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loved the video.A photographer, who was also a confirmed atheist, decided to go into the woods to get photos of the fall foliage.
It was a beautiful day....fall colours, birds chirping, babbling brook, and a gentle breeze rustling the leaves.
While snapping shots, the atheist heard a noise behind him, and whirled around to see a huge bear coming through the bushes. He dropped his camera and ran. And kept running....... and looking behind him, he noticed the bear was gaining on him. He was so scared that tears came to his eyes. He ran faster, but the bear was closing in on him. He ran faster yet, and tripped over a root. Rolling over onto his back, the atheist saw the bear rise to his full height and raise a huge paw...... and the atheist cried out, "Oh, God, no!"
And everything stopped. The birds stopped chirping. The brook stopped babbling. The gentle breeze stopped. And the bear froze with his paw in the air. And the atheist heard a booming voice say, "Young man. For years you doubted my very existence, but now that your life is in peril you call my name to help you. Why should I do so?"
And the atheist thought for a moment, and said, "Yes, you are right. If you are God, then it would be hypocritical of me to become a Christian at this point in my life. But, do you think that you could at least make the bear a Christian for today?" And the booming voice was quiet for a moment and then said, "Done."
And everything started again. The birds chirping, brook babbling, and gentle breeze rustling the leaves. And the bear slowly lowered his paw.
And the bear put his paws together, and bowed his massive head and said, "Dear Lord, please bless this food we are about to eat."Two hillbillies walk into a restaurant. While having a bite to eat, they talk about their moonshine operation.
Suddenly, a woman at a nearby table, who is eating a sandwich, begins to cough. After a minute or so, it becomes apparent that she is in real distress. One of the hillbillies looks at her and says, 'Kin ya swallar?'
The woman shakes her head no.
Then he asks, 'Kin ya breathe?'
The woman begins to turn blue and shakes her head no.The hillbilly walks over to the woman, lifts up her dress, yanks down her drawers and quickly gives her right butt cheek a lick with his tongue.
The woman is so shocked that she has a violent spasm and the obstruction flies out of her mouth.
As she begins to breathe again, the Hillbilly walks slowly back to his table.
His partner says, 'Ya know, I'd heerd of that there 'Hind Lick Maneuver' but I ain't niver seed nobody do it!'
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A Husband and wife are shopping in their local Wal-Mart. The husband picks up a case of Budweiser and puts it in their cart. 'What do you think you're doing?' asks the wife. 'They're on sale, only $10 for 24 cans.' he replies. 'Put them back, we can't afford them.' demands the wife, and so they carry on shopping. A few aisles further on along the woman picks up a $20 jar of face cream and puts it in the basket. 'What do you think you're doing?' asks the husband. 'It's my face cream. It makes me look beautiful.' replies the wife. Her husband retorts: 'So does 24 cans of Budweiser and it's half the price. 'On the PA system: 'Cleanup needed on aisle 25, we have a husband down.'0 -
Bernieellen......hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
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Inmate when you next come to visit you make sure you let me know. Yes I do live in pretty spectacular place.
I truly hope that today goes well for you.
Take care
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Bernie: Loved that Mom Q&A. So sweet... and so true!
Inmate: Congrats on being done with chemo!!
Christina: Thanks for that link... very proud of the researchers in British Columbia and the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation for taking up our cause. This is BIG news!!!
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I am sure grateful to all the researchers and everyone else involved that they do what they do. This is absolutely magnificent news. If they need a 'guinea pig' I'll put my hand up.
Thanks for sending through Christina.
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Bernie - "1. Mothers don't have spare time". Out of the mouth of babes
Inmate - *throws confetti and does a happy dance*. I'm so happy for you!!!!
Tazzy - FIFO. I f*#+ing like it!!!!
Christina and Tifj - thank you, I'm off to get some aspirin, 2 aspirin a week can't hurt.
^that does bring me to my next rant of the
week. Went to CVS Drugstore, to pick up baby aspirin for my Mom. I almost fell over in shock. Baby ASA has been around for a zillion years and used to be cheap. Now that the doctor's are recommending it, they've jacked the prices way up!!!' The best price at CVS was the store brand at $14.29 for 500 (doesn't sound all that bad does it? But I could buy the same amount of full strength ASA dirt cheap). Went to Walmart and got 300 for $2.97!!!! I don't know if Walgreens and all the other chain drugstores are doing the same thing, but if they are, this one huge consumer rip off!!!! If you can sell full strength ASA (which is 4x's the dose of baby ASA) at a reasonable price, you can sell 1/4 of the dose at a reasonable price also.0 -
Well ladies, I want you to know you inspire me. Instead of ranting about what I think is ripping off people, I called the company and registered a complaint, and will follow it up with a letter to the CEO (locally owned company). Instead of ranting, I'll do something that will maybe make a difference. (I'm not naive, but knowing that your local competitor is selling at reasonable prices, should put a kick in your knickers!)
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kathyrnn... YOU GO GIRL !!
Dunno where you are from, but you may want to think about letting the local newspaper/website know about this too. Yeah, should definitely kick them up the knickers - ha ha!
Please keep us posted on this one.
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I am an emotional mess. Putting the family beach house on the market and removing things I wanted was brutal. I was crying for my mommy like I was 5 years old. She's been gone 2 years, but sometimes it just slays me.
When I got home, I had an offer on the house I grew up in - more crying.
Then I picked up my results from my blood work last week, and for the first time, my calcium is high.
I'll go back and read how everyone is doing. I just needed a little pity party.
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Karen, I think you are entitled to a pity party. That is horrible and I cant even begin to imagine the roller coaster of emotions you must be feeling. I have no words of wisdom for you, but that we're here for you in your time of need. Pity Party away and get it out of your system.
Thinking of ya and hoping for sunnier times ahead.
Michele
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Karen - my heart goes out to you my friend. What a lot to go through. Can't think of any words of wisdom either except to say if having this house is stressing you out then it must go. A pity party is good for you every now and again and you must have needed a good cry. Now your calcium is high, but this will come down and in a day or two when everything is hopefully signed sealed and settled you will feel better.
Sending you lots of love and warm hugs. Will be thinking of you all day. Annie
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Karen - my heart goes out to you!!!
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Karen- (((((HUGS))))))
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Karen...sending you a big hug..and I'm a good dang hugger.
Tazzy..congrats to you girl...on your graduation...whew..glad that it is over...now listen to Momma Titan and the rest of us..take it easy for awhile...your body and mind has been through a lot...take some time to get yourself back...I think you are on the right track though..you sound full of energy...good stuff!
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Thanks Titan... actual grad date is June 22. Then radiation/surgery or vice versa. I see my RO and Surgeon next Wednesday & Thursday respectively to find out the next plan of action. But sure will be good to see the back of chemo, really good.
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Good Evening Ladies
Not so good today. I think that darn taxol is catching up with me. Aching joints, headaches, numbness in the side of my hand and general fatigue, mouth ulcers as big as rocks, furred up tongue and blocked and runny nose. So ugh. On top of that I woke up with a boil or cyst lump of some sort on a very private part so a trip to the doc's was in order. The only trouble was our doctors were on duty and none of those doc's there have ever seen my anatomy before. Anyway I grabbed my daughter to come with me cause old fellar was out (probably buying brazil nuts) and off we went. Needn't have worried, so professional, and had a good laugh with the nurses and staff as a bonus. But I am on antibiotics now so hopefully they will go with the other crap I am taking. Even took a nap this afternoon cause I didn't feel right. Anyone ever had a boil before and can advise the best way to treat one?. It's certainly uncomfortable when I sit down. Oh my God am I in a bad way or what. But thinking of you all and our dear Karen who also has troubles. Hopefully things will be better for us tomorrow. Big hugs ladies. Annie
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Christina - interesting article and I hope they find something that works soon! I hate not being able to have a "maintenance drug" or something that makes me feel a recurrence is less likely.
CS - you are hilarious! I've always said laughter is the best medicine and you truly are a comedian! I sure appreciate your positive outlook!!
I can't keep up with this thread...it is very active and I'm not on the computer that much. I do go back through the posts occasionally and wanted to let you know I'm thinking of you ladies and hope everything is going well.
Yesterday was my last day of work for the summer and for the first time in 12 years I will have a summer off (I recently got a job in a school district). Woohoo! Yesterday was also 1 year from my diagnosis so I'm going to relax and enjoy myself this summer instead of going through treatments like last summer.
For all of you going through treatments...hang in there! I didn't think I would ever get through them but I'm living proof that it can be done and a year later I'm very happy and healthy
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CS - I too had a boil under my arm and it was painful. This was about a year and a half ago and we had quite a discussion on this thread about home remedies, black oil, etc. I wasn't alone. I ended up on antibiotics and used boiled water with epson salt compresses. The big bandages taped under my arm were a lovely site when I went to a work formal gala (wore a shawl to cover it). Hang in there...
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That sucks CS.... hope you feel better really soon. And still you made me laugh
Positive vibes and hugs to all of you, whether you be feeling OK or crappy - thoughts with you all.
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live-laugh- I too just got a job (March) with the local elementary school as a paraprofessional in the special ed-life skills classroom. So, I have the summer off too! This is the first time I have had a job in 10 years! I have been a stay at home Mom for all that time. Although, I guess it really isn't time off because I have my 2 kids 24/7!!
Tazzy- Woo Hoo for finishing chemo!!
Happy Saturday ladies!!
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Thanks for your love and support. I am going to live on round the clock ativan for a couple of days.
Annie - so sorry about your boil! I hope the compress help or maybe a sitz bath?
Poor DH is so concerned about me. I hate what I put him through. He is my rock.
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Cocker - when I mention SE from Taxol, I completely forgot about those damn boils! All mine were in my lady bits and the nether regions. A bit hard to stick bandages there!!!! Warm compresses are the most common treatment. Warm Tea bags also work well (they are often used for sty's in the eyelid. It's an old-fashioned remedy, but they actually found out the tannic acid in tea helps, but I've forgotten why). There is another old time remedy that works well, but it's hard to find and you usually have have a pharmacist make it up for you. It is called Icthamol. It's a combination of petroleum jelly and coal tar. You put it on the boil, and cover it with an occlusive dressing (fancy word for a gauze dressing with plastic over it) . The plastic keeps heat in the area to help bring circulation to the area. This stuff is old school, but works really well. Rest up my little friend, and I hope you feel better soon. (sorry, I'm also laughing here because I'm remebering having to bend over and spread em, for my first round of boils)
L-L-L Nice to see you, enjoy your vacation
Tifj - * thumps TIFJ on the head*. You've been working all along!!!!
OBXK - sending hugs and good thoughts.0 -
OBXK- I'm so sorry your having a rough time. I am keeping my fingers, toes, evrything crossed that the high calcium is nothing.
Kathyrnn- You and I know (well, all women) know this, but trying to convince a man is another thing!! My husband was excited I got a job, but now wonders why the house isn't always perfectly clean and why dinner is just thrown together each night. Men are kind of dumb!!
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Tifj - Amen!!!!
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I totally lost track of this thread. Just wanted to jump in here as I'm at the beginning of my journey. Starting ACT on June 19th and getting my port on Monday. Think I'd like to camp out here on this thread for the duration. Nice mixture of conversation going on here. Hope to get to know you all a bit.
Sally
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Good Morning Ladies
Well I'm still here complete with boil. When I found the lump in the middle of the night my eyes were instantly wide open. I must have looked like a possum in headlights. Panic panic, sweat sweat. I nudged the old fellar awake (very hard). He said wot, wot wotsamater. I said I've got cancer down there! he said down where, so I said you know down there, he said tell me about it in the morning. Fat lot of good he was. Hell this could have been life threatening and he wants to know in the morning!!. I'm thinking of trading him in for two 30 yr olds.
Well the doc gave me some magnesium sulfate paste to put on it but like Kathrynn says its hard to get a bandage down there and it keeps coming off and I feel like I am walking funny so everyone will know!! lol.
I feel better today but I'm not sure I will make the 12 taxol cause me fingers feel funny and numb.
Sugar - boils may only be little but they pack quite a painful punch. That would have been sore under your arm and I have to sit down very gingerly.
Kathrynn - what do you mean ALL of yours were in your "lady Bits" (just love that). Panic panic, how many of the friggin things do we get.
OBXK - your dear hubby will understand what you are going through and "your Rock' will be there for you every step of the way as you would him and just as we will be for you. We are all as one through this battle, through the good and bad days and the tears. That is the only thing that is good about cancer it brings people together in so many ways just when we need a helping hand or a sympathetic ear even though we have never met. Your hubby and your dear son's will help you through this time and hopefully tomorrow may be brighter for you. Just hang in there you can get through these horrible days. Thinking of you heaps and sending lots of love.
Tifj - I have just heard my dear feller turn on the vaccuum cleaner. Wonders will never cease to happen. Just tell your dear fellar that you work, he works, so you are both responsible for cleaning and that he can throw together something for dinner just as well as you can. Remind him that marriage is a partnership so he'd better do his share or you will get Annie on to him.
Clowngirl - welcome back. We have been wondering where you were. Hope everything is going ok for you. We would just love it if you camp out on here with us, wouldn't have it any other way.
Oh well girls, what did I say about marriage being a partnership, better go and make sure the old fellar is making a good job of the vaccumming. (You thought I was going to say help him didn't you lol).
Have a good day. Thinking of you all and sending lots of love. Annie.
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Annie hope that boil gets better - sounds painful!
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And of course she just had to add a bit more!
I have just gone to have my shower and I found out that the dear fellar had left the hard backing bit of the plaster on as well as the plaster. No friggin wonder I can't pee properly or sit down. I told him and he had this funny (woops) look on his face then he said, well I didn't know did I. duh!. Some mothers do have em. I'm sure he was dropped on his head as a baby. Whenever he leaves sugar out of my coffee by mistake I always accuse him of trying to kill me. Oh well ladies keep laughing. Annie
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CS- Hope you feel better soon. I had numbness in my fingers and toes during Taxol but it all went away soon after the last one.
Well…. Went to the doctor today because of an itchy rash that started on my shoulder (cancer side) and now spreading. Immediately thought "skin mets", googled a bit on it so of course I was in panic mode this morning
. Turns out I have shingles. So 7 days of antiviral and anti-itch cream.Wishing everyone a good weekend! Hugs.
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