For Older People with Sense
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I am a rock / stone fiend, and that fireplace is spectacular!!! Yes, I, too, seem to spend most of my days chasing my tail and bumping into walls.
May your holidays be happy and filled with peace!
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Chrissy, so good to hear your cheerful voice, once again! oh my gosh, that's what you call less prep? And baking a cake for a party in-between! You are a wonder woman!
We started a new tradition at Thanksgiving. We combine my family and my DD's BF's family. It makes us about 10 all together. I supply the house, dishes and utensils. ha ha ha. BF's grandma is a great cook and supplies most of the food. My DD helps me make some food I can eat (I am on a very restrictive diet). My kind of division of labor.
katty, I don't think I have met you before. Thanks. Yes the fireplace is wonderful. My kids don't want me playing with fire anymore so I have an electric log insert. I just push a button and instant fake fire!
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Those inserts are very realistic looking and warm to boot. Way way less messy too.
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Hi Ladies!
I was meaning to get back here to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! LOL I'm a bit late as usual. We were away over the holidays visiting family.
Barbe, I'm so sorry to hear your news. I will be saying special prayers for you.
I saw my BS this week for my regular check. I had my 6 month mammo and they saw something they didn't like. He did an ultrasound and assured me it was nothing to worry over. I have some scar tissue and skin thickening from surgery and rads. sigh of relief. He also wished me well as I have now hit my three year mark since being diagnosed. Yay! I am to have another mammo in six months and if still all clear I will go to yearly. (keeping fingers crossed)! Life has been busy as I am still babysitting for my now 19 month old GD. She never stops! I forgot how exhausting a toddler can be. But she's fun!
I hope you are all doing well and that 2017 is a good year for all!
Hugs, lilyrose
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Hi Lilyrose, great news from your BS! It's a great feeling as you move through the years and they tell you they dont need to see you as often.
Hope you had a Merry Christmas and a great New Year as well. Mine was lovely as we went down to the city to oyr second DD. She had most everything organized all I had to do was make the plum pudding ice cream and bring the ham ready for the oven. Our Christmas is always hot and this last one was no different......lol.......42 degrees C but thank goodness my DD is a personal trainer with her own studio which is air conditioned so we set up in there. Being in the cool was really great!
As lovely as the little ones are you are soooo right when you say they are exhausting! Thank goodness mine are all grown up (21, 20, 19, 18).....I do miss the babies they were though, but each age has their own challenge.
I've been madly sewing. My youngest nieces (10 and 7) rang me just before Christmas with the request for a quilt that doubles as a quilt cover with puctures of their sleepy toys on them. I have the top of one almost complete but still sooooo much to do for both and they need to be finished by the third week of March as that is when I am going to visit.
Hoping everyone is well and living life to the full.
Love n hugs. Chrissy
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oh so nice to see some "activity" on this thread.
I always worry when it goes quiet!
Chrissy you are as busy as ever. Would love to see a picture of the quilts. Do you machine stitch or do them by hand? Maybe a combo?
Lilyrose, it is so great to "see" you! I admire your energy to keep up with a 19 month old. What precious memories, you are creating!
I'm hanging in there. Survived the blizzard of 2017. It amuses me how every storm is the storm of the year or century or....... It was just a darn Nor'easter with snow! It is beautiful today, cold but very pretty!
I am still going thru my Lyme treatment. It is slow going. I have another appt with the specialist next week. Just added more doc appts onto my schedule.
I am doing a very restricted diet. No sugar, yeast, dairy and gluten. After I had to go on a nebulizer treatment from that bout of asthmatic bronchitis last month, I got a bad case of thrush. yucky to say the least!
Hope all are well and just busy.
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Nancy you asked about the quilts well here is the first ready for quilting. I was just doing the sandwich.
As for the quilting, I have only ever done stitch in the ditch and hand quilting but Aly is coming for a visit and has promised to machine quilt them for me while she is here. I'm hoping I'll learn a lot from her.
The colors are what my niece picked and are perfect for her. I wasnt sure to begin with but I'm happy with it now.
The second is now in the process so I'll post a pich once it is to the same stage.
Hope everyone is well.
Love n hugs. Chrissy
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oh Chrissy, it is beautiful! So much love put into every stitch! I really like the color combo, too. One of a kind. I'm so glad Aly is coming for a visit and to have a project to work on together, very special.
I'm a machine woman myself. I think I was just in such a hurry in my earlier life. Everything had to be done quickly. Now I have slowed down, considerably.
My DD BF left me a shirt to repair the other weekend. It just needed some buttonhole repair. Well, I patched the holes and then sat down to the machine and attached the buttonholer. I have put in hundreds of buttonholes, probably. Well, I couldn't get that thing to work, to save my soul. It is a setting issue. I can't remember what combo of stitch length, width works the best. I got so frustrated, then really angry, then really sad! My brain just doesn't work the way it used to. I tried watching U Tube videos, but had to eventually give up and take the dog for a walk on the beach.
That is why I can't work in my shop anymore. Why I am afraid to drive a car. Anyhoo, there are things I can do.
Next week I go up to Boston, to the Dean Center (a new section of the Spaulding Rehabilitation hospital) just for Lyme patients. Hopefully with my med regime and some rehabilitation, I will get some more of my life back!
When does Aly get there, Chrissy? Don't stress yourself out too much trying to hit the deadline.
I, too, hope everyone is well! We do get busy with our "real" lives. But I still have such a warmth in my soul from the women I met here on this thread.
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Nancy, Aly arrives on the 17th March and will stay with me for five days before we head off on a road trip to Canberra where we will be meeting up with Aussie BC girls for a weekend get together. After the weekend I'll drop Aly off at her cousins before she heads back to New Zealand and I will go and deliver the quilts to my nieces and stay a few days before driving home again.
It's a long trip and we will need to stay overnight on the way but I'm looking forward to showing Aly a different face of Aus than she has previously seen as we will be heading inland before heading east.
I dont know much about the effects of lyme disease although I do know it comes from ticks. It sounds really awful that it sapped your confidence so I sure hope the rehab can help you get it back.
I hear you on forgetting what setting for certain things that is why my instruction book for my machine has been printed out and kept in the bottom drawer of my sewing cabinet just in case I need to refer to it........as I did when doing....you guessed it...button holes......lol. The back of the quilts have been made so a duve can be placed inside and of course needed button holes so the bottom could be fastened.
Let us know how you get on with your rehab. Goid luck !
Love n hugs. Chrissy
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fellow oldies, please tell your partner, or whoever comes over a lot to watch for changes in behavior, I had a bout of kidney failure a while ago, accompanied with "brain fog" like walking around with no particular place to go, confusion. with all the medications I take, it is a wonder I even have kidneys.
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Cliff, You're right. And if older people start acting a bit crazy, get them checked for a UTI immediately. I don't know why it works that way, but it's often the first symptom. I hope you have no lasting effects from the bout of kidney failure. Is it working OK now?
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yes, they just rearranged my meds, now 3 Lasix and one metalozone diuretic per day, get a lot of exercise running to the john.
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Wow Cliff, that's scary stuff! Glad you are sorted now and that your meds have been reorganized.
Hey Wren, how are you going?
Heading to the city in a few minutes to spend the day with my two sisters and then having dinner with a BC sister before heading home. It's going to be a long day and a late night.
Love n hugs all. Chrissy
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At Chrissie's sitting chatting. This was the view earlier from the bedroom window.
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beautiful view. Post pictures of the 2 of you! Pleas
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Well here's Chris.
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Aly posting a pic of me......tit for tat.....lol.
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You both look like you're having a good time. Enjoy.
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Love the pictures
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50 years ago today 😎 No I didn't wear my uniform ☺0 -
Happy Anniversary Lisa!! Congrats on 50 years!!
You look absolutely beautiful in your wedding photo.
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Happy 50th anniversary!
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Happy Fiftieth Lisa!
Barbie how are you doing? Hope ypu are NED real soon.
Hi Chrissie and Ally and all!
Ginger
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Hi Ginger and all. Popped in to say hi.
Big hugs.
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Hi... I too would like to join this thread. I laughed at the tile " older people with sense." I am 62 yrs old with stage 1V bc. Since my diagnosis 6 months ago, it s changed my way of looking at life. I ve thrown my usual good sense to the wind in my determination to live each day to the fullest. In a way...I may be the one that has no sense at all.lol.... For example, I m usually a thrifty type of person but this week I bought 3 pairs of new Summer shoes. Did I need them? No...but they were on sale and looked great on me so I thought what the heck and bought them. My husband said jokingly, " I think your good sense has gone to the wind". So I felt I just had to join this thread when I saw its name. That being said, I have a great sense of humour and a positive attitude and simply don t have the time for negativity. I look forward to the support, encouragement and guidance and perhaps a little fun along the way
Ps...if I figure out how to insert pics on this thread, I ll post a pic of all my new shoes...lol...
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Hi Ginger et al!
Hi MCK54! Welcome to the thread. I'm also stage IV and have been since 2009......doing exceptionally well and like you loving life and living it well........not always with good sense though....lol.
Ask any question you need, at anytime you need and look forward to loads of love and support.
To post a pic just click on the pic icon at the top of the reply box and follow the prompts......it's that easy. Would love to see your shoes!
Love n hugs. Chrissy
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Chrissyb! You re Amazing ..2009 diagnosed and stage 1V and living well. Would you mind sharing some of the positive lifestyle changes you ve made since your stage 1V diagnosis and also tips you ve learned that help that are practical and make good sense...lol....at least in theory...It seems that it s part of the puzzle of us all living longer with MBC.
I had my first 3 mo Onc appointment this past week and the Drs were pleasantly surprised at the improvement in my bone mets....My cancer is an aggressive grade 4 and scans showed my bone mets are almost all healed over. I m on Fas/Xgeva injections with just a couple of side effects.
When the Drs learned I lost 30 lbs in the 3 mo and on an exercise program, they were really surprised. They actually weighed me a second time...lol ..didn't t believe the scales I guess !
You will prob laugh but in Jan. I was supposed to see the cancer clinic s social worker and learn all that was needed for end of life but I cancelled the appoint. I remember thinking to myself " screw that plan...if I am going to leave this life, I m going to leave kicking"! Lol ..
And so began my journey to work on something positive and that felt I had control of....diet and exercise..It wasn't t easy at first I ll admit. but now it s just routine.
I m chuckling as I remember my Onc s last words to me last week after I told her I cancelled the social worker appointment. She said with a smile, " something tells me you re not going to need it anytime soon my dear"
As I left her office, wearing my new pair of peach coloured shoes and matching purse and scarf, I skipped feeling a few steps of happiness. Life suddenly feels good!
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miss our group 😘
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Hi Lisa!! I think life has taken over and a lot have moved on although I still watch this thread.
Obviously not close enough as I have, for some unknown reason, missed your last post MCK54 and for that I apologize.
Wow! You are responding really well to your treatment and that is a huge plus in living a long time. Congrats also on your weight loss, I seem to be not disciplined enough to get rid of my weight and the fact that I am hampered with other problems exercise other thank a gentle walk limits me there also.
You asked what was my secret and what have I changed since diagnosis in order to be where I'm at. The only major thing I can think of really is removed all stress. I've also learned to not sweat the small stuff as they usually sort themselves out. Diet is and always has been good, I'm an old fashioned cook who uses almost nil canned or packaged foods so I do get my full compliment of nutrition. Other than that, I just make sure my day always includes laughter and lots of it.
Hope you are still skipping.
Love n hugs. Chrissy
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I too have this thread in my favorites and miss the back & forth.
Lisa - I still have San Diego on my bucket list, and may get there next year. Hard to believe that I was raised in the SF Bay Area with a brother in the LA area and still have never been to San Diego. I've had such fun meeting BCO members in different cities.
Crissy & Alyson: It's only a dream that I might get to Australia or New Zealand so glad to hear your adventures.
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