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Ginger, I have followed Anne pretty much since joining BCO and have been voting each day.....I do so hope she manages to win again this year as she really deserves it.
Love n hugs. Chrissy
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I've been voting every day too!!! Held my breath when she lost her lead, but she's back in #1. I wonder if that company will back-off now....???
Please keep us posted on your scan results. I was on disability for 2 1/2 YEARS but back to work now, so I know your fear.
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Much more luck to Anne. I too have been voting and am glad she's back in first place!
Oh Ginger, I'm so sorry for your problems. Hope the scan shows that your symptoms can be relieved quickly with treatment. Please keep us posted.
So glad for the break in your weather, Chrissy. Prolonged heat is so debilitating. We have our heat waves here in the South but usually nothing like what you've been experiencing. It generally stays in the high 90's F during the hottest months and rarely hits 100.
Yesterday was my 64th (yeah, count 'em) birthday, and I simply cannot believe it. A very nice birthday, too, going out to dinner with the family and coming back home to brownie hot fudge sundaes made by DD. Gotta have chocolate, you know!
Bought an Iphone today, now working to get it set up. This is my first Apple device and it's a different animal.
Hope everyone's having a good weekend.
Kathy
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I voted, too. So much writing talent and openness. Love the new pictures.
Ginger, glad you got thru your scan. Sometimes when they spring them on you is easiest because then we don't have time to worry about it. Waiting for the results with you and hope there is some resolution for you.
Chrissy, so glad you have a break in the weather and hopefully the fires, too. So scarey! Hope your trip to the city is pleasant.
I am so beat. Everything hurts. Hopefully, when the cobbler gets more comfortable with the shop I won't have to be there so often. Customers are coming in now. We put some small signs out on the road saying reopen, and people are real happy and bringing in all the stuff they have saved up. So he is busy and so grateful for a job. I am enjoying seeing my customers again and talking to everyone. One of my friends even brought me flowers. So sweet.
My hands are still so sore. My PT person is mentioning trigger release surgery. Has anyone on here had that. She said it only takes about 10 minutes and about a week of recovery time. I am very sceptical. But I am tired of being in pain and using my hands more means more pain. Any words of wisdom? They are also going to start working on my whole body and giving me some more weight bearing exercises. I just started going back to them, The cancer support group is going to start a free exercise program again this February, so I'll go to that, too.
So I have lost 12 lbs in 6 weeks so far on my diet. Add to the weight I lost after getting off the steroids that adds up to almost 30 lbs. People are starting to notice and my pjs are starting to fall off. I am eating lots of the "free" vegetables, so don't feel too deprived. I made a yummy weight watchers veggy soup tonight. It satisfied my creative cooking urgh and tasted mighty fine.
I think the new med is helping alot. I have a different energy. As my PCP said this week, let's wait 3 weeks to see if you are really feeling better or just happy you are not feeling crappy.
edited to add Happy Birthday, Kathy!!!!!! enjoy that chocolate!
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Happy birthday Kathy! The Apple store here has classes for 8-10 people at a time. And you can go back more that once.
Ginger, Hope they find something easily repairable and it gets you out of pain. I was sure glad I carry ear plugs everywhere. Those things are really noisy. (DH drums with a percussion group which explains the ear plugs.)
Mac, Enjoy the energy. Hope it lasts a long time.
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Kathy, I know what you mean about not believing your age. I'm going to be 56 this year and never thought I'd live this long!!! Would have taken MUCH better care of myself if I knew that....sigh. Kind of surreal really, isn't it?
Mac, why are you doing so much with yours hands if he is there to work? You've done enough!! You should just be the "intake" person or a hostess. Are you supposed to be there all the time? I thought this was his gig and you were renovating a cottage. Where is my boo-boo????? As for surgery, I must admit I'm leery of anyone screwing around with my hands. That's my creativity. I wore wrist splints for years to avoid surgery and it worked. I've always said "take my legs but leave my hands!!" I recently did a lot of writing studying for my mutual fund licence. I FILLED a lined notebook from Walmart, line by line. I've NEVER been able to write that much as my hands would cramp up. For some reason they didn't!! Maybe the muscles have changed/developed/grown or something.....
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Thanks guys.
Happy Birthday Kathy! I'm 68, do I win?
At the DR appt I was measured and this vertebrae trouble showed up in my height. I am 5'111/2" tall. On Thursday I was 5'91/2" tall!!! I just can't stand up straight I am pitched a bit forward. I was always so happy that I had not lost any height like so many women do after their hormones are done. (I think that is the reason)
It is the big football game here today to determine who goes to the Superbowl next month. I am a very new fan but I like how happy and enthusiastic the fans are here. Soooo I have now watched three games and have declared myself a fan. I am learning a little more each game about what is going on. I still find it hard to see just where the ball is at!
Barbe that is so great that your fingers aren't bothering you!
Anne's contest ends tomorrow. I am voting both with my Facebook and Twitter log ons. I hope she can hold her lead.
Hugs Barb / Ginger
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oh barbe, it is all my ego and the fact that I can't let go. It turns out he wants to work "for" me, not have any financial risk. Which is ok with me, but I have a certain way I would like the shop and work to look, so I have to communicate better and let go more. He does very good work and is quick. I am hoping that after the initial "getting to know each other period", it will settle down and smooth into a routine and rhythm. My docs really do not want me working with the fumes and dust, but I found myself preparing and dying a pair of shoes yesterday. I was showing him how to do it, but still .... This afternoon I was down there looking for something and ended up doing some cleaning. Boundaries, I need to set boundaries and stick to them. Also I need to be able to delegate. I am so used to doing it on my own.
I have been sleeping with compression gloves and wrist splints for almost a year now. The PT person said if they would get better by themselves she thinks it would have happened all ready. I'll do my research and think and pray about it. Not rushing into anything.
Ginger, I used to be 4' 11" and 3/4", but I lied about it on my driver's license and said I was 5'. Now I am 4' 10" and 1/2". I'm only 61. I hope the docs can figure out something to help you out. I've been doing some yoga which is helping with strengthening my muscles.
I just finished watching the dissappointing Denver vs NE game. I have to be doing something else while watching, but I kept an eye on it. oh well!
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Hi all! Talking about shrinkage! Yup I can relate....lol.....I used to be 5'6" but am now 5'41/2"........can't forget the half, it makes me feel taller.......lol. Age and gravity, wear and tear causing disc shrinkage are the culprits of our shrinking. My father used to be 5'10" but at his death he was 5'3" and my mother was similar........she was always taller than I but when she died she was quite a bit shorter than myself.
Looking back on old photographs makes me wonder........you know?......how when we are young, fit and healthy in the prime of our lives things that we encounter now were things that were never bought up in conversation by our olds. Whereas today, we seem to be way more open about the changes that come with age to our children.........are we just whingers or are we passing on important information? Something to ponder on.
Nancy it's good that you have that fellow working for you but yes you need to be doing as your docs say and stay away from the shop environment. It sounds like he is more than capable of doing the job and if you need to go into the shop for any reason, as much as I know you wouldn't want to, you need to wear a mask if for not other reason than to keep the dust from entering your lungs........a little prevention is way better than finding a cure.
Heading to the city very shortly as I have a MRI scheduled for mid afternoon so had better put this computer away and get moving as I still need to shower and pack an over night bag.......I've been a little slack today so far as I really do not like MRIs as I get a bit claustrophobic.
Take care all!
Love n hugs. Chrissy
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good luck with the scan, Chrissy! Thanks for caring about my health, I know all this stuff just need to implement it. I am glad I have a couple days "off" to prepare for my next "test". lol
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Are your ears burning Chrissy, we were telling our new BCO San Diego Lunch Bunch members how much fun we had
when you came here . Even the mad dash on the Navy Base..
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Lol Lisa, that day was so much fun!! I always get a smile on my face as I scroll through my pics which rejuvenates the memories and makes me wish I could do it all over again.
Scan all done and I get the results in the morning before I see my doc in the afternoon so am now back at DDs house checking out the tennis........lol.
Love n hugs. Chrissy
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Just popping by to say hi, I am here and OK just tired which is bugging me.
Big hugs
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Today is the last day of Ann's contest. Please go give Ann a vote. Perhaps share with a few of your friends. I vote with my facebook log in, it's automatic and my twitter log in, also automatic. Easy and quick.
http://www.healthline.com/health/best-health-blogs...
Ann's competitor is pulling ahead quickly. I can see clearly that Maria's blog is using the contest for publicity for her business. The latest post said she would use the prize money to buy more giveaway gifts for her readers. Her blog looks interesting, but it is a business.
I sure hope we can support Ann through out this last day.
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I have voted.
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Thought you might like to see our Breast Cancer Research fund raiser.
Thats one, there are two others
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Very nice
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Very pretty Aly....hope they sell well and raise a lot of funds.
Sitting waiting to see doc.........Boring!
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Ann won! It was really close part of the time but Ann pulled ahead.
Thank you for voting.
Ginger
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That's wonderful! She so deserves to win.
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Checked this morning to see the votes. Didn't we do well.
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Woohoo Anne!!! Pat yourselves on the backs girls we done good!
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I actually posted it to Facebook twice. I've probably posted less than 20 times in several years, so it was something special. I'm so glad she won!
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So happy to hear that Anne won!! She deserved it, and thanks to all here who were her advocates in reminding people to vote.
Thanks to everyone for the birthday wishes. Since then, it's been low key around here, and just frigid for NC. I can just imagine the electric bill dollars mounting up as the heat pump runs so much more now, almost all the time! I do like the heat pump in the summer, but in weather like this there's nothing to get up against for warming and we have no fireplace. DH and I just wrap up in old afghans and that works pretty well.
Kathy
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Leah - I was so sad to hear about your Dad. I lost mine a few years ago and still miss him so very much. My heart is with yours as you go through this time of sorrow. Hope the shiva can ease some of the pain of the loss.
Praying for safe travels and healing of the heart. Love you. AJ
I have been doing a little better with my balance since I have started physical therapy. Even the neuro. doc. has noticed the improvement. I have not worn those shoes since the fall so they are off to Good Will, they used to be my favorite shoes. Just finished week 1 of my 14/7 day cycle of tamoxefin and nothing major to report except for the nausea from every dose. I am still really tired all the time and onco. said that would probably not get much better and to just give in and rest as much as I could. Funny that I am so tired and yet cannot sleep at night. I wake up every hour for 2 hours then sleep for 1 hour then up for 2. This is worse than having a newborn baby in the house! Even my afternoon nap has gone from 2 hour to 30 minutes. At least I have gotten to read several books that had been waiting on my iPad to be read.
Kathy - hope you had a wonderful birthday and are managing to keep warm. My DH has been keeping a fire roaring in the fireplace for me. He even put some chairs around the front so that I would not fall into it again while there was a fire going.
Hugs to all, AJ
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((((AJ))))
Scan I had today was fine and its just nodules on thyroid and in throat. Have to have thyroid function checked.
Trying to print off some family history as DH is helping to organise a family reunion in March. Must go and check up on the tennis.
Big hugs to all
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Bouchard isn't doing very well
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Glad to hear that all is good and/or improving, Alyson and Ellisimo!!
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HI, Ya'll know I pop in from time to time. Today feeling a bit of smaltsy, it's my 5th year Cancerversary. My home thread is Insomnia thread, but I thought who do I want to share this with besides my dear friends there. I thought of my friends here. I know you will share in my JOY of this day, b/c we each have the thoughts in common re:BC. Bless you all in your journey.
3 minutes ago, edited 2 minutes ago by sas-schatzi
Hmm opened a bottle of wine, thought about these few hours in 2009. 11:55 am--I had a phone call from a nurse that said "DR. L wants you to know you have a brain tumor"----no answers to what, where, what kind,etc. Said to her "Well, going out the door for a 1pm bx, we know is going to be positive" "I quess when the shit hits the fan".
Talked over films with radiologist, I pointed some stuff out on the films and said "This tells me it's very aggressive". He looked at me, with the look of --should I be honest with her or not. He said "Yes"
Figured a good little nurse would tell her boss that she had a brain tumor. DH and I already figured out a plan for him to drive me on my homecare nursing calls. Told boss of tumor and plan. Her words "We need to know you're safe with patients, I have to relieve you from work". I never worked again.
In the space of four hours, I had a triple hit. A brain tumor, breast cancer, and lost my career of 40 years.
But my Lovey's, It's five years today. We never know why anything happens the way it does. I wrote the following in 2011 it appears. Probably on a glass of wine then too
Nov 4, 2011 03:47am, edited Aug 14, 2013 06:58pm by sas-schatzi
This thread is about being prepared------------and will continue to be so, but add to your list about ending it.
There will come a time that you will no longer need BCO. It is different for each person. Some need to stay here b/c no one in their life gets what they have experienced.
Others need to stay b/c they have developed friendships, that are beyond dissolution, by leaving.
Others want to stay b/c they love helping others.
Why we stay or why we leave, is to each our own, we love when we are here and remember when we our gone.
But always , remember you are valued, and your return is received joyously, because you LIVE.
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Shiela congratulations on your five yearaversary. I am glad that you are here to lend a hand and especially just to visit with us.
Hugs Ginger
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