The Hermit Club
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Teka - yep that's how I look after winter, or really that's how I look all the time! I've always joked that I was born with the pallor of a corpse. That sounds macabre on this site, but I need to keep my twisted sense of humor!
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Jazzy glad You are back and had a good trip
You were missed!
Hope everyone is able to enjoy this Easter
with people they love.
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hello my hermettes!
Been busy and getting out alot. May I still be a hermit?!
Interview tomorrow with new temp firm, hope they put me to work soon. Feeling good, statred pilates and it is very difficult. Good, but hard. Feels right for me to do to strengthen my weak body. Cooking alot, doing whole foods, off booze, sugar, processed foods. Super Bippy rises from the ashes!
I guess I'm in a transition from major active treatment. I'm just beginning to process this whole thing. Doing a lot of healthy crying but not feeling depressed. Very happy to be alive and grateful for every day.
I do hate this disease. My 29-year-old niece has a lump in her breast andSomething in her armpit. She goes for more invasive testing probably this week and I'm going with her. A biopsy is in her future. She has many many female relatives with the Gene and who had developed breast cancer. I'm terrified for her, but absolutely not showing it. Dammit all.
Anyways we will deal with it if we must. I hope you all are doing well, and welcome spring!
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OncoWarrior, very well said, and that is a very good article. After exchange surgery I got very depressed. Some days are just hard. It is never really over is it? I mean you can move on but you are not the same person. I think people want you to get over it because they don't know how to treat you when you have cancer.
Bippy, I'm glad you're feeling better. Sorry to hear your niece is going through this too. I hope she gets good news from her tests.
Hope everyone gets some spring sunshine.
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Hi folks- greetings from the west coast where I have been since last Wednesday visiting family and celebrating a birthday. I have had a good time out here enjoying sunshine, ocean, good food, a great concert, a trip to a museum, and more. Now I am heading back home via Phoenix and will be in late tonight.
Although I feel the closest to "normal" since everything began for me in 2012, I also am a different woman in many ways. I have friends who never ask me how I am doing post treatment. It is like it never existed. I think people are so afraid and uncomfortable about the whole thing before, during and after that they just don't what to say. I have a couple friends who will ask in passing how things are going with follow ups, etc. but they don't linger, which I also appreciate. No one understands the energy is different, what we continue to go through five years after, or that we have SEs from the AIs. I am the same person in essence that I have always been, but also different in many ways.
Hoping everyone is doing okay and getting more sunshine as the month wraps up. I hear it has still been snowing back east though.
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HAPPY Birthday Jazzy HOPE U R HAVING FUUN
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Thanks Blondie- we had a great time. Will post some of the better pics here soon!
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Laguna Beach.
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Jazzygirl, beautiful photos
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Thank you Teka! My motto this year is "55 and still alive." I know you gals more than anybody will understand this.
More photos, this time of Newport Beach.
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Teka, Love the minions.
Jazzy, Your pictures are striking. You are truly alive!
Blondie, Hope you are treated well at home... good thing the snow is gone from your front steps. (still some in my backyard)
Maiden, Happy Spring to you!
Onco, Thank you for sharing.
Bippy, I hope and pray that your niece receives good news.
Footprintsangel, Wishing you a blessed Easter with your loved ones as well!
Midnight munchies - I would love to eat a hermit bar right now.
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Bippy- please let us know about your neice. She is so very young to have to deal with any of this crap.
Onco- I hope you are continuing to feel better.
There is a very good documentary on PBS now by Ken Burns called Cancer: The Emperor of all Maladies. I knew the first part was running Monday evening this week, but missed it as I was flying home. I watched it on line tonight. I learned so much. You can find it on pbs.org.
Wishing everyone a good sleep!
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Sleep well Jazzygirl and everyone here, I will be thinking
of You and hope You are all going to have a wonderful night.
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Sorry I haven't been here in a while. Been taking a break from being online lately. Got a great bit of news recently, my CT Scan came back that everything is stable, so I have graduated now to being monitored unless something starts up!
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hi all,
My niece is fine! No cancer. She just must monitor due to hx. Thanks for the thoughts!
Jazzy, lovely pics.
Off for another interview. Getting depressing. No one wants me
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Good morning hermits!
Foots- thanks for the good wishes. I slept really well last night, first time since I got home!
Bippy- that is really good news. Congrats on the neice being okay. We like good news here.
Mommy- I wondered where you went but have also been here less too. Good to hear your scans are clear and you are doing well. Yay!
Where is Cami?
How about Lilly?
And some of the other newbees?
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Its a total relief Jazzy. Finally don't feel like I'm being kept a prisoner to the treatments.
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Mommy- is very freeing when you finally get away from the treatments and all the endless doctors apts. I only see my cancer docs now every six months and like it that way.
One of my experiences in the post treatment world and with follow ups is to go off the radar for a bit with my friends and even one SIL who like to yak about whatever is bothering them. It is not that people don't care still, but most don't understand that we are not really done with any of this, we go into a different phase with the monitoring. So I tell you guys here on BCO, and my sister (who goes through them too) and just tell everyone else I will be off the radar for a bit with no explanation. I find it make things less stressful for me.
Anyone have anything special going on for the Easter holiday weekend? I am going to soak in some hot springs on Sunday and then going to spend time with my friend going through chemo (she is not doing as well lately....)
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Can't believe that I have been so busy with just living a normal life since then that I totally let my 2 year anniversary of survival go by without noticing it. Didn't realize it had come and gone until we were in church on Palm Sunday and looked at the date on the bulletin.
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Bip u r time will come
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Bip,
my hubby was going through that when I met him 12 years ago. He kept getting more and more despondent about ever getting a job again. I told him to not give up and that something would come along. It was a struggle for him, but it worked out in the end. When I got diagnosed with this crap, he repeated my words to me at my low points.
So keep the faith and keep in the fight and something good will happen.
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Bippy- remember not to disclose your diagnosis. It will work against you.
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thanks blondie, mommy and jazzy!
Ugh. It is a life changing thing, coinciding with aging. I must make adjustments and I do not wanna.
monday I got another interview at an estate planning and probate firm. Always wanted to try it and it is very good field here. I luckily can take a lower salary if I need to, and it will surely be less stress and interesting. I know the guy there, he is a gentlemen and low key, no drama. So wish me luck again.
To orrow is DH and me day, we putz around thrift shopping and eat lunch out on the water somewhere. Yes we are boring as all hell but perfectly suited! It is awesome weather in Sarasota and time to get outside. Doing pilates and bike riding, feel stronger already.
So I can keep my glittery nails till Monday, and then redo them for interview in palest pink.......and dig out my biz suit skirt
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Bippy- you just keep interviewing and will find the right thing. My work is taking a bit longer to get restarted too since I finished my last contract in January. Getting closer, but sometimes you have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find that prince. It is true in the consulting and job search process.
A nice outfit, some pretty nails and perhaps something new and fun for you. I think estate planning work seems much less stressful based on the difference I see between my biz atty (who does a lot of litigation) vs. my estate atty who just helps with document planning and updates. A low stress job might be a nice thing now so you have time to continue to recover (it just all takes awhile....)
Wishing you luck sister. Like Blondie says, your time is coming. Just keep sowing those seeds.....
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Everyone's in spring soon? Blessings to all my Hermettes this weekend, no matter what religion you are or are not. My grandmother that raised me loved Easter, not religion but the food, outdoors, and revival of spring. I miss her most this time of year. She used to make easter baskets for DH and me until she died. How I miss receiving that plastic grass, sugary bunnies and peeps. She would make ham, salads, desserts..... Always peaceful at her home, church bells ringing gently in distance, fresh flowers from her garden, fresh chicken eggs, cold ice tea, hot coffee, cold beer, fresh fruit from her trees, shady cool spots to lie in the huge yard, and smell of grass, bbqs and orange blossoms. DH and me, eating Sunday supper early there with my father and friends. Just a random train of thoughts, helps to write it though.
Cannot believe how much pilates has helped me already insofar as ROM, core strength and arm stretching. I am hooked! My low back and neck feel happy.
Off for Date day tomorr with DH, we putz around town like geeks, in thrift stores, garage sales and then eat out. Home by2, LOL, would not have it any other way!
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These photos are from the Nixon Museum and Library. You don't have to be a fan of this president to really enjoy this place, chock full of so much interesting history and beautiful rose gardens.
Childhood Home (made from a kit!)
Reflecting Pool
Rose Gardens
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