new and future flat sister, with questions
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CD. I'm the crazy one telling you to hold your fingers. It really helps in the middle of the night. So do these ladies.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=share&v=ydxWxFJ...
Also you are about a month earlier than I was last year for my BMX. Button up shirts, my sister's nursing gown and DHs hoodie and tshirts are what I wore after surgery. Bought a couple of pretty Capri pjs that buttoned up but probably can't wear them now with LE.
I did get into some of my regular scoop neck shirts with a pattern or gathering last year. Had to have help getting out of them. Got rid of all my over-the-head dresses.
Not sure what I'll wear this summer. Port requires wide straps, maybe bigger arm holes for LE and don't want to expose myself if I bend over. I haven't really gotten a chance to go shopping this spring.
I would recommend a goodwill, consignment or opp shop to try out a few things to see what you like and is comfortable. Go with very soft and loose in the beginning.
OTC. Here's the one for nausea.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R11-jiBlbGU&feature=y...
Boy has bronchitis. Had swimming lessons and now over at his Nanny's playing.
Baby had St. Patricks cupcakes with am group and St. Patricks cookies with pm group. Then Nanny gave her cookies for the ride home. I love her pm teacher/group but as of Monday she's too old for that class.
I picked up a spring cake mix. Cheating I know. We all love chocolate but adults gave it up for lent and am afraid I won't be able to stop. I'd love to make a Mississippi mud pie. I've always made it with nuts (illegal at my house) but had some plain and it was good.
St Patricks parade tomorrow. Hope it's not as windy as today. Supposed to meet a girlfriend and take the kids, of course. I haven't seen her since before Christmas.
Then a proper date with DH tomorrow. Parents night out at my old daycare. Nice dinner and tricycle shopping for the bday girl!
Go Big Blue! Basketball tournament time. KY and FL in same conference.
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Zills,
A proper date good for you ! you deserve it !!!
Wren I forgot to comment on Goldie . I am sure she did not mean to pee on the couch , can you keep her please :-)
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Hi cdelv! Thank you very much! I'm a few years older now! I was 57 in that pic and I turned 60 last July.
Nothing yet from vintage, hoping she's just resting!
Wrenn, we seem to have lots of water loving men. I have just sent Colin off model yacht racing. He enjoys it, but would much rather be Kayaking or Sailing on his own. He doesn't complain, but I know he feels it.
cdelv! I know how daunting it feels at first. You're absolutely right, it' a whole new world of dressing! I had no idea how many low necks I used to wear, till it was time to throw them all away, and my beautiful lingerie, I refused to throw my fave French bras away for ages. I kept them and would actually take them out and look at them occasionally, till I felt comfortable tossing them and embracing the "New Normal! I thought I'd never feel confident in clothes again, but I am pleased to say that feeling didn't last! In saying that, I mostly wear a Foob because I have a D on the other side, but I do occasionally just wear a firm tank to rail that puppy in and go half flat:)
There are others here who go Flat and Fabulous, so you'll get plenty of advice from them about patterned shirts, worn over tanks or camis, strategically placed scarves or some prefer to wear tops with a fairly tight bodice, with a sweater over the top. It gets much easier as the time passes and you realize that no one is really staring. I think that feeling of everyone looking, comes to all of us when we are new to it. The truth is, people just don't notice. Oh, I do mean strangers, I would hazard a guess that you may get a few double takes from people who knew you as a "J", but like everything, that too will pass.
There is a lot of experience here, on this thread, even though we are all reasonably new to this, so just ask anything, there is never any fear of TMI, we will help as much as we can. We have all had funny and sad experiences!
jsj! WooHoo! you're home! Ding Dong the Invader's gone! Doesn't that just feel like such a relief?
I was glad I could be there this morning, I know that 4.30am feeling, it is just awful and feels so lonely.
Glad you had no Asthma worries and you're through to the other side of this one. Tropical drinks with umbrellas, that was a nice picture to go out with! I think I was still yapping when the lights went out for mine! LOL
Take it easy, won't you, don't be doing too much and wearing yourself out. It takes some time to shake off that anesthetic. Hugs...M x
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JSJ - WHAT? They don't give us coffee in our IV's? Oh dear! Yes, I am on Facebook. It would be great to be a part of that group! Glad your surgery went well today.
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Zills. I actually go to a Jin Shin Jyutsu provider and I am always amazed how "centered" I become afterwards. Hoping to get a couple sessions in before my surgery. Love the finger holds!!!! Thanks for the video
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I missed all those posts! Fia, if only! I love your humor!
Zills, so glad you're going on a date, you do deserve it!
I am imagining all that green coloring in the cup cake frosting and the cookies, did the baby love them?
I hope the boy is feeling better and doesn't have a barking cough to go with the Bronchitis!
I am off to watch your JS videos....M x
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Fia~ loved the pics. My legs really looked like that last night before I bucked up and shaved them. I do think a male mammo machine would be so appropriate as a man was the one who invented the boob smashing torture device. LOL
Zills~ I am glad little one is feeling better and also glad that the baby had such great parties! I have looked up the finger holds and have started incorporating them into my stress mgmt. I had done my own version of these last year when I had my fusion and quit smoking. I didn't realize I was doing something productive, just knew it helped tremendously when I wanted a smoke.
Cdev~ No they will not give you coffee in an iv.. I told them that was just wrong! They will bring you a weak cup of cold coffee after the day surgery though. Needless to say I headed home and straight for the coffee pot. LOL.. I haven't stopped drinking it since, other than my nap time earlier.
Wren~ how is that sweet Goldie doing?
ND and Grammab hope that your weather clears up soon and that spring and warmer weather arrives quickly! If you have too much moisture, you can really send it our way. We are so dry the blankets spark at night when you get into bed.
Ariom~ I am glad the Colin got to go enjoy the model yacht racing and hope he is successful! How long ago was his accident? I can't imagine if my sailman couldn't sail anymore. Your Colin seems like an amazing man. I have looked up the Rites and can't do a lot of them due to the rods in my back. For some reason, they don't like to bend. I can do some of the alternate ones though and think I will check them out more fully when I can do them. Thank you for being there with me this morning! Once I got Sailman up this morning, he never left my side until they took me and has been taking fabulous care of me ever since they brought me back. I am so lucky!
I took a fabulous nap earlier and got to text with my nephew in the navy. He was cracking me up. He said I should have had them put in a squeaky toy for his Uncle Bubba to play with. Only my nephew, only my nephew!
Sending love and hoping that all are doing well. Maybe tomorrow we will hear from Bobo and Vintage
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JS, glad you are home and the invader is history! Good for you. Just popped in to see if anything on Vintage, sure been thinking of her. We are at ds and enjoying the 3gdaughters.
Thanks for the warm weather wishes, kinda cold again but sure melted a lot of snow and ice.
Zills, enjoy your date, hope boy is ok and can have a green cupcake too, have fun at parade. There is one in town here too, think it is too cold for the girls, the oldest slipped on ice today and hit her head hard, had to come home from school, but she is fine now, no concussion.
Fiaranch, I don't know where you get the funny pics but this was the best ever, showed ds and he hooted! Thanks
Peed on the couch.. We'll at least she looked guilty, ha.
Sorry, Ariom , mixed up callas and cannas, not good for a former greenhouse worker, love both of them. Had beautiful orange cannas last year, of course just an annual here.
How are you feeling after chemo OTC? be so glad when you are done, as will you.
Good tie all, check in again for news on Vintage.
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Hi nd, all those lilies are gorgeous!
Sorry to hear of the GD's fall, so glad it wasn't worse. Have fun with the children!
jsj, I am so pleased to hear you are being well looked after. It makes all the difference.
Colin had his accident 4 months before his 21st Birthday, so spent that milestone in the Hospital. He's been in a wheelchair for over 36 years now. Fortunately, he had just had 3 months in South America traveling all over and climbed Machu Picchu long before it became the thing to do. So he had done something he'd planned for a long time. He broke his neck Hang Gliding, something he loved to do. He was always a bit of an adrenaline junkie so even after his accident he was planning what he could do to continue doing things he loved. He helped design an build a snow sit ski, also a sit ski for water skiing and he took up solo sailing in small keel boats. It was only after competing for years all over the place, and after we had been in Italy for him to compete in the Worlds (he came 2nd) he asked if I would like to get a yacht that we could both enjoy. I think he really got the message, in Italy, just how boring it can be for the "other half" who just has to sit and wait for races to finish. I enjoyed the travel, but all the waiting around can be, well, a challenge!
We bought Mystique, a 25' Holland, built in 1978, sight unseen, and started to renovate her to accommodate a seat that Colin designed, and we changed her Diesel engine to an electric motor. I spent weeks sanding and staining the interior woodwork, which still has more to do because of other interior work that had to be done. I am hoping to get it all finished for the next season.
Colin has always worked, he was going to pursue a career in Micro Biology, but being a quad and not having the hand control, put an end to that. He has always said that the best thing was that there was no insurance for his accident, and no one else to blame. He just had to move forward and learn skills that he could use to have the life he wanted. He's a qualified Ergonomist and used CAD to design. He worked for years in a TAFE College in IT.
He is, an amazing man. I have always said that if he weren't in a chair, I'd never keep up with him! Watching his daily struggle has put a lot of things into perspective for me. I have never heard him complain about the hand he was dealt.
I had to laugh at the squeaky toy idea! Take care now...chat later..M x
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Good morning!
M, I always love reading about Colin, his perseverance, love of life, and your relationship. Such fantastic role models you are!
ndgirl, I'm feeling ok. Better than after the 2nd treatment, so that's good. My mother made lazagna and carrot soup yesterday, the cooking odors did not bother me. Just glad to have all those meals waiting for us! I'm happy that this was the last treatment with the red devil, the last 3 (2 in April, 1 in May) will be with Taxotere, so SEs should not include nausea. Yeah! Should be various aches and pains, but I think these will be more bearable than nausea (and controllable with pain killers). Are you coming to Canada this weekend?
Wren, sorry about Goldie peeing on the couch... what a pain in the butt that must have been. But she still fits in well in your family, no?!
Zills, fun that Baby had St Paddy's theme bday. Good that DS has bronchitis, it will go away, better than an asthma diagnosis I guess. Have fun at the parade and a fantastic time on your date!!
jsj, congrats on lumpectomy being done! Fingers crossed for the pathology results.
Fia, thanks for your always hilarious pics! Yes, mammo's were certainly not invented by a woman! How are you doing? What's next with your lymphoma?
Vintage, bobo, I hope you are well.
Will be a quiet day for me. My mother is entertaining DS (Mouse Trap right now), they will go out at times with DH, and I will rest.
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Baby threw up last night and hasn't eaten yet this morning. Didn't even want some of daddy's porridge! Not sure if it was too many sweets or a virus.
DH cleaned up the vomit last night, took out the trash and washed the bedclothes. I just got to rock her.
Boy supposed to go back to his Nanny's today. He's wearing me out asking when. She's supposed to call. He will be disappointed if she doesn't.
So he may skip the parade or we may all skip it. I'm tired. Need that coffee IV!
OTC glad you are done with the red devil.
CD. Another JSS junkie! I saw her this week. Told her I had another UTI or actually think the first never cleared up 100%. She asked if I was feeling pissed off. Yes, just a little:) Told to hold my little finger and not do the immunity hold.
So we'll see. I'm looking for a natural cure. Don't want to come up allergic to more antibiotics.
Wren. My granny had those plastic covers in her couch. Hope Goldie is forgiven.
Smell poop. It never ends. Have a great Saturday. Weather is gorgeous but rain and snow tomorrow.
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Octeb ,
The lymphoma is progessing and not in a good way . The MO says I have a while before Chemo. She does not want to use the only tool she has too early (apparently there is only 1 chemo that will work ) . So between that and the shitful tamox I just suck it up. But I do have to have something to laugh about every day (hence my Todays Random Thoughts) . I don't want my life to evolve around cancer do I look for diversions wherever I can
I am with Zills and not wanting to take any more medicine than I absolutely have to . Zills I hope the kids get better soon
M , ? How hard are you supposed to massage and for how long ? I have been using Bio oil daily . I have 3 dogs ears that I would like to see if I can reduce but they don't seem to be going down. They are not that big just something I would like to work on . Don't get me wrong I am grateful for my scars when I see some of the awful ones posted on line. If I can I would like to minimize the 3 bumps that are a tiny bit visible with a cami . That is assuming it warms up and I can ever get out of polar fleece (ND, GrammaB and Idesim I know your weather is so much worse than here )
Js squeaky toys .....hysterical
Hello to everyone I have missed and Today's Random Thought is .................
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Hi Ladies,
Hi to the new ladies, your not new now, i've just been away too long!
All been good with my recovery until I went back to work last monday.. I've been exhausted and coming home from work to sleep. I now think I have tonsilitis having woken up to big white spots on my throat so considering taking Monday and Tuesday off work to see if I can get better! Fed up now! I think I need antibiotics to get rid but our weekend doctor is in the hospital and I just can't face going back in there even for that!!!
Had my annual check up on Tuesday, all good and they are going to book me in for surgery for my dog ear and fatty lump on my chest! Joy! Then I swear I never want to go near that hospital again. Feeling a bit sorry for myself this week so been keeping out the way of everyone!!!
Hope everyone is well. Hope bobo is feeling better and vintage has got on okay with surgery!
Think of you all lots.
Viv xxxxxxxxxx
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Viv, The spots often mean strep. The doc might just give you the meds without going in.
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Hi all, just a quick catch up today. I am having a lazy day in bed because I had a lousy night last night.
I planted all those Cannas the other day and seem to have awoken the Rheumatoid Frozen shoulder, which I have not had to wrestle with for a long time, but it's got me this time.
We had a guest here to stay last night who is a boat designr and builder so he and Colin stayed up very late working out some strategy for applying electric motor technology into these new boats. If you think the conversation was a bit dry, you'd be right. I have no understanding of this stuff, so the night was long, with only short breaks while I served food and drinks. By the time I finally got Colin to bed, I was't able to lift my arm, and the long night turned into an even longer night trying to get confortable to be able to sleep.
I have just got up to have some lunch, the guest is gone and I haven't even had a shower.
So sorry you've got a shitty bug Viv, try to get that time off and get rid of it. I am very pleased that your other results were good though!
I wish you all the best for the revision, I hope you will be as happy with it as I am with mine. It has made so much difference, I didn't realize just how annoying it was till it was gone. I have a great flat scar and no more zinging nerves, and the best part, no more checking to tuck the little bugger in! Yay!
Get better, and don't ever worry about venting to us!
Fia! big hug to you! I am so sorry you have the added burden of the Lymphoma to deal with, so not fair!
I started off fairly light with the massage and got firmer as time passed. I massage really firmly now and have for a long time kind of pinching and rolling, so that it all moves. I don't know how successful you'll be with flattening the Dog Ear things, there will be a certain amount of swelling that will go down, mine was much larger at the beginning than when I had it removed. Just play it by ear and see how you go. Take the massage easy, it shouldn't hurt a lot, but you should feel it getting better and easier as you get firmer. I would use the whole flat of my hand with plenty of oil and do it for a few minutes at a time.
I love that random thought! I call the scars on my body the "Roadmaps of my life!" and the lines on my face "Laughter Lines!"
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Hi Zills, more poop at your house! Oh, I don't envy you that, but hugs to DH for doing the dirty work last night for you! Can only admire a man who can get up, change a bed and clean up a vomit!
I am concerned about your UTI, only because they have been bane of Colin's existence. Not so much these days, but in the past, they seemed to part of life for us. I had a bad run of them too and had to have IV antibiotics in Hospital a couple of times. Have you had your pee cultured to get the right antibiotic to destroy it? Sometimes, it is the only way to deal with these rotten bugs. I hope you feel better soon, that's not a pleasant thing to have.
That's interesting, that the JS teacher asked if you were "Pissed Off" I have read a lot in alternative medicine and new age books about emotions and feelings manifesting in sickness types, Pissed Off..UTI, Pain in the Ass..well a pain in the asss LOL, I am certainly not saying I believe it, but interesting nonetheless. I also read one that said you shouldn't be "aggro" at your car because it can manifest problems like illnesses in us! There are a lot of people out there with too much time on their hands, writing this stuff! But what does it say about me, for reading it?
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Hi otceb! Thank you!
I am so pleased to hear you are through the Red Devil treatment!
Your Mother is taking great care of you and your son must love having her there, and the cooking sounds fantastic. Enjoy some rest time, you need it, and things will get back to normal soon. Try not to overdo it like we all did, harder to do than to say! LOL
Love and hugs to everyone! I am dragging this sorry arm, back to bed! Take care and have a good weekend M x
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Fia,
Wanted to send you a huge big hug and a huge big f**k off to the lymphoma! You must have had enough now but you are bloody amazing how you keep your spirits up! I love you for it! You make me smile a lot!
The following has no relevance but it made me smile! Look after yourself chick!
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Just some pics for Sailman. Colin did these earlier, but they disappeared.
First pic is Colin a few years ago at a sailing competition, Model yachts racing, his is Yellow Peril, the one in front with the pink reinforcements on the sails. Next shot is Mystique on a Tuesday evening Stern Chaser race, Colin in his purpose built seat and 3 friends crewing for him. Take care M x
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jsjherman
I'm here! Surgery went well but next day just before discharge I had to go and have some drama....never want to do anything without a glitch! I had to go back to OR for re incision to remove all the clots that formed into a FOOB! Wow it was something to see that swelling within minutes!
Home & so far all is going fine. Thanks!
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Wow vintage. Glad you're ok. We were wondering if all was well. Happy you're home.
Had some foob drama myself last night. My go to shirts for date night aren't attractive anymore. The foobs look ridiculous on me. Too big, too perky, too... Baby looks cute with them stuffed under her shirt.
I was upset. Digging thru closet to find something, anything. Finally found a black 3/4 sleeve cardigan with ruffles. DH dragging out suits and dress shirts. He's lost 30 lbs so has similar issue but no drama.
Get to the restaurant and there are people very casually dressed. There's an under server for Pete's sake! He had steak. I had sushi.
Tried to find a trike for the birthday girl tomorrow. No luck. Picked up kids early and went home to bed. Slept until 8!
Today snow and sleet. Yesterday almost 60. Eddie, the horse, was leaping and farting. A sure sign of spring. Bet he's tucked into his shed now. Firebob is snuggled in the garage.
Have a good Sunday! Hope M is feeling better. Idesim update? Granwe update?
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Climbing back from the abyss! Chemo and I do not play well together! Haven't even been able to read so I will have to catch up. Weather is turning for the worse again. My heart goes out to you all with too much winter! Praying everyone is better, if not doing well! Always, Susan
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Sgc - I was just thinking we hadn't heard from you in a bit. Bummer about the chemo and hope things improve. How many treatments do you have to do?
Vintage - Geez.. I've never heard of clots after surgery forming to make a foob! That's a new one for me. Glad all is well now, though. Don't you just hate it when you're the one rare stuff happens to? That's why I don't believe any stats... who gives a crap if 99% of the time it doesn't happen if you're in that 1%?
Zills.. sorry about your not so great date night. Hey, at least you have someone to have a date with
My night was filled by talking to my brother til 3 in the morning. We have a little family drama going on with our oldest brother who lives far away and is having mental health issues. We're not sure..but it seems like he's gone off his meds, and trying to reason with him is pretty much impossible (and upsetting).M - What is this shoulder issue? Ouch..does it just get better on it's own or will you have to see someone? I love seeing pictures of Colin. He is so handsome and just has that 'look'. His enthusiasm sounds contagious and I can see why you'd be inspired by him.
Otc - sounds like your chemo is going well.. if there is such a thing? How great that you will be done in May..you'll have all summer to recuperate! I sure wish my recovery time would have been summer instead of this horrid winter.
Speaking of winter, it is slowly losing it's grip! 50 one day, -2 today, but the snow is looking 'decayed' and I can see grass. I am hoping that the majority of it will be gone by next week at this time. It sure would be nice if my last week off from work was above freezing.
I haven't hurt myself now in 3 whole days..so no bruises or accidents to report....but the day is young. Oh shit, I just remembered I burned my hand yesterday taking cookies out of the oven, so scratch that. I forgot to buy my lottery ticket today cause I know my luck has to change soon!
Oh and Fia, love your random thoughts. You always make me smile.
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Good morning all, much better today thank you! Had a wasted day yesterday, but was worth it for the relief!
Welcome back Vintage, we were wondering how you were doing. Gosh, I am sorry you had such an awful experience with the bleeding and the clots. Onward and upward now! I hope you have a very uneventful recovery, take it easy if you can!
Zills, that outfit with the black cardigan sounds just lovely, but I know how frustrating it can be to be digging through things and getting hot and aggro trying to find the right outfit.
Have to laugh that the baby looks better with the boobs than you do!
Glad to hear you had a good sleep.
A leaping, farting horse as the sign for Spring, I like that! M x
sgc, I am so sorry you aren't having an easier time with the chemo, I have wondered how you're doing. I hope it can pass quickly and you get back to feeling better really soon....Big gentle hug to you..Take it easy. M x
Hi PRB, you crack me up...I am a bit of a klutz, always hurting myself too. My Dad always used to say that when he came to pick me up from school, 300 kids would run out and 1 would fall over. That was always me! I don't think I actually ever saw my knees as a kid without a bandage or gravel rash!
Sorry you burned your hand, but keep buying the lottery tickets. I am making it a habit now too!
I am glad you enjoy the photos, he is a special fella! I know I can go on and on about him, but he does inspire me.
This frozen shoulder is actually a problem with the Bicep Tendon that can flare up with Rheumatoid after even a slight injury. It goes up the arm and across the front of the shoulder and hurts like the Devil. I can manage it on my own without going to the doctor, but do take pain meds, which I hate to do. I have a pretty good tolerance for pain, due to the years of Rheumatoid, but these out of the blue flare ups, can render me weak as a kitten. With a pain score off the chart. My digging to plant the Cannas was likely the cause, I never learn, because I refuse to just give in to it and stop doing things, that are a bit strenuous. The front garden has much tougher soil and a lot of roots under the surface, so the chipping away at it, that I did, would be enough to kick off the process. Anyway, much improved today, slept all night..thanks for the concerns!
Take it easy...chat soon! M x
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There once was a girl, who started a thread
And became friends with a former redhead.
She's there when I bemoan
A lack of my own.
She's the best.
She's my punk princess.
Love you bobo. Go Big Blue!
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I have tried to type this several times today and keep losing it, so hopefully, this time it will stay.
Ariom... Sailman is totally jealous. Loved, loved, loved the pics. We have always dreamed of retiring to a sailboat so maybe in 20+ years when it is time we will be able to. I hope your shoulder is feeling better by now and that you are getting back to normal.
Zills~ I am glad you got to have date night and was able to get out for a bit. Hope the little ones are on the mend. Have you been drinking plenty of cranberry juice and water to help flush the toxins out of you?
Vintage~ So good to hear from you! We were worried about you. Glad you are home and will hopefully not have anymore foobs trying to swell up. That must have been a bit scary!
Fia~ thank you for the funnies... they do make me smile and laughter is the best medicine yeah? I hate that you are having issues with the lymphoma and hope and pray they can find a solution that will work.
Ot~ I am glad you have hit the final countdown on the chemo. I know you have this and will be victorious.
Vivs~ Hope you have gotten those tonsils looked at. Have you thought about trying a B complex vitamin with C to help with the energy? I take them each day and they seem to really help with that and leveling out my moods.
SG~ so sorry about the chemo. I hope that it will go a bit smoother in the future.
ND~ hope your gdaughter is doing well the the lump on the noggin.
For those of you going through the winter from hell that just won't end, I sincerely hope that spring is on the way and warmer weather will arrive so that you can get out and about without the worry of catching cold. We had our second dust storm in a week last night with gusts over 60+ mph with another wall of dust. Ugh..
I hope we hear from Bobo soon and that she is in better health and survived the visit from MD.
I am feeling really pretty good from the lumpectomy Friday and am back to work tomorrow. Hopefully we will have the results tomorrow. The doc says 99% sure it is benign, but I agree with PRB about stats.
PRB~ hope that things with your brother are going better.
Be blessed my sweet sisters! and remember "Friends are angels who lift us up when our own wings have trouble remembering how to fly".
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Hi all! lots of reading to catch up..Vintage, so glad you are ok, never heard of what you went through, keep healing and resting.
Js, thanks for the kind thoughts of gd, she is fine, we had alot of fun with the girls but come home pooped.
SGc, thanks for checking in, sorry about the dreaded chemo.. hang in there.
Ariom, just love the pictures, you dh is a hunk!! I love the stories and all he has been through, I really think he/you should write a book, so interesting. Thanks for the pics. Glad you shoulder is better, my friend suffers with RA too, just recently she is experiencing some flare ups, she doesnt know what causes them or what to do for them, She is afraid of too many pain killers as she only has 1 kidney. I chuckled at the phrase "gravel rash" never heard it before, but boy have had it many times as a child!
Zills, I would bet you looked beautiful and so glad you got to go out and enjoy.. hope your little ones stay well.
I got up this morning and no voice, thought yesterday I could feel a scratchy feeling, this always happens to me and soon will develop into a miserable cough, I am plugging in the old steamer with Vicks and going to bed.. think dh is loving me with no voice for awhile.. didnt have to listen to me backseat driving!!
Old man winter is losing its grip I think.. we saw fields of blowing dust on the way home, still have some snow but is going fast, dont like the blowing dirt tho, not good for fields, top soil will be blown in the ditches. Spring will never be so welcome.
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Hi ndgirl! So sorry you've lost your voice. I hope that is all it is and clears up quickly. Glad there weren't any repercussions from the bang to the head for your GD.
Tell your friend I feel for her. RA is a bitch of a disease, and sneaky, it will hit you hard with a flare when you least expect it. I have had it for 18 looong years. I have been through lots of the drugs they prescribe for it and had trouble with most of them. I very rarely take any pain killers so I have them at my disposal if i really, really need them. Yesterday, was a day when I needed them and they helped a lot. I just maintain my RA on Cortisone these days, and fortunately a very small dose. Steroids are never good for you, but the lower the dose that can keep it at bay, the better.
Isn't it funny how we have different sayings or names for things. Gravel Rash is a very common term over here for skinned knees or elbows, in fact any kind of scraping injury caused by skidding on the ground. I can remember using my Mother's tweezers to remove sand and small stones from my sore knees as a kid! LOL
Glad you liked the pics, I have told Colin he should write a book, but he says, "Who'd be interested enough to read it?"
I hope Bobo is feeling better and that MD is going home soon. Missing gramwe and the baby updates, and ldesim, how are you doing. gB hasn't been around today, I hope all is well. To everyone I haven't mentioned, you know I am thinking about you all...Take care M x
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It has been clear and dry for several days so I've been busy working outside. Shoveling sand from the edges of the driveway back onto the driveway. The flooding washed it off and left the gravel base exposed. Not sure if it will help, but I'll try it. I lost another piece of land to the creek. I think the people that owned my home before me, buried garbage on that piece of land. In the stream bed is part of an old wood stove now. My neighbor and I had found a door in one of the sand bars the day we explored right after the flood. On one of the sandbars from my landfall, I spotted a bone!! I don't think it is human, but it still creeped me out! Guess they buried more than garbage!
We are supposed to have snow tomorrow so that may be it for my work outside for a while.
I am so far behind, I don't know if I will ever catch up! jsj, glad your surgery went well and you are feeling fine, onward to the next step! Vintage, glad you are home, what a strange thing to have happen. I've never heard of that before. Glad you are better now. Ariom, ouch!! Sorry about your arm, glad to hear you are on the mend. ndgirl hope you get over the lost voice quickly and it doesn't turn into anything bad.
Sure hope bobo is healing and over the nausea. Also hope MD is on her way home. I'll try to catch up more tomorrow. I am thinking of all of you even though I may not mention you.
Hugs for everyone!
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Hi gB, how weird it must be to find these objects and that bone on your land! Creepy for sure. Sorry about the other chunk of land you lost, hopefully that is it for a while. Snow for you today? Will it ever end?! I am so over this winter, I usually quite enjoy winters, cannot imagine myself living in a warm climate year long, but this one has completely worn out my patience!!!
Vintage, glad you're home. Sorry about the clotting you had, good thing you were still in the hospital and had it looked at quickly. Rest well!
sgc, so nice to hear from you! Sorry chemo is hard, I hope you enjoy the coming days of feeling gradually better until your next treatment. How many will you need? Do you have the same anti-nausea medication as with your previous chemo? Hugs!
Hi ndgirl, I hope your throat is better today.
M, sorry about RA - 18 years is a long time, you were struck young with this disease. Living with chronic pain must be awful. My mother's arthritis is worse now, it hurts her back to walk for 10 minutes so she needs pain killers after even such short activities. She avoids drugs as much as possible too, she does not like taking them or knowing she would need to take them forever. She has received cortisol shots in the past, but they don't always work. She will ask again about surgery, but she knows that doctors prefer waiting until there's no other solution before operating in the spine. She's only 67, I don't want her living the rest of her life limited like that. And I know arthritis is hereditary, I just know I will get it if cancer does not finish me off earlier!
Zills, what a nice poem to bobo!
jsj, I hope your first day back goes well, don't overdo it! Fingers crossed for your results!
PRB, ouch for all the little accidents you have had! How is your arm doing, are you gradually gaining a bigger range of motion? Enjoy this last week of rest!
I've been feeling so-so, I was well enough on Saturday to go for a walk and clean a little. I drove my mother to the train station yesterday and that was it for me for the day. I've been feeling "fragile", not nauseous to the point of taking drugs, but still eating just small portions. Watching tv or the computer also makes me feel not so well, so I have to do this in small doses. DH has been an angel taking care of DS and keeping him entertained.
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