Illinois ladies facing bc
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Welcome Rosamond and Oconnor. Sounds like Timbuktu gave you some sound advice. I do not live i the Chicago area.
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Karen-doing the happy dance for your b9 results!
c-squared-ciao, can't wai to hear about your trip
cami-hope all went well with your doc appt and you're feeling better. check in and let us know, we worry when we don't hear from you.
oconnor-good luck, you can never get too many opinions
rosamond-welcome and good luck next week.
Celebrating my daughter's 21st birthday today-every year she reaps the rewards of the Nordstrom sale falling on her birthday...
Have a wonderful week everyone-prayers and positive thought continue for all of you amazing women.
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We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dew… Human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful... and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things. ~~~~~ Desmond Tutu0
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Morning everyone. I wish Mr. Tutu had also said along with trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things...........and to each other. To his credit I think he has another quote somewhere in which he does speak on our need to get along with and help each other through this wonderful place called the world. Big responsibility -- so nice that all we have to to is work with our little piece of it.
Happy, happy 21st. to your daughter today Spunky.....that is always a special one.
Wishing you all a really great Sunday.
Peace and love
Jackie
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Oh Spunky u'r Dgtr 21---what a wonderful age. And Jackie that key is beautiful--Good Idea too.
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Whoever you are, there is some younger person who thinks you are perfect. There is some work that will never be done if you don’t do it. There is someone who would miss you if you are gone. There is a good reason for becoming better than you are. There is a place that you alone can fill.
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Boobster! I have one turning 21 next month, blah. Well not really, I have enjoyed every stage and hope to continue doing so for a long time.
'morning all.
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Hi Chicago girls!! It's another week here....a big week for us. Our daughter from Italy (exchange student) arrives Thursday! Can't wait to meet her. I will be joining the teenage mom club...a far cry from parenting my 7 year old son! Dreary day here but still wishing you all lots of sunshine! Have a great week everyone!
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Hi every one Hope every one had a great weekend and hi to the new ladies Oconner hope every thing goes good for you!
Well my surgery was put off till next week the PS had a death in the family and rechuled for next friday the 16TH so i am cleaning like crazy and working too. Hopefully I will only be in over night and home saturday afternoon.
My daughters 21st birthday is the 18th so looks like no drinks for me lol hope every one is doing good today!
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Hello ladies, Im out in Algonquin, nw of Chicago. Diagnosed a few weeks ago dcis, am going next Tues for lumpectomy with the oncoplasty, fixing up both sides at same time, at Good Shepard. Trying not to panic about everything upcoming- surgery , the rads, etc...Glad there's Illinois gals online here!
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Welcome Aviva! Sorry you had to join us but glad you found us. Good luck with surgery....hope all goes well!!! Sending hugs!
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Aviva is my grandaughter's name. It means life. You will be OK!
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Tim that's so cute--and Welcome Aviva--This is a nice group of ladies, sorry u'r here tho.
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aviva5675 Welcome! This first part is the worst. Most of us found the surgeries to be easier than we thought. Hang in there.
mdg that sounds awesome. Do you speak Italian?
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Good morning ladies!
Aviva- Welcome.
mdg- We had two French exchange students, fun stuff, enjoy!
Lago!
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Lago, if u have good use of u'r hands, u can speak Italian. After I wrote this I didn't mean any disrespect to Italians since I am 100% and grew up in an Italian neighborood where no one who was older spoke English. We were only allowed to speak English at home cuz as my Dad would say we're in America and that's how it is. But u u left the house it was hysterical cuz everyone used their hands like their words in Italian. so altho I was young I grew up using my hands trying to speak English to Italians and then speaking some Italians but hands was a big part of communication.
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"Appreciation can make a day - even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary."
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So funny cami! Same is true of Jews. Impossible to "speak" without hand gestures. Gosh I'd love to learn Italian. Can you speak it now? Understand it? I'm learning a bit from the subtitles at the opera. lol
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Welcome Aviva.....I hope you will make yourself right at home here. Surgery can be daunting...but this probably feels worse due to what it is actually for. Don't mean to minimize anyones' feelings but in hindsight....my surgery was probably the easiest part.
We are here for you.
Peace and love, Jackie
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I do speak some Italian. I had four years of Spanish and a year of Italian. They are so similar it was easier to learn Italian. I did learn some not so nice hand gestures when we were in Italy and driving over there! lol! I even learned swear words too! I won't use those skills with our student here though..just regular Italian....I promise!
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Tim it's funny but I forgot most of it but that's why I did take 3 yrs of Spanish very similiar so when I was in high school we spoke Italian so I could learn Spanish which was a disaster anyway.hahaha
mdg U'r future "dgt" will probably speak English better than we do hahaha U have to tell us about her and where she' from---Italians are funny--it makes a difference where u are from in Italy--I learned that very young and they still feel that way--It's a class thing they think--well not me, I was born here so Italy is Italy to me. But they do cook differently in different areas. Oh I'm sure u all know that.
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Tim I have to say my Grandmother spoke very little English and wanted us to speak to her in Italian only (My dad's Mom) and I didn't speak as well as my brothers or sister and it upset her so much, she's walk in and not talk to me and i asked her why not and she said in /english U, I don't like. hahahah Nowadays a kid would get hysterical and cry if that was said to them, me I said OK and forgot about it. hahaha No one made anything about it either.
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omg! Today they would call the child abuse hotline.
Good for you, sloughing it off.
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What a fun time an exchange student will be! My grandparents lived next door to us when I was growing up and they were from Sicily and even though they spoke Italian they wanted us to speak English because we were in America. I wish I had learned when they were alive.
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Peki see what I mean, I wish I didn't listen to my dad either but they thought that way those days and we listened, when we were all older--much we used to tell my dad we wished we would have spoken it all the time and he did say now I wouldn't have a problem but years ago everything was different. so I guess we just lost out.
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Well my daughter is 17 and from a small town about 30 minutes from Parma. At least she is use to snow and cold winters! We have been emailing back and forth for months now so I feel like I already know her. I email her mom every week too. They both seem so nice. My son is so excited to have a big sister! I only write her in English so I know she knows alot of English. This will be so much fun!
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Well my daughter is 17 and from a small town about 30 minutes from Parma. At least she is use to snow and cold winters! We have been emailing back and forth for months now so I feel like I already know her. I email her mom every week too. They both seem so nice. My son is so excited to have a big sister! I only write her in English so I know she knows alot of English. This will be so much fun!
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"if u have good use of u'r hands, u can speak Italian" Ha ha Camillegal I thought you might be flipping me the bird
Timbuktu I was thinking the same thing. Don't tell me you're one of the tribe too?!
mdg I speak restaurant Spanish… well maybe a bit more than that. I had it in jr and high school. Art majors in college didn't have a language requirement back then. Sounds like an amazing experience.
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Yes I'm a member of the tribe of Levi! You are going to laugh. I assumed you were Italian because your name ends in a vowel!
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Italian/Jewish same difference… Just we Jews put our ravioli in chicken soup instead of sauce.
But you never know. My grandmother's best friend was Italian. The neighbors used to say my dad was Rosie's kid (the Italian friend) not my grandmother's. Dad looks Italian. My grandmother was Polish.
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