STEAM ROOM FOR ANGER
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My son-in-law's grandma refused to go off hormonal therapy even after her MO said she could stop taking it because she was convinced it was keeping her from getting it again. She took it until the day she died. They let her stay on it even though she was older when diagnosed even. Bet she was on it 15 years though before she died.
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My DH & I get along very well,,,,but I'd like to strangle him right now. I've been hit hard with fatigue & numbness in my legs (likely from eribulin, will know next week when I have scan & see MO). As I decline in health, physical & mental, he seems to do the same. Overweight, but eats lots of desserts. Stopped regular exercise & says knees hurt, but won't see ortho or schedule PT. Cardio sent monitor because he's had some recent afib (ablations etc in 2020) but it's been sitting on a table unopened for 2 weeks. He doesn't know what to do when I'm depressed, doesn't want to know how to pay bills, logon to accts. Don't get me started on cleaning out anything! That almost causes him hives...really, an aquarium that's not had a fish in it in 5 yrs, but runs water noise that chases me out of room. 6-8 old stereo receivers that he got tired of collecting, but won't get rid of, etc. I'm trying to enjoy life before they run out of drugs for me....that comment makes him clam up too. ARRRGH! Thanks for being here & listening. I'm trying to pass it off and just go on with things I enjoy, but when he sits in a chair more hours a day than I, it infuriates me.
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Thanks everyone, just got done taking my Mom to our condo in Oregon. She complained non stop blaming me for taking her away from home while she was"sick". Ugh she won't leave me alone for 20 minutes all week long. I have had it, but now she is home and it gave my youngest son a break, he lives with her.
Honestly she embarrasses me in public she does everything to be as pathetic as possible, this is not the mother I knew. We need to get her counseling ASAP. Thanks for your support and hope that we can get to a normal state again.
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I'll stay on it as long as I can tolerate it although I might get my ovaries removed instead. We have ovarian cancer in our family, too, andn thus far I've tested negative for those genes but you never know. Got my fallopean tubes out preventatively two years ago and was so thankful when I was diagnosed with breast cancer. One less organ down there that is sensitive to estrogen to worry about so I could ovarian cancer in the background for the time being.
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That one is a lot harder to detect I know and know someone who died from that.
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I just picked up an online order from the grocery store after I got home and had everything unpacked and thought there were items missing I see two calls from the store but NO messages so I look at my receipt and sure enough at least one maybe two BAGS of produce didn't make it into my car. I called them and and I got a linewell they tried to call you. SERIOUSLY maybe leaving a message maybe apologizing should have been their first step. Look I get it that mistakes happen but it's not like I got no refrigerated items got my milk got my tomatoes even the potatoes were cold as if they were in the fridge and eggs also so when every bag is labeled with my name and you are suppose to check every thing off how do you miss the other bags. But more than that why aren't you leaving a message
Okay I'm done my husband will have to pick it up on his way home from taking my son to lessons.
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quietgirl that is frustrating. We have not done on the pick up option at the store. We did order online at the very start of COVID and DH is a trasplant patient on top it so we are are super careful all the time. We ordered and had it delivered to the house and they left it at our door. Cost us about $10 more to do it but we figured worth it. It worked and only did once. Problem was though if they could not find something I picked they chose something "similiar" and got that and that was not always ok since something I am kind of picky about. Now we go when the store first opens pretty mich and shop in person and sanitize the cart well and we see no one in there but there checker and we all mask and keep our distance No one on any aises or anything and in and out and back home and we stock up when we go to minitize trips to the store to about every 2 1/2 weeks. We try to buy fruit that lasts long.
We do ouir holiday shopping as delivery now as well or order and pick up after we are notified it is ready to pickk up at the store. No shpping anymore.
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Stopping by the steam room to wish safety upon any of our FL and other posters from the south that will be effected from this hurricane. Hurricanes with "I" names are always bad.
I have been doing pretty well recently. Anxiety only minorly peaking as due for a mammo in a couple weeks. I suppose these feelings will just never go away. I think I'm even having phantom pains. I feel around and there's nothing there, so I slap myself back into sense. I just hate tests. Got a bruise on my arm from a flu shot. I'll get through it and all will be well.
Take care everyone. Will be anxiously awaiting the new forum next year.
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Hey, ctm, it's nice to see you! I'm hoping your mammo anxiety wains a bit. Those darn phantom pains!
(((hugs)))
Carol
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ctmbiskia glad you are doing ok right now. Keeping good thoughts for all in the storm path as well since I heard it is the worst one for 100 years. Know there are a lot who need care who will not be aBle to get the treatment they need right now either as a result for awhile.
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How to px off your wife: repeatedly blow off and ignore her opinions about remodel and PICK COLOR WITHOUT HER. Seriously? I don't ask for much. It's not some big money project. Pretty clueless about the cancer too and tells everyone I'm fine. Just think positive! Almost as empathetic as a fence post. Angry at both job and husband and feel trapped with both. I'm trying hard not to do something dumb like max out some credit and go do some stuff esp with my other less annoying family members and friends before I'm too sick and broken to enjoy anything. I'm almost there already. 😡
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It's October. We know what's coming. Here's something to help everyone through it.
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Alice I want that shirt haha!
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Peeve of the day: Indoor cancer-related events that have zero, or unclear, covid protocols.
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Mkestrel, I'm sorry. You certainly have every right to be angry!
Alice, that's a good one!
Chemicalworld, seriously? Who has cancer-related events with zero or unclear covid protocols? Have they not heard of IMMUNE COMPROMISED??? Sheesh!
I did update my blog this morning with my feelings about puke- I mean, Pink-tober.
Carol
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My grand-daughter who is in high school and plays volleyball emailed how they are all using pink volleyballs and wearing pink this month. She wanted me know. I did not have to heart to tell her how I really feel since I know she thinks they are doing something good but so many of us feel that way.
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A niece-in-law recently did a Komen walk or run or something. She flew halfway across the country to participate and had a good ol' time with some friends who were there. When she first announced it, I was among the people she listed she was doing it for (luckily not by name, just by relationship). Huh? Why not pay my co-pays for my next mammogram, MO visit, and BS visit? Or offer rides where she lives to cancer patients, or run errands for those who can't anymore - and NOT brag about it on Facebook. She runs for fun nearly every day. What did this accomplish?
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Bragging rights and the admiration of the mass ignorant beings that think BC can be cured. Sorry for displaying my cynicism but it is hard to reign in this month.
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Thanks for all the supportive comments. I’m actually feeling a little guilty (???) about my blog post. Why am I feeling bad for possibly offending someone? I really want people to “think before they pink.”
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I know some people think they are being supportive by doing things but they do not realize peole dealing with conditions to not want to be reminded of it all it all the time. There are better ways to show support. to those you care about by providing direct support of even a home cooked meal or driving to appointments. Even a card cheered me sometimes from a friend. No pink that goes to the copanies and not to help anyone.
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sunshine99, re: the event; I was told it would be "individual choice" to wear a mask or not when I asked. None of this was mentioned at registration and it is nowhere to be seen on the event site. Silly me had assumed that a cancer organization might actually take some precautions.
I'm with everyone on pinktober. I was diagnosed years back, two days before October kicked in as it was so I was swimming in it right from the get-go, but I loathe slacktivism and pinkwashing so, yeah...
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The only good thing about Pinktober is that random items get manufactured in pink and after a few months are deeply discounted. I sometimes take advantage of this by purchasing items that won't be too visible - for example, pruning shears!
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I agree with most all of the above about "Pinktober", but I'd also like to add that I think that focus on pink also ignores most all of the men who are suffering with this disease too. (I know some men don't mind the color pink.) The emphasis on pink makes it all seem like just a "girl thing" when it isn't. They say they are trying to raise awareness, well then why don't they? This is not just a "pink" disease.
I think most of this stuff gets dreamed up by people who have no experience with or any clue about what it is like to have breast cancer - they just seem to be "fundraisers" for their respective organizations. It's marketing for their groups; not real meaningful help for the people who have to endure this nightmare.
(Actually, I love the color pink and I like to wear pink off and on, but now whenever I take any article of pink clothing out to put on, I'm afraid others will think I'm doing it because of my breast cancer. This whole pink thing has put a damper on what had been an occasional little joy in my life, i.e. wearing pink.)
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I agree. One of my grand-daughters was the one who loved pink and the other one purple so when we bought stuff for them to have here we would buy them in those colors they would know where it belonged. Made it helpful for keeping their bath items their cups that way at least.
I wear a few things that are pink at some points in the year but not time of year at all. I agree that men are not repreented and is only thought of a "girl" disease which it is not of coursse.
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Waiting for the phone to ding to say the little white pill has been refilled. Two days waiting!!! The stupid insurance only lets them do 30 at a time. It's so dumb. I'm certain that's the holdup cause MO wrote it for 90. I have to pick up 2 other meds so I will ask. So annoying. Especially if this is going to require multiple stops at the pharmacy. To be continued............
I also had to write 2 rent checks this month. The 1st one got lost in the mail and ended up at my bank. How in the world it got there I have no idea. I called my landlord after I got this message saying the bank had the check. He was in Fort Myers (his winter home) and asked me to call the girlfriend. I am not a fan of the girlfriend. I could write nasty words about her, but I won't. Not worth it. First, she says no, no check. 20 minutes later she texts back, yes, I have your check. Well, which is it? Is she just being dumb, am I being scammed from someone pretending to be my bank? Finally, she calls me to say no she doesn't have my check. Never apologized either. She's one of those people that are never wrong. So, you see why I am no fan. At all! I made arrangements to drop another check off to her in person last evening.
Been a weird couple of days. Simple tasks getting all screwed up. I've completely lost my concentration here at work this afternoon as well. Good time for a walk.
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Have you actually checked with the bank to make sure that they indeed had the check? Why would the landlord "know" that the bank had your check? Something's missing here. Good luck!
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ctmbiska do you have a way to contact your bank directly to get that information without a trip there to the bank? If that check has been cashed then I imagine you have rights under the law as a renter even so and I would be contacting the attorney general office and reporting them.
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ctmbsiskia, checks can get lost. I'd definitely call bank and have the first one stopped.
Re insurance, it SUCKS. Today, i showed up at 7:30 for my 8am NM bone scan today. Cleared the whole day until 2:00 for the stupid thing. I get there, they hand me stuff to sign, and I happen to say "all the insurance is good on this, right?" She says she doesn't know, and looks it up. Nope- the pre-authorization never went through!!!!! Told me to call dr who ordered it. Said the center is open at 8. Called every 2 min. Finally got someone at 9:10. Then NM tells me that lead tech said I'm too late and they cancelled my appointment. "It's ok, you can still go to your other CTs"...there I ask if the different CTs ordered by 2 Dif Drs are there, Desk says they think so. NP prepping me says she can't access that. Tech is unclear. I got results back a few hours ago for one on MyChart. Scan-xiety? I didn't have it before. Now I do. I am anxious that I can't even get them done!
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That is terrible on your appoitments.
DH had an appt yesterday at VA clinic. They send 5 notices and then call 3 times on the appointment and then when he got there and waited about 30 minutes the nurse came in and said the doc was called for an emergency and was going to be late. Had other appoitnments in the same bulding after that one and then ended up late to those. Those were for tests and they just worked him in but then he ended up there about 3 hourlong for a regular office visit.
Overscheduling and bad customer service seems to be the norm now which is sad.
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overscheduling , like airplane seats!
Ok new rant: who loves going to work with iv/blood draw bruises? Working with kids, sometimes they notice, sometimes not. Can't wear long sleeves. Kids don't care, I just say I went to dr. and they accept it. But do parents see?
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