Can we have a forum for "older" people with bc?
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Petite -- that is interesting. I don't recall ever hearing things put that way although I do think some things are likely expected just due to the face that there was a surgery. Also, it has been a long time for me and I may not recall what was said after my first few mammograms. It is time for me to get another one. Just got a letter from the hospital.
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My mammos have also reported " normal post surgical changes". Depending on which radiologist is writing the report those changes may or may not be more detailed. Always happy to see the BIRADS 2, benign changes, though.
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You’re so amazingly brave Sandy. Not talking about the eye, though, of course, it applies there, but the Navy Pier Ferris Wheel. OMG, the horror!!
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Judy, the Centennial Wheel at Navy Pier is so slow that I find it not at all scary. Last year we did the High Roller in Vegas--which didn't even seem like a Ferris wheel, what with a cocktail bar in every other fully-enclosed car. Briefly considered riding the London Eye back in Nov.--but when we saw the length of the line we realized that would have taken a huge chunk of time out of our visits to Westminster Abbey & St. Paul's. My favorite Ferris wheel is the one each summer in Paris' "Fête Foraine," anchoring the gloriously seedy carnival midway that hugs the Right Bank of the Seine between the Tuileries & Pont d'Alma. It is reasonably swift, and tall enough to give commanding views of the city all the way north to Sacre Coeur and south to the Tour Montparnasse. I've also ridden the wheels at Six Flags Great America, Seattle Center's Fun Forest, Montreal Expo 67's La Ronde, Santa Monica Pier, (the late, great) Palisades Park, Knott's Berry Farm, and the Puyallup Fair outside Tacoma. Meh--all meh. (Been to Sandusky, OH's Cedar Point many times--but never rode its wheel. Everyone knows you go there for the roller coasters).
Oh--and any current and ex-NYers here remember Steeplechase Park (including the mechanical horse races on the roof) and its parachute jump? From a distance, it appeared that the chutes drifted gracefully down; but when actually riding the thing (and enjoying the ocean view during the leisurely ascent), as soon as you hit the top the sudden descent was terrifyingly rapid. But Riverview? Alas, by the time I moved here to Chicago it had alredy been demolished--replaced by a strip mall and police station.
But the only wheel I found scary? That would be Coney Island's Wonder Wheel--an "eccentric" wheel on which some cars are conventionally attached to the wheel, but most cars are suspended from a pair of curved rails that make the car undulate wildly with each stop to load and unload riders. It is the perfect teenage "date ride" (at least from the boy's point of view) because when the car makes its swing, one's instinct is to hug away the terror. (Some may say "egest one's cotton candy & Nathan's hot dog" but I never ate along the Boardwalk and rode the wheel within an hour of each other).
But given the choice between surgeries for ocular melanoma brachytherapy and a trip on the Wonder Wheel?....Well, here--hold my hot dog and lemon slushie...
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Sandy - glad to hear you've had some improvement, re pain. You're a trooper!
Mammo - I get yearly and believe the same mention of surgical changes. I go again in October.
We've shoveled dirt, dug trenches to put steal lath in - to keep critters from digging under the fence, got an old door out of the way to put up a recycled door (old front porch door) up. Today I ran down to our port where a stone/mulch/dirt company is, to look at stone and get prices. I need to get landscape fabric down and cover it w stone, and put up an edge too. I wish I was Samantha on "Bewitched" because this will be so labor intensive to get done!
We're driving out to the Utica Zoo tomorrow w my niece and her daughter. A lot of areas closed, no water fountains, masks at all times, they sound like they're doing a great job cleaning (or shutting down risk areas) and we'll carry hand sanitizer. We're hoping for a nice safe outing.
Hoping every one is on track with healing, or on track with getting medical issues resolved. Have a good day tomorrow.
PS - I too was at Expo 67 in Montreal.
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I also was at Expo 67 - went numerous times with my maternal grandparents as we were visiting with them. A 2 week trip turned into 6 weeks as my mother (obm) had emergency surgery. I remember riding the log flume ride and my grandparents not wanting us to get wet and make us duck down. Sandy - also Cedar Point many times and yes, the old wooden roller coaster. Sandy - glad to hear your eye is healing and you should only get good news.
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Good morning, Ladies. Light rain this morning.
ChiSandy, I am glad you are doing better. It has been too many years since I have been on any scary rides. I can't even remember the scariest. LOL
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Sandy, sounds like you are making good progress, staying in your pocket met for healing.
Have not been to an amusement park for years. I did like the Ferris wheel but roller coasters are a no no. Last time I rode one was at Cedar Point, our school aged boys talked me into it and I had to be helped to a bench when we got off so the world could quit spinning. I joked that the cilia in my ears got braided on the ride and they had to unwind before I could walk straight again.
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Thanks, Karen! We also visited cousins in Montreal (though we stayed at the Q.E. downtown)--but until last year when the estate of a distant relative (whom I had no idea existed) in Paris necessitated an heirship search by a gov't genealogist, I had no idea I have more cousins in Canada and the UK than in the US! My paternal grandparents came to NYC via Ellis Island during the early 20th century; but their siblings chose Montreal instead--maybe its winters reminded them of their Polish shtetl--and those who survived the Shoah either joined them or preferred London, Swansea, or Paris. (A couple of them wound up outside Tel Aviv). My mom's side left Belarus in advance of the Tsar's "invitation" to join the army--by 1920, very few remained across the pond. For Mom's side, it was "Brooklyn or bust."
My mom is also "z'l" (translation of Hebrew equivalent of "obm"), 14 years now. Still can't believe she's gone. My first instinct whenever I check into a hotel upon arrival is to call her and let her know I've arrived safely. But as we Jewish mothers (and daughters of Jewish mothers) well know, my mom would not only know I'd arrived, but also: when my plane landed; any delays and causes thereof; what gate; what carousel at which to retrieve my bags; and what I ate in-flight. (Only kidding about the latter...maybe...).
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Love Ferris wheels and have ridden the London "Eye". You can reserve a time for the "Eye" as we did on our second attempt to ride due to long lines that seemed to go for miles. It featured champagne after in a lovely Victorian building near it and a souvenir book. Panorama of London was wonderful even if a bit overcast.
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My favorite coaster is the twin-track wooden "Gemini" at Cedar Point, especially the part where it seems you're about to plunge into Lake Erie! I like it even better than the "Cyclone" of my Brooklyn youth and Great America's "American Eagle." Not a big fan of the metal ones that loop-the-loop, go upside down & backwards & through tunnels (though my first ride in 1980 on the Loch Ness Monster in Williamsburg, VA's Busch Gardens was, uh, so "interesting" that I actually took a repeat ride--I was young then and so was my digestive system). In my old age I find the horizontal spinning rides (e.g., "Round-Up, "Spider," "Trabant," and the seemingly innocuous "Teacups") far more dyspepsia-inducing than the coasters. Most recent amusement park ride I took was the venerable Central Park carousel in summer 2018. Seems like a lifetime ago!
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Contemplating how we came to be here is like trying to find the ends of space. We find no answers, only wonder and awe and gratitude for being invited. Counting our blessings leads to a desire to give something back. Thus begins the path of service, the fruit of our journey, the gateway to joy. -Dan Millman
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Up early this a.m. so to get the kitties done. Had to go to Marion, Illinois to get my CT scan done. My lung nodule is not doing anything. That is always good news. The Dr. showed me my 'missing' kidney -- that is where it used to be. That was interesting. Anyway, home late as usual and getting ready to go back to Sandoval and do the kitties again.
Hope you all had a wonderful day.
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Sandy - today is my late FIL 37th yarzheit. My family immigrated from Russia and Austria in the early 1900s. Most of the extended family is still in Montreal and/or Toronto. A few of us moved to the states. Of course, now most of the "older generation" is gone. MY DH and I are the senior generation for our family. I haven't been to Montreal since 2013. Our trips outside the US are to visit our kids.
The last time I rode a roller coaster I was in my 50s when my DD#2 convinced me to ride it with her. Never could handle the twirlly rides. I remember my mother loving the roller coast and wild mouse always riding with my brother and I when we were little kids. Of course she was young then - She was a young mother. I remember asking her when she would feel old and I think she said when my brother turned 50 because with a 50 year old son you would have to be a certain age. She had my brother 2 weeks before her 20th birthday and me 19 months later so she was young. when my brother turned 50. She had her first way younger than me and then I had my last about the same age she was, when I got married!!!
Thanks for bringing up fond memories by talking about amusement park rides.
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Oh, yeah, I remember the Wild Mouse, but mostly the one at Palisades Amusement Park in NJ across the Hudson from Manhattan. (I was too young to drive back then, so getting there from Brooklyn was quite an odyssey: a bus to the subway, subway to the PATH "Hudson Tubes" station in lower Manhattan, PATH train to Jersey City, and finally a bus to Ft. Lee). That ride looked innocuous compared to the roller coasters, but once aboard I realized it was no "kiddie park ride." What does it say about me that I can still sing the Palisades Amusement Park radio spot jingle? (Maybe as a medley with the theme song from "Car 54, Where Are You?"). The jingle is seared into my memory; the Freddie Cannon pop song "Palisades Park," not so much.
Haven't been back to Montreal since 2005, nor Toronto since 2013 (both for the Folk Alliance Int'l conferences). When I lived in Seattle, we'd drive up to Vancouver often for Sunday dim sum brunch, and occasionally take ferries or the hydrofoil to Victoria. But I haven't been to BC since 1990.
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Sorry you missed Riverview, Sandy. I don't remember the roller coasters there but loved the parachutes and the "shoot the shoots." My last Ferris wheel ride was in France - one of the towns we stopped at during our river cruise for our 50th. Don't remember one in Paris although we were there in July. I keep saying I want to do a real parachute jump for my 75 birthday but Ken doesn't seem to jump on that as an idea.
Stay well everyone.
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Happy to see so many people here went to Expo67! I was living in Montreal at the time and had a "passport" (like an all-season pass) that I could get stamped at every pavilion. And I saw EVERY pavilion - the last one on the last day of the fair. We also had a bunch of out-of-town company and I was the official tour guide. I have some wonderful memories from that summer, and I think it's where I got my love of travel!
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Pingpong - We also had a passport - 53 years ago so not quite sure how many times we went - but lots and lots!!! And we saw everything as well. I have fond memories of growing up - when my mother passed away in 2018, I wrote her a letter before she passed away writing about all the memories - Mt.Royal and Beaver Lake, La Ronde, Belmont Park, we used to go to St. Agathe in the summer or to Lake George and Lake Placid in the states.There was an Algonquin tourist town outside of Montreal that we always went to when I was little - I can see the name in my head but can't spell it and don't see it on the list of "Indian" reserves in Quebec.
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Kahnawaki (not sure of spelling)is the reservation south of Montreal. Did you live in MTL?
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Pingpong - I couldn't figure out how to spell it but that is it. I had it in my name with something like Coginawaha It was so much fun to go there. Yes, I lived in MTL.
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Good morning, ladies. Karen, my husband's family came from Russia and Germany to Canada, in the late 1800's. Then into Michigan.
Hope everyone is well.
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Karen, I don't know what your political leanings are (and I'm not adding politics here) but here's an interesting tidbit: When Kamala Harris was 12 her mother took a job at the Jewish General working on breast cancer research. She also taught at McGill. Kamala ended up graduating from Westmount High (I'm from Cote St Luc, so kind of my neck of the woods) before returning to the US for college. I wonder what types of breast cancer research they were doing at the Jewish in the 70's?
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Expo 67 - my dad was one to say: we have full tank of gas and money in our pocket, lets go. And that we did. We walked our feet off, not sure we saw everything but we were there from morning through night - had to see the water show w dancing colors. Then we had to find a place to stay the night, in an over booked city. End up in a private home, renting rooms. Great memories!
Our last trip to Montreal was maybe 3 years ago. But a few years before that we went to some casino...that was the Expo 67 world globe thing! It was an OMG moment.
Back to rides - as I age, had vertigo at one point, and I think visual changes over the years, I don't like them! I'll hold your bags.
Hope everyone is doing great today!
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Actually, the casino is in the old French pavilion. The dome was turned into some sort of nature display.
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Westmount was quite upscale back in the day--I remember my aunts being very impressed that a cousin was engaged to a "Westmount girl."
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Pingpong - I did read that about her mother at MCGill and Jewish General. But I didn't know that she graduated Westmount H.S. Yes, interesting what type research on BC was done in the 70s. Lots of relatives in Cote St. Luc.
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The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong."
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I am now adding Montreal to my places I want to go. You all made it sound so interesting.
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Hi, mistyeyes, I haven't heard from you in a while. Hope all is well.
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