CRAZY TOWN WAITING ROOM - TESTS coming up? All Stages Welcome.
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Rainny, big sigh of relief. Now on to calming meditation.
Octo, I hear you about the roid rage. I am so glad to be getting my energy back to deal with this.
I appreciate everyone's support, I will be more convincing and assert myself, tuning out the b.s. I have been going out with friends and staying out of the house quite a bit.
Start my prep Sunday night for colonoscopy Monday the Thursday is dexa scan and echo. So moving forward with routine stuff.
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Well Ladies, he did it again...............my grandson got another "fat letter" today.................another one of his universities that he applied to sent him his letter today...........he was accepted to CAbrini College and they topped the other school with $19,500 a year for his 4 years...............he has a few more to hear from......even though he had his interview yesteday which went very well with University of Pa......he still has to get his letter of acceptance...like I said "a stretch"..........but it seems one comes everyday.......he has yet to hear from Villinova, St. Joe's, West Chester, and University of the Sciences......Penn and U of S, are his top choices........all I can say is if your grandchildren (for those who have them), or children if that is the case..........are planning on going to college, and they want monetary help......keep their GPA above 3.0...work hard, and it is there for them............they just have to make up their minds to do it, and have to want it..........0
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Rose, that dude seems like a total toolbox....just saying. Can I join the ass kicking party??:)
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why yes, LBF. Why it has taken me this long to see his manipulation or to realize I need and deserve more than someone took the yard and mop the floors is beyond me. A season a reason. He knows he can play on my sympathies because I am a recovering ms. Fixit. Which turns me into a habitual bum magnet.
Good night crazies. Sweet restful dreams as I sip on my sleepytime tea.
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Hey there Crazies,
I see everyone is around tonight and sooo much is going on! Hard to keep up.
Ducky,
Congrats on more good news on the school front. Does your grandson know what he wants to do yet? Whatever he decides I know he'll do well. A strong work ethic is so important for success in anything and I can see he's got that in spades!
Rose,
Good luck on the colonoscopy. I'm due to do the same thing in Jan soon as I'm done with the herceptin.As for the troll on the basement I'm very good at Italian curses ....we could turn him into a bug and then just step on or swat him??? Seriously, I agree...he should just STFU. Meanwhile you may need her for the troll
Shorfi,
I feel for you and I certainly know how difficult it all is for us two timers. My MO told me the first time 25 yrs ago that I had to think about this breast cancer as something chronic so I guess I've always been waiting for the other shoe to drop. My second cancer was also a new primary cancer in the remaining breast. it's weird but I really felt that by getting cancer again I was letting everyone down... After all it had been 25 yrs since the last time. At first the main thing I felt was this sense of failure, like I wasn't a "survivor" anymore. Of course pretty soon I realized as long as I'm breathing I'm surviving and cancer really doesn't have anything to do with it. Your doctor sounds like a wonderful caring person.
Poppy,
Thanks! If you're in the vicinity of the Ferry Building on Black Friday drop in and say hi.
Jack,
I love your furry friends! They're so cute curled up together. I really liked the way you got Jack to adapt to Tutti. I do wish Patsy was cat tolerant but all the Siberian Husky books say .. No cats... Ever. It sounds like you're feeling better so glad to see you here and think of you close to nature up in Oregon.
Marie,
Glad you came through everything so well. Rest and take it easy. As to posting on drugs... Hey it's Crazy Town we all have been there ; )
Proud,
Glad you've got my blog address. Any questions you can always find me here.
Octo,
Yay for being done with chemo!!!
Rainn,
So glad the insurance mess is getting fixed. It's amazing how fast stuff gets fixed once the shit hits the fan/ papers. You'll enjoy Henry V. We saw it eons ago in LA back when I had 2 breasts Kenneth Brannagh and Emma Thompson. Cannot believe those Hamilton prices!!!!!
Lucy,
Glad you're getting to spend time with the littles.
Gaia,
I love the skype idea, I'm game if anyone else is.
Slow, and Tom
Waving to you both!
Love to you all......See you later crazies!!!
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Notagain....So happy your scans are clean. A small new primary...good news too.
Rainny...Happy they came to some sort of agreement about the insurance issue. I wanted to retire next year at the age of 62, but for insurance reasons only, I will continue to work. It's probably hard to do....but please try to concentrate on your health and moving beyond this cancer crap. You don't need the added stress of worrying about insurance.
Rose...Ever heard the expression "ride or die chick"? We can all get together and get his tail out of your house.
Proud...the patch works, but if I walk too much, same pain radiates into my thigh and lower calf. Nothing seems to work on me. The patch is supposedly for very "bad" pain. I'm at my wits end.
Marie...hope you are feeling better today...rest up.
Katy...love your baby running on the beach...
Ducky...my younger sister went to U of P and she loved it. I wish your grandson gets what he wants. He deserves it
Octo...celebrating with you for having finished your last treatment...yay!!!!
Sula...I took a look at all the beautiful you created...it looks delicious and I love your presentations of it. I have never tasted Indian food. Maybe one day......
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Rainny, that is great on the insurance, would have been a huge boondoogle for the politicos I am sure.
Cubbie, yeap my gym has 3 pools, lap pool, therapy pool (warmer and they have arthritis classes in that) and then the jacussi. Course too much jacussi gives Iris a UTI so that is only occasionally!
Boy, guess Hamilton is definitely requiring a mortgage to see but BAM has some great things too and much more affordable
Well heading to the chiro later today, took a POD yesterday, felt decidedly loopie as I just do not do that very often. Gonna rethink the patch thing.
Sula, thanks for the offer of help on the cooking, I passed your site onto my sister Fern (see mom did like flowers~~) as she is cooking more veggie these days and was very interested. She is a much better cook than me~
The official decision for T day is the Mennonite Community Apple Crumb pie so will need a shopping trip. Funny as yesterday I was on Facebook and looking up MenComm Cookbooks and was contacted by someone from the cookbook as they are doing a update and they asked me some vital PaDutch questions as in do I believe in wet bottom or dry bottom shoe fly pies? Wet and gooey of course! and what did I use for the gooe as in dark Karo syrup or molasses? Well mom also used Turkey syrup which started a conversation as the person did not know about Turkey syrup. actually it is really dark thick molasses.
Wish it was ok to take pain meds as much better today!
well that is all I can remember
Oh Ducky, one other thought for your GS, when my neice Becky was in the same place as him, she got accepted everywhere (and your guy will also~~) but in the end chose U Va as it was close to DC and she was studying Public Policy so she figured to be able to meet and make good contacts there, These kids, just know all the loops really! Dad agreed to the extra big check he was so proud. You will too I am betting!
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Very Interesting Article-Warning-Pro Bacon
Yummy Brussels sprouts with bacon in Gruyere gratin recipe
I've been reading back on this thread and some other threads about what I'm calling "bacongate" haha. I don't eat a lot of bacon, but sometimes, maybe 3-4 times a year, it really hits the spot. It appears some people drilled down into the so- called "research", pointing out the increased risk if you consume nitrites (or is it nitrates?) is only 1%? And if you elect to purchase "natural" bacon, you well could wind up up with even higher levels of the bad stuff? And that there are lots of nitrates in veggies (especially celery which is what they use when they want yo say "uncured") and our own bodies produce them in vast quantities? WTF?
Anyway, I found a really interesting article, linked above, about this issue, and also, in protest of the jerking around of the consumer, a delicious looking recipe for Brussels sprouts with bacon in a Gruyere gratin. I think it's pretty obvious I will die of a heart attack first if I make this for Thanksgiving. But I might be stopping off in heaven first. Just needed to share.
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Crazy question...is there anyone besides myself who does not get hair under their arms anymore. I'm not complaining, but I have had no growth in years.
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Shorfi, I have no hair under my arms and little on my legs. Actually I sort of thought it was an inherited trait as I remember my grandma did not have hair on her legs and I was so jealous as my legs were hugely hairy. Not sure when it disappeared though!
back from chiro, I promised not to over do the walking as we agreed that 2 hours on this past weekend was something I was not up to! OK so made my next apt for 3 weeks so I need to be good to not get all messed up again
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Shorfi.. Hmmm..I think it's common for us ladies to stop growing underarm hair as well age, and it grows on our chins instead. 😱
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o yes, the dreaded chin hair, how well do I know about that!
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Proud...yes, do take it easy and not overdo it.
Lucy...I was never a hairy person, never had to shave my legs either. But I always had a lot of hair on my head. I am 61....never thought it had anything to do with age. Not even a hair on my chin, My son who is 29 has never shaved...and wants too...crazy just like his mother.
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Rainny- I just received the Ruth Reichl book you recommended, My Kitchen Year, 136 Recipes That Saved My Life. I've already teared up twice in the prologue.
The first time it happened when I read "And I still believe, to the core of my being, that when you pay attention, cooking becomes a kind of meditation."
My mind went straight to SpecialK and Italychick, who have encouraged me to be present. In their words, "to feel the dishwater". And that took me to a particular place where deep friendships were forged in a time oftrauma. I will never forget how these two ladies have altered my life.
Only a page later, this:
"My kitchen year started in a time of trouble, but it taught me a great deal. When I went back to cooking I rediscovered simple pleasures, and as I began to appreciate the world around me, I learned that the secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things."
Wow. Thank you Rainny. Returning to cooking and harvesting vegetables has been a bit of a watershed for me too. To be able to share that love here, with other Crazies like me, and have a kitchen year of a sort myself, has been a tremendous gift. And I am grateful.
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if I didn't shave and pluck everything, I would be a gorilla. All hair pretty much disappeared during chemo but came back with a vengeance. On the positive side, my head hair is super thick, and so far, not that curly, just some natural wave. So if I have to pluck and shave in order to have my head hair grow back, I will put up with it
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LOL.......tad of hair under one arm................none on the radiated side........never had a lot of hair anyway.;..how ever funny "chin hair story"...
I going to the shore with my son.......he was driving..........I was the passanger.......we're going along taking in the (traffic scenery) and having a nice conversation about all the "ills in the world" when out of a clear blue sky he reaches over with his right hand..............and "plucks a friggin hair from my chin"...............I said "WTH's wrong with you, are you goofy"..................he laughs his ass off and says "MOM THAT FRIGGIN HAIR HAS BEEN DRIVING ME NUTS .....STICKING OUT OF YOUR CHIN .....SINCE YOU GOT IN THE CAR AND THE SUN HIT YOUR FACE". HAD TO TAKE CARE OF IT MOM.......SORRY !!!!!!! AND THEN LAUGHED HIS ASS OFF........
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Ducky.
BaHaHa.. I love the story about your son, and the hair on your chinny chin chin.:-).. Especially the part about having a nice conversation about all the "ills in the world " ( as one does)!! 😃
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Hi Everybody!
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Hi Everyone. Just checking in.
Well, I was getting excited about my upcoming trip to Paris with my middle son. These attacks are horrible. So sad. Praying for the people in Paris.
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Ducky, LOL about the chin hair!
Poppy, I just saw the headline on a TV at the shopping center. So scary. My nephew was just there a few weeks ago. I can't imagine being a Parisian, and worrying about the safety of your family now and in the future.
Tomboy, I saw some Shopkins at a toy store and thought of you.
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I haven't forgotten about you all. My DD is here until Sunday and she is keeping me busy! I wish I could keep up with her better.
Just doing a drive by to let you all know you're in my thoughts.
Katy, Thank you for the info on Tutti and Jack! Very helpful. Beautiful pictures of them both.
Hope to be back later to catch up. I miss the crazies!!
Love to all!
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Go to bed, NOW!!! hee hee hee ! She will be FULL of energy!!
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Morning Crazies
I know it's quieter here on the weekends and I don't know how yesterday slipped by without a CT check in. I skimmed through and read about the body and chin hair and more acceptance letters for Ducky's grandson and kicking a lousy ex to the curb and the story of Jack and Tutti. And yay Rainny for getting to the end of the insurance tunnel. Sorry for a brief mash up recap- CT IS a major touch stone for me everyday ( sometimes several) but I can't always be as comprehensive with posting.
Sula good to hear from you and maybe after turkey day we can look into a group skype thing
Octo I have to read back a bit more to see where you talked about 'roid rage..... sounds unpleasant.
Slow have a great weekend with your family.
Talked to my ex yesterday, who lives/works in Paris ( where I was supposed to move to 4 years ago). What has become of the human race? On that note I also received this book yesterday and it is my offering that everyone check it out..... the timing with yesterday's events is bittersweet. It's called 'The Smell of Rain on Dust' by Martin Prechtel. It is luminous.
I'm going to read back a bit more and post more in depth later. Love all you crazies!
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Katy that IS a great blog post BTW. I have always liked Ruhlman's writing.
Like I've said before, one of the biggest things I have always endeavored to share with clients, is the importance of developing one's OWN relationship with food.
OK loves back to broth making. more later
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Hi Crazies,
Also driving by--trying not to tangle my bumper with Gaia's.
Katy, so glad you're enjoying the Ruth Reichl book. She does have a gift of writing from the heart, reminds me so much of Laurie Colwin. The beginning of the book is much the strongest, though I found more recipes I wanted to try toward the end. She's not about the diet food, is she? If you haven't read her memoirs, they are lovely.
Shorfi, that's terrible that you can't retire because of the insurance. But I'll stop the insurance ranting because I have done enough of it this week.
Beppy, enjoy your DD!
Proud, I love your vocabulary: Boondoggle!
Sula, I saw the Henry V movie with Branagh and Thompson. Back when I had two breasts as well. DH actually has it on...VHS!
This morning, I had a small mitzvah in the form of a $20 bill blowing down the sidewalk as I was heading to the greenmarket. I decided it was a sign, and loaded up on leeks and potatoes for soup, pears and arugula (salad), lacinato kale, and a stalk of brussels sprouts. I also bought--with the funds already in my wallet, the attached bag of garlic for $12.
And that, crazies, is my food porn contribution for the morning! What should I do with it?
p.s. spellcheck thinks "lacinato" is actually "laminate." Huh.
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love that spell check has such a limited vocabulary~well morning all.
did some gym time and now a nap, course I do have stuff to do including some shopping at the veggie market. Wonder if tomorrow will be better or worse? course I tried to get money from cash machine and the dang machine closest to me is busted for the second day in a row! I know there are other places to get money from my account but I am crankie about it!
oh gee, you found brussell sprouts on the stalk? means I need to hit my fav market for some , love them
got a statement from the medicare folks, the normal ones but it seems they are denying some of my PT sessions, it may be a billing error but then again it may mean I went over my allowed sessions, Monday will mean I can and start the checking on stuff. Hate that all.
being a baby on my back so off now
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Morning Crazies!
Thanks for the kind words on anger, and the lull before rads. I have a weird little thing and am wondering if anyone else has had this. My port was removed three weeks ago, and the incision was closed with steri-strips. Those have since fallen off, but now there is a knot of thread, and a tail hanging out of the incision. I'm assuming it's from a stitch, but no one said anything to me about stitches, and of course, it's the weekend, so no one to call. I'm a little leery of cutting it - because who knows what's in there??
Wishing everyone a lovely Saturday.
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Good morning crazies....this will be short: I've had a long week between ending chemo and a lot to do at work, and this last chemo round hit me a bit harder than the others. Mostly, I've had more nausea than any prior round (honestly, my nausea has been minimal to non existent until this last round). So, after the steroids were done (no big rage thing there, I was just talking trash mostly, but I really am glad to be off the steroids now!), I've turned back to mj as the drug of choice for nausea. It does the trick, and I feel that it is healing, but I also don't feel like doing much of anything when I take it except sitting around and resting and contemplating the garden :-) The good news: now that the work week is done, I have two days where I can take it during the day without worrying that I won't be able to do what I need to do (this was one of those weeks at work where I really needed to 'be there'. I was. Barely.)
On top of everything else, my taste buds are TOTALLY off yesterday and today, and nothing tastes good, well, except ice cream. Even mashed potatoes and gravy last night weren't good at all, and they've been a 'go-to' for me. Coffee is completely disgusting (sigh. I drink it anyway since I am a caffeine addict, but I am cutting back), most meat is just not palatable, and I can't taste salt at all, bread is completely unappealing....so here I am, slightly stoned all the time, and hungry, and nothing tastes good but ice cream! Guess whose hubby is doing a serious ice cream run to the store this am? :-)
Oh well. It is Saturday, it is a cool day with a storm coming in tonight (more rain, yay), and I can sit in front of the fire and rest, or lie on the couch and rest. and eat ice cream. and try and avoid the news online and in the paper, which is not helping my mood.
I just need a day or two to heal. now and then, I get up and read what you are up to. It is a tremendous comfort to know you are there and to know that I am allowed to rant a bit. I am thinking of you all.
Peace, love and hugs;
Octogirl
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octo, sorry for the side effects of this round of chemo, maybe resting is the best for you at this time, hey ice cream is always a treat for me
headed out and got some nice brussel sprouts, almost bought the little sprout tops they sell. sort of cute but the farmer knows they will not be mature this year so sort of fun to buy
vegie right now
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Freaked out a bit last night as I undressed for bed. Removed my bra and noticed, on my non-cancerous (for now?) left breast a tiny flat cafe-au-lait colored spot about an inch lateral to the nipple that looked as if I'd spilled liquid foundation or sauce on my breast (and more than once that's happened when eating something with sauce while wearing a deep-cut neckline--but on my cleavage, not what the bra covers). I wet a washcloth and rubbed, but it didn't budge. It's about 1/8" in diameter, tan, roundish with a slightly raised rim but uniformly pale tan in color. It wasn't there before, at least not that I'd noticed. (RO team didn't either, or they would have said something--they see both breasts every day and my RO himself examined me Wed.). It also lies atop a blue vein. DH says it's probably just a wart or seborrheic keratosis and I shouldn't worry, just keep an eye on it and if it grows arrange a derm consult.
However, I worry if it has anything to do with rads. Although only my right breast is being irradiated (and only the tumor cavity at that), when I lie on the table both breasts are exposed--there are “x"es on the lower lateral sides of each breast, presumably to line up the green laser beams to orient the position of the linear accelerator. The accelerator head never goes past the midline, only from the right, Is there any possibility that one of the beams might have penetrated through the right breast and glanced off that spot on the left, or bounced? Or am I just being paranoid since one or more seborrheic keratoses are common in most people my age? That part of my breast has NEVER, ever seen sunlight, not even in my younger days when I was able to wear a string bikini. (Makes me worry about melanoma, because melanomas often show up on non-sun-exposed surfaces in people who've had severe sunburns in the past--as I had. But it's very pale tan like caramel ice cream, symmetrical, mostly flat and even in color).
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