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  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Member Posts: 10,258
    See Jo!  I told you!  Everybody's sleeping!  I'll help you with the chips....DON'T tell Kantalope...she'll just holler ......again........
  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 7,545

    Chevyboy - Let her holler.  It is Friday and time to unwind from the week.  I can't believe this bunch - party poopers.  We can party though.  Oh! BTW - don't look now.  WHACK! WHACK!

    Let the pillow fight begin

  • Beanius
    Beanius Member Posts: 1,494

    Okay, let the pillow fight begin! Whack, Whack Whack! You girls have me LMAO!...Jo, thanks for the chips, I will just add them to my little chunky hips! No really I am still making progress to some day be a slim beauty!, and Chevy, the Baileys will help and Jo, so will the beautiful wine...nothing better than chips with wine and a Baileys chaser! ha ha ha ! Whack Whack to all you girls!

    Big hugs!!! GD is right, who cares what date? Let's celebrate life!!

  • Beanius
    Beanius Member Posts: 1,494

    PS Jo I'm so jealous you have no dr apts in May! I have a load of them...MO follow-up, gyn, mamo, dentist and eye dr for new glasses! Golly I sound so old!

  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 7,545

    Beans - Aw! But it catches up with me in June...first mammo since dx, annual gyn, MO followup, and GP.  So, no you don't sound old.  It is just the nature of the "beast".

    Where is everyone?  Don't look now Beans - WHACK WHACK WHACK. 

  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Member Posts: 10,258

    Morning girls!  I see the rest of the "kids" didn't stay up for the  pillow fight!  Man, I had such a back ache when I went to bed, but now it has bit the dust!  Cool

    BEANS!!!  You cute little thing!  No you don't sound old...  Sometimes I "feel" old, but we don't "sound" old...ha! 

    May, my dance-card has a few things....Lunch, then a breakfast, then the Mammogram, and last, my Radiologist...to review stuff.  I just dread the Mammogram,...but actually, that's what "found" that tiny little spot in my breast.  We couldn't "feel" it, but they knew what it was.   So I'm really lucky they found it, and then it all happened so fast, and here we are!   Pillow fights, & great friends, Ha!

    Jo!  POOF!  ( I just got YOU!)  That 's what a pillow sounds like splatting on your head!  Wink

    Beans!  A dentist appt?  Don't tell Kantalope!  She cringes at the thought...So you still have teeth, eh?  Good girl!  I have some of mine too!   Oh wait!  Whack, whack!  I gotcha!!!

    I wonder where everyone is?  It's after 5:30 here.   And starting to get light!  I love this time of day!   Oh well, I'm just sittin' here all alone, crying softly because no-one is awake...Cry Lonely, and forlorn...whimpering.......maybe if I just stay here someone will come?  I'll fix breakfast for everyone!....................  I'm just talking to myself here!   I give up.....xoxoxoxox

  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Member Posts: 10,258

    My Dad used to fix us "Rabbits in the Hole!"  So I made them for all of you! 

  • barbaraa
    barbaraa Member Posts: 3,548

    Well, gals, today is my one year cancerversary. Don't feel like celebrating but am grateful to be alive. {{{TEK}}}} hugs to you, gal. We have been through a lot together.

  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 7,545

    BarbaraA - You may not feel like celebrating but we are going to for you.  (((HUGS)

                      

  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 7,545

    Chevyboy - Thanks for the breakfast - that looks yummy!  There was NO one on here last night.  Makes me feel like I need to get a life.  Boy, that made me sound pitiful.  Oh! and I owe you one  or two.

    WHACK!  WHACK! 

  • Sherryc
    Sherryc Member Posts: 4,503

    Chevy thanks for the breakfast

    Barbara congrats on your one year cancerversary.  We will celebrate for you.  It is good to be alive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Member Posts: 10,258
    Yes Barb!  Congratulations on your one year!!!!!!!!    You have a good attitude!
  • barbaraa
    barbaraa Member Posts: 3,548

    Thanks, gals. Glad to be alive. Am going to have TWO desserts tonight and sugar be damned.

  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Member Posts: 10,258

    Here are  your Desserts Barb!

  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 7,545

    Barbara - Could can say no to this?  Chevyboy  and I will take good care of you.

                                        

  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Member Posts: 10,258
    Oh Thank you little JO!  Ha!  Do I have to share?
  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 7,545
    Chevyboy - Only if you want to.
  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 9,646

    Ok, Ladies...............you just friggin killed the messanger...............I'm not telling you guys anything anyone..........Cry.............meanies, meanies, meanies.....................for that I'm gonna go to my bedroom and cry.....................THE HELL I WILL, ..............WHACK, WHACK, WHACK, ...................got you all, oh shit there are feathers all over the place.............gotta get the hell out of here, damn if I'm cleaning up this mess..................hahahhahahahha

    Hey I go Monday to the specialist..........I know there is something not right with this arm, and maybe it is still surgery leftover...........but I doubt it.............Like I said before they only removed 8 nodes...........all negative.........but once they mess with the nodes, you are in danger of LE.......wish he would have left the damn things alone, but my kids said he couldn't because the dye did not take enough to please him, and he was excellent, so I guess he knew what  he was doing.

    Hey Beans, thanks for the info you gave to me........As I said I have a home in Cape May Beach NJ.. I have the Cape May County Airport not far from my house..........In early evening we sit out by the pool,  and by 7pm if you don't have on some kind of "OFF", or mosquito deterrent lit, those suckers will pick you up, turn you around, and sit your ass back down....they are so big they should land at the friggin airport...................You wonder why I thought "bug bites", are you friggin kidding me......well your news made me "happy" again.................And ;I do intend to live like a normal person (for as normal as I can be Cool).......and not let this cancer, or LE shit drive me nuts............love ya ladies.

  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 7,545

    ducky - Now just calm down. Please don't cry.    Kantalope is MIA so we can do whatever we want.  No one showed up to the pillow fight last night - no even her.  Kinda boring for a Friday night.

    Let us know what happens with the specialist on Monday.  Seems this disease always keeps us on our toes and guessing.  Shouldn't be that way but it is. 

  • Beanius
    Beanius Member Posts: 1,494

    Jo - oh, yuck, so I get all these apts in May and you get them in June, WHACK, WHACK WHACK!! HA HA...really, I'm glad we're taking care of our follow-ups...are you planning to take pillows with you for your doctors an nurses? Tee hee!

    Chevyboy - and Jo, thanks for saying I don't sound old...I just never had so many apts. Was all healthy until you know what came and bit me in the booby. I do think close follow up is good. So you get a lot in May too? WHACK WHACK WHACK! I am dreading the mamo, but last time I asked the tech to be super gentle with me and she was, so will do the same this time. Have you ever had one of those rough techs that grabs and slams? Ouch, that's only happened once to me and so now I beg them to be gentle with lil ol me!  Yes, dentist too, for check up and cleaning, bleck! I have all my teef still. Love the Rabbits in the Hole! My mom used to make that but had a dif name, Egg in a Frame, I like Rabbits in the Hole better! Yummy!

    Barbara - Hurray to you, Congratulations on your one year cancerversary!!! If you're like me you'll be crying, but inside feeling like wow, I made it a whole year and I'm going strong and it's just such a great thing to be alive and be with my loved ones!! That's what got me through. I kept thinking about how much I love to be with my DH and I wanted to be well to be with him and my family and friends. Hope you have a great day, big hugs to you! Chevy has made you some beautiful desserts to celebrate, mind if I grab a handful??

    Jo - mind if I grab some of that cake too? Looks so yummy!

    Ducky - well, glad I had some good ideas, I must say that I've never been such a hypochondriac in my life since I got this dx, so I'm trying to learn how to relax and live normally.

    One thing I've started doing is some daily affirmations to try to keep me calm. OOOOoooo look who won the pillow fight!

    dog

  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Member Posts: 10,258

    But Ducky!  Where WERE you?  Didn't YOU say your name was Flipper?  Ha, ha!  And don't cry....we were just playin'!  WHACK!  right back atcha!!!   That was so funny about you talking about your bugs!  That big, eh?  My Daughter in Orlando keeps getting bit by those damn little fire-ants!  She keeps spraying, but they get her anyway! 

    It's still been too cold here for many bugs....I just see a lot of bees around my new little plants! 

    You know, I have HEARD lymphedema can be expected, and I'm so sorry you have that trouble!  Here I am, planting tomatoes in the dirt, hanging clothes, cleaning closets, and just not paying attention to caring for my arm....I'll bet Jo isn't either!!!!

    And Kantalope is probably still in bed....!  Maybe we could all sneak up on her & smack the day-lights out of her? 

  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 7,545

    Beans - It seemed like once I had my annual mammo last July - all I did was go to this doctor appt and that appt.  I remember the week before surgery, I was at an appt 4 days out of 5. Sheesh!  I had to write everything on my calendar and juggle my work schedule to fit everything in.  Don't get me started on the daily rads treatments.....  I will have my first mammo since all this crap started on June 3rd.  I am going to have the tech do my good boob first then the other one.  Last year, I had an annual screening mammo and then a compression mammo.  This time is an supposed to have a diagnostic.  Now, I don't even know the difference between a screening & diagnostic - guess that will be a question for the tech.

    If all goes well in June, then I am appt free until the middle of Sept when I see my BS for hopefully the last time.  I really don't mind seeing him - he is soooo cute.  But then again my onc ain't bad either.  hehehe

    Oh!  Before I forget - WHACK WHACK - you didn't think you were going to get away with it - did you?  Love the picture.  Bet he would love his tummy rubbed. 

  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 9,646

    Beans....................oh my God, is that your dog..................if it is get back to me and let me know.............and is it a Boston Terrier.................Oh I'm coming right to your house and stealing that little Baby............You must let me know if it is yours...............

  • barbaraa
    barbaraa Member Posts: 3,548

    SUGAR!! Thanks!

  • Sherryc
    Sherryc Member Posts: 4,503

    Jo and Beans I had all my appt in April.  I only have one in May and one in June. Glad things are finally slowing down

  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Member Posts: 10,258

    This is our Lacee!  You can see where she had been waiting for it to snow.....She isn't a Sheltie, she is a "Snow Dog....

  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 7,545

    Sherry - The forecast for future appts is getting back to the way it was before BC.  Just added one and that one is every 4 months.  I can handle that.  I'm sure my insurance company is happy with the fewer appts too.   LOL!

    Chevyboy - What is wrong with our arms that we have to take special care of them?  Did I miss something?  I didn't think it had a illness all its own.  hehehe.  Life does go on you know no matter what Kantalope  says.  Where is she anyhow?  Well, she can take that - WHACK!  That will teach her to sleep in.

  • Beanius
    Beanius Member Posts: 1,494

    Jo - I think since K isn't here right now we should all get our pillows ready so when she pops in she'll get WHACK WHACK WHACK on all sides for sleeping in so long!

    Chevy - love your snowy Lacee dog pic! Hope that snow is gone by now though.

    Sherry, Jo - yeah all those zillions of apts. I had 12 chemo infusions too where I had to drive all the way to Seattle, then rads was a 30 min drive each way for 33 days in a row. There was so much!! I had 3 sugeries before chemo and follow-ups, etc. etc. Now things have calmed down so much. Getting back to a more bearable follow-up routine and regular stuff like teeth cleaning. And Jo, don't look now, but WHACK WHACK POOF WHACK - got cha!

    Ducky - sadly the dog isn't mine, I wish I had a fur baby but right now I only have one house plant. We were traveling so much last year for my treatments as we have a place in the mountains that is 8 hours from Seattle and a place on the coast that is 3 hours from Seattle. My DH was such an amazing support, he drove me all over the planet it seems to get all my stuff done. When things settle down a little more I think we will find a fur baby, we talk about a kitty or doggy or rabbit or maybe guinea pigs again. We both love animals.

  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 7,545

    Beans - Maybe granny will should up later - must have lost her walker - hehehe.  Don't look now but WHACK WHACK - not you can't hide from me - WHACK.

    Whew!  I am hungry now - how about sharing this with me.  I did bring enough if others pop in.

                                   

  • FireKracker
    FireKracker Member Posts: 5,858

    well well well.some after rads thread this is.I did get the shot last nite and my GD stayed with me for a long time chatting.I did not get out of bed until almost 10am.ha.well i feel either its the fatigue or im just darn tired from working 2 jobs 7 days a week for many years and im finally exhausted.And i do have to clean this apt being i did have some kinda energy.i worked for 5 hrs.ok.now back to business

    chevy--1-leave Teklya alone.she is a nice quiet lady.dont scare her away.look what you did to Torigirl.

    Barbara-CONGRATS----gosh we did walk that long hard road together.thnk you GOD we are both here to say it.Dont even offer me any of that cake.im gonna kill Chevy for putting all those wonderful deserts on.i could eat the entire dish.thanks bi$&tch.the strawberrys im allergic too so you can share them with your DH.You are one of the sane ones.thanks for stickin around.Congrats again.

    Beans-im booked solid for may too.and yes chevy the dentist too and the eye dr.and in case your interested my back is killing me.BTW your breakfst was the ugliest thing i ever saw.I HATE HATE  HATE EGGS.any style.UGH.

    so Ducky-----are you gonna cover up in NJ this summer????just wondering?????I too live in NJ and i know what im gonna do i was wondering what you were????

    did i leave anything out????except hello to the quiet ones.you probably chased Lee away too now that i think about it.

    Keep the eye on the ball.ITS AFTER RADS THREAD...did anyone cream with the creams that have no parabins or sulfates today?wash with dove sensitive?JUST THINKING OUT LOUD....love my sistas.God bless.huggggggggs kantalope