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  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 15,894
    edited July 2011

    Badger ain't that true and it's so humbling b/c there is so much to know about ca. AT least we can tell them about here>>>> BCO

  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 15,894
    edited July 2011
    5 minutes ago, edited a minute ago by sas-schatzi sas-schatzi wrote:

    New thread on social security questions answered by a lawyer whose wife has BC. Knows his stuff------posting on a bunch of threads---------go to financial forum

     Can't make link work without trouble, not up for it.

  • Lena
    Lena Member Posts: 132
    edited July 2011

    YKYACPW you finally realize that the "roller coaster" will never end except with your death.

  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 7,605
    edited July 2011

    So we might as well enjoy the ride!!!

  • Leah_S
    Leah_S Member Posts: 1,929
    edited July 2011

    YKYACPW one DD (N) asks if her sister (R) will be visiting you since if so she will come also. You say, "I'll call R and let you know". You call, she's not coming, you call N back to tell her. The next morning you call N again to tell her R's not coming and apologize for not letting her know sooner.

    And you realize once again how wonderful N is when all she says is, "It's OK"  because she doesn't want you to feel bad and you find out 2 weeks later that you called twice.

    Leah

  • sweetbean
    sweetbean Member Posts: 433
    edited July 2011

    YKYACPW you overhear your mother telling someone on the phone that you have a quarter of an inch of hair and you yell, in a semi-irritated fashion, "HEY!  I have at least a HALF AN INCH!"

  • YamahaMama
    YamahaMama Member Posts: 107
    edited July 2011

    YKYACPW you overhear your DH on the phone telling a buddy you asked him to "rub my head," and you don't get upset that he's telling! 

  • Chava
    Chava Member Posts: 6
    edited July 2011

    You let your 11 year old daughter cut and color your hair any color she wants before you shave it off before it falls out from chemo.

  • micheleboots
    micheleboots Member Posts: 885
    edited July 2011

    Chava, my daughter cut my hair after I started chemo.  She was 10.  She loved it.

  • shanagirl
    shanagirl Member Posts: 430
    edited July 2011

    You know you are a cancer patient when your shopping list includes prunes and Sennacot tablets.

    image

    Barb

  • Lena
    Lena Member Posts: 132
    edited July 2011

    :-O  Hey, I resemble that remark! I just bought a bottle of prune juice TODAY!  LOL

    YKYACPW you decide to look up stuff about neutrons and electrons so you can figure out what isotope nickname would suit you.

  • hdangelbaby
    hdangelbaby Member Posts: 412
    edited July 2011

    YKYACPW,  some days you feel you eat more pills than food!!

  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 7,605
    edited July 2011

    YKYACPW your mid-meal snacks are prescription meds!!! 8 pills in the morning and 10 in the evening. Doesn't include the Sennokat.....sigh.

  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 15,894
    edited July 2011

    Okay this is one  is for the fungal thread. I had 6 months of thrush. Cleared up in a few days by using powdered probiotics. ____GO see comments. ENT doc recommeneded it b/c all other tx's failed.  well tongue is clear. Yeah. Oh yeah the colon is happy too.

  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 7,605
    edited July 2011

    SAS, where does one get that there powdered probiotics? Walmart??? I need a good bowel cleanse....

  • kittycat
    kittycat Member Posts: 1,155
    edited July 2011

    When you use the stuffed kitty cat your DH got you for your bilateral mastecomy to cover your chest so your cats don't jump on you. Then 2 years later you use it on your tummy after your hysterectomy! :)

  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 15,894
    edited July 2011

    Barbe-I get mine from a healthfood store. But there are some many companies producing them It's hard to know who to trust. I've bought through this one place for about 18years. Still be careful and do some research. I just hope what I'm doing keeps going in the right direction---I suppose there is an unintended pun in that statement. 

  • divinemrsm
    divinemrsm Member Posts: 6,607
    edited July 2011

    YKYACPW:  you're on the sofa using your laptop thinking your cat is sitting next to you.....then at some point you look down and realize it's not your cat but the wig you pulled off your head when you had a hot flash earlier!

  • river_rat
    river_rat Member Posts: 317
    edited July 2011

    TheDivineMrsM - loved that one!

  • tnbcRuth
    tnbcRuth Member Posts: 338
    edited July 2011

    TDMM= that was funny !!!

  • Kay_G
    Kay_G Member Posts: 1,914
    edited July 2011

    LOL Mrs. M!

  • kittycat
    kittycat Member Posts: 1,155
    edited July 2011

    That is seriously funny!!!  Sounds like something that would have happened to me when I wore a wig.  :)

  • kittycat
    kittycat Member Posts: 1,155
    edited July 2011

    YKYACP when you can't fit all the things bc related into your signature!  LOL!!!

  • Monty
    Monty Member Posts: 146
    edited July 2011

    Wow Kittycat, you look so different with that hairstyle - hope you don't mind me asking if that is now YOUR hair?  It looks fabulous.

  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 7,605
    edited July 2011

    There's no WAY that is your real hair Kitty unless you grow WAY fast!!!! Get a clearer picture without the yellow bulb. If that IS your real hair, holy COW!!! You look mauvelous darling....!

  • kittycat
    kittycat Member Posts: 1,155
    edited July 2011

    Thanks girls! Yes, this is my real hair!  It started growing back in late September last year.  I softened the pic with a yellow hue because my wrinkles were showing in the clearer pic!  LOL!!! 

  • kittycat
    kittycat Member Posts: 1,155
    edited July 2011

    I do look like I have jaundice with the yellow hue!!! LOL!!! 

    YKYACP when you drop things on the floor from neuropathy, but can't pick them up because you just had a hysterectomy.  I'm learning to use my toes to grab things and my DH tells me I'm becoming a monkey!  LOL!!!

  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 7,605
    edited July 2011

    But at least you're a hairy monkey. That's good...right???

  • DeeLJ
    DeeLJ Member Posts: 7
    edited July 2011

    YKYACPW you read a funny joke on here about someone's husband having bigger boobs than she does and you immediately turn to your husband and tell him HIS are bigger than YOURs right now and he says 'I've been waiting for you to come up with some kind of smartass comment" lol...having just had the mastectomy a few days ago I am only now getting my sense of humor back; this thread is the BEST. :)

  • kittycat
    kittycat Member Posts: 1,155
    edited July 2011

    LOL!  Hairy Monkey! 

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