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  • gmafoley
    gmafoley Member Posts: 5,978
    edited February 2016

    Can I throw all my joints into the fire and start over.... Get the breast nerve pain gone and now I have spurs in my knee and tendonitis in my shoulder. I am really done with pain Loopy

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  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 9,646
    edited February 2016

    GMA.....hang in there girlfriend.......thinking about you................hugs

  • geewhiz
    geewhiz Member Posts: 671
    edited February 2016

    It's 25 degrees here. I am scootching up and warming my hands...

    Come on Spring!!!

  • Lucy55
    Lucy55 Member Posts: 2,703
    edited February 2016

    GMA.. Ugh.. Sorry you have more pain. :-( Yes let's keep this bonfire burning !!!

    Ducky.. I've been thinking of you.. How is your grand-daughter.?

    geewhiz... Opposite problem here. It's summer and stinking hot.!! I love your name..

    I better get up out of bed.. my daughter and her family are visiting for the day.!!






  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 9,646
    edited February 2016

    Lucy........she needs a lot of insulin.............what they are giving her is not bring her into level........3 hours after eating her sugar goes well above normal..............and she is on 11 1/2 units of insulin.....they will probably up it..............so sad poor thing is only 15.....I think when you have Type 1 Diabetes from a small child your parents kind of get it right for you and you grow up knowing its your way of life......but to be hit with it after 15 normal years, I am sure it is a shock to the system.............but she will survive and come out a winner........she's a strong girl with a wonderful father..............I asked my son if her mother went to see her......he said "for a little while"............so sad............but I guess we expected that

  • Lucy55
    Lucy55 Member Posts: 2,703
    edited February 2016

    Ducky....So sorry.. I'm sure it is very, very hard for your grand-daughter , son, and you too.. Hopefully they can regulate her glucose levels soon.. Thinking of you all, and sending prayers ((Hugs))

  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 9,646
    edited February 2016

    Thanks Lucy .........hope your well too...

  • joan811
    joan811 Member Posts: 1,981
    edited February 2016

    Hey bonfire gals, glad to see you checking in.
    Love that there are still familiar "faces" here....

    Time flies....work consumes much of it....but I cannot forget my times at BCO -- the fear, the learning, the support, the friendship, the laughter, even the sadness...life happening on top of BC...glad to have so many here who understand!

    Stay warm....just a few more weeks 'til spring.
    --Joan

  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 9,646
    edited February 2016

    Hi Joan....how are you girlfriend......good to see you by the bonfire.....hugs.....

  • joan811
    joan811 Member Posts: 1,981
    edited February 2016

    Good to see you too, Ducky....(dot dot dot).... we've had a lot of years here....and it's good to feel the warmth.


  • Lucy55
    Lucy55 Member Posts: 2,703
    edited February 2016

    Joan.. Nice to see you again .. and great to see the Bonfire is still burning 🔥

    Ducky.. Thinking of you xx

  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 9,646
    edited February 2016

    imageimageimageimageimageJoan, and Lucy who knows.........said Goodbye to my shore house yesterday..........it has a new owner...........sad, but I 'm ok.............not sure when it will all hit me, but for now I have my motto to get me through, and a lot of great pictures.........

  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 9,646
    edited December 2016

    Hey is anyone out there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!........just saw this at the bottom of my "favorites".....LO

  • gmafoley
    gmafoley Member Posts: 5,978
    edited December 2016

    Ducky you brought it to the top of mine :) - Merry Christmas everyone!

  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 9,646
    edited December 2016

    Hi GMA..................Merry Christmas all..........big Xmas hugs

  • Lucy55
    Lucy55 Member Posts: 2,703
    edited December 2016

    Ducky ...Yes !! Still out there 😃 Merry Christmas to all xx

  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 9,646
    edited December 2016

    Back at cha, Lucy...........

  • gmafoley
    gmafoley Member Posts: 5,978
    edited December 2016

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  • m0mmyof3
    m0mmyof3 Member Posts: 9,753
    edited December 2016

    Merry Christmas to all of you from me, my hubby, my "kids" Jackson and Princess

  • joan811
    joan811 Member Posts: 1,981
    edited January 2017

    Happy New Year Goddesses...
    I know some have moved to other threads or FB; but was just looking up a few people and started reading back.
    We've come a long way, and now another calendar year is behind us. 
    Thinking of those who have posted here, the smiles, the struggles...happy to have had so many great ladies in my life.
    Wishing everyone who stops by good health and peace in 2017.

    ===
    Change is hard, and loss is harder....
    Thinking of all those who we have lost to BC
    (((RIP Goddesses)))

  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 9,646
    edited January 2017

    Love you Joan...........may 2017 bring you all the good in life........

  • sharethehope
    sharethehope Member Posts: 37
    edited January 2017

    Just discovered this thread. Read some old post. Hilarious! I also would like to toss in the "welcome to cancer" swag. When I got the record keeping notebook I thought: This is too sm. to hold all the paperwork & I was right. Then I thought: is this as long as they expect me to live. Tossing in all the info on the drugs that didn't work.  Something to really get the fire burning, I have a couple of people to toss in - they're big so may have to toss them in more than once. The first is my gynecologist who saw the swelling on my neck & then stood in front of me reading my medical history.  Out loud she said  "Oh well, 18 yrs (had 1st cancer 1995) you've had a long run." No scan yet, no mention even of cancer but she was kicking dirt on me out of the gate. Then she sent me to a surgeon for the biopsy. Went back to have the stitched out & surgeon said: "I don't like to have patients wait for a diagnoses so I'm telling you now that you have stage 4 cancer. Its in your bones, chest & liver, you'll have radiation, chemo & then ............ yes die." I remember thinking, why would I have all that if I die right after anyway. Well, I cried & cried & went home & cried & cried. This was a surgeon not an onc in anyway. With really bad medical info. She didn't stop there either. She called me at home & wanted to sent over some "home care" nurses from "social services" to see what help I might need. They came but they were from hospice & insisted I take pain med. I didn't have pain. They insisted I did. {They were very young.} They insisted I did & wasn't owning up to it. They wanted to come back every week. I put a stop to that This Dr. did other things but will wait till the fire needs more fuel. Have more people to toss on fire but later also.  By the way this happened 3yrs & 10 mo ago. Still ticks me off though. Maybe because people keep adding to it. I hope they burn bright.

  • Lulu22
    Lulu22 Member Posts: 61
    edited January 2017

    sharethehope, I think we need to pile some fresh coals on top of those two bums. What idiots! Keep on proving them wrong. 😀

  • sharethehope
    sharethehope Member Posts: 37
    edited January 2017

    Thanks Lulu, I've been diagnosed with cancer in 3 different states & never had a response like here. Don't know if its because of the stage 4 or my age or both but the people here are a bit weird about cancer.  Will tell you a funny one though. I went to emergency because my picc line developed an infection & when the nurse walked in & look at me she ask "did you have a arm transplant?"  Whaaaaat. really. I'm glad I wasn't having a heart attack.   April

  • Freya
    Freya Member Posts: 329
    edited January 2017

    OMG sharethehope that is so disgusting, they deserve to be slow roasted!!

    I had a "friend" come to visit just before Christmas. We stayed up late one night, just the two of us, to catch up. She asked me if I really had cancer, because if I did, I should be dead by now. WTF!! I was dxd 8 years ago, stage IV for the last 6.5 yrs. I only have one breast, she has seen me bald numerous times over the years - that is going overboard for a prank!!

    I didnt trust myself not to throttle her at the time, so I just went to bed. The next morning I told her to leave my home. Neither husband had any idea of what was going on. Mine, bless his heart, didn't ask any questions, just unlocked the gate and helped them pack ThumbsUp

  • Lucy55
    Lucy55 Member Posts: 2,703
    edited January 2017

    Joan ..Wishing you the happiest , healthiest year ahead !!

    Sharethehope, Freya ,Lulu ...Welcome ..Ducky will hopefully be here with the welcome mat soon. !!!!


  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 9,646
    edited January 2017

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  • PoppyK
    PoppyK Member Posts: 1,275
    edited January 2017

    I haven't visited here in a while, but welcome to the newbies! Some people are just asshats! I would have shown that "friend" the door, too!

    Since my diagnosis, my mom has been trying to re-establish a relationship with me. When I was a kid, she chose her own life and fun over us kids. While she was out dating and taking college classes for a degree she still hasn't completed, I was left in charge of the house and my younger brothers. Later on, she chose alcohol instead of having a relationship with me and my kids. I've been keeping her at arms length, but go to lunch with her about once a month. Anyway, she keeps asking me to go with her to see various plays/musicals in LA. I don't want to. Plus, since my last mammogram shows I have areas of concern needing biopsy, I'm not making plans for stuff like this. I don't know what surgery is in my future (lumpectomy, mastectomy, excisional biopsy). I don't want to tell her about my latest "news"... especially until I have answers. I don't know if I should just tell her that I don't want that kind of relationship with her. She keeps dropping hints that she wants to do certain things before she dies. But she's been self-centered and manipulative her entire life. I guess I just want to throw her in the bonfire.

  • m0mmyof3
    m0mmyof3 Member Posts: 9,753
    edited January 2017

    Poppy, do things the way you are comfortable with

  • Bluebird-DE
    Bluebird-DE Member Posts: 1,233
    edited January 2017

    Hello everyone --- into the fire, THE COUGH and INSURANCE CODES and MEDICAL RECORDS EMPLOYEES WHO DO NOT KNOW HOW TO USE THE RIGHT INSURANCE CODES. bleh

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