Illinois ladies facing bc
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HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL THE WONDERFUL ILLINOIS LADIES! May each of your families share a special day of thanksgiving as we count our many blessings!
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Yes---Cheers everyone---If you are not surrounded by the ones you love, surround yourself with the memories of those whom you have loved. Its just me and my Dad this year, but I am remembering all the Thanksgivings past when I woke up to the voices of my Grandmother, my mom and my Aunt in the kitchen clattering the pans and the smells of onions already being sautéed in butter for the dressing. The smells from the kitchen all day long were more memorable than the meal itself.....After the dressing disaster my Dad and I had last year (first one w/o my Mom),we are going to skip it and just do potatoes, gravy, green bean casserole, boneless turkey breast and cranberry sauce from a can.... (Last year he also decided to put the bird in the oven without me and when I arrived and looked in the giblet pan, I knew something was missing---after a long argument with very few words being put in by me, I finally said, so if that's all of them, where is the neck?) and the bird came out of the oven and my gloved hand went in the other hole and out it came--still in the wrapper----hence, the boneless white meat only breast this year being prepared AT MY HOUSE!
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Happy Thanksgiving all.
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Time to get your Turkey on
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Creative gratitude is an attitude. It is magnetic and will draw good to you. It is good therapy, a road to happiness. Thankfulness is a way of living more fully. Be thankful for your health and you will have health in more abundance. Be thankful for the love you receive and it will be increased. Be thankful for your success and you'll open doors to further achievement. Be thankful for your friends and more friends will come to you. Be thankful for beauty and you'll experience it more deeply. Creative gratitude is a force for harmony and goodwill. It brings people together in love and understanding. It is high on the scale of creative qualities to be practiced day in and day out in our moment-to-moment contacts.
Wilferd A. PetersonHope you will all have a very beautiful and bountiful Thanksgiving.
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happy thanksgiving every one! Thankful to be healthy this year, and for my Illinois friends going thru the journey.
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What though we have many bodies? We have
but one soul. . . . I know God is neither in heaven nor down below, but in
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Choosing to live a happy life is not only our greatest gift to ourselves,
it is also the greatest gift we can give to those around us.
When we are happy, we radiate happiness, and that is infectious.
Consider giving the gift of happiness to yourself as being your gift to all humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie0 -
We learn something from everyone who passes through our lives..Some lessons are painful, some are painless… but all are priceless."
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Sun and warm weather today -- wow !!! It won't last of course, but being outside feels like an Indian Summer day. Well, we will enjoy while we can, but I'm sure it won't be long and we will be right back shivering. Just amazing after two snowstorms to walk outside without a coat and feel quite comfortable.
Hope you are all going to have a really wonderful Sunday.
Blessings
Jackie
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This is so small today --- and YET it says so much:
Tomorrow doesn’t matter for I have lived today.
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I'm putting in tomorrow's quote tonight as I will be gone to Carbondale early in the morning ( 75 miles south of where I live ) to get my annual mammogram done.
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury;
and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable;
and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly;
to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart;
to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasion, hurry never;
in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden, and unconscious to grow up
through the common. This is to be my symphony.
William Henry Channing
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Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart.
Mary Jean Irion
eta -- actually edited to subtract a coma where it didn't belong.
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Hi Gals,
I hope that everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I enjoyed spending time with my son and his family and wouldn't have changed one minute of the four days they were here!
Jackie, Good luck with the mammo! Let us know as soon as you have results. It appears that you have been holding down the fort on this thread while the rest of us have disappeared for a few days. How did your Thanksgiving dinner go?
Hugs to everyone during this hectic and busy time of year!
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Hey there. Mammo results were great. Went today and had my GYN check-up and all seems fine there too. In fact, she said new guidelines for my age group and particulars are that from now on I can likely skip that appt. Sounds great to me. I'm all for dropping time away from all the other fun I have.
I was just thinking, because I was going through my Picasa album, of the picture Wendy usually put in ever year --- of the snowman on the park bench with the noose around his neck. I so looked forward to it. Maybe I'll find it again and drop it in.
Thanksgiving was really great -- and one of the bestest parts of course are the fantabulous left-overs. If I didn't have some I'd be really upset. Here's to wonderful left-lovers.
I'll be back tomorrow with your quote.
Blessings,
Jackie
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All that we are is the result of what we have thought; it is founded upon our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If one speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows that person, as the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the carriage. If one speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows that person, like a shadow that never leaves.
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Jackie-Yeah on the good test results and even better that you can skip one visit! Unfortunately, my family is over the leftovers already....I may have to get really creative here, maybe turkey enchiladas....
I have been reading just not posting much. Trying to get into the holiday spirit, but struggling this year, really sick of all the commericalism, I swear the other day must have got 10 catalogs in the mail!. At least we got some lights outside and tree up, not decorated but up. My daughter wants to bake cookies (translation, mom bakes and she watches) but it is a little too soon yet. I have always baked several types of Christmas cookies-tradition so I will again this year, yummy but bad for the waistline
Hope all you wonderful ladies are doing well, having peaceful, pain free days!
Mimi
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Ok -- I played with this for ten minutes, but here is one of my favorite winter pictures from Wendy -- one of our old-timers.
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If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will
see your parents and all generations of your ancestors.
All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in
your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.Thich Nhat Hanh
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Sitting here with an ice pack on my hip. Acts like bursitis and I'm treating it as such. I tried to ignore it for a week and that didn't work.
During the last cold spell I hauled out my set of winter exercises I do in my building hallway. Guess I started out too intensely. That's the problem with being aerobically fit, but out of shape for a new set of exercises. Should have just toughed out the 0 degree windchill.
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Good news Jackie!!!! Yea!!!
Oh Doxie, I'm so sorry that you're a bit "down" right now. The cold weather is no friend to my joints! I hope the ice pack helps!
So glad to see a post from you, Mimi.
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MimiL55 I once made sweet and sour turkey.
another tip. Make the cookie batter and put it into ice cube trays then freeze. Remove from trays and store in a freezer bag. Now you can make smaller batches of cookies.
Doxie I do stuff like that all the time. I too have the aerobic down but need to get back to the strength training. Hope is resolves quickly.
Hi Jackie, Rita and the rest of the Illinois ladies.
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Hey IL Ladies.....hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving....now on to the next holiday! Remember I was talking about my bone density issue?? Well I fell on black ice about 12 days ago and fractured my arm. Joy! Of course this happened right before Thanksgiving and a day before my family arrived from out of town. At least I got out of cooking! I am in a removable splint for 5 more weeks but I am happy I can take it off to shower! The first week I could not take the thing off that was on there. Taking baths reminded me of getting the BMX and not being able to shower. Oh and I forgot to mention that this happened right after we made travel plans for a ski trip for New Years. I will be spending a lot of time at the spa.....since I won't be able to ski now. So ladies.....make sure you get your bone density checked out! I think chemo did this to me...... I am grateful it was only my arm and not something more serious. Make sure to get your bone density checked if you had chemo. I am pretty sure chemo destroyed my bones.Hoping all of you are getting into the holiday spirit. Next week marks 4 years since my dx. For those that are just starting all the BC fun, just know it gets better in time. I can't believe it has been 4 years already! Have a great holiday everyone!!
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mdg,
I guess you would have skipped the spa entirely if you didn't break your arm. What a bummer. You might have broken it anyway w/o chemo. Black ice is so dangerous. I've never broken more than toes or a little finger. That I'd prefer to skip.
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mdg I did have a bone density test before chemo. I was already osteopenic. Big drop after chemo and 5 months on Anastrozole but the drop after that wasn't that bad. Then I was stable. 3 years later I pushing right over the border with osteoporosis in my spine. Everything else is stable. So yes chemo combine with chemopause really did my bones in. Continued AIs of course didn't help but the drops were smaller.
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One of the hardest lessons we have to learn in this life,
and one that many persons never learn, is to see the divine,
the celestial, the pure in the common, the near at hand--
to see that heaven lies about us here in this world.
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Bone density and bone fractures are a concern after chemo and on AIs. I have mallet toe from swollen DIP joints in two of my toes. Initially I had a lot of pain. X-ray of one foot showed a healing toe fracture. The joint pain had been so bad in that toe I didn't suspect a fracture. Have no idea when I broke it or how. I do remember wondering why the pain was further down from the joint on one toe and not the other, though.
Bone density was stable after first 1.5 years on AIs last fall. I'll ask my MO to send me for another DEXA at 3 years on AIs. A little worried with the fracture that there's a dip in density.
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doxie my MO did a scan every year till I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. Now that I have been diagnosed and being treated it's every other year.
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My understanding ( never sure I'm keeping up well when things change ) was that you could in fact be exhibiting osteopenia for many years. No way to be for sure if and when it would change. I do think though that the things one needs to do to erase viable cancer and cancer cells would, if anything, encourage osteoporosis and so keeping track after those types of tx. I hope would be a standard item for all Oncologists to check. My scan ( before any tx. started ) and well after tx. finished showed no change. Hope it continues on that way. So, I still have Osteopenia.
Jackie
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"Dear
whoever is reading this, you're beautiful and someone out there is crazy about
you. So smile. Life is too short to be unhappy."
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