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  • Zillsnot4me
    Zillsnot4me Member Posts: 2,122
    edited July 2013

    Awwwe. That's so sweet Ndgirl. I need all the prayers to be strong. I'm afraid this round is going to be rough since I didn't have my good week to eat and all that drama with my stomach.



    How do stand the heat from canning all those tomatoes? I agree nothing beats your own.



    We are seasoned travelers now. The scope should be the easiest thing so far. May have a sore throat and will be thirsty. I guess chemo itself isn't that bad either. Ativan to the rescue!



    Yes my bday was Sunday. I am 46. I didn't say or do anything because I wasn't up to it. Plan on having a proper meal in a few weeks. DS insisted on cake (box), candles and a "Christmas" card. The baby just crumbled the cake. She's an ice cream fan.



    Ariom. I was hoping to see your results. It may still be early afternoon there. It's 1:30 am here. Needed a midnight snack before my scope.

  • grammaB
    grammaB Member Posts: 1,118
    edited July 2013

    Ariom, your outfit sounds awesome.  I have to check out the Amoena site!  Actually the way of eating is not that hard at all.  There is a lot more to eat than you realize and I don't miss anything really.  I don't consider it a diet, it is the way I will eat the rest of my life. There are lc/hf work arounds for just about everything.

    Zills, no Thursday is my pre-op appointment, BMX surgery is Aug 13. Biopsy was July 3rd.  Don't worry about it, I can see there is lots to keep straight here!!  I'm trying to get to know and keep up with all of you lovely ladies!!

    Snakes eh?  Tell your DH if he likes snakes he can come and get some from the nest by my garage!!  He can have all of them if he likes!!

    It's been a long time since I did any Tai Chi, it is all on VCR tapes and my player didn't make the move here to MT from CA nine years ago.  I got a new dvd but haven't opened it yet.

    Hope your scope goes well and you get some answers and that you can get some rest afterwards. Oh, and Happy Birthday, belated.... :)

    ndgirl, yes it is very close to the first rung of Atkins. My oldest grand daughter has been a T1 since she was 6-1/2.  She is now 13 almost 14 and a championship slalom skiier.  She was recruited by a private high school that basically trains skiiers for the Olympics. Frack diabetes I say!! Won't interfere in our lives!!

    I used to do a lot of canning!  One year my late DH and I drove the Alaska Highway from CA, in Sept. we were near Denali Ntl Park and picked low bush cranberries for several days.  On the way back we stayed in a timeshare in Canada and I canned a couple cases of cranberries for Christmas gifts.  The housekeeping staff didn't know what to think of us!! Who goes on vacation and cans cranberries!??

    Got the pm's. I have a very special bowl that I use for distant Reiki healings.  I will put your names in the bowl and send healing to you both and any one else that would like to pm me and ask.  The healings are set to last as long as needed.  Your name stays in the bowl for a month and then I release it to the universe by burning the paper at the end of the month.  

    bobo, I found the bracelet, it is the Seven Swords right?  Is it a charm bracelet? I am a little confused, but I am placing my order for one in silver. I really like the OM bracelet too!!  Yikes, I don't need another guilty pleasure!!

  • bobogirl
    bobogirl Member Posts: 2,083
    edited July 2013

    Hey Gramma B!  It is not a charm bracelet, per se.  It is just a bracelet with a charm on it.  You cannot add charms to it -- you just get another one and that one has a charm on it.  (maniacal laughter from A and A designers)..  Yes, it's the seven swords.  That is our "gang sign."  There was some debate over it.. no, actually there was some debate over who would be the one to choose.  I have the om as well.  :)  Idesim and I went a little crazy with the A and A bracelets, in our day.  But I believe we are loaded up for now.  Except that I also believe that I may visit the giant 3-floor A and A store while I am in Boston.

    Your diet sounds so interesting.  The princess doesn't need that diet, we hear.  And anyway, she is allergic to dairy and eggs, so those would be off the list... if she couldn't have a carb, she would probably rip my head off.  I shudder to think what would happen.  Got it --  Thursday is pre op.  At my pre-op appointment, this last one, I was at the hospital negotiating a raise for myself at my new job!  I was on the blower, and I was like, Buy!  Sell!  and my boss was like, Okay, I do not want to lose you.  And I was praying there would be no hospital loudspeaker to call my bluff!

    Ariom, I am up waiting for your update.  Z, I am up thinking about your scope.  It was your birthday Sunday?!  So like you -- thinking of everyone else.  Tell those people with the nasty pork chops that you are full!  Laughing.  Poor little pigs.

    YES we have Chipotle -- you are psychic.  I had rice there twice last week.  Usually I have a side of black beans, a side of rice (separate containers), and a side of guac.  The princess has a 'rice quesadilla,' which is rice steamed in a flour tortilla without cheese.  I just had a giant bowl of watermelon.  I realize that is a surprise to many of you.

    Nd, your canning sounds amazing.  I wish I could be there to learn how to can from you!  ND sounds like a beautiful and exotic land.  You have to tell us more about it.

    Idesim, I love that kitty so much!  Love how he talks to your two.  He is close to you in his way.  Such a sweetheart.  I wish I could watch him have his dinner.

    Okay!  No post from Ariom.  Going to try to go back to bed.  Z, I am in your pocket for the scope.  Your navy  pjs sound fab.  Roger that regarding donating the scarves.  XXX

  • bobogirl
    bobogirl Member Posts: 2,083
    edited July 2013

    Ariom, laughing about your joke regarding my earlier contraption: running bra that was accidently shrunk in the dryer, on the last clasp, on top of thin cami!  I can just see you, aghast in your beautiful Marika ensemble, reading and picturing that contraption of mine.  I even wore it to fancy work meetings (with clothes on top, of course).  It just felt better than the bras I had at the time!  XXX

  • Ariom
    Ariom Member Posts: 4,027
    edited July 2013

    Zills! Happy Birthday Gorgeous Girl!

    I am so sorry that you didn't feel up to celebrating.

    I am back girls...had a bad start..went out to take Dex to the new lady, and go to the Doctor...Colin has a flat tyre.

    Change of plan, I take Dex to the lady, we go in, she is so sweet and is telling me how gorgeous he is, I look down, he's done a "DUMP" on her carpet. I am apologising and saying I'll clean it up and she's waving me away, saying it's fine, it happens. So I leave and the roadside service man is at home changing the tyre. We get on the road  and have to get gas and drop off the tyre to be fixed.

    I was calm to begin with, but soon turned into a banshee, and Colin bore the brunt of it. We didn't speak for the first half hour, but I managed to get over it and all was well. I am sorry if all of you got thrown around in the bag!

    We had lunch at my fave cafe, and had a bit of a shop, but we had to get back to the other side of town to the surgeon's office.

    I got in, bang on time. He was very pleased at how well I have healed, and not having emotional issues.

    We spoke about the "dog ear" he can take it off if I want to. I asked if we could do it with a local because I hate general anaesthesia. He said I would have to be a really committed patient to do it that way. I showed him the other surgeries I have had, awake. He said yes, he'd do it. I decided to think about it, and decide after I have worn some Summer clothes. If I feel it is still a bother I will do it. 

    I can eat soy, no problem!

    I can wear the "Contact", tomorrow is the day! He said I could have been wearing it for the past 3 months...who knew! I will let you know ndgirl!

    The swelling in my armpit is normal. Just like the "Dog Ear", these things used to have the weight of a breast to pull them forward, or down, so when that is removed they end up in a different position. They apparently don't like to remove too much where the Dog Ear forms because it can give a tight feeling and affect the range of motion.

    The "itchy nipple" is just "phantom sensation" it should be gone in the first year, just as the "Claw" and the "Burning" have passed.

    The Rites are excellent exercise, just take it easy!

    I asked about the chances of another one in the other side. He said that the odds are different for a second time, it can happen, obviously, but he said that I'll be monitored closely for the next 5 years so if it happens it will be found early.

    Next appointment is for Mammo and another check with him in January!

    All in all he thought I had done pretty well for my age! Geesh! thanks for that!

    That's all for now.. I need to make some dinner...then I will be back to read everything..M x

  • bobogirl
    bobogirl Member Posts: 2,083
    edited July 2013

    I am peeing laughing from the story of your beginning, A, even though it must have been awful.  I am laughing about the DUMP.  Also, when the chips are down, I also hold it in as long as I can, then become a banshee, with DLLP bearing the brunt of it.  Peeing when I read the two of you were not speaking for thirty minutes!  That was his penalty.  And well he deserves it. :)

    So so happy all went well.  Now we will hear the 'contact' update.  I have been wondering about that.

    Happy happy birthday Z!  Thinking of you today.  XXX

  • ndgirl
    ndgirl Member Posts: 950
    edited July 2013

    Thanks Ariom, have been awaiting your updates.. agree with Bobo.. what a way to start the day with a dump! Love it.. we had a dear little cocker spaniel for 13 years.. loved her dearly but they have a way of putting things in perspective dont they? So glad things went well.. really you could have worn the contact that long ago? anxious to hear how it goes! I always have thought they say 6 months to stay on the safe side of things, knowing women like us will push the limits! I know how the DH can take the blunt of things, ask mine! but nerves can really get to me at times and everything he says or does just sends me over the top!!

    Happy Birthday Zills! how the scope goes well, thinking of you all day.

    Greetings to all!

  • gramwe
    gramwe Member Posts: 238
    edited July 2013

    Happy Birthday Zills. We will celebrate when you feel up to it. Hope today's scope was easy and that you are resting comfortably now in your own bed. With air conditioning.



    Moria what a way to start a day. Glad it turned out well in the end. Yeah for being done with the doctor until January. I'd do back flips to go 6 months without having to see one.



    OG is flying solo to therapy today. Our daughter has passed him in 2 different locations since he left home, neither of them were in the direction of the therapist office. So shes called me to give up dates and question my decision to allow him out without adult supervision.

    I had the echocardigram this morning, the technician had a difficult time seeing some things so they had to inject contrast in my vein, it only took 3 people 4 tries to hit a vein, they even had bruises from last week and still couldn't hit one. She shook me up a bit when she called in her surpervisor, and another technician to have a look, but then she assured me that was not unusual. Not sure if I believe that or not.

    So far no one had addressed the bleeding from my ear canal. As I was negotiating the maze of hallways to leave the hospital with the technician, we ran into my BS, he of course didn't speak, but I'm sure he heard me when I told the technician that he was the surgeon who left me with that ugly hole in my chest that she thought had been caused by radiation. My visit with him next month may be tense.

    On a good note, they phoned awhile ago to tell me my foobs are here! I go Friday to make sure that the girls fit.



    Again I'm interrupted! Be back later. Hugs

  • bobogirl
    bobogirl Member Posts: 2,083
    edited July 2013

    Good update, Granwe!  Keep us informed.  Standing by.  All those 'tries' for a stick sound miserable!  Do you need me to find some of those people?

  • Zillsnot4me
    Zillsnot4me Member Posts: 2,122
    edited July 2013

    Sorry for the long wait girls. They had me listed under my maiden name. We've been married for 10 years and I hadn't been to this clinic for a good 20. The initial waiting room was crowded but the lobby was roomy and there was a life size painted horse. Then they couldn't access my veins. Nothing to drink didn't help. They found someone to access the port but had to chase down the proper supplies. Then the heart monitors wouldn't stay on. They said it was gremlins! The doc said he didn't see anything. Not sure if that's good or bad. Don't want any more surgeries but want the MO to believe me. Came home and napped for 3 hours! Not even sure I remember the ride home.



    Granwe hope your fitting is as good as Bobo's was. OG is sewing some oats today. Good for him. I too have an indentation. I knew the tumor was close or in the chest wall so it wasn't unexpected but not attractive. When do you get your test results?



    Ariom glad to know the dog ear dissipates. Mine is the smallest it's been but eating bland food. Yes I had my moment with DH last night. Right before the pork chops arrived! Also dogsat once and had the DUMP happen....1st on the welcome mat. No big deal right? 2nd time that night on my DHs pillow!!!!! He was letting us know he is the new man of the house! Is Dex fixed?



    The part I forgot... I was in such a rush to get everyone out the door so I wouldn't be late... No hat or scarf again! Bet I won't do that come winter. Didn't realize until we were almost to the big city. Oh well hope you all don't mind hanging out with bald and boobless:) Thanks for being there.

  • bobogirl
    bobogirl Member Posts: 2,083
    edited July 2013

    Z, good report!  We don't mind hanging out with you AT ALL..  Why must they make the beginnings of procedures so bumpy?  Why can't they test things out beforehand?  They can put a man on the moon, but they have to bumble through every needle stick and biopsy and mammo we ever do... my tech cried through the last one I had, which was super-helpful.

    I don't want your DH to fight with you!  He should treat you like a princess.  It's your way or the highway, Z!  That's what I say.

    Guess what?  Your knitted knocks are done!  They are a soft natural pink.  Organic cotton.  I'm sending them out tomorrow!  Granwe's are in the mail.  Who was next?  I have forgotten.  M doesn't want any, I don't think... nd, is it you?  

    GrammaB, yours will certainly be ready when you are ready for them after surgery, provided I can find the proper funky yet soft purple yarn!

    So glad you wrote, Z.  In your pocket for Thursday!  But first, I'm off to interrupt Idesim's Herceptin appointment on Wednesday.  I'm going to get D and Disorderly in the bag -- why not, since I am already in a bag?  Idesim will wreak of beer, and people will think she has joined a rock n'roll band.  Also, I'm going to throw my voice from inside the bag, saying No!  and F0ck that!  in response to Qs asked of Idesim, and everyone will think she's the one talking.  That's my plan.  I'm going to wear a floaty marika ensemble with wings that waft behind me as I walk == no wait, that's not me -- I'm going to wear a ripped HILLARY t-shirt and my favorite soft yoga pants -- they have a million holes in them, bobo nipped the holes into them when he was a puppy.  XXX

  • Zillsnot4me
    Zillsnot4me Member Posts: 2,122
    edited July 2013

    How many herceptin treatments are there? Not sure my stomach is up for D&D. But I'll be there. Would be hilarious to see their faces while you ventriloquy.

  • Ariom
    Ariom Member Posts: 4,027
    edited July 2013

    Oh how I love come here in the morning and see your posts!

    What a great start to the day you all are!

    Dexter's indiscretion has had laughs all round. He is just a "Nervous Nellie" when he thinks he is going to be left. He always enjoys the experience once he is there. The people from the kennels we left him at when I had the surgery were so grateful to have him. They said they put him in with the ones that were fretting, note, he wasn't one of them, and he would play all day and wear them out. They would find them all asleep in a huddle, exhausted, and yes he's fixed.

    Been thinking about you Zills, so sorry about your bad experience at the scope facility. Finding veins is a difficulty for so many of those operators. I would be glad they found nothing. That means it is gastritis or GERD, still painful and terribly annoying, but treatable when they find the right meds. Yours could just be caused by the type of meds you're on and will dissipate. I sure hope so.

    Please let me know when you feel up to celebrating, I'm there!

    Gramwe's new foobs, I am excited to hear how it goes. I am wondering if the OG ever got to the appointment, or was he just loving being out on his own? So funny that you and your daughter had him under surveillance the whole time.

    Another lousey attempt to take blood. So sorry that happened to you too. Gremlins ehh.

    I just love that you spoke loud enough to let the BS hear you tell of the hole left in your chest after surgery! Don't be concerned about a tense visit next month, we'll all be backing our ventriliquist, "The Amazing Bobo!" even though you can definitely handle it yourself!

    I am hoping the ear canal problem was just a one off tiny vessel like having a bloody nose.

    Zills, forgot to say, I'll go anywhere with you, bald or not, scarf or not. I don't care!

    Take it easy...chat later!! M x

  • ldesim
    ldesim Member Posts: 1,193
    edited July 2013

    I don't know where to start.. Zils.. Happy Belated Bday.. I'm mad at you.. but I understand at the same time.

    I am laughing my @ss off at the descriptions of the day.. from the dumps to the OG bumbling about town, to Granwe insulting the BS so publicly, to the beautiful, bald & boobless Zills and the staff running around like gooses all around her. And then we have tomorrow's threat of D&D and already the fumes of the beer are making me a bit queasy. To top it all off,  I think I peed myself a bit over the floating Marika ensemble.  Bobogirl, you friggin kill me.

    I'll come back later.. mental note... wear depends when reading this thread.

  • grammaB
    grammaB Member Posts: 1,118
    edited July 2013

    bobo, the bracelet is ordered! I had to work hard to restrain myself from getting the OM too. Maybe later.

    I rather expected you would already have known about the diet, just thought I'd mention it  just in case. Giving up carbs is not easy that is for sure.  In my case diabetes really gave me no choice.  I'm a T2 not on insulin so if I were to eat carbs and go high, I have no way to bring it down, thus very few carbs.

    Ariom, what a fracking way to start the day!  That would put anyone in a tizzy for a while.  I have to admit I was laughing along with bobo when I read it!  Glad your appointment went well and you get to have a vacation from drs for a while!!

    gramwe, sorry about all the sticks! That really sucks.  And I agree, I hate it when they call in someone else to look at things and don't explain why, really can cause worry. 

    Remembering that I am the new kid here and not familiar with some of the abbreviations, can you tell me what OG stands for? 

    Dang, I need to go put my dinner on the stove it needs to simmer a long time.  Pork chops and sauerkraut with a little onion and bell pepper.  I'm making a double so I won't have to cook on Thursday when I get home from the dr appointment (and shopping afterward for a cami).

    Be back to finish reading.

  • bobogirl
    bobogirl Member Posts: 2,083
    edited July 2013

    Drunk and Disorderly bobogirl here.  I'm having a beer.  I'm warming up.

    As it turns out our Granwe does not need a beer.  What a real *ss b1tch you are Granwe.  You go ahead and speak truth to power to that piece of a wet shi1t bag of a BS.  I dare him to have an awkward meeting with you in a month.  What's his name.  I'm not even kidding. I'm reaching a saturation point, but in a good way.

    Z, my hair is actually like feathers.  DLLP says so.  It does not lay down, it waves in the air very often.  We will be a perfect pair.  F scarves if you don't want to wear them.  Or stupid turbans, or anything you don't like.  That said, if you want a beautiful scarf -- or any kind of contraption that has caught your fancy -- say the word and those items will descend upon you like a veritable plague of locusts.  That's right.  Your treats are like locusts.

    You will probably want to know what I'm wearing.  It's a diaphanous summer-weight scarf made into a poncho emphasizing the design of a butterfl-- no, wait.  I've got running socks on which have helpful instructions on each foot -- RIGHT and LEFT -- and ripped incredibly soft pants, no underwear (F you, underwear!) and my new in-the-house old lady amoena bra with an ice pack shoved into the pocket, and an old too-small violent femmes t-shirt with a fuzzy teddy bear like sweater over it.  That sweater has wings.  I swing one of the wings across my uneven area if I feel like it.  Hot flashes are amazing this week.  I was up for the second night in a row.  These days I am worrying about our princess.  And she cannot  -- should not -- have children, and sometimes that fact pops up and it just levels me.

    So, disorderly it is!  Just let any nurse or orderly or doctor fumble a single thing with my loved ones this week.  I'll be out of that bag in a flash.  I've got that 'nothing to lose' feeling.  But, again, in a good way.  What's on the coffee table.  I don't want to be kept waiting for the answer.  :)

  • bobogirl
    bobogirl Member Posts: 2,083
    edited July 2013

    GrammaB, excellent work!  I have the om, in gold, I gave it to our Princess.  So what.  She has five bracelets of her own now.  Two she gave to her good friend who went to NM for the summer.  She holds her (giant) wrist out, and shakes it to jingle the bracelets, and looks at me.  Who wouldn't give her more bracelets?  Cast the first stone.

    OG, if I may answer for our Granwe, is her DH, the Old Goat.  He is the kindest man in a sea of unkind men, incredibly gentle, stalwart and hard working.  Not being able to jump into an afternoon of roof repair can reduce our OG to tears.  He is a gentle and sensitive soul, easily frightened, and can be spooked by carrying a bottle of Granwe's meds (the F ing Femara).  He has hand surgery and a very painful extended round of PT.  When he recovers, he is going to build us all bracelet-moires.  Ariom:  DON'T TELL COLIN I have ordered the EF black waxed jeans.

    Yes -- do your special diet, you need to do it.  Still figuring things out regarding our Princess, it will always be so.

  • Ariom
    Ariom Member Posts: 4,027
    edited July 2013

    I just looked away for a moment and you have all been and gone again.

    Bobo, you're getting scary...in a good way! I love that you want to defend us all against the whole Medical Profession! I am with you 100%

    Our little band of sisters here are well looked after and can always rely on the others to be there, it's so comforting, isn't it!

    I love the description of your outfit Bobo, I have some not unlike that, for specific duties. I love my old Rolling Stones, and other rock Tshirts from forever ago.

    I meant to say to you Van is a fave. I have everything ever recorded, have seen him live a couple of times, and when I was married to Peter, my ex who was a radio announcer on the first and the best FM station, I used to coerce him into playing Domino for me during drive time....oh those were the days!  

    Got the message that two more packages of Marika reached the freight Facitlity today, so I guess I will be wearing this for a very long time, and having the "piss taken" by Bobo forever too:)

    I don't think I mentioned I am going to the podiatrist today, yes the one that did the talk at the Pink Ladies, uggh makes me want to puke when I say that name, meeting last month. Remember the one that said I was wearing the most inapropriate shoes? Well, he was right,  all of my shoes are inapropriate to a Podiatrist. I have always suffered for fashion, in the shoe department. I used to work 12 hour shifts on polished marble floors in stillettos, oh yes, I kid you not, and I'd teeter around in thigh high boots when they were the fashion statement. Well now my poor feet are saying NO MORE. I have a corn, under my big toe, and it is hurting like a beatch. Poor Dex isn't getting his walk because of it, so today I am going to bite the bullet and let Phil, the podiatrist remove that corn, and I will listen to the diatribe on my choice of shoes.

    I will then treat myself to lunch somewhere, return some things I bought last week, and home again, home again, jiggetty jig!   That's what I always said to Bec as we were approaching home....Love to all...M x

  • Ariom
    Ariom Member Posts: 4,027
    edited July 2013

    Will you please stop posting I am still in my dressing gown, at the computer. Every time I am about to go do the Rites, another post comes in. I have been here for nearly two hours geeesh!

    I am clapping my hands here with glee!

    I am so glad you ordered those jeans, I know they have been on your mind, so you must have them...but what to wear with them? I need a description...and shoes...sensible?

    (((((HUGS)))) I am going this time....M x

  • bobogirl
    bobogirl Member Posts: 2,083
    edited July 2013

    Oh!  Will need full report of corn removal.

    Look on the EF website, if you would.  There is a flowy sleeveless thing, black with white, that they are showing with the jeans.  I just love that thing.  Is it a shirt?  Wait.  I will get the name.  


























     

    V-Neck Short-Sleeve Tunic in Crystalline Silk Shibori


    Moody and bohemian. A hand-dyed silk tunic with a rock 'n' roll edge. 

     

    OMG, have I just posted my first picture?  It's a miracle.  This will have to go on a serious sale.  This shirt alone is worth the same as the punk jacket.  Truth be told, I'd get more mileage out of the shirt.  I want to try on the jacket at the EF in Boston.  Eileen has gone punk!

     

    I do wear sensible shoes.  Am lesbian.



  • bobogirl
    bobogirl Member Posts: 2,083
    edited July 2013

    Since posting pics is suddenly possible, here is the jacket.  I did not know there would even be a jacket.

  • grammaB
    grammaB Member Posts: 1,118
    edited July 2013

    Thanks bobo for explaining OG, I kind of thought that might be it, but I wanted to be sure.

    I am a bracelet lover so the A & A is going to have lots of company. :)

    I forgot to mention I finally found a grabber today. My little local small town Pharmacy/Soda fountain had one, well, will have it tomorrow.  I'd rather support our local store than get it on Amazon.  I was amazed none of the big three, WalMart, KMart, or Target had one. 

    Zills, I'll second what Moira said, I'd go anywhere with you too, bald or not scarf or not! :)

  • grammaB
    grammaB Member Posts: 1,118
    edited July 2013

    bobo, I love that top!!!  What is EF?  I tried EF.com but got an international education site.

  • wren44
    wren44 Member Posts: 7,932
    edited July 2013

    Bobo, that jacket is just fine!

  • Ariom
    Ariom Member Posts: 4,027
    edited July 2013

    Just got the internet back up..it may not last so I will post as soon as I write!

    Bobo, I just love that top, and the jeans of course. I had a jacket just like that, but turn your head Bobo, it was in soft leather. My Vi boy loved it so much, I gave it to him. 

    The hairstyle in the picture, is much like my latest haircut.

    Gotta laugh at my visit with the Podiatrist. I get there and the receptionist gives me the form to fill out for new patients. Why on earth do they need a total medical history to look at my feet? I told the receptionist I'd need a few extra pages if she really wants all that.

    The very last question was "Why are you here today?"

    I wrote "To have two painful corns removed. They were caused by wearing inapropriate shoes!"

    He did a big belly laugh when he read the form, and said "Well at least you know why you're here!"

    He took a look at my feet and said, no, i am sorry but these are not corns, they are Rheumatoid nodules! WTF, will this disease never let up. There is nothing that they can do for it. He agreed that my shoes are inapropriate, but if I feel comfortable in them, that's good. He asked me to bring in the walking shoes I wear for well, walking, and he will see if he can make anything to fit inside to take the pressure off.

    He then said "Really, for your age, and the extent of your degeneration from Rheumatoid, you are doing really well!"  

    FFFFF, I have had the "Good for your age" lecture twice in two days! Am I over reacting?

    Need to make dinner.......will be back later! M x

  • Ariom
    Ariom Member Posts: 4,027
    edited July 2013

    Just got the internet back up..it may not last so I will post as soon as I write!

    Bobo, I just love that top, and the jeans of course. I had a jacket just like that, but turn your head Bobo, it was in soft leather. My Vi boy loved it so much, I gave it to him. 

    The hairstyle in the picture, is much like my latest haircut.

    Gotta laugh at my visit with the Podiatrist. I get there and the receptionist gives me the form to fill out for new patients. Why on earth do they need a total medical history to look at my feet? I told the receptionist I'd need a few extra pages if she really wants all that.

    The very last question was "Why are you here today?"

    I wrote "To have two painful corns removed. They were caused by wearing inapropriate shoes!"

    He did a big belly laugh when he read the form, and said "Well at least you know why you're here!"

    He took a look at my feet and said, no, i am sorry but these are not corns, they are Rheumatoid nodules! WTF, will this disease never let up. There is nothing that they can do for it. He agreed that my shoes are inapropriate, but if I feel comfortable in them, that's good. He asked me to bring in the walking shoes I wear for well, walking, and he will see if he can make anything to fit inside to take the pressure off.

    He then said "Really, for your age, and the extent of your degeneration from Rheumatoid, you are doing really well!"  

    FFFFF, I have had the "Good for your age" lecture twice in two days! Am I over reacting?

    Need to make dinner.......will be back later! M x

  • Ariom
    Ariom Member Posts: 4,027
    edited July 2013

    Gramma, Eileen Fisher is the site Bobo is shopping on.

    Sorry I posted the above post twice...back later! M x

  • bobogirl
    bobogirl Member Posts: 2,083
    edited July 2013

    Okay, I jumped on to tell everyone that Ariom might be off the thread today because her internet is down... but as you can see... she's on!

    A!  F that!  "rheumatoid nodules"?  F.  A 'for your age' lecture?  You must be spitting mad.  I will cheer you up.  Once (well, more than once) DLLP and I were at the hospital, waiting for some bc test or another, and the nurse came out for me, and she said, Do you want your mother to come in with you?  SO HILARIOUS!  Changed the course of the whole day.  And then, as I said, that happened more than once!  I am five years younger than DLLP.

    Yes, Gramma -- Eileen Fisher.  I have always loved her.  But now, she has embraced her inner punk!  Just shortly after I embraced mine!  It's making me pretty happy.  I teach, and through the years I've gotten some EF pieces -- but usually on a bargain basement sale.  Never full price.  But, as you were just joining us, I decided to buy those black waxed jeans NOT ON SALE.  This because she was showing a jean jacket recently, I was waiting for a couple of markdowns, and it sold out before one markdown.  I was smack in the middle of a million bc tests and biopsies and I said to myself, F that.  

    Wren, as you can see, the waxed jacket is BAD*ASS!  It looks like leather but does not hurt animals.  I feel I have to support this.  Eileen does do a lot of leather.  And I love that top too, but truly, it's ridiculously priced.  I'd never spend that on a blouse.  Those jeans I will have forever.  But B, doesn't that blouse look like it has magic powers?

    The grabber!  You got it!  I'm glad I don't have one of those.  One of the 7-year-olds would get hold of it, and soon everyone would be grabbing the heck out of each other.  B, this BMX is going to be very nearly a 'non-event' for you, I just know it.  You are so prepped out, and forward-thinking, and you are a magic Reiki master, and you have a new magic bracelet on the way.  And swank pjs.  And I am making you some funny knocks!  Forgot to ask if you are going to do 'real' foobs.

    That reminds me.  I was in the evil foob/people who have babies and all things breastfeeding, but not you, bobo, store, and I was trying on the cutlet, and the lady said, Should you have the next surgery (she means UMX), you can give this prosthesis to the Angel Closet, and we will order you a full breast prosthesis.  I said to her, Oh no.  I am going to rock flatness.  And she said, What?  Rocks?  And I said, No.  I am going to rock.  The flatness.  This woman was not old.  She was, like, forty-five.  But she was completely flummoxed.  Because she is at the foob store.  She babbled to cover her mortification.  Bet she was talking about me that night at the dinner table.  Ariom, you must look like a bad*ass in that haircut.  Love that new EF model.

    When I have my destination BMX in NJ, you won't see either end of me anymore, foob store!

  • Zillsnot4me
    Zillsnot4me Member Posts: 2,122
    edited July 2013

    Very cool this morning. Children whiny. I'm crabby. Have a long to do list to get ready for tomorrow. All the bread molded and the baby needs milk. Stomach still not right but assume it's from not eating on time yesterday.



    Maybe I need to find me some retail therapy or something decadent to eat. Does school supplies count? Maybe I'll stop by the new bakery in town or the coffee shop. They always have quiche. Maybe that will agree with my stomach.



    Hope you all are having a better morning.

  • Ariom
    Ariom Member Posts: 4,027
    edited July 2013

    OMG Bobo, you crack me up!

    I just love it when you get mad for us, and I have to tell you that I had that same thing happen when I went with Colin to a Dr appointment. The Doctor never looked at me when we went in, and he was talking to Colin, he finally asked Colin if he lived with his Mother, gesturing at me. Colin laughed, but didn't answer, I jumped in and said no he doesn't and I don't look anything like his Mother! You should have heard the back pedal, it was priceless. Colin is 3 years younger than me.

    Bobo WTF is an Angel Closet? A FoobMoire for dead cutlets? I would have wanted to see inside that sucker.

    That's so funny, the foob lady doesn't know that anyone Rocks The Flatness, you're right, she would have been talking about the scary punk lady that came in today!

    I am off to bed now, take carel...M x