CRAZY TOWN WAITING ROOM - TESTS coming up? All Stages Welcome.
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Molly...I can't even imagine what you are going through...but praying that your son is comfortable and pain-free right now.
Mommy...So happy to hear your good news. Such a relief getting that port out!!
Ducky...Your grandchildren are beautiful!!!
Sula...Waving hi to you and glad to see you back.
Tomboy...Hi.
Katy...Hoping you are fast asleep.
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Gma,
Love the 4 rail quilt. My go to pattern using precuts. I recently purchased a strip ruler from Creative Grids. Makes cutting strips so much easier AND they all end up being the same width. LOL I'm rotary cutting challenged!
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Quilt made for DD just before I got sick last month. Hope everyone has a LUCKY day today. Jan
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So adorable Jan. I inherited from my mother the desire, but not quite the cachet for holiday decorating. Here is my spring display. It cheers me up.
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katy , i love your desplay, me no fancy displays, all is same
Wrenched my arm shoulder last night but hey, chiro has my back feeling better
Think I need new parts
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Hey Katy...I'm loving your display and especially that yarn in the basket. I am an amateur knitter and that color is beautiful. It would make a lovely scarf
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So much fun with my little man today...............loves the IPad........
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GMA and Jan.. I love your quilts !! Clever girls.!! :-)
(( Molly)) Glad Wyatt has improved !!
Ducky.. Wonderful photos of your grand- babies, and I love your son's house.!!
Mommy.. Yay.!! Wonderful news :-)
Katy.. I just LOVE your photo.. Such fun :-)
Poppy.. So sorry..FU cancer !!
(( Twinnie...))
Hi to everyone.!
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Mommy, You will feel so much better once you are "deported". It made me feel almost human again.
Iris, Hope you feel better soon.
Katy, Your spring display is lovely... right up my alley. You nailed it. Those chemo sisters went through hell with us.
Thanks, Ducky. I don't think we will ever get this house completely fixed up. Once the kids start to move out, we will sell it because it's too much upkeep for just the two of us.
Lucy, Gma, Shorfi, always good to see you.
I can't sew or quilt. My MiL tried to teach me to sew and.... let's just say she is not a born teacher. So we stopped.
Still cleaning up from the girlie party we through this past weekend. Sigh. Our blind dog walked right into the pool yesterday. Silly boy. My son jumped in after the dog and swam him to shore so to speak. Our husky didn't want to be left out, so he went in, too. It's tennis season, so my middle son is busy with the high school team. One of his friends has been sleeping over the last few nights. This kid is here so often, I'm going to assign him chores. Well, off to drive carpool!
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had a craving for spaghetti bolognese. Couldn't find my old recipe so i winged it.
Not bad!
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Katy - Oh yum! Does that ever look good! Love your egg display. What a nice way to remember your mom when you change out the seasons. I found the carrot quilt idea on pinterest. I think if you go to pinterest and search "carrot table runner" you'd see what I'm thinking of doing. My energy is still lagging, so things are not getting done as quickly as I'd like. I hope you are able to stay high and dry from your drowning rains.
Lucy - Thanks. Quilting has kept me sane (or somewhat sane). Actually it's an addiction, so maybe it's a sickness. My DH buy lumber, I buy fabric.
Ducky - Love those little people. I can just imagine what fun it is to have them around.
Molly - Thinking of you an Wyatt.
Beppy - Hugs and optimism while you face all your appointments and tests. Can hardly wait for the 26th.
With the arrival spring, I hope we all can find a fresh new beauty in our lives. Daffodils, tulips, bunnies, hair growth, and no pain or progression. Hugs to treehouse dwellers and those circling the outskirts of Crazytown and everyone in between. Jan
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Bob just called--his car has two broken wheel stabilizers and won’t be ready till at least 8 pm...down in Oak Lawn. No way he can make the St. Patrick’s Day party before the restaurant closes. So at first he asked me to order him some shepherd’s pie to go, but then decided he could read echoes and EKGs early tomorrow morning at Advocate Christ if he stayed over in Oak Lawn tonight, so I’m going to the party by myself. Good thing I’m friends with the owners, otherwise I’d just sit home & sulk (and probably cook stuff I shouldn’t). So I will eat corned beef and a double portion of cabbage instead of the boiled spuds.
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so many of my dearies, here in CT and elsewhere, have big days tomorrow.
Beppy, holding you close.
I just Skyped with Gaia, who sends her love. She's finished 4/5 stereotactic rads on her spine Mets and is doing well. She shared a portion of the following with me and it was so beautiful I wanted to share it. It's Rilke's "All For The Sake Of A Poem"
For the sake of a single poem, you must see many cities, many people and Things, you must understand animals, must feel how birds fly, and know the gesture which small flowers make when they open in the morning.
You must be able to think back to streets in unknown neighborhoods, to unexpected encounters, and to partings you had long seen coming; to days of childhood whose mystery is still unexplained, to parents whom you had to hurt when they brought in a joy and you didn't pick it up (it was a joy meant for somebody else); to childhood illnesses that began so strangely with so many profound and difficult transformations, to days in quiet restrained rooms and to mornings by the sea, to the sea itself, to seas, but it is still not enough to be able to think of all that.You must have memories of many nights of love, each one different from all the others, memories of women screaming in labor, and of light, pale, sleeping girls who have just given birth and are closing again. But you must also have been beside the dying, must have sat beside the dead in the room with the open windows and the scattered noises.And it is not yet enough to have memories. You must be able to forget them when they are many, and you must have the immense patience to wait until they return. For the memories themselves are not important. Only when they have changed into our very blood, into glance and gesture, and are nameless, no longer to be distinguished from ourselves only then can it happen that in some very rare hour the first word of a poem arises in their midst and goes forth from them.
good night Crazies! A good rest to all tonight!
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Katy, thank you for passing along the news about Gaia. I'm glad to hear she's doing well and I hope she'll be back in when she's up to it. Your spaghetti bolognese looks good! And Sandy, I hope the corned beef and cabbage was as good as it sounds. I haven't had anything yet today but some Sprite and tortilla chips. Maybe when I get off work I can finally get something to eat.
Poppy, I like your idea of assigning your perpetual houseguest some chores! I'm glad your dog is OK.
Iris, ouch! I hope your arm and shoulder feel better soon.
Things have been crazy and I've been crazy. Hope this anxiety medication kicks in soon.
Hugs to Beppy...and waving hi to everyone else.
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Good evening Crazies!
sadly, I've had a hell of a week. My work is very deadline driven, and these are hard deadlines....if they are missed it can be bad. So, I've been working late every night and barely have time to eat dinner (that pasta sure looks good Katy!). This is the first time in a while I've had to deal with this to such an extent: I was able to delegate a lot during chemo and such,but there is too much to delegate this week, not to mention the fact that two of my staff are out sick with the crud that is going around (and one has strep: glad she stayed home!)....Fortunately, the current deadline is looming, and when it's done, it is off to SoCal for me! Woohoo!
Douglas Adams said: "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by"....that's my life today.
can't wait for the weekend.
Hugs to all, and keeping you close and in my thoughts!
xoxox
Octogirl
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My sympathies, Octo. I just finished a 15 hour day (evening music program followed by server reboots). What a week!
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morning crazies
I just wanted to wave a quick hello this morning. Sending hugs to all who need them today and a hive five to those who are continuing to take steps toward less treatment and more interaction with day to day life. Being part of a tribe like this means we get an opportunity experience our collective losses and victories.
As dear Katy mentioned, I am on my last day of stereotactic rads. It's so odd to contemplate how a sum total of 25 min of radiation might defy the beast in my lower spine. Thankfully it's an area below the spinal cord, so there won't be concern of this treatment causing harm to blood counts.
As I said I've mainly been lurking, but notice Ducky and Sula and pennsy and momwriter have returned!
A collective hello to the many new ladies again. I hope to get more specific soon.
Octo glad your week is over and hope things smooth down soon
Slow I'm holding your hand today.
Katy big love always
Hi Cubbie!
Tomboy I hope to get back to dreaming about dragonflies for my wedding. How are you?
Also been enjoying all the beautiful quilts; what a crafty bunch here.
Ok I'm almost to the hospital. More later.
xo Gaia sometimes know as Gogo.
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Waving at Katy...Slow...Gaia...Tomboy...Cubbie...Ducky...Sula and ChiSandy
You ladies have a wonderful weekend. BTW...Katy that food looks soooo delicious. Wish I had some...yummy!!
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Just thought this was great.
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think I will skip trying to find my mind as well, just too much trouble
Gee arm shoulder feel better today, not sure if make multiple hot showers was the cure?
Asked my pt guy and did not seem too concerned so guess i will live but gonna hold off on laps for a few days
Lovely day but hearing nasty stuff for the weekend, sort of think I should ignore any talk of white things flying around
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Glad to hear from you about the rads, Gaia!
ChiSandy: of course the car coughs up some crucial part just when you've made other plans. (Once the mechanic actually backed slowly and nervously away from my car.....though usually just something like sway bars and tie rods.)
Beppy: just a shout-out.
My dentist(s) is very patient: I have a history of medical problems that present as dental (sinus infections) AND some rather interesting dentition that makes an actual dental emergency not implausible. This time? Parotiditis. Fortunately already had an appointment with my PCP for the next day. Now armed with yet another antibiotic, probiotics and generic Monistat, and an appointment with a local ENT doctor.
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"Once the mechanic actually backed slowly and nervously away from my car.....though usually just something like sway bars and tie rods.“
LOL! I had a 2002 Ford Taurus SEL with a 3.0 L dual-overhead-cam engine, fully-loaded, candy-apple-red, sunroof, spoiler, 12-speaker stereo with CD changer, etc.. I named her “Ruby" and she was my midlife-crisis-mobile. I babied her, though she took me all over the Great Lakes, Great Plains, Appalachians, Ozarks and Mid-Atlantic. One Friday night in July 2011 on my way down to Wrigleyville to see one of Gordy's improv shows, I stopped at the corner gas station to fill the tank. As I eased up off the brake preparing to get on the feeder street to Lake Shore Drive, before I could even hit the gas pedal she accelerated with a roar and wouldn't stop until I literally stood on the brake and turned the engine off at a stoplight. No way was I going to risk getting on Lake Shore Drive (a freeway), so I turned the ignition on and rode the pulsing brake hard the entire half-mile home. Had to wrestle her through the alley and into the garage, with my life (okay, at least HER life) flashing before my eyes. I told Bob and he replied, “guess it's your turn for a new car." I wanted a Fusion Hybrid, so I located the closest Ford dealership that had one in stock, and arranged for a tow truck for early Sat. morning. The tow guy was cussing loudly while somehow he managed to get her safely on to the flatbed. It was 8 am, and all my neighbors were peeking over their fences and scowling about what kind of idiot would be revving an engine that early on a Sat morning. When we got to the dealership's service dept. (I still harbored some delusional hope of being able to repair her), the mechanics literally backed away as the tow-guy backed her menacingly off the truck--glowering at me as if I'd brought them a rabid pit bull. The estimate just to dig down deeply enough to assess the accelerator linkage (and possibly the computer chip controlling it) was $1200, and I had trashed the brakes so badly that they needed replacing--which would have been my fourth set of brakes. Not to mention a month earlier I'd dropped >$2500 for a new thermostat, radiator and motor mounts. I'd reached critical mass. So I got a $2000 credit for trading it in on a fully-loaded Fusion Hybrid, which still cost $10K more than Ruby had cost 9 yrs. earlier. By contrast, when Bob's Ford Five Hundred kicked the bucket in 2014 and he got the Fusion Hybrid, my new fully-loaded Subaru Outback PZEV cost the same as Ruby had in 2002. (No credit for Bob's trade-in, since they wouldn't touch it with a 10-ft. pole, but I still knocked $7K off their asking price because it was a 2014 and the '15s were due out in a couple of months).
Parotiditis? You mean a bacterial version of mumps? Ouch. I have bilateral parotid calculi (from minerals in saliva) which get irritated by drinking citrus juice or alcohol with food on an otherwise empty stomach (if I eat a little something first and then wait 15 min., it doesn’t happen). I’ve had it for >40 yrs. My dad used to get it and so does my sister. By chance, the head MRI I had to get in 2004 to rule out a brain tumor, acoustic neuroma, patulous eustachian tube or arteriovenous malformation (for a weird hearing disturbance) diagnosed it.
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Well my results are back . So also is my cancer. This time it may be Her 2 positive. Who knew What a joke.
Can someone figure this out. They say it's in some of my nodes on the left. I'm wiped out. Every year it's something. I guess I'm grateful. How can I keep positve. You ladies are buzzing with joy and happiness. I'm hoping eventually it will rub off on me.
Let's say fu cancer. I know we have already said it once before.
I need support more than ever. Very limited. I fill bad to tell my other half all my fears.
They say I'm still a stage 1
I have know idea how. Whatever. Enjoy your weekend. I'm going to try to pull my head out of my ass and hopefully stop shaking on the inside.
Big hugs thanks for letting me be nuts and vulgar.
Big hugs to all going thru treatment and enduring rads.
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oh fun, your results are definitely not fun, dang it as you surely have had enough ct is certainly here for you
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(( funthing )) .. Oh, so sorry.. You need time to take it all in.. I'd be shaking too.. But you will come out the otherside and be back to yourself, enjoying things.. I'm going to be vulgar too. FUCK YOU CANCER.!!
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Dear, dear Funthing- I am standing next to you, my left arm around your shoulders, my right hand giving the "FU" finger to cancer right along with you. There is virtually no honest, credible way not to be very angry about what's going on with you right now.
This can be a place to share the happy times, yes. But it's primary function is for us to share our CRAZY when we need to. I understand feeling bad sharing bad news with partners and family. Please feel free to rant and cry here, in the basement, in the treehouse, or in an overstuffed chair in front of the fire with a crazy quilt.
Sending healing mojo, and calming hugs to you now. Do you take Ativan sprinkles in your tea? I'll bring one to you in the comfy chair.
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Thank you. I feel so self absorbed and Im not contributing jack. Just grief. It sucks thinking this much about cancer.
It's just mind boggling.
Thanks all for the support when needing it the most.
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Funthing, just dropping in to say that I'm very sorry to hear your news. You have every right to be fiercely angry and upset with the world.
One thing I would ask, if you're indeed Her2+, is if it's possible to get Perjeta? Its uses have been confined to neoadjuvant treatment with Herceptin in early stage BC, but given your multiple recurrences, I wonder if there might be a way for your MO to get it approved.
Anyway, I very much hope that by next week, you'll have a plan in place and a way forward. {{{{Hugs}}}}
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((((((((((((((((((((((((funthing))))))))))))))))))) Those are big, huge cyber hugs my dear. I cannot imagine. This is your 4th go at this? I would be in a straight jacket by now. I agree with rainny, ask your MO to push for perjeta along with herceptin. I have seen some women on the forums who have gotten it. Are they going to do a PET scan?
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