Can we have a forum for "older" people with bc?
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Petite, back in the day many homes had one of those wall-mounted manual grinders. When I traveled, I would pack a little portable one the size of a pepper mill (along with beans, an electric mini-kettle, and either Melitta-cone+filters, Aeropress or travel mug with a built-in French press). I didn't trust in-room drip coffeemakers at hotels--which recently have been replaced by those single-cup/filter-pack machines that make stale, weak and dreadful coffee. These days, of course, that's a moot point.
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Character is the product of daily, hourly actions, words and thoughts: daily forgiveness, unselfishness, kindnesses, sympathies, charities, sacrifices for the good of others, struggles against temptation, submissiveness under trial. It is these, like the blinding colors in a picture, or the blending notes of music, which constitute the person.
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Good morning, ladies. It is warm, 70 degrees already. This is laundry day and my wonderful cleaning lady and friend will be here this weekend. We are watching for the return of Eta. Here we go again. I will be glad when 2020 is over.
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Petite, I forget where you live but at 6:30 am it was already 55 - that is a typical high for this time of the year. We have tied or broken records at least three days this week - 77 and 79.
Time to get to my usual Friday - cleaning, cooking and grocery shopping.
Have a great day!
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Every day is a new beginning. Treat it that way. Stay away from what might have been, and look at what can be.
- Marsha Petrie Sue.
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The sun is out and how gorgeous it is. Did need a sweater to go feed the feral cats but it was fairly warm already -- just needed to have something got the breeze. Dh is in surgery as we speak but since I had some less then good reactions to anesthesia yesterday I spent most of the day in the step-down recovery room -- till about 5 p.m. last night. I had three tumors removed from my bladder ( big surprise ) and will await what the lab has to say about them. They were not there in July so that is a good thing to have found them really soon. Not sure what that will mean to over-all tx. but I will find out fairly soon I think so I'm looking on the positive side to deal with this complication.
I will be kept informed with hourly calls and could possibly go see him if he gets out of surgery soon enough. Since it was a little after 10 a.m. that may cut it close. I do not always drive as well at night and I'm not sure how soon they will get him done. I don't think it is super complicated but it takes two surgeons to do it so it could go longer than is good for me. Will just have to see.
Hope you all have a fantastic day.
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Jackie, glad you have sunshine today. Sounds like you can use all the positivity you can get today!
Prayers that DH's surgery and healing goes well and that your path report is negative. That said, my father had recurring bladder tumors and his treatment was surgical removal and local instillation of chemo into his bladder. He was in his late 60s or early 70s when first diagnosed and passed away from old age a month before his 98th birthday. He had more problems from arthritis than gallbladder tumors.
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Jackie: Here's hoping your husband does well post-op and that your bladder issues are no big deal.
On my repeat colonoscopy (one in June and second in September), the new MD found 3 additional polyps which were either new or missed in June. Positive of this was I went from a 3 year repeat to a 1 year repeat due to the nature of one polyp. Better safe than sorry. Fingers crossed.
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Betrayal, when it comes to the "bottom" it's always wise to "stay on top of things." Fingers crossed that the next 'scope removes the 3 new polyps and finds no others.
Bummer to hear Al Roker was dx'ed with prostate cancer--and despite catching it early, its Gleason score was high enough that surgery was recommended over brachytherapy. I figured something was up, because his voice sounded increasingly weak & raspy of late. Hope that was just fatigue and vocal overuse.
Because of yet another single-day COVID case record in IL (>10K), I expect tighter mitigation restrictions to be announced any day now. So I'm getting a root-touch-up and hair trim tomorrow. For reasons previously stated, no more Brazilian Blowouts. (The last one wore off quickly anyway, due to the salt content in my nocturnal scalp/nape sweat). I have hot tools and conditioners at home, and (duh) enough free time to use them.
I'm probably going to start songwriting again, despite not having any inspiration of late. I'll do the exercises recommended from back when I took classes over a decade ago (e.g., picking a topic at random, maybe trying alternate tunings, taking a catchphrase from the news or literature).
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Oh, and we turned away our exterminator when he showed up today for his monthly visit. For the past few months, their regular exterminators have been MIA--we'd get a newbie every month, some of whom didn't know to use pet-safe techniques and substances. At least they wore PPE. Not this new guy: he came to the door unmasked, no gloves, heavily tatted, with "gauges" in his earlobes. We spoke to him through the glass storm door. From what I've been able to gather, the company's exterminators have either been reluctant to enter people's homes or have themselves fallen ill.
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Sandy: You are correct that when it comes to the "bottom" it is better to stay on top. Those additional polyps found in September are long gone but due to the pre-cancerous state of one from June (the reason for colonoscopy # 2 since they were not sure it had been removed in entirety) and the number of polyps found in both June and September (>6) entitled me to join the annual colonoscopy club. Whoopee!!!
My Dad had colon ca which was successfully surgically excised but remained on the annual colonoscopy list for the rest of his life. He was my hero for more reasons than one but the best was the year he escorted my mother to her work Christmas gala even though he had a colonoscopy the next day. She would not go unescorted so he took his jug of Golytely, asked for a margarita glass and drank it through the entire filet & lobster meal as all others enjoyed their repast. Of course, we figured everyone else thought he was a "lush" and had a few laughs about that.
Your songwriting return sounds exciting. The news should provide you with lots of catchphrases, how about "Lindsey's lament" since he can no longer toady up or "the electoral college isn't a college at all", "Supreme Court justices injustice", etc. all parodies of today's political environs and fodder for your next legal muscial.
I am being facetious and I envy you your musical abilities. I cannot carry a tune to save my life and am the resident lip syncher when it comes to even Happy Birthday. Have fun being creative and share your results with us.
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The future is simply infinite possibility waiting to happen. What it waits on is human imagination to crystallize its possibility. -Leland Kaiser
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Another stunning day as all have been for awhile. Should be about 75 today. We do have good times -- so maybe this is Indian summer week. Sure has been nice and not too windy either. Hoping to pick up Dh later from the hospital. He has been up and walking and able to stand up striaght for the first time in almost two yrs. It was something he so wanted. I have to say he really had a sort of chimpanish look since his arms came forward with the rest of him. He said ( I know a grain of salt due to anesthia ) that they took out the three lower vertebra and smoothed them out, put spacers in and then the vertebra with cement. I don't know -- the Dr. was due to call me, but never did. It will all come out later. Also hoping for less back pain, but I don't know when your 81. If nothing was wrong with your back I'm not sure you wouldn't notice it at times.
Lots to do today and I'v e started going back to my job and always lots to do here. I will have Dh's jobs for awhile in addition to my own. Okay with me.
Sandy -- good luck on new compositions. I liked Betrayal's suggestions for parodies. Trump hasn't been good for much but he has kept the commedians in material this whole 4 yrs. and Sat Night quite lively.
Not sure how all those will play out, but oh I so look forward to being bored so to speak with government soon and not seeing a constant stream of whomever sits in high office.
Enjoy the day ladies. I hope it is pretty for all of you.
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Jackie, your DH may not have been too far off. My DH's back surgery involved L1 through L4. His surgeon's description likened the vertebrae to houses where they removed the roof to release the pressure, chopped up the removed bone and used it to make a bone graft for stability. His PT was to walk with a goal of walking a mile total each day by the time he had his first visit with the doctor and no lifting! As for pain relief, that is hard to tell as he also needed a total hIp replacement so the pain relief did not happen until that surgery 9 months later.
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I wish you humor and a twinkle in the eye.
I wish you glory and the strength to bear its burdens.
I wish you sunshine on your path and storms to season your journey.
I wish you peace--in the world in which you live and in the smallest corner
of the heart where truth is kept.
I wish you faith--to help define your living and your life.
More I cannot wish you--except perhaps love--to make all the rest worthwhile. -Robert A. Ward0 -
Betrayal, I hope your dad had a table very close to a bathroom as he drank his GoLytely from a margarita glass. I was afraid I wasn't going to even make it from the living room to the bathroom and finally ended up drinking it while in the bathroom.
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I heard someone say to just put the TV in your bathroom along with a good book and plan to just sit. I was thinking his plan was pretty risky too.
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Puffin: At that time (about 30 years ago) I think the GoLytely was slowly sipped over a longer period than it is today. Today's preps are much more volume associated over shorter periods of times in addition to the use of cathartics.
Wren44: I have a wall mounted flat screen TV in my bathroom and love it. It is small, mounted on the wall behind the door and I could watch the news in the AM as I prepared for work and/or watch leisurely from my tub while I was soaking on a weekend or day off. With the remote and a cup of tea, I could really escape.
Best investment I ever made. Do not have one in the MBR and would not want one there.
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Good morning, ladies. I haven't been on for a few days. It took a while to catch up. Down here in Florida it has been wind and clouds for several days. It looks like it will stay that way until Eta finally cuts across the state and pops out the other side. I think we will be in the center about Saturday, subject to change. It will be a long gloomy week.
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Wren - great suggestion for colonoscopy prep!!!
I refuse to put a TV in our bedroom. Our master bedroom is not huge so there wouldn't be room for a TV. But I manage. I'm not a good sleeper. I usually wake up at 4:00, lay in bed till 5 and then get up. DH is generally up by 6, so we watch the news early in the morning, and I also check work emails, personal emails and of course come here.
Weather has cooled off. It is 33 this morning at 6am and the other day was 55 at this same time. Mountains are to get snow, but not so much so for Denver.
Have a great Monday.
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Don't expect perfection and things to go the way you want them to when it comes to people, business, your prospects, and your social life. When things don't go according to your desires, when the weather of life is foul, be creative and consider what may be the higher reasons why this is happening and why you must adjust. Perhaps it's to gain forbearance, patience, inner strength, flexibility, or the ability to withhold criticism while serving as a loving model.
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We have one TV in the living room and go months without turning it on. I'm hoping to banish it when we move. We watch the news on our computers.
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Tippy had some kind of white organic thing clinging to the hair under his eye. I got most of it off. He was due for a bath, so I pulled at it without him complaining and it came off.
He slept most of the day yesterday. For the previous week he has been extraordinarily barky and out of sorts. It had nothing to do with mama's emotional status. I refuse to swear to that, however.
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I don't have cable TV. I do have internet TV and antenna, though.
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We have cable tv. here ( took yrs. to get it here in the woods ) and we each have a bedroom tv as well as a big one in the living room. Most of the time tv tends to cause me to nod off -- so I have no issue with one in my bedroom. I always make sure to set the timer because I seldom make it thru a whole half hr. segment of anything.
Warm nice day here though a tiny bit windy. It is just making more of the leaves detach from the trees. Sigh. We may have to leave them for Spring. I could do what is close to the house -- just don't know when I'd have time. Oh well.
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My late mother loved to get into bed and watch TV and fall asleep!!! We have cable - TV in the family room and in my husband's "man cave" - ooops, I mean his office. He has worked from home for 36 years. We often watch TV in his office at night. Lately, it's Netflix. We've binged watch several series over the past 8 months.
Cold and damp today. Light snow in Denver. Right now at almost 5:30 its 28 damp cold degrees!!!
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We've hit 70's for the past 5 days, oh so nice! We've cleaned up more in the yard, taken walks in the woods, taking full advantage of it. Temps drop fast as the sun sets, and the heat kicks on overnight, but worth it. I wish we had more of it, but by Wednesday they're calling for rain and we'll be back into the 50's for our highs.
We have cable tv in the living room, a Roku stick in the MB, and use an antena for a small tv when the screen house is up - now moved it into the front porch. When summer hits we like to eat dinner in the screen house with the news on. The computers can stream whatever we want really but I think the biggest laptop is 17", but that's ok if we're on the road.
Hope you all have a great night.
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Good morning, ladies. It is still cloudy, windy and light rain. Eta is still doing loops in the gulf. The course has changed somewhat and we are still in the outskirts of the cone. Several days to go.
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If You Want To Be TRUSTED, Be HONEST.
If You Want To Be HONEST , Be TRUE.
If You Want To Be TRUE , BE YOURSelf….Anonymous
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Thinking of you petite. I hope for minimal issues for all there. We may get rain this afternoon. It is still fairly warm ( Indian summer type warmth ) which will surely diminish, especially if it rains. I'm busy but happy.
Hope you all have a truly nice day.
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