Im bitchy, I moan, I groan.....anyway.
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I've caught up on the last two pages..LOL Will never get caught up on the last 100 pages..I don't know how many I missed reading.
Just stopped in to say, HOPE EVERYONE'S FEELING OKAY! I see not everyone is. Of course I'm behind a day or so.
LuAnn, hope you stop hurting soon. With the pain you're in you still have such a great sense of humor.
Diane, I think I really like the idea of your MIL going after that B!
Hi, Nicki!
Bliss, I remember the "Taxol days." That chemo made my body hurt! By now you've had a chemo treatment. It will be over soon! Easy for me to say.
Pinky, we need to talk. I have a similar problem in the evenings with DH with a glass in his hand.
Nancy, those fingernails and hair will eventually correct itself. I don't know why hair has to grow first where we don't want it.
Wow, Sue. Sounds like you and dh are gonna get smoochy AND more! VS? Hmmmm...that's a tell tale sign! Have fun! You deserve it!
Jane, just chalk it up to people don't know what to say. It does get old. I used to say, FINE, when asked. Or, THANK YOU, when complimented on my looks..that's laughable..they musta forgotten to wear their glasses. Those short answers ended the conversation about ME. LOL
Flyrzfan, you're answers to Jane's friends' questions were good'uns. Some people are just more creative than me.
LuAnn, I've been making a scrapbook since my granddaughter was born. Haven't done the first page and even have a beautiful book. I'm not creative. That light bulb will come on again for YOU.
Rock, the jogger! OMGOSH!
Shirley
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Saint are you referring ot me sending you pics? If so they will be coming. Flash is supposed to be sending me hers and then I will add those to mine and you will have more than you will ever need. I want to know who has the pics of me with my boob on my head and with the big ole stipper boobies at the pj party, I want copies of those! LOL
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OMG Keep me off QVC, I just spent $300 in no time flat! I was buying xmas gifts but couldn't pass up the opportunities. At the rate I'm going I will be done shopping by Nov 15th. I just got this really cool gift for my best friend, you open the oyster and birth the pearl, then you put the pearl in its cage (either round, cross or dove) and it comes with an 18" chain. It was great, only $18! Never could I get such a unique gift so cheap!!!! I better go to sleep or I will be having major IOS's tomorrow of having no money left!
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lol....LuAnn.....you are too funny. I forgot Christmas was coming....holy crap! I better start shopping!! (not)
You guys.....AlaskaDeb is doing better (thank GOD!) and I'm trying to get a card shower going her way!!! Please PM me for address. I know she could really use some love right now!
Love everybody/mean it!
(stole that from Colleen!!!) Love it!!
Hugs, Traci
PS Amazing, I've been back reading lately and all of the sudden, I feel better!!! I really love you gals.
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WhaSux?
Thanx for the hug, Wish!
Here's a few responses I use when ppl say "you look good"....
I recently looked someone right in the eye & said, "Ya think? What must I have looked like BEFORE!!" Boy, did that undo this person (& I was LOL up my sleeve)
At other times I've said, "You are very kind, but a lousy liar" or "Has something serious happened to your eyes?"
The one that works best for me is, "So do YOU!!!!" it never fails to divert their attention to themselves-shuts them right down-it is especially good when we BOTH know I am lying, too! Kind of a GOTCHA! LOL
As for a Vegas story--we went down to Fairmont St to see the light show & there was a DJ working the crowd--BUT he had a camera & everything was being transmitted to the light show/ceiling...one of the women flashed her flower-tattooed-recon at the DJ...some drunk guy came up when he saw "them" on the ceiling & said he wanted to see "one"....so I hollered at LuAnn (who had already loaned me hers on the bus to use as a pillow-GOTTA love that gal) "this guy wants to see one." He looks at her like she's gonna flash him & from 10 feet away she toses him her "boobie." I'm not sure anyone else saw the whole exchange but I nearly wet myself!! I was just worried that she might not get it back!!! LOL
Hugs LuAnn-- I didn't mean you--you told me you were working on some pix for me--I mean my friend in Vegas who said she'd pick up my pix & mail them to me-----still hasn't....... ;>{
Can't remember any of the other things I planned to type! SHEESH!
Be well & stay strong
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OMgosh, what a hoot! So was this like a mega bunch of BC ladies? I thought it was just your bunch going together, did you meet up with more? When you said someoen showed him her recon, you made it sound like someone not with your group, which made me ask?
So wish we'd all had been there with you guys, sounds like a riot was had by all!
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ahhh...SOI. Getting my first laugh of the day here on this board. I love you guys!
Other than a cold that came out of no where, I have no IOS. I just wanted to pop on before my day started and check in on everyone.
Traci ~ glad your feeling better!
Shirley ~ So glad to have you back! I know the politics boards are staying up but you must visit with us as well...it will balance out your blood pressure!
KAK ~ I never thought there'd be a reason to wish I had a fake boobie but your answer is definately one! That was funny, and appropriate!
Rock ~ I suspect you're right...she must be a survivor, if not of BC then of something!
Have a GREAT day you guys!
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Good morning all ladies of suckiness!
I was woke up at an awfully early time for my retired days by the school counselor! I am sorry, I know school starts at 7:30 but I am not ready to deal with issues of school at that hour of the day!
Well my spending spree did not stop last night and my UPS man is going to be hating me.
On a good note: I'M STILLL ALIVE THIS MORNING!!!!! Some of you know my brother almost died from the mixing or narcotics and lyrica. My pain docs have been wanting me to try lyrica to get some of my pain under control and dosed it very moderaltely considering his reaction. I was petrified to try this drug! I took it and I woke up ALIVE!!!! WOOHOO!!!!
I know you all think I'm on too many drugs but the sad part is this is me, no drugs in me yet! LOL
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What a fear that must have been wondering LuAnn, how you would fare on them! Thank you Lord, you did wake up. What type of reaction did he have on them? Was it abnormal for them to cause that and he was just a one a million to respond that way? Geepers' that's what is so scary about the drugs the elderly are on. They go to so many different docs and no one cross communicates about it all. It should be if they are all in one building, their file is accessible to each doc treating them, but NO! Nutty if you ask me!
Hope everyone has SOI filled days!
My SOI is I just came from the opti lady. I thought I had an eye infetion so called yesterday to make an appt. Told them I hadn't put the contact yesterday, b/c I woke with a goopy green eye. Well, shoot, went to go to bed last night and found I had lied to them! I had NOT in fact in the contact yesterday, but I did put it in the DAY BEFORE! These aren't the type to wear 24/7! So....I went, talk to her and she did say I have inflamation from maybe allergies (geesh...maybe all those leaves I've raking up and old garden plants I've been cutting back?). so, NO INFECTION, just stupidity!
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Wow...did anybody else notice that our SOI's are almost balancing out the IOS's?!?!?! WOOHOOO for al the SOI's and THAT SUCKS for everything else.
Luann,
We're ALL thankful you're still here this morning! Did the LYRICA give you any relief?
Wish,
I'm a bad girl when it comes to contacts. I don't wear them anymore because the chemo dries my eyes out too much but when I used to wear them, I'd wear the monthlies for about 6 months at a time. Stupid of me to gamble with my eyes--I even wound up with a couple of bad cases of conjunctivitis and still couldn't get my act in gear. Never had green goop though...THAT SUCKS!
KAK,
That "wear pink" stuff bugs the carp out of me. Before my hair started falling and I shaved my head, sometimes I felt like wearing a sign that read, "I'm not lazy...I have stage IV cancer!" because people can be such morons. My boys decided on their own not to participate in their school's pink fest.
Rock,
HOLY HYDROPHOBIC HANDBITER, BATMAN! I'm sure it was a traumatic experience for her, but my junior-high mentality these days conjured up quite a comic image of a jogger running with a fox hanging from her arm. That's what I get for having 3 teenaged boys. Fart jokes get me going too.
I've got one IOS (well, there are more but only one I'm sharing) and a couple of SOI's:
IOS is that dh and I were sitting at youngest's soccer finals last night and he gets a text message. It's from our cell phone provider saying something like, "As you requested, your voicemail PIN has been changed. The new PIN is xxxx." Well, dh swears he didn't change it. I didn't change it....so, WTF requested a PIN change??? I'm just paranoid enough now to jump to the conclusion that psycho-becky is messing with our phones now. But...how does someone even do that?
SOI #1: DS's team won the playoffs!! They were soooooooo excited! It was so cool to see.
SOI #2: Today is oldest DS's 18th birthday. He's really grown into such a wonderful young man. I am truly blessed.
(((HUGS)))
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Good morning all,
My IOS today - having 6 month follow up CT scan and dh asked (again) what was going on today, told him and he replied "And how much are we having to pay?!" aaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh
I did remind him that we had met out deductable and out of pocket (remember exchange surgery and last CT?)
sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh
Trish
edit - He did apologize though
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{{Trish}} so sorry.... I hope you had a good way of putting his 'arse' where it belonged....on the floor!
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LuAnn, I'm glad you're alive, too! Lyrica is a weird but sometimes very effective drug for pain. What kind of narcotic pain relievers did your brother take with it when he had that experience? Has it helped you yet? The other one in that class of drugs in Neurontin.
Diane, glad you have had some SOI's to balance out the antics of the Suckage Queen, Becky! You are truly blessed when you can say you like your kids as well as love them, & that they're turning out well. These days, no matter what parents do sometimes, kids can get into sooooooo much trouble, it's really scary. Personally, I actually love teenagers. Maybe because I don't have any (LOL), but I love the stage of life they're in & I love to talk with them & hear them stretch themselves into adulthood, like a flower opening. Very cool.
My IOS today is that I swear to god that since rads, I am turning into a prune! It's like someone has replaced my blood with cornstarch & sucked all the moisture out of my skin & hair & other places. Okay, yes, I AM grateful I have hair to complain about, even tho' it's turning into straw!! WTF!!! At this rate, I'm going to look like I'm ninety in about six months or less. THIS SUX!
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Trish,
I suppose after you told him about the dollar amount, you could have said, "And YOU will be paying for that comment for a VERY long time!!!!"
Sheesh...MEN, indeed!
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I'm kinda early. Haven't missed any pages. YEA!
LuAnn, I had to laugh at your QVC story. Last year I was ording like crazy for Christmas. So much easier than going shopping. I think I'll turn it own just to try to get into the spirit. They have so many things that are so tempting to buy. Oh, and most importantly, YOU WOKE UP!
Traci, I'm so happy to hear Deb is doing better. She's been through so much crap!
Flyrzfan, yep, I need some balance on these boards. I come hear to get my laughs...I love the "boob story." You gals are nuts! I only have one fake boob. I still have one REAL boob.
Wish, sorry for green goop coming out of your eye. Yuck! I need to make an appointment with the eye doctor. I hate going to doctors.
Diane, you are do funny! Are you and Hanna in a contest for who's the funiest? Hmmm...chaning PIN number. Now, that's a strange one. Isn't it wonderful to have great kids!?
My IOS...getting ready to go to a funeral. My dd's stepMIL lost her battle with bc. DD lives in Charlotte and I'm waiting to find out the funeral arrangements. She had stage IV when dxed over 12 years ago. She lived a good 10 years NED before it returned. She had some heavy duty chemo when dxd. She's been fighting over two years. I'll miss her. She was one sweet lady.
Shirley
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KAK,
I'm still on chemo (for as long as it works, YKWIM) and can totally relate to the dehydration issue. It occurred to me that it's like being mummified! Just call me Nefertiti...
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Shirley,
Sorry aoub the dd's stepMIL.
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You gals are fast. I post and there's more.
Thanks, Diane.
KAK, sorry you're turning into a prune.
Trish, what money? I guess I'll ask LuAnn. She's doing the shopping.
Okay, I'm off of here.
Shirley
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Trish, I guess your DH is not yet a graduate of the "Sensitive New-Age Man" school, eh? Oy......
Shirley, sad to hear about step-MIL.
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Man, I just can't stay away from this thread today.
Here is an IOS that is ridiculously minor, but it's driving me nuts: I have a popcorn seed hull stuck in my tooth near the gumline and can't get it out! The last time I ate popcorn was on Halloween. I've tried everything and it won't budge. It's a molar and my teeth are so crowded back there that floss won't fit. It's actually keeping me awake at night because I can't keep my tongue from trying to get it out. (told you it was ridiculous) Aside from going to the dentist--which I cannot afford--how the hockysticks do I get rid of this thing?!?!?!?!
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Rock - I can't imagine trying to grab a fox that bit me, that is one feisty lady!!!! Did you say you were jogging and texting to us? If so, damn you go girl!
Wish - ok, are you claiming chemo brain on this one??? LOL Stop doing work outside you are making the rest of us look bad
Diane - your dh and becky as starting to irk me! If his pin is changed did he tell you what it was? I would want to know it since it is now different. Only fair is psycho witch is stalking him! What about contacting her employer, I think it's time! That or her spouse! On a good note WOOHOO on the playoff! I know how exciting that is!
Prayrv - men can be a real butthole sometimes!!! At least he apologized!
KAK - rads will be over soon and you can get your skin back, have you asked about using anything that may help you?
Shirley - I told you before so sorry to hear about the MIL I hope your dd does ok today but you will be there for here!
As for the lyrica, my brother was on fentanyl at the same time as lyrica, they are not sure what caused his respirtory failure but it happened and I was scared! The good thing is it WORKED!!! I had pain relief. Wouldn't you know it I was switching channels and saw the cutest toy for my grandson, so there goes my bank account going cha ching!
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Diane - Glide Floss. It will go in between teeth that are too close together. Rinse w/ warm salt water every time you get a chance. There is something about popcorn hulls and human root surface that determined they would match precisely. I have cleaned perio abscesses caused by those 'innocuous' bits. So don't let it get too bad - Halloween was a ways back. I could get it out with a curette in a moment - damn that we don't have a transporter/transmogrifier!
Lisa
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LOL Lisa! Can I get Glide floss at CVS or someplace like that?
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I like those little plastic dental things with a little floss and a toothpick kind of thing on it and yes CVS has that stuff!
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You bet you can get it a CVS! And the little plastic thingees that LuAnn says too. But the floss in those things may fray. Tell you what, get one of each!
Lisa
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Can I slide one thru the phone to you, it will save you a trip to CVS LOL
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I've been trying with one of the little plastic thingies for a couple of days now! UGH...I'll try the glide floss. Luann, if you slide it through the phone, you'd just puncture my eardrum and then I'd have something else to bitch about! LOLOLOL
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I swear by the little plastic flossers at the office. I keep a pack of them in my desk for emergency flossing after lunch.
Sheila
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Friends - I have a problem. An IOS of the 'nth' degree.
I cannot speak. My aphasia has gotten progressively worse in the last 10-11 weeks.
I cannot give basic instructions in oral hygiene; after periodontal therapy I cannot offer post-operative guidance in care etc. These are 'scripts' I have been speaking for over 20 years! I find myself being silent rather than seemingly incompetent. This is not acceptable - I need to be able to communicate with my patients.
I had a meeting with several friends (also BC.org survivors), a meeting that occurs monthly, and it was notable that I was unable to speak. These women have known me for nearly two years and I was nearly incoherent. I have always been a very verbal person and to struggle to "just spit it out" is incredibly frustrating to me. I had a conversation over the gate with a neighbor and she, too noticed a change - how could she not? I fell silent on at least every fifth word, searching to make my mind connect with my tongue. I went to get my haircut the other day and I could not make myself understood - therefore I ended up with yet another very short cut.
On a related note, I have been complimented repeatedly in the past on my clear and concise penmanship. Chart notes were a pleasure to read. No longer - I have developed a cramped, tiny style of writing. Even my signature is barely legible. I do not know if the smaller letters are a reaction to my lack of control, but I do not think so - I simply cannot write. Even a postcard is difficult to complete, and has to be done at several sessions, still it is nearly illegible.
I also have intercranial pressure at least several times a day - usually in the afternoon. I had thought it could be explained by possibly high blood pressure (historically low) but at my onc. visit it was normal. .
I went in to my oncologist for my regularly scheduled appt. - and after a moment of struggling, I simply handed him a sheet with the problematic symptoms listed. Of course he asked about headaches. He ordered an Urgent MRI. 'Urgent' means the middle of next week - I saw him on Halloween.
When I noticed a further worsening of my symptoms, such that I couldn't do my job on Wed, - I called my onc. Well I sent a message to him. His nurse called me back (within 30 min.!) and told me to go to the emergency room - there I could get the MRI, like STAT and a neurological assessment. I thought about it. But I don't have the money (extra $$$ for an ER visit) and I don't have someone to look after my pups.
I can't imagine what this signifies. Well, I can imagine the down side - my sister's tiny, node neg., triple neg, BRCA-1+ tumor went to her brain first - and only nine months after treatment. So, I really, really need to have another scenario.
Lisa
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