new and future flat sister, with questions
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Standing by! I bet your husband looks cute with your purse. Tell him not to drop us!
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Okay, time for a proper catch-up. I reply to myself.
First off, Ariom, I did the Rites today, and Wren, and out of respect for the two of you I did five. But really, honestly. I used to do hot Bikram yoga and I used to be a total bad-*ss! Granted, I am now sincerely out of shape. And I once had such respect for all things yoga -- and have read some about yoga -- and it isn't if I don't have any respect left... but... F that! It hardly seems worth getting out the mat to only do three. I was once training for the marathon! Come on! How does five sound?
Ariom, I realize I owe you clothing measurements. But the princess has a fallow week -- her camp is closed for the holiday, incredibly -- and I have her on my own, plus somehow I am still working. My every second has been taken up with all of that. Right now she is at the butterfly museum with her former teacher and the teacher's daughters -- one is her best friend, they live out of town, they called for a date -- so I have a minute of a breather. Tutoring tonight. No rest for the wicked, truly.
Idesim -- just like you, I have stretched dollars my whole life! Oldest child of six, first in my family to go to college. Worked three jobs through college, two in grad school, graduated undergrad in three years because I figured out it was cheaper that way! As I said, we haven't been on a trip since the baby was born, and... we never had a honeymoon, ever. Sometimes I am surprised at how guilty I feel at a splurge, and then I realize the splurge was, like, not even that expensive. Still working three (or four) jobs now! And it's hustle hustle hustle to pay camp fees, private-school tuition (now times two), etc. It's easy to stay in the habit of economizing. But now, I see something I want, and I have this little beat of 'knowing,' and I make plans to get it. I am choosy about it. For example, I have just had an email that the spikes are in! The A and A spikes are in! But am I getting them? No. You have reported to us that they may look cheap. But I do want some very cool and punk-looking waxed black jeans I saw on the EF website. I saw them and I knew. Let me post this before I lose it.
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Again, I reply to myself! Granwe, that story about the F Femara was a stitch. It is like a real ghost story of yore! It should be passed down through the generations! Poor sweet OG, I can just picture him. Don't let him touch the Femara! He is traumatized. Our loved ones simply have no idea of what we go through. They simply 'handle' the business. But we ingest the business! DO NOT mow the lawn anymore. Anybody want to drive their driving mower over and do Granwe's lawn?
Ariom, how is the boat? Did you visit? And Zills, we are thinking of you today, and look forward to your report. Is anyone doing anything for the holidays? For our part, I believe the plan is to avoid going to my brother's. He is in the middle of a divorce. Smack in the middle. It's like George and Martha over there.
Tomorrow: plans continue for DLLP's birthday party! The baby and I will go to the mall (trying to get new lenses in glasses), then we will stop at the co-op food store because I AM OUT OF ICE CREAM. I have no ice cream or watermelon for the evening. I do, however, still have beer.
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The rings! A report on the rings! And, the tattoo consult. Both of these at your request. I realize I am 'bogarting' the thread. However, I must seize the bull by the horns while I have it. I mix drug paraphernalia metaphor with bull-fighting metaphor here.
The tattoo consult went swimmingly. I was obviously a fish out of water. I don't know what's going on with these metaphors. I walked in and I was like, Hello. 'My name is Bobo and I am here for a 1:30 consultation with Mike Salay, I am getting a tattoo.' As if I had arrived at the hairdresser's. I was an obvious virgin. But the receptionist was completely nice and open-handed.
So we consulted there in the small lobby, it was not private. At 1:30 on a Saturday the tattoo parlor was packed with clients, there was that disquieting buzzing sound. But I do not give a f about that. Oh, how I long to spell out that word.
So I was like, Blah blah blah, I realize you don't need to know my life story, and I don't want to be derivative, blah blah blah, and he was like, No, it's good, and you aren't at all derivative, and then he brought out two excellent books, and I had brought somethings, and he took notes. I have to wait for my tattoo, because he has to draw it first, and send me prospective drawings. And then I was like, Say. Could we go in the back and you could just do, like, one dot? So I could see how it feels? And he became offended and said, No. We don't do that here. I apologized for the breach in tattoo etiquette. It is going to take three or four hours. I am supposed to bring snacks. It's going to be difficult to schedule in, what with my multiple jobs and my child-rearing responsibilities. My tattoo is going to look so great with my new waxed black EF jeans! Trying to wait for a sale -- or at least a coupon, or at least free shipping -- until I order them. But then, sometimes Eileen runs out of something, and in this case I will be hopping mad! Hopping! if that happens.
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I'm having the rings made at the same jeweler's who made the ones we have now. I was going to do simple bands, but then I realized my wedding ring is 'stackable,' it is meant to 'stack' multiple bands with a jewel mounted. So I decided to get two of those! More later. She's here!
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It's 4 pm. Waiting on pre-meds to take affect and then chemo for an hour. Should be getting sleepy soon. It's pouring rain.
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Love you, Zills! Right there in your purse.
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Stackable rings sound cool. What kind of stone? I guess you have serial anniversaries too! DD or DS birthstones? But when you adopt you get more days to celebrate. We call them family day and eat Mexican. Thankfully ours are a day and a year apart.
Almost done. Really. At least with the red devil. One more round and scans. I have to believe there's more in my future not that I'm done but we can believe in miracles.
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I have no idea regarding natural increase of white blood cells! But I think perhaps we could do some research on that. You are right: if I am going to have to be continually married, I may as well start stacking! They won't let us do birthstones -- the jeweler says they will not wear well -- so I am thinking of the meanings of stones. Some type of sapphire. Maybe a yellow or golden sapphire! It's pretty exciting. DLLP is going to be very surprised!
One more round! One more round! I speak for all of us here when I say we believe in miracles.
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kids are about 600 miles away from us in WI and 240 miles away in Fargo. I am going to google Jin Shin, need to get educated on this,, sounds interesting. Good luck with your heavy purse!
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omg.. my stomach is hurting from laughing, you are all so damn funny today. Joe is like.. what the hell?
{{{{Zils}}}} Get lots of rest tonight, I hope the SE's are minimal this time around! So only one more of the red devil in 3 weeks? You got this.. but please find a bigger purse next time, Bobo girl kept elbowing me.. she can't sit still a minute and tell DH to hold us a little carefully next time, I got a little seasick from the swaying. I got the biggest laugh out of the poor guy standing there with your striped sunflower purse
We are all so strong willed and strong, the log rolling competition would go on forever.By the end of chemo my bladder was ready to burst, once I just couldnt wait and rolled the damn thing to the bathroom, but I didn't pay attention and smashed the pole against the bathroom doorway and managed to make a total mess out ot the tubes. Instead of helping me out, both Joe and my nurse, Sharon stood there and laughed at me. A-holes
F hospital bathrooms. I am 5 & ft 1/2 inch and I have to tippy toe and do an awkward balance act to pee. Btw Zills, haha.. when you lose the hair on your australian fanny, you are not able to pee straight for some reason, so when you are doing the balance act to not touch the seat (hopefully not on tippy toes), you will inevitably get it all over the seat. Just a warning for ya. I thought it was me until I got addicted to the thread "You know you're a cancer patient when...." and found out its a problem most women have.I'm glad you had a good time last night.. what was for dessert? What meds are you on? It sucks we are prisoners of this damn thing! F Meds!
Hopefully the baby is not sick, but it doesn't sound like she is.
Posting.. and dinner is arriving so I will be back later.
{{{{zils}}}}
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Oh, and just p.s. -- Idesim, I loved your pudding pie story. Again, I am not a pudding fan... I was peeing myself laughing. I picture your darling Joe's pudding pie -- from a yucky box mix, and he left a fine spray of powder on the kitchen counter -- and then you are expressing your delight through a mouthful of viscous pudding!
So hilarious that Joe's pudding pie has inspired DLLP's birthday dessert!
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And what's on the coffee table? It's gotten to the point where I have to know.
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Yes Jin shin is very helpful but the wait was very long. The Ativan is kicking in. Have to get up at 10 and 4 to take more meds. Zofran, amend, regulan, pfenergen or compazine and Prevacid. That's enough but doesn't always solve the nausea. Doc said chemo leaves your body tomorrow but its your chemistry that has to adjust.
I've heard about the oz fanny issues. Mine is tp sticking. Ugh. Have switched to charmin as that's what the commercial says.
Girls night at the campgrounds after work was potluck. Chicken salad, pimento cheese, chips, bean dip, croissants, iced tea, fresh fruit with chocolate cream cheese dip and homemade brownies with no nuts so the little man could eat them. I had them for breakfast along with the bean dip:). Fajitas and mashed potatoes for dinner tonight.0 -
Zils, regarding the white blood count are you getting the Neulasta shot? I had a shot after every red devil treatment, gave it to myself at home.
I also found this article which had a lot of interesting information.. but if you are getting the shot, then I wouldn't worry about it. I was doing chemo during one of the worst flu seasons and taking the subway to work everyday and I was lucky enough to not get sick.
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Oh Zills, I was just at the computer to see how you are doing.
I have a picture of your husband carrying that bag! Oh that's sweet!
It reminds me of a story when we first came to Australia. I was about 5 years old, and we were living in a place called Moonee Ponds. In those days the pubs closed at 6pm and there was always a huge crowd of men at the pub, it was actually called the "6 o'clock swill".
One evening we were with friends in their car and my Dad was getting out to go to the bottle shop to buy some beer for our friends who were having dinner at our house. He got out of the car and disappeared into this huge throng of Aussie men. I saw my Mother's face change as she watched him enter the pub, and she turned to me and said "Oh Moira!" in a very broad Scots accent, and then she started to laugh, as she told our friends about how I must have tied my tartan hair ribbon in my Daddy's hair, from behind him in the the backseat of the car. He had battled his way through the "6 o'clock swill" with a pretty ribbon in his hair. I don't recall being punished, but I do remember a loud "Och Moira!" when he found out it was there!
Zills, my lovely, I say F this treatment! I feel for you, so much!
I hope the nausea isn't too bad, and that you feel better soon. At least you can talk about food for dinner, that's a good thing!
I would love Fajitas, haven't had any forever!
Look after yourself, and let us know how you are later...thinking of you.....M x
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Zills! You're home! One thing you will not hear me say 'F' to. And that is Ativan.
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Moira, I didn't join these boards until after chemo, which I finished end of February. I lost my hair last October and I am in awe of Zills being somewhat nonchalant about it. It was the most horrible experience I have ever been through lol. Joe was cutting down a neighbor's tree and two of my nephews were over along with one of Joe's friends and It had been falling out for 3 or 4 days and I was putting off the inevitable and refused to buz it off. This day I took a shower and when I was finished there was hair all over the place.. on the tile walls, on me, just everywhere and I just broke down. It took me forever to clean up and I put a towel around my head, found my cell phone and called him even though he was right outside. I told him to please stop the tree work and tell everybody to go home because I was freaking out. He did and they left and we laughed over it and life went on, but it was still a horrendous experience.
Having to go to work that first day with the wig was pretty awful too. I wore a hat and I walked off the elevator and one of the secretaries was there covering for the receptionist and she right off the bat complimented my hat and I immediately burst into tears freaking her out and a couple of other poor unsuspecting co-workers and after a bit we all laughed over it and again life went on.
I am not a crier.. (not meaning any insult to anybody that is) I am more a happy crier, I get teary over happy endings. Besides the hair loss, the only other time I cried during this was during the inital biopsy which was only supposed to be a mammogram. When they went out to get the kit to do the biopsy, I was shaking. I called Joe to tell him I'd be a little late coming home and then burst into tears and was totally incoherent. Poor guy didn't know what the hell to think.
My handsome stray cat is here, I must go feed him.
Posting and I'll be back.
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No shot. In think my WBC numbers are down but there is a comment about not looking at the percentages but the patient as a whole. I feel good. So we had the treatment. Kind of confused about what happens after next scan. May get to drop the red devil but sure I will have to do something else. I hear the red devil is the worst but I already know him and we get along of sorts. Just pray for me to be strong these next few days and then I'll start climbing back up. I just want to do whatever I can do to ensure I don't get sick that my WBC are up enough for treatment.
Idesim. Did the shot hurt?0 -
Granwe, I love the OG story! I think it is absolutely hilarious, he can't say you didn't warn him about the evils of the F Femara! I am happy the he appears to be doing better.. is he doing better?
Glad your back is doing better.
Moira, you are unflappable, I can't believe any differently... Bobogirl, don't you agree?
I thought the dingos were cute..sheesh you guys have some really nasty animals!!
Yes, I feel the nip too, its such a bizarre feeling.. I have heard ppl that lose limbs also have the feeling that the limb is still there, including pain there.
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Ndgirl, I'm sorry that your 4th plans were ruined, and very sorry about your poor DGD's arm. That's quite a crew you have, how wonderful. I think its a real problem these days everybody is busy busy busy. My family has a get together once a year and Joe's family does it as well, but inevitably there are always a good number of people that end up not being able to make it because of time or money constraints.. it's sad.
The ice cream place sounds so good!!!! I love the sound of the old fashiohed surroundings. I had to look it up.. here's the website...
I will have scoop of turtle, a scoop of peanut butter cup and top it off with a scoop of espresso oreo.. The blueberry cheesecake sounds yummy too!
Ndgirl, you are in trouble!! Now I am hungry for ice cream and I am out!
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Oh my giddy aunt! (an English saying to avoid blasphemy.)
F that! I can't believe how much you've all posted today. I have to go out, but be sure I'll be answering them all when I get back. At least you'll be sleeping, and can't out post me!
You've got me laughing and crying all at the same time, just from reading....I'll be back! M x
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No, it didn't hurt, but I hated the Neulasta itself.. it made me achy. Did they tell you your white count is down? It might be different chemo concoctions.. I took the shot regardless of what my counts were.
Funny, I haven't seen you climb down yet.... .. and you already are amazingly strong! I am in awe of you and all that you have been accomplishing!
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{{{{{{{HUGS}}}}}}}} Zill. Glad its over, hope that the next few days are easy. For our next outing we do need a bigger purse. Bobo kept trying to peek out...how sweet of your DH to carry us in such a fashionable bag.
Ok I bit the dust and became a member of the foob club, today. Went through the measuring process with the sweetest woman, who was wearing fuzzy green slippers. Do not ask me the brand name, I don't remember, but they are squishy, lite, and fit my scars. I guess the BS knew what he was doing after all. I reduced from my old DDs to C. Found 2 bras with cami style lace on the top that will cover the hole. The foobs would not go far enough up on my chest to hide that hideous thing! I promise I didn't think I wanted or needed them but when she put them on I actually cried. Hopefully before Monday I'll have my own here.
Bobo, I am so excited for you. The rings sound so cute. I also love how excited you are, it makes me giggle to read your post. You have the biggest heart, and get such joy out of making others happy.
I'm afraid the OG has been reading posts here, hes in the process of making lemon bars for me. I hate lemon bars. But I will smile and praise his creation.
Oppsss got to go the oven is beeping and he will really be reading over my shoulder. Hugs0 -
Bobogirl, you know you spilt beer on me earlier so now I stink of stale beer.... blech.
What's the deal with yoga? I loved yoga. Training for the marathon? Wow.. for what running?? I don't recall a punk bad@ss bee-atch olympic event:)
F things being so expensive and raising kids.. it's insane. School tuitions and summer programs and now even school sport programs come with a price.. it's just so difficult on parents.
Forget the spikes, for the price of them, I don't think they are worth it.
Ugh for your poor brother.. divorce is nasty and being near couples who are getting divorced is not an option!! Nasty business! I always feel so bad for the children caught in the middle
We are going with friends to the next town over to watch fireworks and then Friday a BBQ at a friends house, not sure what is up for the weekend. I am still fatigued a bit, so Sat & Sun will probably be close to home relaxing.
I was dying laughing over the tatto consult and the breach of tattoo etiquette.... but seriously, he could have given you a dot.. just a little ole dot, what was the reasoning for a dot not being allowed? "My name is Bobo and I am here for a 1:30 consultation with Mike Salay, I am getting a tattoo." as if you are there for a job interview... I am rolling over this. 3-4 hours..... HOURS??? laying there while somebody draws on you? That's a very long time.
I looked up the jeans, I like them. but I'm having a little sticker shock right now.
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Ring description didn't help me at all.. not getting any visuals. You have to do better. And i forget who, but somebody brought up a good point.. do you have like 6 anniversaries? On one hand that would be pretty cool on the other it would get expensive and maybe become a bit of a drag
I feel like I've been reading and posting for like 10 years... I'm going to go read a bit before bed... have a jam packed day of dr visits. Radiation follow up, MO appt with my MRI results and then my herceptin treatment. Good news is, I am not going to work after since the office is closing early anyways.
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Granwe, I'll trade you pudding pie for lemon bars! Bobogirl it is the jello mix and a nasty graham crust, but I have gotten myself into a pickle telling him it was good the first time around!! It's not horrible, but for the 10,000 calories per slice, I can find something way better to eat.
Enjoy your bars Granwe... *evil laugh*
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Aww Gramwe, I'm glad you had such a good experience with your foob fitting!!!!
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Is it instant pudding? My aunt makes it with the cooking kind and adds eggs in it and meringue on top. But she bought instant by mistake. Yuk. The baby liked it. The boys like jello with fruit in it. I don't care for either or lemon.
Had to get up to take round one if meds. Stomach funny. Probably the bean dip. They don't seem to understand how long I'm nauseated. Thinks its my nerves. I dont disagree but want to put me on Effexor. But not until right before next treatment. What do I do this time? Also very scared of any new a/d. Not had good luck on them in past. Guess I'll call my PCP and talk to my sis. She's on it0 -
Idesim, so glad you found the site of Selma's ice cream, I love the Zannibar chocolate, along with a bunch more. I know there was another article in a newspaper that had pictures of my son and family getting it ready, think it was a Woodbury, MN newspaper. It is a neat fun place, they also sell old fashioned candies that I would have bought when I was a kids except now they cost a lot more!!
Zills: sending prayers your way to feel better and that the nasty med is doing the job!
Bobo, I put your neat card up on my china cabinet and just love looking at it! I have to find some like that!
Gramwe, welcome to the foob club, hey i love the green fuzzy slippers, my fitter had royal blue high heels! so glad you feel good with them!
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I am back..... and you've all been posting again....... I just know I am going to miss something, so I'll apologise now, in advance.
ndgirl, I am so sorry to hear of the broken arm and the change in plans for you. That's a lot of people to try to coordinate for a visit.
I looked at that beautiful icecream shop. What a great business to have, with all that history. Not to menion a great place to visit.
I hope you'll enjoy the celebration, and the food! Take care....m x
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