Im bitchy, I moan, I groan.....anyway.

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  • badboob67
    badboob67 Member Posts: 236
    edited April 2008

    Shirley, you crack me up! I wish I lived closer to Wilmington so we could go have some fun together.

    Just an additional little sucky item that builds on my last:

    The price here for a gallon of gas has risen TWENTY-THREE CENTS IN LESS THAN A WEEK! WTF????!!!!???? I have had to make the over-an-hour drive to the onc/rads onc nearly every day for the last month.  Guess who hasn't gone grocery shopping in two weeks?

    THAT SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

  • Hanna
    Hanna Member Posts: 228
    edited April 2008

    Hi gang.  I'm bummed.  I did not get to be on a jury today. Oh..it was not because I didn't pass thru the x-ray machine.  Noooo....my toolbox chest never made it to the portal of the x-ray machine. 

    My poor pitiful group was told we were not needed but our names would be thrown into the courthouse hat to be picked at some unforeseen future day.  Great.  Probably the day I'm in for my exchange surgery. 

    Oh, another news flash.  My "potential" new doc is thinking of doing my exchange under semi-anesthesia to boot!  Oh, throw in a little lidocaine and a stick to bite on and I might experience "some discomfort".  Ya right.  "Some discomfort" is doctor speak for HURTS LIKE HELL but you can't move because you're snowed on vicodin!!!

    All you can say is...eh....eh.....eh....

    Daggone it!! Yell  You know who DID get in?  To be jurors? These guys with pot bellies and buzz cuts who looked like they were ready to fry a little old lady for jay-walking!  Yep, they were in the groups that made it.  My group was 4 groups away from the jury box.

    And while I was kept from my many other scintillating activities, they didn't even bother to pay me!! Like, aren't we supposed to get $15 for at least showing up? 

    Well.  I would say this non-event sucked.  I was totally ready to administer justice but NO.  I wait since I was 18 to be a juror and didn't even make it to the x-ray machine.

    So, I came home and thanks to Shirley bringing up Catalina chicken last night I decided to try making it.  Shirley.  Are you really supposed to put a whole bag of onion soup mix in this?  A recipe from a Grandma on the internet said to.  I think I did something wrong. I need major Tums here.  I should a made your beet cake instead.  BTW, Happy B-day to your dh. 

    Well, that's all folks.  Hope all you all's day went fine.

    Bye for now. 

    Hanna    

  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Member Posts: 344
    edited April 2008

    Harley, so sorry the cake wasn't as good as you remembered. That's a bummer (sucks).  Those calories for nothing!  But, your so darned petite the calories won't hurt you.   You can have some of my cake.  Wait...no, not yet.  I haven't tried it.  I'm so full from dinner I don't know if I can even eat a sliver. I'm going to have my dh put that ugly picture of me and the pretty one of you (us together) so I can post it here on this thread.  I hate that pic OF ME!

    Daggone, Diane!  It must be costing you a fortune in gas.  You do write it off your taxes, right?  Of course that's no help right now!  Maybe one day Harley and I can meet up with you.  That'd be fun!

    Hanna, I'm so sorry you didn't get picked for jury duty, or even get the chance to "fail" the x-ray machine.  Why would ANYONE want to sit on a jury.  Oh, I know why.  To do your "civil duty."   And, yes, you use one package of Onion Lipton Soup Mix.  The box comes with two.  If you use a small bottle of Catalina you use one package.  If you're using a large bottle you use both packages.  I usually make four boneless breasts and one small bottle of dressing and you know the rest.  Did you use apricot preserves?  And mix it up and pour it over the chicken? 

    Here's a good recipe I found from the S. Beach Diet.  I made it tonight and it was tasty.  You may want to put a bit more seasoning on it, but I found it to be good without too much.  Besides, it saves on the Tums!  The only thing I served with it tonight was some fresh cooked spinach.  It would be good with a salad and possibly pasta with Marinara sauce on it.  I thought it was enough without the pasta.  The best part was IT WAS EASY!

    Well, gotta go!  Peoples Images

    Chicken Capri

    Members of SouthBeachDiet.com clearly love chicken - it's one of the most popular search terms on the site. It makes sense to eat chicken since skinless chicken breasts are a great source of lean protein - not to mention a delicious dinner staple. Here is a flavorful recipe to try.

    Serves 4

    Ingredients
    This dish tastes like it took you all day, but it can be done in 30 minutes. The chicken goes especially well with a crisp garden salad topped with any South Beach Diet®-approved dressing.

    1 cup reduced-fat ricotta cheese
    1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
    1/4 teaspoon salt
    1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
    4 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves
    1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
    2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
    1 cup crushed tomatoes
    4 slices reduced-fat mozzarella cheese

    Instructions
    In a blender or food processor, combine the ricotta with the oregano, salt, and pepper. Process to blend.

    Rub the chicken with the garlic powder. Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the chicken and cook for 12 minutes per side. Place the chicken breasts, side by side, in a large baking dish and allow to cool.

    Preheat the oven to 350°F.

    Spoon 1/4 cup of the cheese mixture and 1/4 cup tomatoes onto each chicken breast. Top each chicken breast with 1 slice mozzarella. Bake for 20 minutes, or until a thermometer inserted in the thickest portion of a breast registers 170°F and the juices run clear.

    Nutritional Information:
    340 calories 15 g fat (5 g sat) 115 mg cholesterol 6 g carbohydrate 44 g protein 1 g fiber 470 mg sodium




     

  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Member Posts: 344
    edited April 2008
    Oh, I forgot the BIG MMOOOOAAAANNNN!  DH order to scripts.  It cost over $400!  I HATE MY INSURANCE!  Yell
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Member Posts: 183
    edited April 2008

    Just when I thought it couldn't get any crazier...

    My son told me today that dad said in the car on the way home that it cost him $40 to drive "all the way back" - why couldn't he just take the bus and save him some cash? I wanted to call his a$$ that very second and throw a string of curse words his way. What an f*cking idiot!

    During the four wonderful days they spent together, the sh*thead also said that:

    * My son needs to "man up" and stand up to me more, especially when it comes to telling me that he "needs" his dad and he (meaning my 14-yr-old) shouldn't have to coordinate things with me/get my permission to spend time with daddy dearest

    *My child's asthma meds are making him hyper. He demanded that my son email him a list of the drugs he take along with the name of his lung specialist.

    *My son USED TO BE such a bright and observant child but now he is full of "foolishness" and needs work on his listening skills and maturity level

    *Nobody on this end really has the time to teach him the things a "real man" needs to learn because we work and have "stuff" to do (my ex is unemployed and living off of disability)

    *He would never let my son watch the kinds of "girly" shows I allow him to watch if he lived with him

    He also pressured my son to give up my hubby-to-be's cell number so he could "talk some things over" with him. Mind you, seven years ago he was ready to fight my h2b and told him he would NEVER come to him concerning his son when h2b extended the olive branch.

    Now I'm thinking that this SOB needs medication. Either that or he is drinking heavily or too much into recreational drugs. This is not the person I married all those years ago. Never in a million years did I ever think he would treat his own flesh and blood in such a disgusting way. Is he trying to make the kid hate him and want nothing more to do with him? Seems like those are the plans...

    The half week they spent together will take a few months to undo. I'm glad his triffling tail doesn't make more of an effort to see his child. Who could go through this mess more than a few times every couple of years?

    Sorry Deb, but I wish he'd move his good-for-nothing butt to Alaska! I'd freaking help him pack...

    Maybe something really heavy will fall on him soon or his vocal chords will seize up and he won't be able to talk ever again. I know there is a special place in hell for this joker, but while he is here on earth, he is doing sooo much damage. Sadly, he doesn't even realize that...

    I've never said this about any other human being before, but I truly hate him and I hope he rots in hell. 

  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Member Posts: 344
    edited April 2008

    Oh, Felicia, I am so sorry you are having to deal with this.  And you son is dealing with this idiot.  I hope you sat your son down and told him he didn't need to "man up" to anything or anyone.  I don't know what to say.  Like you said, he's either nuts (needs meds) or is doing drugs.  I hope your son doesn't have to be around him for a very long time.  I am so sorry.  Kids should not be hurt like this.

    Hugs,

    Shirley

  • Hanna
    Hanna Member Posts: 228
    edited April 2008

    Shirley!  I didn't use apricot preserves because the internet Grandma said to use cranberry sauce but I bet the apricot preserves would have been way better!  Next time that's what I'll do.  I think you should be our official Betty Crocker here! 

    Felicia, you have one major sucky ex I'm afraid.  Since I did NOT get to be on a jury today, I have no legal advice to offer due to lack of experience.  But I'll tell you what, if his butt is ever on trial and I AM on the jury - I'll call you so you can pick his punishment!  

    Well, it is so late and I'm up writing an article due at noon, but I am going to whip it out first thing in the morning.  Time to snooze.

    Nite ladies! <3 Hanna   

  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Member Posts: 183
    edited April 2008

    Shirley, I want to scream, cry and hit something all at the same time. My child doesn't deserve to be treated like this - NO kid does - but it really, really hurts when you see your kid frustrated and struggling to understand this crap and not being able to (heck, even I don't understand this craziness, so how could he?!?).

    My ex moved 40 miles away and is NOW complaining that it is too far. That doesn't even make a little bit of sense to me. Our houses didn't get further apart since he closed; he know what he was doing when he decided to do it. Why is he being such an a$$hole to his son who he is supposed to love, nurture and protect?!??

    Crap's got me so upset I can't even sleep - and I NEVER have trouble sleeping. One more thing to bitch about... 

  • AlaskaDeb
    AlaskaDeb Member Posts: 1,159
    edited April 2008

    Hey Felicia-

    Send the dirt-bag on up!  I know someone who owns a septic pumping company.  We can actually get him a job at an honest-to-goodness shit factory!!  What an ASS!!!  I'm sorry he sucks....

    I didn't read very far back.  I am crashed on the couch after being at the infusion center from 10am to 4:30 pm today.  I kept having a reaction to the taxol (again!) so we had to run it really slow....grrrrr....

    My doc came by to see me and looked at my weird tongue.  It is better today, but still sore.  He said it is not thrush, we did a swab, and he was right.  He thinks it is actually like a reaction that is a version of the mouth sores I got last time on taxol.  He gave me a script for Magic Mouthwash to use the next few days to see if it helps.  He also wants me to drink a LOT and keep really hydrated and see if it helps.

    I'm too tired to even bitch any more tonight.  I am going to hit the hay and see if tomorrow is a more energetic day!

    Deb C

  • AnnNYC
    AnnNYC Member Posts: 236
    edited April 2008

    Deb, sorry about the mouth sores.

    Felicia, OMG, you're right, your ex is either on something or NEEDS to be on something -- so horrible.  I feel so bad for you and your son -- but at least it's a very good sign that your son told you all this.  I just pray that your son's emotional longing for a father doesn't cloud his judgment.  Poor kid shouldn't HAVE to be employing adult judgment at this time, but it sounds like with your help he is able to anyway.  Anyway, I hope your son can keep the message front and center that a man with no income who can't get it together to get his kid a Christmas  present and who complains that his kid should pay busfare to visit HIM has NO LEG TO STAND ON and NOTHING MEANINGFUL TO IMPART about anyone else needing to "man up"!  Gah!

    I am so, so sorry!  Everything he said is seriously abusive -- and it really sounds like a substance abuser talking.  I'm guessing that your son really won't want to see him again anytime soon, and that your son told you in detail what his father said because it didn't feel safe to your son.  How could it?  It's very sad that your son doesn't have the loving father he deserves -- but he doesn't.  And he shouldn't have to put up with being put down ("full of foolishness", "needs work on his listening skills and maturity level" and -- this one is really alarming -- "hyper" due to NEEDED MEDICATION).  Again, I am so sorry and I hope you, your son and H2B can just circle your own wagons and be happy with each other.

    (((hugs)))

    Ann

  • flyrzfan
    flyrzfan Member Posts: 199
    edited April 2008

    here's my bitch for the  day....I SHOULD BE SLEEPING....wtf!!!

  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Member Posts: 344
    edited April 2008

    Deb, you have a reason to be tired.  That's a loooong time to be getting an infusion.  I remember when my first Taxol took three hours.  After that they sped it up some.

    I hope the mouthwash works.  I was so afraid of getting mouth sores (my onc made sure of frightening me) that I was brushing a LOT through the day.  Obviously your's isn't the same as what my onc was describing to me since your onc was smart enough to do a swab.  I hope you feel a LOT better today.  Chemo can knock you on your butt.  And here you are still offering love and support to this "bitchy" thread.

    Shirley

  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Member Posts: 344
    edited April 2008

    Felicia, I'm hoping that by having your BF around that your son see what a REAL man IS.  Perhaps you should explain to your son that his sperm donor is sick!  And to ignore ANY AND ALL advice, comments, etc., from now on.  Perhaps he'll croak  from an overdose.  I didn't say that, did I?  I'm disappointed in me. Laughing

    Shirley

  • chemo072
    chemo072 Member Posts: 31
    edited June 2008

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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Member Posts: 344
    edited April 2008

    AmyaM, I know you don't want to do this but......have you tried Effexor for your mood?  As far as pain from the drug I don't think Effexor's gonna work.  How long have you been on Tamox?  Sometimes these SEs go away or at least lighten a bit.  You have to do what is best FOR YOU.  I just wish these meds didn't affect so many parts of our lives!

    Shirley

  • MissShapen
    MissShapen Member Posts: 3,963
    edited April 2008

    Felicia, I am so sorry about your creepy ex. There is not much that makes me angrier than someone hurting my kids! Grrrr! Since Deb is willing, I say send him packing to Alaska to work in schnit. All you can really do is try to comfort your son and try to lessen the damage as much as possible.

    Deb, hope the mouthwash helps the tongue. I'm glad it's not thrush, but some exaggerated form of mouth sores sounds pretty yukky, too. Do freezie pops help soothe it?

    Shirley, sorry about the huge RX bill. That is awful!!! That SUCKS!

    And a big that SUCKS for everyone having a sucky day. Let's get all the suckiness taken care of today so we can all have a great weekend!

    Miss S

  • drcrisc
    drcrisc Member Posts: 134
    edited April 2008

    O.K. - here goes.  My bitch for today (which was actually yesterday) was that I saw my med onc for the first time yesterday (I like him - he spent 45 minutes with us) but now I have a choice.  He offered my CMF or Cytoxyn/Taxotene/Carbo.  I don't want to make that decision - that's why I came to see YOU!!  Although I'd probably bitch about NOT having a decision and being TOLD what to do, if it went the other way.

    So now I feel totally stuck - what if I chose CMF and I should have chosen C/T/C?  WTF!?!  Clearly, CMF is easier for many reasons, so why would I chose C/T/C?  Will it give me more "protection?"  Obviously, I need to ask that question, but I have a week to think about this.  Any input or experience with either would be appreciated.

    My other little complaint is that yesterday, my nipple on my "bad" breast hurt like hell when it hasn't bothered me one bit before.  WTH?!  This whole thing sucks and I don't want to do it anymore. 

    So a big, fat THAT SUCKS to all with suckiness!

  • Hanna
    Hanna Member Posts: 228
    edited April 2008

    So drcrisc, you don't want to play anymore huh?  I know the feeling.

    Yep.  Sucky.

    Right now though I need to stick my head in the freezer - hot flash.

    I don't want to play this anymore either!!

    Undecided  

  • AlaskaDeb
    AlaskaDeb Member Posts: 1,159
    edited April 2008

    OK...so yesterday I was in the chemo chair starting at 10:00 am.  We have to run my Taxol really slow or I get bad side effects, so by 2:00 I was bored and clicked on the TV.  The chick that played the Nanny on TV a few years ago...Her name is Fran something.  She had cancer, I believe uterine, but I'm not sure, and wrote a book called Cancer Schmancer.  She has also started some type of foundation by the same name.....so I'm listening to this chick blather away on TV and she said her foundation's goal was to make sure everyone catches their cancer through early screening and the....and I will quote here "Because stage one IS the cure".  I was so freaking mad I started swearing right there and turned off the TV. 

    First of all, I HAD my "early screening test" and my freaking cancer was already stage 3c thank you very much!  I did all the treatment they asked me to do and I am still here 3 years later with stage 4 mets.  Not only that, I know LOTS of ladies that found their cancer at stage one who are riding the mets wagon with me.

    Stage one is the CURE!!!  You have got to be freaking kidding me!  I was SO pissed off.  Here is someone with enough public pull to get on TV and to have a cancer foundation and THIS is the crap she is spouting?  How about finding a REAL cure before cancer kills another million people? 

    My poor chemo nurse thought I had flipped my lid.  I yelled at the TV for about 5 minutes.....

    So here I sit, the day after treatment....my head and tongue are killing me, my vision sucks so bad for the next couple of days I don't dare drive, it was 60 degrees and sunny yesterday and today....snowing, I am still all amped up on the steroids so I can't really rest because I'm fidgeting, At least DH is at work and kids are at school so I can act loopy and not bother anyone else.  I need to find a link to that Nanny chick's web site and leave her some bitchy e-mail or something.....maybe that will make me feel better.....stage one is a cure....My ASS!

    Deb C

  • carlin
    carlin Member Posts: 35
    edited April 2008

    Just wanted to let you all know (traci I know we are supposed to bitch here but.......) I got back from my sisters appt and everything is ok ... Nicki  I wanted to thank you about the Fat Necrosis information it helped calm her down .  Thanks girls Everything is going to be ok for today. 

  • AnnNYC
    AnnNYC Member Posts: 236
    edited April 2008

    Carlin, that's fantastic!!!

    I don't think there's any law against good news, here!!!

    (Just against playing the part of Pollyanna or Little Mary Sunshine when someone has sucky news!!!)

    Hugs to you and your sister,

    Ann

  • snowyday
    snowyday Member Posts: 121
    edited April 2008

    Hi Deb I'm so sorry about your mouth I had that and it made me crazy the last taxol treatment I had a new onc and he prescribed tablets for it for 10 days and they worked better than the nystatin mouth wash or Tantum mouthwash. I have to look back in my posts and find the name for you, what a difference it made it was such a relief. I will find the name and email it to you. Felicia your I feel so bad for your son, my ex was terrible to his boys as well and my sons finally realized what an ass he was on there own and they started to tell him they were to busy to see him and really fixed his wagon, I loved it. He used to come it to town (small town) and stay with other friends for about five days, do his partying and on last day call the boys and invite them over, if I could drive them, and I did.  So that's why I was so proud of them when they made there own minds up not to see him and told him "they had friends to see and things to do". It was a great moment for me and taught my ex to see them as smart young men that couldn't be manipulated, my ex has many regrets now and has bought them land so if they want they can build a home but they don't want anything from him.  I'm sorry for what your son went through.  And the hairs stories and foot booboo's. I haven't been on this site lately but finally got in to see the Gasterenterologist (Sp)?  But now I have to drink a glass of Go Litley every night, take 60 mgs' of the oil capsules and they are hoping that will work. Then on the 24th of June I have to do a two day prep and then they think they can do the scopes both in that day. I begged him not to rupture my bowels and he promised if it got stuck he wouldn't push it through. So I'm praying that it will work out. But they are really concerned with the "bowel thickening" and the narrowing. How's that for an oxymoron.  I am feeling badly about complaining lately, my sisters sil has been diagnosed with a rare type of brain cancer, five weeks ago she was the annoying sil, now wer are all in shock apparently this type of cancer always comes back and without treatment it will kill within three months with treatment they said she had 1 1/2 years, how can they give a time line like that I'm horrified for her.  And she bought her "chemo pills" in Canada she had to pay 9,000 dollars for them her insurance co. threw in a measly 2k and that is only for six weeks of treatment she will need these pills for six months.  I'm looking for sites or places that will help her with paying.  She was in law but that doesn't matter it's ridiculous to charge someone that amount of money in Canada, I feel so bad for everyone in the US that always has to pay, how do you do it.  Well that's my rant for the day. Oh the only good thing girls I lost 11lbs. So the chemo weight is going away.  But man I miss some foods big time.  I'll let you know how my regimen is working after a few days I sure hope it takes the pain away, that will be so nice. I'm hoping.  Everyone try have a good weekend.

  • Traci-----TripNeg
    Traci-----TripNeg Member Posts: 567
    edited April 2008

    Of course we can post good stuff on here! I am so happy for you and your sis Carlin.....

    Here's a dad bitch for you guys. My dad left my mom, me and my 5 siblings when I was 11. He married my stepmonster the day after his divorce to my mom was final. Us kids and mom struggled living in my grandma's one bedroom house whilst he and SM bought a new house. I saw him once from then, til I was 17. I think I got 1 or 2 b-day cards in that time. When I moved to FL, I saw him sort of regularly. Bi-monthly, Christmas, etc. (We were raised not to hold grudges.)

    He was dx with cancer in early '05. The day before he died, all of us kids were there, including me with my fatigue and bald head from chemo. He was buried with full military honors. At his service, one of his best friends of 30 something years, got up to do his eulogy and the first words out of his mouth were: "I thought (I'm omitting my dad's name) only had one kid." WTF?

    I helped my dad with a mortgage when I was 22. (I think he was trying to help me with my new career....) At that time, I was shocked because he had over $1,000,000 in the bank. I mean, he wouldn't help my 'lil sis, the only one of us six that went to college...with her tuition but he's got a million in a savings account???? WTF???? Anyway, blah, blah, blah....almost 20 years later he passes away, we find out he never even talked about us cuz none of his 'friends' know we exist and he does not leave us kids anything. Nothing. Not even a note. 

    Deb, now that I've got that off my chest....I'm ready to find that nanny bitch with you and bitch slap the hell out of her! I'm serious. That is bullsh*t!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The first person that popped to mind was Erin and that's only because she was the most recent.

    Beeoooocccch!"  

    I'll catch up later. Just had to get that dad stuff out.

    Hugs, Traci

  • AnnNYC
    AnnNYC Member Posts: 236
    edited April 2008

    Oh Traci, that's awful about your Dad.  Makes me want to punch someone.

    And the Fran Drescher thing made me mad, too -- you thought of Erin, I thought of Joanne (Joanne1428).  Wasn't Joanne Stage I in April 2006?  And gone within 2 years?

  • otter
    otter Member Posts: 757
    edited April 2008

    Wow, what a lot of sucky news today (and yesterday).  HannaB, I did get to be on a jury a few years ago.  Turned out, it was a murder trial.  This counts as my sucky story for the day, since I'm feeling pretty good 3 days into my 2nd cycle of Taxotere/Cytoxan. (Sorry about that.)

    There was a street party going on.  One woman got mad at another woman.  The woman who was mad walked over to her car, got a shotgun out of the trunk, walked back to where the other woman was standing, and shot her in the face at "point-blank range" (the length of the gun barrel, basically).  Somehow, the victim managed to survive for about 3 days as her cerebrospinal fluid leaked out through where her nose used to be.

    The trial was the strangest thing I've ever seen.  Way before "reality shows" hit the screen, this was one, big-time.  Yet, it was scary, how much it resembled an episode of "Law & Order" (or LA Law, or whatever).

    There were forensics experts, and medical experts, and a ballistics expert, and the police who testified about what they saw when they arrived at the scene.  There was the nurse who helped stabilize the victim in the ER, and was accused by the defense attorney of hastening her death by trying to remove some of the shotgun pellets from her face. (He didn't win many points with me using that strategy.) There were the gory photographs, passed around the rows of jurors.  There were the "character witnesses."  One was a very, very old lady who hardly knew the defendant but had hired her to clean her house once; the other was a neighbor who showed up so drunk for his testimony that he could barely speak.

    The defense attorney was a total flake; he kept changing the defense strategy. No, she didn't do it.  (But what about the 25-30 people who saw her do it?)  Yes, she did it, but it was self defense.  (But what about the fact that the victim wasn't carrying a weapon and never raised her hands?)  Yes, she did it, but it was in a fit of rage--it was not planned.  (What about the fact that she purposefully walked back to her car, took the gun out of the trunk, walked back to the victim, and then shot her?)  The DA was smooth and professional.  It's too bad there can be that difference in quality of representation, but that's life.  (Kind of like with doctors, I guess.)

    The only hold-out during the deliberations was one woman who simply refused to believe that one woman could take a gun and shoot another woman in the face with it.  That problem took about 10 minutes to resolve.

    I think the sentence was 25 years-to-life, with a mandatory 20-year sentence because there was a firearm involved.  The trial took 4 days, but it left me with the strangest sense of civic accomplishment.

    Sucky situation, though.

    otter 

  • bluesky
    bluesky Member Posts: 144
    edited April 2008

    all these stories suck! i saw the nanny on intimate portrait, not sure if that's what it's called, one of those dum lifetime shows, i missed the part of if stage one cancer is cured, pleeeeaaase what an idiot, i hope deb and traci you found the site and sent her a nasty email.

    my bitch is that i have not been feeling well for two days, off balance, slightly light headed, the feeling is subtle, but i am very in tune with my body, i feel every little nuance, i finished chemo one year ago and i still feel like crap, i know it's the tamoxifen and now the synthroid that i have to take, i just do not feel like i did before chemo!! i never took medicine before all of this, and in the last year and half, i've had poison running thru my viens, while i'm grateful for the tx, it makes me soooooo angry that i feel somewhat sh****y almost everyday and that they have still not found tx that don't make you feel like you've been hit by a train. i just want to feel good again!!

  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Member Posts: 2,728
    edited April 2008

    Chemobrain!  Thats my bitch.  I thought for sure I wrote a post this morning.  Now I dont know where to catch up from.  Where did that post go anyways.

    Snowy:  Hoping they find the solution to that poop problem.  Sounds pretty sucky to me.  So sad about your sister sil!  Cancer, its all around us.  And it just stinks the big one.

    Carline:  Such good news to hear about your sister.  Sure am glad she calmed down. 

    DebC:  I do declare, I could see the smoking coming out of your ears.  Actually laughed out loud picturing you yelling at the TV yesterday.  I do that alot to those neulasta commercials.  Oh "Im ready for my chemo."  My ass!  That darn taxol, is accumulating and those side effects suck big time.  Drink and pee is what I was told.  The day before, the day of, and the day after chemo.  Now that could be water or wine.Wink

    drcrisc:  To heck with that.  I would ask him which chemo would he have his wife do if she was in your shoes! 

    Amy:  Quality vs Quantity. 

    Felicia:  What a jerk you ex is.  Speechless here.  He can pastamagool.

    So many other sucky things.  Hot flashes, putting head into the freezer, cant sleep, this bc journey is just sucky alot of the time.

  • Isabella4
    Isabella4 Member Posts: 1,352
    edited April 2008

    I took to my bed today.

    I had been up since 7, and by 11 I had changed my Tshirt twice, soaking from hot flashes. 

    My plantar fasiitis was winning me, having trouble walking, and my carpal tunnel was driving me crazy...so I decided to jump into a shower, and get into my bed to rest. Oh, it was just magic to just sink down under my covers and rest, I took a sleeping tablet, and didn't know a thing until 5 pm.

    I always call this my kind of day, because I love my bed at the best of times, never need a reason to hop in there !!

    5pm, and you'd thought I'd entered another world. DH had been building me a wall, and he'd built it in the wrong place, 2' in the wrong place, and the cement was drying quickly.

    Despite doing a drawing of just where I wanted it, making a very visible red line where it was to go, marking out the line of the wall with 8" building blocks stood on end, he put it where HE thought it should go.

    Of course, it was all my fault for 'lazing in bed all day' (I'd also forked out a days wages for someone to help DH) so, what did I do ???? Threw a major tantrum and attacked the wall with rather a large hammer,which just about killed me, but I was so mad I didn't feel it at that moment.....I do now though, my arms are killing me !!

    I should have known better than to have left DH without supervision, he has done this before, 3 times !!!

    At the moment we are on a standoff, he says he will never lay another brick for me as long as he lives, and I say he bloody better have the wall up by Sunday.

    I will win, I always do, but now I need another day 'lazing about in bed ' to get over all the pain in my body.

    Just off back to bed, sweats are running down into my eyes again, and I need a shower.

    Isabella.

  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Member Posts: 344
    edited April 2008

    Cristine, I think I'd ask the onc the question Nicki posed.  Sounds good to me.  My opinion which isn't worth much...CTC.

    Yep, Deb, you really had a sucky day.  And I'll help you and Tracey slap around that stupid actress.  I'll sit on her!

    Pearl, I know what it's like to be "stopped up."  But not as badly as you're having it.  Won't it feel good to get "that stuff" moving!?

    Traci, that's absolutely unreal that a "father" could have that kind of money and not leave on red penny to his children.  And, of course even worse than that is not telling people he had children.  He was too embarrassed cuz you'll didn't come around. 

    Darn, Otter, I'm glad I never had to sit on a trial like that.  Back many years ago I wouldn't be able to look at the gruesome pics.

    Bluesky, hoping your feeling better soon.  It's no fun feeling off balanced and light headed.  I've had those days before bc and still do sometimes.

    My gripe for the day...I broke another fingernail!

    Shirley

  • bluesky
    bluesky Member Posts: 144
    edited April 2008

    just to add to the nanny bitch, when i saw her on the intimate portrait after cancer she looked so good, it kind of bugged me, because if i was an actress and had all that money, then yes i too would see a nutritionist, a trainer, lose all the weight i gained, get massages, buy new clothes, pamper myself, like i should be after being hit by a train. i think you should send her the bitch slap. they should have a recovery spa for all bc patients after tx, to detox from the chemo, lose the weight, give us beautiful real hair wigs, not the ones that make you look like you are wearing one and get us healthy and feeling good again. i hate that the oncy's just wipe their hands of the mess once your done chemo, i love my oncy, but all he ever says is it's the chemo and i have to wait it out!!!

    i have'nt taken the tamoxifen for two days and i feel better, so i know it's the d***m poison.