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  • faithandfifty
    faithandfifty Member Posts: 4,424
    edited March 2010

    No lifeguards anywhere..........

    Just the chairs and my imagination:

  • faithandfifty
    faithandfifty Member Posts: 4,424
    edited March 2010

    Whoooohoooooo.

    Started a new page WITH a picture, without having to go back & edit.

    Am I eligible for some sort of prize??

    LOL

  • socallisa
    socallisa Member Posts: 10,184
    edited March 2010

    I was gone this weekend to Riverside CA

    what a great place..

  • socallisa
    socallisa Member Posts: 10,184
    edited March 2010

    I forgot the pool...

  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 7,605
    edited March 2010

    Lisa, SO beautiful!!!

    Faith, isn't that chair facing the wrong way??

  • faithandfifty
    faithandfifty Member Posts: 4,424
    edited March 2010

    Lisa. You lead a breath-taking life, thanks for letting us tag along!!!!

    Yup, Barbe. It was so cold there were no lifeguards in sight anywhere & the chairs were all up from the surf. LOL. But technically it was a beach. Even if I was wearing my winter coat!!

    LOL

  • faithandfifty
    faithandfifty Member Posts: 4,424
    edited March 2010

    P.S. Saint's birthday is coming up on March 9th.

    Anyone willing to send her a birthday card, please PM me for her address.

    Thanks a gazillion!!

  • Marple
    Marple Member Posts: 10,154
    edited March 2010

    Awwww Beachettes.  I don't know about the rest of you but I sure could use a nice day at the beach.

  • Marple
    Marple Member Posts: 10,154
    edited March 2010
  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 10,618
    edited March 2010

    That little guy must have found out Spring is on it's way!  He has plenty of it in his step.

  • coonie
    coonie Member Posts: 2,582
    edited March 2010

    Awwhhh Faithie!!! Now ain't you got the cutest wittle toes there ever was??? I LOVE that pic!!

    Hey Julz!!!! It's good to see you!!!! Hope all is well in your world!

    Lisa!!!! Gorgeous pictures!!!!! But you always have gorgeous pictures!

    We're blessed with you and Mum to have you as photographers.

    Thanks to both of you for sharing!!

    Hugs to all beachettes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

     When we can't get to a beach, maybe we should look for a sandbox insteadWink

    and put our toes deep in the sand, close our eyes and just pretend....

     

  • socallisa
    socallisa Member Posts: 10,184
    edited March 2010
  • faithandfifty
    faithandfifty Member Posts: 4,424
    edited March 2010

    Lisa, Lisa, Lisa, LISA:

    BREATH-TAKING!!!!!

    How long did you get to stay at this profound place?

    So glad that you saved the stairway for the grand finale!!!!

    xx00xx00xx00xx

    I've had quite the BC day. Can't begin to tell you about it.

    I'm home safe & sound and hopefully won't ever do today again.

    Will someone come tuck me in???

    Exhale.

    Deeply.

    Counting my blessings.

    xx00xx00xx00xx

    Strength and courage.

    Strength and courage.

    Strength and courage.

    (Just a little reminder for me. LOL)

  • Marple
    Marple Member Posts: 10,154
    edited March 2010

    Faith, you have me worried.

    Gentle hugs.

  • faithandfifty
    faithandfifty Member Posts: 4,424
    edited March 2010

    Oh. I didn't mean to worry you.

    I just cut this from the Jan surgery thread.

    I just hate cluttering up the beach with my gar-bage.

    But here's my saga of today:

    Today has been a hum-dinger for me, but I am home safe & sound and have read thru everyone's challenges and that has certainly put mine in perspective.

    This morning I spent the morning getting totally & completely lost to track down a BC surgeon here locally in FL..... my PT "freaked out" over the appearance of my chest last week during my initial evaluation. She was able to refer me to a surgeon here...... who because she has the compassion of an angel was willing to see me.

    Long story short, MY surgeon had left a staple in my incision, that I didn't discover till we were 16 hours from home down here in FL. What the..........?????? [Feel free to insert nasty word here.] My oncologist also reviewed my incision during our exit interview & he 'over-looked' it too. Yet there it was big as day upon my first shower down here.

    This new, hip, young, female surgeon here removed the offending staple, put me on an antibiotic for the skin 'infection' that's resulted. She also aspirated fluid from that side where all of this was goin' on. She made her opinions of the whole thing known thru out our time together..... which was so demoralizing. DUH. There's no 'sawing-the-sawdust' in what has already been done. She wants to see me back there when I'm thru the antibiotic.

    I then had an hour for lunch before going to my first 'actual' PT session. My therapist is SOOOOO gentle that I can't imagine how we will be able to make any progress in the 8 sessions I have scheduled with her. I think if you blew on your computer screen it would impact my shoulder/ROM with about as much energy as she has put me thru...... she wants to be VERY cautious -- especially after what I'd been thru this morning.

    Ye gads.

    Blah, blah, blah. So I have spent another ENTIRE day in the land of BC reclaimation..... left here at nine and back at 4:30.

    I am grateful that this gal was willing to see me. I trust that what she has done has not been a step backwards. We put our lives into the hands of our fellow humans and then must accept their best efforts.

  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 10,618
    edited March 2010

    Glad that this day can be put behind you.  I think I get your drift about it being demoralizing.  When you feel like a doofus for being the patient who has had something done a less-than-optimal way.  I am sure that your surgeon didn't leave it there on purpose and unfortunately skipped over it in review.  It could be that the area was swollen and obscured the staple.  I like to give my physician's the benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise, as I am sure that must be how you feel.  It is a matter of trust.

    (((((hugs))))) and tucking you in so you'll have a nicer day tomorrow.  Would you like a glass of warm milk, too??

  • spar2
    spar2 Member Posts: 3,631
    edited March 2010

    Surfing in on one leg to say hi to everyone and wish Faith some fast healing.  So sorry you had to go through that, hope you heal quickly.  Won't be long until spring and we can enjoy the beach combing.  View Image

    kind of like this

  • faithandfifty
    faithandfifty Member Posts: 4,424
    edited March 2010

    Exactly, Meece.

    I felt like I had to defend him.

    The demoralizing part was the staples to begin with..... I never thought to ask him how he was going to close the incision and he never mentioned his choice.... so imagine my chagrin to find over 80 in my chest upon waking up. Ahhhhhh, there were other choices??? Surely so.  

    She was abhorant at the thought of staples to begin with and the idea that he had left one in, meant he was the most incompatant of butchers..... as she rolled her eyes with disdain.

    When I spoke to him, he appologized gazillions of times. He, too, spoke of the amount of swelling at the time of their being removed etc etc. To see it six weeks later you could spot it from across a busy interstate...... I didn't see it at the time. Obviously.

    As grateful to her as I was for her willingess to come to my aid, I can't imagine what she thought she was accomplishing by raking him/my surgeon over the coals???

    It was a bizarre twist to the whole story of my experience.

    When I told her he has been voted the best BC surgeon in central OH, she rolled her eyes and said, "Well then I am extremely concerned over the state of care in Ohio."

    I get it. You disagree.

    It's not helping me at this point for you to belabor your disapproval.

    Let's move on.

    Did you hear my whimper?

    Yes, warm milk would be excellant.

    Thanks sweetie.

    Congrats on your clear scans by the way. So sorry I've been so self-absorbed of late.

    YEEEEEE HAAAAAA!!!! 

  • faithandfifty
    faithandfifty Member Posts: 4,424
    edited March 2010

    Thanks Spar.

    I've missed you!!!

    I know that your healing has gone slowly & you've had your own challenges on that issue.

    We will just keeping praying for one another............

    golly gosh darn it

    one day we'll all be celebrating at the same time!

    xx00xx00xx00xx

  • socallisa
    socallisa Member Posts: 10,184
    edited March 2010

    Faith, boy what a time you have had.goodness..

    what a mess..I didn't have staples so I can't relate, to that

    only to commiserate with you..

    shoddy work to say the least..

    Hope you are feeling better  soon..

  • mumito
    mumito Member Posts: 2,007
    edited March 2010

    (((Hugs))) Faith most of us had staples and my home nurse took mine out.Hope the skin heals up quickly.

  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 7,605
    edited March 2010

    I'm pretty sure I have more....excess tissue...on my chest than Faith (going by the picture above) so  I cannot imagine staples! They would go into my ribs wouldn't they? Yell I had steri-strips...of which I was allergic of course...even though I warned them...sigh.

    Faith, part of your stress was your surgeons' burden that you took on. Let it go sister! You done good! Laughing He did okay. Smile

  • EWB
    EWB Member Posts: 592
    edited March 2010

    gee whiz... why is it that we take on these burdens, esp when not of our doing? And why do doctors and other specialist type people feel it necessary to put that burden on patients who are obviously in a fragile or less than optimal place (original reason plus the thing that has brought them to seek help) sheesh...

    Barbe is right...let it go, like water flowing from your cupped fingers.

  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 10,618
    edited March 2010

    When I had my first recon, I noticed all sorts of pin dots of dried blood in pairs around my tummy and shoulders.  Ther were maybe 8 or so pairs.  When I went for my post-op I asked the PS.  He said he puts  little staples in to hold the drapes firmly away fromt he surgery field.  I thought the same as you, Barbe.  Wouldn't they hit my ribs?  Maybe they are special short ones, and for sure they don't crimp, but it was wierd anyway.  They left no visible scars anyway.

  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 7,605
    edited March 2010

    They STAPLED the surgical drapes??? Are you friggin' KIDDING me????

    That HAS to be illegal in one of your 51 states! Come on! Yell

  • faithandfifty
    faithandfifty Member Posts: 4,424
    edited March 2010

    The weird part about the skin 'infection' is that it was across half of my entire chest area.... not anything pronounced around the actual stupid staple.''

    The redness has gone from crimson by yesterday to unhappy pink this morning.... so I'm already moving in the right direction with the help of the anti-biotic.

    Attempting to let the whole day-of-three-stodges-nonsense receed from my mind & body.

    Did you hear me exhale??

    xx00xx00xx00xx00xx

  • Marple
    Marple Member Posts: 10,154
    edited March 2010

    Time to take a deep breath.

  • coonie
    coonie Member Posts: 2,582
    edited March 2010

    Money mouthSurprised Wowzers-----that's one big wave!!

    I'm fixing to exhale and enjoy the hot sand.

    Hope all you beachies are having a wondermous Tuesday.

  • sheila888
    sheila888 Member Posts: 9,611
    edited March 2010

    (((((((((((((((((HUGS BEACHETTES))))))))))))))))))))

    Good Night

  • mumito
    mumito Member Posts: 2,007
    edited March 2010

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