CRAZY TOWN WAITING ROOM - TESTS coming up? All Stages Welcome.
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Can I shoot anyone who says they love winter..............or is that a terroristic threat.........
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ROFL Ducky... You better take aim now...I moved to AZ from CT so I could say that! Love the lottery tix idea!
Congrats to all the successful treatments and surgeries!
Joining the pocket parties. I am the one in the lint corner...
Beautiful fur baby. Lost 2 to cancer since my DX. A 3 year old lab and a 7 year old lab. Lost them a year apart. Cancer sucks ass. I understand wanting to fill the void, I have an 18 month old lab to assist with that.
Meeting my "crazy" doctor tomorrow. Hope it goes well.
Hoping that those who are unable to check in are finding answers and seeing things move on a better direction.
Since someone mentioned upscale chocolate shop... That is where I meet one of my chemosisters from here at BCO! This is the shoe she purchased there.
Love you all!
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Notagain- Emma was indeed lovely and I can't imagine the pain of losing her at such a time. I feel sure the right new love is out there and will present him or herself to you when the time is right. Glad the healing (on both counts) is happening.
I have traded a few texts with our mayor, who is abiding by her DH's wishes and staying off the computer. But I have passed along the good wishes and love you good women have showered on her in her absence. She truly appreciates it. She is still waiting for some tests and conclusions to be drawn, but generally, I think, is feeling a bit better.
She wanted me to say how grateful she is (and I, and I reckon ALL of us) to QMC for stepping in with such a deft hand and gift for words and caring. And she thanks you all for continuing to send good thoughts and prayers her way.
(((Shorfi))) any good? Hoping you're feeling good.
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Robin- we X posted. So sorry for your fur baby losses too.
Is that a chocolate shoe? Decadent. Would they make a pair of strappy gold ones for Ducky? Maybe we could use them in the upcoming hostage crisis if spring doesn't come soon in Philly!
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Thank you.
Yes, a chocolate shoe. They do make them in different colors!
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Notagain, I am sorry for your loss as well. Hugs!
Octogirl
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Katy, thanks for the update on Beppy. Wishing her good news from all her tests.
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Notagain..Sorry to hear your news about Emma 😞
7 of 9.. Thinking of you !
Cubbie.. Im happy it's summer time too.. I love the wonderful holiday feeling of it.. Even when it's stinking hot there's always airconditioning!
Ducky.. Rug up against that cold.!! Although I'm envious.. must be lovely to beable to sit there ( warm and cozy inside) and watch the snow fall..
Hugs to all xx
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I also spoke to Beppy yeterday..........I keep in touch with my adopted daughter all the time online, but spoke with her for the first time today..............the woman is a Saint...........she will be sorry I finally decided to call her...........I won't leave her alone now..........I just didn't want to bother her, and the time difference causes me to be apprehensive about will I be calling at a bad time......sleeping, eating, too early, too late........but I hit it right yesteday and so glad I did............my arthritic fingers say "thank you" to me............it's so much easier talking then typing............love the lady.
Yes I know about losing fur babies......not only my little Boston Mark, (not to be confused with my tech "Mark with the blue eyes".................he was my love.........but then we lost my daughter's Boxer and I as right there giving him CPR along with my SIL, and now poor Stella with her seizures.........but doing better..............it's a void in your heart.
Robin.........can you order me a chocolate gun......at least if I can't shoot it, I can eat it............hugs ladies.0 -
Been on a road trip, my husband's uncle is in hospice with prostate cancer. We left the day after my Rads finished and appear to have gotten here just in time. Definitely signs these are the last days, but he is still able to talk and smile and brightens up. He is 96, has 3 purple hearts, one from WWII, one from Kore and one from Vietnam -- Navy medic on the front lines with the marines. Anyhow, we brought our fat, blind, deaf, extremely overweight 13 year old Shih Tzu that came to us after his owner died of cancer last August. Not only did they let us visit Uncle George with the dog, but just about every single resident in the nursing home wanted to pet him. That dog visited with so many people yesterday he slept like an absolute log all night long -- usually he is up about 2am wanting to go out.
Today, a lady named "Lee" flagged us down. She was distressed because she didn't have a television and wanted to tell her daughter to bring her a TV. So I broke a big rule and found her daughter's number in the white pages using my smart phone and then we called and left a message (no cell phones allowed in this place). Pretty quickly her daughter called back and said she was on her way with the TV. While we waited, the woman was wondering where they would put the TV. She had a pile of teddy bears on a table and I suggested we could use that table.
"But where would be put the teddy bears?" she asked me.
I said, "How about in bed with you?"
"Oh no," she replied. "They might bite me."
I almost burst out laughing because until that moment, I thought the only reason she was there was because of her broken hip.
Another bit of humor . . . in the staff bathroom was this notice: "Remember, when you hear the page, 'Mr. Simpson, you have a call on line 9,' The health department is in the building. After they leave, you will hear, 'Mr. Simpson has a call on Line 10.' What a hoot. I wonder if they all do that?
I am so happy to be done with rads. Had a new rash break out under my breast, it's pretty fearsome. But I'm not worried about it. I did the exercise routine the LE therapist gave me two days in a row now. That is so exciting for me. I feel like I'm making positive steps toward recovery.
My sister showed me her reconstructed-after-mastectomy breast and her breast reduced to match. I tried to be enthusiastic. I wonder if doctors understand that we actually care what it looks like when we're naked? I mean, a prosthesis looks just as good under a shirt with a lot less bother... So maybe tell us on the front end "this is going to look like Dr. Frankenstein was having a bad day when we're done..." and then we can decide for ourselves if it's worth all the trouble. Well that's just my opinion on that.
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oh dear, adorable weather guy is using that nasty s word, can I punch his eyes out?
Gees but not ready for that stuff
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Notagain,
so sorry for the loss of Emma, it's so heard to go through that. Hopefully you will have another furry friend joining you soon.
Cheers to everyone having tests and surgeries, we all have such big pockets and there's always room for one more!
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Katy (and SlowDeep): (blushes with the incandescent brightness of a galactic hub) I'd have said rather that it was a group "deft hand and gift for words and caring". I would not presume to supplant our Proper Mayor....and there are many gracious, welcoming, funny ladies on this list.
Going back with a notepad in hand for better notes, but:
NotAgain: I'm so sorry for your loss. Heartbreaking at any time, but on top of (yet another) surgery? Hoping you can find room in your heart for another furchild; it would not of course replace Emma, but there are many rooms in our hearts for furchildren.
Eggroll: so glad you could make it to your uncle-in-law in time for an actual visit. (And I bet the Shih Tzu slept well.) And often a surreal moment with people such as the lady who wanted a television set. Of course the teddy bears couldn't bite her if they were way over on the table.
Robin: what was the chocolate shop where you found that shoe? I think they may need to be the official CrazyTown supplier of chocolate.
Proudtospin: no grevious bodily harm, but maybe brandishing Ducky's toy chocolate gun at the television set?
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I think I really like this place because it reminds me of another time in my life that I belonged to a town called Idiotville. We were all proud to be called idiots and my job was the 411 operator who knew nothing. You are all as fun and warm as they were.
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Seven, your puppy is so cute...look at those big eyes! I hope things went well today.
NotAgain, glad to hear your surgery went well. Emma had such a gorgeous speckled coat. You must miss her a lot.
Robin, I can't believe that shoe is made out of chocolate - it looks so real.
Eggroll, wow, your husband's uncle was quite the war hero! That's a long career. Why on earth is that notice in the bathroom? Do they all go hide in there when the health department shows up? I've looked at some pictures of reconstructions, and it seems like the results are all over the place. It seems like it depends on what kind of surgery you had to start with, whether you had radiation, and the skill of your surgeon. One of my co-workers just finished reconstruction, and she said her primary motivation was that her kids want to go swimming, and it's easier to wear a swimsuit this way. I can understand that, it seems like everyone I know who has a prosthesis has a funny story about losing it while swimming and either having to dive to retrieve it off the bottom of a pool, or having it float by, depending on what it is made out of.
One of my co-workers got a good report on her diagnostic mammo today, so yay for more good news!
Slow, I hope the test results are looking good.
Waving hi to all the crazies out there.
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The name of the shop is Rayner's. Here is the link
Not sure if they would make the gun, but we can say they did...
I saw pictures of recon when I first met with my BS to figure out a plan. Hated what I saw, chose no recon, very happy with my decision!
Sweet dreams crazies!
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RobinLK, I am so glad you decided to join us! Bringing us chocolate shoes like that!
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Im done and going home today! And the gyn delI've red as promise did full hysterectomy. Good riddance useful baby parts turned assassin's BEGONE between breastcancer 1x, 2x, then a suspicious tamoxifen driven fibroid and an ovarian cyst...
So thank you to everyone's thoughts payers and riders along in my pocket. ...I read your list of names in my bath robe in pre-op!
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7.......Glad it's behind you..........take it easy and let everyone take care of you........hug
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Yay for going home, and get some rest 7! Hugs!
Octogirl
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Rest and take it easy 7of9. It's not the easiest surgery to recover from. I had my BS appointment yesterday. Pointed out an area on my good breast that's tender. She looked closely and said it's bruised, lol. Great appointment with her anyway.
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7, glad to hear it all went well! Still in your pocket as you recover
notagain, so sorry for your loss! Losing a furbaby is never easy!
I can't list everyone right now, but know that I think of all of you everyday.... had #3 of 30 rads today and moving forward... seeing BS, for 7 week follow up from BMX, tomorrow. I hate feeling anxious before every single appt. Grrrr.
ducky... I'm grocery shopping today because it's my "normal" day, and glad of it... You know how crazy people get, in our neck of the woods, when they hear a storm is coming... ugh! I'm thankful it'll be the weekend though... driving into Camden for rads would be a nightmare if it was during the week... it's already a nightmare drive with all of the construction. Tralalalaa
Hugs to all of you beautiful crazy women...
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Jersey............yea it's crazy.....already they are saying maybe 14 inches......and the following Saturday we have to move the shore house........I am beside myself worrying if it will go smooth......the house was winterized which means no bathrooms, it is electric heat so we can turn that on......horrible time to be moving anything......should have done it in December, but the holidays, and had to make sure this was going to go through........if this doesn't kill me, nothing will..........haha...0
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JerseyGirl: (wryly) Anxiety before followup visits? You're hardly alone in that--isn't that one of the reasons CrazyTown was started?
As for pre-storm panic shopping, I've joked about people developing a French toast deficiency when there's a significant drop in barometric pressure. How else could I explain the shelves swept clean of bread, milk and eggs before a storm? I seem to develop split-pea soup deficiency.
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7- yay for going home! So glad it went well. Please take good care now and heal.
Jersey- I think it will be some time before I'm nerve free before any follow up. Feel free to reach into your pocket for strength.
Ducky- I can only imagine all the feelings this chore ahead of you is dredging up. It sounds a daunting task indeed. And with a storm coming and no bathroom! You are a strong woman. You will need your strength and all of ours and we will help you get through it!
And to all our nor'easters..... Be safe in that storm. It's supposed to be a big un. Enjoy your French toast and split pea soup sounds good, too!
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Thanks ladies! I hate the fact that I'm freaking out about a followup. My incisions look great, my chest feels good. No reconstruction, so it's all good... I just started wigging out! GRRRRR! Queenmomcat, I ask the same question about french toast during a storm, too! Me, I'm all about the soups and warm bread... I'm glad I crochet, I've made tons of snuggly blankets over the years and we use them all, especially when a big storm hits... I'm loading up on movies and books, too.
(((hugs))) to all of you! You really, truly bless me!
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Aly......I am not one for inconvenience......the house was not a "shore house " it was a "shore home away from home"....so no matter what you wanted or needed it was there......which mean whatever I had in my primary Pa home I had there....
Can't wait till it's over........people refer to it as a "bittersweet" time........I don't know wht is sweet about it other then I won't be paying for 2 houses to run...................the rest is very bitter.........0 -
well guess i will survive the upcoming white stuff, got to say a big thanks that have not had any so far this year
Had call yesterday from my physical therpy place, they want to know if I want to start up again with pt for dumb back, told the, i want to talk to my primary doc who I see next week. Also medicare covers only 30 visits per year so need to figure a plan now that I know this dang thing is chronic
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