MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN 40-60ish
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ha ha ha eli you crack me up!!!!
I think I should host a get together, for sure. It is so beautiful here. I would love to share it with all of you.
I like the windmills, too. There has been a huge fight about putting some in this area, tho. No one wants them to spoil their view. I get mesmerized by them. Of course, lots of things mesmerize me.
My DD is watching Vampire Diaries. Episode after episode......... ack!
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I think I need to take a second look at pro soccer.....
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E-I watched also while Dad-sitting this afternoon (I was thankful that was on the books-they have ESPN, I don't) Game was super intense! I was so happy @ 2-1 but screamed bloody murder at the tie!! Egad....it was excruciating!
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Momine--that is one
terrific pic of the windmills!0 -
kathe.....what part of barbe1958 did you miss? hehehehehehe I was born in 1958.
Barbe
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Eli- Isn't it interesting how different people interpret the same picture differently? When I saw your windmills header, while realizing I was looking at windmills, I also saw seven women reaching up to the sky...
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Barbe1958!! are you teasing me?!! i meant barbie-DOLL!!! but was she born same year as you? i thought she was a 59 model... dont really know. okay, now i will always think of YOU as having permanently arched feet!! etc!!!
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staynsane, been meaning to tell you, i love your avatar pic, and i DID 'try it at home'!!!
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staynsane - I love the 7 women image. Thank for passing that on.
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Sure, rub it in that I'm a year older than Barbie and SHE still has her breasts!
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But she doesn't have nipples. (Or did you all draw them on your doll like I did?)
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Nowadays, Barbie can have flower stickers or drawings on her boobs to imitate that artistic women who get awesome tattoos in place of the boobs and/or nips
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barbe et al: we are ALL waaaaay more amazing than any old barbie-doll! i don't care how old we are!! we are real live wimmen, with BRAINS!!! altho sometimes when i wake up, i wonder if mine have leaked out, from all the times i slap my own head....
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Hey, E ~~~~ It's your day!
Congratulations on your 5 year Anniversary!!!
What a long road, huh? Five years..........
Sending Best Wishes for many, many more!
Hugs, Girlfriend!
♥
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Thank you, Val. I wasn't even thinking about it. (Instead, I thought about a friends b-day in two days and that I better get a card in the mail.)
Even tho' I'm on this thread almost daily, I really have moved beyond BC in my daily life and in most of my mind. (My CRC is still a little fresh in my memory, but I'm trying to shove that into the past also.)
Anyway, I go the alternate route and celebrate my BC surgery day, July 9th. When I reach that, it will be 5-years cancer-free!!! (From BC anyway.)
Remind me, so that I don't forget that one!
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Kathec- Got to say it....you mentioned Barbie and thought of "permanently arched feet?" Yes, I remember all the high heeled shoes that went on those permanently cramped feet, but I must admit that when I think of Barbie, I never think about her feet! I don't think the designers at Mattel (that's who produced her, right?) focused on them so much, either. But oh the accessories! So much money to be made on little plastic doodads...
I love it when posters here bring up old timey stuff like toys, food, TV shows, etc. Really brings back memories of youth and nostalgia and simpler days.
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SnS, You must visit NativeMainer's spin-off thread then: Middle Aged Memories
It's been going on over four years now, something like 80 pages!!! It is the repository of all my memories (good back up for when my ALZ kicks in.)
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Eli- thanks for the recommendation. I just went to it briefly and want to go through it all now! Looks like a good one, Nativemainer! Added to my favs- It is so great that we have BC.org to go to for knowledge and support about BC, and that there are various threads with topics that are not BC related when we "get beyond" our primary BC fears.
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Agree with that, Sns. I think that BCO knows that even the threads here not about cancer are good stress relief/diversion/memory joggers (good for chemo brain) and they too provide something for the members.
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I finally have something in common with Barbie, no nipples either. lol I had a really tough day yesterday, went for my initial markings for radiation. Have you ever felt so totally alone with this disease? I thankfully have a very supportive family and husband, although he always wants to fix it, and that's not possible. My doc came in to start the markings and told me because of my previous radiation I am at greater risk for breakdown of the muscles and bone of the chest wall and to my heart which was already affected the first time around. In that CAT scan it finally hit me, and I broke down in tears that would not stop coming. I have handled this twice before, bravely and never said "why me, because I think, why not me? This time it's so much more difficult, it is so frustrating that, to cure this disease you have to risk so much damage to the rest of your body. Sorry this is so long, just venting I guess, people mean well, but only someone who has walked in our shoes, knows what it's like. Thanks Ladies. P.S. on a brighter note, I had the tech laughing when I told her, I will have to break a promise to my family. She asked why and I said I promised I would never get a tatoo or take topless photos. She promised they would not end up on facebook.
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3rdtime, I am glad that you had the opportunity to cry out some of the feelings. It has to be released! I have been struck by the harshness of the treatments from square one. If a cure is going to be such a long time coming, then the treatments need to improve greatly, because the risks involved are really terrible. Maybe not as immediately terrible...their ruin just takes a while to show up.
So, if you really don't want tatts, there is a Sharpie marker/tape alternative. What did you get the first time?
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Hi Elimar, just joking about the tatts, no big deal, I did have them last time, pretty soon I will be able to play connect the dots, wonder what picture I will come up with.
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3rdtime - that's why we are all here. So that anyone can share their thoughts and feelings without prejudice. And so that when anyone is ever feeling alone, they can come and feel the comfort and love of the middies. Your comment about the tatt and topless pic made me giggle too. It is amazing how we can keep our sense of humour amidst all of the crap that goes on.
The only thing that I ever had in common with Barbie (other than the female aspect) is that I once "went out with" a boy named Ken in grade 8. I think it lasted about 2 weeks - a whirlwind romance. lol
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3rdtimenow I am now rockin' the sharpie/tape until tomorrow when I get my tattoos. I did make the comment to DH that he could now play connect the dots with the scars and sharpie marks as a guide. Hope you have a better day.
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Thanks Barsco and Ddgm, you're right ladies my faith, my family, my sense of humor and you ladies, will get me through. Stephanie
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3rdtimenow--You
poor thing!I had a meltdown going
through all that the first time, I cannot imagine even being able to go through
it a second, but a third??I'd never
make it.Never.And to still have a sense of humor about it
all, remarkable.Praying for you.0 -
Thank you NativeMainer
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My total, amd I do mean complete sympathies, 3 rdTimer, and being able to find the droll aspects of all this is life saving. Or maybe its soul saving? Anyway, hang in there, and keep us posted. A little Bette Midler works at times like this, try the 2010 DVD of The Showgirl Must Go On. Netflix.
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Thanks, MameMe
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I did it...had the colonoscopy yesterday that I pushed for and had to wait three months to get. Funniest thing; Kaiser insisted that their guidelines say colonoscopies start at age 60 (without indications of problems) when I mentioned the handful of letters I received at 50 to tell me it was "time" for one...then they started doing the fecal occult test by mail. But their Emmi program (pre-procedure power point-type presentation) says something about "Kaiser recommends colonoscopies at age 50!" I mentioned it to my male nurse and he said he was going to mention it up the line...
Being told that I had no colon issues or polyps? Priceless. Being told they wanted me to go have a CT scan the same morning for a suspicious lump? Scary as shit. In the end (pun intended) everything came out okay (pun intended). First CT I've had, and must say, I LOVED that warm, sensual feeling in my nether region when the dye was injected! Turns out I have a fibroid pushing on my appendix which pushes on part of my colon. I have no pain or other symptoms, so I don't intend to do anything else at this point.
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