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  • kmccraw423
    kmccraw423 Member Posts: 885
    edited October 2009

    Coming on here feels like getting together with old friends any time I want:

    good morning

  • kmccraw423
    kmccraw423 Member Posts: 885
    edited October 2009
    JO - I am going to start praying for you right now!Smile
  • kmccraw423
    kmccraw423 Member Posts: 885
    edited October 2009

    Hehehe ... I used to worry about being graceful - now I am just concerned with being upright.

  • carolehalston
    carolehalston Member Posts: 8,214
    edited October 2009
    Jo, we'll all be holding our breath collectively and waiting for you to check in and say the ironing session went safely!Wink
  • mgm42
    mgm42 Member Posts: 18
    edited October 2009

    I'm with you.  I was 65 when diagnosed, now 67.  Would love to have contact with others in my age bracket who may be facing some additional health problems, too, i.e high blood pressure, cholesterol, overweight, etc.  That would be just GREAT!

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,777
    edited October 2009

    Welcome Marilynn but sorry that you need to be here.  I have many of your current problems, blood pressure, wt, cholesterol.  bad thyroid, etc.  I am 64 and getting younger by the year.  I am fortunate so far that most everything I have taken has worked well for me.  Have been on Arimidex 11 months and nothing so far but clomping around now and then and "feeling" weather changes in my joints. 

    This is a wonderful group of women since we are well seasoned and many are good at hand holding and helping you get through some of the touch times.  Helen, Kathleen Patoo, Jo, Carole, Lassie, Allyson, Mother of 7, Maire, SoCalLisa, Rita,Same Day Nurse Jan,  --  I know I have forgotten some....but they are all wonderful so hope you will pull up a chair, and sit a spell with us. 

    I need to get ready for work tomorrow so I will see all o fyou. 

    Hugs, Jackie 

  • Gramof3
    Gramof3 Member Posts: 111
    edited October 2009

    Hello, Chooks!

    JO, I'm so glad you are safe...you didn't brand anything while the iron was hot, did you?

    Welcome, Marilynn.  This is a great thread--it helps if you are a bit zaney since we really enjoy kidding each other as well as virtual "visiting"  and supporting the other seasoned women.

    GOOD NEWS--I finished my last rads today!  I am very burned and sore, but I'm done!  (I'm also sooo tired and will head for bed now).  Take care.  Helen

  • Alyson
    Alyson Member Posts: 3,737
    edited October 2009

    I think I am a silly chook at present. An hour of pilates has nearly done me in. My trainer is a torturer in disguise. The poor old joints were complaining before I went now they are starting to go out in protest.

    Hi Marilyn, welcome aboard. We are slightly mad but great company. Have found its a great place to come and chat. 

    Must go and put something on for dinner and intend backing some biscuits (cookies to those in North America)

    Alyson

  • socallisa
    socallisa Member Posts: 10,184
    edited October 2009

    Hi all..I have been sick but am up and running again..

    Kathleen...the details are part of the function of the camera

    so some of the photos can be blown up to poster size..I have a couple

    of them that I had done...one for a museum..a panoramic of our valley

    Helen..glad you are done with rads..congrats..

    Hi Marilyn..welcome..I will be 67 in a few weeks, yikes, I forgot about that...

    Hi Jacky...bet your fall will be beautiful this year..that is one thing I miss about Southern Cal..

    Jo..come on over and help me iron...I am too pooped for that tonight..we are having a redo of

    our kitchen starting Monday so I have to get everything from the past 33 years out of there..yikes..

    Hugs all around...

  • junie
    junie Member Posts: 784
    edited October 2009

    hugggssss, chooks....Lisa, glad you are feeling better.

    Ladies, I started a topic in the forum separate from this thread so as not to detract.  Hope some of you will read and offer me some advice and good thoughts to mull over.

  • kmccraw423
    kmccraw423 Member Posts: 885
    edited October 2009

    I posted this in the "Housework" thread but it bears repeating here:

    friendship quotes

    Welcome Marilynn!  I am 62 (61 at diagnosis) and will be 63 on January 3rd - yikes!!!!!!!

    Lisa - I don't care what you say - your are the genuis not the camera!

    JO - so relieved - now step away from the ironing board and no one gets hurt!

    Alyson - feel much the same - went to physical therapy already hurting big time - PT did not help.

    Gramof2 - Wow - congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    congrats

    A hearty good morning to all the great ladies out there!  Especially, Jackie, Carole, Mandy, Bonnie, Mgm42 and any that I've missed.  My short term memory is shot so forgive me if I missed someone.

  • ritajean
    ritajean Member Posts: 4,042
    edited October 2009

    Hey Gram of 3.........YEA!  You're now a RAD GRAD!  Done.....finished......YEA!

    JO...maybe you should just toss those pants and shirts this year.  I just found my basket of ironing that I left from last year and the things in the basket don't look any better than when I put them there!  LOL   I've been doing some major cleaning in my closets and have taken several sacks to the dumpster and I'm still not done!   Oh well, it's a good project for these rainy, dreary fall days.  It's too wet and damp to walk here, too and I've had some allergy problems and have a bad case of laryngitis. 

    Welcome Marilynn.  You're going to love the gals on this site!

    Hey Lisa...I hope you're feeling better. 

    Concerning the Vitamin-D/Vitamin D-3 topic:  I do take Vitamin D-3 every day.  My oncologist says that there is a strong correlation between low Vitamin D levels and breast cancer.  A high percentage of women who are diagnosed are low in Vitamin D at the time of diagnosis.  He says that there is no research that shows that vitamin D supplements will ward off cancer.  He says that there are several studies now in the works about this but there has been no conclusive results yet.  Therefore, he doesn't really push Vitamin D to his patients.  I take it because I discovered that it helps with my joint pain when taken in conjunction with magnesium.

    Well, we have a special breast cancer group meeting tonight.  Paul Mitchell is going to be giving us mini manicures and then our local group is heading to Ruby Tuesdays for dinner.  I need to get moving.  

    I hope it'[s nicer weather in your neck of the woods.  I'm tired of this monsoon season in Illinois! I need my sunshine!

    Rita 

  • pj12
    pj12 Member Posts: 18,108
    edited October 2009

    Hi Ritajean,

    I am getting out a shipping box and am going to fill it with some of our hot Florida sunshine because right now we have plenty!  Highs in the low 90s, humidity 90%, nighttime lows are in the low 70s.  I walk every AM and come home sweating and frizzy headed.  I'd better hurry to get it packed as "they" say temps are going to fall some by Saturday.

    Oops, just as I typed this a shower came through.  Thanks for making it rain!

    Pam 

  • carolehalston
    carolehalston Member Posts: 8,214
    edited October 2009

    Pam, we're obviously living in the same weather zone.  Weatherman keeps promising that the front hovering just north of us will finally come through tomorrow and bring some cooler, dryer air.  Here's hoping!  It has been too wet for golf without rubber knee boots. 

    I did some research on Vit. D yesterday, and it's not water soluble.  I don't think I would take it without a dr.'s recommendation because too much is not a good thing.  Excess would not be expelled in urine like Vit C.  The next time I go to my PCP, I will ask about testing for Vit D level.  Currently I take a senior multiple vitamin and Calcium w/D.  Plus I spend a good bit of time outside in the sun year-round.  The question is whether the older (seasoned) person benefits from the sun except to develop skin cancers.Undecided

  • Maire67
    Maire67 Member Posts: 418
    edited July 2010

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  • Maire67
    Maire67 Member Posts: 418
    edited October 2009

    We're now getting your rain and even some snow here.  Can it be winter already?  On my last visit the onc said to take D3...but I was taking it already.   I work full time still and hate to come out of work in the dark.   I never seem to take a lunchtime walk in the sun...I'll have to start this year.

    Hurray for you Helen...what a good day that is when you finish rads.  Hope you feel better soon.

    JO...I'm thinking about your sil and thinking she's in her 60s ...it was pretty funny.  Too cold here to do that.    Hiding in sweats here...but glad I"m not in the Fla. with Pam.

     Lisa...feel better...Good luck with the kitchen...it will be beautiful when you finish.  Loved your picture..

    Hey Kathleen, I'm blessed to have some good friends and family that fit your friends description.

     Marilyn,,Welcome....  Maire 

  • Maire67
    Maire67 Member Posts: 418
    edited October 2009

    We're now getting your rain and even some snow here.  Can it be winter already?  On my last visit the onc said to take D3...but I was taking it already.   I work full time still and hate to come out of work in the dark.   I never seem to take a lunchtime walk in the sun...I'll have to start this year.

    Hurray for you Helen...what a good day that is when you finish rads.  Hope you feel better soon.

    JO...I'm thinking about your sil and thinking she's in her 60s ...it was pretty funny.  Too cold here to do that.    Hiding in sweats here...but glad I"m not in the Fla. with Pam.

     Lisa...feel better...Good luck with the kitchen...it will be beautiful when you finish.  Loved your picture..

    Hey Kathleen, I'm blessed to have some good friends and family that fit your friends description.

     Marilyn,,Welcome....  Maire 

  • pj12
    pj12 Member Posts: 18,108
    edited October 2009

    CaroleH,

    Please let us know when you get your Vitamin D level checked.  I can't imagine that we who live in the sunbelt aren't getting enough via sunshine.  I, too, take Calcium w/ Vitamin D and assume it is enough.  Is milk a source of Vitamin D...I think it is added to it, isn't it?  Used to drink a lot of milk but less now as we try to limit our carb intake.  

    I imagine our climate is quite similar if you are in southern Louisiana.  Hot and sticky.  Maybe northern Louisiana is less humid?  But we are lucky to have mild winters to compensate for our summers.  And living near the ocean is cooler than living inland in Florida... usually a nice breeze.  But not like California where the ocean breeze really cools things off... now that is heaven.

    SNOW?  Already?  I will settle for hot and muggy :) 

    Pam 

  • patoo
    patoo Member Posts: 5,243
    edited October 2009

    Marilyn, welcome.  Come on in; take a load off; pull up a stool and sit a little.  Oops, sorry I can't stay right now but you will be in good company anytime you stop by.

    I'm still extremely exhausted plus my right knee, hip and wrist hurt.  Seeing ortho doc t'm am about the knee (most pain) and hip (some pain).   Will do the wrist splints which seemed to help before.  Right now I'm back to where I was during rads, meaning ready for bed at 8:30.  At least tonight and tomorrow I had no plans so can relax.  Saturday will not get out of my pj's. 

    Maire - liked your post so much I read all three.  LOL

  • patoo
    patoo Member Posts: 5,243
    edited October 2009

    Pam, I'm with you and ready to move to FL (or anywhere there is no snow!)

    Night all.

  • Maire67
    Maire67 Member Posts: 418
    edited July 2010

    Sorry about the runaway submit key...I'm impatient like my impatien....sorry that was awful but had to plug my picture.

  • socallisa
    socallisa Member Posts: 10,184
    edited October 2009

    I cannot believe how much junk has accumulated in my kitchen

    in the past 33 years..before that we moved all the time and I went

    through it ...yikes...especially in the corner bottom cabinets...stuff

    I never remember even having

  • carolehalston
    carolehalston Member Posts: 8,214
    edited October 2009

    SoCAlLisa, I admire you for having your kitchen redone  I got some prices for new counter tops 3 yrs ago but couldn't bring myself to commit to the upheaval involved in the installation.  Emptying all the bottom cabinets.  Doing without a kitchen for however long the process took.  I'm still living with the old counter tops.  I'm thinking next years....  maybe.....

  • Isabella4
    Isabella4 Member Posts: 1,352
    edited October 2009

    I did my kitchen right out this Spring, threw away things I found at the back of my cupboards that I had been tramping round the country, from house to house, for 40 odd years.

    I'd never used most of them, things I bought before I got married 45 years ago, silly gadgets I had picked up thru the years, it has been lovely to see some shelf room......now , what am I doing ?? picking up bits and pieces again as I walk thru kitchen stores, thinking 'this will come in handy'

    They never did 40 years ago, so why am I buying all this rubbish again !! I hate to cook, yet I seem drawn to kitchen departments as I shop . I have a 'thing' about lime green bits and bobs, keep buying lime green spoons, spatulas, and even a lime green cheese grater, I need steering firmly away from these things, as I know I shall probably never use them this time round.

    This w/end I am hoping DH is going to hang me a very large mirror. Its been standing 18 months now waiting to go up. Its 6' tall, and very heavy, I am sick of worrying one of the g/kids will send it flying ! DH had his Carpal Tunnel op. put back one week, thought he would be in bandages and unable to do much, so while he has a w/end free I'm jumping on him to get my mirror up ! He doesn't know it yet!!

    Isabella.

  • carolehalston
    carolehalston Member Posts: 8,214
    edited October 2009

    The much-awaited front came through last night with dramatic thunder and lightning and more rain that we didn't need, since the ground is already saturated.  This morning it was cool with a north wind.  Now the sun is out.  Temperature no higher than low 70's today.  Really nice.Smile  Helps out with the utility bills to have the A/C turned off and the patio door open to welcome the cool air. 

    This afternoon I plan to catch up on the ironing.  Do I sense shudders from various time zones?

    Hope everyone is having a good day.

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,777
    edited October 2009

    I know I can count big time and without  a doubt on all of you wonderful ladies.  My sister-in-law just found out tonight that she has uterine cancer.  I will have to read up, but I do know a large tumor was removed a week and a half ago.  She will go on November the 5th. five hours from her home in Las Cruses, New Mexico to Albuquerque to see a specialist. 

    Please put her on your prayer list.  It will be deeply appreciated by me and she and the rest of her family too.  God bless.

    Hugs, Jackie4

  • patoo
    patoo Member Posts: 5,243
    edited October 2009

    IllinoisLady - will definitely keep her in prayer.  So long to wait to go to the specialist - that's very scary.  Please let her know prayers are going up.

    Carol - still upright?  They say the more pieces you have to iron the more dangerous because you get tired of standing and are so happy to be finished you aren't careful about the legs on the board so hopefully you didn't do too much.

    JO - spaces between my knee joints are getting narrower so that could be causing the pain.  However, it could also be pain from my hip radiating down the nerve and into the knee so hip pain in the knee - go figure!  So had cortisone (steroids) shot into the knee and an anti-inflammatory for 3 weeks.  If still have hip pain will have to go to hospital specialist for cortisone shot into the hip.  May get relief for a week, a month, a year or none.  If all else fails and nothing helps then would have to decide whether to have hip and/or knee replaced.  I'm claiming the cortisone shots will work.  Right now, until the steroids kick, in which may take a few days, I'm having to use a cane.  I know, any excuse not to exercise!

  • deborye
    deborye Member Posts: 2,441
    edited October 2009

    I woke up to snow this morning, it only accumulated on my car.  It was coming down prette heavy on the way into work.  Now it is 41 degrees. 

    Sunday I am going over my DD's house and she is taking me out to www.pickityplace.com for dinner then probably go leaf peeping.

    IllinoisLady, praying your sil will be dancing with NED.

  • pj12
    pj12 Member Posts: 18,108
    edited October 2009

    Good luck with your knee, Patoo.

    I had chronic knee pain, made worse with exercise.  I had a cortisone shot that  worked a miracle for about 6 months.  When the pain returned I had a second shot that did not help at all so ended up with arthroscopic surgery for torn meniscus.  That worked!  It took about three months to reach full recovery.  Now I am looking to have the same done to the other knee, which does happen to be the same age and has been the same places :)  

    There is a condition called cortisone flare where the tissue reacts negatively to the cortisone and things feel worse rather than better temporarily.  I don't know if ultimately the person gets some relief due to the shot or not.

    I hope you find some help from the treatment.  We have enough to worry about without sore knees!

    Pam 

  • kmccraw423
    kmccraw423 Member Posts: 885
    edited October 2009

    Good morning all!  Patoo - hope you get some relief real soon.  My knees have been bad since I was a child!

    Jackie - will keep your sil in my prayers - damn this cancer. 

    Deborye - did you say the "s" word?  Please send it north and not south!  I have enough trouble staying upright when it is dry and clear out.

    You know my uncle had skin cancer on his ear - it is melanoma.  Thursday they removed the cancer to get clear margins and removed some lymph nodes - biopsy on the lymph nodes will be back next week.  The pet scan was negative which I know is because of all your prayers. 

    Hugs to all who need it - hope you find relief for any and all pain. 

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