Im bitchy, I moan, I groan.....anyway.
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Sue-
I figure everyone can use hugs- but always gentle for all the places that are sore and hurt; and prayers (good thoughts for those who do not believe in prayer) the more power the better.. ergo.. kickass (esp because I am not always a well behave woman).
Elaine
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(Pssst. Today's CT scan. ALL CLEAR! Lovely. No sign of the mass that was felt yesterday or what's been causing the twinges. I don't care, though. I really don't!!! Thanks for the support, peeps!)
CMB -- am hoping your MRI is as uneventful as my CT scan. I really do.
xo rock
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Reason for celebration Rock! Cmb- sending good vibes for MRI
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YAYYYYYYYYYYYYY!
Wheeeeeeeew!!!!
WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
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As much faith as I have, sometimes when I read the things you guys are going through, I have to wonder why? Then I remind myself that it's not up to me to know why? Hopefully someday it will all be revealed. Simply put, it does suck.
Two little IOS today - I have a cold and I can't stop sneezing and I can't get my nose to stop running. There are no hairs in there to catch anything. I hope I can fight it with what little white cells I have left and that it doesn't have any effect on my next chemo scheduled for Monday.
IOS #2 - A friend of mine from church who has been sort of mentoring me through all this because she is a 10 year survivor has just been diagnosed with mets to the L1 vertebra and sternum. That sucks!
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Gentle HUGS and Blessings for everyone. THAT SUCKS to and for the IOS issues. I go under the knife tomorrow at 10 AM. No food or drink after midnite, so I am waiting a bit before I dig out the food then head to bed. More gentle hugs, Nancy
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Wish & Colleen, MASSIVE HUGS to you both. Rock, AWESOME! BTW, love the new avatar. Thought the former one was adorable, too. Too cute!
Wish, that little turd ball is clearly a sociopath. There have been some good ideas put out here about alarms, large dogs, etc. I don't know what I'd do, honestly, in your situation. Wanna come over & sleep in my guest room?? It's yours, girlfriend, whenever you need it!
Colleen, don't you hate it when medical people are conscientious????? What kind of skin CA was the thing around your ear? Not melanoma, I hope. But if it was, better to find out asap so they can get it the heck out of there. Let us know as soon as you know. Hope it's positively Negative!
Jane, sorry about your friend's mets. Shoot.
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Man, I always feel better posting and getting it off my chest/shoulders, then I read about others suckage and it sounds so trivial what I'm dealing with. I will get over this, I just think this is the straw to break that camel. My heart rate is still up over 120/min most of the time. Last pill at about 4 I think. Just sux
On a lighter note! Great scan review for you CLEAN one Sue!
Jane, sorry about your cold
Miserable stuff when you are already knocked back. Funny think this weekend I had a runny nose and sneezing for about 36 hours, then as quick as it started it stopped! Went through nearly a full box of 275 tissues in that time. Too weird it stopped so quickly. I hope for the same for you 
Bonnie, yes, I'd be asking WHY I didn't know these details about my body and test I paid for! UGHh!!!!!!!!!!!!!
{{Colleen
SO sorry! Hope and prayers it something as simple as a infection and nother more dear! Hang in there!0 -
Rock,
YAY!! You ROCK!!
Jane,
Sorry you have a cold... that SUX! And, sorry to hear that your friend from church has mets... This FREAKIN' DISEASE SUX!!
Harley
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A dad-gum suck-O-rama-fest I see!
Doggone it---it SUX!!!!!
cmb & aka---big hugs & storming the heavens in your names!!! Hoping it's all good by the weekend!
Flyrz--sorry for the fatigue!
Jane---Sorry about your nose! I took those hairs for granted for over 50 years! Little did I know what a big job they did!! I feel terrible for your friend----it so sux!
Bonnie----is it possible that you were too numb to absorb it when they told you that news?? I KNOW there are things I missed & could swear they never told me, but ppl with me say we were told....guess I was just in the spin cycle!
Rock---Rock on girl!!! whahoooooo & fliberdeegibbets!
My baby boy (almost 18) is in the ER----got hurt at a wrestling meet tonite---ER doc & dh think he has a fractured collar bone. I HATE like poison that my kids have to go thru "hurts"!!!!!!! The good news is--he won the first match b4 he got hurt in the second--UGH--when I wanted him out of this sport THIS is not how I envisioned it!!!!!
THAT SUX to all who need it!!
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Damn--it IS a broken collar bone--guess I have company at home tomorrow!
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geez, you guys are making this hard for me to keep up, but I'll try
cmb - good luck on the scan don't you hate when they jump so fast at this stuff some times
rock - YEAH on the clean scan = I love your pics and you are just such a cool chick!
who has the nose hair problem? Anyway, I'm with you on that one, can't stand the running nose. It always wants to run just as I check out in a store and I'm rushing to find a tissue before my nose just drips! LOL
saint - so sorry about your son, can't stand to see your kids hurt! My son had a migraine (same age) the other night and he was pitiful. Everything I asked I got this moaning sound that i couldn't make out an answer. When I asked if he wanted me to leave I got a clear NO! So here I am sitting on the floor rubbing his arm gently til he fell asleep. Kids, they are something!
wish - what are we going to do with you. First off I'm glad you woke up to find the scum bag but to kill someones animals is unforgiveable. I know here in Cincinnati our jails are too full and htye just usually get a slap on the hands and a whole couple hours in jail if at all because there is no room. Sometihng is wrong with this picture. I have a couple of big doggies I can lend you. They are big old puppies at heart but nice big barks that scare the biggest of men! Even though my babies are friendly and would lick someone to death, but I am sure if someone tried to break in they'd be liable to lose an arm or leg! I say go off to the shelter and adopt yourself a nice little pup. He/she will love you for life for the rescue and protect you also!
My IOS is my dang gone DIL why do these young kids not understand babies just can't be drug around in bad weather because they don't want to sit in the house. Both my grandbabies are sick, one had a double ear infection. One side didn't heal and he is back on anti biotics (although I don't think she gave them all to him) and now the older one has an ear infection and croup. She has been staying with her dad lately because she knows I get mad at her running but I made her leave me the baby. I don't want her dragging him in and out in this cold weather and drizzle, just not right! I'd rather play mommy to an infant than have him get sicker. to top it off her dad's GF is a druggie, addicted to rx meds. She always runs to er's or urgent cares with pains to ger narcotics. She has been so messed up lately and my dil has been telling me how bad she has been acting. I don't want these babies around that, who knows what might happen to them!!!! She asked me not to lock the house tonight because she said if she goes off in the middle of the night tonight like she did last night she is going to come home in the middle of the night. I personally wouldn't stay in that situation and it is driving me crazy she puts her kids in this. I can't tell my son or he will go nuts and I don't want him distracted to she gets killed. UGH!!!! what do I do? They aren't my kids and I can't begin to take custody but he is just not doing this right.
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Thank goodness there was a least some good news on the thread today! For all the other IOS, THAT SUCKS!!!
LuAnn,
It's obvious your DIL didn't have the best parents to model, considering her father's current situation. You certainly must be a good influence on her, but are probably too close to the situation. Even the best DIL/MIL relationships have a slight bit of friction. I am wondering if you could find a playgroup for her to participate in with the babies (after they're healed, of course!)? Being around other young mothers will give her a chance to make friends with people with whom she has things in common and I'm sure the babies would have a good time. I was a parent facilitator for a playgroup that was an offshoot of an early childhood intervention program. We had so many different families from so varied circumstances, but we never failed once to find at least one thing in common with each other and it was quite an enjoyable experience. My boys learned a lot from that group; we had many moderately to severely disabled children participate as well as many different races and socio-economic groups. And, even though the kids were right there, it gave me a break from the mommy thing for a while. Many churches have playgroup programs and you can also check this page: http://www.ohsai.org/links.html . It contains lots of links to help you locate programs. Also, are there any military mommy support groups available to her? I know that they can be invaluable. BTW, my cellphone company completely screwed up and my phone is basically a paperweight at this point (no calls or texts will go through!)...PLUS they did not apply the changes to my plan properly and are expecting me to pay $100 MORE a month rather than several dollars LESS a month. I'm waiting for customer service to get back to me. I had tx today with steroids and was planning on calling you because I knew I'd be up! I'm being to think there's some cosmic conspiracy keeping us from contacting by phone!
In addition to my big IOS about threatened homelessness, I have a PITA IOS that I just can't shake off. My cancer center sent me to collections for $50 on a bill that isn't even valid. I had regular insurance and secondary medicaid at the time and it's illegal in NC for them to even send me a bill. After I received the bill several months ago, I called the center right away and explained the problem. The billing person I spoke to sounded like she'd never heard of Medicaid (DUH! In a hospital/cancer center that has almost 50% indigent patients!!!!) but promised me she'd "take care of it." Yeah, right..........never saw another bill until I received one from collections. I couldn't even talk to anyone about it at chemo today because the cancer center is part of the hospital with the billing dept all the stinking way across the facility and my frickin appointment lasted past 5 again today. Honestly, they have been billing between $75k and $145k a month to my insurance and can handle that...........wtf is it with $50??? AGHHHHHHHH
Sheesh...I need to visit the thread more often so I don't keep posting such long bitches!
(((HUGS))) y'all.....and hopes for a suction-free day tomorrow!
Diane
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Ok, I know I'm seriously dominating the thread now with minor suction when so many are dealing with biggies, but I needed to share about my experience today with the infamous patient navigator I told you guys about several pages back. Some of you might remember the lovely card she sent me "congratulating" me on my chemo and filling in the blank that is meant for earlier stages who have a finite tx plan ("You have only __________ treatments left!"). She filled in the blank with "WHO KNOWS?"
Anyway, she appears at my chemo chair today as my bestus nurse was hooking up the ABRAXANE. AGAIN she asks, "How many more?" HOLLLLLLLLLLY I.Q. deficits, Batman! My reply was, "As many as I can stand...years, I hope!" Nurse Sue just looked at me and rolled her eyes. PuhLEASE. Not to mention she sat down and yammered away at me so I couldn't work on the Christmas presents (crocheting, so I need to pay attention) that I was working on for my sons!
D'oh!
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Diane, I would look at her and say "Do you mind? For one I am stage IV, in case you don't understand that, it means I do chemo all the time until I'm dead from either the cancer or the toxic chemo going into my body! And secondly, can you not see I'm busy and have no time for mindless chatter from someone who obviously does not understand the first thing about your job, if you want to make me happy then make like a leaf and LEAVE!" That should do it and I tend to think she will remember you! LOL
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Here's my suckage today - I found out that Tamoxifen may not work for those who are lacking a certain protien. It's called E-cadherin. It's bad enough that I hardly had any se's from the d@mn drug (and onc doesn't do the metabolism test to see if I'm even getting the benefit from it) and now I find out that the lack of this protein may cause my cancer to spread!!! Here's a link to the article if anyone wants to read it: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28054161/
This is my only current line of defense against this beast. I go in for a diagnostic mammo for that pain that I mentioned a few pages back (of course it's gone now but at least I'm getting a 6 month mamo instead of waiting a year) and I'm just plain scared now. I was trying to put this sh$t behind me a little at a time (ct was clear) and now I have this hanging over my head. Just crap, crap and more crap!
Ok vent over - thanks for listening all.
Gentle hugs,
Trish
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Trish, don't worry about those articles. IMO they are all trash! They really have no clue what works and doesn't, if they did there wouldn't be people with mets!
Right now you are on a good course of tx to help keep the cancer at bay. This is proven in tests so relax, take your pills and count your blessings that you are one that doesn't get s/e
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LuAnn,
You are right. I do count my blessings, but there is also a d@mn study about if you don't have se's you may not get the full benefits of tamoxifen - I'M SO CONFUSED!!
My ios are minor compared to home break-ins and such (can't remember who - but hope you'll get your sense of security back soooooon!)
Gentle Hugs to all!
Trish
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Ladies, my IOS of the other has continued, but to me, it's minor in comparison with all the crap you ladies are dealing with, and for that I'm so sorry! BIG THAT SUX. D@mned disease is right! Just shouldn't be at all!
Hate this disease!Just a quickie but long update on that scumbag
Found out after ONE good night sleep on muscle relaxers, that he was out on a PR bond, which made the neighbors and us so upset we went to tribal ops yesterday and met with the victims advocate. She was so sweet, and so understanding! We did notice though, that each time we met with her, an officer came to stand nearby! ROFL. I guess us women looked like terror! Who knows....Anyway....she talked with the Pros. atty and they are going to do something with his bail, not sure what, but are revisiting it? Some how they are hoping to get him locked up till the pre-trial/sentencing hearings. Said we should feel safe, b/c they are requiring his to come in to blow daily and his employer gave them (The police) his schedule and will report if he does not show. HA! Guess what his job it? BELL HOP at the local casino hotel!
Surely one would think it was good for a bell hop who's been found red-handed in an armed robbery, should his job, am I right? OMG!!! Anyway...we'll see how stand up this court is, or if he gets that perverbial slap since this a first time offender. I reiterated several times, that this is his first brush with the law, but certainly he has done other things for which he has never been found out about. What nuttys! If he's 25 and accused of armed robber at 5-6 places in one night, he's done this before, or something similar. CRAZINESS!
No excuse of the economy and children to feed either since he is working.
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wish, good for you guys for going to the victim services. Sometimes it takes things like that to get someone more than a slap on the wrist. Especially considering he killed the animal.
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I'm hoping he gets what he deserves, but more so, that he gets some permanent help to prevent this again. It's scary mostly be/c he slit the chickens throats, but there was no reason!
WHat had he gotten into our homes as he'd tried! Just scary thoughts.The guns they found on him were not the ones we are missing, so that too is scary, b/c if he'd thrown somewhere during the chase, or stashed them between homes, we don't know. They all look like real guns/pistols, but some are pellet or air rifles we use for varmits and target shooting. Someone not familiar with guns would not know the difference even standing close them, so it's a fear that someone has them or will get to them and use them to rob someone else, or worse
There's just no sense to the things he did, which make us all wonder what drugs he was/is using.
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wish you crack me up, I haven't heard the word varmit used in forever!!! Reminded me of the Beverly Hillbillies! LOL Please don't be offended I just got a good chuckle!
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Glad you got a chuckle out of it! And no offense, it was meant to be said as 'Granny' used to! "I'll get you, you little varmit!" Enjoy the chuckles dear! 0 -
Sounds like that SOB could USE a visit from granny Clampett and her cast-iron skillet! Why the courts don't do everything possible to keep law-abiding and tax-paying citizens SAFE is beyond me. Prison overcrowding? Sorry...stack 'em from the fricken floor to the ceiling. Then maybe they'd appreciate it and walk the straight and narrow when they get released. More of our tax dollars go to feeding prisoners than goes to our children's school lunches and don't forget--free college if you're in prison. Almost sounds like a good deal to me sometimes. I've been extremely angry about how our system works after my best gf's ex was stripped, mutilated, and left to diein the wilderness in the dead of winter. The two guys who ADMITTED to it (and bragged all over the county about it!) got less than a total of two years between them. WTF??????
I've too much suckage to even talk about here. I guess that's my IOS today.
THAT SUCKs to all who need it,
Diane
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That's what I never understand. THere is no rhyme or reason why they sentence the way the do. One of ex-neighbors kid was in prison for spouse abuse. His gf actually. 3 times, so he went to prison for 5 years maybe? THen he gets out and gets free tuition b/c of his incarceration and my dd has to fight to get by while going to college. HE doesn't even work while attending, as he gets money to live on also! Just no justice in this systme sometimes!
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Prison life here isn't bad, they have heat and a/c which I think they should have windows with bars instead of a/c. They get tv with cable, workout rooms (so they can bulk up and take over the guards????), librarys, three meals a day, water for showers and toilet plus other little ammenites they are allowed to have. Not to mention all the drugs that are smuggled in and dealt in prison. So tell me why someone is afraid of a crime?
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CMB - I am thinking positive thoughts for the MRI today. Hope you get your results, posthaste. They can do a prelim. reading on the spot. Mine was done five minutes later, Granted, it was obvious bad news and easy to see - so let's give 'em 10 minutes for you and your NED. I really do believe it is related to your prior radiation/nerve damage.
Rock - SO HAPPY for you. A sleepless night, an anxious scan - but a great outcome. I literally 'whoooped' it up for you!
Diane - your housing/mtgage situation adds stress to what you need to focus on healing. It is so unjust. Maybe you could call your congress-person's office and give the details of a Stage IV mom, on active chemo, fighting for her life and unsure of a roof over her head. There will be someone assigned to follow up, in my experience, and even an aide to a big honcho weilds some clout with a bank/finance institution to make 'em offer you every option. I just had to pay my State property tax (oooph!) because funding had been 'eliminated' during the CA budget debacle. Erased, zip, nada - no program . Death and taxes - can't get 'em to cooperate!
Lisa
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Just holding my place. [[[[[Hugs]]]]] to all & NO MORE SUCKAGE this weekend. Flyrzfan, know just what you mean about Stupid People Being Stupid. Sick of it. Have an artist colleague who has not once called without having his own agenda. Can't just call to offer support through the last few months, always trying to find out when I'll be able to do thus & such for the art association we both belong to. Oh, I can feel the love, ya know?? And the whole time I'm on the phone or listening to his voicemails, I'm thinking, 'ya know, I do not give a rodent's derriere about the art association at the present time, you schmuck.'
Oh & can the powers that be provide some good news for Diane, Wish, Trish, Saint, Colleen & LuAnn, for crying out loud??? Is that asking too much? Could we just ban suckage for the holidays for all of us maybe?? How about banning relatives who DO NOT GET IT? How 'bout that? I dunno, should we email Santa?? Who do we contact? Or is it just time to take up our snow shovels, girls?
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UGH!!!!!! Don't want to say to much but what is wrong with DIL's?????? Kids nowadays just have no sense!!!!!
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Can you believe that I can't find a lawyer willing to take my case against the negligent dentist? They want to wait until I die so my family can file a wrongful death case! WTH??? Mount up the shovels, ladies. I'll pound Dr. Cheung to death!
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