MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN 40-60ish
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Best of Luck today and beyond, Dianarose. Ya know, I would dearly love just to be able to smell the aroma of a real bakery. Grocery store bakeries have no smell and no soul. I used to go to a real bakery and I miss those homemade goods so much.
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A local bakery always has a pot of coffee brewing in the lobby area. The bakery smell and coffee is so warm and inviting.
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Hooray, Dianarose! wish my car was working, I'd get through work fast then come find you!
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Thanks so much everyone. I am so dam tired, but it is a good tired. It was a good opening day. We have not advertised yet as we want to work out the menu and get things more streamlined first. I hired a prep chef today as lunch is too crazy making tons of sandwiches and it takes away from baking. The top things today were whoopie pies and tuna sandwiches. Chicken salad came in 2nd along with blueberry buckle cake. I will get some pictures this week.Off to bed as I only got 2 hrs sleep last night.
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Congrats Dianarose Best of luck with your new business .
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Congrats, DIana. You made me hungry!!!
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I can smell the bakery from here. Congrats on a great opening day. Enjoy the best sleep! Waiting for some delicious pictures.
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Congrats on your opening day, Diana!
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Dianarose--Yeah for a good opening day! Can't wait until the "official" opening day, it will be spectacular! Sleep well!
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Congratulations Diana! Sounds like you had a great opening. Do get some rest!
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So happy for you, Diana! I can't imagine all the hoops you had to go through to get your bakery up and running, but awesome push-through-it-all/in-your-face-cancer attitude! Looking forward to some pictures and the day you start mailing your delicacies, LOL!
Well, I would be happy to help test this phlebotomy robot. It's not the needle I'm worried about - it's the phlebotomist! Here's the article:
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I've been away for a while and will never get caught up. Dianarose sounds like you have double congrats coming your way! I don't think middle age comes with that much energy. Way to go, girl!
Hope you are all doing well! ...Julie0 -
Diana, kudos and congrats to you! You're showing cancer who is boss! I would love to taste your yummy treats. I hope you can find a balance of work/rest soon but know it takes awhile. Good luck and Godspeed!
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I a new here. I noticed some of you took Methotrexate during chemotherapy. I did not have to have chemotherapy; however, I also have an autoimmune condition called dermatomyositis that causes skin rashes and muscle problems. I have been put on Methotrexate and just wanted to see if there was anything I should know. Just started taking it and right now it is at a low dose. I am taking Arimidex.
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Diana, if you need a lift, hop on my shoulders...take a load off your feet
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Hmmm, I personally don't have the Methotrexate experience, Claudia Metz, but welcome. I think some of the others can share what they know with you.
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I'm up early and going for mammo. I think I must be the first one today, so let's see if I can get out of there in less than three hours? Get the wager pool going and we'll see who the big winner is when I get back. If you guess within 5 minutes of my actual time spent there today, you might get a "prize."
I mean like total time spent there.
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I'm in Eli - guessing total time "in and out" is 52 minutes - I'm an optomist
Hope it's quick so you can get on with your day.Welcome Claudia - you've landed in one of the best threads for fun, support, encouragement and entertainment. Come by often - hope to get to know you better.
Dianarose - hope you aren't wearing yourself out with everything that is going on. You are likely still running on adreneline, but remember to take 5 every now and then.
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My guess is 40 minutes.
I have the worst luck waiting for doctors, The receptionist at the chiro Monday forgot to sign me in and when I waited 45 minutes. She didn't even appologize!
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I'm guessing total time 32 minutes...Good Luck.
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If they make a mistake, they don't feel like they have to say anything. If you make a mistake, you will hear it. I had an apt with my oncologist and then thought I had to cancel it due to an appointment that was a conflict. I went online and cancelled it. Five minutes later I realized my mistake. I called the office and told them what I had done and I could keep the apt. The lady said no problem it is still open. I again said "please make sure they don't cancel me". When I got to the apt you can guess they said I wasn't in the apt book. They checked to see if the doctor was still there. She was and she saw me. She asked if I had cancelled and I said yes and told her what happened. She said "hold on a minute I need to go talk to them about this". She did. She also got on the computer and updated my meds (I have told them every time I go in that I wasn't taking certain meds and they never got changed). If you are going to become computerized, then update your files.
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Eli - I'm the pessimist. I say 1 hour 45 minutes. Not what you wanted to hear but better than 3 hours. Hoping for great results. I did lefty on Monday and got results when I was there. Nothing to report. Love my radiologist.
I went with DD to a work in appt with a fill in doctor early July. 4 hours!! And nothing to read in the waiting room. I heard them discussing me and who I was. Recept. finally made pretense to rearrange mags and throw away used McDonalds cup and ask if I was waiting for an appt. Don't think I've been to an office where they didn't close the glass window if they wanted to carry on loud conversations. Not DD's usual office thank goodness but must admit doc was thorough and assured her she was not dying - not that mom the RN could not do that.
Claudia - there is a note on one of my doc's computer screen that at least one field must be updated and I assume (maybe wrongly) that doesn't just mean vitals/weight. I go to 3 docs - BS, PCP and gyn in 3 diff. offices but same group (150 docs spread all over the metroplex). They are very diligent about updating meds. PCP is the head of their EMR (electronic med. record) conversion so I would expect them to be and gyn. is the CEO. I never leave for sure the PCP and gyn without a current copy of my treatment plan. New Medicare laws for EMR going into effect 2014 and offices will receive decreased payments for not implementing. Just interesting info. that I like reading about. My MO/RO are both part of a huge statewide group Texas Oncology so EMR is a given there. They also update with every visit. Last visit I was reading meds over shoulder of nurse on her screen. She had no problem with that; in fact I think it is prob. easier for her. 'Course if I were old and babbling, no way. OHH wait, DH says I do babble.
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I don't know what hopeful insanity possessed three of you to guess under an hour, but I did hint that my usual time was three hours, so your optimism was far from reality. Goatsy, you are closest but my actual time from walking in their door to skipping out was 2:10. I did have a little skip-fest past the others still waiting, announcing that "my news was all good" and wishing them all good luck. I might have been able to cut the time down, but I'm a talker and I also do love my radiologist, so we had to have a 15 min. chat all about possible MRI next year when I reach my 5-year mark, why they disappointingly did not get the ultrasound screening machines that I was really excited about, and how I was a 2-time loser in getting CRC since I had last been in. (I never miss an opportunity to berate the two providers who failed to use a simple diagnostic tool to have spotted my CRC six months earlier.)
Sorry, I cannot award the prize for guessing within five minutes of my total clinic time. I know you will all shed tears not to have won because look what you missed:
Adorable wedgie sandals fashioned from cantaloupes!!!
They are all the rage this season, and now you will just have to make yourself a pair. (Meece, you probably already have a pair.)
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Oh, I did forget to say my Breast Center did get new mammo machines since last year, and the squishing seemed to be less than the old ones. Will have to see if any new broken blood vessels pop up in the next week or so to really know if I got off easier this time. Many of you might be going to these newer machines, and wondering why I would complain but the old ones seemed to have a very tight compression, similar to "Theodoric of York" getting your boob between two anvils. Maybe I've moved from the dark ages into the renaissance of mammo screening now.
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Oooohhhh......sorry I didn't get up this am to get in on the contest! I LOVE the cantaloupe sandals! .....don't love and won't miss the torturous quashing mammograms!
I have a endoscopic ultrasound/biopsy scheduled tomorrow for my pancreas. Any pocket company would be welcome!0 -
Wishful thinking I guess, I remember having my mammo and being in an out within a half hour. The center where I go has new machines, it's the tech that hurts me by twisting the damn boob...
Nice shoes I think I'll eat them as a snack, walking in them would be impossible...
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Mine too got new machines in February; I was there in January. I think I got tech who was "Theodoric of York" for torture and not one that I recognized. But seems she got good pics. I was only there about 45 minutes and the most time I spent was in the registering. Geesh! An old friend from wayyy back 30+ years is always the clerk on duty but computer went on fritz in the middle. Also appreciate which I did not know was that my radiologist has to go to case conference about her more obscure BC kinds. One more reason I go there and not to an alternate my BS/gyn/MO might prefer. That's the place that did my wire loc and tech proceeded to tell me if I'd been 10 minutes later they would have had to postpone. Like I'm out galavanting around hosp. waiting for surgery. Radiologist was the pits for bedside manner (wham, bam, thank you mam wire loc) and I reported both to my BS who literally is around the corner.
Gosh - Chachamom - will be in your pocket tomorrow. What are your preferred snacks? I think this bunch can whip up just about anything. Right??
Yum Elimar. Have your shoes and eat them too. Who needs fast food?
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Thanks Luvmygoats! I'm vegan, so the cantaloupe sandals looked pretty tasty! I love Indian, Thai, Italian, Mexican...it all! And I'm vegan for my health, not necessarily political reasons, so animal products are welcome for my carnivore friends.......and of course I like my wine! Guess I'm not THAT healthy! :-)
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chachamom- you are in my pocket for tomorrow.
luvmygoats- i think I like it here better. Nice to see you here.
elimar- love the sandals. I won't wear them but those look great to eat and they are nice to look at.
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Chachamom - Here's food for your pocket partay.
Did you say you like wine?
Lezza, welcome to this equally crazee thread (at times). Witness the 25,000 post partay this past Friday. Elimar - BTW DH wanted to know what all the laughing was about that day.
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Did you say you like wine?