The Hermit Club
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Teka-happy hermit anniversary! Glad you are here with us.
Into the work week I go. Feeling more rested, moving past jet lag feelings. I hope everyone has a good week with treatment, healing, preparing for school year start, last of the summer days.
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Teka I'm glad u are here, u r so unique--I've said that before--but It's my pleasure to know u.
I go on and on about nothing--u say so little and yet u say so much
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Been so out of the loop I hope you all are welll....
Got myself a kitten from someone gave up on the feral cat thanks Teka....
Lori glad you opened up and Cammie leave it to you to get her to do so....
It i time for all you teachers to get get ready to get the kids back into the classroom....what a hard thankless job....just was talking to teachers yesterday about how parenting is different these days then it used to be...not judging but doesn't seem like they parent much....I think it is cause they are afraid of DYFS or CYS or whatever the agency is called in their particular community......Michael said mom just smack them, said, Mike you can't these days not the way I used to punish you.....
Will try to catch up....oh and put my kitten pix with me on my fb....sandy wadsworth is the name if you want to look it up...
Hope you all are ok....miss you alll, sorry been missing!!!
BBL
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I post them to photobucket and then here if it doesn't work like you were saying jazzy!!
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Saw the kitten a real cutie!
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Kittens are so so cute.
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Teka mine is cuddled up right next to where I put my head she's all set for bed and I was just singing to her she loves it. (the only one)--I did watch the Dome--Steven King--- and I know the ending will be very disappointing. I always get hooked into his like mini-series or ontinuations and they are good then the end comes and I think WTF was this about. So we;ll see.
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Jazzy that's so funny---nice to wake up to LOL
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Good Moring Hermits,
Yesterday was my last chemo treatment!!! I can't believe how fast these past six months have went. I am so happy to be done done done....sort of. I am thinking i am going to move forward with a study that involves recieving a vaccination to prevent a reoccurance. Although I may be recieving a Placebo. The plus side is that I will get a cat scan yearly, along with an echo. I am hearing that recieving excessive cat scans can cause cancer...but I can pull out of the study at any time. I feel like if I don't go through with it, and get cancer again, I would be kicking myself. The vaccination has went through Phase 3 prior to going to the public. However Phase 3 involve a small group that were tested. I asked why I need a yearly echo, and they said there is no evidence of the vaccination causing heart disease, they just want to be proactive and make sure there are no issues. What bothers me, is that the Pharmacutical companies are sooo money hungry...and crooked. I don't understand how some of these meds like vioxx can get out on the market, and then pulled because of the problems with it.
800 people are in this program in the Milwaukee area. Is anybody aware of a preventative vaccination?? I guess it is for people with early to mid stage cancer. I don't start it until late september.
Blondie, I am so glad you have a kitten!! My fritz is my buddie...I craddle him in my arms and give him lots of kisses. He follows me all over. I swear he is close to hopping in the shower with me.....he can't quite get use to the water on his paws. We went to Iowa last week and he had to stay with a cat sitter. It was so hard to be away from him. God I am sounding like an obsessed cat lady...lol
Jazzy- thanks for your help. I liked your idea of no cancer talk days. However we already have that here. I did tell him about Julie from the TNBC, and he asked me if I was upset...which was nice.
Lilly- hope everything is going good for you...
Camie- Thanks for everything you do...
So who are the teachers here?? Bless your heart, I am so grateful for some of the teachers my kids had. I will never forget what my sister said when she taught for the very first time...she crawled into bed in a fetal position and was absolutely exhausted. You would have to know her to appreciate that, she is a different egg.......
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OMG am I in the not kniw what's going on. I didn't know there was any trial about a vaccination, where have I been--are u gals keeping secrets from me? Now this sounds exciting but Teka they are not supposed to bill u'r insurance right? Cuz u'r volunteering for this? I just think this is great Lori. How are u feeling.?
Hey have we heard from Lauri lately??? Sometimes I miss things but I can't remember any posts lately--I hope she's all right. I figure Markat is getting her kids and herself all ready for school so she'd be busy, plus she does have other things going on. Well I hope they check in soon.
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Yea Lori! WooHoo!
DD is a teacher, school started yesterday here. I know she's pooped. I worked in our district for over 23 years, food service and bus driver. The first week is hard on everybody. Glad to be retired, don't miss it.0 -
OK teka than Lori got to watch her billing--we get so much billing it's sometimes hard to keep up with.
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I never knew this stuff--I was originally asked to be in a trial at first, but then they said I wasn't eligible so I really never asked anything about it so I didn't know. Wow u have to be careful about everything. Too much stress.
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My understanding is that if you agree to a trial of any sort, there is NO cost to you or your insurance or any other form of financial obligation. You are basically doing them a favor by agreeing to be a part. No cost to you. period.
Yes, I teach. First day was Monday. Today, I was told at lunch to pack up all my books, binders, everything, remove every item from my bookcases, clear out... They are putting in new carpeting. (I have informed them of a mold issue for months and months. And second day of school, they act.) My room has thousands of books, so I am exhausted... much less having to teach with no supplies in a "foreign" room until given the green light to return. soooo tired. The custodial staff stayed late with me, and my things are now all over the building... stored in lost and found, the computer lab, every nook they could use. I hope I get my file cabinets back! sigh. Off to collapse, then get ready for day 3 of students. Tomorrow will be a challenge.
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Oh, sweet Teka. I didn't mean free of woe or free of ouch. I just hope no one is paying to take part in something like clinical trials. I know I'm a guinea pig and have to pay for surgeries and such, but the "cutting edge" (no pun intended) technologies have to have "pioneers" as my bs says... I hope no one took offense at free. No disrespect meant toward anyone brave enough to accept those options. Hugs...
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Skittle that's the stupidest thig I ever heard, they had summer to take care of this--Oh I know they disn't hire anyone to do all this work of moving everything (school budget) so they wait and everyone has to do all the work cuz they'd be there anyway. I bet. U poor thing--It's hard enough to start back without all this confusion. Geeze---U rest well
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Good Morning,
No I don't think Laurie has posted recently...she is the one who had the nerve damage from an i.v right? I have a hard keeping some people straight. But seems like I have missed some posts, as the case with Lilly.
I am feeling good cami, thanks for asking. The past seven days has been busy with going to iowa and all, so dh goes back to work tonight. I am looking forward to some alone time. He is so type A...go go go....I just want to putter around with my art project and catch up on some calls.
Thanks Teka and C.C for for the advice, I will most certainly watch the billing. I don't know how wide spread this vaccination is. I am sure they are doing it everywhere else right? Or maybe my cancer center want to be know as the inovaters of cancer prevention?? Wonder about the politics of things.
SKittle ..wtf...god what a bunch of Ka Ka. I hope you just relax tonight, take some slow deep breaths, and enjoy the last days of summer. Its too bad they had to dump this on you...besides that mold should of been taken care of from the get go, when you complained. Take Care Hermits.....Hugs to you...
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I read that she posted somewhere...
Hermitting.....was supposed to go out but not much gas....so will stay in and don't have to go out til Friday...apparently the DD's are supposedly taking me out for dinner, I think something is going on, like they are having a 60th bd party for me, this is my week off....anyway...
how is everybody?
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Lori I'm glad u'r getting some alone time--it's needed sometime -I personally like it alot but I do go out when I want so it's all right.
Blondie that's so funny--u'd better act suprised now===Oh u'r still a young un. I hope u'r feeling better.And feeling extra good Friday.
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Hi hermits- I realized yesterday after a week of being back to work on my consulting contract that I feel like I never went on vacation! One of my yoga teachers did say this week she thought I had a hawaiin glow though.....
Went to see the gyn this week and most everything okay. Next is the mammo on 9/3 which I am getting nervous about. Fingers crossed.
Some interesting things here about a clinical vaccine. I thought to myself when I read it "wouldn't it be wonderful if women could get a vaccine to prevent this problem?" Like so many other terrible diseases through history? And I think some good advice here to be careful about the $$$ around this though, along with our general medical care. We all have stories of things we were told that would be paid for that were not.
Lori- you sound better this week and hope you are enjoying your hermit time at home.
Skittle-what a drag about the rugs, they should have done that over the summer as Cami says.
Blondie- you are having a milestone birthday! I hope you have a really great dinner/celebration out!
Teka- what is in your garden late summer?
Cami- glad you like the funny pics I find for you all!
I know Laurie is going through radiation therapy right now and no doubt pretty exhausted from that so we hope you are dong okay Laurie. Try to get lots of rest. I hope your daughter is doing okay, tough pregnancy for her.
To all the rest, hope you are doing okay with whatever you are doing this week!
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Just woke up-way to early--so this is my first Good Morning.
It's funny how we miss people we know they have lives, but u can't help but hoping everything is going OK. Jazzy u must be exhausted a vacation is rough to come ack from and then go to work. Well It's Friday Eve so that helps.
OK I'll be back--enjoy resting everyone.
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Just a little something to have with u;r coffee
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Gawwjus
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Cami- now why didn't I see THAT wash up on the beach in Hawaii? LOL!
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Looking for advice from all current or past hermits - here's my story. I work with special education students in a high school. I have been off work since my surgery in December. (Finished rads just a few weeks before school ended, and just decided to take the remainder of the year off, to heal physically and emotionally.). I just had exchange surgery and fat grafting two weeks ago. I am still very fatigued and sore. Could care less if I leave the house or get of of my recliner, but I still do a lot of running around with my two preteens. Tiring!
I do NOT want to go back to work. It is already causing me stress ( it is a high stress position, with little pay anyway, but cancer bills are piled sky high.). Everyone thinks I am the same person who left, that I had a wonderful long time off, that cancer is over and I should move on. Ugh. I am not ready to move on. I am dealing now that exchange surgery is done with all the feelings I kept bottled up. Pissed off about losing a year of my life, pissed that other people's lives seem so care ( and pain) free. Etc. I do not want to leave the safety of my home. Don't know how to be "super mom" again with school starting.
How did all of you handle this? Tips? I am scared. I am tired. I am not coping well. Sigh. Where do I find the strong woman I once was? Is she still here?0
Just a little something to have with u;r coffee