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  • voraciousreader
    voraciousreader Member Posts: 3,696
    edited April 2011

    Jo... I will not be sleeping until after my inevitable surgery. So, in the meantime, have pleasant dreams for both of us.

  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 7,545
    edited April 2011

    voraciousreader - I will try my best.  I must be missed something along the way - what surgery are you having that you can't sleep?

  • voraciousreader
    voraciousreader Member Posts: 3,696
    edited April 2011

    That bum shoulder of mine! Don't you always see me down by the fire warming my shoulder???

  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 7,545
    edited April 2011

    vforaciousreader - Well duh!  I knew that was you.  Sometimes my brain doesn't function well these days.  I do blame it on Lyrica.

  • voraciousreader
    voraciousreader Member Posts: 3,696
    edited April 2011

    Jo... Come sit with me by the fire. We will sing some camp songs... That should make us both feel better.

  • scuttlers
    scuttlers Member Posts: 149
    edited April 2011

    WOW! 17 pages! I just threw the lazy boy in that was my "parking place" for the last 2+ years. That should keep the fire going for a few more marshmallows!

  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 7,545
    edited April 2011

    voraciousreader - Thank you so much for the invitation.  I am there.  Maybe we could share a glass of wine and have a nice chat.  That would make us both feel better.

  • voraciousreader
    voraciousreader Member Posts: 3,696
    edited April 2011

    Ahhh..wine! Now that will make me sleepy.

    Sclutter! Hold on with that chair. Put it in my garden. It is on the path down to the bonfire!

  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 7,545
    edited April 2011

    voraciousreader - I brought one for both of us.  Maybe it will make us both sleepy.

                                     

  • annettek
    annettek Member Posts: 1,160
    edited April 2011

    i am tossing the ugly brown recliner that I hate and a the booklet I gave to my husband (was in cancer info pack for "to the husbands") that has the line  "...you may feel disgusted but try to hide this even though it is normal..."!!!! Holy geez, I read it and then walked over to him and threw the booklet at him. I said AHA I KNEW IT- you have been hiding how you really feel! hahaha poor guy said what the H$ll are you talking about? I showed him what it said. Then I started crying. Sheesh. p.s. he had never seen the booklet...

  • voraciousreader
    voraciousreader Member Posts: 3,696
    edited April 2011

    Oh Jo! We're going to need more than two glasses! I just sent the DH out for reinforcements for all of us!

  • Thatgirl
    Thatgirl Member Posts: 34
    edited April 2011

    Hi,



    Thanks for the invite!



    Ok, I'm throwing in a co worker and anything that says "Race for the Cure". Ahhhhhhh...I feel so much better.

  • voraciousreader
    voraciousreader Member Posts: 3,696
    edited April 2011

    Annettek... That pamphlet that went into the fire had to be written by some jerk of a man! Why not bring it to the attention of whoever gave it to you. They ought to burn all of those pamphlets!!! Let us know what happens. You can find us at the fire, waiting!

  • Sandeeonherown
    Sandeeonherown Member Posts: 1,781
    edited April 2011

    Annette- seriously? it said 'you might be disgusted'???? I think we should throw i the jerk that wrote that pamphlet!

  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 7,545
    edited April 2011

    voraciousreader - I went out and got more.

                              

  • Sandeeonherown
    Sandeeonherown Member Posts: 1,781
    edited April 2011

    Jo - can we crack a bottle over this jerk's head before we toss him into the fire....and make him repeat "I will not put the thought that  breast cancer survivors may disgust you into men's heads "

  • voraciousreader
    voraciousreader Member Posts: 3,696
    edited April 2011

    Thatgirl! Now have a drink! I told you that you would feel better here!



    See Jo! I knew we would need more reinforcements!

  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 7,545
    edited April 2011

    Sandee - Let's not waste the good wine.  How about we use a cheap bottle of Scotch instead?

  • Sherryc
    Sherryc Member Posts: 4,503
    edited April 2011

    You girls are going tonight, I think I need to join you with a glass of wine by the fire!!!!!!!!!!

  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 7,545
    edited April 2011

    Sherry - The more the merrier I always say.

  • GirlFriday
    GirlFriday Member Posts: 203
    edited April 2011
    annettek: Scan that and post it...does it have a date on it from the 1950's?  Ha..I think that's so funny!  I sit every morning in the rads waiting room with a man with prostate cancer...I bet he laugh is nuts off at that pamphlet!  I'm so glad I don't have to expose my lower parts to the rads machine.
  • Sandeeonherown
    Sandeeonherown Member Posts: 1,781
    edited April 2011

    Jo - excellent idea. I don't like scotch so that seems fitting.

    I am going to toss in the receptionist at the cardio clinic..who took a week to find my requisition, gave me no answers on he phone and sounded condescending ....granted, I think my bubble is bursting a bit ....feeling sad and disappointed today..and tired so....but I think I will toss her in..could change my mind next week when I meet her...I can always use tongs to pull her back out

  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 7,545
    edited April 2011

    I can believe we just reached 500 posts!  Thanks ladies for keeping the fire burning.

                                       

  • FireKracker
    FireKracker Member Posts: 5,858
    edited April 2011

    hey JO---im gonna make 501----my sons live in girlfriend has been acting up.that bit**ch has been acting up real bad.I need to throw her into the fire NOW....I never liked her before and now i got my family in a uproar so we are gonna become the BELLA MAFIA and either beat the crap out of her or toss her into the fire to burn alive.I need a drink if anything is left.

    wow that felt good.maybe a bat too so i can crack her head open.

  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 7,545
    edited April 2011

    Granny - So sorry to hear that.  Sounds like she needs an attitude adjustment - no, that probably wouldn't work so in to the fire with her.  BURN! BABY! BURN!

  • FireKracker
    FireKracker Member Posts: 5,858
    edited April 2011

    she needs more then an attitude adjustment.she needs a brooklyn beating...Im sooo angry that i wanna burn her myself with a huge torch...please keep that fire burning for a long time...if you see her run....you will notice her...she is UGLY.

  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 7,545
    edited April 2011

    Then I will have to throw her back in. Maybe tie a brick around her waist so she can't get out again.

  • voraciousreader
    voraciousreader Member Posts: 3,696
    edited April 2011

    You know, Grannydukes...If I'm not worrying about BC, then I'm worrying about how my children are feeling, physically and mentally.  Once they're adults, there's little we can do for them physically.  But mentally...there's an expression that I heard awhile back.  "You're only as happy as your least happy child."  You know what's going into the fire...all of our children's angst.  Now that THAT'S in the fire...there should be a lot of happier mothers and children.

  • annettek
    annettek Member Posts: 1,160
    edited April 2011

    hiya- i forgot to link this as a favorite and just found it again! I will ook fo rthe damn thing- like I said- I threw it and if hubby did not toss it...I will scan it and post it- I did tell my BS about it and she just shook her head and said she had no idea. I like her so much but I said- it might be a good idea to read what it is our little "welcome" basket...as I have found that most of us read every damnthing we can get out hands on after diagnosis.

    You know what is really sad...there that poison remains lingering in the back of my mind only to come out when I am feeling really down...it shows just how powerful words can be. ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

  • jan508
    jan508 Member Posts: 724
    edited April 2011

    Annettek:

    I had no idea you got a pamphlet like that!  That's terrible and I certainly would make a 'stink' about it!!!

    In our town the 'welcome' bags are put together by another organization called the Pink Ribbon (or something like that).

    How ya feelin' hon?

    Jan

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