and cranberry. Maybe I'll light my Pumpkin candle after dinner.
Hi to all here, always thinking and praying daily for the group.
cookie54
Re: Can we have a forum for "older" people with bc?
I'm stunned hearing about Puffin. Lately, my computer doesn't seem to want to open on the newest entry so I had to go back to find Carole's post. Grrr. I so hope it is something highly 'fixable' and that Puffin will soon be home again.
Taco, here's hoping that you are able to build back your strength and resilience. Sounds okay at the moment but I can imagine the angst of having the 'lapse' while trying to get comfy in your own surroundings after discharge and being too weak to even get into your house. Thank goodness for Fire Depts. and their ability to help in all sorts of odd situations. Hats off.
Betrayal, wishing you well on your driving excursion. After a fair length of time a bit of apprehension is probably a good safety measure. Still, it is likely if your PT thinks you are ready you probably are. It felt odd and a bit strange to me when I re-started my driving after not doing so for some time, but I soon found my confidence slowly returning to be as 'healthy' as before. I think you concentrate in a different fashion for a while after re-starting something important like driving.
Your food excursions sound fantastic. Being on restrictive diet when I 'loved' food and trying new recipes I have to get vicarious now. It is sort of sad when a GREAT restaurant changes hands or scales back (cost cutting measure maybe?) their menu. It happens everywhere, and I do think Covid especially created a lot of hardships.
Cindy, love the pictures. I would love being on the boat. Shame on me though. I always feel sorry for the fish that are caught who were swimming around minding their own business. It is silly I know. It's the same reason I could never enjoy being on a farm where animal food is being 'raised'. Like most people, I don't have much trouble buying anything from the meat case at the store, but if I have to see whatever it is that I'm buying alive first I don't think I could. I often won't even kill a spider. Hate to say it, but most of my cats get spiders and or other creatures that accidentally find their way into the house — and I don't have to KILL anything that way. Don't know just when I got this way.
You did a great thing reserving the house you used this yr. It sounds like a winner for sure.
Nothing much going on here. I think it will be another relaxed day with equal parts of working on my list to whittle down after my have to chores. I hope everyone has a good Sunday.
Re: Can we have a forum for "older" people with bc?
Oh, I hope puffin is going to be OK!
Re: My Husband, My Life, My Love, My Family, My Cancer
Thanks micmel and mara for tips about rinses. I'm losing my sense of taste. I couldn't taste my strawberry rhubarb pie and ice cream just now. Just tasted mushy and cold. I'll try to put up with this through next scans but I'm not sure I can put up with this very long.
About doctor's notes, it seems they use templates that are just edited if something is abnormal. I don't think my records are very accurate either. Notes don't always record what I remember saying. They mess up the rib numbers on my mets rads reports. It's really aggravating to me because I worked as a medical transcriptionist and had to get everything perfect. I was expected to catch and report discrepancies. Now they just use auto templates and speech recognition, leave all the errors and put a disclaimer at the end. If you see errors, you can ask for it to be corrected.
mkestrel
Re: My Husband, My Life, My Love, My Family, My Cancer
Candy, I am in the same situation as you. I am not seeing DB or SIL as often and they were my main people. IRL, I mostly interact with Paratransit, hospital staff and chatty cancer or other people having MRI or CT scans. I enjoy the contact that way. At home, I am busy boosting up my budget or watching a lot of youtube
If you want to help without exposing yourself, look up online community groups in different subjects you are familiar with. Look for the ones with zoom so you can actually talk to them. I know you are a cancer expert but there must be other things you are talented at that you could talk about with others. Shared interest video chats or something where you all watch the same movie at the same time on video and get a movie theater type experience where you all react together. Lots of ideas that would work I am sure.
Re: My Husband, My Life, My Love, My Family, My Cancer
Candy~I agree with intolight , that’s how you had your disability taken away. Incorrect words, and statements. What if social security does a check a comes across those notes. ?? I would and have already asked a doctor to correct incorrect notes. It was actually the one I had that issue with. The one I honestly am not sure about. But I told her. That’s incorrect please correct this. I explained why. She quickly changed. It. I do not play around with that stuff. It worries me all year. I just had my review. It’s all about the wording used. Hugging you for stable…
micmel
Re: Time to replace implants
My friend in Italy has had her silicone implants for 20 years, and her doctor advised her to keep them since they seem to be holding well. My plastic surgeon in Boston told me that I can keep my silicone implants until there's a rupture or any other problem. I suggest you get a second opinion before deciding on surgery.
Re: My Husband, My Life, My Love, My Family, My Cancer
Mkestrel, in your pocket while you deal with these issues, maybe doc can prescribe something to take care of your lip to aid in healing while you still add vaseline too. Rinsing with baking soda can also ward off mouth sores. 1tsp to 1/4 water. Rinsing can help with metal, rice, eggs, peanut butter and pasta may be good food options.
Laundry, nothing heavily soiled so shorter cycles and still using the bigger spinner. Seems to work just fine right now. Waiting for new one. I will be interested if both washers can fit.
Ate a food bowl, had quinoa, some black beans, rice and bit of chicken and sweet potato. I did not add more food to it, just sour cream and onion seasoning along with sour cream due to the package mentioning spicy. I took so Old El Paso cheesy taco hard shells for crunch, mixed it all together, was very good but filling, I am stuffed. I am also drinking the white milk with some tea, just to remove parts of the taste that is not pleasing. It is mostly milk and some of the tea throughout. I also managed to forget to put eggs in fridge after using. Put them back and will use the floating test to see if they are bad, if not floating will eat them. They were out less than 12 hours I believe in a cool house as well. If floating, toss them.
Hoping good day for all