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  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 7,545

    Hauntie - You will have so many wonderful memories when you go back home.  Take lots of pictures.

    Hope everyone is having a great Labor Day. 

  • zumbagirl
    zumbagirl Member Posts: 250

    Paula66,

    wow, thank you for the welcoming gift picture. that made my morning :O) My name is Paula as well. I am so glad to be on this thread. Have an awesome labor day every one. :O)

  • tinkertude
    tinkertude Member Posts: 1,998

    Hauntie.. hope your having a wonderful time!!!!

    hope all you ladies are having a good labor day weekend!

  • Paula66
    Paula66 Member Posts: 1,572

    Zumba that is to funny.  I have meet more Paulas in the last 6 months then I have in the last 6 years. 

    Haunti and Reesie have a blast and take lots of pics for us to see!

    Have fun Tink and try not to get in much trouble, lol!

  • tinkertude
    tinkertude Member Posts: 1,998

    Paula me??? in trouble??? ok so you know me well now lol!!!!

  • Sherryc
    Sherryc Member Posts: 4,503

    I can't wait to see a picture of the group of ladies with Crissy B

  • zumbagirl
    zumbagirl Member Posts: 250

    You know your chemo is strong when it makes your wig hairs fall out. LOL

  • marlegal
    marlegal Member Posts: 1,482

    Eli, can I bribe you somehow to change the picture at the top of the page? Here's a start and I can send more when these run out :)

  • zumbagirl
    zumbagirl Member Posts: 250

    any thoughts out there, on the chemo in pill form? I was just wondering, if the side effects are the same, and if there is a pill that would benefit us the same, why are we getting our ports and veins blasted with the liquid iv bag form, ,,, just curious

  • shells43
    shells43 Member Posts: 499

    Praying for rain, Sherryc, my sister lives in Texas, too.

  • Paula66
    Paula66 Member Posts: 1,572

    I'll even throw in a bag also Marlegal!!!!

  • Paula66
    Paula66 Member Posts: 1,572

    Heck I''ll throw in several bags!!!

  • reesie
    reesie Member Posts: 413

    It does hurt everytime I see it lol

  • Kay_G
    Kay_G Member Posts: 1,914

    I like the new cartoon. Sad times we live in in dime ways.

  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 7,605

    Oh Sherry, of course you knew, how stupid of me!!! Forgive my ignorance and the unnecessary science lesson....sigh.

  • Sherryc
    Sherryc Member Posts: 4,503

    Well the wildfires have gotten worse.  One of my brothers has a small farm and had to evacuate his cattle Luckily he had another small farm to take his cattle to and tried to get as much of his farm equipment off as possible.  .It is isured but he just did not want to replace it.  Luckily he had not built his house yet.  It is about 25 miles from here. Another brother in the hill crountry in a different dirrect had a mandatory evacuation.  He had been watching the fires all day.  So they are trying to pack up as much as they can and are heading to a friends a couple of towns over.  Wish I was close enough to help, it does not look good.  I went into Austin today and had the health food coop several people where talking about friends that were having to come and stay with them in the city because of the evacuations all over.  On my way home I could see all the smoke piles in each of the directions and by the time I got home it looks like we have LA smog from the 70's.

  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 7,545

    Sherry - The fires in your area made our evening news.  We are getting some of the smoke all the way down here.  You could see it in the air all day.  Sending prayers up for your family hoping they don't have any damages from the fires.  All the people that have lost their homes so far - it is just heartbreaking.

  • marlegal
    marlegal Member Posts: 1,482

    I can't think of anything more terrifying than fire ... Sherry, I'll keep you and your family in my prayers - bring on some of that rain from Lee

  • elimar
    elimar Member Posts: 5,885

    Earthquakes where you don't expect them, hurricanes starting in early, wildfires way too close to civilization...nature has been very threatening in the last ten days or so.  It's getting freaky.  If someone should happen to have locust plague in the next couple days, don't even mention it.  I was thinking I could at least wait until I had my 2012 calendar up before I started to worry about the prelude to the Mayan apocalypse. Is it starting early?

                                                      

    Sherryc,  It's amazing how that smoke can carry.  There was a controlled burn in a national forest about 70 miles from where I live, and the wind was just right to blow that smoke my way.  It covered my whole city one evening, just like fog but stinkier and chokier.  Awful!

  • annettek
    annettek Member Posts: 1,160

    chiluvr1228-sorry you had to join us but glad you found us....it can all be so confusing but youhave been given the best advice by those on here...consider carefully and research a lot.

    Welcome Zumba.

    SHerry- I must be living with my head in a pail? I knew nothing of the fires - so friggin sad...as you said, the people and all (not to mention your brother:( that is some of the most beautiful acreage in the state.Hell, we;ve been getting fires on the sides of roads here just outside of Houston sparking from cars....

  • Foxlairfrm
    Foxlairfrm Member Posts: 126

    Zumba- I'm not an expert by any means, just a vet tech, but I'm sure one of the reasons most chemos are given lV is because our stomach and intestinal tract cannot handle it. Some drugs whatever they may be are not effective when given orally because of the digestive process.

    Sherry- so sorry about your brothers. I'm glad he had a place to take his cows. There is a gal that foxhunts down there that got her horses out but as of yesterday was unable to move 21 sheep. I hope she found a place for them. It's one thing to lose possessions but animals, how horrible.

    Hauntie- where are you?! Waiting for some tales!

    Foxy

  • Paula66
    Paula66 Member Posts: 1,572

    Oh Sherry I pray your family is able to stay safe during this time and they dont lose anything.  Also a pray for all the people around you stay safe.

  • cmbear
    cmbear Member Posts: 674

    Sherry--hoping that your family stays safe. Will be sending good thoughts your way. What a scary thing to be going thru!!

  • catbill
    catbill Member Posts: 102

    Hi everyone,

    Haven't had much to say lately, but I've been reading...

    It's really sad to say, but I've actually been hoping for a hurricane (very SMALL, please) to move across the Gulf of Mexico to bring some much-needed rain to Texas.  Hoping for hurricanes, that seems wrong, doesn't it?

    Sherry-You and your family, as well as all the folks in Texas, are on my prayer list.

    Cathie

  • nativemainer
    nativemainer Member Posts: 7,920

    Foxlair is right--aome chemo drugs will destroy the gi tract if taken orally, and many are made inactive by the gi system before it gets into the bloodstream.  So it has to go directly into the blood stream to work at all. 

  • Sherry



    Sending prayers for rain down your way. Stay safe (((((((((hugs)))))))))



    Liz

  • Sherry



    Sending prayers for rain down your way. Stay safe (((((((((hugs)))))))))



    Liz

  • Sherry



    Sending prayers for rain down your way. Stay safe (((((((((hugs)))))))))



    Liz

  • reesie
    reesie Member Posts: 413

    Sherry looks like Liz really wnats rain to come your way.



    All kidding aside, adding my prayers to hers and everyone else's that relief comes soon.



    Had a great time last night meeting those who could make it. I have to get ready for surgery now so I'll let others post pics. I think Hauntie won't be on until later today she's driving to NY today.



    Safe trip Hauntie.

  • elimar
    elimar Member Posts: 5,885
    reesie,  just thinking about you.  Hoping your surgery goes perfectly today.