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Pawprint, Sorry to hear about your furbaby's surgery. If it makes it less painful, that's a good thing.
FBB, In your pocket today and Friday.
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Okay..... The Cat House!
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Dog house, snakes, frozen mice, slugs, Cat house, goat house, coffee, balls, bread crumbs, pics of hot men......see I do read, I just don't know what I'm reading! LOL
FBB I'm in your pockets too!!
Pawprint, sorry about your baby!! I am the biggest animal lover around, and I think I would win the cat lady contest, really, I can post pics as proof if I need to! I have way to many, but I love them all and they entertain me daily! I also have and love my dogs! I have a rescue dog that is also diabetic, she takes two shots a day and has also been banned from the furniture as once she goes to sleep, she has no control over her bladder! But she is a sweetheart and she can't help it, and she looks so pitiful when I put a diaper, so I just cover her beds, yes beds in big garbage bags and put a mambe blanket on top and she sleeps quite comfortably! The mambe blankets are washable and the garbage bags keep the actual beds from having to be washed, if she "leaks" too much, I just spray them with some cleaner, wipe them down, and put another blanket on top! Big fight at my house, DH wants me to ban her to outdoors, but she was raised sleeping with me, so there is no way that I would ever agree to that!! Just wouldn't be fair as she couldn't understand why!
Well, that was a ramble! Off to do a little work!
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FBB loads of (((HUGS ))) and we're there. As soon as u can let us know how things are going.
Well I think we have enough houses, but we might need a much bigger nut house than we figure, and not because of squirrels. We're such a creative bunch when we can sit on our asses. BTW I don't always use vanilla pudding, today it's green apple--I'm a woman of many flavors.
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I received this email from a dear friend whose also a nurse. Likely when she reads it, she'll be knocking at the door. She's just that way. I love her for many reasons. So, don't think I was being terrible my response was of irony. She and I are a different wave length than the most.
Friends name deleted: Received On Sunday, May 4, 2014 7:19 AM, Medscape Special Report
<Medscape_Special_Report@mail.medscape.com> wrote:
Medscape
The World Cancer Report redefines responsible drinking.
Alcohol and Cancer Risk
From Medscape Oncology
News and Perspectives
No Amount of Alcohol Is Safe
Cancers Caused by Lifestyle Behaviors: Experts Urge Action
Prevention Is Crucial to Stem 'Tidal Wave of Cancer'
US Women Not Interested in Alcohol as Breast Cancer Risk
Alcohol Causes 1 in 30 Cancer Deaths in the US
Too Much Alcohol: Making Screening and Counseling RoutineEsophageal Cancer: Etiology
Oral Cancer: Screening for Risk Factors in the History
Breast Cancer Risk Factors
The 2014 World Cancer Report takes a hard look at the risks associated with
drinking alcohol, long known as a carcinogen, and concludes that no amount of
alcohol consumption can be considered safe.My response:
You noodle brain, I don't hear from you in months and you send me this stupid
email.
Why don't you call me, and we will go out for drinks and steak(red meat, also, a
carcinogen). Eaten with potatoes, salad, and vegetables that are pesticide
laden--opps more carcinogens. Then we will sit by the pool and enjoy the fresh
air as it wafts across the pool---oops chlorine another carcinogen.
I would have had fish, but too much iodine may be connected with breast cancer.
OH wait a minute, I already lost them.
Learned about the iodine and breast connection b/c I just lost the Thyroid. Oh
yeah, BTW it was cancer.
April 21st I had Radioactive Iodine-131 RAT-131. Having every friggen s.e. plus
some never heard of with this treatment. An example, my eardrum just ruptured
last night. "Oh what a relief it was". Eustachian tube on left side swollen the
day before treatment. I guess that was a setup for more swelling. Very painful,
but survivable. It was nice to have it rupture.
NOT in any book as a
complication of therapy, but of course it will happen to me.
But you know me, already in contact the NRC and sent them oodles of stuff about
creating a patient centered protocol. NONE available. The toilet seat, floor,
sink, and garbage are discussed at length in every protocol and article in USA,
UK and EUROPE. Nothing or minimal about self care is available i.e. skin, eyes,
mouth, nose, genitals, nails, hair. I've had s.e.'s with each area. It's been a
delightful learning experience. NOT.
Now I need to be monitored for several more cancers that my treatment has
predisposed me too. Let's see if I remember them all. Leukemia, stomach,
genitourinary, breast connection to ER+ in mice--don't know what it means too
me--I'm ER+, brain. Brain tumor, I've already had my one, two
would just be unfair. Also, it can affect heart. Didn't find anything on a liver
connection. But already being followed for a thingy. At this point they think
it's a hemangioma.
Why Thyroid cancer? Who knows. Maybe the several times a week of eating fish.
Who knew, I thought, I was eating healthy. Maybe it was all those years in
nursing with exposure to xrays without a thyroid shield. Possibly ALL the
diagnostic CT's and PET (Pet includes a CT) scans. Did you know That one CT is
equivalent to 200 chest xrays.
Looking forward to a wonderful evening when I stop glowing. Do hope you call
before that L&H&P's sheila0 -
Off to Shrink's . Kept him ever since the early days of BC. Everyone should have one. Delightful to discuss all the messed up things with. I go after five so Schatzi can come. It has done wonders for her fear of offices. A two for one therapy session.
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OMG Sas u can tell u'r talking to her lovingly, but absolutely hysterically. She and u must be quite a pair together.
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Changed back to a bluebird for our FBB. Thinking of you!
Pawprints, so sorry to hear about your pup. I wish we could communicate with them, I always feel so bad when something has to happen and I can't. I am sure she will feel better after the surgery, and they seem to adjust to new things so fast.
Sas- your reply is priceless. Now i need a drink!
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so true.
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JWow! That is so sweet of you!
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Shucks just hate when I type a note and forget to hit submit. Phooey
I should be the "Blues" avatar right now. It has a special signifigance, and it's a secret.
Jwoo I was going to be a bluebird. I will on Friday.
Cami & Jwoo---it's nice to have friends that are as crazy as us. I know N is LHAO.
Updated shrink on everything, he says how do you cope with all this. I said "I talk". But we ran out of time. I couldn't of made it without him when things were bad. Two of us with cancer at one time. Could have been manageable. I know sounds crazy, but i am saying this with a retrospective look. The ungluing came with all the friggen errors. My beliefs of what I thought was happening in medicine and surgery were blown apart. That was the toughest to deal with.
I'm just done with it. The errors have got to stop.
So, you see an error. Just tell them no-UH_UH not going to happen, stop.-------whatever.
It's not that I didn't, but some were done when I wasn't around, or didn't know were being done. Like the stupid pathologist that didn't even do middle school science evaluation of my thyroid bx. Cluck'em. I can't change the past, but damn well am going to change the future.
Oh, I bought a bottle of wine on the way home LOL. I'll have it with all the other carcinogens.
Thanks for the idea of PIZZA---it's on it's way
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Hello Blondie,
How ya doing? I took steroids on the red devil.. It was a buzz. I also got a Zometa infusion, 3 weeks ago.
Have you been on the Halaven long? Its all is sucky. Is that a word? I sound like Miss Cami, making chit up. I am getting better at that, my friends & family just look at me & say chemo brain.
Looking at your bio/stats on your dx, you have been living with this for 17 years. Is that correct? I am 10 months in to the BC world and I am amazed when I think about how many women live & fight for there life for so long.
A friend of mine was dx last week... She needs chemo & herceptin.. Ah, I have spent a lot of phone time with her. I have leArned so much from all the wonderful women on these boards, she thinks I am an expert....lol...
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Boy, I am going to regret being up this late. I'm stressing over my swollen (autocorrected stolen arm) I get fitted for a sleeve in the morning. I'm feeling down.
What light through yonder window breaks? Tis the....Sas is that you? Are you still glowing? Women don't perspire, they glow.
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Ms Dutchie, what's causing you to feel down? I think I'll be here for a bit, have laundry in the dryer that DD needs in a couple hours
Pawprint, I am so very sorry about your your furbaby. Hopefully this procedure will help relieve some pain. Anything I can do for you?
Sassy, splain the new avatar please.
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Blondie- hope the 'roids don't make you too crazy. I sure appreciated the energy, but the meth feeling, and the OCD I could have done without. I wish I could get that kind of energy without all the side effects! I agree with Holein1- your fight is inspiring!
Dutch, i am just really getting/dealing with/being frustrated by LE. I have it in my trunk and a little in my upper arms. It is making me bonkers. I wish you the best of luck!
Nettie- that comment would literally put the boy in the doghouse. Good thing he knows better than to say something like that to me. But, he is also a pet parent, and cares as much as I do about our zoo.
Sas- can't agree with you more. A therapist is the best person to have on your team when dealing with any major shit in life. Mine that I am seeing now has been a true lifesaver.
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Thank you all so much for your kind words for my fur baby. She is getting lots of extra love and I'm taking the day off of work next Thursday so I can stay with her before and after surgery so she can hear my voice. I wish you all the best, many of you are going thru tough times. Sending out hugs.
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Blondie! Sweetie, I've missed you!
Paws-sorry about your puppy.
Woozy - nice picture!
I should sleep now.
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sending out hugs to you, too, Paw!
Phyllieneedstosleep, sweet dreams! Woozy, great name
Jwoo, didn't recognize you with the new avatar. Miss your beautiful face
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Time for TBT! This is My BlueBerry when he was just a baby. He turned 14 in December. Still has that happy face (and has never stopped panting.
I love him so much. 
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Morning girls! Love your Blueberry JWow! But I love all pets! I made my DD a little pot of grass, for her cat! It's called "Trini's Little Pot of Grass".... Sounds highly appropriate lately...
My other DD sent us these little kits, like a tiny pot with a face, and you plant this grass-seed in it, and grows, and Trini has been eating his "hair"! So I made her her very own pot!Morning Paws.... just wish it was over.... It is so hard WAITing, as all of us know! Give her a hug for me...
Sassy! Whatchoo MEAN? "A secret"???? We don't have secrets around here.... remember? You got the blues...? Okay, we are all sorry, and you don't have to tell us......... unless you want to...
Okay Nettie! We got this! Your only solution is to BAN your DH to the dog-house! And not with us! I mean! Of all the nerve... sending her outdoors! Is he nuts? Did he give you a choice? Like her or him? Okay.... you got the picture... I'm just sayin'......
Sometimes we just have to dig our heels in.... and just say no.
But JWow.... Is that YOU on that.... um... Is that you shooting that bow and arrow? Cammi will think she is dreaming.....
Okay....Hi Blondie, 22222 and Holygolfgirl! It's only 39 degrees here! This weather is having fits... doesn't know wht it wants to do next!
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One for Sassy!
THAT'S SOME STRONG 'NIP!!!!!
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Sorry Chevy, I went to bed.
I know it can always be worse. This lymphedema makes me worry about my job and other things. It's most swollen in my left upper arm. My arm hurts from mid forearm to my shoulder when I raise it. Does anything help the pain, JWoo or anyone?
JWoo you are loving TWT, aren't you? Blueberry looking like he's so excited that its tough for him to stay sitting.
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Dutch..the lady who volunteers where I get treatment just had a new procedure where the took a lymph node from the other side of her neck by clavicle I think and put it in her arm to help the drainage. Just happened last month. use to where a sleeve that was the color of her arm and then wrapped it in some thick quilted sleeve at night. That all helped her. But know is excited about this new surgical produce she had. I will let u know how she is doing. If I forget to keep u updated please remind me
Have a good day owlettes
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Good Morning Girls!
Sitting here having my morning coffee on my screen porch watching the dove that landed in a flower pot on my deck two days ago. She hopped up in there, sqirmed around a little it and voila, she had 2 eggs under her.
Unlike Chevy, I did not snatch rm and go make an omelette!
I had a morning coffee photo all picked out, but DH is home and SICK. He has the office and big computer
And I don't want to go near him! So tablet it is and since it is a dinosaur I can't do pics from here. Finally figured it out on my phone though!Sas! How was the wine? Don't forget to cook your steak over charcoal! Blue? Hmmmm... Hope it isn't sumptin having to do with DBF
Chevy, I will stick with you and Cami any day! Birds of a feather and all that
Do they grow THAT catnip in Colorado too?Cami, what chew smellin' like today?
JWoo, cute puppy! I miss not having a fur baby. Might have to fix that soon. Won't get a phsycotic one this time though!
Dutch, I feel you on the LE. It has been the MOST frustrating thing out of all this. Well at least until I lost my right fin! My LE comes and goes. It was really bad before my swap surgery. Then got better. It would flare up from time to time, but over all pretty good. Then I lost my fin and my arm got skinny again! Now it is starting to flare. SO ÜBER frustrating. I mean it's not like turning BLUE frustrating, but still!
AND my swelling is mostly in my hand under the ring and pinky fingers. Then my wrist gets small and then my lower arm swells some but it stops at my elbow! Sicks because none of the compression we have tried, even the hideous wrapping like a mummy on roids has helped the hand. And of course I am right handed and have my hands in something messy all the time. (yes, Zigwillpickuponthat!). I hope they get you sorted better than that.
And speaking of roids! I must be the only one that can take them and go take a nap. They did nothing for me when I was taking than for chemo except help me gain weight I didnt need and give me acne! We cut back the dose by the third chemo. Of course the doctor wasn't aware he had altered the dose until I told him he had done that.
Blondie! I concur. You should be FierceBlondie cuz you fight like FBB. You girls kick ass. And I have seen your beautiful picture! You glow, and I don't mean in the dark like Sas!
Phylliethattheyletleave. How did the eval go? Or did they just chip your ankle with wifi somyouncould keep us updated? Where in NE you be? I graduated HS from Hastings!
Nettie and 2TA hope you girls have a great day.
Paw, that is sweet you are taking the day so your doggie can hear your voice after the surgery. I'm thinking (scary, I know!) that it will be a relief to be without the pain since unfortunately the sight is already gone. So just losing the pain is a good thing. I'll be in your pocket at the vets!
Apologies to those I missed! DH, office, SICK, no big computer all means no scanning back a page
Off to bake muffins for the kindergartner's "muffins for Mom" tomorrow!
Have a great day ladies!
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Hi Susan!
Interesting about that lady, I will look out 4 updates! I am going for a consult for node transplanting too! I have the glove/sleeve thing and the giant oven mit for sleeping too. Works ok, but it still doesn't help my hand which of course stumps everyone!
So tired of being the interesting patient. Some days normal and boring have their perks!
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How's about I supply morning coffee this morning? Can only be on a short while. I think a serious line of storms moving in. Tang a Rang are you getting rain too? We got a little this morning enough to wet the grass good that's all. Surely not the amount predicted.
I have to bake something too for prayer meeting tonight. I think it's called "salted chews" though more like a rice krispie treat. I'm probably the only mom who did not make those - I really think they're evil personified. Don't get me wrong - love sugar and chocolate. Just nothing about marshmallow held together rice krispies is enticing. But I bought all the stuff to make these a while back so might at well.
I actually have a pot of zinnias growing I planted from seeds. I keeping hiding them up under a bench when it storms then putting them back out. Must have 5 of those shallowy dish garden types.
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Good morning! Had my radiation blast yesterday. Feeling pretty good today other than some blurry vision. One more full body dose tomorrow for the PET scan. My husband said when they find out how many pets I actually have, we're in trouble. LOL
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4 - I suppose they didn't let me leave so much as they had a lapse in security.
I live in Mc Cook and had to go go Kearney for the eval. I haven't been to Hastings yet but I think I have a training class there next week.
Bluebird and Blueberry-both beautiful! And blues is beautiful music. And I have blue nail polish this week.
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