Can we have a forum for "older" people with bc?
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Oh Alyson, sorry to hear about your MiL but so very glad it's nothing worse than a broken hip.....not that one of those is good. Your GD looks like she has thoroughly enjoyed her "fluffy" . Hope you manage to get some rest soon.
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Nope, no skype. I'll ask my husband about it.
My GD got her second tooth today. She is so danged cute as are your Alyson and Crissy!
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Ooo Ginger the sight of those first teeth is just the cutest thing ever! I love to see them flash as the little ones laugh! Oh what joy!
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I DID IT!!!.....am officially signed up for SKYPE....just have to get some phone #'s now, I think. And do I pay for minutes or what? Tim is going to hook up the camera for me since I don't want to use the laptop. Off to PT now.
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Alyson...wishes that all goes well with your MIL. I saw a great affirmation this morning.
- Peace comes when I let go of trying to control every tiny detail.
Raining here today, but hope it stops as it comes time to get out and feed the feral cats at the colonies. Peaceful though to wake up to the patter it makes on the roof.
Hope you all have a good day.
IllinoisLady
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{{{Alyson}}} Prayers going up for your MIL. Poor thing. Your GD is so adorable! Ginger, I hear you about grouchy DH. 3jays!! Missed you gal! I checked and AirTran has a flight from Ft Lauderdale to ATL with a layover. You and I will meet up there, since my plane goes there too and catches the same flight to Branson. Branson is maybe 10 miles from the cabin.
Chrissy, I signed up for Skype, too. I requested to be added to your address book. Now I need to get the webcam thing sorted.
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Well, I have Skype and have no clue how to use it..my laptop has speakers and camera
built in, so did my last one..can we get a group call or is it just one at a time??
I really should read the instructions
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alyson, hope your MIL will have a successful operation, I am so
saddened to hear about her accident. Guess it is time to stop driving
although my mother still drives at 91 and according to reports does well.
I have never ridden with her. I always drive when she is here or me there.
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Hey Kathy!
I'm here, just reading along.
At the moment, I'm just trying to get ready for the onslaught of pollen! The yellow pollen covers EVERYTHING! I'm in the process of hauling everything off my screened porch into the house for the next month or so.
Hope everyone is doing well! Chrissy, your trip sounds so exciting - I can imagine how difficult (and fun) it must be planning it!
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wow! allyson, your GD looks like she enjoyed that "fluffy" not something we use here.. a peanut butter and marshmallow??? hope your MIL is better. a broken hip is so hard, as we get older. im praying she'll do well with surgery..
Mur and i are getting concerned with his mom. i don't think SHE should be driving, either. i want to avoid the accident, if we can. we may spend this wkend with them, and broach the subject. they now have a aide some 4xs a wk., so she can drive them, if need be..
Barbara, i'll look for Air Tram.. we'll see what we can do about atl. it sounds like a good plan. gotta see if chrissy is coming here 1st, or after, then we;ll make solid plans.. its exciting. im not spending ANY $$ till then, flowers will be sparse this year. the airfaire will be enough.. but not as bad as chrissys!!!
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I did wonder if you knew what a 'fluffy' was. It is a drink that children get at a cafe. Its hot fluffed milk with chocolate sprinkled on top served in cups that are used for expresso coffee. We have a real coffee culture here and this is a way of letting children think they are having the same as Mum. They usually get marshmellows with it.
We are waiting to hear about MiL. WIll go over to visit tonight.
Big hugs to all especially those who are at the beginning of this journey.
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Oh Alyson, that fluffy sounds just lovely! I'm going to make cocoa tonight for sure. Had a great day goofing around with a bunch of quilting ladies (and one man). My dog came to the group and everyone mushed over him, then he slept for 2 hours. To people who live on the west coast, I'm in Oregon near Portland, not far from the Washington border and Olympic peninsula. If ever a West Coast group comes together I would love to be there. Dragonflymary (Lynda)--PS--hope MIL is doing okay.
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Sounds like somethIng I would like!
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Susgal, where is Everson? I've been to Bellingham and Friday Harbour. Want to do some trailer camping up there if I can get healthy enough to do it soon. Love the Northwest for scenery and trees. The camping is awesome. Dragon
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Marybe...do you remember this? Posted on: Nov 4, 2009 07:08 am
Denver, Co
Joined: Nov 2009
Posts: 752 Chevyboy wrote:I'm so afraid! I am 72, & thought I was too old to even have my yearly mammogram! But turns out, everything went fine, until Sally Jobe called me, & said I have to go in for a follow-up ultra sound & compression tests. During the ultra-sound, the radiologist came in, & took over the test, then I asked, "what do you think it is?" He said "My best guess is you have breast cancer, & what we would do, is a lumpectomy followed with radiation." Well, my heart turned inside out. I just wanted to hit my head against the wall, getting dessed. I called my husband in, talked to a scheduler, told him what they said, & was scheduled for a biopsy at some place I never even heard about! THEN I woke up in a cold sweat that night, thought about my insurance, my doctor, & felt like I was on a run-a-way train going nowhere! So the next morning I called my Doctor, told her what she said & SHE said, call them back, cancel that appointment, get your film, your report & the "disk"....All was sent to her, then to the breast center at Lutheran Hospital, & I am scheduled for an ultra sound guided core biopsy this coming Monday! At least my Doctor is in charge, & being closer to my house, helps.Will I know for sure after the biopsy what it shows? Or must I wait even longer to hear? I just wish this was all over! My Daughters were so mad that the radiologist even MENTIONED that I probably had cancer, without further testing! So I'll go in for the biopsy, & with God's help, all of this worrying is for nothing! Am I the oldest gal here? I just haven't talked to anyone yet about all this, except my family....Maybe I'm just afraid over nothing! TX, Jeannettehttp://community.breastcancer.org/forum/83/topic/743267?page=1
You sent me the nicest answer!
Nov 4, 2009 07:31 am Marybe wrote:
By all means go with the biopsy as it will show whatever the mammogram and ultrasound detected really is. Many times a spot will show up that is nothing but a cyst. I am sure there are some women on here as old as you are, but age doesn't matter much since we all are in this together. I hope you get a good report, if not you will find a lot of support and answers to questions from the women on these boards. There is one thread called Older women with breast cancer. I have not gone there yet cuz I am " young." (at heart perhaps) ...just pushing 60.
I was just trying to see when I first started posting.... I just wanted to thank you again, for helping me, be not so afraid..... You don't have to answer if you don't want....just wanted you to know.
Remember Jo-5 and Spar? Wow...lots of memories, with lots of caring women. Been almost 1 & 1/2 years...& still NED!!!
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Dragon, Everson is about 12 miles out of Bellingham.
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Chevyboy..Marybe is like that, isn't she ?
It seems much more than 18 months since you came here...miss you, no-one to talk race cars with !! How's life ? Get yourself here more often !
Isabella.
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Thank you Isabella....missed you too!
I lost my hearing...because of Tamoxifen...Got fancy new hearing aids...other than that, I'm good!
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Susgul and dragon I too would be interested. There are a lot of us from the NW on these boards.
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Chevyboy, No I really don't remember it, but I DO remember you and am glad you thought it was a nice answer and that it gave you some comfort. And I was only 59 then....ONLY!!...it's all relevant, isn't it?. I am actually finding 61 to be tolerable,,,,,don't like some of the aging effects, but know I am not alone in that. I think about you often and wondered how you were and am so glad to hear you are still NED.
Dragonfly...my sister lives in Milwaukie OR which I would guess is close to you.
The cataract specialist says they are ready so I just have to decide when...he said I won't even have to go off my coumadin to have the procedure done and it is outpatient and afterward. I won't even have to wear glasses. I said, But I like wearing glasses, it hides the bags under my eyes. He said the potential was probably there since my father and grandparents all had cataracts, but that the steroids most likely sped the process up. After I have this done I am just going to tell them they need to figure out a new premed for me....heck, I will say OK to the benedryl and just plan on going home to bed instead of to work the way I usually do. Driving home with dialated eyes was something else....headlights were almost blinding. They were not kidding me when they said I would be there about 4 hrs...just got home about 30 mins ago.
I have Melissa's phone # at the hospital so am going to try to call her. I am glad they determined it was pneumonia and now she can get some help.
Am going to bed early tonight because I am tired. Sleep tight, ladies.
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Chevyboy...how fantastic to see you here. I went back and looked at many of the posts back when we "old-timers" were posting and got the moderators to make this a forum. It was a wonderful bunch of ladies and I miss them a lot.
I'm glad to say hi here and consider yourself hugged. It's for the good times.
IllinoisLady
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Marybe, yes Milwaukee is close to Portland!! Let me know how the cataract surgery goes--I have to have that probably next year. Meanwhile I'm learning how to be an "old woman." Actuallly I do really like being old!! I'm 65 and I have breasts like a teenager (thanks to breast cancer), and I finally can have long hair (it's so much cheaper), and I finally can have gray hair (don't have to look young for work) and everyday is pretty much Saturday. Problems: no money and my health is a challenge. Do I care? No. I'd rather pick up cans and go to the Dr. every single day than go back to work. I worked for 45 years and it's great not to have to be "nice" anymore. I'm breaking out here and my hair is comin' down--look out people. I'm planning to be come a "difficult old woman" any day now!!
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LOL Drangonfly, I like your attitude girl!! Not quite 60 here but can I join you?
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Dragonfly " you go girl"!!!
65 yr. old IlinoisLady
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Dragonfly,
You made me laugh! Yes, we don't have to be NICE to anyone we don't want to ANY MORE!
I am woman, hear me ROAR!!!
61-yr-old ColoradoLady
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Dragon, I like your attitude
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Does anyone have that poem on their computers about when I get old I will
wear purple??
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I found it
When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired
And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
And run my stick along the public railings
And make up for the sobriety of my youth.I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
And pick the flowers in other peoples' gardens
And learn to spit.You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat
And eat three pounds of sausages at a go
Or only bread and pickles for a week
And hoard pens and pencils and beermats and things in boxes.But now we must have clothes that keep us dry
And pay our rent and not swear in the street
And set a good example for the children.
We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.But maybe I ought to practice a little now?
So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised
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That poem always reminds me of a lady I knew who threw herself a HUGE birthday party when she turned 50 (I remember thinking, boy she IS old!). She had several acres of walking trails through the woods, and she had "stations" set up every 30 feet or so. There would be a bit of poetry - usually referring to fairies or butterflies or small forest animals - and then you would have to look around until you found the fairy or butterfly then you could move to the next station. There were dozens of stations! She was standing at the final station, with that poem, and wearing purple with a red hat! At that point, you finally got to give her your birthday greetings! It was a great party....I meant to do that, and now I'm 55....oh, well, maybe when I hit 60!
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Love that poem, Lisa. Thanks.
Good to see you, HnS! Marybe, I must have missed something. SV's in the hospital? Really, I hope she is and can get some relief. I've worried about her staying alone trying to cope, and this will be the best thing.
Kathy
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