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Re: My Husband, My Life, My Love, My Family, My Cancer
@mara51506 sweet girl reading your post on depression and your fears of another brain surgery made me see how vulnerable you are feeling right now. Your surgery was literally a brain injury ,which ultimately causes depression afterwards. It’s perfectly normal to feel down and depressed. When i had my Hehorrhagic stroke brain bleed years ago the doctors told me and DH I would feel depressed and lose my sense of humor as a result. I did go through a period like that but as my brain brain swelling during the coma began to diminish, I did get back to normal mostly. Also Mara having a devastating disease is depressing in itself. I’m sure your brother understands that, It’s good to have him to talk to. Just try to remember that you may be feeling down on yourself because you are not keeping up with all that you want to do around the house. Take one day at a time and just keep one goal for each day. We all love you here Mara and want you to continue to recover from this ordeal. Try to rely on DB & SIL to talk to and here we are all available to listen to each others struggles.😘🌷
Re: Contemplative practices - Affirmations, white light visualizations, healing meditations
thought this a lovely sentiment to start February !
Re: Can we have a forum for "older" people with bc?
Good chilly morning. It was 28 degrees when I went for my bone scan. (per my truck). 24 degrees per my phone. So much for hot Florida. It should get to 30 by 11:00. Some areas are doing rolling "brown outs". I hope my area is not one of them. I did see some snow flurries on Saturday. Sunday, my poor little cat fell in the pool. I could not believe it. Fortunately, I was able to get him out with out getting myself wet. After drying off, he slept most of the day. I haven't heard much from my NC neighbors, but there was several inches of snow on Saturday. I am anxious to get back up there, as soon as there are a few warm days.
Welcome to the new folks.
petite1
Re: Can we have a forum for "older" people with bc?
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
betrayal
Re: Can we have a forum for "older" people with bc?
Justforher, a frightening experience. So glad you're doing better.
This morning the temperature is 28 and it's sunny. Good news is a week ahead with no freezing temperatures. Good news for Mardi Gras parades and parade goers. Good news for all of us!!!
Cindy, what a fiasco with the birthday dinner. It will go into the collection of birthday memories. The manager should have done something to make amends. A round of free drinks would have been nice.
Yesterday I started adjusting the text size on my laptap. Adjust and unadjust. I've finally settled on a slightly larger size.
Today I plan to get OUT OF THE HOUSE. Yay. Sam's Club. Gym.
Last night after going to bed, I finally remembered Connie's bird name. Puffin.
Happy Monday to everyone.
Re: TNBC MBC Stage 4
@rlschaller Well it sounds like you have travel worked out perfectly. I know when I lived in Philly I never drove, took the subway to work and walked everywhere. It was a huge adjustment when I moved to the suburbs but glad I was able to experience both ways of living. In your pocket on Wednesday for scans, I like to think it's all relative too.Sending positive vibes up the turnpike to you lol😊
cookie54
Re: Can we have a forum for "older" people with bc?
Tonight we had my SO’s birthday dinner with about 15 of us. His birthday isn’t for another month, but we’ll be in Key West celebrating it so I needed to pick a different date. Next weekend is Super Bowl, then Valentine’s Day, then another bday, then we have guests, then we go away, and another bday occurs. So today it was!
I made reservations at a restaurant. When I called the lady answered at the front desk and then transferred me to the manager. He took my name, date we wanted, number in the party and the time.
Tonight a few others were at the restaurant ahead of us, so when we got there the first thing they said was no reservation was made. I looked at my phone log and it shows I called. The manager just never notified any one of the 15 person party.
Dinner - we had 4 people at a booth, the rest of us lined up at a group of tables. Ordered drinks and got down to placing food orders. They were out of the special - pork dinner; they were out of rye bread for a Ruben; no bacon for a cheeseburger; and lastly ran out of large napkins and used bar sized ones instead.
From chaos to fun - the food we had was good, as was the company. We sang happy birthday, and cut the cake. We all enjoyed ourselves but remarked we probably wouldn’t plan another Sunday get together again. SO received a lot of nice cards and generous gifts. Alls well that ends well.
Hope we all stay warm, and that our plants survive in the southern states.
cindyny
Re: TNBC MBC Stage 4
Hi @scgal08 @rlschaller How are you ladies? Rita hope you are making out ok with the terrible weather around your area. Rhonda how are you making out getting to work or have you been able to work from home? Pray for you ladies daily and always hoping for stability.
All ok here, my nephew is doing great working his way back through therapy. It's amazing how the brain can create new pathways. Status quo here, just keeping busy organizing things at home, baking etc. We did the best we could removing snow with the snowthrower but the ice is still treacherous on the driveway and sidewalks. Hoping with a day or two about freezing we can clear some away. Oh and the dog…lol well that's been interesting. He loves the snow but the ice , he went from falling through to now ice skating on top to do his duty lol. Well hopefully in a couple weeks we will see some grass again!
Buster with his torn up furry friend….Hope everyone has a good day❣️
cookie54
Re: So...whats for dinner?
I found this lovely free iBook recipe collection from a Jamie Shler, called IsolationBaking, an ecookbook. Thought you all might like it. I spent the day reading the French based recipes and enjoyed myself ! . I don’t eat a lot of her ingredients , one used 24 tablespoons of butter.. , but everything sounded yummy it was fun.
Tonight was homemade croutons and split pea potatoe soup, simple comfort food.
Re: So...whats for dinner?
Wally, I think tilapia would work well. I might make the sauce, divide it and put shrimp in one portion, fish in the other.
Carole, It's a nice surprise when you find something useful in the freezer. "Saving money to buy a pot roast" is definitely a sign of the times.
Dinner tonight was chicken in vermouth sauce, sautéed yellow squash and mashed potatoes.
maggie15