CRAZY TOWN WAITING ROOM - TESTS coming up? All Stages Welcome.
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Well nothing for sure here other then "SNOW"...........first it's 6-12......then it's 12-18........then it's maybe some rain mixing in...........what Europe says..........What the US says................they do this all the time.............what did we do years ago before all this computerized bullshit.................I call it "covering their asses"for all the money they get paid on TV to cause everyone to panic, and clean out the supermarkets of milk, eggs, bread..........0 -
7 of 9.. Thinking of you!
Katy.. I just LOVE French Toast.. and Sizzles Cheese Bread.. Think I might go make some now! :-)
Ducky.. They do that here with storm forecasts.. Usually ends up being a fizzer after the big build up..
Love to all.
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Great they just confirmed 12-18.........40/60 MPH winds............wonderful........but I heard D.C. Va. Might get 2 ft or more..................GREAT............
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ducky, isn't it crazy around here? All of these meteorologists jumping through hoops over this storm... I hate this! I remember, as a kid hearing. "possible snow storm tonight or tomorrow" that meant we still got up for school, got ready, and waited by the radio to hear our school closing number... last year they closed schools the night before due to possible storms and none of them panned out... ugh, I'll get my rads in tomorrow and Friday and already have all my groceries... crock pot is ready to go. Second crock pot ready, maybe some homemade snacks for the kiddos in the making, and plenty of movies and books, just in case... and that's my normal weekend...
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Hi crazies--
Ducking in....
NotAgain, so very sorry about the loss of Emma. Sounds like a sweetheart.
7, glad all went well and as you had wished!
Robin, I think we east coasters need chocolate in the shape of a snow shovel!
Katy, thanks for the update on our mayoress, whom we love, miss, and wish only the best for.
Eggroll, great story. Congratulations on being done with rads!
Tomboy, what a beautiful, serene picture. Glad to see you.
Molly, I think I may have been (or possibly make that present tense) a citizen of idiotville. It just sounds so inevitable, ya know?
Jersey, Proud, Ducky, Shorfi, Pennsylgal, and other east coast gals: maybe we could hole up somewhere and let QMC send us French Toast through the tubes?
Or we could climb through the tubes and join Lucy on a beach somewhere down under. I'd help look after the grandkids.
Had breakfast with a few moms of gangling 11th graders who used to be little and cute (Well, they're still cute, but...). Observation: all the girls seem to be going vegetarian or even vegan, and the boys are fierce carnivores. Go figure.
Have a lovely evening!
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Sounds good, Jersey.
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Rainny: party in the CrazyTown bed and breakfast with me as French Toast Supplier? You're on. Real butter only, whole milk, challah bread. Maybe a little rum/cinnamon reduction. But somebody else washes up, and I'm bringing Michigan maple syrup.
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"Maybe a little rum/cinnamon reduction...."
That sound you heard was me moaning softly. Bring it on!
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Queenmomcat, I'm heading right over!!!! That reduction sounds divine!
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Jersey..........I"ll pick you up.............maybe we can get Shorfi, Blondie, and some of the other East Coast ladies
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Rum run underway. I'm gonna need a lot, judging by the distant thunder of approaching CrazyTowners.
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Ok, ducky, I'll be waiting at the end of the driveway! Ha!
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I can wash the dishes! Professional at this point in life.
Funny the things you can find on the net.
For you East Coast girls from a former East Coast girl. http://www.lenlibby.com/Chocolate-Snow-Shovel_p_24...
Ducky here is a replacement since your was "borrowed!"
https://www.etsy.com/listing/94631619/large-chocol...
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Whoa--took a couple of days off from CT (or the “Active Topics" link kept it buried) and found myself FIVE pages behind! Notagain, so sorry about Emma--it never gets easy, We lost our kitty Matthew a year ago this week at 19-1/2, but furbabies are your babies forever. Katy, congrats on becoming eagle-eyed again (I chickened out on cataract surgery when I decided I'd had enough surgical adventures for awhile this past year). Keeping all of you awaiting surgery, procedures or results in my pocket!
We dodged a huge bullet here on the north lakefront--though we were Chiberia again for a few days (below 0 when I left yesterday morning for my PT session), we got only an inch of snow overnight and aren't expected to get more till Monday. My sis is in Arlington, VA, in a hollow (you can't say “holler" about an upscale suburb) at the bottom of a hill, and she's a substitute teacher who doesn't know until a few hrs. in advance whether & where she'll be working. With 2 ft. possible, I sense a little cabin fever coming on. My niece is safely back in school (jr. yr. at Case Western/Cle. Inst. of Art) in Cleveland--probably one of the few times she's been happy to be in Cleveland. But my co-writing pal in Roanoke is expecting 28 inches!
JerseyGirl2, we had a little taste of down the shore last night--went to see The Boss at the United Center. He played 3-1/2 hrs. straight through (all of “The River" plus his other hits and a solo acoustic “Take it Easy" for Glenn Frey--the night before he'd done “Rebel, Rebel" for Bowie), without the pretense of going offstage and returning for encores. No intermission, either. At nearly 65 (as of this coming Sat.) I was by no means the oldest in the audience--more like part of the primary demographic (Gordy, 31, who attended his first Springsteen concert in utero, knew more of the lyrics than I did, and even pointed out that the set list order varied slightly from the song order on the album). We were in the nosebleed tier, but in the second row behind the railing--and the people in front of us were a bit older than me. So I started to rejoice that I could see without having to stand up. But I began to get restless (duh, it was a Springsteen concert). Gordy & I kept looking behind us, hoping someone would stand up. Then came the intro to “Hungry Heart." and by reflex we both leapt to our feet. Looked behind us, and the guy in the couple sitting right behind shrugged his shoulders and stood. The row in front of us turned around, smiled in relief and stood too. Even the octogenarian sitting next to me (accompanied by her fiftysomething daughter) flipped up her seat and sat on what was now the top edge. (Yes, she knew the words). I have it on good authority that by order of Gov. Christie, it is illegal in NJ to stay seated and silent during “Hungry Heart," violation punishable by being placed in a taxi, meter ticking, in a blocked Ft. Lee on-ramp to the GWB. The show ended with the old soul chestnut “Shout" (impossible not to do the dance routine to it). By the time the house lights finally came back up (at 11:20 pm), I felt as happily exhausted as I used to feel after playing bass and singing for a couple of sets with my old rock band--except this time I didn't have to tear down & load the van. Probably the best Springsteen show I've seen in a long, long time--though I could still see the ghosts of the Big Man and Phantom Dan up there.
As to Rick Springfield, never saw him play live--though I had a (post-grad-schoolgirl) crush on him back when he was on “General Hospital." I did catch “Ricki & the Flash" on the flight to Rome. (No, Bruce didn't do “My Love Will Not Let You Down" last night, but I'm not complaining).
I've started PT twice weekly to try to nip in the bud some symptoms of early LE (though the therapist & specialist will still not officially diagnose it, that's what went on my chart so Medicare would cover it and my supplement cover part of the glove I've been prescribed in lieu of my gauntlet). My therapist is especially focusing on trying to encourage my breast seroma to start draining into the lymphatics--the fibrosis caused by rads has caused it to grow so much that I had to reorder all my bras in 40 I to avoid constriction-congestion. (At last, my cleavage is vertical and nearly centered again)! This past weekend was a bear--couldn't see or feel cording per se, but I couldn't bend my wrist w/o feeling like there was a too-short wire inside it; and it seemed every little blob of cellulite was exquisitely tender. Ugh. Practicing MLD, which is tough because I can't completely reach around & under my breast due to its sheer size. And yesterday, I finally was prescribed stretching exercises, as well as gentle & gradual weight training (starting with one-pounders---I was using 10-lb. weights when I was in OT for my second knee replacement) and 30 min./day of guitar practice.
Going on 3 wks on letrozole now--so far, so good. No extra joint pain, hair not thinning, night sweats subsided. Had to start ratcheting down the carbs again--my goal now is to hold the line on my weight, rather than lose.
Got some news today nobody wants to hear: one of my dearest friends, who was inspired after seeing me at a mutual friend's pre-T'giving brunch, got her biopsy results--she has DCIS. I consoled her that it's still confined to the duct. She doesn't know the hormone status yet, but a preliminary scan of the nodes found nothing (of course, one can't be sure until at after at least a SNB). Because she'll be having surgery at the hospital where Bob (who is also her PCP) is on staff--an hour north of her home down in the SW exurbs--I'll probably drive down the night before to stay with her, drive her to surgery & back, make sure she's okay overnight and coordinate with her neighbors (who've been close friends of hers since they all lived in the same NW Side Chicago neighborhood) for further support. She is fully retired, so she can devote all her energies to recovering.
But my other friend who'd had a disastrous cascade of ailments (COPD, hip fx) has just been discharged from hospice into regular assisted living--her cognition is back to normal and she's being slowly transitioning from a wheelchair to a scooter (no, not a Razor).
Tomorrow--or even later tonight, we'll virtually escape winter again: we can use a little online trip to southern Spain....
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Chisandy:
Yes, you have to dance at the Boss's concerts.
I can well imagine you're having difficulty reaching around to do MLD. Keep us posted on how the stretching/weights and LE issues are going?
My sympathies to your friend who's just been (tentatively) diagnosed with DCIS. Not the most intrusive form of cancer, but shocking to hear the words. I'll [insert appropriate verb here] that the oncologists find no invasive component--did they indicate they wanted to do a SLB? (Mine didn't.)
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snow!? What snow? What was in that gas they gave me at surgery yesterday. ...did I really hold up the operation until they brought the second surgeon in so I could tell her to get her orders strait...she was taking my uterus or I'd wake up pissed? I had axillary lymph node removal (I have no idea how many...did the doctor say she didn't count. .."lots" is that a medical terminology? I think despite my grandstand at the 11th hour, the gyn did a beautiful laprascopic procedure...26 hours and I was home marveling at her work....no lamentations for ovaries. ..nothing.. but this pain in the area leaky drain under my armpit. The percocet or oxy whatever this stuff is working great however the ambien is not working at all. What the hell just happened to me in the last 36 hours was surreal.
I think I will go watch my six year old sleep or try to read one of those airport romance novels.reality overload. Every single prayer and pocket freeloader...you did it.by the grace of God and you wonderful, courageous and the only people who understand this screwed up reality...from the bottom of my heart thank you.
May you each be blessed with as many good days as we can find, make, steal and run with...
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7.......LOL .......you sound good...........hate the drains........now talk about snow.............12-18 here in the Philly suburbs................I hate this shit.............people who love winter are nuts.............I hate it.
Well you take care........try to get some sleep............and hope we weren't too noisy in your pocket...........Its those California chicks.......their a rowdy bunch...............hugs.0 -
Seven, you are back home already after all that? Wow, I thought the GYN surgery would have you staying longer. Amazing, glad you are doing so well, drain and Ambien aside. Yes, go watch your kiddo sleep.
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You are a brave woman, 7of9!
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Brava, 7! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Sorry, I've been MIA. I'm in the hole again...and stuck. Had a horrible day of intense pain yesterday evening. I goggled if this was normal after a transforminal injection and it seems to be that pain is normal after the injection and relief should be had in a couple of weeks. This morning, I feel pretty good though...Have read all the horror stories of back surgery and I just don't know what to do. The hubs said we will see the neurosurgeon and weigh the options. I'm just not ready to commit to anything drastic...but oh boy....do I want to be done with this crap. Sorry...I needed to vent.
Ducky...I guess we will get all this snow they are forecasting. I am so over it. I find nothing exciting about snow and didn't even like it as a child.
I'm trying not to be so self-absorbed...but I am mentally worn out. Sorry...I digress....
7...Glad you are home recuperating....
Eggroll...Congrats on being done with rads!!!
Jersey...French toasts with gobs of butter and strawberries on the side...yummy...
Katy...Hello my friend...
Ladies thanks for being in my pocket this past Friday. Now only if you can help pull this body out of the hole...smh.
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ok, crazies... here I go... Anyone have pressure/ache on the opposite side of their chest after radiation... I'm having rads to right side, woke this morning with pressure feeling on my left breast side. I didn't have recon, so I don't know if it's just from sleeping heavy on that side last night, or from rads.. I have a different appt time today, since I have a follow up with the breast surgeon... hate worrying about every little thing... heading to the cafe before heading out to appts. I need that Ativan sprinkled latte...
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Hi Jersey, I had radiation on both sides, but as rads went on, I definitely found myself sleeping in different positions than my usual. That might be it, but definitely ask the doc. I guarantee that whatever the question, they've heard it before!
Shorfi, intense pain? That's no good. Sounds as if hubby has the right idea. Hope you get some lasting relief.
7of9, you are so entitled to read airport romance novels! And--always--to watch your kid sleep.
Bright morning sunshine's hitting my computer screen (and highlighting the dust, sigh). Hard to believe there's a major winter storm coming just tomorrow. But I'm glad we've got the french toast supply chain up and running. Whew!
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Morning crazies....worst night of sleep since starting Arimidex...though maybe it is just the disaster zone that is work these days. A colleague has been (verbally) abusive to a member of my staff and I am having to try and head it off and deal with the aftermath. I hate bullies!
Hubby and I are taking off for the weekend to a cute little cabin in the woods in gold rush country. Too bad it is supposed to rain all weekend....cabin is just a bit too low in elevation for snow to hit this weekend though it does sometimes get snow. We will take the snowshoes and head up the road from there Saturday to try them out. I love snow. Then again, I don't have to live in it and deal with it all winter....hubby, who grew up in Central PA and lived in it, is not as fond as I am. Regardless, we are both content to sit by a fire this weekend, read, visit antique stores (searching for the perfect bedroom lamps for reading in bed, and perhaps earrings for me), and chill....
7, so glad you are home and get lots of rest.
Shorfi, hope you find relief soon.
Robin, I nominate you to be CrazyTown Chocolatier!
Queen, I was gifted some maple syrup during the holidays...will bring it along for comparison taste testing!
Rain, stay warm and safe!!
Waving at you Tomboy, and at all the quiet crazies.
Love and hugs to all.
Octogirl
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Forgot to mention: Monday I have an apt with my opthamologist, at a big teaching hospital up the road a few hours...this is just a routine followup apt., delayed and postponed several times because of bc, to be sure that my eyesight hasn't gotten worse, about a year now since I was diagnosed with an untreatable and non-correctable retinal injury that led to partial blindness in one eye. BC sort of kicked my sadness over losing some of my vision to the curb (talk about a bully: bc is one, and sort of took over my life!), but it is time to be sure it isn't getting worse. I doubt if it is, but eye doc and I do have to have the 'when will it be time for cataract surgery?' conversation. I have them, and I am fairly sure they are worse post chemo, but doc may want to postpone surgery on 'good' eye as long as possible given that I only have one good one...Anyway, a fairly routine apt and I love my eye doc, but seeing well is important to my QOL, so I'd appreciate having some of you in my pocket. even the rowdy California girls. :-) Besides, I've always hated having my eyes dilated, and some of the tests are tedious at best...
Hugs!
Octogirl
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Octo.............If you have not already..............try taking your Arimidex t night.....................I found Arimidex to be a tough drug..............I took Letrozole (Femara)............that was bad enough, and stopped after 4 years but when I tried Arimidex for only 1 month after stopping the Letrozole to make certain I gave myself every chance to stay on an AI...............I found it to be much worse.................
Just give it a "nightime try".......you can always go back to "daytime" if it doesn't change anything.....hugs..............what was your problem if you don't mind me asking
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ducky...I am going to try at night, but honestly I am not sure if it was the drug or just that I have a lot of work crud on my mind...
the retinal problem, assuming that is the problem you are referring to, is that I hit my head and the retina rods and cones stopped firing correctly on that side. Unfortunately, it took months before anyone (including me) made a connection between the minor fall where I hit my head (I don't even remember hitting it when I fell, but I must have) and the injury and subsequent vision issues. This was even though I had told docs about the fall. but, it just wasn't serious or traumatic enough to be the suspect (I fell in the garage, and believe I 'clipped' the side of my head on my car rear view mirror as I fell, though I have no recollection of having done so and there were no bruises), until every other suspected cause was eliminated...I guess I hit it in just the wrong place or at just the wrong angle. :-(
Or maybe you meant the work problem. That was just someone being a huge jerk. Too many of those in the world!
Hugs
Octogirl
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Octogirl in your pocket for your eye appointment. Life sure does hand us challenges. I second the idea of anastrozole at night. It works great for me. Shorfi, back pain can make you crazy. I'm praying you won't need surgery though they have made great progress in the methods of back surgery. I am caught in the quagmire of my depression right now. Trying to step outside of myself but it's exhausting feeling this way.
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Does it ever end.......my son stopped over on his way back to the office.........saw my extension cord coming out from the sink cabinet......asked "why"..told him in the cold weather there is a heat tape on the pipe under the sink, just as a precaution ........(have one down the shore too in the winter).........he opened the door and said "whew Mom it is cold under there......then he said "mom don't you hear that"...........said NO.......(hearing problems............
Water meter was leaking which is right there ......can anything else happen...........they can take 2016 and shove it up a fat lady's ass.......It's only January, and I'm tired of the bullshit already......tumbler in the car won't turn with the key.....part ordered has not come in yet...........can't go anywhere just in case once I take the key out and put it back, it won't turn............I swear there is some f/n dark cloud over my head and I can't get out from under it....................
In addition to 12-18 inches of snow, and now hey said. "Blizzard warning"........WTF........and next weekend we have to move the shore out for good...............can I run away, and never come back??????????
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Shorfi- 🙋 And hugs to you. So sorry you haven't so far gotten the relief you hoped for. Sounds very frustrating. Sending mojo. And hugs. A bottomless bucket. Just reach in whenever you need one. 💗
Octo-🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙 so sorry you are overwhelmed by this triple threat combo of issues. I'm glad you like your eye doc, it's such a complicated thing and so good to have confidence. You are right, BC is a bully. I hate bullies too. Sending calming hugs to you and hoping you can take full advantage if a quaint cabin, a nice fire, and some retail therapy in such a beautiful environment.
Ducky- I'm so sorry that black cloud is hanging around over your head. The weather just makes it worse, and the whole shore house move is a shit storm on your horizon. I wish I could make it better for you somehow.
Jersey- I am waiting for that day when I don't wake up with that worry in the pit of my stomach. I'm told it eventually gets better.....hoping.....
Molly- I'm so sorry you're in the quagmire. Unfortunately I am well acquainted with it myself. Try to hang on for us. You are a wonderful addition to our group. Sometimes I find that acting "as if" I'm not down helps. I make myself go out if I can manage and force myself to smile at people. Some of them smile back and I start to realize some of the heaviness is lifting. Right now I'm staying barely ahead of the beast. I find myself "checking in" on my quagmire meter, grateful I'm on dry ground for the moment. See if you can crawl up here and sit with me today, ok?
I texted with Mayor Beppy last night. She has an MRI scheduled for tomorrow. She is nervous, but anxious now for answers and some resolution. She expressed how much she misses everyone, appreciates the support and being remembered in so many posts (she's not logging in, but I tell her) and how much she is looking forward to our excellently crazy new residents.
Waving to all - hugs and sincere appreciation all around. I don't know how I'd get through any single day without all of you.
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